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Environment => Catastrophic Climate Change => Topic started by: AGelbert on October 10, 2013, 01:42:35 am


Title: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on October 10, 2013, 01:42:35 am
"ARGO floats have allowed accurate measurement of ocean heat gain since 2005. Earth is gaining energy at a rate 0.6 W/m2, which is 20 times greater than the rate of human energy use.

That energy is equivalent to exploding 400,000 Hiroshima atomic bombs per day, 365 days per year."

September 2012: A New Age of Risk: Presentation given at Columbia University on Sep. 22.

Dr. James E. Hansen
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on October 16, 2013, 07:33:21 pm
By Douglas Elbinger, Energy Policy Analyst, GreenLancer.com

Many of us who have been on the ground floor of the renewable energy business are secretly experiencing the warm fuzzy feelings that precede explosive global growth. Economic opportunity of this scale happens very rarely. Recent history tells us that nothing changes on this scale ‘peacefully’ until the economics are in alignment with necessity and invention. This is a true test of a new energy reality, where climate change hits head on with abundant and cheap renewable energy. This collision translates into a $10 trillion industry that will transform the current geo-political narrative (energy, water, climate, etc…) as we know it, and offer unprecedented opportunity for those who are on board when this train leaves the station. So, how, you ask, is this going happen… and how can I get on the train?

First, allow me introduce you to Mr. Jigar Shah, who will guide you on the path in his just released book, Creating Climate Wealth. He offers his reader a clear, engaging, easy-to-understand conversation about seizing this moment to make climate change a huge business opportunity — whether you work at the top or in the trenches — anywhere on the planet.

Read more at http://cleantechnica.com/2013/10/16/climate-change-10-trillion-opportunity-now/#9IsAZmMR0o3qldAe.99

If you don’t know Jigar, I recommend you get to know a little about him. He revolutionized the solar industry by deploying the Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) solar-as-service business model. This business model used 30-year old solar technology to be the catalyst for a multi-billion dollar solar industry.  

Read more at http://cleantechnica.com/2013/10/16/climate-change-10-trillion-opportunity-now/#9IsAZmMR0o3qldAe.99

So, does this mean this climate change crises represents an opportunity as well as a danger? Well, grasshopper, That DEPENDS on how we handle it... (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F129fs238648.gif&hash=bbf8ad9cbaff9e7d3097c40c21a931e6649a237f)

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Chinese philologist Victor H. Mair of the University of Pennsylvania states the popular interpretation of wēijī—to mean "danger" and "opportunity"—is a "widespread public misperception" in the English-speaking world.  :o [8]

While wēi (危) roughly translates to mean: "danger, dangerous; endanger, jeopardize; perilous; precipitous, precarious; high; fear, afraid"(as in wēixiăn 危险, "dangerous"), the polysemous jī (机) does not necessarily mean "opportunity". The compound noun jīhuì (机会) means "opportunity".

But jī only acquires this connotation when used in conjunction with another morpheme (in this case hui to form jīhuì). As a Chinese character, jī has numerous meanings when conjoined with other morphemes; these can form words such as "machine, mechanical; airplane; suitable occasion; crucial point; pivot; incipient moment; opportune, opportunity; chance; key link; secret; cunning".

As jī in wēijī, this translates roughly as "crucial/critical point" not "opportunity".(https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Fwww_MyEmoticons_com__smokelots.gif&hash=094f88de6782c1cd03ed5321b387792046eb3cdd)[8]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_word_for_%22crisis%22

We are at the Crucial/Critical Point at which the Danger(https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.freesmileys.org%2Femoticons%2Femoticon-object-051.gif&hash=84e0ff10d2c514093484d4a69e7748c7257dd68b), only if handled correctly, becomes an  Opportunity.  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F121.gif&hash=f7d858a59b651e347928fd577c6d8c1e13a0fbf9)
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on October 18, 2013, 03:47:28 pm
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How Change Manifests, How Action To Stop Global Warming Must Come About

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It’s obvious. Global efforts to combat climate change have failed. International summits are full of hot air and greenhouse gas.


Pollution continues to rise. http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2013/05/09/400-ppm-carbon-dioxide-in-the-atmosphere-reaches-prehistoric-levels/

If a


Country bails on a climate commitment http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada_and_the_Kyoto_Protocol,

they pay a price of, well, zero.


Turns out that’s okay, at least according to game theory analyses by researchers at the University of Lisbon. Their models suggest that punishment by global institutions has no effect. They also say that global summits actually

impede cooperation ( Risk of collective failure provides an escape from the tragedy of the commons http://www.pnas.org/content/108/26/10421).


Now, in a new report, the researchers suggest that if punishment starts getting handed out at the local level, say

city governments (http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=cities-as-solutions-to-climate-change),


what emerges is a much more cooperative global regime for combating climate change.


Interestingly, though, the local actors must be stimulated by an understanding that global warming means catastrophe… big time. Thus, the remarkable bottom line to change is essentially an old bumper sticker tagline (link added):


Nevertheless, the math of how people play games suggests that successfully curbing carbon pollution will rely on the old adage: think globally…

act locally (Seattle to Create Nation’s First Public Food Forest http://ecolocalizer.com/2012/02/25/seattle-to-create-nations-first-public-food-forest/),

The journal Nature Climate Change (http://www.nature.com/nclimate/journal/v3/n9/full/nclimate1927.html?WT.ec_id=NCLIMATE-201309) describes how that proverbial pond inspires change with many ripples from within — it is the rippling of change:

We show that a bottom-up approach, in which parties create local institutions that punish free-riders, promotes the emergence of widespread cooperation, mostly when risk perception is low, as it is at present3, 7. On the contrary, global institutions provide, at best, marginal improvements regarding overall cooperation. Our results clearly suggest that a polycentric approach involving multiple institutions is more effective than that associated with a single, global one, indicating that such a bottom-up, self-organization approach, set up at a local scale, provides a better ground on which to attempt a solution for such a

complex and global dilemma (U.S. Carbon Dioxide Emissions Down 11 Percent Since 2007 http://sustainablog.org/2013/10/co2-emissions-us/).

Another international climate conference is coming up, this one being held in Poland. There isn’t much optimism regarding what is to come out of this, and it seems there’s no reason for optimism.  

What is needed is a stronger focus on creating action on the local level. What is needed is an emphasis on communicating the great risks and costs that come with global warming, while showing people local solutions that they can implement in their cities.

People are starting to realize this, but the message needs to get out to more and more of us, especially the ones who are motivated (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F170fs799081.gif&hash=ec7f929a28b215e9c00ec270a26b830d596920b2) and assertive enough (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Fsnapoutofit.gif&hash=911b14b142101df534f739771fb2d3836a807d19)    (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F3ztzsjm.gif&hash=8e015ba6a93bc1ec93ebde8fd6b2daa19e537306) to push for meaningful change.   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F176.gif&hash=121533221905789c6b8d57a9603883266d349266)   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Fcowboypistol.gif&hash=2dc97f743dffca22404e6e4e0822765e60b33f38)   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F129fs238648.gif&hash=bbf8ad9cbaff9e7d3097c40c21a931e6649a237f)    (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2FLaie_28.gif&hash=cc2f2c34e2eeda4d23ece2f504a2ad2a86525028)    (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F301.gif&hash=0291ed4abf2d80e420d1aa00d4eb3c5dd6bbfb53)

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http://cleantechnica.com/2013/10/18/change-manifests-action-stop-global-warming-must-come/#MySgXcjALSyW7Kkv.99

DO YOU KNOW WHAT THIS REPRESENTS? --->  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-241013183046.jpeg&hash=51c9c4f17e747698c76c65c7c1814eff4f32c400) (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Facigar.gif&hash=dc9dccf92c6c88c99611b06c86d92629d69f2978)  <--- THAT is BIG OIL laughing at WE-THE-PEOPLE!

Are you going to sit there and TAKE THAT???   >:(


I'm not!  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F301.gif&hash=0291ed4abf2d80e420d1aa00d4eb3c5dd6bbfb53)
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on October 18, 2013, 09:04:47 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvRhiKA7g0c&feature=player_embedded
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on October 20, 2013, 02:17:25 am
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SY2sBLKU2x8&feature=player_embedded
Our situation explained succinctly by Al Gore. He makes a few choice put downs of Global Warming Denial BS along the way with some IRREFUTABLE HARD DATA (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Fcowboypistol.gif&hash=2dc97f743dffca22404e6e4e0822765e60b33f38)

For example, WE put out a LOT more Carbon dioxide than ALL THE VOLCANOES IN THE WORLD PUT TOGETHER!  :o
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on October 21, 2013, 07:43:57 pm
Quantifying the consensus on anthropogenic global warming in the scientific literature (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F34y5mvr.gif&hash=835b3a3f26d5d1b7f0acc379ad8ebd3fe9eea488)


Abstract


We analyze the evolution of the scientific consensus on anthropogenic global warming (AGW) in the peer-reviewed scientific literature, examining 11 944 climate abstracts from 1991–2011 matching the topics 'global climate change' or 'global warming'.

We find that 66.4% of abstracts expressed no position on AGW, 32.6% endorsed AGW, 0.7% rejected AGW and 0.3% were uncertain about the cause of global warming. Among abstracts expressing a position on AGW, 97.1% endorsed the consensus position that humans are causing global warming.

In a second phase of this study, we invited authors to rate their own papers. Compared to abstract ratings, a smaller percentage of self-rated papers expressed no position on AGW (35.5%). Among self-rated papers expressing a position on AGW, 97.2% endorsed the consensus. For both abstract ratings and authors' self-ratings, the percentage of endorsements among papers expressing a position on AGW marginally increased over time. Our analysis indicates that the number of papers rejecting the consensus on AGW is a vanishingly small proportion of the published research.


http://iopscience.iop.org/1748-9326/8/2/024024
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on October 26, 2013, 11:06:52 pm
Enjoy the spectacular footage of flying over the Amazon. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fyoursmiles.org%2Fpsmile%2Fpilot%2Fp0502.gif&hash=fba4b8bf97a351f01894e2b576439a12f8acf7f7)

There IS a LOT more work to do to preserve the Amazon. BUT, you will enjoy this video of the GREATEST REDUCTION IN GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS IN MODERN HISTORY!    (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F8.gif&hash=c1d98e606d7f558df4040f88e7997b3e11e9448c)


Ever hear of REDD+? Thanks to that program, the indigenous Brazilian tribes OWN a Columbia sized amount of land and monitor it through satellite imagery to report offenders.

Living with Dignity and Preserving Nature IS possible. One of the WORSE former deforestation offending areas in Brazil is now the model for all the others because it completely stopped ALL deforestation in less than 5 years and is REFORESTING now.  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Fballoons.gif&hash=a64bb5ff3e76c3e11999996c460fa02de1ee10f7)

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Combined Efforts To Control Deforestation   

 This video spotlights some of the extraordinary efforts being undertaken by social entrepreneurs, government agencies, private enterprise, and other organizations working on behalf of the Amazon rainforest.

 These combined efforts have made a considerable difference to reducing deforestation.
 Over the last 5 years, Brazil has managed to reduce the rate of deforestation by 80%, however, new regulations threaten to reverse this trend.

 --Bibi Farber

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_yn5-YxkxI&feature=player_embedded

- See more at: http://www.nextworldtv.com/videos/environment/hanging-in-the-balance-the-future-of-a-forest.html#sthash.hfBbK9H7.dpuf

Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on October 28, 2013, 06:58:56 pm
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First Frost in Colchester, Vermont was 23 days late last year (average first frost is September 15) and 20 days late in 2011. We are having our first frost tonight (expected low is 26 F) so this year it's A FULL 43 days late! :o

 

Global Warming is HERE. It's time to make the fossil fuel polluting one percenters PAY THEIR SHARE (80%) of the transition to a 100% Renewable Energy Powered World.

 

Details HERE: http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/blog/post/2013/10/one-percents-planetary-assets-equals-80-responsibility-for-funding-a-100-renewable-energy-world

 

 
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on November 01, 2013, 01:55:38 am
https://youtu.be/2bRrg96UtMc
Last Hours  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimages.zaazu.com%2Fimg%2FIncredible-Hulk-animated-animation-male-smiley-emoticon-000342-large.gif&hash=db736c8c06568f1aa878171ad53d1f0301cfdff2)
 
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on November 01, 2013, 02:50:39 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MstRTnDSjz0&feature=player_embedded
How to communicate the Urgency of Required Global Joint Action to Mitigate the Deadly Deleterious effects of Global Climate Change  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F34y5mvr.gif&hash=835b3a3f26d5d1b7f0acc379ad8ebd3fe9eea488)

NOTE: NONE of the above will work when attempting to reason with a propagandist defending (overtly or covertly) the fossil fuel dirty energy status quo.

WHY? Because. not only are these sell outs being paid to prevaricate, twist facts, push duplicity and seed people with fear, uncertainty and doubt (FUD), they are part of a group that watches EACH OTHER. These people KNOW that the INSTANT they question the crap they are paid to push, their careers are  TOAST. So-o-o they REFUSE to think, period. Only catastrophic climate disaster in these people's back yard will bring them around to reason.

WHY? Because their security is based on money. When the fossil fuel industry no longer can provide that security blanket because, e.g. the insurance won't cover the destruction of their house or they lose a loved one to pollution related cancer, THEN they wake up and smell the coffee. 

So these people can be reached ONLY after the fossil fuel industry throws them under the economic bus. IOW, EXPERIENCE (BAD experiences), not words of logic or scientific facts will get these people to understand the threat to human civilization of global climate change. I am certain there are quite a few people in New Jersey that have started smelling the coffee.

However, people without an agenda CAN be convinced by logic and scientific facts. Most people are in that camp. That is why millions of fossil fuel, dirty energy, profit dollars are funneled to propagandists to instill FUD in us; Any REAL, HONEST exposure to what is going on out there will make us oppose the burning of fossil fuels.

Now you can see why the Koch Brothers, a big part of the Big Oil Propaganda machine, has spent over 65 million dollars in the last decade to invent fake grass roots organizations (astro-turf ;) ) to give people the idea that the common person BENEFITS from the burning of fossil fuels and it is just silly to get "hysterical" about "uinproven science" or pollution causing cancer "scare tactics" along with crocodile tears about how "your loved ones will suffer and millions will die of hunger" (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Ftissue.gif&hash=f8d05db8e11569882e0effbdd719e2b2e95c6785)   if the burning of fossil fuels is banned.(https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.imgion.com%2Fimages%2F01%2FAngry-animated-smiley.jpg&hash=84657bd1a63cad676e3551587daeb4b39411a289)

The best way to deal with propagandists is to undermine their lies by exposing their methods.

A failed propagandist (Big Oil stops funding them because they aren't getting "results") is a potential convert to fact based scientific reasoning and data. Any propagandist that switches to defending the biosphere instead of Big Oil provides more hope for humanity. Pass it on.  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Fcowboypistol.gif&hash=2dc97f743dffca22404e6e4e0822765e60b33f38)

Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on November 05, 2013, 12:15:49 am
Oct. 30, 2013: Oped in Salt Lake Deseret News
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Gambling with our future

By DAVID FOLLAND

For a state without a lottery, horse betting or slot machines, it’s surprising that the majority of our state and federal representatives are gambling with our future. They’re gambling that fossil fuels, especially tar sands, will be the fuel of the future and that the continued use of them will not harm us. We buckle up our children in sturdy car seats. Yet, with our children’s future, it’s as if we’re tossing them in the back of a pickup with no restraints.

The insurance industry is not taking such risks. They realize that human-caused climate change has led to increased frequency and severity of extreme and damaging weather. This has created new odds, and insurers are factoring them into their insurance premiums. To ignore what science has demonstrated would be folly in their business.

And the recently released Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fifth Assessment Report’s “Summary for Policymakers” is not reassuring regarding our risks. This report is very conservative by its structure. Thousands of scientists throughout the world compile and summarize the findings of peer-reviewed literature. The results must be acceptable to the participating countries.

So now the IPCC reports with virtual certainty that the documented warming is human-caused. And they conclude that if greenhouse gas emissions continue unabated, the earth will warm to an additional 4 degrees Centigrade (7.2 degrees Fahrenheit) and oceans will rise an average of 0.75 meters (29.5 inches) by 2100. They also emphasize that “most aspects of climate change will persist for many centuries, even if emissions of CO2 are stopped.”

How can we move quickly to clean energy and avoid the most severe climate effects predicted by the IPCC? A few weeks ago, conservative Republican and former Congressman Bob Inglis came to Utah to seek support for a conservative solution that would drive the transition to clean energy, a solution that is also sought by the nonpartisan Citizens Climate Lobby. Inglis proposed a revenue-neutral tax swap. A tax would be levied on carbon at the source (mine well, or port of entry), and the proceeds would be returned to households or used to reduce other taxes. Such a tax would price the external cost we pay for fossil fuels.

For instance, we now pay for the health costs of carbon pollution-induced heart attacks, strokes and other diseases. The fossil fuel companies are socializing these costs and privatizing profits. These health and other costs of carbon pollution would be priced into the fuel, so we would pay at the meter or the pump.

Imagine a scenario where the science was ignored, yet we still moved our society on to clean energy through a carbon tax. We would stimulate innovation in the free market that would create new jobs, strengthen our national security, while cleaning our air and improving our health. What if we don’t act on the science that is now so solid? The IPCC has made it abundantly clear that the price of adaptation to unchecked greenhouse gas emission is enormous.

In fact, a panel of scientists that introduced the report gave a “carbon budget” for humanity. Burning more than one-sixth of the known fossil fuels would raise the global temperature more than 2 degrees Centigrade (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit), a level beyond which catastrophic and irreversible changes would occur.

Public policies have reduced our risk of injury and death from all sorts of hazards, from terrorists on airplanes to fires in buildings. Wouldn’t it be prudent to stop spinning the roulette wheel on our future  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F128fs318181.gif&hash=eff6d5f3831782966c2ff2081f07bf7fc5b22a6b) and reduce the risks that the 5th IPCC has demonstrated so clearly?

David Folland, M.D., a retired pediatrician, is a volunteer with the nonpartisan Citizens Climate Lobby.

WEB LINK: http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865589417/Gambling-with-our-future.html



Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: Surly1 on November 05, 2013, 05:04:36 am
Insurers live in the reality-based community.
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on November 05, 2013, 10:09:22 pm
Yep. They know that River in Egypt will drown them if they don't.   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-051113192052.png&hash=93c42ef9f18fc5d9da50fd91fc19f70009f95f85)
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on November 05, 2013, 10:27:03 pm
Wacky jet stream to blame for wild North American weather (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F2gwb921.gif&hash=05dd931359ca7118dca81dba32bc782664d97d8f) :P

By John Upton

A lot of wild weather has afflicted North America this year: deluges in Colorado and Alberta, a heatwave in Alaska, and bitter cold in Florida. But there’s a high-altitude link between each of these unusual events which itself might be tied to climate change: erratic behavior by the polar jet stream.

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This famous current of air zips eastward at high altitudes from the continent’s West, normally passing over North America somewhere near Seattle. It is one of two jet streams in the Northern Hemisphere — the other being the subtropical jet stream. Together, these powerful currents have long held weather patterns in their normal places, one year after another. But something weird is going on up there.
Storm cloudsVagabond ShutterbugStorm clouds over Denver, Colo., Sept. 14.

The normally direct polar jet stream has been swinging wildly this summer, dipping north and south like the line graph on a U.S. jobs report. At times it splits in two. From Popular Mechanics:

The jet stream is a year-round feature of our atmosphere, but the double jet stream phenomenon is more common in winter. When it shows up in the summer, watch out.

“Usually at this time of year the jet stream is a single band around the Northern Hemisphere,” [Texas A&M University atmospheric science professor John] Nielsen-Gammon says. “But in the last month what we’ve seen is a smaller jet stream over the Arctic Ocean, and another jet stream in the midlatitudes.”

That article was published in June after more than 100,000 people were forced from their homes by flooding in Calgary. Media and scientific interest in the jet stream’s newfound vagaries rose again after the recent flood-inducing rainfall in Colorado. From NPR:

During the summer, the double jet stream produced a very strange temperature pattern along the Pacific coast, Nielsen-Gammon says. Down in Southern California it was unusually hot — in Death Valley the temperature reached 129 degrees. Meanwhile, up in British Columbia, it remained unseasonably cold.

Even farther north, in Anchorage, Alaska, residents experienced a relative heat wave, with a record number of 70-degree days. But even farther up in the Arctic, temperatures were relatively cold again.

The double jet stream also played a big role in the Colorado flooding this month, [Rutgers University researcher Jennifer] Francis says. High up in the atmosphere, one stream was carrying moist air from the Pacific to the Rockies. Then, lower down, an unusual eddy was pulling in more moist air from the Gulf of Mexico. Finally, an unusual bulge in the jet stream was causing all this weather to stall near Boulder.

There’s no scientific agreement right now on what role, if any, climate change is playing in the polar jet stream’s erratic behavior. But Francis points out that it is the product of vast temperature differences between the equator and the North Pole. As the globe warms, the Arctic heats at a disproportionately fast rate, and that chips away at the temperature gradient. If that turns out to be what sent the jet stream into a weird spin cycle, then the Northern Hemisphere has a lot more extreme weather coming its way.

“It could be drought.It could be heat waves. It could be flooding due to prolonged rainfall,” Francis told NPR. “All of those kinds of patterns should be becoming more likely.”  :P


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John Upton is a science fan and green news boffin who tweets, posts articles to Facebook, and blogs about ecology. He welcomes reader questions, tips, and incoherent rants: johnupton@gmail.com.



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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on November 09, 2013, 01:48:21 am
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pKZLHNYPbM&feature=player_embedded
All the panel members agree that STEP 1 is to STOP ALL FOSSIL FUEL SUBSIDIES IMMEDIATELY.  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F47b20s0.gif&hash=cc48c9af9d29b8836023c7db21103e52d1ed439e)

NOTE: At the 22 minute mark some interesting scientific data about Mercury and Venus sheds light on OUR Climate Energy balance and WHY and HOW  CO2 "does what it does".   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.clker.com%2Fcliparts%2Fc%2F8%2Ff%2F8%2F11949865511933397169thumbs_up_nathan_eady_01.svg.hi.png&hash=599691109af22b33f1d59dd61eb97448a9427020)
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on November 10, 2013, 01:58:36 am
Global average temperature SEPTEMBER 2013

Global Highlights

The combined average temperature over global land and ocean surfaces for September 2013 tied with 2003 as the fourth highest for September on record, at 0.64°C (1.15°F) above the 20th century average of 15.0°C (59.0°F).

•The global land surface temperature was 0.89°C (1.60°F) above the 20th century average of 12.0°C (53.6°F), marking the sixth warmest September on record. For the ocean, the September global sea surface temperature was 0.54°C (0.97°F) above the 20th century average of 16.2°C (61.1°F), tying with 2006 as the fourth highest for September on record.

The combined global land and ocean average surface temperature for the January–September period (year-to-date) was 0.60°C (1.08°F) above the 20th century average of 14.1°C (57.5°F), tying with 2003 as the sixth warmest such period on record.  


Temperatures  

In the atmosphere, 500-millibar height pressure anomalies correlate well with temperatures at the Earth's surface. The average position of the upper-level ridges of high pressure and troughs of low pressure—depicted by positive and negative 500-millibar height anomalies on the September 2013 height and anomaly map September 2013 map—is generally reflected by areas of positive and negative temperature anomalies at the surface, respectively.


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The above is planet earth, September 2013. As you know, when it's summer in the Northern Hemisphere, it's WINTER in the Southern Hemisphere. So, uh, don't you think there SHOULDN'T BE so many high temperature anomalies in the Southern Hemisphere in September ??? That is the end of WINTER THERE! But just look at the few and far between cold temperature anomalies versus the MASSIVE areas of high temperature anomalies.

Of course the Koch brothers may see, hear and speak (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.websmileys.com%2Fsm%2Ffam%2Ffam12.gif&hash=8dbdc056fce063c27eaf513ccecb9366574f6193) about all the above with a rather crude oily bit of monkey behavior. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.imgion.com%2Fimages%2F01%2FAngry-animated-smiley.jpg&hash=84657bd1a63cad676e3551587daeb4b39411a289)

More info at the NOAA web site. Pick a year and a month! They give you the full no spin scoop using the only perspective that MATTERS when a GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE is in progress; I.E. GLOBAL average temperatures and anomalies above or below average.

http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/global/

What about September 2012?


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As you can see, a lot of heat records were set (don't get fooled by the bright red - look at the 2013 legend for a different record heat temperature  ;)). BUT, 2013 was right up there with high anomalous temperatures. It did NOT have to match all the 2012 heat RECORDS to have a higher average temperature.

HERE'S THE MONEY QUOTE: (please compare with the same money quote for September 2013 above  8) )•The average combined global land and ocean surface temperature for January–September 2012 was the eighth warmest such period on record, at 0.57°C (1.03°F) above the 20th century average.

It's getting hotter every year. Don't let the Mendacious Snow Men for the Koch brothers tell you any different.(https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-051113192052.png&hash=93c42ef9f18fc5d9da50fd91fc19f70009f95f85)

I'll report on October as soon as the data is in. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fyoursmiles.org%2Fpsmile%2Fpilot%2Fp0502.gif&hash=fba4b8bf97a351f01894e2b576439a12f8acf7f7)
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on November 11, 2013, 03:02:22 pm
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Weather Screenshot at 2:34 pm November 11, 2013

Look at the upper left corner. Such a well defined low pressure area (not quite as severe as a hurricane but a major bad weather maker just the same  :o) in NOVEMBER  is an example of what we are going to GET from Global Climate Change born of Global Warming.

WHY? Because earth's climate is a function of free energy in the atmosphere. The planetary internal heat provides some, the rotation provides more and the sun provides most. The more free energy in the atmosphere, the more severe weather, PERIOD. Burning fossil fuels is THE reason for Global Warming, period.

Only logic challenged morons or conscience free psychopaths in the pay of the fossil fuel industry continue to advocate for the fossil fuel burning, severe weather fueling, positive feedback free energy build up. Have a nice day. >:(

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SHORT TERM...A DEEP AND VERTICALLY STACKED LOW CENTERED NEAR 45N 140W IS HELPING TO PUMP UP AN UPPER RIDGE OVER WASHINGTON TODAY.
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on November 12, 2013, 02:55:39 pm
This is a preliminary post that I will modify with more details from the following report ASAP:


A Brief Overview of Long-Term Snow Climatology for Burlington, VT
By John Goff
NOAA/NWS Burlington, VT


Snowfall records in Burlington run from 1906 to present.

No attempt is made to correlate the trends with Global Warming. However, the correlation, which die hard deniers will insist is not causation, IS THERE.

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First Measurable Snow
Discussion: Using simple linear regression the data shows wide variability though the first snowfall appears to occur approximately 6 days earlier than 100 years ago (from November 12th to the 6th).

November 12, 2013 we had our first "snow" in Colchester, which is just north of Burlington. It's 30F outside which is pretty normal for November. The roads are clear (no plows came out) and the leaves are mostly visible (so it's more of a light dusting) but "measurable" snow is 0.1 inch or more so it qualifies. ;D

The GW deniers will jump on the above to say, "SEE? it's snowing EARLIER so that PROVES there is NO Global Warming!". (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.freesmileys.org%2Femoticons%2Ftuzki-bunnys%2Ftuzki-bunny-emoticon-026.gif&hash=cea0c85d87fadfcde1f4ffdeb123185070f6de75)

But read on and get the FULL PICTURE (i.e. Days with measurable snow on the ground, amount of snow and last snow in Spring).




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Last Measurable Snow
Discussion: Again the data shows considerable variability though a discrete trend of earlier last snowfalls from approximately April 18th to April 10th is noted.

This study was prior to the winters of 2010, 2011, and 2012 where the snow disappeared nearly a month early. However the long term trend was already present. Global Warming Science predicted a positive feedback would occur in earlier last snow (acceleration of the trend) well over a decade ago.




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Frequency of Measureable Snow by Winter
(Number of days with snowfall greater than a trace)
Discussion: Wide variability, though with a steady upward trend in the period of record (44 to 58 days).

Global Warming Science predicted an increase in frequency of precipitation throughout the year in the New England area well over a decade ago.




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Seasonal Snowfall by Winter
Discussion: Wide variability from year to year, though with a steady upward trend showing a 27 inch
increase in the period of record (from 60 to 87 inches).

Global Warming Science predicted an increase in amount of precipitation throughout the year in the New England area well over a decade ago.




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Days with Measureable Snow on the Ground by Winter
Discussion: Significant variation, though data shows a slight decrease of approximately 5 days through the period of record (from 95 to 90 days).

Global Warming Science predicted an increase in average temperatures globally throughout the year well over a decade ago. Less snow remaining is a unction of MUCH higher temperatures when you take the increased frequency and amount of snow accumulation into consideration.

Also consider that this study was prior to the winters of 2010, 2011, and 2012 where all trends accelerated due to the slowing of the jet stream as the temperature gradient between the poles and the equator lessened. This is the giant oxbow loops that give us wild weather extremes.

Global Warming Science predicted the slowing of the jet stream well over a decade ago.
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The data is CLEAR. Global Warming, caused by the burning of fossil fuels is HERE. We stop burnig fossil fuels or we are history, PERIOD. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F129fs238648.gif&hash=bbf8ad9cbaff9e7d3097c40c21a931e6649a237f)


Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on November 12, 2013, 07:26:43 pm
Big Oil (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Facigar.gif&hash=dc9dccf92c6c88c99611b06c86d92629d69f2978) gets the  PROFITS  and  we-the-people get to PAY THE TRUE COST (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.websmileys.com%2Fsm%2Fviolent%2Fsterb050.gif&hash=7ab92003788aa87a5cec0e350c97a7bd23eb8b44)   of burning fossil fuels. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.imgion.com%2Fimages%2F01%2FAngry-animated-smiley.jpg&hash=84657bd1a63cad676e3551587daeb4b39411a289) 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uH9jGI1mzSI&feature=player_embedded
Other than the meteor impacts, all the above is being caused by burning fossil fuels.


Sep 7, 2013 - Scientists say atmospheric pollution contributed to half of the extreme weather-related events of last year. (http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2013/9/7/scientists-link-2012extremeweathertomanmadeclimatechange.html)


Climate Change, Extreme Weather Link Becoming More Apparent (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/27/climate-change-extreme-weather_n_1709603.html)

And the lying, doubletalking mouthpieces for Big Oil are quick to respond with MORE lies to keep the fossil fuel pigs from having to pay the damages...  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.websmileys.com%2Fsm%2Fviolent%2Fsterb029.gif&hash=7a43a0c106eab798f7ba6133dc5cc550647a03d2)


Don’t blame climate change for extreme weather   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.u.arizona.edu%2F%7Epatricia%2Fcute-collection%2Fsmileys%2Flying-smiley.gif&hash=a34c2f7344d5f54f7009a4e684bb6c7310cdda03) (http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2013-09-13/opinions/42041225_1_extreme-weather-weather-events-climate-change)


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Climate change alarmists running out of ways to scare people (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-241013183046.jpeg&hash=51c9c4f17e747698c76c65c7c1814eff4f32c400)
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on November 15, 2013, 09:47:24 pm
Vast Majority of Americans Want Action on Climate Change, Whitehouse Gives Weekly Speech
SustainableBusiness.com News
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has come out in favor of a carbon tax once again.

Out of the 103 ways it identifies to reduce the US deficit, the carbon tax comes out on top.

The US would raise slightly over $1 trillion over 10 years if it implements a carbon tax that starts at $25 per ton and increases 2% a year.

This is very close to climate legislation introduced in the Senate earlier this year - $20 per ton, rising 5.6% a year - which would generate even more revenue, says CBO.

It would raise prices at the gas pump by about 21 cents to a gallon if costs are passed to consumers, says Resources for the Future, and would not negatively impact total US employment.

While there's no chance it will pass in the near future given the current dynamics playing out in Congress, Democrats are laying the groundwork.

Weekly Push for Action on Climate
Once a week for the past 50 weeks, Senator Whitehouse (D-RI) takes the Senate floor to talk about climate change.

Week in and week out, he urges Congress to move on climate change.
"I am here for the 50th time, to urge my colleagues to wake up to what carbon pollution is doing to our atmosphere and our oceans," he says, but no one listens.

He runs through the data over and over again that demonstrates global temperature rise, concomitant increases in atmospheric carbon levels and the impact on our oceans.
"We are a great country, but not when we're lying and denying what's real," he says "The atmosphere is warming; ice is melting; seas are warming, rising, and acidifying. It is time for the misleading fantasies to end."

He calls for the carbon tax supported by CBO. Perhaps polluters will take a second look at this option, he says, when EPA's rules on carbon emissions from existing power plants go into effect.

Other senators have joined him from time to time - Senator Schumer (D-NY) spoke on climate change on the anniversary of Superstorm Sandy. Senators Schatz (D-HI) and Blumenthal (D-CT) connected the dots between climate change and ocean health, and Senator King (I-ME) talked about the impact of climate change on the fishing industry.

While hammering away at these facts has so far not changed the political discourse, at least this political leader is giving it air time. The fossil fuel industry and its paid-off politicians would prefer silence on the issue.

"It is time to wake up. It is time to turn back from the misleading propaganda of the polluters, the misguided extremism of the Tea Party, and the mistaken belief that we can ignore without consequence the harm our carbon pollution is causing. It is time to face facts, be adults, and meet our responsibilities."

Whitehouse remains optimistic, especially because there are signs that people are ready to fight climate deniers and boot them out of Congress.

When asked why he's doing this, Whitehouse says, "I very much want my grandchildren to know that I fought the good fight. But much more than that, I want to turn this around," he told columnist Ezra Klein.

Thank you, Senator Whitehouse, you are our voice.
Watch Whitehouse give his 50th speech:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJ4FACY2MA8&feature=player_embedded

Americans Agree
In 46 states surveyed, at least 75% of resident acknowledge the existence of climate change.

Surprisingly, percentages are the same in "blue" and "red" states: Massachusetts (88%); Rhode Island (87%); New York (84%); California (82%); Oklahoma (87%); Texas (84%); and South Dakota (83%).

At least 67% of people in those states want government to regulate greenhouse gas emissions. Again, percentages are the same regardless of the state: New Jersey (80%); Connecticut (80%); California (80%); Georgia (85%); Arkansas (85%); and Kentucky (79%).

After analyzing this public opinion data, Jon Krosnick, a professor at Stanford University, told the Guardian, "To me, the most striking finding is that we can't find a single state where climate scepticism is in the majority." (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-141113185047.png&hash=384024358ff8d5e7133d19b6e6638da4584a8154)  

This disputes the widely-held belief that Republicans deny the existence of climate change. It is not US citizens that are calling climate change a "hoax" or preventing action on it, it is their so-called representatives on state levels and in Congress.  >:(  

Unfortunately for their residents, the reddest states are those that are most unprepared for climate-related disasters because their elected officials lag blue states on acknowledging the problem and are therefore not taking action.  >:(  

"Americans recognize we have a moral obligation to protect the environment and an economic opportunity to develop the clean energy technologies of the future. Americans are way ahead of Congress in listening to the scientists," says Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA), who chairs the Bicameral Task Force on Climate Change with Senator Whitehouse.

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on November 16, 2013, 03:12:22 pm
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on November 16, 2013, 05:08:54 pm
Reposted from the Doomstead Diner where I am having a "debate" with Global Warming denier. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F3ztzsjm.gif&hash=8e015ba6a93bc1ec93ebde8fd6b2daa19e537306)

I think these scientists from a document written in 1984 don't have an agenda. How about you, Snowleapard? Can you trust what these fellows say?

Solar Disinfection of Drinking Water and Oral Rehydration Solutions
 
Guidelines for Household Application in Developing Countries


Aftim Acra - Zeina Raffoul - Yester Karahagopian

Department of Environmental Health
 Faculty of Health Science - American University of Beirut
 Beirut, 1984

1.Foreword


2.Oral Rehydration Therapy (ORT) ◾The Revolution for Children
◾The Four Simple Technologies
◾Global Diarrhoeal Diseases Control Programs
◾Causes, Transmission, and Control of Childhood Diarrhoea



3.Oral Rehydration Solutions (ORS) ◾The Practical Issues
◾Domestic Formulations
◾Disinfection by Boiling



4.Solar Energy ◾Fundamental Considerations
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◾World Distribution
◾A Competitor
◾Some Practical Hints



5.Solar Disinfection Studies ◾Drinking Water
◾Oral Rehydration Solutions



6.Appendix



Originally published by UNICEF
 Regional Office for the Middle East and North Africa
 P.O.Box 811721 - Amman, Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan
 1984


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Created by the Documentation Center at AUB in collaboration with Al Mashriq of Høgskolen i Østfold, Norway.
 
970730/wa-bl/980215/bl - Email: almashriq@hiof.no




Solar Energy

From Sun to Earth

Outer Space

The enormous amount of energy continuously emitted by the sun is dispersed into outer space in all directions. Only a small fraction of this energy is intercepted by the earth and other solar planets.

The solar energy reaching the periphery of the earth's atmosphere is considered to be constant for all practical purposes, and is known as the solar constant. Because of the difficulty in achieving accurate measurements, the exact value of the solar constant is not known with certainty but is believed to be between 1,353 and 1,395 W/m2 (approximately 1.4 kW/m2, or 2.0 cal/cm2/min). The solar constant value is estimated on the basis of the solar radiation received on a unit area exposed perpendicularly to the rays of the sun at an average distance between the sun and the earth.

In passing through outer space, which is characterized by vacuum, the different types of solar energy remain intact and are not modified until the radiation reaches the top of the earth's atmosphere. In outer space, therefore, one would expect to encounter the types of radiation listed in Table 1, which are: gamma ray, X-ray, ultraviolet, and infrared radiations.


Atmospheric Effects

Not all of the solar radiation received at the periphery of the atmosphere reaches the surfaces of the earth. This is because the earth's atmosphere plays an important role in selectively controlling the passage towards the earth's surface of the various components of solar radiation.

A considerable portion of solar radiation is reflected back into outer space upon striking the uppermost layers of the atmosphere, and also from the tops of clouds. In the course of penetration through the atmosphere, some of the incoming radiation is either absorbed or scattered in all directions by atmospheric gases, vapours, and dust particles. In fact, there are two processes known to be involved in atmospheric scattering of solar radiation. These are termed selective scattering and non-selective scattering. These two processes are determined by the different sizes of particles in the atmosphere.

Selective scattering is so named because radiations with shorter wavelengths are selectively scattered much more extensively than those with longer wavelengths. It is caused by atmospheric gases or particles that are smaller in dimension than the wavelength of a particular radiation. Such scattering could be caused by gas molecules, smoke, fumes, and haze. Under clear atmospheric conditions, therefore, selective scattering would be much less severe than when the atmosphere is extensively polluted from anthropogenic sources.

Selective atmospheric scattering is, broadly speaking, inversely proportional to the wavelength of radiation and, therefore, decreases in the following order of magnitude: far UV > near UV > violet > blue > green > yellow > orange > red > infrared. Accordingly, the most severely scattered radiation is that which falls in the ultraviolet, violet, and blue bands of the spectrum. The scattering effect on radiation in these three bands is roughly ten times as great as on the red rays of sunlight.   8)

It is interesting to note that the selective scattering of violet and blue light by the atmosphere causes the blue colour of the sky. When the sun is directly overhead at around noon time, little selective scattering occurs and the sun appears white. This is because sunlight at this time passes through the minimum thickness of atmosphere. At sunrise and sunset, however, sunlight passes obliquely through a much thicker layer of atmosphere. This results in maximum atmospheric scattering of violet and blue light, with only a little effect on the red rays of sunlight. Hence, the sun appears to be red in colour at sunrise and sunset.   

Non-selective scattering occurring in the lower atmosphere is caused by dust, fog, and clouds with particle sizes more than ten times the wavelength of the components of solar radiation. Since the amount of scattering is equal for all wavelengths, clouds and fog appear white although their water particles are colourless.

Atmospheric gases also absorb solar energy at certain wavelength intervals called absorption bands, in contrast to the wavelength regions characterized by high transmittance of solar radiation called atmospheric transmission bands, or atmospheric windows.

The degree of absorption
of solar radiation passing through the outer atmosphere depends upon the component rays of sunlight and their wavelengths. The gamma rays, X-rays, and ultraviolet radiation less than 200 nm in wavelength are absorbed by oxygen and nitrogen. Most of the radiation with a range of wavelengths from 200 to 300 nm is absorbed by the ozone (O3) layer in the upper atmosphere. These absorption phenomena are essential for living things because prolonged exposure to radiation of wavelengths shorter than 300 nm destroys living tissue.

Solar radiation in the red and infrared regions of the spectrum at wavelengths greater than 700 nm is absorbed to some extent by carbon dioxide, ozone, and water present in the atmosphere in the form of vapour and condensed droplets (Table 1). In fact, the water droplets present in clouds not only absorb rays of long wavelengths, but also scatter some of the solar radiation of short wavelengths.


Ground Level

As a result of the atmospheric phenomena involving reflection, scattering, and absorption of radiation, the quantity of solar energy that ultimately reaches the earth's surface is much reduced in intensity as it traverses the atmosphere. The amount of reduction varies with the radiation wavelength, and depends on the length of the atmospheric path through which the solar radiation traverses. The intensity of the direct beams of sunlight thus depends on the altitude of the sun, and also varies with such factors as latitude, season, cloud coverage, and atmospheric pollutants.

The total solar radiation received at ground level includes both direct radiation and indirect (or diffuse) radiation. Diffuse radiation is the component of total radiation caused by atmospheric scattering and reflection of the incident radiation on the ground. Reflection from the ground is primarily visible light with a maximum radiation peak at a wavelength of 555 nm (green light). The relatively small amount of energy radiated from the earth at an average ambient temperature of 17°C at its surface consists of infrared radiation with a peak concentration at 970 nm. This invisible radiation is dominant at night.

During daylight hours, the amount of diffuse radiation may be as much as 10% of the total solar radiation at noon time even when the sky is clear. This value may rise to about 20% in the early morning and late afternoon.

In conclusion, therefore, it is evident that in cloudy weather the total radiation received at ground level is greatly reduced, the amount of reduction being dependent on cloud coverage and cloud thickness. Under extreme cloud conditions a significant proportion of the incident radiation would be in the form of scattered or diffuse light. In addition, lesser solar radiation is expected during the early and late hours of the day. These facts are of practical value for the proper utilization of solar radiation for such purposes as destruction of microorganisms.


http://almashriq.hiof.no/lebanon/600/610/614/solar-water/unesco/21-23.html (http://almashriq.hiof.no/lebanon/600/610/614/solar-water/unesco/21-23.html)

Agelbert NOTE: The conclusion " it is evident that in cloudy weather the total radiation received at ground level is greatly reduced..." DOES NOT mean, as the Global Warming deniers have tried to make us believe, that the ATMOSPHERE heats up less. It means that to disinfect water (kill the microrganisms) the radiation arriving on the SURFACE needs to have less cloud cover.

But as you read further up, inside the atmosphere (at cloud level well below the ozone layer) the absorption frequencies of gases can scatter the radiation throughout the atmosphere. The reflected light (visible spectrum) from clouds and surface DOES exit the planet. HOWEVER, the Earth CONSTATLY radiates in the IR band which CO2, water and methane trap quite handily because of their ABSORPTION FREQUENCIES. So all that increased albedo business that Global Warming deniers want to push on us, while it will increase VISIBLE light reflection, won't do BEANS to stop the ONLY HEAT that is radiated by this planet (IR).

BOTTOM LINE: Absorption frequencies are the KEY to understanding how the atmosphere heats or cools. The particulate scattering plays a role but the absorption frequencies are the 800 pound gorilla.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_energy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_energy)

Now lets get back to sun spots for a bit of humor. Question: What percentage of the suns TOTAL OUTPUT IN ENERGY reaches top levels of the atmosphere BEFORE it is further selectively reduced by the atmosphere?  

I'll save you the math:  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-141113185047.png&hash=384024358ff8d5e7133d19b6e6638da4584a8154)
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The Earth intercepts only about one-half of one-billionth of the Sun's total energy output. :o

http://cybele.bu.edu/courses/gg312fall02/documents/lab01.pdf (http://cybele.bu.edu/courses/gg312fall02/documents/lab01.pdf)

Do you now understand why all that BS about sunspot lessened activity and a "weakening" sun doesn't mean JACK **** to us on this planet. The "weakening" of the sun has to be hundreds of thousands of time greater than the piddling amount observed to amount to a hill of temperature BEANs on Earth.

That's why I have told Snowleapard that what he is pushing is baseless, but CLEVER, pro-fossil fuel, context free, IRRELEVANT propaganda. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.imgion.com%2Fimages%2F01%2FAngry-animated-smiley.jpg&hash=84657bd1a63cad676e3551587daeb4b39411a289) 

Snowleapard. I CHALLENGE YOU to doubt the three sources I just gave as to accuracy and TRUTH. If you do, you are bought or  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Fp8.gif&hash=34db9228a959b3b83fc65b38a1aa92a40d56f976).

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on November 16, 2013, 05:43:43 pm
Hey Snowleopard, how about these folks from Oklahoma? Are they trustworthy? I think so! Does that mean YOU DON'T? (full explanation for this type of behavior, when it isn't a conscious decision, here (http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/who-can-you-trust/mechanisms-of-prejudice-hidden-and-not-hidden/msg348/#msg348))

Oklahoma Climatological Survey  

Earth's Energy Budget

Part 2
 
Principle
 
Absorption and re-emission of radiation at the earth's surface is only one part of an intricate web of heat transfer in the earth's planetary domain. Equally important are selective absorption and emission of radiation from molecules in the atmosphere. If the earth did not have an atmosphere, surface temperatures would be too cold to sustain life.  

If too many gases which absorb and emit infrared radiation were present in the atmosphere, surface temperatures would be too hot to sustain life.
 
 

http://okfirst.mesonet.org/train/meteorology/EnergyBudget2.html



Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on November 17, 2013, 04:13:51 pm
Global Warming Since 1997 Underestimated by Half

Filed under: Climate Science
 Instrumental Record
 — stefan @ 13 November 2013


A new study by British and Canadian researchers shows that the global temperature rise of the past 15 years has been greatly underestimated. The reason is the data gaps in the weather station network, especially in the Arctic. If you fill these data gaps using satellite measurements, the warming trend is more than doubled in the widely used HadCRUT4 data, and the much-discussed “warming pause” has virtually disappeared.

Obtaining the globally averaged temperature from weather station data has a well-known problem: there are some gaps in the data, especially in the polar regions and in parts of Africa. As long as the regions not covered warm up like the rest of the world, that does not change the global temperature curve.

But errors in global temperature trends arise if these areas evolve differently from the global mean. That’s been the case over the last 15 years in the Arctic, which has warmed exceptionally fast, as shown by satellite and reanalysis data and by the massive sea ice loss there. This problem was analysed for the first time by Rasmus in 2008 at RealClimate, and it was later confirmed by other authors in the scientific literature.

The “Arctic hole” is the main reason for the difference between the NASA GISS data and the other two data sets of near-surface temperature, HadCRUT and NOAA. I have always preferred the GISS data because NASA fills the data gaps by interpolation from the edges, which is certainly better than not filling them at all.

A new gap filler

Now Kevin Cowtan (University of York) and Robert Way (University of Ottawa) have developed a new method to fill the data gaps using satellite data.

It sounds obvious and simple, but it’s not. Firstly, the satellites cannot measure the near-surface temperatures but only those overhead at a certain altitude range in the troposphere. And secondly, there are a few question marks about the long-term stability of these measurements (temporal drift).

Cowtan and Way circumvent both problems by using an established geostatistical interpolation method called kriging – but they do not apply it to the temperature data itself (which would be similar to what GISS does), but to the difference between satellite and ground data. So they produce a hybrid temperature field. This consists of the surface data where they exist. But in the data gaps, it consists of satellite data that have been converted to near-surface temperatures, where the difference between the two is determined by a kriging interpolation from the edges. As this is redone for each new month, a possible drift of the satellite data is no longer an issue.

Prerequisite for success is, of course, that this difference is sufficiently smooth, i.e. has no strong small-scale structure. This can be tested on artificially generated data gaps, in places where one knows the actual surface temperature values but holds them back ​​in the calculation. Cowtan and Way perform extensive validation tests, which demonstrate that their hybrid method provides significantly better results than a normal interpolation on the surface data as done by GISS.

The surprising result

Cowtan and Way apply their method to the HadCRUT4 data, which are state-of-the-art except for their treatment of data gaps. For 1997-2012 these data show a relatively small warming trend of only 0.05 °C per decade – which has often been misleadingly called a “warming pause”. The new IPCC report writes:


Due to natural variability, trends based on short records are very sensitive to the beginning and end dates and do not in general reflect long-term climate trends. As one example, the rate of warming over the past 15 years (1998–2012; 0.05 [–0.05 to +0.15] °C per decade), which begins with a strong El Niño, is smaller than the rate calculated since 1951 (1951–2012; 0.12 [0.08 to 0.14] °C per decade).

But after filling the data gaps this trend is 0.12 °C per decade and thus exactly equal to the long-term trend mentioned by the IPCC.

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Cowtan

The corrected data (bold lines) are shown in the graph compared to the uncorrected ones (thin lines). The temperatures of the last three years have become a little warmer, the year 1998 a little cooler.

The trend of 0.12 °C is at first surprising, because one would have perhaps expected that the trend after gap filling has a value close to the GISS data, i.e. 0.08 °C per decade. Cowtan and Way also investigated that difference. It is due to the fact that NASA has not yet implemented an improvement of sea surface temperature data which was introduced last year in the HadCRUT data (that was the transition from the HadSST2 the HadSST3 data – the details can be found e.g. here and here). The authors explain this in more detail in their extensive background material. Applying the correction of ocean temperatures to the NASA data, their trend becomes 0.10 °C per decade, very close to the new optimal reconstruction.

Conclusion

The authors write in their introduction:


While short term trends are generally treated with a suitable level of caution by specialists in the field, they feature significantly in the public discourse on climate change.

This is all too true. A media analysis has shown that at least in the U.S., about half of all reports about the new IPCC report mention the issue of a “warming pause”, even though it plays a very minor role in the conclusions of the IPCC. Often the tenor was that the alleged “pause” raises some doubts about global warming and the warnings of the IPCC. We knew about the study of Cowtan & Way for a long time, and in the face of such media reporting it is sometimes not easy for researchers to keep such information to themselves. But I respect the attitude of the authors to only go public with their results once they’ve been published in the scientific literature. This is a good principle that I have followed with my own work as well.

The public debate about the alleged “warming pause” was misguided from the outset, because far too much was read into a cherry-picked short-term trend. Now this debate has become completely baseless, because the trend of the last 15 or 16 years is nothing unusual – even despite the record El Niño year at the beginning of the period. It is still a quarter less than the warming trend since 1980, which is 0.16 °C per decade. But that’s not surprising when one starts with an extreme El Niño and ends with persistent La Niña conditions, and is also running through a particularly deep and prolonged solar minimum in the second half. As we often said, all this is within the usual variability around the long-term global warming trend and no cause for excited over-interpretation.

http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2013/11/global-warming-since-1997-underestimated-by-half/#more-16173


A couple CHOICE comments from the bought-and-paid-for-Denier-Squad  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-241013183046.jpeg&hash=51c9c4f17e747698c76c65c7c1814eff4f32c400) and the informed, erudite and clear smack down (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Fcowboypistol.gif&hash=2dc97f743dffca22404e6e4e0822765e60b33f38)  of the Real Climate Blog Scientists   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.clker.com%2Fcliparts%2Fc%2F8%2Ff%2F8%2F11949865511933397169thumbs_up_nathan_eady_01.svg.hi.png&hash=599691109af22b33f1d59dd61eb97448a9427020) :


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Blair Dowden says:   

13 Nov 2013 at 4:40 PM

Dr. Kevin Cowtan (http://www.york.ac.uk/chemistry/staff/academic/a-c/kcowtan/ (http://www.york.ac.uk/chemistry/staff/academic/a-c/kcowtan/)) is a chemist at the University of York specializing in X-ray crystallography. I do not see any hint of a connection with his work to climate change. Robert Way (http://uottawa.academia.edu/RobertWay (http://uottawa.academia.edu/RobertWay)) is a graduate student in geography at the University of Ottawa, but at least one of his few papers is somewhat relevant. These are not the qualifications I would expect for the authors of such a ground breaking paper. (This comment seemed to get lost, so I am posting it again.)

[Response: With the amount of open data available for anyone to analyse, this is not such a stretch. There are many good papers from 'outsiders' in the literature and in general this kind of constructive input should be welcomed (as with work done by Zeke Hausfather, Troy Masters etc.). - gavin]
[Response: p.s. It is well worth looking at his impressive citation record. I think it is excellent if top scientists from other fields make methodological contributions to climate science. -stefan]




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Peter Lilley says:   

13 Nov 2013 at 4:47 PM

Why do nearly all data reanalyses on this site show the warming is greater than the raw data?

[Response: Not true.  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F2rzukw3.gif&hash=f0487b8f0d488ab1126ce5e031b11ea3d74b1cc2)
 The raw SST data show much larger trends that turned out to be spurious due to changes in measuring techniques. The GISTEMP analyses correct for an urban heating effect that would otherwise lead to a (slightly) stronger trend globally. Homogeneity corrections at GHCN go both ways. The analysis in this instance is correcting for an obvious hole in the HadCRUT4 data (mainly the Arctic) which even you know has been warming faster. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Fgen152.gif&hash=d5b10968fe56c4cb95fae17cee3cb420a5f4e2da)Your question therefore smacks of a desire to have lower trends for reasons that are not clear.  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-051113192052.png&hash=93c42ef9f18fc5d9da50fd91fc19f70009f95f85)
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on November 19, 2013, 01:49:43 am
October 2013 Antarctic ice largest extent since records began in 1979! Is Snowleopard vindicated? Does Agelbert have to eat a snowball with his crow? :P            (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.smileyvault.com%2Falbums%2Fstock%2Fthumb_smiley-sign0105.gif&hash=4b7bdb3cce5fe9dd53544e5635cdbf996f52f716)



October was a RECORD HOT MONTH GLOBALLY!



Nevertheless, expect the Global Warming Deniers to do some world class mendacious "Antarctic ice is growing at a record pace! (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Facigar.gif&hash=dc9dccf92c6c88c99611b06c86d92629d69f2978) Global Warming is a hoax!" (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.u.arizona.edu%2F%7Epatricia%2Fcute-collection%2Fsmileys%2Flying-smiley.gif&hash=a34c2f7344d5f54f7009a4e684bb6c7310cdda03) cherry picking. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-051113192052.png&hash=93c42ef9f18fc5d9da50fd91fc19f70009f95f85)

Read the EVIDENCE that Global WARMING hasn't "paused" but is, in fact, worsening!

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During October 2013, most of the world land areas experienced warmer-than-average temperatures, with the most notable departures from the 1981–2010 average across Alaska, northwestern Canada, northwestern Africa, and parts of north central and southern Asia.

The departure from the 1981–2010 average in these locations varied between +2°C to +5°C or greater. When comparing the October 2013 departure from average with the location's period of record (minimum of 80 years), parts of Alaska, northwestern Canada, northwestern Africa, and southern Australia experienced their warmest October temperature on record.

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As shown in the anomalies map, some areas that had departures that were above the 1981–2010 average, but lower in magnitude—such as Australia, Mexico, most of Africa, western and central Europe, northern and southern Argentina, and parts of the Caribbean—fell in the much-warmer-than-average category, as shown in the percentiles map, with some locations in the Caribbean having their warmest October on record.

Some locations across the globe experienced departures that were below the 1981–2010 average. These areas include most of the western half of the United States, northern parts of the Middle East, and parts of central South America, western Russia and the Russian Far East. When comparing each location's October 2013 temperature with their respective period of record, the northern Middle East experienced much-cooler-than-average temperatures, while the rest had near-average to cooler-than-average temperatures. There were no land areas that experienced record coldest temperatures.

Averaged as a whole, the temperature across the land surfaces was 0.98°C (1.76°F) higher than the 20th century average of 9.3°C (48.7°F)—tying with 2012  as the eighth warmest October since records began in 1880.  

This was also the 21st consecutive October with a warmer-than-average temperature. The last October with below-average temperatures occurred in 1992,  when the global land temperature was 0.04°C (0.07°F) below the 20th century average.

The last below-average global land temperature for any month was February 1994. When averaging the temperature across the land surfaces across each hemisphere, the Northern Hemisphere experienced its seventh warmest October on record, with a departure from the 20th century average of +1.01°C (+1.82°F), while the Southern Hemisphere's October 2013 land surface temperature was +0.90°C (+1.62°F) higher than the 20th century average—the eighth warmest October on record.

Select national information is highlighted below. (Please note that different countries report anomalies with respect to different base periods. The information provided here is based directly upon these data):

•For the 15th consecutive month (since August 2012), Australia experienced above-average temperatures. The nationally averaged October maximum temperature was the third warmest on record with a departure from the 1961–1990 average of +2.1°C. Minimum temperatures were also above average, but did not rank among the top ten warmest on record. The mean national temperature was 1.43°C above average—the seventh warmest since national temperature records began in 1910, according to Australia's Bureau of Meteorology. Also, the 12-month (November 2012 to October 2013) mean temperature for the nation was 1.3°C above the 1961–1990 average—the highest 12-month period average for the nation. This value surpasses the previous record set the two previous months, +1.25°C (October 2012 to September 2013) and +1.11°C (September 2012 to August 2013). This is also 0.22°C higher than any 12-month period prior to 2013.

•Spain experienced warm temperatures during October, with an average monthly temperature of 17.5°C or 2.1°C above the 1971–2000 average. This resulted in the sixth warmest October since national records began in 1961.

•In Austria, the October 2013 temperature was 1.1°C warmer than the 1981–2010 average—the warmest October since 2006 and the 25th warmest October since national records began in 1767.

•The national temperature in Germany was 10.6°C or 1.4°C warmer than the 1981–2010 average, resulting in the 11th warmest October since national records began in 1881.

Across the oceans, temperature departures from 1981–2010 tend to be smaller than across the land surfaces. According to the percentiles map, much-warmer-than-average conditions were present across the tropical Atlantic Ocean, and along the European and the northeastern United States coasts, the tropical Western Pacific Ocean, the south-central Pacific Ocean, and across parts of the Indian Ocean. Some ocean areas in the Caribbean, western and south-central Pacific Ocean, and Indian Ocean experienced their warmest October temperature on record. ENSO-neutral (neither El Niño nor La Niña) conditions persisted across much of the tropical Pacific Ocean during October. According to NOAA's Climate Prediction Center, neutral conditions are favored through the Northern Hemisphere spring 2014. Averaged globally, the global ocean temperature was 0.50°C (0.90°F) above the 20th century average, ranking as the eighth warmest October on record.

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Averaging the globe as a whole, the temperature across land and ocean surfaces combined during October 2013 was 0.63°C (1.13°F) above the 1901–2000 average of 14.0°C (57.1°F)—the seventh warmest October since records began in 1880. It also marked the 37th consecutive October and 344th consecutive month (more than 28 years) with a global temperature above the 20th century average. The last below-average October global temperature was October 1976 and the last below-average global temperature for any month was February 1985.  The warmest October on record occurred in 2003 when global land and ocean surface temperatures were 0.74°C (1.33°F) above the 20th century average, while the coldest October occurred in 1912 [-0.57°C (-1.03°F)].


http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/global/
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on November 19, 2013, 06:34:28 pm
Simple physics and climate

Filed under: Climate modelling
Climate Science
Greenhouse gases
Sun-earth connections
— rasmus @ 12 November 2013


No doubt, our climate system is complex and messy. Still, we can sometimes make some inferences about it based on well-known physical principles. Indeed, the beauty of physics is that a complex systems can be reduced into simple terms that can be quantified, and the essential aspects understood.

A recent paper by Sloan and Wolfendale (2013) provides an example where they derive a simple conceptual model of how the greenhouse effect works from first principles. They show the story behind the expression saying that a doubling in CO2 should increase the forcing by a factor of 1+log|2|/log|CO2|. I have a fondness for such simple conceptual models (e.g. I’ve made my own attempt posted at arXiv) because they provide a general picture of the essence – of course their precision is limited by their simplicity.


However, the main issue discussed in the paper by Sloan and Wolfendale was not the greenhouse effect, but rather the question about galactic cosmic rays and climate. The discussion of the greenhouse effect was provided as a reference to the cosmic rays.

Even though we have discussed this question several times here at RC, Sloan and Wolfendale introduce some new information in connection with radiation, ionization, and cloud formation. Even after having dug into all these other aspects, they do not find much evidence for the cosmic rays playing an important role. Their conclusions fit nicely with my own findings that also recently were published in the journal Environmental Research Letters.

The cosmic ray hypothesis is weakened further by observational evidence from satellites, as shown in another recent paper by Krissansen-Totton and Davies (2013) in Geophysical Research Letters, which also concludes that the there is no statistically significant correlations between cosmic rays and global albedo or globally averaged cloud height. Neither did they find any evidence for any regional or lagged correlations.

It’s nice to see that the Guardian has picked up these findings. Agelbert NOTE: IT will ALSO be nice as well as EDUCATIONAL and significant   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-051113192052.png&hash=93c42ef9f18fc5d9da50fd91fc19f70009f95f85) to observe who DIDN'T pick up on these findings (e.g. Globalresearch.org - Et tu Brute?  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.imgion.com%2Fimages%2F01%2FAngry-animated-smiley.jpg&hash=84657bd1a63cad676e3551587daeb4b39411a289)  ).   

Earlier in October, Almeida et al., 2013 had a paper published in Nature on results from the CLOUD experiment at CERN. They found that galactic cosmic rays exert only a small influence on the formation of sulphuric acid–dimethylamine clusters (the embryonic stage before aerosols may act as cloud condensation nuclei). The authors also reported that the experimental results were reproduced by a dynamical model, based on quantum chemical calculations.

Some may ask why we keep revisiting the question about cosmic rays and climate, after presenting all the evidence to the contrary.  ???

One reason is that science is never settled, and there are still some lingering academic communities nourishing the idea that changes in the sun or cosmic rays play a role.  ;) For this reason, a European project was estaqblished in 2011, COST-action TOSCA (Towards a more complete assessment of the impact of solar variability on the Earth’s climate), whose objective is to provide a better understanding of the “hotly debated role of the Sun in climate change” (not really in the scientific fora, (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F34y5mvr.gif&hash=835b3a3f26d5d1b7f0acc379ad8ebd3fe9eea488)  but more in the general public discourse (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.u.arizona.edu%2F%7Epatricia%2Fcute-collection%2Fsmileys%2Flying-smiley.gif&hash=a34c2f7344d5f54f7009a4e684bb6c7310cdda03)(https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F2rzukw3.gif&hash=f0487b8f0d488ab1126ce5e031b11ea3d74b1cc2)).  

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Oldenborgh et al. (2013) also questioned the hypothesised link between extremely cold winter conditions in Europe and weak solar activity, but their analysis did not reproduce such claims.


References
1. T. Sloan, and A.W. Wolfendale, "Cosmic rays, solar activity and the climate", Environmental Research Letters, vol. 8, pp. 045022, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/8/4/045022

2. J. Krissansen-Totton, and R. Davies, "Investigation of cosmic ray-cloud connections using MISR", Geophysical Research Letters, vol. 40, pp. 5240-5245, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/grl.50996

3. J. Almeida, S. Schobesberger, A. Kürten, I.K. Ortega, O. Kupiainen-Määttä, A.P. Praplan, A. Adamov, A. Amorim, F. Bianchi, M. Breitenlechner, A. David, J. Dommen, N.M. Donahue, A. Downard, E. Dunne, J. Duplissy, S. Ehrhart, R.C. Flagan, A. Franchin, R. Guida, J. Hakala, A. Hansel, M. Heinritzi, H. Henschel, T. Jokinen, H. Junninen, M. Kajos, J. Kangasluoma, H. Keskinen, A. Kupc, T. Kurtén, A.N. Kvashin, A. Laaksonen, K. Lehtipalo, M. Leiminger, J. Leppä, V. Loukonen, V. Makhmutov, S. Mathot, M.J. McGrath, T. Nieminen, T. Olenius, A. Onnela, T. Petäjä, F. Riccobono, I. Riipinen, M. Rissanen, L. Rondo, T. Ruuskanen, F.D. Santos, N. Sarnela, S. Schallhart, R. Schnitzhofer, J.H. Seinfeld, M. Simon, M. Sipilä, Y. Stozhkov, F. Stratmann, A. Tomé, J. Tröstl, G. Tsagkogeorgas, P. Vaattovaara, Y. Viisanen, A. Virtanen, A. Vrtala, P.E. Wagner, E. Weingartner, H. Wex, C. Williamson, D. Wimmer, P. Ye, T. Yli-Juuti, K.S. Carslaw, M. Kulmala, J. Curtius, U. Baltensperger, D.R. Worsnop, H. Vehkamäki, and J. Kirkby, "Molecular understanding of sulphuric acid–amine particle nucleation in the atmosphere", Nature, vol. 502, pp. 359-363, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature12663

4. G.J. van Oldenborgh, A.T.J. de Laat, J. Luterbacher, W.J. Ingram, and T.J. Osborn, "Claim of solar influence is on thin ice: are 11-year cycle solar minima associated with severe winters in Europe?", Environmental Research Letters, vol. 8, pp. 024014, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/8/2/024014


http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2013/11/simple-physics-and-climate/
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on November 25, 2013, 02:58:55 pm

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Arctic releasing twice as much methane as previously thought
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LiveScience.com, Nov. 24, 2013

The Arctic methane time bomb is bigger than scientists once thought and primed to blow, according to a study published today (Nov. 24) in the journal Nature Geoscience.

About 17 teragrams of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, escapes each year from a broad, shallow underwater platform called the East Siberian Arctic Shelf, said Natalia Shakova, lead study author and a biogeochemist at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks. A teragram is equal to about 1.1 million tons; the world emits about 500 million tons of methane every year from manmade and natural sources. The new measurement more than doubles the team's earlier estimate of Siberian methane release, published in 2010 in the journal Science.

"We believe that release of methane from the Arctic, in particular, from the East Siberian Arctic Shelf, could impact the entire globe, not just the Arctic alone," Shakova told LiveScience. "The picture that we are trying to understand is what is the actual contribution of the [shelf] to the global methane budget and how it will change over time."

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Arctic permafrost is an area of intense research focus because of its climate threat. The frozen ground holds enormous stores of methane because the ice traps methane rising from inside the Earth, as well as gas made by microbes living in the soil. Scientists worry that the warming Arctic could lead to rapidly melting permafrost, releasing all that stored methane and creating a global warming feedback loop as the methane in the atmosphere traps heat and melts even more permafrost.

Researchers are trying to gauge this risk by accurately measuring stores of methane in permafrost on land and in the ocean, and predicting how fast it will thaw as the planet warms. Though methane gas quickly decays once it escapes into the atmosphere, lasting only about 10 years, it is 30 times more efficient than carbon dioxide at trapping heat (the greenhouse effect).

Shakova and colleague Igor Semiletov of the Russian Academy of Sciences first discovered methane bubbling up from the shallow seafloor a decade ago in Russia's Laptev Sea. Methane is trapped there in ground frozen during past ice ages, when sea level was much lower.

(https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.freesmileys.org%2Femoticons%2Femoticon-object-106.gif&hash=f996659d18df7f3b445e6135e884397ac91f25b1) Shallow waters

In their latest study, Shakova and her colleagues reported thousands of measurements of methane bubbles taken in summer and winter, between 2003 and 2012.

But the team also sampled seawater temperature and drilled into the ocean bottom, to see if the sediments are still frozen. Most of the survey was in water less than 100 feet (30 meters deep).
The shallow water is one reason so much methane escapes the Siberian shelf — in the deeper ocean, as methane-eating microbes digest the gas before it reaches the surface, Shakova said. But in the Laptev Sea, "it takes the bubbles only seconds, or at least a couple of minutes, to escape from the water column," Shakova said.

Arctic storms that churn the sea also speed up the release of methane from ocean water, like stirring a soft-drink releases gas bubbles, Shakova said. During the surveys, the amount of methane in the ocean and atmosphere dropped after two big Arctic storms passed through in 2009 and 2010, the researchers reported.

The temperature measurements revealed the water just above the ocean bottom warms by more than 12 degrees Fahrenheit (7 degrees Celsius) in some spots during the summer, the researchers found. And the drill core revealed that the surface sediment layers were unfrozen at the drill site, near the Lena River delta.

"We have now proved that the current state of subsea permafrost is incomparably closer to the thaw point than that of terrestrial permafrost," Shakova said.

Shakova and her colleagues attribute the warming of the permafrost to long-term changes initiated when sea levels rose starting at the end of the last glacial period. The seawater is several degrees warmer than the frozen ground, and is slowly melting the ice over thousands of years, they think.

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But other researchers think the permafrost warming started only recently. "This is the first time in 12,000 years the Arctic Ocean has warmed up 7 degrees in the summer, and that's entirely new because the sea ice hasn't been there to hold the temperatures down," said Peter Wadhams, head of the Polar Ocean Physics Group at the University of Cambridge in the U.K., who was not involved in the study. The summer ice melt season has lasted longer since 2005, giving the sun more time to warm the ocean.

"If we do have a methane burst it's going to be catastrophic," Wadhams said. Earlier this year, Wadhams and colleagues in Britain calculated that a mega-methane release from the Siberian shelf could push global temperatures up by 1 degree Fahrenheit (0.6 degrees Celsius). The suggestion, published in the journal Nature, was widely debated by climate researchers. Climate change experts and international negotiators have said that keeping the rise in Earth's average temperature below 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) is necessary to avoid catastrophic climate change.

Shakova said much more research is needed to understand the factors that control how much methane is released from the entire East Siberian Arctic Shelf, which covers 772,000 square miles (2 million square kilometers), or nearly one-fifth the size of the United States.

"Ten years ago we started from zero knowledge in this area," Shakova said. "This is the largest shelf in the world's oceans. That's why it's very challenging to understand the natural processes behind the methane emissions in this area."

http://news.yahoo.com/twice-much-methane-escaping-arctic-seafloor-041738506.html
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on November 27, 2013, 11:40:39 pm

Snowleopard said about the following image:(https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Farctic.atmos.uiuc.edu%2Fcryosphere%2FIMAGES%2Fseaice.area.antarctic.png&hash=7e77e0766212b6c14350d383243621e57e8faf84)

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Do YOU see a significant trend here, hot or cold?  I don't.  IF there is a GLOBAL trend currently, the Antarctic ice seems immune. 


Agelbert Responds:


                                    Globe BELOW:
Antarctic region HERE---->(https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fdl2.glitter-graphics.net%2Fpub%2F1087%2F1087832pmq26zqtt4.gif&hash=b78c8a77d04e8ff6af5d8c7e5a02871cc061e275)


NOTE: When discussing GLOBAL TRENDS, it is customary to include the ENTIRE GLOBAL surface area.  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.imgion.com%2Fimages%2F01%2FAngry-animated-smiley.jpg&hash=84657bd1a63cad676e3551587daeb4b39411a289) That means, like, adding up the hotter than baseline normal areas and subtracting, in appropriate percentile segments  ;), the cooler than baseline normal areas.

IOW Antarctica is not the globe, as in "Global Trend", get it?  ;)

But since you fine fellows are all fired up about all that ice in the OCEAN around Antarctica, let's talk about ALL of Antarctica.  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-141113185047.png&hash=384024358ff8d5e7133d19b6e6638da4584a8154)
 

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All the sea ice talk aside, it is quite clear that really when it comes to Antarctic ice and sea levels, sea ice is not the most important thing to measure. In Antarctica, the largest and most important ice mass is the land ice of the West Antarctic and East Antarctic ice sheets.

Therefore, how is Antarctic land ice doing?

Shepherd et al. 2012
Figure 2: Estimates of total Antarctic land ice changes and approximate sea level contributions using a combination of different measurement techniques (Shepherd, 2012). Shaded areas represent the estimate uncertainty (1-sigma).

Estimates of recent changes in Antarctic land ice (Figure 2, bottom panel) show an increasing contribution to sea level with time, although not as fast a rate or acceleration as Greenland. Between 1992 and 2011, the Antarctic Ice Sheets overall lost 1350 giga-tonnes (Gt) or 1,350,000,000,000 tonnes into the oceans, at an average rate of 70 Gt per year (Gt/yr). Because a reduction in mass of 360 Gt/year represents an annual global-average sea level rise of 1 mm, these estimates equate to an increase in global-average sea levels by 0.19 mm/yr.

There is variation between regions within Antarctica (Figure 2, top panel), with the West Antarctic Ice Sheet and the Antarctic Peninsula Ice Sheet losing ice mass, and with an increasing rate. The East Antarctic Ice Sheet is growing slightly over this period but not enough to offset the other losses.  There are of course uncertainties in the estimation methods but independent data from multiple measurement techniques (explained here) all show the same thing, Antarctica is losing land ice as a whole, and these losses are accelerating quickly.


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See images referenced in the quote at the link below along with the full and well referenced article. :emthup:

http://www.skepticalscience.com/antarctica-gaining-ice.htm

The image below shows dovetails with images in the article quantifying the rapidly depleting Antarctic LAND ICE. As the article above claims, the CAUSE of the rapidly expanding Antarctic SEA ICE is the rapidly depleting LAND ICE.


Are you going to tell me these scientific facts and observations are "not considered 'CFS' to the lay person"? It doesn't pass the sniff test? Do you smell a global warming agenda rat here?

I don't. Check the reference!
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Gentlemen Snowleopard and MKing, the specialty of the house, Hot Antarctic Crow, is served. Bon appetit!  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F5yjbztv.gif&hash=d3dc6c69f3fc5ad39c44fb5466265476f34e5a76)



Note: if you don't like crow, the meal may be substituted for standing at the door of the Doomstead Diner and repeating the word, "UNCLE" for several days. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F290.gif&hash=38949e35cf58eaa4218b5a8176767c806d2f8537)         (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F245.gif&hash=67462ab647fbd65cb336e77c93c2601e477da0a9)


Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on November 28, 2013, 06:52:00 pm


Snowleopard changes the subject of GLOBAL WARMING TRENDS with a question:
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How many more of these volcanoes remain undiscovered????

You don't like crow? You refuse to say, "UNCLE"?

Such a proud, persistent prevaricator.

For the viewing audience, Snowleopard's "question" CARRIES AN UNDERLYING STATEMENT.

AND THAT "STATEMENT" is a, nauseatingly consistent, (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Fwww_MyEmoticons_com__burp.gif&hash=8ff3ef6c016d8baf5f61ed5e8db58f069b64da00) propaganda point that Global Warming Deniers in the service of DIRTY ENERGY cling tenaciously and mendaciously to:

Snowleopard continues to claim day and night, 24/7 that "WE JUST DON'T KNOW".(https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-311013200859.png&hash=a7aaaa9f04c1e3e2c948723b5f8c13fe814dacd4)


How convenient.  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-051113192052.png&hash=93c42ef9f18fc5d9da50fd91fc19f70009f95f85)


I guess it's true that A LEOPARD WILL NEVER CHANGE ITS SPOTS!   


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usDzh7l5HZw&feature=player_embedded
 Video on Antarctic Land Ice measuring science

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/06/de-ice-antarctica/

Snowleopard, please look up "order of magnitude". It will help you establish a proper perspective on total planetary volcanic heat versus Anthropogenic CO2 emissions caused HEAT.

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Annual anthropogenic CO2 emissions exceed annual volcanic CO2 by two orders of magnitude, and probably exceed the CO2 output of one or more super-eruptions***. Thus there is no scientific basis for using volcanic CO2 emissions as an excuse for failing to manage humanity’s carbon footprint.

http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2011/08/volcanic-vs-anthropogenic-co2/
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on November 29, 2013, 11:22:12 pm
Two Subglacial Lakes Discovered in Greenland
Nov 28, 2013 by Sci-News.com 

A team of researchers from the University of Cambridge’s Scott Polar Research Institute has discovered two lakes about 800 m below the ice sheet near the town of Qaanaaq in northwestern Greenland.

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This map shows the location of two subglacial lakes near the town of Qaanaaq in northwestern Greenland.

Subglacial lakes are likely to influence the flow of the ice sheet, impacting global sea level change. The discovery of the lakes in Greenland will help researchers to understand how the ice will respond to changing environmental conditions.

The Cambridge scientists used airborne radar measurements to reveal the lakes underneath the ice sheet.

The two lakes are roughly 8-10 km2, and at one point may have been up to 3 times larger than their current size.

They are found in the northwest sector of the Greenland Ice Sheet, about 40 km from the ice margin, and below 757 and 809 m of ice, respectively.

“Our results show that subglacial lakes exist in Greenland, and that they form an important part of the ice sheet’s plumbing system. Because the way in which water moves beneath ice sheets strongly affects ice flow speeds, improved understanding of these lakes will allow us to predict more accurately how the ice sheet will respond to anticipated future warming,” said Dr Steven Palmer, the lead author of the study published online in the journal Geophysical Research Letters.

The lakes are unusual compared with those detected beneath Antarctic ice sheets, suggesting that they formed in a different manner.

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This radar map shows subglacial bed elevations near the town of Qaanaaq; lines show contours of the newly discovered subglacial lakes; dashed lines show possible previous larger contours. Image credit: Palmer SJ et al.

The scientists propose that, unlike in Antarctica where surface temperatures remain below freezing all year round, the newly discovered lakes are most likely fed by melting surface water draining through cracks in the ice. A surface lake situated nearby may also replenish the subglacial lakes during warm summers. This means that the lakes are part of an open system and are connected to the surface, which is different from Antarctic lakes that are most often isolated ecosystems.

While nearly 400 lakes have been detected beneath the Antarctic ice sheets, the two newly discovered lakes are the first to be identified in Greenland.
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Bibliographic information: Palmer SJ et al. 2013. Greenland subglacial lakes detected by radar. Geophysical Research Letters, published online; doi: 10.1002/2013GL058383

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on December 06, 2013, 02:34:16 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6pFDu7lLV4&feature=player_embedded
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on December 16, 2013, 06:25:01 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xYWIbgr_v0&feature=player_embedded
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on December 26, 2013, 03:39:52 pm
Climate Change Threatens Peru’s Economic Progress As Amazon Becomes Net Emitter of CO2  :(


Climate Change Threatens Peru’s Economic Progress As Amazon Becomes Net Emitter of CO2

Climate News Network | December 26, 2013 12:22 pm | Comments

By Alex Kirby

Peru is the country chosen to host the 2014 United Nations (UN) climate conference, a key meeting for trying to advance an ambitious plan to rein in greenhouse emissions which is planned for agreement in 2015.

Scientists think Peru’s role reversal from being a carbon sink to a net emitter of CO2 in 2012 is result of droughts in the western Amazon.

But the country has recently earned a rather more dubious distinction. In 2012, for the first time, the Peruvian Amazon became a net emitter of carbon dioxide (CO2) rather than oxygen, according to the latest human development country report of the UN Development Programme (UNDP).

The Amazon rainforest usually acts as a carbon sink, absorbing atmospheric CO2 rather than releasing it. Scientists think this reversal of its normal behavior results from the droughts in the western Amazon in 2005 and 2010 and say it shows Peru’s vulnerability to climate change.

Peru has more than halved its poverty rate in the last decade, from 48.5 percent in 2004 to 25.8 percent in 2012. But the 2013 UNDP report said its vulnerability to a warming climate could cancel the progress it has made in directing economic growth into sustained poverty reduction.

Glaciers Going

One of the UNDP report’s authors, Maria Eugenia Mujica, said: “If we disregard [environmental] sustainability, whatever progress we have made in poverty reduction or improvement of human development will just be erased due to climate change.”

With a temperature rise in the Andes of 0.7 degrees Celsius between 1939 and 2006, Peru has already lost 39 percent of its tropical glaciers. Temperature rises of up to 6 degrees Celsius are expected in many parts of the Andes by the end of this century.

Peru’s economic success is in some cases directly linked to activities which contribute to climate change, for example illegal gold mining and logging, and the **** trade—all of them environmentally destructive, but lucrative.

“The growth does not come from education or health, but from predatory activities, like [resource] extraction and mining,” said Francisco Santa Cruz, another of the report’s authors.

Peru is trying to protect itself against the ravages of a warmer world, but the odds are against it. It recently announced plans to invest $6 billion USD in renewable energy projects: around the same time came predictions that climate change could cost between 8 percent and 34 percent of its GDP. A report by the Inter-American Development Bank has said the entire Latin American and Caribbean region will face annual damages from global warming of about $100 billion USD by 2050.

Taken for Granted

The Global Canopy Programme and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture, describing climate change as “a threat multiplier,” called in a report this month for a new security agenda for Amazonia and the countries of the region.

Manuel Pulgar, Peru’s environment minister, said at the report’s launch: “Climate change is a global problem, but one that will multiply local and regional problems in unforeseeable ways.”

“In Latin America, we have taken Amazonia and its seemingly limitless water and forests as a given,” Pulgar continued. “But recent unprecedented droughts have shown us just what happens when that water security falters.

“It impacts food and energy production, it affects the wellbeing of entire populations, and it leaves governments and businesses with a big bill to pay,” Pulgar concluded. “The science is clear, so we cannot afford to miss the opportunity for positive action now. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nhclc.org%2Ffiles%2Fnhclc%2Fu38%2Ffl-church-translators-20120622-001.jpg&hash=479e003d75f4bc849273287ad61c9b1742b1e6e7)



http://ecowatch.com/2013/12/26/climate-change-threatens-perus-amazon-net-emitter-co2/
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on January 01, 2014, 11:34:37 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhJR3ywIijo&feature=player_embedded
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on January 08, 2014, 09:54:36 pm
New Report Affirms Dark Money Lines Utility Pockets

The rooftop solar industry closed out 2013 with a 4-0 winning streak against the monopoly utilities’ attempts to eliminate net metering. Net metering gives rooftop solar customers full retail credit for the excess electricity they deliver to the electric grid. The utility turns around and sells this electricity to homes and businesses nearby, and saves money on big costs like transmission and distribution.

Idaho, Louisiana, California, and Arizona all upheld net metering this year, siding with public opinion, consumer choice, and competition. The battle in Arizona was particularly heated, as Arizona Public Service (APS) took the fight to new levels with dark money tactics and a multimillion-dollar

campaign against rooftop solar. After reports from October exposed the utility for lying about funding anti-solar ad campaigns and phony grassroots organizations, a web of dark money surfaced.

In response, Arizonans came out in droves to support the energy choice and competition that rooftop solar provides. More than 30,000 Arizonans wrote to the state’s Corporation Commission to defend net metering, particularly notable considering there are only 18,000 rooftop solar customers in the state. On the day of the final hearing in November, more than 1,000 Arizonans descended on the Arizona Corporation Commission headquarters. Ultimately, Arizona Public Service failed to get the large solar tax they had requested, and net metering was upheld.

The Arizona activities make us question which other utilities are using dark money tactics in their state-by-state campaigns against rooftop solar. Yet other utilities and their trade association, Edison Electric Institute (EEI), remain silent on this issue, even after a request that they disavow such tactics.

A recent Washington Post article validates the pervasiveness of dark money in climate change denial and the fights against solar. The piece, titled, “The Dark Money in Climate Change,” reports:

The thrust of the study, done by Dr. Robert J. Brulle, is that climate-denial money has largely been driven underground to dark-money sources. About 75 percent of the money backing climate-denial efforts is untraceable, primarily via conservative foundations and shadowy tax-exempt groups that obscure their funding sources.

The story goes on to explain that untraceable funding to attack climate change has increased at the same time that publicly traceable funding from major industrial donors has decreased. Notable industrial donors whose public funding has dwindled of late include ExxonMobil and Koch Industries. As the Washington Post states, “You don’t have to be a genius to figure out what’s happening there.”

As we enter 2014, net metering battles are already underway in notable solar markets such as Colorado. Fortunately, while the solar industry doesn’t have the deep pockets of fossil fuel supporters, we do have the public on our side. According to a new poll, nearly four in five Colorado voters (78%) support solar net metering. What’s more, these results match other state-by-state findings across the country – including California, Arizona and Hawaii – that show overwhelming public support for rooftop solar.

The Washington Post affirms that there’s no shortage of dark money supporting monopoly utilities. It remains to be seen where and how it will surface in 2014.

http://cleantechnica.com/2014/01/07/new-report-affirms-dark-money-lines-utility-pockets/#s5p0Yr061R9AJgjQ.99

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The above is climate denial funding. This is in LOCKSTEP with support for utility monopolies. So look to MKing's fossil fueler pals above who claim they are more "competitive" that Renewable Energy

Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on January 21, 2014, 09:04:21 pm
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 NOAA: 2013 Was Tied For The Fourth-Hottest Year On Record


 By Ryan Koronowski   on  January 21, 2014 at 7:34 pm

While Americans deal with a wintery January and try to understand what a polar vortex is, one thing is clear: 2013 was one of the ten hottest years since records began in 1880. For the 37th consecutive year, global temperatures were higher than average.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) reported Tuesday that 2013 was tied with 2003 as the fourth-warmest year since records began in 1880 — annual land and ocean surface temperatures were 0.62°C (1.12°F) higher than average. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) reported that along with 2009 and 2006, 2013 was tied for the seventh-warmest year on record, “continuing a long-term trend of rising global temperatures.” NASA used essentially the same data — it just processes it slightly differently than NOAA does. Indeed, the difference between 4th place and 7th place is just two-hundredths of a degree. NASA had the “temperature anomaly” — how much the global temperature deviated from the average — pegged at 0.60°C and NOAA had 0.58°C.
 
The data from 2013 is just one report, but it is another data point in a trend that people can expect as the atmosphere gets more and more filled with increasing amounts of heat-trapping greenhouse gases. Gavin Schmidt, Deputy Chief at NASA GISS, told reporters on a conference call Tuesday that “long-term trends in climate are extremely robust — there is year-to-year variability, there is season-to-season variability, there are times such as today, when we can have snow, even in a globally warmed world.

“But the long-term trends are very clear, they’re not going to disappear, and people should be aware of that,” Schmidt said. He cautioned against allowing short memories and cold snaps to get in the way of the data.

Though cold weather might help people lose weight, it does not help them understand the reality of long-term trends like climate change. Studies in recent years have found that colder days make people less likely to be concerned about — and acknowledge — global warming.

Where was the extra warmth in 2013 concentrated? Almost everywhere except the middle of North America and parts of the Pacific Ocean. This map shows how observed temperatures in 2013 compared to the 1951-1980 average:

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CREDIT: NASA/GSFC/Earth Observatory, NASA/GISS

A map of where these hot and cold temperature anomalies occur can help give a picture of what is happening on a global scale, and just how odd it was for parts of North America to be colder than normal. Much of the rest of the globe had blooms of reds and pinks, signifying hotter-than-average temperatures.

Watching a video that puts six decades of these maps in one constant flow shows quite clearly the warming trend facing everyone on Earth, even if some parts experience periodic cold snaps:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaJJtS_WDmI&feature=player_embedded

NASA’s Schmidt said that “the warmth that we’ve seen in the last decade clearly makes this decade the warmest in the historical period.” Videos like this help bring a trend like that to life. The complete year-by-year animation of 1880-2013 takes longer, but can be viewed here.

The geographic breakdown shows that recent warming has been concentrated in parts of the Arctic, Australia, South America, and large swaths of Asia and Africa. Many of these areas experienced record warms. January 2013 was the hottest month ever observed in Australia — last summer was the hottest one ever, followed by the third-warmest winter and warmest-ever spring. Despite some slightly colder-than-average periods in the middle of North America and over the Southern Pacific Ocean, not one region of the globe experienced record colds.



Even still, most of North America experienced warmer-than-average temperatures. Alaska had its second-warmest summer on record. Mexico had its hottest summer on record.


This trapped energy in the atmosphere does not just manifest as heat, it also affects the water cycle. Areas that tend to be wet often get wetter, because the heat allows the air to hold more moisture, increasing the strength of precipitation events. Dry areas, as they get hotter, yield more and more of their trapped moisture to evaporation, which often gets blown away, sometimes worsening droughts. In 2013, precipitation was close to average on the whole for the globe, but this fact can hide how some regions experienced record drought and some saw record flooding.

In addition to the massive flash floods on Colorado’s Front Range, many parts of the world experienced damage from extended precipitation or flash floods of their own, including: the coast of Queensland, Australia; La Plata, Argentina; Mozambique and Mali; Germany, Poland, Czech Republic, Austria, and Switzerland; Northwest India and Nepal; the Russian-Chinese border, and much of Mexico. Higher-than-average snowfall hit Moscow, Russia, the United Kingdom, Israel, Lebanon, and Jordan.

Other parts of the planet had a lot less water than normal, and suffered serious and sometimes record droughts, including: Northeastern Brazil, large parts of the Amazon Basin, and the Brazilian Plateau; the Marshall Islands; New Zealand; Angola and Namibia; Southern China, and parts of California.

Another remarkable thing about 2013′s heat is that there was no El Nino — a long-term weather pattern that results in periodic warming of the equatorial Pacific region. Gavin Schmidt said Tuesday that that the long-term trends caused by an increase in greenhouse gases will continue whether there is an El Nino or a La Nina. La Nina years are going to be slightly cooler than normal, El Nino years are going to be slightly warmer than normal. 2013 was one of the warmest neutral years (not a strong El Nino or La Nina) on record.

James Hansen, now an adjunct professor at Columbia University (and formerly head of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies) noted that because of the likelihood of a strong El Nino this year, 2014 or 2015 would probably see another global temperature record.

http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/01/21/3187581/noaa-nasa-2013-temperature/
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Post by: AGelbert on January 22, 2014, 08:43:49 pm
The California drought is bad. REALLY bad. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-141113183729.png&hash=d898195c8ae0a55e2e6d84fc47b9d06f8ba13f03):(

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You can see the obvious lack of snow pack from one year to the next but look closely at the valley where all the fruit and vegetables is grown: IT'S BONE DRY!  :P  :(



 
California Drought Could Trigger Food Inflation

Wednesday, 22 Jan 2014 06:49 AM

By Michael Carr

A lack of rainfall in California could have a nationwide impact on food prices. According to the California Department of Food and Agriculture, the state produces almost half of U.S.-grown fruits, nuts and vegetables.

California produces about one-eighth of the nation's total farming output. The state accounts for more than 90 percent of the U.S. production of artichokes, broccoli, celery, almonds, grapes, walnuts and other crops.


http://www.moneynews.com/MichaelCarr/California-drought-fruit-vegetable/2014/01/22/id/548289#ixzz2rBQw2jp5 (http://www.moneynews.com/MichaelCarr/California-drought-fruit-vegetable/2014/01/22/id/548289#ixzz2rBQw2jp5)
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on January 28, 2014, 09:13:43 pm
UB said when questioning climate change skeptic Snowleopard (fossil fuel defender),
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Why doesn't the weather you mention suggest warming due to jetstream breakout due to polar vortex weakening?

This is the part that always gets me too. The slower Jetstream due to less difference in temperature in the equatorial atmosphere and the polar one was predicted by climate scientists nearly a decade ago! I have brought this up but Snowleopard refuses to believe it. It is an effect, not a cause. The temperature gradient is reduced between the poles and the equator. That takes energy OUT of the Jetstream's velocity. The Jetstream begins to meander and produce oxbows that move along the northern hemisphere producing horrendous temperature extremes. This was ALL PREDICTED by climate scientists as an EFFECT of the CO2 CAUSE that brings Global Warming.

That SAME oxbow pattern, since it has been so extreme in sending arctic air at us in the past 50 days or so will probably give us a February that will break all records for being so HOT.

That's the way it works, Snowleopard. As to early frosts, I can tell you that the frosts in Vermont are consistently coming later, not earlier. But the main issue here is that NOAA figures show a warming planet and you don't believe their figures. We can sit here and through anecdotes at each other until the cows come home but the fact reminds that the average temperature is rising, not descending.

I realize that none of us here have the power to do much about it but regardless of how much you think the facts are "fixed" to hoax a GW scenario, Cui Bono (i.e. Who stands, or stood, to gain from a crime, and so might have been responsible for it?)???

DOING NOTHING and adopting a WAIT AND SEE attitude BENEFITS THE CORRUPT STATUS QUO! WHY don't you see that?  Do you LIKE the way our laws and government and energy policy are NOW? According to everything you write here, the answer is NO! But then you turn around and advocate doing NOTHING. That does not compute!

EVEN IF the global warming thing was bull**** ( I WISH!), destroying the fossil and nuclear fuel industries is a noble goal, is it not? Al Capone was finally nailed on income tax evasion even though he had murdered hundreds. Get it?  ;)

It will be a cold day in hell before the energy you use to feed yourself will be at a reasonable price unless the centralized energy monsters running this planet into the ground are not taken apart. By advocating inaction, you are cutting off you nose to spite your face. Think about it.
 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7EHvfaY8Zs&feature=player_embedded


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Post by: AGelbert on January 29, 2014, 12:51:03 am
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgnvbMwRaf8&feature=player_embedded
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Post by: AGelbert on January 30, 2014, 02:24:03 pm
Psalm 27

7  Hear, O LORD, when I cry with my voice:
have mercy also upon me, and answer me.
 
 
8  When thou saidst, Seek ye my face;         
my heart said unto thee,
Thy face, LORD, will I seek.
 
 
9  Hide not thy face far from me;       
put not thy servant away in anger:
thou hast been my help;
leave me not, neither forsake me,
O God of my salvation.
 
 
10  When my father and my mother forsake me,         
then the LORD will take me up.
 
 
11  Teach me thy way, O LORD,         
and lead me in a plain path,
because of mine enemies.
 
 
12  Deliver me not over unto the will of mine enemies:     
for false witnesses are risen up against me,
and such as breathe out cruelty.
 

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Post by: AGelbert on January 30, 2014, 07:13:18 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lV8PI4R5nI4&feature=player_embedded
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Post by: AGelbert on February 06, 2014, 11:26:47 pm
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Exploring CRUTEM4 with Google Earth

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4 February 2014 -

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Post by: AGelbert on February 26, 2014, 02:12:48 pm
"False springs" lethal to vulnerable plants, animals

Why You Shouldn’t Hope for an Early Spring


Increasingly common false spring events are leaving crops and plants vulnerable to subsequent freezes, creating a cascade of consequences for ecosystems

www.ensia.com, Feb, 2014

February 10, 2014 — Observers in Massachusetts and Wisconsin reported that flowering came earlier than it had since Henry David Thoreau took note of when plants began to bloom near Walden Pond in the 1850s or since Aldo Leopold observed flowering times at “The Shack” in Sauk County inThe spring of 2012 was the earliest recorded across the United States since 1900. In many states, signs of spring arrived almost three to four weeks earlier than expected. Unseasonable warmth prompted unusually early blooms, particularly on fruiting trees in the Northeast and Great Lakes regions.  the 1930s and ’40s.

Then, in what has come to be recognized as a characteristic of climate change — unusual variability — the exceptionally early warm temperatures were followed abruptly by a hard freeze.

“We thought 2010 was weird. But 2012 was really weird,” says Jake Weltzin, executive director of the USA National Phenology Network.

Unusually early warming, known as “false spring,” is becoming increasingly common as climate changes. Its effects are also prompting increasing concern. For when warm temperatures awaken dormant plants and animals prematurely, they can throw the timing of seasonal events crucial to an entire ecological food web off kilter. The results can cause devastating harm to both wild and cultivated species. False spring events have caused enormous losses in U.S. fruit crops, damaged large swaths of forest and decimated sensitive California butterfly populations.

Distinct Trend

Naturalists and scientists, farmers and gardeners have long taken note of when plants leaf out and bud each year — part of the study of seasonal events known as phenology. Scientists and more casual backyard observers alike have noted an ongoing shift toward earlier springs across North America over the past 50 to 100 years. At the same time, a growing number of scientific studies have documented the advancing emergence of buds, blooms and hibernating animals.

Since the early 1900s, about two-thirds of the species studied have shifted toward earlier spring blooming, breeding or migrating. This is true for every major group of species studied, including amphibians, birds, fish, invertebrates and mammals as well as trees, nonwoody plants, corals and plankton. These changes have been observed on every major continent and ocean, according to Camille Parmesan, a professor at the University of Texas at Austin, whose research focuses on the biological impacts of climate change.

Early buds and blooms killed by a hard frost can mean failure to flower and fruit for the rest of that year.  :P  :( The USA National Phenology Network, which gathers leaf-out and bloom data along with information about when species migrate and reproduce from across the U.S., has helped confirm that the advancing onset of spring and precipitous shifts between warm and cold temperatures are part of ongoing trends. While the network was officially established in the mid-2000s, observations recorded by its contributing scientists and volunteers date back to the 1950s. Some of the longest running records, which chronicle first leaf growth of honeysuckle and lilacs across the lower 48 states, show a noticeable shift toward earlier dates since the 1980s. Like the temperatures recorded as part of climate change research, the leaf-out dates show great variability from year to year but the trend is distinct — earlier warmer temperatures and earlier first buds and blooms.

While occasional false springs are not new, what is new in recent years is the combination of increasingly warmer springs and extreme temperature swings, overall shorter times throughout fall and winter of below-freezing temperatures, and the altered precipitation patterns associated with global climate change.

The fall and winter warm spells in both 2010 and 2012, for example, were longer than others. This phenomenon increases the likelihood that plants will emerge from dormancy prematurely, producing young leaves, buds and blooms. When unusually mild temperatures and subsequent plant growth are followed by freezing temperatures, early buds and blooms killed by a hard frost can mean failure to flower and fruit for the rest of that year. And, in addition to the acute impacts on fragile plant parts, early warming can also cause problems by truncating the winter cooling period many plant seeds need for proper germination, plants need for budding and blooming, and hibernating animals need to complete their yearly cycles in good health.

Ripple Effect

The prospect of a freeze after a crop has leafed out, bloomed or set fruit presents obvious problems for farmers. The 2007 false spring, for example, hit agricultural crops and deciduous trees in the U.S. Midwest to Southeast and Mid-Atlantic regions particularly hard, causing crop damage — particularly to fruit trees and berries — that prompted a request for a disaster declaration in North Carolina. In 2012, losses in fruit tree crops in Michigan due to the false spring bloom and freeze cycles were estimated at half a billion dollars.

The timing of leaf and flower development has effects that ripple throughout an ecosystem because these changes prompt the flow of sap, nectar and nutrients within plants and so affect the availability of shelter and sustenance for other organisms. False spring can harm not only the plants that put forth early sprouts, leaves or blooms, but other species and entire ecosystems. The timing of leaf and flower development has effects that ripple throughout an ecosystem because these changes prompt the flow of sap, nectar and nutrients within plants and so affect the availability of shelter and sustenance for other organisms. This can have profound consequences, particularly when species emerge from hibernation or during migration.

Desynchronization of seasonal events has been reported around the world, from the American Southeast to New England, and the Rockies to the Tibetan Plateau and across Europe. Rocky Mountain marmots have emerged to find the plants they rely on for food buried beneath not yet fully melted snow. Butterflies in California’s Sierra Nevada have wriggled out of their cocoons in what seemed like spring warmth, only to be felled by the freeze that followed.

Another disturbing effect of false spring is the damage it can cause to plant and tree cover.
If a false spring freeze substantially reduces the success of trees’ summer leaf cover across wide swaths of landscape as it did in the U.S. Southeast in 2007, it can also reduce the amount of carbon and other nutrients those trees can process. This can lead to impaired soil health and also jeopardize the health of insects and other organisms that rely on plants’ nutrient cycling. And depending on which plants a false spring freeze affects, such events could also alter the balance of under- and overstory plants, thus introducing other potential ecosystem disruptions.

Anthony Barnosky, University of California, Berkeley professor of integrative biology and author of Heatstroke: Nature in the Age of Global Warming — a 2009 book that examines the effects of climate change on various species in the wild — says when trying to understand global warming’s implications, including those related to the false spring phenomenon, it’s important to consider how different affected species interact. “There are all sorts of complexities we need to be looking at in more detail,” he says.

Trying to Adjust

“Species’ primary response to climate change is to move around the landscape and try to reclaim their climate space,” Barnosky explains. In other words: they try to find conditions that replicate those of the places where they had previously thrived. Indeed, University of Texas at Austin’s Parmesan reported in 2013 that a summary of numerous research studies conducted around the world over the past 10 years shows that since the early 1900s, approximately half of all species studied have shifted their ranges closer to the poles — between about 30 and 995 miles poleward — or upwards in altitude, as much as about 1,300 feet, seeking cooler temperatures.

From a food production standpoint, farmers around the world are trying to adjust to the growing likelihood of false springs by planting in ways that accommodate both early warming and temperature and moisture extremes, says Sharon Muzli Gourdji, postdoctoral fellow in energy and environment at Stanford University. Varieties of wheat are being bred for heat tolerance and other variables that come with climate change so they can endure warming temperatures in the tropical regions of Asia, Africa and South America as well as the challenges of both warming and extreme variability in the Northern Hemisphere. “Farmers are adapting,” says Parmesan.

Meanwhile, wild species are on the move in search of conditions suitable for their entire life cycle under increasingly unpredictable circumstances. But when success at a particular life stage depends on a steady transition from one season’s conditions to the next — a progression false spring disrupts — that’s when many species are now beginning to encounter difficulties. “The phenology issue could be a really big problem,” says Barnosky.

The consensus among scientists studying climate change is that the disruptions in what have been considered normal patterns of seasonal temperature and precipitation set in motion by the build-up of greenhouse gases are with us for some time to come.According to Parmesan, we “don’t have any evidence yet of any evolutionary changes of the kind that would suggest species are adapting” to extreme temperature swings despite the fact that some species may already be capable of dealing with such extremes. Some species are responding to or accommodating these changes, she explains, but that does not necessarily mean an evolutionary adaptation. Weltzin, at the USA National Phenology Network, uses the term “adjustment.”

The consensus among scientists studying climate change is that the disruptions in what have been considered normal patterns of seasonal temperature and precipitation set in motion by the build-up of greenhouse gases are with us for some time to come. Even if there were a precipitous decrease of such emissions worldwide, what’s now in the atmosphere would continue to affect global climate patterns for years to come. Given this reality, early and false springs are also likely to become increasingly familiar phenomena. So among scientists’ next steps are to learn not only more about how species are responding to these events but also how to predict them.

While predicting false springs can’t help wild species in the same ways it can agriculture — or solve the root causes of the problem — it may point the way to conservation efforts that could help protect some vulnerable species. As Parmesan said of farmers’ adaptive strategies, “It may be very important to get that right.”

http://ensia.com/features/why-you-shouldnt-hope-for-an-early-spring/
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Post by: AGelbert on February 28, 2014, 08:03:30 pm
Satellite data reveal the rapid darkening of the Arctic

Forty-five years after scientists hypothesized that global warming would make Arctic Ocean surfaces darker, Scripps team determines how much the planet’s albedo has diminished
Feb 17, 2014

The retreat of sea ice in the Arctic Ocean is diminishing Earth’s albedo, or reflectivity, by an amount considerably larger than previously estimated,  :o according to researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego.

As the sea ice melts, its white reflective surface is replaced by a relatively dark ocean surface. This diminishes the amount of sunlight being reflected back to space, causing the Earth to absorb an increasing amount of solar energy.

The Arctic has warmed by 2° C (3.6° F) since the 1970s. The summer minimum Arctic sea ice extent has decreased by 40 percent during the same time period. These factors have decreased the region’s albedo.

Scripps graduate student Kristina Pistone and climate scientists Ian Eisenman and Veerabhadran Ramanathan used satellite measurements to calculate changes in the albedo of the Arctic region associated with the changing sea ice cover. Albedo is measured as a percentage. A perfectly black surface has an albedo of zero percent and a perfectly white surface has an albedo of 100 percent. The albedo of fresh snow is typically between 80 and 90 percent whereas the albedo of the ocean surface is less than 20 percent. Clouds and other factors also influence the albedo of the Earth.

The researchers calculated that the albedo of the Arctic region fell from 52 percent to 48 percent between 1979 and 2011. 

 “It’s fairly intuitive to expect that replacing white, reflective sea ice with a dark ocean surface would increase the amount of solar heating,” said Kristina Pistone. “We used actual satellite measurements of both albedo and sea ice in the region to verify this and to quantify how much extra heat the region has absorbed due to the ice loss.  It was quite encouraging to see how well the two datasets – which come from two independent satellite instruments – agreed with each other.”

The National Science Foundation-funded study appears in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 45 years after atmospheric scientists Mikhail Budyko and William Sellers hypothesized that the Arctic would amplify global warming as sea ice melted.

The Scripps study is the first to use direct satellite measurements to assess the changes in albedo associated with retreating sea ice. Previous studies have relied on computer models. The Scripps team used NASA’s CERES satellite instruments as well as observations of sea ice cover made with other satellites.

The researchers found that the magnitude of surface darkening has been two to three times as large as that found in previous studies. They also compared their results to model simulations to assess the capability of computer models to portray and forecast albedo changes.

“Scientists have talked about Arctic melting and albedo decrease for nearly 50 years,” said Ramanathan, a distinguished professor of climate and atmospheric sciences who has previously conducted similar research on the global dimming effects of aerosols. “This is the first time this darkening effect has been documented on the scale of the entire Arctic.”


 “Based on our results, the albedo forcing from Arctic sea ice retreat is quite large,” said Eisenman, an assistant professor of climate dynamics. “Averaged over the entire globe, it’s one-fourth as large as the direct radiative forcing from CO2 during the same period. This suggests that Arctic sea ice retreat has been an important player in the global warming that we’ve observed during recent decades. Although more work is needed, a possible implication of these results is that the amplifying feedback of Arctic sea ice changes on global warming is larger than previously expected.”

 

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About Scripps Institution of Oceanography Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego, is one of the oldest, largest, and most important centers for global science research and education in the world. Now in its second century of discovery, the scientific scope of the institution has grown to include biological, physical, chemical, geological, geophysical, and atmospheric studies of the earth as a system. Hundreds of research programs covering a wide range of scientific areas are under way today on every continent and in every ocean. The institution has a staff of about 1,400 and annual expenditures of approximately $170 million from federal, state, and private sources. Scripps operates robotic networks and one of the largest U.S. academic fleets with four oceanographic research ships and one research platform for worldwide exploration. Birch Aquarium at Scripps serves as the interpretive center of the institution and showcases Scripps research and a diverse array of marine life through exhibits and programming for more than 425,000 visitors each year. Learn more at scripps.ucsd.edu.

https://scripps.ucsd.edu/news
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Post by: AGelbert on February 28, 2014, 08:07:35 pm
Research Highlight: Scripps and NOAA Researchers Take Flight to Observe Atmospheric River

Precipitation provided partial relief to drought-stricken West
 
Feb 25, 2014

Nice graphic at link:   8)

https://scripps.ucsd.edu/news/research-highlight-scripps-and-noaa-researchers-take-flight-observe-atmospheric-river
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Post by: AGelbert on March 01, 2014, 01:42:02 pm
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During January 2014, most of the world's land areas experienced warmer-than-average temperatures, with the most notable departures from the 1981–2010 average across Alaska, western Canada, Greenland, Mongolia, southern Russia, and northern China, where the departure from average was +3°C (+5.4°F) or greater. Meanwhile, parts of southeastern Brazil and central and southern Africa experienced record warmth with temperature departures between 0.5°C to 1.5°C above the 1981–2010 average, contributing to the highest January Southern Hemisphere land temperature departure on record at 1.13°C (2.03°F) above the 20th century average. This was also the warmest month for the Southern Hemisphere land since September 2013 when temperatures were 1.23°C (2.21°F) above the 20th century average.

Some locations across the globe experienced departures that were below the 1981–2010 average. These areas include the eastern half of the contiguous U.S., central Canada, and most of Scandinavia and Russia. The most notable cold anomalies were in Russia, where in some areas the departure from average was 5°C (9°F) below average. Overall, the Northern Hemisphere land surface temperature was 1.17°C (2.11°F) above average—the warmest January since 2007 and the fourth warmest since records began in 1880.

http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/global/
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on March 26, 2014, 10:30:09 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZt0OS12ty0&feature=player_embedded
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on March 27, 2014, 01:44:06 am
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMgOTQ7D_lk&feature=player_embedded
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: guest16 on April 02, 2014, 05:02:28 pm
Crisis of civilisation is a great documentary that offers a holistic viewpoint to our predicament and because of that I showed this to some family members.
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on April 08, 2014, 07:14:29 pm
Glad you liked it Monsta. I found that last scene with the wild Bass player and xylophone playing ladies was hilarious!

The SF writers are having a ball making money off the apocalyptic future scenarios, by the way... ;)

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The world as we knew it is gone. :P
Fahrenheit 451 and rising

Climate change: The hottest thing in science fiction

By Dave Burdick

Even if nobody is talking explicitly about it, it’s clear that something terrible has happened and in its wake, humanity must once again reset its priorities. Can we, in this resource-scarce new world, fashion some kind of idyllic agrarian commune with shared goods, serene faces, and hemp robes? Or are we doomed to be selfish hoarders, creating even greater scarcity which we can then leverage for our own benefit? Also, is that … is that some kind of genetically modified man-wolfephant?

Post-apocalyptic science fiction isn’t new. But you may have noticed an uptick in books set in the wake of some kind of major climate disaster. Some call it “cli-fi” — sci-fi infused with the increasingly frightening impacts of climate change. The trope has deep roots, says science fiction scholar Istvan Csicery-Ronay, and plenty of room to grow.

In fact, of late, cli-fi has been creeping out of the fantasy and science fiction sections of bookstores and libraries and into the mainstream. Margaret Atwood’s Maddaddam trilogy, for example, is everywhere. Its simple, cartoon-like, GMO-gone-wrong future isn’t hard to imagine. Once you get past the brand names and animal mashup portmanteaus (pigoons, rakunks, wolvogs), you realize you’re just looking at a version of us, not all that far in the future. It’s relatable, in a woozy way.

Cli-fi is “getting some interest from folks who are not necessarily interested in science fiction,” says Csicery-Ronay, an English professor at DePauw University in Indiana and co-editor of the journal, Science Fiction Studies. For some people, it may be even be a sort of gateway into science fiction, which has a long and proud history of tearing civilization down and making characters build it back, or deal with the consequences of living in someone else’s rebuilt world.

The Russians, according to Csicsery-Ronay, were pioneers of the genre. “They had a category, late 19th century, early 20th century, called the ‘If-This-Goes-On Fiction,’ kind of a warning,” he says, “a particular kind of dystopian fiction, that if a certain trend goes on, and we don’t stop, then this is what’s going to happen.”

An if-this-goes-on moment actually sparked the anticipated next novel from Paolo Bacigalupi, critically acclaimed writer of science fiction novels for young (Ship Breaker, Drowned Cities) and standard (The Windup Girl) adults.

“This is sort of my fetish,” Bacigalupi says. “Bad decisions made badly by bad people. What happens next?”

His latest inspiration? Erstwhile Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry. “I was down in Texas when their drought was getting going,” Bacigalupi says. “It was sort of biblical, apocalyptic heat. The cows were being put down because the land can’t support them. All this great systemic collapse stuff percolating around, and at the same time, Rick Perry … is organizing a prayer circle and praying for rain.

“That was the moment,” Bacigalupi says.

The result is The Water Knife, a novel set in a near-future, drought-stricken southwestern United States — similar to the one he created in his short story “The Tamarisk Hunter” — and featuring a water war between Phoenix and Las Vegas. The two cities have arrived at this point in the future with different approaches. Good old, cynical Las Vegas recognizes it’s going to have trouble as water becomes more scarce and prepares for battles to come, legal and otherwise. Phoenix takes more of a Rick Perry approach.

The book, and others like it, could provide a model for scientists and environmentalists who are clamoring for some kind of approachable yet still awesome — in both senses of the word — way of communicating a very real if-this-goes-on message. As in, if this goes on, inland real estate is where it’s at, presuming we don’t revert to a system of bartering or pillaging or maybe just asphyxiating.

And this is why there may be more at stake with cli-fi than most fiction. For Annalee Newitz, editor-in-chief of science fiction site io9.com, there’s real value in getting climate change right. In a post on that site, she hails Tobias Buckell’s Arctic Rising for the way it “explores how the loss of ice in the Arctic Ocean will change international relations and reverse some countries’ economic fortunes,” and Kim Stanley Robinson’s epic 2312, in which humans have colonized much of the solar system, with a great, moving city that stays on Mercury, but never on the side the sun hits; moving colonies inside asteroids; and, of course, a city of canals in what we know now as New York City. His approach to technology is held in science fiction circles to be both plausible and cynical — cli-fi characteristics, to be sure.

Others in the science fiction realm with climate themes you might consider, according to Csicsery-Ronay: Robinson’s Forty Signs of Rain trilogy, the aforementioned Atwood Maddaddam trilogy, Ian McDonald’s River of Gods and The Sea and the Summer, also published as The Drowning Towers, by George Turner.

And there’s more coming soon. After making a deal for Bacigalupi’s Water Knife, due out in spring of next year, an editor at Knopf told the New York Times that he thinks it’ll “attract a crossover audience beyond Mr. Bacigalupi’s core readers.”

It’s about time for that crossover, too. Climate fiction suggests a few things: First, humans are humans, and we’ll have the same stupid fights on any backdrop spacetime throws at us. Second, that today’s hero, be it a captain of industry, a liberation fighter, or a seemingly clever technology, could well be tomorrow’s villain — a lesson we in the real world tend to learn 30 years too late. And third, that climate change might be awfully scary, especially for those of us who’ve grown accustomed to building sprawling, air-conditioned cities, on inhospitable terrain, with apparent impunity.
 

Dave Burdick lives in Denver, where he is the deputy features editor of the Denver Post. Find him on Twitter at @daveburdick.
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on April 11, 2014, 10:58:44 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzaFzwH4S3k&feature=player_embedded
Someone should take this film and stuff it down Snowleopard/GW denier/fossil fuel SHILL's throat  until he GETS IT!  >:(


Stills from the movie:


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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on April 14, 2014, 02:44:04 pm
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 By Kiley Kroh   on  April 14, 2014 at 11:11 am

Agelbert NOTE: It's NOT surprising to me. In fact, as a Christian I believe anyone claiming to BE a Christian who denies GW is NOT a Christian at all! (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F301.gif&hash=0291ed4abf2d80e420d1aa00d4eb3c5dd6bbfb53)



On a recent Washington, DC evening, a few hundred people gathered to catch a sneak peak of Showtime’s new star-studded series on climate change. The surprisingly action-packed first episode of “Years Of Living Dangerously” featured big names doing bigger things: In one scene, Harrison Ford helicopters over the scorched forests of Indonesia. In another, Thomas Friedman interviews rebel fighters in war-torn, drought-ridden Syria. But when the audience stepped out into the unseasonably warm night, people were buzzing about one person they’d never seen on the big screen before.

An evangelical Christian, married to a pastor, living in conservative West Texas, and widely regarded as a top-notch climate scientist, Dr. Katharine Hayhoe is a rare breed on paper — in person, she’s even rarer. Deftly moving between topics like science, religion, and gender with equal parts insight and levity, Hayhoe is an unassuming force of nature.


“I’ve never heard of anyone like Katharine Hayhoe,” actor Don Cheadle remarks before meeting her in the episode.

Science has been a guiding force in Hayhoe’s life for as long as she can remember. One of her earliest memories comes at just four years old, lying on a blanket with her father, a science educator, out long past her bedtime so he could show her how to find the Andromeda galaxy with binoculars. Family vacations involved driving from Canada all the way to the Outer Banks in North Carolina to catch a glimpse of Haley’s comet, simply because that was the only place you could see it. “That kind of gives you a picture of the level of commitment,” Hayhoe laughed.

As the brother to six sisters and father to three daughters, Hayhoe describes her father as “gender blind,” meaning she was never hindered by the feeling girls often have “that science is too hard or isn’t a girl’s thing.” When she was nine, her family moved to Cali, Colombia, where both of her parents taught and worked with the local church. Raised by missionaries and teachers, Christianity has always been a fundamental part of Hayhoe’s life — something she simply never saw as being at odds with her passion for science.




While attending graduate school, Hayhoe met Andrew Farley, a Ph.D. student who was a member of the same Christian student group. Even when Hayhoe moved back to Toronto to work as a consultant after completing her master’s degree, the two remained good friends. After a couple years, Farley and Hayhoe ended up getting together and the two were married in 2000. Having known each other for years, “we just assumed that we had most of our values in common,” Hayhoe recalls, but “it wasn’t until after we got married that we realized how different we were.”

One of the ways we realized we were different … was that he didn’t think climate change was real.


“One of the ways we realized we were different, besides the fact that I did not keep butter in the fridge and he did,” Hayhoe said, “was that he didn’t think climate change was real.” After pausing for the surprise she knew would follow, Hayhoe offered an explanation: “I, growing up in Canada, had never really met anybody that didn’t think it was real and he, growing up in Virginia and going to southern Baptist school, had never met anybody who did think it was real.”

Farley and Hayhoe found themselves at an impasse. They both respected the other person, not only as researchers and academics, but as people who shared the same deep faith. If those things were true, then they had to talk about it. Eventually, Farley came around, but it wasn’t easy. “We are both first borns who love to argue and will not back down,” Hayhoe said. In all, Hayhoe guesses Farley, her first climate change convert, took about two years to convince — though she notes “it wasn’t like we talked about this every day.”

“A lot of my political opinions are Republican,” Farley tells Cheadle from the couple’s kitchen table. “The politics, the questions about God, and then the climate change — it’s all just become this ball of sound bites and people can’t parse it out.”

The tipping point for Farley? When the two went to the NASA website, downloaded global temperature data, and plotted it on their own computer. “It was clearly going up,” Hayhoe said, so “he had to decide, was NASA, the organization that put people on the moon, involved in some worldwide massive hoax or were they telling the truth?”

The same data, simply plotted, makes an appearance in the Showtime episode. “We see that temperature and carbon dioxide track together,” Hayhoe tells Cheadle, running her finger along the jagged line to the sharp uptick at the end. “We also see that right now we are way out of the ballpark.”

In hindsight, Hayhoe recognizes that the hours spent debating climate science with her husband were critical to sharpening her understanding of the fundamental science behind climate change and, perhaps more importantly, her ability to communicate it to a doubtful audience.


The science is there, it’s been around and it’s not getting through so what’s the point of publishing another paper or 10 more papers?


Climate science wasn’t always Hayhoe’s chosen path. When it came time to go to college, she dove straight into her favorite subject, astrophysics. Looking to fulfill a course requirement, she saw a class on climate change and recalls thinking, “Why don’t I take that? It doesn’t sound too hard.” Not only was she immediately blown away by the fact that climate science was grounded in physics, but even more so by the urgency of the problem, “and this was way back in the early 1990s.”

Hayhoe credits this course and the professor, Danny Harvey, with opening her eyes to the importance of communicating science, particularly when it’s as pressing as with climate change. “The science is there, the science is solid … and it’s not getting through so what’s the point of publishing one more paper on climate science — or 10 more papers or even 100 more papers — if it’s not going to get through?” she realized.

Unable to decide between atmospheric science and astrophysics for graduate school, Hayhoe decided to apply for both. “Back in the day” when applications were submitted via mail with money orders, she had already applied to nine schools and had one money order left, so she basically flipped a coin and sent her last application to the University of Illinois. It was a fortuitous flip.

Unbeknownst to Hayhoe at the time, the school had brought on a new department chair, who saw her application and asked her to come visit. Don Wuebbles turned out to be the perfect person for young Hayhoe to learn from, “somebody who recognized not just the importance of the science but communicating that science.” And the feeling was clearly mutual. “Right from the beginning she was an excellent communicator,” Wuebbles said. “She not only has an excellent understanding of the science … but being able to communicate that science clearly is a special skill.”


Wuebbles dropped Hayhoe “right into the deep end, in terms of working on not just research but communication.” Marking another important turning point in her career, Wuebbles introduced her to the Union of Concerned Scientists and brought her on board for a significant research project assessing the health of the Great Lakes. Examining the climate projections they were using, Hayhoe was shocked to discover they were woefully out of date. “I realized that there was this massive disconnect between the physical climate science that develops climate projections and the people who are actually using these projections to figure out what it means for our world,” she said.


Figuring out how to deliver the best available climate science to the people who need it the most would become a primary motivation in Hayhoe’s life.


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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on April 14, 2014, 03:32:35 pm
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Figuring out how to deliver the best available climate science to the people who need it the most would become a primary motivation in Hayhoe’s life.


In 2005, Hayhoe and Farley decided to move from South Bend, Indiana and needed to find a university with both a program in second language acquisition, Farley’s specialty, and atmospheric science. Texas Tech University met all of those criteria and offered Hayhoe a research professor position while she completed her Ph.D. at the University of Illinois, so the couple packed up and moved to Lubbock, Texas.

In Lubbock, a conservative town in West Texas, “people started to ask us even more questions about climate change,” Hayhoe remembers, and shortly after their arrival she received her first invitation to speak to a women’s group. “Some thought [climate change] was real, a lot didn’t” but regardless of their position coming in, Hayhoe realized that they all had questions and weren’t sure whom to trust.

“In the evangelical community, science is not a key value,” explained Mitch Hescox, president of the Evangelical Environmental Network.  >:(

An evangelical Christian church in the area had recently lost its pastor and asked Farley to fill in. Eventually, he was offered the job. Because he loved it and could continue his academic work at the same time, Farley accepted and the questions about climate change became even more frequent. It was soon routine for him to come home look up the answers to the questions he received with Hayhoe — things like, how can polar bears be endangered if there are more of them now? Or, how can global warming be real if the planet is cooling? In the process, the couple quickly saw that they “couldn’t find any book or any resource of any type that started where the people who we were talking to were at, who were not even convinced that this was a real problem and also convinced that this problem fundamentally challenged their core values and beliefs,” Hayhoe said.

So the two decided they needed to create that resource. Farley’s task was to gather all of the questions he received about climate change from members of their church and posited in movies like “The Global Warming Hoax” and together they would answer them. “Oh, and we had a baby at the same time,” Hayhoe said. The new baby combined with their decision that nothing would go into the book unless they both agreed to it led to many late nights “arguing over one sentence in the book or two sentences in the book.”

A Climate for Change: Global Warming Facts for Faith-Based Decisions was published in 2009 and immediately caught the eye of Hescox. After buying copies for all of his employees, Hescox called her up and said, “Katharine, you and I have to get together.”

Hayhoe’s unique gifts impressed Hescox from the very beginning. “She’s the best communicator of climate science that I’ve ever met and she’s also a person of profound faith” — a rare combination. Hescox recalls inviting her to Washington, DC to speak with leaders of several Christian relief and development organizations about what was happening to the Earth’s climate and the impacts of those changes. Among the attendees was, according to Hescox, a very conservative Christian who was quite skeptical of what she had to say. Hearing Hayhoe speak about the science in terms he was comfortable with, however, sparked a total 180. “That’s just an example of the kind of typical impact she has when she can share faith and science at the same time,” Hescox said.

“Religious communities get confused about which voices to listen to and trust,” explained Jennifer Wiseman, an astronomer and Director of the Dialogue on Science, Ethics, and Religion at the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She points to a recent survey conducted by Rice University sociologist Elaine Howard Ecklund which found that evangelicals are more than twice as likely as the rest of the population to turn to a religious leader or text when they have questions about science and technology than to a scientist. “It’s here where the ambassador makes such a difference,” Wiseman said, and “Katharine is a terrific ambassador.”

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The inroads Hayhoe has been able to make with conservative religious communities focuses around one fundamental guiding belief: the key to bridging what has become such a divisive, heated issue is not hoping to present people with enough information that they adopt new values. “As Christians, we already have all of the values we need to care about climate change,” she said. And when climate change is presented in terms of its impacts on people, impacts that will disproportionately affect the world’s poor, then the path for engaging Christians is clear.

“When we tie that to our Christian values there’s no conflict. In fact, quite the opposite — our faith demands that we act on this issue,” Hayhoe said.
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Over the years that she’s been giving her presentation to religious groups, Hayhoe has seen a noticeable difference. Even when she knows probably half of the audience doesn’t believe in climate change, by the time she’s finished, the questions revolve around solutions: What can we do about this? Will it ruin the economy? But “I don’t get questions anymore about the science,” she said.

It hasn’t all been smooth sailing for Hayhoe, however. In 2012, she agreed to contribute a chapter to a book Newt Gingrich was writing, a collection of environmental essays that would serve as a sequel to his 2007 A Contract With The Earth. Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh caught wind of Hayhoe’s contribution when he had Mark Morano, former staffer to longtime climate denier Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-OK), on as a guest. “Morano has posted numerous attacks on Hayhoe in the past month and provided her email address so his readers could contact her,” journalist Kate Sheppard wrote at the time.

Shortly after Limbaugh attacked Hayhoe, whom he referred to as a “climate babe,” on air, Gingrich was asked about the chapter at a campaign stop in Iowa from a woman who was concerned about what she heard. “That’s not going to be in the book. We didn’t know that they were doing that and we told them to kill it,” Gingrich responded. Hayhoe learned that her chapter had been cut from a reporter.

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The targeting of Hayhoe led to a dramatic spike in the hate mail directed her way, to the point where she “received hundreds of harassing emails in a single day,”  >:(  E&E reported. According to Hayhoe, a lot of the vitriol she receives centers around the fact that she is a woman. “There’s definitely a gender component to it and we’d be naive to assume that there isn’t,” she said.

There’s definitely a gender component to it and we’d be naive to assume that there isn’t.

Taking the risk that comes with repeatedly espousing an unpopular opinion isn’t just unnerving to Hayhoe as an individual but for her children, as well. “As a mother, it’s also very scary to feel like you’re putting yourself out there,” she said. “But also as a mother, that’s one of the main reasons I care. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.freesmileys.org%2Femoticons%2Femoticon-anime-047.gif&hash=5d1e21ec37766d785e885157863fa815ab3a6f7e) (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.smile-day.net%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2011%2F12%2FSmiley-Thumbs-Up2.jpg&hash=4c6cf4d5dab0f54b88dfa0c9247ae699eff03821)  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fus.123rf.com%2F400wm%2F400%2F400%2Fyayayoy%2Fyayayoy1106%2Fyayayoy110600019%2F9735563-smiling-sun-showing-thumb-up.jpg&hash=09b45642ec6d7943d30b5b87548676e3ee7dbe3d) As a parent, you’d do anything for your child — you’d lay down your life for your child — and when you see this massive problem threatening the world that your child will live in, that’s what makes you want to do something about it.”

The politicization of climate change comes as an unwelcome surprise for many scientists. “I think there is a tendency for some scientists to withdraw and not want to be a part of that,” said Don Wuebbles, Hayhoe’s graduate advisor. “Our lives are based around the search for truth … and here we’re being attacked for only the reason that we’re trying to tell people the truth about the science,” Wuebbles said. The experience with Gingrich and Limbaugh taught Hayhoe that “politics and science are about as different as any two areas could be.” Rather than ignore the politics to pursue the science, however, she now works in the political science department at Texas Tech. “Understanding how they can work together … is essential to solving the climate problem,” she said. “Otherwise, we have no hope.”

Ian Scott-Fleming, a current student of Hayhoe’s at Texas Tech, said that one of the reasons Hayhoe is so effective as an educator is her ability to empower her students with the knowledge she gives them. Rather than overwhelm students with too much information, Hayhoe builds a context in which the information has meaning. “What’s nice about Katharine is she’s good at presenting that framework, giving you the hooks to hang the knowledge on, then presenting you with the knowledge so you know what to do with it when you’ve got it,” he explained.

After starting his career as a consultant for various DC-area firms working on weapons systems and other projects, Scott-Fleming “was making lots of money, feeling very important” but he woke up one day and realized, “the better I am at what I do … the worse off the world is as a result.” Working with Hayhoe, Scott-Fleming sees the importance not only of the deep research and data gathering that occurs at the highest academic level, but also being able to reach people outside of that bubble.

“I think that’s one of her strengths,” he said of Hayhoe. “Communicating this to folks that aren’t already so deeply buried in it that the arguments are obvious.”

The most memorable example of this occurred on a night of climate change speakers that was open to interested attendees from all over Lubbock, not just the university. “This is a very conservative part of the country and it is also Big Oil country,” Scott-Fleming notes. There were several people in the audience who were not receptive to Hayhoe’s statements regarding the effect of fossil fuels and human activity on the Earth’s climate — one older fellow in particular who stood up during the question and answer portion of the evening and “started talking and got a little bit more and more into his own rant.” Scott-Fleming remembers being impressed with Hayhoe’s ability to gently steer what began as a confrontational moment to a more thoughtful discussion.

“I think the questioner felt like he had been heard, even if the answer he got wasn’t to his liking,” Scott-Fleming said. “This is a skill few folks have, and a big part of what makes Katharine so effective.”

As a person with “about 20 projects on the go at any one time,” Hayhoe has several irons in the fire these days. With her research team — “a group of fantastic women post-docs from Korea, India, Denmark and Romania who all ended up here in West Texas like me” — Hayhoe is looking at how climate change might impact specific types of weather and climate events, such as drought, ice storms, and heat extremes. She’s also working with a variety of cities, government agencies, and non-profits to help them figure out how to reduce their vulnerability, as well as their impact on the climate.

And she just had another paper accepted for publication last week, this one written with her first science teacher: her dad. “How cool is that!” she said in an email.

For a person whose life’s work is dedicated to the alarming changes occurring to the planet, Hayhoe is unwaveringly upbeat and focused on the cause that drives her. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.freesmileys.org%2Femoticons%2Ftuzki-bunnys%2Ftuzki-bunny-emoticon-036.gif&hash=8ec7abacc074bac7984d9b80fbca377b3afb119d) This ebullience makes her approachable and relatable but also never downplays or sugar-coats the severity of climate change.   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Fcowboypistol.gif&hash=2dc97f743dffca22404e6e4e0822765e60b33f38) “I naively thought that I would study climate science until we fixed the problem and then I’d go back to astrophysics,” she said with her characteristic smile. “Until we have policies in place to actually start curbing our carbon emissions and reducing the impact we’re having on our planet, I have to keep going.”(https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.websmileys.com%2Fsm%2Fviolent%2Fsterb029.gif&hash=7a43a0c106eab798f7ba6133dc5cc550647a03d2)(https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F19.gif&hash=3f9f2fc2285bc756137e21463bc2a4c420b15ac3)


"Years Of Living Dangerously" airs on Sundays at 10 p.m. EST on Showtime.

http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/04/14/3425256/meet-star-showtime-series
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on May 06, 2014, 01:03:58 am
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfBAr__d6lQ&feature=player_embedded






Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on May 06, 2014, 01:04:47 am
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0kFCv6gOQ0&feature=player_embedded

Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on May 06, 2014, 01:06:11 am
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfEEV3kNQnQ&feature=player_embedded

Later on in the Abu Dhabi Ascent opening ceremony, Sir Trevor McDonald had the chance to ask Gore a few more questions. Here’s that more impromptu back and forth:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHO6Uv9bGOA&feature=player_embedded


Read more at http://cleantechnica.com/2014/05/04/al-gores-tremendous-presentation-abu-dhabi-ascent-exclusive-videos/#U8w8vsFvH8MuSfXA.99
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on May 17, 2014, 12:43:39 am
Quote
Stephen Colbert’s refreshing solution for fighting climate change

By Amber Cortes  ;D
 
It’s been a bummer couple of weeks when it comes to apocalyptic climate change news. First, the National Climate Assessment came out, letting us know that, hey, climate change got our invitation and may be showing up a little early to the party – in fact, it’s already in the corner eating all the dip, guzzling all the drinks, and trying to light the couch on fire. Then, that darn West Antarctic ice sheet decided it had enough and is in irreversible collapse.

“It is so terrifying,” Stephen Colbert says, “that it left a carbon footprint … in my pants.”

So, what can the carbon-soiled among us do? Colbert’s solution: “**** it!” Americans, we can all rest easy and go back to continue being our apathetic, indifferent selves. Let the grandkids fix climate change (as well as Medicare and Social Security). In fact, the “**** it” solution can work for just about everything.  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.websmileys.com%2Fsm%2Ffam%2Ffam12.gif&hash=8dbdc056fce063c27eaf513ccecb9366574f6193)  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Fgen152.gif&hash=d5b10968fe56c4cb95fae17cee3cb420a5f4e2da) “Are you worried that money in politics is undermining democracy?” Colbert asks. “Just do nothing, and soon there will no democracy left to undermine.”  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Fd2.gif&hash=98d536bf1047a88ef91e9c45e08b725347c9fe13)(https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Facigar.gif&hash=dc9dccf92c6c88c99611b06c86d92629d69f2978)

I’m going to use the “**** it” principle for other painful realities I’ve been trying to ignore. Crushing student debt? **** it! That should work, right?  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.imgion.com%2Fimages%2F01%2FAngry-animated-smiley.jpg&hash=84657bd1a63cad676e3551587daeb4b39411a289)  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-051113192052.png&hash=93c42ef9f18fc5d9da50fd91fc19f70009f95f85)

Amber Cortes is a Grist fellow, radio producer, and a digital media grad student at the University of Washington. Follow her on Twitter

http://grist.org/climate-energy/find-climate-change-terrifying-stephen-colbert-has-a-refreshing-solution/
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on May 19, 2014, 12:16:14 am
Emissions from forests influence very first stage of cloud formation
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Date: May 15, 2014
Source:Carnegie Mellon University

Clouds play a critical role in Earth's climate. Clouds also are the largest source of uncertainty in present climate models, according to the latest report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Much of the uncertainty surrounding clouds' effect on climate stems from the complexity of cloud formation.

New research from scientists at the CLOUD (Cosmics Leaving OUtdoor Droplets) experiment at CERN, including Carnegie Mellon University's Neil Donahue, sheds light on new-particle formation -- the very first step of cloud formation and a critical component of climate models. The findings, published in the May 16 issue of Science, closely match observations in the atmosphere and can help make climate prediction models more accurate.

Cloud droplets form when water vapor in the atmosphere condenses onto tiny particles. These particles are emitted directly from natural sources or human activity, or they form from precursors emitted originally as gaseous pollutants. The transformation of gas molecules into clusters and then into particles, a process called nucleation, produces more than half of the particles that seed cloud formation around the world today. But the mechanisms underlying nucleation remain unclear.

Although scientists have observed that the nucleation process nearly always involves sulfuric acid, sulfuric acid concentrations aren't high enough to explain the rate of new particle formation that occurs in the atmosphere. This new study uncovers an indispensable ingredient to the long sought-after cloud formation recipe -- highly oxidized organic compounds.

"Our measurements connect oxidized organics directly, and in detail, with the very first steps of new particle formation and growth," said Donahue, professor of chemistry, chemical engineering, engineering and public policy, and director of CMU's Steinbrenner Institute for Environmental Education and Research. "We had no idea a year ago that this chemistry was happening. There's a whole branch of oxidation chemistry that we didn't really understand. ;D  It's an exciting time."

The air we breathe is chock-full of organic compounds, tiny liquid or solid particles that come from hundreds of sources including trees, volcanoes, cars, trucks and wood fires. Once they enter the atmosphere, these so-called organics start to change.


In research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in 2012, Donahue and colleagues showed conclusively that organic molecules given off by pine trees, called alpha-pinene, are chemically transformed multiple times in the highly oxidizing environment of the atmosphere. Additionally, other research, including from Donahue's lab, has suggested that such oxidized organics might take part in nucleation -- both in new particle formation and in their subsequent growth. Donahue and an international team of researchers with the CLOUD experiment at CERN set out to test that hypothesis.

The CLOUD project at CERN is a unique facility that allows scientists to reproduce a typical atmospheric setting inside of an essentially contaminant-free, stainless steel chamber. By performing experiments in the precisely controlled environment of the CLOUD chamber, the project's scientists can change the concentrations of chemicals involved in nucleation and then measure the rate at which new particles are created with extreme precision.

In the current work, the team filled the chamber with sulfur dioxide and pinnanediol (an oxidation product of alpha-pinene) and then generated hydroxyl radicals (the dominant oxidant in Earth's atmosphere). Then they watched the oxidation chemistry unfold. Using very high-resolution mass spectrometry, the scientists were able to observe particles growing from single, gaseous molecules to clusters of up to 10 molecules stuck together, as they grew molecule by molecule.

"It turns out that sulfuric acid and these oxidized organic compounds are unusually attracted to each other. This remarkably strong association may be a big part of why organics are really drawn to sulfuric acid under modern polluted conditions," Donahue said.

Agebert NOTE: ANOTHER invisible SUBSIDY (because WE are paying when OUR HEALTH is affected by said pollution) give away to the FOSSIL FUEL WELFARE QUEEN PIGS! >:( At any rate, as Dr. David Zuzuki says, WE STILL KNOW TOO LITTLE ABOUT NATUIRE TO TRY TO GEOENGINEER IT WITH OUR CRUDE SCIENCE! (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F301.gif&hash=0291ed4abf2d80e420d1aa00d4eb3c5dd6bbfb53)


After confirming that oxidized organics are involved in the formation and growth of particles under atmospheric conditions, the scientists incorporated their findings into a global particle formation model. The fine-tuned model not only predicted nucleation rates more accurately but also predicted the increases and decreases of nucleation observed in field experiments over the course of a year, especially for measurements near forests. This latter test is a strong confirmation of the fundamental role of emissions from forests in the very first stage of cloud formation, and that the new work may have succeeded in modeling that influence.

Story Source:
The above story is based on materials provided by Carnegie Mellon University. Note: Materials may be edited for content and length.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/05/140515154136.htm

Journal Reference:
F. Riccobono, S. Schobesberger, C. E. Scott, J. Dommen, I. K. Ortega, L. Rondo, J. Almeida, A. Amorim, F. Bianchi, M. Breitenlechner, A. David, A. Downard, E. M. Dunne, J. Duplissy, S. Ehrhart, R. C. Flagan, A. Franchin, A. Hansel, H. Junninen, M. Kajos, H. Keskinen, A. Kupc, A. Kurten, A. N. Kvashin, A. Laaksonen, K. Lehtipalo, V. Makhmutov, S. Mathot, T. Nieminen, A. Onnela, T. Petaja, A. P. Praplan, F. D. Santos, S. Schallhart, J. H. Seinfeld, M. Sipila, D. V. Spracklen, Y. Stozhkov, F. Stratmann, A. Tome, G. Tsagkogeorgas, P. Vaattovaara, Y. Viisanen, A. Vrtala, P. E. Wagner, E. Weingartner, H. Wex, D. Wimmer, K. S. Carslaw, J. Curtius, N. M. Donahue, J. Kirkby, M. Kulmala, D. R. Worsnop, U. Baltensperger. Oxidation Products of Biogenic Emissions Contribute to Nucleation of Atmospheric Particles. Science, 2014; 344 (6185): 717 DOI: 10.1126/science.1243527
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on May 26, 2014, 02:05:45 am
http://knowbefore.weatherbug.com/2014/05/19/sao-paulo-brazil-hail/


Video(s) and several great pictures :o at link.
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on May 26, 2014, 02:48:29 pm
Pope Francis Makes Biblical Case For Addressing Climate Change: ‘If We Destroy Creation, Creation Will Destroy Us’



Pope Francis made the religious case for tackling climate change on Wednesday, calling on his fellow Christians to become “Custodians of Creation” and issuing a dire warning about the potentially catastrophic effects of global climate change.

Speaking to a massive crowd in Rome, the first Argentinian pope delivered a short address in which he argued that respect for the “beauty of nature and the grandeur of the cosmos” is a Christian value, noting that failure to care for the planet risks apocalyptic consequences.
 
“Safeguard Creation,” he said. “Because if we destroy Creation, Creation will destroy us! Never forget this!”

The pope centered his environmentalist theology around the biblical creation story in the book of Genesis, where God is said to have created the world, declared it “good,” and charged humanity with its care. Francis also made reference to his namesake, Saint Francis of Assisi, who was a famous lover of animals, and appeared to tie the ongoing environmental crisis to economic concerns — namely, instances where a wealthy minority exploits the planet at the expense of the poor.

“Creation is not a property, which we can rule over at will; or, even less, is the property of only a few: Creation is a gift,  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Fearthhug.gif&hash=3abcf70466f34337f2d702ebd9e02c650d5c4c20) it is a wonderful gift that God has given us, so that we care for it and we use it for the benefit of all, always with great respect and gratitude,” (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F301.gif&hash=0291ed4abf2d80e420d1aa00d4eb3c5dd6bbfb53) Francis said.

Francis also said that humanity’s destruction of the planet is a sinful act, likening it to self-idolatry.
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“But when we exploit Creation we destroy the sign of God’s love for us, in destroying Creation we are saying to God: ‘I don’t like it! This is not good!’ ‘So what do you like?’ ‘I like myself!’  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-311013201314.png&hash=0715eb72631014310634eb56176ff860c6d542f6)– Here, this is sin! Do you see?” (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Fgen152.gif&hash=d5b10968fe56c4cb95fae17cee3cb420a5f4e2da)

The pope’s comments come on the heels of a five-day summit on sustainability convened at the Vatican earlier this month. The summit, entitled “Sustainable Humanity, Sustainable Nature, Our Responsibility,” drew together microbiologists, legal scholars, economists, philosophers, astronomers, and other experts to discuss ways for the Catholic church to address a range issues caused by climate change. In a joint statement published after the close of the conference, participants echoed Francis’ belief that environmental justice and economic justice are inextricably linked.

“Human action which is not respectful of nature becomes a boomerang for human beings that creates inequality and extends what Pope Francis has termed ‘the globalization of indifference’ and the ‘economy of exclusion’ (Evangelii Gaudium), which themselves endanger solidarity with present and future generations,” the statement read.

The pontiff’s catechesis and the Vatican’s summit appear to be part of a renewed effort by the Catholic church to draw attention to environmental issues. Keeping with a long history of Catholic environmentalism (including several pro-environmentalist sermons delivered by Pope Benedict XVI, Francis’ predecessor), Francis addressed climate change in his inaugural mass as pope, and is rumored to be working on a formal encyclical on the environment.

Tags: Catholic Church
Climate Change
Pope Francis
   
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/05/21/3440075/pope-francis-if-we-destroy-creation-creation-will-destroy-us/
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on May 29, 2014, 11:29:19 pm
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on June 05, 2014, 06:53:36 pm
New Video Turns Up the Heat on GOP Climate Change Deniers


EcoWatch | June 4, 2014 3:11 pm In support of President Obama’s plan to cut carbon emissions, Americans United for Change released a video today calling out climate deniers in the GOP.

Not A Scientist features members of Congress, potential presidential candidates and Republican leaders—from Marco Rubio to John Boehner—all preaching from the same climate skeptic handbook and refusing to acknowledge the overwhelming scientific evidence that supports man-made climate change.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWc0XhIGgRQ&feature=player_embedded

“The GOP’s new talking point when challenged on climate change is ‘I’m no scientist’, and yet they remain 100 percent certain as that 97 percent of the scientific community is pulling a fast one on us all for no explicable reason,” said Jeremy Funk of Americans United for Change. “Could it be because Big Oil and the pollution-profiting Koch brothers have given Republicans tens of millions of reasons to feign or maintain ignorance to the detriment of our environment, health and national security?”  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F128fs318181.gif&hash=eff6d5f3831782966c2ff2081f07bf7fc5b22a6b)


While the Republican party maintains their ignorance, a new poll commissioned by Americans United for Change shows that crucial Independent voters are not sympathetic to this anti-science position,   ;D with only 29 percent open to supporting a climate skeptic in the 2016 presidential elections.

http://ecowatch.com/2014/06/04/video-gop-climate-change-deniers/
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on June 06, 2014, 08:43:29 pm
How do you like your state cooked?

 (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.freesmileys.org%2Femoticons%2Femoticon-anime-034.gif&hash=58a833931ab09edc67b808927994f92737db0650) American Southwest heating faster than rest of nation


http://grist.org/news/american-southwest-heating-faster-than-rest-of-nation/
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on June 09, 2014, 01:39:30 am
This is a historical film.  ;D No, not because the USA wants to beat the Russians to own a flying saucer so they can carry NUCLEAR BOMBS  :P, it's because of all the glacier scenes!

I will dig up some current photos of the area and make a few screen shots from the movie to compare soon. Meanwhile, check it out!  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frobservations.ca%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2011%2F02%2Fhappy-cat1.jpg&hash=468b07d248f880b63fdda22e22561c5ce8d3ae29)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DEQ-a0C7U0&feature=player_embedded
P.S. The cigarette companies must have funded the movie.  ;) 

Just about everyone smokes like a fiend!   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Fwww_MyEmoticons_com__smokelots.gif&hash=094f88de6782c1cd03ed5321b387792046eb3cdd)(https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Facigar.gif&hash=dc9dccf92c6c88c99611b06c86d92629d69f2978) (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Fminzdr.gif&hash=f5927d7395d8a28c69df2a0a3a98660932c6903f)  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.freesmileys.org%2Femoticons%2Ftuzki-bunnys%2Ftuzki-bunny-emoticon-020.gif&hash=2c15038feed2fef3db86754b39ada55b3c81329a)




Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on June 11, 2014, 12:30:52 am
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7tntAdhJUY&feature=player_embedded
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on June 11, 2014, 12:46:05 am
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRpacAr3jQ8&feature=player_embedded
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on June 11, 2014, 10:15:23 pm
PETITION TO: Demand Liberty From Fossil Fuels Through 100% Renewable Energy WWII Style Effort

Demand Liberty From Fossil Fuels Through 100% Renewable Energy WWII Style Effort (http://www.thepetitionsite.com/420/529/456/demand-liberty-from-fossil-fuels-through-100-renewable-energy-wwii-style-effort/)


Become a Green Leaf Star American in the Service of Future Generations. All you need to do is sign the petition  ;D and print your banner/flag to display any way you want from a window to a T-shirt to a bumper sticker.
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Future Generations will (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Fthankyou.gif&hash=dddf44270b9e7683ff5cbcca041427744de34fe5)
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on June 12, 2014, 10:33:19 pm
GLSA = Green Leaf Star American
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GLSA Coffee mugs

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Statue of Liberty Poster
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SWEATSHIRT
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on June 13, 2014, 03:10:41 pm
Progress report on GLSA Petition to President Obama to get his ass in gear and push for a 100% Renewable energy Transition

we signed:  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.freesmileys.org%2Femoticons%2Femoticon-object-042.gif&hash=76ef1277aabb18fb4b98437f4ebc40a0f80ed4e8) (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fus.123rf.com%2F400wm%2F400%2F400%2Fyayayoy%2Fyayayoy1106%2Fyayayoy110600019%2F9735563-smiling-sun-showing-thumb-up.jpg&hash=09b45642ec6d7943d30b5b87548676e3ee7dbe3d) Demand Liberty From Fossil Fuels Through 100% Renewable Energy WWII Style Effort   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F47b20s0.gif&hash=cc48c9af9d29b8836023c7db21103e52d1ed439e)


Mr. Jim de Cordova, CA

Jun 13, 11:09

# 14


Mr. Timothy Havel, MA

Jun 13, 08:29

# 13


Ms. Sandra Speicher, CO

Jun 13, 06:36

# 12


Mr. PJ van Staden, South Africa

Jun 13, 03:44

# 11


Mr. David Ferraro, VA

Jun 13, 02:10

# 10

Absolutely necessary for the preservation of humankind. Expect scorched-earth opposition from the fossil fuel lobby.
sent

Ms. Natasha Salgado, ON

Jun 13, 01:41

# 9


Mr. frank mcclain, CA

Jun 12, 23:20

# 8

I hear Sen Inhofe says the solutions to 'climate change' are "too costly". Never mind that continuing to burn fossil fuels is 'too stupid". When we humans start doing something because it is 'smart' instead of 'cheap', we may have a thriving planet to pass on to our great great grandchildren. As of now, it looks like they'll get a smoldering wreck. We can prevent this. Today is the day to change course. We can do this. We really can. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fmedia.giphy.com%2Fmedia%2FHjPbLbmep2aJO%2Fgiphy.gif&hash=3c7f7703f00cb341d3e9bdba607208d4204a294c)



Ms. Mary Ch, ON

Jun 12, 09:35

# 7

Please watch shows "SOS Global Warming" on www.suprememastertv.com
 

Ms. Stacey Calvert, United Kingdom

Jun 12, 09:08

# 6
 

Mr. Joseph Wenzel, MN

Jun 12, 05:29

# 5
 

Ms. Kaileen Reynolds, TX

Jun 12, 04:00

# 4
 

Mr. Serdar Murat, Austria

Jun 12, 02:55

# 3
 

Mr. John Forbes, United Kingdom

Jun 11, 21:42

# 2


Here's the link to the petition:

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/420/529/456/demand-liberty-from-fossil-fuels-through-100-renewable-energy-wwii-style-effort/

Please pass it on for the good of future generations. You can paste that link directly into any Disqus comment section of forum comment.






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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on June 15, 2014, 10:53:29 pm
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmcGXe_xNoU&feature=player_embedded

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdaR33FqnfU&feature=player_embedded

http://arctic-news.blogspot.com.au/2014/06/arctic-atmospheric-methane-global-warming-veil.html
Don't just sit there, sign this petition!  (http://www.thepetitionsite.com/420/529/456/demand-liberty-from-fossil-fuels-through-100-renewable-energy-wwii-style-effort/)

Pass it on. The planet you save may be your own...
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on June 15, 2014, 11:02:51 pm
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on June 16, 2014, 10:00:50 pm
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California is under a DROUGHT. Shut the water off to the 900 Golf Courses statewide
author: Nicholas Pierotti
target: Governor Jerry Brown
signatures: 538

we've got 538 signatures, help us get to 1,000

overview


As the State of California has now been officially declared to be in a drought emergency, I have to ask: Are all the 900 golf courses in the State still being watered? I'd say we cut those off so that people will have water to drink and cook and wash with.

Golf is NOT a necessary activity.

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Who really NEEDS golf courses. NOBODY. The water should be used for necessary activities. Let's shut off the water to the golf courses state-wide.  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.desismileys.com%2Fsmileys%2Fdesismileys_0293.gif&hash=b1af4868ed8f18c30e637f8cbcb79002f6f71039)


If you agree, help Nicholas Pierotti by signing his petition:
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/361/553/523/california-is-under-a-drought-shut-the-water-off-to-the-900-golf-courses-statewide/
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on June 20, 2014, 10:49:21 pm
The Turning Point: New Hope for the Climate  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F47b20s0.gif&hash=cc48c9af9d29b8836023c7db21103e52d1ed439e)


It's time to accelerate the shift toward a low-carbon future  ;D
 

Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-turning-point-new-hope-for-the-climate-20140618#ixzz35Eoye7k8

Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on June 30, 2014, 08:37:16 pm
 (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.freesmileys.org%2Femoticons%2Femoticon-anime-034.gif&hash=58a833931ab09edc67b808927994f92737db0650) Is the Arctic Warming Faster than the Rest of the World?

The Arctic is warming faster than the rest of the world — twice as fast, on average. From the 1970s through the 2000s. However, the average temperature of some parts of the Arctic has increased 10 times more  :o than the average worldwide temperature increase of 0.36 degrees Fahrenheit (0.2 degrees Celsius) per decade. The Arctic, Earth's ice-covered most northern region, is thought to be warming more quickly than the rest of Earth because of the albedo effect, which occurs when the loss of ice reduces the reflection of the sun’s heat back into space, and instead uncovers bare water and rock that take in and store the sun’s heat.

More about the Arctic:

•The amount of ice in the Arctic region decreased 14% from the 1970s to 2012.

•Eight countries have regions that extend into the Arctic: Canada, Finland, Greenland, Iceland, Norway, Russia, Sweden and the US.

•Polar bears are located only in the Arctic, and environmentalists project that they could be extinct by the year 2100 if the region continues to warm at the projected rate.

http://www.wisegeek.com/is-the-arctic-warming-faster-than-the-rest-of-the-world.htm

Agelbert NOTE: A lot more species than polar bears, including Homo SAP, may be extinct by the year 2100 if the suicidal trajectory we or on is not changed within a decade or so.  >:(
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on July 04, 2014, 09:43:21 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSuzNSHPv6c&feature=player_embedded

If we change, if we act to leave dirty and centralized, political power concentrating energy behind, we will give future generations a chance to live in a Viable Biosphere AND a political democracy.

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Vote for the above:  http://www.care2.com/go/z/e/Ai3Tb
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on July 07, 2014, 02:28:31 pm
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Image courtesy of 350.org

Quakers Divest From Fossil Fuels

Paula Kline, Fossil Free Friends  | July 7, 2014 12:09 pm 

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“We understand that addressing the climate crisis is a moral imperative,” said Bruce Harrison of Westtown Monthly Meeting. “The divestment movement draws attention to the seriousness of climate disruption and the need to combat the powerful coal, oil and gas companies, which persist in resisting efforts to curb polluting carbon and methane emissions.”
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http://ecowatch.com/2014/07/07/quakers-divest-from-fossil-fuels/

You see folks, the Quakers live mostly in PENNSYLVANIA. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.freesmileys.org%2Femoticons%2Femoticon-object-034.gif&hash=aaa4624f4728fa49a5a4511b865e35a767958109) For those who don't know what Fracking has done, thanks to the environmental cost math challenged MKing's of this world (the fossil fuel loving crazies), just Google Frackcidents.

Here's my search results for those, unlike MKing, who can add and subtract.  https://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4ADRA_enUS485US486&q=frackcidents

NOTE: fraccidents is a DIFFERENT search item. Do that one after the above one for more "externalized costs of fossil fuels" that WE-THE-PEOPLE get STUCK with.

Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on July 08, 2014, 03:54:28 pm
For those who wish to see where the typhoon is and the wind velocity in any part of the typhoon only about 15 minutes after real time AND in animated format, go here.

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http://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/isobaric/1000hPa/orthographic=-73.08,26.62,291

That superb web site is just like Google Earth, but for near real time wind velocities anywhere on earth.    (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.clker.com%2Fcliparts%2Fc%2F8%2Ff%2F8%2F11949865511933397169thumbs_up_nathan_eady_01.svg.hi.png&hash=599691109af22b33f1d59dd61eb97448a9427020)  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.clker.com%2Fcliparts%2Fc%2F8%2Ff%2F8%2F11949865511933397169thumbs_up_nathan_eady_01.svg.hi.png&hash=599691109af22b33f1d59dd61eb97448a9427020)    (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.clker.com%2Fcliparts%2Fc%2F8%2Ff%2F8%2F11949865511933397169thumbs_up_nathan_eady_01.svg.hi.png&hash=599691109af22b33f1d59dd61eb97448a9427020)
Just position the globe and zoom in to the typhoon Raccoon (in Korean). Then click on any point and see the wind velocity readout.  8)
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on July 09, 2014, 03:30:50 pm
Release of the International Surface Temperature Initiative’s (ISTI’s) Global Land Surface Databank, an expanded set of fundamental surface temperature records

(https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.freesmileys.org%2Femoticons%2Femoticon-anime-034.gif&hash=58a833931ab09edc67b808927994f92737db0650) Calling GW denying pieces of lying **** everywhere (you too, Snowleopard). Go crawling to your Koch dirty energy funded mendacity for profit-over-planet mind**** propaganda "think"(septic) tanks for your "talking points". (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F2rzukw3.gif&hash=f0487b8f0d488ab1126ce5e031b11ea3d74b1cc2) The liars are going to have to come up with some world class bull**** verbal gymnastics to find ANY questionable data in this COMPREHENSIVE, PEER REVIEWED DATA SET. ;D

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Guest post by Jared Rennie, Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites, North Carolina on behalf of the databank working group of the International Surface Temperature Initiative

In the 21st Century, when multi-billion dollar decisions are being made to mitigate and adapt to climate change, society rightly expects openness and transparency in climate science to enable a greater understanding of how climate has changed and how it will continue to change. Arguably the very foundation of our understanding is the observational record.

Today a new set of fundamental holdings of land surface air temperature records stretching back deep into the 19th Century   ;D has been released as a result of several years of effort by a multinational group of scientists.

The International Surface Temperature Initiative (ISTI) was launched by an international and multi-disciplinary group of scientists in 2010 to improve understanding of the Earth’s climate from the global to local scale. The Databank Working Group, under the leadership of NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center (NCDC), has produced an innovative data holding that largely leverages off existing data sources, but also incorporates many previously unavailable sources of surface air temperature.

This data holding provides users a way to better track the origin of the data from its collection through its integration. By providing the data in various stages that lead to the integrated product, by including data origin tracking flags with information on each observation, and by providing the software used to process all observations, the processes involved in creating the observed fundamental climate record are completely open and transparent to the extent humanly possible. -

Full READ IT AND WEEP (for fossil fuelers ;)) fact filled article HERE.  (http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2014/07/release-of-the-international-surface-temperature-initiatives-istis-global-land-surface-databank-an-expanded-set-of-fundamental-surface-temperature-records/#sthash.B3iSoqwu.dpuf)

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Approximately 13 percent of the U.S. electricity supply was powered by renewables as of the end of 2013, roughly half of Germany’s rate."
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/07/08/3456934/renewable-one-third-germany/

The USA, a historic leader in new technology, is getting left behind because of the profit-over-planet biosphere degrading fossil fuel industry that buys our politicians with the profits from pollution producing fuels while said politicians keep fossil fuel and nuclear power plant "subsides" (taxpayer theft!) to tilt the energy playing field against renewable energy.  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Fd2.gif&hash=98d536bf1047a88ef91e9c45e08b725347c9fe13) (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Facigar.gif&hash=dc9dccf92c6c88c99611b06c86d92629d69f2978) (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F2z6in9g.gif&hash=771b084a0f186d9cc14f31defd98a6c90b69b84f)

We need to ELIMINATE DIRTY ENERGY SUBSIDIES and start the FULL TRANSITION to CLEAN ENERGY NOW!   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F301.gif&hash=0291ed4abf2d80e420d1aa00d4eb3c5dd6bbfb53) (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.websmileys.com%2Fsm%2Fviolent%2Fsterb029.gif&hash=7a43a0c106eab798f7ba6133dc5cc550647a03d2)

America DOES NOT have to play second fiddle to being the first country to win the Climate Victory because of idiot greedball, war loving fossil fuelers. As part of being responsible, caring human beings, we have to pressure our government to take major action to stop the degradation of the biosphere from climate change. This is causing death and disease to both domestic animals and wildlife, all of which have done nothing to deserve such a horrible fate at our hands. It's time to eliminate the excuse our fossil fuel loving oligarchy uses for "resources" wars for oil that bring nothing but misery to us and profits for them.

I started a petition on Care2: Demand Liberty From Fossil Fuels Through 100% Renewable Energy WWII Style Effort. I'm hoping that if enough people sign my petition, we can make a difference. Will you help me collect more by adding your name?

Here's a link to the petition: http://www.care2.com/go/z/e/Ai3Tb


Thank you and please pass it on. The biosphere you save may be your own.
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on July 15, 2014, 08:23:19 pm
Has There Been an Increase in Incidence of Natural Disasters in the Past Several Decades?    (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.desismileys.com%2Fsmileys%2Fdesismileys_6656.gif&hash=2038f9b45636a93e5c0f4ee508ce29778fe9e9b4)                  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F128fs318181.gif&hash=eff6d5f3831782966c2ff2081f07bf7fc5b22a6b)  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fassets1.bigthink.com%2Fsystem%2Fidea_thumbnails%2F51779%2Fheadline%2Fnatural_disasters_big_think.jpg%3F1374159208&hash=35f01d3668bb7721ae2cdbd91b7adede2aebdcc7)
 

There has been an increase in the incidence of natural disasters in the past several decades. The 2011 United Nations (UN) World Economic and Social Survey found that the rate of natural disasters increased by five times since the 1970s. Researchers believe this is related to climate change brought on by excessive energy consumption and pollution related to human behaviors such as an increase in technology and industrial output. An increase in global temperature may particularly increase the extreme temperatures that can cause natural disaster storms by producing more water vapor in the air that turns into precipitation.

More about the increase in natural disasters:

•The total worldwide death toll of natural disasters decreased by over 90% from the 1930s to the 2000s.

•Scientists project that there will be an increase of up to 20% more snow and rain by the year 2100, making natural disasters more prevalent, as well as more powerful.

•The average annual cost of a natural disaster aftermath was $50 billion US Dollars (USD) to nearly $200 billion USD on average in 2012.

http://www.wisegeek.com/has-there-been-an-increase-in-incidence-of-natural-disasters-in-the-past-several-decades.htm

Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on July 17, 2014, 01:35:02 pm
The One Metric That’s Hiding The True Cost Of Climate Change(https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fdl2.glitter-graphics.net%2Fpub%2F1087%2F1087832pmq26zqtt4.gif&hash=b78c8a77d04e8ff6af5d8c7e5a02871cc061e275)


By Jeff Spross on July 17, 2014 at 11:22 am

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So what value do we place on the ocean’s coral reefs and the myriad animals they support, and how do we weigh their loss against other values? What price tag do you put on a species of bird or fish or mammal which, once gone, will never return? How does humanity weigh moral accountability if our own carbon emissions contributed to that destruction?

http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/07/17/3458718/one-metric-cost-climate-change

Agelbert NOTE: "HUMANITY" in the above quote REALLY MEANS the upper 20% OR LESS of Homo SAP! Never forget that... >:( The bill (even though the damage can NEVER be totally undone  :()  is coming due for all this destruction and WE KNOW who HAS to get that bill! (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Fcowboypistol.gif&hash=2dc97f743dffca22404e6e4e0822765e60b33f38)
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on July 17, 2014, 04:07:19 pm
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BBC THE TRUTH ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE PART 1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a51mWYhVmek&feature=player_embedded
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on July 17, 2014, 08:02:55 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiHdDjLm7CE&feature=player_embedded
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on July 17, 2014, 11:43:54 pm
Has the METHANE BOMB GONE OFF?   ???

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqdlaLufBa0&feature=player_embedded

The striking abyss is believed to be up to 80 meters wide although its depth has not been estimated yet. A scientific team sent to investigate the hole was due to arrive at the scene on Wednesday, reports Siberian Times.

The cause of its sudden appearance in the remote Siberian land is not yet known, although one scientific claim, cited by the newspaper, is that global warming may be to blame.

There is additional speculation that the giant hole – that appeared close to a forest some 30 kilometers from Yamal's biggest gas field Bovanenkovo – could be caused by a space object – possibly a meteorite – striking earth. It could also be a sinkhole caused by collapsing rock beneath the hole caused by an unknown reason.

Startled helicopter passengers told their pilot to loiter over the mysterious crater as they came by the mind-blowing hole. The passengers were cited as saying the hole was big enough for their helicopter – and 18 meter long Mi8 – to have comfortably enter the crater without touching the sides.

The most deadly meteor impact of modern times known as "The Tunguska air burst" – took place in the region in 1908. The impact flattened vast swathes of forest over a 2,000 square kilometer area.

No streak in the sky, flash of explosion or seismic events has been recorded in the recent time, but the hole has, nonetheless appeared.

http://www.ibtimes.co.in/meteor-ufo-landing-site-mysterious-crater-siberias-end-world-baffles-scientists-604542
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on July 18, 2014, 03:56:47 pm
Wanna see what climate change looks like? Check out the vicious fires in northwest Canada (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.freesmileys.org%2Femoticons%2Femoticon-anime-034.gif&hash=58a833931ab09edc67b808927994f92737db0650)(https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.freesmileys.org%2Femoticons%2Femoticon-anime-034.gif&hash=58a833931ab09edc67b808927994f92737db0650)(https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.freesmileys.org%2Femoticons%2Femoticon-anime-034.gif&hash=58a833931ab09edc67b808927994f92737db0650)

http://grist.org/news/wanna-see-what-climate-change-looks-like-check-out-the-vicious-fires-in-northwest-canada/ (http://grist.org/news/wanna-see-what-climate-change-looks-like-check-out-the-vicious-fires-in-northwest-canada/)

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Current fire sites British Columbia only:
http://bcwildfire.ca/hprScripts/WildfireNews/Fires.asp
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on July 19, 2014, 01:09:38 am
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BBC THE TRUTH ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE PART 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTgAiyo0xwY&feature=player_embedded
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on July 19, 2014, 03:59:19 pm
 (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.freesmileys.org%2Femoticons%2Femoticon-object-106.gif&hash=f996659d18df7f3b445e6135e884397ac91f25b1)California Board Votes to Investigate Covert Climate Engineering    (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.websmileys.com%2Fsm%2Fviolent%2Fsterb029.gif&hash=7a43a0c106eab798f7ba6133dc5cc550647a03d2)


Watch the disturbing video as concerned environmentalists, scientists, and aircraft pilots speak out.

http://aircrap.org/california-board-votes-to-investigate-covert-climate-engineering-7152014/339138/
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on July 22, 2014, 03:22:59 pm
National Conversation on Climate Change Has Shifted (http://ecowatch.com/2014/07/22/national-conversation-climate-change-shifted/)(https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Fswear1.gif&hash=87347674f9297191f3f8a447208170617da4caf6)  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.clker.com%2Fcliparts%2Fc%2F8%2Ff%2F8%2F11949865511933397169thumbs_up_nathan_eady_01.svg.hi.png&hash=599691109af22b33f1d59dd61eb97448a9427020)  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-200714183515.bmp&hash=4a3ad9d0a78a7e161f53ddd84f568082a5b0d2ad)
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on July 22, 2014, 04:29:43 pm
(https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Ffiles.cdn.ecowatch.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2014%2F07%2Fshutterstock_147036620.jpg&hash=37d051ffa718ec1bf5d7845647db2140b53e5caf)

 (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.freesmileys.org%2Femoticons%2Femoticon-anime-034.gif&hash=58a833931ab09edc67b808927994f92737db0650)Last Month Was the Hottest June in All Recorded Human History (http://ecowatch.com/2014/07/22/hottest-june-of-all-time)
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on July 23, 2014, 04:07:38 pm
Climate Change Insights
Two Realities

SNIPPET:
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If the problem of political realists is self-delusion, the predicament of many physical realists is a sense of defeat and dread.

So for the sake of the latter I will conclude with a little pep talk (directed as much to myself as to readers).

Too much is at stake to retire in cynical self-assurance that we are right, they are wrong; we are weak, they are strong. Yes, horrible consequences from past growth are inevitable; today’s physical reality is a given. However, tomorrow’s reality is still, at least to some degree, up to us.
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http://ecowatch.com/2014/07/23/two-realities/
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on July 24, 2014, 02:40:58 am
Faux Pause 3: More Evidence Global Surface Temperatures Poised To Rise Rapidly  :(


http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/07/22/3462647/global-surface-temperatures/
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on July 30, 2014, 02:02:46 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDL4Bs3NbB0&feature=player_embedded

[embed=640,380]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDL4Bs3NbB0#[/embed]
 Senator Denies Climate Change On Senate Floor And Gets A Science Lesson From His Colleague (http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/07/29/3465442/whitehouse-blasts-inhofe-on-climate/)
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on July 31, 2014, 11:32:42 pm
Moral Power for Climate Action VIDEO

http://vimeo.com/80328134

from Whidbey Institute Plus 8 months ago Not Yet Rated 

The climate crisis is not an environmental problem. It is a human problem. Humans have caused it and only humans can act to avert catastrophe. Yet many of us continue to live as if this crisis isn't happening. Even those who accept the science, and care a lot. The time has come to go beyond the science, to a place of heart. The time has come to tap our deepest sources of moral courage and commitment.

To learn more about the Climate Collaborative, visit whidbeyinstitute.org/our-work/climate-collaborative.
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on August 01, 2014, 03:49:12 pm
Glaciology
Data mix-up in sea-ice record
Nature 511, 510 (31 July 2014) doi:10.1038/511510b Published online 30 July 2014

SNIPPET:
The recent, mysterious expansion of Antarctic ice could be overestimated because of a data-analysis error, according to US scientists.

Ian Eisenman at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, California, and his colleagues found the mistake when they compared two versions of satellite data on Southern Hemisphere sea ice that…
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v511/n7511/full/511510b.html

Agelbert begging  ;D: If any of you fellows with spare cash DO subscribe (or buy this article for $8   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F128fs318181.gif&hash=eff6d5f3831782966c2ff2081f07bf7fc5b22a6b)) to this prestigious scientific journal called Nature, please give us the details on this story.

The huge and growing Antarctic FLOATING ice is a data point the GW deniers have been using (while IGNORING THE GREATER LOSS OF ICE on the Antarctic continent!) for some time. They need a knuckle sandwich for their mendacious duplicity.
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Okay! I found the data FREE!   ;D Enjoy:

Quote

A recent paper investigated the processing of Antarctic sea ice data and how this affects the interpretation of Antarctic ice extent trends. While their findings do not affect NSIDC’s analysis of Antarctic sea ice extent, as we use a different data set, it is an interesting example of scientific rigor regarding data, and it does affect other reports of Antarctic sea ice trends.

The paper studied the Bootstrap algorithm, which has been used in several published reports of Antarctic trends, including the last two IPCC Assessment Reports. These reports suggested that the Antarctic sea ice extent shifted from a small, statistically insignificant upward trend in the early 2000s to a more substantial, and statistically significant upward trend in recent years. (NSIDC uses a different algorithm, called NASA Team, to estimate sea ice extent.)

The paper found that following an update to the algorithm in 2007, using the newer Version 2 of the Bootstrap algorithm produced Antarctic sea ice extent trends that were approximately two times larger than those derived using Version 1. Closer examination of the data showed a noticeable step change in extent at the point of transition to a new satellite sensor in 1991. This step change appeared to be related to an error in calibration between the sensors, rather than actually being an abrupt shift in Antarctic sea ice.

Trends derived from both versions for time periods either before or after the sensor transition are similar. However, the two algorithms produce different results when trends that span the 1991 sensor transition are calculated. Using Version 2 of the algorithm produces a markedly higher trend.

Using the newer version of the algorithm, Antarctic extent trends agree much more closely with the trends from the NASA Team algorithm used by NSIDC. Regardless, the expansion in Antarctic sea ice is confirmed by other groups using different techniques.

References

Eisenman, I., W. N. Meier, and R. J. Norris. 2014. A spurious jump in the satellite record: has Antarctic sea ice expansion been overestimated?, The Cryosphere 8, 1289-1296, doi:10.5194/tc-8-1289-2014.
 
Posted in Analysis   

http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on August 05, 2014, 04:02:35 pm
Russian Scientists: Global Warming Played Major Role in Siberian Craters  :o

Giant methane blow-holes in Siberia have many scientists worried about runaway climate change.

Last night on MSNBC’s The Ed Show, Ed Schultz explained that scientists believe the massive craters are caused by thawing permafrost and directly linked to the abnormally hot Yamal summers of 2012 and 2013. As temperatures rose, the permafrost thawed and collapsed, releasing methane that had been trapped in the icy ground.

Joining Schultz last night was Dr. Reese Halter, distinguished conservation biologist and author of nine books, who said, “This is a ticking time bomb. The only thing we can do is reduce the amount of fossil fuels that we are spewing daily, 85 million tons of greenhouse heat-trapping gas, into the atmosphere.”

Watch below (at link)to hear more.

http://ecowatch.com/2014/08/05/russian-scientists-global-warming-siberian-craters/

Wait until your hear what Dr. Reese Halter said is happening to the forests! (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-310714182509.png&hash=7a8191a3d5ff15c51ad36a342a0cd50a90b956bd)
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on August 05, 2014, 07:17:49 pm
Atlantic warming turbocharges Pacific trade winds

Date:August 3, 2014

Source:University of New South Wales

Summary:

Rapid warming of the Atlantic Ocean, likely caused by global warming, has turbocharged Pacific Equatorial trade winds. This has caused eastern tropical Pacific cooling, amplified the Californian drought, accelerated sea level rise three times faster than the global average in the Western Pacific and has slowed the rise of global average surface temperatures since 2001.   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-300714025456.bmp&hash=f4e4a260bd60d3f34ca86fed93c47d5fb4117cfd)

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/08/140803193642.htm
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on August 05, 2014, 08:13:50 pm
Take THIS, GW deniers!  ;D

My 1975 'Cooling World' Story Doesn't Make Today's Climate Scientists Wrong   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F301.gif&hash=0291ed4abf2d80e420d1aa00d4eb3c5dd6bbfb53) (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.freesmileys.org%2Femoticons%2Femoticon-object-106.gif&hash=f996659d18df7f3b445e6135e884397ac91f25b1)

It's time for deniers of human-caused global warming to stop using an old magazine story as ammunition against the consensus of today's climate scientists.    (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.freesmileys.org%2Femoticons%2Ftuzki-bunnys%2Ftuzki-bunny-emoticon-005.gif&hash=c0f70cc821100c434469eae24e0fa6131745ab51)

Originally published: May 21 2014 - 11:30am
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By: Peter Gwynne, Guest Columnist

Inside Science Minds presents an ongoing series of guest columnists and personal perspectives presented by scientists, engineers, mathematicians, and others in the science community showcasing some of the most interesting ideas in science today.
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(Inside Science) – "The central fact is that, after three quarters of a century of extraordinarily mild conditions, the Earth seems to be cooling down. Meteorologists disagree about the cause and extent of the cooling trend, as well as over its specific impact on local weather conditions. But they are almost unanimous in the view that the trend will reduce agricultural productivity for the rest of the century." – Newsweek: April 28, 1975

That's an excerpt from a story I wrote about climate science that appeared almost 40 years ago. Titled "The Cooling World," it was remarkably popular; in fact it might be the only decades-old magazine story about science ever carried onto the set of a late-night TV talk show.   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.imgion.com%2Fimages%2F01%2FAngry-animated-smiley.jpg&hash=84657bd1a63cad676e3551587daeb4b39411a289)   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-051113192052.png&hash=93c42ef9f18fc5d9da50fd91fc19f70009f95f85) Now, as the author of that story, after decades of scientific advances, let me say this: while the hypotheses described in that original story seemed right at the time, climate scientists now know that they were seriously incomplete. Our climate is warming -- not cooling, as the original story suggested.



Agelbert NOTE: Full rather lengthy, detailed and thorough article at link:
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http://www.insidescience.org/content/my-1975-cooling-world-story-doesnt-make-todays-climate-scientists-wrong/1640
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SNIPPET EXPOSING THE FOSSIL FUEL AND NUKE PUKE DISINFORMATION CAMPAIGN:

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There are many lines of observational evidence that the world is warming, including globally rising air and ocean temperatures, retreating glaciers worldwide, increasing sea level, decreasing Arctic Sea ice extent, and mass loss on the ice sheets of Greenland and Antarctica," he wrote. "In addition, an entire new body of climate science called 'detection and attribution' convincingly shows that the observed climate changes have distinctive space-time patterns that are consistent with causes due to human activities."

The counterattack had started by the beginning of the 1990s. The purported evidence against global warming included the news articles on cooling by myself and others.

Some commentators, such as Dixy Lee Ray, former chair of the Atomic Energy Commission, asserted that the articles represented climate scares that inevitably turned out to be untrue – as would the idea of global warming, they asserted.

Others took a less subtle route. The articles proved, they argued, that the atmosphere was cooling and that there was no reason to change that conclusion. In that view, climate science never changes.

However, both types of warming deniers, along with policymakers who have consistently opposed any regulation designed to reduce acid rain, the destruction of the ozone layer, and other perceived ills, have consistently used the articles – particularly mine – as ammunition.

But that's just one line of attack. Mann suffered another starting in 1998, after he published an article in the journal Nature; that included a "hockey stick" model that demonstrated a dramatic increase in the rate of recent global warming.

"I was at the receiving end of the attacks from many of the same individuals, think tanks, and organizations implicated in past attacks on other climate scientists, such as [late] climatologist Steve Schneider," he wrote in an email. "The attacks on climate science and on me specifically have escalated for a simple reason: As the scientific evidence becomes clearer and the threat becomes clearer, it takes yet more disinformation and propaganda to obscure the truth. Hundreds of millions of dollars have been spent by fossil fuel interests     (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-200714191329.bmp&hash=4764bfbe6bb0e11ca61102efa97a932a824f47e0) seeking to muddy the waters. That has, in turn, provided cover for politicians doing their bidding in opposing any attempts to regulate carbon emissions."  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-241013183046.jpeg&hash=51c9c4f17e747698c76c65c7c1814eff4f32c400)
 

http://www.insidescience.org/content/my-1975-cooling-world-story-doesnt-make-todays-climate-scientists-wrong/1640
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on August 06, 2014, 06:48:17 pm
How big is the Arctic? (http://www.atmos.washington.edu/~bitz/map_scaling.html) (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.desismileys.com%2Fsmileys%2Fdesismileys_1730.gif&hash=cdaf50326d98ff7b051a9c49e83d51c7bb687407)

Cecilia Bitz's Homepage
Tel: (206) 543-1339
 office: Atmos Sci & Geophys Bld 502
bitz@atmos.washington.edu

I am a Professor in the  Atmospheric Sciences Department, an Affiliate Physicist for the Polar Science Center, and part of the Program on Climate Change, all at University of Washington


My research interests include

•The role of sea ice in the climate system and high-latitude climate and climate change.

• The predictability of Arctic sea ice.

•The role of aerosols and other short-lived species as a source of Arctic decadal variability.

• Global coupled climate modeling. I am part of a the PetaApps team, which has run the CCSM4 at very high resolution.  Check out our animations of our century long control at 1/10 degree sea ice and ocean.  I use the Community Earth System Model.



http://www.atmos.washington.edu/~bitz/       (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F19.gif&hash=3f9f2fc2285bc756137e21463bc2a4c420b15ac3)
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on August 06, 2014, 07:10:23 pm
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Climate models using either 1% or 2% PER YEAR CO2 increase. (http://www.atmos.washington.edu/~bitz/PSC/future.html)
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on August 06, 2014, 07:30:26 pm
Glaciology
Data mix-up in sea-ice record
Nature 511, 510 (31 July 2014) doi:10.1038/511510b Published online 30 July 2014

SNIPPET:
The recent, mysterious expansion of Antarctic ice could be overestimated because of a data-analysis error, according to US scientists.

Ian Eisenman at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, California, and his colleagues found the mistake when they compared two versions of satellite data on Southern Hemisphere sea ice that…
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v511/n7511/full/511510b.html

Agelbert begging  ;D: If any of you fellows with spare cash DO subscribe (or buy this article for $8   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F128fs318181.gif&hash=eff6d5f3831782966c2ff2081f07bf7fc5b22a6b)) to this prestigious scientific journal called Nature, please give us the details on this story.

The huge and growing Antarctic FLOATING ice is a data point the GW deniers have been using (while IGNORING THE GREATER LOSS OF ICE on the Antarctic continent!) for some time. They need a knuckle sandwich for their mendacious duplicity.
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Okay! I found the data FREE!   ;D Enjoy:

Quote

A recent paper investigated the processing of Antarctic sea ice data and how this affects the interpretation of Antarctic ice extent trends. While their findings do not affect NSIDC’s analysis of Antarctic sea ice extent, as we use a different data set, it is an interesting example of scientific rigor regarding data, and it does affect other reports of Antarctic sea ice trends.

The paper studied the Bootstrap algorithm, which has been used in several published reports of Antarctic trends, including the last two IPCC Assessment Reports. These reports suggested that the Antarctic sea ice extent shifted from a small, statistically insignificant upward trend in the early 2000s to a more substantial, and statistically significant upward trend in recent years.  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.desismileys.com%2Fsmileys%2Fdesismileys_2932.gif&hash=0eaec4791a5825821998245e7fcd7744b56557fe)(NSIDC uses a different algorithm, called NASA Team, to estimate sea ice extent.)

The paper found that following an update to the algorithm in 2007, using the newer Version 2 of the Bootstrap algorithm produced Antarctic sea ice extent trends that were approximately two times larger than those derived using Version 1.  :o Closer examination of the data showed a noticeable step change in extent at the point of transition to a new satellite sensor in 1991. This step change appeared to be related to an error in calibration between the sensors, rather than actually being an abrupt shift in Antarctic sea ice.  ;D

Trends derived from both versions for time periods either before or after the sensor transition are similar. However, the two algorithms produce different results when trends that span the 1991 sensor transition are calculated. Using Version 2 of the algorithm produces a markedly higher trend.

Using the newer version of the algorithm, Antarctic extent trends agree much more closely with the trends from the NASA Team algorithm used by NSIDC. Regardless, the expansion in Antarctic sea ice is confirmed by other groups using different techniques.

References

Eisenman, I., W. N. Meier, and R. J. Norris. 2014. A spurious jump in the satellite record: has Antarctic sea ice expansion been overestimated?, The Cryosphere 8, 1289-1296, doi:10.5194/tc-8-1289-2014.
 
Posted in Analysis   

http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on August 10, 2014, 03:22:26 pm
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on August 11, 2014, 09:37:09 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7K_9K0JvxOQ&feature=player_embedded
Change at the Top of the World

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on August 20, 2014, 11:51:08 pm
What is the Highest Temperature Ever Recorded?

The highest temperature ever recorded was 134 degrees Fahrenheit (57 Celsius) in Death Valley on July 10, 1913. Located in the US and stretching across parts of California and Nevada, Death Valley is one of the hottest desert areas in North America and has average temperatures over 100 degrees Fahrenheit (38 Celsius). During the period of July 9 through July 13 in 1913, Death Valley’s temperatures were especially hot and reached at least 129 degrees Fahrenheit (54 Celsius) each day, with July 10 reaching the record-breaking 134 degrees Fahrenheit (57 Celsius). Death Valley is prone to extreme heat because its lack of plant cover makes the desert surface unprotected from sunlight, and the heat becomes trapped due to the valley’s depth.

More about temperature:

•It was thought that El Azizia, Libya reached the highest temperature ever recorded in 1922 at 136 degrees Fahrenheit (58 Celsius), but those measurements have not been verified.

•The first experiments to measure temperature dates back to Greek scientist Galen in A.D. 170.

•The lowest temperature on official record is -128.6 degrees Fahrenheit (-89 Celsius) in Antarctica in 1983.

http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-the-highest-temperature-ever-recorded.htm
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on August 24, 2014, 03:10:06 pm
MORE EXTERNALIZED COSTS thanks to the fossil fuel foes  of humanity.  >:(
Unlike the Fossil Fueler GREEDBALLS  of this world, PNAS really DOES DO THE MATH!  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.clker.com%2Fcliparts%2Fc%2F8%2Ff%2F8%2F11949865511933397169thumbs_up_nathan_eady_01.svg.hi.png&hash=599691109af22b33f1d59dd61eb97448a9427020)

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Our findings indicate that under future levels of atmospheric CO2, T. radicans may grow larger and become more noxious than it is today. Given the global distribution of this and other closely related species, these results have implications for forest dynamics and human health. Increased abundance of woody vines in old-growth and fragmented forests is reducing tree regeneration and increasing tree mortality in tropical (18, 19, 22, 23) and temperate (20, 21) regions.

Biomass and toxicity responses of poison ivy (Toxicodendron radicans) to elevated atmospheric CO2
Jacqueline E. Mohan * , † , ‡ , § ,
Lewis H. Ziska ¶ ,
William H. Schlesinger * , ‖ , § ,
Richard B. Thomas **,
Richard C. Sicher ¶ ,
Kate George ¶ , and
James S. Clark * , ‖

Abstract
Contact with poison ivy (Toxicodendron radicans) is one of the most widely reported ailments at poison centers in the United States, and this plant has been introduced throughout the world, where it occurs with other allergenic members of the cashew family (Anacardiaceae). Approximately 80% of humans develop dermatitis upon exposure to the carbon-based active compound, urushiol. It is not known how poison ivy might respond to increasing concentrations of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2), but previous work done in controlled growth chambers shows that other vines exhibit large growth enhancement from elevated CO2. Rising CO2 is potentially responsible for the increased vine abundance that is inhibiting forest regeneration and increasing tree mortality around the world. In this 6-year study at the Duke University Free-Air CO2 Enrichment experiment, we show that elevated atmospheric CO2 in an intact forest ecosystem increases photosynthesis, water use efficiency, growth, and population biomass of poison ivy. The CO2 growth stimulation exceeds that of most other woody species. Furthermore, high-CO2 plants produce a more allergenic form of urushiol. Our results indicate that Toxicodendron taxa will become more abundant and more “toxic” in the future, potentially affecting global forest dynamics and human health.

Poison ivy [Toxicodendron radicans (L.) Kuntze] ranks among the most medically problematic plants in the United States (1, 2), annually causing >350,000 reported cases of human contact dermatitis (3). Its active component, urushiol, could be used for simulating the transmittal and subsequent symptoms of chemical warfare agents for the U.S. military (4). T. radicans is widely distributed and abundant in North America and also occurs in Central America, parts of Asia, Bermuda, and the Bahama Islands (5). It has been introduced in Europe (6, 7) and South Africa ( 8 ) and also in Australia and New Zealand, where it has become invasive and caused reported cases of contact dermatitis (9).

Other allergenic Toxicodendron species occur in much of the world (10–12). Consequently, the response of Toxicodendron to global environmental change, particularly the current increase in global atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) concentrations, bears consequences for human health on a panoptic scale.

Although the response of poison ivy to changing CO2 has not been investigated previously, various vine species show large photosynthetic and growth increases with CO2 enrichment when grown in noncompetitive conditions in enclosed, indoor growth chambers with optimal resource levels (13–15) and in low-light chambers simulating forest understory environments (16). In the first year of a 2-year field study in Tennessee, an exotic vine species (Lonicera japonica) grew significantly faster at elevated CO2 (17). Stimulation of biomass production likely results from a positive feedback of high CO2 for vines: With an increase in CO2 concentration and a corresponding increase in photosynthesis, vines can allocate more photosynthate to additional photosynthetic tissue, because of a low allocation to support tissue relative to other woody growth forms (13, 14, 18, 19). Increasing abundance of woody vines is causing increased tree mortality and reduced tree regeneration in forests around the globe (18, 20–23), potentially resulting in shifts in community composition that may impact carbon cycling and biodiversity (23). Although it is unclear how elevated CO2 will affect the growth of vines in forest environments, the contemporary increase in woody vine abundance may be the result of rising atmospheric CO2 concentrations (19, 23).

When grown under low resource levels and/or in competitive environments, plants often show small growth enhancements from increased concentrations of CO2 (24, 25). In competitive environments such as forest understories, plant growth may be limited by noncarbon resources such as soil moisture and nutrients. In such cases, additional photosynthate produced under elevated CO2 may be allocated to carbon sinks, such as the generation of secondary carbon-based compounds (26). Thus, production of urushiol, the 3-n pentadecylcatechol hydrocarbon whose reaction with the human immune system is responsible for Toxicodendron dermatitis (27), may increase under elevated CO2.

In this 6-year study at the Duke University Free-Air CO2 Enrichment (FACE) experiment, we assessed the impacts of elevated atmospheric CO2 (200 μl/liter above the ambient level of ≈370 μl/liter and representing the predicted global concentration at the middle of this century; ref. 28) on in situ growth and survivorship of poison ivy in an intact forest environment. Additionally, we determined effects of increased CO2 on photosynthesis, water use, and production of five variants of the secondary compound, urushiol. The human dermatitis response to poison ivy is correlated with the ratio of [unsaturated:saturated] urushiol congeners (29, 30); the higher the relative unsaturated component, the more “poisonous” the plant is to humans.

Full peer reviewed article and scholarly references at link below:

http://www.pnas.org/content/103/24/9086.full

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Toxicodendron radicans


Ya gonna need an OCEAN, of Calamine lotion ... THANKS TO FOSSIL FUEL FORKS!  >:(  Make em' PAY for their DAMAGE!  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F301.gif&hash=0291ed4abf2d80e420d1aa00d4eb3c5dd6bbfb53)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRfRITVdz4k&feature=player_embedded
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on August 25, 2014, 07:35:10 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjE9TwzM4E8&feature=player_embedded
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Suggestion for people on ships that see lots of bubles coming up.


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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on August 28, 2014, 05:20:08 pm
Massive Half-Mile-Long Crack Appears in Ground in Northern Mexico  :o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-MAPOFshM0&feature=player_embedded

http://ecowatch.com/2014/08/28/massive-fissure-northern-mexico/
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on August 28, 2014, 07:31:49 pm
I've been thinking some strange Fibonacci thoughts about the retreating North pole ice cap.   :(

You see, a lot of things follow Fibonacci sequences in nature. But it's not just numbers and patterns in leaves and whatnot. It works on physical cause and effect thermodynamic phenomenon in a non-fractal way. For example, when you flush a toilet, the low pressure area that forms and starts the water swirling n a counterclockwise fashion (in the northern hemisphere) is nearly perfect Fibonacci sequence. The outer edges are relatively flat and the center is a deep tight spiral. Suppose the positive feedback mechanism on the ice cap shrinkage AND the temperature rise on our planet turns out to be a Fibonacci sequence?  :o It will catch all the scientists and math models flat footed because of the nearly exponential nature of the acceleration!

I've been developing a theory to explain why the models have been so wrong (too modest) in predicting the velocity of shrinkage as well as the increase rate of shrinkage of the floating ice.

I'm just thinking out loud but here is a 3D drawing of a Fibonacci spiral I recently drew:
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I'm still plugging in some numbers but if I find a correlation between a the Fibonacci sequence and ice reduction, we are WAY PAST Thelma and Louise's cliff.   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-200714183337.bmp&hash=fd5a6df63c32bd65dda7b6d93e788647ca3829df)

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The flat trajectory  of the car above is about to go exponentially DOWN in a close approximation of a Fibonacci sequence reduction.  :P
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on August 30, 2014, 03:28:26 pm
Leonardo DiCaprio Narrates Climate Change Films Urging Shift From Fossil Fuels to Renewables

Anastasia Pantsios

Production company Tree Media, whose mission is to inspire positive social action, has just released the first of four films in the Green World Rising series focusing on solutions to the climate crisis.
climatemovieart

Leonardo DiCaprio is the voice of a series of short films exploring what we can do to protect our Earth.

The eight-minute film, CARBON, narrated by actor and dedicated environmentalist Leonardo DiCaprio, was created with support from the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation and in collaboration with Thom Hartmann. The film’s goal is to draw attention to how some governments are already putting a price on carbon through carbon taxes and carbon trading to encourage polluters to shift from dirty energy sources to renewables prior to the UN Climate Summit in New York on Sep. 23. All four films will be released in the next month leading up to the summit.

“97% of climate scientists agree: climate change is happening now—and humans are responsible,”
said DiCaprio. “We cannot sit idly by and watch the fossil fuel industry make billions at our collective expense. We must put a price on carbon—now.”

“We need serious action to address the most pressing issue of our time,” said Hartmann. “Communities across the world have taken action in the most direct and effective way possible by taxing and trading carbon. For us to beat this crisis, many more need to join.”

The film explains what a carbon tax and carbon trading are, how they can help us stop “using the atmosphere as a sewer,” as Joseph Romm of the Center for American Progress says in the film, and what ordinary people can do to push elected officials to act.

You can watch the film here.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pP-Twj2lzB8&feature=player_embedded

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Post by: AGelbert on August 31, 2014, 01:06:57 am
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July 2014
plus ocean and land temps 1880 to present

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 01, 2014, 08:53:07 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14Cg5yx6P5w&feature=player_embedded
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 02, 2014, 08:56:19 pm
World Ocean Temps Spike to +1.26 Positive Anomaly as Antarctic Polar Amplification Ramps Up Prospects for a moderate to strong El Nino are fading even as the eventual emergence of El Nino this year grows increasingly in doubt. (http://robertscribbler.wordpress.com/2014/08/29/world-ocean-temps-spike-to-1-26-positive-anomaly-as-antarctic-polar-amplification-ramps-up/)  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-311013201604.png&hash=3793102f2f335b7a8fe106d54eac4db31f2674eb)
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 03, 2014, 02:22:50 pm
Found this article today while floating around the web for news articles, and Monbiot describes a phenomenon that has been very much on my mind lately. Has it been on anyone else's?


Sick of this market-driven world? You should be (http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/aug/05/neoliberalism-mental-health-rich-poverty-economy)
The self-serving con of neoliberalism is that it has eroded the human values the market was supposed to emancipate


George Monbiot
The Guardian, Tuesday 5 August 2014

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To be at peace with a troubled world: this is not a reasonable aim. It can be achieved only through a disavowal of what surrounds you. To be at peace with yourself within a troubled world: that, by contrast, is an honourable aspiration. This column is for those who feel at odds with life. It calls on you not to be ashamed.

I was prompted to write it by a remarkable book, just published in English, by a Belgian professor of psychoanalysis, Paul Verhaeghe. What About Me? The Struggle for Identity in a Market-Based Society is one of those books that, by making connections between apparently distinct phenomena, permits sudden new insights into what is happening to us and why.

We are social animals, Verhaeghe argues, and our identities are shaped by the norms and values we absorb from other people. Every society defines and shapes its own normality – and its own abnormality – according to dominant narratives, and seeks either to make people comply or to exclude them if they don’t.

Today the dominant narrative is that of market fundamentalism, widely known in Europe as neoliberalism. The story it tells is that the market can resolve almost all social, economic and political problems. The less the state regulates and taxes us, the better off we will be. Public services should be privatised, public spending should be cut, and business should be freed from social control. In countries such as the UK and the US, this story has shaped our norms and values for around 35 years: since Thatcher and Reagan came to power. It is rapidly colonising the rest of the world.

Verhaeghe points out that neoliberalism draws on the ancient Greek idea that our ethics are innate (and governed by a state of nature it calls the market) and on the Christian idea that humankind is inherently selfish and acquisitive. Rather than seeking to suppress these characteristics, neoliberalism celebrates them: it claims that unrestricted competition, driven by self-interest, leads to innovation and economic growth, enhancing the welfare of all.

At the heart of this story is the notion of merit. Untrammelled competition rewards people who have talent, work hard, and innovate. It breaks down hierarchies and creates a world of opportunity and mobility.

The reality is rather different. Even at the beginning of the process, when markets are first deregulated, we do not start with equal opportunities. Some people are a long way down the track before the starting gun is fired. This is how the Russian oligarchs managed to acquire such wealth when the Soviet Union broke up. They weren’t, on the whole, the most talented, hardworking or innovative people, but those with the fewest scruples, the most thugs, and the best contacts – often in the KGB.

Even when outcomes are based on talent and hard work, they don’t stay that way for long. Once the first generation of liberated entrepreneurs has made its money, the initial meritocracy is replaced by a new elite, which insulates its children from competition by inheritance and the best education money can buy. Where market fundamentalism has been most fiercely applied – in countries like the US and UK – social mobility has greatly declined.

If neoliberalism was anything other than a self-serving con, whose gurus and thinktanks were financed from the beginning by some of the world’s richest people (the US multimillionaires Coors, Olin, Scaife, Pew and others), its apostles would have demanded, as a precondition for a society based on merit, that no one should start life with the unfair advantage of inherited wealth or economically determined education. But they never believed in their own doctrine. Enterprise, as a result, quickly gave way to rent.

All this is ignored, and success or failure in the market economy are ascribed solely to the efforts of the individual. The rich are the new righteous; the poor are the new deviants, who have failed both economically and morally and are now classified as social parasites.

The market was meant to emancipate us, offering autonomy and freedom. Instead it has delivered atomisation and loneliness.

The workplace has been overwhelmed by a mad, Kafkaesque infrastructure of assessments, monitoring, measuring, surveillance and audits, centrally directed and rigidly planned, whose purpose is to reward the winners and punish the losers. It destroys autonomy, enterprise, innovation and loyalty, and breeds frustration, envy and fear. Through a magnificent paradox, it has led to the revival of a grand old Soviet tradition known in Russian as tufta. It means falsification of statistics to meet the diktats of unaccountable power.

The same forces afflict those who can’t find work. They must now contend, alongside the other humiliations of unemployment, with a whole new level of snooping and monitoring. All this, Verhaeghe points out, is fundamental to the neoliberal model, which everywhere insists on comparison, evaluation and quantification. We find ourselves technically free but powerless. Whether in work or out of work, we must live by the same rules or perish. All the major political parties promote them, so we have no political power either. In the name of autonomy and freedom we have ended up controlled by a grinding, faceless bureaucracy.

These shifts have been accompanied, Verhaeghe writes, by a spectacular rise in certain psychiatric conditions: self-harm, eating disorders, depression and personality disorders.

Of the personality disorders, the most common are performance anxiety and social phobia: both of which reflect a fear of other people, who are perceived as both evaluators and competitors – the only roles for society that market fundamentalism admits. Depression and loneliness plague us.

The infantilising diktats of the workplace destroy our self-respect. Those who end up at the bottom of the pile are assailed by guilt and shame. The self-attribution fallacy cuts both ways: just as we congratulate ourselves for our success, we blame ourselves for our failure, even if we have little to do with it.

So, if you don’t fit in, if you feel at odds with the world, if your identity is troubled and frayed, if you feel lost and ashamed – it could be because you have retained the human values you were supposed to have discarded. You are a deviant. Be proud.

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Although I don't agree with Monbiot on nukes, the above should be shouted from the roof tops 24/7. The status quo is a DEATH SENTENCE on HOMO SAP! Those who support it or defend it are COMPLICIT in our imminent demise.

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 16, 2014, 10:36:08 pm
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September 9, 2014


By Joby Warrick

Levels of heat-trapping carbon dioxide in the atmosphere rose at a record-shattering pace last year, a new report shows, a surge that surprised scientists and spurred fears of an accelerated warming of the planet in decades to come.

Concentrations of nearly all the major greenhouse gases reached historic highs in 2013, reflecting ever-rising emissions from automobiles and smokestacks but also, scientists believe, a diminishing ability of the world’s oceans and plant life to soak up the excess carbon put into the atmosphere by humans, according to data released early Tuesday by the United Nations’ meteorological advisory body.

The latest figures from the World Meteorological Organization’s monitoring network are considered particularly significant because they reflect not only the amount of carbon pumped into the air by humans, but also the complex interaction between man-made gases and the natural world. Historically, about half of the pollution from human sources has been absorbed by the oceans and by terrestrial plants, preventing temperatures from rising as quickly as they otherwise would, scientists say.

“If the oceans and the biosphere cannot absorb as much carbon, the effect on the atmosphere could be much worse,” said Oksana Tarasova, a scientist and chief of the WMO’s Global Atmospheric Watch program, which collects data from 125 monitoring stations worldwide. The monitoring network is regarded as the most reliable window on the health of Earth’s atmosphere, drawing on air samples collected near the poles, over the oceans, and in other locations far from cities and other major sources of pollution.


The new figures for carbon dioxide were particularly surprising, showing the biggest year-over-year increase since detailed records were first compiled in the 1980s, Tarasova said in an interview. The jump of nearly three parts per million over 2012 levels was twice as large as the average increase in carbon levels in recent decades, she said.


“The changes we’re seeing are really drastic,” Tarasova said. “We are seeing the growth rate rising exponentially.”

The organization’s annual report on greenhouse gas levels was released ahead of a climate summit of world leaders at this year’s U.N. General Assembly meetings in New York. On Sept. 23, President Obama will meet with chief executives from dozens of other countries to discuss ways to lower industrial emissions of carbon dioxide, methane and other gases blamed for heating up the planet.

Natural carbon dioxide is an essential ingredient for life on Earth, enabling green plants to convert sunlight into energy. But at excessive levels it acts as a heat trap, causing the planet to warm. Scientists say that the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has been rising since the start of the Industrial Revolution and that the increase has accelerated since the 1990s.

The WMO’s data for 2013 shows the global average level of atmospheric carbon at just under 400 parts per million, about 40 percent higher than in pre-industrial times and higher than in any other period in at least 800,000 years. The symbolically important threshold of 400 parts per million — described by scientists as the level at which more dramatic climactic impacts become likely — will probably be crossed in the next two years, the report said.

“It’s the level that climate scientists have identified as the beginning of the danger zone,” said Michael Oppenheimer, a Princeton University professor of geosciences who was not involved in the WMO report. “It means we’re probably getting to the point where we’re looking at the ‘safe zone’ in the rearview mirror, even as we’re stepping on the gas.”


A landmark report last year by a U.N.-appointed panel of climate scientists warned that, if current trends continue, the world could soon see major disruptions to both natural ecosystems and human civilization, including rising sea levels that could swamp many of the world’s coastal cities. That report, by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, projected a rise in temperatures of up to nine degrees in the next century unless action is taken to lower carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere.

Methane, another major greenhouse gas, also rose significantly in the WMO’s latest report, continuing a steady climb that began six years ago. Global concentrations of methane — a byproduct of farming and fossil-fuel extraction, as well as numerous natural processes — are now 21 / 2 times as high as they were at the start of the industrial age, in the mid-18th century, the report said.

The organization’s annual report included, for the first time, figures on the increasing acidification of the oceans stemming from higher levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. As the seas absorb more carbon dioxide from the air, the water’s chemical composition becomes more acidic. Studies extrapolating from the fossil record suggest that the rate of acidification is now “unprecedented, at least over the past 300,000 years,” the WMO said.

Higher acidity in seawater is known to disrupt the life cycles of many marine species — from reef-building corals to shellfish beloved by humans — by interfering with the creatures’ ability to use sea-borne calcium to build their shells.

In an indirect way, the acidification of seawater also exacerbates climate change: The oceans over time become less capable of absorbing carbon from the air, allowing more of the greenhouse gas to accumulate in the atmosphere, the report said.
http://www.ncwarn.org/2014/09/co2-levels-in-atmosphere-rising-at-dramatically-faster-rate-u-n-report-warns-the-washington-post/
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 20, 2014, 01:54:11 pm
Arctic Melt season ending
September 16, 2014   

The end of this year’s Arctic sea ice melt season is imminent and the minimum extent will be slightly lower than last year’s, making it the sixth lowest extent in the satellite record. Earlier in the month, a small area of the Laptev Sea ice edge was within five degrees of the North Pole. This appears to be the result of persistent southerly winds from central Siberia. Meanwhile, Antarctic sea ice is poised to set a record maximum this year, now at 19.7 million square kilometers (7.6 million square miles) and continuing to increase.

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http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/2014/09/melt-season-ending/
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 20, 2014, 04:50:38 pm
If you are a pro-fossil fuel BULLSHIT artist GW denier, please be sure to claim the following peer reviewed article is wild eyed breathless screaming, sky is falling scare mongering and unscientific silliness.  ;D

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Science 22 August 2014:
 Vol. 345  no. 6199  pp. 860-861 
 DOI: 10.1126/science.345.6199.860 

Climate Change

Is Atlantic holding Earth's missing heat?


Eli Kintisch

Armchair detectives might call it the case of Earth's missing heat: Why have average global surface air temperatures remained essentially  ;)  steady since 2000, even as greenhouse gases have continued to accumulate in the atmosphere?

The suspects include changes in atmospheric water vapor, a strong greenhouse gas, or the noxious sunshade of haze emanating from factories. Others believe the culprit is the mighty Pacific Ocean, which has been sending vast slugs of cold bottom water to the surface.

But two fresh investigations finger a new suspect: the Atlantic Ocean.

One study, in this issue of Science,
presents sea temperature data implying that most of the missing heat has been stored deep in the Atlantic.

The other, published online in Nature Climate Change, suggests a warming Atlantic is abetting the Pacific by driving wind patterns that help that ocean cool the atmosphere. But some climate specialists remain skeptical.

In a third recent paper, also published online in Nature Climate Change, other researchers argue that the Pacific remains the kingpin. One reason some scientists remain convinced the Pacific is behind the hiatus   ;) is a measured speedup in trade winds that drive a massive upwelling of cold water in the eastern Pacific. But there, too, the Atlantic may be responsible, modeling experiments suggest.

A consensus about what has put global warming on pause   ;)may be years away,
but one scientist says the recent papers confirm that Earth's warming has continued during the hiatus, at least in the ocean depths, if not in the air.

http://www.sciencemag.org/content/345/6199/860.summary (http://www.sciencemag.org/content/345/6199/860.summary)

Agelbert NOTE: There is a logical problem with the above article. It might be considered a quibble (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.desismileys.com%2Fsmileys%2Fdesismileys_2932.gif&hash=0eaec4791a5825821998245e7fcd7744b56557fe)  but since we aren't talking opinions here but a hard boiled scientific method approach to data and the definition of terms, it is inaccurate and unscientific to discuss a HIATUS of GLOBAL warming when ONLY the atmospheric temperature records are considered!

Hello? The oceans, covering two thirds of this planet's SURFACE, are part of the GLOBE (two thirds of it!). So, OBVIOUSLY, the temperature of the oceans in conjunction with the temperature of the atmosphere MUST be computed as a UNIT if a GLOBAL WARMING HIATUS is to be CLAIMED!

So, this hair splitting exercise about the ATMOSPHERE being in a Global Warming HIATUS is an incorrect statement.

WHY? First of all, because even the atmospheric temperature data NEVER flat lined; it's SLOPE continued UP at a much lower angle. That is a RELATIVE hiatus from the STEEP ANGLED TEMPERATURE UP SLOPE, not a TEMPERATURE INCREASE HIATUS! How scientists can equate those Apples with those Oranges only Mking could tell us.  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-241013183046.jpeg&hash=51c9c4f17e747698c76c65c7c1814eff4f32c400)

Hair splitting IS science when we are JUST TALKING ABOUT HAIR! But we have an OCEAN of molecular activity (known as temperature  ;D)  in INTIMATE CONTACT with those "hairs" (the atmosphere) that it is just plain unscientific as well as STUPID to ignore (unless you want to distort the data, of course  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-200714191329.bmp&hash=4764bfbe6bb0e11ca61102efa97a932a824f47e0)).

Sure, the oceans have high specific heat. So, it is expected scientifically that the temperature of the oceans in a warming planet will lag behind the atmosphere. But the thermodynamics in regard to specific heat is not the only process going on here; there is a CHEMICAL PROCESS TOO!

Science teaches us that there are exothermic and endothermic processes in nature. HELLO? The increase in CO2 is creating an ENDOTHERMIC chemical process in the oceans making them have, in effect, a slightly lower specific heat which SUCKS heat from the atmosphere!

And THAT SHOULD have caused a flat line or possibly COOLING in the atmosphere. But the Global Warming from fossil fuel burning green house gasses is so SEVERE that, even with the oceanic endothermic chemical process going on, the slope STILL DID NOT FLAT LINE.


There has BEEN NO HIATUS in anything but a departure from the ANGLE of the slope on INCREASE of atmospheric temperature.   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F301.gif&hash=0291ed4abf2d80e420d1aa00d4eb3c5dd6bbfb53)

Below please find a "wild eyed, hyperbolic, extreme, polarized, unobjective and definitely not measured definition" (according to Mking :evil4:) of the word "hiatus". This "breathless" definition forces us prudent and measured types to accept the unacceptable! That is, that since an INCREASE in average global atmospheric temperature NEVER STOPPED, the "hiatus" is ONLY attributable to the ANGLE OF THE SLOPE of the temperature increase, and not the temperature increase itself. And even worse than that:  :o Horror of horrors for our fossil fuel stock portfolio, the alleged hiatus doesn't include MOST of the molecular activity (i.e. temperature) on two thirds of the PALNET! So, woe is us, we can't call it a GLOBAL temperature warming pause, hiatus or fossil fuel stock buying opportunity.  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Fshame.gif&hash=88b5b0c8644862ef4930e3c7e3556db6c3bf600f)

But we can give those reality based community rubes the old Fossil Fuel (Skullduggery) College TRY, just the same!   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2FBanane21.gif&hash=ea8aefd6edec2a8f8e52b83aa2874cd9f97fe9ae)(https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.freesmileys.org%2Fsmileys%2Fsmiley-devil19.gif&hash=6eeb0dbc471743691793f5130640fdcbd1f77b5c)


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hi·a·tus

noun

noun: hiatus; plural noun: hiatuses

a pause or gap in a sequence, series, or process.
"there was a brief hiatus in the war with France"

synonyms: pause, break, gap, lacuna, interval, intermission, interlude, interruption, suspension, lull, respite, time out, time off, recess; 

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https://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4ADRA_enUS485US486&q=hiatus (https://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4ADRA_enUS485US486&q=hiatus)
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 22, 2014, 10:42:51 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXGfZPd57hE&feature=player_embedded
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aR4H52WSjo&feature=player_embedded
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 23, 2014, 01:09:24 am
Sun Sep 21, 2014 at 10:12 PM PDT.

US elites beginning to realize there's a problem


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SNIPPET:  ;D


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There are 85 million single family homes in the US, and just over 30 million apartment and condo units. $40,000 (to properly upgrade and insulate all of them) multiplied by 115 million is $4.6 trillion. Sounds like a lot of money? That is just one third of what the Treasury and the Federal Reserve used to save the useless predators of Wall Street and the banking system over the past six years - and what have we got to show for that?  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F2z6in9g.gif&hash=771b084a0f186d9cc14f31defd98a6c90b69b84f)

The Scandinavians build houses that are so well engineered and so carefully constructed that they are beyond efficient. A new Scandinavian house can keep its occupants warm from just their body heat and the heat thrown off by a pc, a few appliances, and the light bulbs in use.  :o  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.clker.com%2Fcliparts%2Fc%2F8%2Ff%2F8%2F11949865511933397169thumbs_up_nathan_eady_01.svg.hi.png&hash=599691109af22b33f1d59dd61eb97448a9427020) That's pretty damn impressive, for being only a couple hundred miles from the Arctic Circle. But they don't build such structures using the cheapest labor they can illegally import. As Larson points out:
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There are reasons for shoddy insulation.  Installing it can be very unpleasant.  The job is usually given to the lowest guy on the totem pole.  It becomes just another task to finish as quickly as possible. Worse, [USA] architects take 50 times as much time selecting the bathroom tile than designing insulation systems and rarely design sufficient space for them.  :P
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And let's be truthful here - if you were to actually make your house as efficient as possible, meeting the highest USA standards, you would have accomplished more to reduce your carbon footprint   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fdl3.glitter-graphics.net%2Fpub%2F465%2F465823jzy0y15obs.gif&hash=797efc3cdc025a8263ef125725aae969446489c3) than attending a dozen marches demanding action from our corporatist overlords. What are people demanding now to stop global climate change? Cap and trade? Carbon offsets? How about a $4.6 trillion program over the next five or ten years to radically rebuild and upgrade every single damn house and apartment building in America?  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F301.gif&hash=0291ed4abf2d80e420d1aa00d4eb3c5dd6bbfb53)
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/09/22/1331455/-US-elites-beginning-to-realize-there-s-a-problem
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 23, 2014, 03:10:52 pm
The story of methane in our climate, in five pie charts (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Freading.gif&hash=63e3e644b39258d4c4eedbcdaf322315b1856723)


Filed under: Climate Science — david @ 23 September 2014

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http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2014/09/the-story-of-methane-in-our-climate-in-five-pie-charts/

Agelbert NOTE: The web site, "RealClimate Climate Science From Climate Scientsts" is the gold standard in Climate Science.  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.clker.com%2Fcliparts%2Fc%2F8%2Ff%2F8%2F11949865511933397169thumbs_up_nathan_eady_01.svg.hi.png&hash=599691109af22b33f1d59dd61eb97448a9427020)

Unlike the PSEUDO scientific web sites claiming their ain't nuttin' to worry about posted by Fossil Fuelers like the Mking Wedge (see basic engineering for the definition of a wedge  ;D), This web site IS a hard boiled source of no bullshit, objective, empirical evidence, peer reviewed climate science data (They won a Science and Technology Web Award from Scientific American.)

And as to Mking's disingenuous attempts to disparage climate modeling as if it were alarmist guesswork, here is the way REAL climate scientists view climate modeling built from statistical data projections:


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Is expert judgement about the structural uncertainties in a statistical procedure associated with various assumptions that need to be made different from ‘making things up’? Actually, yes – it is. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Fcowboypistol.gif&hash=2dc97f743dffca22404e6e4e0822765e60b33f38)

The above quote is from a VERY LONG, DETAILED, point by point refutation of the specious arguments brought here by Mking.
Judith Curry (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.whydidyouwearthat.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2011%2F01%2Ftumblr_l7j9nik8Wf1qaxxwjo1_5001.jpeg&hash=1ddbeb4da161820b2cf932e6f5f740e80f5bada6) is probably one of Mking's pseudo scientific hair splitter heroes! 
 
http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2014/08/ipcc-attribution-statements-redux-a-response-to-judith-curry/#more-17409
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 25, 2014, 07:57:52 pm
A few choice pieces of data resist most Spin Doctoring, mainly Ocean Heat Content and Acidity

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The atmosphere is very turbulent, so getting any kind of reliable data globally is pretty tough.  You can cherry pick data and show what you want.  The Ocean is tougher. It is CLEAR it has risen in total heat energy by an order of magnitude.  Similarly, it is CLEAR the pH is steadily dropping.  Both effects are significant far as the food chain is concerned, so it is stupid to go arguing about what is going on in the atmosphere, the Ocean is clearly in deep trouble resultant from total energy distribution changes..

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 30, 2014, 07:15:39 pm
By Eric Holthaus | Tue Sep. 30, 2014

Study further confirms global warming is changing Antarctica in fundamental ways.

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This story originally appeared in Slate and is republished here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.

Gravity—yes, gravity—is the latest victim of climate change in Antarctica. That's the stunning conclusion announced Friday by the European Space Agency.

"The loss of ice from West Antarctica between 2009 and 2012 caused a dip in the gravity field over the region," writes the ESA, whose GOCE satellite measured the change. Apparently, melting billions of tons of ice year after year has implications that would make even Isaac Newton blanch. Here's the data visualized.

To be fair, the change in gravity is very small. It's not like you'll float off into outer space on your next vacation to the Antarctic Peninsula.

The biggest implication is the new measurements confirm global warming is changing the Antarctic in fundamental ways. Earlier this year, a separate team of scientists announced that major West Antarctic glaciers have begun an "unstoppable" "collapse," committing global sea levels to a rise of several meters over the next few hundred years.

Though we all learned in high-school physics that gravity is a constant, it actually varies slightly depending on where you are on the Earth's surface and the density of the rock (or, in this case, ice) beneath your feet. During a four-year mission, the ESA satellite mapped these changes in unprecedented detail and was able to detect a significant decrease in the region of Antarctica where land ice is melting fastest.

The new results in West Antarctica were achieved by combining the high-resolution gravity field measurements from the ESA satellite with a longer-running but lower resolution gravity-analyzing satellite mission called Grace, which is jointly operated by the United States and Germany. Scientists hope to scale up this analysis to all of Antarctica soon, which could provide the clearest picture yet of the pace global warming is taking in the frozen continent. Current best estimates show that global seas could be as much as 50 inches higher by century's end, due in large part to ice melt in West Antarctica.
 Previous research with data from a third satellite, CryoSat (also from ESA), has shown ice loss from this portion of West Antarctica has increased by three-fold since just 2009, with 500 cubic kilometers of ice now melting each year from Greenland and Antarctica combined. That's an iceberg the size of Manhattan, three-and-a-half miles thick.

http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2014/09/antarctic-ice-melt-causes-small-shift-gravity (http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2014/09/antarctic-ice-melt-causes-small-shift-gravity)
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on October 03, 2014, 12:56:08 am
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Heat Wave

Sheryl Lee | October 1, 2014 3:49 pm

everything around me is dying
brown, brittle, scorched
no rain

and my skin
my skin is blistering, too

i am on fire in this heat

and bow down in prayer for my brothers and my sisters across the globe who live in places where these temperatures have become the normal

i cannot fight these unforgiving flames
or run from their winning sun

i must lay down my sword of complaints, my luxuries of discomfort
and step to the center of the fire

go straight into the pain
the midwife said to me in labor
do not pull away from it

so now i must dare to melt

what does it want from me? this relentless triple digit number
and what must be burned? i ask with each rising degree

beads of sweat, an offering to thirsty Earth
trickle down my chest
like beads from an old necklace that held the promises of dreams
now broken
scatter to the floor in a give away of hope

i am a dry, crackling leaf
falling from my tree into this claiming fever of the land
unable to hold on until my moment of gold, autumn glory
the purpose of my September

but with no moisture
i am weak
and i am done
surrendered finally to this alchemy of heat
i float slowly toward a dusty field of graves

and bow down in prayer for my brothers and my sisters across the globe
who live in places where these temperatures have become the normal
countries where even drops of water can be sparse and toxic
and a way out may no longer be possible

what will it take to ease their pain?


http://ecowatch.com/2014/10/01/heat-wave-california-climate-change/

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on October 04, 2014, 01:16:40 am
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41yJTxrPFhM&feature=player_embedded

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Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. | October 1, 2014 8:29 am

Hysterics at the right wing think tanks and their acolytes at The Washington Times, talk radio and the blogosphere, are foaming in apoplexy because I supposedly suggested that “all climate deniers should be jailed.” Last week, that canard leapt from the wingnut echo chamber into New York magazine, which reported, under Jonathan Chait’s by-line, that “Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. shares the opinion that climate denial should be criminalized.” Chait was quoting the National Review’s Kevin Williamson who made that outlandish claim at one of Heritage Foundation’s annual “Conference for Kooks.” Of course I never said that. I support the First Amendment which makes room for any citizen to, even knowingly, spew far more vile lies without legal consequence.

I do, however, believe that corporations which deliberately, purposefully, maliciously and systematically sponsor climate lies should be given the death penalty.  ;D This can be accomplished through an existing legal proceeding known as “charter revocation.” State Attorneys General can invoke this remedy whenever corporations put their profit-making before the “public welfare.”

In 1998, New York State’s Republican Attorney General, Dennis Vacco successfully invoked the “corporate death penalty” to revoke the charters of two non-profit tax-exempt tobacco industry front groups, The Tobacco Institute and the Council for Tobacco Research (CTR). The two groups Vacco annulled were creatures of a decade long campaign funded principally by tobacco giant, Brown & Williamson to avoid costly health regulations that would diminish the profit margins of an industry that was killing one out of five of its customers. “Doubt is our Product,” explained Brown & Williamson’s notorious 1969 memo outlining the reptilian communications strategy that hatched its front groups.    (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-200714191329.bmp&hash=4764bfbe6bb0e11ca61102efa97a932a824f47e0)

Vacco complained that these companies were “[feeding] the public a pack of lies in an underhanded effort to promote smoking so as to addict America’s kids.” Attorney General Vacco seized their assets and distributed them to public institutions.

Laws in every state maintain that companies that fail to comply with prescribed standards of corporate behavior may be either dissolved or, in the case of foreign corporations, lose their rights to operate within that state’s borders. These rules can be quite expansive and, in contrast to the U.S. Supreme Court’s ­­­­recent rulings on campaign finance law, companies, under state laws, enjoy far less protection than human beings. New York, for example, prescribes corporate death whenever a company fails to “serve the common good” and “to cause no harm.”

Just as Big Tobacco funded the now moribund CTR and the Tobacco Institute to systematically deceive the public about the perils of cigarettes, the carbon cronies, with far larger profits at stake, have funded an army of front groups to persuade the public that global warming is a hoax.
For more than a decade, petroleum industry behemoths lead by Koch Industries and ExxonMobil, have waged a successful multi-million dollar propaganda blitz to mislead the public about global warming using the same techniques honed by Big Tobacco in its campaign to hoodwink the public about smoking.

In their efforts to impede state, national and international efforts to protect humans from the destructive climate chaos, both companies have engaged in massive spending sprees purchasing phony “junk” science devised to undermine the overwhelming scientific consensus on global warming. Between 1997 and 2013, ExxonMobil, pumped more than $29.9 million into an elaborate network of more than 75 front groups to manufacture skepticism about the oncoming climate catastrophe. At the same time, Koch Industries has piped at least $67,042,064 to more than 50 groups that play central roles in the Koch-funded offensive against climate science.

Two decades after Brown & Williamson’s notorious “Doubt is our Product” memo, the oil industry launched its own anti-science juggernaut replicating Big Tobacco’s and utilizing many of the same corrupt scientists and PR firms. Two secret memos dictated the blueprint for Big Carbon’s anti-science offensive. The American Petroleum Institute (API)—lobbyist for ExxonMobil, Chevron, BP, Shell and ConocoPhillips    (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-200714191329.bmp&hash=4764bfbe6bb0e11ca61102efa97a932a824f47e0) —was the spear tip of a multi-million dollar campaign to confound American citizens about climate science by manipulating the media. On April 3, 1998, API laid out its “Global Climate Science Communications action plan,” the detailed blueprint of “tactics and strategies” for deceiving the American people and press by sewing doubts about climate science. The API team would create front groups and “educate” editorial boards and corporate CEOs to challenge “prevailing scientific wisdom.” Under “recruiting and training,” API outlines its plan for tapping neophyte—“read malleable”—scientists and tame journalists (“e.g. John Stossel,” the memo suggests) to bamboozle the public. “Victory will be achieved,” API promises, “when average citizens and the media recognize uncertainties in climate science;” recognition of uncertainties becomes part of the “conventional wisdom.”

Four years later in 2002, conservative pollster Frank Luntz in an influential memo to President George Bush and oil patch lawmakers, applauded the industry for the success of the API campaign. “Voters believe that there is no consensus about global warming within the scientific community.” Nevertheless, he warned Big Carbon’s indentured servants on Capitol Hill “the science [is closing against us] but is not yet closed.” He advised, “therefore, you need to continue to make the lack of scientific certainty a primary issue in the debate.”

Over the next dozen years, a string of front groups conducted the deceptive anti-science campaign outlined in the API’s 1998 plan and Luntz’s 2002 memo and funded primarily by ExxonMobil and Koch.

Among the groups that have received millions from Exxon and Koch Industries are the Cato Institute, The Heritage Foundation, Cooler Heads Coalition, Global Climate Coalition, American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), Americans for Prosperity, Heartland Institute, Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT), George C. Marshall Institute, State Policy Network, Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) and American Enterprise Institute (AEI).

Like the Tobacco Institute and CTR, these front groups are snake pits for sociopaths. Run by venomous carbon industry toadies, they stable a craven menagerie of propaganda wizards, slick biostitutes, tobacco scientists, snake oil hucksters, voodoo economists and other so called “experts” employed to publish beguiling studies, appear on TV and radio, and write deceptive articles critiquing the “flawed science” predicting climate change. They broadcast zany theories to bolster policies that encourage increased energy consumption, torpedo renewable energy, attack pollution rules, maintain Big Carbon’s obscene government subsidies and, in general, provide the philosophical underpinnings for a system of cushy socialism for the “dirty energy” tycoons and bitter, savage capitalism for the rest of mankind.

For example, CEI, which describes itself as being “a leader in the fight against the global warming scare,” spent years denying that warming was real, and then, as the tsunami of evidence made that position untenable, pivoted to the more defensible posture that human beings are not causing it. CEI has more recently beat its final retreat to the terminal default position that global warming is great because it will “create a milder, greener, more prosperous world.” The floods, fires, drought, rising oceans, disappearing ice caps, melting glaciers, drowned cities and refugees have not exactly been “mild.” But things have been prosperous and “green”—if one means greenbacks—for the Koch Brothers and ExxonMobil, who are enjoying the biggest profits in world history. “You’re Welcome, Planet Earth!”

AEI, one of the richest and most influential think tanks in the U.S.—and the high priest of climate denial—offered a $10,000 bounty in 2006 to any scientist or economist who could produce an article undermining the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report. The IPCC report was the most comprehensive review yet of climate change science representing the scientific consensus among thousands of climate scientists comprising the leading and most prestigious and scientific stars from more than 130 participating nations.

Any state attorney general with the will, resolve and viscera to stand to up to the dangerous and duplicitous corporate propagandists, has authority to annul the charters of each of these mercenary merchants of deceit. An attorney general with particularly potent glands could revoke the charters not just oil industry surrogates like AEI and CEI, he or she could also withdraw state operating authority from the soulless, nationless oil companies that have sponsored “Big Lie” campaigns and force them to sell their in-state assets to more responsible competitors.

Koch Industries and ExxonMobil have particularly distinguished themselves as candidates for corporate death. No other companies have worked harder or spent more money to impede the government from taking action on global warming to safeguard public welfare. Both companies have employed artifice on a massive scale and spent tens of millions of dollars to purchase fraudulent junk science. The greedy, immoral, anti-social pathology behind ExxonMobil and Koch’s mendacious crusade is even starker given the open acknowledgment since 2007 by the other major oil companies including Shell, Chevron and BP, that burning oil is causing climate change.

Though they like to invoke patriotic themes and drape themselves in the flag, the oil barons have persistently demonstrated their enthusiasm for putting corporate profits ahead of the public welfare.    (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-200714191329.bmp&hash=4764bfbe6bb0e11ca61102efa97a932a824f47e0)

“I’m not a U.S. company,” Exxon’s legendary former CEO, Lee Raymond told his board, “and I don’t make decisions on what is good for the U.S..” These companies are not friends to America. They are enemies of mankind.

The notion that a state attorney general might actually execute one of these villains is not a pipe dream.  ;D State attorneys general have historically shown a willingness to stand up to American democracy’s biggest corporate bullies including, Wall Street, Big Tobacco, coal burning utilities and the oil titans even in eras, like the present, when corporate money has subverted our democracy and extracted the spinal cords from most politicians. It was 46 courageous state attorneys generals who brought down the cigarette companies. It was nine northeastern state attorneys general who sued the coal burning utilities for damages to their citizens from airborne pollutants. And it was state attorneys general in New York, Ohio and Texas who, during the Gilded Age, dismantled the Standard Oil octopus, and restored economic democracy to America. That deadly Frankenstein monster, now reassembled and resurrected as ExxonMobil, poses an even greater threat today to our historical values and quality of life.

Let’s all hope for and vote for a home state Attorney General candidate who promises to stand up against carbon’s duplicitous proxies and fight for truth, justice and democracy, and to provide our children with safe, healthy, dignified and wholesome communities and the prosperity that should not be exclusive to the Koch Brothers and ExxonMobil.

http://ecowatch.com/2014/10/01/jailing-climate-deniers-robert-kennedy-jr/


Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on October 04, 2014, 11:07:38 pm
Yes, animals have Energy Return On Energy Invested (EROEI). (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.coh2.org%2Fimages%2FSmileys%2Fhuhsign.gif&hash=3732d0427be65896527fc3805c5be54a33cffd3b)

 In fact the CONCEPT was originally applied to LIFE FORMS, not Fossil Fuels exploited by Corporate CROOKS and LIARS.  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-200714191329.bmp&hash=4764bfbe6bb0e11ca61102efa97a932a824f47e0)

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pF-aNYhCr8k&feature=player_embedded
Another Externalized Cost thanks to the Profit Over Planet, Fossil Fuel Burning CRIMINALS.  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F2rzukw3.gif&hash=f0487b8f0d488ab1126ce5e031b11ea3d74b1cc2)

The Fossil Fuelers DID THE Climate Trashing CRIME, but since they have ALWAYS BEEN liars (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.u.arizona.edu%2F%7Epatricia%2Fcute-collection%2Fsmileys%2Flying-smiley.gif&hash=a34c2f7344d5f54f7009a4e684bb6c7310cdda03) and conscience free crooks , they are trying to AVOID   DOING THE TIME or     PAYING THE FINE!  Don't let them get away with it! Pass it on!   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F176.gif&hash=121533221905789c6b8d57a9603883266d349266)
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on October 05, 2014, 04:10:01 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0xwkrMQYlI&feature=player_embedded
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on October 09, 2014, 11:59:30 pm
Find Out Which State Contributes Most to Climate Change  >:(

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Story at link below:

http://ecowatch.com/2014/10/08/state-contributes-climate-change/
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on October 19, 2014, 03:58:29 pm

32 Dead, 85 Missing In Himalayan Trekking Disaster After Unseasonal Blizzard


October in Nepal is a peak season for trekkers to gather and work their way up the Himalayan mountains. Skies are usually clear and sun shines though. However, heavy snowfall on Tuesday followed by a series of avalanches has caused a nightmare scenario, leaving at least 32 people dead and 85 missing.

Most of the fatalities happened as the blizzard reached a point on the Annapurna Circuit, 100 miles northwest of the capital, Kathmandu. A well-known trekking route in central Nepal, the area is about 14,800 feet above sea level and close the the circuit’s highest point, the Thorung La pass. Helicopters have saved survivors stranded in lodges and huts along the route, with at least 200 trekkers already rescued according to authorities. Tourists from countries around the world, including Israel, Indonesia, Germany, Spain, India, Canada, Russia, and Poland, were caught on the mountain. This is the worst disaster in the history of Nepal’s mountain-climbing industry — snowfall from the storm topped six feet in some places.
 
“I was sure I was going to die on the way to the pass because I lost my group, I lost all the people I was with and I could not see anything,” said Linor Kajan, an injured trekker from Israel, who said she was stuck in waist-deep snow. “One Nepalese guide who knows the way saw me and asked me to stay with him. And he dragged me, really dragged me to the tea shop. And everybody there was really frightened.”

In this handout photo provided by the Nepalese army, rescue team members carry the body of an avalanche victim at Thorong La pass area in Nepal, Friday, Oct. 17, 2014. Rescuers widened their search Friday for trekkers stranded since a series of blizzards and avalanches battered the Himalayas in northern Nepal early this week.

In this handout photo (at link) provided by the Nepalese army, rescue team members carry the body of an avalanche victim at Thorong La pass area in Nepal, Friday, Oct. 17, 2014. Rescuers widened their search Friday for trekkers stranded since a series of blizzards and avalanches battered the Himalayas in northern Nepal early this week.

CREDIT: AP/Nepalese Army

The blizzard was the tail end of Cyclone Hudhud, which hit the Indian coast a few days earlier and was reportedly one of the strongest storms on record to hit the region. The equivalent of a category 4 hurricane, Hudhud made landfall on October 12 in Andhra Pradesh, India.

Climate scientists are hesitant to link any one weather event to climate change, but they have pointed out in the past that the Himalayas are especially vulnerable to the increased storm intensity expected to result from climate change.

“Storms in that region are getting stronger,” John Stone, an IPCC lead author and adjunct professor at Carleton University in Ottawa, told the Toronto Star. “It is not inconsistent with what scientists have been saying … by making the atmosphere contain more energy, we have increased the likelihood of more frequent and severe storms.”

The International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, a regional agency based in Kathmandu that serves eight countries, released a report in May showing that rising temperatures caused Nepal’s glaciers to shrink by almost a quarter between 1977 and 2010 — at an average loss of about 15 square miles per year. The report also pointed out that Nepal’s average temperature change has been two to eight times greater than the global average. The report says that these changes could bring more intense and frequent floods, avalanches, and landslides.

This is not the first time a deadly blizzard has struck trekkers during the hiking season. In 1995 and 2005 more than a dozen climbers and guides were killed by storms. Then earlier this year in April an avalanche killed 16 Nepalese guides near a base camp on Mount Everest in the deadliest disaster in the mountain’s history. This avalanche was not caused by a storm, but melting ice on the famous Khumbu Icefall.


“Accurate weather forecasting has reduced the risk of being surprised by a killer storm like the one that struck in 1996,” wrote Jon Krakauer, author of a book about a deadly 1996 storm event on Everest, in the New Yorker. “But the pronounced warming of the Himalayan climate in recent years has made the Icefall more unstable than ever, and there is still no way to predict when a serac is going to topple over. And Sherpas spend much, much more time in the Icefall than their Western employers.”   :(

Of this disaster, former British Gurkha officer and avid trekker General Sam Cowan said “no one should have ventured out to cross Thorung La with the weather as threatening as it was, nor should their trekking guides have allowed it.”  :emthup:

http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/10/17/3581110/unseasonal-blizzard-deadly-himalayan-avalanche/

Agelbert NOTE: Of course you KNOW I'm going to rant about global warming, Homo SAP stupidity, greed, shortsightedness (and so on    (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-200714191258.bmp&hash=e4ed21caaca822f7445ccafd39f49a9f84be90ca) ) (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Fbc3.gif&hash=e80a574cef1f1cd31dc58d76fe36b5ffb7fe7d5b). But you are WRONG today! (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.coh2.org%2Fimages%2FSmileys%2Fhuhsign.gif&hash=3732d0427be65896527fc3805c5be54a33cffd3b) So there!  ;D

I cede the floor to a fellow I have a few differences with in regard to people of color but, over all, I admit he was a very prudent and cautious individual with a scientific outlook on reality.  :emthup: 

Enjoy the following post and imagine what Ben would say (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Fswear1.gif&hash=87347674f9297191f3f8a447208170617da4caf6)  ;D about Climate Change deniers with his inimitable, bitingly delicious and gentlemanly sarcastic irony if he were alive today as you observe what he said about the fine citizens of Philadelphia in his day in regard to fire "prevention".   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-200714191258.bmp&hash=e4ed21caaca822f7445ccafd39f49a9f84be90ca)

The article itself is ALSO instructive in the light of the Ebola (avoidable if CFS has been used) tragedy when you consider the danger of spreading disease that our "modern" animal transport system now practically guarantees.   :P :emthdown:


BeefTalk: An Ounce of Prevention Is Worth a Pound of Cure 


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What Franklin describes is not that different than the state of animal health and our response to dire situations.

By Kris Ringwall, Beef Specialist

NDSU Extension Service

The Benjamin Franklin axiom that “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure” is as true today as it was when Franklin made the quote. Although many use the quote when referring to health, Franklin actually was addressing fire safety.

Franklin wrote this (courtesy of ushistory.org) under an assumed name.  ;D He said, "In the first Place, as an Ounce of Prevention is worth a Pound of Cure, (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.desismileys.com%2Fsmileys%2Fdesismileys_6869.gif&hash=f94938471d343a09155d1f60eefacdb2ceab2457)  I would advise 'em to take care how they suffer living Coals in a full Shovel,  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Fsnapoutofit.gif&hash=911b14b142101df534f739771fb2d3836a807d19) to be carried out of one Room into another, or up or down Stairs, unless in a Warmingpan shut; for Scraps of Fire may fall into Chinks and make no Appearance until Midnight;    (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-200714191258.bmp&hash=e4ed21caaca822f7445ccafd39f49a9f84be90ca)  when your Stairs being in Flames, you may be forced, (as I once was)(https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.freesmileys.org%2Fsmileys%2Fsmiley-scared002.gif&hash=764898cfbf07ef2c41ffddc5e93fa0e1bed41bae) to leap out of your Windows, and hazard your Necks to avoid being oven-roasted." (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.freesmileys.org%2Femoticons%2Femoticon-object-036.gif&hash=b6f5dc6262e2019883bb0d97235aa9c84a6606b8)


We should all relate to Franklin. Regardless of the endeavor, our tendency is to be a bit sloppy at times. For the unfortunate few for whom the hands of chance all line up, disaster is the outcome.

Franklin also related the status quo response, at least as was the status quo in Philadelphia. "Soon after it [a fire] is seen and cry'd out, the Place is crowded by active Men of different Ages, Professions and Titles who, as of one Mind and Rank, apply themselves with all Vigilance and Resolution, according to their Abilities, to the hard Work of conquering the increasing fire."   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Fgen152.gif&hash=d5b10968fe56c4cb95fae17cee3cb420a5f4e2da) (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.coh2.org%2Fimages%2FSmileys%2Fhuhsign.gif&hash=3732d0427be65896527fc3805c5be54a33cffd3b)    (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F4fvfcja.gif&hash=34a9a570347d39a0a892bc1f376c5e8b88add6b5)

If one sits back and reflects, what Franklin describes is not that different than the state of animal health and our response to dire situations. Carrying lit coals up and down wood stairs in poorly designed or improperly used containers served to spread inconspicuous “scraps of fire” that later flare up into a major fire.

We transport livestock up and down many roads without properly designed or implemented biosecurity procedures. This can lay the seeds of disease that come out of dormancy later and bring a major disease outbreak. Our response, like Franklin's well- meaning entourage of well-intended but poorly trained and organized volunteers, may get the problem cleaned up but not very effectively and oftentimes at great public expense and personal loss.

Franklin, having been in other cities that were better prepared, encouraged "a club or society of active men belonging to each fire engine, whose business is to attend all fires with it whenever they happen." The process was adopted and Philadelphia's firefighters became more effective with good training and organization.

This preparation, "an Ounce of Prevention is worth a Pound of Cure," resulted in not only the professional establishment of the Union Fire Company on Dec. 7, 1736, but also the subsequent education about fires to the general public. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.freesmileys.org%2Femoticons%2Femoticon-object-062.gif&hash=88ceb4a34a12b2bea2fd9edd887da26d73308257)

Their equipment included "leather buckets, with strong bags and baskets (for packing and transporting goods), which were to be brought to every fire. The blaze battlers met monthly to talk about fire prevention and fire-fighting methods. Homeowners were mandated to have leather fire-fighting buckets in their houses."

This organized prevention transformed Philadelphia from an unsafe city to one of the safest cities in America for fire prevention. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-200714194256.bmp&hash=1c2795e25df0dc7d9be4879b7bba6f1632f715e1)

Perhaps today is one of those days that one needs to simply sit back and reflect a little bit.

The animal industry is not unique. We like to think it is, but survival in the modern world does not allow for resting on one's laurels.

The good old days are just that, old. We need to relate to the present, which runs faster and is more demanding.

While we bring much upon ourselves, we need to be prepared, organized and able to respond to a crisis. The best intentions do not alleviate disaster nor mitigate loss. Preparation does, so today "an Ounce of Prevention is worth a Pound of Cure." (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.desismileys.com%2Fsmileys%2Fdesismileys_0293.gif&hash=b1af4868ed8f18c30e637f8cbcb79002f6f71039) (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Fsnapoutofit.gif&hash=911b14b142101df534f739771fb2d3836a807d19)

May you find all your ear tags.  ;D

Your comments are always welcome at http://www.BeefTalk.com.

For more information, contact the NDBCIA Office, 1041 State Ave., Dickinson, ND 58601, or go to http://www.CHAPS2000.com on the Internet.

http://www.ag.ndsu.edu/news/columns/beeftalk/beeftalk-an-ounce-of-prevention-is-worth-a-pound-of-cure/

Please feel free to pass it on. Ya nevah know when a fossil fueler=climate denier will wake up and realize that Thelma and Louise is not a good survival strategy... (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.freesmileys.org%2Femoticons%2Ftuzki-bunnys%2Ftuzki-bunny-emoticon-032.gif&hash=206ed31c188928738aaf22b85f0f0b6e94cf9f9b)

 
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on October 20, 2014, 05:38:09 pm
Floridians Deliver 92,000-Signature Petition Urging Gov. Rick Scott To Cut State Emissions  ;D
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/10/20/3581775/rick-scott-power-plant-petition/
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on October 22, 2014, 08:35:36 pm
Ocean heat storage: a particularly lousy policy target + Update    (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Freading.gif&hash=63e3e644b39258d4c4eedbcdaf322315b1856723)   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F301.gif&hash=0291ed4abf2d80e420d1aa00d4eb3c5dd6bbfb53)

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Figure 1. Ocean heat content in the surface layer (top panel, various data sets) and the mid-depth (700-2000 m) and deep ocean (bottom panel), from the IPCC AR5 (Fig. 3.2 – see caption there for details). Note that uncertainties are larger than for global mean temperature, the data don’t go as far back (1850 for global mean temperature) and data from the deep ocean are particularly sparse, so that only a trend line is shown.

SNIPPET:
The New York Times, 12 December 2027:  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.coh2.org%2Fimages%2FSmileys%2Fhuhsign.gif&hash=3732d0427be65896527fc3805c5be54a33cffd3b) After 12 years of debate and negotiation, kicked off in Paris in 2015, world leaders have finally agreed to ditch the goal of limiting global warming to below 2 °C. Instead, they have agreed to the new goal of limiting global ocean heat content to 1024 Joules.

The decision was widely welcomed by the science and policy communities as a great step forward. “In the past, the 2 °C goal has allowed some governments to pretend that they are taking serious action to mitigate global warming, when in reality they have achieved almost nothing. I’m sure that this can’t happen again with the new 1024 Joules goal”, said David Victor, a professor of international relations who originally proposed this change back in 2014. And an unnamed senior EU negotiator commented: “Perhaps I shouldn’t say this, but some heads of state had trouble understanding the implications of the 2 °C target; sometimes they even accidentally talked of limiting global warming to 2%.

I’m glad that we now have those 1024 Joules which are much easier to grasp for policy makers and the public.” This fictitious newspaper item  ;D  is of course absurd and will never become reality, because ocean heat content is unsuited as a climate policy target. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.desismileys.com%2Fsmileys%2Fdesismileys_0293.gif&hash=b1af4868ed8f18c30e637f8cbcb79002f6f71039)
Here are three main reasons why.
1. Ocean heat content is extremely unresponsive to policy.
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2. Ocean heat content has no direct relation to any impacts.
3. Ocean heat content is difficult to measure.
The reason is that you have to measure tiny temperature changes over a huge volume, rather than much larger changes just over a surface.

Ocean heat content estimates have gone through a number of revisions, instrument calibration issues etc. If we were systematically off by just 0.05 °C throughout the oceans due to some instrument drift, the error would larger than the entire ocean heat uptake since 1970. :o  If the surface measurements were off by 0.05 °C, this would be a negligible correction compared to the 0.7 °C surface warming observed since 1950.

Article at link (for geeks only  ;D):

http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2014/10/ocean-heat-storage-a-particularly-lousy-policy-target/comment-page-1/#comment-613097
Agelbert Comment:  ;D

I fully agree with the author of this article. Not only is the idea of using the ocean temperature as a target flawed from the point of view of a "hiatus" that never actually existed but it smacks of another, "long view" technique the fossil fuel industry can use to claim they can continue to burn massive amounts of fossil fuels without "undue" deleterious effects on our climate and biosphere.

I have two questions for climate scientists. The first one is about ocean temperatures with particular regard to heat exchange at the surface. It is a fact that the surface of two thirds of the planet is ocean and that part (on the average) is getting warmer.

Have the models incorporated the effect of salinity on ocean surface vapor pressure changes? It is a fact that fresh water has a higher specific heat than salt water. However, salt water, because of the molecular adhesive forces of the sodium and chloride ions, requires more energy, despite having a lower specific heat, to release (evaporate) H2O and heat into the atmosphere. Then there is the effect of more fresh water coming off of glaciers reducing salinity in some ocean surface areas which, in theory, would increase the heat storage capacity in the surface layers even while the evaporation rate is facilitated.

I ask all this because it seems logical that, if there is empirical evidence that the surface layers of the ocean are warming at a faster rate than the atmosphere, a punctuated equilibrium phenomenon could be building up where, at a certain point, a combination of reduced salinity and increased temperature could cause a large amount of heat exchange from the oceans into the atmosphere, thereby exacerbating atmospheric heating.

And all this is above and beyond he deleterious effects of decreased pH on the thousands of species of marine CaCo3 shelled organisms due to green House gases.

My second question is, considering there are billions of internal combustion engines running 24/7 on the surface of our planet and in constant and intimate contact with the atmosphere, do the models that predict the rate of atmospheric warming from green house gases also include the infrared radiation from all those internal combustion engines?

The green house gas pollution comes from engines that are only 18 to 22% efficient, except for the large turbines run by utilities that can reach up to 60%. My point is that we have nearly 80% of the energy produced from internal combustion engines being converted to heat that immediately enters the atmospheric mix. Is this not considered statistically significant in the light of the massive amount of IR heat per square meter that we have arriving on the planet from the sun?

If an estimate of that heat load and a scientific study to measure and quantify it has not been done, it should be done. We have alternatives. If it could be proven scientifically that the IR contribution by the internal combustion engines is deleterious to the biosphere, it would boost the transition to non thermal mechanical energy applications like solar powered electric vehicles or at least batteries charged exclusively by solar power for said vehicles.

About 157,000 vehicles are manufactured each day on this planet. Why should we allow our vehicles to get only 20% mechanical energy and release 80% heat into the atmosphere when an electric motor is at least 70% efficient?

We need scientists to speak loudly and clearly that fossil fuels are deleterious to the biosphere. The status quo is not healthy or sustainable. You know that. Can you help to end the fossil fuel age? It's high time we stopped digging our own graves on behalf of profit over planet.
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on October 23, 2014, 09:16:14 pm
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This graphic novelist tells the true story of climate change

By Sara Bernard

Excellent article with more graphics at link:   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F19.gif&hash=3f9f2fc2285bc756137e21463bc2a4c420b15ac3)


http://grist.org/people/this-graphic-novelist-tells-the-true-story-of-climate-change/
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on October 23, 2014, 09:28:50 pm
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If it weren't for those meddling kids ...
  ;)

These teens are taking their climate lawsuit all the way to the Supreme Court

By Sam Bliss

22 Oct 2014 8:00 AM     

Those feisty, litigious climate-hawk kids just won’t go away. Back in 2011, we wrote about a group of witty whippersnappers that filed a lawsuit against the federal government. The premise: The government must take action to protect the atmosphere for future generations.  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F301.gif&hash=0291ed4abf2d80e420d1aa00d4eb3c5dd6bbfb53)



Full laudable article on this worthy but quixotic effort here:
http://grist.org/climate-energy/these-teens-are-taking-their-climate-lawsuit-all-the-way-to-the-supreme-court/
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on October 24, 2014, 06:21:02 pm
10/24/2014 11:50 AM            
South Miami Wants to Secede from Florida Over Climate Change  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Ficare.gif&hash=7a81c13fb045a57fc456f34661fddcf04dbfe8b7) (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Fcowboypistol.gif&hash=2dc97f743dffca22404e6e4e0822765e60b33f38)(https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.websmileys.com%2Fsm%2Fviolent%2Fsterb029.gif&hash=7a43a0c106eab798f7ba6133dc5cc550647a03d2)

SustainableBusiness.com News

I've said it jokingly: it's time for Blue and Red states to form their own countries and see which ideology performs better.

Perhaps South Miami will be our pilot, since they just voted to secede from Florida! Already under water from climate change, they want action, but that's not possible in a state run by Republicans.

If Governor Rick Scott wins his tight re-election campaign, Florida's leadership - including Senator Marco Rubio - will continue denying that climate change even exists. On the other hand, Scott's Democratic challenger for governor, Charlie Crist, fully acknowledges climate change and the threat it poses to Florida.
Introduced by Vice Mayer Walter Harris, the city council passed a resolution that calls for splitting Florida in two, so that South Florida can take climate change into their own hands.

Pretty amazing that the line is drawn over climate change.
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"South Florida's situation is very precarious and in need of immediate attention.... The creation of the 51st state, South Florida, is a necessity for the very survival of the entire southern region of the current state of Florida,"  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F47b20s0.gif&hash=cc48c9af9d29b8836023c7db21103e52d1ed439e) says the resolution.

Much of South Florida is just five feet above sea level and at high tide, it seeps up from the porous bedrock, bringing sea water dangerously close to fresh water supplies - and forcing people to walk in water up to their knees. Nuclear reactors there are 42 years old and 2.5 million pounds of nuclear waste is buried on-site.

A line would be drawn north of Orlando,  ;D giving the state of South Florida 24 counties, 67% of its population and 70% of the current state's revenue.
The resolution is a statement - it's not at likely to go through because it would have to approved by Florida's state legislature and then by Congress.
South Florida is doing what it can on its own, creating the Southeast Florida Regional Climate Compact and Regional Climate Action Plan.

Title of the Resolution:
Resolution of the Mayor and City Commission of the City of South Miami, Florida, advocating the legal separation of Florida into two separate states, creating the 51st state in the Union and naming it "South Florida".  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F301.gif&hash=0291ed4abf2d80e420d1aa00d4eb3c5dd6bbfb53)
Read about what Miami is dealing with:
Website: www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/11/miami-drowning-climate-change-deniers-sea-levels-rising
http://www.sustainablebusiness.com/index.cfm/go/news.display/id/25972

Agelbert NOTE: South Florida GETS IT!. Good for them!  8)


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Robert F. Kennedy Jr: In the next decade there will be an epic battle for survival for humanity against the forces of ignorance and greed. It’s going to be Armageddon, represented by the oil industry on one side, versus the renewable industry on the other. And people are going to have to choose sides – including politically. They will have to choose sides because oil and coal, they will not be able to survive – they are not going to be able to burn their proven reserves. If they do, then we are all dead. And they are quite willing to burn it. We’re all going to be part of that battle. We are going to watch governments being buffeted by the whims of money and greed on one side, and idealism and hope on the other.

 http://cleantechnica.com/2013/02/06/interview-with-robert-f-kennedy-jr-on-environmental-activism-democratization-of-energy-more/#JSW31ABzPkmZ6PTh.99


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ONLY Renewable Energy AND its prudent use can get us from the Baked in left to the Biosphere Harmony right. I know what I want. How about YOU?
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on October 29, 2014, 06:46:11 pm
The Monthly Newsletter of the WOODS HOLE RESEARCH CENTER
A Vision After Venice

Dr.  Richard A. Houghton, Acting President
 
My reward for going to Venice to receive the ICCG award for the most influential think tank on climate change was not the motor launch ride through the canals of Venice at 8 o'clock in the morning or bringing home the graceful glass sculpture that came, surprisingly, with the award, but the question I was asked by a student at the end of my acceptance speech. The question seemed mild at the time of asking, and it wasn't until two sleepless travel days later that I knew the real answer.

The question/comment was, "Your idea for stabilizing the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere while transitioning from fossil to renewable forms of energy, is based on the assumption that the carbon sinks on land and in the ocean will continue." "Of course," I agreed, "and it's an assumption that I am not very confident about. I would expect those sinks to have declined already, when, in fact, they have only grown in proportion to the emissions of carbon to the atmosphere." 

But the real answer that I not only missed the opportunity to present, but didn't even have in my mind, is, "Of course. The assumption that the sinks will continue may not be valid, but what's the alternative?  ???

What is the alternative to reducing emissions of carbon from fossil fuels? In theory, we could capture the CO2 released from smoke stacks and tail pipes and sequester it in underground, geological formations (Carbon Capture and Storage), but geologists are far from united that such storage is feasible or long-term. The process is energetically expensive, and the CO2 might leak back out to the atmosphere. There are other geo-engineering schemes, as well, but the risks and our ignorance of the effects make them seem like science fiction, or worse, like flights of fancy that keep us from addressing the real problem: how to live sustainably within our means.

The other alternative to moving to a low-carbon economy is to let climatic disruption play out its course. That's the course we're on - continuing as usual. We're headed for a 4oC warming by the end of the century, and look at the storms, droughts, and floods we've had with a warming of less than 1oC.


No. The alternatives to moving to a low-carbon economy are not a burned-up planet or a planet with an ingenious fix for keeping our fossil fuel interests intact. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.freesmileys.org%2Femoticons%2Femoticon-object-106.gif&hash=f996659d18df7f3b445e6135e884397ac91f25b1) There is no alternative. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.freesmileys.org%2Femoticons%2Ftuzki-bunnys%2Ftuzki-bunny-emoticon-028.gif&hash=24570cb7e8246617010ce900a07bc85117ff78ca) And if past rates of carbon uptake by land and oceans don't continue into the future, we're fried anyway.

The idea of planting trees instead of cutting them down, which is, of course, the idea of managing ecosystems to take CO2 out of the atmosphere, may seem hokey and not very high-tech, but it is something we know how to do. It's part of the solution. It's the part that's essential for keeping the concentration of CO2 from continuing to increase while we're getting out of the fossil fuel business.

We can only pack so much carbon onto land in trees and soils before it's essentially full. Doing so while developing renewable technologies and infrastructure for replacing fossil with renewable energy is part of the solution for ending further climatic disruption. It may be hokey, but it's also cheap and something at which we've had centuries of practice. There are difficulties and risks (perhaps the subject of another e-newsletter), but the alternatives are worse. We have little to lose by restoring the Earth with trees and productive soils and much to gain.

Thank you, Venice and the International Center for Climate Governance, for recognizing the Woods Hole Research Center and for helping frame in my mind the importance of carbon management on land.

http://iccgov.org/newsletter/2014/events/international-lectures/invitation_lecture_2014-10-02-en.html
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on November 01, 2014, 05:56:40 pm
Watch Bill Nye Shred Climate Denying Congresswoman  ;D

Bill Nye the Science Guy has no patience with climate deniers like Congresswoman Marsha Blackburn (R-TN)  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-200714191329.bmp&hash=4764bfbe6bb0e11ca61102efa97a932a824f47e0) , whom he faced off with on a recent segment of CBS’s Meet The Press. Blackburn blithely dismissed his contention that climate change is real, saying “Neither he nor I are a climate scientist … what we have to do is look at the information we get from climate scientists.”    (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2F2.bp.blogspot.com%2F_9HT4xZyDmh4%2FTOHhxzA0wLI%2FAAAAAAAAEUk%2FoeHDS2cfxWQ%2Fs200%2FSmiley_Angel_Wings_Halo.jpg&hash=13281f1944b60773bf12b29387b70be77cc1fe16)   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-051113192052.png&hash=93c42ef9f18fc5d9da50fd91fc19f70009f95f85)
Anastasia Pantsios | October 30, 2014 2:24 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkR3TI6xyzU&feature=player_embedded

“She did something which is very common in the climate denier community or whatever you want to call it, which is to talk about credentials,” noted Nye. “You don’t need to be a full-time climate scientist to understand it. As far as my credentials, I’m a mechanical engineer. I took a lot of physics. I get it. I can understand what’s going on. We’re putting carbon dioxide in the air at a prodigious rate and the world is getting warmer.”

“The world is getting warmer because of human activity—that’s a fact,” he continued. “If you have somebody who really strongly believes the Earth was flat, you wouldn’t have to have that person on a television show with the people who believe the earth is round. It’s not one person vs the other person. It’s 97 people vs. three people.”

He suggests that perhaps Blackburn  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.u.arizona.edu%2F%7Epatricia%2Fcute-collection%2Fsmileys%2Flying-smiley.gif&hash=a34c2f7344d5f54f7009a4e684bb6c7310cdda03)  is getting her information from sources other than climate scientists.  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F128fs318181.gif&hash=eff6d5f3831782966c2ff2081f07bf7fc5b22a6b)

“As far as Ms. Blackburn, it sounded like she’s been coached on denial bullet points or talking points,” he said. “I very much enjoy talking those people on but meanwhile it breaks my heart because we’ve got work to do. The fossil fuel industry has really gotten in their ears, and it’s really troublesome. We’re the world’s most technical advanced country—certainly in the top 10. To have a generation of science students brought up without awareness of climate change is just a formula for disaster.”  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F301.gif&hash=0291ed4abf2d80e420d1aa00d4eb3c5dd6bbfb53)

http://ecowatch.com/2014/10/30/bill-nye-shred-climate-denier/

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The Fossil Fuelers   DID THE Climate Trashing CRIME,   but since they have ALWAYS BEEN liars   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.u.arizona.edu%2F%7Epatricia%2Fcute-collection%2Fsmileys%2Flying-smiley.gif&hash=a34c2f7344d5f54f7009a4e684bb6c7310cdda03) and conscience free crooks ,    they are trying to AVOID   DOING THE TIME or     PAYING THE FINE!     Don't let them get away with it! Pass it on! (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F176.gif&hash=121533221905789c6b8d57a9603883266d349266)





Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on November 02, 2014, 07:00:30 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T66tLRR9drY&feature=player_embedded
(https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.desismileys.com%2Fsmileys%2Fdesismileys_2955.gif&hash=ddc12d8bdb1bc63b7998a6b086b79a71b7bda755) Dear Earthlings, Remember me this way. I did the best I could for you. Too bad you can't stop doing what you do.    (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.desismileys.com%2Fsmileys%2Fdesismileys_2953.gif&hash=b84c0ae260f7ac760e54bcdc33d788c36faa07c1)
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on November 03, 2014, 04:07:08 pm
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Donald Voigt from Penn State looks at an ice core in January 2012 during the WAIS Divide project.
Credit: Photo courtesy of Gifford Wong, Dartmouth


Three abrupt pulses of carbon dioxide during last deglaciation, study shows

October 29, 2014

Source: Oregon State University

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Summary:

The rise of atmospheric carbon dioxide that contributed to the end of the last ice age more than 10,000 years ago did not occur gradually, but was characterized by three 'pulses' in which carbon dioxide rose abruptly. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-300714025456.bmp&hash=f4e4a260bd60d3f34ca86fed93c47d5fb4117cfd)



A new study shows that the rise of atmospheric carbon dioxide that contributed to the end of the last ice age more than 10,000 years ago did not occur gradually, but was characterized by three "pulses" in which C02 rose abruptly.

Scientists are not sure what caused these abrupt increases, during which C02 levels rose about 10-15 parts per million -- or about 5 percent per episode -- over a period of 1-2 centuries. It likely was a combination of factors, they say, including ocean circulation, changing wind patterns, and terrestrial processes.

The finding is important, however, because it casts new light on the mechanisms that take Earth in and out of ice age regimes. Results of the study, which was funded by the National Science Foundation, appear this week in the journal Nature.

"We used to think that naturally occurring changes in carbon dioxide took place relatively slowly over the 10,000 years it took to move out of the last ice age," said Shaun Marcott, lead author on the article who conducted his study as a post-doctoral researcher at Oregon State University. "This abrupt, centennial-scale variability of CO2 appears to be a fundamental part of the global carbon cycle."

Some previous research has hinted at the possibility that spikes in atmospheric carbon dioxide may have accelerated the last deglaciation, but that hypothesis had not been resolved, the researchers say. The key to the new finding is the analysis of an ice core from the West Antarctic that provided the scientists with an unprecedented glimpse into the past.

Scientists studying past climate have been hampered by the limitations of previous ice cores. Cores from Greenland, for example, provide unique records of rapid climate events going back 120,000 years -- but high concentrations of impurities don't allow researchers to accurately determine atmospheric carbon dioxide records. Antarctic ice cores have fewer impurities, but generally have had lower "temporal resolution," providing less detailed information about atmospheric CO2.

However, a new core from West Antarctica, drilled to a depth of 3,405 meters in 2011 and spanning the last 68,000 years, has "extraordinary detail," said Oregon State paleoclimatologist Edward Brook, a co-author on the Nature study and an internationally recognized ice core expert. Because the area where the core was taken gets high annual snowfall, he said, the new ice core provides one of the most detailed records of atmospheric CO2.

"It is a remarkable ice core and it clearly shows distinct pulses of carbon dioxide increase that can be very reliably dated," Brook said. "These are some of the fastest natural changes in CO2 we have observed, and were probably big enough on their own to impact Earth's climate.

"The abrupt events did not end the ice age by themselves," Brook added. "That might be jumping the gun a bit. But it is fair to say that the natural carbon cycle can change a lot faster than was previously thought -- and we don't know all of the mechanisms that caused that rapid change."

The researchers say that the increase in atmospheric CO2 from the peak of the last ice age to complete deglaciation was about 80 parts per million, taking place over 10,000 years. Thus, the finding that 30-45 ppm of the increase happened in just a few centuries was significant.

The overall rise of atmospheric carbon dioxide during the last deglaciation was thought to have been triggered by the release of CO2 from the deep ocean -- especially the Southern Ocean. However, the researchers say that no obvious ocean mechanism is known that would trigger rises of 10-15 ppm over a time span as short as one to two centuries.

"The oceans are simply not thought to respond that fast," Brook said. "Either the cause of these pulses is at least part terrestrial, or there is some mechanism in the ocean system we don't yet know about."

One reason the researchers are reluctant to pin the end of the last ice age solely on CO2 increases is that other processes were taking place, according to Marcott, who recently joined the faculty of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

"At the same time CO2 was increasing, the rate of methane in the atmosphere was also increasing at the same or a slightly higher rate," Marcott said. "We also know that during at least two of these pulses, the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation changed as well. Changes in the ocean circulation would have affected CO2 -- and indirectly methane, by impacting global rainfall patterns."

"Earth is a big coupled system," he added, "and there are many pieces to the puzzle. The discovery of these strong, rapid pulses of CO2 is an important piece."

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/10/141029145617.htm
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on November 03, 2014, 07:10:54 pm
Bill McKibben: IPCC Report Says Climate Change Is ‘Severe, Widespread and Irreversible’ (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.desismileys.com%2Fsmileys%2Fdesismileys_1593.gif&hash=628238f2fc26695937f6e97b91b050976065743b)

Full story here: (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Freading.gif&hash=63e3e644b39258d4c4eedbcdaf322315b1856723)


http://ecowatch.com/2014/11/02/bill-mckibben-ipcc-report/
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on November 07, 2014, 03:59:31 pm
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Watch Award-Winning ‘Mountains of the Moon’
Stefanie Spear | November 6, 2014 9:07 am

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HSbNpFiwyI&feature=player_embedded
The Rwenzori Mountains, “Mountains of the Moon,” rise nearly 17,000 feet from the heart of Africa.


http://ecowatch.com/2014/11/06/snows-nile-rwenzori-mountains/
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on November 13, 2014, 08:31:08 pm
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I just signed this petition [http://bit.ly/EnergyIndependentVTPetition] for a new Vermont campaign to put a price on carbon pollution.   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F301.gif&hash=0291ed4abf2d80e420d1aa00d4eb3c5dd6bbfb53) I know that, like me, you are concerned about global warming. This is a really important chance for Vermont to do something real about it. I urge you to take action yourself and spread the word!  You can learn more about the Energy Independent Vermont campaign at www.energyindendependentvt.org.
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on November 17, 2014, 03:55:21 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=weA4gZBo9ho&feature=player_embedded

Climate Change Projected to Double Lightning Strikes by 2100


Anastasia Pantsios

http://ecowatch.com/2014/11/14/lightning-strikes-climate-change/

Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on November 19, 2014, 03:06:37 pm
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5 to 6 feet of Lake Effect Snow in Buffalo is ANOTHER "Gift" from the fossil fuel industry thanks to Global Warming.   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-310714182509.png&hash=7a8191a3d5ff15c51ad36a342a0cd50a90b956bd)

30 VERY DESCRIPTIVE (and prophetic as well) pictures about the NEW NORMAL:  :P

http://www.bostonglobe.com/2014/11/18/snow-pummels-parts-new-york/2AjgJVxR6dL5obDl5U7f1L/story.html?pic=1 (http://www.bostonglobe.com/2014/11/18/snow-pummels-parts-new-york/2AjgJVxR6dL5obDl5U7f1L/story.html?pic=1)

WHY is 5 to 6 feet of Lake Effect Snow in one shot ANOTHER "Gift" from the fossil fuel industry thanks to Global Warming? Because when those lakes DON'T FREEZE quickly, a cold front from the crazy wiggling jet stream we are now saddled with picks up GOBS of humidity and DUMPS them on the nearest land mass. I lived in Syracuse from 1979-1981. Syracuse got 155 inches of snow each year back then. Most of it was lake effect from a smallish lake called Onandaga. It didn't freeze quickly because it was "graced" with world class anti-freeze from factory chemical pollution (All those "progress through chemistry" goodies like paint and formica were never free, YA KNOW!).

Buffalo was just ahead of us in snowfall with the U.S. record back then. NOW it will be a bonanza growth industry for roof repair contractors. ANOTHER COST  :P that we-the-people must pay so fossil fuels can be "cheap". ::)    (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F2z6in9g.gif&hash=771b084a0f186d9cc14f31defd98a6c90b69b84f) (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Facigar.gif&hash=dc9dccf92c6c88c99611b06c86d92629d69f2978)

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A child in Buffalo ponders the future. I hope he learns soon that the fossil fuel industry must PAY (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.smiley-lol.com%2Fsmiley%2Fexagerent%2Fpolice%2Fboulet.gif&hash=d7b4519fc185b666c4c74a5bc63d4d0a70c0ad21) for the present AND future damage that  their SO CALLED "cheap" fuel visited on him and his generation.
Younger Generation= (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-301014181553.gif&hash=c09667beb656b25086c168adcdaddcba59abf858)                  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Facigar.gif&hash=dc9dccf92c6c88c99611b06c86d92629d69f2978)=Fossil Fuelers
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on November 19, 2014, 03:35:00 pm
How global warming will cause more lake-effect snow

By Tim Kovach | March 20, 2014  - 9:29 AM |  Cleveland, Climate Change

SNIPPET:

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The evidence

So what does the evidence say? Do we have research to backup this seemingly counterintuitive  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.desismileys.com%2Fsmileys%2Fdesismileys_6656.gif&hash=2038f9b45636a93e5c0f4ee508ce29778fe9e9b4) outcome? In a word, yes.  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F301.gif&hash=0291ed4abf2d80e420d1aa00d4eb3c5dd6bbfb53)

In a 2003 study, Burnett et al examined long-term changes in lake-effect snowfall (paywall) and compared them with October-April snowfall totals and air temperatures from 1931-2001. According to the authors, lake-effect snowfall totals increased significantly at 11 of 15 sites studied. Their research also demonstrated that lake surface temperatures increased significantly at the majority of sites examined. Consequently, they concluded that


ncreased lake-effect snowfall is the result of changes in Great lakes whole-lake thermal characteristics that involve warmer lake surface waters and a decrease in lake ice cover.

While the Burnett et al piece is now more than a decade old, several additional studies have largely supported its findings. Vavrus, Notaro, and Zarrin examined how ice cover affected a subset of 10 heavy lake-effect snow (HLES) events in order to quantify the impact of the ice. They found that “the suppression of open water [i.e. expansion of ice cover] on the individual lakes causes over an 80% decline in downstream” HLES. Ice cover on Lake Erie lowered snowfall by 73%, while Lake Michigan saw a reduction of nearly 100%.

The authors note that ice cover reduces heat fluxes over the lakes, lowers atmospheric moisture, stymies cloud formation, and depresses near-surface air temperatures. All of these changes can suppress lake-effect. For all five lakes, complete ice cover reduces downstream snowfall by 85%. As a result,

The results of the current study suggest that this change toward more open water  :P should favor significantly greater lake-effect snowfall.

Wright, Posselt, and Steiner conducted a similar study, examining the relative amount and distribution of snowfall under four different models: a control (observed lake ice in mid-January 2009), complete ice cover, no ice cover, and warmer lake surface temperatures. The authors also show that moving from complete ice cover to no ice cover dramatically increases lake-effect totals. The total area seeing small (≤2mm) and large (≥10mm) lake-effect events increase by 28% and 93%, respectively. In contrast, while elevated lake surface temperatures do not increase the area affected by lake-effect, they do tend to increase the amount of heavy snowfall; areas that already experienced HLES saw 63% more snowfall.

It remains important to note that, while higher lake surface temperatures and reduced ice cover should lead to more lake-effect snow during the coming decades, a decrease in the number of cold-air outbreaks could work to counter this effect. But if lake-effect increases, as the preponderance of evidence suggests it will, it could carry major additional economic costs for Great Lakes states. According to a study of 16 states and two Canadian provinces from IHS Global Insight, snowstorms can costs states $66-700 million in direct and indirect losses per day if they render roads impassable. Great Lakes states had among the most significant losses, with Ohio forfeiting $300 million per day and New York leading the pack at $700 million.   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F290.gif&hash=38949e35cf58eaa4218b5a8176767c806d2f8537)

Additional major lake-effect events will only serve to drive up this price tag even more, further constraining limited state and municipal budgets well into the future. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimages.zaazu.com%2Fimg%2FIncredible-Hulk-animated-animation-male-smiley-emoticon-000342-large.gif&hash=db736c8c06568f1aa878171ad53d1f0301cfdff2)


Full article WRITTEN IN MARCH of 2014  ;D at link below:
http://timkovach.com/wp/2014/03/20/global-warming-will-cause-lake-effect-snow/

The Fossil Fuelers   DID THE Climate Trashing CRIME,   but since they have ALWAYS BEEN liars   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.u.arizona.edu%2F%7Epatricia%2Fcute-collection%2Fsmileys%2Flying-smiley.gif&hash=a34c2f7344d5f54f7009a4e684bb6c7310cdda03) and conscience free crooks ,    they are trying to AVOID   DOING THE TIME or     PAYING THE FINE!     Don't let them get away with it! Pass it on! (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F176.gif&hash=121533221905789c6b8d57a9603883266d349266)

Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on November 19, 2014, 06:06:28 pm
11/19/2014 04:49 PM 
Watch NASA's Video: What Carbon Looks Like in the Atmosphere

SustainableBusiness.com News

In July, NASA launched the first satellite into space dedicated to measuring carbon levels in the atmosphere, the Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2).


 Every day, it takes a million high-resolution measurements  :o,
and scientists released the first video that displays how this invisible gas travels around the world.

 Their simulation shows plumes of carbon swirling and shifting as winds disperse the greenhouse gas away from its sources. It also illustrates differences in carbon levels in the northern and southern hemispheres and distinct swings in global carbon concentrations as the growth cycle of plants and trees changes with the seasons, says NASA.

For decades, scientists have been measuring carbon levels from the ground, but this is the first time it is being measured from space. The simulation is a product of a new computer model that is among the highest-resolution ever created - and the first to show in fine detail how carbon moves through the atmosphere.

The computer uses atmospheric measurements to create a simulation of the natural behavior of carbon in the Earth's atmosphere, which they call "Nature Run." It also simulates winds, clouds, water vapor and airborne particles such as dust, black carbon, sea salt and emissions from industry and volcanoes.

Much remains unknown about how carbon moves from an emissions source to the atmosphere or to carbon sinks such as oceans and forests. OCO-2 and computer modeling will help scientists better understand the processes that drive carbon concentrations and project future changes to our climate.

Watch the video!
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The colors represent a range of carbon concentrations, from 375 parts per million (dark blue) to 385 (red) to 395 (light purple). White plumes represent carbon monoxide  :P  emissions.



 Also, watch NASA's regional videos which hone in on North America, Asia, and southern Africa:
 
Website: www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/a-closer-look-at-carbon-dioxide/ (http://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/a-closer-look-at-carbon-dioxide/)


http://www.sustainablebusiness.com/index.cfm/go/news.display/id/26015 (http://www.sustainablebusiness.com/index.cfm/go/news.display/id/26015)

Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on November 19, 2014, 07:01:42 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSQsgNcDXjc&feature=player_embedded
The social cost of carbon.  >:(
http://ecowatch.com/2014/11/19/whitehouse-carbon-tax-bill/
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on November 20, 2014, 07:27:48 pm
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Face in clouds nearly at the end of the following video (NOT photoshopped!  :o).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ul8B7Y8a-3A&feature=player_embedded
The new normal is bad. But it WILL get worse. Without Divine intervention, you can Count on it. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.websmileys.com%2Fsm%2Fviolent%2Fsterb050.gif&hash=7ab92003788aa87a5cec0e350c97a7bd23eb8b44)
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on November 20, 2014, 10:34:18 pm
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All those putrid fruits of profit over people and planet have been building since the Industrial Pollution Revolution. But now they are all coming to a massive and deadly crescendo. :(  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.desismileys.com%2Fsmileys%2Fdesismileys_1593.gif&hash=628238f2fc26695937f6e97b91b050976065743b) (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.freesmileys.org%2Fcustom%2Fimage%2Ftongue%255E_%255Earial%255E_%255E0%255E_%255E0%255E_%255EBurning+Fossil+Fuels+IS+SUICIDE%255E_%255E.gif&hash=dddc6d85ffcc21075f53bda643372d2383013562) (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.freesmileys.org%2Femoticons%2Femoticon-object-015.gif&hash=8e6486af5151b5eb075de7af5fb71f325d34dc0c) (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-070814193155.png&hash=144ce9330e49ee84060db8753a8db69c39a14913) (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Fdesertsmile.gif&hash=293fbde1c87dec2d81c5907e3fbac7d8e5bba7a9) (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.websmileys.com%2Fsm%2Fviolent%2Fsterb050.gif&hash=7ab92003788aa87a5cec0e350c97a7bd23eb8b44) (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Fmog.gif&hash=08e6f04144781466148f6693be6dc3451a322669)
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on November 27, 2014, 12:39:06 am
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And now for more recent times...   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-310714182509.png&hash=7a8191a3d5ff15c51ad36a342a0cd50a90b956bd)


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Article with several more graphics at link:

6 Graphs Explain the World’s Top 10 Emitters

by Mengpin Ge Mengpin Ge, Johannes Friedrich and Thomas Damassa - November 25, 2014

http://www.wri.org/blog/2014/11/6-graphs-explain-world%E2%80%99s-top-10-emitters
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on November 27, 2014, 12:53:56 am
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This is analogous to tumor growth. This is NOT a benign tumor... (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.desismileys.com%2Fsmileys%2Fdesismileys_2955.gif&hash=ddc12d8bdb1bc63b7998a6b086b79a71b7bda755)

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The Fossil Fueler Predatory Capitalist Profit over Planet mentality is a CANCER. IT CANNOT do ANYTHING but GROW. We kill it or it kills us, PERIOD.  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.desismileys.com%2Fsmileys%2Fdesismileys_1593.gif&hash=628238f2fc26695937f6e97b91b050976065743b)

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CAN HUMANS CHANGE from paradigm of conscience free conquest a TO A PARADIGM of CARING? (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.desismileys.com%2Fsmileys%2Fdesismileys_1730.gif&hash=cdaf50326d98ff7b051a9c49e83d51c7bb687407)  We will soon find out...   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Fmog.gif&hash=08e6f04144781466148f6693be6dc3451a322669)
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on November 28, 2014, 06:26:55 pm
Storm cuts power, lifts roofs in Brisbane

Updated: 2014-11-28 11:12


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Golf ball-sized hail batters Brisbane, Australia, Nov 27, 2014

BRISBANE - Brisbane, Australia's third-largest city, was lashed by its worst storm in decades, with wind, rain and hail lifting roofs, cutting power lines, flooding streets and injuring a dozen people, officials said.

State-owned electricity supplier Energex said Friday that up to 90,000 homes had been without power, with trees and hundreds of power lines brought down by winds gusting at 140 kph (87 mph). By Friday morning, 68,000 homes remained blacked out.

The storm struck late Thursday afternoon, trapping commuters for hours in stalled electric trains. Television news broadcasts showed downtown high-rise windows smashed, light planes flipped upside down on an airfield and cars almost completely submerged in flooded streets.

Queensland state Premier Campbell Newman described the storm as the worst to hit the city of 2.2 million people since 1985. He said 12 people had been injured.

Australian Broadcasting Corp. reported that the convention center that hosted President Barack Obama and other world leaders at the G-20 summit two weeks ago had sustained hail and water damage.

The army was called in to help emergency crews remove fallen trees Friday morning.

http://usa.chinadaily.com.cn/world/2014-11/28/content_18992854.htm
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on November 30, 2014, 02:13:22 am
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Quote

Date: November 29, 2014

Source: World Meteorological Organization

Summary: The global average temperature over land and ocean surfaces for January to October 2014 was the highest on record, according to the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. It said October was the hottest since records began in 1880.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/11/141129075729.htm

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on November 30, 2014, 03:53:38 pm
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Kid, the outlook for our food supply is not encouraging. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.desismileys.com%2Fsmileys%2Fdesismileys_2955.gif&hash=ddc12d8bdb1bc63b7998a6b086b79a71b7bda755)

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http://www.globalforestwatch.org/map/3/22.13/118.19/ALL/satellite/loss,forestgain?begin=2001-01-01&end=2013-01-01&threshold=25
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on November 30, 2014, 04:17:42 pm
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WHY do these humans insist on destroying our home? Don't they know its their home too?  ???
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http://www.globalforestwatch.org/map/3/58.65/-158.91/ALL/satellite/loss,forestgain?begin=2001-01-01&end=2013-01-01&threshold=25
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on December 01, 2014, 04:04:54 pm
Gas and Coal To Replace Hydropower in Brazil, Pollution to Follow  >:(

Brazil, the world’s cleanest energy user, is getting dirtier  :(.

 Vanessa Dezem, Bloomberg 
 December 01, 2014 

Sao Paolo, Brazil — The Brazilian government is seeking to award contracts in an auction tomorrow for natural gas- and coal-fueled power plants, reversing a drive that previously favored renewable-energy projects. It would lead to the first new thermal plants in three years, after the government scaled back such projects and awarded wind contracts starting in 2009 and solar energy earlier this year.

The government is seeking to award contracts in an auction tomorrow for natural gas- and coal-fueled power plants, reversing a drive that previously favored renewable-energy projects. It would lead to the first new thermal plants in three years, after the government scaled back such projects and awarded wind contracts starting in 2009 and solar energy earlier this year.

Thermal plants, which are faster and easier to build and open than wind or hydroelectric facilities, will be used as a stopgap to ensure energy supplies after the worst drought in eight decades dried up reservoirs at hydro-dams that produce 70 percent of Brazil’s power. Without the extra energy supplies, Brazil may be forced to ration power as soon as next year if the drought continues, said BNP Paribas SA and consultant Thymos Energia.

“Coal and gas plants can meet an urgent need,” Bernardo Bezerra, a manager at the Rio de Janeiro-based energy consultant PSR, said in an interview. “The big question mark is: Is it worth contracting an expensive source of energy for so many years, when you have cheaper and cleaner sources available like wind simply because of a short-term need?”

Energy ‘Security’  ::)

Brazil’s energy research and planning agency, known as EPE, says it is.

“It’s important for the security of the system that we have more thermal energy — it was because of thermal that we avoided rationing last year,” Jose Carlos de Miranda Farias, EPE director of electric energy research, said in a telephone interview from Brasilia. “We need to guarantee supplies to Brazilian consumers who refuse to deal with energy shortages of even half an hour.”

Using fossil fuels at a time of need highlights tensions facing Brazilian policy makers as they join United Nations talks next week aimed at limiting global warming. While envoys from 190 nations are pushing for an agreement in 2015 to limit fossil-fuel emissions, Brazil may need to boost emissions to stabilize its power market and meet growing demand.

Brazil, the biggest polluter in Latin America, had a 6.7 percent jump in carbon emissions last year, according to data from BP Plc. That was the fastest increase worldwide after Qatar, Colombia and the Philippines. A spokesman for Brazil’s Ministry of Mines and Energy wasn’t immediately available to comment.

For the world to meet its goals of limiting global warming, Brazil would have to cut carbon emissions an average of 0.9 percent a year until 2040, the International Energy Agency estimates. Current government policies put Brazil on course for annual increases of 1.8 percent over that period, the Paris- based institution estimates.

Idled Plants

Brazil restarted all of its idled thermal-power plants to make up an energy shortfall as hydroelectric output plummeted. Use of the costlier energy source boosted electricity spot prices to records.

Wind and solar developers including Renova Energia SA and Enel Brasil Participacoes Ltda were the only companies to win contracts in the last auction on Oct. 31.

Wind will still play a big role in tomorrow’s A-5 auction — the renewable source accounts for about 14 gigawatts of installed capacity on offer, or almost half of the projects that qualified to bid. In Brazil’s energy auctions, the government sets a ceiling price and developers bid down the price at which they are willing to sell the power. The lowest bid wins the contract.

Big Shift

The big shift in this auction is that thermal plants come with the best terms. In an effort to lure more projects, the nation’s energy regulator raised the cap on thermal-electricity rates to 209 reais ($83.51) a megawatt-hour from an initial proposal of 197 reais. The new price is more than twice that of the last gas project that was awarded in 2011.

And unlike the auction held last month, when the first federal contract was awarded for solar plants, the government is grouping all the projects together. That means gas and coal plants will compete head-to-head with clean-energy producers.

“The pressure is no longer on cleaning up the energy mix in Brazil — we already have a clean mix,” Rafael Brandao, co- owner of Rio Alto Energia, a renewable-energy developer, said in an interview in Sao Paulo. “This is a good excuse to dirty up that mix.”

Water Levels

Electric grid operator ONS says water levels at Brazil’s most important dams are averaging just 15 percent of total capacity   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-300714025456.bmp&hash=f4e4a260bd60d3f34ca86fed93c47d5fb4117cfd) , almost two months into Brazil’s rainy season. A year earlier, when the drought was starting, reservoirs were 41 percent full.

Tomorrow’s auction “is an intelligence test: Does the government understand that now is a good time to install more thermal-electric generation?” Joao Carlos de Oliveira Mello, president of consultant Thymos Energia, said in an interview at Bloomberg’s office in Sao Paulo. “Since 2009, we haven’t planned for any thermal-electricity. Brazil needs a cheap and stable thermal-electric complex.”

Copyright 2014 Bloomberg

A. G. Gelbert   December 1, 2014 

This is a huge mistake. The crisis of low rainfall should be accepted as a good reason to NOT build more hydro power projects that damage the biosphere and open up the current dams to normal biosphere friendly fish movements.

The shortfall in energy can be made up thus:

1. Install PV on rooftops to lower the electricity demand.

2. Massively subsidize Electric vehicle prices and put a large tax on internal combustion engine powered new vehicles.

3. Install GridBank super capictor/battery systems in giant PV arrays to provide power to homes, factories and vehicle charging stations at night.

4. Use the massive output of Brazil's ethanol production to generate electricity INSTEAD of fuel for cars and trucks.

The above is a permanent and sustainable solution, not a stopgap. It's time for governments to stop running around like chickens with their heads cut off. We know how to solve our energy problems. Only the unsustainable status quo is preventing us from doing that.

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on December 03, 2014, 07:28:45 pm
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The Climate Change Concern Index—a composite measure that combines perceptions about whether climate change is a crisis and whether it will have adverse personal effects—finds that
nearly 3-in-10 (29%) Americans are highly concerned about climate change,
21% are somewhat concerned,
29% are somewhat unconcerned,
and 21% are very unconcerned.

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Full article at link:

Wednesday, December 03, 2014
 
TODAY’S STUDY: HOW RELIGION INFLUENCES PERCEPTIONS OF CLIMATE CHANGE

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Believers, Sympathizers, & Skeptics – Why Americans are Conflicted about Climate Change, Environmental Policy, and Science; Findings from the PRRI/AAR Religion, Values, and Climate Change Survey

Robert P. Jones, Daniel Cox, Juhem Navarro-Rivera, November 2014 (Public Religion Research Institute and American Academy of Religion)

Executive Summary


The Importance of and Concerns about Climate Change

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on December 06, 2014, 03:13:34 pm
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Stanford Report, December 4, 2014
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The new four-part iBooks Textbook series, Clue into Climate, and an accompanying iTunes U course can be downloaded for free on iPad.

By Mark Shwartz

Clue into Climate, an interactive e-book series on climate change, is now available free of charge on iPad. The four-part iBooks Textbook series was produced by KQED, public media for Northern California, in partnership with Stanford's Precourt Institute for Energy and the University of California Museum of Paleontology.

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'Clue into Climate' is a four-part e-book series on climate change. The free, interactive volumes are designed primarily for middle- and high-school students.

Primarily developed for middle- and high-school students, but also relevant for lifelong learners  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F128fs318181.gif&hash=eff6d5f3831782966c2ff2081f07bf7fc5b22a6b), the series explores the causes of climate change, its impacts on freshwater and terrestrial ecosystems, and innovative strategies for curbing and adapting to change.

The four iBooks Textbooks and an accompanying free iTunes U course can be downloaded through the iBooks Store. Infographics, videos and other media from the series will be available on KQED's QUEST website on Dec. 12.

"Responding to climate change involves many thousands of conversations around the world," said Michael Mastrandrea, a co-director of science for Working Group II of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. "The KQED books put the science in clear, vibrant terms, inviting dialogue on risks in a changing climate and the opportunities for response."

Here is a summary of the four-book series:

•Clue into Climate: Causes of Change (29 pages) investigates what climate change is, and explores its causes and how scientists make projections about future changes. The book features animations and videos on greenhouse gases and the carbon cycle.

•Clue into Climate: Changing Water (33 pages) explains how climate change influences rainfall patterns and the loss of glaciers. This book examines preparations for these changes, and features animations and videos about the water cycle and the cryosphere.

•Clue into Climate: Changing Ecosystems (32 pages) explores the impact global warming will have on plant and animal species, and how an increased level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is impacting our forests and oceans. Highlights include interactive animations and videos about Arctic animals, ocean acidification and redwood trees.

•Clue into Climate: Facing Our Future (39 pages) shows how communities can prepare for and adapt to climate-related issues, such as sea-level rise, increased wildfires and impacts to agriculture. Through audio reports, interactive graphics and videos, the book also examines California's Cap-and-Trade Program and alternative energy sources, such as biofuels and solar power.


"From California's severe drought to the United Nation's recent warning that the world must phase out fossil fuels completely by 2100, climate issues are in the news more than ever," said Robin Mencher, director of education and media learning for KQED. "KQED's climate iBooks Textbooks for iPad couldn't have been published at a better time for educators and students. The books offer a real-life, media-rich experience, exploring what climate change looks like on the ground and what can be done to stem its effects."

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The books also include opportunities for students to engage in discussion through a social media activity called Do Now (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Fsnapoutofit.gif&hash=911b14b142101df534f739771fb2d3836a807d19), and to create and share their own media projects on climate-change topics.

The books and iTunes U course also align with the Next Generation Science Standards and Climate Literacy, a set of climate principles developed by scientists, educators and several federal agencies. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Fearthhug.gif&hash=3abcf70466f34337f2d702ebd9e02c650d5c4c20)

"Even though recent polls show that a majority of Americans now believe climate change is happening, climate change remains a controversial and divisive issue when it comes to policymaking," says Lisa White, director of education at the University of California Museum of Paleontology. "These new books offer a way for KQED's partners to bring relevant research to life, and promote greater access to information about climate and global environmental change in an easy-to-understand package for not only students but also the public." (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.desismileys.com%2Fsmileys%2Fdesismileys_0293.gif&hash=b1af4868ed8f18c30e637f8cbcb79002f6f71039)

Clue into Climate follows the release last June of the two-part e-book series, Energy, produced by KQED and Stanford's Precourt Institute for Energy. Volume 1, Energy: The Basics, investigates the nature of energy and energy resources. Volume 2, Energy: Use and Efficiency, explores how people use energy, from generating electricity to developing energy-efficient technologies. The Energy books and a companion iTunes U course can also be downloaded free of charge on iPad.

Clue into Climate is a project of KQED Science with support from KQED's Campaign 21. The series was developed by Andrea Aust, KQED science education manager, and produced by Lauren Farrar, KQED science interactive media producer, with contributions from KQED's David Pierce, Craig Miller and Molly Samuel.

Additional contributors to the iBooks Textbook series include Christopher Field, Robert Jackson, Katharine Mach, Michael Mastrandrea and Mark Shwartz from Stanford University and the Carnegie Institution at Stanford; Lisa White and Jessica Bean from the University of California Museum of Paleontology; and Minda Berbeco from the National Center for Science Education.

Media Contact

Mark Shwartz, Precourt Institute for Energy: (650) 723-9296, mshwartz@stanford.edu

Dan Stober, Stanford News Service: (650) 721-6965 dstober@stanford.edu

http://news.stanford.edu/news/2014/december/ebooks-climate-change-120414.html

Agelbert NOTE: The founder of the above institute, Dr. Franklin Orr, was just confirmed as Under Secretary for Science and Energy. So, hopefully, this will help the DOE get away from fossil and nuclear fuel nuttery.  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.emofaces.com%2Fpng%2F200%2Femoticons%2Ffingerscrossed.png&hash=d56f8009d18b55f4cea7be68284c0521be92fc5d)


Dr. Franklin Orr Confirmed as Under Secretary for Science and Energy
December 4, 2014 - 10:10am

Stanford Report, December 5, 2014
Stanford Professor Lynn Orr confirmed as head of DOE science and energy research

After a yearlong delay, the U.S. Senate has confirmed Lynn Orr as under secretary for science and energy in the U.S. Department of Energy.


By Mark Shwartz

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Franklin 'Lynn' Orr

Professor Franklin "Lynn" Orr, founding director of the Precourt Institute for Energy at Stanford University, has been confirmed by the U.S. Senate as under secretary for science and energy in the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).

Orr was nominated by President Obama in November 2013 and approved by the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee in January 2014. The full Senate finally approved his nomination on a voice vote Thursday morning.

"The science and energy research supported by DOE is a critical component of the energy transitions that lie ahead,"
Orr said. "I am looking forward to starting work with Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz and his team to tackle those challenges."

Orr, 67, will oversee all of the DOE's science research programs, including a majority of the DOE's national labs. This position is part of the department's recent reorganization, which expanded the role of the under secretary for science to encompass both science and energy.

Orr's role will include oversight of research in the Office of Science, the Office of Fossil Energy, the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, the Office of Nuclear Energy, the Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability, the Office of Indian Energy and the Office of Technology Transfer Coordinator.

"Lynn Orr is an outstanding scientist and has successfully led a major multidisciplinary program on energy sources, technology and analysis at one of the top research universities," Moniz said. "This experience will serve him well as the DOE under secretary for science and energy. I look forward to working closely with Lynn to shape the nation's clean energy agenda, and to sustain American leadership in science. I thank the Senate for approving his nomination."

SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory at Stanford will be one of the national laboratories to reside within the new organizational unit.

Earlier this year, Orr stepped down from his post as the director of the Precourt Institute for Energy, which he had led since the institute was created in 2009. Prior to leading the Precourt Institute, Orr served as the founding director of the Global Climate and Energy Project at Stanford from 2002 to 2008.

Since 1985, Orr has been an associate professor and professor in Stanford's Department of Energy Resources Engineering (formerly the Department of Petroleum Engineering  ;D). He was dean of the School of Earth Sciences at Stanford from 1994 to 2002 and chairman of the Department of Petroleum Engineering from 1991 to 1994.  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-300714025456.bmp&hash=f4e4a260bd60d3f34ca86fed93c47d5fb4117cfd) Orr held several other research positions from 1970 to 1985 in New Mexico, Texas and Washington, D.C. He received his BS from Stanford University and PhD from the University of Minnesota.

http://news.stanford.edu/news/2014/december/orr-doe-appt-120514.html

IF Dr. Orr is not a pro fracking sleeper agent for big oil, this is good news for we-the-people. Despite his PETROLEUM PIGGERY credentials, the fact that his confirmation was delayed a year means he GETS IT in regard to climate change and the FACT that dirty energy is the CAUSE.

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on December 06, 2014, 04:17:12 pm
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Random  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.runemasterstudios.com%2Fgraemlins%2Fimages%2F2thumbs.gif&hash=98130be1edf2bed4a80ac8f134b0126673bd469e) says:  4 Dec 2014 at 11:21 PM

 I’m actually a bit frustrated how those elaborate statistical discussions fail to communicate the basic point to the layman, that all the talk about the ‘hiatus’ is just a product of looking at the wrong metrics. I had much better results in discussions with ‘skeptics’ by just stating that the *global* mean does not make for a good metrics in a situation, when three of four values go up and one goes down. Just look at figure 6 on page 4 in Jim Hansen’s paper from early 2013: http://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/mailings/2014/20140121_Temperature2013.pdf

Can anybody spot a ‘hiatus’? No? I certainly can’t. Temperatures rise consistently on the southern hemisphere in summer and winter. Temperatures rise consistently on the northern hemisphere in summer. There’s no ‘hiatus’. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.desismileys.com%2Fsmileys%2Fdesismileys_0293.gif&hash=b1af4868ed8f18c30e637f8cbcb79002f6f71039) Only winter in the northern hemisphere has seen a decline in temperatures – which isn’t a ‘hiatus’ in my book either. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.desismileys.com%2Fsmileys%2Fdesismileys_0293.gif&hash=b1af4868ed8f18c30e637f8cbcb79002f6f71039)

I think it would actually be better to put away fancy statistics in this case and to even not argue about the length of the period the ‘skeptics’ choose to look at – and just tell them, that the global mean was a poor choice of metrics in a situation where three indicators go up and one goes down. Because it suggests a ‘hiatus’ where clearly there isn’t one. That’s simple arithmetics that average people can understand.  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.desismileys.com%2Fsmileys%2Fdesismileys_0293.gif&hash=b1af4868ed8f18c30e637f8cbcb79002f6f71039)

I’m not saying that the statistical argument was unimportant. I’m just saying that – instead of being frustrated by laymen and the media, who “just don’t get it” – we should simply tell a story of “you’re relying on the wrong calculation” (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.desismileys.com%2Fsmileys%2Fdesismileys_0293.gif&hash=b1af4868ed8f18c30e637f8cbcb79002f6f71039) that is much easier to understand.

I for my part had very good success in discussions with “skeptics” here – no one has been able to counter that one yet. They either went mum or evasive.  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-200714191258.bmp&hash=e4ed21caaca822f7445ccafd39f49a9f84be90ca)  - See more at: http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2014/12/recent-global-warming-trends-significant-or-paused-or-what/#sthash.3AgHgStk.dpuf


Recent global warming trends: significant or paused or what?  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F34y5mvr.gif&hash=835b3a3f26d5d1b7f0acc379ad8ebd3fe9eea488)

Filed under: Climate Science Communicating Climate Instrumental Record Reporting on climate skeptics — stefan @ 4 December 2014


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Fig. 1. Global temperature 1979 to present – monthly values (crosses), 12-months running mean (red line) and linear trend line with uncertainty (blue)

You clearly see a linear warming trend of 0.175 °C per decade, with confidence intervals of ±0.047 °C per decade.
That’s global warming – a measured fact.  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Freading.gif&hash=63e3e644b39258d4c4eedbcdaf322315b1856723) - See more at: http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2014/12/recent-global-warming-trends-significant-or-paused-or-what/#sthash.3AgHgStk.dpuf
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on December 08, 2014, 07:30:34 pm
At Lima Talks, Nations Worst Hit by Global Warming Say Climate Aid Isn’t Charity, But Reparations  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F47b20s0.gif&hash=cc48c9af9d29b8836023c7db21103e52d1ed439e)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RN6djR8_IgUE&feature=player_embedded

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=RN6djR8_IgU

http://ecowatch.com/2014/12/08/un-climate-summit-lima-peru/

The Fossil Fuelers   DID THE Climate Trashing CRIME,   but since they have ALWAYS BEEN liars   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.u.arizona.edu%2F%7Epatricia%2Fcute-collection%2Fsmileys%2Flying-smiley.gif&hash=a34c2f7344d5f54f7009a4e684bb6c7310cdda03) and conscience free crooks ,    they are trying to AVOID   DOING THE TIME or     PAYING THE FINE!     Don't let them get away with it! Pass it on! (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F176.gif&hash=121533221905789c6b8d57a9603883266d349266)


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“We as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values… when machines and computers, profit motives and property rights, are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism and militarism are incapable of being conquered.”
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. April 4, 1967
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on December 12, 2014, 02:16:14 pm
The most popular deceptive  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.u.arizona.edu%2F%7Epatricia%2Fcute-collection%2Fsmileys%2Flying-smiley.gif&hash=a34c2f7344d5f54f7009a4e684bb6c7310cdda03)  climate graph

Filed under: Climate Science
 Communicating Climate
 Instrumental Record
 skeptics
 Sun-earth connections
 — stefan @ 8 December 2014

The “World Climate Widget” from Tony Watts’ blog is probably the most popular deceptive image among climate “skeptics”.   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2F2.bp.blogspot.com%2F_9HT4xZyDmh4%2FTOHhxzA0wLI%2FAAAAAAAAEUk%2FoeHDS2cfxWQ%2Fs200%2FSmiley_Angel_Wings_Halo.jpg&hash=13281f1944b60773bf12b29387b70be77cc1fe16) We’ll take it under the microscope and show what it would look like when done properly.  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F47b20s0.gif&hash=cc48c9af9d29b8836023c7db21103e52d1ed439e) So called “climate skeptics” deploy an arsenal of misleading graphics, with which the human influence on the climate can be down played (here are two other  examples deconstructed at Realclimate).  The image below is especially widespread.  It is displayed on many “climate skeptic” websites and is regularly updated.

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The “World Climate Widget” of US “climate skeptic” Anthony Watts  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.u.arizona.edu%2F%7Epatricia%2Fcute-collection%2Fsmileys%2Flying-smiley.gif&hash=a34c2f7344d5f54f7009a4e684bb6c7310cdda03)with our explanations added.  The original can be found on Watts’ blog

What would a more honest display of temperature, CO2 and sunspots look like? (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-301014182447.gif&hash=58fbc1dfd905f79b3d4bacde8e89a935c2b859ac)

1. It is better to plot the surface air temperature.  That is what is relevant for us humans: we do not live up in the troposphere, nor do natural ecosystems, nor do we grow our food up there. By the way, the satellite-based tropospheric temperatures shown by Watts show almost the same climatic warming trend as those measured by weather stations near ground level (in both cases 0.16 C per decade over the last 30 years).  However, variability in the tropospheric data is considerably larger, especially because of higher sensitivity to El Niño (as happened in 1998) and the solar cycle (we showed that in Foster and Rahmstorf ERL 2011 – when corrected for those factors the surface and troposphere data agree closely).  Because of increased noise, the trend is less obvious to the eye, especially if one shows monthly values which adds yet more noise.  Let us thus use the GISTEMP global annual temperature record from NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Science (all surface data sets agree to better than 0.1 °C, see comparison graph).

2. One needs to scale the CO2 data correctly for an honest comparison with temperature, so that it can actually be used to evaluate climate scientists’ predictions of the CO2 effect.  You can calculate this with a complicated climate model, but one can also use a back-of-envelope estimate.  A CO2 increase from 280 to 400 ppm (equivalent to 2 Watts/meter2 radiative forcing) produces about 1 °C of global warming (at the time when 400 ppm is reached – some further warming will follow with delay). Thus, an increase of 100 ppm CO2 on the right hand side of the graph corresponds to a temperature increase of 0.8°C on the left hand side. That matches the IPCC’s estimate of the “transient climate response (TCR)” of ~2°C at the time of CO2 doubling (see Technical Summary of the IPCC WG1 report, p. 84). The TCR is smaller than the equilibrium climate sensitivity (about 3°C for doubled CO2) because it takes time to warm the oceans. The full equilibrium warming is thus only reached after a time delay. We are going to use the annual values from the famous CO2 measurements which began in 1958 on Mauna Loa in Hawaii.

3. And last but not least one should show honest sunspot data (annual time series), not just a snapshot of the number of spots on the sun today (which is completely uninformative for climate purposes – it’s apparently been added to the widget simply to insinuate an important role of the sun  ;)). Here also there is a question of the proper scaling (which is actually not that important because solar activity is cyclical and shows no significant trend over the period of the graph).  We will chose the scaling from the correlation analysis of Lean and Rind (2008) from which one can find a measurable effect on global temperature with an amplitude of 0.05°C.


When done this way the graph looks like this:
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One of the readers of our German sister blog KlimaLounge, Bernd Herd, has programmed a widget for this graph so it can be added to any website at a size you like, automatically updated annually.  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.runemasterstudios.com%2Fgraemlins%2Fimages%2F2thumbs.gif&hash=98130be1edf2bed4a80ac8f134b0126673bd469e)

The trends in the CO2 and temperature anomaly curves agree very well with each other.  This is surprising at first because CO2 is of course not the only factor that influences global temperature. There are two reasons for this agreement:

(1)  Of the other anthropogenic factors, some have a warming effect (other greenhouse gases such as methane) while others have a cooling effect (air pollution). These roughly balance in global average. The IPCC AR4 report found a radiative forcing of 1.7 W/m2 from the CO2 increase alone, while the total from all anthropogenic factors amounted to 1.6 W/m2.

(2)  Natural factors (volcanoes, solar cycle) influencing the trend are very small in comparison to anthropogenic CO2 (as e.g. standard correlation analyses show, see for example Lean and Rind 2008, Foster and Rahmstorf 2011). The IPCC AR5 found their contribution to global temperature change since 1951 to be in the range of −0.1°C to 0.1°C.

It requires quite some skill to produce a misleading graph like Watts’ global climate widget, which hides the actual connections between global temperature, CO2 and the sunspot cycle. Watts’ widget is quite a useful indicator though: whenever you see it on a website, you know they are trying to fool rather than inform you there. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Fsnapoutofit.gif&hash=911b14b142101df534f739771fb2d3836a807d19)

http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2014/12/the-most-popular-deceptive-climate-graph/#sthash.gNUsKzLJ.dpuf
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on December 13, 2014, 04:21:08 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_F-M6Ly3Jqw&feature=player_embedded
Tornado in Oklahoma Los Angeles, CALIFORNIA!  :o
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on December 16, 2014, 07:07:22 pm
The mindset of a defender of a gradual transition to Renewable Energy while watching a documentary on climate change effects on the biosphere.
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At least he is wearing the appropriate garb.  ;D
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on December 24, 2014, 07:30:30 pm
Greenland's Ice Loss Now Comes from Surface  :o

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SAN FRANCISCO — Greenland's disappearing ice shifted gears in the past decade, switching from shrinking glaciers to surface melting, researchers reported here last week at the American Geophysical Union's annual meeting.

Instead of losing ice where massive glaciers meet the sea, Greenland now sends meltwater rushing into the ocean via a vast network of lakes and rivers, according to several studies. The results do not mean that glaciers have stopped their speedy flow, only that surface melting now exerts a more powerful influence on ice loss, researchers said.

 "We no longer see giant icebergs calving" from glaciers, releasing ice into the sea, said Lora Koenig, a glaciologist at the National Snow and Ice Data Center, who led one of the new studies. "The majority of water is coming from surface melt." [Photos: Under the Greenland Ice Sheet]

Koenig discovered that lakes in west Greenland now stay liquid through the frigid winter, as long as an insulating snow blanket keeps the water warm. These lakes get a head start on melting the next summer. "Water is not a good thing to have persisting year-round," Koenig said Dec. 15 at a news conference. "What this water is really doing is priming the pump [for melting] for the next season."

Full article:
http://news.yahoo.com/greenlands-ice-loss-now-comes-surface-141536542.html
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on December 27, 2014, 06:07:11 pm
Quote

Carl Dalton   
 December 26, 2014 



SIMPLE FACT

The Total Solar Heat Input” into the Biosphere of the Planet
+
The Total unnaturally generated mega trillions of watts, of “Heat Output” into the Biosphere of the Planet
+
The factors that Climate Scientists have not as yet recognized

COMBINED

Is subject to the same;

Overall Greenhouse Effect

Climate Scientists and Climate Change Activists have been, and are so focussed on solar input and GHG emissions, as to being the source of global warming;

They have failed to realize, that it is;

“Hundreds of millions of years” of fossilized energy, being “Converted” into hundreds of quadrillions of watts of HEAT;

Over a mere

“Two to three centuries”

That is the major source of the problem;

And the fact that;

Energy may be converted, but energy cannot be created or destroyed.

Is the major cause of the problem.

Therefore it follows, that as this excess heat energy which has not been able to escape, has instead been sequestered (as potential energy) into the only rapid up/intake medium available, the planets salt water oceans.

To the point that four fifths of the Earth’s total surface area, has increased in temperature to a depth of 700 metres; “and only to this temperature and depth”, because a great deal of this excess heat is being carried away by the oceanic currents, towards the cooling polar icecaps.

And as the polar icecaps are simultaneously being bombarded, with “multi quadrillions” of infinitesimally small hydrocarbon pollutants (which has also caused high levels of cancer in the Inuit people, and caribou reindeer); which both absorb solar radiation and re-radiate it as heat into the ice below; so they are being melted from above, and from below.

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Therefore given these additional factors, taken in conjunction with the masses of scientific evidence that serve to confirm/prove, that the globe is actually and factually overheating; it follows, that all of the future predictions that have been made in regard to the rapidity of climate change, are in deficit to a great degree.

And given this poor state of climate affairs + the sub cerebral vacuity, and hence intransigence of “The Incorporated Parasitic Mass” of fossil fuel merchants and their quisling politicians; I feel that there is but small hope, that humanity at large can be persuaded, or will be prompted to take decisive action; before either it is, or it is almost too late to save the living planet.

Just another nutcase?

It does not need a Rocket Scientist to realize;

If instead of a single 3 prop vertically mounted wind rotor; wind towers are constructed incorporating “multiple level” (magnetic levitated/100% wind power delivery) lateral wind driven rotors (as with those rotating heat extractors on building roof’s), to drive a central vertical axle.

The amount of torque = power = electricity, generated over the same area of ground as that of one current type 3 prop wind turbine; is only limited by the towers height, and the number of lateral rotors incorporated into the structure of the tower.

Unlike vertical prop rotors which injure and kill birdlife, lateral rotors can also be surrounded by wire mesh preventing this; and as turbines are underground there is no health risk from its electromagnetic field.

For methods to naturally/cleanly generate unlimited amounts of electricity refer to;

www.fromthecircletothesphere.com and click on the Global Overheating tab

The above fact filled comment was in regard to other comments in the Story below:

Norway Utility Plans to Invest as Much as $8.1 Billion in Renewables

 Alex Morales, Bloomberg 
 December 24, 2014

 http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/article/2014/12/norway-utility-plans-to-invest-as-much-as-8-1-billion-in-renewables#comment-138754
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on December 28, 2014, 05:42:03 pm
Pictorial metaphor:
Biosphere versus the 1% holding humanity hostage.

Nature doesn't just "bat last"; it BATS FIRST, in the MIDDLE, and LAST! Wall Street PUNKS "Lord of the Manor" thinking is an ABERRATION borne of arrogant, navel gazing, narcissistic MAGICAL THINKING.  8)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7Nci-GVuHE&feature=player_embedded
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Comfort loving, but stupid, thinking.  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Fmog.gif&hash=08e6f04144781466148f6693be6dc3451a322669) (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.freesmileys.org%2Fcustom%2Fimage%2Ftongue%255E_%255Earial%255E_%255E0%255E_%255E0%255E_%255EBurning+Fossil+Fuels+IS+SUICIDE%255E_%255E.gif&hash=dddc6d85ffcc21075f53bda643372d2383013562)





Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on December 30, 2014, 12:44:25 am
Pope Francis to Issue ‘Unprecedented’ Edict on Climate Change


 Dec 28, 2014


In 2015, Pope Francis is expected to address the issue of climate change to a U.N. general assembly and the world’s 1.2 billion Catholics, and call a summit on the threat of the world’s main religions.

Vatican insiders say Francis will meet other faith leaders and lobby politicians at the U.N. general assembly in New York in September, when countries are scheduled to agree on new anti-poverty and environmental goals.

The Guardian reports:


Urging all Catholics to take action on moral and scientific grounds, [a rare encyclical on climate change and human ecology] will be sent to the world’s 5,000 Catholic bishops and 400,000 priests, who will distribute it to parishioners.

… In recent months, the pope has argued for a radical new financial and economic system to avoid human inequality and ecological devastation. In October he told a meeting of Latin American and Asian landless peasants and other social movements: “An economic system centred on the god of money needs to plunder nature to sustain the frenetic rhythm of consumption that is inherent to it.

“The system continues unchanged, since what dominates are the dynamics of an economy and a finance that are lacking in ethics. It is no longer man who commands, but money. Cash commands.

"The monopolising of lands, deforestation, the appropriation of water, inadequate agro-toxics are some of the evils that tear man from the land of his birth. Climate change, the loss of biodiversity and deforestation are already showing their devastating effects in the great cataclysms we witness,” he said. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.runemasterstudios.com%2Fgraemlins%2Fimages%2F2thumbs.gif&hash=98130be1edf2bed4a80ac8f134b0126673bd469e)

Observers expect Francis’ environmental radicalism to be resisted by Vatican conservatives and right-wing church circles, particularly in the United States.

Cardinal George Pell, for instance, is a former archbishop of Sydney who has been placed in charge of the Vatican’s budget and who has claimed that global warming has ended and that if carbon dioxide added to the atmosphere were doubled, “plants would love it.”

Dan Misleh, director of the Catholic climate covenant, said: “There will always be 5-10% of people who will take offense. They are very vocal and have political clout. This encyclical will threaten some people and bring joy to others. The arguments are around economics and science rather than morality.

“A papal encyclical is rare. It is among the highest levels of a pope’s authority. It will be 50 to 60 pages long; it’s a big deal. But there is a contingent of Catholics here who say he should not be getting involved in political issues, that he is outside his expertise.”

—Posted by Alexander Reed Kelly.
http://www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/pope_francis_to_issue_unprecedented_edict_on_climate_change_20141228
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on January 08, 2015, 10:21:49 pm
Not Leaving Carbon in the Ground is a Death Sentence (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Fmog.gif&hash=08e6f04144781466148f6693be6dc3451a322669)

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A new study published in the journal Nature argues that most of the remaining fossil fuel reserves on our planet will need to be left in the ground if we want to have any chance at preventing catastrophic climate change. The scientists behind the research argue that most Canadian tar sands oil, all Arctic oil and gas, and most shale gas has to stay buried underground if we want to avoid the 2 degrees Celsius warming benchmark.

Christophe McGlade, the lead researcher on the study, told The Guardian that, “We’ve now got tangible figures of the quantities and locations of fossil fuels that should remain unused in trying to keep within the 2C temperature limit.”So, what are the quantities and locations of the fossil fuels that need to stay underground?  ???

Well, McGlade and his team found that 82% of coal reserves globally need to stay underground to save our planet. That includes 92% of coal reserves right here in the U.S.

As for gas, 49% of global gas reserves can’t be burned, which includes 100% of gas reserves in the Arctic, 61% of gas reserves in the Middle East, and 63% of gas reserves in China and India.


Finally, the researchers found that 33% of the world’s oil reserves must stay underground, including 38% of reserves in the Middle East, 85% of reserves in Canada, and 100% of oil reserves in the Arctic.

Basically, if we want to have any chance at saving our planet from the greatest threat it’s ever faced, we have to leave fossil fuels and the carbon that comes with them in the ground.
It’s that simple.

Unfortunately, countries and companies are still spending billions on oil and gas exploration. A report by Oil Change International and the Overseas Development Institute found that collectively, the G20 nations and companies within them, which includes the United States, are spending a staggering $88 billion per year on fossil fuel exploration subsides to Big Oil. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F126fs2277341.gif&hash=1a8375f11d76a653bcb48e30eaa7b652175f029d)(https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Fminzdr.gif&hash=f5927d7395d8a28c69df2a0a3a98660932c6903f) The US alone spent a whopping $5.1 billion on oil and gas exploration subsidies to big energy companies in 2013 alone.

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Full Article at link:  8)

 http://www.thomhartmann.com/blog/2015/01/why-carbon-should-be-left-ground#sthash.go4461DJ.dpuf
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on January 11, 2015, 02:54:57 pm
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Agelbert NOTE: the STERIC contribution to SLR (Sea Level Rise) is defined as the volume increase due to an increase in average ocean temperature, which reduces average seawater density (yeah, I had to look it up.  :-[).
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Diagnosing Causes of Sea Level Rise (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Freading.gif&hash=63e3e644b39258d4c4eedbcdaf322315b1856723)

Filed under: Climate Science
 Oceans
 — eric @ 8 January 2015

Guest post by Sarah G. Purkey and Gregory C. Johnson,
 University of Washington / NOAA


I solicited this post from colleagues at the University of Washington. I found their paper particularly interesting because it gets at the question of sea level rise from a combination of ocean altimetry and density (temperature + salinity) data. This kind of measurement and calculation has not really been possible — not at this level of detail — until quite recently. A key finding is that one can reconcile various different estimates of the contributions to observed sea level rise only if the significant warming of the deep ocean is accounted for.   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F301.gif&hash=0291ed4abf2d80e420d1aa00d4eb3c5dd6bbfb53) There was a good write-up in The Guardian back when the paper came out.– Eric Steig

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A rise in the mean sea level can be caused by decreases in ocean density, mostly reflecting an increase in ocean temperature — this is steric sea level rise.

It can also be caused by an increase in ocean mass, reflecting a gain of fresh water from land.

A third, and smaller, contribution to mean sea level is from glacial isostatic adjustment. The contribution of glacial isostatic adjustment, while small, has a range of possible values and can be a significant source of uncertainty in sea level budgets. Over recent decades, very roughly half of the observed mean sea level rise is owing to changes in ocean density with the other half owing to the increased in ocean mass, mostly from melting glaciers and polar ice sheets. The exact proportion has been difficult to pin down with great certainty.

Knowing the proportion of sea level rise (SLR) owing to mass addition
versus thermal expansion is not only important for quantifying total SLR. Each component also imparts information about the effects of climate change. First, the ocean absorbs over 90% of the excess heat from greenhouse gas forcing.

In order to monitor and model global warming accurately, we need to know where and how much heat is entering the ocean, and which is directly (although nonlinearly) related to steric SLR.

Sea level rise (SLR) is an important consequence of climate change, and quantifying rates of melting of land ice, including contributions from the massive Greenland and West Antarctica ice sheets is vital to understanding sea level rise. Knowing local rates of past SLR and what is driving those rates will help to improve global and local projections of SLR that are essential for informing adaptation strategies in coastal communities.

Over the past two decades, revolutionary advances in the global ocean observing system have made it possible to estimate the relative contributions of mass and thermal expansion with increasing certainty.

Since 1992
satellite altimetry has provided high-resolution measurements of sea surface height. These data are used to estimate local and global sea level variations.

Since 2002, monthly large-scale variations in ocean mass have been estimated using data from the Gravity Recovery And Climate Experiment (GRACE), twin orbiting satellites capable of measuring very small changes in Earth’s gravitational field. GRACE data can be used to estimate variations in ocean mass either by measuring changes in gravity over the ocean or by measuring glacial retreat, melting of polar ice sheets, and changes in terrestrial reservoir storage.

Finally, starting around 2005 the international Argo Program’s array of autonomous profiling floats first achieved sparse near-global coverage, allowing estimates of steric sea level changes in the upper half of the ocean using in situ measurements of ocean temperature and salinity. Thus, since around 2005, satellite and in situ observation systems have allowed for direct estimates of the total change in SLR, that owing to changes in ocean mass, and that owing to temperature (and to a lesser extent salinity) changes in the upper half of the ocean volume.

Agelbert NOTE: This is REALLY important! Why? Because, since 2005, there is NO ROOM FOR ARGUMENT from those that DON'T DO THE MATH! These are not "models"; these are scientific instruments ACCURATELY measuring the real world. This is the kind of data that cannot be refuted with mathematician statistical fun and games. It also offers mathematicians in general, and climate scientists in particular, some HEAVY DUTY ammunition  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Fcowboypistol.gif&hash=2dc97f743dffca22404e6e4e0822765e60b33f38) to counter climate denier propaganda.

With these revolutionary developments in ocean observation, many researchers have been asking some obvious, but very important, questions. Does the total sea level change equal the sum of heating and mass changes within estimated instrumental error? If not, which measurement systems might be biased or incomplete? Is neglect of a deep steric contribution preventing the budget from closing?

In situ data deeper than the current 2000 m Argo sampling limit are the best way to address some of these questions. In the 1990s, for these purposes and others, international investigators working on the World Ocean Circulation Experiment (GO-SHIP) began to repeat a subset of these sections at decadal intervals.

With the first decadal re-survey recently completed, we have investigated changes in deep ocean temperature and salinity in the bottom half of the ocean volume, around the globe between the 1990s and the 2000s. In our most their paper, we combine these full depth measurements of ocean steric changes with satellite sea-surface height data to evaluate the SLR budget, including any deep steric expansion, and make an estimate of the global ocean mass changes independent of GRACE data.

First, we interpolate satellite sea surface height data to the times and locations of these repeat sections to look at the total sea-surface height changes between repeats. We then calculate the difference of this total sea-level change and the full-depth steric changes from the repeat section salinity and temperature data. The result is the change in ocean mass between section occupations.  ;D

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Figure 1: Mean ocean mass sea level rise (mm per year) in within each boundary (black lines) calculated using all full depth data available (gray lines). From their paper.

Despite the very limited spatial coverage compared to Argo (Fig. 1), this method allows for statistically significant global average and seven regional averages of ocean mass trends because ocean mass variations in most ocean regions are comparatively large in spatial scale since small-scale mass fluctuations are very quickly evened out by ocean surface gravity waves. Most small-scale variability in local sea level is related to steric changes that are captured in the steric SLR integration and removed from the total. Globally, our mass trend estimate, centered on 1996–2006, is 1.5 mm per year, with large spatial variability.

Our GRACE estimate of SLR trend (from an averaging kernel) is also 1.5 mm per year for 2003–2013, although this method may produce a slight underestimate of the actual trend. Nonetheless, the results from the two independent methods agree well within their uncertainties (both 0.4 mm per year), despite the fact that these two different decadal estimates only have 3 years of overlap. Furthermore, the spatial variability among the seven regions also shows good agreement, with most falling within error bars of each other.

Both methods find that the South Atlantic and North Pacific are gaining mass the fastest, while the North Atlantic and Pacific sector of the Southern Ocean are either gaining little or no mass (Fig. 1). This regional variability in ocean mass trends can be attributed to a number of factors.

In the North Pacific, the more rapid ocean mass addition has been attributed to large-scale changes in wind patterns over the ocean that affects the wind driven ocean circulation. These circulation changes will be reflected in sea surface topography, which is in part a reflection of shifts of mass from one region to another.

The relatively large mass gain in the South Atlantic is most likely also attributed to local changes in wind stress, possibly affecting the Weddell Gyre or the Antarctic Circumpolar Current.

The two regions with the smallest rates of mass increase are adjacent to Greenland or West Antarctica. These ice sheets are losing mass due to melt, thus losing some of their gravitational attraction, and causing an observable local decrease in sea level there as these waters are redistributed elsewhere.

Because we are using full-depth steric data, we can estimate the contribution of deep ocean warming (hence expansion) to the sea level rise. If deep-ocean warming below 2000 m is ignored, it introduces 13% error into the estimate of the global ocean mass trend. Furthermore, if ocean warming below 1000 m is ignored, the ocean mass trend estimate using our method no longer agrees with that from GRACE within error bars.  8)

This work highlights the importance of the deep ocean warming contribution to SLR. At the moment, the best direct estimates of these changes are using the spatially and temporally sparse but high quality and full-depth WOCE and GO-SHIP data sets to get basin-scale and global trends over decadal time-scales. To estimate regional evolution of deep-ocean warming and its contribution to SLR over shorter space and time scales requires an improved deep monitoring system.

Currently, prototype profiling floats capable of measuring temperature and salinity all the way to 6000 m are being tested for a Deep Argo array  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.runemasterstudios.com%2Fgraemlins%2Fimages%2F2thumbs.gif&hash=98130be1edf2bed4a80ac8f134b0126673bd469e)  (Figure 2). If enough of these floats are deployed, this new Deep Argo array, capable of measuring all but about 2% of the entire ocean volume, together with the current 0–2000 m Argo array, would allow for continuous monitoring of full-depth ocean heat uptake and hence steric sea level rise, both regionally and globally.

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Figure 2. Deep Argo Float (a SOLO model from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography) being deployed from the R/V Tangaroa in the deep Southwest Pacific Basin in June 2014. Photo: LEARNZ  www.learnz.org.nz part of CORE Education www.core‐ed.org

References

1. S.G. Purkey, G.C. Johnson, and D.P. Chambers, "Relative contributions of ocean mass and deep steric changes to sea level rise between 1993 and 2013", Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, vol. 119, pp. 7509-7522, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/2014JC010180

2. I. Joughin, B.E. Smith, and B. Medley, "Marine Ice Sheet Collapse Potentially Under Way for the Thwaites Glacier Basin, West Antarctica", Science, vol. 344, pp. 735-738, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1249055

3. W. Llovel, J.K. Willis, F.W. Landerer, and I. Fukumori, "Deep-ocean contribution to sea level and energy budget not detectable over the past decade", Nature Climate change, vol. 4, pp. 1031-1035, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nclimate2387

4. K.E. Trenberth, J.T. Fasullo, and M.A. Balmaseda, "Earth’s Energy Imbalance", Journal of Climate, vol. 27, pp.
3129-3144, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-13-00294.1

5. D.P. Chambers, and J.K. Willis, "Analysis of large-scale ocean bottom pressure variability in the North Pacific", J. Geophys. Res., vol. 113, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2008JC004930

6. J. Bamber, and R. Riva, "The sea level fingerprint of recent ice mass fluxes", The Cryosphere, vol. 4, pp. 621-627, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/tc-4-621-2010

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on January 15, 2015, 06:58:50 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lz_XfjvMpmA&feature=player_embedded
UNNATURAL SELECTION by TPTB (DEMOCRACY, MY ASS!) WILL subtract human DNA from the biosphere gene pool (along with thousands of other species  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-311013200859.png&hash=a7aaaa9f04c1e3e2c948723b5f8c13fe814dacd4)). Just like natural selection, the process WILL NOT produce MORE complex life forms; it will SUBTRACT from biosphere diversity and complexity. Only the extremely hardy, and simple, extremophiles will survive.

Have a nice day.  8)

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on January 17, 2015, 09:04:08 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxABO84gol8&feature=player_embedded
The Methane Monster is Real.  :(
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on January 23, 2015, 12:08:48 am
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Filed under: Climate Science El Nino Instrumental Record Reporting on climate — gavin @ 22 January 2015

Full peer reviewed article with eye opening graphics:

http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2015/01/thoughts-on-2014-and-ongoing-temperature-trends/#sthash.SsfON4ei.dpuf
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on January 30, 2015, 02:28:59 pm
Fossil Fuelers Cashing in on (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Felqahera-trading.com%2Fhome%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2012%2F04%2Fdollar-sign-thumbnail1.jpg&hash=e1962ecaa694d312d50a9984ee058a45aed1e860)  INSTEAD OF PAYING FOR (AGAIN  :P) Global Warming! Happy days are here again for MKing's pals! (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.freesmileys.org%2Fsmileys%2Fsmiley-devil12.gif&hash=d1822754cefdd0f77369dacd157d00f5f8d3fff9)

Brazil’s Drought Brings Water Supply to Near Zero Capacity at Hydroelectric Facilities

 Gregory B. Poindexter 
 January 29, 2015

BRASILIA, Brazil Brazil is experiencing a debilitating drought as the nation endures the driest period since South America’s most populous country began keeping records in the 1930s. As a result of the arid conditions, reservoir levels and lake water flow to hydroelectric facilities that supply power to Brazil’s most densely populated city of Sao Paulo are nearing zero capacity.

According to the federal government, hydroelectric power facilities in the country’s southeastern region that supply power to close to 20 million people in the metropolitan region of Sao Paulo (MRSP) are being deactivated. A list of the deactivated facilities is not immediately available, but Brazil normally receives about 70% of its electricity from hydroelectric plants, according to energy officials.

The Billings Reservoir, in MRSP, supplies the 889-MW Henry Borden hydroelectric facility as part of the Cantareira water system. Local media outlets report Billings Reservoir is nearly dry.

Greater Sao Paulo, according to the World Bank, is the most important industrial producer of the country. Sao Paulo City, the world's ninth-largest city according to available 2012 census data, is located on the southeastern end of the Alto-Tiete River Basin. The city relies heavily on the Cantareia water system for hydroelectric energy to power industry, sanitation and drinking water.

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Cantareia water system is formed by six reservoirs in five basins located in the Serra da Cantareira to the north of Greater Sao Pauloin the states of Sao Paulo and Minas Gerais. The system covers twelve municipalities, as well as the Guaru water treatment plant.

According to information from the state owned water utility, Companhia de Agua e Esgoto do estado de Sao Paulo (SABESP), the four-lake Cantareira water system is the largest of six reservoir systems that provide water to some 10 million of the 20 million people living in MRSP.

The six-reservoir system is linked by 48 km of tunnels and canals that provide flow for hydroelectric power and drinking water to MRSP and combined, the system is at or below 3% of its of its 264 billion gallon capacity.

SABESP is the largest water and sanitation company in South America. In the Alto-Tiete basin, the company provides urban water supply and sanitation services to São Paulo City and most municipalities of the basin, operating 195 water treatment plants and 350 wastewater treatment plants.

Because of the extreme water shortage brought on by the drought, SABESP has been forced to pump dead water -- water from reserves below the intake pipes of several reservoirs -- to use as drinking water.  :P

For the Alto-Tiete system, water level stands at 10.5% against the 46.9% observed a year ago. Water reserves have plunged dramatically in the past 12 months, causing capacity in several reservoirs to reach all-time lows: Guarapiranga, from 77.3% to 46.9%; Alto Cotia saw the greatest decline, going from 86.3% to 32.8%; Rio Grande went from 93.7% to 74.3%; and Rio Claro diminished from 90.8% to 54.3%, according to the latest SABESP estimates.

On Jan. 19, Brazil’s national grid operator, Operador Nacional do Sistema Eletrico (ONS), cut power to several major Brazilian cities, including Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro.

The drought is also having an impact on energy supplies. Officials said with reduced generation from hydroelectric dams, demand for electricity generated from fossil fuel-fired plants will continue to peak  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-200714191329.bmp&hash=4764bfbe6bb0e11ca61102efa97a932a824f47e0) (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Facigar.gif&hash=dc9dccf92c6c88c99611b06c86d92629d69f2978) as people turn up the air conditioning through the hot summer.

Original article posted at http://www.hydroworld.com/articles/2015/01/brazil-s-drought-brings-water-supply-to-near-zero-capacity-at-hydroelectric-facilities.html.
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Comments:

 A. G. Gelbert   
 January 30, 2015 

Brazil needs mega amounts of PV. They have super quality sun in that latitude. they can get about 10 to 20% more efficiency from PV down there than we can up here. The hydroelectric problem s a wakeup call. I hope they do the right thing.

http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/article/2015/01/brazils-drought-brings-water-supply-to-near-zero-capacity-at-hydroelectric-facilities

Agelbert NOTE: Expect the fine fossil fuel profit over planet folks who CONNED Brazilians into believing energy was "Cheap" and having gobs of air conditioners running was a great idea to claim, "No one is putting a gun to the head of Brazilians to turn on their air conditioners... (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Fbc3.gif&hash=e80a574cef1f1cd31dc58d76fe36b5ffb7fe7d5b)".    (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F2z6in9g.gif&hash=771b084a0f186d9cc14f31defd98a6c90b69b84f)

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on February 04, 2015, 10:02:24 pm
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2/04/2015 04:49 PM     
Threatened By Rising Water, Bangladesh Turns to Floating Schools & Farms

SustainableBusiness.com News

When we wrote about the surge of small solar in Bangladesh last May, we were astounded that 2667 solar systems were being added every day.

 Since then, the numbers have grown to 50,000-60,000 a day, bringing the government's goal into reach - a solar nation by 2021, where every household has solar.

 Solar has now reached 3.5 million homes - 10% of the population - up from 1 million in 2012, according to government's Infrastructure Development Company, which runs the program with funding from the World Bank and other development partners.

 In addition to low cost financing for small, home solar systems, the government has plans for 50 mini-solar grids across the country by 2017, part of its plan to replace all diesel-powered irrigation pumps with solar in five years. Five large solar farms are also in the works, adding 143 megawatts of capacity.

And that's not the only way Bangladesh is stepping up to meet its challenges. 

Floating Schools & Farms

Bangladesh - a country of waterways - is one of the most threatened by rising sea levels. About a third of the country is covered by water during monsoon time, but with climate change, water can soak two-thirds of the country.

 An amazing nonprofit, Shidhulai Swanirvar Sangstha, has developed solutions that can be used in many parts of the world.

 When there's too much rain, students take classes aboard solar-powered boats, often for four months a year. There are now 22 floating schools, five floating health clinics and 10 libraries. A new two-tiered school has classrooms on the lower level and a playground on top.

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Bangladesh floating school

And in the watery world that's taking over, they are even helping people create floating farms. The nonprofit provides training, seeds, feed and the entire structure for farms that include ducks, fish and even a vegetable garden.

 The structure, will is moored to shore, is large enough for 5-10 people who can earn about $1700 a year selling eggs, fish and vegetables. So far, there are 40 floating farms, with plans for 400 in the next few years.

Made from a simple bamboo platform, floating farms are 56 feet long and 16 feet wide, and float on empty oil drums or plastic containers, moored to the shore.

These adaptations are crucial, because the only alternative to flooded farms is for people to move into overcrowded cities. Bangladesh is one of the most densely populated countries with 156 million people living in an area the size of Iowa.

 Learn more about Shidhulai Swanirvar Sangstha:

 
Website: www.shidhulai.org/ (http://www.shidhulai.org/)

http://www.sustainablebusiness.com/index.cfm/go/news.display/id/26137 (http://www.sustainablebusiness.com/index.cfm/go/news.display/id/26137)
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on February 05, 2015, 07:49:58 pm
Landslides 101 

They can happen suddenly, ripping homes from their foundations, turning roads into rubble, and killing almost everything in its path. The powerful force of a landslide leaves only destruction in its wake.
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Landslide cuts off No.3 freeway in Taiwan

Landslide is term used to describe the movement of rock, debris and soil down a slope. Gravity is the primary cause of landslides. But other factors contribute to landslide danger by weakening slopes to the point of failure:

Erosion of rock and soil by rivers, glaciers, or ocean waves

Saturation of rock and soil slopes by snowmelt or heavy rains

Movement caused by earthquakes, especially those with magnitude 4.0 and greater

Volcanic eruptions producing loose ash deposits, heavy rain, and debris flows

Deforestation and construction in fragile areas.

Excess weight from accumulated rain or snow, or from man-made structures

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Coastal Landslides

According to the U.S. Geological Survey, landslides are a serious geologic hazard common in almost every U.S. state. It is estimated that in the U.S., landslides cause in excess of $1 billion in damages and about 25 to 50 deaths each year.

Globally, landslides destroy far more, causing hundreds of billions in damages and hundreds of thousands of deaths and injuries each year.

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Washington State Dept of Transportation
SR 410 Nile Valley Landslide (west of Naches)
Aerial view of west end of the landslide burying the highway and damming the Naches River.


Know These Landslide Warning Signs

Springs, seeps, or saturated ground in areas that have not typically been wet before.

New cracks or unusual bulges
in the ground, street pavements or sidewalks.

Soil moving away from foundations.

Ancillary structures such as decks and patios tilting and/or moving relative to the main house or tilting or cracking of concrete floors and foundations.

Broken water lines and other underground utilities.

Leaning telephone poles, trees, retaining walls or fences.

Sunken or down-dropped road beds.

Rapid increase in creek water levels, possibly accompanied by increased turbidity (soil content). Or a sudden decrease in creek water levels though rain is still falling or just recently stopped.

A faint rumbling sound that increases in volume  :o is noticeable as the landslide nears.

Unusual sounds, such as trees cracking or boulders knocking together, might indicate land movement.

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Washington State Dept of Transportation
SR 410 Nile Valley Landslide - Oct. 2009
Aerial view of the Nile Valley slide


What To Do During a Landslide

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Stay alert and awake. Many debris-flow fatalities occur when people are sleeping! Stay tuned to weather news and heed alerts.

If you are in areas susceptible to landslides and debris flows, consider leaving if it is safe to do so. Remember that driving during an intense storm can be hazardous. If you remain at home, move to a second story if possible.

Staying out of the path of a landslide or debris flow saves lives.  ::)

Listen for any unusual sounds that might indicate moving debris, such as trees cracking or boulders knocking together. A trickle of flowing or falling mud or debris may precede larger landslides.

If you are near a stream or channel, be alert for any sudden increase or decrease in water flow and for a change from clear to muddy water. Such changes may indicate landslide activity upstream, so be prepared to move quickly. Don’t delay!  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Fsnapoutofit.gif&hash=911b14b142101df534f739771fb2d3836a807d19) Save yourself, not your belongings.

Be especially alert when driving
. Bridges may be washed out, and culverts overtopped. Do not cross flooding streams! Turn Around, Don’t Drown!

Embankments along roadsides are particularly susceptible to landslides. Watch the road for collapsed pavement, mud, fallen rocks, and other indications of possible debris flows.

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2104 Washington Landslide
A photo from an aerial survey showing the upper parts of the landslide that occurred in northwest Washington state, near Oso, on March 22, 2014. USGS landslide specialists, in collaboration with seismologists and state agencies, are still working to interpret the complex sequence of events that led to the landslide.
To get a perspective on the size of the landslide, look toward the bottom-left of this photo and you'll see, what appears to be, a tiny house just inside the tree line.
You can read the latest updates on the science and how the USGS is contributing to the understanding of this event at on.doi.gov/OsoLandslide.
Credit: Jonathan Godt, USGS.


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Stay away from the slide area. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.desismileys.com%2Fsmileys%2Fdesismileys_6869.gif&hash=f94938471d343a09155d1f60eefacdb2ceab2457) There may be danger of additional slides.

Listen to local radio or television stations for the latest emergency information.

Watch for flooding, which may occur after a landslide or debris flow. Floods sometimes follow landslides and debris flows because they may both be started by the same event.

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Help a neighbor who may require special assistance – infants, elderly people, and people with disabilities. Elderly people and people with disabilities may require additional assistance. People who care for them or who have large families may need additional assistance in emergency situations.

Look for and report broken utility lines and damaged roadways and railways to appropriate authorities. Reporting potential hazards will get the utilities turned off as quickly as possible, preventing further hazard and injury. Agelbert NOTE: Remember that ruptured gas pipelines have a strong tendency to do this:  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.freesmileys.org%2Femoticons%2Femoticon-object-034.gif&hash=aaa4624f4728fa49a5a4511b865e35a767958109) (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-300714025456.bmp&hash=f4e4a260bd60d3f34ca86fed93c47d5fb4117cfd)

Check the building foundation
, chimney, and surrounding land for damage. Damage to foundations, chimneys, or surrounding land may help you assess the safety of the area.

Replant damaged ground as soon as possible since erosion caused by loss of ground cover can lead to flash flooding and additional landslides in the near future.

Seek advice from a geotechnical expert for evaluating landslide hazards or designing corrective techniques to reduce landslide risk. A professional will be able to advise you of the best ways to prevent or reduce landslide risk, without creating further hazard.

Be Prepared! Know Before™.
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on February 17, 2015, 01:38:52 pm
A new sea level curve

Filed under: Climate Science
 Instrumental Record
 Oceans
 — stefan @ 14 January 2015


The “zoo” of global sea level curves calculated from tide gauge data has grown – tomorrow a new reconstruction of our US colleagues around Carling Hay from Harvard University will appear in Nature (Hay et al. 2015). That is a good opportunity for an overview over the available data curves. The differences are really in the details, the “big picture” of sea-level rise does not change. In all curves, the current rates of rise are the highest since records began.

The following graph shows the new sea level curve as compared to six known ones.

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Fig 1 Sea level curves calculated by different research groups with various methods. The curves show the sea level relative to the satellite era (since 1992). Graph: Klaus Bittermann.


All curves show the well-known modern sea level rise, but the exact extent and time evolution of the rise differ somewhat. Up to about 1970, the new reconstruction of Hay et al. runs at the top of the existing uncertainty range. For the period from 1880 AD, however, it shows the same total increase as the current favorites by Church & White. Starting from 1900 AD it is about 25 mm less. This difference is at the margins of significance: the uncertainty ranges overlap.

It is also interesting to compare the rates of sea-level rise.


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Fig 2 Rates of sea-level rise calculated from the curves in Fig. 1. To calculate the rate of increase, sea level curves were first smoothed with a filter of half-width 15 years and then differentiated. Graph: Klaus Bittermann.


The graph shows that the rates vary over time and also differ between the curves. All reconstructions agree on one point: the rate of rise in the last two decades (about 3 cm per decade) is the highest on record. Hay et al. find that the acceleration of sea-level rise since 1900 AD is larger than in previous reconstructions, but it has been generally questioned whether the quadratic acceleration (derived from a parabolic fit) is a useful number in cases where a parabola doesn’t fit the data well (Rahmstorf and Vermeer 2011, Foster and Brown 2014). Taking a step back, in my view the “big picture” on acceleration is that we have moved from a stable preindustrial sea level to one now rising at 3 mm/year (see Fig. 1 here). The differences between the quadratic acceleration numbers come from differences in the decadal to multidecadal variability in the curves which I don’t consider very robust (we have shown in Rahmstorf et al. 2012 how strongly these can be affected by a small amount of “noise” in the sea-level data).

Why are there at all different reconstructions of the global sea level history? The reason lies in the challenge to calculate global sea level as accurately as possible from a suboptimal data base. Different research groups have developed different approaches for this.

The data problem looks like this:
•Tide gauge measurements are not available in sufficient number (especially in earlier times) and not distributed evenly over the oceans: the Northern Hemisphere, for example, is strongly over-represented and tide gauge stations are located along the coasts.
•Many of the time series have data gaps.
•Tide gauges (unlike satellites) measure sea level relative to the land, so these data are ‘contaminated’ by land uplift or subsidence.

A particular challenge is posed by the positioning of the gauges along the coasts, because coastal sea level can be affected by local effects such as the wind piling up water against the shore. Variability in the prevailing winds (which can extend over decades, England et al. 2014) will therefore lead to variability in the water level along the coasts – but of course we know that the wind cannot change global sea level at all as it merely redistributes the water. Nevertheless such variability induced by winds or currents may give a false impression of global sea level fluctuations in analyses of tide gauge data.

The new reconstruction of Hay et al. is an important addition to the body of sea-level work, coming from top experts. But is it better than previous ones? Which of the curves shown is “the best” is not easy to assess. No one knows the exact true sea-level evolution – so we have to consider what methodology is likely to be the most appropriate to cope with the challenges mentioned. I hope that the authors and other experts might stop by here at Realclimate for a discussion of the advantages and drawbacks of the different methods.

The until now widely favored method of reconstruction is that of Church & White (2006 and updated 2011). It uses the satellite data of sea level to determine the typical variability patterns of the sea surface and thus to establish the link between the locally measured tide gauge values and the global sea level. The big advantage is that one does not need questionable assumptions to extrapolate from the measurements on the coasts into the open ocean, but that empirical data on the actual relationship are used. The disadvantage is that unfortunately the satellite data exist only for about twenty years. This method thus relies on the relationship between sea level on the coast and in the rest of the ocean having remained essentially unchanged.

The new reconstruction of Hay et al. uses statistical methods for dealing with incomplete data which have already proven their worth in other applications. In addition, it also uses knowledge about the physics of sea level rise: it determines the components of the global sea-level rise (e.g. the contribution from ice melt in Greenland and Antarctica) taking into account the knowledge about the spatial pattern, the so-called ‘fingerprint’ associated with each of these components. On the other hand, it does not explicitly take into account the specific patterns of natural variability caused by winds or currents that can masquerade as a false global signal (as described above).

Hay et al perform a test in which they take their reconstruction as “truth” and see how well the method of Church & White performs in reproducing it. They find it to be biased high, although the obtained sea level trend in this case is lower than in the real Church & White reconstruction and fully encompasses the hypothetical “true” range. Although this is an important test, it is thus not entirely conclusive, also considering that it was performed just on one particular sea level pattern (that reconstructed by Hay et al.) so it would be premature to conclude that the method is biased high in general.

To sum up, in my view the strength of the method of Hay et al. is that it uses the expected “fingerprints” of the global warming signal, while the strength of Church & White is to take into account the empirical patterns of natural variability. Ideal would of course be a combination of both, and this could be the next step for further research. Ultimately, it is not clear down to what level of accuracy we will ever know the sea level evolution over the past hundred years or so. But for practical purposes, I don’t think it matters whether the rise from 1900 AD has been 3 centimetres more or less. I do not think this changes our outlook for future sea-level rise in any significant way.

 http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2015/01/a-new-sea-level-curve/#sthash.9rWYeLNv.dpuf

Agelbert NOTE:
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on February 18, 2015, 12:15:35 am
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTsjOH_HJYc&feature=player_embedded
Must see NASA image studio video! Absolutely mesmerizing!
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on February 23, 2015, 08:36:27 pm
Thu Feb 19, 2015 at 07:34 PM EST.

Mother Earth weeps as Arctic Circle ice cap slides into the sea.

by Pakalolo.

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Image credit:Jason Roberts, BBC-**** surface: The largest ice cap in the Eurasian Arctic - Austfonna in Svalbard -

The Austfonna ice cap is located in northeastern Svalbard within the arctic circle north of Scandinavia. "Roughly  28% of the ice cap bed lies below sea level and over 200 km of its southern and eastern margin terminates in the ocean [Dowdeswell, 1986; Dowdeswell et al., 2008], with parts resting on a retrograde slope."

Like most glaciers that terminate at the sea, warm water from the Atlantic is making its way north to the Arctic ocean (including Berants sea) where the warmth helps to melt the underside of the glacier which in turn causes thinning resulting in rapid retreat. This process is also exacerbated by melt water and bedrock warming.  This is changing the flow dynamics of the glacier.

The Earth Story describes the dynamic change as follows:

This glacier appears to have come ungrounded,
flowing out to sea at a rapid pace and draining ice from the ice cap in the process. The ice cap is now thinning by an average of 25 meters per year.

The waters of the Arctic Ocean have warmed at a rapid pace relative to the rest of the world over recent years, and 2012 in particular was a year of exceptional melting and warmth in the arctic due to some extreme storms. The sudden movement in this glacier suggests that this pulse of heat has helped destabilize glaciers in the surrounding territory and it is happening at an exceptionally rapid pace.
The technical study concludes:

To date, the observed dynamical imbalance has propagated 50 km inland to within 8 km of the ice cap summit, producing widespread ice loss to the ocean. Currently, the glacier terminus rests on a broadly undulating bed; however, farther inland the bed deepens, providing the potential for future instability if further ungrounding occurs [Schoof, 2007]. The imbalance could have been triggered by a number of processes, including an internally generated surge, increased meltwater availability at the bed [Dunse et al., 2014], or enhanced ocean- or atmosphere-driven melting at the terminus; indeed, a combination of factors may have contributed [Nick et al., 2009; Jenkins, 2011].

Across Austfonna, however, there is a coherent pattern of ice margin thinning at all marine-based sectors, which is not apparent at land-terminating basins (Figure 1). This may suggest either a common ocean forcing or the influence of bed conditions specific to marine settings. Additional evidence of anomalously warm waters offshore [Polyakov et al., 2005, 2013] and insignificantly increased atmospheric melting in recent years leads us to favor the former mechanism, rather than one linked to increased melt water delivery to the bed, although a definitive link would require dynamical modeling and measurements at the calving front.

Until then, it is unclear whether the moderate rates of thinning of other marine ice sectors are a prelude to similar widespread mass loss in these areas, or whether the large dynamical imbalance at basin 3 will be sustained over time. Nonetheless, the behavior recorded here demonstrates that slow-flowing ice caps can enter states of significant imbalance over very short timescales and highlights their capacity for increased ice loss in the future.

This video is from Chasing Ice where Adam LeWinter and Director Jeff Orlowski filmed a historic breakup at the Ilulissat Glacier in Western Greenland. Though not Austfonna, we get the idea of what is happening to our glaciers worldwide. 
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on February 23, 2015, 08:56:02 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKQW-kQxcm8&feature=player_embedded
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on February 24, 2015, 02:56:20 pm
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  teph·ra Geology noun: tephra; plural noun: tephras rock fragments and particles ejected by a volcanic eruption.   
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The mystery of the offset chronologies: Tree rings and the volcanic record of the 1st millennium
Filed under: Aerosols,  Climate Science,  Paleoclimate
Guest commentary by Jonny McAneney
Volcanism can have an important impact on climate. When a large volcano erupts it can inject vast amounts of dust and sulphur compounds into the stratosphere, where they alter the radiation balance. While the suspended dust can temporarily block sunlight, the dominant effect in volcanic forcing is the sulphur, which combines with water to form sulphuric acid droplets. These stratospheric aerosols dramatically change the reflectivity, and absorption profile of the upper atmosphere, causing the stratosphere to heat, and the surface to cool; resulting in climatic changes on hemispheric and global scales.
Interrogating tree rings and ice cores
Annually-resolved ice core and tree-ring chronologies provide opportunities for understanding past volcanic forcing and the consequent climatic effects and impacts on human populations. It is common knowledge that you can tell the age of a tree by counting its rings, but it is also interesting to note that the size and physiology of each ring provides information on growing conditions when the ring formed. By constructing long tree ring chronologies, using suitable species of trees, it is possible to reconstruct a precisely-dated annual record of climatic conditions.
Ice cores can provide a similar annual record of the chemical and isotopic composition of the atmosphere, in particular volcanic markers such as layers of volcanic acid and tephra. However, ice cores can suffer from ambiguous layers that introduce errors into the dating of these layers of volcanic acid. To short-circuit this, attempts have been made to identify know historical eruptions within the ice records, such as Öraefajökull (1362) and Vesuvius (AD 79). This can become difficult since the ice chronologies can only be checked by finding and definitively identifying tephra (volcanic glass shards) that can be attributed to these key eruptions; sulphate peaks in the ice are not volcano specific.
Thus, it is fundamentally important to have chronological agreement between historical, tree-ring and ice core chronologies: The ice cores record the magnitude and frequency of volcanic eruptions, with the trees recording the climatic response, and historical records evidencing human responses to these events.
But they don’t quite line up…

The importance of frost rings
An additional piece of evidence is the existence and dating of “frost ring” phenomena observed in bristlecone pines growing at high altitude in Western North America. These rings form when temperatures drop well below freezing for extended periods during the tree’s growing season, and are evidenced by physical scarring of that year’s growth ring that can be caused by volcanically induced climate dislocation – an idea first suggested by LaMarche and Hirschboeck in 1984.
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figure 1: Dates of large historical eruptions (Siebert et al., 2011) within the last 600 years that likely caused significant Northern Hemisphere negative temperature anomalies as noted and ranked by Briffa et al. (1998). Bristlecone pine frost rings as recorded by LaMarche and Hirschboeck (1984)(†) and Salzer and Hughes (2007)(‡), are also listed, as are the start years of large ice acid signals (deposition SO42- in units of Kg/km2 are given in parentheses) observed in the NEEM S1 and WDC06A ice cores Sigl et al. (2013). Space analysis between successive phenomena (highlighted in bold) shows high consistency, and that large volcanoes can induce frost damage in bristlecone pines.
If we take some notable volcanoes in the past 600 years (Figure 1), we can confirm that frost rings in bristlecone pines are good indicators of large explosive volcanic eruptions, similar to the known coincidence of hemispheric cooling evidenced in growth rings of European trees in the years around historically dated eruptions. For this period, dates for large volcanic acid signals in ice cores are consistent with both historical and tree ring observations. However, this consistent linkage breaks down in the 1st millennium when frost ring dates and ice core acidity dates are compared. So if frost rings are indicative of large explosive volcanism in recent centuries, is it that the ice cores may be misdated in the 1st millennium? This is the question we explore in a recent paper (Baillie and McAneney, 2015).
Re-dating the ice cores?
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figure 2: Temperature sensitive Swedish pine chronology showing synchronisms with bristlecone pine frost rings (Baillie, 2010). Ice acid dates (o) original (Clausen et al. 1997); (m) moved 2.5 years (Larsen et al. 2008); (B) moved 7 years (Baillie 2008).

In 2008 and 2010, Baillie used bristlecone pine frost rings as well as temperature sensitive Swedish pine tree ring chronologies to propose that the dating of the Greenland ice cores was too old by approximately 7 years in the period before the 7th century AD, see Figure (2). In our current paper, we reinforce this proposed re-dating by looking at ice core data published since 2010, from both Greenland (NEEM S1 (Sigl et al., 2013)) and Antarctica (WDC06A (Sigl et al., 2013), Law Dome (Plummer et al., 2012)) as well as the Antarctic DML core (Traufetter et al., 2004). We consider the space intervals between frost rings, and compare them to space intervals between ice acid layers in each core during the 6th and 7th centuries, noting that there is a similarity in the event intervals. The similar space intervals in each data set would appear to suggest that trees and ice cores are recording the same volcanic events, but that the ice cores are offset from tree rings. (See tables 1-3 in our paper for more details). All cores except DML appear to be too old with respect to tree-ring dates, with the latter being slightly too young.
Why should we listen to the trees?
At this point one might quite rightly stop and ask whether it is realistic that a large set of independently replicated ice cores could be misdated? Might the problem instead lie with the dendrochronology? Fortunately, dendrochronological replication is often provided by comparing chronologies produced by independent workers in independent laboratories. In this respect, it is extremely unlikely that any of the tree ring data used in this exercise is incorrectly dated. Though see this post  (at article link) discussing this exact issue – Ed.

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figure 3: Historical dust veil events as noted by Stothers and Rampino (1983) in the period from 100 BC to AD 700, compared with bristlecone pine frost rings as recorded by LaMarche and Hirschboeck (1984)(†) and Salzer and Hughes (2007)(‡) and observation of ice acid in the GICC05 (Vinther et al. 2006) and NEEM S1 timescales (Sigl et al., 2013). Space analysis demonstrates that while there is a high consistency between phenomena spacing (highlighted in bold), ice core dates are offset by approximately 7 years.

One could also re-examine the hypothesis that frost rings are useful volcanic markers. In fact, it is possible to have some frost rings without any evidence of explosive volcanism, presumably occurring due to extremes in local weather, but, as shown above, they do seem to record large volcanic eruptions in recent times very well indeed. Why would that change in the 1st millennium? Furthermore, when a space analysis is performed between historically-dated severe dust veils between the 1st century BC and the 7th century AD, these compare well with frost rings, but again volcanic horizons in Greenland ice appear to be too old by 7-years (see Figure 3). Accepting, of course, that historical documentation is correct, the dated bristlecone pine frost rings agree perfectly as a response to the volcanically induced climatic events. We conclude then that these early ice core chronologies are at odds with both history and dendrochronology.
Implications
The implications of an ice core misdating are important. Global tree rings show that there was a major climatic event beginning in AD 536 lasting to at least AD 545, which may have been a catalyst for the Justinian plague in the 540s [This was discussed in a previous post in 2008 – Ed.]. Tree-rings suggest that this was a two stage event, with an initial abrupt reduction of tree growth at AD 536, a recovery over the next couple of years, followed by another abrupt reduction in tree growth following AD 540. This agrees extremely well with the frost rings at AD 536 and AD 541, and with the widely documented prolonged dust veil in Europe of AD 536. Current ice core chronologies conversely suggest that there was only one massive volcano in AD 536 which was responsible for the decade long climatic event (Larsen et al. 2008). They showed large volcanic signals in the ice at AD 529 and AD 533.5 and proposed that the latter related to AD 536 (see Figure 4). With the proposed re-dating of the ice cores, it now appears that the two massive volcanoes occurred in AD 536 and 540.5, which fits better with a two-stage event.
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figure 4: Greenland ice cores suggesting two large eruptions in AD 529 +/- 2 and AD 533.5 +/- 2. Moving these acid dates by approximately 7 years would explain the two stage environmental event recorded in trees in AD 536 and AD 540 (Larsen et al., 2008).

The suggested ice dating offset would have other implications. It would imply that the identification of Vesuvius tephra in Greenland ice dating to AD 79 (Barbante et al, 2013) is in error, and it would also bring to prominence a major eruption in 44 BC, the year of Caesar’s death; the acidity associated with this eruption currently having an ice-acid date around 50 BC.
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figure 5: Swedish pine temperature reconstruction showing sudden cooling at AD 800, which may be volcanically induced. The nearest acid layer in NEEM is dated to AD 793 (Grudd, 2010).

With the proposed dating revision, it is possible to tease out other potential candidates for unrecognised historical eruptions. Writing around AD 810-15 the chronicler Theophanes the Confessor records that after the capture and blinding of Byzantine emperor Constantine VI in August AD 797:
“The sun was darkened for seventeen days and did not emit its rays so that ships
lost course and drifted about. Everyone acknowledged that the sun withheld its rays
because the emperor had been blinded”
(Mango and Scott, 1997).
Such an event is suggestive of a volcanic dust veil or ash cloud observed from Constantinople, possibly from a Mediterranean eruption. The nearest acid signal in the NEEM S1 ice core occurs at 793.0 (Sigl et al., 2013), and is the only acid within +/-14 years of AD 797. Note that we are told Constantine’s blinding occurred after August 797, but we cannot know how long after. It is conceivable that the obscuration event could have been as much as a few years after the Constantine’s capture and blinding, but that the two events were associated as direct cause and effect by the popular psyche at the time, and recorded as such. It is thus tempting to link this event with the sudden cooling observed in Swedish pine that occurred in AD 800 (see Figure 5).
Another consequence might be that the current ice dating of the Icelandic Eldgjá eruption may need to be moved from around AD 933 to around AD 939/940. Sun et al. (2014) have identified stratigraphical evidence of Changbaishan eruption tephra in NEEM S1 lying 7 annual layers above Eldgjá tephra. Changbaishan can be dated to AD 946 by historical documents of local ash fall and unseasonably cold weather. This implies any ice dating offset occurs above this horizon. How far above is uncertain, though it is likely below the mid 13th century.
Conclusion
Tree rings cannot prove that ice cores are misdated; but the offset identified here should prompt a re-examination of the ice core chronology. If the dating revision proposed here is correct, it would rewrite the volcanic history of the 1st millennium. In particular, it would definitively show that the mid-6th century was not dominated by a single massive volcanic event in AD 536, but was also influenced by an important eruption in AD 540-541 – an event currently missing from all ice core and historical literature. The mystery deepens…
Article and Scientic References: http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2015/02/the-mystery-of-the-offset-chronologies-tree-rings-and-the-volcanic-record-of-the-1st-millennium/#sthash.vNTXTbxa.dpuf

A.G. Gelbert comment:

I think the evidence for erroneous ice core dating is irrefutable. In fact, a rate of dating error inducement may be a function of hydraulic forces with increased age. That is, the older the ice core date, the greater the error. If a formula could be computed by a scrupulous comparison of dendrochronology data and historical human culture written and oral eye witness accounts of eruptions and cooling events, this would clear up the dating discrepancies, including the issue of diseased flora false signals.

Although ice core dating specialists may claim, with vigor, that they already factor in hydraulic forces, the new data suggests they are in error. 

I realize only historical eruptions have are being considered here, but would not pre-historic eruptions, as observed in ice cores and dendrochronology, help eliminate the ice core errors?

We have access to dendrochronology back to at least 6000 years. About 7,000 ago, the eruption of Mount Mazama—now Crater Lake—in southern Oregon was would have been spectacular to any one viewing it and would certainly have affected the tree rings within thousands of miles.

Also, the Mount Gambier volcano eruption 5,000 years ago in Australia would provide dating synchronization data.
http://monash.edu/news/show/new-clues-to-prehistoric-eruption

To the ice core specialists claiming their dating is accurate: Science is not about prideful turf protection. You made and honest mistake. Now correct it.  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F34y5mvr.gif&hash=835b3a3f26d5d1b7f0acc379ad8ebd3fe9eea488)
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on February 25, 2015, 01:45:06 pm
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Huge New Methane Blowholes in Siberia Have Scientists Worried Climate Change Is to Blame
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Anastasia Pantsios | February 25, 2015 10:20 am

The large methane-filled blowholes that were discovered in Siberia last summer seem to be more numerous than originally thought, with four giant new craters, along with clusters of smaller ones, found in the permafrost in northern Russia. The new holes were discovered in the same general vicinity as the original three, on the Yamal Peninsula.

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This map shows the locations of some of the craters scientists are discovering in Siberia. Image credit: Vasily Bogoyavlensky

“We know now of seven craters in the Arctic area,” professor Vasily Bogoyavlensky of the Moscow-based Oil and Gas Research Institutes and the Russian Academy of Sciences told the Siberian Times. “Five are directly on the Yamal peninsula, one in Yamal Autonomous district, and one is on the north of the Krasnoyarsk region, near the Taimyr peninsula. We have exact locations for only four of them. The other three were spotted by reindeer herders. But I am sure that there are more craters on Yamal, we just need to search for them. I would compare this with mushrooms: when you find one mushroom, be sure there are few more around. I suppose there could be 20 to 30 craters more.”


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One of the first blowholes was discovered by helicopter. Image credit: Marya Zulinova, Yamal government press service

The cause of the blowholes is not entirely clear, although probable explanations have been coming into focus as Russian scientists have continued to study them. The most prominent theory is that exceptionally warm temperatures caused by climate change have released methane stored in the permafrost, causing a sort of explosion that creates the craters.

Bogoyavlensky says two of the craters have turned into lakes, as examination of satellite images has allowed scientists to learn more about them, their location and how numerous they are. It complements the exploration inside the craters undertaken late last year. Bogoyavlensky has urged further exploration but has warned about the risks involved, saying that leaking methane could cause new explosions at any time.

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Satellite images reveal more craters than previously thought. Photo credit: Vasily Bogoyavlensky

“We know that there can occur a series of gas emissions over an extended period of time, but we do not know exactly when they might happen,” he said. “For example, you all remember the magnificent shots of the Yamal crater in winter, made during the latest expedition in November 2014. But do you know that Vladimir Pushkarev, director of the Russian Centre of Arctic Exploration, was the first man in the world who went down the crater of gas emission? More than this, it was very risky, because no one could guarantee there would not be new emissions.” 

http://ecowatch.com/2015/02/25/new-methane-blowholes-climate-change/
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on February 26, 2015, 02:05:02 pm
Berkeley study directly IDs climate change culprit (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.freesmileys.org%2Femoticons%2Ftuzki-bunnys%2Ftuzki-bunny-emoticon-005.gif&hash=c0f70cc821100c434469eae24e0fa6131745ab51)
 
By David Perlman
 
Updated 9:43 pm, Wednesday, February 25, 2015


 http://www.sfgate.com/science/article/Berkeley-experts-study-strengthens-human-link-6101054.php
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on March 01, 2015, 05:21:21 pm
3 Connections Between Climate Change and Extreme Weather
http://ecowatch.com/2015/03/01/connections-climate-change-extreme-weather/

Agelbert Comment:


There is a LOT more. The deadly elephant in the temperature and weather extremes room is GEO-ENGINEERING.

A fellow in Boston asked my why he was so cold if global warming is going on.

GO said,
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Still waiting for a dissertation on Global Warming, and it better be good, no BS or Charts. My ice blue testicles and over a grand in oil bills so far demand an explanation.

GO,

The extreme cold (and by the way, it's a LOT WORSE where I am in Vermont than where you are (Boston) or where RE (Alaska) is as well!) is a DIRECT consequence of GLOBAL WARMING. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.coh2.org%2Fimages%2FSmileys%2Fhuhsign.gif&hash=3732d0427be65896527fc3805c5be54a33cffd3b)

If you will recall, we went through this subject last year around this time when I said 2014 promised to be hotter than hell (never been there but ya get the idea  ;D). You scoffed. 2014 was the hottest year on record.

Based on my track record of accuracy and integrity (see the numerous times I took Snowleopard to task for pushing fossil fueler mendacity and propaganda - something that always seemed to upset you for some reason.   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-200714191404.bmp&hash=007a2c20b76f970316a559a6e27cfd70c11f5998)), I am going to explain to you what our FOSSIL FUEL OWNED GOVERNMENT is DOING to further fu ck things up with their desperate attempt to put a DR. Strangelove Geo-engineered "heat shield" on the planet.

This is a quote from a recent discussion with Eddie.

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February 16, 2015, 01:00:38 PM

 Eddie,

I believe geo engineering is quite advanced even though they (quote from our government "we will own the weather by 2025"  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-200714191329.bmp&hash=4764bfbe6bb0e11ca61102efa97a932a824f47e0) ) don't "own" the weather yet. The reflective aluminum particles being sprayed routinely for over a decade now to keep our climate from over heating (see stretching the profits of fossil fuel oligarchs that OWN our government) are having several unexpected results.

1) the temperature extreme ranges have increased in degree span and rapidity of switching from normal to extreme heat or extreme cold is killing wildlife.

2) Vitamin D deficiency is now common in the USA when it was RARE just two decades ago. As a medical professional, you know that Vitamin D deficiency can lead to a plethora of deleterious health issues, including giving you lots of dental problems, never mind the weaker bones in growing children, early osteoporosis in adults and less immune system defense of several types of cancers.



3) Allergic reactions to the new toxins in the air for thousands of different species, including Homo SAPs.




4) There is a lot more
but that has to do with government media and medical profession CORKING of the reporting of, medical recognition of and proper treatment of humans experiencing harmful side effects from this profit preserving scheme for fossil fuelers trying to prevent or/and delay global warming.

Anecdotally, I have something to report that has me absolutely raging mad. The temperature is way too low for normal in Vermont. It's been that way for a couple of weeks. That long of a period with temperatures hovering just above or below zero (even in daylight) is NOT Vermont weather and, except for the little ice age centuries ago, never has been.

Even when it gets real cold, the animals survive BECAUSE the longer sunlight period in late February and early March enables them to warm their nests in the day. But when you **** with the sunlight by putting reflective particles in the air, this VITAL buffer that enables animal life to make it to the spring is gone. This is a DEATH SENTENCE for much of Vermont wildlife that doesn't hibernate.

Today I found an uninjured adult squirrel frozen to death. It was laying on our driveway. It's just another debt the MKing's of this world do not own up to with their profit over planet murderous irresponsibility. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2F1.bp.blogspot.com%2F-Bzb-1rVB8pc%2FUfXxBekcYVI%2FAAAAAAAAEm4%2FhXUkGCzFIPg%2Fs1600%2Fgiveafuckometer-gif&hash=55aa6c640e367206e16d042bc932c6b28ef856fc)

F UCKING BASTARDS!

UNQUOTE

GO,

YOU and I are experiencing this SH IT because of people like YOU KNOW WHO. No Vermont town has EVER publicly broadcast over the TV and radio that people MUST leave their faucets RUNNING at pencil width of water. Winooski (just south of Colchester and slightly LESS Norh Pole Fu cking Cold than Colchester) is telling Vermonters to do this in order to avoid huge expenses in road and frozen pipe repairs UNRELATED to the frozen pipes in homes. CLEAN water is being WASTED because of this COLD. People's water bills will not be raised but YOU KNOW we-the-people will end up paying for it somehow! They want us to leave the faucets running THROUGH March!!! Water pipes in homes are bursting from here all the way to ATLANTA, Georgia!

Do you think Mking (a fossil fueler propagandist climate denier) and his pals are willing to foot the bill, or do you think, PERHAPS, that they will, ONCE AGAIN, disingenuously ask, "Uh, what happened to global Warming?".

 You, as a keen listener, do not need a lot of words to figure this out.

The Geo-Engineering Techno-Fix that the governemnt has been orchestrating for about 20 years will go down in history as the most colossal mistake mankind has ever made (see below).

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on March 05, 2015, 03:07:55 pm
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Phil Rasch is a liar. Every single documented case of cooling caused by volcanic eruption aerosols from 537 A.D. eruption two decade "cooling" to this day HAS BEEN TEMPORARY and HAS NOT slowed down the overall heating trend after Younger Dryas.  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F301.gif&hash=0291ed4abf2d80e420d1aa00d4eb3c5dd6bbfb53)

THAT heating trend has been accelerated far beyond the planet's natural thermostatic control mechanism by the burning of fossil fuels. Phil Rasch knows that. However, he has a job to do  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-241013183046.jpeg&hash=51c9c4f17e747698c76c65c7c1814eff4f32c400) for the fossil fuel government. So science must, ONCE AGAIN, take a back seat to fossil fuel profits.  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-200714183312.bmp&hash=02dafef2fe739676600fdc9bd56271f0f5ab3723)


Since a "How to stop the planet's atmosphere from threatening fossil fuel profits  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.freesmileys.org%2Fsmileys%2Fsmiley-scared002.gif&hash=764898cfbf07ef2c41ffddc5e93fa0e1bed41bae)" meeting in 1997, that we-the-people WERE NOT TOLD ABOUT, decided that the DOE and the DOD would GeoEngineer a "heat shield" with aerosols  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Fmocantina.gif&hash=d013c741bcf9a78776eec19c2c3aac449c35d75c), BOTH the Department of Energy (DOE) and the Department of Defense (DOD) have studiously denied that they are actively engaged in this THEFT of taxpayer dollars to MASK Global Warming for the sake of fossil fuel profits.

NASA and NOAA have been gagged to say NOTHING about the FAILURE of aerosols to cool the planet as a whole.   >:(

The deleterious side effects of the sprayed chemicals (like the FACT that just ONE of the chemicals used contributes to DROUGHT) are also taboo subjects in the medical community and the news media.  >:(

ANY pro-aerosol baloney said by Phil Rasch, Chief Scientist for Climate Science at the DOE's Pacific Northwest Lab,  must be viewed in the appropriate context.  ;D

 You KNOW that good old Phil has a nice package of graphics and 24/7 data plot of exactly where the tankers are dumping the aerosols so he can DIRECT more dumping here or less there. This FOSSIL FUEL TOOL is as "objective" about aerosols spraying as Mking.

A word about the propaganda front that attempts to capitalize on "we can stop global warming" baloney.
(https://a.disquscdn.com/uploads/mediaembed/images/1780/632/original.jpg)

WHERE do you think the talk about the "pause" in global warming SINCE THE YEAR 2000 came from. HUH!!!? These bought and paid for greedballs KNEW what they were doing with those aerosols and, true to there mens rea modus operandi, began their propaganda campaign by tracking cherry picked temperatures DIRECTLY related to the aerosol spraying we were NOT being told about. These evil predators are crafty bastards, aren't they?

Too bad for them that volcanic aerosols, although they did create local cooling periods, NEVER DID slow global heating overall BEFORE fossil fuel massive burning began with the industrial revolution pollution.

At present, there is not a snowball's chance in hell that they will actually slow global warming. Please keep that in mind when you read news reports about erupting volcanoes like the following marvel of half truths:


 
03/04/2015 01:42 PM         
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SustainableBusiness.com News
 
At around 3AM this morning, one of Chile's most active volcanoes began erupting, forcing evacuations of 4000 people.

Villarrica is one of the few permanently active volcanoes in the world, and this latest eruption - the strongest in 20 years - could give humans a hand in slowing climate change.
When volcanoes erupt, they spew sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere (where it turns into aerosols), which gradually make its way around the earth, reflecting heat into space - thus, cooling down our planet for several years until it finally dissipates.

"Yes, this can be the planet's own form of climate engineering," (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-051113192052.png&hash=93c42ef9f18fc5d9da50fd91fc19f70009f95f85)   Phil Rasch (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.whydidyouwearthat.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2011%2F01%2Ftumblr_l7j9nik8Wf1qaxxwjo1_5001.jpeg&hash=1ddbeb4da161820b2cf932e6f5f740e80f5bada6), Chief Scientist for Climate Science at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest Lab, told Christian Science Monitor.

Indeed, this is one of the more promising forms of human geoengineering that scientists are working on . They would seed clouds with sulfur dioxide, mimicking volcanoes.  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2F2.bp.blogspot.com%2F_9HT4xZyDmh4%2FTOHhxzA0wLI%2FAAAAAAAAEUk%2FoeHDS2cfxWQ%2Fs200%2FSmiley_Angel_Wings_Halo.jpg&hash=13281f1944b60773bf12b29387b70be77cc1fe16)  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2F1.bp.blogspot.com%2F-TzWpwHzCvCI%2FT_sBEnhCCpI%2FAAAAAAAAME8%2FIsLpuU8HYxc%2Fs1600%2Fnooo-way-smiley.gif&hash=b8545bd420b1e2f2c7b9f665d2093523e4ad2251)

Is this eruption big enough to make a dent in global warming? Scientists don't know yet, they are taking measurements, but blow-outs over the centuries have cooled the earth as much as 0.3 degree C.  *

9000-foot high Villarrica through an ash plume up another few kilometers high, and although the eruption ceased by morning, seismic ratings are still high, which could mean more action.  ::)

http://www.sustainablebusiness.com/index.cfm/go/news.display/id/26182

Agelbert NOTE: RIGHT... Notice that neato key word, "action" and key phrases like "mimicking volcanoes" and "volcanoes + sulphur dioxide =  global cooling" fascinating bits of doubletalk. WHY? Because Sulphur dioxide AIN'T ENOUGH  to do the job for starters.

The aerosols they are charging we-the-people to spray (without telling us about it until they can, hopefully, claim it worked stop warming! Then, like Mking, regardless of the externalized costs to fauna and flora, they will claim they were NOT doing it for fossil fuel profits, but for our own good. LOL!) have a plethora of toxic substances (sorry, no sulfur dioxide) that are KNOWN carcinogens and KNOWN drought inducing chemicals and KNOWN endocrine disrupters.  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.freesmileys.org%2Femoticons%2Femoticon-object-015.gif&hash=8e6486af5151b5eb075de7af5fb71f325d34dc0c)

These types of articles are designed to do exactly what corporations do with GMOs. They first tell you about how it's "NATURAL" (looky here, volcanoes are natural planet coolers!).

The next step, in a subsequent article published when they want to claim victory, is to tell us they were/are "mimicking NATURE" (by adding a few totally unnatural chemicals made by a chemical corporation at taxpayer expense) FOR OUR OWN GOOD! (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.u.arizona.edu%2F%7Epatricia%2Fcute-collection%2Fsmileys%2Flying-smiley.gif&hash=a34c2f7344d5f54f7009a4e684bb6c7310cdda03)
Believe this crap at your pocketbook's expense and your peril.  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Facigar.gif&hash=dc9dccf92c6c88c99611b06c86d92629d69f2978) (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.freesmileys.org%2Fsmileys%2Fsmiley-devil12.gif&hash=d1822754cefdd0f77369dacd157d00f5f8d3fff9)

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* This is a HALF TRUTH. The fact is that the temperature TREND continued going UP after a LOCAL pause. They DO NOT have historical access to data on a planetary scale beyond ice cores and dendrochronology. BOTH tree rings and ice cores are LOCAL phenomenon from which scientists have EXTRAPOLATED assumptions about global average temperature conditions.

ONLY at present, with the global temperature monitoring sensors in place, can scientists state unequivocally whether the globe is warming or cooling. And the hard data says it is warming with an accelerating trend, PERIOD.   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.freesmileys.org%2Femoticons%2Ftuzki-bunnys%2Ftuzki-bunny-emoticon-028.gif&hash=24570cb7e8246617010ce900a07bc85117ff78ca)

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QUOTE No, climate change is not experiencing a hiatus. No, there is not currently a “pause” in global warming. UNQUOTE

Climate Oscillations and the Global Warming Faux Pause Filed under: Climate Science — mike @ 26 February 2015 - See more at: http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2015/02/climate-oscillations-and-the-global-warming-faux-pause/#sthash.r8nREqGU.dpuf
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on March 05, 2015, 06:04:33 pm
There are MILLIONS of angry moma bear moms out there raising cain about the aerosol geo-engineering going on  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Fswear1.gif&hash=87347674f9297191f3f8a447208170617da4caf6). They will be heard. No more pus sy for the Phil Rasches of this world! img]http://www.runemasterstudios.com/graemlins/images/2thumbs.gif[/img]   ;D

And if that doesn't work, dual orchiectomies can be performed while they sleep! Forget the Orkin man; here comes the Orchi WOMAN!
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I am the Orchi Woman and I know where you sleep.

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Orchiectomy (also named orchidectomy, and sometimes shortened as orchi  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-200714191258.bmp&hash=e4ed21caaca822f7445ccafd39f49a9f84be90ca)) is a surgical procedure in which one or both testicles are removed.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orchiectomy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orchiectomy)


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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on March 06, 2015, 10:56:00 pm
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Defense Attorney Jonathan Wallace successfully argued that the Constitution protects Americans’ rights to “express political speech within proximity to the target of the protest.  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F47b20s0.gif&hash=cc48c9af9d29b8836023c7db21103e52d1ed439e)

In this case, the NYPD  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-200714191329.bmp&hash=4764bfbe6bb0e11ca61102efa97a932a824f47e0) first prevented protesters from entering Wall Street before later ordering them to leave the area altogether.” This method of policing proved to be unlawful. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.desismileys.com%2Fsmileys%2Fdesismileys_0293.gif&hash=b1af4868ed8f18c30e637f8cbcb79002f6f71039)


Anybody taking bets on how long before this LAWFUL interpretation of our Constitution will be REVERSED by the handmaiden of our Fascist Government (the Corrupt Court System)?   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-200714191329.bmp&hash=4764bfbe6bb0e11ca61102efa97a932a824f47e0)


10 People Found Not Guilty in Flood Wall Street Protest, Judge Takes Judicial Notice of Climate Change
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http://ecowatch.com/2015/03/06/found-not-guilty-flood-wall-street/



 
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on March 07, 2015, 10:00:53 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIVSJYazE9s&feature=player_embedded

Robert Swan Leads Antarctic Expedition to Show Firsthand Effects of Climate Change
http://ecowatch.com/2015/03/04/robert-swan-antarctic-climate-change/
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on March 10, 2015, 01:01:33 am
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfmhrwbJt6I&feature=player_embedded

Watch Sen. Bernie Sanders Drill Alaskan Leaders on Failing to Address Climate Change


http://ecowatch.com/2015/03/09/sanders-drill-alaskan-leaders-climate-change/
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on March 14, 2015, 08:07:10 pm
EPA  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.u.arizona.edu%2F%7Epatricia%2Fcute-collection%2Fsmileys%2Flying-smiley.gif&hash=a34c2f7344d5f54f7009a4e684bb6c7310cdda03)  "debunks" 'chemtrails,' further fueling conspiracy theories    (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-200714191329.bmp&hash=4764bfbe6bb0e11ca61102efa97a932a824f47e0)

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See Agnotology. The EPA is the SAME agency that RAISED the radionuclide "acceptable" levels in the air, ground and water after Fukushima.  :P


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We are often unaware of the scope and structure of our ignorance. Ignorance
is not just a blank space on a person’s mental map. It has contours and coherence,
and for all I know rules of operation as well. So as a corollary to writing
about what we know, maybe we should add getting familiar with our ignorance.

Thomas Pynchon, 1984

Doubt is our product.
Brown & Williamson Tobacco Company, internal memo, 1969

http://scholar.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/Agnotology%20Intro%20Chapter,%20Robert%20Proctor_0.pdf (http://scholar.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/Agnotology%20Intro%20Chapter,%20Robert%20Proctor_0.pdf)

THIS is what is going on in our government since the Manhattan Project in EVERY area of science considered important to Nation (predatory corporate) Security.  :P

ag notol og y : a mi s s i ng t e r m

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Military Secrecy

Tobacco duplicity is notorious, but deliberate ignorance also comes from numerous other sources, such as military classification. Estimates are that a quarter of the world’s technical personnel have some kind of military clearance; there are secret scientific facts, secret scientific methods, secret scientific societies, secret scientific journals, and (probably) secret laws of nature. Military men don’t always want to keep secrets from themselves, so firewalls are established to allow a community of cognoscenti with “clearance” to meet in private to discuss classified matters.

The National Security Agency, for example, maintains an Internet firewalled from the outside world, as do some of our larger private corporations. The Manhattan Project in World War II (to make an atomic bomb) set the stage for much of America’s postwar secret research; the project diverted much of the country’s scientific talent and the name itself was a deception, as was Britain’s comparable “Tube Alloys Project.” Nuclear technologies have been clothed in secrecy from quite early on: the very existence of plutonium, for example, was classified for several years after its discovery, and words like “radiation” and “radioisotope” were not supposed to be bandied about. Neither word was mentioned in the first 200 articles written on the atom bomb.48

Atomic secrecy was also the rationale for entire scientific disciplines going underground, with code names devised for sensitive topics.
The field of “Health Physics,” for example, has its origins in the need to explore the novel hazards of atomic radiation, with the name being deliberately kept vague to disguise the fact that projects were underway to explore health and safety in the nuclear workplace.

The whole point of secrecy in this realm is to hide, to feint, to distract, to deny access, and to monopolize information.
Global positioning system locations are tweaked to keep “sensitive” locations (for example, the White House) unknowable—and so untargetable—and entire cities have been erased from maps or never drawn in. The National Security Agency is larger and more secretive even than the Central Intelligence Agency (NSA = “No Such Agency”)49 and the National Reconnaissance Office is more shadowy still, and even better funded. Most secret would be those offices and operations “we” in the outside world know nothing about. Classified research in the United States is hidden in the so-called Black Budget, which currently exceeds the amounts funded for education and many other social services. In November of 2005, Mary Margaret Graham, deputy director of National Intelligence at the CIA, revealed the total U.S. intelligence budget to be $ 44 billion per annum.50

The impact of military secrecy on science has been profound, affecting nearly every branch of knowledge.


There are many examples of military agnogenesis. Military-sponsored research in the 1940s led to early predictions of global warming and the melting of the polar ice caps; the guardians of military secrecy kept this quiet, however, and the topic was not widely and openly discussed.52

Climate science has suffered new kinds of agnotology in recent years, as Bush administration strategists have tried to keep the question of anthropogenic global warming “open.”53 As with tobacco industry apologetics, out as prevarication.


Military research has more often generated ignorance by passive agnogenesis: we have many examples where military funding has pushed certain areas, leaving others to languish. Carbon-14 research, for example, was heavily supported by the military as part of nuclear isotope research (Libby’s work), whereas oxygen isotope analysis languished underfunded. Science responds to funding opportunities, which means that ignorance can be maintained or created in certain areas simply by “defunding.”

When Ronald Reagan took office in 1980, federal funding for solar energy research was zeroed out. Semiconductor studies that could have pushed forth knowledge in this realm were transferred to areas such as the “hardening” of silicon chips to resist the neutron flux from an atomic blast. Solar technology “know-how” suffered from this loss of funding; ignorance here resulted from a decision to emphasize fossil fuels over renewable energy sources.

http://scholar.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/Agnotology%20Intro%20Chapter,%20Robert%20Proctor_0.pdf

If you think the EPA is telling the truth about the 24/7 aerosol spraying, SINCE the year 2000, being done for the SOLE PURPOSE of preserving Fossil Fuel Profits on the TAXPAYER DIME, You are a either a naïve fool or a cynical opportunist.   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Fgen152.gif&hash=d5b10968fe56c4cb95fae17cee3cb420a5f4e2da)  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-200714183312.bmp&hash=02dafef2fe739676600fdc9bd56271f0f5ab3723) (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Fsnapoutofit.gif&hash=911b14b142101df534f739771fb2d3836a807d19)




Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on March 24, 2015, 05:57:32 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCauqUoQy-w&feature=player_embedded
Save this so your grandkids can see what Greenland was like before the ice melted.  :(
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on March 27, 2015, 09:40:28 pm
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Fig. 1 Linear temperature trend from 1900 to 2013. The cooling in the subpolar North Atlantic is remarkable and well documented by numerous measurements unlike the cold spot in central Africa, which on closer inspection apparently is an artifact of incomplete and inhomogeneous weather station data.


What’s going on in the North Atlantic?  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.desismileys.com%2Fsmileys%2Fdesismileys_6656.gif&hash=2038f9b45636a93e5c0f4ee508ce29778fe9e9b4)

Filed under: Climate Science
 — stefan @ 23 March 2015

The North Atlantic between Newfoundland and Ireland is practically the only region of the world that has defied global warming and even cooled. Last winter there even was the coldest on record – while globally it was the hottest on record. Our recent study (Rahmstorf et al. 2015) attributes this to a weakening of the Gulf Stream System, which is apparently unique in the last thousand years.

Full article at link.
http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2015/03/whats-going-on-in-the-north-atlantic/?wpmp_tp=1
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on March 30, 2015, 02:53:10 pm
 (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.freesmileys.org%2Femoticons%2Femoticon-anime-034.gif&hash=58a833931ab09edc67b808927994f92737db0650)Antarctica Records Hottest Day Ever, New Study Finds Rapid Acceleration of Ice Melt

Cole Mellino | March 30, 2015 10:08 am

The warmest temperature ever recorded in Antarctica may have occurred last Tuesday with a thermometer reading 63.5 degrees Fahrenheit at Argentina’s Esperanza Base on the northern tip of the Antarctic Peninsula, according to Weather Underground. The previous record was set the day before at 63.3 degrees at Argentina’s Marambio Base on a small islet just off the coast of the Antarctic Peninsula.

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The Antarctic Peninsula experienced record heat last week. Photo credit: Shutterstock

Prior to this week’s record heat wave for the icy continent, the hottest known temperature in Antarctica was 62.8 degrees Fahrenheit, recorded at Esperanza Base on April 24, 1961. The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has not officially declared last week’s temperatures as all-time weather records for Antarctica, but “the Argentinian weather service has verified that the temperatures measured at Esperanza Base and Marambio Base were the highest ever measured at each site,” said Weather Underground.

The WMO has traditionally had a more narrow definition of Antarctica, which only include sites south of the Antarctic Circle and not the Esperanza and Marambio bases. But even if the WMO doesn’t officially recognize the recordings, the message is clear. The Antarctic peninsula is one of the fastest warming spots on the planet.

The record heat coincides with the release of a new study from Science that finds “ice shelves in West Antarctica have lost as much as 18 percent of their volume over the last two decades, with rapid acceleration occurring over the last decade. The study found that from 1994 to 2003, the overall loss of ice shelf volume across the continent was negligible, but over the last decade West Antarctic losses increased by 70 percent,” says Think Progress.

The heat wave also coincides with Robert Swan and his 2041 team’s Antarctic Expedition, which wrapped up last week. The point of the trip was to document the firsthand effects of climate change, which was obviously very apparent.
http://ecowatch.com/2015/03/30/antarctica-hottest-day-ever/

Agelbert NOTE: Be sure to click on the link to enjoy the comments I made to the propagandists that showed up to peddle Agonotology based LIES and unscientific DOUBT.  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Fswear1.gif&hash=87347674f9297191f3f8a447208170617da4caf6)


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 have difficulties with the truth.


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Fig. 1 Linear temperature trend from 1900 to 2013. The cooling in the subpolar North Atlantic is remarkable and well documented by numerous measurements unlike the cold spot in central Africa, which on closer inspection apparently is an artifact of incomplete and inhomogeneous weather station data.
What’s going on in the North Atlantic?  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.desismileys.com%2Fsmileys%2Fdesismileys_6656.gif&hash=2038f9b45636a93e5c0f4ee508ce29778fe9e9b4)

Filed under: Climate Science
 — stefan @ 23 March 2015
The North Atlantic between Newfoundland and Ireland is practically the only region of the world that has defied global warming and even cooled. Last winter there even was the coldest on record – while globally it was the hottest on record. Our recent study (Rahmstorf et al. 2015) attributes this to a weakening of the Gulf Stream System, which is apparently unique in the last thousand years.  :o

Full article by a credentialed climate scientist at link.
http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2015/03/whats-going-on-in-the-north-atlantic/?wpmp_tp=1
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on April 01, 2015, 07:56:15 pm
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This is one of the first studies to accurately document the amount of water being contributed by melting glaciers, which add about 57 cubic kilometers of water a year to the estimated 792 cubic kilometers produced by annual precipitation in this region. The combination of glacial melt and precipitation produce an amount of water that’s larger than many of the world’s great rivers, such as the Ganges, Nile, Volga, Niger, Columbia, Danube or Yellow River  :P.

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The copper river in the Gulf of Alaska-NASA

Tue Mar 31, 2015 at 02:44 AM PDT.

Massive Glacier Melt and Fresh Water are Pouring into the Gulf of Alaska
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/03/31/1373930/-Massive-Glacier-Melt-and-Fresh-Water-are-Pouring-into-the-Gulf-of-Alaska

Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on April 03, 2015, 06:48:12 pm
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It was a BITTER cold winter in Vermont.  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-200714183312.bmp&hash=02dafef2fe739676600fdc9bd56271f0f5ab3723) How can that be?  ???     (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-200714191404.bmp&hash=007a2c20b76f970316a559a6e27cfd70c11f5998)

Is the "Global Warming" claimed by all those "sneaky", temperature record statistics and data  "distorting", "double talking" (see MKing or Gail Tverberg for details on this heinous plot to attack the altruistic fossil fuel industry that has provided us with cheap energy, jobs, money to buy our favorite foods like veal and foi gras   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-200714191329.bmp&hash=4764bfbe6bb0e11ca61102efa97a932a824f47e0), better living through chemistry, pharmaceuticals, plastics, civilization, democracy and heaven on earth  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2F2.bp.blogspot.com%2F_9HT4xZyDmh4%2FTOHhxzA0wLI%2FAAAAAAAAEUk%2FoeHDS2cfxWQ%2Fs200%2FSmiley_Angel_Wings_Halo.jpg&hash=13281f1944b60773bf12b29387b70be77cc1fe16)(https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-291014182422.png&hash=f5178cb31c0bf9067fb3cf408d7047840a10e3f4) (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-051113192052.png&hash=93c42ef9f18fc5d9da50fd91fc19f70009f95f85) )  a massive hoax?   :o Is it a huge scam?   :P Is it a trick to provide grant money to nerds while we all freeze to death?  >:( Will these scientists come clean or will we be, mercilessly and cruelly, required to give up our predatory capitalist benefiting oil wars, fossil fuel powered transportation and the All American Tradition of exploitation of planetary resources without reflection? (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.freesmileys.org%2Fsmileys%2Fsmiley-scared002.gif&hash=764898cfbf07ef2c41ffddc5e93fa0e1bed41bae)

Reflection is for wimps!  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Facigar.gif&hash=dc9dccf92c6c88c99611b06c86d92629d69f2978) Aren't we supposed to be APEX PREDATORS? Aren't we the CROWN of EVOLUTION? (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Fpirates5B15D_th.gif&hash=32438e1ed2c4d1823d4ed2a193286525c840a605)

Who are these pesky scientists to tell the fabulous fossil fuel industry that it has a suicidal "business" model?  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Ffly.gif&hash=b0526635e8b47d751b0e429925d73d78f9d79fc6)

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They are scientists. They have made the objective observation that what WE are doing IS suicidal.  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mrwallpaper.com%2Fwallpapers%2FSad-Sunflower.jpg&hash=ac9f33a23da8f73b88a002b6f4421f8c42327406)

The fossil fuel industry resents being called suicidal whackos. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F290.gif&hash=38949e35cf58eaa4218b5a8176767c806d2f8537)  But the fact is, not only is their fathomless greed and power lust in a FINITE WORLD BIOSPHERE  a mark of insanity, all their bribed politicians, shills and pseudo-scientists that claim we aren't destroying our seed corn for profit over planet ARE SUICIDAL WHACKOS too.


If you live in Eastern North America and do not understand why, with a warming globe, you froze your derriere off this past winter, then you should read what real climate scientists say before you swallow Inhofe snowballs on behalf of the fossil fuel fascists. IOW, we are experiencing bitter winters in Eastern North America BECAUSE of Global Warming, not IN SPITE of it!   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Fsnapoutofit.gif&hash=911b14b142101df534f739771fb2d3836a807d19)

This was predicted several years ago (http://www.climatecentral.org/news/ocean-link-to-hurricanes-bitter-winters-18846), as a matter of fact. So don't let the propagandists  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.u.arizona.edu%2F%7Epatricia%2Fcute-collection%2Fsmileys%2Flying-smiley.gif&hash=a34c2f7344d5f54f7009a4e684bb6c7310cdda03) carrying water for the dirty energy industries pull the Agnotology  (http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/who-can-you-trust/resisting-brainwashing-propaganda/msg2867/#msg2867)wool over your eyes.

Agelbert NOTE: Before diving into  the article titled "A hypothesis about the cold winter in eastern North America + Update", please read the following comments and the correct apologetic response form the climate scientist that wrote the article.

Stefan responds like a true scientist. Notice the lack of puffery or arrogance.  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fus.123rf.com%2F400wm%2F400%2F400%2Fyayayoy%2Fyayayoy1106%2Fyayayoy110600019%2F9735563-smiling-sun-showing-thumb-up.jpg&hash=09b45642ec6d7943d30b5b87548676e3ee7dbe3d)  Notice no attempt to talk down to or denigrate the commenters as MKing, the self proclaimed "geochemist" scientist does routinely. MKing misleads, Stefan does good science, period.


climatehawk1 says:
30 Mar 2015 at 9:29 AM

One very modest step that can be taken on this post and all other scientific writings in order to help educate interested readers: always first give the full name of something and its acronym in parentheses following, prior to using the acronym alone, e.g.: “Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC)”. This is something that new reporters are trained to do–because all readers are assumed to be newbies–and it would be an excellent discipline for scientific communicators as well.

[Response: Thanks, good point! I’ve added a glossary at the bottom.]

Chuck Larlham says:
30 Mar 2015 at 11:14 AM

And you’ve just perfectly demonstrated the problem the climatology scientists have… Your jargon is unintelligible, nor could most of them do any better with the biological jargon in which my research work was soaked, and the general public can’t read either of them. Too much prior understanding is assumed. I, for instance, having read the first part three times (I’m almost ready to start diagramming sentences), still do not understand why you reversed the signs in the warming cooling gyres (at least I know what a gyre is). Granted I hold only a Master of Science in Ecology and Environmental Science (from USU’s School of Wildlife Biology), but I am nonetheless a scientist, and I am made to feel utterly ignorant.

Now, if I become frustrated enough, I can dig this stuff apart and figure out the details, or I can say, “Well, I trust the methodology used by competent scientists,” which is my more likely response. And I have valid reason for that. Unfortunately, the general public, and that includes the lawyers who make up the vast majority of our State and federal Representatives and Senators, does not. They just get lost in this stuff.

[Response: Agreed – this post was written too quickly as a follow-up and assumed prior knowledge of the key terms from my previous post. Btw. – you don’t need to understand why in some cases the temperature pattern is plotted for an increase and in some cases for a decrease in the AMOC, as long as you get the point that the colours in some plots are just the other way round although they show the same thing. -stefan]



NOAA – National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration of the USA – an agency that e.g. publishes climate data

AMOC – Atlantic Meriodional Overturning Circulation (for lay people the Gulf Stream System as mentioned in my previous post)

SST – Sea surface temperature

HadISST – a particular sea surface temperature data product from the British Met Office

EOF – Empirical Orthogonal Function – you don’t need to understand how this works, just a statistical method to derive patterns of change



A hypothesis about the cold winter in eastern North America + Update


Filed under:
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— stefan @ 30 March 2015

The past winter was globally the warmest on record. At the same time it set a new cold record in the subpolar North Atlantic – and it was very cold in the eastern parts of North America. Are these things related?  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F128fs318181.gif&hash=eff6d5f3831782966c2ff2081f07bf7fc5b22a6b)

Two weeks ago NOAA published the following map of temperature anomalies for the past December-January-February (i.e. the Northern Hemisphere winter). One week ago, we published a paper in Nature Climate Change (which had been in the works for a few years) arguing that the cold in the subpolar North Atlantic is indicative of an AMOC slowdown (as discussed in my last post). Immediately our readers started to ask (as we indeed had been asking ourselves): does the cold winter in eastern North America (culminating in the Inhofe snowball incident) have anything to do with what is going on in the Atlantic?
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Fig. 1 Temperature anomaly map for the past december-january-february, from NOAA.

Here is a hypothesis for how they may indeed be linked. This is somewhat speculative – I have not investigated this with any special data analysis, I am just connecting the dots of some articles in the published literature, hoping this post might stimulate further investigation. The proposed mechanism has three simple steps, as follows.

1. The AMOC slows down – see my previous post (http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/climate-change/global-warming-is-with-us/msg2895/#msg2895).

2. The slowdown not only leads to a cold patch out in the Atlantic subpolar gyre, but also to warm sea surface temperature anomalies along the east coast of North America. This dipole response was found in the EOF analysis of observed sea surface temperatures by Dima and Lohmann (2011) (Fig.2). An EOF analysis is a standard statistical tool to decompose changes in space and time into a set of characteristic fixed spatial patterns, each of which follows a particular time evolution. That makes sense when a particular physical mechanism of change (such as an AMOC slowdown) has a characteristic spatial pattern. The pattern shown in Fig. 2 is the one identified by Dima and Lohman with the gradual AMOC decline over the 20th Century. (Note you have to reverse colours – as shown in the graph it corresponds to an AMOC increase, because this pattern is then multiplied with a negative time evolution).

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Fig. 2 Temperature pattern EOF2 in the HadISST data set, as analysed by Dima and Lohmann and identified with a gradual AMOC decline. Note that in this (and the following) graph the sign is reversed; an AMOC weakening comes with a cold patch south of Greenland and warming along the North American east coast.

Dima and Lohmann also show a second pattern (Fig. 3) associated with the sudden AMOC decline in the 1970s which we also see in the AMOC index in our paper.

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Fig. 3 Temperature pattern derived from a correlation analysis and identified by Dima and Lohmann with a rapid 1970s AMOC weakening.

In either case the anomaly in the subpolar North Atlantic is associated with an opposite anomaly along the North American east coast.

This dipole response to an AMOC slowdown is also found in models, as shown by Zhang (2008) – in her paper she presented the schematic shown in Fig. 4. Note you also need to reverse the colors in the diagram of Zhang – she chose to show the effect of an increase, not a slowdown of the AMOC, because she was looking at the increase after 1990 which we also find in our index. Zhang derived this pattern for the subsurface temperatures, so I asked her whether she also found a similar dipole in sea surface temperatures. She responded: “The dipole pattern shown in the subsurface is indeed also expressed in the SST, I use subsurface temperature because it is less noisy than SST.”

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Fig. 4 Dipole induced by strengthening the AMOC – for a weakening of the AMOC the reverse response is expected. From Zhang 2008.

Was this warm anomaly along the American east coast present last winter? Definitely – I happen to have saved two snapshots of SST anomalies on my hard disk, shown below.
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Fig. 5 SST anomalies for 12 December and 11 February. Note the cold patch in the subpolar Atlantic and the very warm SSTs along the North American east coast. Source: Climate Reanalyzer.

3. Warm SST along the American east coast creates a cold anomaly in the eastern parts of North America by radiating groups of Rossby waves. This was shown in a very elegant paper by Kaspi and Schneider (2011). They set out to explain why the eastern parts of the northern continents are in general much colder than the rest of the hemisphere. They took an idealized climate model, with no continents or other distractions (an “aquaplanet”), and simply pumped a heat anomaly into one small ocean region to mimic the effect of the Gulf Stream. Voila: upstream of this heat anomaly they got a big cold anomaly.

They also performed a clever, fun experiment: they increased the rotation rate of their planet and showed that the size of that cold patch increases in proportion. The theory of Rossby wave propagation explains this.

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Fig. 6 Temperature anomalies that result from adding an ocean heat anomaly in the triangular region on an aquaplanet.

This triangular heating region is to mimic warm sea surface temperatures (which provide a strong heat source to the atmosphere) along the North American coast. Note the cold anomaly that develops upstream. Left panel shows normal, right panel doubled rotation rate of the Earth.

They conclude in their paper:
The anomalous winter cold of eastern continental boundaries can result at least in part from radiation of nearly stationary Rossby wave groups off the regions of large surface heat fluxes over the warm waters in oceanic western boundary currents.
(They say “in part” because there are other factors like topography – but these don’t change over time, so don’t come into play when explaining why the last winter was colder than usual.)

Of course we need to be cautious – theirs is an idealised experiment which isolates and demonstrates this mechanisms in principle, but does not prove how strong it is in the real world. Certainly, changes in heating from the Gulf Stream will not be the only thing that influences winter weather along the Atlantic seaboard of North America, so we can’t expect a one-to-one relation. But I think this connection is worthy of further investigation.

By the way, this 3-step explanation of the cold of the past winter is not an alternative to the “jet stream meander” or “polar vortex” explanations – rather, it may simply help to explain why there was this persistent strong southward inflow of polar air into the eastern parts of North America. It might just have been helped along by the very warm waters along the coast – and those may well be related to the AMOC slowdown.

p.s. Sorry about the jargon in this post, which was a quick follow-up to my better-prepared previous one. Here a glossary:


NOAA – National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration of the USA – an agency that e.g. publishes climate data
AMOC – Atlantic Meriodional Overturning Circulation (for lay people the Gulf Stream System as mentioned in my previous post)
SST – Sea surface temperature
HadISST – a particular sea surface temperature data product from the British Met Office
EOF – Empirical Orthogonal Function – you don’t need to understand how this works, just a statistical method to derive patterns of change


Update 1 April: I just read another related paper which I thought would be worth sharing here. Zhang et al. (Journal of Climate 2011) ran a high-resolution climate model with eddy-permitting ocean – the main point here is that the narrow overflows from the Nordic Seas into the Atlantic can be represented in a much better way at such a high resolution. They perturbed the AMOC by altering the overflow so that it increased, which then had the effect of strengthening the entire AMOC. The change in sea surface temperature looks like this:

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Note they get a warming due to the stronger AMOC just in the area where we find a cooling in the data (which we interpret as indicator of a weakened AMOC). And they get a cooling along the North American coast north of Hatteras. The arrows show the change in currents and reveal the reason for that cooling: the northern recirculation gyre, located to the north of the Gulf Stream, increases in strength and brings colder waters from the north down along the US/Canadian coast (as sketched in Fig. 4). Thus this connection described above (point 2 in my argument) is also supported by this high-resolution climate model. This experiment is quite neat in that there is no change to the surface forcing; it is pure isolated effect of the AMOC, triggered by a change way below the surface in the deep overflow.

Weblink: Ocean Changes Linked to 2010 Hurricanes, Bitter Winters (http://www.climatecentral.org/news/ocean-link-to-hurricanes-bitter-winters-18846)


References
S. Rahmstorf, J.E. Box, G. Feulner, M.E. Mann, A. Robinson, S. Rutherford, and E.J. Schaffernicht, "Exceptional twentieth-century slowdown in Atlantic Ocean overturning circulation", Nature Climate change, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nclimate2554

M. Dima, and G. Lohmann, "Evidence for Two Distinct Modes of Large-Scale Ocean Circulation Changes over the Last Century", Journal of Climate, vol. 23, pp. 5-16, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/2009JCLI2867.1

R. Zhang, "Coherent surface-subsurface fingerprint of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation", Geophysical Research Letters, vol. 35, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2008GL035463

Y. Kaspi, and T. Schneider, "Winter cold of eastern continental boundaries induced by warm ocean waters", Nature, vol. 471, pp. 621-624, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature09924

http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2015/03/a-hypothesis-about-the-cold-winter-in-eastern-north-america/
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on April 14, 2015, 10:07:32 pm
9 States Report Record Low Snowpack Amid Epic Drought

Cole Mellino | April 14, 2015 10:10 am

California gets most of the attention in drought news coverage because so much of the state is in exceptional drought—the highest level—but 72 percent of the Western U.S. is experiencing drought conditions, according to the latest U.S. Drought Monitor data.

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72 percent of the West is experiencing drought conditions and 25 percent is in extreme or exceptional drought. Photo credit: U.S. Drought Monitor

When California’s snowpack assessment showed that the state’s snowpack levels were 6 percent of normal—the lowest ever recorded—it spurred Gov. Brown’s administration to order the first-ever mandatory water restrictions. California’s snowpack levels might be the lowest, but the Golden State is not the only one setting records. A new report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) finds that nine states reported record low snowpack. The report states:

The largest snowpack deficits are in record territory for many basins, especially in the Cascades and Sierra Nevada where single-digit percent of normal conditions prevail. Very low snowpacks are reported in most of Washington, all of Oregon, Nevada, California, parts of Arizona, much of Idaho, parts of New Mexico, three basins in Wyoming, one basin in Montana and most of Utah.

Only high elevation areas in the Rocky Mountains and Interior Alaska had normal or close to normal snowpack levels. “The only holdouts are higher elevations in the Rockies,” said Garen. “Look at the map and you’ll see that almost everywhere else is red.” Red indicates less than half of the normal snowpack remains. Dark red indicates snowpack levels are less than 25 percent of normal.

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Much of the West is in dark red, which indicates snowpack levels are below 25 percent of normal. Photo credit: USDA NCRS

And not only is the snowpack drastically reduced in many states, but it’s melting earlier now, too. “Almost all of the West Coast continues to have record low snowpack,” said David Garen, a hydrologist for USDA’s National Resources Conservation Service. “March was warm and dry in most of the West; as a result, snow is melting earlier than usual.”

Historically, April 1 is the peak snowpack. But this year, the peak came earlier because there was very little snow accumulation in March and much of the existing snow had already melted. Streamflow will be reduced even sooner in spring and summer, leaving reservoirs—already well below average in many areas—that much more depleted, the report finds. As of April 1, reservoir levels are below average in at least five western states: Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon and Utah,” according to Reuters. That doesn’t include California, which NASA scientist Jay Famiglietti said has about a year’s supply of water in its reservoirs.  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-300714025456.bmp&hash=f4e4a260bd60d3f34ca86fed93c47d5fb4117cfd)

http://ecowatch.com/2015/04/14/record-low-snowpack-drought/ (http://ecowatch.com/2015/04/14/record-low-snowpack-drought/)
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on April 15, 2015, 08:24:00 pm
Ka, that was an excellent outline of GLS. Sign me up  :emthup:

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This system must incorporate a transcendent principle(s). Something which remains true regardless of any specific circumstances at any given time. I think a good place to start is to recognize that our ethical values (often expressed in laws) are not rules we conjure up as we please in response to sociocultural circumstances. They are based on fundamental guiding principles and they must be respected. The existing system needs a shock for sure, but any system which replaces it must continue to respect the values which inspired it.

I agree, but since what I am really talking about is a dictatorship of the intellectual class, and since one finds more atheism and fuzzy moral thinking there than anywhere, the fundamental guiding principles will need to be put in more or less secular terms. At the same time, though, one can and should relate such terms to religious principles.

Agreed. I'm basically thinking of the principles we already have in the US Constitution, which are in secular terms. Also, federal legislation dealing with the environment and state legislation for the indigent. At the same time, the overzealous "separation of church and state" can be scaled back. Right now, people who have any association with the state cannot even relate policy goals to religious principles without worrying about being shut down.


Ka,
Rather than a "no growth economy" being the target, I believe that the growth of the biosphere (i.e. increase in viability, not stasis) should be the target AND the overriding principle.

Ashvin,
The U.S. Constitution barely scratches the surface of what is required to preserve and promote a healthy biosphere. To begin with, it is anthropocentric as well as nationalistic, which by definition is at odds with the GLS world view that Ka espouses. I think GLS, if it worked as advertised, would weigh every INaction humans take as well as every action they take to undermine the viability of the biosphere.

Human ethical behavior MUST be redefined to include any and all life forms we share the biosphere with, period. Human ethical behavior DOES NOT DO THAT now, according to our laws, traditions and mores EXCEPT if some land owning Homo SAP "suffers damages". We ARE NOT going to survive extinction with that kind of limited thinking.

But there is more. All this STUFF and legal tradition that came from the Romans and the English, and so on, is PROPERTY based. Even people are considered a type of property. All the tort STUFF out there hair splits about what "damages" are and what they aren't.

In doing so, by invariably IGNORING the biosphere damages UNLESS they occur on somebody's property, it is so anthropocentric (and elite property defending as well :emthdown:) that it ultimately fails to address the overall damage of an anthropocentric world view.

The system must be LIFE based, not PROPERTY based. And Humans MUST be looked at as just one of hundreds of thousands of species level stomachs within the biosphere that must be kept from behaving unethically.

This really isn't all that hard. The problem is that human institutions and pecking order have created an absolutely deadly travesty of logic which consists of self serving, elite ass kissing, biosphere destroying baloney. Those people will fight the OBVIOUS biosphere math that REQUIRES they submit to a biosphere viability level playing field of multi-species rights. Thomas Jefferson would get a great laugh out of that!

The sad part is that ANYTHING LESS than total submission to the preservation of, and promotion of, LIFE is SUICIDAL. Yes, it's THAT BAD NOW, thanks to our massive stupidity and arrogance.

We are NOT in a situation where we can just preserve what we've got and everything is going to be hunky Jake. We are IN THE HOLE, biosphere wise. WE NEED TO GROW a severely depleted multi-species community in order to AVOID EXTINCTION.

This is what James Hansen said recently. He is right.
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My talk, “Our Golden Opportunity”, includes several strong criticisms, beginning with scientists. We scientists are certain that humanity faces an emergency, right now.  Yet as Naomi Oreskes points out in “Playing Dumb” (NY Times, 03/01/2015), we don’t make that clear enough.

We face obstacles in communication with the public, but many are self-imposed.  It took over a year to publish our paper that provides the scientific basis for the legal cases, in part because an anonymous editorial board member (a scientist) insisted we remove “normative” statements.  When he stated that “dangerous” was a normative word, I withdrew the paper from that journal.  Yet when I read the Abstract of the paper now, I am disappointed that we did not make a more crystal clear statement that 2°C global warming is a disaster scenario that must be avoided.

The above is an example of the hair splitting baloney that status quo defenders, along with those who WRONGLY think the "enlightenment" was actually good for mankind, continue to spew out when honorable people, like Hansen, that DO understand our precarious position, try to state the biosphere FACTS to the human community.

We are committing slow suicide. Our institutions, our legal traditions, our pecking order, our government and our "apex predator" wishful thinking are all helping.

Biosphere math is somewhat complicated. But it isn't hard. The impediment is human arrogance.
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on April 15, 2015, 08:54:35 pm
04/15/2015 01:26 PM   
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SustainableBusiness.com News

As a sign of things to come, a class action lawsuit is in front of a Netherlands court this week to force the government to take stronger action on climate change.

 900 citizens are involved, led by the Urgenda Foundation, which asked citizens to join as co-plaintiffs through ‘crowd pleading.' The lawsuit was filed in late 2013 and this week, a district court heard the case.

They are asking the court to:

1. Declare that global warming of more than 2 degrees Celsius will lead to a violation of fundamental human rights worldwide.

2. Declare that the Dutch State is acting unlawfully by not contributing its proportional share to preventing a global warming of more than 2 degrees Celsius.

3. Order the Dutch State to reduce carbon emissions 40% by 2020 (below 1990 levels), the level scientists have determined is necessary to keep temperature rise below 2C. 


Can Courts Help on This?
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 While it might seem unrealistic for courts to weigh in on this, Jaap Spier, Advocate-General to the Dutch Supreme Court, says that courts actually can force countries to adopt "effective climate policies" and they are "perhaps the only way to break through the political apathy about climate change."

 He says: "Does a judge need to be an activist in order to make a statement about climate change? "No, it is just a matter of applying existing law, although undoubtedly not all judges will be open to this. Judges with the courage to give a ruling on this will one day be applauded, whereas those who don't will eventually be tarred and feathered."

 Indeed, the case coincides with the March launch of the "Oslo Principles on Global Climate Change Obligations," developed by High Court judges, law professors and advocates from the Netherlands, US, Brazil, China, India and other countries.

 The Oslo principles say that governments have a legal obligation to avert climate change under existing international human rights law, environmental law and tort law.

In a letter to Urgenda, the Dutch government acknowledged that its actions are not sufficient to prevent dangerous climate change
. In legal terms, this is a wrongful act of the State, says Urgenda. "The Dutch Supreme Court has consistently upheld the principle that the government can be held legally accountable for not taking sufficient action to prevent foreseeable harm."

Already, lawyers are following suit with legal proceedings against the Belgian government, supported by 8500 citizens.


Urgenda's case is inspired by attorney Roger Cox's book,  Revolution Justified, which argues that the courts can play a pivotal role on climate change.

Cox, who is the lawyer on the case, says: "We're now 23 years down the road of the climate change treaty and it's obvious that international politics has not brought much good to the world. The power of politics, fossil fuel companies and the banks are so large but there is one other powerful system with a lot of wisdom and that is the law."

"There is a parallel here with the situation in the 1950s in the United States. It was the courts that decided that segregation in schools was not constitutional. It wasn't a big issue in society and it wasn't political but it was a few people fighting and the courts following up that created a huge change in American society.

In the US, children are leading the charge to force action on climate change, with legal actions filed in every state. The case got all the way to the Supreme Court, which sadly decided not to take it up. It was heard last week in an Oregon court.

Climate Silence

They want the atmosphere to be declared a "public trust" that deserves protection. The concept has previously been used to clean up polluted rivers and coastlines. In 2012, a Texas judge ruled the state IS responsible for the atmosphere.

Last year, a letter was sent to fossil fuel, mining, insurance and carbon-intensive manufacturers. It warned them that the day is drawing near when they will be held responsible for crimes against nature and society by fueling climate change and misinforming the public on this emergency.

Read the Oslo Principles:

 
Website: www.yale.edu/macmillan/globaljustice/Oslo%20Principles.pdf

http://www.sustainablebusiness.com/index.cfm/go/news.display/id/26248
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on April 18, 2015, 12:02:48 am
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Cole Mellino | April 17, 2015 9:49 am

Many students have vowed to ramp up their divestment campaigns at universities across America this spring. One group who has garnered much media attention is Divest Harvard, which is wrapping up a week-long campaign known as “Harvard Heat Week.” Harvard has the largest endowment of any university in the world at $36.4 billion, and hundreds of alumni including Bill McKibben, founder of 350.org, and former Colorado Senator Tim Wirth are participating in the group’s efforts this week.

After a week of sit-ins that have shut down administration offices at Massachusetts Hall, President Faust finally reached out directly to students with Divest Harvard. ”I would be happy to meet with you and a representative group of your student colleagues when you have ceased disrupting university operations,” wrote President Faust in an email.

The students however were not pleased with the offer for another closed door meeting and called for a more open process on divestment that schools like MIT have convened. Divest Harvard has made multiple requests for a more transparent process involving the entire student body, faculty and alumni.

The group knows there is strong support for divestment because the student body voted 72 percent in favor of divestment and hundreds of faculty and thousands of alumni signed a letter supporting the initiative. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.runemasterstudios.com%2Fgraemlins%2Fimages%2F2thumbs.gif&hash=98130be1edf2bed4a80ac8f134b0126673bd469e) 


Divest Harvard has agreed to the meeting with the president, but explained that they would not stop protesting as long as Harvard continued to invest in fossil fuel companies. “Recent SEC filings revealed that the university septupled its investments in oil and gas companies last fall  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-200714183312.bmp&hash=02dafef2fe739676600fdc9bd56271f0f5ab3723),” says Divest Harvard.

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Last two pages of article:
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http://ecowatch.com/2015/04/17/harvard-heat-week-divest-fossil-fuels/2/
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on April 18, 2015, 12:12:00 am
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2y8_UDrGjQ&feature=player_embedded

6 Year Old Gets President Obama’s Attention With This Climate Change Video

http://ecowatch.com/2015/04/15/noah-gue-climate-change-video/
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on April 21, 2015, 09:30:39 pm
This is place to get the latest objective information about Climate Science Research and Results from Working Climate Scientists:
http://www.realclimate.org/ (http://www.realclimate.org/)

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We use WordPress blogging software and are hosted at webfaction.com. Site design is by Gavin, with some elements inspired by the setup at Cosmic Variance.

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on April 25, 2015, 11:07:47 pm
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When carbon dioxide was at these levels previously in history, polar ice melted and flooded the oceans, raising sea level up to 130 feet higher than today's levels.
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Time to Brace for Serious Temperature Rise, Say Scientists

http://www.sustainablebusiness.com/index.cfm/go/news.display/id/26191
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on April 26, 2015, 07:14:04 pm
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I really believe earthquakes are electromagnetically related to pressure … that the pressure is created by electromagnetic differentials caused by earth/solar activity.  :o

Too much positive charge, or too much negative could cause an earthquake.. also excessive human induced frequency could be playing a role.

If electromagnetics are involved, then it logically follows that certain people and animals (and plants) could respond to the pre-earthquake electromagnetic distortions.

http://dutchsinse.tatoott1009.com/i-really-believe-earthquakes-are-electromagnetically-related-to-pressure-that-the-pressure-is-created-by-electromagnetic-differentials-caused-by-earthsolar-activity/ (http://dutchsinse.tatoott1009.com/i-really-believe-earthquakes-are-electromagnetically-related-to-pressure-that-the-pressure-is-created-by-electromagnetic-differentials-caused-by-earthsolar-activity/)

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The lava lake at Kilauea volcano is about to reach its top for the first time since it formed. http://hvo.wr.usgs.gov/cams/ (http://hvo.wr.usgs.gov/cams/) Above: April 26 2015 339am CDT — The lava lake inside Kilauea Volcano in Hawaii has filled to record levels, and is nearing the top of the caldera which contains the lake.

This rise in lava a month ago led me to make a video telling people to keep an eye on the situation.   No one else was making note or saying anything publicly at the time, and people came to my video telling me that it was “normal”.

The levels started to rise in earnest a few days after I posted my first video.  I then recorded another video on March 28, 2015, showing the rise picking up speed.  :o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIhU2e30X60&feature=player_embedded
Mezmerizing video!

http://dutchsinse.tatoott1009.com/ (http://dutchsinse.tatoott1009.com/)

Agelbert NOTE: I just went to Google Earth to measure the Kilauea Volcano caldera depth BEFORE it started the fill up sequence. In a mere two or three months it has risen nearly 383 FEET! This is A LOT of LAVA when you consider that the caldera is  about one half of mile in diameter.
Kilauea Summit Cam Overlook
http://hvo.wr.usgs.gov/cams/panorama.php?cam=HMcam
Kilauea Summit Cam Thermal Overlook
http://hvo.wr.usgs.gov/cams/panorama.php?cam=HTcam
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Rising Kilauea lava lake puts on show for visitors
http://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/story/28887839/rising-kilauea-lava-lake-puts-on-show-for-visitors

BIG ISLAND (HawaiiNewsNow) –

“The lava lake is rising in Halema’uma’u Crater and it’s putting on quite the show for visitors who have been able to see spattering above the crater rim and the loud popping of rocks as the crater walls expand with heat.
USGS geologists with the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory say the Kilauea summit lava lake is at its highest level since it was formed in 2008. Experts say it began steadily rising Wednesday afternoon and measured at 90 feet below the rim of the Overlook crater Wednesday evening. But Thursday morning, the lava climbed a few more yards and was measuring only about 70 feet from the rim.

“There was a lot of spattering that visitors are able to see from the Jagger Museum observation deck and also a lot of rumbling sounds as the crater walls heat up and the rocks fall into that roiling lava lake below. After the sun sets and the darkness starts to come in, that dramatic glow from the lava lake casting it’s reflection on the clouds and on the plume of gas and ash coming out of there — it is just super dramatic and beautiful. Everybody is just super happy to see this. The action isn’t always like this so the people who are lucky enough to be here right now are really in for a treat this evening,” said Jessica Ferracane, Hawaii Volcanoes National Park spokesperson.

More than 50 people, many of them local residents, gathered at the Jagger Museum overlook Thursday night to catch the breathtaking show.
HVO scientists say it’s unclear whether the lake will continue to rise. They say it cycles through filling and falling.

In the meantime, Kilauea Volcano’s East Rift Zone lava flow continues to feed widespread breakouts northeast of Pu’u ‘O’o. The front of the breakout that is farthest downslope is about five miles from the vent and doesn’t pose any immediate threat to any area communities.”

http://dutchsinse.tatoott1009.com/4262015-lava-lake-in-hawaii-at-record-levels-locals-come-from-miles-around-to-see-rare-event/

Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on April 26, 2015, 07:14:44 pm
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Land rising out of the sea in Hokkaido Japan — Rose 50 feet (over 1,000 feet long) OVERNIGHT

April 25, 2015 tatoott@yahoo.com

A massive sudden (1 day) rise of land has occurred along the coast of Hokkaido Japan.

Major global earthquake activity is taking place, and serious crustal movement is obviously underway in the region around North Japan.

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The new land began rising from the sea yesterday morning (April 24, 2015) with just a 1 meter rise  (3 feet), then began rising rapidly, the event is still ongoing as of April 25th into 26th 2015.

The new land mass has now risen over 300 meters high (near 1,000 feet), and near 10 meters wide (30 feet)!  Not ‘small’ by any means, and a very rare occurrence to top it off.

This is being attributed to crustal movement in the area.

VIDEO (in Japanese) at link and several excellent pictures: (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.runemasterstudios.com%2Fgraemlins%2Fimages%2F2thumbs.gif&hash=98130be1edf2bed4a80ac8f134b0126673bd469e) 

http://dutchsinse.tatoott1009.com/4252015-land-rising-out-of-the-sea-in-hokkaido-japan-rose-300-meters-near-1000-feet-overnight/

Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on April 27, 2015, 02:37:42 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JC_wIWUC2U&feature=player_embedded
 :o

http://ecowatch.com/2015/04/27/avalanche-nepal-earthquake-everest/
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on April 27, 2015, 03:19:24 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFRPFMGptJE&feature=player_embedded
Drone video (no sound) of Katmandu EARTHQUAKE DAMAGE.
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on April 28, 2015, 05:45:21 pm
Nenana Ice Classic 2015

Filed under: Climate Science
 Instrumental Record
 — gavin @ 25 April 2015


Unsurprisingly to anyone looking at the exceptionally warm winter on the West Coast of North America, the Nenana Ice Classic had another near-record early breakup on Friday, netting some lucky winner(s) around $300,000 in prizes.

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As I’ve discussed previously (last year and an update), the Ice Classic is a lottery that has been run every year since 1917, based on the time and date of the break up of the ice on the Nenana river, some 50 miles from Fairbanks, AK. There has been a historically good correlation with seasonal temperatures in the region, and the long term trend (earlier break-up by about 6.6 days/century) is in line with expectations of overall warming in the region.
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2015 was the fourth earliest break-up date based on the nominal calendar date, but actually the 5th earliest if you time it from the vernal equinox (which accounts for leap years and other calendrical oddities). There was an ‘almost’ break up, on Thursday which would not have made much difference, though 2015 would have just edged out 2012 in the time-from-vernal-equinox ranking.

On a year-to-year basis, there is clearly a lot of variability (like the weather itself), and so a near-record break-up date this year isn’t particularly meaningful (just as 2013’s record late date wasn’t either (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.desismileys.com%2Fsmileys%2Fdesismileys_0293.gif&hash=b1af4868ed8f18c30e637f8cbcb79002f6f71039)). But I find this data set an useful example of how one can discuss trends and variability and, occasionally, make interesting predictions:  ;D  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F128fs318181.gif&hash=eff6d5f3831782966c2ff2081f07bf7fc5b22a6b)

Gavin Schmidt ‎@ClimateOfGavin

FYI, Nenana Ice Classic betting for AK residents open until April 5. Current ice is thinnest since at least 89… http://www.nenanaakiceclassic.com/ice.htm

PS. I have a little side bet going based on whether this year’s result gets mentioned in the contraro-sphere  ;D. As might be expected, late years (2001, 2008 and the real outlier, 2013) get substantial coverage (originally on the late John Daly’s website, and more recently at WUWT).

But last year there was no mention anywhere  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F290.gif&hash=38949e35cf58eaa4218b5a8176767c806d2f8537) ;), and the long term trend, which is the most relevant for climate change, never gets mentioned at all (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F237.gif&hash=13b71d2444f84b15c53fb1c0272c080f48a165f1) ;).

Of course, this year will be different. Oh yes.
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http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2015/04/nenana-ice-classic-2015/

Agelbert NOTE: UNLIKE the MKing dues paying member of the contraro-sphere, Gavin Schmidt is an objective scientist that doesn't try to twist hard data  to fit the fossil fuel industry agnotology. I use the term "agnotology" because the deliberate parading of outlier years with late thaws coupled with the TOTAL SILENCE when the years have early thaws along with the TOTAL SILENCE about what the data says about the warming trends is TEXTBOOK AGNOTOLOGY (Agnotology: The Making and Unmaking of Ignorance - Part one of six parts  (http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/who-can-you-trust/resisting-brainwashing-propaganda/msg2849/#msg2849)).
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on April 29, 2015, 10:25:02 pm
Change you had better believe in.  :(

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jPAcTkX5Ew&feature=player_embedded
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on May 04, 2015, 01:26:54 am
Storms of My Grandchildren - Hansen


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One implication is that if we should "succeed" in digging up and burning all fossil fuels, some parts of the planet would become literally uninhabitable, with some time in the year having wet bulb temperature exceeding 35°C (950F).

At such temperatures, for reasons of physiology and physics, humans cannot survive, because even under ideal conditions of rest and ventilation, it is physically impossible for the environment to carry away the 100 W of metabolic heat that a human body generates when it is at rest14.

Thus even a person lying quietly naked in hurricane force winds would be unable to survive. Temperatures even several degrees below this extreme limit would be sufficient to make a region practically uninhabitable for living and working.

The picture that emerges for Earth sometime in the distant future, if we should dig up and burn every fossil fuel, is thus consistent with that depicted in "Storms" -- an ice-free Antarctica and a desolate planet without human inhabitants.

Although temperatures in the Himalayas may have become seductive, it is doubtful that the many would allow the wealthy few to appropriate 6 this territory to themselves or that humans would survive with the extermination of most other species on the planet.

At least one sentence in "Storms" will need to be corrected in the next edition: even with burning of all fossil fuels the tropical ocean does not "boil". But it is not an exaggeration to suggest, based on best available scientific evidence, that burning all fossil fuels could result in the planet being not only ice-free but human-free.  :o

http://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/mailings/2013/20130415_Exaggerations.pdf (http://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/mailings/2013/20130415_Exaggerations.pdf)
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on May 07, 2015, 03:07:58 pm
This unheard of here! Especially in May. Never mind the fact that the temperatures in the 80's in early May is NOT Vermont weather, FOR THE LAST WEEK the relative humidity has been between 20 and 30%! It is 89 degrees right now and the relative humidity is 23%.  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Ffc06.deviantart.net%2Ffs71%2Ff%2F2009%2F347%2F2%2F6%2FWTF_Smiley_face_by_IveWasHere.jpg&hash=8ca673f8cf785d9dac626f9fd91e37a1a318c7ac)


This is TERRRIBLE for the plant life. Also there WILL BE a lot of fires. I only had two daffodils flower of over 20 and, although the flowers normally hold up for a couple of weeks, these two flowers wilted in just a couple of days. 

We are now Phoenix north.  :P(https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-200714183312.bmp&hash=02dafef2fe739676600fdc9bd56271f0f5ab3723)

IF THIS CONTINUES... (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Fdesertsmile.gif&hash=293fbde1c87dec2d81c5907e3fbac7d8e5bba7a9)
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on May 07, 2015, 05:35:49 pm
This unheard of here! Especially in May. Never mind the fact that the temperatures in the 80's in early May is NOT Vermont weather, FOR THE LAST WEEK the relative humidity has been between 20 and 30%! It is 89 degrees right now and the relative humidity is 23%.  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Ffc06.deviantart.net%2Ffs71%2Ff%2F2009%2F347%2F2%2F6%2FWTF_Smiley_face_by_IveWasHere.jpg&hash=8ca673f8cf785d9dac626f9fd91e37a1a318c7ac)


This is TERRRIBLE for the plant life. Also there WILL BE a lot of fires. I only had two daffodils flower of over 20 and, although the flowers normally hold up for a couple of weeks, these two flowers wilted in just a couple of days. 

We are now Phoenix north.  :P(https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-200714183312.bmp&hash=02dafef2fe739676600fdc9bd56271f0f5ab3723)

IF THIS CONTINUES... (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Fdesertsmile.gif&hash=293fbde1c87dec2d81c5907e3fbac7d8e5bba7a9)


UPDATE. The temperature is now 86 (the high was 90  :o) and the relative humidity is now at 16%.  I have lived here almost 20 years and have NEVER seen the relative humidity below 40% unless it is the dead of winter.  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-300714025456.bmp&hash=f4e4a260bd60d3f34ca86fed93c47d5fb4117cfd)


 
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on May 11, 2015, 09:29:29 pm
AG we might be able to agree on a few things here.

TPTB own the major banks.

The banks own or control:

The politicians (all significant western political parties)
All major media.  (Fox, CNN, BBC, NPR, Al Jezeera, WSJ, WP NYT etc) 
The major oil companies, (BP, Chevron, Exxon, Shell)
Hundreds of major corporations, ie. most of the Fortune 500

They also control through their politicians, foundations and funds most scientific research,  most significant NGOs and activist groups.  If a significant social issue is in play that they have an interest in, they are almost certainly controlling both sides of the debate.

If we can agree here it might be possible to hold a discussion.

We do agree that the banksters and their corps are stealing like there is no tomorrow.  I'm not sure you agree that governments are basically their agents in a large part of this theft.  Our major disagreement seems to be that you cannot believe that AGW is just another of their psyops, and I am certain that it is.  That might be tedious to prove but the money trail is there.  It was Peter that first clued me to this.

Likely part of the plan was to structure carbon sequestration and/or taxation in such a way that small and mid cap oils would lose money and be vulnerable to takeover by the large cap oils.  I think they have given up on this.  I could be wrong.

Part of the agenda seems to just be anti US/EU survival.  What is the point of closing a few coal fired plants in US/UK if Chindia is building more than one a week?  And they are very quiet about the Chinese CTL plants.

Yes, FWIW, the Potomac did freeze this year, to within sight of the Capitol. I didn't notice anyone skating yet though, give them a few years to get used to it.

You can pretend it is getting hotter but (for one example of many) as of today my red maples and yellow birches still haven't leafed out! 

As for moving south, we did look into it some,  but my partner wishes to remain employed, and there are no career opportunities for her in southern Appalachia or eastern Texas.  Unsurprisingly, Atlanta, Raleigh, Houston and Dallas (where career opportunities do exist) just do not attract.

Great to see you back Snowleopard.  What a winter that was, am I glad it's over.  ::) ;D

Thanks GO

Winter seems to be done here too, with any luck.   Six months of winter is a little much!

Temps switched from mostly below "normal" to mostly above.  Most of the trees (except yellow birches and some red maples that are usually early) are leafing out and my plums are blooming.

The last of my snowpiles melted away last week.  I'll wait until next week to swap off  the winter tires though.

It is not at all controversial geologically that we are headed into full glaciation.  The cycle will continue, the question is when we get there. 

I guess that's why you can sail through the Northwest Passage now, for the first time in recorded history?

http://www.livescience.com/48105-cargo-ship-solos-northwest-passage.html (http://www.livescience.com/48105-cargo-ship-solos-northwest-passage.html)

 So this captain got lucky.  One can Google up multiple accounts of ships attempting the passage that needed rescue. 

Arctic ocean ice thickness and coverage is mostly controlled by wind velocity and direction, then by ocean currents and lastly by temperature.  Most of Alaska was not glaciated at the Last Glacial Maximum and the Arctic ocean was open several times during that glaciation.  .




Guess that's why the ice sheets in Greenland and the Antarctic are melting?

https://nsidc.org/cryosphere/quickfacts/icesheets.html (https://nsidc.org/cryosphere/quickfacts/icesheets.html)

http://www.antarcticglaciers.org/glaciers-and-climate/shrinking-ice-shelves/ice-shelves/ (http://www.antarcticglaciers.org/glaciers-and-climate/shrinking-ice-shelves/ice-shelves/)

Currently the average annual ice accumulation on Greenland runs about 400 GigaTons.  This year is slightly above the average.

http://beta.dmi.dk/en/groenland/maalinger/greenland-ice-sheet-surface-mass-budget/ (http://beta.dmi.dk/en/groenland/maalinger/greenland-ice-sheet-surface-mass-budget/)

Antarctic sea ice is currently running 2-3 standard deviations above normal and has broken many all time extent records this year:

https://sunshinehours.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/antarctic_sea_ice_extent_zoomed_2015_day_128_1981-2010.png (https://sunshinehours.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/antarctic_sea_ice_extent_zoomed_2015_day_128_1981-2010.png)


There is also the interesting story of the "climate scientists"  in the 2013 Antarctic summer who tried to duplicate the 1913 Mawson expedition with a modern ice strengthened vessel, got stuck in the ice and had to be rescued.  The much less capable vessel of 1913 had no serious trouble.  They were trying to show how much the ice had melted!

http://www.thenewamerican.com/tech/environment/item/17277-global-warming-alarmists-stuck-in-antarctic-sea-ice (http://www.thenewamerican.com/tech/environment/item/17277-global-warming-alarmists-stuck-in-antarctic-sea-ice)



Send us a little ice age glaciation down our way, we could use the water.

If only I had that power, I'd be happy to oblige!  ::)

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Snowleapard,
With your 24/7 evidence free Propaganda laced with "scientific" remarks like "The captain got lucky", you have earned a permanent sign (mendacity expert) painted on your back by Eddie, UB and myself.

As to you "agreeing" with me on corruption in government, the point of my post is that  ANYTHING that rankles the feathers of the fossil fuel industry is something YOU refuse to bring up. Spare me the "China is doing this and Russia is doing that" PROPAGANDA pro-war hysteria while you "tactfully" ignore the destruction of our finances for the benefit of the fossil fuel industry.

Your SILENCE is the issue, pal! And that stack of agonotology based graphs you just presented are a perfect example of your disingenuous double talk.

GO, when your are ROASTING in Boston this summer and your power bill GOES THROUGH THE ROOF TO PROVE IT, try to remember last winter and everything I have posted here calmly explaining why the more extreme winter is an EFFECT of global Warming. The hotter than blazes summer will be something ALSO expected but, OF COURSE, something Snowleopard will "tactfully" ignore while he (pretends to) order another pair of ice skates.   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-200714191329.bmp&hash=4764bfbe6bb0e11ca61102efa97a932a824f47e0)

Go ahead, GO, play kissy face with Snowleopard. And be sure and IGNORE what the scientists at the following web site, staffed EXCLUSIVELY BY CLIMATE SCIENTISTS, say. No need to strain yourself, after all.

But if you REALLY want to know how Snowleopard TICKS, this article points to an online brief course on the Climate Denial MO.  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Freading.gif&hash=63e3e644b39258d4c4eedbcdaf322315b1856723)

An Online University Course on the Science of Climate Science Denial Filed under: Climate Science — mike @ 22 April 2015

Guest post from John Cook, University of Queensland

For many years, RealClimate has been educating the public about climate science. The value of climate scientists patiently explaining the science and rebutting misinformation directly with the public cannot be overestimated. When I began investigating this issue, my initial searches led me here, which was invaluable in increasing my understanding of our climate and making sense of misinformation. RealClimate has inspired and empowered a host of climate communicators such as myself to step forward and help make climate science more accessible to the general public.

To further the work of educating the public, and empowering people to communicate the realities of climate change, the Skeptical Science team has collaborated with The University of Queensland to develop a MOOC, Making Sense of Climate Science Denial. MOOC stands for Massive (we’ve already had thousands of students sign up from over 130 countries) Open (available for free to everyone) Online (web-based, no software required) Course.


The course examines the science of climate science denial. Why do a small but vocal minority reject the scientific evidence for climate change? What techniques do they use to cast doubt on the science?

And we examine the all-important questionbased on scientific research, how should we respond to science denial?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RedrutZ_G3Q&feature=player_embedded

http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2015/04/an-online-university-course-on-the-science-of-climate-science-denial/ (http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2015/04/an-online-university-course-on-the-science-of-climate-science-denial/)

Agelbert NOTE: One of the techniques, used BOTH by Snowleopard and Mking, is the resolution reduction trick used in graphing in order to give the appearance of a gradient in the direction of COOLING   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-051113192052.png&hash=93c42ef9f18fc5d9da50fd91fc19f70009f95f85). What they do is bring in several million years, something that is irrelevant to what has happened in the last 200 years, but it looks good on paper.  :evil4: 

They also go in the opposite direction to narrowly focus on a temperature record at exactly the spot following a temperature spike. WHY? Because, after the spike is chopped off the graph  :evil4:, the slight reversion to mean, regardless of the FACT that the mean rate IS climbing, gives the FALSE and MISLEADING appearance of a pause. This is pure and unadulterated malice and aforethought (mens rea) disinformation in the servie of the fossil fuel industry. People like this should be imprisoned for life as enemies of humanity and the biosphere. Have a nice day.
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on May 11, 2015, 09:51:08 pm
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http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/graphs_v3/ (http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/graphs_v3/)

Brave Climate Deniers everywhere, please ignore the above silly graph by NASA.  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Ffly.gif&hash=b0526635e8b47d751b0e429925d73d78f9d79fc6)

Within a thousand years or so we are going to get cooler with lots of BRRRR glaciation! (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.freesmileys.org%2Fsmileys%2Fsmiley-scared002.gif&hash=764898cfbf07ef2c41ffddc5e93fa0e1bed41bae) Hurry, buy a big oil fired furnace now! Snowleopard, Mking and your great-great-great-great (you get the idea  ;)) grandchildren will thank you.  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-200714191329.bmp&hash=4764bfbe6bb0e11ca61102efa97a932a824f47e0)

Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on May 11, 2015, 10:39:45 pm
WHY Free Marketers RESIST accepting the FACTS about Global Climate Change.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTQldGEpcNk&feature=player_embedded
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on May 12, 2015, 12:24:21 am
UB debunks Snowleopard (sl)! (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.websmileys.com%2Fsm%2Fviolent%2Fsterb029.gif&hash=7a43a0c106eab798f7ba6133dc5cc550647a03d2)

What a joke to present a graph of the last 18 years to say no warming in that period debunks global warming when those same years contai n all the hottest in history. Since 96. Now go ahead and expand those last 18 years back  the 50 million u say are relevant to show the real picture. And while u r at it lets see the ocean temps in the same period since 96 . Then tell the truth about who has conceded anything.
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So again u ignore ocean temp talk about temp instead of climate. And tell us that the 50 million year trend is dOwn. But u got to leave out that 50 million downward turning sharply up since we started burning fossil fuels. So sl wtf is the skijump shape of the trend?  Why in the last 1oo yrs the trend ends. Why do u  have to present false graph claiming it goes to yr 2ooo when its only to 1950. Because  the steep climb upwards in the last 65 yrs would put the lie to it. As for your alternative explanation for wandering jetstream it ignores alaska and siberia shorts and t shirt winter weather.
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on May 14, 2015, 03:23:38 pm
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_aguo7V0Q4&feature=player_embedded

Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on May 14, 2015, 10:23:38 pm
A Map Of How Far The Earthquake In Nepal Moved The Earth
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on May 16, 2015, 04:06:36 pm
Permafrost Thaw Would Have Runaway Effect on Carbon Release

Posted on May 15, 2015

By Tim Radford, Climate News Network

This Creative Commons-licensed piece first appeared at Climate News Network
.

LONDON—An international team of scientists has settled one puzzle of the Arctic permafrost and confirmed one long-standing fear: the vast amounts of carbon now preserved in the frozen soils could one day all get back into the atmosphere.

Since the Arctic is the fastest-warming place on the planet, such a release of greenhouse gas could only accelerate global warming and precipitate catastrophic climate change.

That the circumpolar regions of the northern hemisphere hold vast amounts of deep-frozen carbon is not in question.

The latest estimate is 17 billion tonnes, which is twice the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and perhaps 10 times the quantity put into the atmosphere by burning fossil fuels since the start of the Industrial Revolution.

Hazard underlined

In recent weeks, researchers have already underlined the potential hazard. But the big question has been that if some of the trapped carbon must be escaping now, where is it going?

Researchers have checked the mouths of the Arctic rivers for the telltale evidence of ancient dissolved organic carbon—partly-rotted vegetable matter deep-frozen more than 20,000 years ago—and found surprisingly little.

Now Robert Spencer, an oceanographer at Florida State University, and colleagues from the US, UK, Russia, Switzerland and Germany report in Geophysical Research Letters that the answer lies in the soil—and in the headwater streams of the terrestrial Arctic regions.

Instead of flowing down towards the sea, the thawing peat and ancient leaf litter of the warming permafrost is being metabolised by microbes and released swiftly into the atmosphere as carbon dioxide.

“We found that decomposition converted 60% of the carbon
 in the thawed permafrost to carbon dioxide in two weeks”



The scientists conclude that the microbes, once they get a chance to work at all, act so fast that half of all the soil carbon they can get at is turned into carbon dioxide within a week. It gets into the atmosphere before it has much chance to flow downstream with the soil meltwater.

The researchers centred their study on Duvanny Yar in Siberia, where the Kolyma River sluices through a bank of permafrost to expose the frozen organic carbon.

They worked at 19 different sites—including places where the permafrost was more than 30 metres deep—and they found tributary streams made entirely of thawed permafrost.

Measurement of the carbon concentration confirmed that it was indeed ancient. The researchers analysed its form in the meltwater, then they bottled it with a selection of local microbes, and waited.

Used by microbes

“We found that decomposition converted 60% of the carbon in the thawed permafrost to carbon dioxide in two weeks,” says Aron Stubbins, assistant professor at the University of Georgia’s Skidaway Institute of Oceanography. “This shows that permafrost carbon is definitely in a form that can be used by the microbes.”

The finding raises a new—and not yet considered—aspect of the carbon cycle jigsaw puzzle, because what happens to atmospheric and soil carbon is a huge element in all climate simulations.

At he moment, permafrost carbon is not a big factor in projections by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Dr Spencer says: “When you have a huge frozen store of carbon and it’s thawing, we have some big questions. The primary question is, when it thaws, what happens to it?

“Our research shows that this ancient carbon is rapidly utilised by microbes and transferred to the atmosphere, leading to further warming in the region, and therefore more thawing. So we get into a runaway effect.”
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/permafrost_thaws_runaway_effect_on_carbon_release_20150515
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on May 17, 2015, 02:51:15 pm
Droughts, Floods and Heatwaves: Blame It on Climate Change

Tim Radford, Climate News Network | May 17, 2015 11:21 am

As temperatures soar to record heights, blame it on global warming—but only about three-quarters of the time. And when the rain comes down by the bucketful, you can attribute one downpour in five to climate change.
Yet another team of research scientists has looked at the probabilities, and has linked extremes of weather with global warming.

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A dried-out reservoir in California, which is already in the grip of ongoing severe drought. Photo credit: Ian Abbott / Flickr

Extremes have always happened and are, by definition, rare events. So, for the last 30 years, climate scientists have carefully explained that no particular climate event could be identified as the consequence of a rise in global average temperatures driven by the release of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases from the burning of fossil fuels.

But some events that were once improbable have now become statistically more probable because of global warming, according to Erich Fischer and Reno Knutti, climate scientists at ETH Zurich—the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology.

They report in Nature Climate Change that they looked at simulations of probabilities and climate records for the period 1901 to 2005, and projections for the period 2006 to 2100.

Rise in temperatures

Then they settled down to calculate the likelihood that a proportion of past heatwaves or floods could be linked to a measured average rise in planetary temperatures so far of 0.85°C.

They worked out how these proportions would change if the average planetary temperatures reach 2°C above the “normal” of the pre-industrial world, and they found that human-induced global warming could already be responsible for 18 percent of extremes of rain or snow, and 75 percent of heatwaves
worldwide.

If the temperatures go up to the 2°C that nations have agreed should be the limit, then the probability of precipitation extremes that could be blamed on global warming rises to 40 percent. They are less precise about heatwaves, but any rise could be sharp.

“If temperatures rise globally by 2°C, we would expect twice as many extreme heat events worldwide than we would with a 1.5 percent increase,” Dr Fischer says.

“These global warming targets, which are discussed in climate negotiations and which differ little at first glance, therefore have a great influence on the frequency of extremes.”

The researchers are talking about probabilities: it will still be difficult ever to say that one event was a random happening, and another a result of climate change. In such research, there are definition problems. What counts as extreme heat in northern England would not be extreme in India or Saudi Arabia.

But such distinctions could become increasingly academic for people who live in the path of unusual heat and extended drought, or flash floods and catastrophic hailstorms.

A scientist recently told the European Geosciences Union that some regions of the planet will see unprecedented drought, driven once again by climate change, before 2050.

Ignored warnings
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Yusuke Satoh, of the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, warned that under the notorious business-as-usual scenario −where nations ignore such warnings and just go on burning fossil fuels—13 of 26 global regions would see “unprecedented hydrological drought levels” by 2050. Some would see this parching much earlier—the Mediterranean by 2027, and the western U.S. as early as 2017.

Such studies are calculated to help provoke governments, states and water authorities into preparing for climate change, but it just may be that the western U.S. is already feeling the heat. California, in particular, has been in the grip of unprecedented drought, and researchers have already linked this to
climate change.

Reservoirs and irrigation systems are built on historical data. “But in the next few decades, these historical data may no longer give us accurate information about current conditions,” Dr Satoh says. “The earlier we take this seriously, the better we will be able to adapt.”

http://ecowatch.com/2015/05/17/droughts-floods-heatwaves-climate-change/

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on May 18, 2015, 12:39:22 am
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Just as we were watching for, now professionals are saying publicly…… we could be looking a new eruption in Hawaii along the lines of what occurred 5 days before the 2011 Japan 9.0M mega-earthquake.  :o  :P

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on May 20, 2015, 03:48:16 pm
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Crocus

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Chionodoxa Boiss (glory of the snow)
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Daffodil

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Jetfire

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Hyacinth

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Azalea

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Despite the bitter cold winter 2014-2015 delaying the early flowering plants, I see a warming pattern that is rather obvious and blatent. Also the sudden shift from below freezing well above freezing is destroying the male sugaring season in Vermont, which requires above and below freezing temperatures to keep the sap pumping. The radical, and sudden shift to high temperatures severely shortens the flowering time of early flowering plants like crocus, glory of the snow, hyacinth and daffodils. This, in turn, harms the insects that pollinate these flowers and need the flower nectar. And all because the fossil fuelers want to keep their profit over planet suicidal "gravy train" going.  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-200714183312.bmp&hash=02dafef2fe739676600fdc9bd56271f0f5ab3723)

There is an old saying in Vermont that you should not plant frost sensitive plants until after Memorial day. I think that can pretty well be laid to rest now.

Also this AVERAGE of ONLY one day earlier spring claimed by the bean counter scientists (don't forget the later fall as well) since the 50's is bad science. Yes, the math is correct, but it doesn't take into account positive feedback warming effects which are accelerating the trend. If the last five years is any indication, spring coming ONE DAY earlier each year is no longer a reasonable expectation. I suspect 3 or 4 days a year is probably more accurate.
FLOWER   2011   2012   2013   2014   2015   
Crocus  April 2March 19April 15April 13April 28 less than a tenth flowered and wilted in a few days
Chionodoxa Boiss (glory of the snow)  April 13March 31April 15April 20May 1
Daffodil   April 23April 10April 22May 2May 5 and  they wilted in a few days instead of lasting a couple of weeks
Jetfire   April 22April 9 April 24DiedNo data
Hyacinth   April 23April 9April 25May 5no flowers
Azalea   May 11 April 24May 8May 11May 9
Columbine    May 15April 30May 19May 23May 17
Mayflower    No dataNo dataNo dataNo dataMay 19

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Allium (Mayflower) record begins in 2015
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on May 21, 2015, 03:30:18 pm
SNIPPET from Thom Hartmann article plus many EXCELLENT comments:

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In other words, if you commit a crime that HELPS corporations, nothing will happen to you. But if you commit a crime that HURTS a corporation, there'll be hell to pay. Just look at what happened to tech activist Aaron Swartz before he so sadly took his own life.

All Swartz did was download a few articles off a private internet database - an action that could have hurt a corporation - and the U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts slapped him with charges that could have resulted in 35 years in prison!

This is a culture-wide problem. It’s why Lindsey Lohan, for example, goes to jail for stealing a necklace while Jamie Dimon gets to stay in charge of the biggest bank in the country even though he oversaw a multi-billion dollar theft from millions of average Americans.

Americans are starting to figure out that we now have separate and different rules for criminal behavior that helps versus crimes that hurt corporations, and that’s just wrong. For our democracy to function, our criminal justice system must punish all people who break the law in serious ways, instead of imprisoning shoplifters and pot smokers, while letting criminals in banks get off scott free.

http://www.thomhartmann.com/blog/2015/05/end-banksters%E2%80%99-get-out-jail-free-card#comment-320708


patrick H.T. paine •

But the value system HASN'T changed, it was slightly hindered by the "depression" and the WAR, but began reasserting itself immediately after......using the available loopholes.
Reagan simply represented a demarcation point where "corporations" could become international having used up the advantages of being the only intact manufacturing economy in the world after the war.....now they could exploit the entire world in the same manner with which they played off various states for tax breaks and concessions within the U.S. ( as they are still doing.)
You can and will continue repeating yourself because you "love your job", but that won't solve the problem.
Now the concept of the "corporate death penalty" expanded to include its enablers? -
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Cheerful Clips • May 20


There are so many "crimes" that human being people can accomplish that harm and injure Corporations that the Cops and DAs will go after. CHICKEN & PIG photography. It is unlawful to take a photograph of a factory farm. A woman recorded video clips of Horses being abused at a Corporation in Weld County, Colorado.

 She was tried / convicted / jailed cuz the WELD DA said she failed to immediately file a complaint of Animal Abuse against the Corporation and turn over the video clips as evidence. Her delay was deemed to be Animal Abuse.

The Corporation activity of abusing Hoses had no legal consequences. In the view of the law, you need not "shoplift" to harm and injure a Corporation. There are 1000s of activities a human being may achieve with respect to a Corporation that are unlawful.

The truth of the matter is that all our long efforts to improve can be undone in an afternoon. The Auto Works Union improved stuff for over 80 years. The State of Michagan reversed all those improvements in one afternoon.

The guys that run stuff get their way. They have an A-Team / Republicans and a B-Team / Demcrates. The guys that run stuff have got all the voters in America covered. Sure the human being people can improve stuff, but the improvements will be reversed in an afternoon at the whim of the guys that run stuff.

http://www.thomhartmann.com/blog/2015/05/end-banksters%E2%80%99-get-out-jail-free-card#comment-320708


ddanl •


Get Out Of Jail Cards;

1-Wealth, OR, how MUCH are you worth

2-Fame, not always guaranteed (OJ Simpson)

3-Job Title, Mayor Blah is NOT going to Jail...COPs or,

4-Related to a COP, self explanatory

5-Politics, and those associated with Politics, Ambassadors, Lobbyists, any1 with influence

6-if you're a White Man with a Gun
http://www.thomhartmann.com/blog/2015/05/end-banksters%E2%80%99-get-out-jail-free-card#comment-320708

Aliceinwonderland

Reading Thom’s introductory post, I’m reminded yet again, the regulatory policies on corporations were more enlightened and more robust in the 1870s than they are today. And that’s pretty damn depressing.

Now in the 2010’s, corporations are “people” while we are chopped liver. Apparently Warren Harding’s incarnates still occupy the seats of Congress, hellbent on further reducing the USA to a banana republic sh it hole. Empty suits, all of them.

Kill a bunch of people via negligence… Hey, no big deal, just pay the fine! In the same country where jaywalkers and shopliofters can ger executed on the spot, and smoking a joint can still land you in prison for life. Amazing.

One thing that has to change if we’ve got a prayer of a chance: we all need to wake up to the consequences of congressional seats filled by psychopaths. Too bad psychopathy can’t be recognized as a birth defect so easily as missing limbs or the “wrong” gender. People with no soul and no conscience are incredibly dangerous, especially when they occupy seats of power and influence, as this Amtrak scenario clearly illustrates.

But it is only one example of many. If we don’t learn to weed out these subhuman imposters, we will be forever screwed, all the way to extinction.

http://www.thomhartmann.com/blog/2015/05/end-banksters%E2%80%99-get-out-jail-free-card#comment-320708


agelbert

We have problems that go way beyond the mens rea criminal negligence of the criminal justice system.

"in many ways the West already observes truly 'free markets,' or economic anarchy where giant corporations are free to do anything they wish, including wage massive, global wars in pursuit of their interests. The constrictive laws and regulations many well-intentioned free-market advocates abhor, have been imposed by these unhindered, anarchical corporations, not by a 'socialist government.' What these advocates perceive as a 'socialist government' is in fact an interface created and controlled by unhindered, unregulated, unaccountable corporate-financier interests." -- Charles Hugh Smith

"The rich executed a coup d’état that transformed the three branches of the U.S. government and nearly all institutions, including the mass media, into wholly owned subsidiaries of the corporate state." -- Chris Hedges

"The core responsibility assigned to governments in democracies is the public welfare, protecting the human birthright to basic needs: clean air, water, land, and a place to live, under equitable rules of access to all common property resources. It is astonishing to discover that major political efforts in democracies can be turned to undermining the core purpose of government, destroying the factual basis for fair and effective protection of essential common property resources of all to feed the financial interests of a few. These efforts, limiting scientific research on environment, denying the validity of settled facts and natural laws, are a shameful dance, far below acceptable or reputable political behavior. It can be treated not as a reasoned alternative, but scorned for what it is – simple thievery." —George M. Woodwell, Woods Hole Research Center founder  

"We do not need a 'new' business model for energy because we never had one. What we need, if we wish to avoid extinction, is to plug the environmental and equity costs of energy production and use into our planning and thinking. " -- A.G. Gelbert

"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored." -- Aldous Huxley "We can’t have a healthy business on a sick planet."-- Ashley Orgain, manager of mission advocacy and outreach for Seventh Generation, Burlington, Vermont

And spare me the the idea that voting will help. The FIRST THING the psychopaths in charge did when they executed the coup is ENSURE WHO COUNTED the votes. The 1% are suicidal psychopaths who would rather reign in profit over polluted planet hell than biosphere math heaven. IF they do not extract their insane, ignorant, arrogant and stupid heads from their collective pampered descending colons and submit to doing the biosphere math 24/7, we will go extinct, PERIOD.

The 1%'s Responsibility to Shoulder 80% of the COST of a 100% Renewable Energy World

http://blog.renewableenergyworld.com/ugc/blogs/2013/10/one-percents-planetary-assets-equals-80-responsibility-for-funding-a-100-renewable-energy-world.html

http://www.thomhartmann.com/blog/2015/05/end-banksters%E2%80%99-get-out-jail-free-card#comment-320708
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on May 21, 2015, 09:39:35 pm
Antarctica is Losing Its Edge  :(

SNIPPET:

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Do irreversible changes justify inaction?

The changes and ice losses discussed above appear to be irreversible. Their global effects will be hard and very expensive to handle. Life will not be the same. And some penguin populations will shrink, if not disappear. No matter what. It would be easy to say, therefore, that important changes to human habits are not needed (since it may be too late for Antarctica). Our only continent without permanent human inhabitants will simply have to cope—and it will be a great science experiment to see what happens.

This is wrong for three reasons that go even beyond sea level and penguins:

Other Antarctic systems are changing and can have dire consequences. Phytoplankton in the ocean produce most (perhaps 70–80 percent) of the oxygen in the atmosphere and take up most of the carbon dioxide that the oceans store. A key area for seasonal phytoplankton growth is around Antarctica—but like the algae, phytoplankton (which are also krill food) are decreasing. If this continues it could be fatal. We need oxygen.
 
•Global current systems will change. We have seen, for instance, how delicately balanced the Antarctic systems are; fractions of a degree of ocean temperature make a huge difference. But there are even bigger changes that could happen. The Southern Ocean’s cold, salty Antarctic bottom water system helps drive the mixing and the ocean nutrition system for the entire planet. And the currents also serve as a thermal control (e.g., the Gulf Stream that keeps Europe warm). In addition, much of our seafood comes from places where the cold, nutrient- and oxygen-rich Antarctic water, now thousands of miles north, is forced to the surface. Continued heating of the Southern Ocean will certainly change these patterns, and such changes may be very challenging.
 
•Even more tipping points are out there. Key glacial systems like West Antarctica are already past their tipping points. But there are likely other systems in motion that have never been measured—additional East Antarctica glacier systems, for instance—in the mysterious White Continent and globally. The smart guess is there are more tipping points and the surprises they bring will not generally be good ones for anyone.

So why make a crazy bet to say, “Let’s not bother?” It might cost us a few percent of GDP? If we do, Antarctica will likely lose more than its edge. It will lose its oceans, its middle, and its life—and so may we.

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http://blog.rmi.org/blog_2015_05_15_antarctica_is_losing_its_edge
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on May 21, 2015, 10:02:21 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuGrBhK2c7U&feature=player_embedded
The Gulf Stream and Climate Change
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on May 26, 2015, 07:33:41 pm
Sudden onset of ice loss in Antarctica so large it affects Earth's gravity field

Date:May 21, 2015

Source:University of Bristol

Summary:Scientists have observed a sudden increase of ice loss in a previously stable region of Antarctica. The ice loss (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.freesmileys.org%2Femoticons%2Femoticon-anime-034.gif&hash=58a833931ab09edc67b808927994f92737db0650) in the region is so large that it causes small changes in the gravity field of the Earth.

 http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/05/150521143926.htm

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Cole Mellino | May 26, 2015 2:21 pm

India is in the midst of a major heatwave, which has killed at least 800 people and melted roads in New Delhi as temperatures neared 122 degrees Fahrenheit (50 degrees Celsius). India’s Meteorological Department issued heat warnings to several states where temperatures are projected to reach beyond 113 degrees Fahrenheit (45 degrees Celsius) over the next few days, according to AFP.

http://ecowatch.com/2015/05/26/india-heatwave/


Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on May 28, 2015, 11:30:09 pm
Is Antarctica Ice Melting or Growing?   ???
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPnj9eR7t0g&feature=player_embedded

MELTING!

http://ecowatch.com/2015/05/28/nasa-antarctica-ice-shelf/
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on May 31, 2015, 01:13:06 am
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71l9lzLsBRc&feature=player_embedded
The receding grounding line in Antarctica means the increase in melting will be sudden and hugely accelerate sea level rise.
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on May 31, 2015, 01:44:50 pm
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http://www.truthdig.com/cartoon/item/noahs_ark_20150530
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on June 02, 2015, 10:20:12 pm

Well, Well, Well, Look Who  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-241013183046.jpeg&hash=51c9c4f17e747698c76c65c7c1814eff4f32c400) Just Endorsed a Bold Fix For Climate Change

 
—By Tim McDonnell

| Tue Jun. 2, 2015 5:38 PM EDT

http://www.motherjones.com/blue-marble/2015/06/guess-who-just-came-out-support-bold-fix-climate-change
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on June 02, 2015, 11:47:37 pm
India Minister: Climate Change to Blame for (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.freesmileys.org%2Femoticons%2Femoticon-anime-034.gif&hash=58a833931ab09edc67b808927994f92737db0650)  5th Deadliest Heat Wave in World History

Cole Mellino | June 2, 2015 4:20 pm

http://ecowatch.com/2015/06/02/india-heat-wave-climate-change/
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on June 05, 2015, 01:51:46 pm
NOAA: There Has Been No ‘Pause’ or ‘Hiatus’ in Global Warming

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http://ecowatch.com/2015/06/05/michael-mann-noaa-no-hiatus-global-warming/
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on June 06, 2015, 04:08:30 pm
(https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.freesmileys.org%2Femoticons%2Femoticon-object-004.gif&hash=7221c4a729e7e6f98824e811bbedfca7d6dcf2d2) Insane Heat Wave in Alaska Put Temperatures Higher Than in Arizona  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.freesmileys.org%2Femoticons%2Femoticon-anime-034.gif&hash=58a833931ab09edc67b808927994f92737db0650)


Cole Mellino | June 5, 2015 11:44 am

 http://ecowatch.com/2015/06/05/heat-wave-alaska/
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on June 09, 2015, 06:52:29 pm
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NOAA temperature record updates and the ‘hiatus’  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F34y5mvr.gif&hash=835b3a3f26d5d1b7f0acc379ad8ebd3fe9eea488)

Filed under:
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Climate Science
Instrumental Record

— gavin @ 4 June 2015

In a new paper in Science Express, Karl et al. describe the impacts of two significant updates to the NOAA NCEI (née NCDC) global temperature series. The two updates are: 1) the adoption of ERSST v4 for the ocean temperatures (incorporating a number of corrections for biases for different methods), and 2) the use of the larger International Surface Temperature Initiative (ISTI) weather station database, instead of GHCN.

This kind of update happens all the time as datasets expand through data-recovery efforts and increasing digitization, and as biases in the raw measurements are better understood.

However, this update is going to be bigger news than normal because of the claim that the ‘hiatus’ is no more. To understand why this is perhaps less dramatic than it might seem, it’s worth stepping back to see a little context…

Global temperature anomaly estimates are a product, not a measurement

Full article with several significant and irrefutable charts at the the web site staffed by Climate Scientists. (http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2015/06/noaa-temperature-record-updates-and-the-hiatus/#sthash.0jNcSDzl.dpuf)

2036AD: Fossil Fuelers discuss global temperatures... 

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on June 10, 2015, 09:16:37 pm
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1882 photo taken by G.D. Hazard; 2005 photo taken by Bruce F. Molnia. Courtesy of the Glacier Photograph Collection, National Snow and Ice Data Center/World Data Center for Glaciology.

Before And After Pictures Show How Climate Change Is Destroying The Earth  :(

Dina Spector
 
Agelbert NOTE: This is part one of two parts.

Almost all scientists now agree that global climate change is caused by humans, while the White House pledged $1 billion on Friday to prepare for weather disasters and other events related to climate change.

A steadily-warming planet impacts the environment in many different ways.
Rising global temperatures, largely due to man-made greenhouse gases, are the source of widely-discussed observable changes to the Earth like melting glaciers, rising sea levels, warming oceans, and more extreme weather events, such as hurricanes, droughts, forest fires, and floods.


In the pictures that follow, we take a look at how climate-change-related events have affected regions around the world, whether directly or indirectly.

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ROCKY MOUNTAIN NATIONAL PARK BEFORE: Healthy pine trees stretch for tens of millions of acres in the northwestern United States and western Canada.
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ROCKY MOUNTAIN NATIONAL PARK NOW: A hillside of dead pine trees killed by Mountain Pine Beetles shows the effects of warming temperatures in the mountain ranges. In the past, freezing temperatures reduced insect populations. The beetles are now able to survive the milder winters leading to devastating infestations.
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THE GREAT BARRIER REEF BEFORE: Considered one of the most biologically-diverse regions in the world, Australia's Great Barrier Reef covers around 135,000 square miles, or an area that's nearly the size of Texas. Ocean acidification and temperature increases from climate change are the reef's biggest long-term threat.
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THE GREAT BARRIER REEF NOW: Warmer water temperatures trigger widespread coral bleaching, when coral turns white and is much more susceptible to death. Coral is vital to supporting ocean life.
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THE DANUBE RIVER BEFORE: The Danube, Europe's second longest river, flows eastward from its source in Germany to the Black Sea in Romania. The Danube river basin is critical to supporting industry, transport, agriculture, and fishing.
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THE DANUBE RIVER NOW: Between 2011 and 2012, a persistent drought led to record-low water levels along the Danube, stranding boats and paralyzing parts of the busy waterway.
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THE ALPS BEFORE: Matterhorn, one of Europe's tallest peaks, located in the Alps on the border between Italy and Switzerland, is pictured with a blanket of snow and ice on Aug. 16, 1960.
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THE ALPS NOW: The Swiss peak, pictured on Aug. 18, 2005, is eroding as a result of melting glacier water at the summit. The water sinks into cracks and creates even bigger fissures after several cycles of freezing and thawing. The disintegration of Matterhorn is anecdotal of the effects of climate change in most of the Alps.
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MUIR GLACIER BEFORE: A late-19th century photograph of Alaska's Muir Glacier shows many icebergs — some nearly 7-feet wide — in the foreground.
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MUIR GLACIER NOW: By 2005, Muir Glacier had retreated more than 31 miles. Although this picture was taken from the same location as the early black-and-white photograph, the glacier is completely out of view. There's an abundance of vegetation looking to the west, and the beach in the foreground is now covered by pebbles, which came from sediment deposited by Muir Glacier and by melting icebergs on the ground.
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Second half of this series of before and after pictures tomorrow.   8)
8)

http://www.businessinsider.com/climate-change-before-and-after-pictures-of-earth-2014-2
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on June 11, 2015, 01:25:50 am
May 2015 Earth Climate Summary  :o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4F_6awSE3A&feature=player_embedded
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on June 11, 2015, 08:13:31 pm
Before And After Pictures Show How Climate Change Is Destroying The Earth    (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-070814193155.png&hash=144ce9330e49ee84060db8753a8db69c39a14913)

Agelbert NOTE: This is part 2 of 2 parts. Go  HERE for part 1. (http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/climate-change/global-warming-is-with-us/msg3276/#msg3276)

LAKE CHAD BEFORE: Africa's Lake Chad, pictured in the 1930s, was once the world's sixth-largest lake. It provided water to at least 20 million people in Nigeria, Chad, Cameroon, and Niger.
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Wikipedia/Walter Mittelholzer


LAKE CHAD NOW: The lake has lost about 80% of its surface area since the 1960s, a combined effect of irrigation, the damming of rivers, and global warming.
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 AP Photo/Christophe Ena


SAN BLAS ARCHIPELAGO BEFORE: The San Blas islands in Panama are home to the Guna people. Their traditional thatched-roof houses and ancient way of life are being threatened by climate change.
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 Shutterstock/Jarno Gonzalez Zarraonandia


SAN BLAS ARCHIPELAGO NOW: The Caribbean island communities are flooded for several days every rainy season as a result of rising ocean levels caused by global warming. In the foreground, a traffic sign reading "Slow Down" is partially submerged.
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 REUTERS/Carlos Jasso


CORAL REEFS BEFORE: Corals seen in Dibba, located on the east coast of the northern Emirates, are healthy and teeming with fish in 2004.
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 REUTERS/Climate change/Handout



CORAL REEFS NOW: The reef was devastated in 2008 by harmful algae blooms known as red tide, potentially linked, in part, to increased greenhouse gases and rising ocean temperatures. The tide kills sea life by depleting the oxygen in the water.
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WHITBY HARBOR BEFORE: Whitby, in northern England, was once a busy fishing town that was packed with boats, fish-sellers, and tourists.
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WHITBY HARBOR NOW: The port is now quiet, flanked by empty pots, nets, and dried-out fishing boats as global warming has pushed fish stocks northward. Only about 200 fishermen remain in Whitby.
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CARBON DIOXIDE LEVELS 2003: An infrared image from July 2003 shows the concentration of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere. The red areas indicate that carbon dioxide concentration is at or above 380 parts per million.
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CARBON DIOXIDE LEVELS 2007: The same image of the globe, taken exactly three years later in July 2007, shows that atmospheric carbon dioxide levels are rising. The color bar used for 2003 had to be adjusted to account for the increase in carbon dioxide around the globe. Otherwise, the "2007 map would be saturated with reddish colors, and the fine structure of the distribution of carbon dioxide obscured," explains NASA.
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BONUS: These maps compare temperatures in each region of the world to what they were from 1951 to 1980. Earth's average surface temperature has increased by about 1.3°F since 1880.
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 Go  HERE for part 1. (http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/climate-change/global-warming-is-with-us/msg3276/#msg3276)


http://www.businessinsider.com/climate-change-before-and-after-pictures-of-earth-2014-2?op=1

Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on June 17, 2015, 07:44:15 pm
Tue Jun 16, 2015 at 08:03 PM EDT.

(https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.freesmileys.org%2Femoticons%2Femoticon-anime-034.gif&hash=58a833931ab09edc67b808927994f92737db0650) Global Temperatures Soaring: 2015 starts off the top of the chart & El Niño is just warming up

2014 was the warmest year in global climate records but 2015 is on track to be significantly warmer than 2014. The first 5 months were the warmest on record and global models are predicting a super El Niño that could be the strongest ever measured on record or by paleoclimate proxies.

Australia's Bureau of Meteorology just released a stunning compilation of forecasts from a range of global models.  The consensus of models forecasts that this will be a super El Niño with water temperatures in the equatorial central Pacific of greater than 4.5°F (2.5°C) above normal. NOAA's CFS model forecasts that abnormally warm waters will spread across the southern hemisphere.

Moreover, the deep mass of much warmer than normal water in the Gulf of Alaska dubbed "the blob" will expand to cover the whole far north Pacific.

Exceptionally warm water off of the coast of New England will continue to affect east coast weather. Extraordinarily warm global sea surface temperatures forecast for this summer and fall will bring on even hotter temperatures in the second half of 2015 than the first half. If the models are correct 2015 temperatures will spike far above 2014.

Charts and graphics at link:  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Freading.gif&hash=63e3e644b39258d4c4eedbcdaf322315b1856723)


http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/06/17/1393794/-Global-Temperatures-Soaring-2015-starts-off-the-top-of-the-chart-El-Nino-is-just-warming-up
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on June 20, 2015, 02:44:49 am
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Diane MacEachern

June 18, 2015

Pope Francis has unequivocally proclaimed climate change to be one of the “principal challenges facing humanity.” In a letter, or encyclical, the Pope calls on citizens, politicians, business leaders, organizations—in short, all of us—to act immediately and decisively to stop climate change, renew our relationship with Nature, and “enter a dialogue with all people about our common home.”

“Nobody is suggesting a return to the Stone Age,” he said, “but we do need to slow down and look at reality in a different way.”

The encyclical, titled “Laudato Si, or Praised Be to You: On Care for Our Common Home,” took a year to produce with the input of dozens of scientists, scholars, theologians and even previous popes.

Here are the key quotes from the encyclical:

SCIENTIFIC PROOF OF CLIMATE CHANGE

“A very solid scientific consensus indicates that we are presently witnessing a disturbing warming of the climatic system. … A number of scientific studies indicate that most global warming in recent decades is due to the great concentration of greenhouse gases (carbon dioxide, methane, nitrogen oxides and others) released mainly as a result of human activity.”

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE


“The Earth, our home, is beginning to look more and more like an immense pile of filth. In many parts of the planet, the elderly lament that once beautiful landscapes are now covered with rubbish.”

“Never have we so hurt and mistreated our common home as we have in the last 200 years.”

SEA LEVEL RISE


“If present trends continue, this century may well witness extraordinary climate change and an unprecedented destruction of ecosystems, with serious consequences for all of us. A rise in the sea level, for example, can create extremely serious situations, if we consider that a quarter of the world’s population lives on the coast or nearby, and that the majority of our megacities are situated in coastal areas.”

IMPACTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE ON ANIMALS


“Each year sees the disappearance of thousands of plant and animal species which we will never know, which our children will never see, because they have been lost forever.”

We “must forcefully reject the notion that our being created in God’s image and given dominion over the earth justifies absolute domination over other creatures.”

CLIMATE CHANGE AND THE POOR


“One particularly serious problem is the quality of water available to the poor…. Yet access to safe drinkable water is a basic and universal human right, since it is essential to human survival and, as such, is a condition for the exercise of other human rights. Our world has a grave social debt towards the poor who lack access to drinking water, because they are denied the right to a life consistent with their inalienable dignity.”

“The exploitation of the planet has already exceeded acceptable limits and we still have not solved the problem of poverty.”

“The human environment and the natural environment deteriorate together; we cannot adequately combat environmental degradation unless we attend to causes related to human and social degradation. In fact, the deterioration of the environment and of society affects the most vulnerable people on the planet: ‘Both everyday experience and scientific research show that the gravest effects of all attacks on the environment are suffered by the poorest.”

WAR AND NATIONAL SECURITY

“It is foreseeable that, once certain resources have been depleted, the scene will be set for new wars, albeit under the guise of noble claims.”

SOCIAL MEDIA AS AN OBSTACLE TO SOCIAL CHANGE


“When media and the digital world become omnipresent, their influence can stop people from learning how to live wisely, to think deeply and to love generously…. True wisdom, as the fruit of self-examination, dialogue and generous encounter between persons, is not acquired by a mere accumulation of data which eventually leads to overload and confusion, a sort of mental pollution.

“Real relationships with others, with all the challenges they entail, now tend to be replaced by a type of internet communication which enables us to choose or eliminate relationships at whim, thus giving rise to a new type of contrived emotion which has more to do with devices and displays than with other people and with nature.”

RELATIONSHIP TO POLITICS AND OUR ECONOMIC SYSTEM


“There is urgent need for politics and economics to enter into a frank dialogue in the service of life, especially human life.”

“The economy accepts every advance in technology with a view to profit, without concern for its potentially negative impact on human beings.”

“The orientation of the economy has favored a kind of technological progress in which the costs of production are reduced by laying off workers and replacing them with machines. This is yet another way in which we can end up working against ourselves.”

“Once more, we need to reject a magical conception of the market, which would suggest that problems can be solved simply by an increase in the profits of companies or individuals. Is it realistic to hope that those who are obsessed with maximizing profits will stop to reflect on the environmental damage which they will leave behind for future generations? Where profits alone count, there can be no thinking about the rhythms of nature, its phases of decay and regeneration, or the complexity of ecosystems which may be gravely upset by human intervention.”

OVERCONSUMPTION


“We need to take up an ancient lesson, found in different religious traditions and also in the Bible. It is the conviction that “less is more.” A constant flood of new consumer goods can baffle the heart and prevent us from cherishing each thing and each moment. To be serenely present to each reality, however small it may be, opens us to much greater horizons of understanding and personal fulfilment. Christian spirituality proposes a growth marked by moderation and the capacity to be happy with little. It is a return to that simplicity which allows us to stop and appreciate the small things, to be grateful for the opportunities which life affords us, to be spiritually detached from what we possess, and not to succumb to sadness for what we lack. This implies avoiding the dynamic of dominion and the mere accumulation of pleasures.”

WE ARE ALL ONE FAMILY


“We need to strengthen the conviction that we are one single human family.”

“We must regain the conviction that we need one another, that we have a shared responsibility for others and the world, and that being good and decent are worth it.”

HOPE FOR THE FUTURE


“Yet all is not lost. Human beings, while capable of the worst, are also capable of rising above themselves, choosing again what is good, and making a new start, despite their mental and social conditioning.”

“When we ask ourselves what kind of world we want to leave behind, we think in the first place of its general direction, its meaning and its values. Unless we struggle with these deeper issues, I do not believe that our concern for ecology will produce significant results. But if these issues are courageously faced, we are led inexorably to ask other pointed questions: What is the purpose of our life in this world? Why are we here? What is the goal of our work and all our efforts? What need does the earth have of us? It is no longer enough, then simply to state that we should be concerned for future generations. We need to see that what is at stake is our own dignity.”

WHAT WE CAN DO INDIVIDUALLY


“Education in environmental responsibility can encourage ways of acting which directly and significantly affect the world around us, such as avoiding the use of plastic and paper, reducing water consumption, separating refuse, cooking only what can reasonably be consumed, showing care for other living beings, using public transport or car-pooling, planting trees, turning off unnecessary lights, or any number of other practices. All of these reflect a generous and worthy creativity which brings out the best in human beings. Reusing something instead of immediately discarding it, when done for the right reasons, can be an act of love which expresses our own dignity.”

WHAT WE CAN DO COLLECTIVELY

“We are able to take an honest look at ourselves, to acknowledge our deep dissatisfaction, and to embark on new paths to authentic freedom. No system can completely suppress our openness to what is good, true and beautiful, or our God-given ability to respond to his grace at work deep in our hearts. I appeal to everyone throughout the world not to forget this dignity which is ours. No one has the right to take it from us.”

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http://www.care2.com/greenliving/most-important-quotes-from-pope-francis-statement-on-climate-change.html#ixzz3da7uObwo
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Post by: AGelbert on June 21, 2015, 10:14:32 pm
Colombia: Windstorm affects banana crops
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In Uraba, Colombia, more than 200 hectares of banana were seriously affected by a gale. The weather phenomenon also caused significant damage to homes in the town of Chigorodó.

According to the Institute of Hydrology, Meteorology and Environmental Studies of Colombia, the region was already on yellow alert due to the looming drought that El Niño could cause.

This implies there will be an increase in temperatures proportional to the lack of rain, which had generated alarms so that the producers took the necessary measures regarding the prevention of fires, floods and landslides.

According to estimates, there are 48,000 hectares of bananas distributed in four municipalities of Uraba, known as the Banana Axis, which accounts for more than 70% of the national production of this fruit.

Publication date: 6/8/2015

http://www.freshplaza.com/article/141071/Colombia-Windstorm-affects-banana-crops
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on June 24, 2015, 01:27:53 pm
6 Devastating Heat Waves Hitting the Planet

Lorraine Chow | June 23, 2015 11:28 am

http://ecowatch.com/2015/06/23/heat-waves-hit-planet/
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on June 27, 2015, 11:33:04 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ky0dwKjYmHE&feature=player_embedded
Goldilocks and the Greenhouse

Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on June 29, 2015, 02:12:48 am
Scientists Baffled Over Unprecedented Warming of Ocean Off Atlantic and Pacific Coasts

Tim Radford, Climate News Network | June 28, 2015 11:10 am

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http://ecowatch.com/2015/06/28/warming-of-ocean-atlantic-pacific/
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: IAMTHATIAM on June 29, 2015, 03:12:49 am
You stated:
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look at the storms, droughts, and floods we've had with a warming of less than 1oC
Can you give any actual statisics/links to back that?
Also, we have risen about two degrees since the little ice age. Basically you believe we need to stay right at some halfway point of a two degree range. When has that ever happened for a long time? :o
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on June 29, 2015, 01:59:56 pm
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Dalai Lama Endorses Pope Francis’s Encyclical on Climate Change

Cole Mellino | June 29, 2015 10:35 am

The Dalai Lama endorsed the Pope’s encyclical on climate change yesterday while speaking at Glastonbury festival, a massive five-day festival that takes place in Somerset, England. The Buddhist leader spoke at a panel on climate change, praising the encyclical and saying it was the duty of everyone to “say more. We have to make more of an effort, including demonstrations.”

Several Republican politicians have criticized the Pope for speaking out about environmental and economic issues, including Jeb Bush, Rick Santorum and James Inhofe. But at the Glastonbury panel on climate change, the Dalai Lama said Pope Francis was “very right,” and he appreciated him releasing the papal document. The Dalai Lama called on fellow religious leaders to “speak out about current affairs which affect the future of mankind.” He also called for increased pressure on governments around the world to stop burning fossil fuels, end deforestation and transition to renewable energy sources, reports The Guardian.

He also emphasized that words alone are not enough top stop climate change. “It is not sufficient to just express views, we must set a timetable for change in the next two to four years.”

The Tibetan spiritual leader also spoke about the need to end war, calling the concept of war “outdated.” The Dalai Lama said we need to shift our focus to launch a global effort to tackle climate change. “Countries think about their own national interest rather than global interests and that needs to change because the environment is a global issue.”

He also stressed that everyone needs to take action even on an individual level to reduce their impact.   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.desismileys.com%2Fsmileys%2Fdesismileys_0293.gif&hash=b1af4868ed8f18c30e637f8cbcb79002f6f71039)

To end the holy leader’s visit, Singer Patti Smith presented the Dalai Lama, who turns 80 today, with a birthday cake and led the crowd in singing happy birthday to him. 

http://ecowatch.com/2015/06/29/dalai-lama-pope-encyclical/
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on June 29, 2015, 03:03:32 pm
IAMTHATIAM said,
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You stated:
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look at the storms, droughts, and floods we've had with a warming of less than 1oC
Can you give any actual statisics/links to back that?

Of course. The following web site about climate science, run exclusively by climate scientists, has all the data about global temperatures (and other statistics as well). Climate science has established empirically that free energy has to go somewhere when it is trapped in our biosphere. That "somewhere" is storm activity (that mostly impacts the poorest humans and other earthlings  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-200714183337.bmp&hash=fd5a6df63c32bd65dda7b6d93e788647ca3829df)).

Here's a snippet from one of the articles at RealClimate.org:


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Figure 1: The Global Commons and the fundamental problem of climate policy: there are still plenty of fossil resources in the ground, but only a limited disposal space in the atmosphere left. Data: Atmosphere: IPCC AR5 Synthesis Report, Table 2.2.; Resource: IPCC Special Report on Renewable Energy, Figure 1.7. Source: Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change (MCC).


To frame the climate problem as a “global commons” problem has far reaching consequences.

This became clear when the term was relegated by the governments from the main text into a footnote in the report of the IPCC Working Group III. Some countries feared legal and distributional consequences.

If the atmosphere is accepted as being a global commons, this immediately raises the question of who owns the atmosphere and who is allowed to pollute it.

The encyclical is very clear about this:

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The natural environment is a collective good, the patrimony of all humanity and the responsibility of everyone (95).

Ownership thus goes hand in hand with a responsibility to take into account the principles of justice.

The currently prevailing “law of the jungle”, causing the atmosphere to be overused in terms of the deposition of carbon ad infinitum, is thus de-legitimized by the Pope. - See more at: http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2015/06/heaven-belongs-to-us-all-the-new-papal-encyclical/#sthash.MYn2tGnT.dpuf


Because of our distance from the sun, we should be a frozen ice ball with our oceans totally frozen solid. We aren't BECAUSE greenhouse gasses trap Infrared energy here. It's not a matter of belief; it's a matter of the curious, but scientifically measured way in which certain tri-atomic gas molecules like CO2 and H2O handle certain wave lengths in the electromagnetic spectrum.  This is old hat.

IAMTHATIAM said,
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Also, we have risen about two degrees since the little ice age. Basically you believe we need to stay right at some halfway point of a two degree range. When has that ever happened for a long time? :o

The little ice age is not the issue here. The industrial pollution revolution IS the issue. As to global temperature increases, even the temperature increase itself is NOT the real issue with the deleterious effects of said temperature increase.

So what's the big deal? Who cares whether it is one degree, a half a degree or even two degrees or more up? After all, our climate has a natural history of going up and down. As the global warming deniers say, climate change is normal on planet earth, is it not?

All these rhetorical fun and games the deniers play in order to defend the corrupt  profit over people and planet, empathy deficit disordered, abysmally suicidal status quo neglect the central issue with our present temperature increase.

THIS is the central ISSUE: The PRESENT HIGH RATE OF TEMPERATURE INCREASE IS A BIOSPHERE KILLER.

Humans may be able to adapt to this unprecedented rapid temperature increase for a while, but the rest of the earthlings that we depend on will not. Consequently, we are acting STUPIDLY if we don't do everything we can to preserve LIFE all over the biosphere. We ARE NOT DOING THAT. 

It happened before, albeit much more slowly. And still huge die offs occurred.

So, the biosphere math tells us that we are baking in a die off GREATER than the Permian extinction (the biggest die off in natural history), never mind the more recent (relatively speaking - we weren't around then)  die offs from rapid (but not as rapid as we are experiencing today!) temperature increases.

In summary, we are stewards of the biosphere BECAUSE we are, as far as I know, the only self aware species on this planet. Therefore we MUST, as a matter of COMMON SENSE, not just morality, act to keep the biosphere in the most life preserving range of gases and temperatures. Ignoring the facts so we can keep extracting resources willy nilly is abysmally stupid, suicidal behavior. 
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on June 30, 2015, 12:43:48 am
DISRUPTION
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktgEzXZDtmc&feature=player_embedded
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on June 30, 2015, 03:19:10 pm
Pope Francis’s Encyclical Makes Waves from Brazil to the Philippines
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http://ecowatch.com/2015/06/25/pope-francis-encyclical/
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on July 04, 2015, 03:53:06 pm
Barrie Dunsmore: The real news on weather disasters

Commentary Jul. 3 2015, 7:00 pm 5 Comments

Editor’s note: This commentary by retired ABC News diplomatic correspondent Barrie Dunsmore first aired on Vermont Public Radio. All his columns can be found on his website, www.barriedunsmore.com.

We have reached the point where “storms of the century” are happening all the time. Network news programs are now devoting substantial parts of their broadcasts almost every evening to extreme weather related stories.

The coverage is formulaic. Nowadays nearly everyone has a video phone, so there is no shortage of dramatic pictures. But after a while these storms look pretty much alike. And the interviews with the families who have lost everything sometimes including even family members – as sad as they are — don’t have quite the same impact after the hundredth time.

The part of today’s coverage, which is either given short shrift or is missing entirely is – why? Oh, I know we get occasional explanations about the el-Nino effect, and very occasionally someone dares to utter the dreaded words “climate change.” This makes up a small part of the coverage – mostly because the networks are reluctant to offend fellow corporations.

But if I were running a network – which I never was and never will be – I would greatly expand the coverage of why we have such extreme weather.

After a state has been consistently ravaged by this new pattern of extreme storms, I would report how that state’s congressional delegation – its congressmen and its senators – feel about the issue of climate change through their own words and actions  ;D. The people should especially know how each member has voted, every time, on proposed governmental laws to mitigate climate change impact.

Viewers should also be repeatedly reminded of what ties these political representatives have to the oil, gas and coal industries. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fcliparts.co%2Fcliparts%2FBig%2FEgq%2FBigEgqBMT.png&hash=e7eec62f009cdd686ce795fad0a53c6befe748e9) Under the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision, which gave corporations the same rights as individual people, corporations now can and do plow hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars into elections. Most don’t do so for patriotic or altruistic reasons. Under current lax campaign finance laws, some of that money can be hidden. But not all of it. And the American people should be told regularly, just how much their congressmen and senators are getting from corporations, or individuals who oppose virtually any climate change legislation.

The usual argument against effective steps to slow the devastation of a changing climate is that they are too expensive.
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No state can be blamed for the hurricane, typhoon, flood or drought it has been hit with. But its people are ultimately responsible for those they elect to represent them.

Such news coverage would certainly make the extreme weather reporting more relevant – and even help to combat climate change. Maybe some day.  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.emofaces.com%2Fpng%2F200%2Femoticons%2Ffingerscrossed.png&hash=d56f8009d18b55f4cea7be68284c0521be92fc5d)

http://vtdigger.org/2015/07/03/barrie-dunsmore-the-real-news-on-weather-disasters/

The Fossil Fuelers   DID THE Climate Trashing CRIME,   but since they have ALWAYS BEEN liars and conscience free crooks, they are trying to AVOID   DOING THE TIME or     PAYING THE FINE!     Don't let them get away with it! Pass it on! (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F176.gif&hash=121533221905789c6b8d57a9603883266d349266)
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on July 05, 2015, 11:31:56 pm
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By Rina Marie Doctor, Tech Times | July 5, 9:09 AM

Experts say that the latest heat waves in Europe is "virtually certain" to be caused by climate change. This week, Germany, Spain and London all experienced the hottest July day ever recorded.

A group of climate experts from universities, meteorological facilities and research teams from all around the world came up with a real-time analysis of climate data on Friday, July 4. According to the scientists, the heat waves striking Europe this week, or coined as three-day periods of excessive heat, are increasing in frequency.

The heat wave analysis is a segment of the bigger World Weather Attribution program, spearheaded by Climate Central, which is a science journalism group based in the US. The analysis was also supported by international organizations such as the University of Melbourne, Oxford University, Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute and Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre. The objectives of the said program include utilizing weather information, forecasting and climate frameworks to present how the constantly changing patterns of weather are associated with climate change. Ultimately, the program targets that adequate public understanding be achieved to better prepare the people for radical weather alterations such as the latest heat waves in Europe.

The weather changes that transpired in Europe are highly varied. For example, in De Bilt in the Netherlands, the heat wave that is expected to hit the place in the coming days is said to happen only once in every 30 years in the 1900s. But at present, the said drastic change may occur every three and a half years, the scientists noted.

The heat wave that typically happens once every 100 years was said to have occurred in Mannheim, Germany in the last few days. According to the experts, this type of heat wave is expected to happen every 15 years with the present condition of the planet.

London hit its all-time highest temperature for July on Wednesday, July 1, as Heathrow Airport was detected to have reach 98.06 degrees Fahrenheit (36.7 degrees Celsius), the scientists said.

The connection of the increased frequency of heat waves and climate change is felt by more and more people and that we are encountering a new normal, says Maarten van Aalst, director of the Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre.

In the Netherlands, the Central Bureau of Statistics estimates that an average population of 200 or more people will succumb to death each week that the country faces a heat wave. This translates to a 10 percent increase in mortality rates. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.freesmileys.org%2Femoticons%2Femoticon-object-004.gif&hash=7221c4a729e7e6f98824e811bbedfca7d6dcf2d2)

Deaths in older adults are of particular significance to this current scenario. In 2003, an additional 70,000 people were widely made up of the elderly population when France and other European countries suffered from a heat wave.

http://www.techtimes.com/articles/66079/20150705/heat-waves-in-europe-caused-by-climate-change-says-scientists.htm
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on July 06, 2015, 11:33:58 pm
Time is running out.  :(
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xdOTyGQOso&feature=player_embedded
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on July 06, 2015, 11:44:26 pm
Dr Jennifer Francis - Arctic Sea Ice, Jet Stream & Climate Change
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAiA-_iQjdU&feature=player_embedded
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on July 07, 2015, 12:24:22 am
"Civilization cannot survive a 50 Gigaton methane release"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRqv_RhLno4&feature=player_embedded
Professor Peter Wadhams On Subsea Permafrost Methane Releases And Impacts on Civilisation

Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on July 15, 2015, 06:41:51 pm
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We're running out of time...
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http://www.thomhartmann.com/blog/2015/07/were-running-out-time#comment-327431
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on July 21, 2015, 03:02:17 pm
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NASA’s new Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) satellite has released a stunning, new Blue Marble photo for the first time in four decades, prompting President Obama to tweet a gentle reminder “that we need to protect the only planet we have.”

http://ecowatch.com/2015/07/21/obama-blue-marble-photo/

Agelbert Comment: "Shining" blue marble? I don't think so.

I'm surprised they didn't touch the photo up. It looks rather dusty. I saw the IMAX film at Cape Kennedy back in 1976. In that film, you saw Earth from space. Yes it was a lot closer than the photo here but the colors were sparklingly clear. The ocean hues, the land greens, browns, tans and everything in between was sharp. The clouds were distinct. The haze WAS NOT THERE in 1976.

Things are FAR WORSE than the government(s) of the world wish to admit. The people that most benefited from this biosphere trashing are in debt to all earthlings ( ALL life forms in the biosphere) for this CRIME. Make them PAY! 

The 1%'s Responsibility to Shoulder 80% of the COST of a 100% Renewable Energy World with a Viable Biosphere for ALL Earthlings. (http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/blog/post/2013/10/one-percents-planetary-assets-equals-80-responsibility-for-funding-a-100-renewable-energy-world)
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on July 23, 2015, 06:26:18 pm
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we ask that the Gates Foundation and Wellcome Trust commit now to divesting from the top 200 fossil fuel companies within five years. And that they immediately freeze any new investment in the same companies. - The Guardian

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by The Guardian – March 17, 2015 

As progressive institutions, the Gates Foundation and Wellcome Trust should commit to taking their money out of the companies that are driving global warming, says The Guardian’s editor-in-chief By Alan Rusbridger

The world has much more coal, oil and gas in the ground than it can safely burn. That much is physics.


Anyone studying the question with an open mind will almost certainly come to a similar conclusion: if we and our children are to have a reasonable chance of living stable and secure lives 30 or so years from now, according to one recent study 80 percent of the known coal reserves will have to stay underground, along with half the gas and a third of the oil reserves.

If only science were enough.  :(

If not science, then politics? MPs, presidents, prime ministers and members of congress are always telling us (often suggesting a surrender of civil liberties in return) that their first duty is the protection of the public.

But politics sometimes struggles with physics. Science is, at its best, long term and gives the best possible projection of future risk. Which is not always how politics works, even when it comes to our security. Politicians prefer certainty and find it difficult to make serious prudent planning on high probabilities.

On climate change, the public clamor is in inverse proportion to the enormity of the long-term threat. If only it were the other way round. And so, year after year, the people who represent us around the UN negotiating tables have moved inches, not miles.

When, as Guardian colleagues, we first started discussing this climate change series, there were advocates for focusing the main attention on governments. States own much of the fossil fuels that can never be allowed to be dug up. Only states, it was argued, can forge the treaties that count. In the end the politicians will have to save us through regulation – either by limiting the amount of stuff that is extracted, or else by taxing, pricing and limiting the carbon that’s burned.

If journalism has so far failed to animate the public to exert sufficient pressure on politics through reporting and analysis, it seemed doubtful whether many people would be motivated by the idea of campaigning for a paragraph to be inserted into the negotiating text at the UN climate talks in Paris this December. So we turned to an area where campaigners have recently begun to have marked successes: divestment.  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F19.gif&hash=3f9f2fc2285bc756137e21463bc2a4c420b15ac3)

There are two arguments in favour of moving money out of the biggest and most aggressive fossil fuel companies – one moral, the other financial.

The moral crusaders – among them Archbishop Desmond Tutu – see divestment from fossil fuels in much the same light as earlier campaigners saw the push to pull money out of tobacco, arms, apartheid South Africa – or even slavery. Most fossil fuel companies, they argue, have little concern for future generations.

Of course, the companies are run by sentient men and women with children and grandchildren of their own. But the market pressures and fiduciary duties involved in running public companies compel behavior that is overwhelmingly driven by short-term returns.

Agelbert NOTE: See Empathy Deficit Disorder based "fiduciary duties" ignoring viable biosphere math = suicidal Homo SAPS.   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Fgen152.gif&hash=d5b10968fe56c4cb95fae17cee3cb420a5f4e2da)

So – the argument goes – the directors will meanwhile carry on business as usual, no matter how incredible it may seem that they will be allowed to dig up all the climate-warming assets they own. And, by and large – and discounting recent drops in the price of oil – they continue to be reasonably good short-term businesses, benefiting from enormous subsidies as they search for even more reserves that can never be used.

The pragmatists argue the case on different grounds. It is simply this: that finance will eventually have to surrender to physics.

Photo of Alan Rusbridger (at link) in London, for the launch of the Guardian’s climate change campaign.

If – eventually – the companies cannot, for the sake of the human race, be allowed to extract a great many of the assets they own, then many of those assets will in time become valueless. So people with other kinds of fiduciary duty – people, say, managing endowments, pension funds and investment portfolios – will want to get their money out of these companies before the bubble bursts.

Of course, the financial risk comes not simply from the threat of regulation, but could also be hastened by the march of alternative clean energy. Global investment in clean energy jumped 16% in 2014 to £205bn, but because of the rapid drop in the price of that energy (the cost of solar has dropped by two-thirds in 6 years), the money invested last year bought almost double the amount of electricity capacity as in 2011.

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So there’s a risk calculation to be done by anyone invested in fossil fuels – which, one way or another, is probably most of us. Get out too early and you might forgo the reasonable returns based on current performance and the book value of the assets that are notionally exploitable.

But what of the risk of being a late exiter? Do you wait and judge when the politicians could finally summon the will to start making regulatory and market interventions … and then get out? And at the same time as everyone else is trying to do the same?

This is why the divestment movement has changed from being a fringe campaign to something every responsible fund manager can no longer ignore. How could they, when even the governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney, has warned that the “vast majority of reserves are unburnable” and the bank itself is conducting an inquiry into the risk that inflated fossil fuel assets pose to the stability of the financial system?

When the president of the World Bank, Jim Yong Kim, urges: “Be the first mover. Use smart due diligence. Rethink what fiduciary responsibility means in this changing world. It’s simple self-interest. Every company, investor and bank that screens new and existing investments for climate risk is simply being pragmatic”?

When the Bank of England’s deputy head of supervision for banks and insurance companies, Paul Fisher, warns, as he did this month: “As the world increasingly limits carbon emissions, and moves to alternative energy sources, investments in fossil fuels – a growing financial market in recent decades – may take a huge hit”?

Or listen to Hank Paulson, no bleeding liberal, but secretary of the Treasury under Bush and former CEO of Goldman Sachs: “Each of us must recognize that the risks are personal. We’ve seen and felt the costs of underestimating the financial bubble. Let’s not ignore the climate bubble.”

President Obama puts it most pithily: “We’re not going to be able to burn it all.”

So the argument for a campaign to divest from the world’s most polluting companies is becoming an overwhelming one, on both moral and pragmatic grounds. But the divestment movement is sometimes misunderstood. The intention is not to bankrupt the companies, nor to promote overnight withdrawal from fossil fuels – that would not be possible or desirable.

Divestment serves to delegitimize the business models of companies that are using investors’ money to search for yet more coal, oil and gas that can’t safely be burned. It is a small but crucial step in the economic transition away from a global economy run on fossil fuels.

The usual rule of newspaper campaigns is that you don’t start one unless you know you’re going to win it. This one will almost certainly be won in time: the physics is unarguable. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.desismileys.com%2Fsmileys%2Fdesismileys_0293.gif&hash=b1af4868ed8f18c30e637f8cbcb79002f6f71039)

But we are launching our campaign today in the firm belief that it will force the issue now into the boardrooms and inboxes of people who have billions of dollars at their disposal.


Full article at link. Don't miss how much the Gates Foundation (and other notables) have invested in dirty energy.
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http://www.earthisland.org/journal/index.php/elist/eListRead/the_argument_for_divesting_from_fossil_fuels_is_becoming_overwhelming/
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on July 26, 2015, 07:02:38 pm
Arctic Ocean Temperatures Keep Rising   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-150715183719.png&hash=7b222546f30a032efc31223d85eea0535ed42a49)

People's emissions are causing the planet to heat up and more than 93% of this heat goes into the oceans.

 People have measured ocean temperatures for a long time. Reliable records go back to at least 1880. Ever since records began, the oceans were colder than they are now. NOAA analysis shows that, on the Northern Hemisphere, the 20th century average for June is 16.4°C (61.5°F). In June 2015, it was a record 0.87°C (1.57°F) higher.

 Back in history, there have been times when it was warmer. The last time when it was warmer than today, during the Eemian Period, peak temperature was only a few tenths of a degree higher than today, according to the IPCC. In those days, there was huge melting, accompanied by extreme storms and sea levels that were 5 to 9 m higher than today.

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http://arctic-news.blogspot.com/
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on July 28, 2015, 02:51:03 pm
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Markets are abandoning carbon companies—even if society continues to burn far too much of it. Photo credit: Shutterstock


Get Ready for Ugly as Markets Begin to Deal With Climate Crisis


Carl Pope | July 28, 2015 9:31 am

Advocates of “market-based” climate solutions paint pastel pictures reflecting smoothly adjusting macro-economic models. Competitive markets gradually nudged by carbon pricing glide into a low carbon future in a modestly disruptive fashion, much as sulfur pollution from power plants was scaled back in the 1990’s.

But commodity markets for oil and gas don’t work that way. These real markets are poised to savagely strand assets, upset expectations, overturn long established livelihoods and leave a trail of wreckage behind them—unless climate advocates start owning the fruits of their own success and preparing for the transition. Schumpeter’s destructive engine of capitalism is about to show its ugly side.

Two powerful forces are currently driving energy markets and climate outcomes.


Fossil fuel prices are indeed opening the door to climate solutions, but not through the gradual carbon pricing mechanisms so favored by economists (and recently, reluctantly beginning to be explored by conservative thinkers). Instead, the divergence between clean energy price curves, which fall rapidly with increased market share and fossil fuel prices, which rise with consumption, are about to collide explosively.

Second, Investors are indeed, moving away from fossil fuel stocks and bonds, but not out of ethical concern over climate risk, or even an expectation of global regulation of carbon combustion. They are racing to the exit as bloated coal and oil stock values collapse on the other side of the “Commodity Super-Cycle” which until early 2014 was the dominant paradigm.

Two weeks ago I wrote two pieces in Bloomberg Views suggesting that the fossil divestment movement was arguably behind market trends in arguing that coal and oil were bad investments. The following week witnessed a cascade of commentary making my pieces look milquetoast and timid. Markets are abandoning carbon companies—even if society continues to burn far too much of it.

Look at the numbers:

U.S. coal consumption has fallen, in the face of competition from performance (efficiency), alternatives (natural gas) and disrupters (solar and wind.) Five years ago we burned a billion tons of coal; now we burn 850 million tons. Solid progress. But still 850 million tons.

What happened to coal company share values? In the last five years, a coal company has gone bankrupt on the average every month.  ;D  The second largest U.S. coal company, Alpha, after one bankruptcy and reorganization, was just dumped from the NY Stock Exchange because its price fell below $1.00. Even a coal producer (Walter) whose output, metallurgical coal, still enjoys a strong market had to file for bankruptcy. The biggest U.S. coal company, Peabody, which traded in 2011 at $73, is now selling at $1.29. The bond markets have abandoned coal. All coal company debt is now graded “junk.” In the last quarter the three worst performing major U.S. bonds were all coal:

Alpha Natural Resources: -70 percent
 Peabody: -40 percent
 Arch: -30 percent

Coal, as an investment class, is effectively finished
  ;D —coal companies will go through a series of reorganizations. After each one only those with the best balance sheets and cheapest mines will remain. The reclamation bonds which the U.S. government and the State of Wyoming allowed these companies to self-insure against their balance sheets are about to go south, creating sequential calls on capital that will push even more companies first into Chapter 11 and then into Chapter 7. Outside the U.S., 1/6th of Australia’s coal mines now operate at a loss. Companies in the sector are in liquidation, even though the world will use a lot of coal for quite a while to come. Eventually slumping demand will be overtaken by declining production and more mines will become cash flow positive, but existing stakeholders will be liquidated first. That’s the dynamic of shrinking commodity markets—investors, communities and workers lose fast even as markets shrink slowly.

Page 2 of this two page article that outlines the writing on the wall for fossil fuels.  ;D

http://ecowatch.com/2015/07/28/carl-pope-oil-gas-markets/2/




Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on July 31, 2015, 03:07:02 pm
Are oil spills actually good for the environment?   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.desismileys.com%2Fsmileys%2Fdesismileys_1730.gif&hash=cdaf50326d98ff7b051a9c49e83d51c7bb687407) And is coal delicious?  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.coh2.org%2Fimages%2FSmileys%2Fhuhsign.gif&hash=3732d0427be65896527fc3805c5be54a33cffd3b) In this hard-hitting satirical newscast, Dr Bill Nye's "twin brother" Andy Nye finally reveals the truths  ;D  about climate change and fossil fuels  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Facigar.gif&hash=dc9dccf92c6c88c99611b06c86d92629d69f2978)

Travis Irvine and Daniel Ahrens, Source: Guardian

Friday 31 July 2015 08.53 EDT 

Oil spills actually totally good for animals - video   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-051113192052.png&hash=93c42ef9f18fc5d9da50fd91fc19f70009f95f85)

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/video/2015/jul/31/climate-denier-news-satire-oil-spills-animals-video?CMP=embed_video (http://www.theguardian.com/environment/video/2015/jul/31/climate-denier-news-satire-oil-spills-animals-video?CMP=embed_video)
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on July 31, 2015, 03:17:07 pm
Moo or false: do cow farts contribute to climate change? – quiz
 
How savvy are you about the unexpected forces affecting our planet? Take this quiz to find out

See how cows did on the quiz in this video:


http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/jul/24/cow-farts-climate-change-methane-environment-quiz

Agelbert NOTE: The energy density of farts (and other hydrocarbons) is, uh, not the issue here.  ;D 
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on August 01, 2015, 05:08:38 pm
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Startling Footage of California Reservoirs Shows Devastating Impact of Epic Drought  :o

Lorraine Chow | August 1, 2015 9:48 am

https://youtu.be/jJhRNWvEIis

http://ecowatch.com/2015/08/01/california-reservoirs-epic-drought/
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on August 01, 2015, 06:13:18 pm
Halfway to Hell: Global Temperatures Hit Critical Point, Warn Scientists

Tierney Smith, TckTckTck | July 31, 2015 11:56 am

http://ecowatch.com/2015/07/31/halfway-to-hell/

Agelbert NOTE: Lots of great comments. One particularly Orwellian piece of wailing and moaning from a Climate Change Denier was given the business, so to speak.  ;D I decided to join in on the fun.   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-280515145049.png&hash=84e87515e750391c1f1bca6d6ae06485972bfa81) (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-051113192052.png&hash=93c42ef9f18fc5d9da50fd91fc19f70009f95f85)

fred smith

The Washington Post.....

The Arctic Ocean is warming up, icebergs are growing scarcer and in some places the seals are finding the water too hot, according to a report to the Commerce Department yesterday from Consulafft, at Bergen, Norway.

Reports from fishermen, seal hunters and explorers all point to a radical change in climate conditions and hitherto unheard-of temperatures in the Arctic zone. Exploration expeditions report that scarcely
any ice has been met as far north as 81 degrees 29 minutes. Soundings to a depth of 3,100 meters showed the gulf stream still very warm.

Great masses of ice have been replaced by moraines of earth and stones, the report continued, while at many points well known glaciers have entirely disappeared. Very few seals and no white fish are found in the eastern Arctic, while vast shoals of herring and smelts which have never before
ventured so far north, are being encountered in the old seal fishing grounds.
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I must apologize, I neglected to mention that this report was from November 2, 1922, as reported by the AP and published in The Washington Post – 93 years ago.

Check Snopes, this is a real news article. Explain to me how all of this didn’t lead to the destruction of the world back then. Here we are 93 years later, same ole, same ole doom and gloom. gw is ALL about POWER and MONEY. Liberals want both. I know that when one side of the argument relies on character assassination for protecting its side, there is something wrong with that side. Character assassination HAS NO PLACE here in America and to rely on it is despicable.  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2F2.bp.blogspot.com%2F_9HT4xZyDmh4%2FTOHhxzA0wLI%2FAAAAAAAAEUk%2FoeHDS2cfxWQ%2Fs200%2FSmiley_Angel_Wings_Halo.jpg&hash=13281f1944b60773bf12b29387b70be77cc1fe16) (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F165fs373950.gif&hash=ad797fcc08a061d3ae50ee49ccd9f3d517fb7496)


Agelbert repy: Your position on a plank you are walking does not change the FACT that your trajectory on that plank will lead to death when there AIN'T NO MORE "PLANK"...

A small sample of your "arguments":

1) Study: Polar Bears hate America.

2) If Global Warming is real, why do we still have frozen pizza?

3) Study: There are more bald eagles when there are more coal mines.

4) Study: More oil spills needed to help sea life.

5) Do oil covered birds swim faster? No, but that is because they are quitters!

Watch CCDN (Climate Change Denier News)  for more fossil fuel industry funded objective science. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F5yjbztv.gif&hash=d3dc6c69f3fc5ad39c44fb5466265476f34e5a76)

Are you tired of facts? Do you think all the concern about climate change is just a bunch of hooey? Then this newscast is for you. See bald eagles, coal mining, unpatriotic polar bears, politics and even a frozen pizza on this satirical episode of Climate Change Denier News. (http://www.theguardian.com/environment/video/2015/jul/03/climate-change-denier-news-frozen-pizza-senator-satirical-video")
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on August 02, 2015, 04:06:47 pm
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Thank you Homo SAPS for Global Warming!     (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2FBanane21.gif&hash=ea8aefd6edec2a8f8e52b83aa2874cd9f97fe9ae)


Tick Populations Booming
by John Soltes – July 28, 2015

As climates change, ticks spread farther north, harming dogs and humans

SNIPPET:

According to experts in the field, ticks have gone through some changes over the past few years.

“I think one of the biggest concerns that you see within the published literature for ticks is that ticks’ geographical regions are expanding,” said Dr. Janet Foley, a professor and researcher at the School of Veterinary Medicine at the University of California, Davis. Foley, who studies the ecology and epidemiology of infectious diseases, also serves as co-director of the Center for Vector-Borne Diseases, an institution on the frontlines of tick and mite research.

“Clearly ticks are expanding farther north,” she said. “[W]e’re finding a lot of tick species moving into new areas. And a lot of that has to do potentially with climate change [and] animal husbandry practices if we’re cutting forests or recreating grasslands.… So as a whole ticks themselves are really becoming an emerging problem, not that they always weren’t anyway, but they are getting worse.”

Foley said the expansion of their range has brought them into Canada, and she called some of them “very, very aggressive human biters” that can potentially transmit disease.
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Don't blame us ticks! We just DO what we DO.  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F2z6in9g.gif&hash=771b084a0f186d9cc14f31defd98a6c90b69b84f)

http://www.earthisland.org/journal/index.php/elist/eListRead/tick_populations_booming/ (http://www.earthisland.org/journal/index.php/elist/eListRead/tick_populations_booming/)
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on August 02, 2015, 05:30:28 pm
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Scientists Are Citizens Too By Joshua J. Lawler

We had just recently moved to Seattle when my wife, one-year-old son, and I were invited to a neighbor’s house for a barbeque. It was a warm summer evening, and I got to talking to our neighbor’s mother, who was visiting from Vermont. She asked what I did, and I told her that I was scientist, a professor, and that I studied climate change. In 2007, mentioning that one studied climate change often ended the conversation, or at least required a bit of explaining. But this woman was neighbors with Bill McKibben, the author and founder of 350.org. I didn’t need to explain climate change to her.

We began exchanging facts about what climate change was doing to the world – its effects on wildlife, water, plants, food security, and human health. So much for the cheery summer cookout. After a half hour or so, the grandmother asked me what I was going to give my son to allow him to live in this changing world. I wasn’t able to give her a decent answer.

At that time, I had thought extensively about how climate change will affect plants and animals – how species would respond to climate change, how relationships between species might change, and how landscapes could be altered. But I had not spent much time thinking about how climate change would impact people, including the people I love most, my family.

Nature will be fine. Yes, some species will go extinct – some already have – but the species that remain will reorganize themselves by forming new ecosystems and communities. People, however, won’t get off so easy. Fires, floods, coastal storm impacts, famine, water shortages, military conflicts, and disease outbreaks are all expected to become more frequent and/or more intense as the climate continues to change. The World Health Organization estimates that, worldwide, climate change was responsible for the loss of 5.5 million disability adjusted life years (the number of years lost due to poor health, disability, or early death) in 2000 alone.

So what would I give my son? My answer that day was defeatist. I said I would give him Buddhism (not that it was mine to give). I said I would help him find the skills to reduce suffering. It was hardly an inspiring answer.

Traditionally, science as a discipline has discouraged activism. Scientists are expected to be objective – to explore, test, and report findings and conclusions based on facts. They are expected to put aside their opinions, emotions, hopes, and fears in the course of doing their research. Normally, when scientists speak out on a subject and advocate for action, they open themselves up to criticism and accusations of bias.

But now scientists have no choice, and so a growing number of us are speaking out about climate change. Many, myself included, feel that we have a moral responsibility to help the world understand that the climate is changing; that people are responsible for it; that 97 percent of scientists agree about this; and that the changes, on the whole, won’t be good for us. 

The more I thought about climate change, the more I realized I had to do something other than publish my studies in scientific journals. I had to do more if I wanted to look my boys (I now have two) in the eyes and tell them I did all I could to slow climate change.

So I have also begun to speak out – as a scientist and as a concerned citizen. I’m running a climate change video contest for students in Washington state. I’ve written op-eds like this one. I’ve organized a group to explore the best way to teach climate change through video games.

And I have company in these efforts. Many scientists have begun to raise awareness about the dangers of climate change. When scientists, a relatively reserved group by nature, start to speak out in large numbers, it will be something that society can’t ignore.

I’m still working on teaching my sons some Buddhist practices to reduce suffering. But I’m also working to raise awareness about climate change in the hope that my boys – and boys and girls around the world – will have a future full of promise and opportunity. I’d like to thank that grandmother. Hopefully, the next time our paths cross, I will be able to give her a better answer to her question.

Joshua Lawler is an assistant professor of landscape ecology and conservation at the University of Washington and a co-founder of the group “More Than Scientists.”

http://www.earthisland.org/journal/index.php/eij/article/scientists_are_citizens_too/ (http://www.earthisland.org/journal/index.php/eij/article/scientists_are_citizens_too/)
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on August 04, 2015, 03:36:31 pm
13 Arrested at Crestwood Blockade While Reading Pope Francis’ Encyclical on Climate

SNIPPET:

One of today’s arrestees, Faith Muirhead, 45, of Beaver Dams in Steuben County, grew up in the town of Reading near the salt caverns. She said, “We are all of us stewards of the earth. I am a native of Reading and know that this area and Seneca Lake are gifts to be cherished and protected. I feel a responsibility to do what I can to protect these waters and this land. So I pray, I walk, I send letters, I call my state representatives and today, I stand at the gates of Crestwood to demonstrate my resolve. I am a teacher and a teacher of teachers. Today, I teach by putting my freedom in jeopardy in order to bring attention to the potential risks inherent in Crestwood’s plans.”

The total number of civil disobedience arrests in the eight-month-old campaign against gas storage now stands at 332.

Full article and excellent video! (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.freesmileys.org%2Femoticons%2Femoticon-object-062.gif&hash=88ceb4a34a12b2bea2fd9edd887da26d73308257)


http://ecowatch.com/2015/08/04/arrests-reading-pope-encyclical/

Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on August 05, 2015, 07:36:59 pm
https://youtu.be/M8EXhJmUkNE
Climate Change just hit home NBC
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on August 05, 2015, 10:12:49 pm
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https://youtu.be/WQRCVvoLzXo
NASA | No Way Back: Charting Irreversible Climate Change with Jason-3 [HD]
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on August 07, 2015, 06:27:27 pm
Ice-core dating corroborates tree ring chronologies

Filed under: Climate Science
 Paleoclimate
 Sun-earth connections
 — group @ 5 August 2015 Guest commentary from Jonny McAneney


http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2015/08/ice-core-dating-corroborates-tree-ring-chronologies/comment-page-1/#comment-634519

SNIPPET:

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Future hopes for the past

This research (only!!!) covers the last 2500 years; Half the period of human history (~5000 years). Synchronising ice cores with tree dates, as well as with historical dates, is even more problematic the further in the past one goes. If the ice core chronologies can be extended further into the past with accuracy equal to that of the NEEM NS1 core, the effects of volcanic forcing and climate more generally on past civilisations can be improved. For example, we know that Hekla had two massive eruptions in the past, probably in the 12th and 24th century BC, but we do not know exactly when, or what effect they may have had on climate and society. We do not yet know the cause of the so called 4.2 kya event (from 2200-1900 BC), which was a period of altered climate which may have led to the collapse of the Egyptian Old Kingdom, and/or the rise of the Akkadian Empire. Perhaps sufficiently accurately dated ice cores extending across these event could provide the answer?

Finally, a key controversy in archaeological research is the accurate dating of the Thera eruption, thought to have occurred in the 17th or 16th century BC. Positive identification and accurate dating of tephra in ice cores from this large Mediterranean eruption would provide a critical benchmark for early Middle Eastern history.

Trees can guide us in reconstructing the past. As my co-author Mike Baillie quipped in his book A Slice Through Time: Dendrochronology and Precision Dating,  “The trees don’t lie – and they were there”. Thanks to the research of Sigl et al. (2015), this statement is looking all the more true.

http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2015/08/ice-core-dating-corroborates-tree-ring-chronologies/comment-page-1/
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on August 10, 2015, 03:25:24 pm
Even from 443 miles up, California's raging wildfires look terrifying
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http://finance.yahoo.com/news/scary-photos-california-space-whole-145749099.html (http://finance.yahoo.com/news/scary-photos-california-space-whole-145749099.html)
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on August 10, 2015, 03:45:58 pm
U.S. Energy Secretary Moniz’ Statement on Papal Encyclical on Climate Change

June 18, 2015

WASHINGTON – U.S. Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz released the following statement regarding the release of a papal encyclical on climate change by Pope Francis.

"Pope Francis' call to action on climate change is an important milestone in the global effort on this issue. His is not just a powerful moral voice, he also graduated as a chemical engineer and understands the consensus of climate scientists that accumulating man-made pollution endangers our planet and people around the world. As Pope Francis reminds us, we must push for ambitious and cost-effective solutions that protect us all, including those most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. Pope Francis should inspire all countries to redouble the deployment of clean energy technologies and energy efficiencies and find the international will to significantly cut global emissions of heat-trapping pollution.

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http://energy.gov/articles/us-energy-secretary-moniz-statement-papal-encyclical-climate-change
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on August 13, 2015, 09:14:25 pm
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Our Children's Trust | August 13, 2015 9:48 am

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The complaint asserts that, in causing climate change, the federal government has violated the youngest generation’s constitutional rights to life, liberty, property and has failed to protect essential public trust resources.

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4theflora_fauna 

I live in the blast zone for Jordan Cove, so I am taking the work that these young people are doing personally. What a relief after fighting this project for 8 years (some have fought them for 10) we are being joined by these wonderful folks and their lawyers. How greedy and stupid does a corporation have to be to put a gas-plant and gas-pipeline in an earthquake/tsunami zone? It would be right across a narrow bay from the airport, mall, schools and neighborhoods. They have given this foreign corp the right to take my friends' land. It will make people with asthma and lung problems sicker, many of them very young and very old. It is criminal to pollute our beautiful sea air and to use massive amounts of water to run this place in a time of emergency drought conditions. The darn pipe will cross and put at risk 400 water resources.

So, I thank them for standing up for their rights for a future with the best world possible. They are fighting for their children, their children's children, and me. Of course it's what activists all over Oregon care about and work toward. Several generations have been working over a century to conserve, preserve, and educate. The torch has to be taken-up by the young, bright, and beautiful. Blessings to them and people of all ages who love earth, our only home. It is crazy to send fossil fuels from end to the other of this tired, hot planet!


http://ecowatch.com/2015/08/13/youth-file-climate-lawsuit/
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on August 14, 2015, 02:49:53 pm
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Despite Pope’s Call to Climate Action, Churches Still Hold Millions in Fossil Fuels   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-200714183337.bmp&hash=fd5a6df63c32bd65dda7b6d93e788647ca3829df)


Sarah Lazare, Common Dreams | August 14, 2015 10:26 am

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Pope Francis’ bold call to tackle climate change and save the planet appears to be in conflict with U.S. Catholic churches’ millions of dollars of investments in fossil fuels industries, including fracking, a new Reuters report shows.

Journalist Richard Valdmanis combed through church disclosures and portfolios and found: “Dioceses covering Boston, Rockville Center on Long Island, Baltimore, Toledo and much of Minnesota have all reported millions of dollars in holdings in oil and gas stocks in recent years.” (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Facigar.gif&hash=dc9dccf92c6c88c99611b06c86d92629d69f2978)

“The holdings tend to make up between 5 and 10 percent of the dioceses’ overall equities investments,” Valdmanis noted, “Similar to the 7.1 percent weighting of energy companies on the S&P 500 index, according to the documents.”

Furthermore, the investigation finds that, while the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops provides ethical guidelines discouraging investments in firms related to contraception, abortion, ****ography and war, it does not issue similar warnings about fossil fuels stocks.
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This is despite Pope Francis’s 180-page Papal Encyclical, a formal letter to Catholic bishops released in June, underscoring the moral imperative to take aggressive steps to address climate change. “This home of ours is being ruined and that damages everyone, especially the poor,” he wrote, adding: “The problem is aggravated by a model of development based on the intensive use of fossil fuels, which is at the heart of the worldwide energy system.”


The Archdiocese of Chicago acknowledged to Reuters the contradiction between the pope’s message and its over $100 million worth of fossil fuel investments. “We are beginning to evaluate the implications of the encyclical across multiple areas, including investments and also including areas such as energy usage and building materials,” Betsy Bohlen, chief operating officer for the Archdiocese, told Reuters.

In response to growing grassroots campaigns across the globe, over 300 institutions worldwide have committed to divest from fossil fuels, roughly a quarter of them faith-based organizations. The United Church of Canada announced Tuesday it will be the latest religious institution to divest and the Catholic institution Georgetown University voted in early June, two weeks before the encyclical, to halt its direct investment of its endowment funds in coal mining companies.


http://ecowatch.com/2015/08/14/pope-church-fossil-fuel-holdings/

Agelbert NOTE: We can always look on the bright side of this behavior. After all, haven't 99% of all species that have lived on this planet gone extinct? What's one more?  Our space "brothers" are patient.

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on August 14, 2015, 07:26:21 pm
Churches Still Hold Millions in Fossil Fuels 

Of course they do. Decent returns on an investment take priority over whatever the Pope knows about science in general, let alone complex models that haven't done so well to date, you know, actually modeling.

In the real world, they fire you for misleading management that badly, let alone going straight to the press and trumpeting your conclusions as a means of some sort of self esteem improvement exercise.
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Excuse me? You mean you didn't know the Pope graduated as a Chemical Engineer? And did you say the REAL WORLD? You mean the one you live in? You believe that is the REAL WORLD?

Asset Managers that CAN add and subtract (and model too! ;D) tend to disagree with you. The REAL WORLD track record of fossil fuels over the last SEVEN YEARS is the only REAL WORLD that COUNTS, pal!

HERE are the FACTS from IMPAX Asset Management, you math challenged fossil fueler:

NOTE: DON'T even try to bad mouth IMPAX, the way you do anything and/or anybody's empirical evidence that doesn't fit your world view.  8) You will accept IMPAX's numbers or you can continue living in your evolutionary dead end "real" world.  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.desismileys.com%2Fsmileys%2Fdesismileys_6869.gif&hash=f94938471d343a09155d1f60eefacdb2ceab2457)

Beyond Fossil Fuels: The Investment Case  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F19.gif&hash=3f9f2fc2285bc756137e21463bc2a4c420b15ac3) for Fossil Fuel Divestment  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Felqahera-trading.com%2Fhome%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2012%2F04%2Fdollar-sign-thumbnail1.jpg&hash=e1962ecaa694d312d50a9984ee058a45aed1e860)

Executive Summary

Pressure is building on institutional investors to assess their exposure to companies that extract fossil fuels. As concerns rise about the likely effects on the climate from greenhouse gas emissions, grassroots campaigns calling for fossil fuel divestment are growing.

In parallel, financial analysts are increasingly warning investors of the risks that tighter regulations on carbon dioxide emissions and falling demand for fossil fuels could make fossil fuel reserves substantially less valuable, or even 'stranded' and ultimately rendered worthless.

While trustees may be sympathetic to these concerns, and investment officers skeptical of the outcome of looming greenhouse gas regulation, there are legitimate questions about the effects on portfolio risk and returns from the partial or complete divestment of fossil fuel stocks.

So the question becomes: how should a fiduciary compare the risks to portfolios presented by stricter carbon regulations to the risks associated with reducing exposure to fossil fuel stocks?


Analysis of historical data shows that over the past seven years eliminating the fossil fuel sector from a global benchmark index would have actually had a small positive return effect. Furthermore, much of the economic effect of excluding fossil fuel stocks could have been replicated with 'fossil free' energy portfolios consisting of energy efficiency and renewable energy stocks, with limited additional tracking error and improved returns.

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The returns over five, and where possible, seven years were analyzed. The results show that removing the fossil fuel sector in its entirety and replacing it with 'fossil free' portfolios of energy efficiency, renewable energy, and other alternative energy stocks, either on a passively managed or actively managed basis would have improved returns with limited tracking error. (See Figures 3 and 4 below.)
Agelbert NOTE: figure graphics at full report link.

Impax believes that investors should consider reorienting their portfolios towards low carbon energy by replacing fossil fuel stocks with energy efficiency and renewable energy investments, thereby retaining exposure to the energy sector while reducing the risks posed by the fossil fuel sector.

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http://gofossilfree.org/se/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2014/07/impax-investment-case-for-fossil-fuel-divestment-us-final-1.pdf (http://gofossilfree.org/se/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2014/07/impax-investment-case-for-fossil-fuel-divestment-us-final-1.pdf)

MKing, only someone like you would have the brain dead brass to call somebody that uses less than a 100 gallons of gasoline a YEAR a "gas guzzler", as you have repeatedly done to me. Of course I know you are just trying to get my goat, but it shows how lacking in CFS you are.

In addition, you don't have a moral compass or possess any empathy or concern for the living beings around you beyond taking care of yourself and your family. Consequently, it is expected that you will say or do anything you can get away with to defend your profit over planet bennies.  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-200714191329.bmp&hash=4764bfbe6bb0e11ca61102efa97a932a824f47e0)

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MKing "wisdom" is as follows: The Catholic Cardinals are "smart" if they invest in fossil fuels and the Pope is an "ignorant, math challenged religious nut" if he advocates Divestment. LOL! 

Then you whine about being censored...  ::)

Fossil Fuel Corporation Stocks  are a BAD INVESTMENT. Live with it! SELL!  8)
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on August 14, 2015, 09:36:14 pm
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Dear members of the Wellcome Trust executive board,

We write as concerned health professionals and academics in relation to the Guardian’s Keep it in the ground campaign calling on the Wellcome Trust and Gates Foundation to divest from the world’s 200 largest fossil fuel companies over the next five years.

The Wellcome Trust is an outstanding philanthropic institution whose work has a profound impact on the health and wellbeing of millions worldwide. We congratulate the Trust on its leadership in promoting and funding research into the impacts of climate change, and hope that this work will continue to grow in line with the urgent threat to human health and survival. However, we were disappointed to learn of the Trust’s decision to continue to invest in fossil fuel companies.

It is uncontested that the majority of carbon reserves listed on stock exchanges must remain underground if we are to avoid exceeding a 2C rise in global mean temperature and the catastrophic health impacts this would have. Our current business-as-usual trajectory commits us to over 2C warming – a point scientists have described as the threshold between “dangerous”and “extremely dangerous” – within decades.

As the Trust acknowledges, avoiding this scenario demands an urgent transition towards clean energy. Its view, as set forth by Professor Jeremy Farrar, is that engagement with fossil fuel companies’ boards is a more effective way to support such a transition than divestment. However, there is little or no evidence to suggest that this approach holds a realistic prospect of reducing global fossil fuel production sufficiently in the limited time available.

We believe a complete transformation of the energy sector is needed, driven by strong climate policies, and that divestment has greater potential to bring this about. The ethical and financial case for fossil fuel divestment is well founded and has been supported by the president of the World Bank and the director-general of the World Health Organisation (WHO), both public health physicians. Through the political change it has helped catalyse, the same strategy played a vital role in the movements against apartheid and tobacco. As such, we welcome the statement that the Trust would consider this step if engagement proves ineffective.

Our primary concern is that a decision not to divest will continue to bolster the social licence of an industry that has indicated no intention of taking meaningful action. Indeed, many of these companies continue to use their considerable influence to delay political action, as tobacco companies have done previously. Shell’s lobbying against binding EU renewables targets and its decision to drill for Arctic oil, which cannot safely be burned, give additional cause for alarm. Further, having a financial interest in the extraction of “unburnable” reserves may restrict organisations’ capacity to advocate effectively for the policy framework that is needed.

Lastly, divestment rests on the premise that it is wrong to profit from an industry whose core business threatens human and planetary health, bringing to mind one of the foundations of medical ethics – first, do no harm. We believe that, in aligning organisations’ investments with their aims and values, it goes beyond a “grand gesture”. The question is not only one of direct, short-term impacts, but of leadership. Health organisations such as the Wellcome Trust have considerable moral and scientific authority, and a decision to divest has the potential to influence policy-makers, other investors and the public, in the UK and internationally.

We thank the Trust for its openness to dialogue and its commitment to transparency, and request that you make public what, specifically, the Trust aims to achieve through shareholder engagement, and by when. We would particularly like to know at what point Trust will divest should these aims not be met, whether on a company-by-company or sector-wide basis.

Yours sincerely,
The undersigned
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2015/aug/14/health-professionals-urge-wellcome-trust-end-fossil-fuel-investments-letter
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on August 14, 2015, 10:06:32 pm
Woods Hole Research Center Scientists the fossil fuelers love to hate (because WHRC scientists actually do objective science ;D).

Recent Grants

WHRC was highly successful in recently announced project selections for NASA’s Arctic Boreal Vulnerability
Experiment (ABoVE). Three proposals led by WHRC scientists, and two additional proposals on which WHRC
scientists are co-investigators, were selected following a competitive review process.


In addition, Senior Scientist Scott Goetz was selected as NASA’s overall Science Lead for the ABoVE program. All in all, WHRC is involved in 5 of 21 NASA awards, out of more than 100 proposals submitted.

Assistant Scientist Susan Natali will lead a project examining and predicting the role of winter carbon emissions in the Arctic.

Postdoctoral Fellow Brendan Rogers will lead a project to achieve a better understanding of the increase in fires in the northern latitudes and possible strategies to for improved management.

Senior Scientist Scott Goetz is the lead investigator on a project looking at changes in arctic biomes with climate change, as well as a co-investigator on a proposal to examine the effects of fire on permafrost carbon stocks.

Associate Scientist Christopher Schwalm
will be co-investigator of a project to integrate the data and models utilized by ABoVE researchers. forest area. She was surprised to discover that the carbon fluxes in both regions were much higher than she anticipated. These results suggest that increasing fire in the Arctic may shift some Siberian forests from a methane source to a sink, representing a critical positive feedback to climate change.

The Polaris Project will continue to engage young minds like Nigel and Mackenzie. Look for Polaris Project 2016.

Is the Clean Power Plan enough? ??? 


http://whrc.org/news/newsletter/pdf/WHRC_Newsletter_August2015.pdf
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on August 16, 2015, 06:42:02 pm
Agelbert NOTE: Orignally posted June 03, 2014. The action required is more urgent each day.


It's time for Americans in the Service of Future Generations to GET WITH THE PROGRAM!
We did it with the massive, industrial scale building of Liberty Ships in WWII. We can do it again with the massive, industrial scale building of Liberty Renewable Energy Machines.


Country of Origin: United States of America
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Manufacturers: Alabama Dry Dock Co, Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyards Inc, California Shipbuilding Corp, Delta Shipbuilding Co, J A Jones Construction Co (Brunswick), J A Jones Construction Co (Panama City), Kaiser Co, Marinship Corp, New England Shipbuilding Corp, North Carolina Shipbuilding Co, Oregon Shipbuilding Corp, Permanente Metals Co, St Johns River Shipbuilding Co, Southeastern Shipbuilding Corp, Todd Houston Shipbuilding Corp, Walsh-Kaiser Co.

Major Variants: General cargo, tanker, collier, (modifications also boxed aircraft transport, tank transport,
hospital ship, troopship).

Role: Cargo transport, troop transport, hospital ship, repair ship.
Operated by: United States of America, Great Britain, (small quantity also Norway, Belgium, Soviet Union, France, Greece, Netherlands and other nations).

First Laid Down: 30th April 1941
Last Completed: 30th October 1945

Units: 2,711 ships laid down, 2,710 entered service.

Despite being initially labelled an 'ugly duckling' by the newspapers, and intended to be expendable if necessary, the ships eventually caught the imagination of the public. They proved to be easy to build, reliable and versatile, exceeding even the most optimistic expectations for their overall contribution to the war effort.

It was a project on a massive scale, undertaken with great speed and efficiency. The first Liberty ship (the Patrick Henry) was launched on 27 September 1941 (and completed on 30 December 1941), which was an incredible feat considering that just seven months previously neither shipyard nor workforce existed to build her.   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Fmuscular.gif&hash=1ebeafc0e4589b9d38ab66d37aa940d757e830e9)  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.freesmileys.org%2Femoticons%2Ftuzki-bunnys%2Ftuzki-bunny-emoticon-013.gif&hash=67c881f5cbeaeb689faa72f76545db455b347ce4)


Average Liberty Ship deadweight = 12,500 metric tons. (33,875,000 metric tons of ships built!).


Convert short tons to metric tons by multiplying the number of short tons by 0.907184

On the GE 1.5-megawatt model the total weight is 164 tons. The corresponding weights for the Vestas V90 are 75, 40, and 152, total 267 tons, and for the Gamesa G87 72, 42, and 220, total 334 tons.

164 x 0.907184 =  148.8 metric tons 

33,875,000 divided by 148.8 =  227,655  wind turbines X 1.5 MW =  341,482 MW = .3415 TW x 20% capacity factor = 68.3 x 24 hours X 365 days = 598.3 TWh/year.

2012 wind power production   United States 140.9 TWh  26.4 % of world total wind power.

1 TWhour per year = 1,000,000 MW / 8765.8 hours in a year) 114 megawatts per hour.

USA total annual electric consumption = 3,886,400,000 MWh = 3,886,400 = GWh = 3,886 TWh.


3886.4 / 598.3 =  20 to 40% of US electrical demand just from Wind Turbines in less than five years of Liberty Ship scale manufacturing wind turbine tonnage.
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Liberty Ship scale manufacturing wind turbine tonnage can provide  25 to 40% of US electrical demand  in less than five years. Double that in ten years and add in Solar Panels, Geothermal, Tide and Undersea Current and we have MORE than 100% Renewable Energy!   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F47b20s0.gif&hash=cc48c9af9d29b8836023c7db21103e52d1ed439e)  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F128fs318181.gif&hash=eff6d5f3831782966c2ff2081f07bf7fc5b22a6b)(https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.desismileys.com%2Fsmileys%2Fdesismileys_0293.gif&hash=b1af4868ed8f18c30e637f8cbcb79002f6f71039)



WE can use the excess to bioremediate the environmental damage done in the last 100 years.  WE can rid ourselves of Planet Polluting Fossil Fuels and Nuclear Poison Plants in a decade and win the Climate Victory for Future Generations! (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.freesmileys.org%2Femoticons%2Femoticon-object-106.gif&hash=f996659d18df7f3b445e6135e884397ac91f25b1)We can set an example for all the nations on the Earth of the Proper Path to a Viable and Vibrant Bounty filled, harmonious Biosphere.


Let's GET IT DONE! Our children and grandchildren are counting on us!
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http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/general-discussion/historical-documentaries/msg1214/#msg1214 (http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/general-discussion/historical-documentaries/msg1214/#msg1214)

Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on August 20, 2015, 05:57:07 pm
08/18/2015 03:24 PM   

Islamic Leaders Issue Thoughtful, Strong Climate Declaration


SustainableBusiness.com News


Islamic leaders from 20 countries issued a "Climate Change Declaration" today, calling on world leaders to take strong action at December's UN summit.

And it calls on the world's 1.6 billion Muslims and people of all faiths to take urgent action on climate as the "issue of our time." In some amazing statements (see below) they point to problems such as the goal of endless economic growth and consumerism.

Right now, the International Islamic Climate Change Symposium is taking place in Istanbul, Turkey. A diverse group of Islamic scholars from around the world drafted the Declaration after a lengthy consultation period before the conference.

Climate Change Islamic Declaration


The Declaration:

Paris UN Summit in December: urges governments to deliver a strong, binding international climate agreement that signals the end of fossil fuel use. The agreement should make it possible to limit global warming to 2C, or preferably 1.5C above pre-industrial levels, "bearing in mind that two-thirds of the earth's proven fossil fuel reserves remain in the ground." It should include clear targets and monitoring systems.

On fossil fuels, it calls on wealthy and oil-producing countries, in particular, to quickly phase them out - no later than 2050. The world needs to swiftly transition to 100% renewable energy - preferably distributed energy which can "reduce poverty and achieve sustainable development," it says. And "generous support" - financial and technical - is needed for vulnerable communities already experiencing severe impacts.

Moral Case for Action


Based on Islamic teachings, it makes a moral case for Muslims and people of all faiths to take urgent climate action.
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"We call on the people of all nations and their leaders to:

•Recognize the moral obligation to reduce consumption so the poor may benefit from what is left of earth's non-renewable resources;

•Re-focus concerns from unethical profit from the environment, to that of preserving it and elevating the condition of the world's poor.

•Invest in the creation of a green economy.

•Realize that to chase after unlimited economic growth in a planet that is finite and already overloaded is not viable. Growth must be pursued wisely and in moderation; placing a priority on increasing the resilience of all, and especially the most vulnerable, to the climate change impacts already underway and expected to continue for many years to come.

•Set in motion a fresh model of wellbeing, based on an alternative to the current financial model which depletes resources, degrades the environment, and deepens inequality.

The Corporate Sector must:

•Shoulder the consequences of their profit-making activities, and take a visibly more active role in reducing their carbon footprint and other forms of impact upon the natural environment;

•Commit to 100% renewable energy to mitigate the environmental impact of their activities as soon as possible.

•Change from the current business model which is based on an unsustainable escalating economy, and adopt a circular economy that is wholly sustainable;

•Pay more heed to social and ecological responsibilities, particularly to the extent that they extract and use scarce resources;

•Assist in divestment from the fossil fuel driven economy and scaling up of renewable energy and other ecological alternatives.
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"It is with great joy and in a spirit of solidarity that I express to you the promise of the Catholic Church to pray for the success of your initiative and her desire to work with you in the future to care for our common home and thus to glorify the God who created us," says Cardinal Peter Turkson, President of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, Vatican City.

The world's major religions have now issued climate declarations: the Pope's Encyclical and the Rabbinic Letter on the Climate Crisis.

Last year, religious and spiritual leaders held the  Religions for the Earth conference in New York City and the Vatican held a 5--day summit, Sustainable Humanity, Sustainable Nature: Our Responsibility. 

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Website: http://islamicclimatedeclaration.org/islamic-declaration-on-global-climate-change/

http://www.sustainablebusiness.com/index.cfm/go/news.display/id/26406
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on August 22, 2015, 02:52:52 am
Based on science as reliable as source rock analysis.

As Ice Age ended, greenhouse gas rise was lead factor in melting of Earth's glaciers (http://phys.org/news/2015-08-ice-age-greenhouse-gas-factor.html#jCp)

August 21, 2015

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Improved dating methods reveal that the rise in carbon dioxide levels was the primary cause of the simultaneous melting of glaciers around the globe during the last Ice Age. The new finding has implications for rising levels of man-made greenhouse gases and retreating glaciers today. Credit: National Science Foundation

A fresh look at some old rocks has solved a crucial mystery of the last Ice Age, yielding an important new finding that connects to the global retreat of glaciers caused by climate change today, according to a new study by a team of climate scientists.

For decades, researchers examining the glacial meltdown that ended 11,000 years ago took into account a number of contributing factors, particularly regional influences such as solar radiation, ice sheets and ocean currents.

But a reexamination of more than 1,000 previously studied glacial boulders has produced a more accurate timetable for the pre-historic meltdown and pinpoints the rise in carbon dioxide - then naturally occurring - as the primary driving factor in the simultaneous global retreat of glaciers at the close of the last Ice Age, the researchers report in the journal Nature Communications.

"Glaciers are very sensitive to temperature. When you get the world's glaciers retreating all at the same time, you need a broad, global reason for why the world's thermostat is going up," said Boston College Assistant Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences Jeremy Shakun. "The only factor that explains glaciers melting all around the world in unison during the end of the Ice Age is the rise in greenhouse gases."

The researchers found that regional factors caused differences in the precise timing and pace of glacier retreat from one place to another, but carbon dioxide was the major driver of the overall global meltdown, said Shakun, a co-author of the report "Regional and global forcing of glacier retreat during the last deglaciation."

"This is a lot like today," said Shakun. "In any given decade you can always find some areas where glaciers are holding steady or even advancing, but the big picture across the world and over the long run is clear - carbon dioxide is making the ice melt."
While 11,000 years ago may seem far too distant for a point of comparison, it was only a moment ago in geological time. The team's findings fix even greater certainty on scientific conclusions that the dramatic increase in manmade greenhouse gases will eradicate many of the world's glaciers by the end of this century.

"This has relevance to today since we've already raised CO2 by more than it increased at the end of the Ice Age, and we're on track to go up much higher this century—which adds credence to the view that most of the world's glaciers will be largely gone within the next few centuries, with negative consequences such as rising sea level and depleted water resources," said Shakun.

The team reexamined samples taken from boulders that were left by the retreating glaciers, said Shakun, who was joined in the research by experts from Oregon State University, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Purdue University and the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo.

Each boulder has been exposed to cosmic radiation since the glaciers melted, an exposure that produces the isotope Beryllium-10 in the boulder. Measuring the levels of the isotope in boulder samples allows scientists to determine when glaciers melted and first uncovered the boulders.

Scientists have been using this process called surface exposure dating for more than two decades to determine when glaciers retreated, Shakun said. His team examined samples collected by multiple research teams over the years and applied an improved methodology that increased the accuracy of the boulder ages.

The team then compared their new exposure ages to the timing of the rise of carbon dioxide concentration in the atmosphere, a development recorded in air bubbles taken from ice cores. Combined with computer models, the analysis eliminated regional factors as the primary explanations for glacial melting across the globe at the end of the Ice Age. The single leading global factor that did explain the global retreat of glaciers was rising carbon dioxide levels in the air.

"Our study really removes any doubt as to the leading cause of the decline of the glaciers by 11,000 years ago - it was the rising levels of carbon dioxide in the Earth's atmosphere," said Shakun.

Carbon dioxide levels rose from approximately 180 parts per million to 280 parts per million at the end of the last Ice Age, which spanned nearly 7,000 years. Following more than a century of industrialization, carbon dioxide levels have now risen to approximately 400 parts per million.
"This tells us we are orchestrating something akin to the end of an Ice Age, but much faster. As the amount of carbon dioxide continues to increase, glaciers around the world will retreat," said Shakun.


Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2015-08-ice-age-greenhouse-gas-factor.html#jCp (http://phys.org/news/2015-08-ice-age-greenhouse-gas-factor.html#jCp)


Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on August 24, 2015, 03:37:07 pm
I read the Automatic Earth blog for about a year around 2009 or so back when I was trying to make sense of economics.  I started reading her solution space essay and got a few paragraphs in before abandoning it.  It just seemed like the same old **** said for the millionth time in the collapse blogosphere.  Not that I'm jumping on the hate on Nicole Foss band wagon...I really don't give a **** but I don't have money on Wall Street either.  I have some money in my pocket, and tomorrow I'm gonna go get more money doing the landscape hustle. 

I still contend that preparing for collapse is next to impossible.  The only preparation that would matter would be to already be living in a community that is concerned with sustainable agriculture as well as security within that community.  As in, already producing food and have contingency plans to defend it or surplus to accept desperate new comers. 

Having six months of food stores will definitely give you an advantage, but it's nothing permanent...just a band aid.  By the time that food runs out you'll just be late to the fedghetto lines.

No man is an island Lucid.

We are all in this world together. There is no hiding or escaping the fate of our race, perhaps just delaying a negative outcome, if that is our fate, for a short while before joining the rest of humanity. You seem to have come to that realization already.

The smart and constructive amongst us will alert us of the dangers we face and extol us to try and unite in common cause to do some thing about it and learn to try our best to respect and care for one another as brothers with a common cause.

We have to prevent  bad outcomes, not figure out how to hide from them.

That is why folks like Agelbert who constantly try and present solutions and show us what can be done by the constructive who live amongst us are the only people worth listening to, and the prophets of doom like Foss and others; while certainly having a right and cause to be negative on the outlook, bring nothing of value to the table.

Stop telling me what the **** is wrong, tell me, or rather us, how to try and fix it or STFU.

                                         
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That is why folks like Agelbert who constantly try and present solutions and show us what can be done by the constructive who live amongst us are the only people worth listening to, and the prophets of doom like Foss and others; while certainly having a right and cause to be negative on the outlook, bring nothing of value to the table.

Stop telling me what the **** is wrong, tell me, or rather us, how to try and fix it or STFU.

                                         
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Spoken like a true wise one Ox...I'm proud of you and your wisdom  :)

So I'll tell you my part about how to fix it...learn how to use bamboo in your culture :icon_mrgreen:

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Que Agelbert's Chinese Star Wars Lucid Bamboo Joke.  The caption should read:

"****, I can't even split bamboo and weave a basket with it...and I'm Chinese, yet this 6'4" celtic hair ball can.  Chin, give this fucker a job."   ;D
A big (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Fthankyou.gif&hash=dddf44270b9e7683ff5cbcca041427744de34fe5)to  GO and Lucid!   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fus.123rf.com%2F400wm%2F400%2F400%2Fyayayoy%2Fyayayoy1106%2Fyayayoy110600019%2F9735563-smiling-sun-showing-thumb-up.jpg&hash=09b45642ec6d7943d30b5b87548676e3ee7dbe3d)

 
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on August 24, 2015, 09:27:49 pm
Climate Scientists (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F34y5mvr.gif&hash=835b3a3f26d5d1b7f0acc379ad8ebd3fe9eea488) identify the errors (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F301.gif&hash=0291ed4abf2d80e420d1aa00d4eb3c5dd6bbfb53) in contrarian papers  published that question Climate Change science

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Rather than assessing one specific paper, however, I wanted to know Why are there conflicting answers concerning climate change in the scientific literature?

Agelbert NOTE:
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But Scientists can't just yell BRIBED FRAUD among their peers. They have to methodically expose the crooks and liars among them with step by step, detailed point by point revealing of "errors" in the references for contrarian positions that continue to populate contrarian papers, despite having been previously identified as errors. Scientists can't just say that this is the tried and true MO of propagandists everywhere. The Marshall Institute of fossil fuelers did it from the word go decades ago. The trick is to publish a fraudulent paper in a peer reviewed journal.

Money is used to do that. Deliberate distortions of empirical data are used to justify a contrarian position that just happens to argue against changing the dirty energy using status quo. ;) The bought and paid for scientist claims to have no conflict of interest. The money trail to him or her is disguised and devious.

When his "errors" are pointed out in peer review as a basis to deny publication, other bought and paid for "reviewers" will claim that is an "inflammatory charge" and the paper gets published.

THEN the same paper comes under increasing scrutiny and is debunked.

HOWEVER, it is now PART OF THE CLIMATE SCIENCE LITERATURE. So, they keep referencing it hither and yon. Works every time!(https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-200714191329.bmp&hash=4764bfbe6bb0e11ca61102efa97a932a824f47e0)  So it goes.   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-200714183337.bmp&hash=fd5a6df63c32bd65dda7b6d93e788647ca3829df)

The polite scientist below does not come right out and say that. But what he says is quite enough (the team's difficulties in getting published were fascinating  :P) to see that there is a lot of money funding "erroneous"  ;) climate skepticism (and climate science journal peer reviewers  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-200714191329.bmp&hash=4764bfbe6bb0e11ca61102efa97a932a824f47e0)) that eat it up, while obstacles to publishing SPECIFIC PAPERS that are directed at REMOVING erroneous papers from the literature are FORMIDABLE. The fossil fuel industry is busy, busy, busy.  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Fmocantina.gif&hash=d013c741bcf9a78776eec19c2c3aac449c35d75c)



SNIPPET for non-geeks:  ;D


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So what were our main conclusions?  ???

After all this, the conclusions were surprisingly unsurprising in my mind. The replication revealed a wide range of types of errors, shortcomings, and flaws involving both statistics and physics.

It turned out that most of the authors of the contrarian papers did not have a long career within climate research.
Newcomers to a scientific discipline may easily err because they often lack tacit knowledge and do not have the comprehensive overview. Many of them had authored several of the papers and failed to cite relevant literature or include relevant and important information.

The motivation for the original plea for a formal rebuttal paper was that educators should be able to point to the peer-reviewed literature “to fight skepticism about the fundamentals on climate change”.

Now, educators can also teach their students to learn from mistakes through replication of case studies.

The important question to ask is where does the answer or information come from? If it’s a universally true result, then anybody should get similar answers. It is important to avoid being dogmatic in science.


References


1. R.E. Benestad, D. Nuccitelli, S. Lewandowsky, K. Hayhoe, H.O. Hygen, R. van Dorland, and J. Cook, "Learning from mistakes in climate research", Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00704-015-1597-5 (http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00704-015-1597-5)

2. O. Humlum, J. Solheim, and K. Stordahl, "Identifying natural contributions to late Holocene climate change", Global and Planetary Change, vol. 79, pp. 145-156, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2011.09.005 (http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2011.09.005)


Let’s learn from mistakes
Filed under: Climate Science Scientific practice skeptics — rasmus @ 23 August 2015
http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2015/08/lets-learn-from-mistakes/#sthash.23a1JK7M.dpuf (http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2015/08/lets-learn-from-mistakes/#sthash.23a1JK7M.dpuf)
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on August 25, 2015, 11:28:09 pm
Thom Hartman puts it all together in this interview about the Crash of 2016. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F301.gif&hash=0291ed4abf2d80e420d1aa00d4eb3c5dd6bbfb53)Don't miss it!

https://youtu.be/rvxhh3hjfSs

He explains the HUGE added stressor of the climate degradation.

https://youtu.be/06WOhNgXBZw

Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on August 28, 2015, 12:19:28 am
Shocking: Prominent climate denier gets money from Big Coal

By Katie Herzog  on 26 Aug 2015

Christopher Horner has made his career fighting climate change, but not in the way you’re thinking: He’s been fighting the notion that it exists at all. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.coh2.org%2Fimages%2FSmileys%2Fhuhsign.gif&hash=3732d0427be65896527fc3805c5be54a33cffd3b)

Horner is senior fellow and lawyer for the Competitive Enterprise Institute   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.freesmileys.org%2Fsmileys%2Fsmiley-devil19.gif&hash=6eeb0dbc471743691793f5130640fdcbd1f77b5c)— a think tank devoted to promoting free market ideals and less governmental regulation of industries like tobacco and fossil fuels. You know, the good guys. Horner is also a vocal climate denier, and has written books with titles like The Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming (and Environmentalism) and Red Hot Lies: How Global Warming Alarmists Use Threats, Fraud, and Deception to Keep You Misinformed. He makes regular appearances on Fox News when they need an expert on the climate change hoax, and his Twitter feed looks like a tween conspiracy theorist’s.

One of Horner’s preferred tactics is to inundate climate researchers with records requests so they get too bogged down with his bull**** to do actual work. He was also an instrumental figure in promoting the smear campaign known as “Climategate,” in which thousands of emails and other documents were hacked from a server at the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia in the U.K. Conservative groups and climate deniers used the documents to allege a systematic attempt on the part of scientists to defraud the public about the causes of global temperature increases. Unfortunately for Horner (and the planet), eight subsequent investigations revealed no wrongdoing on the part of the researchers.

The question is: Why? What drives a seemingly intelligent (or at least educated) human being to look decades of scientific data in the eye and go, “Nah. The world is cooling. Definitely cooling.”

Turns out, it’s money.

The Intercept analyzed bankruptcy filings of the one of the largest coal companies in America, Alpha Natural Reserves, and found line items for Horner’s home and work — suggesting Horner’s work spouting bull**** about global cooling is paid for by Big Coal itself. The Intercept’s Lee Fang reports:


The Alpha Natural Resources filing corroborates the suggestion in a recent email from chief executives of major coal firms that they are underwriting Horner’s current work.

In early June this year, the Coal & Investment Leadership Forum, a trade show, sent this message to its email list: “As the ‘war on coal’ continues, I trust that the commitment we have made to support Chris Horner’s work will eventually create great awareness of the illegal tactics being employed to pass laws that are intended to destroy our industry.” The email was signed by Alliance Resource Partners’ Joe Craft III, Alpha Natural Resources’ Kevin Crutchfield, Drummond Company’s Gary Drummond, Arch Coal’s John Eaves and United Coal Co.’s Jim McGlothlin.

Well, would you look at that. Color us surprised. It’s almost like this dude cares more about his own wallet and insane political agenda than he does the fate of this poor spinning planet we call home. Sounds like he’d make a great presidential candidate.  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-280515145049.png&hash=84e87515e750391c1f1bca6d6ae06485972bfa81) (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-051113192052.png&hash=93c42ef9f18fc5d9da50fd91fc19f70009f95f85)


http://grist.org/climate-energy/shocking-prominent-climate-denier-gets-money-from-big-coal/
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on August 29, 2015, 05:54:21 pm
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Humans to Blame for Catastrophic Drought in California, Scientists Say (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Fdesertsmile.gif&hash=293fbde1c87dec2d81c5907e3fbac7d8e5bba7a9)

http://ecowatch.com/2015/08/28/humans-blame-california-drought/

Agelbert Note:
As was expected, some fossil fuelers showed up to deny global warming had anything to do with it. It's what they do. And that's not all they do.

The Fossil Fuel Industry Propagandists need to address the FACT that the fossil fuel industry has

1) the MOTIVE (threatened profits from climate change science demanding an end to fossil fuel use)

2) the OPPORTUNITY (privileged access to main streammedia and powerful politicians)

AND
3) the MEANS (billions of dollars from dirty energy profits)


to produce fraudulent scientific papers based on distorted models of climate science that challenge/refute the climate science consensus that fossil fuels are over heating the biosphere.


So, in true Orwellian fashion,
they accuse the truly objective climate scientists of doing what the fossil fuel industry has been doing for several decades to defend the fossil fuel industry massive subsidy swag (in comparison to the pittance for Renewable Energy) and dirty energy profits.

As you may observe by the rather selective nature of fossil fueler comments, fossil fuelers spend no time at all questioning the models that question/challenge/deny global warming.

Propagandists hired by the Fossil Fuel Industry to pollute internet threads with doubletalk dissembling and mendacity (always vociferously denying that they are bought and paid for by Big Oil, of course!), also spend no time at all addressing the giant conflict of interest the fossil fuel industry has that inhibits any objective scientific inquiry whatsoever on the question of whether to burn fossil fuels or not.

Oh no. They spend most of their Empathy Deficit disordered  time making spurious and defamatory charges about the alleged mens rea involved in climate change science modeling that predicts a hotter biosphere from green house gasses the fossil fuel industry externalizes to we-the-people.

Fossil Fuelers claim the empirical data is distorted or cherry picked or erroneous or incomplete or whatever to "justify all that money and subsidy swag" (LOL!) for Renewable Energy. It's allegedly a big conspiracy to ruin our quality, comfort and high standard of living that ONLY the burning of fossil fuels can provide.  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2F2.bp.blogspot.com%2F_9HT4xZyDmh4%2FTOHhxzA0wLI%2FAAAAAAAAEUk%2FoeHDS2cfxWQ%2Fs200%2FSmiley_Angel_Wings_Halo.jpg&hash=13281f1944b60773bf12b29387b70be77cc1fe16)

They are just following the Karl Rove, Machiavlelli worshipping playbook.

Karl Rove strategy #3: Accuse your opponent of your weakness.

Scientists try to replicate climate denier findings and fail  ;D

By Suzanne Jacobs  on 26 Aug 2015

SNIPPET:

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When we tried to reproduce their model of the lunar and solar influence on the climate, we found that the model only simulated their temperature data reasonably accurately for the 4,000-year period they considered. However, for the 6,000 years’ worth of earlier data they threw out, their model couldn’t reproduce the temperature changes.

The authors argued that their model could be used to forecast future climate changes   ;), but there’s no reason to trust a model forecast if it can’t accurately reproduce the past.  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.desismileys.com%2Fsmileys%2Fdesismileys_0293.gif&hash=b1af4868ed8f18c30e637f8cbcb79002f6f71039)

http://grist.org/news/scientists-try-to-replicate-climate-denier-findings-and-fail/ (http://grist.org/news/scientists-try-to-replicate-climate-denier-findings-and-fail/)
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 01, 2015, 03:31:22 pm
Obama Is a Climate Hypocrite. His Trip to Alaska Proves It.   >:(
 
This is not what strong leadership looks like.

—By Eric Holthaus

Tue Sep. 1, 2015 12:18 PM EDT

SNIPPET:

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On Monday morning President Obama headed to Alaska—the front lines of climate change—for a trip the White House is calling "a spotlight on what Alaskans in particular have come to know: Climate change is one of the biggest threats we face, it is being driven by human activity, and it is disrupting Americans' lives right now."

Problem is, those words fall flat when compared with Obama's mixed record on climate. The widely publicized trip comes at a delicate moment for the president. Barely two weeks ago, his administration gave Royal Dutch Shell final approval to drill for oil offshore from Alaska's northwest Arctic coast—not exactly the sort of thing you'd expect from someone who professes to be "leading by example."

http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2015/09/obama-climate-hypocrite-alaska

Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 02, 2015, 02:05:26 am
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Exxon Knew About The Scientific Reality Of Climate Change In 1981


By JOE ROMM  July 12th, 2015

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“… As recently as February 2015, a New York Times exposé revealed that a researcher at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics who routinely casts doubt on widely accepted climate science had ‘accepted more than $1.2 million’ in money from the fossil-fuel industry over the last decade while failing to disclose that conflict of interest in most of his scientific papers. …”

“Pope Francis blasts global warming deniers,” the Washington Post wrote last month. The Pope’s climate encyclical focused on the immorality of climate inaction — which makes the immorality of knowingly spreading disinformation for the purpose of delaying action all the more base.

Now the Union of Concerned Scientists has disclosed an email revealing that Exxon understood the scientific reality of climate change as far back as 1981. “Other companies, such as Mobil, only became aware of the issue in 1988, when it first became a political issue,” Exxon’s former in-house climate expert, chemical engineer Leonard S. Bernstein wrote last year. The 30-year veteran of Mobil and Exxon explained:

Exxon first got interested in climate change in 1981 because it was seeking to develop the Natuna gas field off Indonesia. This is an immense reserve of natural gas, but it is 70% CO2. That CO2 would have to be separated to make the natural gas usable.

And yet despite a growing understanding of the scientific reality of climate change in the 1980s and 1990s, Exxon became one of the biggest funders of scientists and think tanks and others who do little but deny and cast doubt on the scientific understanding of human-caused global warming.

As recently as February 2015, a New York Times exposé revealed that a researcher at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics who routinely casts doubt on widely accepted climate science had “accepted more than $1.2 million in money from the fossil-fuel industry over the last decade while failing to disclose that conflict of interest in most of his scientific papers.” This included funding from ExxonMobil and “at least $230,000 from the Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation.”

In the book and film “Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming,” historians and journalists show that this misinformation and disinformation campaign goes all the way back to the tobacco industry’s campaign to cast doubt on claims that cigarette smoking is bad for your health — and that in some cases it involves the same exact people.

The Times documented back in 2009 that the Global Climate Coalition (GCC), an anti-action lobbying group backed by fossil fuel industries, ignored its own climate scientists during the 1990s while spreading disinformation about global warming. An internal report stating that the human causes of global warming “cannot be denied” was ignored by GCC leaders. The GCC led an “aggressive lobbying and public relations campaign against the idea that emissions of heat-trapping gases could lead to global warming.” Yet the final draft of a 1995 “Primer on Climate Change Science” written by the GGC’s own scientific experts revealed that those experts “were advising that the science backing the role of greenhouse gases in global warming could not be refuted.”

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Those experts explained: “The scientific basis for the Greenhouse Effect and the potential impact of human emissions of greenhouse gases such as CO2 on climate is well established and cannot be denied.” And after a long analysis of “Are There Alternate Explanations for the Climate Change Which Has Occurred Over the Last 120 Years?” they conclude: “The contrarian theories raise interesting questions about our total understanding of climate processes, but they do not offer convincing arguments against the conventional model of greenhouse gas emission-induced climate change.”

The Times reported that the GCC “was financed by fees from large corporations and trade groups representing the oil, coal and auto industries, among others” with a budget totaling nearly $1.7 million in 1997 alone. Ultimately, the Times notes, “The coalition, according to other documents, later requested that the section of the primer endorsing the basics of global warming science be cut.”

The tobacco industry knew of the dangers of smoking and the addictive nature of nicotine for decades, but its CEOs and representatives publicly denied those facts.
In the same way, many of those denying the reality of human-caused climate change have long known the actual science.

Over the years, fossil fuel company executives have funneled tens of millions of dollars into this disinformation campaign.
The top funder was ExxonMobil for a long time. But the company was overtaken years ago by Koch Industries, run by billionaires Charles and David Koch, who spent more than $48.5 million from 1997 to 2010 to fund disinformation. From 2005 to 2008, the Kochs outspent Exxon-Mobil well over 2-to-1 in funding the climate denial machine.

In February, the New York Times revealed that over the previous ten years, Wei-Hock “Willie” Soon had accepted more than a million dollars from fossil fuel interests, including Exxon-Mobil and the Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation, “while failing to disclose that conflict of interest in most of his scientific papers.” During this period, Soon advanced a repeatedly debunked theory arguing that humans are not the primary cause of global warming. The Times explained:

Though he has little formal training in climatology, Dr. Soon has for years published papers trying to show that variations in the sun’s energy can explain most recent global warming. His thesis is that human activity has played a relatively small role in causing climate change.

The New York Times then explains that “many experts in the field say that Dr. Soon uses out-of-date data, publishes spurious correlations between solar output and climate indicators, and does not take account of the evidence implicating emissions from human behavior in climate change.” Gavin A. Schmidt, the head of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies explained that solar variability probably is responsible for at most 10 percent of recent global warming, whereas human-caused greenhouse gases are responsible for the overwhelming majority of it. He added, “the science that Willie Soon does is almost pointless.”

In October 2014, the Smithsonian itself put out a climate statement, which makes clear that such a view is simply anti-scientific. The Smithsonian explains, “Scientific evidence has demonstrated that the global climate is warming as a result of increasing levels of atmospheric greenhouse gases generated by human activities.” Amazingly, the newly uncovered documents show that “Dr. Soon, in correspondence with his corporate funders, described many of his scientific papers as ‘deliverables’ that he completed in exchange for their money.” The Smithsonian repeatedly signed off on contracts with Southern Company Services — a coal company and long-time funder of science denial — requiring the Smithsonian to provide the coal utility “advanced written copy of proposed publications … for comment and input.”

Yet the fossil fuel industry has known for two decades that the solar variability explanation for recent climate change is untrue. As far back as 1995, the scientific and technical advisers to the Global Climate Coalition wrote in their draft primer:


[The] hypothesis about the role of solar variability and [Pat] Michaels’ questions about the temperature record are not convincing arguments against any conclusion that we are currently experiencing warming as the result of greenhouse gas emissions. However, neither solar variability nor anomalies in the temperature record offer a mechanism for off-setting the much larger rise in temperature which might occur if the atmospheric concentration of greenhouse gases were to double or quadruple.

So the fossil fuel industry has known for a long, long time that human-caused climate change was a very real threat based on well-documented science. It has callously disregarded that reality to spread falsehoods and thwart action.
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The Pope ends his encyclical calling on God to “Enlighten those who possess power and money that they may avoid the sin of indifference, that they may love the common good, advance the weak, and care for this world in which we live. The poor and the earth are crying out.”

If indifference to the dangers of climate inaction by the rich and powerful is a sin, what would the Pope say about a company that’s fostering lies in order to spread indifference among the public, the media, and policy-makers?

http://www.constantinereport.com/exxon-knew-scientific-reality-climate-change-1981/
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 02, 2015, 04:00:53 pm
Tue Sep 01, 2015 at 06:49 AM EDT.

You ain't seen nothing yet! Northeast’s Next Winter Is Going to Be Freakishly Cold

by Pakalolo

https://youtu.be/6KEkSfgHJNk

Full article:


http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/09/01/1417293/-You-ain-t-seen-nothing-yet-Northeast-s-Next-Winter-Is-Going-to-Be-Freakishly-Cold

Agelbert Comment:
More "Externalized" costs thanks to you know who.

In a just world, the bastards that made all the profits from selling us fossil fuels and buying politicians to strangle Renewable Energy for the last CENTURY or so should PAY for our increased heating costs in the Northeast caused by Global Climate Change.

But we do not live in a just world.

We can fuel ALL our cars on E100 WITHOUT reducing our food supply, regardless of what you may have heard.

http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/renewables/ethanol/msg3693/?topicseen#new

We need fossil fuels like a hole in the head.
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 02, 2015, 09:01:08 pm
Shilling for Dollars
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Front groups with official and impressive name such as Medicine and Public Health at the American Council on Science and Health (ACSH) tend to lend an air of authoritative credibility to a given issue. It carries the impression of being an expert source.

To increase the “expert credibility” image, add someone with a few letters before and/or after their name to the staff.

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Full article:
https://frackorporation.wordpress.com/2015/08/15/shilling-for-dollars/

Agelbert NOTE:
The short answer is NO. The ACSH is funded by a rogues gallery of polluters. The scientists they employ are bought and paid for to distort, dissemble and twist the science of applied physics (see "High Energy Density" of fossil fuels happy talk) and climate science along with several other pro-corporate and anti-people propaganda). The ACSH exists to perpetuate the profit over planet polluting status quo, PERIOD.



Why You Can’t Trust the American Council on Science and Health

Posted on April 17, 2015 by Gary Ruskin

The American Council on Science and Health is a front group for the tobacco, agrichemical, fossil fuel, pharmaceutical and other industries.

Personnel

ACSH’s “Medical/Executive Director” is Dr. Gilbert Ross.[2] In 1993, according to United Press International, Dr. Ross was “convicted of racketeering, mail fraud and conspiracy,” and was “sentenced to 47 months in jail, $40,000 in forfeiture and restitution of $612,855” in a scheme to defraud the Medicaid system.[3]
ACSH’s Dr. Ross was found to be a “highly untrustworthy individual” by a judge who sustained the exclusion of Dr. Ross from Medicaid for ten years.[4]


Funding
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ACSH has often billed itself as an “independent” group, and has been referred to as “independent” in the press. However, according to internal ACSH financial documents obtained by Mother Jones:

“ACSH planned to receive a total of $338,200 from tobacco companies between July 2012 and June 2013. Reynolds American and Phillip Morris International were each listed as expected to give $100,000 in 2013, which would make them the two largest individual donations listed in the ACSH documents.”[5]

“ACSH donors in the second half of 2012 included Chevron ($18,500), Coca-Cola ($50,000), the Bristol Myers Squibb Foundation ($15,000), Dr. Pepper/Snapple ($5,000), Bayer Cropscience ($30,000), Procter and Gamble ($6,000), agribusiness giant Syngenta ($22,500), 3M ($30,000), McDonald’s ($30,000), and tobacco conglomerate Altria ($25,000).

Among the corporations and foundations that ACSH has pursued for financial support since July 2012 are Pepsi, Monsanto, British American Tobacco, DowAgro, ExxonMobil Foundation, Philip Morris International, Reynolds American, the Koch family-controlled Claude R. Lambe Foundation, the Dow-linked Gerstacker Foundation, the Bradley Foundation, and the Searle Freedom Trust.”[6]

ACSH has received $155,000 in contributions from Koch foundations from 2005-2011, according to Greenpeace.[7]

Indefensible and incorrect statements on science
ACSH has:

Claimed that “There is no evidence that exposure to secondhand smoke involves heart attacks or cardiac arrest.”[8]

Argued that “there is no scientific consensus concerning global warming. The climate change predictions are based on computer models that have not been validated and are far from perfect.”[9]

Argued that fracking “doesn’t pollute water or air.”[10]

Claimed that “The scientific evidence is clear. There has never been a case of ill health linked to the regulated, approved use of pesticides in this country.”[11]

Declared that “There is no evidence that BPA [bisphenol A] in consumer products of any type, including cash register receipts, are harmful to health.”[12]

Argued that the exposure to mercury, a potent neurotoxin, “in conventional seafood causes no harm in humans.”[13]

Footnotes

[2] “Meet the ACSH Team,” American Council on Science and Health website.

[3] “Seven Sentenced for Medicaid Fraud.” United Press International, December 6, 1993. See also correspondence from Tyrone T. Butler, Director, Bureau of Adjudication, State of New York Department of Health to Claudia Morales Bloch, Gilbert Ross and Vivian Shevitz, “RE: In the Matter of Gilbert Ross, M.D.” March 1, 1995. Bill Hogan, “Paging Dr. Ross.” Mother Jones, November 2005. Martin Donohoe MD FACP, “Corporate Front Groups and the Abuse of Science: The American Council on Science and Health (ACSH).” Spinwatch, June 25, 2010.

[4] Department of Health and Human Services, Departmental Appeals Board, Civil Remedies Division, In the Cases of Gilbert Ross, M.D. and Deborah Williams M.D., Petitioners, v. The Inspector General. June 16, 1997. Docket Nos. C-94-368 and C-94-369. Decision No. CR478.

[5] Andy Kroll and Jeremy Schulman, “Leaked Documents Reveal the Secret Finances of a Pro-Industry Science Group.” Mother Jones, October 28, 2013. “American Council on Science and Health Financial Report, FY 2013 Financial Update.” Mother Jones, October 28, 2013.

[6] Andy Kroll and Jeremy Schulman, “Leaked Documents Reveal the Secret Finances of a Pro-Industry Science Group.” Mother Jones, October 28, 2013. “American Council on Science and Health Financial Report, FY 2013 Financial Update.” Mother Jones, October 28, 2013.

[7] “Koch Industries Climate Denial Front Group: American Council on Science and Health (ACSH).” Greenpeace. See also Rebekah Wilce, “Kochs and Corps Have Bankrolled American Council on Science and Health.” PR Watch, July 23, 2014.

[8] Richard Craver, “The Effects of the Smoking Ban.” Winston-Salem Journal, December 12, 2012.

[9] Elizabeth Whelan, “’Global Warming’ Not Health Threat.” PRI (Population Research Institute) Review, January 1, 1998.

[10] Elizabeth Whelan, “Fracking Doesn’t Pose Health Risks.” The Daily Caller, April 29, 2013.

[11] “TASSC: The Advancement of Sound Science Coalition,” p. 9. Legacy Tobacco Documents Library, University of California, San Francisco. November 21, 2001. Bates No. 2048294227-2048294237.

[12] “The Top 10 Unfounded Health Scares of 2012.” American Council on Science and Health, February 22, 2013.

[13] “The Biggest Unfounded Health Scares of 2010.” American Council on Science and Health, December 30, 2010.

Food For Thought, Hall of Shame

http://usrtk.org/hall-of-shame/why-you-cant-trust-the-american-council-on-science-and-health/

Agelbert NOTE:
Here is an excellent example of pseudo scientific baloney published by the ACSH (it's three years old but the same baloney continues to be peddled by fossil fuelers and those that swallowed their mendacious propaganda):

Energy Density: Why Gasoline Is Here To Stay  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2F2.bp.blogspot.com%2F_9HT4xZyDmh4%2FTOHhxzA0wLI%2FAAAAAAAAEUk%2FoeHDS2cfxWQ%2Fs200%2FSmiley_Angel_Wings_Halo.jpg&hash=13281f1944b60773bf12b29387b70be77cc1fe16)

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SNIPPET 1 - The Pretense of Objectivity Wind Up (i.e. tough love "real world" baloney mixed with sympathy laced rhetoric):

Like people who approach geopolitics with the attitude of "If people would just talk to each other, we would all along", there are a lot of naïve assumptions about just dumping gasoline.

We know it causes emissions, and emissions are bad, we know a lot of the money paid for oil goes to fund Middle Eastern terrorism, and that is bad - those things should cause both the left and the right in America to want gasoline gone. And yet it is not gone. The reason is simple: gasoline is a lot more efficient than alternative energy proponents want to believe.


SNIPPET 2 - The pitch:

Energy density is the amount of stored energy in something; in the case of gasoline we talk in America about a 1 gallon volume but I will use both metric and standard for the values. Gasoline has an energy density of about 44 megajoules per kilogram (MJ/kg), converted to American values that is 1.3 × 108 J/gallon.


SNIPPET 3 (Just ONE of SEVERAL real world AND applied physics LIES):

Ethanol was the last craze of the Anything-But-Oil contingent yet even they had to succumb to reality and recognize that the lower energy density meant 25% worse gas mileage - worse for people, worse for food prices and worse for the environment.
http://www.science20.com/science_20/energy_density_why_gasoline_here_stay-91403
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Agelbert NOTE: To begin with, ethanol is not a "craze". It was not a craze in 2012 and, because presently 15 billion gallons of it are made a year (http://www.e100ethanolgroup.com/Can_We_Really_Do_This_.html), it certainly isn't one now.

But the fact that the author is so ignorant of history (Edison labs in partnership with the U.S. Navy, in the first decade of the 20th century, PROVED that ethanol was a superior fuel to gasoline - It was rather convenient for Standard Oil that Prohibition just happened to come along after Rockefeller funded the temperance movement to the tune of several million dollars...) is informative about the questionable scientific objectivity of the author.  ;)

The author puts up a happy talk graph showing gasoline as the high energy density champion over E85. He leaves out E100 (an informative omission that points squarely at a fossil fuel bias).

The chart is accurate. So what's the problem? The problem is that energy density of gasoline and ethanol is a process determined in the lab, by scientists, in certain standardized conditions. I'm CERTAIN fossil fuelers know this. The energy density of about 44 MJ/kg) for gasoline is determined by heating water, in an open flame in standard atmospheric conditions (a fixed temperature and pressure - sea level at 59 degrees F). 

If the above appears irrelevant to you, let me remind you that heating water in an open flame is an EXTERNAL combustion process. It is true that gasoline will heat that water quicker than ethanol.  ;D

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The author neglected to mention that ethanol (E100) has a higher octane rating than non-leaded gasoline, even though E100 has a lower energy density.  ;D High octane ratings give a fuel better mileage as long as you oxidize them in a high compression internal combustion engines. That is why tetra-ethyl lead was invented to help our children's IQ... You see, ethanol was outlawed for fuel thanks to Prohibition... And, by the way, leaded gasoline is STILL LEGAL for use in aircraft internal combustion engine, all of which are high compression engines. Do you live under the approach to general aviation airport? Then you are getting the "benefit" of still another "externalized" cost thanks to the fossil fuel industry.

When you mix gasoline with ethanol (e.g. E85) you LOWER the octane rating. IOW, you are making it LESS efficient. You are making it LESS competitive with gasoline. You are getting the waste heat disadvantage of gasoline and losing the a part of the high octane rating of ethanol. That is Inefficient. That is unscientific. That is STUPID. But that is convenient and profitable for the fossil fuel industry. You might ask yourself why E100 is in common use in Brazil, but not in the USA. I'll give you three guesses - the first two don't count.  ;)

Why ethanol's octane rating is higher than that of non-leaded gasoline if ethanol has a lower energy density? Because ethanol is of uniform chemical structure. Consequently, it burns evenly and does not suffer from pre-ignition (like low octane gasoline DOES) which can severely damage an engine.

More thermodynamically important, however,  the consistent chemical structure of E100 ensures complete combustion, aided by the fact that it carries it's own oxygen.

In addition, ethanol has extremely low waste heat because, unlike gasoline, it doesn't produce carbon deposits from incomplete combustion on the cylinder walls that increase friction and decrease engine life.

Unlike an engine running on gasoline, you can touch the block, or the manifold, of an engine running on ethanol with your hand AND KEEP IT THERE without getting burned. This has huge savings implications for engine design that the fossil fuel industry has done it's best to keep from internal combustion engine designers and manufacturers (more on that below).

IN SUMMARY, "High energy density" calculations  are based on EXTERNAL thermodynamic combustion processes. It is true that gasoline will boil water in an open flame faster than ethanol will. That doesn't have beans to do with automobiles.

But when INTERNAL combustion is involved, ethanol produces more useful work than gasoline. That has EVERYTHING to do with automobiles.

But there is more the fossil fuel industry does not want most people to know. Due to the fact that ethanol burns so cleanly and has such low waste heat, a high compression internal combustion engine specifically designed for ethanol would be about 30% lighter (i.e. a lot cheaper) because the metal alloys involved would not have to be engineered to withstand the engine stressing waste heat that gasoline generates. Of course, said internal combustion engine (ICE) could not be approved for running gasoline. Gasoline would trash an engine designed specifically to run on ethanol in short order. The fossil fuel industry would not like that at all.

A lighter ICE running ethanol would then get even more mechanical energy (i.e. WORK) out of each gallon because less engine weight would need to be moved along with the car and occupants.

The Fossil Fuel Industry knows all that. That is why they continuously try to demonize and talk down ethanol biofuel with mendacity and dissembling about "low ERoEI", "water in the fuel" and "corrosion".

I, and many others, have exposed all that fossil fuel industry self serving propaganda. But they just keep throwing it out there to try to preserve the TOTALLY unscientific basis for claiming fossil fuels are a "better fuel" than E100 (pure ethanol).

Don't believe them. And check to see who is doing the funding when you read happy talk about fossil fuels.

The American Council on Science and Health (ACSH) is not objective, science based or credible. Hank Campbell, like the fossil fueler MKing that haunts the Doomstead Diner, is not interested in scientific objectivity; preserving the fossil fuel profit over planet status quo with mens rea mendacity is behind everything they write. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-200714183337.bmp&hash=fd5a6df63c32bd65dda7b6d93e788647ca3829df)



Further reading that methodically takes apart some relatively recent pseudo scientific baloney by the "illustrious" Professor Charles Hall, friend of fossil fuelers everywhere.  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-280515145049.png&hash=84e87515e750391c1f1bca6d6ae06485972bfa81)(https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-051113192052.png&hash=93c42ef9f18fc5d9da50fd91fc19f70009f95f85)


Renewables have higher ERoEI than fossil fuels (http://bountifulenergy.blogspot.com/2014/07/renewables-have-higher-eroei-than.html)

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 02, 2015, 11:03:35 pm
https://youtu.be/-qsoRkl6Njs

Bees and flowers have a special relationship, and climate change is screwing it up     (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mrwallpaper.com%2Fwallpapers%2FSad-Sunflower.jpg&hash=ac9f33a23da8f73b88a002b6f4421f8c42327406)


By Clayton Aldern  on 1 Sep 2015

http://grist.org/news/bees-and-flowers-have-a-special-relationship-and-climate-change-is-screwing-it-up/
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 07, 2015, 05:45:11 pm
Rising sea levels will not affect our ability to harvest energy from Ocean currents.

So, if we harvest a lot of our energy from the oceans, at least we won't be making things worse as the earth heats up. I always say that when you are in hole, it is prudent to stop digging. The ocean currents are available near most of the populated areas 24/7. We have the technology to tap that energy. This is not hard.

Here is some info on the physics of Ocean Currents. They leave out the rotation of the earth, which is behind MOST of the physics of ocean currents. But, we would all be dead without rotation for many other reasons so I can understand why it is such a given that it is not mentioned (i. e. assumed).

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https://youtu.be/o8nezU0M7mI
Air and Ocean Currents


https://youtu.be/5tRiZG-yR24
Ocean Currents 1994 -2002 


 Clean Renewable Energy from Ocean Currents can Power the World.  (http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/renewables/masdar-engage-contest-entry-by-a-g-gelbert/msg587/#msg587)
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 09, 2015, 06:46:30 am
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L19JBY0kNmo&feature=player_embedded

Presentation by Jennifer Hynes on runaway feedbacks in the Arctic and the resulting threat of near-term human extinction.
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 09, 2015, 07:43:13 pm
Comment by Mike at RealClimate, Climate science from climate scientists:

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Mike says: 3 Sep 2015 at 1:47 PM I think scientists are conservative by nature and training. I think the scientific community has been remiss in allowing policy makers to cherry pick the data and projections and create public policy targets that are political expedient.

For those reasons and more, I will occasionally entertain myself and allow the scientific community to continue the discussion about the disconnect between the catastrophic consequences the planet is dishing up in response to carbon loading and ocean acidification.

At some point (usually retirement ) scientists will speak out strongly about our predicament.

At the point that the scientific community speaks strongly and loudly about our collective situation, I expect that we will have passed some thresholds that lead to a place where passenger pigeons still crowd the sky.

Until then, the media will cover the building human displacement crisis as a function of Islamic fundamentalism and a political problem rather than early stages of what will become a wave of displacement secondary to rising sea levels, droughts, etc. and will engage in faux balance by presenting “both” sides on climate change.

Short version: Jerry Ford could have done as well as Obama has done on climate change. And we (collectively) have let the policy makers get away with this poor performance.

The scientific community has special responsibilities in this situation and has failed to meet those responsibilities imho.

Mal Adapted says: 4 Sep 2015 at 9:11 AM Mike: I think the scientific community has been remiss in allowing policy makers to cherry pick the data and projections and create public policy targets that are political expedient.

If policy makers did only what the scientific community allowed, AGW would never have become an existential threat.

At the point that the scientific community speaks strongly and loudly about our collective situation, I expect that we will have passed some thresholds that lead to a place where passenger pigeons still crowd the sky.

IOW, at the point when scientists are policy makers, and policy makers are scientists. I’m glad I won’t leave descendants.


http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2015/09/unforced-variations-sept-2015/#sthash.IxU0e93v.dpuf

 
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 09, 2015, 08:19:04 pm
Cimate Denier gets his ass handed to him by a climate scientist.  ;D

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Jim Baird]: Proposition: the climate science community is failing mankind by overlooking the events that brought on the hiatus. http://www.opednews.com/articles/1/Science-and-politics-disre-by-Jim-Baird-Climate_Climate-Change_Climate-Change-Agreement_Climate-Crisis-150902-43.html

From your link:


It was scientists who discovered, measured and explained these events but the practical implications seems to have escaped them; with the result policy makers are deprived of the information that would enable them to address climate change with the least cost and to the greatest benefit.

Rebuttal:
it is not the climate science community that is failing mankind, but the policy makers who have chosen to ignore the clear and unambiguous advice the climate science community has been offering for years.

In early 2014 the US National Academy of Sciences, established by Congress in 1863 to “investigate, examine, experiment, and report upon any subject of science”, published a 34-page booklet titled Climate Change: Evidence and Causes, free to download at the link.

It addressed 20 common questions laypeople often have about AGW, including this one:

Q: Does the recent slowdown of warming mean that climate change is no longer happening?

A: No. Since the very warm year 1998 that followed the strong 1997-98 El Niño, the increase in average surface temperature has slowed relative to the previous decade of rapid temperature increases. Despite the slower rate of warming the 2000s were warmer than the 1990s.

A short-term slowdown in the warming of Earth’s surface does not invalidate our understanding of long-term changes in global temperature arising from human-induced changes in greenhouse gases.

The climate science community has provided all the information needed by policy makers to address climate change with the least cost and to the greatest benefit.

It has simply been swamped by the flood of deliberate disinformation issuing from both professional and volunteer AGW-deniers, at the behest of those who’ve accumulated vast private fortunes by socializing the enormous cost of climate change.


Indeed, it is playing into their hands to use ‘hiatus’ or ‘pause’ for what was not a cessation, but at most a slightly-reduced rate, of warming.

It is policy makers who have cravenly allowed themselves to be unduly influenced by the power of fossil-fuel wealth.

In turn, our fellow citizens have allowed their elected representatives to act for the benefit of the few, against the interests of the rest of us.

Every literate person has access to the same information RC readers do, and has the choice to accept or deny it. Let us assign the blame to whom it belongs: we have the government we deserve.

http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2015/09/unforced-variations-sept-2015/#sthash.IxU0e93v.dpuf

Agelbert NOTE:
I agree with the all of the rebuttal, EXCEPT the last sentence. Let us assign the blame to whom it belongs: The Fossil Fuel Industry BECAUSE THEY are the ones who have CORRUPTED out government.

We DID NOT deserve that. It was, and is, a crime. Blaming the VICTIM is not justice; it is socializing the blame. I'm certain the fossil fuel industry would be quite happy if the "we are all to blame" meme, so favored by Wall Street Bankers since 2008, enabled them to EXTERNALIZE the blame along with the environmental costs.

The Fossil Fuelers   DID THE Climate Trashing, human health depleteing CRIME,   but since they have ALWAYS BEEN liars and conscience free crooks, they are trying to AVOID   DOING THE TIME or     PAYING THE FINE!     Don't let them get away with it! Pass it on! (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F176.gif&hash=121533221905789c6b8d57a9603883266d349266)



Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 11, 2015, 01:38:39 pm
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Figure 3 The data behind Lomborg’s claim of falling sea level. Image courtesy of Greg Laden’s blog.

Bjørn Lomborg, just a scientist with a different opinion?   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.desismileys.com%2Fsmileys%2Fdesismileys_2932.gif&hash=0eaec4791a5825821998245e7fcd7744b56557fe)
 


Filed under: Climate Science Communicating Climate skeptics
 — stefan @ 31 August 2015

SNIPPET 1:

Bjørn Lomborg is a well-known media personality who argues that there are more important priorities than reducing emissions to limit global warming. In a recent controversy centering on him, the Australian government (known for its contradictory position on climate change) offered the University of Western Australia (UWA) $4 million to make Lomborg professor – which UWA first accepted, but then after massive protest from its staff and students refused. The Australian government was quick to label it a “freedom of speech” issue that Lomborg should get a university position, and vowed to find another university that would host him. However, free speech doesn’t guarantee everyone a university position; there are also academic qualifications required.  ;D

SNIPPET 2:

Danish biologist Kåre Fog has a good summary on his Lomborg Errors website of how Lomborg has shifted his position continuously over time, from denying global warming is a problem to wanting to fix it with drastic geoengineering measures. The website has extensive documentation of Lomborg’s errors. Fog concludes about Lomborg: “He does precisely what the fossil fuel industry would want a PR agent to do”.

Agelbert NOTE: Don't miss reading this article by a Climate Scientist that carefully and methodically exposes Bjørn Lomborg's LACK of scientific objectivity.

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 11, 2015, 08:14:29 pm
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Think climate change is a low-priority problem? Something to put off while we deal with more immediate threats? Then Climate Shock will open your eyes. Leading economists Wagner and Weitzman explain, in simple, understandable terms, why we face an existential threat in human-caused climate change.

The authors lay out the case for taking out a planetary insurance policy, without delay, in the form of market mechanisms aimed at keeping carbon emissions below dangerous levels. —Michael E. Mann, author of The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars

Agelbert NOTE: In page two of the above article, the scientist Michael Mann discusses the Alan style denial of reality by a journalist. The scientists that wrote the book are accused of “exaggerating extreme outcomes”.

That's baloney, of course. But that's all part of the delay, delay, delay game used to avoid recognizing the threat. And we know that makes people who want to feel comfortable wallow in their denial comfortably. The Fossil Fuel Industry psychos love this!

Michael Mann makes it clear that the Alan (or Ashvin) type arguments presented are, not just baseless, but harmful:

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The straw man continues to the very end of the article, with Schrager concluding:

It’s tempting to shout from the rooftops that this is a disaster waiting to happen, because the downside is so scary–even if it will only impact our grandchildren. More so for climate change where the stakes are so much bigger. But that only gives skeptics room to question climate scientists’ findings. If anything, the existence of uncertainty provides the best case for swift action because the solutions (cap-and-trade, investment in renewables) are relatively cheap compared to what they will be in the future if worst cases are realized.

Which means that she apparently didn’t really get anything out of Climate Shock at all.

The actual reason uncertainty provides the “best case for swift action,” as explained in excruciating detail in Climate Shock, is the FAT TAIL of risk emphasized by Wagner and Weitzman (and by me in the Esquire piece). The best reason for taking out a planetary insurance policy is the non-negligible likelihood of climate changes that are considerably greater, and risks that are more severe, that our average current predictions. That, in a sentence, is the thesis of Climate Shock.

There is need for a nuanced discussion of climate risk and solutions, and the challenges inherent in decision making in the face of uncertainty—things I always stress in my commentaries and public speaking engagements about climate change.

But straw man constructions that caricature these nuanced matters and misrepresent the scientists and their efforts to inform this critical discussion, does absolutely nothing to advance that discussion. Indeed, it does quite a bit to harm it.

Climate Shock: The Economic Consequences of a Hotter Planet
http://ecowatch.com/2015/09/11/michael-mann-fat-tail-of-climate-change-risk/ (http://ecowatch.com/2015/09/11/michael-mann-fat-tail-of-climate-change-risk/)

Though I have not read the book, I'm certain the gravity of our situation is laid out in stark mathematical reality in it. I recommend anyone that thinks those of us warning about this existential threat are too "way out there" to read the article and the book. The less people are in denial about reality, the greater the possibility that SOME of the human species can survive.
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 12, 2015, 05:07:49 pm
Here''s something for Alan and Ashvin to ponder. Perhaps it will spur them to admit things are worse than they thought. But I'm not holding my breath. And then they say the Doomers suffer from "confirmation bias".  ::)

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Think climate change is a low-priority problem? Something to put off while we deal with more immediate threats? Then Climate Shock will open your eyes. Leading economists Wagner and Weitzman explain, in simple, understandable terms, why we face an existential threat in human-caused climate change.

The authors lay out the case for taking out a planetary insurance policy, without delay, in the form of market mechanisms aimed at keeping carbon emissions below dangerous levels. —Michael E. Mann, author of The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars

Agelbert NOTE: In page two of the above article, the scientist Michael Mann discusses the Alan style denial of reality by a journalist. The scientists that wrote the book are accused of “exaggerating extreme outcomes”.

That's bull****, of course. But that's all part of the delay, delay, delay game used to avoid recognizing the threat. And we know that makes people who want to feel comfortable wallow in their denial comfortably. The Fossil Fuel Industry psychos love this!

Michael Mann makes it clear that the Alan (or Ashvin) type arguments presented are, not just baseless, but harmful:

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The straw man continues to the very end of the article, with Schrager concluding:

It’s tempting to shout from the rooftops that this is a disaster waiting to happen, because the downside is so scary–even if it will only impact our grandchildren. More so for climate change where the stakes are so much bigger. But that only gives skeptics room to question climate scientists’ findings. If anything, the existence of uncertainty provides the best case for swift action because the solutions (cap-and-trade, investment in renewables) are relatively cheap compared to what they will be in the future if worst cases are realized.

Which means that she apparently didn’t really get anything out of Climate Shock at all.

The actual reason uncertainty provides the “best case for swift action,” as explained in excruciating detail in Climate Shock, is the FAT TAIL of risk emphasized by Wagner and Weitzman (and by me in the Esquire piece). The best reason for taking out a planetary insurance policy is the non-negligible likelihood of climate changes that are considerably greater, and risks that are more severe, that our average current predictions. That, in a sentence, is the thesis of Climate Shock.

There is need for a nuanced discussion of climate risk and solutions, and the challenges inherent in decision making in the face of uncertainty—things I always stress in my commentaries and public speaking engagements about climate change.

But straw man constructions that caricature these nuanced matters and misrepresent the scientists and their efforts to inform this critical discussion, does absolutely nothing to advance that discussion. Indeed, it does quite a bit to harm it.

Climate Shock: The Economic Consequences of a Hotter Planet
http://ecowatch.com/2015/09/11/michael-mann-fat-tail-of-climate-change-risk/ (http://ecowatch.com/2015/09/11/michael-mann-fat-tail-of-climate-change-risk/)

Though I have not read the book, I'm certain the gravity of our situation is laid out in stark mathematical reality in it. I recommend anyone, like Alan or Ashvin, that thinks Doomers are too "way out there" to read the article and the book. The less people are in denial about reality, the greater the possibility that SOME of the human species can survive.
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If you think those 2 will read a book your dreamin' Ag.
They like sitting in their own stink & ignorance.
Socio-pathic behavior at best ....
Al's gonna' **** his pants when PX comes whistlin' through here next spring.
As for Ashvin he'll still be in denial of the true Almighty one. Hopeless

K-Dog, I found your comments to be a mishmash of misapprehension (of what I am saying), confusion, silliness, petulance, nastiness, and a bunch of other things which I don't even want to bother typing. In other words, I found no value in your comments, and nothing truly worth responding to. Sorry.

Seemed very clear to me.  Perhaps you have a Learning Disability?  That would explain a lot.

RE



Its what he does,  plays dumb when hes got nothin then signs off sincerely. tells agb not to turn anyone off with wild rhetoric designed to scare but look at his psa. Tells us we have to be careful not to sound crazy, yet his psa tells people not to waste  time here while he does exactly that.

This thread is almost surreal... in so far as you guys are repeatedly displaying the cognitive dissonance and confirmation bias which Alan was accusing you of, but somehow fail to see it! (on second thought, it's not very surprising)

RE has failed to respond to almost every substantive point made by Alan, including his critique of posting daily news articles as sound evidence of near-term, big picture Doom. UB has failed to respond to the stats of violent crime decreasing. Yet you guys insist that "hes got nothin" and that HE is the one avoiding YOUR arguments. No one reading the entirety of this thread could possibly come to that conclusion absent cognitive dissonance or disingenuity. You guys are clearly trying to shut down dialogue/debate on these issues, perhaps with a mix of intention and unintentionally unreasonable and non-substantive responses (K-Dog's latest response was exactly that). 

As far as I can tell, AG, despite clearly being irked by Alan's and my supportive comments, is the only one responding substantively.

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Here''s something for Alan and Ashvin to ponder. Perhaps it will spur them to admit things are worse than they thought. But I'm not holding my breath. And then they say the Doomers suffer from "confirmation bias".

I didn't see anything in your post or link which I disagree with (which is not to say I completely agree... I just don't know enough about the science). Clearly climate change is a real BIG threat to humanity. But I fail to see how that translates into a "high probability" (maybe this should be defined in % terms) of human extinction within 0-50 years. Perhaps if we keep adding up the various environmental problems, we eventually get to > than 50%, but I can't be anything close to certain of that.

Alan's point, though, remains valid - yelling near-term Doom (with a capital D) at the top of our lungs is almost guaranteed to turn people away from change than inspire them towards it. I'm not saying to whitewash what you believe to be the truth, but if you couch it in terms of certainty about the future and/or, "anyone who disagrees is hopelessly ignorant", then apathy and stagnation will be the result.

Do you see, Ashvin, that the logic you use to assert that Alan's "point" about "exaggerating extreme outcomes" (that's the proper phrase, old chum - yeah it does equal yelling - that's what you do when your species is genuinely threatened) is part of YOUR confirmation bias?

You don't? Well, try this on for size:

You consistently ignore the reality of the tsunami of propaganda out there that tells people everything is hunky dory. A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, Ashvin wrote an excellent article about how FUBAR things were/are.  I do believe Ashvin wrote that article out of a sense of frustration about how people REFUSED to see how they were being USED to further a morally depraved status quo fostered by TPTB. He was, and is, right.

THAT morally depraved status quo didn't just happen. Social Darwinism was, and is at the heart of it, is it not? Alan doesn't go for that. Alan doesn't DO "judgements" as to ethical or not. Alan, unfortunately supported by GO, prefers to avoid admitting the mere possibility that the ROOT of our FUBAR situation is moral depravity.

Perhaps GO hasn't seen that. I hope GO gets that now. Alan refuses to think things are FUBAR. He says that is "exaggerating extreme outcomes".

Of course your piece about our FUBAR society did not define FUBAR effects in the biosphere. It was an article on economics. But really, do you think you can ignore the cause and effect chain that leads from moral depravity to extreme environmental degradation? You can't. You can, and probably will  ::), argue things haven't gotten that bad yet, and Alan is merely warning against "irrational and sensationalist hyperbole".

No, he isn't doing that. He is bathing in that river in Egypt. WHY? Because he has an a priori (faulty) logical premise, as does GO, that there is no massive and powerful organized element out there with the Means, Motive and Opportunity to put people to sleep about how FUBAR things are. So do you. That's called endowment bias.

While people were being told massive industrialization and massive use of fossil fuels was great for "civilization" (Albert Camus — 'The welfare of humanity is always the alibi of tyrants.' ), we were given the Tyranny of Big Oil (The Tyranny of Oil: The World's Most Powerful Industry--and What We Must Do to Stop It Paperback  – December 8, 2009 (http://www.amazon.com/The-Tyranny-Oil-Powerful-Industry/dp/0061434515) ).

We can argue whether the Fossil Fuel Industry MO was an accessory to, or the mastermind of, these profit over people and planet crimes against humanity that eroded democracy and ethical business practices everywhere. But I'm sure you will agree that MO is a huge causative element in our polluted biosphere.

The bottom line in the "point" Alan allegedly has is that near term human extinction (N.T.H.E.) is a LOW to NO probability event. This is the way you and GO see it too, is it not?

If you or Alan or GO could be convinced that  N.T.H.E. is NOT a LOW to NO probability event, I think your outlook on the discourse here would change. Palloy, our resident mathematician, can tell us all about probabilities. But UB, our resident psychiatrist, can tell us HOW our PERCEPTION of what those probabilities are TILTS our world view and endowment bias.

FURTHERMORE, RE and Surly, experts in the propaganda techniques they fight daily, can tell us how WELL FUNDED, REPETITIVE, CREDIBLE SOUNDING propaganda hitting people from all sides is INSTRUMENTAL in distorting the probability of this, that or the other event occurring.

I think this is ALL ABOUT endowment bias which is intimately connected to world view, which is influenced by a tsunami of propaganda lies about how hunky dory things are, which leads people to descend into denial of the actual probability of N.T.H.E., which leads them descend into derision and mockery of those seeking to warn Homo Saps, which serves the purpose of the psychos that created (and continue to exacerbate) the present mess.

It is expected that, if you believe a threat is over represented, you believe the person doing so is a fool or has some agenda. That's Alan's accusation of RE. I claim that Alan is being duped by TPTB. Back in West Point, upperclassmen would stop a plebe to have a little fun.

Upperclassman: Mr., you are a wedge.
Agelbert plebe: Yes sir!
Upperclassman: Mr, what is a wedge?
Agelbert plebe: Sir, a wedge is the simplest tool, sir!

You, GO, Alan and anyone else duped by TPTB is a tool used to DELAY the realization that drastic measures are required to LOWER the present HIGH probability of N.T.H.E..

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WHAT probability do you give to N.T.H.E. ?

PLEASE, lurkers and posters of all stripes weigh in. Give us a percent number from one to 1 to 100. Palloy can do the math. UB can tell us how the probability of a threat DOES NOT have to be greater than 50% do justify IMMEDIATE action, rather than incremental measures. I'll wager that 20% is enough to dispense with incremental measures, but I'm a "victim" of "confirmation bias" so I may be a bit prejudiced.   ::)

And Ashvin, PLEASE, don't claim you don't have enough data or knowledge of environmental science to avoid giving a number. Don't play the lawyer avoiding being buttonholed into a corner. You HAVE a number in your head. That NUMBER influences everything you say about this subject.

IF we can't get to the number, we can't discuss HOW people got that NUMBER inserted into their consciousness.

MY premise, the one the Ashvin of the FUBAR article partially shared, is that the NUMBER assigning N.T.H.E. to a low or NO probability status is a function of a massive propaganda effort.

And THAT, is why Alan is hypocritical in the extreme to accuse RE of hyperbole and sensationalism while simultaneously IGNORING the mens rea 'go back to sleep' propaganda of TPTB.


http://www.doomsteaddiner.net/forum/index.php/topic,811.msg85178.html#msg85178
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 12, 2015, 05:36:22 pm
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Nick Breeze interview with East Siberian Arctic Shelf researcher (ESAS) Dr. Natalia Shakhova on why the important news about methane news is not reaching mainstream news. Powerful interests seem to be in the way of Arctic methane education.
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 12, 2015, 09:00:12 pm
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McPherson accuses climate scientists of "malpractice" for not being candid with the public about "our 99 percent certainty of death."

"There is no expiration date stamped on us, but we have triggered events that will lead to our extinction in the not-too-distant future," he says.
http://www.tucsonweekly.com/tucson/radical-predictions/Content?oid=5888387 (http://www.tucsonweekly.com/tucson/radical-predictions/Content?oid=5888387)

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 12, 2015, 09:52:30 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLm7PSsvW8g&feature=player_embedded

Watch NASA Explain Why We Should All Be Worried About Greenland’s Melting Ice Sheet

Cole Mellino | September 9, 2015 10:05 am

http://ecowatch.com/2015/09/09/nasa-greenland-ice-sheet/
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 14, 2015, 09:26:27 pm
Burning All of the World’s Fossil Fuels Would Completely Melt the Antarctic Ice Sheet

Deirdre Fulton, Common Dreams | September 14, 2015 10:43 am

Here’s another argument for keeping the world’s fossil fuels in the ground: If all the coal, gas and oil on Earth is extracted and burned, the Antarctic ice sheet will melt entirely, scientists warn in a new “blockbuster” study published last Friday in the research journal Science Advances.

“The mind-boggling point is that our actions today are changing the face of planet Earth as we know it and will continue to do so for tens of thousands of years to come. If we want to avoid Antarctica to become ice-free, we need to keep coal, gas and oil in the ground,” says Ricarda Winkelmann, lead study author of the Postdam Institute for Climate Impact Research.

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“For the first time we have shown there is sufficient fossil fuel to melt all of Antarctica,” Winkelmann, told the Guardian.

“This would not happen overnight,” she added, “but the mind-boggling point is that our actions today are changing the face of planet Earth as we know it and will continue to do so for tens of thousands of years to come. If we want to avoid Antarctica to become ice-free, we need to keep coal, gas and oil in the ground.”

As the Washington Post reports, “[t]he Antarctica question—whether there’s actually enough fossil fuel in the world to raise global temperatures enough to melt the entire ice sheet—surfaced at least as far back as 1979, when the New York Times published an article about the possible consequences of an Antarctic ice sheet collapse.”

To answer that question, the researchers used a state-of-the-art ice sheet model, which Winkelmann helped develop, to make projections on what would happen if humans burned various amounts of fossil fuels in the coming centuries, including what would happen if we burned all the available fuel on Earth—an amount equivalent to about 10,000 gigatons of carbon, according to previous estimates.

Under that nightmare scenario, the scientists explain in a study abstract, “Antarctica is projected to become almost ice-free with an average contribution to sea-level rise exceeding 3 [meters] per century during the first millennium.”

“This kind of sea-level rise would be unprecedented in the history of civilization,” Winkelmann told the Washington Post, which in turn wrote that “such an enormous rate of sea-level rise would likely wipe out many of the world’s coastal cities. In the U.S., alone, San Francisco would be reduced to a handful of islands, New York City would be submerged and Florida would disappear entirely.”

Previous studies have shown that the rate of melting ice in Antarctica’s vulnerable Amundsen Sea region has tripled in the past decade and that rapid melting of Antarctic ice could push sea levels up 10 feet worldwide within two centuries, “recurving” heavily populated coastlines and essentially reshaping the world.

http://ecowatch.com/2015/09/14/melt-antarctic-ice-sheet/
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 15, 2015, 04:04:36 pm


I present this as part of the evidence that the probability of N.T.H.E. is increasing.


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SNIPPET 1:

“Greenhouse gases” are atmospheric gases which have been accumulating in an unprecedented fashion in recent years. They have been cited as major factors in the increase in mean global temperature which appears to be occurring at present.

Most important among these gases are carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane (CH4).

How is this related to tropical forests? Changes occurring during deforestation include the movement of carbon (as CO2) to the atmosphere from vegetation which is burned to make agricultural fields, the release of carbon from decaying vegetation (“slash”) remaining after logging, and the loss of carbon when wood products are removed from the site.

On the other hand, if and when forests regrow, carbon is returned to terrestrial systems by the incorporation of CO2 from the atmosphere into new plant material.

SNIPPET 2:

Recent calculations by Cox, et al., (2000) indicate that land temperatures may rise by as much as 8 o C because of increased CO2 in the atmosphere (an additional 600 Pg by the year 2100, or 6 Pg annually) due to a reduction in the ability of the oceans to absorb this gas and because of the deforestation and collapse of the Amazon rainforest.

Collapse would be a consequence of increased aridity and an enhancement in the respiration of soil organic matter because of higher temperatures.
 
In other words, the earth would be losing six Pg of “carbon sinks” per year directly by rainforest removal and indirectly by the effects of global warming (much caused by deforestation) on still-standing forest.
Rainforests must suffer the double insult of being the cause of their own destruction! They also calculate that mitigating the loss of these sinks would cost about $200 per ton of potential carbon emissions, or US$1.2 trillion per year.

Thus, the removal of forests, at least partly through its effects on atmospheric gases, may lead to destabilization of the global climate.

There have already been shifts in boreal forests, which are retreating northward because of global warming. Many animals have already altered their migration times and reproductive seasons.

This may have negative consequences when their life cycles are out of synchrony with their sources of food and shelter. Growing seasons for plants have increased by several days in some places. Increasing temperatures have allowed the invasion of nonnative species into some ecosystems, as well as alterations in the species composition of these ecosystems (Walther, et al., 2002).

At the very least, the complex interrelationships which have evolved over millions of years are being and will be further disrupted by continued warming.

The enhancement of photosynthesis and growth (and, so, carbon uptake) which occurs with higher temperatures has been mentioned as a possible mitigating factor in climate change. However, there are limits to how much additional growth can be expected by warming.

Most plants have either physiological or physical limits on growth, and, also, as plants age, they grow more slowly and consume less carbon dioxide.

http://www.rainforestconservation.org/rainforest-primer/3-rainforests-in-peril-deforestation/f-consequences-of-deforestation/8-climate-change-and-increase-in-greenhouse-gases/ (http://www.rainforestconservation.org/rainforest-primer/3-rainforests-in-peril-deforestation/f-consequences-of-deforestation/8-climate-change-and-increase-in-greenhouse-gases/)

Is it getting better? NO! Here's more evidence that incremental measures are not ENOUGH (which you call a "bias" for bad news):

New Report Says Deforestation Trends Point To Increasing Losses, Recommends New Rules by Katie Valentine  Aug 24, 2015 1:23pm

SNIPPET 1:
By 2050, an area of forests the size of India is set to be wiped off the planet if humans continue on their current path of deforestation, according to a new report. That’s bad news for the creatures that depend on these forest ecosystems for survival, but it’s also bad news for the climate, as the loss of these forests will release more than 100 gigatons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

SNIPPET 2:
The study, unlike other recent studies on deforestation, projects that in a business-as-usual scenario, in which the world doesn’t make any effort to reduce deforestation, tropical deforestation will increase, rather than decrease. According to the study, tropical deforestation rates in such a scenario will likely climb steadily in the 2020s and 2030s and then speed up around 2040, “as areas of high forest cover in Latin America that are currently experiencing little deforestation come under greater threat.”

SNIPPET 3:
Other studies have warned of the danger the world is in if countries don’t curb rates of deforestation and forest degradation. A study published this week in Science warned that, without policy changes, the world’s forests will become increasingly broken into unconnected patches — a fragmentation that will endanger the species that live in the forests.

“I fear a global simplification of the world’s most complex forests,” Simon Lewis, lead author of the study and tropical forest expert at the University of Leeds said in a statement. “Deforestation, logging and road building all create fragmented patches of forest. However, as the climate rapidly changes the plants and animals living in the rainforest will need to move to continue to live within their ecological tolerances. How will they move?
This is a recipe for the mass extinction of tropical forest species this century.”

http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2015/08/24/3694560/deforestation-india-sized-chunk/ (http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2015/08/24/3694560/deforestation-india-sized-chunk/)


Alan, the scientific community agrees that we need forests to avoid human extinction. Mass extinction of tropical forests increases the probability of N.T.H.E. This is not hard.

Climate change is also accelerating the deforestation in non-tropical forests (see article below). That is tantamount to a lot butterflies flapping on the deforestation issue. If you find that the facts as stated are being "misinterpreted" to favor sensationalist doomer outlooks, you are wrong. I just gave you poodwaddle (link here: http://www.poodwaddle.com/worldclock/env2/ (http://www.poodwaddle.com/worldclock/env2/)) stats on deforestation. Note that they list replanting efforts.

That is what objective science is all about.

It is impossible for an objective person to interpret those stats as positive. Yeah, it's depressing. So what? When you are in hole, it is customary to stop digging. Our incremental measures have not kept us from continuing to dig what may be our grave.


California ‘Firestorm’ Scorched Area Twice the Size of Manhattan in 24 Hours
Cole Mellino | September 15, 2015 12:37 pm
http://ecowatch.com/2015/09/15/california-valley-fire/ (http://ecowatch.com/2015/09/15/california-valley-fire/)
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 15, 2015, 09:17:32 pm
What Keeps Bill Nye Up At Night?

Lorraine Chow | September 15, 2015 1:17 pm

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Nye didn’t mince words with his reply.

“Climate change keeps me up at night. Everywhere I look there are opportunities to be addressing climate change and everywhere I look we are not doing it. And by ‘we’ I mean not just humankind writ large but my United States where I grew up, where I went to engineering school, where I worked as an engineer trying to make the world better for somebody. And we are missing all these opportunities. It’s just crazy making.”

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http://ecowatch.com/2015/09/15/what-keeps-bill-nye-up-at-night/ (http://ecowatch.com/2015/09/15/what-keeps-bill-nye-up-at-night/)

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 15, 2015, 09:47:51 pm
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 16, 2015, 03:25:21 am
https://youtu.be/_tVxloCKJN0
A brief explanation of why positive feedback loops are uncontrollable, once they start. Incremental measures will not stop positive feedback loops from starting. Therefore, incremental measures will not work to reduce the high probability of N.T.H.E. from a multiplicity of positive feedback loops. This is why immediate and drastic action is warranted now.
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 16, 2015, 09:42:30 pm
Why positive feedback mechanisms will not be prevented by incremental measures.

 I present this as part of the evidence that the probability of N.T.H.E. is increasing.
This video is from 2007. YET, it predicts an ice free arctic in the summer between 2015-20. He was spot on. Current targets are around 2017-i9. Back in 2007, the models didn't predict that happening until around 2050! David Wasdell is a credentialed scientist. He was a reviewer in IPCC studies. He explains how the SCIENCE was downplayed by lawyers from various governments. This was done so the science predicting catastrophe (i.e. NON-linearity of degradation acceleration) WOULD NOT be made public. The only hard position reached by the IPCC is that climate change is anthropogenic, PERIOD. Since then things have improved somewhat on the truth about the gravity of our situation, but the public is still mostly in the dark about the existential threat calmly explained here.

David Wasdell makes it clear that strategy geared to today's symptoms is insufficient because causal elements have a 40 to 50 year lag. Incremental measures based on present observations are, not just doomed to fail, they guarantee that they will fail in the future. Only massive, government sponsored action NOW has a chance (and even that is not a sure thing, as is stated in this video) of somewhat ameliorating the probability of catastrophe. He clearly states  that a massive extinction event destroying over 80% of life on earth  will be triggered by about 30 positive feedback loops that credentialed climate scientists agree will overwhelm the ability of our technology to stop them.

As he says, the observation of a "tipping point", if we have the misfortune to view it, guarantees that any response is 40 to 50 years behind the baked in causative factors.

  https://youtu.be/W_aMbM20mbg

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David Wasdell, Director of the Meridian Programme, is a world-renowned expert in the dynamics of climate change. He is also a reviewer of the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) assessment reports and the author of numerous papers and presentations on climate change and related topics.
http://www.apollo-gaia.org (http://www.apollo-gaia.org)


Here's video by Professor Kevin Anderson
explaining why every day that we delay increases the stupendous cost of the effort to bring the situation under control.

It's a long video. That means that people like Ashvin will not watch it, even though their life may depend on the knowledge imparted in it.

Professor Anderson tears apart every argument presented by Alan or Mking that defends the paltry incremental measures now used to address the issue of catastrophic climate change.

  https://youtu.be/G5cmAVxnQ3E


Climate Change: Going beyond the dangerous 

 
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Ian McPherson   Uploaded on Feb 9, 2012

Kevin Anderson, former Director of the Tyndall Centre (the UK's top academic institute researching climate change) is a depressing guy. Here, in his lecture "Beyond dangerous climate change: emission scenarios for a new world", he lays out the grim reality of climate change, and our inability to address it globally.

We are currently mitigating for 4 degrees C of warming and planning for 2 degrees C. As Anderson points out, that's ass backwards. Further, he sees absolutely no way we can meet those targets, given the rapid industrialisation of China and the emerging economies, and the current state of global political inaction.

He points out, with brutal honesty, that "climate analysts construct their scenarios not to avoid dangerous climate change but to avoid threatening economic growth". There is, therefore, almost no possibility that we are going to act, either in time or at the scale necessary, to address the challenge facing us.

We pretend that 2 degrees C is our threshold. Yet the climate scenarios and plans presented to policymakers do not actually reflect that threshold. As Anderson says, "most policy advice is to accept a high probability of extremely dangerous climate change rather than propose radical and immediate emission reductions."

Depressing stuff indeed...

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Download the paper this lecture is based on (written by Anderson and Alice Bows) here: http://ianmcpherson.com/blog/audio/Ke... (http://ianmcpherson.com/blog/audio/Ke...)

Read David Robert's thoughts about the paper in two articles at Grist:
http://grist.org/climate-change/2011-... (http://grist.org/climate-change/2011-...)
http://grist.org/climate-policy/2011-... (http://grist.org/climate-policy/2011-...)

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This lecture is part of the London School of Economics Department of International Development Friday Lecture Series. More information can be found here: http://www2.lse.ac.uk/newsAndMedia/vi... (http://www2.lse.ac.uk/newsAndMedia/vi...)

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Speaker: Professor Kevin Anderson.
Recorded on 21 October 2011 in Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House, London UK.

This lecture is part of the LSE Department of International Development Friday Lecture Series. A question and answer session follows the talk.

Kevin Anderson is professor of energy and climate change in the School of Mechanical, Aeronautical and Civil Engineering at the University of Manchester.

He has recently finished a two-year position as director of the Tyndall Centre, the UK's leading academic climate change research organisation, during which time he held a joint post with the University of East Anglia.
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 17, 2015, 02:34:11 am
Alan, What part about the REDUCTION in photosynthetic efficiency from INCREASED carbon dioxide caused HEAT do you not get? I posted the science and the link beneath your article.

Here's the biosphere nuts and bolts of it (that your article totally misses):

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Climate Myth...

CO2 is plant food

Earth's current atmospheric CO2 concentration is almost 390 parts per million (ppm).  Adding another 300 ppm of CO2 to the air has been shown by literally thousands of experiments to greatly increase the growth or biomass production of nearly all plants.  This growth stimulation occurs because CO2 is one of the two raw materials (the other being water) that are required for photosynthesis.  Hence, CO2 is actually the "food" that sustains essentially all plants on the face of the earth, as well as those in the sea.  And the more CO2 they "eat" (absorb from the air or water), the bigger and better they grow. (source: Plants Need CO2) [/color]

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An argument made by those who prefer to see a bright side to climate change is that carbon dioxide (CO2) being released by the burning of fossil fuels is actually good for the environment. This conjecture is based on simple and appealing logic: if plants need CO2 for their growth, then more of it should be better. We should expect our crops to become more abundant and our flowers to grow taller and bloom brighter.

However, this "more is better" philosophy is not the way things work in the real world. There is an old saying, "Too much of a good thing can be a bad thing." For example, if a doctor tells you to take one pill of a certain medicine, it does not follow that taking four is likely to heal you four times faster or make you four times better. It's more likely to make you sick.

It is possible to boost growth of some plants with extra CO2, under controlled conditions inside of greenhouses. Based on this,  'skeptics' make their claims of benefical botanical effects in the world at large. Such claims fail to take into account that increasing the availability of one substance that plants need requires other supply changes for benefits to accrue.  It also fails to take into account that a warmer earth will see an increase in deserts and other arid lands, reducing the area available for crops.

Plants cannot live on CO2 alone; a complete plant metabolism depends on a number of elements. It is a simple task to increase water and fertilizer and protect against insects in an enclosed greenhouse but what about doing it in the open air, throughout the entire Earth? Just as increasing the amount of starch alone in a person's diet won't lead to a more robust and healthier person, for plants additional CO2 by itself cannot make up for deficiencies of other compounds and elements.

What would be the effects of an increase of CO2 on agriculture and plant growth in general?

1. CO2 enhanced plants will need extra water both to maintain their larger growth as well as to compensate for greater moisture evaporation as the heat increases. Where will it come from? In many places rainwater is not sufficient for current agriculture and the aquifers they rely on are running dry throughout the Earth (1, 2).

On the other hand, as predicted by climate research, we are experiencing more intense storms with increased rainfall rates throughout much of the world. One would think that this should be good for agriculture. Unfortunately when rain falls in short, intense bursts it does not have time to soak into the ground. Instead, it  quickly floods into creeks, then rivers, and finally out into the ocean, often carrying away large amounts of soil and fertilizer.

2. Unlike Nature, our way of agriculture does not self-fertilize by recycling all dead plants, animals and their waste. Instead we have to constantly add artificial fertilizers produced by energy-intensive processes mostly fed by hydrocarbons, particularly from natural gas which will eventually be depleted. Increasing the need for such fertilizer competes for supplies of natural gas and oil, creating competition between other needs and the manufacture of fertilizer. This ultimately drives up the price of food.

3. Too high a concentration of CO2 causes a reduction of photosynthesis in certain of plants. There is also evidence from the past of major damage to a wide variety of plants species from a sudden rise in CO2 (See illustrations below). Higher concentrations of CO2 also reduce the nutritional quality of some staples, such as wheat.

4. As is confirmed by long-term  experiments, plants with exhorbitant supplies of CO2 run up against  limited availability of other nutrients. These long term projects show that while some plants exhibit a brief and promising burst of growth upon initial exposure to C02, effects such as the  "nitrogen plateau" soon truncate this benefit

5. Plants raised with enhanced CO2 supplies and strictly isolated from insects behave differently than if the same approach is tried in an otherwise natural setting. For example, when the growth of soybeans is boosted out in the open this creates changes in plant chemistry that makes these specimens more vulnerable to insects, as the illustration below shows (at link).

Plant defenses go down as carbon dioxide levels go up, the researchers found. Soybeans grown at elevated CO2 levels attract many more adult Japanese beetles than plants grown at current atmospheric carbon dioxide levels. Science Daily; March 25, 2008. (Credit: Photo courtesy of Evan Delucia)


More than 55 million years ago, the Earth experienced a rapid jump in global Carbon Dioxide levels that raised temperatures across the planet. Now, researchers studying plants from that time have found that the rising temperatures may have boosted the foraging of insects. As modern temperatures continue to rise, the researchers believe the planet could see increasing crop damage and forest devastation. Science Daily; Feb. 15, 2008

https://youtu.be/Er3iD5PIR00
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Global Warming reduces plant productivity. As Carbon Dioxide increases, vegetation in Northern Latitudes also increases. However, this does not compensate for decreases of vegetation in Southern Latitudes. The overall amount of vegetation worldwide declines

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6. Likely the worst problem is that increasing CO2 will increase temperatures throughout the Earth. This will make deserts and other types of dry land grow. While deserts increase in size, other eco-zones, whether tropical, forest or grassland will try to migrate towards the poles. Unfortunately it does not follow that soil conditions will necessarily favor their growth even at optimum temperatures.

In conclusion, it would be reckless to keep adding CO2 to the atmosphere. Assuming there are any positive impacts on agriculture in the short term, they will be overwhelmed by the negative impacts of climate change.

Added CO2 will likely shrink the range available to plants while increasing the size of deserts. It will also increase the requirements for water and soil fertility as well as plant damage from insects.

Increasing CO2 levels would only be beneficial inside of highly controlled, enclosed spaces like greenhouses.

Basic rebuttal written by doug_bostrom

UPDATE July 2015:


The negative effects of climate change far outweigh any positive effect from increased CO2 levels.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcDUaBO8T34&feature=player_embedded

http://www.skepticalscience.com/co2-plant-food.htm

The fossil fuel industry has been trying to push that STUPID, "CO2 is great for plants" baloney for at least two decades. Yeah, they use CO2. Yeah, they NEED CO2. Yeah, More CO2 means they can absorb it better and grow faster.

HOWEVER, they don't do ANY of those things when they are forced outside the BAND of temperature and other conditions that are sine qua non for them. I tried to explain that to you and you totally ignored it. It's BIOSHERE MATH 101.

The fossil fuel industry is pushing the CO2 happy talk TOTALLY out of context, as you are trying to do. The desertification and deforestation is NOT being counterbalanced by the greening of colder areas now accessing more CO2 due to warming.

The data about ongoing desertification I have presented totally defeats the claim that arid areas are "greening".

Some areas towards the poles will experience some greening. SO WHAT? Are you planning on moving all the animals, insects and other biota that DON"T migrate, along with the trees and crops north or south thousands of miles? How breathtakingly naïve!

Alan, what part of this do you not understand?
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 17, 2015, 02:36:37 am
Burning remaining fossil fuel could cause 60-meter sea level rise

September 11, 2015
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"Our findings show that if we do not want to melt Antarctica, we can't keep taking fossil fuel carbon out of the ground and just dumping it into the atmosphere as CO2 like we've been doing," Caldeira said. "Most previous studies of Antarctic have focused on loss of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet. Our study demonstrates that burning coal, oil, and gas also risks loss of the much larger East Antarctic Ice Sheet."

http://phys.org/news/2015-09-fossil-fuel-meter-sea.html#jCp
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 18, 2015, 02:27:14 am
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B56GS65R7vA&feature=player_embedded
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The Arctic Sea Tumbles To A New Low  :(

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Arctic sea ice reaches fourth lowest minimum

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September 15, 2015   
 
On September 11, Arctic sea ice reached its likely minimum extent for 2015. The minimum ice extent was the fourth lowest in the satellite record, and reinforces the long-term downward trend in Arctic ice extent. Sea ice extent will now begin its seasonal increase through autumn and winter. In the Antarctic, sea ice extent is average, a substantial contrast with recent years when Antarctic winter extents reached record high levels.

Please note that this is a preliminary announcement. Changing winds or late-season melt could still reduce the Arctic ice extent, as happened in 2005 and 2010. NSIDC scientists will release a full analysis of the Arctic melt season, and discuss the Antarctic winter sea ice growth, in early October.


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http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 18, 2015, 03:38:26 am
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Thursday, September 10, 2015
   
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Will it be 3.27°C warmer by the year 2030?

In December 2015, world delegates will descend on Paris to ensure that global warming will not cross the guardrail of 2°C above pre-industrial levels.
 
In a way, we have already crossed this guardrail. NOAA data show that the year-to-date land surface temperature was 1.47°C above the 20th century average on the Northern Hemisphere in 2015, as illustrated by the image below.

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 Granted, there was less warming on the Southern Hemisphere, so the globally-averaged land surface temperature was a little bit lower, i.e. 1.34°C above the 20th century average. For reference, the image below  gives an overview of mean 1901-2000 temperatures. Anyway, the difference between hemispheres is small and not very relevant since most people live on the Northern Hemisphere.
 
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More importantly, this 1.47°C rise is a rise compared to the 20th century average. The 20th century average was some 0.60°C higher than temperatures were at the start of the NOAA record in 1880. In other words, temperatures for most people on Earth are already 2.07°C higher than they were in 1880.

Furthermore, between 1750 and 1880 the global average temperature had already increased by some 0.20°C.

Sure, 2015 is an El Niño year, but this El Niño is still strengthening, so 2016 could well be even warmer. Moreover, recent temperatures are in line with expectations of a polynomial trendline that is based on these NOAA data and that points at yet another degree Celsius rise by 2030, on top of the current level, as illustrated by the top image. Altogether, this would make it 3.27°C warmer than in 1750 for most people on Earth by the year 2030.

So, instead of acting as if dangerous global warming could possibly eventuate beyond the year 2100, delegates in Paris should commit to lowering temperatures, starting now.

To lower temperatures, cutting emissions alone will not be enough.

Stopping all emissions by people would make that the aerosols that are currently sent up in the air by burning fuel and that are currently masking the full impact of global warming, will fall out of the air in a matter of weeks. Until now, about half of the global temperature rise is suppressed by such aerosols. Stopping aerosols release overnight could make temperatures rise abruptly by 1.20°C in a matter of weeks.

Furthermore, carbon dioxide that is emitted now will take ten years to reach its peak impact, so we're still awaiting the full wrath of carbon dioxide emitted over the past decade.

A recent study calculates that global mean surface temperature may increase by 0.50°C after carbon emissions are stopped, and they will decrease only minimally from that level for the next 10,000 years.

Removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere would not work fast enough to avoid further warming and acidification of the oceans.
In fact, temperatures look set to rise even faster as feedbacks start to kick in more fully, such as albedo changes due to decline of the snow and ice cover in the Arctic and methane releases from the Arctic Ocean seafloor. Furthermore, water vapor will increase by 7% for every 1°C warming. Water vapor is one of the strongest greenhouse gases, so increasing water vapor will further contribute to a non-linear temperature rise.

In conclusion, the world needs to commit to comprehensive and effective action that includes both emission cuts and removal of greenhouse gases from the atmosphere and oceans, as well as further action to deal with the dire situation in the Arctic, as discussed at the Arctic-news Blog. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fcliparts.co%2Fcliparts%2FBig%2FEgq%2FBigEgqBMT.png&hash=e7eec62f009cdd686ce795fad0a53c6befe748e9)


http://arctic-news.blogspot.com/


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"A 4 degree C temperature increase world cannot sustain a global society (like the one we now have)".

Kevin Anderson (former Director of the Tyndall Centre, the UK's top academic institute researching climate change)
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 18, 2015, 02:36:17 pm
I present the following short video as additional scientific evidence that the precautionary principle demands we engage in drastic and massive efforts immediately to reduce the probability of N.T.H.E.:

https://youtu.be/_tVxloCKJN0

A brief explanation of why positive feedback loops are uncontrollable, once they start. Incremental measures will not stop positive feedback loops from starting. Therefore, incremental measures will not work to reduce the high probability of N.T.H.E. from a multiplicity of positive feedback loops. This is why immediate and drastic action is warranted now.
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 18, 2015, 02:37:32 pm
Why positive feedback mechanisms will not be prevented by incremental measures.

 I present this as part of the evidence that the probability of N.T.H.E. is increasing.
This video is from 2012. YET, it predicts an ice free arctic in the summer between 2015-20. He was spot on. Current targets are around 2017-i9. Back in 2007, the models didn't predict that happening until around 2050! David Wasdell is a credentialed scientist. He was a reviewer in IPCC studies. He explains how the SCIENCE was downplayed by lawyers from various governments. This was done so the science predicting catastrophe (i.e. NON-linearity of degradation acceleration) WOULD NOT be made public. The only hard position reached by the IPCC is that climate change is anthropogenic, PERIOD. Since then things have improved somewhat on the truth about the gravity of our situation, but the public is still mostly in the dark about the existential threat calmly explained here.

David Wasdell makes it clear that strategy geared to today's symptoms is insufficient because causal elements have a 40 to 50 year lag. Incremental measures based on present observations are, not just doomed to fail, they guarantee that they will fail in the future. Only massive, government sponsored action NOW has a chance (and even that is not a sure thing, as is stated in this video) of somewhat ameliorating the probability of catastrophe. He clearly states  that a massive extinction event destroying over 80% of life on earth  will be triggered by about 30 positive feedback loops that credentialed climate scientists agree will overwhelm the ability of our technology to stop them.

As he says, the observation of a "tipping point", if we have the misfortune to view it, guarantees that any response is 40 to 50 years behind the baked in causative factors.

  https://youtu.be/W_aMbM20mbg

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David Wasdell, Director of the Meridian Programme, is a world-renowned expert in the dynamics of climate change. He is also a reviewer of the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) assessment reports and the author of numerous papers and presentations on climate change and related topics.
http://www.apollo-gaia.org (http://www.apollo-gaia.org)


Here's video by Professor Kevin Anderson
explaining why every day that we delay increases the stupendous cost of the effort to bring the situation under control.

It's a long video. That means that people like Ashvin will not watch it, even though their life may depend on the knowledge imparted in it.

Professor Anderson tears apart every argument presented by Alan or Mking that defends the paltry incremental measures now used to address the issue of catastrophic climate change.

  https://youtu.be/G5cmAVxnQ3E


Climate Change: Going beyond the dangerous 

 
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Ian McPherson   Uploaded on Feb 9, 2012

Kevin Anderson, former Director of the Tyndall Centre (the UK's top academic institute researching climate change) is a depressing guy. Here, in his lecture "Beyond dangerous climate change: emission scenarios for a new world", he lays out the grim reality of climate change, and our inability to address it globally.

We are currently mitigating for 4 degrees C of warming and planning for 2 degrees C. As Anderson points out, that's ass backwards. Further, he sees absolutely no way we can meet those targets, given the rapid industrialisation of China and the emerging economies, and the current state of global political inaction.

He points out, with brutal honesty, that "climate analysts construct their scenarios not to avoid dangerous climate change but to avoid threatening economic growth". There is, therefore, almost no possibility that we are going to act, either in time or at the scale necessary, to address the challenge facing us.

We pretend that 2 degrees C is our threshold. Yet the climate scenarios and plans presented to policymakers do not actually reflect that threshold. As Anderson says, "most policy advice is to accept a high probability of extremely dangerous climate change rather than propose radical and immediate emission reductions."

Depressing stuff indeed...

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Download the paper this lecture is based on (written by Anderson and Alice Bows) here: http://ianmcpherson.com/blog/audio/Ke... (http://ianmcpherson.com/blog/audio/Ke...)

Read David Robert's thoughts about the paper in two articles at Grist:
http://grist.org/climate-change/2011-... (http://grist.org/climate-change/2011-...)
http://grist.org/climate-policy/2011-... (http://grist.org/climate-policy/2011-...)

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This lecture is part of the London School of Economics Department of International Development Friday Lecture Series. More information can be found here: http://www2.lse.ac.uk/newsAndMedia/vi... (http://www2.lse.ac.uk/newsAndMedia/vi...)

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Speaker: Professor Kevin Anderson.
Recorded on 21 October 2011 in Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House, London UK.

This lecture is part of the LSE Department of International Development Friday Lecture Series. A question and answer session follows the talk.

Kevin Anderson is professor of energy and climate change in the School of Mechanical, Aeronautical and Civil Engineering at the University of Manchester.

He has recently finished a two-year position as director of the Tyndall Centre, the UK's leading academic climate change research organisation, during which time he held a joint post with the University of East Anglia.
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 18, 2015, 02:51:05 pm
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Climate Myth...

CO2 is plant food

Earth's current atmospheric CO2 concentration is almost 390 parts per million (ppm).  Adding another 300 ppm of CO2 to the air has been shown by literally thousands of experiments to greatly increase the growth or biomass production of nearly all plants.  This growth stimulation occurs because CO2 is one of the two raw materials (the other being water) that are required for photosynthesis.  Hence, CO2 is actually the "food" that sustains essentially all plants on the face of the earth, as well as those in the sea.  And the more CO2 they "eat" (absorb from the air or water), the bigger and better they grow. (source: Plants Need CO2)

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An argument made by those who prefer to see a bright side to climate change is that carbon dioxide (CO2) being released by the burning of fossil fuels is actually good for the environment. This conjecture is based on simple and appealing logic: if plants need CO2 for their growth, then more of it should be better. We should expect our crops to become more abundant and our flowers to grow taller and bloom brighter.

However, this "more is better" philosophy is not the way things work in the real world. There is an old saying, "Too much of a good thing can be a bad thing." For example, if a doctor tells you to take one pill of a certain medicine, it does not follow that taking four is likely to heal you four times faster or make you four times better. It's more likely to make you sick.

It is possible to boost growth of some plants with extra CO2, under controlled conditions inside of greenhouses. Based on this,  'skeptics' make their claims of benefical botanical effects in the world at large. Such claims fail to take into account that increasing the availability of one substance that plants need requires other supply changes for benefits to accrue.  It also fails to take into account that a warmer earth will see an increase in deserts and other arid lands, reducing the area available for crops.

Plants cannot live on CO2 alone; a complete plant metabolism depends on a number of elements. It is a simple task to increase water and fertilizer and protect against insects in an enclosed greenhouse but what about doing it in the open air, throughout the entire Earth? Just as increasing the amount of starch alone in a person's diet won't lead to a more robust and healthier person, for plants additional CO2 by itself cannot make up for deficiencies of other compounds and elements.

What would be the effects of an increase of CO2 on agriculture and plant growth in general?

1. CO2 enhanced plants will need extra water both to maintain their larger growth as well as to compensate for greater moisture evaporation as the heat increases. Where will it come from? In many places rainwater is not sufficient for current agriculture and the aquifers they rely on are running dry throughout the Earth (1, 2).

On the other hand, as predicted by climate research, we are experiencing more intense storms with increased rainfall rates throughout much of the world. One would think that this should be good for agriculture. Unfortunately when rain falls in short, intense bursts it does not have time to soak into the ground. Instead, it  quickly floods into creeks, then rivers, and finally out into the ocean, often carrying away large amounts of soil and fertilizer.

2. Unlike Nature, our way of agriculture does not self-fertilize by recycling all dead plants, animals and their waste. Instead we have to constantly add artificial fertilizers produced by energy-intensive processes mostly fed by hydrocarbons, particularly from natural gas which will eventually be depleted. Increasing the need for such fertilizer competes for supplies of natural gas and oil, creating competition between other needs and the manufacture of fertilizer. This ultimately drives up the price of food.

3. Too high a concentration of CO2 causes a reduction of photosynthesis in certain of plants. There is also evidence from the past of major damage to a wide variety of plants species from a sudden rise in CO2 (See illustrations below). Higher concentrations of CO2 also reduce the nutritional quality of some staples, such as wheat.

4. As is confirmed by long-term  experiments, plants with exhorbitant supplies of CO2 run up against  limited availability of other nutrients. These long term projects show that while some plants exhibit a brief and promising burst of growth upon initial exposure to C02, effects such as the  "nitrogen plateau" soon truncate this benefit

5. Plants raised with enhanced CO2 supplies and strictly isolated from insects behave differently than if the same approach is tried in an otherwise natural setting. For example, when the growth of soybeans is boosted out in the open this creates changes in plant chemistry that makes these specimens more vulnerable to insects, as the illustration below shows (at link).

Plant defenses go down as carbon dioxide levels go up, the researchers found. Soybeans grown at elevated CO2 levels attract many more adult Japanese beetles than plants grown at current atmospheric carbon dioxide levels. Science Daily; March 25, 2008. (Credit: Photo courtesy of Evan Delucia)


More than 55 million years ago, the Earth experienced a rapid jump in global Carbon Dioxide levels that raised temperatures across the planet. Now, researchers studying plants from that time have found that the rising temperatures may have boosted the foraging of insects. As modern temperatures continue to rise, the researchers believe the planet could see increasing crop damage and forest devastation. Science Daily; Feb. 15, 2008

https://youtu.be/Er3iD5PIR00
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Global Warming reduces plant productivity. As Carbon Dioxide increases, vegetation in Northern Latitudes also increases. However, this does not compensate for decreases of vegetation in Southern Latitudes. The overall amount of vegetation worldwide declines

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6. Likely the worst problem is that increasing CO2 will increase temperatures throughout the Earth. This will make deserts and other types of dry land grow. While deserts increase in size, other eco-zones, whether tropical, forest or grassland will try to migrate towards the poles. Unfortunately it does not follow that soil conditions will necessarily favor their growth even at optimum temperatures.

In conclusion, it would be reckless to keep adding CO2 to the atmosphere. Assuming there are any positive impacts on agriculture in the short term, they will be overwhelmed by the negative impacts of climate change.

Added CO2 will likely shrink the range available to plants while increasing the size of deserts. It will also increase the requirements for water and soil fertility as well as plant damage from insects.

Increasing CO2 levels would only be beneficial inside of highly controlled, enclosed spaces like greenhouses.

Basic rebuttal written by doug_bostrom

UPDATE July 2015:


The negative effects of climate change far outweigh any positive effect from increased CO2 levels.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcDUaBO8T34&feature=player_embedded

http://www.skepticalscience.com/co2-plant-food.htm

The fossil fuel industry has been trying to push that STUPID, "CO2 is great for plants" baloney for at least two decades. Yeah, they use CO2. Yeah, they NEED CO2. Yeah, More CO2 means they can absorb it better and grow faster.

HOWEVER, they don't do ANY of those things when they are forced outside the BAND of temperature and other conditions that are sine qua non for them.  It's BIOSHERE MATH 101.

The fossil fuel industry is pushing the CO2 happy talk TOTALLY out of context. The desertification and deforestation is NOT being counterbalanced by the greening of colder areas now accessing more CO2 due to warming.

Some areas towards the poles will experience some greening. SO WHAT? We can't plan on moving all the animals, insects and other biota that DON"T migrate, along with the trees and crops north or south thousands of miles.

This the true  situation (Poodwaddle deforestation year to date clock):
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http://www.poodwaddle.com/worldclock/env2/
Poodwaddle is firmly backed by government published data.

And there is this, which totally destroys any happy talk about CO2 "benefits".

Burning remaining fossil fuel could cause 60-meter sea level rise

September 11, 2015
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"Our findings show that if we do not want to melt Antarctica, we can't keep taking fossil fuel carbon out of the ground and just dumping it into the atmosphere as CO2 like we've been doing," Caldeira said. "Most previous studies of Antarctic have focused on loss of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet. Our study demonstrates that burning coal, oil, and gas also risks loss of the much larger East Antarctic Ice Sheet."

http://phys.org/news/2015-09-fossil-fuel-meter-sea.html#jCp


Here's a nice quote from another article in Phys.org:


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What is the NIPCC? Is it just like the IPCC, but with an "N"?

Well, no. The NIPCC is a group of climate change "skeptics", bank rolled by the libertarian Heartland Institute to promote doubt about climate change. This suits the Heartland Institute's backers, including fossil fuel companies and those ideologically opposed to government regulation.

The NIPCC promotes doubt via thousand-page reports, the latest of which landed with a dull thud last week. These tomes try to mimic the scientific reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), right down to the acronym. However, unlike the IPCC, the NIPCC reports are works of partisan pseudoscience
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http://phys.org/news/2013-09-adversaries-zombies-nipcc-climate-pseudoscience.html#jCp

The fossil fuel industry does not get it. Neither do those who advocate that incremental measures are sufficient to ameliorate the extinction threat that global warming poses to our species.  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Fgen152.gif&hash=d5b10968fe56c4cb95fae17cee3cb420a5f4e2da)
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 18, 2015, 03:00:20 pm
Addendum to the above post - Some of the most important questions in my mind, given the data you and others have presented, are the following (most of them are inter-related):

-What is the reliability of projections which suggest trends such as CO2 emissions, species extinction, deforestation, etc. will continue at a rate destructive enough to conclude HP (high probability) of NTHE?

-What are the chances that natural positive feedback mechanisms in these areas will burn themselves out or be counter-acted by negative feedback mechanisms?

-What are the chances that scientific technology will progress quickly enough to offer viable solutions (I believe you say this is a very good chance)?

-What are the chances that the above technology, or other mitigating policies, will be implemented by corporations and governments which can make a difference when push comes to shove (I believe you say this is a low chance, but quite possible)?

-What are the chances that consumers may intentionally or unintentionally act in ways to mitigate destructive environmental trends (for ex, becoming too poor to consume as much)?

-What are any other known or as of yet unknown factors which may serve to mitigate the destructive trends?

These are admittedly the questions of a layperson without much scientific knowledge or insight. Some of them may be nonsensical, and if so I would be glad to hear why. However, if you believe the general process of asking these and other questions is a strategy of obfuscation, misrepresentation, manipulation, etc., then we simply have a fundamental disagreement as to how the probability of NTHE should be properly assessed.

-What is the reliability of projections which suggest trends such as CO2 emissions, species extinction, deforestation, etc. will continue at a rate destructive enough to conclude HP (high probability) of NTHE?


The videos I have posted addressed this in detail. To summarize the findings, the rate of the negative effects of Global Warming is not decreasing, all the tracked effects are increasing in quantity. But more alarming, is that all of them are increasing in the rate of increase as well. I will post another video, this one from 2013, but quite comprehensive in covering both the increase and the increase in rate.

That is, the graphed slopes of CO2 increase and Temperature increase and deforestation increase and desertification increase and ocean acidification increase (and others) are all tilting upwards in angle. As you will see in the graphs presented, the IPCC scenarios are overly conservative. The observed temperature data as of 2013 was right at the top range of their most extreme scenario (from the IPCC 2007 report). A new IPCC report came out this year. The scenario range has been adjusted upwards (to more extreme), but the models, as the videos I have already presented explain, still do not account for several factors.

So there is no logical reason to believe any of the scenarios are "within the ballpark", so to speak. And all the indicators point to an increased rate of deleterious global warming effects.

As to whether the rate increase of all these factors is sufficient to warrant warnings about a high probability of N.T.H.E. if drastic measures are not engaged in to ameliorate the existential threat, the answer is yes. If the rate was decreasing or constant, the answer would be a maybe. WHY? Because of the baked in approximately 40 year causative factor time lag.

Because of that 40 year time lag, it is simply impossible, even with drastic measures to stop the continued increase in deleterious effects of global warming for that length of time, even if we go 100% green today. IOW, we have to go to more than 100% green to actually address the baked in time lag. We have go to, say 130% or so, so as to rapidly return the atmosphere to pre-industrial levels. This is certainly not limited just to CO2 reduction. Many other toxic products of industry must be eliminated somehow.

That is why incremental measures doom future generations to a high probability of extinction. Scientifically speaking, incremental measures will not even slow the rate if increase of deleterious factors, let along the quantitative increase.

-What are the chances that natural positive feedback mechanisms in these areas will burn themselves out or be counter-acted by negative feedback mechanisms?


Positive feedback mechanisms are also addressed in the videos I have presented and some of my posts. These mechanisms, of which there are about 30, once having reached a self reinforcing state (which is why they call them positive feedback mechanisms) are difficult to control. They, in fact, cannot be controlled beyond a certain point. Yes, they burn themselves out eventually. But before they do, they result in mass die offs. This has been established by studies of CO2 build up in ancient times before humans walked the earth. When a positive feedback loop reaches a certain stage, our technology is incapable of arresting it's effects. This is not alarmist hyperbole on my part. This is a direct quote from the IPCC reviewer scientist in one of the videos I presented.

The video I present at the end of this posts shows that the negative feedbacks are being overwhelmed by the positive feedbacks at present.

Positive feedback loops are not like a line of falling dominoes that you can put your hand on to stop the rest from falling. Considering the fact that there are about 30 positive feedback loops involved in global warming, it is necessary to picture their cumulative interactive, multiple feedback reinforcing effects as a chain reaction. It's not 30 independent systems. It's more like 30 times 30 (30 times repeated) because they all act to boost each other in multiples of the last iteration exponentially. That means that they get beyond the ability of our technology to control exponentially.

This short video of ping pong balls on mouse traps is a crude analogy of how positive feedback loops work;

Start at the 24 second mark:

https://youtu.be/-zX-gz1lRt0

For example, we are triggering a positive feedback loop by reducing the earth's albedo (ice cover). The videos I have presented cover how we simply cannot stop the resulting runaway greenhouse effect once the positive feedback loops begin in earnest. Guy McPherson thinks we did that already. I entertain the hope that we can ameliorate those mechanisms somewhat and postpone or possibly prevent N.T.H.E. But it is not presently feasible to do that with incremental measures.

-What are the chances that consumers may intentionally or unintentionally act in ways to mitigate destructive environmental trends (for ex, becoming too poor to consume as much)?

The main consumer culprits are the 20% in the rich countries that use around 76% of the world's resources, according to a 2007 UN pie chart. Consumers are doing quite a bit to mitigate destructive environmental trends.

But that pie chart leaves out the non-consumer polluters that do more damage than we ordinary piggies in the rich countries.

The problem is that the main polluters are outside of the consumer loop. Many people think this issue can be addressed by recycling and lowering our carbon footprint. Yes, that is important and many are doing it. But the industries that are unrelated to consumer products are gigantic polluters, showing no sign of slowing their massive polluting activities, never mind stopping them. The military of the USA, despite moves to go solar on many bases, still are one the largest polluters of the air , land and sea. In short, the governments of the world, backed by the large polluting industries continue to make things worse.

Year to date fossil fuel use:
http://www.poodwaddle.com/worldclock/env3/ (http://www.poodwaddle.com/worldclock/env3/)

So the chances that consumers acting to try to mitigate the destructive factors are high. But the chances that those actions, absent massive government efforts stop all polluting industries quickly, will actually mitigate those destructive factors, are low to none. A collapse in industrial output from massive poverty still does not account for the 40 year baked in climate damage coming at us. It would reduce the amount of polluting, but not stop it. It is sine qua non to reverse it in order to mitigate or eliminate the existential threat to our species.

I support all efforts to recycle and conserve. But I know what the biosphere math is telling us. Nevertheless, I urge all people to conserve as much as possible. Just because that behavior is somewhat quixotic, does not mean it should not be done. Responsible behavior is based on the ethical concern for future generations, regardless of whether it is enough or not. I'm sure you agree that doing the right thing does not guarantee success in human society. In fact, the reverse is true most of the time.


-What are the chances that scientific technology will progress quickly enough to offer viable solutions (I believe you say this is a very good chance)?

-What are the chances that the above technology, or other mitigating policies, will be implemented by corporations and governments which can make a difference when push comes to shove (I believe you say this is a low chance, but quite possible)?

-What are any other known or as of yet unknown factors which may serve to mitigate the destructive trends?


I will address the above three questions after I exercise. Some of the answers are in this video, but I will verbalize them for clarity when I come back. It was published on May 2, 2013. All the data is accurate and backed by hard science. The more recent data is more alarming (this was before the latest IPCC report). But even with the data  Professor Somerville had then, the case for urgent action was clear.


https://youtu.be/B4Q271UaNPo

The Scientific Case for Urgent Action to Limit Climate Change


Distinguished Professor Emeritus Richard Somerville, world-renowned climate scientist and author of "The Forgiving Air: Understanding Environmental Change," discusses the scientific case for urgent action to limit climate change.
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 18, 2015, 03:01:30 pm
Ashvin,
Here I continue to address your questions with a post from Eddie that I comment on.

Because of that 40 year time lag, it is simply impossible, even with drastic measures to stop the continued increase in deleterious effects of global warming for that length of time, even if we go 100% green today. IOW, we have to go to more than 100% green to actually address the baked in time lag. We have go to, say 130% or so, so as to rapidly return the atmosphere to pre-industrial levels. This is certainly not limited just to CO2 reduction. Many other toxic products of industry must be eliminated somehow.

A lot of people missed the memo on this, but I've read it from a number of sources I trust.

Exactly. AS David Wasdell states in the following video, if you wish to actually ameliorate the existential threat from catastrophic climate change, you must use the projected climate condition of about 40 years from now as your target, not what is observed at present. Acting on the present guarantees failure due to the fact that the feedback mechanisms are moving faster than the policies to ameliorate climate change. This is politically very unpalatable. But it is the only approach with science behind it. IOW, if the IPCC predicted 470 ppm of CO2 and a 2 degree C increase by 2055, then drastic action to eliminate any target above that must be taken now.

Of course, that is not happening. Every day that isn't happening makes it more and more difficult to deal with.
 
https://youtu.be/W_aMbM20mbg

David Wasdell, Director of the Meridian Programme, is a world-renowned expert in the dynamics of climate change. He is also a reviewer of the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) assessment reports and the author of numerous papers and presentations on climate change and related topics.

Kevin Anderson, former Director of the Tyndall Centre (the UK's top academic institute researching climate change), said that a global society (like the one we have now) is not possible with our present level of technology in 4degree C or higher world. And that's where we are going, despite the IPCC figures all revolving about an alleged agreement (with no teeth, no enforcement and all voluntary carbon limits. LOL!) by the piggy countries s of taking measures to keep the planet  below 2 degrees C. Collapse is baked in, so to speak, thanks to government piecemeal incremental measures.

Back to David Wasdell, he clearly and calmly stated that the 30 or so positive feedback loops, if not addressed with absolute limits on carbon output, including even foregoing even biofuels, approximately 80% of life on Earth may die. If that isn't an existential threat, I don't know what is.


Ashvin asked,

What are the chances that scientific technology will progress quickly enough to offer viable solutions (I believe you say this is a very good chance)?'

According to both the scientists I mentioned, we do not have the technology to stop this catastrophe at this time, once the runaway greenhouse positive feedback loops push us past a certain point. Some say we have passed it. Due to the 40 year bake and the paltry government measures being employed, it sure looks that way. Drastic measures to stop emitting CO2 might change that equation.

But it is not realistic to expect governments to engage in them. When large masses of people are dying and a public outcry is sounded, it will be about 40 years too late.

All that said, there are technofix types that claim we just have to put a pack of aerosols up there and cool the planet like volcanic eruptions have partially done in the past. There is evidence that our government has been doing just that since 2000. It doesn't seem to be working. Maybe it's just a conspiracy theory, but some very obvious man made 'cloud' grids have been videoed for some time. And, they are not jet contrails.

Another less messy and much more expensive approach is to block out a portion of the sunlight reaching earth with some giant aluminum vapor coated, 1 mil thick, polyester film a few thousand miles in diameter to cool the planet. But we have no way of knowing whether such a simple solution would not trigger some, even worse, unforeseen climate effect. It certainly is true that the massive sun shield qualifies in the 'any port in the N.T.H.E. storm' category.

But it would do nothing to eliminate the other industrial toxins, unrelated to CO2, that have upped the probability of getting cancer in our lives from 1 in 10 back in 1950 to 1 in 2 (for men) and 1 in 3 (for women) at present. And no, that isn't because we "live longer" ( check the social Security stats and you will find the longevity increase applies to the top 20% wage earners. The bottom 80% "longevity increase" looks like a rounding error.  :P). ; it's because we are subject to more pollutants in our food, air and water from birth than any humans in history. 

We have a plethora of severe problems and the rug the gooberment keeps trying to sweep them under is starting to look like Mount Everest.


-What are the chances that the above technology, or other mitigating policies, will be implemented by corporations and governments which can make a difference when push comes to shove (I believe you say this is a low chance, but quite possible)?

-What are any other known or as of yet unknown factors which may serve to mitigate the destructive trends?


Well, here's the situation, according to Professor Emeritus Richard Somerville  Please note that he is a very conservative scientist. But he makes it clear how serious the urgency is BECAUSE of the limitations of our technology and government reaction times.

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The above graph is discussing the procedure to limit the damage to 2 degrees C. That was in 2013. He explained that the required carbon limits, if not enforced by 2020, will basically be impossible to implement. We are passing by 2015 with no end in site to the INCREASE in carbon pollution.

As he said, once the window is closed, it will remain closed. That is a scientist's way of stating an existential threat. He understands the technology. He understands what will happen when we cannot hope to stop the positive feedback mechanisms from overwhelming reforms. He understands that will head us to 4 degrees C or more. That is a dire threat to our species, and literally millions of other species we share this planet with.


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Notice how the IPCC sea level rise predictions only fit the data at the extreme end. It is not logical to think that they aren't erring on the side of caution. They are. Therefore, only the most extreme scenarios they come up with can be considered 'in the ball park'.

Every time a report comes out, they have to admit that, yeah, the ice melted more than predicted and several other predictions were a bit on the, uh, conservative side. Each report published every 7 or 8 years gets a little more real. Consequently, it is prudent to assume that a worse than their worse case scenario is highly probable.

That is why I believe firmly that mankind faces an existential threat from Global Warming AND all the other industrial pollution factors degrading the biosphere.

That is why I focused initially on extinctions with Alan. When the extinction rate of species in our biosphere is 1,000 to 10,000 the normal background rate of the last ten thousand yeas (at least!), it's logical to then assume our species faces an existential threat.

This extinction rate cannot be neatly approached as the product of a single cause. Our society is lousy at dealing with multiple causes. It's like we are as bad as crows (they can't count above three).

But  there are thousands of toxic chemicals, radionuclides and aerosols, along with the CO2 damage that have joined together to drown us in our industrial effluents. CO2 pollution is what we should all agree on. As you can see from Alan's posts, even that is like pulling teeth.

Also, there are too many corporations stuck in the incremental measures approach to expect them to own up the their responsibility to future generations. I just posted an article on the good and the bad corporations. But the 'good" are STILL not at 100% renewable energy. And the bad ones are worse than ever.   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-200714183337.bmp&hash=fd5a6df63c32bd65dda7b6d93e788647ca3829df)

It's hard to communicate this threat dispassionately. I do the best I can. We are in a world of trouble.

These are the web sites Professor Emeritus Richard Somerville recommends for reliable information. I hang around RealClimate regularly. I have posted articles from RealClimate here during the last year and have recommended it to all readers. They are the ones who are now looking very hard at the meltwater tunneling by supercritical water (liquid water several degrees below freezing due to massive glacier pressures lubricating glacier movement) beneath Greenland glaciers that is NOT addressed in any of the IPCC predictions that David Wasdell discussed.

They cover all the climate bases. RealClimate is staffed exclusively by climate scientists.  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F34y5mvr.gif&hash=835b3a3f26d5d1b7f0acc379ad8ebd3fe9eea488)


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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 18, 2015, 06:50:07 pm
AS you can see from the following Poodwaddle clock graphics, things are not getting better. The Renewable energy contribution is unacceptably small and the CO2 emissions, which need to be ZERO, continue to exacerbate the existential threat we face from CO2 pollution.

Here's the electrical energy only picture (year to date) to give you an idea of why fossil fuelers are not singing the blues YET. There are still way too many fossil fuel energy widgets being purchased by global society. The year to date clock on the right is for production, which doesn't directly relate to demand (although eventually it will).

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http://www.poodwaddle.com/worldclock/env4/
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 19, 2015, 02:52:16 pm
As usual, when Ashvin has no way to counter my arguments, he goes away. So much for Ashvin's "objectivity". (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Fwww_MyEmoticons_com__burp.gif&hash=8ff3ef6c016d8baf5f61ed5e8db58f069b64da00)


I wish the mendacity and duplicity of the fossil fuelers like MKing was discussed more (instead of dodged often!) by allegedly objective fellows like Ashvin and Alan. The false equivalence they ascribe (see Alan's "counterfeit" coin  ;)) to collapse sites sounding the alarm and the tsunami of bullsh it from the fossil fuel propagandists is rather telling, isn't it? It sure looks like an irresponsible and unprincipled back door defense of the polluting status quo to me.  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-280515145049.png&hash=84e87515e750391c1f1bca6d6ae06485972bfa81)  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-051113192052.png&hash=93c42ef9f18fc5d9da50fd91fc19f70009f95f85) They can prissily, and line by "logical" line, claim they do not support the polluting status quo until the cows come home.

But their deliberate attempts to downplay the gravity of our situation, continually asking (when they aren't using outright mockery and derision) for more and more data before they will commit to a "firm" conclusion in regard to our plight is a CLASSIC foot dragging technique to PREVENT public opinion from demanding massive reforms! Yeah, they'll try to deny that too (and they'll do it LINE BY LINE and then claim they "countered" "spurious and groundless accusations".  ::) ).

Exxon Mobile has been DOING what Alan and Ashvin have done here for DECADES!


Direct quotes from Exxon Mobile

“…for most nations the Kyoto Protocol would require extensive diversion of human and financial resources away from more immediate and pressing needs in health care, education, infrastructure, and, yes, the environment—all critical to the well-being of future generations.”

ExxonMobil went on to advocate a “strong focus on scientific understanding” around climate change and proposed policies “that have the potential to make significant longer-term reductions in emissions, if they are needed.”

The ad finished with this: “Although it is hard to predict what the weather is going to be this weekend, we know with certainty that climate change policies, unless properly formulated, will restrict life itself.”

Exxon Advertised Against Climate Change for Decades After Top Executives Knew Burning Fossil Fuels Would Warm the Planet  >:(

http://ecowatch.com/2015/09/19/climate-change-exxon/2/ (http://ecowatch.com/2015/09/19/climate-change-exxon/2/)

Agelbert NOTE:
The best way to describe why the fossil fuel Industry uses crocodile tears about their "concern" for humanity to lie, distort and double talk about the truth of the climate change existential threat is embodied in the following quote:

“The welfare of humanity is always the alibi of tyrants.”   ―  Albert Camus

The Fossil Fuelers   DID THE Climate Trashing, human health depleteing CRIME,   but since they have ALWAYS BEEN liars and conscience free crooks, they are trying to AVOID   DOING THE TIME or     PAYING THE FINE!     Don't let them get away with it! Pass it on! (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F176.gif&hash=121533221905789c6b8d57a9603883266d349266)
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 19, 2015, 06:48:53 pm
Excellent comment posted on an article by Thom Hartmann

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RFord • 6 hours 33 min ago #6

Seems like every time I turn around there's a new climate change report coming out showing that climate change and global warming is happening faster than had previously been predicted. Many people are not concerned about this happening (global warming) because they believe it's not going to affect them because they will die of old age long before it starts killing all human beings and they are not concerned with what will happen to yet unborn generations.

Some think that global warming is a farce and it's not feasible, or that it's too expensive to move away from carbon energy. These Ideas come from the fossil fuel industry, who pay their bought and paid for congressmen, senators and news outlets to say these things.

The fact is people are already dying from the effects of climate change in Serria (Sierra Leone - https://zikipediq.wordpress.com/2009/11/11/south-is-the-first-victim-of-global-warming/ (https://zikipediq.wordpress.com/2009/11/11/south-is-the-first-victim-of-global-warming/)) and, yes, right here in the USA.

People are dying because of drought caused forest fires either by fighting the fires or by being caught in the fires.

But many don't die, they just lose everything they own including their home. Global warming and climate change are happening now at ever increasing rates. It may not be the future generations of earthlings that go extinct. It may be the present generations that go extinct sooner than anyone has imagined.

If humans are smart, they will do all they can to keep themselves from going extinct. But I'm afraid humans are not as smart and superior as humans think they are.

The time to act against global warming is now because the tipping point is when human produced greenhouse gasses are no longer the main cause of global warming.

The tipping point is when global warming is causing global warming and then there is no stopping it. The air, water, and the surface of the Earth become extremely hot and poisoned with methane and 90 percent of all living things on earth dies.

http://www.thomhartmann.com/blog/2015/09/will-be-worst-el-nino-65-years#comment-335282 (http://www.thomhartmann.com/blog/2015/09/will-be-worst-el-nino-65-years#comment-335282)

I would add the following:

The responsibility to care for and preserve the biosphere on behalf of future generations, including returning it to the healthy state it was in over a century ago when we began to severely pollute it, is not optional (unless you are an Empathy Deficit Disordered Evolutionary Dead End).
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 19, 2015, 08:35:21 pm
https://youtu.be/KumLH9kOpOI

Rhetoric Versus Reality

Kevin Anderson presenting at the EcoCities conference at the Bridgewater Hall, Manchester on 14 May 2012.

The 2 degree C Increase limitation is not feasible. A 4 degree C increase is only possible with massive action from all the world's main polluting countries to totally eliminate all carbon emissions in a very limited time period. Why this is so is stated by Engineer Kevin Anderson.

Kevin Anderson is professor of energy and climate change in the School of Mechanical, Aeronautical and Civil Engineering at the University of Manchester.

He has recently finished a two-year position as director of the Tyndall Centre, the UK's leading academic climate change research organisation, during which time he held a joint post with the University of East Anglia.

Some slides rom the above video:

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This last slide explains what those attempting to ridicule doomers DO NOT GET IT. And that's why I suspect the motives of ANYONE (see Alan, Ashvin, MKing, Snowleopard, etc. et al) who attempts to PREVENT progress by irresponsibly claiming that accepting the reality of a high probability of N.T.H.E. on our present trajectory, causes people to give up.(https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2F1.bp.blogspot.com%2F-TzWpwHzCvCI%2FT_sBEnhCCpI%2FAAAAAAAAME8%2FIsLpuU8HYxc%2Fs1600%2Fnooo-way-smiley.gif&hash=b8545bd420b1e2f2c7b9f665d2093523e4ad2251)

That's status quo defending, la la land, rhetorical BULLSH IT, as Kevin Anderson says in much more polite language below.

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 19, 2015, 10:30:17 pm
https://youtu.be/MbXuvQQt9YY
Catastrophic Climate Change & Runaway Global Warming - David Wasdell

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Uploaded on Jan 9, 2012

24 minutes into the presentation he talks about NASA being afraid to release findings of methane releases off the coast of San Diego for fear of retribution by the Bush administration.

David Wasdell, Director of the Meridian Programme, is a world-renowned expert in the dynamics of climate change. He is also a reviewer of the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) assessment reports and the author of numerous papers and presentations on climate change and related topics.

For more on David Wasdell visit: http://www.meridian.org.uk/Resources/

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 20, 2015, 08:32:35 pm
I wish you well. The Tardigrades can wait. They are patient.

We'll leave the Earth to the Tardigrades in due time.  They can take a full on asteroid impact, we cannot.

Unless said asteroid hits in the next 30 years, Guy McPherson is wrong.

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I agree that we will certainly not be extinct in 30 years. But Guy McPherson is guilty of being early, not alarmist or hyperbolic.

Kevin Anderson. Richard Somerville and David Wasdell, to name just three serious scientists directly involved with climate science, agree we face an existential threat. The issue is not WHETHER we face an existential threat. The issue is HOW SOON within a few decades or less the door is closing to ameliorate or prevent that threat.
 
The deluded flat refuse to accept that their IS an existential threat, never mind IF the threat is near term.

I think you agree with that, do you not?

I think Guy McPherson understands the politics of the social system killing us quite well. How has Hansen done with his low key stuff? Not too well. And Hansen wrote a book of "fiction" where he clearly lays out an extinction scenario for humans WITHIN a century! But he won't go public with that in his peer reviewed stuff, NOT because he has no scientifically valid grounds (as idiot fossil fuelers might claim), but because he knows how it "works" in politics. He is, in a cowardly fashion, bowing to politically expedient incremental measure demands in the face of an existential threat.  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-200714183337.bmp&hash=fd5a6df63c32bd65dda7b6d93e788647ca3829df)

McPherson understands that, unless the public accepts the FACT that we do face an existential threat WITHIN a generation (regardless of whether that estimate is EARLY by two or three decades), our extinction is baked in. If he did not CARE about the our survival, he would not be shouting the warning from the rooftops!

As Kevin Anderson said, it is imperative to get people to understand the SCALE of the action that is needed. The people that claim McPherson is peddling futility are wrong.

 
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It will be TOO LATE if we don't start getting serious about N.T.H.E. in 2030. MAYBE it's not too late now. But  Kevin Anderson. Richard Somerville and David Wasdell, etc. et al are making a case for DRASTIC and URGENT action. They clearly state that incremental measures will NOT WORK to prevent the extinction of most, and possibly all of the human species.

RE, this is not about Guy McPherson. He is not alone in his warning, even if he is more strident than other scientists out there.
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 20, 2015, 08:42:08 pm
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WWF and the Zoological Society of London found that numbers of the scombridae family of fish, which also includes bonito, fell by 74% between 1970 and 2012, outstripping a decline of 49% for 1,234 ocean species over the same period. 

The conservation charity warned that we face losing species critical to human food security, unless drastic action is taken to halt overfishing and other threats to marine life.

Louise Heaps, chief advisor on marine policy at WWF UK, said:
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Full article:

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/sep/15/tuna-and-mackerel-populations-suffer-catastrophic-74-decline-research-shows (http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/sep/15/tuna-and-mackerel-populations-suffer-catastrophic-74-decline-research-shows)

Agelbert NOTE: The typical reaction (by the fossil fuelers and N.T.H.E. threat denying wishful thinkers) to the above will be the wailing and gnashing of teeth about "overpopulation"  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.freesmileys.org%2Fsmileys%2Fsmiley-scared002.gif&hash=764898cfbf07ef2c41ffddc5e93fa0e1bed41bae). However, Global Warming caused CO2 ocean acidification and other industrial and big ag pollutants like chemical fertilizers will be, uh, mentioned in passing, THUS: "we are solving all that with incremental measures. No need to get so excited. We must weigh the benefits to society of business as usual against the "minor" cost of collapsing tuna, mackerel, shellfish, sea cucumbers, sea turtles, etc., populations. There is no reason to let this alarmist news stampede us in to any rash activity that might threaten GDP!".  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Facigar.gif&hash=dc9dccf92c6c88c99611b06c86d92629d69f2978)

Right after that they will scream for all those "useless eaters" out there to stop driving tuna sandwich prices up! The "job creator" one percent wants to serve champagne and caviar, not tuna casserole!  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-241013183046.jpeg&hash=51c9c4f17e747698c76c65c7c1814eff4f32c400)

Palloy tries to downplay the above marine species extinction threat. Palloy does not get it. I will explain why.

At the risk of being called a shill for the fossil fuel industry by AG, again, I should just like to point out that the pH of the oceans varies between 8.1 and 8.4, and that so far climate change hasn't altered that by 0.1 anywhere at all.  It would happen in time of course, IF we continued to burn fossil fuels at the same, or increasing rates.  But if you believe in Peak Fossils then that won't happen - not because THEY wouldn't want to, but because they won't be able to make money out of it.  That's when they will stop extracting fossil fuels, and industrial civilisation will collapse.

Temperatures will continue to rise maybe until 2045, and ocean acidification will continue, but industrialised fishing will be over almost instantly, and fish stocks will replenish quickly.  The mix of species will be different, no doubt, but they have always been different, and nobody is really aware of what the mix is anyway.

So don't worry, just pray the collapse happens soon.

Sigh, you mathematicians don't do much biosphere math, do you? What YOU call "insignificant" pH (you know, the negative logarithm of the hydrogen ion concentration) differences have VERY significant (as in homeostatic band required) effects on living systems (you know, the stuff we eat!).

Homeostasis REQUIRES that strict pH (and temperature and pressure and dissolved CO2 and dissolved O2, etc.) bands be adhered to or the organism dies. The reason it dies is because thousands to millions of biochemical reactions per second, vital to living processes, will not take place outside those homeostatic bands.

For mathematicians, the numbers are "significant" if they are, say, 2% or more and INSIGNIFICANT when they vary less than that.

For biologists, the numbers are homeostatic band life or death SIGNIFICANT when they vary by 0.01 % - often even less!).

This is so because the enzymes (catalysts made by living systems to lower the energy of activation for chemical reactions so the organism does not overheat and die from chemical reaction waste heat inefficiencies) will NOT take place when the pH (in combination with the other factors I mentioned) varies by a very small percentage. And all these bands vary in different parts of the human body. The pH band your bloodstream can handle is far less than the one the water in your tissues can handle.

There is a LOT MORE to this.

For example, I'm sure you would agree that being drunk is hazardous to your health because it slows your reflexes, dehydrates you, stresses your kidneys and liver and blinds you to reality because the system thinks it is pigging out on cheap energy - sends your brain a signal that everything is amazingly great (that's called being high).

The change in concentration of alcohol in the blood required to effect all these deleterious changes (that the organism itself perceives INCORRECTLY  as  "good" because it FEELS good") is, from your point of view, tiny.

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Biosphere math is DIFFERENT from the math applied to non-living matter, Palloy. Stop trying to apply your math to living systems. It is tantamount to peddling rose colored glasses about the severity of our environmental plight.   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-200714183337.bmp&hash=fd5a6df63c32bd65dda7b6d93e788647ca3829df)

Here's one more example of how a pollutant in our atmosphere that kills life is actually made by living systems to preserve life. It's all in the percentages, Palloy. It's all in where the polluting gas is and how much of it there is. The life or death differences in percentage are FAR LESS than 0.01%.

The gas I refer to is Nitric Oxide (NO).

Environmental effects

Nitric oxide in the air may convert to nitric acid, which has been implicated in acid rain. However, it is an important source of nutrition for plant life in the form of nitrates. Furthermore, both NO and NO2 participate in ozone layer depletion.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitric_oxide (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitric_oxide)


Humans make Nitric oxide in their noses to kill bacteria before it gets to their lungs. This is why breathing through your nose is a good idea.  ;D

But the percentage is so tiny that a fellow like you would claim it was "insignificant" if it was no longer there (which would guarantee bacterial attacks on the lung tissue  :P).

On the other hand, if we breath too much  Nitric oxide because it's in the atmosphere as a pollutant, it can destroy tissue. And before it does that, it will vasodilate the begeezes out of your blood vessels, depleting your ability to get oxygen to your brain and everywhere else in your body. Too much, by a very small percentage, will kill you.

This is what homeostasis is ALL ABOUT. This is why Lovelock used the homeostatic analogy in his Gaia hypothesis. He understood the incredibly small percentage of variation that our biosphere REQUIRES to be viable. The fact that most people are not aware of this is used by the deluded wishful thinkers to claim the gravity of our situation can be solved by killing off most of the human population. NEVER MIND that the top 20% will still be there doing 80% of the damage.

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The collapse of the human population will not allow the fish populations to rebound simply because EATING the fish, though a contributing factor, is not the main reason they are headed for extinction.

Your post is biosphere reality challenged. It's time for you to take of the "culling the population will solve all our problems" rose colored glasses.

 
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Palloy said,
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At the risk of being called a shill for the fossil fuel industry by AG, again, I should just like to point out that the pH of the oceans varies between 8.1 and 8.4, and that so far climate change hasn't altered that by 0.1 anywhere at all.

How can Palloy be right about percentages and WRONG about the deleterious impact on marine species at the same time?  :icon_scratch:  First of all, he refused to state the TREND when he said that  "pH of the oceans varies between 8.1 and 8.4". This is double talk for, "it's no big deal". To cover his illogical ass he then says that "eventually" it's gonna happen. LOL! A brain dead person knows that! His entire post lowballs the  existential threat for marine species due to CO2 caused ocean acidification. This is what irresponsible defenders of the polluting energy status quo DO.   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-200714183337.bmp&hash=fd5a6df63c32bd65dda7b6d93e788647ca3829df)


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OA Observations and Data

Follow the links below to access ocean acidification data for each of our observation programs

The field of carbon cycle science depends on well-designed, well-executed, and carefully maintained observations.  The PMEL carbon group primarily focuses on large scale observations of ocean interior carbon through hydrographic cruises and surface ocean carbon dynamics through measurements made on volunteer observing ships, buoys, and other autonomous systems. We work in both the open ocean and in coastal environments. We maintain long-term time series observations as well as conducting short term process studies or exploratory studies.  Since ocean acidification emerged as an important scientific issue, we have been augmenting and expanding our observational capacity by adding pH and other biogeochemical measurements to the platforms listed below.

http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/co2/story/OA+Observations+and+Data (http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/co2/story/OA+Observations+and+Data)
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 21, 2015, 08:41:35 pm
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outbacktommy • 4 hours 46 min ago #9 Has the earth's capacity to provide food for the human population been exceeded? If so, by how much, or how much room is left? I'm concerned that due to the inertia of the status quo, and the pressures of the developmental state of the bulk of the earths population, that our climate tipping point was reached several years ago and that all we can do now is slow it's progress. One of the few factors that keeps me optimistic is raising my children to be aware of their consumption and how it relates to the consumption of others and the impact on our earth. - See more at: http://www.thomhartmann.com/blog/2015/09/will-be-worst-el-nino-65-years#comment-form

Agelbert reply to outbacktommy

Here's the situation:

I present to you following short video as scientific evidence that the precautionary principle demands we engage in drastic and massive efforts immediately to reduce the probability of Near Term Human Extinction (N.T.H.E.):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=_tVxloCKJN0

A brief explanation of why positive feedback loops are uncontrollable, once they start. Incremental measures will not stop positive feedback loops from starting. Therefore, incremental measures will not work to reduce the high probability of N.T.H.E. from a multiplicity of positive feedback loops. This is why immediate and drastic action is warranted now.

For more detail on the subject of positive feedback mechanisms:
Why positive feedback mechanisms will not be prevented by incremental measures.

David Wasdell is a credentialed scientist. He was a reviewer in IPCC studies. He explains how the SCIENCE was downplayed by lawyers from various governments. This was done so the science predicting catastrophe (i.e. NON-linearity of degradation acceleration) WOULD NOT be made public. The only hard position reached by the IPCC is that climate change is anthropogenic, PERIOD. Since then things have improved somewhat on the truth about the gravity of our situation, but the public is still mostly in the dark about the existential threat calmly explained here.

David Wasdell makes it clear that strategy geared to today's symptoms is insufficient because causal elements have a 40 to 50 year lag. Incremental measures based on present observations are, not just doomed to fail, they guarantee that they will fail in the future. Only massive, government sponsored action NOW has a chance (and even that is not a sure thing, as is stated in this video) of somewhat ameliorating the probability of catastrophe.

He clearly states that a massive extinction event destroying over 80% of life on earth will be triggered by about 30 positive feedback loops that credentialed climate scientists agree will overwhelm the ability of our technology to stop them.

http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/climate-change/global-warming-is-with-us/msg3824/#msg3824

Also, these questions I answered may help you to understand the gravity of our plight. And, as you surmised, it's not that we can't handle high temperatures, it's that we can't feed ourselves in a 4 degree plus C world (from the preindustrial world baseline).

Despite what the IPCC reports say publiicly about staying within a plus 2 degree C target, scientists in the IPCC already admit that is a lost cause BECAUSE of the government lawyers that forced the massaging of the IPCC science.

Governments are doing absolutely nothing to stop CO2 emissions. The incremental measures to reduce them are woefully insufficient. - See more at: http://www.thomhartmann.com/blog/2015/09/will-be-worst-el-nino-65-years#comment-335511

These are the questions:

-What is the reliability of projections which suggest trends such as CO2 emissions, species extinction, deforestation, etc. will continue at a rate destructive enough to conclude HP (high probability) of NTHE?

-What are the chances that natural positive feedback mechanisms in these areas will burn themselves out or be counter-acted by negative feedback mechanisms?

-What are the chances that scientific technology will progress quickly enough to offer viable solutions (I believe you say this is a very good chance)?

-What are the chances that the above technology, or other mitigating policies, will be implemented by corporations and governments which can make a difference when push comes to shove (I believe you say this is a low chance, but quite possible)?

-What are the chances that consumers may intentionally or unintentionally act in ways to mitigate destructive environmental trends (for ex, becoming too poor to consume as much)?

-What are any other known or as of yet unknown factors which may serve to mitigate the destructive trends?


Answers at the following two links:

http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/climate-change/global-warming-is-with-us/msg3827/#msg3827

http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/climate-change/global-warming-is-with-us/msg3828/#msg3828

Finally, don't believe any of the fossil fuel industry funded propaganda out there about increased CO2 concentration in a warming planet being "good" for plants.

The fact is that the reverse is true.

http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/climate-change/global-warming-is-with-us/msg3825/#msg3825


The Fossil Fuelers   DID THE Climate Trashing, human health depleteing CRIME,   but since they have ALWAYS BEEN liars and conscience free crooks, they are trying to AVOID   DOING THE TIME or     PAYING THE FINE!     Don't let them get away with it! Pass it on! (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F176.gif&hash=121533221905789c6b8d57a9603883266d349266)
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 21, 2015, 09:20:00 pm
IPCC Ice melt predictions way off!:    (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-200714183337.bmp&hash=fd5a6df63c32bd65dda7b6d93e788647ca3829df)
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"Conclusions" still lack punch but at least major action to prevent an increase in emissions is clearly stated. In the lecture itself, stopping emissions altogether is clearly established as the only way to stop the ice melt altogether:

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https://youtu.be/p-qdbICw2f8

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May 12, 2015 - FEEM Lecture: "Arctic Amplification, Climate Change, Global Warming"
Published on Jun 5, 2015
FEEM Lecture by Peter Wadhams, Professor of Ocean Physics, University of Cambridge: "Arctic Amplification, Climate Change, Global Warming. New Challenges from the Top of the World"
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 22, 2015, 03:01:03 am
The Other CO2 Problem

The Permian Mass Extinction 251.9 million years ago, otherwise known as “The Great Dying,” was the closest this planet has come to extinguishing all complex life on Earth. Around 90% of all species died out in this single event, a worse toll even than the Cretaceous extinction that wiped out the dinosaurs.

LIP = Large Igneous Province 

Human = Human emissions from burning fossil fuels

CO32- = Carbonate

CCD = Carbonate Compensation Depth


The graphic  below is a comparison of the Permian Extinction conditions with our present conditions.
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How oceans get overwhelmed by rapid large CO2 emissions from Large Igneous Province (LIP) eruptions and human emissions. CCD = Carbonate Compensation Depth, CO32- = carbonate. Based on text in Zeebe, Annual Reviews 2012.
http://www.skepticalscience.com/Lee-commentary-on-Burgess-et-al-PNAS-Permian-Dating.html

Agelbert NOTE:  This compendium of quotes will discuss the existential threat to marine species (and also to us, because we eat them) that lower pH of salt water (the LOWER the pH, the MORE acidic the water is) constitutes. The increased concentration of CO2 from the burning of fossil fuels is what causes the ocean to increase in acidity through lowered pH. Lowered pH actually means that you have more H+ ions in the water. It is somewhat counterintuitive to tell somebody with not much of a science background that lowering pH raises the acidity. But that's the way the math on PH. works.

Mollusca (məlŭs`kə), taxonomic name for the one of the largest phyla of invertebrate animals (Arthropoda is the largest) comprising more than 50,000 living mollusk species and about 35,000 fossil species dating back to the Cambrian period. Mollusks are soft-bodied, and most have a prominent shell.

The members of this highly successful and diverse phylum are mostly aquatic and include the familiar scallop, clam , oyster, mussel, snail, slug, squid, cuttlefish, octopus, chiton, and a variety of others.

Mollusks occupy habitats ranging from the deep ocean to shallow waters to moist terrestrial niches.

The Shell

The shell is formed by secretions of glandular cells in the mantle. Except in the chitons, the shells of all mollusks are basically similar, differing only in certain mineralogical details. The shell is composed of an outer, prismatic layer containing densely packed cells of calcareous material secreted by the edge of the mantle; and an inner, nacreous layer of thin, laminated plates of calcareous material laid down by the entire mantle surface.

http://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/phylum+Mollusca


 Mollusks in Peril: Why Should We Care?
By José H. Leal, Ph.D.

SNIPPET:

 The Domino Effect. Organisms in natural ecosystems and food webs are all interconnected, and any disturbance that negatively affects one species (such as its permanent extinction) is likely to provoke a negative chain reaction that will interfere with a much larger number of species, in a cumulative and fast-paced manner.

For instance, the extinction of a clam will negatively affect all species that eat that clam, and these adverse effects on the predators will in turn rapidly propagate within the food web.

If enough species are critically affected, not only is the balance of nature forever altered, but our own fate as a species may be endangered in the long run.

Because mollusks are such a large and widespread group, changes affecting mollusks as a group are potentially capable of having massive and irreversible effects on the planet’s biodiversity.

The Global Threats to Marine Species. Aside from localized problems in the coastal marine environment such as domestic and industrial pollution, development, urban and agricultural encroachment, and other geographically restricted sources of environmental degradation, marine mollusks are threatened by generalized, more widespread disturbances such as those associated with climate change.

For instance, coral bleaching, the critical loss of energy-giving coral zooxanthellae caused by changes in ocean temperature, is now a global problem, affecting large areas in the marine tropics of the Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific oceans. The global “hot spots” for molluscan diversity coincide with coral reefs, as these latter are associated with a very large number of shallow-water molluscan species. As coral reefs decline, so will all the organisms connected with them.

The Threat of Ocean Acidification. Ocean acidification is caused by the increased uptake of atmospheric carbon dioxide by sea water. More acidic sea water affects the shells of planktonic mollusks, thinning and opening holes in those delicate structures.

Acidification is already a threat to several species of planktonic mollusks, including sea butterflies (pteropods). Sea butterflies are key links in open-ocean food webs, serving as food for many species of fish, which in turn feed larger animals such as sea birds, whales, and even polar bears.

http://www.shellmuseum.org/downloadable-files/Leal_Mollusks_in_Peril_Why_do_We_Care.pdf



Potential Impacts of Ocean Acidification

Impacts on Calcifying Species

SNIPPETS:

As the United Kingdom’s Royal Society recently observed,
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“Seawater pH is a critical variable in marine systems; even small changes will have a large impact on ocean chemistry.”
The changes in ocean chemistry precipitated by acidification are likely to exert profound and highly adverse impacts on ocean species and ecosystems.

The saturation of seawater with carbonate ions is extremely important for marine species that construct their shells or skeletons with limestone (calcium carbonate, CaCO3) in a process known as calcification. These species include most corals, mollusks, echinoderms, foraminifera, and calcareous algae.

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A free-swimming pteropod, Limacina helicina, a mollusc that forms a calcium carbonate shell made of aragonite. They are an important food source for juvenile North Pacific salmon and also are eaten by mackerel, herring, and cod.

The shells and skeletons of such species do not dissolve because the upper layers of the ocean are supersaturated with calcium (Ca2+) and carbonate ions. However, as the pH of the oceans drops as a consequence of rising levels of carbon dioxide, carbonate levels begin to drop, ultimately resulting in an undersaturation of carbonate ions, which in turn impairs the calcification process.

A recent study on rapid climate change and ocean acidification appearing in Science concluded that oceanic carbonate concentrations will drop below 200 µmol kg-1 when atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations reach 450-550ppm, a scenario that may occur by the middle of this century.

At that point, the rates of calcification by coral polyps will be exceeded by reef erosion, which in conjunction with the impacts of increasing temperatures, may “reduce coral reef ecosystems to crumbling frameworks with few calcareous corals.” By the end of the century, climate scientist Ken Caldeira—who with Michael Wickett originally coined the term “ocean acidification”—concludes that “there is no place left with the kind of chemistry where corals grow today.”

The diminution of reefs could also result in half or more of coral-associated fauna becoming rare or extinct.


Massive declines in coral reefs could have grave environmental and socio-economic implications. Coral reefs are among the most diverse ecosystems in the world. While covering only 0.17 percent of the ocean floor, coral provide habitat for one quarter of all marine species.

Agelbert NOTE: What you just read exposes the gravity of the extinction threat to marine species, including Pacific salmon, mackerel, herring, and cod (among many, many others). Also, 25% of the ocean's marine life that relies on coral reef habitats is threatened with extinction.

I'm NOT sorry to be alarmist  ;) , but what you just read was not the worst of the multiple species extinction threats due to a CO2 caused SLIGHT lowering in pH.

The following is horrendously alarming because it involves the threat to 70% of the global calcium carbonate precipitation done by plankton. Yes, this huge source of marine food is threatened with extinction by decreased pH. But a rapid extinction rate, which is ensured by ocean acidification, would trigger ANOTHER positive feedback mechanism exacerbating global warming!

While corals are the most prominent calcifying organisms in the world’s oceans, they account for only 10 percent of global calcium carbonate production.

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70 percent of global calcium carbonate precipitation is contributed by several groups of planktonic organisms, including coccolithophores, foraminifera, and pteropods, many of which are extremely important components of ocean ecosystems.

One study concluded that a doubling of present-day concentrations of carbon dioxide could result in a 20 to 40 percent reduction in biogenic calcification of coccolithophores, resulting in malformed calcareous plates and layers of plates, while another concluded that coccolithophores exposed to carbon dioxide levels triple those of the present day could lose half their protective coatings.

The particulate organic material of coccolithophores sinks and contributes substantially to carbon mineralization deep in the water column. A reduction in the transport of organic carbon to the deep ocean would diminish the flux of food to benthic organisms.

Agelbert Note:
Benthic organisms are life forms that live in and on the bottom of the ocean floor.

Additionally, the decline of coccolithophore in an ecosystem can result in a shift to a diatom-dominated phytoplankton community, which can restructure an ecosystem at all trophic levels.


Diminution of coccolithophores could also amplify global warming trends for several reasons.

Chalky coccolithophore blooms can extend over hundreds of thousands of square kilometers, and when blooming, lighten the surface of the ocean and reflect substantial amounts of sunlight back towards space. Substantial reductions in their numbers might thus accelerate warming because more incoming solar radiation would be absorbed by the oceans.

Moreover, coccolithophores produce substantial amounts of dimethylsulphide, which account for substantial portions of atmospheric sulphate particles around which cloud droplets grow.

Reductions in cloud development might ultimately result in additional warming, as some clouds reflect incoming solar radiation back to space.

Finally, calcium carbonate is very dense, and acts as ballast, which serves to accelerate the deposition of particulate carbon in the deep ocean.

A reduction in calcium carbonate production thus could ultimately imperil a mechanism that helps remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, potentially intensifying the greenhouse effect.

A recent study concluded that decreases in ocean pH by 0.5 units or more  may severely disrupt the internal acid-base balance of sea urchins, which can ultimately result in their death.

Cephalopods such as squid might be particularly affected by increased oceanic carbon dioxide because they require very high amounts of oxygen supply to the blood to sustain their energy-demanding method of swimming. Lower levels of pH can impair oxygen supplies in these species, reducing oxygen capacity by about 50 percent with a pH decrease of 0.25 units.


Conclusion

As the Royal Society of the United Kingdom concluded in its study of ocean acidification,

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 “Without significant action to reduce CO2 emissions into the atmosphere, this may mean that there will be no place in the future oceans for many of the species and ecosystems that we know today.”

While warming associated with rising levels of carbon dioxide certainly warrants the steadfast commitment of the world’s major emitters to reverse this trend, the “other CO2 problem” may provide an equal or even more compelling rationale.

One can only hope that the world’s policymakers will mobilize more quickly to address this issue than was the case with climate change.   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.emofaces.com%2Fpng%2F200%2Femoticons%2Ffingerscrossed.png&hash=d56f8009d18b55f4cea7be68284c0521be92fc5d)

 
http://www.terrain.org/articles/21/burns.htm

Agelbert NOTE: Congratulations. You managed to reach this point without your eyes glazing over. Feel free to pass it on. Perhaps we can delay our funeral, even if it looks like Pacific Salmon will be off the menu soon.  :(

Please remember that, even if every human on earth dies tomorrow, the acidity will continue to increase for about forty years. That means that most of the species mentioned above will go extinct even though we are not around to overfish them.

The collapse of human civilization WILL NOT solve this problem. Active measures by us to restore the proper life preserving ocean chemistry is the only hope that marine species have.

The only responsible course of action is to stop the CO2 emissions NOW and begin to act aggressively to return the atmosphere to 280 ppm of CO2. As long as we continue to burn fossil fuels, we guarantee massive marine life extinctions.

I started this article with the  Mollusks because virtually ALL the fish we eat feed on them. For those who understand biosphere math at the different trophic (eating) levels, that means that the biomass of mollusks is must be least ten times that of the large fish vertebrates that feed on them.

The reason for that is that energy is lost when one life form eats another from digestion inefficiencies. Life forms are far more efficient than machines, but they still lose a lot of energy when transferring the stored energy of the prey animal to the predator.

There is NO equivalence in biomass between mollusks and the predator fish that eat them. Please remember that. If you lose the mollusks, you lose about 90% of the marine biomass of the sum of the mollusks and the predator fish.

So, the loss of a large percentage of the mollusks alone is a catastrophe for vertebrate marine life.

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When the mollusk prey, ten times the biomass of the predators, dies off, the predators go extinct too. This is not hard.

On top of all that, the plankton difficulties with CO2 will accelerate global warming!

Ocean acidification is a major extinction threat to marine species. ANYONE that tells you that marine species can "adapt" to the increased ocean acidity within a few decades (or even a century) is worthy of derision.

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 22, 2015, 03:48:34 am
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Above image illustrates why the situation in 2015 is even more threatening than it was in 2012. Only the ice that is colored light green, yellow and red is more than 3 meters thick. In 2015, ocean heat has been melting the sea ice from underneath. So, even while the currently lower temperatures of the air may have resulted in a slight increase in extent over the past week, the added ice is very thin. Ocean heat first of all goes into melting the thickest sea ice, i.e. the parts that are meters below the surface. This because the water at surface level is colder than the water underneath the surface. This explains why much of the water surface will remain covered by (very thin) ice as air temperatures are now falling (compared to air temperatures over the past few months).

 The image below (at link) shows sea surface temperatures as at September 17, 2015.

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Friday, September 18, 2015 Arctic Sea Ice Collapse Threatens - Update 9

http://arctic-news.blogspot.com/2015/09/arctic-sea-ice-collapse-threatens-update-9.html
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 22, 2015, 07:04:42 pm
Leonardo DiCaprio Pledges to Divest From Fossil Fuels as Movement Grows 50-Fold in One Year

Stefanie Spear | September 22, 2015 11:38 am

The global movement to divest from fossil fuels and invest in renewable energy has exploded, topping at $2.6 trillion and growing 50-fold in just one year, according to a new analysis released today.

To date, 430 institutions and 2,040 individuals have pledged to divest from fossil fuels from governments and investors in 43 countries and multiple sectors, including pension funds, health, education, philanthropy, faith, entertainment, climate justice and municipalities, the report from Arabella Advisors found.

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The California Public Employees’ Retirement System, the Norway Pension Fund, the Canadian Medical Association, the World Council of Churches, the University of California system, Leonardo DiCaprio and the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation have all made recent commitments to divest from fossil fuels.

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“Climate change is severely impacting the health of our planet and all of its inhabitants, and we must transition to a clean energy economy that does not rely on fossil fuels, the main driver of this global problem,”
said actor and environmentalist Leonardo DiCaprio, who announced his commitment today.

“After looking into the growing movement to divest from fossil fuels and invest in climate solutions, I was convinced to make the pledge on behalf of myself and the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation. Now is the time to divest and invest to let our world leaders know that we, as individuals and institutions, are taking action to address climate change, and we expect them to do their part this December in Paris at the U.N. climate talks.”

Today’s report measured the global growth of the fossil fuel divestment and clean energy investment movement, finding that:

•Pledges have spread to sectors not traditionally associated with divestment, including pension funds and private companies.

•Climate risk to investment portfolios is helping drive the exponential growth of divestment.

•While historically focused in the United States, the divestment movement now spans the globe.

•Thanks to increasing commitments to invest and a proliferation of fossil free products, more capital is flowing toward climate solutions.

•The faith community is making a strong case for the moral responsibility to act on climate and to provide clean energy access to the world’s poor, bolstering the divestment movement.

•University commitments have nearly tripled in the past year.

•Divestment by state and local governments worldwide is also growing.

•Foundation pledges have grown rapidly.

“The Arabella Report shows that more and more investors are reducing their carbon risk today and diversifying their portfolios with the goal to harness the upside in the sustainable clean growth industries of the future,” said Thomas Van Dyck, managing director-financial advisor of SRI Wealth Management Group. “That underscores what I see every day as a financial advisor–that the demand for fossil-free investment products is increasing.”

In a video statement at today’s press conference in New York City where the findings of the report were unveiled, Christiana Figueres, executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change said, “Investing at scale in clean, efficient power offers one of the clearest, no regret choices ever presented to human progress.”

Earlier this month, Citigroup released a report asking: given the economic, environmental and public health benefits of transitioning to a low-carbon future, why would you not take action on climate change? The report found that taking action to cut carbon pollution and slow global warming by investing in energy efficiency and renewable power generation would result in a positive return on investment, ultimately saving trillions of dollars.

“This shift in investment flows is especially critical for underserved communities and people living in poverty, who are disproportionately affected by the negative impacts of climate change,” said Rev. Lennox Yearwood, Jr., president and CEO of Hip Hop Caucus. “Climate change hits the poor first and worst. It is a racial and economic justice issue that must be addressed with solutions like the Divest-Invest movement to empower these communities, eliminate health disparities and drive the shift to a clean energy economy.”

Today’s report concludes that the divest-invest movement has reached new heights as world leaders will come together Nov. 30 – Dec. 11 at the UN climate negotiations in Paris. The report finds that the rapid growth of the divest-invest movement indicates the urgency many people are feeling to quickly transition toward a low-carbon economy and, based on growth trends over the past two years, momentum will likely continue to build regardless of the outcome at COP21 in Paris.

“If these numbers tell us anything, it’s that the divestment movement is catching fire,” said May Boeve, executive director of 350.org. “Since starting on the campuses of a few colleges in the U.S., this movement has struck a chord with people across the world who care about climate change, and convinced some of the largest and most influential institutions in the world to begin pulling their money out of climate destruction. That makes me hopeful for our future, and it’s sending a clear message to world leaders as they head into Paris: It’s time for them to follow suit, and divest our governments from fossil fuel companies too.”

http://ecowatch.com/2015/09/22/dicaprio-divest-fossil-fuels/
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 24, 2015, 01:03:42 am
Late Permian CO2 levels were broadly similar to today.

Mid Permian levels were higher at around 1000 to 2000 ppm, but early Permian CO2 levels were at today's levels or below (there was a significant ice age then).

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We report that greenhouse [CO2]atm have been significantly overestimated because previously assumed soil CO2 concentrations during carbonate formation are too high.

More accurate [CO2]atm, resulting from better constraints on soil CO2, indicate that large (1,000s of ppmV) fluctuations in [CO2]atm did not characterize ancient climates and that past greenhouse climates were accompanied by concentrations similar to those projected for A.D. 2100.

CO2 concentrations during ancient greenhouse climates were similar to those predicted for A.D. 2100 (http://www.pnas.org/content/107/2/576.shortAtmospheric)

The biggest individual flow and pipe degassing events are considered by workers in the field to have taken place over a 1-100 year timeframe.

By showing that the Permian emissions occurred faster than the slow compensation mechanisms (weathering etc.) and at rates in the ballpark of modern emissions, from CO2 levels not far off modern values (geologically speaking), Burgess et al have shown that we can't rule out a Permian-like (or Triassic-like, etc) event at the extreme end, with business-as-usual emissions continuing.
http://www.skepticalscience.com/Lee-commentary-on-Burgess-et-al-PNAS-Permian-Dating.html (http://www.skepticalscience.com/Lee-commentary-on-Burgess-et-al-PNAS-Permian-Dating.html)

Mass Extinction: Life at the Brink Smithsonian
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CO2 projected 2100 rise
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http://www.smithsonianchannel.com/videos/mass-extinction-life-at-the-brink/33962 (http://www.smithsonianchannel.com/videos/mass-extinction-life-at-the-brink/33962)

If the above is not as near as our science can get to the certainty that there is a high probability of N.T.H.E., I don't know what is.

Incremental measures = BUSINESS AS USUAL = N.T.H.E. This is not hard to understand.


Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 24, 2015, 01:06:18 am

The only way to approach this situation is to demand all fossil fuels stop being burned. I will never agree with you that we need them.

I have never argued that we need Fossil Fuels.  In fact I argue precisely the opposite, that Homo Sap did fine without them for millenia.  I argue that we can return to Stone Age technology (with some improvements) and live a rich, intellectually and culturally diverse life without all the Bling we seem to think is necessary now.

The Polynesians did it.

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They built those boats with all stone age technology.  No metal hardware whatsoever.

DONE ONCE, IT CAN BE DONE AGAIN.

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But there is an issue with the collapse scenario you may not have taken into consideration.

As you know, the ocean served as a CO2 sink for the greater part of the industrial revolution, thereby masking the seriousness of the CO2 pollution existential threat to humanity. Now, as the scientist in the Arctic lecture I posted today said, the ocean is undergoing what they call "sink degradation". That's another way of saying that it CANNOT keep sucking in CO2 at the rate it has been doing for over a century until about 2010.

Each year it's rate of CO2 absorption is slowing.

Since the rate we are emitting CO2 is NOT slowing, the atmosphere has another positive feedback goosing warming.

And, of course, the 40 years of baked in CO2 is still being emitted at increased rates as well because 40 years ago our CO2 emissions were accelerating like crazy.

The ocean CO2 emissions CLOCK is at around 1975. If we had STOPPED burning fossil fuels in 1975, NOW the oceans would begin to heal and the parts per million in the atmosphere would have reached their zenith of a  little less than 400PPM or so. Yep, CO2 is VERY persistent, once it gets in the atmosphere. And through the hypothetical 40 year period without fossil fuel burning, the oceans would be emitting right up to the present.

A cursory glance at the industrial activity of the human civilization since 1975 only leaves the brain damaged wishful thinkers with any hope that we can put a lid on atmospheric CO2 before they reach Permian extinction levels.

We have plus 4 degrees C above baseline (pre-industrial civilization) ensured if we stop burning fossil fuels TODAY. Man has never walked the earth in a climate over plus 3.3C from baseline.

But it gets worse.

There is another mechanism threatening the chances of those rooting for collapse to save the hide of a small percentage of humans.
That is particulate matter emitted by industrial civilization that, like the ocean CO2 sink I mention, masks global warming by providing some aerosol caused dimming.

We have a hell of high temperature baked in with the 4C mark.

But guess what happens when civilization collapses? The temperature JUMPS about ONE degree!


So all that "happy talk" about a collapse saving the good guys because 90% of humanity buys the farm is wishful thinking.

WHY? Because when all that particulate matter isn't there because all the factories and other machines that emit STOP emitting, the air clears within days to a few weeks and the sun becomes ANOTHER positive feedback mechanism jacking up the temperature.  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.freesmileys.org%2Femoticons%2Femoticon-anime-034.gif&hash=58a833931ab09edc67b808927994f92737db0650)  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Fdesertsmile.gif&hash=293fbde1c87dec2d81c5907e3fbac7d8e5bba7a9)

Sorry, I couldn't resist bringing in the doom smileys ;D. And no more Alaskan mountain pictures, please. I know you'll be holed up in the mountains. It's still gonna be a major challenge to survive. What do you do for water in the mountains if it DOES NOT RAIN?

The lack of clouds (see my post on "the other CO2 problem" of ocean acidification killing the critters than produce a cloud making chemical) is still another positive feedback mechanism.

And trees ALSO make that chemical. If you got a giant tree die off, your cloud cover is further reduced. That ANOTHER positive feedback mechanism to heat the cr ap out the vegetation left and kill more trees.

The dying plankton that no longer turn white (for up to a thousand square miles or so) when they are blooming is still another positive feedback mechanism enabling the oceans to absorb MORE heat.

The noble savages surviving the human cull will have to deal with a world that CONTINUES to warm rapidly for AT LEAST a century. And the staying power of that CO2 causing that heat is estimated by credentialed atmospheric scientists (this is WITHOUT any emissions whatsoever!) to be not less than a 1,000 years.

These screen shots below are from a Guy McPherson lecture but the data has NOTHING to do with his opinions. As you can see (the  literature references), it is hard science, not hyperbole or scaremongering.

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 24, 2015, 03:22:25 pm
Professor Bron Taylor Warns about extinctions

https://youtu.be/Vxygt5zZBe4
We are looking at the first human-made extinction – environmental scientist
Published on Mar 19, 2015

A new study published in the magazine 'Science' claims that humans are pushing the last boundaries the planet has in making life habitable, already speeding past limits for climate change and excessive species extinction, deforestation and ocean acidification.

RT’s Ben Swann sits down with religion and nature professor Bron Taylor at the University of Florida to discuss the current impact we are making on the planet and the possible outcomes if we do not change our course.
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 25, 2015, 03:35:24 am
https://youtu.be/O2VyJ02RFK0
Elizabeth Kolbert: Field Notes from a Catastrophe

"Science tells us where we are going, but we refuse to see".
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 26, 2015, 05:24:02 pm
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From the Siberian Times

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Scientists from the respected Trofimuk Institute of Petroleum Geology and Geophysics insist the process by which a series of craters formed was caused by the melting of gas hydrates and the emission of methane. Picture: Vladimir Olenchenko/Trofimuk Institute of Petroleum Geology and Geophysics

A new expedition to one of the mysterious Siberian giant holes found in recent years has concluded that it is a warning sign of a deadly threat to northern regions as the climate warms.

Scientists from the respected Trofimuk Institute of Petroleum Geology and Geophysics insist the process by which a series of craters formed was caused by the melting of gas hydrates and the emission of methane.

This accumulates in a pingo - a mound of earth-covered ice - which then erupts causing the formation of the strange holes that have appeared on Russia's Arctic fringe.

A pingo believed to be poised to explode 'at any moment' is now being constantly monitored by a Russian space satellite in an attempt to catch the moment when the eruption occurs.

They believe the process is similar to the Bermuda Triangle phenomenon which saw the disappearance of of ships and aircraft. This was caused by a vast eruption of methane below the Atlantic Ocean. The scientists also warn of a dire threat to both towns and cities in the extreme north, and natural gas exploration facilities and associated pipelines.

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The Yamal hole is a unique object for science. We did not have any chance to study such phenomenon before. Pictures: Vladimir Olenchenko/Trofimuk Institute of Petroleum Geology and Geophysics

Dr Igor Yeltsov, deputy director of the Trofimuk Institute, said in Novosibirsk after a visit to the most famous of the newly-formed craters: 'In the last decades, temperatures have climbed and caused the release of gas hydrates. This resembles a nuclear reaction.

'Last year I compared it with the Bermuda Triangle, because, according to our theory, the cause of this is a mass yield of methane. The volume of methane during transition from a solid to a gaseous state increases about 150 times. The Yamal hole is a unique object for science. We did not have any chance to study such phenomenon before.

'The importance of the study increases if we take into account that six kilometres from the crater is a main gas pipeline, and 36 kilometres away is the Bovanenkovo gas deposit.' Such eruptions 'can easily repeat', he warned.

'We need follow closely the processes with permafrost and gas hydrates on Yamal,' he said. 'We underestimate the danger that methane brings to us.' The risks to coalmines of methane are well appreciated yet but it carries far wider dangers.


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A new expedition to one of the mysterious Siberian giant holes found in recent years has concluded that it is a warning sign of a deadly threat to northern regions as the climate warms. Pictures: Vladimir Olenchenko/Trofimuk Institute of Petroleum Geology and Geophysics

'At the moment, most gas hydrates are safely hidden, but there are territories, like Yamal, where they begin to decompose and we must closely monitor these areas. I think that now it is premature to speak about some global catastrophe, as if it is a theory of 'methane threat', but if the warming continues at the same pace, our northern cities, located close to Yamal - such as Salekhard, Nadym, and Novy Urengoy - are in real danger.'

He explained: 'We propose to develop a big project aimed at monitoring the situation on Yamal. Taking into account active natural gas exploration, and ambitious projects like port Sabetta, we need to understand very well the natural processes so as to provide safe infrastructure.'

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Dr Vladimir Olenchenko, senior researcher at the institute: 'We spotted one more big pingo not far from the crater.' Picture: Vera Salnitskaya

If exploration is to go ahead on a large scale - as is planned in such regions - then 'we must provide proper scientific monitoring'.

The new expedition to the crater - known as B-1 - was to enable a 3D model of its structure, and to monitor the way it rapidly turned into a lake. Dr Vladimir Olenchenko, senior researcher at the institute, said: 'It is established now that initially at this site there was a pingo, quite a common phenomenon for this area. But this exact pingo, according to (historic) space photographs, was bigger than others and had a more regular, round shape.'

The scientists believe the methane either emerges through cracks from depths of the Earth, or that it is directly caused by 'the decomposition of gas hydrate'.

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The new expedition to the crater - known as B-1 - was to enable a 3D model of its structure, and to monitor the way it rapidly turned into a lake. Picture: Vladimir Olenchenko/Trofimuk Institute of Petroleum Geology and Geophysics

'According to our data, there is a hydrate layer 60 metres deep. We suggest that due to global warming some part of the hydrate decomposes, it accumulates in the pingo and then led to the eruption.' They are examining the lake in detail - is it around 25 metres deep - since its form may lead them to other erupted pingos, possibly alerting to future dangers.

'Now in the area around the crater there is active melting of the layers of ground ice, which form thaw slumps' - Arctic landslides or sinking

This is 'more evidence of global warming'.

'We spotted one more big pingo not far from the crater,' he said. 'We will not say the exact location of the pingo, because journalists or scientists could try and go there, and it is very dangerous.

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'Now in the area around the crater there is active melting of the layers of ground ice, which form thaw slumps.' Pictures: Vladimir Olenchenko/Trofimuk Institute of Petroleum Geology and Geophysics


'This pingo can potentially explode at any moment. According to the preliminary estimates this pingo is bigger than the one that preceded the famous crater. We will monitor this pingo remotely from space. Now we are trying to make the list of the features to easily determine if the pingo is potentially dangerous.'

Yamal is seen as high risk, while other permafrost regions, for example Yakutia (Sakha Republic), would need a 6-7C warming to be vulnerable. Dr Yeltsov said: 'It is not all permafrost areas that are in danger, having pingos associated with methane which can explode.  There are areas where the permafrost is rather stable.' The institute has proposed to create Yamal research centre under the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. A decision is awaited.

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Dr Igor Yeltsov, deputy director of the Trofimuk Institute: 'We propose to develop a big project aimed at monitoring the situation on Yamal.' Picture: Vera Salnitskya

Yamal - in the Yamal-Nenets autonomous district of northwest Siberia - has natural gas reserves here of around 55 trillion cubic metres.

'We constantly try to communicate with different structures - government, Gazprom, research institutes - to develop research projects together.' Work is underway with oil giant Total on gas hydrates on Yamal. 'We have several joint projects with them.' He warned: 'Methane deposits, according to various estimates, count for about 200 trillion cubic metres. Gas hydrates hide million times more methane.

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How did the crater change from July 2015 untill September 2015. Pictures: Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous region governor's press-service, Vasily Bogoyavlensky, Vladimir Pushkarev

'Now we face serious changes of temperature all over the Earth. Part of this large scale process, only the tip of the iceberg, we call global warming. It leads to the fact that gas hydrates lose their solid condition. One of the examples of this process is the Yamal crater. There are two main theories of its appearance, but both of them are based on methane as the main cause of the formation of the crater.'

Crater B-1 - totally some 60 metres deep - was first noticed last year. It sparked a flurry of interest around the world, and speculation on how this phenomenon was caused, ranging from meteorites, to stray missiles, to UFOs from outer space. Another crater known as B-2, some 20 km from B-1 - is ringed by 30 'baby' or 'satellite' craters.

At the Siberian Times

http://siberiantimes.com/science/casestudy/news/n0415-danger-of-methane-explosions-on-yamal-peninsula-scientists-warn/ (http://siberiantimes.com/science/casestudy/news/n0415-danger-of-methane-explosions-on-yamal-peninsula-scientists-warn/)

Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 27, 2015, 03:36:10 am
https://youtu.be/QPlt2XRt5Y0
Earth's Sixth Mass Extinction Has Begun and Could Endanger the Human Race, U.S. Study Confirms
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Research Articles ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
Accelerated modern human–induced species losses: Entering the sixth mass extinction
Gerardo Ceballos,  Paul R. Ehrlich,  Anthony D. Barnosky,  Andrés García, Robert M. Pringle and  Todd M. Palmer + Author Affiliations
Science Advances 19 Jun 2015: Vol. 1, no. 5, e1400253 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.1400253
http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/1/5/e1400253
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 27, 2015, 04:17:29 pm
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The Emergency Climate Movement
Margaret Klein Salamon, The Climate Mobilization | September 26, 2015 11:35 am

We are living in a state of planetary emergency. To have a chance of averting the collapse of civilization and the destruction of the natural world, we must mobilize our society on the scale of World War II to achieve net zero greenhouse gas emissions [1] at wartime speed. The fact that we have already heated the world to such dangerous levels and show little sign of stopping, is evidence of widespread institutional failure. We cannot expect anyone else to save us. We must organize to save ourselves.


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The aforementioned truth—while daunting and overwhelming— has the potential to be utterly transformative, for individuals and for society as a whole. Yet it has been too often soft-pedaled by environmental organizations and communicators who advocate incrementalism over boldness, vagueness over specificity and personal behavior change over systemic change.

These strategies, in an attempt to be palatable and politically “realistic,” are abdicating the climate movement’s greatest strategic asset: the truth. Embracing the truth was at the heart of Gandhi’s Satyagraha campaign, the Civil Rights Movement, the Velvet Revolution and the vast majority of triumphant social movements through history.

The Emergency Climate Movement: Embracing Climate Truth

In recent months, a new, increasingly powerful segment of the climate movement has been taking shape. A coalition of those who openly recognize the existential threat of the climate crisis and advocate for a solution that is scientifically realistic and morally tenable: emergency mobilization.

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San Diego Rally for Mobilization, March, 15. Photo Credit: Jerry Phelps

The Climate Mobilization (TCM), a one-year old group that I founded and direct, has been a central part of this hopeful shift away from carbon gradualism—slowly reducing emissions while effectively maintaining business as usual. Philip Sutton, a member of TCM’s advisory board, puts this shift in perspective in his excellent paper, Striking Targets:
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“Over those last 27 years, while all the research, activism and negotiation has been going on, the climate has actually become dangerous. So, the key goal now must be to provide, at the 11th hour, real protection for the vulnerable people, species and ecosystems of the world. The principal struggle must shift, from the clash between no action and some action, to the crucial struggle between those who want to constrain reform to levels that are not too disruptive and those who want action that will provide highly effective and timely protection.”

In other words, isolated actions such as the Obama Administration’s Clean Power Plan, putting a price on carbon or even policies aiming for net zero emissions by 2050, are no longer sufficient.

Perhaps if we had implemented these measures 30 years ago, they would have been adequate to maintain a safe climate. But that time has passed. Only emergency action—a mobilization of our entire economy and society—will protect us now.
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In June, Reverend Lennox Yearwood, Jr. and Tom Weis, leaders in the climate movement and members of TCM’s advisory board, echoed TCM’s call for zero emissions by 2025 by writing in “America’s Zero Emissions Imperative“:

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“Some will no doubt call this bold national goal unrealistic, but they would underestimate the innovative genius and social conscience of the American people. America has a long and proud history of overcoming seemingly insurmountable odds (consider World War II, Apollo program and Abolitionist movement). What is unrealistic is thinking we can put off for decades action that is desperately needed now to ensure our survival as a species.”

Tom Weis followed up on that article by writing an open letter to President Obama, calling on him to set reducing U.S. emissions to net zero by 2025—through an “all hands on deck societal mobilization at wartime speed”—as the U.S.’s commitment in the upcoming UN climate talks in Paris.


This letter is the single strongest display of public support for emergency climate mobilization that has ever been made. Signers include Lester Brown, Terry Tempest Williams, Mark Ruffalo, Ed Begley, Jr., David Suzuki, Winona LaDuke, Tim DeChristopher, Yeb Sano, Josh Fox, IPCC Coordinating Lead Author Ove Hoegh-Guldberg, the former chair of the Australian Coal Association, the founder of the Woods Hole Research Center, the founder of the Global Catholic Climate Movement, the founder of the New Evangelical Partnership for the Common Good, the former secretary of the California Environmental Protection Agency and the four co-founders of The Climate Mobilization.


The Climate Mobilization: Catalyzing the Emergency Climate Movement

I developed the idea for the Pledge to Mobilize—a denial-fighting, power-building tool—while earning my PhD in clinical psychology and working as a psychotherapist. Working with a team of co-founders, allies and consultants all over the world, we turned an idea into a reality and formed The Climate Mobilization. The pledge is a one-page document that any American—and, since we have expanded internationally, anyone on earth—can sign, it is a tool designed to help people fully face climate truth and channel the deep emotions that arise into effective political engagement.

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New York City Mobilizers, Aug. 15 after a Teach-In in Battery Park City

The pledge is a public acknowledgment that the climate crisis threatens the collapse of civilization, as well as call for the U.S. to initiate a WWII-scale climate mobilization to eliminate our national net greenhouse gas emissions by 2025 and enlist in an international effort to mobilize off fossil fuels and restore a safe global climate. The pledge also contains a set of political and personal commitments. Signers agree to support elected officials and political candidates who have pledged to mobilize with their vote, as well as time or money and to spread the truth of climate change and the Pledge to Mobilize, to others.

The pledge encourages active hope and political empowerment. Using the WWII metaphor, we illustrate a time in which the U.S. successfully mobilized against an existential crisis. The pledge challenges people to grow their awareness, cope with the reality and become active agents for effective change by spreading climate truth and sharing the Pledge to Mobilize with others.

The Pledge to Mobilize has been signed by more than 2,400 Americans and international allies including Winona LaDuke, Marshall Saunders, the Founder of Citizens Climate Lobby; Catharine Thomasson, Director of Physicians for Social Responsibility; Randy Hayes, the Founder of Rainforest Action Network; Paul Gilding, former head of Greenpeace and author of The Great Disruption.

The pledge has also been gaining momentum with political candidates and elected officials. Recent signers include: Des Moines Mayor Frank Cowie, Iowa Legislator Dan Kelley, San Jose City Councilor Ash Kalra, Des Moines City Councilor Skip Moore, San Fransicso Mayoral candidate Amy Farah Weiss and Florida congressional candidate Alina Valdes. Councilman Ash Kalra and Mayoral candidate Amy Farah Weis can be seen taking the Pledge to Mobilize on video.

We have recently started a Mobilize Iowa campaign in which we take the Pledge to Mobilize directly to the 2016 presidential candidates. Our current nation-wide initiative is the Moral Mobilization, which will run from now—coinciding with the Pope’s visit—through the Paris talks. The Moral Mobilization seeks to amplify and concretize Pope Francis’ message of “ecological conversion.” During Moral Mobilization events, community leaders will read from the Encyclical and publicly Pledge to Mobilize as they call on Congress, the White House and all levels of government, to do the same.
The Emergency Climate Movement is just getting started. We understand that everything we love is on the line and that inaction or insufficient action will lead to unfathomable catastrophe. In response, we are redefining “realistic” to what is necessary and true. We hope you join us.

For a more in-depth version of these arguments, in a beautifully illustrated PDF, see The Climate Mobilization’s Manifesto: The Transformative Power of Climate Truth.
For the scientific case for Emergency Mobilization see RECOUNT by David Spratt and the Case for Mobilization by Ezra Silk and Margaret Klein Salamon.

[1] When I say “Net zero emissions,” I mean that, it may not be possible to eliminate all U.S. greenhouse gas emissions in the short timeline that The Climate Mobilization calls for. If so, the emissions that remain will be balanced out through carbon-negative techniques such as reforestation, permaculture and biochar. This vision of “net zero emissions” does not include corporate land grabs or schemes in which the U.S. discounts its own emissions through foreign carbon sequestration. Further, it is a stepping stone to the U.S. eliminating all remaining GHG emissions and becoming carbon negative. For more information, see the Pledge to Mobilize or the Case for Mobilization.

http://ecowatch.com/2015/09/26/emergency-climate-movement/

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Atmospheric CO2 - Increase Since 1800

Mauna Loa Observatory | NOAA-ESRL Data

As of Sept. 13 - 19, 2015 + 120.61 ppm
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Mass extinctions due to rapidly escalating levels of CO2 are recorded since as long as 580 million years ago. As our anthropogenic global emissions of CO2 are rising at a rate for which no precedence is known from the geological record with the exception of asteroid impacts, another wave of extinctions is unfolding. (http://theconversation.com/another-link-between-co2-and-mass-extinctions-of-species-12906)
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 27, 2015, 08:16:15 pm
What part about the REDUCTION in photosynthetic efficiency from INCREASED carbon dioxide caused HEAT do you fossil fuelers not get?

Here's the biosphere nuts and bolts of it:

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Climate Myth...

CO2 is plant food

Earth's current atmospheric CO2 concentration is almost 390 parts per million (ppm).  Adding another 300 ppm of CO2 to the air has been shown by literally thousands of experiments to greatly increase the growth or biomass production of nearly all plants.  This growth stimulation occurs because CO2 is one of the two raw materials (the other being water) that are required for photosynthesis.  Hence, CO2 is actually the "food" that sustains essentially all plants on the face of the earth, as well as those in the sea.  And the more CO2 they "eat" (absorb from the air or water), the bigger and better they grow. (source: Plants Need CO2) [/color]

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An argument made by those who prefer to see a bright side to climate change is that carbon dioxide (CO2) being released by the burning of fossil fuels is actually good for the environment. This conjecture is based on simple and appealing logic: if plants need CO2 for their growth, then more of it should be better. We should expect our crops to become more abundant and our flowers to grow taller and bloom brighter.

However, this "more is better" philosophy is not the way things work in the real world. There is an old saying, "Too much of a good thing can be a bad thing." For example, if a doctor tells you to take one pill of a certain medicine, it does not follow that taking four is likely to heal you four times faster or make you four times better. It's more likely to make you sick.

It is possible to boost growth of some plants with extra CO2, under controlled conditions inside of greenhouses. Based on this,  'skeptics' make their claims of benefical botanical effects in the world at large. Such claims fail to take into account that increasing the availability of one substance that plants need requires other supply changes for benefits to accrue.  It also fails to take into account that a warmer earth will see an increase in deserts and other arid lands, reducing the area available for crops.

Plants cannot live on CO2 alone; a complete plant metabolism depends on a number of elements. It is a simple task to increase water and fertilizer and protect against insects in an enclosed greenhouse but what about doing it in the open air, throughout the entire Earth? Just as increasing the amount of starch alone in a person's diet won't lead to a more robust and healthier person, for plants additional CO2 by itself cannot make up for deficiencies of other compounds and elements.

What would be the effects of an increase of CO2 on agriculture and plant growth in general?

1. CO2 enhanced plants will need extra water both to maintain their larger growth as well as to compensate for greater moisture evaporation as the heat increases. Where will it come from? In many places rainwater is not sufficient for current agriculture and the aquifers they rely on are running dry throughout the Earth (1, 2).

On the other hand, as predicted by climate research, we are experiencing more intense storms with increased rainfall rates throughout much of the world. One would think that this should be good for agriculture. Unfortunately when rain falls in short, intense bursts it does not have time to soak into the ground. Instead, it  quickly floods into creeks, then rivers, and finally out into the ocean, often carrying away large amounts of soil and fertilizer.

2. Unlike Nature, our way of agriculture does not self-fertilize by recycling all dead plants, animals and their waste. Instead we have to constantly add artificial fertilizers produced by energy-intensive processes mostly fed by hydrocarbons, particularly from natural gas which will eventually be depleted. Increasing the need for such fertilizer competes for supplies of natural gas and oil, creating competition between other needs and the manufacture of fertilizer. This ultimately drives up the price of food.

3. Too high a concentration of CO2 causes a reduction of photosynthesis in certain of plants. There is also evidence from the past of major damage to a wide variety of plants species from a sudden rise in CO2 (See illustrations below). Higher concentrations of CO2 also reduce the nutritional quality of some staples, such as wheat.

4. As is confirmed by long-term  experiments, plants with exhorbitant supplies of CO2 run up against  limited availability of other nutrients. These long term projects show that while some plants exhibit a brief and promising burst of growth upon initial exposure to C02, effects such as the  "nitrogen plateau" soon truncate this benefit

5. Plants raised with enhanced CO2 supplies and strictly isolated from insects behave differently than if the same approach is tried in an otherwise natural setting. For example, when the growth of soybeans is boosted out in the open this creates changes in plant chemistry that makes these specimens more vulnerable to insects, as the illustration below shows (at link).

Plant defenses go down as carbon dioxide levels go up, the researchers found. Soybeans grown at elevated CO2 levels attract many more adult Japanese beetles than plants grown at current atmospheric carbon dioxide levels. Science Daily; March 25, 2008. (Credit: Photo courtesy of Evan Delucia)


More than 55 million years ago, the Earth experienced a rapid jump in global Carbon Dioxide levels that raised temperatures across the planet. Now, researchers studying plants from that time have found that the rising temperatures may have boosted the foraging of insects. As modern temperatures continue to rise, the researchers believe the planet could see increasing crop damage and forest devastation. Science Daily; Feb. 15, 2008

https://youtu.be/Er3iD5PIR00
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Global Warming reduces plant productivity. As Carbon Dioxide increases, vegetation in Northern Latitudes also increases. However, this does not compensate for decreases of vegetation in Southern Latitudes. The overall amount of vegetation worldwide declines

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6. Likely the worst problem is that increasing CO2 will increase temperatures throughout the Earth. This will make deserts and other types of dry land grow. While deserts increase in size, other eco-zones, whether tropical, forest or grassland will try to migrate towards the poles. Unfortunately it does not follow that soil conditions will necessarily favor their growth even at optimum temperatures.

In conclusion, it would be reckless to keep adding CO2 to the atmosphere. Assuming there are any positive impacts on agriculture in the short term, they will be overwhelmed by the negative impacts of climate change.

Added CO2 will likely shrink the range available to plants while increasing the size of deserts. It will also increase the requirements for water and soil fertility as well as plant damage from insects.

Increasing CO2 levels would only be beneficial inside of highly controlled, enclosed spaces like greenhouses.

Basic rebuttal written by doug_bostrom

UPDATE July 2015:


The negative effects of climate change far outweigh any positive effect from increased CO2 levels.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcDUaBO8T34&feature=player_embedded

http://www.skepticalscience.com/co2-plant-food.htm

The fossil fuel industry has been trying to push that STUPID, "CO2 is great for plants" baloney for at least two decades. Yeah, they use CO2. Yeah, they NEED CO2. Yeah, More CO2 means they can absorb it better and grow faster.

HOWEVER, they don't do ANY of those things when they are forced outside the BAND of temperature and other conditions that are sine qua non for them. It's BIOSHERE MATH 101.

The fossil fuel industry is pushing the CO2 happy talk TOTALLY out of context, as you are trying to do. The desertification and deforestation is NOT being counterbalanced by the greening of colder areas now accessing more CO2 due to warming.

What part of this do the fossil fuelers not understand?
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 27, 2015, 10:52:58 pm
https://youtu.be/-KCgQpRUS0o
The Time is NOW.
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 28, 2015, 02:53:48 pm
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Please Pass this news of the progress in the pitched battle to save our biosphere from destruction by irresponsible people. Maybe it will help some of them to learn to read.  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F4fvfcja.gif&hash=34a9a570347d39a0a892bc1f376c5e8b88add6b5) At any rate, it is guaranteed to ruin the day of fossil fuelers!  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F5yjbztv.gif&hash=d3dc6c69f3fc5ad39c44fb5466265476f34e5a76)

Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 29, 2015, 08:18:40 pm
Wondered if you saw this. I find this very encouraging. Frankly, I never thought I'd hear about anything like this guy, Jay Faison. He was on NPR today.

http://news.yahoo.com/republican-megadonor-urges-talk-climate-change-solutions-180041894--politics.html (http://news.yahoo.com/republican-megadonor-urges-talk-climate-change-solutions-180041894--politics.html)

I never heard of him before today, but he sounds like an endangered species...a Republican with good sense. It will be interesting to see if he can have a real impact. According to what he said, his polling reveals that even 55% of conservative Republicans believe climate change is real now.



Thanks for the tip, Eddie. I hadn't heard about him either. Maybe sanity is catching on among the elite.   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.emofaces.com%2Fpng%2F200%2Femoticons%2Ffingerscrossed.png&hash=d56f8009d18b55f4cea7be68284c0521be92fc5d)
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 29, 2015, 10:54:15 pm
Could forests store more carbon as the climate warms?  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.desismileys.com%2Fsmileys%2Fdesismileys_2932.gif&hash=0eaec4791a5825821998245e7fcd7744b56557fe)

http://grist.org/climate-energy/could-forests-store-more-carbon-as-the-climate-warms/


Agelbert COMMENT: The problem of biosphere CO2 handling capacity is over simplified by the article. Studies have already proven that increased CO2 levels will actually reduce plant productivity.
 

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An argument made by those who prefer to see a bright side to climate change is that carbon dioxide (CO2) being released by the burning of fossil fuels is actually good for the environment. This conjecture is based on simple and appealing logic: if plants need CO2 for their growth, then more of it should be better. We should expect our crops to become more abundant and our flowers to grow taller and bloom brighter.

However, this "more is better" philosophy is not the way things work in the real world. There is an old saying, "Too much of a good thing can be a bad thing." For example, if a doctor tells you to take one pill of a certain medicine, it does not follow that taking four is likely to heal you four times faster or make you four times better. It's more likely to make you sick.
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Here's the full story for readers of WHY CO2 excess HARMS plants in general and phytoplankton, the greatest generators of oxygen and absorbers of CO2 on the planet, in particular.

Global Warming Reduces Plant Productivity (http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/climate-change/global-warming-is-with-us/msg3898/#msg3898)

Over 50% of the photosynthesis of planet Earth is done by phytoplankton.
Ocean acidification from an excess of CO2 is an existential threat to phytoplankton, which just happen to be the base of the ocean food chain. 

The forests, as is plainly stated in the link above, will have reduced productivity as the planet warms, despite the added CO2 concentration. So they will not be able to take up the slack, so to speak.

A human can drink water at a pH of 7.4 and not consider it a problem. In general, a water with a pH < (less than) 7 is considered acidic and with a pH > (greater than) 7 is considered basic. The normal range for pH in surface water systems is 6.5 to 8.5 and for groundwater systems 6 to 8.5.

The oceans have a far more narrow range of pH due to the calcium carbonate forming chemistry of mollusks, coral and phytoplankton.

In vivo laboratory studies detailed in the link below have proven that phytoplankton die at a pH of 7.4 or lower. CO2 caused ocean acidification will kill them if we do not stop burning fossil fuels.

That means we will lose over 50% of the biosphere's ability to turn CO2 into oxygen, cause the extinction of countless species that feed on the phytoplankton marine food chain base, and accelerate the warming of the planet, all at the same time.
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As the Royal Society of the United Kingdom concluded in its study of ocean acidification, "Without significant action to reduce CO2 emissions into the atmosphere, this may mean that there will be no place in the future oceans for many of the species and ecosystems that we know today."

The Other CO2 Problem (http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/climate-change/global-warming-is-with-us/msg3865/#msg3865)

Unless we are planning to set aside a land area full of duckweed ponds, equivalent in size to one fifth the size of the global oceans (the present phytoplankton coverage that will die from a CO2 caused acidification pH of <7.4), we are engaging in wishful thinking to think forests can take up the slack from phytoplankton extinction.

I am not being facetious when I mention duckweed. Duckweed is the fastest growing flowering plant known to man. It is conceivable that, if you threw several trillion dollars at buying land about the size of South America and putting duckweed ponds all over it, you could replace the dead phytoplankton. 90% of the marine species would go extinct, (Sarcasm alert) but you can't have everything, right?

I think we should all agree that eliminating the use of fossil fuels is smarter, cheaper and more humane.

Distinguished Professor Emeritus Richard Somerville, world-renowned climate scientist and author of "The Forgiving Air: Understanding Environmental Change," discusses the scientific case for urgent action to limit climate change.

The Scientific Case for Urgent Action to Limit Climate Change (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4Q271UaNPo&feature=player_embedded)
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 30, 2015, 03:23:03 am
https://youtu.be/gUzuj4-s600
Climate Change: Have We Reached the Point of No Return?
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 30, 2015, 02:56:09 pm
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This is why some people like Alaskan mountains.  ;D


The REALLY inconvenient truth about the IPCC projections:
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The following alarming, but still too conservative, study EXCLUDES the ABRUPT climate change positive feedback loop effects we are now beginning to experience.

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 30, 2015, 11:31:33 pm
The new EL NIÑO of 2015 is far worse than the 1997 EL NIÑO.
https://youtu.be/whsQbIwWjBo
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 30, 2015, 11:42:21 pm
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The combination image below shows that sea surface temperature anomalies still are very high. The left panel shows that anomalies on September 25, 2015 were as high as +6°C (+10.8°F) in the North Atlantic (location marked by green circle), compared to 1901-2011.

The right panel shows anomalies on September 26, 2015, in the North Atlantic of +0.81°C (+1.46°F) and in the North Pacific of +1.02°C (+1.84°F), compared to 1971-2000.

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http://arctic-news.blogspot.com/
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on October 01, 2015, 12:49:27 am
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Satellite image of a massive bloom of phytoplankton off the coast of Oregon and Washington on July 26, 2014. Image courtesy NASA Earth Observatory.

This summer’s West Coast algal bloom was unusual. What would usual look like?

September 30, 2015

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Previously, I described a record-breaking algal bloom that is ongoing off the West Coast of North America, stretching from California to the waters of the Gulf of Alaska. High levels of the algal toxin domoic acid led to the closures of recreational razor clam harvests in Oregon and Washington and large portions of Washington’s Dungeness crab fishery.  Health advisories were issued to sardine and anchovy fishers along part of the California coastline.  NOAA scientists are investigating the toxic bloom as one of many possible causes of death of over 30 whales.

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This May 22, 2015, photo shows a fin whale calf floating off Marmot Bay in Kodiak Island, Alaska. This calf is one of an unusually large number of whale deaths in the Western Gulf of Alaska since May. Photo by Rob Baer, Alaska Department of Fish and Game.

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https://www.climate.gov/news-features/event-tracker/summer%E2%80%99s-west-coast-algal-bloom-was-unusual-what-would-usual-look
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on October 01, 2015, 10:21:37 pm
This might have something to do with why Hurricane Joaquin is getting stronger...


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And YEAH, that is a lot hotter than it's supposed to be and was throughout the 20th century. CO2, the gift that keeps giving while the fossil fuel industry profits keep coming in.  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimages.sodahead.com%2Fpolls%2F000370273%2Fpolls_Smiley_Angry_256x256_3451_356175_answer_4_xlarge.png&hash=15577651daa4c35ff4d6b26217f99db6ebfde0b3)
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on October 01, 2015, 11:16:44 pm
As the image below shows, nearly all the thick (over 3 m) multi-year sea ice has now disappeared, setting up a dangerous situation for the future that is much more dangerous than the situation was back in 2012. The thicker sea ice used to act as a buffer, consuming ocean heat in the melting process.

Without thicker sea ice,
ocean heat threatens to melt the sea ice from below right up to the surface, causing the entire sea ice to collapse as more open water will go hand in hand with stronger winds and waves.

In case of such a collapse, sunlight that was previously reflected back into space will instead be absorbed by the water, causing rapid rise of the temperature of the water. In places such as the East Siberian Arctic Shelf, the water is on a average only 50 m deep, so warmer water is able to reach the seafloor more easily there.


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The water of the Arctic Ocean is very warm, not only at the surface, but even more so underneath the surface. The danger is that strong winds will mix warm water all the way down to the seafloor, where it could destabilize sediments that can contain huge amounts of methane in the form of hydrates and free gas.
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Arctic News Thursday, October 1, 2015

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on October 02, 2015, 12:39:14 am
Professor Gerardo Cebellos is the lead author of the latest study on the evidence that we are in the Sixth Mass Extinction.

I prepared a post to counter Ashvin's view that concentrated feed operations are a bigger threat than CO2 pollution. I will post it here soon.

The point is that that meat eating is a subset of our unsustainable activity, not the proximate MAIN cause of environmental degradation.

We do have to switch to insect protein, of course. That's a no-brainer. But you are dreaming if you think that is going to stop the Sixth Mass Extinction in any significant way.

WHY?

Because there is a LOT more going on out there, due to the CO2 build up, that is contributing to the main cause of BOTH land and marine mammalian vertebrate species extinctions.

Yes, eliminating the concentrated animal feeding operations and all the crop land needed to raise food for them from the energy mix would reduce our CO2 emissions. So we must do that. But, if we don't go 100% renewable energy, it will not be enough to STOP the mass extinction going on now that threatens vertebrate mammals,  which we just happen to be, in particular. WE are destroying OUR habitat by burning fossil fuels, along with the habitat of countless other species.

Since Ashvin appears to have gone away for a while WITHOUT answering the question I asked him on the last post, I'll just post the abridged version of my post. I'll post the whole enchilada with references in an article when I get to it.  ;D Enjoy the short version:

I am all for switching to insect protein powder for yummy hamburgers. I am all for putting wildlife corridors on all agricultural land where humans (biologist caretakers armed to deal with trespassing humans excluded) are not allowed and will be shot on sight with arrows and used for owl and eagle species recovery efforts.

We need to do that. We need to free range whatever animals we raise and we need to severely cut back on how many of them we raise. We need to make more efficient use of farmed animal droppings for the express purpose of totally eliminating chemical fertilizers.

But if we do all that BEFORE we address the CO2 problem, and continue to burn off present estimates of global carbon reserves, the wildlife extinction will accelerate, not slow down.

WHY?


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Figure 6: The Paleocene-Eocene boundary thermal maximum.

THIS was February of 2013:
Another link between CO2 and mass extinctions of species

In February 2013, CO2 levels had risen to near 396.80ppm at Mauna Loa Atmospheric Observatory, compared to 393.54ppm in February 2012. This rise - 3.26ppm per year - is at the highest rate yet recorded. Further measurements show CO2 is at near 400ppm of the atmosphere over the Arctic. At this rate the upper stability threshold of the Antarctic ice sheet, defined at about 500–600ppm CO2 would be reached later this century (although hysteresis of the ice sheets may slow down melting).

Our global carbon reserves - including coal, oil, oil shale, tar sands, gas and coal-seam gas - contain considerably more than 10,000 billion tonnes of carbon (see Figure 5). This amount of carbon, if released into the atmosphere, is capable of raising atmospheric CO2 levels to higher than 1000ppm. Such a rise in atmospheric radiative forcing will be similar to that of the Paleocene-Eocene boundary thermal maximum (PETM), which happened about 55 million years-ago (see Figures 1, 2 and 4).

Ashvin, please digest the following sentence about the 3.26ppm per year rate referenced above.

But the rate of rise surpasses those of this thermal maximum by about ten times. (http://theconversation.com/another-link-between-co2-and-mass-extinctions-of-species-12906)

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Mass extinctions due to rapidly escalating levels of CO2 are recorded since as long as 580 million years ago. As our anthropogenic global emissions of CO2 are rising, at a rate for which no precedence is known from the geological record with the exception of asteroid impacts, another wave of extinctions is unfolding. (http://theconversation.com/another-link-between-co2-and-mass-extinctions-of-species-12906)

Ashvin, the most important issue of our time is the existential threat we face from CO2 pollution. The other empathy deficit disordered activites humans are foolishly, greedily and stupidly pursuing need to be addressed. Those activities produce habit a destruction.

But CO2 is the elephant in the high extinctions rate room.

The MOST negatively impacted areas of our biosphere (i. e. THE TROPICS from land deforestation and desertification and ocean acidification plus heat  MORE than from atmospheric temperature increase) from CO2 pollution are PRECISELY where the our biosphere's BIODIVERSITY is concentrated.

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The evidence is clear. That is, along with the increase in CO2 ppm, the annual RATE of rise of annual CO2 is increasing too.

The most important issue of our time is the existential threat we face from CO2 pollution. That is causing far more habitat destruction than all the other unsustainable human activities.

CO2 is the elephant in the high extinctions rate room. If the above has not convinced you of that, I fear hard experience starting around 2040 will.
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on October 02, 2015, 03:22:37 pm
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Since June 2006, we have experienced an influx of juvenile Guadalupe fur seals, Arctocephalus townsendi, in the Pacific Northwest. (http://mmi.oregonstate.edu/node/243) This species is typically only found along the coasts of Southern and Central California and Baja California.

Endangered Fur Seals Dying at Alarming Rate Along California Coast

Taylor Hill, TakePart | October 2, 2015 11:17 am

The threatened Guadalupe fur seal is getting stranded on California’s coastline in record numbers, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

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Of the 80 fur seals, 42 were found dead and only 16 of the 38 found alive survived. Photo credit: Shutterstock

The marine mammals typically spend their time off Mexico’s coast, but at least 80 of the pinnipeds have ended up on California’s shore emaciated, dehydrated or dead. That’s a rate eight times higher than what’s documented in a typical year.

Of the 80 fur seals, 42 were found dead and only 16 of the 38 found alive survived.

The unprecedented occurrence has led NOAA to declare an unusual mortality event for the seals, meaning its scientists will devote more time to studying the species and more samples from rescued animals will be evaluated.

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The fur seal’s struggles come during the same year that a record 3,500 California sea lions have washed ashore along California’s coast.

Scientists think the unusually warm waters in the eastern Pacific Ocean could be affecting the health of marine mammals. The large swath of unseasonably hot water is wreaking havoc on everything from Washington’s crabs to Oregon’s algae and it could be pushing fish species that seals and sea lions rely on as food sources farther north than the animals can travel.

At the Pacific Marine Mammal Center in Laguna Beach, California, the rescue facility took in four Guadalupe fur seals between January and May. Executive Director Keith Matassa says there haven’t been any reports since then.

“That’s actually more than we typically rescue in a year anyway,” he said and 2015 has been a record year for overall marine mammal recoveries for the facility. “Look at our averages from 1998 to 2014 and we rescue about 188 sea lions and elephant seals a year. For 2015, we’re already at 535 rescues.”

Right now, it’s the slow season. Adult seals and sea lions are out at their rookeries, taking care of their newborn pups, most of which were born in June and July. At about six months old, the pups start to venture out on their own and that’s when the reports start flooding in.

“Hopefully they wait until November or December—when they’re a little more capable of taking care of themselves,” Matassa said.

http://ecowatch.com/2015/10/02/fur-seals-dying/

Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on October 02, 2015, 08:33:04 pm
https://youtu.be/pTdkflYkVtc

Dahr Jamail on May 15, 2015 tells it like it is.

For more information on Dahr Jamail please visit http://dahrjamail.net
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on October 03, 2015, 03:34:58 am
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The following Sea Surface Temperature (SST) screen shot was the eight day average BEFORE Joaquin gained strength. Notice how hot the ocean was then:

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It does not take a rocket scientist to understand that a hotter ocean means MORE HURRICANES in the Atlantic and MORE TYPHOONS in the Pacific. Get used to it.  :(
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on October 03, 2015, 09:30:22 pm
The PLUS 2 degree C world, now locked in according to the IPCC, is BAD NEWS.

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The year 2014 was the warmest year across global land and ocean surfaces since records began in 1880. The annually-averaged temperature was 0.69°C (1.24°F) above the 20th century average of 13.9°C (57.0°F), easily breaking the previous records of 2005 and 2010 by 0.04°C (0.07°F).
https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/global/201413 (https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/global/201413)


THAT IS, 2014 had an AVERAGE global temperature of 58.24°F = 14.58°C.

In 2015 an EL NIÑO began. EL NIÑOs always flush a LOT of heat from the oceans into the atmosphere. They can last more than just one year.

So, 2015 will top 2014. It is safe to add another 0.04°C (0.07°F) for an estimate of 2015 temperature. That will bring us to  58.31°F = 14.62°C.

If we continue to rise  0.04°C per year, we will reach the IPCC plus 2 degree C red line (NOW inevitable according to them), in about 28 years.

That is assuming we are ONLY 0.85°C above the pre-industrial baseline.

If we are at 1.00 °C above the pre-industrial baseline, as some claim is the case, we will reach plus 2.00°C of 15.62°C = 60.12 °F in about 25 years.

This, though lower than the previously set IPCC  plus 2.00°C mark of 16.49 oC  (IPCC, 2007), doesn't sound too bad. That sounds like we have that much time to deal with it. But that reasoning has a problem. 

All that ASSUMES a LINEAR annual temperature increase of 0.04°C.

All that IGNORES the feedback acceleration of heat reinforcing now going on. 

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The 1990 global atmospheric mean temperature is assumed to be 14.49 oC (Shakil, 2005; NASA, 2002; DATAWeb, 2012) which sets the 2 oC anomaly above which humanity will lose control of her ability to limit the effects of global warming on major climatic and environmental systems at 16.49 oC  (IPCC, 2007).

The major Permian extinction event temperature is 80 oF (26.66 oC) which is a temperature anomaly of  12.1766 oC above the 1990 global mean temperature of 14.49 oC (Wignall, 2009; Shakil,  2005).

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on October 04, 2015, 12:57:13 am
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https://youtu.be/ESGsS9alNqc

Published on Mar 31, 2014

Join the movement and stay up to date by visiting: http://www.indigochildfilms.org/

Watch this documentary and learn from a selection of Canada's foremost Climate Scientists as they discuss their research relating to our changing planet.

Dr. Kimberley Strong (U of T) explains how we can see CO2 emissions traveling from their source around the world.

Dr. John Smol (Queen's) recounts the decades of years spent in the arctic watching ancient ponds evaporate before his eyes.

Dr. Richard Peltier (U of T) gives a thorough explanation of sea level rise through melting land ice, glacial isostatic adjustment, and plate tectonics.

Dr. Rich Petrone (Waterloo) accounts for the importance of forest systems and peatlands, then gives us an ominous warning about CO2 emissions.

Dr. Jason Gerhard (Western) explains the importance of groundwater and the danger and realities of contamination.

Dr. Gordon McBean and Dr. Slobodan Simonovic (Western) outline the dangers of flooding and the probability of extreme weather events.

Dr. Sean Kheraj (York) provides a historical look at Canada's environmental history in the distant and recent past.

Dr. Jennifer Lynes, Dr. Johanna Wandel (Waterloo) and Dr. Manuel Riemer (Wilfrid Laurier) hint at solutions to this problem going forward.
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It is not enough to know the data and pat ourselves on the back.

Year by year we see the evidence mount and the dots interconnect on a global scale, but knowledge is not power unless it is applied in a productive way.

We are past the point where climate change can be reversed and (more importantly) we are capable as individuals and as a species to adapt to the inevitable shift in climate and reduce the possible impacts through sustainable practices.

Understanding climate science means also understanding your own emissions, and therefore your complicity in the destruction of our environment and ecosystems. When faced with such harsh truths it's easier to seek the inner safety of apathy.

The idea is: if I don't care it can't hurt me.

We choose not to think about something distressing because it almost feels like it doesn't exist, but like a smoker trying not to cough in the morning: one clear breath doesn't mean the lungs are healthy.
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Our climate does not discriminate; everyone is and will continue to feel its effects. The cure for apathy is empowerment. Human beings are designed to care about things.
We only stop caring when we feel that we are powerless.

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"Giving Up The Ghost" by DJ Shadow ( •  •  • )


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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on October 04, 2015, 05:50:00 pm
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Hurricane Sandy Storm Damage and repair
How much longer will insurance companies be willing to cover damages, as above, in coastal areas?  ???



U.S.’ Atlantic Coast Likely to Take Worse Battering With Warming

Posted on Oct 3, 2015

By Tim Radford, Climate News Network


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Hurricane Sandy Storm Damage

This Creative Commons-licensed piece first appeared at Climate News Network.

LONDON—Sea level rise and global warming spell danger for New York as average flood heights have risen by 1.25 metres along that part of the US coast—and new research warns that the devastating flood that arrived with Superstorm Sandy in 2012 could happen again.

A flood height of 2.25 metres would once have happened only every 500 years. Now scientists say it could recur every 25 years.

And a second study finds that almost the entire US Atlantic coast is increasingly at risk from the combined hazards of storm surge and sea level rise, and that this risk rises dramatically with time. According to one scenario, it could increase 350-fold.

The two studies are based on different approaches, but they reinforce each other’s conclusions.

Historic approach

Andra Reed, a researcher in the Department of Meteorology at Pennsylvania State University in the US, and colleagues report in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that the devastation of Sandy prompted them to take the historic approach.

They did this by using fossil evidence to reconstruct the history of flooding along the coast where New York City now stands.
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NYC plaza - Hurricane Sandy

The 2012 hurricane breached the sea walls at Battery Park on the southern tip of Manhattan, and flooded the city’s subway tunnels, but the city’s record of such surges goes back only to 1850.

So the researchers used a mix of climate models and evidence from sediments and tiny marine organisms to build up a picture of sea level change between AD 850 and 2005.

“In the pre-anthropogenic era, the return period for a storm producing a surge of 2.81 metres or greater, like Sandy at the Battery, would have been about 3,000 years,” Reed said. “We found that, in the anthropogenic era, the return period for this same storm surge height has been reduced to about 130 years.”

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“A storm that occurred once in seven generations is now occurring twice in a generation.”

Her co-author, Benjamin Horton, professor of marine and coastal sciences at Rutgers University, put the same findings another way. “A storm that occurred once in seven generations is now occurring twice in a generation,” he said.

The 1,200-year reconstruction of sea level change showed that sea level rise had risen at its steepest rate in 1,000 years in the last century. This meant that “an extra 100,000 people flooded in the region during Hurricane Sandy who would not have been flooded if sea level had not been rising”.

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Hurricane Sandy Flooding

Sandy caused an estimated $50 billion worth of damage and destroyed 600,000 houses. But concern about storms and floods—especially along densely populated coasts—is not new.

In the last three years, researchers have warned that maritime cities could by 2050 face an annual toll of $1 trillion in flood defences and damage, and this may have risen to $100 trillion by 2100.


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America’s eastern seaboard already experiences sea level rises above the global average, and routine high tide flooding presents an increasing hazard.

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Taxis during Hurricane Sandy

But the unholy mix of rising seas and more intense coastal storms presents special dangers, according to Christopher Little, a climate scientist at Atmospheric and Environmental Research in Lexington, Massachusetts.

Climate models

He and colleagues report in Nature Climate Change journal that they analysed 15 climate models at five locations—Atlantic City in New Jersey, Charleston in South Carolina, Key West and Pensacola in Florida, and Galveston in Texas—to see not just what would happen to sea level rise, and to the frequency and intensity of hurricanes, but also the chances that the two could coincide.

They calculated what might happen if the planet greatly reduced the emissions of greenhouse gases—produced by the combustion of coal, oil and natural gas—and what could be expected if the humans went on burning them in the “business-as-usual” scenario.

Even if the planet voted for severe cuts in fossil fuel use, the combined heights and durations of future floods could increase at least fourfold, and perhaps as much as 75-fold. If humans carry on pumping oil and shovelling on the coal, this “flood index” could increase by 35 to 350 times.

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“When you look at hazards separately, it’s bad enough, but when you consider the joint effects of two hazards together, you can get some surprises,”
says one of the report’s co-authors, Radley Horton, a climate systems researcher at Columbia University’s Earth Institute. “Sometimes one plus one can equal three.”

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Agelbert NOTE:
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... amusement park, after the pier beneath the Star Jet coaster collapsed into the Atlantic Ocean during Hurricane Sandy.


http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/us_atlantic_coast_set_to_take_a_worse_battering_20151003

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on October 05, 2015, 10:54:11 pm
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on October 07, 2015, 05:05:24 pm

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Like Hans Solo and Don Quijote, Agelbert would never get out of bed if his actions were predicated on his chances of success. As long as God is for me, I am unconcerned about the Empathy Deficit Disordered Reprobates who are against me! Giddap!



Jared Leto Takes You on a 360º Virtual Tour to See First-Hand Effects of Climate Change

Cole Mellino | October 7, 2015 3:08 pm

The Sierra Club, Environmental Media Association and RYOT launched today the first-ever virtual reality climate change public service announcement, which offers 360 degree panoramic shots that catapults viewers into the heart of the Arctic to explore frontline communities and melting glaciers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=XtbgPurqkUc

The video, which is being released just two months shy of the UN climate talks in Paris, aims to encourage world leaders to take meaningful action on climate.

“The climate negotiations present a unique opportunity to take on the climate crisis and take action for a strong and just clean energy economy,” said Michael Brune, Sierra Club’s executive director.

“Climate change affects all life on this planet,” said Academy Award-winning actor Jared Leto, who narrates the PSA. “It is literally altering the face of the Earth and displacing communities. I hope world leaders recognize that people around the globe want and need them to step up and work together starting at the UN Climate Summit and beyond, to fight the climate crisis. Humanity depends on it.”

“To us, this is by far the most exciting use case for virtual reality technology,” said Molly Swenson, COO of RYOT and an executive producer of the film. “When you’re standing in the middle of a glacial ice cave, watching and hearing it melt rapidly from the inside out, you not only understand that climate change is real, but you feel compelled to do everything you can to halt and reverse it. VR is the best tool we’ve found for turning passive viewers into active participants.”

http://ecowatch.com/2015/10/07/jared-leto-climate-change/

Agelbert Comment: Let's get something straight, shall we? A crime has been committed. Somebody made a lot of money committing that crime. We KNOW who they are. They USE that money to DICTATE energy polices, both foreign and domestic.

They will be the first to disingenuously claim that "we are all to blame, so we all must pay". They will use a thoroughly distorted Fragmentation of Agency defense to try to socialize the costs of amelioration of the deleterious effects of climate change while they continue to laugh all the way to the bank.

Since these polluters KNOW they can no longer deny SOME liability for the daily multi-species killing polluting of our biosphere, they will be sending their Empathy Deficit disordered LAWYERS to the Paris Climate Conference (COP21) for the purpose of passing MOST of the BUCK to we-the-people.

SNIPPET from my article on Dianoia (Aristotle's term for "Thinking Things Though"):

One of the themes about human history that I have tried to communicate to readers over and over is that predatory capitalist corporations, while deliberately profiting from knowingly doing something that causes pollution damage to the populace, always plan AHEAD to socialize the costs of that damage when they can no longer deny SOME liability for it. Their conscience free lackey lawyers will always work the system to limit even PROVEN 100% liability.

When 100% liability is blatantly obvious, as in the Exxon Valdes oil spill, they will shamelessly use legalese to limit the liability. ExxonMobil pulled a fast one on the plaintiffs by getting "punitive", rather than "compensatory" damages. See what the learned counselor said, "The purpose of punitive awards is to punish, not to destroy, according to the law". Ethics free Exxon and its ethics free lawyers KNOW how the Court System "works". JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL LAW [Vol. 18:151] The purpose of this comment is to describe the history of the Exxon Valdez litigation and analyze whether the courts and corresponding laws are equipped to effectively handle mass environmental litigation..

While the profits are rolling in, they will claim they are "just loyal public servants, selflessly providing a service that the public is demanding", while they laugh all the way to the bank. When the damage is exposed, they will claim we are "all equally to blame" (i.e. DISTORTED Fragmentation of Agency).

This is clearly false because polluting corporations, in virtually all cases, AREN'T non-profit organizations. If they were NOT PROFITING, THEN, and only then, could they make the claim that "we all benefited equally so we all are equally responsible to pay equally for the cost."

Those who presently benefit economically from the burning of fossil fuels, despite the scientific certainty that this is ushering in a Permian level mass extinction, will probably be quick to grab on to a severely distorted and duplicitous version of the 'Fragmentation of Agency' meme, in regard to assigning the proportionate blame for the existential threat our species is visiting on future generations.

Privatizing the profits and socializing the costs is what they have done for over a century in the USA. They have always gotten away with it. That is why, despite having prior knowledge that their children would be negatively impacted by their decisions, they decided to dispense with ethical considerations.

They assumed that, with all the profits they would accumulate over the last 40 years (or as long as the populace can be blinded to the truth of the existential threat), they could protect their offspring when things got "difficult".

They know that millions to billions of people, in all probability, will die. But they think their wealth can enable them to survive and thrive.   

As for the rest of us, who obtained a pittance in benefits in comparison to the giant profits the polluters raked (and still continue to rake) in, we can expect an army of corporate lawyers descending on our government(s) demanding that all humans, in equal portions, foot the bill for ameliorating climate change.

The lawyer speak will probably take the form of crocodile tears about the "injustice of punitive measures" or, some double talk legalese limiting "punitive damage claims" based on Environmental LAW fun and games (see: "punitive" versus "compensatory" damage claims).

This grossly unjust application of the 'Fragmentation of Agency' is happening as we speak. The poorest humans are paying the most with their health for the damage done by the richest. The richest have avoided most, or all, of the deleterious effects of climate change.

When the governments of the world finally get serious about the funding needed to try to clean this mess up (present incremental measures ARE NOT sufficient), the rich plan to continue literally getting away with ecocide, and making sure they don't pay their share of the damages for it.

Why Dianoia is sine qua non to a Viable Biosphere  (http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/climate-change/future-earth/msg3867/#msg3867)

Prosecute Exxon For Deliberate Climate Denial (http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/fossil-fuel-folly/fossil-fuels-degraded-democracy-and-profit-over-planet-pollution/msg3873/#msg3873)

The Writing on the Wall (Street) for Fossil Fuels (http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/climate-change/global-warming-is-with-us/msg3903/#msg3903)
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on October 07, 2015, 10:52:32 pm
https://youtu.be/rlh_ptOljkg
Archbishop Desmond Tutu on Climate Change
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on October 12, 2015, 03:58:11 pm
If you aren't considered "maladjusted" in today's society, you are contributing to the suicidal trajectory we are on.

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Krishnamurti: “It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.”


I agree with
Martin Luther King, Jr.
https://youtu.be//zXEIYpnlxbw
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on October 13, 2015, 02:52:07 am
(https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-301014182902.gif&hash=1dec33f3f6c520ffeac0082b58f46ffa3ed7cedb) More precise Tree Ring Dating AND Ice Core Dating resulting from the latest scientific knowledge in regard to CARBON-14 and Beryllium-10 (10Be). They  are cosmogenic isotopes (more of them are formed during proton events).



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Beryllium-10 is formed from high energy collisions with N and O in the atmosphere, and because of its long lifetime and affinity for soluble aerosols, it precipitates out of the atmosphere quickly and can be measured in ice cores.

Therefore, high energy cosmic or solar events should simultaneously create excess 14C and 10Be, and be measurable in tree-rings and ice cores respectively.

This new knowledge means more precise dating.  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-080515182559.png&hash=d4dfa952fa0f817bf30a8059a4c88d6fb05ee1bf) So far, we are only talking about 7 years or so from what is in the literature. But since the resolution is better, a lot of the assumptions about the decay rates need to be adjusted.

Previously assumed isotope decay is misleading because MORE of these isotopes form and are absorbed by living organisms after proton events. This will mean a lot of adjustments in carbon-14 dates and a lot of rewritten textbooks. ;D

But this article more closely dates some volcanic eruptions that apparently had a LOT more to do with death in Europe after the "official" fall of the Roman Empire in 476 A.D. than has been previously surmised. This is BIG news! Volcanic eruptions may have brought PLAGUE to Europe!

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Historical Implications

This new dating scheme improves understanding of volcanic forcing effects before the 1st millennium. For example, 15 of the 16 coldest summers between 500 BC and AD 1000 follow immediately after volcanic events, four of which are found shortly after the largest volcanic events in the record.

It also confirms that the so-called “AD 536 event” was a two-stage event, with two large eruptions, a Northern hemisphere eruption in AD 536, and tropical eruption in AD 540, causing over a decade of poor climate and hardship on human civilisation.

As we’ve mentioned previously, these eruptions may even have paved the way for the Justinian plague to take hold after AD 540, which is estimated to have killed about one third of the European population  :o, and may also have impacted the Maya civilisation.
 


http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2015/08/ice-core-dating-corroborates-tree-ring-chronologies/#sthash.xZ5tt2F3.dpuf
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on October 13, 2015, 09:05:40 pm
https://youtu.be/t0-nYyh7-X4


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Published on Jul 2, 2013


See the Climate Change Now Knowledge Base at http://www.ClimateDiscovery.com
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Over 100 feet of vertical melt at Point 660 near Kangerlussuaq in the last three years tells the story. Climate scientists in Greenland call it the "Big Melt." This film tells the story of Bruce Melton, a lone adventurer/engineer/researcher whose first book on climate change was published by Al Gore, or at least, Gore published one so much like Melton's that it killed his project.

So he picked up his cameras and went to Greenland. What he saw in the rapidly melting ice sheet was reflected in the great concern of the scientists there and the confusion and disbelief in the eyes of the locals.

Melton's path led him back to his home waters to document sea level rise on the middle Texas Coast, from a homemade wooden boat, and 50 miles down a deserted four-wheel drive only beach. The film is scored by original tunes from a band called Climate Change in Austin, Texas.


Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on October 14, 2015, 02:45:43 am
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10/13/2015 04:39 PM     

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SustainableBusiness.com News

Alaska has a problem.

Located near the Arctic, it is one of the first states to experience climate change head on. Temperatures are rising there faster than most other states, burning through an amazing 5 million acres of forest this summer. Rising seas are engulfing villages, forcing thousands of people to move inland. 

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Full story at link. Bring your barf bag.


http://www.sustainablebusiness.com/index.cfm/go/news.display/id/26434
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on October 16, 2015, 03:26:18 pm
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Thu Oct 15, 2015 at 08:52 PM EDT.
Gulf stream slowdown? Nothing to see here. Back to elections.   :P

by don mikulecky

Would it not be a bit of irony if the election turned out just the way you want it to and you are still screwed?  These conspiratorial  ;) scientists are at it again.  Trying to distract us from what is really important.  ;)  Looking at the diaries here I know they can't succeed.  :P

This report could be a bit worrisome though, if it is credible:  Signs of Gulf Stream Slowdown — Sea Level More Than a Foot Higher off US East Coast  (http://robertscribbler.com/2015/08/26/signs-of-gulf-stream-slowdown-sea-level-more-than-a-foot-higher-off-us-east-coast/)

Now we know sea level has not gone up a foot off the East Coast, don't we? (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.desismileys.com%2Fsmileys%2Fdesismileys_1730.gif&hash=cdaf50326d98ff7b051a9c49e83d51c7bb687407) They say:

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(Global sea surface height anomalies off the US East Coast are more than a foot (30 cm) above the 1979 to 2015 average. A clear sign that the Gulf Stream is slowing down, perhaps by as much as 15-30 percent. Complete shut down of the Gulf Stream, though unlikely without extremely large melt outflows from Greenland, would result in a very dangerous 1 meter sea level rise. An impact that is primarily driven by ocean current change. Sea level rise by thermal expansion and glacial melt would, necessarily, pile on top of this bulge of backed up waters.  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-310714182509.png&hash=7a8191a3d5ff15c51ad36a342a0cd50a90b956bd)

How can that be?  Read on below for more.

The first thing we need to do is check with CNN.  After the debate we know we can believe them.  Let's look at what else this source has to say.
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This past March, after observations of rising sea levels off the US East Coast, extreme positive sea surface temperature anomalies in the same region, and a critical slowing down of North Atlantic over-turning recorded throughout the 20th Century, Professor Stefan Rahmstorf published this earth-shattering paper in the scientific journal Nature.

The paper meticulously recorded a slow-down of bottom water formation in a region of the Atlantic Ocean south of Greenland. The period studied included all of the 20th Century and the first one and one half decades of the 21st Century. Rahmstorf concluded that Greenland ice sheet melt — starting around 1900 and spiking after 1975 — was having a profound impact. Cold, fresh water issuing out from Greenland was cutting off the flow of heavier, salty water transported northward by the Gulf Stream. It was preventing larger portions of that water from sinking. And it was slowing down the Gulf Stream together with a host of other ocean circulation driving currents.

A system vital to both the life and health of the world ocean and global weather stability was entering an arrest. In other words, the world ocean heartbeat was fading.

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Speaking of CNN there is this:  15 facts about sea level rise that should scare the s^*# out of you (http://www.cnn.com/2015/06/10/opinions/sutter-climate-sea-level-facts/)

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1. Seas already are rising because of climate change.

2. It's happening faster than scientists expected, and the collapse of the enormous West Antarctic Ice Sheet now "appears unstoppable," according to NASA.

14. And crossing certain "tipping points" -- such as the melting of Greenland's ice sheet -- could cause seas to rise much more dramatically in the long term.

But here's the good news: All of these risks are lessened -- or eliminated -- if we stop burning fossil fuels and chopping down carbon-gulping forests. It's possible to address this crisis.

There are signs of hope. This week, Germany's Angela Merkel, for example, pressed world leaders to boost their pledges to cut carbon emissions ahead of international negotiations. The so-called "climate chancellor" wants industrialized countries to end fossil fuel use by 2100, according to The Guardian.

Future generations will judge our action, or lack thereof, harshly.

They'll have every right (http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/climate-change/future-earth/msg3867/#msg3867)to do so.

Because we will help determine what the coasts -- and the world -- look like for centuries.   

So there you go.  After the election we can think about doing something about all this right?   Good luck.

Thu Oct 15, 2015 at 6:24 PM PT: ty  for the rec listing...I hope this gets some thought.

Originally posted to don mikulecky on Thu Oct 15, 2015 at 08:52 PM EDT.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/10/16/1433335/-Gulf-stream-slowdown-Nothing-to-see-here-Back-to-elections

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on October 16, 2015, 06:48:00 pm
Another "gift" courtesy of the fossil fuel Industry

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Annual counts of daily maximum water levels that have exceeded the threshold level for nuisance flooding beginning in year 1920 or when data become available.

The data are binned by meteorological year (May–April) as to not decouple the stormy winter season, which is important for interannual variability diagnosis. As noted by Sweet et al. [2014], the number of days currently impacted by nuisance level flooding is highly correlated to the height of the flood threshold elevation itself and helps explain the lower exceedance values at gauge locations 1-2 (Boston, MA, and Providence, RI) and 21-22 (St Petersburg, FL, and Galveston, TX).

There is clear evidence of increasing frequencies around the United States over the last century and particularly since the 1980s.


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... tidal datum elevations of mean lower low water (MLLW), mean low water (MLW), MSL, mean high water (MHW), and MHHW.

Research Article

From the extreme to the mean: Acceleration and tipping points of coastal inundation from sea level rise (http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2014EF000272/full)

Authors William V. Sweet, Joseph Park


10/15/2015 Sea Level Rise in 414 Cities, Close to Locked In (http://www.sustainablebusiness.com/index.cfm/go/news.display/id/26436)

Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on October 17, 2015, 03:01:57 am
https://youtu.be/nM5-recP7-E

Hansen exposes the UGLY TRUTH about how the Fossil Fuel Industry, not just in the USA, but in the WORLD, has PREVENTED the public from knowing the facts about Global Warming.

LEARN how BOTH Bush Administrations PREVENTED action on NASA polices, funding and other government publications through dirty tricks without the knowledge of Congress. Follow the money all the way to the global fossil fuel Predators 'R' US, folks. THEY are the enemies of civilization. THEY are destroying the future of humanity.

Hansen is polite. But there is no question about the facts he presents. This video is a damning historical verdict on the fossil fuel industry and the empathy deficit disordered bastards that work in it and support it.
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on October 17, 2015, 03:59:48 pm
These observed phenomena are all REAL.
But Science CANNOT explain them. Particularly unsettling to those who worship science and it's view that the physical universe is the limit of reality, is the placebo effect. It even works better than nothing when you KNOW it is a placebo!

Learn about a careful, meticulous science experiment done involving patients that required knee surgery divided into three groups.

Only ONE group of the three was actually given knee surgery. The other two groups given two variations of placebo surgery (incision with saline solution or just an incision) had equal or better rates of healing.  ;D

But there is a terrible downside to the placebo effect. Propagandists and Con artists everywhere have noticed how effective it is at fooling people. The Fossil Fuel Industry  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-200714191329.bmp&hash=4764bfbe6bb0e11ca61102efa97a932a824f47e0) learned it from the Tobacco Industry (see: Birds of a feather).  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-200714191329.bmp&hash=4764bfbe6bb0e11ca61102efa97a932a824f47e0)

If a polluting industry that is trashing the planet for short term gain can convince enough people that their pollution is "beneficial" to the biosphere, the minds of those propagandized would work to prevent that pollution from being accepted as real.

Perhaps the greatest hidden tool of the fossil fuel industry to fight global warming (in order to preserve their profits, not to stop the pollution) is the propaganda effort to convince people we are entering an ice age! If enough people believe that, reason the Empathy Deficit Disordered ASS HOLES that cheerlead fossil fuels, the placebo effect might even slow global warming down!

But there is a GIANT problem with that logic. And it is not about whether the placebo effect is real or not. That much has been proven. It's the DENIAL of the FACT that something is INJURING the biosphere that undermines any hope of using a mass placebo effect to reduce or prevent global warming.
 
Whether that would work to prevent the biosphere from being polluted is not the question. WHY? Because the placebo effect ONLY works when you think you need to be HEALED of a disease or injury. The Fossil Fuel Industry has PREVENTED public awareness of the problem (i.e. injury/disease to the biosphere).

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The placebo effect may work quite well inside our bodies but I suspect the faith to move mountains is at odds with fooling  people in using faith to prevent global warming. The predators 'R' US crowd running the polluting industries are not known for their faith or good works. They are known for there 24/7 lie that they are our "loyal servants concerned only with our welfare".
 
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They claim they are merely "supplying our demand" when, in actuality, they are gaming us to supply THEIR demand. Clever, aren't they?





Now you know why the propagandists for the fossil fuel industry lie, distort and double talk about "no warming for a decade, "warming has ceased", "we are entering an ice age" and, last but not least in the hit parade of Push the Placebo to Preserve Profits efforts, "it's the sunspots, not Carbon Dioxide", that control Earth's temperature" baloney.  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.freesmileys.org%2Fsmileys%2Fsmiley-devil12.gif&hash=d1822754cefdd0f77369dacd157d00f5f8d3fff9)

https://youtu.be/stwJgL2UtZY

Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on October 20, 2015, 10:03:34 pm
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Indonesia’s Fire Outbreaks Producing More Daily Emissions than Entire US Economy  :o

by Nancy Harris Nancy Harris, Susan Minnemeyer, Fred Stolle and Octavia Aris Payne - October 16, 2015
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How did we compare emissions from Indonesia’s fires to US emissions? ???

Van der Werf’s research team developed rough estimates of the greenhouse gas emissions arising from recent Indonesia fires using estimates from past years based on satellite data and fire emissions models. They calculated that the 96,937 fires in Indonesia detected to date this year emitted roughly 1,043 metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent emissions (Mt CO2eq) cumulatively. Based on the modeled relationship of fire counts to emissions, it is possible to estimate daily emissions based on the number of fires occurring on a specific day.

Using this information, it becomes apparent that on 26 of the past 44 days (up to October 14), daily estimated greenhouse gas emissions from fires in Indonesia surpassed average daily emissions from the entire US economy (approximately 15.95 Mt CO2 per day).

Fire in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia. Photo (at link) by Rini Sulaiman/ Norwegian Embassy for Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)

According to estimates released this week by Guido van der Werf on the Global Fire Emissions Database, there have been nearly 100,000 active fire detections in Indonesia so far in 2015, which since September have generated emissions each day exceeding the average daily emissions from all U.S. economic activity. Following several recent intense outbreaks of fires—in June 2013, March 2014 and November 2014—the country is now on track to experience more fires this year than it did during the 2006 fire season, one of its worst on record.

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Emissions Spikes Caused by Burning Peatlands

Global Forest Watch Fires shows that more than half of these fires have occurred on peatland areas, concentrated mainly in South Sumatra, South and Central Kalimantan, and Papua. These regions continue to suffer major fires as the fire alerts density map below shows, with few signs that occurrences are diminishing.

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The burning of tropical peatlands is so significant for greenhouse gas emissions because these areas store some of the highest quantities of carbon on Earth, accumulated over thousands of years. Draining and burning these lands for agricultural expansion (such as conversion to oil palm or pulpwood plantations) leads to huge spikes in greenhouse gas emissions. Fires also emit methane, a greenhouse gas 21 times more potent than carbon dioxide (CO2), but peat fires may emit up to 10 times more methane than fires occurring on other types of land. Taken together, the impact of peat fires on global warming may be more than 200 times greater than fires on other lands.

Putting the Data in Perspective

What does a climate catastrophe look like in a real world context? Since September, daily emissions from Indonesia’s fires exceeded daily emissions from the entire U.S. economy on 26 days. To put it into perspective, the U.S. economy is 20 times larger than Indonesia’s. Van der Werf pointed out in a recent report that emissions from these fires over a three-week period are also already higher than the total annual CO2 emissions of Germany.


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For Indonesia, the Climate Challenge Is a Land Management Challenge

Reducing emissions from fires is a significant challenge. Last month, Indonesia released a draft of its new climate plan, or Intended Nationally Determined Contribution (INDC), ahead of the climate negotiations taking place at the Paris COP in December. The draft INDC calls for at least a 29 percent emissions reduction below business as usual by 2030— and up to 41 percent in reduction with international assistance and cooperation. While the new data shows how fires present a major challenge to reaching this goal, Indonesia can still make progress if the government focuses on better land planning, improved law enforcement, and alternatives for small farmers to burning land. If Indonesia is to meet its climate commitment, making significant investments in these areas to prevent future fires must be the first step.


http://www.wri.org/blog/2015/10/indonesia%E2%80%99s-fire-outbreaks-producing-more-daily-emissions-entire-us-economy
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on October 20, 2015, 11:28:44 pm
Great Interview with Henry Wallace's grandson, Scott Wallace.  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.smile-day.net%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2011%2F12%2FSmiley-Thumbs-Up2.jpg&hash=4c6cf4d5dab0f54b88dfa0c9247ae699eff03821)

While most of the political establishment fixates on the Washington gridlock conservatives have orchestrated to stymie efforts to switch to green energy and prevent climate change, a little-noticed announcement in New York last month showed one way determined climate activists are working their way around it.

The announcement was that an organization working to encourage disinvestment in fossil fuel companies and investment in clean energy alternatives had won in the past year pledges worth $2.6 trillion to do just that. Among the 400 institutions and 2,000 individuals declaring their commitment to divest from fossil fuels was the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation. DiCaprio released a statement highlighting the threat of climate change to global well-being, adding, “After looking into the growing movement to divest from fossil fuels and invest in climate solutions, I was convinced to make the pledge on behalf of myself and the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation.”

The announcement was a triumph for the Wallace Global Fund, a key funder of grassroots organizations driving the switch to green energy, and its co-chairman Scott Wallace. It is a prime example of the work that the Campaign for America’s Future is honoring October 27 at its Awards Gala, where Wallace will receive a Progressive Champion award along with Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), National Education Association President Lily Eskelsen García and grassroots network National People’s Action.

In an interview with OurFuture.org, Wallace said that the Divest-Invest effort grew exponentially from where it was just one year ago, when its leaders announced that it had won $50 billion in divestment commitments and “we really stuck our neck out to say we think we can triple that by this time next year.”

The effort’s success in blowing past that goal will have tangible benefits for American workers and consumers. “With the flow of trillions of dollars of private investment money into renewable energy, you are going to see a massive expansion of the solar, wind and biomass sectors. That’s where the jobs are,” he said.

Also, “you can make good money” as an individual by moving your 401(k) or retirement fund to stocks or stock funds that focus on green energy and shun fossil fuels, he said.

The template for this, Wallace said, was the effort in the 1970s and 1980s to encourage disinvestment from the apartheid regime in South Africa. The pressure on colleges and other institutions to pull money away from corporations doing business in South Africa proved to be a key factor in the eventual dismantling of the apartheid government.

“We were really thrilled when Desmond Tutu [the South African archbishop who was a key leader of the anti-apartheid movement] … made the connection between the divestment campaign over apartheid” and the climate change crisis and agreed to do a video for 350.org, a Wallace Global Fund grantee, in which he called for divestment from fossil fuels and investment in clean energy solutions.

Wallace says that what makes momentum like this possible is grassroots political organizing. He cites as an example the work of Bill McKibben, the climate activist who has been one of the most outspoken opponents of the Keystone XL pipeline and of the use of fossil fuels generally. He was arrested outside the White House in 2011 in a Keystone pipeline protest when the Obama administration refused to oppose the pipeline’s construction. The passion of McKibben and other leaders has helped ignite such events as 2014’s “largest-ever” climate change march in New York City.

“What is says is that it takes a movement,” Wallace said. “A lot of us foundations have been doing climate a long time. It’s not enough to fund the study or the scholarship or a high-level conference or fly people off to the next climate negotiation. The needle gets moved when there a movement, and in this case, it’s not just in the U.S. It’s all over the world.”

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Wallace draws his passion for movement-building from his grandfather, Henry A. Wallace, who served as vice president under Franklin D. Roosevelt and was noted for his declaration in 1942 that

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the so-called “American Century” should instead be “the century of the common man.”

In that same speech, he spoke of a “people’s revolution” linked to Roosevelt’s “Four Freedoms” – freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from want and freedom from fear. He said
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America’s post-war goal should not be American supremacy – “we ourselves in the United States are no more a master race than the Nazis” – but a global “economic peace that is just, charitable and enduring.”

“That’s what we try to carry on here, his tradition of the strengthening the ability of the common man to stand up together and unity for whatever we need,” Wallace said.
Wallace said he sees echoes of his grandfather in the presidential campaign of Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders. “I think Bernie Sanders is channeling Henry A. Wallace. He is a fervent populist, all about the common man,” he said.

Wallace recalled that when his grandfather launched his 1948 presidential campaign, he funded it by charging people 25 cents to hear his speeches and by selling tracts and other goods. “And they had millions of dollars raised from that,” Wallace said.
That approach mirrors what Sanders is doing. “It’s a great way to build a movement and keep the fat cats out” Wallace said. “You don’t need them.”   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F301.gif&hash=0291ed4abf2d80e420d1aa00d4eb3c5dd6bbfb53)

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https://ourfuture.org/20151020/scott-wallace-on-the-key-to-building-a-climate-movement
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on October 21, 2015, 10:17:23 pm
Abrupt Climate Change Can Occur Even Before a 2-Degree Rise in Warming

Posted on Oct 18, 2015

By Tim Radford, Climate News Network   

Extensive melting of the snow on the Tibetan plateau could be a tipping point. (Photo at link)

This Creative Commons-licensed piece first appeared at Climate News Network.

LONDON—Climate change could arrive with startling speed. New research has identified at least 37 “tipping points” that would serve as evidence that climate change has happened—and happened abruptly in one particular region.

And 18 of them could happen even before the world warms by an average of 2°C,  the proposed “safe limit” for global warming.

Weather is what happens, climate is what people grow to expect from the weather. So climate change, driven by global warming as a consequence of rising carbon dioxide levels, in response to more than a century of fossil fuel combustion, could be—for many people—gradual, imperceptible and difficult to identify immediately.

But Sybren Drijfhout, of the University of Southampton in the UK and his collaborators in France, the Netherlands and Germany, are not so sure.

They report in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that they “screened” the massive ensemble of climate models that inform the most recent reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and found evidence of abrupt regional changes in the ocean, the sea ice, the snow cover, the permafrost and in the terrestrial biosphere that could happen as average global temperatures reached a certain level.

The models did not all simulate the same outcomes, but most of them did predict one or more abrupt regional shifts.

No safe limit

But the future is not an exact science. “Our results show that the different state-of-the-art models agree that abrupt changes are likely, but that predicting when and where they will occur remains very difficult,” said Professor Drijfhout. “Also, our results show that no safe limit exists and that many abrupt shifts already occur for global warming levels much lower than two degrees.”

The idea of a “tipping point” for climate change has been around for decades: the hypothesis is that a climate regime endures—perhaps with an increasing frequency of heat waves or windstorms or floods—as the average temperatures rise. However, at some point, there must be a dramatic shift to a new set of norms.

The researchers explore some of the telltale indicators of such abrupt change. One of these would be the wholesale collapse of the Arctic Ocean winter ice: the Arctic is expected to be largely ice-free most summers in the next few decades. Winter ice would then become increasingly thin. Once sufficiently thin, warming and wave power would do the rest, and tend to leave clear blue water even in the coldest seasons.


Another indicator would involve massive unexpected plankton blooms in the Indian Ocean as a consequence of an upwelling of nutrient-rich waters from the ocean bottom, in response to changes in the Asian monsoon regime.

A third would involve massive snow melt on the Tibetan plateau: in 20 years, the annual average snow cover could fall from 400 kilograms per square metre to a trifling 50kg.

A fourth signal would be massive dieback in the Amazon rainforest over a few decades, mainly because of reduced rainfall.

Early signs

Yet another telltale aspect of climate change has already been addressed by Professor  Drijfhout. It would be the sudden, paradoxical dramatic drop in temperatures in the North Atlantic, as a response to global warming and a collapse of the ocean current that carries warm surface water north, while denser, colder and increasingly more saline water in the Arctic sinks to the bottom and flows back southward. This “overturning circulation” has already seemed to weaken as the Arctic has warmed.

In one of the team’s climate model simulations, the Atlantic circulation system keeps ticking over until about 2020. For another 20 years, sea and air temperatures vary wildly and the ocean current weakens much more swiftly. After about 2040, ice starts to form on the North Atlantic. By 2060, the circulation system has collapsed and the sea ice starts to spread.

“Increase of sea ice in the whole Atlantic sector of the Arctic causes a temperature decrease of more than 4 °C in a 20°-wide latitude band (55°N-75°N), stretching from 60°W to 40°E”, the scientists say. South of 40°N and outside the Atlantic, global warming continues. Only a portion of oceans in northern Europe would see dramatic cooling.

But that is a result from only one model of a number which predict varying levels of change for Europe.

The researchers add that the models aren’t perfect: they don’t simulate some things that really could happen, and perhaps show signs of happening now. They conclude:
“An additional concern is that the present generation of climate models still does not account for several mechanisms that could potentially give rise to abrupt change.

“This includes ice sheet collapse, permafrost carbon decomposition, and methane hydrates release.”


http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/abrupt_climate_change_can_occur_below_2_degree_warming_rise_20151018
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on October 25, 2015, 03:00:03 pm
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US Foreign Policy Leaders Take Full Page Ad on Climate Change
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http://www.sustainablebusiness.com/index.cfm/go/news.display/id/26446


Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on October 27, 2015, 12:41:29 am
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Climate Change, Blue Water Cargo Shipping and Predicted Ocean Wave Activity

PART ONE OF THREE PARTS

In this three part article I explain what the scientific community defines as the "Business as Usual" scenario in regard to atmospheric pollutants fueling Global Warming. A brief review of the existential threat to marine life that this scenario represents will follow.

Subsequently, I discuss global shipping. I provide a summary of the tremendous importance of blue water (deep ocean) cargo shipping to global civilization. You will be surprised at how vital to global civilization blue water cargo shipping is. All the military vessels, all the pleasure yachts and even all the fishing fleets are insignificant in tonnage compared to that of ocean going cargo and tanker vessels.

I then leave the subject of shipping and the types of cargo vessels, which I return to at the end, to provide the reader with a graphic climate history of the Northern Hemisphere, from the last Glacial Maximum to the present, followed by the, scientifically based, predicted sea level and land vegetation changes in the "Business as Usual" scenario within the next 85 years.

The discussion then returns to cargo ships and their behavior in rough seas. I provide graphics to explain what has been learned about ocean waves in the last 40 years that shocked the scientific community and caused them to go back to the drawing board on the science and math formulas of hydrodynamics in regard to maximum wave heights. Some tragic cargo vessel losses from "rogue" waves (that turned out not to be as "rogue" as science had thought) are presented as evidence that the oceans are becoming increasingly dangerous to shipping.

Finally, the Hansen et al paper, published in June of 2015, is referenced as evidence of a coming abrupt sea state change that will make modern blue water surface cargo shipping either too costly or impossible. The reason for this will be explained in detail with graphics showing ocean wave action and modern shipping design limitations.

Included in the last section that ties all the others together is a reference to another scientific paper published in July of this year (2015) that provides evidence that the worst case scenario ("Business as Usual") modeled by the scientific community severely understates the amount of sea level rise in the next 85 years.

I conclude with recommendations on what the governments of the industrialized countries of the world need to do within the next decade in order to prevent a collapse of civilization (or worse) within the next 25 years.

Let us begin with these nuggets of climate science from NASA:

Carbon Dioxide Controls Earth's Temperature

Water vapor and clouds are the major contributors to Earth's greenhouse effect, but a new atmosphere-ocean climate modeling study shows that the planet's temperature ultimately depends on the atmospheric level of carbon dioxide.

Without non-condensing greenhouse gases, water vapor and clouds would be unable to provide the feedback mechanisms that amplify the greenhouse effect.

The study ties in to the geologic record in which carbon dioxide levels have oscillated between approximately 180 parts per million during ice ages, and about 280 parts per million during warmer interglacial periods. To provide perspective to the nearly 1 C (1.8 F) increase in global temperature over the past century, it is estimated that the global mean temperature difference between the extremes of the ice age and interglacial periods is only about 5 C (9 F).

"When carbon dioxide increases, more water vapor returns to the atmosphere. This is what helped to melt the glaciers that once covered New York City," said co-author David Rind, of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies. "Today we are in uncharted territory as carbon dioxide approaches 390 parts per million in what has been referred to as the 'superinterglacial'."

"The bottom line is that atmospheric carbon dioxide acts as a thermostat in regulating the temperature of Earth," Lacis said.
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"The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has fully documented the fact that industrial activity is responsible for the rapidly increasing levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases.

It is not surprising then that global warming can be linked directly to the observed increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide and to human industrial activity in general
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http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/co2-temperature.html

So, if you read some happy talk from the fossil fuel industry that it's the "water vapor" that is causing global warming, be sure and reference the above study (and the companion study also mentioned at the link) just before you call them on their ignorance, or worse, their duplicity.


You just read about the huge difference a mere 5 degrees C (Centigrade) can make.
Here's a graphic to give you an idea about how effective our greenhouse gas (GHG) shell is at keeping us from turning into a ball of ice.

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Greenhouse gases are vital to regulating Earth's temperature. But there is a goldilocks band of these gases that must be adhered to in order to provide a viable biosphere.

In addition, GHG changes in concentration within that band must proceed, down or up, at or slower than a certain rate in order to allow the organisms that live in that biosphere to adapt to the changes or they will go extinct.

Industrial civilization has BOTH exceeded the upper margin of the GHG band by a huge margin AND has done it at a rate far above the ability of most complex non-microscopic organisms to adapt to these violent changes. Mammalian vertebrates, among the complex organisms on Earth, are the least able to adapt to rapid GHG concentration changes.

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There is no precedent in the geological record for the increase in CO2 caused by the burning of fossil fuels over the last century. And the rate those fossil fuels are being burned is increasing, not slowing down or ceasing.

Non-self aware mammalian vertebrates, unlike us, cannot use technology to adapt. This is the part the CEO of ExxonMobil (Rex Tillerson) forgot accidentally on purpose when he said, "We will adapt to that". Mr. Tillerson is an idiot or a liar (possibly both). Those "qualities" seem to be a job requirement for those that work in the fossil fuel industry.

Mr. Tillerson's optimistic happy talk is not based on climate science or the geological record.

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"Mass extinctions due to rapidly escalating levels of CO2 are recorded since as long as 580 million years ago."

http://theconversation.com/another-link-between-co2-and-mass-extinctions-of-species-12906

Whether we humans want to admit it or not, we need the 75% of all of Earth's species in danger of extinction from climate change. I know it is really hard for the fossil fuel industry predators 'R' US crowd to wrap their greedy heads around this, but it's hard to live on a diet of hydrocarbons. And if we don't stop burning them, both our plant and animal food supply, along with thousands of other species of other earthlings that make this planet viable, will go extinct.

This is not hyperbole. Mass extinctions are part of the geological record. In all but one of those mass extinctions, the rapid rise in GHG was the cause of the extinctions. Furthermore, in all the former mass extinctions, the RATE of rise in GHG was much slower than today.
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"As our anthropogenic global emissions of CO2 are rising  at a rate for which no precedence is known from the geological record with the exception of asteroid impacts, another wave of extinctions is unfolding."

http://theconversation.com/another-link-between-co2-and-mass-extinctions-of-species-12906


According to the latest scientific studies on Global Warming, "Business as Usual", touted as the basis for the continued health of global civilization, is actually the greatest threat to global civilization and our species that we have ever faced.

Before we get to what exactly is meant by, "Business as Usual", let us first review the human caused pollution effects on ocean physical chemistry and temperature and marine species biochemistry.

The following review references an analysis of oceans that totally omits a growing problem for worldwide shipping. Although the review is mostly very bad news, it may turn out to be, in terms of what deals the collapse triggering blow to human civilization as we know it, the "good" news.

The World Ocean Review

The ocean may be buffering the most severe consequences of climate change for now. But in the long run we can only hope to avoid these if we strictly curb GHG emissions today.

Experts are concerned that hundreds of thousands of tonnes of methane hydrate could break down due to the warming of seawater – gas masses that are lying inertly in solid, frozen form in the sea floor sediments today. A portion of the methane, which is a powerful greenhouse gas, could then rise into the atmosphere and further accelerate the process of climate change – a vicious circle.

The oceans absorb many millions of tonnes of carbon dioxide annually. They are the largest “sink” for anthropogenic CO2 emissions. The excess carbon dioxide, however, upsets the chemical equilibrium of the ocean. It leads to acidification of the oceans, the consequences of which are unpredictable. Acidic water disrupts the sense of smell in fish larvae, carbonate formation by snails, and the growth rates of starfish. The phytoplankton, tiny algae in the ocean and vital nutrient basis for higher organisms, are also affected by acidification.

The coastal environment is still being damaged by effluent and toxic discharges, and especially by nutrients conveyed to the ocean by rivers. Thousands of tonnes of nitrogen and phosphorus compounds flow into the ocean around the world, causing an explosion in algal reproduction. In many coastal regions the catastrophe begins with the death of the algae. Bacteria feed on the algal remains and consume oxygen in the water. In these oxygen-depleted zones all higher life forms die off. Efforts to reduce nutrient levels have been successful in Western Europe.

Worldwide, however, the input of nutrients is becoming increasingly problematical. People are, without a doubt, abusing the oceans in many respects, and this is increasing the stress on marine organisms. Through over-fertilization and acidification of the water, rapid changes in water temperature or salinity, biological diversity in the ocean could drop worldwide at increasing rates. With the combination of all these factors, the disruption of habitats is so severe that species will continue to disappear.

Clearly the oceans continue to be the “last stop” for the dregs of our civilization, not only for the persistent chemicals, but also our everyday garbage. Six million tonnes of rubbish end up in the ocean worldwide every year. The trash is a fatal trap for dolphins, turtles and birds. Plastic is especially long-lived and, driven by ocean currents, it collects in the central oceans in gyres of garbage covering hundreds of square kilometres. A new problem has been identified in the microscopically small breakdown products of plastics, which are concentrated in the bodies of marine organisms.

http://worldoceanreview.com/en/wor-1/wor-1-in-short/

That World Ocean Review I just quoted from, after laying out the hard facts, incredibly goes on to happily discuss ocean mining opportunities and methane hydrate harvesting plans for "energy products" for "energy independence". The only caveat they supply is more of an epitaph for human willful denial of facts than a precautionary warning. Please file the following in the WTF!? category.

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Energy from burning ice

In addition to abundant minerals, there are large amounts of methane hydrate beneath the sea floor. Some countries hope to become independent of energy imports by exploiting marine gas hydrate deposits near their own coasts. The technology for production, however, is not yet available. Furthermore, the risks to climate stability and hazards to marine habitats associated with extraction of the methane hydrates must first be clarified.


http://worldoceanreview.com/en/wor-3-overview/methane-hydrate/

Yes, it seems the DANGER of extracting methane hydrates has not been "CLARIFIED" enough. Neither the Permian Extinction geological record nor the PETM (Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum) geological record has "clarified" the methane issue enough.

Hello? Is this, a more recent pre-human epoch, CLARIFICATION enough for you fellows providing your business friendly "World Ocean Review ", claiming, among other wonders of optimistic prose, that the sea level is only going to rise about 180 cm by century's end?

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The following alarming, but still too conservative, MIT study EXCLUDES the ABRUPT climate change positive feedback loop effects we are now beginning to experience.

Do they think this MIT study needs "clarification"?
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And the DANGER of an acidified ocean to most marine species, which will clearly be exacerbated by the methane bomb, has not been clarified? Didn't Professor Gerardo Ceballos, lead author of a study published in June of 2015 on the Sixth Mass Extinction we are now entering, with particular emphasis on marine mammal extinction threats, get the word?

I think he and his fellow scientists CLARIFIED the methane issue AND the CO2 pollution issue rather well. For those that do not get it, the CO2 pollution, now baked in, is already threatening marine mammals with extinction. When methane hydrates are added to the mix from a warmed ocean, acidification will accelerate and trigger anoxic conditions throughout the ocean water column, thereby destroying the food chain. That is a death sentence for most non-microscopic marine life and a large portion of the microscopic oxygen producing microscopic phytoplankton as well.

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These scientifically challenged, insultingly naive, business friendly, bland statements sold as "sober advice" are precisely the kind of double talk that has placed humanity in the polluted situation it finds itself.

Some have blamed the scientific community.

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They forget that scientists are mostly employees. They forget that businesses gag their reports or keep their published, peer reviewed papers from the public on a regular basis. So the criminally negligent here are business leaders, not scientists.

My experience with reading these big picture reviews of our terribly polluted situation is that they seem to feel obligated to give some peppy, optimistic, happy talk at the end.

Do these people understand what "business as usual" means? It appears that either they don't or willfully avoid doing so.

The IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) has a scientific name for Business as Usual. They have modeled it. They have a number for it. It's called the RCP-8.5. RCP stands for Representative Concentration Pathway.
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Business as usual is a death sentence for over 75% (or more) of life on Earth.

The people that defend business as usual are deluded. There is evidence, which I will present, that even the RCP-8.5 scenario is too conservative. And yet the methane issue needs "clarification"?

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Dr. Scott Goetz (Deputy Director and Senior Scientist of the Woods Hole Research Center) has that thousand yard stare for a reason.

CHANGES IN THE ARCTIC AND THEIR CLIMATE FEEDBACK IMPLICATIONS: Interview with Scott Goetz
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDxw0PcRgE0


Friends, there is a crime being committed. But the guiltiest parties do not want to pay for their share of the damage. And that is why these reviews lack the urgency that they need to have in order to successfully convince government policy makers to alter our destructive trajectory.

But I have discussed that in my recent article, Dianoia is sine qua non to a viable biosphere (http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/climate-change/future-earth/msg3867/#msg3867).  So, I will move on to other matters of concern to humanity.

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Global shipping

Human civilization has come to rely on the relatively inexpensive movement of millions of tons of cargo over the oceans.

It is difficult or impossible to avoid a collapse without the use of the oceans.

To underline the importance of cargo shipping as the lifeblood of civilization, you need to look at the massive amount of tonnage these ships move globally on a daily basis.

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Tankers, bulk carriers and container ships are the most important means of transportation of our time. Each year they carry billions of tonnes of goods along a few principal trade routes. Containerization has revolutionized global cargo shipping, bringing vast improvements in efficiency.

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Throughout history the oceans have been important to people around the world as a means of transportation. Unlike a few decades ago, however, ships are now carrying goods rather than people.


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Deadweight tonnage (abbreviated to dwt) or tons deadweight (TDW) is a measure of how much mass a ship is carrying or can safely carry; it does not include the weight of the ship.

Agelbert NOTE: Please take note of the caveat, "safely carry".  More on what that means later.

In terms of carrying capacity in dwt,

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tankers account for 35 per cent,

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bulk carriers account for 35 per cent,

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container ships 14 per cent,

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general cargo ships 9 per cent

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and passenger liners less than 1 per cent.

In all, the global merchant fleet has a capacity of just under 1192 million dwt.

Shipping Activity of Tankers, Cargo and Cruise Ships on October 12, 2015:
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The growth of the global merchant fleet according to type of vessel (as at 1 January [sic]) 2009.
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http://worldoceanreview.com/en/wor-1/transport/global-shipping/

There is a LOT of shipping out there and a LOT of ships. If the above graphics have not brought home to you how much shipping is going on 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, take a look at this:

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In summary, this is what is out there going hither and yon across the oceans on a regular basis:
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Singapore anchorage

Most of those affordable products in our homes are a direct result of a the uninterrupted global lifeblood of efficient blue ocean shipping. If that shipping was no longer possible, global civilization would be impossible because it would be unaffordable. It is, therefore, extremely important to ensure that human civilization can use those oceans for routine cargo transportation. 

The oceans, as was pointed out earlier in this article, are a giant heat sink. The more CO2 we pump into the air, the hotter the oceans get. When the oceans get hotter, they become more active. This means trouble for shipping.

Insurance companies do not like that. They analyze the risks of blue water shipping and track any trends that might increase those risks. They have actuaries that pay a lot of attention to losses of insured ships.

All commercial shipping is insured. You and I are billed for insuring, not just the merchant fleets, but the military ships too! That's what the "defense budgets" lobbied for by all those welfare queen corporations, constantly whining about that "dangerous world out there", are all about.

Well, it looks like all shipping is going to find out how DANGEROUS the oceans, not some invented threat about bellicose humans, can be. The insurance actuaries already know that the "terrorist" or piracy threat on the high seas is insignificant compared to the threat of sinking from rough seas.

Of course you haven't read that in the papers. But you will read it here. And I will provide evidence for it.

But I'm getting ahead of myself. To understand what is happening in the oceans today, we need to go back in time about 20,000 years. We need to go back to the Last Glacial Maximum.

WHY? Because the sea state, as well as the sea level, is a function of the average global temperature. In addition, the vegetation changes that accompany changes in the average global temperature can have deleterious effects on the sea state, totally separate from the dire extinction threat these temperature changes represent to marine organisms.

The Environmental Change Model (ECM)

The following series of graphics deals with accurately modeled representations of the climate in a large part of the Northern Hemisphere centered on the Arctic. A link to the science and the source is provided. The average global temperature and pertinent data on the ice cover and types of vegetation is provided. Of particular importance to the reader are the different types of Tundra coverage. The legend has color codes for the graphical representations.

NOTE: The Greek letter "DELTA" ="Δ". It is used in science to mean, "Change in". The referenced average global temperature is what we have today (about 15 degrees Centigrade = T).

So, ΔT = - 6C is a change in average temperature of minus 6 degrees centigrade from today. THAT was when there was a two mile high glacier sheet edge near what is now New York City. That was also when the oceans were 120 meters = 394 feet lower than they are today.

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http://cci-reanalyzer.org/ECM/

Notice how much dry and moist Tundra there was.
Notice the range and size of the types of forests and the polar desert coverage too. At a glance you can see that this was a very dry world in comparison to our world.

Fast forward to ΔT = - 0.5C.
This was the Little Ice Age of 1850. That was just before the industrial pollution revolution had gotten up to full biosphere trashing speed.

Sea level is close to the present level. Notice how the forest cover has changed. Notice how the Tundra moved north as the ice retreated. Notice how the forests and the forest Tundra transition changed.

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Tundra responds in one of two ways when it goes above freezing. It has to do with the available oxygen. If there isn't enough in the soil, the microbes resort to anaerobic metabolism and make lots of methane. This is NOT methane locked in the Tundra. This is NEW methane. This is unrelated to the methane hydrates frozen on the ocean bottom, but it is still an additional feedback mechanism that increases the RATE of atmospheric heating. So these mechanisms are, by definition, not linear. They can become self reinforcing. That means they can go exponential.

Below, please find, the world we all grew up in (ΔT = 0C.). I have labeled some areas for clarity. The Tundra continues to shrink, as does the ice coverage. The forest transition area creeps north and the forests grow along with the prairie grass covered areas. There is less ice.

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Which brings us the IPCC RCP-8.5 scenario labeled "Business as Usual".

This scenario is considered "worst case". It does not expect us to hit  ΔT = plus 2C until 2050. The boundless optimism of the IPCC sounds a lot like those fellows doing the "World Ocean Review" that mentioned the methane "issue" needed "clarification" right after they admitted that the PRESENT conditions were causing the extinction of most marine animals.  zimg]http://www.pic4ever.com/images/gaah.gif[/img

Please look at this graph:

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The line with the number "1" is the  IPCC RCP-8.5 scenario. The temperature increases in lines 2 and 3 ARE NOT in the IPCC RCP-8.5 scenario.

ΔT = plus 2C is considered extremely dangerous.
 
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The IPCC projects a mere 0.5 meters sea level increase by 2050. But the July 2015 study (http://www.sciencemag.org/content/349/6244/aaa4019.abstract) that I reference in the graphic claims a sea level rise greater or equal to 6 meters (over 19 feet!) is evidenced in the geologic record for this type of temperature rise.

The IPCC projected sea ice decline will give you more context to understand why it is unrealistic to believe that we will not hit the  ΔT = plus 2C until 2050.

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But nevertheless, the IPCC RCP-8.5 scenario for ΔT = plus 2C is instructive because the Tundra is disappearing. You know what that means for increased methane release, don't you?

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A note about the word, "Equilibrium" on the graphic: The word "Equilibrium" means that the full effects of the temperature change are being felt throughout the planet. Glaciologists had previously thought that "equilibrium" effects on ice sheets took centuries or millennia.

Now, because of empirical observations on the Greenland ice sheet, Antarctica and various glaciers in the world, they have come to accept that equilibrium is reached in decades or in years, depending on the temperature anomaly increase. As you know, or should know, the polar regions have warmed over 3C MORE than the rest of the planet in the last 50 years. 

The huge differential was not plugged in to the IPCC models so they are too conservative on ice retreat and sea level rise. So, if somebody tells you that all this is a long way off, they are uninformed or working for the fossil fuel industry.

I will return to the dangers of the ΔT = plus 2C (and beyond) world in a moment.

For now, I wish to show you the rest of the IPCC RCP-8.5 scenario projections. Please remember that they are conservative projections and the effects portrayed will most likely arrive 25 years or more earlier than predicted. Also please remember that the actual sea level increase (see graphic below),

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Science 10 July 2015: Vol. 349 no. 6244 DOI: 10.1126/science.aaa4019
Sea-level rise due to polar ice-sheet mass loss during past warm periods

 according to the July 2015 paper referenced previously, will be several METERS, not feet, above the predictions. (http://www.sciencemag.org/content/349/6244/aaa4019.abstract)

ΔT = plus 3C
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Sometime after the loss of the ice cap, all the Tundra will have thawed. ALL the trapped gases, be they CO2 or CH4, will be released. Added grasses absorbing CO2 will not be enough to counteract the warming acceleration.

There are those who expect a negative feedback from the stopping of the thermohaline oceanic current circulation (stopped by all the cold fresh water melted off the Greenland ice cap into the oceans). Perhaps that will help slow the heating (north of about 45 degrees latitude - below that they will roast even more!) for a decade or so. But it will do nothing to calm the ocean surface.

ΔT = plus 4C

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The worst effect is that Arctic ocean bottom frozen clathrates will thaw and the methane will be released. The planet will continue warming increasingly faster past  ΔT = plus 4C.

 
That will exacerbate ocean conditions even more. With more and more heat energy present, the ocean surface will get increasingly more turbulent. And we will already be well past the ΔT = plus 2C mark.

As evidenced by the two referenced scientific studies, both published recently this year (2015), and the woefully conservative IPCC predictions on the rate of the North Polar Ice Cap retreat, Antarctic and Greenland ice cap melt rates, and temperature rise rate, sea level will most likely rise a minimum of 6 meters within 10 years, not 35 years. We are talking about 2025, not 2050, for a ΔT = plus 2C world. We are not preparing adequately for that.

For those who will point to the increase in size of the floating ice around Antarctica as evidence that the Earth is not really warming, I beg to differ.

The fact that the Antarctic land mass IS losing ice has been measured with satellites. It is losing ice because of global warming. It is true that the floating ice around Antarctica has increased and will continue to increase as long as the Antarctic land mass is shedding melt water.

This is because of two factors. The first one is that there are very high winds around Antarctica, unimpeded by any land mass. The second factor is that fresh water freezes more rapidly on the ocean surface than salty water.

That's why salt is spread on roads in winter. On the ocean, the water molecules must rid themselves of the sodium and chloride ions dissolved in them before they can freeze. All the ice floating on the oceans is water ice. It has no salt in it.

And as long as that floating ice is the product of melt water from the Antarctic land mass, it will ADD to sea level.

And when the sea level goes up just 6 feet, never mind the 19 feet or more increase expected with CURRENT CO2 levels, all shipping port facilities (and most coastal airport facilities too!) in the world are no longer usable without gargantuan and heroic efforts requiring trillions of dollars in costs for every foot the land and port infrastructure must be raised.

It seems that the countries (see every industrialized country on the planet) dragging their feet on CO2 reduction actions do not understand this. There are, as of this writing, over 140 countries investing trillions of dollars in port facilities.

No, they aren't raising the level of the port facilities to prepare for rapidly rising sea levels. They are trying to cash in on container shipping by building more container shipping infrastructure.   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Fgen152.gif&hash=d5b10968fe56c4cb95fae17cee3cb420a5f4e2da)

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Don't these governments listen to their climate scientists?


End of PART ONE.

Climate Change, Blue Water Cargo Shipping and Predicted Ocean Wave Activity: PART TWO (http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/climate-change/global-warming-is-with-us/msg4050/#msg4050)


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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on October 27, 2015, 07:33:58 pm
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Stunning Drone Footage Shows Greenland Literally Melting Away (http://ecowatch.com/2015/10/27/greenland-melting-drone-footage/)

This is the kind of data that the deniers cannot dismiss. We are in trouble and CO2 pollution is the reason for that trouble. Fossil fuels are a liability, not an asset. It's time the governments of the world accepted that we do NOT have the money to raise the elevation of every shipping port facility (and most coastal airport facilities too!) land and infrastructure for every foot the sea level rises, not to mention 25% of all arable land BEING WITHIN A FEW FEET OF SEA LEVEL.

The IPCC RCP-8.5 "Business as Usual" scenario projects a mere 0.5 meters sea level increase by 2050.  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Fgen152.gif&hash=d5b10968fe56c4cb95fae17cee3cb420a5f4e2da)


But according to this July 2015 study, the sea level increase will be several METERS, not feet, above the predictions. (http://www.sciencemag.org/content/349/6244/aaa4019.abstract) (over 19 feet!) as evidenced in the geologic record for the PRESENT level of CO2 concentration in the atmosphere. And the CO2 concentration is increasing.
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on October 28, 2015, 03:11:03 pm
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Climate Change, Blue Water Cargo Shipping and Predicted Ocean Wave Activity

PART TWO OF THREE PARTS

On top of the disaster for civilization that a rise in seal level of 6 meters (over 19 FEET!) represents from the loss of coastal arable land, coastal cities, shipping ports and airports, there is the problem of wave activity. 

Which brings us back to shipping and the ocean surface.  Of particular concern to ocean shipping in a ΔT = plus 2C (and greater) atmosphere are the following facts about waves.

WHY?

Because that world will have more energy both in the oceans and in the atmosphere. That world will have, not just greater average wind speeds, particularly over unobstructed surfaces like the oceans, but a greater duration of higher wind velocities (speed in a relatively constant direction) over thousands of miles. High wind velocity and duration over hundreds or thousands of miles is a recipe for giant waves.

Here's a very brief primer on waves so you can grasp the impact of giant wave characteristics on shipping.

First, the high points of the waves are called "crests" and the low points of the waves are called "troughs". The crest is the part that starts to curl over and turn foamy when waves hit the beach. The difference in height between the crest and the trough is called the wave height.

The "amplitude" is one half the wave height. So if you have "50-foot seas", you have wave crests 25 feet above calm sea level and troughs 25 feet below it. The amplitude of 50-foot seas is 25 feet.

In the ocean, the trough of a wave is just as far below sea level as the crest is above sea level. 

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Energy, not water, moves across the ocean's surface. Water particles only travel in a small circle as a wave passes.
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How are waves energy?

The best way to understand waves as energy is to think of a long rope laid on the ground. If you pick up one end and give it a good snap --there's a ripple effect all the way to the other end -- just like the waves on the ocean! That means that energy is applied at one end and it moves to the other end.

What provides the energy?

In the case of ocean waves, wind provides the energy. Wind causes waves that travel in the ocean. The energy is released on shorelines. Some of the energy of waves is also released against the hulls of ships at sea. The larger the vessel surface being impacted by the wave, the more force is exerted against that surface. Being hit by a single giant wave from the front of the bow or the rear of the stern is normally within the structural design limits of a large vessel. But being broadsided can either sink a ship or severely damage it.

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1973: A rogue wave off the coast of Durban, South Africa, strikes the 12,000-ton cargo ship Bencrauchan. The ship is towed into port, barely floating.

http://freaquewaves.blogspot.com/2006/07/list-of-freaque-wave-encounters.html

What determines the size of the wave?

The size of a wave depends on:

1. the distance the wind blows (over open water) which is known as the "fetch",

2. the length of time the wind blows, and

3. the speed of the wind.

The greater these three, the larger the wave.

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The distance waves are apart is called the "wavelength". Wavelength is typically measured between the crests of two adjacent waves, but it could be measured from trough to trough or from any point on one wave to the same point on the next wave. You will get the same distance no matter where you measure.

Finally, the "frequency" of the wave specifies how many wave wavelengths go by in a set amount of time. So this is dependent not only on the speed of the waves, but on their wavelength.

http://www.colorado.edu/physics/2000/applets/xray/wavefront.html


The "period" of a wave must also be considered. The period of a wave is the amount of time it takes for one wavelength to occur. 

Frequency and period are distinctly different, yet related, quantities. The frequency of a wave is how many wavelengths occur in a given amount of time.

http://www.physicsclassroom.com/class/waves/Lesson-2/Frequency-and-Period-of-a-Wave

Ship hulls are designed to withstand about 15 to 20 tons per square meter. They can handle up to 30 tons per square meter only if they bend to take the blow.

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Rogue Wave Is Suspected in Mideast Tanker Blast (http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748703940904575394601540430826)

When a wave with a height of 30 meters (100 ft.) is spoken of, only half that much of it is what is above the sea level. That doesn't do a ship much good because the ship will ride down the 15 meter trough before it gets hit by the 30 meter monster.  And "riding" down the trough is somewhat of a misnomer.

Large ships, because of the combined weight of the ship and the cargo, have a lot of inertia. If the ship is moving forward at about 13 kts (15 mph) and a giant wave is approaching it a 45 mph (this has been documented and is routine), you have a relative speed of the wave to the ship of 60 mph. The wavelength of a 30 meter wave is about 230 meters (this has also been documented).
 
Even if the combined speed against such a wave is just 45 mph because the captain has slowed his ship to reduce hull stress, the ship experiences a drop of ocean beneath it of 50 feet in 6 seconds, followed by the a rise of 100 feet in another six seconds.

Initially the ship just dives bow first and everybody on it feels like they are in free fall. When the ship hits the trough bottom, its inertia is still driving the bow down as the seas rise 100 feet. The bridge superstructure is impacted and often the windows are blown in and the bridge, with all its electronics, is flooded.
 
If that causes the engines to fail, the ship will probably sink. That is because the waves and wind will then turn the ship broadside to the waves. When a ship is broadside to the waves, it will either get rolled and sink or get holed by the force of a giant wave. Whether it sinks  or not depends on how long the severe sea state continues. This ship was hit broadside by a "rogue" wave, but survived.

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Thirty meter waves have a force of about 100 tons per square meter, depending on the frequency and period of the wave. Waves of the same height with a higher frequency and shorter period are traveling faster, so they have much more force.

1976: The oil tanker Cretan Star in Indian Ocean off Bombay radios for help: “Vessel was struck by a huge wave that went over the deck.” The ship is never heard from again. The only sign of the vessel's fate was 6 km oil slick.

http://ycaol.com/demons_of_the_deep2.htm

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1980: A huge wave was reported to have slammed into the oil tanker Esso Languedoc off the east coast of South Africa. First mate Philippe Lijour, aboard the supertanker Esso Languedoc, took this rare photo.

http://www.theartofdredging.com/roguewaves.htm


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1981: A giant wave seemed to want to teach a crude oil tanker named "Energy Endurance" (Gross tonnage, 97,005 tons. DWT, 205,808 tons) what REAL energy endurance is all about.

http://migciao.blogspot.com/2007/10/vagues-scelerates.html


There is no amount of cargo that a large vessel can safely carry under these conditions, regardless of the design claims about "safe" DWT tonnage for cargo and tanker ships you read about earlier in this article. 

Where are the largest waves found?

The largest waves are found in the open ocean. Waves continue to get larger as they move and absorb energy from the wind.
 
http://www.angelfire.com/crazy2/nur_filzah/new_page_2.htm

Waves at Sea

Waves at sea are created by winds blowing across the water surface and transferring energy to the water by the impact of the air. Small ripples develop first, and frictional drag on their windward side causes then to grow larger, or to collapse and contribute part of their expended energy to larger waves.

Consequently, large waves capture increasing amounts of energy and continue to develop as long as the wind maintains sufficient strength and constant direction.

As more and more energy is transferred to the water surface. waves become higher and longer, and travel with increasing velocities; 50-foot waves are not uncommon in the open ocean, and waves more than 100 feet high have been reported.

http://www2.fiu.edu/~kpanneer/lab_assignment/Lab8_Waves.pdf

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2002: December 15, 2002, MS Hanseatic of the Radisson Seven Seas was struck by a large rogue wave while on a coastal cruise of New Zealand.
http://freaquewaves.blogspot.com/2006/07/list-of-freaque-wave-encounters.html


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Above you see a scale simulation of two small vessels in 50 ft. seas. The wavelength is fairly large, so these vessels are handling a very dangerous sea state okay. The wave is 50 feet from crest to trough. The danger increases when the wind gets stronger. That is because the wind increases the wave height and the wave frequency while the wavelength gets shorter.

When large waves are present, the shorter the wavelength, the steeper and more dangerous the wave. And, as mentioned earlier, a higher frequency of large waves makes them even more dangerous because they have much more energy to be delivered as a force against the hull of a ship. It is simple physics that getting hit with a wall of water at 44 mph is potentially far, far more than twice as damaging as the same wall of water hitting you at 22 mph.

Larger vessels, while generally more sea worthy, have weaknesses that small vessels do not have. A small vessel with properly battened hatches can bob like a cork in a storm. In the above situation, the sail boat would probably have the sails reefed (taken in). It will survive as long as it isn't smashed against a reef or a rock. 

But a large vessel, because it is much longer than it is wide, is weakest in the middle and along the sides from bow to stern. The bow and stern act as giant levers moved by the wave crests and troughs with the fulcrum located somewhere in the middle.

The middle either sags or it "hogs" (bends up instead of down). There is no ship that can be made strong enough to handle the massive metal fatigue inducing stresses of repeated sagging and hogging that would occur in seas populated with 30 meter waves. Here is an example of a container ship that hit a reef. It did not sink right away. But you can see that it buckled and cra cked on the side from the up, down and sideways wave movement of the ends of the ship.

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Individual "rogue waves" (also called "freak waves", "monster waves", "killer waves", and "king waves") much higher than the other waves in the sea state can occur.

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NOAA ship Delaware II in bad weather on Georges Bank.
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... the largest ever recorded wind waves are common — not rogue — waves in extreme sea states.

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For example: 29.1 m (95 ft) high waves have been recorded on the RRS Discovery in a sea with 18.5 m (61 ft) significant wave height, so the highest wave is only 1.6 times the significant wave height.
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The biggest recorded by a buoy (as of 2011) was 32.3 m (106 ft) high during the 2007 typhoon Krosa near Taiwan.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_wave


Giants of the Oceans
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Naval architects have always worked on the assumption that their vessels are extremely unlikely to encounter a rogue. Almost everything on the sea is sailing under the false assumption that rogue waves are, at worst, vanishingly rare events. The new research suggest that’s wrong, and has cost lives. Between 1969 and 1994 twenty-two super carriers were lost or severely damaged due to the occurrence of sudden rogue waves; a total of 542 lives were lost as a result.

G. Lawton. Monsters of the deep. New Scientist, 170(2297):28–32, 2001.

Freak, rogue or giant waves correspond to large-amplitude waves surprisingly appearing on the sea surface. Such waves can be accompanied by deep troughs (holes), which occur before and/or after the largest crest.

There are several definitions for such surprisingly huge waves, but the one that is more popular now is the amplitude criterion of freak waves, which define them as waves with heights that exceed at least twice the significant wave height. The significant height is the height of at least one third of the largest waves in a given area being traversed by a ship.

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According to orthodox oceanography, rogue waves are so rare that no ship or oil platform should ever expect to encounter one. But as the shipping lanes fill with supercarriers and the oil and gas industry explores ever-deeper parts of the ocean, rogue waves are being reported far more often than they should.

The most spectacular sighting of recent years is probably the so-called New Year Wave, which hit Statoil’s Draupner gas platforms in the North Sea on New Year’s Day 1995. The significant wave height at the time was around 12 metres. But in the middle of the afternoon the platform was struck by something much bigger. According to measurements made with a laser, it was 26 metres from trough to crest.

Hundreds of waves been recorded by now that are at least twice the significant wave height, and several waves at larger than three times the significant wave height. Waves with an "Abnormality index" (Ai) larger than three (Ai > 3) are known.

Alexey Slunyaev Christin Kharif, Efim Pelinovsky. Rogue Waves in the Ocean. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2009.


The New Year Wave is an example of a wave with an Ai = 3.19.

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Christian Kharif and Efim Pelinovsky. Physical mechanisms of the rogue wave phenomenon. European Journal of Mechanics - B/Fluids, 22(6):603 – 634, 2003.

I obtained the above information from a paper submitted to the mathematics department of the University of Arizona. Here is a summary:

"In this project, the rogue wave phenomenon is introduced along with its importance. The main equations governing both linear and nonlinear theory are presented. The three main linear theories proposed to explain the rogue rave phenomenon are presented and a linear model reproducing rogue waves due to dispersion is shown. A nonlinear model for rogue waves in shallow water is also exhibited."

I have skipped the math. The information is state of the art and the references are impeccable.

References
[1] Alexey Slunyaev Christin Kharif, Efim Pelinovsky. Rogue Waves in the Ocean. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2009.

[2] K.B. Dysthe, HE Krogstad, H. Socquet-Juglard, and K. Trulsen. Freak waves, rogue waves, extreme waves and ocean wave climate. Mathematics Departments in Bergen and Oslo, Norway. Available at: www. math. uio. no/-karstent/waves/index_ en. html, July, 2007.

[3] R.S. Johnson. A modern introduction to the mathematical theory of water waves. Cambridge Univ Pr, 997.

[4] Christian Kharif and Efim Pelinovsky. Physical mechanisms of the rogue wave phenomenon. European Journal of Mechanics - B/Fluids, 22(6):603 – 634, 2003.

[5] G. Lawton. Monsters of the deep. New Scientist, 170(2297):28–32, 2001.

[6] Pengzhi Lin. Numerical Modeling of Water Waves. Taylor and Francis, 2008. 13

And that is why the conclusions are so unsettling.

Conclusions

1. Precise physical mechanisms causing the rogue waves phenomenon remain unknown.

2. Rogue waves should be considered when designing ships and marine platforms to reduce the number of vessels sunk worldwide.

http://math.arizona.edu/~gabitov/teaching/101/math_485_585/Midterm_Reports/RogueWaves_Midterm.pdf

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Ocean Ranger severely listing in a storm after being hit by a "rogue" wave.

Ironically, the first industry that started to feel the effects of an angrier ocean was the fossil fuel industry. You've already read about some oil tanker damage and losses. They continue to this day despite alleged vessel "design improvements".

But the 120 million dollar "unsinkable" Ocean Ranger, a giant ocean going oil platform damaged from a "rogue" wave, really got their attention. All hands perished. This was a wake up call to the scientists that studied waves and was of much concern to the fossil fuel industry.

The wave hit too high and damaged some electronics. The platform began to list. The operator made the right moves but the valves that should have closed, opened more. The last that was heard from them was that they were listing at about 15 degrees and going to the lifeboat stations.

Ocean Ranger reported experiencing storm seas of 55 feet (17 m), with the odd wave up to 65 feet (20 m), thus leaving the unprotected portlight at 28 feet (8.5 m) above mean sea level vulnerable to wave damage. Some time after 21:00, radio conversations originating on Ocean Ranger were heard on the Sedco 706 and Zapata Ugland, noting that valves on Ocean Ranger's ballast control panel appeared to be opening and closing of their own accord. The radio conversations also discussed the 100-knot (190 km/h) winds and waves up to 65 feet (20 m) high. Through the remainder of the evening, routine radio traffic passed between Ocean Ranger, its neighbouring rigs and their individual support boats. Nothing out of the ordinary was noted.

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At 00:52 local time, on 15 February, 1982, a Mayday call was sent out from Ocean Ranger, noting a severe list to the port side of the rig and requesting immediate assistance. This was the first communication from Ocean Ranger identifying a major problem. The standby vessel, the M/V Seaforth Highlander, was requested to come in close as countermeasures against the 10–15-degree list were proving ineffective.

The onshore MOCAN supervisor was notified of the situation, and the Canadian Forces and Mobil-operated helicopters were alerted just after 1:00 local time. The M/V Boltentor and the M/V Nordertor, the standby boats of the Sedco 706 and the Zapata Ugland respectively, were also dispatched to Ocean Ranger to provide assistance.

At 1:30 local time, Ocean Ranger transmitted its last message: "There will be no further radio communications from Ocean Ranger. We are going to lifeboat stations." Shortly thereafter, in the middle of the night and in the midst of severe winter weather, the crew abandoned the rig. The rig remained afloat for another ninety minutes, sinking between 3:07 and 3:13 local time.

All of Ocean Ranger sank beneath the Atlantic: by the next morning all that remained was a few buoys. Her entire complement of 84 workers – 46 Mobil employees and 38 contractors from various service companies – were killed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_Ranger

It turns out that the math formulas for wave action were incorrect. But it took over a decade to get some proof that they were incorrect. The fossil fuel industry apparently filed the tragedy away as a freak incident. They certainly did not seem that concerned, considering they did everything possible to keep from having to build more sturdy (i.e. double hulled) tankers with the help of the Reagan and the first Bush Administration.

Scientists, up until the 1980's, had believed that it was impossible for an ocean wave on this planet to be higher than 80 feet. This, despite eye witness accounts from mariners to the contrary. As usual, the non-credentialed folks could not convince the scientists that there were waves out there that exceeded 100 feet.

AND that those waves appeared in seas that were only half as high (or less) as the giant wave(s) (sometimes they came in a group of three - they call them the three sisters - the women always get the blame - lol!). Impossible, proclaimed the scientist worthies. Fish tales!  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F301.gif&hash=0291ed4abf2d80e420d1aa00d4eb3c5dd6bbfb53)

But in 1995, a laser wave height measuring device on an oil platform provided the first concrete evidence that the happy math was wishful thinking. :P You saw the graph of the 1995 New Year Wave earlier in this article. In this video it is modelled in 3D.

https://youtu.be/sCxr_XzyGO8

As you all know, when the fossil fuel industry wants action, it gets action. And it gets government funded action that you and I pay for and they don't pay a penny for. But I digress. ;D Faster that you can say fossil fuel profits are threatened, a three week satellite survey of the oceans was undertaken. Four giant waves were observed and measured in just three weeks! 

Not only was the math wrong, but, as referenced earlier in this article, "rogue" waves were not really "rogue" at all!

Of course, at that time, no connection to wave activity and global warming had been established.

Snark alert.  ;D Yes, it's true that scientists are taught, like all the rest of us that cook every now and then, that warmer waters can be a bit more turbulent, but it's a big ocean out there, right?

Well, the attitude of the scientific community is changing, at least in regard to these giant waves.

The cause of rogue waves is still an area of active research. One theory under investigation cites “constructive interference,” which is a result of several smaller waves overlapping in phase, combining to produce one massive wave. Another working hypothesis is based on the “non-linear Schrödinger effect,” in which energy is “soaked up” from neighboring waves to create a monster wave. Still other researchers are looking into the possibility that wave energy is being focused by the surrounding environments, or that wind action on the surface is amplifying existing effects.

http://www.damninteresting.com/monster-rogue-waves/
 

Suggested mechanisms for the formation of freak waves include the following:

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http://www.theartofdredging.com/roguewaves.htm

End of PART TWO.

If you missed PART ONE, you may read it HERE. (http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/climate-change/global-warming-is-with-us/msg4045/#msg4045)

You may read the final part at the link below.

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Climate Change, Blue Water Cargo Shipping and Predicted Ocean Wave Activity: PART THREE (http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/climate-change/future-earth/msg4074/#msg4074)


Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on October 29, 2015, 08:55:23 pm
Part II of the Wave Article was very interesting!  :icon_sunny:

"We're going to need a smaller boat".  lol.

Now, if you had the available energy and resources to do it, the solution would be to stop building your Supertankers and Cargo Ships as Surface Vessels, but rather build them as large Submarines that operate at say around the 300' below mean sea level depth.  This would keep them out of the way of even the largest of rogue waves.

RE

I address that problem in PART THREE in the conclusions. The problem is rather intractable.

SNIPPET:

If the ships cannot handle the seas (NO ship is designed, or can cost effectively be designed, to handle anywhere near 100 tons per square meter of force on her hull), shipping itself will no longer be cost effective unless cargo ships morph into cargo submarines. The cost of doing that is staggering. Even if they designed them to ride just beneath the wave turbulence, they still would have to submerge to one half the wavelength of ocean waves.

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Deep-Water Waves
If the water depth (d) is greater then the wave base (equal to one-half the wavelength, or L/2), the waves are called deep-water waves. Deep-water waves have no interference with the ocean bottom, so they include all wind-generated waves in the open ocean. Submarines can avoid large ocean waves by submerging below the wave base.  http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/index.php?action=post2;start=0;board=2 (http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/index.php?action=post2;start=0;board=2)

PART THREE will be published by November 1. Expect Palloy to scoff.  ::)

So once again I am labelled with "defenders of the fossil fuel **** status quo", when what I am saying is that Peak Fossils will let us all down.  That's the FIFTH time you've done it, since I put you right.  Maybe you don't have any other response to criticism of your methodology.  I'm NOT arguing from the point of view that Climate Change isn't true.  I'm NOT arguing that the models are wrong (although you are).   I'm arguing that Peak Fossils makes all IPCC's (and your) predictions of fossil fuel burning WRONG.

Not only WILL Peak Fossils let down BAU, but it will let down RCP8.5, RCP6.0, RCP4.5 and RCP2.6 and all IPCC's forecasts, even though the models are strictly correct.  It's all a case of Garbage In, Garbage Out - Fossil Fuel production rates will be nothing like what they forecast.  What is it about that that you don't understand ?

Look at the charts I provided and answer the questions beneath them.

I HAVE looked at the charts. YOU apparently HAVEN'T.  Get this, pal, your assertion that the collapse is going to take care of the warming trend is not based on GHG climate cause and effect science.

You pull out the IPCC RCP scenarios showing LESS burning of fossil fuels as some kind of "proof" that the RCP-8.5 scenario is "alarmist".

Which shows how biased you are when you LOOK at the scenarios. Yes, the ICPP set up those scenarios BASED ON the tons of CO2 entering the atmosphere. But the COMBINATION of different fossil fuels used in decreasing quantities that they point to in the scenarios besides the RCP-8.5 "Business as Usual" (THEIR TERM, NOT MINE!) is IRRELEVANT because their modeled AVERAGE GLOBAL TEMPERATURE INCREASE EXCLUDES METHANE CLATHRATES and a greater than 6 METER sea level rise.

YOU claim that "IT'S NOT GOING TO HAPPEN" because of the collapse.

Let's be clear about the FALSE CORRELATION you are setting up between the coming collapse, something we both agree will happen, and the REDUCTION in AVERAGE GLOBAL TEMPERATURE INCREASE.

You labor under the incredibly, and unscientific, optimistic view that the PRESENT 400PPM of CO2 is no big deal.

The Dutton et al paper alone, published in July of this year, is evidence that the RCP-8.5 scenario, you know ,the one you call "alarmist", is TOO CONSERVATIVE.

And it's not too conservative because of the math on what combination of fossil fuels is used or sh it canned, as you want to believe with all your might, but because the CO2PPM in the atmosphere AT PRESENT will lead us to ΔT = 4C within 85 years, EVEN IF WE STOP BURNING ALL FOSSIL FUELS TODAY!

You do not get that. You do not want to get that. You think the collapse will take care of the warming issue. You point at all the happy math PROJECTIONS by the IPCC as some kind of "proof". Good luck with that.

And no, I am NOT basing all my projections on the IPCC-8.5 Business as Usual scenario. I am basing them on Hansen et al and Dutton et al!

I agree that we will not be able to burn the fossil fuels in that scenario, as well as the other scenarios you brought up,  due to the coming collapse.

As of NOW, we are locked in to a HIGHER average global temperature than even the IPCC-8.5 scenario projects. The CORRELATION between CO2 concentration and average global temperature is so ridiculously optimistic in that scenario that it is pathetic.

You are free to hang on to your quaint belief that the reduction in the combination of fossil fuels used due to the collapse will take care of the temperature increase. But Hansen et al and Dutton et al make a mockery of that bit of wishful thinking.

And, so far, you haven't even provided any evidence of a reduction in the RATE of INCREASE of CO2 pollution, never mind the increase itself. So all you have is a false correlation/equivalence between the different RCPs the IPCC has modeled and the increase or not of global temperature.

Because of positive feedbacks, the modeling departed a scientifically valid correlation/causation after the turn of the century (possibly earlier).

THIS (see below) is the present global reality. When you can show me that has changed, we can discuss when the temperature increase SLOPE is going to BEGIN to flatten. I can guarantee you that it will NOT be in less than one or two CENTURIES! 

Nearly 7,000,000,000 MT of CO2 has been pumped into the atmosphere year to date!

Crude oil production year to date is over 26 billon barrels!

Coal is over 6 billion MT!

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Stats at link.
http://www.poodwaddle.com/worldclock/env3/ (http://www.poodwaddle.com/worldclock/env3/)

Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on October 29, 2015, 08:56:38 pm
The China Containerized Freight Index is already at its lowest point ever since they started calculating that index.  They are mothballing container ships by the platform full.

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Note:  I would love to see the crane that got those ships stacked up like that.  That has to be one big ass crane.

There will probably still be some coastal trade going on in small boats, but the big tankers full of Oil and the big Container Ships loaded with Toys from China are going to be in mothballs long before we get to 4C.

RE

GO posts some amazing pix every AM, but this is the damnedest photo I have seen in a long time. FWIW.


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RE,
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I saw one of those giant cranes in a video on salvage. They use these long giant cables with a type of abrasive as hard as diamonds to saw sunken ships into pieces when they are just too heavy to pull up in one piece. Then this huge crane with umpteen pulleys SLOWLY lifts the section and puts it on a large floating barge.
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on October 29, 2015, 10:01:55 pm
Abrupt climate change can occur below 2°C warming rise
Sudden shifts in settled climates can occur long before global warming reaches the internationally-agreed safety level, European scientists say.

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Climate change could arrive with startling speed. New research has identified at least 37 “tipping points” that would serve as evidence that climate change has happened – and happened abruptly in one particular region.

And 18 of them could happen even before the world warms by an average of 2°C,  the proposed “safe limit” for global warming.
Weather is what happens, climate is what people grow to expect from the weather. So climate change, driven by global warming as a consequence of rising carbon dioxide levels, in response to more than a century of fossil fuel combustion, could be – for many people – gradual, imperceptible and difficult to identify immediately.

But Sybren Drijfhout, of the University of Southampton in the UK and his collaborators in France, the Netherlands and Germany, are not so sure.

They report in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that they “screened” the massive ensemble of climate models that inform the most recent reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and found evidence of abrupt regional changes in the ocean, the sea ice, the snow cover, the permafrost and in the terrestrial biosphere that could happen as average global temperatures reached a certain level.

The models did not all simulate the same outcomes, but most of them did predict one or more abrupt regional shifts.

No safe limit
But the future is not an exact science. “Our results show that the different state-of-the-art models agree that abrupt changes are likely, but that predicting when and where they will occur remains very difficult,” said Professor Drijfhout.

“Also, our results show that no safe limit exists and that many abrupt shifts already occur for global warming levels much lower than two degrees.”

The idea of a “tipping point” for climate change has been around for decades: the hypothesis is that a climate regime endures – perhaps with an increasing frequency of heat waves or windstorms or floods – as the average temperatures rise. However, at some point, there must be a dramatic shift to a new set of norms.

The researchers explore some of the telltale indicators of such abrupt change. One of these would be the wholesale collapse of the Arctic Ocean winter ice: the Arctic is expected to be largely ice-free most summers in the next few decades. Winter ice would then become increasingly thin. Once sufficiently thin, warming and wave power would do the rest, and tend to leave clear blue water even in the coldest seasons.

Another indicator would involve massive unexpected plankton blooms in the Indian Ocean as a consequence of an upwelling of nutrient-rich waters from the ocean bottom, in response to changes in the Asian monsoon regime.

A third would involve massive snow melt on the Tibetan plateau: in 20 years, the annual average snow cover could fall from 400 kilograms per square metre to a trifling 50kg.

A fourth signal would be massive dieback in the Amazon rainforest over a few decades, mainly because of reduced rainfall.

Early signs
Yet another telltale aspect of climate change has already been addressed by Professor  Drijfhout. It would be the sudden, paradoxical dramatic drop in temperatures in the North Atlantic, as a response to global warming and a collapse of the ocean current that carries warm surface water north, while denser, colder and increasingly more saline water in the Arctic sinks to the bottom and flows back southward. This “overturning circulation” has already seemed to weaken as the Arctic has warmed.

In one of the team’s climate model simulations, the Atlantic circulation system keeps ticking over until about 2020. For another 20 years, sea and air temperatures vary wildly and the ocean current weakens much more swiftly. After about 2040, ice starts to form on the North Atlantic. By 2060, the circulation system has collapsed and the sea ice starts to spread.

“Increase of sea ice in the whole Atlantic sector of the Arctic causes a temperature decrease of more than 4 °C in a 20°-wide latitude band (55°N−75°N), stretching from 60°W to 40°E”, the scientists say. South of 40°N and outside the Atlantic, global warming continues. Only a portion of oceans in northern Europe would see dramatic cooling.

But that is a result from only one model of a number which predict varying levels of change for Europe.

The researchers add that the models aren’t perfect: they don’t simulate some things that really could happen, and perhaps show signs of happening now. They conclude: “An additional concern is that the present generation of climate models still does not account for several mechanisms that could potentially give rise to abrupt change.

“This includes ice sheet collapse, permafrost carbon decomposition, and methane hydrates release.”


http://www.pnas.org/content/112/43/E5777.abstract (http://www.pnas.org/content/112/43/E5777.abstract)

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Those of us, like you, who care are in a war with this of us who don't.

World War CO2 (http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/climate-change/global-warming-is-with-us/msg3895/#msg3895)

Why Dianoia is sine qua non to a Viable Biosphere. (http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/climate-change/future-earth/msg3867/#msg3867)

Our Responsibility to Future Generations (http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/climate-change/future-earth/msg3885/#msg3885)


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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on October 29, 2015, 10:19:38 pm
MKing said to Fenixor,
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Look at this picture, and tell me that we haven't already survived the majority of ice sheet disintegration. You really think after having beaten THAT much ice melting, we can't handle the little bit that is left?
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I see the fossil fueler MKing is, ONCE AGAIN, doing his "we will adapt to that" Rex Tillerson imitation.  ::)

SNIPPET from PART ONE of my recent climate change article:

Non-self aware mammalian vertebrates, unlike us, cannot use technology to adapt. This is the part the CEO of ExxonMobil (Rex Tillerson) forgot accidentally on purpose when he said, "We will adapt to that". Mr. Tillerson is an idiot or a liar (possibly both). Those "qualities" seem to be a job requirement for those that work in the fossil fuel industry.

Mr. Tillerson's optimistic happy talk is not based on climate science or the geological record.

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"Mass extinctions due to rapidly escalating levels of CO2 are recorded since as long as 580 million years ago."

http://theconversation.com/another-link-between-co2-and-mass-extinctions-of-species-12906 (http://theconversation.com/another-link-between-co2-and-mass-extinctions-of-species-12906)

Climate Change, Blue Water Cargo Shipping and Predicted Ocean Wave Activity: PART ONE of Three Parts (http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/climate-change/global-warming-is-with-us/msg4045/#msg4045)
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on October 30, 2015, 02:41:18 pm
 (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.freesmileys.org%2Femoticons%2Femoticon-anime-034.gif&hash=58a833931ab09edc67b808927994f92737db0650) South Africa Sets Earth’s Hottest October Temperature on Record: 119°F    (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-310714182509.png&hash=7a8191a3d5ff15c51ad36a342a0cd50a90b956bd)
 


Jeff Masters, Weather Underground | October 30, 2015 10:17 am

Earth’s hottest temperature ever recorded in the month of October occurred on Tuesday, Oct. 27 in South Africa, when Vredendal hit a remarkable 48.4°C (119.1°F). According to weather records researcher Maximiliano Herrera, this is also the highest temperature ever observed at Vredendal and the third highest temperature in South African history.

The new global October heat record was made possible by a “Berg wind” — a hot dry wind blowing down the Great Escarpment from the high central plateau to the coast. As the air descended it warmed via adiabatic compression, causing the record heat. These sorts of foehn winds are commonly responsible for all-time record temperatures; mainland Antarctica’s all-time record high of 17.5°C (63.5°F), set on March 24, was due, in part, to a foehn wind (see wunderground weather historian Christopher C. Burt’s blog post on this).

According to Herrera, the previous world October heat record of 47.3°C was set at Campo Gallo, Argentina on Oct. 16 1936, and South Africa’s highest reliable temperature for any month is 48.8°C (119.8°F), recorded at Vioosdrif in January 1993.

Five-minute resolution plot of the temperature at Vredendal (at link), South Africa on Oct. 27, when the station hit a remarkable 48.4°C (119.1°F)—an all-time record for the planet for the month of October. Photo credit: South African Weather Service / Gail Linnow

Five-minute resolution plot of the temperature at Vredendal, South Africa on Oct. 27, when the station hit a remarkable 48.4°C (119.1°F)—an all-time record for the planet for the month of October. Photo credit: South African Weather Service / Gail Linnow

In the Arabian Sea, Tropical Cyclone Chapala has spun up to hurricane strength, with top winds of 75 mph estimated at 8 a.m. EDT Thursday by the Joint Typhoon Warning Center. Chapala is expected to take advantage of low wind shear, warm ocean waters near 30°C (86°F) and favorable upper-level outflow to intensify into a Category 4 storm by Sunday. Thereafter, weakening is likely as the storm encounters higher wind shear, lower oceanic heat content and interaction with land. Chapala is likely to make landfall on Monday in a sparsely populated area near the border of Yemen and Oman.

Tropical Cyclone Chapala as seen by the VIIRS instrument at 08:30 UTC October 29, 2015. At the time, Chapala was intensifying from a tropical storm with 65 mph winds to a Category 1 storm with 75 mph winds. Photo credit: NOAA / RAMMB

Tropical Cyclone Chapala as seen by the VIIRS instrument at 08:30 UTC October 29, 2015. At the time, Chapala was intensifying from a tropical storm with 65 mph winds to a Category 1 storm with 75 mph winds. Photo credit: NOAA / RAMMB (at link)

http://ecowatch.com/2015/10/30/south-africa-record-temp/
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on October 30, 2015, 03:21:37 pm
Agelbert NOTE: Remember folks, it's Spring in South Africa now.  8)

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Jeff Masters, Weather Underground | October 30, 2015 10:17 am

Earth’s hottest temperature ever recorded in the month of October occurred on Tuesday, Oct. 27 in South Africa, when Vredendal hit a remarkable 48.4°C (119.1°F). According to weather records researcher Maximiliano Herrera, this is also the highest temperature ever observed at Vredendal and the third highest temperature in South African history.

The new global October heat record was made possible by a “Berg wind” — a hot dry wind blowing down the Great Escarpment from the high central plateau to the coast. As the air descended it warmed via adiabatic compression, causing the record heat. These sorts of foehn winds are commonly responsible for all-time record temperatures; mainland Antarctica’s all-time record high of 17.5°C (63.5°F), set on March 24, was due, in part, to a foehn wind (see wunderground weather historian Christopher C. Burt’s blog post on this).

According to Herrera, the previous world October heat record of 47.3°C was set at Campo Gallo, Argentina on Oct. 16 1936, and South Africa’s highest reliable temperature for any month is 48.8°C (119.8°F), recorded at Vioosdrif in January 1993.

Five-minute resolution plot of the temperature at Vredendal (at link), South Africa on Oct. 27, when the station hit a remarkable 48.4°C (119.1°F)—an all-time record for the planet for the month of October. Photo credit: South African Weather Service / Gail Linnow

In the Arabian Sea, Tropical Cyclone Chapala has spun up to hurricane strength, with top winds of 75 mph estimated at 8 a.m. EDT Thursday by the Joint Typhoon Warning Center. Chapala is expected to take advantage of low wind shear, warm ocean waters near 30°C (86°F) and favorable upper-level outflow to intensify into a Category 4 storm by Sunday. Thereafter, weakening is likely as the storm encounters higher wind shear, lower oceanic heat content and interaction with land. Chapala is likely to make landfall on Monday in a sparsely populated area near the border of Yemen and Oman.

Tropical Cyclone Chapala as seen by the VIIRS instrument at 08:30 UTC October 29, 2015. At the time, Chapala was intensifying from a tropical storm with 65 mph winds to a Category 1 storm with 75 mph winds. Photo credit: NOAA / RAMMB

Tropical Cyclone Chapala as seen by the VIIRS instrument at 08:30 UTC October 29, 2015. At the time, Chapala was intensifying from a tropical storm with 65 mph winds to a Category 1 storm with 75 mph winds. Photo credit: NOAA / RAMMB (at link)

http://ecowatch.com/2015/10/30/south-africa-record-temp/ (http://ecowatch.com/2015/10/30/south-africa-record-temp/)

Agelbert Comment:
These studies further confirm the reality that burning fossil fuels is poisoning the biosphere. 

Global civilization is threatened within 25 years.

The  Hansen et al June 2015 study * and the Dutton et al July 2015 study ** evidences a 6 to 25 meter (19 to 82 feet!) sea level increase in the geological record when the CO2 parts per million (PPM) atmospheric concentration was between 300 and 400PPM. As of October of 2015, the CO2 concentration is at 400PPM. It is increasing at over 3PPM per year.  

*Atmos. Chem. Phys. Discuss., 15, 20059–20179, 2015 doi:10.5194/acpd-15-20059-
© Author(s) 2015. CC Attribution 3.0 License. 

Ice melt, sea level rise and superstorms: evidence from paleoclimate data, climate modeling, and modern observations that 2C global warming is highly dangerous 

J. Hansen1, M. Sato1, P. Hearty2, R. Ruedy3,4, M. Kelley3,4, V. Masson-Delmotte5,
G. Russell4, G. Tselioudis4, J. Cao6, E. Rignot7,8, I. Velicogna8,7, E. Kandiano9,
K. von Schuckmann10, P. Kharecha1,4, A. N. Legrande4, M. Bauer11, and
K.-W. Lo3,4



** Science 10 July 2015: Vol. 349  no. 6244  DOI: 10.1126/science.aaa4019
Sea-level rise due to polar ice-sheet mass loss during past warm periods

A. Dutton1,*,  A. E. Carlson2,  A. J. Long3,  G. A. Milne4,  P. U. Clark2,  R. DeConto5,  B. P. Horton6,7,  S. Rahmstorf8,  M. E. Raymo9
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on October 30, 2015, 05:43:36 pm
AG, you accuse me several times of saying that Collapse will save us from Climate Change.  I have said that elsewhere, but in this thread I have only said Peak Fossils will save us from Climate Change.  There is a big difference - the Peak Fossils scenario at least has us burning all the FFs we can extract until it has all gone, Collapse would leave most of the remaining FFs still in the ground.

So there is a spectrum of forecasts of FF burning, that runs from low to high:
Collapse, Peak Fossils, RCP2.6, RCP4.5, RCP6.0, RCP8.5, Dutton
I believe Collapse is the most likely, and Peak Fossils is the very worst we could experience.  You believe Dutton is right (or perhaps you  believe even that is too conservative).  I just wonder where you think all those FFs are going to come from.

The IPCC models (there are 31 approved models in AR5) DO take Methane into account - how else could they arrive at the conclusion that Methane is 32% of Total Net Radiative Forcing?  What differs between RCP8.5 and Dutton is the quantity of Methane to be fed in to the models.  But RCP8.5 is already a way too high scenario, even RCP2.6 is way too high, so Dutton is even more way too high.

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Palloy:     Look at the charts I provided and answer the questions beneath them.
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Do you really imagine that the amount of oil extracted in 2050 is going to be 70% of 2010 levels?
Do you really imagine that the amount of gas extracted in 2070 is going to be 310% of 2010 levels?
Do you really imagine that the amount of coal extracted in 2090 is going to be 155% of 2010 levels?

AG: I HAVE looked at the charts. YOU apparently HAVEN'T.

Huh? What is THAT supposed to mean? - I haven't looked at my own charts?
No, you haven't looked at my charts (of RCP2.6), and you haven't answered any of the questions.  Anyone that understands Peak Fossils would know that those charts are way too high.

It follows that RCP2.6's forecast for maximum temperature rise of +1.6°C (range 1.2 - 1.9) is way too high.  Anyone can see that.  What you don't want to do is admit that because of Peak Fossils, Climate Change is not a top priority.  +1.6°C probably will have some unpleasant consequences, but it is not catastrophic.

So let me try to get to the crux of this.  Do you believe in Peak Fossils?  I know MKing doesn't, but how about you, AG ?

Palloy SAID:
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What you don't want to do is admit that because of Peak Fossils, Climate Change is not a top priority.  +1.6°C probably will have some unpleasant consequences, but it is not catastrophic.

I am convinced there will be a collapse. I am convinced that the use of fossil fuels will be reduced by said collapse, but not one second before the collapse. I AGREE with MKing that there is no way in hell that we will EVER "run out" of fossil fuels. Sure, the "cheap" stuff is gone, but SO WHAT? Are you going to start with MKing's "supply and demand" horsesh it? The issue here is CO2 pollution damage, NOT whether we can find more hydrocarbons to burn. But you just cannot believe that because you are so enthralled by the "strictly correct" IPCC models happy talk.

Your post above is confirmation that

A) you think collapse will save our bacon (you even posted that the collapse would take care of the fossil fuel "problem" to me once - I'll dig it up if you like. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-200714191329.bmp&hash=4764bfbe6bb0e11ca61102efa97a932a824f47e0)) and

B) you do not understand or accept the relationship of the PRESENT 400CO2PPM concentration in the atmosphere with average global temperature and sea level rise over the next 85 years as evidenced by these two studies.

And it will get a lot worse, according to two recent studies by credentialed climate scientists.  

These studies further confirm the reality that burning fossil fuels is poisoning the biosphere. 

Global civilization is threatened within 25 years.

The  Hansen et al June 2015 study * and the Dutton et al July 2015 study ** evidence a 6 to 25 meter (19 to 82 feet!) sea level increase in the geological record when the CO2 parts per million (PPM) atmospheric concentration was between 300 and 400PPM. As of October of 2015, the CO2 concentration is at 400PPM. It is increasing at over 3PPM per year.  

*Atmos. Chem. Phys. Discuss., 15, 20059–20179, 2015 doi:10.5194/acpd-15-20059-
© Author(s) 2015. CC Attribution 3.0 License. 

Ice melt, sea level rise and superstorms: evidence from paleoclimate data, climate modeling, and modern observations that 2C global warming is highly dangerous 

J. Hansen1, M. Sato1, P. Hearty2, R. Ruedy3,4, M. Kelley3,4, V. Masson-Delmotte5,
G. Russell4, G. Tselioudis4, J. Cao6, E. Rignot7,8, I. Velicogna8,7, E. Kandiano9,
K. von Schuckmann10, P. Kharecha1,4, A. N. Legrande4, M. Bauer11, and
K.-W. Lo3,4



** Science 10 July 2015: Vol. 349  no. 6244  DOI: 10.1126/science.aaa4019
Sea-level rise due to polar ice-sheet mass loss during past warm periods

A. Dutton1,*,  A. E. Carlson2,  A. J. Long3,  G. A. Milne4,  P. U. Clark2,  R. DeConto5,  B. P. Horton6,7,  S. Rahmstorf8,  M. E. Raymo9

Palloy SAID:
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The IPCC models (there are 31 approved models in AR5) DO take Methane into account - how else could they arrive at the conclusion that Methane is 32% of Total Net Radiative Forcing? What differs between RCP8.5 and Dutton is the quantity of Methane to be fed in to the models.  But RCP8.5 is already a way too high scenario, even RCP2.6 is way too high, so Dutton is even more way too high.


No, Palloy the amount of methane effects on temperature increase modeled are much less than the latest accurate estimates. The Dutton model is the one that is STILL too conservative!

WHAT PART of "ANOTHER USA in equivalent emissions" (see video below) do you think is in ANY of the models? NONE! Model THAT! (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F290.gif&hash=38949e35cf58eaa4218b5a8176767c806d2f8537)

CHANGES IN THE ARCTIC AND THEIR CLIMATE FEEDBACK IMPLICATIONS: Interview with Scott Goetz
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDxw0PcRgE0&feature=player_embedded (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDxw0PcRgE0&feature=player_embedded)


Your "strictly correct" precious models (see circular argument) are happy talk IN and happy talk OUT. You mathematicians were convinced waves couldn't get higher that 80 feet or so on planet Earth. The waves was just a bit of math stupidity, but the IPCC models are far more egregious.  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-200714183337.bmp&hash=fd5a6df63c32bd65dda7b6d93e788647ca3829df)

The FACT that every single model, including the most "alarmist" RCP-8.5 Business as Usual scenario, was subject to MASSAGING by government lawyer(s) defending GDP fossil fuel fun and games has been DOCUMENTED by luminaries from the IPCC itself has apparently no importance to you. I have posted about that. I guess you missed that.  ;)

The ice retreat models ensemble MEAN predicted the 2012 retreat to occur in 2060! ONE STANDARD DEVIATION on the "alarmist" side predicted it in 2048. WTF is with you trying to make a case that these models are anything but happy talk, HUH?

And one more thing, Palloy, EQUILIBRIUM on these deleterious effects has been ERRONEOULY modeled as taking CENTURIES, not decades. But I expect you to try to talk your way around Dutton with the , "it takes centuries to reach equilibrium"   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.desismileys.com%2Fsmileys%2Fdesismileys_2932.gif&hash=0eaec4791a5825821998245e7fcd7744b56557fe) happy talk that has already been totally discredited.

What Dutton predicts is baked in LONG before 2100. I do not care if you do not wish to believe it. That's your prerogative. But the next 25 years will prove that even Dutton is too conservative.


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Science 10 July 2015: Vol. 349 no. 6244 DOI: 10.1126/science.aaa4019
Sea-level rise due to polar ice-sheet mass loss during past warm periods
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on October 30, 2015, 07:19:41 pm
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... In the words of Michael Le Page from The New Scientist:

Whatever we do now, the seas will rise by at least 5 metres. Most of Florida and many other low-lying areas and cities around the world are doomed to go under. If that weren’t bad enough, without drastic cuts in global greenhouse gas emissions–more drastic than any being discussed ahead of the critical climate meeting in Paris later this year—a rise of 20 metres will soon be unavoidable.

The arithmetic is pretty depressing (chart from New Scientist article): 0.4 metres for mountain glaciers, plus 0.8 metres for ocean thermal expansion, plus 3.5 metres for the West Antarctic ice sheet (the areas in orange in the chart below). If we go past 2 degrees Celsius of warming and get to 4 degrees, then we add all the blue bars as well.

(https://therationalpessimist.files.wordpress.com/2015/06/ns-meltdown-imminent-jpeg.jpg)

http://therationalpessimist.com/tag/ipcc/

IPCC HAPPY (i.e. move along, (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.desismileys.com%2Fsmileys%2Fdesismileys_6961.gif&hash=df13f27d25fd180bcc904f19809e2b35dc3309cf) this is no "big deal" - don't worry your GDP about it.   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Facigar.gif&hash=dc9dccf92c6c88c99611b06c86d92629d69f2978) ;)) SEA LEVEL TINY INCREASE GRAPHS:

(https://therationalpessimist.files.wordpress.com/2015/06/ipcc-sea-level-jpeg.jpg)
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Agelbert NOTE: ANYONE, especially Palloy, who claims that "equilibrium" sea level increase time for CO2 concentration PPM effects to fully apply is "properly" modeled in CENTURIES, not decades, also believes the IPCC model(S) (ALL OF THEM as averaged) of ice retreat level for 2060 that occurred in 2012 were "strictly correct".   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Fgen152.gif&hash=d5b10968fe56c4cb95fae17cee3cb420a5f4e2da)


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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on October 30, 2015, 08:28:41 pm
Palloy SAID:
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The IPCC models (there are 31 approved models in AR5) DO take Methane into account - how else could they arrive at the conclusion that Methane is 32% of Total Net Radiative Forcing? What differs between RCP8.5 and Dutton is the quantity of Methane to be fed in to the models.  But RCP8.5 is already a way too high scenario, even RCP2.6 is way too high, so Dutton is even more way too high.
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So, is Woods Hole expert Robert Max Holmes an "alarmist" too. Palloy?  ;)

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"It’s essential that policymakers begin to seriously consider the possibility of a substantial permafrost carbon feedback to global warming. If they don’t, I suspect that down the road we’ll all be looking at the 2°C threshold in our rear-view mirror." --  Woods Hole expert Robert Max Holmes



Methane release from melting permafrost could trigger dangerous global warming


 
A policy briefing from the Woods Hole Research Center concludes that the IPCC doesn’t adequately account for a methane warming feedback

SNIPPET:


To put this in perspective, permafrost contains almost twice as much carbon as is present in the atmosphere. In the rapidly warming Arctic (warming twice as fast as the globe as a whole), the upper layers of this frozen soil begin to thaw, allowing deposited organic material to decompose. The plant material, which has accumulated over thousands of years, is concentrated in to upper layers (half of it is in the top 10 feet). There is a network of monitoring stations that are measuring ground temperatures have detected a significant heating trend over the past few decades and so has the active layer thickness.

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2015/oct/13/methane-release-from-melting-permafrost-could-trigger-dangerous-global-warming
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on October 31, 2015, 03:29:38 pm
AG, you accuse me several times of saying that Collapse will save us from Climate Change.  I have said that elsewhere, but in this thread I have only said Peak Fossils will save us from Climate Change.  There is a big difference - the Peak Fossils scenario at least has us burning all the FFs we can extract until it has all gone, Collapse would leave most of the remaining FFs still in the ground.

So there is a spectrum of forecasts of FF burning, that runs from low to high:
Collapse, Peak Fossils, RCP2.6, RCP4.5, RCP6.0, RCP8.5, Dutton
I believe Collapse is the most likely, and Peak Fossils is the very worst we could experience.  You believe Dutton is right (or perhaps you  believe even that is too conservative).  I just wonder where you think all those FFs are going to come from.

The IPCC models (there are 31 approved models in AR5) DO take Methane into account - how else could they arrive at the conclusion that Methane is 32% of Total Net Radiative Forcing?  What differs between RCP8.5 and Dutton is the quantity of Methane to be fed in to the models.  But RCP8.5 is already a way too high scenario, even RCP2.6 is way too high, so Dutton is even more way too high.

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Palloy:     Look at the charts I provided and answer the questions beneath them.
...
Do you really imagine that the amount of oil extracted in 2050 is going to be 70% of 2010 levels?
Do you really imagine that the amount of gas extracted in 2070 is going to be 310% of 2010 levels?
Do you really imagine that the amount of coal extracted in 2090 is going to be 155% of 2010 levels?

AG: I HAVE looked at the charts. YOU apparently HAVEN'T.

Huh? What is THAT supposed to mean? - I haven't looked at my own charts?
No, you haven't looked at my charts (of RCP2.6), and you haven't answered any of the questions.  Anyone that understands Peak Fossils would know that those charts are way too high.

It follows that RCP2.6's forecast for maximum temperature rise of +1.6°C (range 1.2 - 1.9) is way too high.  Anyone can see that.  What you don't want to do is admit that because of Peak Fossils, Climate Change is not a top priority.  +1.6°C probably will have some unpleasant consequences, but it is not catastrophic.

So let me try to get to the crux of this.  Do you believe in Peak Fossils?  I know MKing doesn't, but how about you, AG ?

Palloy SAID:
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What you don't want to do is admit that because of Peak Fossils, Climate Change is not a top priority.  +1.6°C probably will have some unpleasant consequences, but it is not catastrophic.

I am convinced there will be a collapse. I am convinced that the use of fossil fuels will be reduced by said collapse, but not one second before the collapse. I AGREE with MKing that there is no way in hell that we will EVER "run out" of fossil fuels. Sure, the "cheap" stuff is gone, but SO WHAT? Are you going to start with MKing's "supply and demand" horsehockey? The issue here is CO2 pollution damage, NOT whether we can find more hydrocarbons to burn. But you just cannot believe that because you are so enthralled by the "strictly correct" IPCC models happy talk.

Your post above is confirmation that

A) you think collapse will save our bacon (you even posted that the collapse would take care of the fossil fuel "problem" to me once - I'll dig it up if you like.     (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-200714191329.bmp&hash=4764bfbe6bb0e11ca61102efa97a932a824f47e0)) and

B) you do not understand or accept the relationship of the PRESENT 400CO2PPM concentration in the atmosphere with average global temperature and sea level rise over the next 85 years as evidenced by these two studies.

And it will get a lot worse, according to two recent studies by credentialed climate scientists.  

These studies further confirm the reality that burning fossil fuels is poisoning the biosphere. 

Global civilization is threatened within 25 years.

The  Hansen <i>et al</i> June 2015 study * and the Dutton <i>et al</i> July 2015 study ** evidence a 6 to 25 meter (19 to 82 feet!) sea level increase in the geological record when the CO2 parts per million (PPM) atmospheric concentration was between 300 and 400PPM. As of October of 2015, the CO2 concentration is at 400PPM. It is increasing at over 3PPM per year.  

<b>*</b>Atmos. Chem. Phys. Discuss., 15, 20059–20179, 2015 doi:10.5194/acpd-15-20059-
© Author(s) 2015. CC Attribution 3.0 License. 

<b>Ice melt, sea level rise and superstorms: evidence from paleoclimate data, climate modeling, and modern observations that 2C global warming is highly dangerous</b><i> 

J. Hansen1, M. Sato1, P. Hearty2, R. Ruedy3,4, M. Kelley3,4, V. Masson-Delmotte5,
G. Russell4, G. Tselioudis4, J. Cao6, E. Rignot7,8, I. Velicogna8,7, E. Kandiano9,
K. von Schuckmann10, P. Kharecha1,4, A. N. Legrande4, M. Bauer11, and
K.-W. Lo3,4</i>


<b>**</b> Science 10 July 2015: Vol. 349  no. 6244  DOI: 10.1126/science.aaa4019
<b>Sea-level rise due to polar ice-sheet mass loss during past warm periods</b>

<i>A. Dutton1,*,  A. E. Carlson2,  A. J. Long3,  G. A. Milne4,  P. U. Clark2,  R. DeConto5,  B. P. Horton6,7,  S. Rahmstorf8,  M. E. Raymo9</i>

Palloy SAID:
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The IPCC models (there are 31 approved models in AR5) DO take Methane into account - how else could they arrive at the conclusion that Methane is 32% of Total Net Radiative Forcing? What differs between RCP8.5 and Dutton is the quantity of Methane to be fed in to the models.  But RCP8.5 is already a way too high scenario, even RCP2.6 is way too high, so Dutton is even more way too high.


No, Palloy the amount of methane effects on temperature increase modeled are much less than the latest accurate estimates. The Dutton model is the one that is STILL too conservative!

WHAT PART of "ANOTHER USA in equivalent emissions" (see video below) do you think is in ANY of the models? NONE! Model THAT! (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F290.gif&hash=38949e35cf58eaa4218b5a8176767c806d2f8537)

CHANGES IN THE ARCTIC AND THEIR CLIMATE FEEDBACK IMPLICATIONS: Interview with Scott Goetz
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDxw0PcRgE0&feature=player_embedded (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDxw0PcRgE0&feature=player_embedded)


Your "strictly correct" precious models (see circular argument) are happy talk IN and happy talk OUT. You mathematicians were convinced waves couldn't get higher that 80 feet or so on planet Earth. The waves was just a bit of math stupidity, but the IPCC models are far more egregious.  :emthdown:

The FACT that every single model, including the most "alarmist" RCP-8.5 Business as Usual scenario, was subject to MASSAGING by government lawyer(s) defending GDP fossil fuel fun and games has been DOCUMENTED by luminaries from the IPCC itself has apparently no importance to you. I have posted about that. I guess you missed that.  ;)

The ice retreat models ensemble MEAN predicted the 2012 retreat to occur in 2060! ONE STANDARD DEVIATION on the "alarmist" side predicted it in 2048. WTF is with you trying to make a case that these models are anything but happy talk, HUH?

And one more thing, Palloy, EQUILIBRIUM on these deleterious effects has been ERRONEOULY modeled as taking CENTURIES, not decades. But I expect you to try to talk your way around Dutton with the , "it takes centuries to reach equilibrium"   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.desismileys.com%2Fsmileys%2Fdesismileys_2932.gif&hash=0eaec4791a5825821998245e7fcd7744b56557fe) happy talk that has already been totally discredited.

What Dutton predicts is baked in LONG before 2100. I do not care if you do not wish to believe it. That's your prerogative. But the next 25 years will prove that even Dutton is too conservative.


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Science 10 July 2015: Vol. 349 no. 6244 DOI: 10.1126/science.aaa4019
Sea-level rise due to polar ice-sheet mass loss during past warm periods
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... In the words of Michael Le Page from The New Scientist:

Whatever we do now, the seas will rise by at least 5 metres. Most of Florida and many other low-lying areas and cities around the world are doomed to go under. If that weren’t bad enough, without drastic cuts in global greenhouse gas emissions–more drastic than any being discussed ahead of the critical climate meeting in Paris later this year—a rise of 20 metres will soon be unavoidable.

The arithmetic is pretty depressing (chart from New Scientist article): 0.4 metres for mountain glaciers, plus 0.8 metres for ocean thermal expansion, plus 3.5 metres for the West Antarctic ice sheet (the areas in orange in the chart below). If we go past 2 degrees Celsius of warming and get to 4 degrees, then we add all the blue bars as well.

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http://therationalpessimist.com/tag/ipcc/ (http://therationalpessimist.com/tag/ipcc/)

IPCC HAPPY (i.e. move along, (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.desismileys.com%2Fsmileys%2Fdesismileys_6961.gif&hash=df13f27d25fd180bcc904f19809e2b35dc3309cf) this is no "big deal" - don't worry your GDP about it. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Facigar.gif&hash=dc9dccf92c6c88c99611b06c86d92629d69f2978) ;)) SEA LEVEL TINY INCREASE GRAPHS:

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Agelbert NOTE: ANYONE, especially Palloy, who claims that "equilibrium" sea level increase time for CO2 concentration PPM effects to fully apply is "properly" modeled in CENTURIES, not decades, also believes the IPCC model(S) (ALL OF THEM as averaged) of ice retreat level for 2060 that occurred in 2012 were "strictly correct".   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Fgen152.gif&hash=d5b10968fe56c4cb95fae17cee3cb420a5f4e2da)


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Palloy SAID:
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The IPCC models (there are 31 approved models in AR5) DO take Methane into account - how else could they arrive at the conclusion that Methane is 32% of Total Net Radiative Forcing? What differs between RCP8.5 and Dutton is the quantity of Methane to be fed in to the models.  But RCP8.5 is already a way too high scenario, even RCP2.6 is way too high, so Dutton is even more way too high.
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So, is Woods Hole expert Robert Max Holmes an "alarmist" too. Palloy?  ;)

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"It’s essential that policymakers begin to seriously consider the possibility of a substantial permafrost carbon feedback to global warming. If they don’t, I suspect that down the road we’ll all be looking at the 2°C threshold in our rear-view mirror." --  Woods Hole expert Robert Max Holmes



Methane release from melting permafrost could trigger dangerous global warming


 
A policy briefing from the Woods Hole Research Center concludes that the IPCC doesn’t adequately account for a methane warming feedback

SNIPPET:


To put this in perspective, permafrost contains almost twice as much carbon as is present in the atmosphere. In the rapidly warming Arctic (warming twice as fast as the globe as a whole), the upper layers of this frozen soil begin to thaw, allowing deposited organic material to decompose. The plant material, which has accumulated over thousands of years, is concentrated in to upper layers (half of it is in the top 10 feet). There is a network of monitoring stations that are measuring ground temperatures have detected a significant heating trend over the past few decades and so has the active layer thickness.


http://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2015/oct/13/methane-release-from-melting-permafrost-could-trigger-dangerous-global-warming (http://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2015/oct/13/methane-release-from-melting-permafrost-could-trigger-dangerous-global-warming)

You would save a lot of electrons if you would just humour me and tell me if you believe in Peak Fossils, and whether you think my charts of FF production for RCP2.6 are too high or not.

Yes I believe in Collapse, I admitted that in my last post, and all my DD posts.  But I only believe in it because I am sure about Peak Fossils.  I am sure RCP2.6 can't happen. Even more so all the higher scenarios.  I DON'T think IPCC's scenarios are "happy happy" - they are catastrophic, but they won't happen because they CAN'T happen because of Peak Fossils.

You seem to be studious avoiding answering the question about what YOU believe about Peak Fossils.  If you could just answer that, we would be one step away from sorting this out.

Palloy questions:
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Do you really imagine that the amount of oil extracted in 2050 is going to be 70% of 2010 levels?
Do you really imagine that the amount of gas extracted in 2070 is going to be 310% of 2010 levels?
Do you really imagine that the amount of coal extracted in 2090 is going to be 155% of 2010 levels?

Your questions on fossil fuels use are irrelevant. That's why I didn't answer them. I told you that the AMOUNT of fossil fuels we use in the future IS NOT RELEVANT to the baked in temperature rise and sea level rise at the PRESENT CO2 400PPM concentration. But I will humor you and say, NO, I do NOT believe the percentage use in your three questions about fossil fuel use will be anywhere near those percentages. SO WHAT!!!? You believe the incredibly ignorant correlation/causation temperature and sea level rise projections in those IPCC scenarios. I've told over and over again that  the models are wishful thinking. I've explained why. It's like talking to a wall.    (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.freesmileys.org%2Femoticons%2Ftuzki-bunnys%2Ftuzki-bunny-emoticon-023.gif&hash=e72013122d6634eacda71e7e47240da3c304c286)

As for Peak Fossil Fuels, Read for comprehension. I said I agreed with MKing that we will NEVER run out of fossil fuels. THAT MEANS, that NO, there ain't NO SUCH THING as "peak" fossil fuels!

What part of that did you not understand? Are you stupid or do you like to play at being a close minded, irrational stuffed shirt?

I countered your "methane is accounted for in the models" wishful thinking and you are quiet as a mouse.   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-200714183337.bmp&hash=fd5a6df63c32bd65dda7b6d93e788647ca3829df)

You have no interest in logical discourse. This conversation is over.

Part three will be published today or tomorrow.

SNIPPET:


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Climate Change, Blue Water Cargo Shipping and Predicted Ocean Wave Activity

PART THREE OF THREE PARTS

Whatever is finally determined by scientists as the exact combination of factors that forms these monster waves, it is well known that wave height and ferocity is a function of the ferocity and duration of the winds.

ΔT = plus 2C or greater guarantees ferocious winds of long during over wide areas in a consistent direction.
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I'm sure it will provide you with a lot of good laughs and plenty to scoff about. It really doesn't matter what you invent out of whole cloth in your feverish little brain. The sad human experience of the next quarter century will teach people like you how fu cked up their "strictly correct" modeling happy talk IN and Happy talk OUT is, despite its utility as a corrupt, GDP defending, empathy deficit disordered fig leaf for PERPETUATING the dirty energy status quo.    (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-200714183337.bmp&hash=fd5a6df63c32bd65dda7b6d93e788647ca3829df)  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-200714183337.bmp&hash=fd5a6df63c32bd65dda7b6d93e788647ca3829df)  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-200714183337.bmp&hash=fd5a6df63c32bd65dda7b6d93e788647ca3829df)

THIS is what those IPCC modeling happy talk scenarios Palloy defends, if they are taken seriously, will visit on future generations:
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on November 03, 2015, 07:05:53 pm
Mon Nov 2, 2015 9:06pm EST
Wreckage of doomed U.S. cargo ship El Faro found off Bahamas

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Container ship El Faro
MIAMI  |  By David Adams
 
A large ship found in deep water off the Bahamas is the lost freighter El Faro that sank with 33 crew members in a hurricane last month, U.S. authorities said on Monday.

The wreckage, in an upright position and intact on the ocean floor, was initially detected by a U.S. Navy salvage team over the weekend at a depth of nearly three miles (5 km). It was found in the vicinity of El Faro's last known location off Crooked Island in the southeastern Bahamas, the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board said.

The Navy salvage tug Apache subsequently deployed a deep ocean remotely operated submersible, CURV-21, equipped with a camera to confirm the identity of the ship, officials said.

A salvage team will now seek to retrieve the ship's voyage data recorder - similar to an airplane's black box - which could contain vital clues for the NTSB-led investigation into what sank the El Faro.

The 790-foot (241 meter) cargo ship, disappeared on Oct. 1 on a regular weekly run between Florida and Puerto Rico after the captain reported losing propulsion and taking on water.
 
The crew included 28 Americans and five Poles and there are no known survivors of the worst cargo shipping disaster involving a U.S.-flagged vessel since 1983.

The wreck is sitting in such deep water - 2,500 feet (760 meters) deeper than the Titanic - that it is beyond the reach of divers.


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El Faro Debris Field

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The eight-foot-long (2.4 meter) CURV-21 is designed to operate in depths up to almost four miles (6 km) and has arms that can be remotely manipulated from the Apache via a fiber-optic cable, said Christopher Johnson, spokesman for the Naval Sea Systems Command.

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The submersible is also equipped with another, smaller remotely operated vehicle called X-Bot that can be used to enter smaller spaces if necessary, Johnson added.

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Claudette Riley, sister of El Faro crew member Mariette Wright, 51, welcomed the discovery of the wreck but said the potential recovery of the data recorder "brings a whole new wave of sadness."

She said she was afraid of what it might reveal "about how scared they all must have been."
 
Riley said she and her family were not optimistic the Navy would be able to recover the remains of crew members at such a depth.

The cargo ship's owner, Tote Inc, is facing four lawsuits filed by relatives of the crew, alleging the ship was not seaworthy and charted a course too close to Hurricane Joaquin.

Tote filed for liability protection in a federal court in Florida on Friday, citing U.S. maritime law and saying the ship was "seaworthy and properly manned" and that the company bears no responsibility for its loss.


(Additional reporting by Susan Cooper Eastman in Jacksonville; Editing by Chris Reese and Tom Brown)

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/11/03/us-ship-elfaro-idUSKCN0SR23W20151103#W7EYUitk22DBKWGW.99 (http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/11/03/us-ship-elfaro-idUSKCN0SR23W20151103#W7EYUitk22DBKWGW.99)

Agelbert NOTE: Had the El Faro been properly equipped, 33 crewmembers would not have perished. Learn more about the El Faro's fateful voyage below.  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Freading.gif&hash=63e3e644b39258d4c4eedbcdaf322315b1856723) 

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Climate Change, Blue Water Cargo Shipping and Predicted Ocean Wave Activity

PART THREE OF THREE PARTS

Whatever is finally determined by scientists as the exact combination of factors that forms these monster waves, it is well known that wave height and ferocity is a function of the ferocity and duration of the winds.

ΔT = plus 2C or greater guarantees ferocious winds of long during over wide areas in a consistent direction.

We are already experiencing the beginning of the abrupt climate change that is bringing these destructive winds due to the increase in frequency and severity of cyclonic movements over the oceans.

Hurricanes and typhoons are the DIRECT result of overheated ocean surface water. As heat increases, so will they continue to increase in frequency and severity, setting new records. As soon as the surface temperature of the ocean is at or above 27.8C (82F), they can form.

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Sea surface temperatures must be 82 degrees F (27.8C) or warmer for tropical cyclone formation and sustenance.
Recipe for a Hurricane
http://www.nasa.gov/vision/earth/environment/HURRICANE_RECIPE.html (http://www.nasa.gov/vision/earth/environment/HURRICANE_RECIPE.html)

The higher the ocean surface temperature, the more often they will form to wreak havoc with ships and coasts.

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Patricia the Fastest-Intensifying Western Hemisphere Hurricane on Record (http://ecowatch.com/2015/10/23/hurricane-patricia-hit-mexico/)


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Susan Casey gives us an eye opening look at giant waves.

The book titled, "The Wave" is the overall scope; Casey links how the Earth's weather is changing to how waves are growing, and there's no denying the stats: there is a clear correlation. She visits various scientists and marine salvage folks and shares their stories; they all agree that we're seeing the oceans get nuttier, and it's only just beginning.

 
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The Wave: In Pursuit of the Rogues, Freaks, and Giants of the Ocean by Susan Casey

Susan Casey, National Post · Monday, Sept. 20, 2010
57.5° N, 12.7° W, 175 MILES OFF THE COAST OF SCOTLAND FEBRUARY 8, 2000

The clock read midnight when the 100-foot wave hit the ship, rising from the North Atlantic out of the darkness. Among the ocean's terrors a wave this size was the most feared and the least understood, more myth than reality -- or so people had thought. This giant was certainly real. As the RRS Discovery plunged down into the wave's deep trough, it heeled 28 degrees to port,
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The above graphic is a scale simulation of 295 ft. ship heeling 28 degrees to port in the trough of a 100 ft. wave by yours truly.

rolled 30 degrees back to starboard, then recovered to face the incoming seas. What chance did they have, the 47 scientists and crew aboard this research cruise gone horribly wrong? A series of storms had trapped them in the black void east of Rockall, a volcanic island nicknamed Waveland for the nastiness of its surrounding waters. More than 1,000 wrecked ships lay on the seafloor below.

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Captain Keith Avery steered his vessel directly into the onslaught, just as he'd been doing for the past five days. While weather like this was common in the cranky North Atlantic, these giant waves were unlike anything he'd encountered in his 30 years of experience.

And worse, they kept rearing up from different directions. Flanking all sides of the 295-foot ship, the crew kept a constant watch to make sure they weren't about to be sucker punched by a wave that was sneaking up from behind, or from the sides.

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No one wanted to be out here right now, but Avery knew their only hope was to remain where they were, with their bow pointed into the waves. Turning around was too risky; if one of these waves caught Discovery broadside, there would be long odds on survival. It takes 30 tons per square metre of force to dent a ship.

A breaking 100-foot wave packs 100 tons of force per square metre and can tear a ship in half. Above all, Avery had to position Discovery so that it rode over these crests and wasn't crushed beneath them.

He stood barefoot at the helm, the only way he could maintain traction after a refrigerator toppled over, splashing out a slick of milk, juice and broken glass (no time to clean it up--the waves just kept coming).

Up on the bridge everything was amplified, all the night noises and motions, the slamming and the crashing, the elevator-shaft plunges into the troughs, the frantic wind, the swaying and groaning of the ship; and now, as the waves suddenly grew even bigger and meaner and steeper, Avery heard a loud bang coming from Discovery's foredeck. He squinted in the dark to see that the 50-man lifeboat had partially ripped from its 2-inch-thick steel cleats and was pounding against the hull.

Below deck, computers and furniture had been smashed into pieces. The scientists huddled in their cabins nursing bruises, black eyes and broken ribs. Attempts at rest were pointless. They heard the noises too; they rode the free falls and the sickening barrel rolls; and they worried about the fact that a 6-foot-long window next to their lab had already shattered from the twisting. Discovery was almost 40 years old, and recently she'd undergone major surgery. The ship had been cut in half, lengthened by 33 feet, and then welded back together. Would the joints hold? No one really knew. No one had ever been in conditions like these.

One of the two chief scientists, Penny Holliday, watched as a chair skidded out from under her desk, swung into the air and crashed onto her bunk. Holliday, fine boned, porcelain-doll pretty and as tough as any man on board the ship, had sent an e-mail to her boyfriend, Craig Harris, earlier in the day. "This isn't funny anymore," she wrote. "The ocean just looks completely out of control." So much white spray was whipping off the waves that she had the strange impression of being in a blizzard. This was Waveland all right, an otherworldly place of constant motion that took you nowhere but up and down; where there was no sleep, no comfort, no connection to land, and where human eyes and stomachs struggled to adapt, and failed.

Ten days ago Discovery had left port in Southampton, England, on what Holliday had hoped would be a typical 3-week trip to Iceland and back (punctuated by a little seasickness perhaps, but nothing major).

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RRS Discovery in calm seas


Along the way they'd stop and sample the water for salinity, temperature, oxygen and other nutrients. From these tests the scientists would draw a picture of what was happening out there, how the ocean's basic characteristics were shifting, and why.

These are not small questions on a planet that is 71% covered in salt water.
As the Earth's climate changes -- as the inner atmosphere becomes warmer, as the winds increase, as the oceans heat up -- what does all this mean for us? Trouble, most likely, and Holliday and her colleagues were in the business of finding out how much and what kind. It was deeply frustrating for them to be lashed to their bunks rather than out on the deck lowering their instruments. No one was thinking about Iceland anymore.

The trip was far from a loss, however. During the endless trains of massive waves, Discovery itself was collecting data that would lead to a chilling revelation. The ship was ringed with instruments; everything that happened out there was being precisely measured, the sea's fury captured in tight graphs and unassailable numbers.

Months later, long after Avery had returned everyone safely to the Southampton docks, when Holliday began to analyze these figures, she would discover that the waves they had experienced were the largest ever scientifically recorded in the open ocean. The significant wave height, an average of the largest 33% of the waves, was 61 feet, with frequent spikes far beyond that.

At the same time, none of the state-of-the-art weather forecasts and wave models-- the information upon which all ships, oil rigs, fisheries and passenger boats rely -- had predicted these behemoths. In other words, under this particular set of weather conditions, waves this size should not have existed. And yet they did.

http://www.samsmarine.com/forums/showthread.php?15984-Giants-of-the-Ocean-(Part-1)&s=3ce56fe6a5efb7cdccd8412c349f4bf2 (http://www.samsmarine.com/forums/showthread.php?15984-Giants-of-the-Ocean-(Part-1)&s=3ce56fe6a5efb7cdccd8412c349f4bf2)


You could call them whatever you wanted -- rogues, freaks, giants -- but the bottom line was that no one had accounted for them. The engineers who'd built the Draupner rig had calculated that once every 10,000 years the North Sea might throw them a 64-foot curveball in 38-foot seas. That would be the maximum. Eighty-five-foot waves were not part of the equation, not in this universe anyway.

But the rules had changed. Now scientists had a set of numbers that pointed to an unsettling truth: Some of these waves make their own rules. Suddenly the emphasis shifted from explaining why giant waves couldn't simply leap out of the ocean to figuring out how it was that they did.

This was a matter of much brow sweat for the oil industry, which would prefer that its multimillion-dollar rigs not be swept away. It had happened before. In 1982 the Ocean Ranger, a 400-foot-long, 337-foot-high oil platform located 170 miles off the coast of Newfoundland, was struck by an outsize wave in heavy weather. We'll never know how big the wave was exactly, for there were no survivors. Approved for "unrestricted ocean operations," built to withstand 110-foot seas and 115-mile-per-hour winds, considered "indestructible" by its engineers, the Ocean Ranger had capsized and sank close to instantly, killing all 84 people on board.

In the nautical world things were even more troubling. Across the global seas ships were meeting these waves, from megaton vessels like the Munchen -- oceangoing freighters and tankers and bulk carriers -- down to recreational sailboats.

At best, the encounters resulted in damage; at worst, the boat vanished, taking all hands with it. "Two large ships sink every week on average [worldwide], but the cause is never studied to the same detail as an air crash. It simply gets put down to 'bad weather,' " said Dr. Wolfgang Rosenthal, senior scientist for the MaxWave Project, a consortium of European scientists that convened in 2000 to investigate the disappearing ships.

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MS München

December 12, 1978: Considered unsinkable, the Munchen was a cutting-edge craft, the flagship of the German Merchant Navy. At 3:25 a.m. fragments of a Morse code Mayday, emanating from 450 miles north of the Azores, signaled that the vessel had suffered grave damage from a wave.


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Artist's conception of MS München facing a giant wave.

But even after 110 ships and 13 aircraft were deployed -- the most comprehensive search in the history of shipping -- the ship and its 27 crew were never seen again.

A haunting clue was left behind: Searchers found one of the Munchen's lifeboats, usually stowed 65 feet above the water, floating empty. Its twisted metal fittings indicated that it had been torn away. "Something extraordinary" had destroyed the ship, concluded the official report. *

The Munchen's disappearance points to the main problem with proving the existence of a giant wave:
If you run into that kind of nightmare, it's likely to be the last one you'll have.

The force of waves is hard to overstate. An 18-inch wave can topple a wall built to withstand 125-mile-per-hour winds, for instance, and coastal advisories are issued for even five-foot-tall surf, which regularly kills people caught in the wrong places.

The number of people who have witnessed a 100-foot wave at close range and made it back home to describe the experience is a very small one.

http://www.samsmarine.com/forums/showthread.php?15984-Giants-of-the-Ocean-(Part-1)&s=3ce56fe6a5efb7cdccd8412c349f4bf2 (http://www.samsmarine.com/forums/showthread.php?15984-Giants-of-the-Ocean-(Part-1)&s=3ce56fe6a5efb7cdccd8412c349f4bf2)

* Agelbert NOTE: The container ship El Faro sank during Hurricane Juaquin on October 1, 2015. All 33 crewmembers perished. The lifeboats on El Faro were also 65 feet above the water line. From the condition of the lifeboat that was recovered, the evidence indicates a giant wave sank the El Faro. The authorities have not admitted this as of yet. But I am not the only one that strongly suspects that the condition of the lifeboat is evidence that a giant wave sank El Faro (Spanish for "Lighthouse"). 

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"A heavily damaged lifeboat from the El Faro was discovered, with no one ..."

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Coast Guard Investigates El Faro Life Boat
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Published on Oct 5, 2015
A Coast Guard Air Station Miami MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew investigates a life boat Sunday, Oct. 4, 2015, that was found from the missing ship El Faro. El Faro lost propulsion and communications prior to Hurricane Joaquin passing directly over it. U.S. Coast Guard video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQv_NxVBge0&feature=player_embedded (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQv_NxVBge0&feature=player_embedded)


Warming oceans are with us now and increasing the violence of the oceans. By chance, I recorded the SST (Sea Surface Temperature) off the East Coast of the USA the day before Hurricane Juaquin sank the El Faro container ship. Here's the September 30, 2015 (8 day average - proof  that it was really consistently hot out there!) screenshot:

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Here's two days later (one day after the El Faro Container ship sank). I superimposed the hurricane location. It is a one day average SST so the conditions when the El Faro sank are displayed.  I was not aware that the El Faro had been lost at the time I made these screenshots. Notice the cooler spot on the ocean precisely where Hurricane Juaquin is lashing El Faro. A hurricane transfers several degrees of water temperature directly to the atmosphere, which, in turn, increases the ferocity of the winds. Ferocious winds produce ferocious waves.

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El Faro departed Jacksonville en route to San Juan, Puerto Rico.


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The El Faro was one of TWO cargo ships that went down because of Hurricane Juaquin (the 215 ft. MV Minouche that went down didn't make national headlines, because people, perhaps, might start to get "unnecessarily alarmed" about the increasing shipping losses from our increasingly violent oceans). All 12 crew of the MV Minouche were rescued.

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MV Minouche

The Coast Guard pilot's voice shakes as he describes conditions they have never before experienced in rescue attempts when they were searching for the El Faro and rescuing the crew of the MV Minouche.

https://youtu.be/_xFT9JD2f1A (https://youtu.be/_xFT9JD2f1A)

US Coast Guard search for El Faro; 12 rescued from MV Minouche
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Published on Oct 5, 2015
A US Coast Guard C-130 pilot describes a flight through Hurricane Joaquin in 100 knot winds and over 40-foot waves in search of the cargo ship El Faro, which has been reported sunk after debris was found. Part two of this video features footage from an Oct. 1 rescue of 12 people from the MV Minouche near the Bahamas.

The El Faro, that went down with a crew of 33, all lost, 294 cars, trailers and trucks, along with hundreds of containers, had a type of lifeboat that is a death boat in stormy seas.

Here's a comment by a fellow who's handle is deckofficer:

Hurricane Joaquin vs. M/V El Faro's final voyage, weather and decision-making...

I guess the only point I would like to make is some owners don't seem to value the lives of their crews. Schedules are tight and safety equipment is in many cases the bare minimum for certification. In the case of SS El Faro (it is my understanding this is a steam ship, not diesel) the open life boats as high on the super structure as they were meets requirements but certainly doesn't offer the all sea state conditions of deployment as free fall enclosed life boat capsules. If these souls are lost at sea, it is maddening that the simple added investment of better emergency egress would have saved their lives. I have done more lifeboat drills than I can remember, and for the older style gravity systems there was a good reason these drills only occurred on calm days.

When sea state is overwhelming and you have lost propulsion and need to abandon ship, do you want this....

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Or this....

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Bob
USCG Unlimited Tonnage Open Ocean (CMA)

http://www.cruisersforum.com/forums/f122/hurricane-joaquin-vs-m-v-el-faros-final-voyage-weather-and-decsion-making-154191-3.html (http://www.cruisersforum.com/forums/f122/hurricane-joaquin-vs-m-v-el-faros-final-voyage-weather-and-decsion-making-154191-3.html)

Free fall enclosed life boat capsules are a great idea. They should be mandatory. The fact that they aren't is mute evidence of the neoliberal Empathy Deficit disordered "cost/benefit analysis" that values goods more than lives. As long as people continue to line up to crew the ships, management will cut corners on life support.

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But the greedball shippers are increasingly going to have a bit more to worry about than whether they have a labor force or not. Thanks to the fossil fuel industry socialized cost of CO2 pollution (even though Big Oil is getting a bit of payback from the oceans with oil rig difficulties and tanker losses), this is no longer going to be about whether the "demand" for products "justifies" cargo shipping.


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I am grateful to Paul Beckwith of the University of Ottawa for alerting me to the threat from violent oceans that mankind faces.

Paul Beckwith is a part time professor at the University of Ottawa and a post graduate studying and researching abrupt climate change, with a focus on the arctic.

An Ocean Full of 30 meter Tall Waves

by Paul Beckwith

Published on Jul 23, 2015

"Near the end of the previous warm period (Late-Eemian) when the sea level was +5 to +9 meters higher than today, persistent long period long wavelength waves 30 meters high battered the Bahamas coastline. Will we see these massive storm generated waves soon? No ship could survive this..." 

https://youtu.be/rq24d3-bIU4 (https://youtu.be/rq24d3-bIU4)

If the ships cannot handle the seas (NO ship is designed, or can cost effectively be designed, to handle anywhere near 100 tons per square meter of force on her hull), shipping itself will no longer be cost effective unless cargo ships morph into cargo submarines. The cost of doing that is staggering. Even if they designed them to ride just beneath the wave turbulence, they still would have to submerge to one half the wavelength of ocean waves.

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Deep-Water Waves

If the water depth (d) is greater then the wave base (equal to one-half the wavelength, or L/2), the waves are called deep-water waves. Deep-water waves have no interference with the ocean bottom, so they include all wind-generated waves in the open ocean. Submarines can avoid large ocean waves by submerging below the wave base.
http://www2.fiu.edu/~kpanneer/lab_assignment/Lab8_Waves.pdf (http://www2.fiu.edu/~kpanneer/lab_assignment/Lab8_Waves.pdf)


The wave that hit the Draupner platform in 1995 was over 90 ft. high and had a wavelength of 231 meters (which it covered in only 12 seconds! - 45 mph). To avoid these waves, a submerged cargo vessel or tanker would have to withstand pressures at a minimum of 116 meters below sea level.

That may be a piece of cake for a normal submarine but it would cost multiples of what cargo and tanker vessels cost now to make cargo submarines and tankers capable of routinely submerging to 400 or 500 feet.

And in water that is too shallow to get under the wave action, they will not avoid being damaged or sunk. Those waves Paul Beckwith mentions will be visiting the coastlines regularly in a ΔT = plus 2C (and beyond) world.

During WW2 the Germans actually made submarine tankers. They nicknamed them "Milk Cows". The German type XIV U-Boat could resupply other boats with 432 t (425 long tons) of fuel. I'm sure ExxonMobil will look into it when the going gets REALLY rough on the oceans, instead of doing the right thing and giving up fossil fuels. They aren't known for their ability to consider the wider consequences of their greed based, short term profit motive stupidity. But I digress.  ;D

Besides the large increase in sea level, the wave action predicted makes every hull design of modern shipping inadequate. It will be very hard to sustain our level of civilization without the benefits of modern shipping.

Redesigning hulls will not work for the simple reason that the waves, now called "rogue" waves, of those oceans will be routine. 30 to 35 meter tall waves exert forces on a hull of about 100 tons per square meter. No modern hull design exceeds 30 tons per square meter.
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Hellespont Alhambra (now TI Asia), a ULCC TI class supertanker, which are the largest ocean-going oil tankers in the world

To give you a better idea of the huge threat a giant wave or three is to a large tanker or cargo vessel,  I took some screenshots from a video of a wave laboratory testing the effects of 72 ft. waves on a modern supertanker. I'm sure Big Oil is paying attention, regardless of what they say in public.  ;)

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The tanker completely capsized. In a real world situation, this is a death blow to the crew because it happens too fast to get survival gear on or reach the lifeboats, even if they are the emergency egress sealed type you saw earlier. That is why both tanker and cargo ships do everything they can to avoid being broadsided. In the real world, when the engines are lost in these types of seas, the only way to survive is to immediately abandon ship on a free fall enclosed life boat capsule.

If the above series of screen shots are not convincing enough to the reader of the threat shipping faces from giant waves, the following video series will leave no doubt in your mind that world shipping is incapable of handling the routine 30 to 35 meter waves that the Hansen et al June 2015 paper predicts for a ΔT = plus 2C (and beyond) world.

The following video series is the first of an excellent BBC series that describes the difficulties that shipping faces with giant waves. Some of the material I have covered is presented with some added background provided. You will learn much from these videos. You will learn that absolutely nothing I have told you is exaggeration or hyperbole.

The threat is real and it is getting worse. I urge you to set aside some time to view them because this concerns our future as a civilization. We are not prepared for a ΔT = plus 2C  world (and beyond).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YVZn46KgTs&list=PLF7FBE5EA5E56AF7E&feature=player_detailpage (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YVZn46KgTs&list=PLF7FBE5EA5E56AF7E&feature=player_detailpage)

CONCLUSIONS

Global Civilization is threatened within 25 years or less by the scientifically predicted ocean surface wave activity in the Hansen et al June 2015 study * and the Dutton et al July 2015 study ** evidencing a 6 to 25 meter (19 to 82 feet!) sea level increase in the geological record when the CO2 parts per million (PPM) atmospheric concentration was between 300 and 400PPM. As of October of 2015, the CO2 concentration is at 400PPM. It is increasing at over 3PPM per year.

* Atmos. Chem. Phys. Discuss., 15, 20059–20179, 2015 doi:10.5194/acpd-15-20059-2015 © Author(s) 2015. CC Attribution 3.0 License.

Ice melt, sea level rise and superstorms: evidence from paleoclimate data, climate modeling, and modern observations that 2 C global warming is highly dangerous
J. Hansen1, M. Sato1, P. Hearty2, R. Ruedy3,4, M. Kelley3,4, V. Masson-Delmotte5, G. Russell4, G. Tselioudis4, J. Cao6, E. Rignot7,8, I. Velicogna8,7, E. Kandiano9, K. von Schuckmann10, P. Kharecha1,4, A. N. Legrande4, M. Bauer11, and K.-W. Lo3,4

www.atmos-chem-phys-discuss.net/15/20059/2015/ (http://www.atmos-chem-phys-discuss.net/15/20059/2015/)
http://www.atmos-chem-phys-discuss.net/15/20059/2015/acpd-15-20059-2015.pdf (http://www.atmos-chem-phys-discuss.net/15/20059/2015/acpd-15-20059-2015.pdf)

** Science 10 July 2015: Vol. 349  no. 6244  DOI: .1126/science.aaa4019 

Sea-level rise due to polar ice-sheet mass loss during past warm periods
A. Dutton1,*,  A. E. Carlson2,  A. J. Long3,  G. A. Milne4,  P. U. Clark2,  R. DeConto5,  B. P. Horton6,7,  S. Rahmstorf8,  M. E. Raymo9
 
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/349/6244/aaa4019.abstract (http://www.sciencemag.org/content/349/6244/aaa4019.abstract)

Furthermore, the rate of increase is also rising, evidencing, not only the lack of concerted action by the governments of the industrialized nations of the world to stop using fossil fuels, but an increase in their use, along with the incredibly destructive policies of subsidizing the exploration for fossil fuels.

If drastic action is not taken to avert this violent oceans catastrophe for human civilization, our global civilization will collapse into "sea-locked" regions unable to conduct trade across the oceans except via air transportation, a method that is not economically feasible to use for bulk cargo.

Port facilities and coastal airport facilities will become unusable. In addition, the salt water fishing industry would also collapse, both from the violent oceans and the increasing rate of marine extinctions, creating joblessness, food shortages and widespread hunger.

At least 25 percent of the world's arable land, all of which is low lying and near sea coasts, will be lost due to salt water invasion of the water table, even several miles from the coasts.


RECOMMENDATIONS


To prevent a collapse of global civilization into a group of "sea locked" areas, we must act now to prevent the oceans from being too stormy for shipping.

This requires the following:

1. The manufacture of internal combustion engines, and spare parts, used to power utility scale power plants, land, sea and air vehicles and emergency generators for public or private use, be they large or small, is to be outlawed, unless they are designed to run exclusively (low temperature alloys ONLY - 2/3 lighter engine blocks - they break down due to high waste heat if run on fossil fuels) on ethanol or some other biofuel. All aircraft must be powered by biofuels until electrically powered or hydrogen powered aircraft replace current jet engines. All ocean going oil tankers are to be recycled for low cost EV metals. All remaining ships of all sizes must be electrically powered as well, unless they can be modified to run on biofuels. Biofuels must be used to bridge the gap while phasing out the internal combustion engine in industry, the military and transportation by air, land or sea.

2. All ships must have enclosed egress lifeboats capable of surviving 35 meter waves.

3. Small engines, like those used for lawn mowers. leaf blowers or weed whackers are to be outlawed. All ordinances requiring lawns are to be outlawed. All lawn, gardening or snow removal power equipment not running on E100 is to be electrically powered without any exceptions or grace period.

4. A program to phase out of all uses of fossil fuels within one year must begin immediately. All gasoline stations are to have at least two E100 pumps. A gasoline tax of one dollar per gallon is to be levied to existing gasoline or other distillate fuels tax. The tax is to be increased by one additional dollar per gallon every month.

5. All governments must provide an EV for gas guzzlers consumer trade program at no cost to the owner until all on road and off road vehicles that are not fueled exclusively with E100 (100% ethanol) have been recycled.

6. All public and private buildings (including the military) are to be modified to have 100% renewable energy for heating and cooling. Zero percent financing and a 30 year amortization period is to be provided to all private households and landlords for the purchase and installation of Renewable Energy infrastructure. No household is entitled to heat and cool more than 500 square feet per occupant. No exceptions. Monitoring devices are to placed on all large houses in general and mansions in particular with heavy fines for violations.

7. After all buildings are heated and cooled with renewable energy, the remaining energy needs, plus a surplus, are to be generated by renewable energy in order to begin the process of returning to less than 350PPM of CO2. Carbon will be sequestered with renewable energy machines.

8.The manufacture, sale or use of fossil fuel based pesticides or chemical fertilizers for agriculture is to be outlawed with a six month phase out grace period.

9. The manufacture and sale of any product, including, but not limited to, pharmaceuticals and plastics, using fossil fuels as a feed stock is to be prohibited by law. A one year grace period will be allowed for transition to the use of plant based carbohydrates as feed stock.

10. Water use is to be heavily regulated.

11. Military budgets are to be limited to no more than 5% of tax receipts.

12. All subsidies for fossil fuels are be declared null and void in every country in the world. All rigs, refineries, tanker trucks, pipelines and other fossil fuel industry plant and equipment are to be recycled within a five year period. The fossil fuel industry stock holders are to shoulder the cost of this. Corporate bankruptcies of fossil fuel corporations will not limit the liability of the corporation stock holders sccording to a worldwide proclamation of Force Majeure. Executives, board members and all other stock holders will be liable for all recycling costs according to ownership records over the last 50 years.


And that is just the start. Massive conservation efforts must be undertaken to preserve and protect all animals now threatened with extinction. All governments must put these efforts on the level of war time demands simply because our survival as a civilization and possibly as a species is threatened.

We cannot function without the use of the oceans. We will not be able to use those oceans if we don't lower the CO2 atmospheric content to at least 350 PPM.

And even then, with the 6 meter or more (over 19 feet!) rise in sea level locked into the  ΔT = plus 2C  world, we will lose the use of all port facilities, coastal cities and arable land near sea level within a decade or, optimistically speaking in regard to the IPCC RPC-8.5 "Business as Usual" scenario, by 2050. Our civilization does not have the money to rebuild and replant and relocate millions of people as the seas go up and fly all cargo when the seas can't be used, PERIOD.

It is only possible to avoid a collapse of global civilization by the drastic measures I listed, and only if those measures are undertaken within a decade.

If not, then mankind will be split into several "sea locked" groups watching the oceans acidify and the temperature increase to the point when the methane bursts from the thawed clathrates in the Arctic ocean bottom. Then the ΔT = plus 2C world will be a distant mild memory in comparison to the  ΔT = plus 4C and beyond runaway GHG hell.

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Oil Tanker named "Prestige" sinks. Is this the Writing on the Oil Tanker Hull Wall for Big Oil?

It is small consolation to me that these oil tankers will not survive the coming oceans. But there is a certain logic to it.

If you find this article of importance to our survival as a species or the survival of civilization, please pass it on with or without attribution. People need to properly understand the nature of our climate problem in general, and the fossil fuel industry's blame for profiting from it in particular, in order to embrace the outlawing of the burning of fossil fuels.

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They must be held accountable and they must NOT be allowed to influence energy policy ever again. They will try to sabotage or water down all the reforms proposed at the December 2015 COP21 Climate Conference, as they have done at all the other global climate conferences through corruption or threats. Our survival and the welfare of the children of the world depends on stopping these criminals NOW.


 
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Please help the children.

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"We call on you to take immediate action to protect COP21 and all future negotiations from the influence of big polluters. Given the fossil fuel industry’s years of interference intended to block progress, push false solutions, and continue the disastrous status quo, the time has come to stop treating big polluters as legitimate “stakeholders” and to remove them from climate policymaking."

Today, we are facing the prospect of the destruction of life as we know it and irreversible damage to our planet due to climate change. Scientists are telling us with ever more urgency that we must act quickly to stop extracting fossil fuels and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. But the world’s largest polluters have prevented progress on bold climate action for far too long.

We call on the Parties to the UNFCCC to protect the UN climate talks and climate policymaking around the world from the influence of big polluters. The world is looking to the next round of negotiations – in Paris this December – for decisive action on climate. This is a pivotal moment to create real solutions. We need a strong outcome from the Paris talks in order to seize the momentum of a growing global movement, and to urge leaders to take bolder action to address the climate crisis.

But the fossil fuel industry and other transnational corporations that have a vested interest in stopping progress continue to delay, weaken, and block climate policy at every level. From the World Coal Association hosting a summit on "clean coal" around COP19 to Shell aggressively lobbying in the European Union for weak renewable energy goals while promoting gas – these big polluters are peddling false solutions to protect their profits while driving the climate crisis closer to the brink.

 A decade ago, the international community took on another behemoth industry – Big Tobacco – and created a precedent-setting treaty mechanism that removed the tobacco industry from public health policy. This can happen again here.


Corporate Accountability International will deliver this message and the list of signatures at the climate talks in Bonn, Germany, the first week of June. We will do another delivery by the end of COP21 in Paris this December.

Participating organizations:

350.org
Amazon Watch
Chesapeake Climate Action Network
Climate Action Network International
Corporate Accountability International
CREDO Action
Daily Kos
Environmental Action
Food & Water Watch
Federation of Young European Greens
Forecast the Facts
Greenpeace USA
League of Conservation Voters
Oil Change International
People for the American Way
Rainforest Action Network
RH Reality Check
SumOfUs
The Natural History Museum
CC: UNFCCC Executive Secretary Christiana Figueres
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon
Outgoing COP20 President Manuel Pulgar-Vidal
Incoming COP21 President Laurent Fabius


Many will read this and scoff. They do not accept the FACT that Business as usual is a death sentence for global civilization. They do not accept the FACT that nature does not negotiate. They do not accept the FACT that Incremental/half measures are like being half pregnant with Rosemary's baby. 

They will say that there is absolutely no way that the governments of the world will undertake even a tiny portion of the recommendations I list as sine qua non for our survival as a global civilization. 

Perhaps they are right about the governments. If they are, then perhaps we will, because of the successful degrading of democracy and the biosphere by the fossil fuel industry over the course of about a century, experience the roaring oceans and the collapse of all of civilization, not just global civilization.

If so, then the ocean violence, now predicted by science, was prophesied about a long time ago.

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And there will be signs in sun and moon and stars, and on the earth distress of nations in perplexity because of the roaring of the sea and the waves, people fainting with fear and with foreboding of what is coming on the world. For the powers of the heavens will be shaken. Luke 21:25-26 English Standard Version 

But whether you believe the above prophesy is valid or not, I think it safe to assume that our future ocean surface will be very unsafe.             

For more background, read these articles:

The Real Sea Monsters: On the Hunt for Rogue Waves
By Lynne Peeples | September 2, 2009
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/rogue-waves-ocean-energy-forecasting/ (http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/rogue-waves-ocean-energy-forecasting/)

Rogue waves are no fish tale
Once regarded as extremely rare, satellite photos and radar imagery have documented the existence of numerous rogue waves, and it turns out that they are far more common than previously thought.
http://mentalfloss.com/article/15284/rogue-waves-are-no-fish-tale (http://mentalfloss.com/article/15284/rogue-waves-are-no-fish-tale)

If you missed the first two parts, you can read them at the links below.

Climate Change, Blue Water Cargo Shipping and Predicted Ocean Wave Activity: PART ONE (http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/climate-change/global-warming-is-with-us/msg4045/#msg4045)

Climate Change, Blue Water Cargo Shipping and Predicted Ocean Wave Activity: PART TWO (http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/climate-change/global-warming-is-with-us/msg4050/#msg4050)
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on November 03, 2015, 07:41:49 pm
The Australians are watching.  8)

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What does a warm North Pacific mean for us?
7 May, 2015
 
Early analysis of the warm SST in the North East Pacific is showing temperature anomalies exceeding 4 standard deviations above the mean. This warming began in 2013 and it has been suggested that this may be a new sort of phenomenon not seen before in modern records (http://www.oceannetworks.ca/warm-northeast-pacific-ocean-conditions-continue-2015).


http://oceancurrent.imos.org.au/news.php

Agelbert NOTE: something very interesting is going on in the Pacific; the sea level is GOING DOWN!  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.coh2.org%2Fimages%2FSmileys%2Fhuhsign.gif&hash=3732d0427be65896527fc3805c5be54a33cffd3b)

No, the fossil fuel industry didn't find some giant plug to pull and drain the giant ocean bathtub down a bit.  :D

That is an El NIŇO characteristic. They haven't seen that sort of thing so strongly since the 1997-98 strong El NIŇO. But what they fail to mention is that, since there is a LOT more water in the oceans now than in 1998, thanks the accelerated ice melt from Greenland and Antarctica, the sea level is going to get a rather large BOOST in some other part of the planet. :P


Sea level in the western equatorial Pacific drops dramatically

15 July, 2015

The month-average of sea level north of New Guinea has dropped to levels not seen since the ‘super El Niño’ of 1997/1998. An El Niño event occurs when sea surface temperatures in the central and eastern Pacific become sufficiently warm that the atmospheric circulation shifts resulting in weaker equatorial trade winds. Low sea levels north of New Guinea (a result of weak equatorial trade winds) are strongly correlated with Nino3.4, the El Niño index that relates best to Australian climate.


Dark Blue in graphic below is lower sea level:  :o

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The Bureau of Meteorology declared 2015 an El Niño year in mid-May. Sea levels north of New Guinea have continued to drop sharply since then. The map at right shows the June 2015 SLA for the Australasian region, while the time-series below shows that the average for the region north of PNG  (boxed on the map) has only been lower once before since 1992 when satellite sea level observations commenced.

Low sea levels in the western equatorial Pacific are also strongly correlated with the strength of the Leeuwin Current. There is a two month delay between the sea level anomaly off Perth and the region north of New Guinea. The low sea level signal propagates southward along the west coast of Australia weakening the Leeuwin Current and causing water temperatures to be cooler.

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on November 04, 2015, 01:56:49 pm
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What Effect Will National Climate Plans (INDCs) Have on Global Emissions? 5 Things to Know

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Puff piece full of optimistic  happy talk at link:  

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They would not publish my comment but RealClimate, a site run by climate scientists, did. Here it is for your viewing pleasure.  ;D

Russell says: 2 Nov 2015 at 1:51 PM Have Mark Steyn’s minions drunk an unwitting toast to the success of the Paris COP ?

Geoff Beacon says: 2 Nov 2015 at 2:11 PM I’ve been struggling with the the idea that “Green Growth” may not be possible. That’s because the carbon intensity of production may not be reduced fast enough to allow anything but negative economic growth – if we are to keep within the remaining carbon budget. The crude model I assumed is a simplification of the Kaya Identity: Carbon_emissions = Economic_production * Carbon_intensity. Anyone here have any thoughts? (My piece is at http://www.brusselsblog.co.uk/is-green-growth-a-fantasy/)


A. G. Gelbert says: In reply to Russell and Geoff Beacon:

The fossil fuel industry is pulling out all the stops on their corruption and/or threats modus operandi to sabotage or water down any reforms to be proposed In the COP21 Climate Conference in Paris. I have written an article where this is detailed in the 3rd part of the 3 part article that I link at the end of this post.

If they succeed, as they have done in the past, there is no hope whatsoever of preventing a ΔT = PLUS 4 degrees centigrade world within the next 85 years. Even the IPCC RCP-8.5 scenario is too conservative with 400PPM (and increasing at over 3PPM per year) of CO2.

Whether “Green growth” is possible or not then becomes academic. You need a global civilization based infrastructure of manufacturing with a secure supply chain in order to transition quickly to 150% Renewable Energy. The excess above 100% to power civilization is sine qua non in order to get back to 350PPM with carbon sequestering technologies. 400PPM of CO2 is not going away in less than a few centuries, even if we stopped all CO2 emissions today.

That means, according to Professor Peter D. Ward, an American paleontologist and Professor at Sprigg Institute of Geobiology at the University of Adelaide, 25% of all arable land (which happens to be located near sea level and coasts) lost due to salt water table intrusion and trillions of dollars in port facilities and infrastructure also lost.

We do not have the resources or the money to replace all that land and all those facilities. The Precautionary Principle is not just prudent; it is sine qua non to human civilization. At present, there is a pipe dream the fossil fuel industry propagandists are putting out there that we can reduce the PPM of CO2 from 400PPM to 350PPM.

Nuclear submarines cannot go below 4000PPM of CO2, even with high tech scrubbing, after they have been submerged for a few days. They routinely run at 8000PPM CO2. We do NOT have the technology, at present, to get back to 350PPM while continuing to burn ANY fossil fuels whatsoever.

The multi-century persistence of CO2 in the atmosphere has been evidenced in the geological record. The predicted turbulence in the oceans in the Hansen et al study and the rapid sea level rise predicted in the Dutton et al study will threaten global civilization.

That is why COP21 may be our last chance to stop the degrading of democracy worldwide and our biosphere by the fossil fuel industry - See more at: http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2015/11/unforced-variations-nov-2015/#sthash.ac6aQqC4.dpuf

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on November 04, 2015, 02:51:01 pm
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A preponderance of "H"'s Roberts says: 2 Nov 2015 at 7:58 PM

Oops.  :o

just published research suggesting that destabilization of the Amundsen sea’s glaciers would indeed undermine the entirety of West Antarctica, as has long been feared. In a new study published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Johannes Feldmann and Anders Levermann of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research use a sophisticated climate model to study what will happen if these glaciers are, indeed, fully destabilized.

And in essence, they find that the process of retreat doesn’t end with the region currently up against the ocean.
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“We showed that there is actually nothing that stops it,”
said Levermann. “There are troughs and channels and all this stuff, there’s a lot of topography that actually has the potential to slow down or stop the instability, but it doesn’t.”

Or as the paper puts it: “The result of this study is an if–then statement, saying that if the Amundsen Sea Sector is destabilized, then the entire marine part of West Antarctica will be discharged into the ocean.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2015/11/02/scientists-confirm-their-fears-about-west-antarctica-that-its-inherently-unstable/ (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2015/11/02/scientists-confirm-their-fears-about-west-antarctica-that-its-inherently-unstable/)

http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2015/10/28/1512482112 (http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2015/10/28/1512482112) This article contains supporting information

online: http://www.pnas.org/lookup/suppl/doi:10.1073/pnas.1512482112/-/DCSupplemental (http://www.pnas.org/lookup/suppl/doi:10.1073/pnas.1512482112/-/DCSupplemental) Download Supporting Information (PDF) Download Movie_S01 (AVI)


Vendicar Decarian says: 3 Nov 2015 at 1:32 AM

Why do I want economic growth?

Economic growth is nothing but growth in the dollar value of a select set of goods and services.

Decreasing the health of a nation’s population may very well increase GDP by increasing the number of dollars spent on health care.

Is leisure something to be valued? If so then where is it’s value recognized in a nations GDP?

Is raising a family valued? If so then where is that value recognized in a nations GDP?

Is producing a child who is a brain dead thug not valued? Where is it’s value reflected in a nations GDP?

Ask a money grubber how many dollars of love he has for his wife and children and watch how quickly they become incensed and irate as they are forced to realize for the moment that a single parameter can not rate a nation’s well being.

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See more at: http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2015/11/unforced-variations-nov-2015/#sthash.ac6aQqC4.e9agILs0.dpuf
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on November 10, 2015, 02:40:07 am
Carbon Levels Rising at ‘Frightening Speed’ as Greenhouse Gases and Global Temperature Hit Record High  :(

Cole Mellino | November 9, 2015 10:40 am

http://ecowatch.com/2015/11/09/carbon-hit-record-high/

https://youtu.be/zELiIqv4YMM


Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on November 14, 2015, 06:20:34 pm
Monsta said,
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Let us assume the false flag theory is true and this event was planned what would be the objective of such an event? Would it be to convince the French public to be more supportive of aggressive military actions or to take a more hard line approach to immigration? I think if there is a motive it would more likely be the former as staging an event like this simply to reduce immigration is overkill.

I agree that the motive is not more war in the Middle East or the immigration thing.

So, WHAT IS THE MOTIVE?

Polluters Goebbels Style Conspiracy to Sabotage COP21


Let us connect the war profiteering dots, shall we? Some here will scoff and say I just discarded "more war" as a motive. Yes, I did that. But I DID NOT discard WAR SCARE propaganda.

WHAT, EXACTLY, is scheduled to happen next month in PARIS that threatens the bottom line of ALL the war profiteering bastards all over the planet?

COP21!

Can you think of a better way to DISTRACT the worldwide public from the climate change reforms that spell bankruptcy for the polluting "business models" that RELY on price shocks and wars to keep making billions of dollars in profits to buy or bop politicians with?

Can you think of a better way to frighten all the delegates from all over the world coming to Paris next month?

Can you think of a better way to keep the climate change issue OFF the front pages while the COP21 conference gets CASTRATED by the fossil fuel, mining, chemical, weapons manufacturing and pharmaceutical (etc.) industries?

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IF IT'S BLOOD ON THE STREETS THAT IS CALLED FOR, THEY WILL DO IT! THEY HAVE A TRACK RECORD FOR DOING IT!. FOLLOW THE GOD DAMNED MONEY! (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.freesmileys.org%2Femoticons%2Ftuzki-bunnys%2Ftuzki-bunny-emoticon-028.gif&hash=24570cb7e8246617010ce900a07bc85117ff78ca) $$$,$$$,$$$,$$$ EVERY YEAR!!!

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THIS IS ANOTHER CRIME BY THE POLLUTERS DOOMING FUTURE GENERATIONS!


The Fossil Fuelers   DID THE Climate Trashing, human health depleteing CRIME,   but since they have ALWAYS BEEN liars and conscience free crooks, they are trying to AVOID   DOING THE TIME or     PAYING THE FINE!     Don't let them get away with it! Pass it on! (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F176.gif&hash=121533221905789c6b8d57a9603883266d349266)

Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on November 14, 2015, 06:47:18 pm
Here's another reason, it's a great excuse to ramp up the Police State.

RE

https://www.rt.com/news/322071-security-toughened-paris-attacks/ (https://www.rt.com/news/322071-security-toughened-paris-attacks/)

From Moscow to LA, security measures tightened following Paris attacks

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A white rose is attached to a barrier as a French policeman with an automatic weapon secures the area near the Bataclan concert hall the day after a series of deadly attacks in Paris, France, November 14, 2015 © Benoit Tessier / Reuters

Free Assembly GAMING to tilt the COP21 "free choices" through dividem et impera

Well, it CLEARLY makes it easier to STOP/DETAIN/DELAY COP21 delegates from coming to Paris that might be a bit "troublesome" (can't be corrupted) for the polluters.  ;)  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-200714191329.bmp&hash=4764bfbe6bb0e11ca61102efa97a932a824f47e0)
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on November 14, 2015, 11:58:32 pm
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https://youtu.be/uRW45eaw28g

Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on November 15, 2015, 12:36:43 am
Kevin Anderson - Delivering on 2˚C: Evolution or REVOLUTION?
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on November 17, 2015, 01:49:27 am
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This symbol of peace in Paris went viral.

11/16/2015 01:15 PM     
 
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SustainableBusiness.com News

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Calling the UN Climate Summit "an essential meeting for humanity," French Prime Minister Valls says the conference will go ahead as planned, despite the terrorist attack. It is also an opportunity for world leaders to show solidarity with France, he adds. Cancelling it would be "abdicating to terrorists."

The pivotal world conference takes place November 30-December 11.

Around 30,000 people from 120 countries will attend,
including President Obama, Secretary of State Kerry, and heads of state from Canada, China and India. 

Obviously, the terrorist attack adds a dense layer of complexity to these all-important climate negotiations. Fewer people may attend, and it will be hard to solely focus on climate.  ;)

Will the massive Global Climate March take place in Paris on the eve of the summit, as planned? We don't know yet. Activists are meeting today to decide whether to go ahead with a demonstration of 200,000 people.

While it's really bad timing for climate talks, some think it could actually result in stronger outcomes - an opportunity for the world to come together and demonstrate unity.

"The [climate] talks won't gain as much attention in the media because it will be crowded out by other issues. But that's not what's most important," says Paul Bledsoe, a climate official under President Clinton. "The resolve of world leaders is going to be redoubled to gain an agreement and show that they can deliver for populations around the world. The likelihood for a successful agreement has only increased because of these attacks."

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Unfortunately, one reason why the climate summit couldn't come at a worse time is because Republicans are already using it as a wedge issue.

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While terrorism is certainly a terrifying immediate threat, climate change is an equal, if not much greater long-term threat, and indeed, has many of the same footprints.

The millions of refugees we see today foreshadow the climate refugees of the future. Many believe the Syrian war began as a result of climate-change induced severe drought, which forced millions into cities ... and poverty.

Just days before the terrorist attack, Secretary Kerry gave a speech on climate change and national security:

"By fueling extreme weather events, undermining our military readiness, exacerbating conflicts around the world - climate change is a threat to the security of the United States and, indeed, to the security and stability of countries everywhere. We are talking about the impacts on people everywhere - of severe droughts, rapid sea level rise. We're talking about the impacts on whole cities of unpredictable and uncontrollable extreme weather events. We're talking about the impact on entire countries of fundamental shocks to the global agricultural system.

"We're not just up against some really serious ecological challenges. We also have to prepare ourselves for the potential social and political consequences that stem from crop failures, water shortages, famine and outbreaks of epidemic disease. And we have to heighten our national security readiness to deal with the possible destruction of vital infrastructure and the mass movement of refugees, particularly in parts of the world that already provide fertile ground for violent extremism and terror."

But the urgency of terrorism may just be too high now, and understandably, people can only deal with so much at one time.  ;)

Sadly, Republicans will take advantage of that as an opportunity to bash Democrats as out of touch with what our priorities should be. 

Presidential candidate Mike Huckabee showed his ignorance when he said earlier this year, "a beheading is a far greater threat to an American than a sunburn."  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Ffc06.deviantart.net%2Ffs71%2Ff%2F2009%2F347%2F2%2F6%2FWTF_Smiley_face_by_IveWasHere.jpg&hash=8ca673f8cf785d9dac626f9fd91e37a1a318c7ac)   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimages.sodahead.com%2Fpolls%2F000370273%2Fpolls_Smiley_Angry_256x256_3451_356175_answer_4_xlarge.png&hash=15577651daa4c35ff4d6b26217f99db6ebfde0b3)

And they pounced in chorus when Senator Bernie Sanders said during this weekend's Democratic debate, "Climate change is directly related to the growth of terrorism. We must get our act together and listen to what the scientists say. Countries all over the world will struggle .. leading to all kinds of international conflicts. But, of course international terrorism is major issue that we have to address today."

The US Department of Defense released "National Security Implications of a Changing Climate," this summer.

"DoD recognizes the reality of climate change and the significant risk it poses to US interests globally. The National Security Strategy, issued in February 2015, is clear that climate change is an urgent and growing threat to our national security, contributing to increased natural disasters, refugee flows, and conflicts over basic resources such as food and water. These impacts are already occurring, and the scope, scale, and intensity of these impacts are projected to increase over time."

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on November 21, 2015, 03:01:46 am
Oct. 29, 2015

Excitement Grows as NASA Carbon Sleuth Begins Year Two

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Global average carbon dioxide concentrations as seen by NASA’s Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 mission, June 1-15, 2015. OCO-2 measures carbon dioxide from the top of Earth's atmosphere to its surface. Higher carbon dioxide concentrations are in red, with lower concentrations in yellows and greens. Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Scientists busy poring over more than a year of data from NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) mission are seeing patterns emerge as they seek answers to the science questions that drive the mission.


Launched in July 2014, OCO-2, an experimental carbon-dioxide measurement mission, is designed to give the international science community a new view of the global carbon cycle in unprecedented detail. During its two-year primary mission, the satellite observatory is tracking the large-scale movement of carbon between Earth’s atmosphere, its plants and soil, and the ocean, from season to season and from year to year. OCO-2 began routine science operations in September 2014.

"We can already clearly see patterns of seasonal change and variations in carbon dioxide around the globe," said Annmarie Eldering, OCO-2 deputy project scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. "Far more subtle features are expected to emerge over time."

A new animation depicting the first full year of OCO-2 science operations is available at:

https://youtu.be/_UEZqyGU5RU

Armed with a full annual cycle of data, OCO-2 scientists are now beginning to study the net sources of carbon dioxide as well as their "sinks" -- places in the Earth system that store carbon, such as the ocean and plants on land. This information will help scientists better understand the natural processes currently absorbing more than half the carbon dioxide emitted into the atmosphere by human activities. This is a key to understanding how Earth's climate may change in the future as greenhouse gas concentrations increase.

The first year of data from the mission reveals a portrait of a dynamic, living planet. Between mid-May and mid-July 2015, OCO-2 saw a dramatic reduction in the abundance of atmospheric carbon dioxide across the northern hemisphere, as plants on land sprang to life and began rapidly absorbing carbon dioxide from the air to form new leaves, stems and roots. During this intense, two-month period, known as the “spring drawdown,” OCO-2 measurements show the concentration of atmospheric carbon dioxide over much of the northern hemisphere decreased by two to three percent. That's 8 to 12 parts per million out of the global average background concentration of 400 parts per million.

"That's a big but expected change," said Eldering. "This is the first time we've ever had the opportunity to observe the spring drawdown across the entire northern hemisphere with this kind of spatial resolution, seeing changes from week to week."


Also as expected, OCO-2 data show increased concentrations of carbon dioxide associated with human activities. Higher carbon dioxide levels of several parts per million are seen in regions where fossil fuels are being consumed by large power plants or megacities. Enhanced levels are also seen in the Amazon, Central Africa and Indonesia, where forests are being cleared and burned to create fields for agricultural use.

Researchers Abhishek Chatterjee of the Global Modeling and Assimilation Office at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland; and Michelle Gierach and Dave Schimel of JPL are investigating a strong correlation observed between atmospheric carbon dioxide over the Pacific Ocean and the current El Nino. Fluctuations in carbon dioxide appear to be strongly linked with warmer sea surface temperatures. OCO-2's unprecedented density of measurements is giving researchers a unique data set to understand and separate the roles that sea surface temperatures, winds, regional emissions and other variables may be playing in the carbon dioxide concentrations.

"We believe 2016 will see breakthrough OCO-2 research results, as scientists work to unravel the mysteries of finding carbon dioxide sources and natural sinks," said Eldering.

Through most of OCO-2's first year in space, the mission team was busy calibrating its science instrument, learning how to process its massive amount of data, and delivering data products to NASA's Goddard Earth Sciences Data and Information Services Center (GES-DISC) in Greenbelt, Maryland, for distribution to the world’s science community.

Scientists are comparing OCO-2 data to ground-based measurements to validate the satellite data and tie it to internationally accepted standards for accuracy and precision.

Routine delivery of OCO-2 data -- calibrated spectra of reflected sunlight that reveal the fingerprints of carbon dioxide -- began in late 2014, while estimates of carbon dioxide derived from cloud-free OCO-2 observations have been delivered since March 2015. Recently, the OCO-2 team reprocessed the OCO-2 data set to incorporate improvements in instrument calibration and correct other known issues with the original data release.

Every day, OCO-2 orbits Earth 14.5 times and collects and returns about a million measurements. After eliminating data contaminated by clouds, aerosols and steep terrain, between 10 to 13 percent of the measurements are of sufficient quality to derive accurate estimates of the average carbon dioxide concentration between Earth's surface and space. That's at least 100 times more carbon dioxide measurements than from all other sources of precise carbon dioxide data combined.

NASA uses the vantage point of space to increase our understanding of our home planet, improve lives and safeguard our future. NASA develops new ways to observe and study Earth's interconnected natural systems with long-term data records. The agency freely shares this unique knowledge and works with institutions around the world to gain new insights into how our planet is changing.

For more information on OCO-2, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/oco-2

For more information about NASA's Earth science activities, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/earth



Alan Buis
 Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.
 818-354-0474
Alan.buis@jpl.nasa.gov

2015-336


Last Updated: Oct. 29, 2015

Editor: Tony Greicius



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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on November 21, 2015, 05:13:16 pm
This video (To be a success, the climate agreement must do three things:) is too conservative  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F301.gif&hash=0291ed4abf2d80e420d1aa00d4eb3c5dd6bbfb53).  It states that GHG emissions from fossil fuels must be phased out in the SECOND half of this century.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ben5czqyXto&feature=player_embedded
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on November 24, 2015, 02:45:50 am
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Easy as pie.  Easy, peasy.  All we have to do is tweak a few laws.  ;D

New law.
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Matters relating to climate change and including claims for consequential human suffering and loss shall no longer be protected by the laws of limited liability but shall extend to investors personally, either as lenders, shareholders or as corporate directors, jointly and severally.
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on November 25, 2015, 01:35:33 pm
Scientists in an UPROAR over Climate Study

By Lisa Rein

November 24 at 11:07 PM

A top House lawmaker’s confrontation with government researchers over a groundbreaking climate change study is provoking a national backlash from scientists, who say his campaign represents the most serious threat Congress has posed to scientific freedom.

Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Tex.), chairman of the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology, has subpoenaed scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and demanded that they turn over internal e-mails related to their research. Their findings contradicted earlier work showing that global warming had paused, and Smith, a climate change skeptic, has accused them of altering global temperature data and rushing to publish their research in the June issue of the journal Science.

So far, NOAA officials have resisted Smith’s demands, and the showdown has escalated.

The lawmaker has threatened to subpoena Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker, while scientists have rallied in solidarity with the researchers.

On Tuesday, seven scientific organizations representing hundreds of thousands of scientists sent an unsparing letter to Smith, warning that his efforts are “establishing a practice of inquests” that will have a chilling effect.
“The repercussions of the committee’s actions could go well beyond climate science, setting a precedent to question other topics such as genetically modified organisms and vaccines that have controversial regulatory and policy implications,” the letter said.

The lead signatory was the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the country’s oldest and largest general scientific society. Other signers include the American Chemical Society and the American Geophysical Union. The last of several deadlines has now passed for the government to turn over the documents. A legislative aide at the Science Committee said this week that Smith is open to discussions with NOAA to resolve the conflict.

After NOAA Administrator Kathryn Sullivan again balked at the demands on Friday, the aide said the committee still hopes to negotiate with the agency rather than seek contempt charges. In a letter to Smith, Sullivan defended her agency’s work, saying her staff is not influenced by political interference.

“I have not or will not allow anyone to manipulate the science or coerce the scientists who work for me,” she wrote.

The committee’s top Democrat, Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-Tex.) has called Smith’s investigation a “partisan witch hunt.”

At the center of the feud is a report that appeared in the June 4 online edition of Science, a peer-reviewed journal. The NOAA scientists cited improved, more accurate measurements of global temperatures on land and sea to refute the notion of a warming hiatus, striking at the heart of an argument by climate change skeptics.

NOAA manages one of the world’s most significant archives of oceanic, atmospheric and geophysical data, and its global temperature data is used by scientists worldwide.

Smith has alleged that NOAA researchers used inaccurate data or even manipulated it to promote President Obama’s agenda on climate change. Smith shifted tactics last week, alleging that the research was rushed and citing what he says is information provided by agency whistleblowers showing that some employees at the agency were concerned that it was premature to publish the study.

The lawmaker and committee aides have noted that the study was published two months before the Obama administration announced its Clean Power Plan, which aims to cut carbon emissions from power plants, and five months before this month’s climate summit in Paris.

The researchers may have violated the agency’s scientific integrity standard, Smith suggested.

“Their agenda comes first, and the facts come second if at all,” he said in a speech last week to the Texas Public Policy Foundation in Austin. He denounced the president’s climate agenda as “suspect.”

“The science is clear and overwhelming but not in the way the president says,” Smith said. “NOAA employees altered historical climate data to get politically correct results.”

But a spokeswoman for Science said in an interview that the NOAA scientists’ research was subject to a longer, more intensive review than is customary.

“This paper went through as rigorous a review as it could have received,” said Ginger Pinholster, chief of communications for AAAS, which publishes Science. “Any suggestion that the review was ‘rushed’ is baseless and without merit.”

She said the report, submitted to the journal in December, went through two rounds of peer review by other scientists in the field before it was accepted in May. The number of outside reviewers was larger than usual, and the time from submission to online publication was about 50 percent longer than the journal’s average of 109 days, Pinholster said.

During the review, the research was sent back to NOAA for revision and clarification, she said. And because it was based on such an “intensive” examination of global temperature data, the reviewed was handled by one of the journal’s senior editors, she said, “so it could be more carefully assessed.”
For scientists, the concern over Smith’s investigation goes beyond the issue of global warming. They say his efforts are a threat to the independence of the sometimes-messy and painstaking process of discovery.

“This is not just a few scientists grousing about somebody besmirching the work of a group of scientists,” Rush Holt, chief executive officer of the AAAS, said in an interview. “It’s an affront to the scientific process.”

With the threat of a congressional subpoena now hanging over the head of every scientist, “people will start worrying, ‘did I say something wrong in a conversation with a colleague?’ ” said Holt, a former Democratic congressman from New Jersey. “This is not a small matter.”

Scientists also warn that Smith’s efforts raise concerns for NOAA and other federal agencies, which may now worry about jeopardizing their federal budgets if they get in the crosshairs of a lawmaker who disagrees with their work.

“Now you’ve got somebody who has congressional subpoena power doing this, who can continue to investigate and investigate a particular agency because they don’t like a given result,” said Andrew Rosenberg, director of the Center for Science and Democracy at the Union of Concerned Scientists. “They can carry it over in appropriations.”

Rosenberg’s group sent a letter of support Tuesday to Sullivan signed by two dozen former senior NOAA scientists. Staff members on the House Science committee have declined to detail the information provided by whistleblowers, saying this would identify individuals who want to remain anonymous.

But pressed for more specifics, the staff has pointed as an example to new temperature data that was made publicly available earlier this month and questioned how the scientists used it. The data came from a larger number of measuring stations around the world than previous data sets.

“NOAA should not be publishing headline-grabbing results based on data sets that have not been adequately vetted and were not available to the public,” an aide to the House committee said.

“This isn’t an easy high school science experiment where you do it and you get results and write them up,” another aide said. “There are huge data sets from all over the world. They need to be studied. Every time the sets are changed they have to be worked on to make sure the data set is now valid.

The scientists, however, say their research was based on an earlier version of the data that had been made public and examined by other climate experts. The study published in Science was not based on the updated data released earlier this month, although the two versions are very similar, according to NOAA officials and one of the study’s authors.

That author, Thomas Peterson, described in an interview some of the tensions at NOAA between the scientists and computer engineers who were writing software code for the data and wanted more time to make sure it was reliable. The scientists felt confident using the data that had already been made public and were ultimately vindicated by the latest version.

The conclusions of the Science report were based on corrections and adjustments to even earlier land and sea temperature measurements. These were intended to address what scientists described as measurement biases in readings taken of ocean temperatures and land temperatures that did not fully account for the rapidly warming Arctic.

NOAA published the first updates to the land temperature data set in October 2013 in the Geoscience Data Journal. The revised sea surface data were published in the Journal of Climate in October 2014. These updates were the basis of the study in Science, NOAA officials said.

That combined data set was available publicly in July 2014, officials said.
As NOAA scientists examined the data, they discovered that warming trends over the past few decades would be substantially larger than what the earlier data set indicated, recalled Peterson, who retired from NOAA as principal scientist in July.
“Was there a rush to get [the research] out? No,” he said. “Did we want to get this out to advance the science? Of course.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/rweb/politics/standoff-over-government-climate-study-provokes-national-uproar-by-scientists/2015/11/25/26cc98a0-ab20-4a3a-9918-2235180b10ff_story.html
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on November 25, 2015, 06:43:23 pm
Carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide atmospheric distribution over a year

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=x1SgmFa0r04

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/oco2/index.html
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on November 27, 2015, 03:25:18 pm
Pope Francis: ‘Catastrophic’ Climate if Paris Talks Fail

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Pope Francis warned on Wednesday that the world is facing a “grave environmental crisis” and spoke of the intersection between social justice and the protection of nature.

The pontiff’s comments, made in the Kenyan capital at the start of his first visit to the continent, come just days ahead of the UN climate summit in Paris, where global delegates will hammer out an agreement to curb climate change.


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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on November 29, 2015, 11:51:09 pm
Records Reveal Warming’s First Warning
Posted on Nov 28, 2015


By Tim Radford / Climate News Network

Changes in cherry blossom flowering times are indicators of climate shift. (Lovisa Lagerqvist via Flickr)

This Creative Commons-licensed piece first appeared at Climate News Network.

LONDON—Climate change may have begun more than 25 years ago. At around the time that global warming and the spectre of climate change first emerged as a geopolitical challenge for future generations, it had already commenced, according to new research.

As world leaders gather in Paris for COP21, the UN summit seeking to get a global agreement on responses to climate change, British oceanographers and colleagues from around the world have identified a “major change in the Earth’s biophysical systems” in the late 1980s.

They looked back into recent climate history, and now say that the change can be attributed to “rapid global warming from anthropogenic plus natural forcing.”
 
Climate scientists have been warning for decades that the build-up of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, as a result of the human combustion of fossil fuels, will at some point tip stable climate zones into new regimes—a shift defined by the researchers as an “abrupt, substantial and persistent” change.

Most climate scientists expect such change to happen in the next few decades, but this new study seems to declare that it has already started to happen.


Cause and effect

The scientists report in Global Change Biology journal that they have identified a worldwide pattern of change, centred around 1987, that was seemingly associated with the eruption of Mexico’s El Chichón volcano in 1982.

Analyses such as these are complex. No single weather event can be taken as significant, while cause and effect also are not easily linked.

But the researchers are sure they have found a significant pattern emerging from a huge range of records—from cherry blossom times in Japan, Washington DC and Switzerland to grape ripening dates in Germany, and from the arrival of the migrant sand martins in the UK to the duration of wildfires in the western US.

“We demonstrate, based on 72 long time series, that a major change took place in the world centred on 1987 that involved a step change and move on to a new regime in a wide range of Earth systems,” says the study’s lead author, Philip “Chris” Reid, professor of oceanography at Plymouth University’s Marine Institute in the UK.
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“A major change took place in the world
 centred on 1987 that [led to] a new regime
 in a wide range of Earth systems.”


“Our work contradicts the perceived view that major volcanic eruptions just lead to a cooling of the world. In the case of a regime shift, it looks as if global warming has reached a tipping point where the cooling that follows such eruptions rebounds with a rapid rise in temperature in a very short time.

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“The speed of this change has a pronounced effect on many biological, physical and chemical systems throughout the world, but is especially evident in the Northern temperate zone and the Arctic.”

Any research that “contradicts a perceived view” is likely to be examined, challenged and countered by other climate scientists. One study will not settle the argument, but observers with long memories will recognise that this hindsight evidence for climate regime shift coincides with the moment that climate change emerged as a political subject in 1988.

During a prolonged drought and devastating heatwave that summer in the US and Canada, the then NASA scientist James Hansen warned a US senate committee: “It’s time to stop waffling so much and say the evidence is pretty strong that the greenhouse effect is here.”


Marked decline

Professor Reid and his colleagues have now detected a marked decline in the growth rate of carbon dioxide after the regime shift, coinciding with the growth of new vegetation on land and sea that had once been under ice and snow.

They found that the annual timing of the regime shift moved around the world from west to east, starting with South America in 1984, North America a year later, the north Atlantic in 1986, Europe in 1987, and Asia in 1988.

Data from the time series embraces a huge range of systematically-measured events, such as the temperature of rivers in Switzerland, the mass of phytoplankton in the North Sea, and the Japan Sea tuna catch.

During this period, the winter river flow into the Baltic increased by 60%, and the average duration of wildfires in the western US increased fourfold. The scientists estimate that the shift in the 1980s was the largest in a thousand years.

The researchers conclude that the shift they perceive will affect how the seas, forests and wetlands soak up carbon from the atmosphere, a key factor in continuing climate change.

“The wide range of changes associated with the 1980s regime shift supports a threshold thesis that moved the whole global system into a new, rapidly warming state, with compounding consequences,” they say.

Tim Radford, a founding editor of Climate News Network, worked for The Guardian for 32 years, for most of that time as science editor. He has been covering climate change since 1988.


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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on November 30, 2015, 12:39:59 am
The fossil-fuel cartel is also on a war footing, and its strategists are working overtime to ensure that Paris will be judged to be a failure. 


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Will Paris be a success or a failure? It will be both. The real question is whether it opens the way to a new future of justice and ambition A preview from the upcoming issue of Earth Island Journal

As I write this, the United Nations climate conference is only weeks away. And now, of course, it will take place in an atmosphere of mourning, and crisis, and war. Beyond this change of tone, what difference will the 11/13 attacks make on the outcome of the negotiations? It is impossible to say, though it’s not too much to hope for heightened clarity, and seriousness, and resolve. This is a time to attend to the future. On this, at least, we should be able to agree.

The essay below was finished before the attacks. I’ve changed only these opening words, which already said that the stakes were high. That has not changed. Nor has my overall claim, that while the negotiations are not going well, they’re not going badly either, and that in any case they must be judged in realist terms.

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photo of demonstrators in colorful costumesPhoto by Shubert CienciaCOP 20 in Lima was a breakthrough meeting in several ways, not least because the G-77+China bloc of developing countries finally began to negotiate well.

There’s a way forward for the negotiations, though you wouldn’t know it from some of the commentary, which can be amazingly glib. My favorite example, a perfect snapshot of post-Copenhagen, pre-Paris despair, is food guru turned climate expert Mark Bittman, writing in The New York Times last year: “The U.N. Summit will be a clubby gathering of world leaders and their representatives who will try to figure out ways to reward polluters for pretending to fix a problem for which they’re responsible in the first place; a fiasco. That’s not hyperbole, either. The summit is a little like a professional wrestling match: There appears to be action but it’s fake, and the winner is predetermined. The loser will be anyone who expects serious government movement dictating industry reductions in emissions.”

In fairness, Bittman was writing about COP 20 in Lima, which took place a long year ago. But it was clear even before Lima that this sort of cynicism was counterproductive. The old stories of developed vs. developing, polluters vs. people, duplicitous vs. heroic — true though they were — were simply not true enough. By Lima, the US and China were working together to strike a deal that would hold on both sides of the North-South divide. By Lima, the “climate equity” debate within the halls was making as much progress as the “climate justice” debate in the streets, which is to say, quite a lot, but not nearly enough. In any case, Lima was anything but a futile exercise. It was a breakthrough meeting in several ways, not least because the 134 country G-77+China bloc of developing countries finally begin to negotiate well, and in so doing set up a possible breakthrough at COP21, the 21st Conference of Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change in Paris.

Since Lima, the meeting schedule has been exhausting, and I’ve been to my share. Many of the formal ones have been in Bonn, where the Germans have built the climate negotiations an efficient and even beautiful new home on the Rhine. (The climate negotiations, after all, will never be over.) They’ve also been in Paris, and Lima, and Geneva, and New York, and all around the world. But here’s a question: What are all these meetings for? And how shall we judge them? If you were head of communications at Greenpeace, say, or Oxfam, and if you knew that, soon, on a cold and probably very late night in Paris, you were going to have to “call the outcome,” and that the media would be pushing you, hard, to say either “success” or “failure,” how would you prepare?

What do words like “success” even mean, in a world like this one, in the face of the coming crisis?


Before you answer, consider that your words will come with a large side of responsibility. The fossil-fuel cartel is also on a war footing, and its strategists are working overtime to ensure that Paris will be judged to be a failure. This would be a huge win for the cartel, because it would sharply dampen the strength of “the signal” that — in any of the better scenarios — will emanate from the halls of Paris. The signal that the tide is finally turning, and that deep decarbonization is coming, and soon. So, first up, let me say that if you’re thinking, as some movement people still are, that Paris can only be a failure, you need to think again.

My goal in this essay is to highlight the chance for a real win in Paris, and to show what it would mean. I will focus on three key elements that must be included in any breakthrough agreement. These “bare essentials” include: 1) a proper “long term goal,” 2) a “ratcheting” or “ambition” mechanism that respects both science and justice, and 3) a next-generation treaty that goes beyond mitigation to take adaptation and the limits of adaptation into proper account.

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Paris: The End of the Beginning (http://www.earthisland.org/journal/index.php/elist/eListRead/paris-climate-talks-preview)
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on December 06, 2015, 05:30:12 pm
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Hansen on the collapse of the West Antarctic Shelf:
"That's the biggest threat that climate change has in store for us."

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WHY? "... several meters of sea level rise would mean that all coastal cities would become dysfunctional. And the economic consequences of that are incalculable."
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"It's hard to imagine how we can have a governable world if we let the West Antarctic Ice Sheet collapse."

http://www.truthdig.com/avbooth/item/james_hansen_united_nations_plans_to_limit_emissions_are_half_20151205 (http://www.truthdig.com/avbooth/item/james_hansen_united_nations_plans_to_limit_emissions_are_half_20151205)

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West Antarctic Ice Sheet

West Antarctic ice sheet will melt if temperatures continue to rise
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on December 08, 2015, 05:51:13 pm
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Top Climate Expert: Crisis is Worse Than We Think & Scientists Are Self-Censoring to Downplay Risk


http://www.democracynow.org/2015/12/8/top_climate_expert_crisis_is_worse?autostart=true
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on December 09, 2015, 02:19:49 am
 You Won’t Believe What I Found in the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library Regarding Climate Change – I Sure Was Surprised! (CleanTechnica Exclusive). (http://cleantechnica.com/2015/12/08/you-wont-believe-what-i-found-in-the-ronald-reagan-presidential-library-regarding-climate-change-i-sure-was-surprised-cleantechnica-exclusive/)
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on December 09, 2015, 03:00:42 pm
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http://ecowatch.com/2015/12/09/exxon-climate-inaction/2/
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on December 09, 2015, 07:37:45 pm
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Right now, we have an energy policy that is rigged to boost the profits of big oil companies like Exxon, BP, and Shell at the expense of average Americans. CEO’s are raking in record profits while climate change ravages our planet and our people — all because the wealthiest industry in the history of our planet has bribed politicians into complacency in the face of climate change. Enough is enough. It’s time for a political revolution that takes on the fossil fuel billionaires, accelerates our transition to clean energy, and finally puts people before the profits of polluters.

                                                                         Senator Bernie Sanders



The Problem

Climate change is the single greatest threat facing our planet. The debate is over, and the scientific jury is in: global climate change is real, it is caused mainly by emissions released from burning fossil fuels and it poses a catastrophic threat to the long-term longevity of our planet. If we do nothing, the planet will heat up five to ten degrees Fahrenheit by the end of this century. That would cause enough sea level rise from melting glaciers to put cities like New York and Miami underwater – along with more frequent asthma attacks, higher food prices, insufficient drinking water and more infectious diseases.

But this isn’t just a problem for the future – the impacts of climate change are apparent here and now. Whether it’s more intense forest fires on the West Coast, or more frequent hurricanes in the Gulf Coast, or damaging flash floods in California, climate change is here and it’s already causing devastating human suffering. The worst part is this: people who live in low-income and minority communities will bear the most severe consequences of society’s addiction to fossil fuels.

This is every kind of issue all at once: the financial cost of climate change makes it an economic issue, its effect on clean air and water quality make it a public health problem, its role in exacerbating global conflict and terrorism makes it a national security challenge and its disproportionate impacts on vulnerable communities and on our children and grandchildren make acting on climate change a moral obligation. We have got to solve this problem before it’s too late.

Why Haven’t We Solved it Yet?


Solving this should be straightforward. After all, the majority of Americans understand the seriousness of climate change, and they demand action. 97 percent of scientists agree about the urgent need to act and the vocal minority who don’t are bought and paid for by the fossil fuel industry. More and more countries around the world are beginning to do their part, by stepping up to significantly curb their use of fossil fuels to become part of the solution. If our democracy worked the way it’s supposed to, that would be enough – the debate would be over, the facts would be heard and lawmakers would obey the will of the people.

But that’s where the billionaire class comes in. Instead of engaging on this issue in good faith and allowing democracy to play out, executives and lobbyists for coal, oil, and gas companies have blocked every attempt to make progress on climate change, and thrown unprecedented amounts of money at elected officials to buy their loyalty. Recent reporting even shows that executives at Exxon pioneered the research on climate change before anyone else did, but may have deliberately lied about it to spread disinformation and confusion to protect their bottom line. It’s eerily reminiscent of the fight over tobacco regulation, when executives from the tobacco companies repeatedly testified before Congress that cigarettes don’t cause cancer. Recently leaked internal documents show that even they knew they were lying.

Let’s be clear: the reason we haven’t solved climate change isn’t because we aren’t doing our part, it’s because a small subsection of the one percent are hell-bent on doing everything in their power to block action. Sadly, they have deliberately chosen to put their profits ahead of the health of our people and planet.

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Senator Sanders: Combating Climate Change to Save the Biosphere (https://berniesanders.com/issues/climate-change/)
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on December 10, 2015, 04:11:30 pm
Doubtful we'd ever get the chance to vote for a Sanders, given the way our system works. The only two candidates that offer anything that seems the least bit sensible are Sanders on the liberal side, and Paul on the conservative side. There are things about each of them that would make me have to hold my nose while I pulled the lever to vote for either one, but I would consider it.

All the other candidates fill me with fear and loathing. Every one of them is a tool of the elites. So one of them is the only choice i expect to be given at the polls.

Well, maybe Trump is not a tool of the elites...but he is an elite, as much as he pretends to be a man of the people. He's in a special class of heightened fear and loathing...as in, if he's elected, it's time to call Doug Casey and ask about condos in Uruguay.

You mean, how THEIR system works, right? If you still labor under the view that it is "our" system, you are woefully optimistic. OUR system, Eddie, does NOT work because it is dysfunctional by design.

Pondering the mere possibility that Trump is not a tool of the elite is 180 degrees out of phase. Trump is their representative and member in good standing.

And at the rate things are deteriorating, you soon will not have to hold your nose to "vote" (LOL!) for tweedledee or tweedledum.

Meanwhile, those fine credentialed University folks you and MKing so admire are doing what they do to preserve the fossil fuel government/Wall Street empathy deficit disordered SYSTEM that Trump represents.

Trump is an "independent" who is so "rational" that he gets offended at oceanic wind turbines because they  "ruin" the view for golfers at his Scottish golf course. Shame on him for pretending he is anything but an empathy deficit disordered demagogue.

All the noise he is making now is part of the campaign to KEEP COP21 OFF THE NEWS with hysteria about 'airab terrists' until next week. They started it in November. After COP21 is over, ALL OF A SUDDEN, Trump will start sounding quite conciliatory and the whole Muslim thing will not be mentioned again in the media until after Christmas shopping consumption has been boosted and some profits from stupid people buying stuff they don't need to feed a machine that kills other people and animals on the planet have been pocketed - sometime in early January 2016. It's all a murderous facade, Eddie.

Uruguay is nearly at 100% renewable energy so it is probably a good choice (until the fascist fossil fuel government decides to "make an example" of them by engaging in sabotage, bombing or some other excuse to terrorize them by branding them as "terrorist").    :P

Greenpeace Sting Exposes Academics Hired as Climate-Change Deniers

Posted on Dec 9, 2015

By Deirdre Fulton / Common Dreams

As climate change deniers face growing scrutiny and skepticism, a new undercover investigation by the environmental group Greenpeace shines new light on academics-for-hire, who are willing to accept secret payments from fossil fuel companies to sow doubt about global warming.

The sting operation publicized Tuesday involved two Greenpeace UK employees posing as representatives of oil and coal companies, and asking U.S. academics to write papers touting the benefits of rising carbon dioxide levels and the benefits of coal use in developing countries.

Professors from Penn State and Princeton University “agreed to write the reports and said they did not need to disclose the source of the funding,” according to reporting by Greenpeace Energydesk, a journalistic arm of the international environmental organization.

Energydesk reporters Lawrence Carter and Maeve McClenaghan continue:

Citing industry-funded documents—including testimony to state hearings and newspaper articles—Professor Frank Clemente of Penn State said: “In none of these cases is the sponsor identified. All my work is published as an independent scholar.”

Leading climate-sceptic academic, Professor William Happer, agreed to write a report for a Middle Eastern oil company on the benefits of CO2 and to allow the firm to keep the source of the funding secret.

Among the exposé‘s other findings:

- US coal giant Peabody Energy also paid tens of thousands of dollars to an academic who produced coal-friendly research and provided testimony at state and federal climate hearings, the amount of which was never revealed.

- The Donors Trust, an organization that has been described as the “dark money ATM” of the US conservative movement, confirmed in a taped conversation with an undercover reporter that it could anonymously channel money from a fictional Middle Eastern oil and gas company to U.S. climate septic organizations.

- Princeton professor William Happer laid out details of an unofficial peer review process run by the Global Warming Policy Foundation, a UK climate skeptic think tank, and said he could ask to put an oil-funded report through a similar review process, after admitting that it would struggle to be published in an academic journal.

- A recent report by the GWPF that had been through the same unofficial peer review process, was promoted as “thoroughly peer-reviewed” by influential columnist Matt Ridley—a senior figure in the organization.

Happer, the Princeton professor, was invited to speak on Tuesday before the U.S. Senate at a ‘Data or Dogma’   ;) panel organized by GOP presidential candidate Ted Cruz. Greenpeace investigator Jesse Coleman cornered him there to ask about the revelations.

Watch the video below: (at link)

Late last month, Happer—who has said “more CO2 would benefit the world”—appeared at a climate skeptic summit in Texas, Energydesk reports. There, he defended CO2 production saying: “Our breath is not that different from a power plant.” He went on to say, “If plants could vote, they would vote for coal.”

As Carter and McClenaghan point out, the Greenpeace investigation follows recent reports showing fossil fuel companies burying the truth about climate change, while funding spurious research to cast doubt on the scientific consensus and make it “difficult for ordinary Americans to even know who to trust.” 

http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/greenpeace_sting_exposes_climate-denying_academics-for-hire_20151209 (http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/greenpeace_sting_exposes_climate-denying_academics-for-hire_20151209)
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on December 14, 2015, 03:46:35 pm
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Participants are seen in silhouette as they look at a screen showing a world map with climate anomalies during the World Climate Change Conference 2015 (COP21) at Le Bourget, near Paris, France, December 8, 2015. REUTERS/Stephane Mahe

PARIS: it was an agreement born from a fear of failure, delivered by the smoothness of French diplomacy.

Six years earlier, countries had bitterly walked away from global climate talks in Copenhagen without a deal. The decision to reassemble in Paris to try again at getting almost 200 countries to sign a pact on cutting carbon emissions was a gam ble: another collapse could the end world’s ability to forge a common approach to dealing with climate change.

And no political leader wanted his reputation stained by a repeat of the debacle in Copenhagen.

So there was no detail of hospitality too small for the French hosts this time, no country negotiator who would go unflattered by Laurent Fabius, the French foreign minister who presided over the conference.

Fabius had been the youngest French prime minister in history in the 1980s; now he was an elder statesman looking to carve a bigger place in it. Over two weeks under the global spotlight, his sonorous voice and relentless optimism would come to define the public tone of the proceedings.

But behind the scenes, the talks witnessed the confrontations and five-past-midnight compromises to be expected when sleep-deprived negotiators from almost every country in the world are supposed to come to a consensus.

They ultimately found it, remarkably only one day later than planned. But the path to the standing ovations at the end was strewn with disputes over money, the emergence of an effective new climate coalition of states, and hours of wrangling over what “should” or “shall” be done.

FRENCH WAYS

For the survivors of Copenhagen, the key to success in Paris would be preparation.

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon complained that the political leaders had not been well-prepared for the Copenhagen meeting, and this time he and the French conducted extensive advance work to get other leaders personally engaged.

They also decided that, if leaders were to come to Paris, they would do so at the beginning to lend the talks some political oxygen, rather than arriving for a scramble at the end.

So on Nov. 30, the sprawling conference hall near the Le Bourget airfield on the outskirts of Paris hosted world leaders, who were supposed to deliver three minutes of encouragement. Fabius wandered the conference centre before they arrived, tapping microphones and checking the video monitors under a podium made of recycled wood.

“Ah, we have Prince Charles,” he said to an aide, consulting the speakers’ list.

The opening day speeches were seen as a success. UN officials were relieved at the relatively cooperative tone from Russian President Vladimir Putin who was among several leaders who assured Ban privately before the outset that Russia would not block a deal, UN officials said later.

Fabius pulled together a team of officials and diplomats from across the French civil service to facilitate the talks. “He treated it less like a climate negotiation and more like a trade deal,” said one UN veteran of past climate talks.

He also constantly praised delegates for their hard work and insights, before telling them exactly what schedule of debate they had to follow to finish by their self-imposed deadline of Friday, Dec. 11.

He gave the job of writing the accord’s preamble to Venezuela’s minister Claudia Salerno, whose country had been perhaps the harshest critic of the Copenhagen process that was seen as a collusion of big powers dictating to small countries, making her personally vested in finding compromises.

Not all developing countries were easily won over, however. A central sticking point throughout the talks was the degree to which the agreement would be legally binding on countries, especially the rich ones who are expected to provide the hundreds of billions of dollars in funding to cover the transition to a low carbon future.

The differences were expressed in wrangles over wording. Hard, legally binding commitments were proceeded in the text as items that countries “shall” do.

Those items that were simply good intentions fell into the “should” do category.


HALF A DEGREE CLOSER


Facing unbudging demands to put their financial commitments into legal language, U.S. negotiators knew they had to break the poor vs. rich country divide. Their tactic was to sign up to a loose coalition of countries called the High Ambition Coalition.

The European Union takes credit for starting the group as far back as 2011, when it was a loose alliance between the EU and small island states.

As Paris approached, it expanded to include African, Caribbean and Pacific nations, developing an agenda that included the goal of keeping the global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 Fahrenheit) over pre-industrial levels by the end of the 21st century.

The number had almost been banished from serious discussion ahead of Paris. But the American decision to “join” the High Ambition Coalition brought the 1.5 goal back into play, sweetened with pledges of hundreds of millions of dollars to help island and developing states mitigate the ill-effects of climate change.

Although the promise is only aspirational, the re-emergence of references to 1.5 degrees in the Paris text brought several influential developing countries into the U.S. camp. Soon Canada joined, then Australia and Brazil, a collection of wealthy, heavy-polluting western countries marching into the plenary hall alongside the Marshall Islands.

China’s negotiators dismissed the High Ambition Coalition as a stunt. “This is a kind of performance by some members,” said Liu Zhenmin, deputy head of the China delegation. But the solidarity of the developing nation bloc was broken.

LAST BRIDGES AND HICCUPS

Climate change summits have developed a particular theatre of their own. In one moment, it was possible to see actor Alec Baldwin expressing his fears for the planet to journalists, across from an Indonesian pavilion hosting a party to show off its pilot green energy hospitals.

But much of the real work was done by people not even at Le Bourget. After visiting at the start, U.S. President Barack Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping discussed roadblocks by telephone, and the two countries appeared to be mostly on the same page.

Other housekeeping of the text was taken care of. Negotiators insured that a specific reference to climate effects on “occupied territories” was taken out to keep the politics focused on climate issues.

By Saturday, Fabius the pieces were falling into place. “I think we’re done here,” said a happy Marshall Islands foreign minister Tony de Brum on Saturday morning.

There was to be one last hiccup. The final text had settled on 143 items prefaced by “shall,” 40 with “should.” But in one section, the words appeared to have been flipped.

Suddenly, there was a delay in the hall where delegates had convened amid smiles and air kisses to seal the deal.

Fabius and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry left the room, replaced by rumours of trouble. But then the French minister was back. A technical glitch, he explained, brought on by the fatigue of a drafter.

The organizers announced corrections to a few typographical errors, and tellingly switched one last “should” for a “shall” before Fabius swiftly brought the gavel down.

(Writing by Richard Valdmanis and Bruce Wallace; Additional reporting by Alister Doyle, Valerie Volcovici, Barbara Lewis, David Stanway and Nina Chestney in Paris; editing by Anna Willard)

- Reuters

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on December 17, 2015, 04:13:20 pm
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The Fraudulent Science at COP21 Exposed
John W. Roulac | December 17, 2015 8:17 am

Before the ink had dried on the COP21 climate agreement, many from the food movement were reflecting on the process and plans worked on in Paris.

In their co-authored Washington Post op-ed piece, A Secret Weapon to Fight Climate Change: Dirt, Michael Pollan and Debbie Barker wrote, “Unfortunately, the world leaders who gathered in Paris this past week have paid little attention to the critical links between climate change and agriculture. That’s a huge mistake and a missed opportunity.”

Before we explore the case of fraud in Paris, let’s first review the definitions of fraud:

1. Wrongful or criminal deception intended to result in financial or personal gain.

2. A person or thing intended to deceive others, typically by unjustifiably claiming or being credited with accomplishments or qualities.

Following decades of public misinformation, today we know that the tobacco industry committed fraud by attempting to disconnect lung cancer from the smoking of cigarettes. And the state of New York is now investigating ExxonMobil for allegedly misleading the public about climate change.

So, following along on this idea of fraudulence, why has virtually every COP21 media article repeated the mistaken idea that the only strategy to fight climate change is the failed one to stop burning fossil fuels?

Why Would Industrial Ag Cover Up This Inconvenient Truth?

Yes, tobacco and Big Oil have been well compensated for committing “deception intended to result in financial or personal gain.” So it’s vital for the public to identify the latest corporate shenanigans using deception and black hat PR to deceive public officials for financial gain.

These would be the giants of the industrial agriculture industry, including Monsanto, Dow, DuPont, Syngenta, Bayer, McDonald’s and the entire synthetic fertilizer industry—the corporations that have undercounted and misrepresented America’s agricultural greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

Is the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Committing Accounting Fraud by Stating 10 Percent GHG From Ag When It’s Known to Be Above 25 Percent?

Sadly, thanks to Big Ag’s backroom political dealings in Washington, DC, the USDA and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency have agreed on the ludicrous statement that agriculture contributed only about 10 percent of U.S. GHG emissions in 2013, when in fact it was more than 25 percent.

When this erroneous conclusion is corrected and the formerly hidden facts are well understood by policy leaders and the public, we’ll be able to shift policies toward more regenerative, soil-honoring practices and then we’ll see sales of pesticides and chemical fertilizers plummet.

It’s plain to see why Monsanto and friends, via their high-level political appointees, influenced the U.S. and United Nations delegates at COP21. They eliminated agriculture and soils from the COP21 agenda and thus the final agreement—despite overwhelming evidence that soil sequestration (carbon farming) is the number one solution to stop the rise of CO2.

Luckily, There’s a Secret Weapon

Full article at link:


http://ecowatch.com/2015/12/17/fraudulent-science-cop21/

Agelbert NOTE: I agree basically with this article except for the claim that the "number one" solution to carbon sequestration discussed. Yes, it is a valid form of sequestration. But if you do not stop the subsidizing of fossil fuel industry activity and production of fossil fuels, it will NOT BE ENOUGH to stop climate catastrophe.
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on December 17, 2015, 09:13:30 pm
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Climate Change and the Road Through Paris
Posted on Dec 16, 2015


By Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan


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http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/climate_change_and_the_road_through_paris_20151216 (http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/climate_change_and_the_road_through_paris_20151216)

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NASA's "Global Analysis- June 2015" stated that baseline for land & ocean already hit 1.26 degrees C from baseline for the first time in human history. At two degrees C, life becomes unbearable for most every organism (National Geographic "Six Degrees Could Change the World, 2013).

Between three to four degrees C above pre-industrial baseline is the extinction event for 7.27 billion homo sapiens. If you haven't seen Dr. Malcolm Light's (Arctic News 2015) "Planetary Omnicide 2023-2031," I suggest you take a look at the graphs.

Two degrees C from baseline is not far away. The green house gas concentrations (400 ppm C02, 315 ppb nitrous oxide, 160 mmT fluorinated gasses, +/- 2500ppb methane) already assure a four plus degrees C rise from baseline, not counting in the acceleration of baseline by the positive feedback loops, completely out of human control or consensus.

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on December 23, 2015, 08:47:32 pm
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More Than Exxon: Big Oil Companies for Years Shared Damning Climate Research

Posted on Dec 22, 2015

By Lauren McCauley / Common Dreams

It wasn’t just Exxon that knew fossil fuels were cooking the planet.

New investigative reporting by Neela Banerjee with Inside Climate News revealed on Tuesday that scientists and engineers from nearly every major U.S. and multinational oil and gas company may have for decades known about the impacts of carbon emissions on the climate.

Between 1979 and 1983, the American Petroleum Institute (API), the industry’s most powerful lobby group, ran a task force for fossil fuel companies to “monitor and share climate research,” according to internal documents obtained by Inside Climate News.


According to the reporting:
 
Like Exxon, the companies also expressed a willingness to understand the links between their product, greater CO2 concentrations and the climate, the papers reveal. Some corporations ran their own research units as well, although they were smaller and less ambitious than Exxon’s and focused on climate modeling, said James J. Nelson, the former director of the task force.

“It was a fact-finding task force,” Nelson said in an interview. “We wanted to look at emerging science, the implications of it and where improvements could be made, if possible, to reduce emissions.”

The ‘CO2 and Climate Task Force,’ which changed in 1980 its name to the ‘Climate and Energy Task Force,’ included researchers from Exxon, Mobil, Chevron, Amoco, Phillips, Texaco, Shell, Sunoco, and Sohio, among others.

One memo by an Exxon task force representative pointed to 1979 “background paper on CO2,” which “predicted when the first clear effects of climate change might be felt,” noting that the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere was rising steadily.

And at a February 1980 meeting in New York, the task force invited Professor John A. Laurmann of Stanford University to brief members about climate science.

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“In his conclusions section, Laurmann estimated that the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere would double in 2038, which he said would likely lead to a 2.5 degrees Celsius rise in global average temperatures with ‘major economic consequences,’” Banerjee reports. He then told the task force that models showed a 5 degrees Celsius rise by 2067, with ‘globally catastrophic effects,’” Banerjee reports.

The documents show that API members, at one point, considered an alternative path in the face of these dire predictions:

Bruce S. Bailey of Texaco offered “for consideration” the idea that “an overall goal of the Task Force should be to help develop ground rules for energy release of fuels and the cleanup of fuels as they relate to CO2 creation,” according to the minutes of a meeting on Feb. 29, 1980.

The minutes also show that the task force discussed a “potential area” for research and development that called for it to “‘Investigate the Market Penetration Requirements of Introducing a New Energy Source into World Wide Use.’ This would include the technical implications of energy source changeover, research timing and requirements.”

“Yet,” Banerjee notes, “by the 1990s, it was clear that API had opted for a markedly different approach to the threat of climate change.”


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The damning revelations are the latest in an ongoing investigation into what the fossil fuel industry knew about climate change and then suppressed for decades —all while continuing to profit from the planet’s destruction.

Reports that Exxon, specifically, lied about climate change were published early October in the Los Angeles Times, mirroring a separate but similar investigation by Inside Climate News in September. Those findings set off a storm of outrage, including a probe by the New York Attorney General.

Nelson, a former head of the API task force, told Banerjee that with the growing powers of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in the early 1980’s, API decided to shift gears.

“They took the environmental unit and put it into the political department, which was primarily lobbyists,” he said. “They weren’t focused on doing research or on improving the oil industry’s impact on pollution. They were less interested in pushing the envelope of science and more interested in how to make it more advantageous politically or economically for the oil industry. That’s not meant as a criticism. It’s just a fact of life.”

http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/more_than_exxon_big_oil_companies_for_years_shared_20151222
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on December 27, 2015, 01:48:09 pm
Watch 25 Years of Arctic Sea Ice Melt in One Minute  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.freesmileys.org%2Femoticons%2Femoticon-anime-034.gif&hash=58a833931ab09edc67b808927994f92737db0650)
Stefanie Spear | December 27, 2015 11:29 am

VIDEO at link:


http://ecowatch.com/2015/12/27/arctic-sea-ice-melt/
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on December 27, 2015, 03:41:58 pm
Palloy said,
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So every year that the fossil fuel industrial order continues, with the FF resource declining, the more up sh it creek without a paddle we are.
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Message to Roamer (cheerleader for fossil fuels):

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You Won’t Believe What I Found in the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library Regarding Climate Change – I Sure Was Surprised!  (http://cleantechnica.com/2015/12/08/you-wont-believe-what-i-found-in-the-ronald-reagan-presidential-library-regarding-climate-change-i-sure-was-surprised-cleantechnica-exclusive/)

War & Climate Change: Jeremy Corbyn on the Brutal Quest for Oil & the Need for a Sustainable Planet:  VIDEO. (http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/fossil-fuel-folly/fossil-fuels-degraded-democracy-and-profit-over-planet-pollution/msg4164/#msg4164)

Top Climate Expert Kevin Anderson: Crisis is Worse Than We Think & Scientists Are Self-Censoring to Downplay Risk. (http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/climate-change/global-warming-is-with-us/msg4163/#msg4163)

The biggest threat that climate change has in store for us. (http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/climate-change/global-warming-is-with-us/msg4160/#msg4160)

And another thing.
The SCIENCE used in designing and building CO2 meters is based on the FACT that the tri-atomic molecule of CO2 is OPAQUE to certain bands of IR. For those who are not engineers or scientists, that means CO2 TRAPS HEAT. The fossil fuel industry is well aware of this and has been  bullsh itting people for several decades (i.e. denying CO2 is a potent GHG pollutant)  (http://www.doomsteaddiner.net/forum/index.php/topic,559.msg93875.html#msg93875) in an effort to continue their profit over planet gravy train.

For those science and biosphere math challenged fellows who wish to deny the facts about CO2, this quote may be of interest to you or just one more piece of scientific truth you and your fossil fuel worshipping pals like Mking may wish to ignore, deride, scorn or arm wave and shout away: (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F290.gif&hash=38949e35cf58eaa4218b5a8176767c806d2f8537)


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The most common CO2 sensors are known by the engineering term Non-Dispersive InfraRed, or NDIR.  An NDIR CO2 sensor shines infrared light through a gas sample in a sample chamber. Sensitive photo-detectors measure the intensity of the infrared light after it passes through the gas sample.  CO2 molecules are opaque to 4.26 micron infrared light while the rest of the air molecules are not. So the intensity of the infrared light is diminished proportionally to the number of CO2 molecules that are present.  Measuring the resultant light intensity measures the number of CO2 molecules present.

http://www.bapihvac.com/application-note/effects-of-temperature-and-barometric-pressure-on-co2-sensors-application-note/ (http://www.bapihvac.com/application-note/effects-of-temperature-and-barometric-pressure-on-co2-sensors-application-note/)
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on December 28, 2015, 07:33:43 pm
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160,000 Flee Their Homes as Devastating Flooding Hits South America

Nadia Prupis, Common Dreams | December 28, 2015 9:11 am

SNIPPET:

Many of those impacted are low-income families living along the Paraguay River, a major river that runs through Brazil, Paraguay, Bolivia and Argentina.

“[The flooding] was directly influenced by the El Niño phenomenon which has intensified the frequency and intensity of rains,” the office said.

As the United Nations weather agency, the World Meteorological Organization, warned last month, this year’s storm season is the worst in more than 15 years and is likely to bring yet more flooding and droughts to the tropics and subtropics.

The flooding in South America follows recent severe storms in Yemen and Mexico. In October, after Hurricane Patricia made landfall in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, and Manzanillo, Mexico, and forced the evacuation of 50,000 people, due to climate change, it was “exactly the kind of terrifying storm we can expect to see more frequently in the decades to come,” Slate meteorologist Eric Holthaus reported.

Paraguay has been the hardest hit, with an estimated 100,000 displaced, while 20,000 have been left homeless in Argentina and 9,000 in Uruguay. At least eight people have been killed across the region, according to local media.

Full article with photos:

http://ecowatch.com/2015/12/28/south-america-floods/

Agelbert COMMENT: More "externalized" costs gifted to the biosphere complements of the fossil fuel fascists.

For more accurate information on how the biosphere is being shafted by the dirty energy industries, please observe this environmental clock (http://www.poodwaddle.com/worldclock/env1/),
this clock (http://www.poodwaddle.com/worldclock/env3/) and
this clock  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-070814193155.png&hash=144ce9330e49ee84060db8753a8db69c39a14913) (http://www.poodwaddle.com/worldclock/env7/).

When I see these clocks showing greenhouse gas and pollution levels at survivable levels, I will entertain some home that we can avoid climate catastrophe.

Until then, expect more climate change caused environmental disasters.

For the idiots that will claim it is "just El Niño", here are the facts:

El Niño is a cyclical phenomenon. But it is now being exacerbated by the polluting effect of CO2 and the consequent increase in water vapor trapping more heat.

Do you know why El Niño is called El Niño? Do you know why the pacific ocean produces the El Niño? Do you understand that the oceans of the world are a heat sink with a thirty to 50 year baked in heat delay? Do you understand that the El Niño is a heat removal oceanic mechanism? Do you understand that, given the minimum of a thirty year delay, this El Niño is emitting some of the heat our civilization gifted the oceans from CO2 pollution levels in 1985?

Do you understand that every subsequent El Niño will be of greater strength and duration because the stored heat has increased as our CO2 pollution has increased?

Well, if you don't, you do not understand what the El Niño is. In short, IT IS AN OCEANIC HEAT REGULATION MECHANISM. The heat is transferred from the oceans into the atmosphere.

The CAUSE is HEAT in the oceans. The way that heat got there is through CO2 pollution, PERIOD.
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on December 28, 2015, 10:14:36 pm
Agelbert said in regard to the cause of more frequent and severe El Niño events,

The CAUSE is HEAT in the oceans. The way that heat got there is through CO2 pollution, PERIOD.

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CO2 is a contributing factor, but Geotectonics probably contributes more to total ocean heat content.

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You just made a rather amazing claim. You just claimed that geotectonics is more responsible for heating the hydrosphere (and consequently through more frequent and strong El Niño events, the atmosphere) than CO2 pollution.

That is what you just said.

But CO2 meters aren't designed the way they are because the CO2 effect on atmospheric heat trapping is a "minor contribution".

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The most common CO2 sensors are known by the engineering term Non-Dispersive InfraRed, or NDIR.  An NDIR CO2 sensor shines infrared light through a gas sample in a sample chamber. Sensitive photo-detectors measure the intensity of the infrared light after it passes through the gas sample.  CO2 molecules are opaque to 4.26 micron infrared light while the rest of the air molecules are not. So the intensity of the infrared light is diminished proportionally to the number of CO2 molecules that are present.  Measuring the resultant light intensity measures the number of CO2 molecules present.

http://www.bapihvac.com/application-note/effects-of-temperature-and-barometric-pressure-on-co2-sensors-application-note/ (http://www.bapihvac.com/application-note/effects-of-temperature-and-barometric-pressure-on-co2-sensors-application-note/)

Also, beyond the fact that NASA and most climate scientists, as well as myself, would ascribe no more than 1 or 2% (if that) to Geotectonics as a contributing factor in overheating the hydrosphere which, in turn, overheats the atmosphere by an increase in frequency and strength of el Niño events, those who, because of the lowered cost of fossil fuels, have NOW increased (not decreased as had occurred from 2008 to early 2015) their buying of heating oil furnaces    (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-200714183337.bmp&hash=fd5a6df63c32bd65dda7b6d93e788647ca3829df) will welcome your allegations.

I am certain that Roamer, Mking and every fossil fuel loving "fine fellow" that reads your upcoming article will applaud your theory. I am certain that your repeated attempts to use mega-energy transfer calculations from the scientifically observed increased earthquake and volcanic activity to justify your claim will make them jump for joy.  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-311013200859.png&hash=a7aaaa9f04c1e3e2c948723b5f8c13fe814dacd4)

The American petroleum industry would have awarded you a doctorate in climate science and paid you over a million dollars a year to push your theory if they thought they could get away with it. Ethics is not their thing; protecting their dirty energy product with propaganda is. But propaganda, beyond endless repetition for effect, needs some indisputably accurate basis (that is then distorted for effect) to successfully deceiving people.

For some reason, they never did try the "Geotectonics did it" meme. That means they didn't think they could convince people that fossil fuels were innocent of the global pollution charge. THAT is why they DENIED that global warming was going on for the last thirty years. The moment they accepted that global warming is REAL, they KNEW they could not escape being assigned responsibility for a MASSIVE amount of the pollution. They KNEW that CO2 is the overwhelmingly massive contributing factor. So, among other various and sundry propaganda techniques (EXCLUDING GEOTECTONICS) they just pretended a new ice age was coming!  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-311013200859.png&hash=a7aaaa9f04c1e3e2c948723b5f8c13fe814dacd4)



Between 1979 and 1983, the American Petroleum Institute (API), the industry’s most powerful lobby group, ran a task force for fossil fuel companies to “monitor and share climate research,” according to internal documents obtained by Inside Climate News.


According to the reporting:
 
Like Exxon, the companies also expressed a willingness to understand the links between their product, greater CO2 concentrations and the climate, the papers reveal. Some corporations ran their own research units as well, although they were smaller and less ambitious than Exxon’s and focused on climate modeling, said James J. Nelson, the former director of the task force.

“It was a fact-finding task force,” Nelson said in an interview. “We wanted to look at emerging science, the implications of it and where improvements could be made, if possible, to reduce emissions.”

The ‘CO2 and Climate Task Force,’ which changed in 1980 its name to the ‘Climate and Energy Task Force,’ included researchers from Exxon, Mobil, Chevron, Amoco, Phillips, Texaco, Shell, Sunoco, and Sohio, among others.

One memo by an Exxon task force representative pointed to 1979 “background paper on CO2,” which “predicted when the first clear effects of climate change might be felt,” noting that the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere was rising steadily.

And at a February 1980 meeting in New York, the task force invited Professor John A. Laurmann of Stanford University to brief members about climate science.

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“In his conclusions section, Laurmann estimated that the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere would double in 2038, which he said would likely lead to a 2.5 degrees Celsius rise in global average temperatures with ‘major economic consequences,’” Banerjee reports. He then told the task force that models showed a 5 degrees Celsius rise by 2067, with ‘globally catastrophic effects,’” Banerjee reports.


“Yet,” Banerjee notes, “by the 1990s, it was clear that API had opted for a markedly different approach to the threat of climate change.”


The lobby group teamed up with Exxon and others to form the Global Climate Coalition (GCC), which successfully lobbied the U.S. to withdraw from the Kyoto Protocol.  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.freesmileys.org%2Fsmileys%2Fsmiley-devil19.gif&hash=6eeb0dbc471743691793f5130640fdcbd1f77b5c)

“They took the environmental unit and put it into the political department, which was primarily lobbyists,” he said. “They weren’t focused on doing research or on improving the oil industry’s impact on pollution. They were less interested in pushing the envelope of science and more interested in how to make it more advantageous politically or economically for the oil industry. That’s not meant as a criticism. It’s just a fact of life.”

http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/more_than_exxon_big_oil_companies_for_years_shared_20151222

RE,
You love to argue. You will now claim CO2 dissolved in the oceans may increase acidity but not temperature. That is not true. Even dissolved in sodium chloride, the CO2 molecule continues to be opaque to certain bands of IR.

I am not going to start a long argument with you on the chemistry of sea water, the HIGH temperatures common to the top levels of the water column (NOT the low levels near hydrothermal vents and other geological heat sources! - they are statistically insignificant heat sources) which are CAUSED by Solar UV photon conversion to IR which, (GUESS WHERE IS TRAPPED?) is captured by water molecules AND CO2 molecules.

The MORE CO2 molecules in proportion to H2O molecules are IN THAT WATER, the hotter it gets. That is because H2O is NOT as opaque to IR as CO2 is.  So if you have LESS CO2, you have cooler oceans and less frequent and less strong El Niño events. Earthqauqes and their massive amount of energy DO NOT translate into IR (i.e. HEAT energy).

Now if you want to dance around all those facts, go for it. You will have lots of fossil fuelers that applaud you. And you will be a contributing factor in delaying the realization among those that read your work, that fossil fuels are toxic to human civilization. You will be doing a disservice to humanity and to the truth.

I urge you to reconsider. More people will be harmed by your back door defense of dirty energy.

Have a nice day. 
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on December 30, 2015, 04:44:26 pm
What SHELL and fossil fuel friends will tell you about LNG versus the TRUTH.

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The happy talk Fossil Fuel Crooks and Liars LNG PROPAGANDA:

Agelbert NOTE: Observe how these duplicitous Machiavelians make the claim that "Natural gas is the cleanest burning fossil fuel", as if fossil fuels are IT as an energy source or can possible EVER be considered "clean". Clean fossil fuels is a oxymoron. But we aren't supposed to know that. We are supposed to believe we are all gonna die without or "savior", fossil fuels.   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2F1.bp.blogspot.com%2F-TzWpwHzCvCI%2FT_sBEnhCCpI%2FAAAAAAAAME8%2FIsLpuU8HYxc%2Fs1600%2Fnooo-way-smiley.gif&hash=b8545bd420b1e2f2c7b9f665d2093523e4ad2251)

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Natural gas is the cleanest burning fossil fuel and is being used throughout the world to reduce carbon dioxide emissions.  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.desismileys.com%2Fsmileys%2Fdesismileys_2932.gif&hash=0eaec4791a5825821998245e7fcd7744b56557fe) Compared to coal, natural gas produces far fewer carbon dioxide emissions and sulfur emissions.  LNG is simply natural gas in a liquid state.  As a fuel, LNG produces relatively  ;) low emissions when burned to heat and cool homes, generate electricity, and power vehicles.
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The FACTS about LNG compared with NON-FRACKED natural gas.

NOTE: FRACKED natural gas might be called "domestic" natural gas by frackers, but unlike natural gas from methane harvesting (e. g. pig farms, cow power or soil decomposition sources), Fracked gas is massively energy intensive and polluting. To label Fracked gas a "natural" is disingenuous, but a clever fiction used to deliberately confuse the issue.

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LNG can be up to 40% more polluting than domestic natural gas, and has been compared to the burning of coal. The increase is caused by the excessive energy needs that LNG requires during its lifecycle. The process is dirty and requires the cooling of natural gas to negative 259 degrees Fahrenheit, loading it into tanker ships, transporting it thousands of miles (often using ships burning bunker fuel), and then re-heating it to turn LNG back into gas.

These polluting steps are in addition to the basic pollution to find, tap, pipe, and burn natural gas supplies. Some argue that the gas used to generate LNG would otherwise be flared off. This is a red-herring issue. In fact, flaring is increasing despite growing LNG exports. Finally, it is important to note that while natural gas is perceived as “clean” and green, it is not. Though it burns cleaner than coal or oil, natural gas is a fossil fuel and has its own significant greenhouse gas footprint, and indeed natural gas is, by far, NJ’s largest carbon dioxide source behind gasoline. (Section IX)

http://www.cleanoceanaction.org/fileadmin/editor_group1/Issues/LNG/Final_Clean_Ocean_Action_LNG_Report_-_Aug.__09_Exec_Sum_Update.pdf

Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on December 30, 2015, 11:06:56 pm
Freak storm in North Atlantic to lash UK, may push temperatures over 50 degrees above normal at North Pole

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2015/12/28/freak-storm-in-north-atlantic-may-push-temperatures-70-degrees-above-normal-at-north-pole

Agelbert NOTE:
Uh huh... It's always a "freak" for the Washington Post when the temperatures PREDICICTED to be much higher by climate scientists for over 20 years now at the NORTH POLE begin happening more and more often.

One of these days, these mainstream idiots will stop using terms like "unexpected" and "freak" for the climate catastrophe we are beginning to experience thanks to CO2 pollution from fossil fuels. 

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on December 31, 2015, 04:14:10 pm
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The Race Is On to Exploit a Melting Antarctica

Posted on Dec 30, 2015

SNIPPET:

After more than a century of protection from exploitation by military and commercial interests, a number of countries are positioning themselves to seize greater influence in Antarctica on the day its protective treaties expire.

Simon Romero reports at The New York Times:

“The newer players are stepping into what they view as a treasure house of resources,” said Anne-Marie Brady, a scholar at New Zealand’s University of Canterbury who specializes in Antarctic politics.

Some of the ventures focus on the Antarctic resources that are already up for grabs, like abundant sea life. China and South Korea, both of which operate state-of-the-art bases here, are ramping up their fishing of krill, the shrimplike crustaceans found in abundance in the Southern Ocean, while Russia recently thwarted efforts to create one of the world’s largest ocean sanctuaries here.

Some scientists are examining the potential for harvesting icebergs from Antarctica, which is estimated to have the biggest reserves of fresh water on the planet. Nations are also pressing ahead with space research and satellite projects to expand their global navigation abilities.

Building on a Soviet-era foothold, Russia is expanding its monitoring stations for Glonass, its version of the Global Positioning System. At least three Russian stations are already operating in Antarctica, part of its effort to challenge the dominance of the American GPS, and new stations are planned for sites like the Russian base, in the shadow of the Orthodox Church of the Holy Trinity. […]

Antarctica’s mineral, oil and gas wealth are a longer-term prize. The treaty banning mining here, shielding coveted reserves of iron ore, coal and chromium, is expected to come up for review by 2048 and could be challenged before then. Researchers recently found kimberlite deposits hinting at the existence of diamonds. And while assessments vary widely, geologists estimate that Antarctica holds at least 36 billion barrels of oil and natural gas. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-311013200859.png&hash=a7aaaa9f04c1e3e2c948723b5f8c13fe814dacd4) (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.freesmileys.org%2Fsmileys%2Fsmiley-devil12.gif&hash=d1822754cefdd0f77369dacd157d00f5f8d3fff9)

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 Freakish weather from the North Pole to South America (https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/freakish-weather-runs-from-top-of-the-world-to-the-bottom/2015/12/30/61203efa-af2c-11e5-b711-1998289ffcea_story.html?wpisrc=nl_az_most)

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on December 31, 2015, 07:36:22 pm
With these type of debates you have to do what has been stated in previous threads and that is apply common sense. Whilst it can be tempting to blindly believe the words of a highly qualified person with expertise in a particular field it does pay to maintain a degree of scepticism. A degree of scepticism does not necessarily mean you disbelieve a person's dialogue it is simply the fact you are not afraid to ask questions and make enquiries as to why a theory or idea is true. Too often people fail to do that and that is the stumbling block. This is the general principle I follow and I even extend this line of thinking to non-experts, after all quite often the most qualified people in any set field will have a degree of bias or blindness due to either the industry they work in or the environment and people they are exposed to. Also quite often a person who is not overly invested in a particular field can see certain aspects insiders cannot. Blindness through familiarity is a real phenomenon. In the end it seems it is best to judge each person's statement by its individual merits rather than make generalised reactions. It is highly unlikely any single individual will be right in everything so it is best to take the best of each person and ignore the areas you disagree with. In time one will form their own individualised opinion that is not overly dependent on any one person's ideology.

As for more general things like peak oil, the fact it has not led to enormous collapse does not disprove the theory. At the end of the day, peak oil at its most basic level is simply a moment of time when global oil production reaches its maximum and that maximum rate is never attained again. Seeing as oil is a finite resource this means this point is inevitable and to argue otherwise is to make the argument that oil is infinite or is actually a renewable resource which are both implausible ideas. Now the implications in terms of economy and the industrialised economy is a matter of conjecture but this is beyond the scope of peak oil itself; those debates whilst interesting and exciting to take part on are merely a natural extension to the peak oil idea but are not descriptions of peak oil itself. I think many people fall foul of that bear trap and need to be mindful of that distinction (even if the implications are more interesting than the moment itself).

For other problems such as climate change this debate is muddled by the simple fact that climate has natural variations and over the time the baselines of any given region do change. The key point I do see in climate change of today being different to the past is that the rate of change appears to be much faster than previous periods of time. I do feel the points I raised are largely true and can be demonstrated empirically. The room for argument in my eyes is despite these changes or even the rate of change one could still make the controversial argument these changes are not primarily driven through human activity. This point however would be largely moot because the bottom line appears to be that climate is changing rapidly and more important it is changing at a rate that makes it hard for animals and even humans to adjust to.

From my viewpoint though phenomenons such as peak oil or climate change are just two sides of the same coin and they both come about by a fundamental systemic problem in our economic system. Ultimately our economic system converts resources and energy to produce goods and services. In this transformation process some waste products are produced which is what is more commonly known as the pollution. Now as the rate of conversion or throughput increases GDP increases which is really just a measure of the total level of consumption in the economy. The big problem here is this level of consumption cannot go up indefinitely; at some point it must decline and I would even argue collapse.

Now I hear the argument that increased efficiency may prevent this outcome becoming inevitable but my rebuttal to that argument is that whilst growth of GDP does not follow a one-to-one relationship with increased resource growth or pollution there will always be a positive correlation (at least in the longer term) because you cannot achieve 100% efficiency in transforming goods/services as that is not possible from a thermodynamic level. At some point the impacts of growth will exceed the impacts of efficiency. It is because of this that the questions shifts from if to when and it is the when which is proving most elusive to pinpoint. At the end of the day complex system are inherently unpredictable so whilst it maybe possible to predict underlying major trends it is exceedingly difficult to locate specific inflexion points and to what degree such points will take in terms of magnitude and length those declines will take. Anyone who can say with 100% conviction what the specifics will be is either ignorant or a liar however I do believe it is possible to make generalised observations and even outline the most probable outcomes that are likely to come.
NO ONE is talking about 100% conviction here, pal. The Precautionary Principal is being violated 24/7 by those defending an unsustainable status quo.
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Monsta and Roamer are the ones INSIDE the pot.


For you to claim the correlation with increased weather disasters and CO2 concentration increase is not sufficiently "validated" to justify a radical transition to 100% Renewable energy is just more "Doubt is our Product" propaganda. You never tire of using it.    (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-200714183337.bmp&hash=fd5a6df63c32bd65dda7b6d93e788647ca3829df)
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RE and AG, have either of you studied climate enough to understand if these anomalies are exceptional?  I bet not.  I bet it's far more likely you two are complicity participating in enforcing the indoctrination of extremism.  Doomerism is yet another great way to subdue and control the masses.  There is no other realistic option but to ride through industrialism and to innovate and adapt to the problems at hand.  I've beat down all the popular post fossil options and they would if enacted at present lead to famines, misry and wars.  We need time stability and am engaged populace to bring about a resilient solar transition over the next decades.   Advocating an unrealistic immediate dismantling of fossil powered industrialism is a dead end politically that only leads to an angry ignorant clueless disengaged group of folks. This is what the elite want.  And ironically enough then you'll get the doom you want but not for the reasons you think.

Well Monsta and Roamer, experts, CREDENTIALED experts, have been predicting that all these climate calamities would increase in frequency and ferocity for about two decades now. The CO2 pollution temperature increase CAUSATION of the CORRELATION is indisputable. But the fossil fuelers just keep catapulting the "doubt is or product" propaganda in full denial of the empirical evidence.
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Steady Increase in Climate Related Natural Disasters (http://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-blogs/climatechange/steady-increase-in-climate-rel/19974069)

Each scientifically based prediction has been met with doubletalk, fallacious debating techniques and disingenuous skepticism by the paid deniers and/or the willfully ignorant wishful thinkers.

When the fossil fuelers have not descended into outright derision and accused the scientists who made the predictions of being "chicken little" hyperbolic alarmism, they have gone on and on about the "real world" of ERoEI.

They, like Charles Hall, consistently deny that the truth about their gamed ERoEI is that it has NOTHING to do with energy and everything to do with replacing the word "energy" in that "formula" with the word "money". I have, on several occasions, tried to explain to you and others here how the MONEY invested is SUBSIDIZED (i.e STOLEN from we-the-people through government coercion and monopolistic strangulation of clean energy techonlogies) so that the RETURN is profitable for the ass holes that Frack for gas or drill for oil or build nuclear power plants. You, just like Charles Hall and Gail Tverberg, refuse to go there.  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Ffly.gif&hash=b0526635e8b47d751b0e429925d73d78f9d79fc6)   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F290.gif&hash=38949e35cf58eaa4218b5a8176767c806d2f8537)    (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-051113192052.png&hash=93c42ef9f18fc5d9da50fd91fc19f70009f95f85)

I repeat, the denial by fossil fuelers like Roamer and Mking of clearly established correlation of increasing climate disasters with increasing average temperature caused by CO2 pollution constitutes the "doubt is our product" propaganda technique handed off from tobacco to fossil fuel ass holes over thirty years ago.

I myself have pointed at recent scientific studies predicting how hostile the climate will get in general and the oceans in particular for human civilization.

This is my article (at the link below). I recommend you read it. It is of particular importance to you because the UK will be one of the first industrialized countries to be severely hampered by this turbulent ocean activity.

 Climate Change, Blue Water Cargo Shipping and Predicted Ocean Wave Activity: Three Part Article (http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/climate-change/global-warming-is-with-us/msg4045/#msg4045)

Here is some news from TODAY
that supports the scientific consensus in that article. I expect roamer will claim it is "just weather" or some "freak" incident. My article and the recent study by Hansen et al says otherwise. 

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The above is the Ocean Ranger, not the Sea Drilling Rig COSL Innovator. I post it to give an idea what these giant waves, THAT WILL INCREASE IN SIZE AND FREQUENCY BEACAUSE of CO2 POLLUTION, are like. 
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One Dead, Two Injured After Wave Hits North Sea Drilling Rig COSL Innovator

December 30, 2015 by Mike Schuler

One person has died and two other were injured on Wednesday after a large wave hit a semi-submersible drilling rig operating in the North Sea.

Statoil confirmed the incident in a email on Wednesday, reporting that the incident occurred at about 5 p.m. Wednesday, December 30th aboard the COSL Innovator. The company said it was informed by police that one person has died as a result of the “breaking wave”.

Earlier this company said the three people had been injured.

The rig is currently under contract to Statoil on the Troll field in the North Sea, west of Bergen.

The company said that the rig had been taken off the well due to heavy weather when the incident occurred. The wave has also caused damage to the rig’s accommodation module.

All three workers were flown to land to seek medical treatment on land. Statoil said that the rig is also being evacuated down to a safety crew.

At least one Sea King helicopter from the Norwegian Joint Rescue Coordination Centre and one of Statoil’s own SAR helicopters participated in the response.

“The rig is now heading to shore under its own power, while evacuation takes place,” Statoil said an update.

Statoil did not provide any information concerning the condition of the two others.

The heavy weather is associated with powerful winter storm “Frank”, a hurricane force low that developed rapidly over the North Atlantic this week and battered parts of the UK on Tuesday night and Wednesday, bringing with it heavy winds and rain and causing major damage.

COSL Innovator is owned by COSL Drilling Europe AS, a subsidiary of China Oilfield Services Limited.

https://gcaptain.com/2015/12/30/three-injured-aboard-north-sea-oil-rig-during-storm-frank/ (https://gcaptain.com/2015/12/30/three-injured-aboard-north-sea-oil-rig-during-storm-frank/)

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on December 31, 2015, 08:24:12 pm
A "Rogue" Wave just wished Happy New Year to the Fossil Fuel Industry.  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.freesmileys.org%2Fsmileys%2Fsmiley-scared002.gif&hash=764898cfbf07ef2c41ffddc5e93fa0e1bed41bae)

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The above is the Ocean Ranger, not the Sea Drilling Rig COSL Innovator. I post it to give an idea what these giant waves,  THAT WILL INCREASE IN SIZE AND FREQUENCY BEACAUSE of CO2 POLLUTION (http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/climate-change/global-warming-is-with-us/msg4045/#msg4045) , are like. 

One Dead, Two Injured After Wave Hits North Sea Drilling Rig COSL Innovator

December 30, 2015 by Mike Schuler

One person has died and two other were injured on Wednesday after a large wave hit a semi-submersible drilling rig operating in the North Sea.

Statoil confirmed the incident in a email on Wednesday, reporting that the incident occurred at about 5 p.m. Wednesday, December 30th aboard the COSL Innovator. The company said it was informed by police that one person has died as a result of the “breaking wave”.

Earlier this company said the three people had been injured.

The rig is currently under contract to Statoil on the Troll field in the North Sea, west of Bergen.

The company said that the rig had been taken off the well due to heavy weather when the incident occurred. The wave has also caused damage to the rig’s accommodation module.

All three workers were flown to land to seek medical treatment on land. Statoil said that the rig is also being evacuated down to a safety crew.

At least one Sea King helicopter from the Norwegian Joint Rescue Coordination Centre and one of Statoil’s own SAR helicopters participated in the response.

“The rig is now heading to shore under its own power, while evacuation takes place,” Statoil said an update.

Statoil did not provide any information concerning the condition of the two others.

The heavy weather is associated with powerful winter storm “Frank”, a hurricane force low that developed rapidly over the North Atlantic this week and battered parts of the UK on Tuesday night and Wednesday, bringing with it heavy winds and rain and causing major damage.

COSL Innovator is owned by COSL Drilling Europe AS, a subsidiary of China Oilfield Services Limited.

https://gcaptain.com/2015/12/30/three-injured-aboard-north-sea-oil-rig-during-storm-frank/ (https://gcaptain.com/2015/12/30/three-injured-aboard-north-sea-oil-rig-during-storm-frank/)

Agelbert NOTE: I expect fossil fuel industry propagandists will claim it is "just weather" or some "freak" incident. The recent study by Hansen et al says otherwise. In regard to giant waves and increased CO2 concentration causing them to increase in frequency and size, this article (at the link below) will furnish you with the scientific studies and background on the threat to global shipping. I recommend you read it. It is of particular importance to those who live in England because the UK will be one of the first industrialized countries to be severely hampered by this turbulent ocean activity. But all of us will be deleteriously affected by the turbulent ocean activity,

Climate Change, Blue Water Cargo Shipping and Predicted Ocean Wave Activity: Three Part Article (http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/climate-change/global-warming-is-with-us/msg4045/#msg4045)

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on December 31, 2015, 09:30:12 pm
Isn't it Freaky how often we get Freak events these days?  I am getting Freaked Out by the Freakiness!  ::)

Stay out of Airplanes.

RE

https://www.rt.com/news/327503-turbulence-injures-twenty-air-canada/ (https://www.rt.com/news/327503-turbulence-injures-twenty-air-canada/)

Freak turbulence injures over 20 on Shanghai-Toronto flight, plane diverted to Calgary

Published time: 30 Dec, 2015 23:42
Edited time: 31 Dec, 2015 04:20

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Twenty-five people received turbulence-related injuries on an Air Canada flight AC88 on its way to Toronto from Shanghai. The plane was diverted to Calgary, Alberta to treat those affected. Some had to be taken to hospital, with at least 6 reportedly in serious condition.

EMS confirmed that 25 people had been injured, with 21 transported to hospital, including three children. None of the injuries were life threatening, an EMS official told the media.

Air Canada has confirmed that the plane successfully landed in Calgary after encountering turbulence en route.

Fifteen transport units were dispatched to Calgary airport, and additional help was recruited from outside the city, the EMS official added.

There were 332 passages and 19 crew members on board the flight. According to Air Canada, “some will require hospitalization for assessment.”

    VIDEO: passenger number 8 of 20 wheeled out on stretcher. Flight w/ injuries gets diverted to #yyc after turbulence pic.twitter.com/g0kinisHdX
    — Stefan Oliver Keyes (@Stefan_Keyes) December 30, 2015

Calgary fire department spokeswoman Carol Henke stated that she was aware of around 20 people who received turbulence-related neck and back injuries. It is not yet known how severe the injuries are.

Numerous passengers were seen wheeled out of the aircraft by emergency crews on gurneys. At least six people were evacuated on stretchers, some wearing neck braces, according to CBC Calgary correspondent Meghan Grant. Two other passengers were taken out via wheel chairs.

    Up to 8 patients now. EMS is offering to hide their faces if they want privacy. Many have neck braces on. #ac88pic.twitter.com/EUeCPKLFH3
    — Meghan Grant (@CBCMeg) December 30, 2015

Several passengers told CBC that they felt a sudden “massive drop.” The seatbelt sign was on at the time.

    Passenger describes flight as scary with lots of crying #YYC#AC88pic.twitter.com/MQJD3fUJlu
    — Katie Burley (@kafburley) December 31, 2015

Flight AC88 departed from Shanghai, China and was scheduled to land in Toronto at 6:45 pm EST.

    #AC088 Update: Press release issued 18:13: https://t.co/VSPec6exiN (https://t.co/VSPec6exiN) Updates to be posted on https://t.co/j6Q9rc8xaW (https://t.co/j6Q9rc8xaW) when new info available
    — Air Canada (@AirCanada) December 30, 2015

A passenger from the flight described the ordeal as a “flight from hell.”“It was frightening,” Connie Gelber told Calgary Herald. “Honestly we didn’t know if we were going to live or die.”

Gelber described a girl being thrown out of her seat into the aisle during turbulence.

    Terrifying photos of the aftermath inside the plane provided by passenger Helen Zhang #AC88pic.twitter.com/ZGKR2dUWmq
    — Meghan Grant (@CBCMeg) December 31, 2015

Another passenger said that some people “just flew.”“It was crazy,” Liu Pinzhou said.

Many described lots of screaming once turbulence hit. “I heard lots of people screaming, like what you would hear on a roller coaster,” Bing Feng told CBC News. “When you are in the situation, of course (you fear the worst). You saw all the oxygen masks drop.”

    Turbulence so bad, there's visible damages to the ceiling of flight #AC88. Photo Credit: Xinyi Li Pho pic.twitter.com/ZTaLebq5gL
    — Malik Chabou (@malikchabou) December 31, 2015

Some praised how the crew handled the situation. “It was a little scary but all the crew were professional, handled themselves well, people had minor injuries a little bit shaken up,” Gord Murray said. “It could have been much worse.”

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They will accuse those who want a rapid transition to clean energy as matter of survival for our civilization of being "alarmists" that don't "understand the real world".  They will, using the tried and true Karl Rove technique of accusing the adversary of what he was doing, claim those linking climate disasters with CO2 concentration increases are "biased".
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But the climate will get increasingly worse and the death rate will continue to rise while these ****s pretend the fossil fuel industry doesn't owe BIG TIME for all the damages they have inflicted on human society. And they will scream about the "good" for humanity that all those subsidies for fossil fuels bring to us.
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on January 01, 2016, 12:54:36 am
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Extreme Weather Kills North Sea Oil Rig Worker
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Photo: (at link)  Agence France-Presse/Getty Images: 
The Statfjord A platform, left, and the loading buoy, right, in the North Sea. The death of an oil industry worker in the North Sea late Wednesday, after a giant wave swamped a drilling rig, was the first fatality on the Norwegian continental shelf since 2009. 

By Kjetil Malkenes Hovland in Oslo and Selina Williams in London
 
Updated Dec. 31, 2015 7:56 a.m. ET
 
Extreme weather in the already forbidding North Sea killed one energy-industry worker when a giant wave swamped a drilling rig, while a barge set adrift by storms triggered evacuations in three other North Sea fields.

Norway’s  Statoil AS A said a wave hit a drilling rig in one of its offshore fields late Wednesday, killing one contractor and injuring two others. While the Norwegian North Sea is always treacherous in the winter, fatal accidents are rare largely because of strict regulations and safety practices implemented over the decades that oil companies have been operating in the area.

The death was the first fatality on the Norwegian continental shelf since 2009, according to the Norwegian Petroleum Safety Authority. The agency said it would investigate the accident. Norway’s Joint Rescue Emergency Center said the weather was unusual, even for the time of year.

A senior forecaster at the Norwegian Meteorological Institute said a band of low pressure over Iceland and Norway had caused very strong winds, leading to wave heights of up to 130 feet in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea. “The winds are severe, and the waves are very high,” she said, adding, however, that “we’ve seen worse.”

The rig, called the COSL Innovator and operated by  China Oilfield Services Ltd. , or COSL, was hit by a “wave surge” that had built up and slammed into it, damaging the facility’s accommodations module, which sits about 52 to 55 feet above sea level, said  Jorgen Andersen, chief executive of COSL Drilling Europe.

The wave blew out windows in the accommodation module. Mr. Andersen said the two other crew members’ injuries were relatively minor and that the rig was under control. All but the most essential crew members have been evacuated and the rig will be taken to an onshore base to assess the damage, he said.

The rig was undertaking work for Statoil at the giant Troll field in the North Sea, west of Norway’s second city Bergen. The field is the cornerstone of Norwegian natural gas production, and contains about 40% of the country’s total gas reserves.

BP, which had earlier shut down production at its Valhall oil field further south in the North Sea as a precautionary measure after a nearby barge broke its tow Wednesday night, said the barge had now passed Valhall and was drifting in a northeast direction. “This means that personnel now can be moved back to Valhall to start normalizing operations and start up production,” the U.K. oil major said.

By late morning in Norway, the country’s rescue center reported the barge had drifted past installations that operators had feared it might hit. “There won’t be any collision,” a spokesman for the center said.

The barge, which is owned by Eide Marine Group, was under tow from the Mediterranean to Norway when its towing line broke in heavy wind, said Kjarten Mehammer, a manager at the company.

“We’re working with three other vessels to secure the barge,” he said, adding that a fourth vessel was set to join efforts shortly.

Earlier,  ConocoPhillips  said it had evacuated 145 workers and shut down production from the Eldfisk field, just north of BP’s Valhall field, as a precaution against the barge drifting into that field. The company said it had also shut down the nearby, unmanned Embla field, due to the risk of collision.

—Kevin Baxter in London and David Gauthier-Villars in Stockholm contributed to this article.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/extreme-weather-kills-north-sea-oil-rig-worker-1451566465


Agelbert NOTE: A height of 55 feet above sea level requires a wave height of at least 110 feet to swamp it because the trough of a wave (the part below sea level) is one half the full wave height.

Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on January 01, 2016, 02:54:02 pm
A prediction by yours truly:   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F301.gif&hash=0291ed4abf2d80e420d1aa00d4eb3c5dd6bbfb53) 2016 will go down in the history of the 21st century as the year the mega-flooding, both on land and at the coasts, became routine .

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on January 01, 2016, 03:16:29 pm
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[/ How much have temperatures risen already? As illustrated by above image, NASA data show that during the three-month period from September through November 2015, it was ~1°C warmer than it was in 1951-1980 (i.e the baseline).
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http://arctic-news.blogspot.com/2015/12/2015-warmest-year-on-record.html (http://arctic-news.blogspot.com/2015/12/2015-warmest-year-on-record.html)

AND THE FOSSIL FUELERS SAY...


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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on January 01, 2016, 03:57:51 pm
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The Mechanism leading to Collapse of Civilization and Runaway Global Warming

What is the mechanism behind accelerated warming of the Arctic Ocean, huge abrupt methane eruptions from the seafloor of the Arctic Ocean and skyrocketing temperatures?  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.desismileys.com%2Fsmileys%2Fdesismileys_6656.gif&hash=2038f9b45636a93e5c0f4ee508ce29778fe9e9b4) (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.desismileys.com%2Fsmileys%2Fdesismileys_1730.gif&hash=cdaf50326d98ff7b051a9c49e83d51c7bb687407) ???



1. Potential for Methane Release in Arctic

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2. Ocean Heat
As the image below shows, the July data for sea surface temperature anomalies on the Northern Hemisphere contain a trendline pointing at a rise of 2°C (3.6°F) before the year 2030. In other words, if this trend continues, the sea surface will be 2°C (3.6°F) warmer in less than 15 years time from now.
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3. Feedbacks: Changing Winds and Currents, Cryosphere Changes and Methane
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4. Collapse of Civilization

5. Runaway Global Warming

Full and detailed explanation of items 1 through 5 at link:

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http://arctic-news.blogspot.com/p/the-mechanism.html

AND THE FOSSIL FUELERS SAY...

 
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on January 01, 2016, 07:45:23 pm
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Floods Choking Everything From Oil to Wheat in U.S. Midwest

December 31, 2015 by Bloomberg


By Barbara Powell and Tim Loh

(Bloomberg) — The worst flooding across the U.S. Midwest in four years is disrupting everything from oil to agriculture, forcing pipelines, terminals and grain elevators to close and killing off thousands of pigs.

Fifty miles (80 kilometers) of the Illinois River have been closed, according to the U.S. Coast Guard, as well as 81 miles of the Mississippi River in two segments.

The flooding is the worst since May 2011, when rising water on the Mississippi and its tributaries deluged cities, slowed barge traffic and threatened refinery and chemical operations. The current situation increases stockpiles of crude oil and may extend this year’s price slide.

Hog producers in southern Illinois are calling other farmers, hoping to find extra barn space to relocate their pigs, said Jennifer Tirey, executive director of the Illinois Pork Producers Association. Processors are sending additional trucks out to retrieve market-ready pigs, she said. In one case, an overflowing creek took out electricity and made roads impassable, causing 2,000 pigs to drown.   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-200714183337.bmp&hash=fd5a6df63c32bd65dda7b6d93e788647ca3829df)

‘So Much Rain’

“There was no way to get the pigs out,” Tirey said. “Honestly, it was just an act of God. That creek had so much rain.”

So far, the biggest oil shutdown involves Enbridge Inc.’s Ozark pipeline, which was booked to carry about 200,000 barrels a day this month to Wood River, Illinois, from Cushing, Oklahoma. The outage of the section under the Mississippi River may further add to stockpiles at Cushing that reached a record high last week.

“The closure of the Ozark pipeline will just add to the stocks at Cushing,” said Amrita Sen, chief oil economist at Energy Aspects Ltd. in London.

Spectra Energy Corp. shut the 145,000 barrel-a-day Platte oil pipeline between Guernsey, Wyoming, and Wood River as a precaution because of the river’s condition, the company said in an e-mailed statement.

St. Louis received 5.91 inches of rain (15 centimeters) from Dec. 26 to Dec. 28, according to AccuWeather data. By Wednesday, Ameren Missouri was ferrying employees to and from its Sioux Energy Center north of St. Louis. The coal-fired power plant is still operational and workers will continue to travel by boat until the floodwaters recede, the company said in a statement.

Closed Terminals  ;D

Kinder Morgan Inc. shut its Cahokia terminal in Sauget, Illinois, and its Cora terminal in Rockwood, Illinois, company spokesman Richard Wheatley said by e-mail. Cahokia handles chemicals, coal, cement and metals while Cora handles coal and petcoke, according to the company’s website. Kinder Morgan declared a force majeure, which protects it from liability for contracts that go unfulfilled for reasons beyond its control.

Exxon Mobil Corp. is shutting a fuel terminal on the Mississippi River at Memphis “in anticipation of severe weather,”
spokesman Todd Spitler said in an e-mail Wednesday.

Barge operators shipping grain took advantage of early forecasts for the heavy rain and flooding to transport loads before Christmas to ports in New Orleans, where there’s “adequate inventory,” said Wes Traina, logistics manager for Zen-Noh Grain Corp. in Convent, Louisiana. Still, high water may continue to slow shipping and loading throughout January, he added.

‘Fast Currents’

“The biggest concern from the high waters and fast currents will be from barges hitting a bridge and breaking apart,” Traina said by phone. “It’s inevitable that accidents will occur.”

The southern Illinois co-op Gateway FS Inc. has closed three of its grain elevators. Employees are working extended hours to accommodate the large number of farmers hauling in grain from on-farm bins that could be compromised by flooding, said general manager Carl Tebbe.

“We’re just hopeful the water doesn’t quite get as high as what they’re saying,” Tebbe said. “Everyone has done a lot of work.”

Delek U.S. Holdings Inc., which has a products terminal in Memphis, declined to comment, according to spokesman Matt Barkett. Steve Lee, a spokesman for Valero Energy Corp., which has a 180,000 barrel-a-day refinery in Memphis that reduced operations during the 2011 floods, said he was unable to respond immediately about plans to deal with the current flooding threat.

The floodwaters may eventually reach Louisiana, which has 10 refineries in the Baton Rouge-New Orleans area with an combined capacity of about 2.5 million barrels, or 13 percent of the nation’s capacity, said Andy Lipow, president of Lipow Oil Associates in Houston.  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Facigar.gif&hash=dc9dccf92c6c88c99611b06c86d92629d69f2978)

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–With assistance from Brian K. Sullivan, Sheela Tobben, Mark Shenk, Lydia Mulvany and Jeff Wilson.

©2015 Bloomberg News

https://gcaptain.com/2015/12/31/floods-choking-everything-from-oil-to-wheat-in-u-s-midwest/

Agelbert NOTE: And what do the fossil fuelers say to the above? Why, they have to raise GASOLINE prices, of course! Refiners can't be allowed to lose money! It's a threat to National Security! High gasoline prices are for your own good! Fossil Fuel Industry profits are good for the country! Never mind WHY we are getting this weather. That's, uh, well, see below:

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on January 02, 2016, 10:18:44 pm
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10 Extreme Weather Events in 2015 That Sound the Alarm on Climate Chaos

Sarah Lazare, Common Dreams | January 2, 2016 11:46 am


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Looking back at 2015, it is clear that such extremes are not the exception, but have been the rule for the past 365 days and beyond. Such weather is linked to this year’s exceptionally strong El Niño, which is tied to human-made global warming.


A NASA rainfall analysis from Dec. 23 to Dec. 27 showed highest rainfall totals of almost 938 mm (36.8 inches) were measured by IMERG in the state of Alabama. Photo credit: NASA/JAXA/SSAI, Hal Pierce

A NASA rainfall analysis from Dec. 23 to Dec. 27 showed highest rainfall totals of almost 938 mm (36.8 inches) were measured by IMERG in the state of Alabama. Photo credit: NASA/JAXA/SSAI, Hal Pierce

Communities on the frontlines of climate change have long warned that resultant floods, droughts and mega-storms are already bringing death, displacement, and food insecurity to people across the globe, particularly those who are poor, Indigenous or living in the global south.

Here are 10 freakish weather extremes in 2015 that  in 2016 and beyond—and underscore the urgency of strong and effective adaptation, mitigation, and emissions reductions policies.


1. An Arctic heat wave
at the end of December caused temperatures in the North Pole to spike 60 degrees Fahrenheit above the norm for the season, soaring past the freezing point and making the region hotter than cities across the U.S. and Europe.

2. This winter’s El Niño
event touched off severe floods in late December across South America, including in Paraguay, Uruguay, Brazil and Argentina, displacing more than 150,000 people.

3. Heavy rains last week caused the Mississippi River and its tributaries to overflow, touching off historic flooding in the U.S. Midwest. Climate scientists say that one of the most remarkable things about the deluge is the timing. “Never before has water this high been observed in winter along the levee system of the river,” meteorologist Jeff Masters explained.

4. South Africa faces its worst drought
in a generation, amid soaring temperatures and paltry rainfalls believed to be worsened by El Niño. While the long-term impacts are not immediately known, at least 29 million people in southern African nations face food insecurity, according to UN estimates.

5. Due to a prolonged and ongoing drought in Ethiopia, more than 10 million people are in need of emergency food aid.

6. In November, more then 1.1 million people were impacted—and 40,000 displaced—after a powerful and rare cyclone dumped a year’s worth of rain on Yemen
. Humanitarian groups warned that the impact on residents was worsened by Saudi Arabia’s seven-month bombing campaign that continued through the storm.

7. More than 1.2 million people in the Philippines were impacted—and dozens killed—by a mega-typhoon, known as Lando, which hit in October.
“Our survival is non-negotiable,” 20,000 people declared at a mass march in Tacloban in November, calling attention to the ongoing harm from the separate Super Typhoon Yolanda (also known as Haiyan), which hit the Philippines in 2013.

8. A dramatic heat wave across the Middle East this summer caused temperatures in Iran to soar so high it felt like 160 degrees Fahrenheit. Even accounting for regional standards, temperatures spiked, from Egypt to Syria. Thousands took to the streets across Iraq protesting dangerous power cuts, clean water shortages, and poor living conditions that were worsening the effects.

9. Pakistan this summer suffered its deadliest heat wave ever recorded, with at least 2,000 lives lost. And in neighboring India, a heat wave this summer killed at least 2,500 people. “Let us not fool ourselves that there is no connection between the unusual number of deaths from the ongoing heat wave and the certainty of another failed monsoon,” India’s earth sciences minister Harsh Vardhan said in June. “It’s not just an unusually hot summer, it is climate change,” he said.

10. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration concluded earlier this month that climate change is already driving profound shifts in the Arctic ecosystem.
For example, loss of sea ice, and climbing temperatures in the Barents Sea, off the coast of Norway and Russia, are causing “a poleward shift in fish communities,” according to the agency. These changes are impacting wildlife, as well as Indigenous communities that rely on them for their survival.

But perhaps most alarming are developments that cannot be seen. NOAA revealed in May that, for the first time in recorded history, global levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere averaged more than 400 parts per million (ppm) for an entire month—in March 2015. Scientists have warned that, in order to achieve safe levels, CO2 must be brought down to a maximum of 350ppm.

As Erika Spanger-Siegfried of the Union of Concerned Scientists recently noted, all of these extremes are occurring in the context of climate change.

“The specifics of what’s happening where El Niño, Arctic dynamics, and underlying warming meet are, in a word, complex, and scientists are actively discussing how things might play out,” explained Spanger-Siegfried. “But the collective bottom line recognizes that global warming plays a role.”

Meanwhile, in a statement released this week, the humanitarian organization Oxfam International estimated that “the El Niño weather system could leave tens of millions of people facing hunger, water shortages, and disease next year if early action isn’t taken to prepare vulnerable people from its effects.”

http://ecowatch.com/2016/01/02/extreme-weather-climate-chaos/

Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on January 04, 2016, 07:19:00 pm
A scary article for Diner weather watchers, to lengthy to post here. Lots of charts and such. Weather getting crazier and crazier it seems.  :o

Freak storm in North Atlantic to lash UK, may push temperatures over 50 degrees above normal at North Pole


 The vigorous low pressure system that helped spawn devastating tornadoes in the Dallas area on Saturday is forecast to explode into a monstrous storm over Iceland by Wednesday.

Big Icelandic storms are common in winter, but this one may rank among the strongest and will draw northward an incredible surge of warmth pushing temperatures at the North Pole over 50 degrees above normal.  This is mind-boggling.

And the storm will batter the United Kingdom, reeling from recent flooding, with another round of rain and wind.

Computer model simulations show the storm, sweeping across the north central Atlantic today, rapidly intensifying along a jet stream
ripping above the ocean at 230 mph.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2015/12/28/freak-storm-in-north-atlantic-may-push-temperatures-70-degrees-above-normal-at-north-pole/ (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2015/12/28/freak-storm-in-north-atlantic-may-push-temperatures-70-degrees-above-normal-at-north-pole/)    (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Freading.gif&hash=63e3e644b39258d4c4eedbcdaf322315b1856723)

Yep. Wind speeds like that make GIGANTIC waves. That means all those fossil fuel extracting rigs in the ocean are going to eventually have to be evacuated. Those rigs will NOT survive the increasingly turbulent oceans (especially in the North Sea).

Those wind speeds and consequent wave activity, as I wrote about in this article, Climate Change, Blue Water Cargo Shipping and Predicted Ocean Wave Activity (http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/climate-change/global-warming-is-with-us/msg4045/#msg4045), is evidence the fossil fuelers are starting to GET THEIRS in the oceans. 

What goes around is coming around for those crooked fossil fuel industry bastards. GOOD!

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Expect the fossil fuelers here to whine about my "lack of compassion" for those on the oil rigs when I AM THE ONE ADVOCATING NOW for the rigs to be evacuated and dismantled and THEY are the ones who keep sending idiots to risk their lives for profit over planet on those rigs. The greedy BASTARDS don't care how many people die for that God Damned fossil fuel profit over planet!

Over fifty people were injured by the giant wave that struck a rig last week. But you need a microscope to find that in the news beyond the one or two fatalities the wave caused.    (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-200714191329.bmp&hash=4764bfbe6bb0e11ca61102efa97a932a824f47e0) (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-200714183337.bmp&hash=fd5a6df63c32bd65dda7b6d93e788647ca3829df)





Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on January 04, 2016, 07:46:18 pm
North Sea accommodation vessel adrift with 33 on board
Nicolas Torres  January 4, 2016
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Safe Bristolia accommodation vessel

The Safe Bristolia accommodation vessel is adrift in the North Sea with crew members on board after severe weather severed its towline.

According to Energy Voice, the Prosafe operated vessel was severed from its towline on Sunday about 75 miles east of Montrose as it was being moved from offshore Scotland to Gdansk, Poland.

Thirty-three personnel are still aboard the Safe Bristolia and no injuries have been reported.

A Prosafe spokesperson told Energy Voice that the company has secured a second anchor handling vessel and it will most likely attempt to reattach the platform to the tow vessel on Tuesday.

“We are monitoring the situation continuously, and can, if necessary, drop one or more anchors to stop further drifting,” the spokesperson said.

The drifting platform is not posing a risk to other vessels, Energy Voice added.

Norway-based Prosafe owns and operates 12 semi-submersible accommodation vessels and has three new builds under construction.

Severe weather in the North Sea has been impacting oil and gas operations since last week.


One person died and another two were injured on Wednesday when a breaking wave crashed into the Statoil operated COSL Innovator platform.

The wave also damaged the vessel’s accommodation module and prompted Statoil to evacuate the rig down to its safety crew.

That same day, precautionary evacuations were ordered after severe weather tore a barge from its moorings and sent it drifting towards platforms at the BP operated Vallhall field and the ConocoPhillips operated Eldfisk and Embla fields.

The barge did not collide with the platforms and normal operations at the Eldfisk and Embla fields resumed on Sunday.

BP told Retuers on Thursday that it was restarting activity at the Vallhall field, a process that takes about 24 hours to complete.

http://petroglobalnews.com/2016/01/north-sea-accommodation-vessel-adrift-with-33-on-board/ (http://petroglobalnews.com/2016/01/north-sea-accommodation-vessel-adrift-with-33-on-board/)


The Safe Bristolia During A Small Storm In 2014

https://youtu.be/L2yJjr0_B6Y

Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on January 04, 2016, 10:42:51 pm
LATEST NEWS on the El Faro Container ship that sank in a hurricane points to massive wave damage.

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The Navigation Bridge (white part adjacent to lifeboats above) was found TOTALLY SEPARATED from the SHIP! The destructive power of the giant waves that sank that ship must have been MASSIVE!  :o

The first evidence that a massive wave hit the El Faro was found preciously (Nov. 2, 2015).

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"A heavily damaged lifeboat from the El Faro was discovered, with no one ..."

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Coast Guard Investigates El Faro Life Boat
Mon Nov 2, 2015 9:06pm EST - Wreckage of doomed U.S. cargo ship El Faro found off Bahamas (http://www.doomsteaddiner.net/forum/index.php/topic,559.msg90131.html#msg90131)

First Photos and Video of El Faro Wreckage Released by NTSB

January 3, 2016 by Mike Schuler

The National Transportation Safety Board has released the first photos and video of the wreckage of the sunken El Faro as part of its investigation into the sinking of the American cargo ship near Bermuda in October.

The U.S.-flagged ship, owned by Sea Star Line, LLC and operated by TOTE Services, went missing on October 1 during Hurricane Joaquin. The ship was located by a salvage team aboard the U.S. Navy tug Apache on October 31 in about 15,000 feet of water in the vicinity of its last known position near Crooked Island, Bahamas.

The wreck, discovered in an upright position with the stern buried in approximately 30 feet of sediment, was found with navigation bridge and the deck below detached from the vessel.  :o The bridge was eventually located with the ship’s voyage data recorder missing.
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Distant view of detached El Faro navigation bridge. Photo: NTSB

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Close up view of El Faro navigation bridge. Photo: NTSB

Twenty-eight US crewmembers and five Polish workers were on board.

The new images and video are pare of the NTSB’s accident docket released Sunday. The material includes nine underwater photos and more than 47 minutes of video from the CURV-21, a remotely operated vehicle used to document the wreckage and debris field.

Several pictures and video at link:

https://gcaptain.com/2016/01/03/ntsb-releases-el-faro-wreckage-photos-and-video/
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on January 05, 2016, 07:44:54 pm
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on January 05, 2016, 10:04:34 pm
What scientists just discovered in Greenland could be making sea-level rise even worse

By Chelsea Harvey January 4    

This NASA animation (at link below) shows Greenland's ice mass loss from January 2004 to June 2014. (NASA)

Rising global temperatures may be affecting the Greenland ice sheet — and its contribution to sea-level rise — in more serious ways that scientists imagined, a new study finds. Recent changes to the island’s snow and ice cover appear to have affected its ability to store excess water, meaning more melting ice may be running off into the ocean than previously thought.

That’s worrying news for the precarious Greenland ice sheet, which scientists say has already lost more than 9 trillions tons of ice in the past century — and whose melting rate only continues to increase as temperatures keep warming. NASA estimates that the Greenland ice sheet is losing about 287 billion tons of ice every year, partly due to surface melting and partly due to the calving of large chunks of ice. Because of the ice sheet’s potential to significantly raise sea levels as it runs into the ocean, scientists have been keeping a close eye on it — and anything that might affect how fast it’s melting.

The new study, published Monday in the journal Nature Climate Change, focuses on a part of the ice sheet known as “firn” — a porous layer of built-up snow that slowly freezes into ice over time. It’s considered an important part of the ice sheet because of its ability to trap and store excess water before it’s able to run off the surface of the glacier, an essential service that helps mitigate the sea-level rise that would otherwise be caused by the runoff water.

“As this layer is porous and the pores are connected, theoretically all the pore space in this firn layer can be used to store meltwater percolating into the firn whenever melt occurs at the surface,” said the new paper’s lead author, Horst Machguth of the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, in an email to The Washington Post. Over time, the percolating meltwater trickles down through the firn and refreezes.
     
Until recently, many scientists have assumed that most of Greenland’s firn space is still available for trapping meltwater. But the new research shows that this is likely no longer the case. Through on-the-ground observations, the scientists have shown that the recent formation of dense ice layers near the ice sheet’s surface are making it more difficult for liquid water to percolate into the firn — meaning it’s forced to run off instead.

How meltwater from Greenland’s ice sheet contributes to rising sea levels (3:27 length Video at link below)


A UCLA-led study reported that melt-prone areas on Greenland's ice sheet use a drainage system of streams and rivers that carry meltwater into the ocean. However, the the study also found that measurements at the ice's edge show that climate models alone can overestimate the volume of meltwater flowing to the ocean because they fail to account for water storage beneath the ice. (UCLA via YouTube)

“If you look at some of the other studies which have been arguing that you have unlimited capacity for retention of water in the firn, this study shows that that is not the case,” said Kurt Kjaer, a curator and researcher at the Natural History Museum of Denmark, who has studied glacier dynamics on the Greenland ice sheet but was not involved in the study.

The researchers conducted their study by examining ice cores drilled into West Greenland’s firn between 2009 and 2015. They wanted to find out how a series of particularly warm summers, which caused especially significant melting events in 2010 and 2012, might have affected the ice sheet.
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“I think the most notable result of our study is showing that the firn reacts faster to an atmospheric warming than expected,”
Machguth said in his email. By examining the cores, the researchers found that the deluge of meltwater in recent years had trickled into the firn and frozen into chunks called “ice lenses.” These lenses then began to hinder any additional liquid water from trickling down through the firn, meaning the meltwater began to accumulate and freeze near the surface, increasing the number and thickness of the existing lenses in a kind of vicious cycle.

The cores suggested that the lenses thickened quickly between 2009 and 2012, Machguth said. Then, starting in 2012, another change took place.

“At our main field site the very intense melt of summer 2012 did not result in a strong increase of the ice layer as the layer was already in place,” he wrote to The Post. “Instead, at the main field site we could observe how the ice layer forced the meltwater to run off along the surface.”

This effect was most pronounced at lower elevations in West Greenland, where the water first ran down the ice sheet and accumulated. But Machguth and his colleagues predict that the same ice lens formation process will continue to occur at higher and higher elevations — and the amount of meltwater forced to run off the glacier, having no available firn to trickle into, will only increase.

This is not only a concern on the basis of its possible contribution to sea-level rise — the researchers also suggest that an increase in runoff could lead to certain feedback processes that will cause even more melt to occur in the future. Runoff water can carve channels into the ice sheet’s surface and create slushy areas, they note in the paper, which can cause a reduction in albedo — the ability of the ice sheet to reflect sunlight away from its surface. With more sunlight being absorbed, rather than reflected, surface temperatures could become even warmer and cause melt rates to accelerate.

And these changes to the firn are largely irreversible. While new firn can form as more snow falls and accumulates on Greenland’s surface, the process can take decades — and might not be able to occur at all in a warming climate.

This particular study was only conducted in West Greenland, so the scientists can’t say for sure whether their findings apply to the entire island.  ;)  It would be enlightening to conduct similar studies elsewhere on the ice sheet, Machguth noted.

But in the meantime, the observations represent an important step forward in understanding the processes affecting Greenland, and could help scientists improve the simulations they use to make predictions about what will happen to the ice sheet in the future.
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“When you get this kind of dataset, a new kind of knowledge, of course it should be put into the models,”
said Kjaer, the Natural History Museum scientist.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2016/01/04/what-scientists-discovered-in-greenland-could-be-making-sea-level-rise-even-worse/

Agelbert NOTE: Hello Palloy and all those who claim the various IPCC scenarios are "reasonable" and "mathematically accurate" in their estimate(s) of the projected AMOUNT of sea level rise. Repeat after me: The above IS NOT included in the climate change models, ALL OF THEM.

So SPARE ME any BALONEY that the IPCC scenarios are anything but HAPPY TALK in regard to a projected LESS THAN ONE METER sea level rise by 2100.

IPCC Happy Talk:

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IPCC model projections of sea level rise by 2100

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Figure 13.10 | Projections from process-based models with likely ranges and median values for global mean sea level rise and its contributions in 2081–2100 relative to 1986–2005 for the four RCP scenarios and scenario SRES A1B used in the AR4. The contributions from ice sheets include the contributions from ice-sheet rapid dynamical change, which are also shown separately. The contributions from ice-sheet rapid dynamical change and anthropogenic land water storage are treated as having uniform probability distributions, and as independent of scenario (except that a higher rate of change  is used for Greenland ice-sheet outflow under RCP8.5). This treatment does not imply that the contributions concerned will not depend on the scenario followed, only that the current state of knowledge does not permit a quantitative assessment of the dependence. See discussion in Sections 13.5.1 and 13.5.3 and Supplementary Material for methods. Only (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.desismileys.com%2Fsmileys%2Fdesismileys_2932.gif&hash=0eaec4791a5825821998245e7fcd7744b56557fe) the collapse of the marine-based sectors of the Antarctic ice sheet, if initiated, could cause global mean sea level (GMSL) to rise substantially above the likely range during the 21st century.  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2F1.bp.blogspot.com%2F-TzWpwHzCvCI%2FT_sBEnhCCpI%2FAAAAAAAAME8%2FIsLpuU8HYxc%2Fs1600%2Fnooo-way-smiley.gif&hash=b8545bd420b1e2f2c7b9f665d2093523e4ad2251) This potential additional contribution cannot be precisely quantified but there is medium confidence that it would not exceed several tenths of a meter of sea level rise. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.desismileys.com%2Fsmileys%2Fdesismileys_2932.gif&hash=0eaec4791a5825821998245e7fcd7744b56557fe)
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They've got ALL their catastrophic sea level rise "eggs" in the Antarctic ice sheet "basket". Yes, the Antarctic ice sheet is obviously a huge factor. But it is a giant error to assume that the Greenland ice-sheet is not! The RCP8.5 scenario (that they have a slightly higher rate ice-flow plugged into the modeling) still projects a tiny sea level increase.  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-200714183312.bmp&hash=02dafef2fe739676600fdc9bd56271f0f5ab3723)

As the new data on Greenland clearly shows, the IPCC is ridiculously understating the Greenland ice sheet contribution to sea level rise.

The IPCC scenarios, BOTH in temperature rise and sea level rise, WOEFULLY UNDERESTIMATE BOTH!

Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on January 06, 2016, 03:14:45 pm
https://youtu.be/mcUnOFJ-rrs
Thanks to the Fossil Fuel Crooks and Liars, the Pollution and the Climate Just Gets Worse.  :(
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on January 07, 2016, 03:38:26 pm
01/07/2016 01:17 PM   

Here We Go: US Sued For Rejecting Keystone Pipeline  ::)

SustainableBusiness.com News

We predicted this years ago and now it has happened - TransCanada is suing the US under NAFTA for rejecting the Keystone pipeline.

There are two challenges, in fact - a federal lawsuit filed in Texas seeks to overturn the decison and a separate challenge under NAFTA would force the US to compensate TransCanada for $15 billion in losses.

 TransCanada charges the decision was abitrary: "In its decision, the US State Department acknowledged the denial was not based on the merits of the project. Rather, it was a symbolic gesture based on speculation about the perceptions of the international community regarding the administration's leadership on climate change and the president's assertion of unprecedented, independent powers."

Canadians also don't want tar sands pipelines:Tar Sands Canada protest  (picture at link)
 credit: Geoffrey Vendeville / The Gazette

The beat goes on. This week, South Dakota ap­proved a permit for the portion of the Keystone pipeline that would be sited in the state, in spite of Obama's rejection.

As the NAFTA case proceeds, we'll get a birds-eye view of how trade agreements work - a preview of what to expect if the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) passes, for example.

The dispute will be heard by an international tribunal of corporate attorneys.
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"TransCanada announced today that they are throwing the corporate equivalent of a temper tantrum ... in hopes of forcing American taxpayers to pay them billions of dollars to recoup their losses on the ill-fated project that they spent seven years trying to bully the U.S. into letting them build," says Bold Nebraska, 350.org, NRDC, League of Conservation Voters, Sierra Club, and others. "This lawsuit will not change Keystone's fate; it will merely serve to remind the American people that companies like TransCanada are working against their interests, and that trade agreements like TPP would only strengthen their ability to do so."

Read our articles,   After 20 Years of NAFTA, Do We Want More Trade Agreements? (http://www.sustainablebusiness.com/index.cfm/go/news.display/id/25573)  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2F1.bp.blogspot.com%2F-TzWpwHzCvCI%2FT_sBEnhCCpI%2FAAAAAAAAME8%2FIsLpuU8HYxc%2Fs1600%2Fnooo-way-smiley.gif&hash=b8545bd420b1e2f2c7b9f665d2093523e4ad2251)


 Progressive Caucus Offers Alternative to Fast-Track Trade Deals. (http://www.sustainablebusiness.com/index.cfm/go/news.display/id/26254)  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-080515182559.png&hash=d4dfa952fa0f817bf30a8059a4c88d6fb05ee1bf)


http://www.sustainablebusiness.com/index.cfm/go/news.display/id/26513
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on January 08, 2016, 07:20:52 pm
Arctic Sea Ice At Record Low

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http://arctic-news.blogspot.com/
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on January 09, 2016, 10:02:37 pm
North Sea Storms Cause Banff FPSO (Floating Production Storage & Offloading), Mooring Failure
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A FPSO (Floating Production Storage & Offloading) vessel from fossil fueldom  :P

Published at 01:04PM - 07/01/16

North Sea storms cause Banff FPSO mooring failure, in ongoing heavy storms that have lashed the North Sea oil and gas sector over the last two weeks.

The recent storms have so far resulted in, over 300 offshore workers being evacuated from platforms in the Norwegian sector and, two vessels under tow running adrift after breaking towlines- one in both Dutch and UK sectors.

Banff FPSO Mooring Failure


Canadian Natural Resources (CNR) have announced, Thursday (Jan 7th), that one of their North Sea assets has also been hit by the weather.

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Petrojarl Banff Floating Production Storage and Offloading (FPSO) vessel

A CNR spokeswoman told Offshore Post that the, CNR operated, Teekay owned Petrojarl Banff Floating Production Storage and Offloading (FPSO) vessel reported problems at 1200 GMT on Sunday January 3rd.

According to CNR the Banff FPSO, reported ‘loss of tension’ on two of its anchor lines but, has managed to stay in position under its own steam.

Ongoing Situation


A total of 44 offshore workers remain onboard the Banff, whilst CNR and Teekay look to secure the FPSO, with the Coastguard remaining on standby should the situation deteriorate.

The vessels owners, Teekay, have mobilised the Normand Ranger anchor handling vessel plus two further support vessels to assist in the operation.

CNR’s spokeswoman said that production had been shutdown, with no impact to the environment reported.

Banff FPSO

Back in 2011 the Banff FPSO suffered mooring failure, with 5 out of a total of 10 mooring lines failing, causing the vessels to drift off station at a cost of US$300 million.

The Petrojarl Banff FPSO is located approximately 118 miles (190km) offshore Aberdeen, UK.

The FPSO was delivered in 1997, has been designed with a storage capacity of 88,000 barrels of oil and a production capacity of 90,000 barrels of oil per day, and can accommodate up to 60 personnel.

http://www.offshorepost.com/north-sea-storms-cause-banff-fpso-mooring-failure/
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on January 11, 2016, 11:49:41 pm
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Warm holiday week hits ski area ticket sales

Jan. 10, 2016, 8:33 pm by Mike Polhamus
http://vtdigger.org/2016/01/10/warm-holiday-week-hits-ski-area-ticket-sales/
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on January 14, 2016, 06:12:42 pm
Agelbert NOTE: Thanks to Climate Change, the Pacific Ocean is going to need a name change.  :P


Unusual North Pacific Storm Threatens Main Shipping Lanes
January 12, 2016
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http://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/isobaric/1000hPa/orthographic=-167.33,37.83,371/loc=-158.626,39.849

A developing gale low over the western North Pacific, east of Japan will deepen rapidly over the central North Pacific reaching 958 MB by 00z/14th and 949 MB by 00Z 15th. 

This will be a dangerous storm as it travels ENE across the primary North Pacific shipping lanes. Winds are forecast to be an unheard of 65-90 knots with seas building 10-16 meters (32-53 feet) within 36-48 hours within 300 NM south and southwest of the center.  Shipping interest should avoid this area.
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NOAA OPC Wind and Wave forecast for 12Z 14 Jan 2016 shows a large area of Storm force winds (outlined in yellow - graphic at link) with a very large area of hurricane force winds (Fuschia). Winds forecast to 90 knots with seas to 16 meters (52-53 FEET!)!  :o

https://gcaptain.com/2016/01/12/unusual-north-pacific-storm-threatens-main-shipping-lanes/

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on January 16, 2016, 04:21:49 pm
Agelbert NOTE: To be filed under VERY WELL PLANNED obsolescence OR WTF!!!? - - - depending on whether you are a Game Theory (see - empathy deficit disorderd greed ball) advocate or care about preventing M.I.C. Welfare Queenery.

U.S. Navy’s New Fast Transport Ships Can’t Stand Buffeting From High Seas   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.freesmileys.org%2Femoticons%2Ftuzki-bunnys%2Ftuzki-bunny-emoticon-023.gif&hash=e72013122d6634eacda71e7e47240da3c304c286)
January 14, 2016 by Bloomberg

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The Military Sealift Command joint high-speed vessel USNS Spearhead, the first of 10 Navy Expeditionary Fast Transport vessels (formerly the joint high-speed vessels, JHSVs) designed for troop and military equipment transport, during builder’s trials in the Gulf of Mexico, April 19, 2012. U.S. Navy Photo

By Tony Capaccio
(Bloomberg) — The U.S. Navy is spending millions of dollars to repair new high-speed transport ships built by Austal Ltd. because their weak bows can’t stand buffeting from high seas, according to the Pentagon’s chief weapons tester.

“The entire ship class requires reinforcing structure” to bridge the twin hulls of the all-aluminum catamarans because of a design change that the Navy adopted at Austal’s recommendation for the $2.1 billion fleet of Expeditionary Fast Transports , Michael Gilmore, the Defense Department’s director of operational test and evaluation, said in a report to Congress.

“The Navy accepted compromises in the bow structure, presumably to save weight, during the building of these ships,” Gilmore wrote lawmakers, including Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman John McCain, in a September letter that wasn’t previously disclosed. “Multiple ships of the class have suffered damage to the bow structure.”

The speedy catamarans are designed to transport 600 short tons of military cargo and as many as 312 troops for 1,200 nautical miles at an average speed of 35 knots. They’ve been deployed to Africa and the Middle East as well as to Singapore as part of the U.S.’s Pacific rebalance and are being considered by military officials for expanded use there by the Marines. The vessels fill a transport gap between larger, slower vessels and cargo aircraft.

Meets Criteria

Michelle Bowden, a spokeswoman for Henderson, Australia- based Austal, deferred comment to the Navy. Captain Thurraya Kent, a Navy spokeswoman, said the service accepted Austal’s recommendation because the company’s analysis showed the lighter-weight bow met criteria of the American Bureau of Shipping and Pentagon requirements. She said in an e-mail that Gilmore’s report confirms that the vessel “meets and in certain area exceeds” key performance parameters.

The Navy bought 10 of the shallow-draft vessels, at about $217 million each. Five have been delivered and are in operation, while the other five are under construction at Austal’s Mobile, Alabama, shipyard. Senator Richard Shelby, Republican of Alabama, is a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, which added $225 million for an 11th vessel to the fiscal 2016 defense spending bill last month.

So far, the Navy has spent almost $2.4 million strengthening the bow of the first four vessels delivered since late 2012.


Repair costs include $511,000 on the initial vessel, the USNS Spearhead, which was damaged during deployment by waves slamming into the superstructure, according to test data cited by Gilmore and the Military Sealift Command.

The second, third and fourth vessels cost as much as $1.2 million each to repair and a fifth vessel, the USNS Trenton, awaits its bow reinforcement during its next scheduled shipyard visit, Tom Van Leunen, a spokesman for the Military Sealift Command, which owns the vessels, said in an e-mail.

Added Weight


The retrofits have added 1,736 pounds to the ship’s weight, displacing 250 gallons of fuel but having a minimal impact on the vessel’s range when fully loaded, Gilmore said. His concern about the vessel is likely to be highlighted in his annual report on weapons testing that’s scheduled to be released by Feb. 1.

“Since the repairs are still in progress, there has been no heavy weather testing yet to verify if the fixes are sufficient,” Marine Corps Major Adrian Rankine-Galloway, a spokesman for Gilmore, said in an e-mail.

Even with reinforced structures, the fast transport ships operate under sailing restrictions because “encountering a rogue wave” can “result in sea-slam events that causes structural damage to the bow structure,” Gilmore wrote. The operating restrictions include requiring vessels to wait out the highest seas or travel at speeds much lower than their maximum, according to Gilmore’s report.

Van Leunen, the Military Sealift Command spokesman, said that “the Navy routinely diverts ships during transits to avoid heavy weather” and this ship is no exception. Its primary missions will often be in coastal waters that offer “some protection from weather and sea state when compared to open ocean transits,” he said.

Generator Reliability


The vessel’s latest sea tests also were marred by the poor reliability of generators made by Fincantieri SpA that supply electrical power, according to Gilmore. The generators failed “at a much greater rate than predicted.”

Required to operate 8,369 hours between major failures, the generators failed as soon as 208 hours at some points, improving to 1,563 hours in the most recent tests.

Fincantieri spokesman Antonio Autorino said in an e-mail that “the concerns described in the report have been resolved and this information was provided to the Navy, yet was not included in the report.”

©2016 Bloomberg News
https://gcaptain.com/2016/01/14/u-s-navys-new-fast-transport-ships-cant-stand-buffeting-from-high-seas/

Agelbert ADDITIONAL NOTE:
ANYONE who has the brass balls to claim the U.S. Navy DOES NOT KNOW that the oceans are getting rougher and rougher because of climate change RESULTING from CO2 increased concentration CAUSED by the continued burning of fossil fuels, is a LIAR and a Game Theory advocate.  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Fwww_MyEmoticons_com__burp.gif&hash=8ff3ef6c016d8baf5f61ed5e8db58f069b64da00)

Navy climate change expert sees opponents ignoring science
Former Navy officer, researcher defends case for global warming
By Brian Nearing
Updated 7:38 pm, Thursday, July 23, 2015
http://www.timesunion.com/tuplus-local/article/Navy-climate-change-expert-sees-opponents-6401711.php
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on January 16, 2016, 10:18:49 pm
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Published at 04:56PM - 12/01/16

Drifting Songa rig forced to cut drillstring
during North Sea storms that battered the offshore oil and gas industry over the Christmas period.

The CAT D Songa Equinox drilling rig encountered problems on December 24th 2015 whilst drilling for Norwegian state run Statoil- according to Norwegian publication offshore.no.

Songa Rig Forced To Cut Drillstring

The publication states that the Equinox’s dynamic positioning, which holds the rig on station, failed during drilling operations with the bit downhole.
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Swept by storms the Songa Equinox continued to move off station forcing the crew to initiate the Emergency Disconnect System (EDS) – cutting the drillstring.

Petroleum Safety Authority

The publication alleges that the Norwegian Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) has been informed, and correspondence between the two parties continues, with investigations ongoing and the matter of whether drilling operations should have stopped prior to the storm being central.

Neither publication has been able to reach Songa Offshore for comment.

Songa Equinox


Currently Statoil has leased two new build CAT D offshore drilling rigs from Songa Offshore to work the Troll field, the Songa Equinox and the Songa Endurance, both for a period of 8 years and both starting their contracts over the last few weeks.

The Songa Endurance suffered a BOP failure Monday January 11th 2016, which was identified during testing prior to drilling its first well.

http://www.offshorepost.com/drifting-songa-rig-forced-to-cut-drillstring/ (http://www.offshorepost.com/drifting-songa-rig-forced-to-cut-drillstring/)

Agelbert NOTE: Though it doesn't mention it above, losing a drillstring is a VERY EXPENSIVE accident. It costs hundreds of thousands of dollars a DAY to operate an offshore rig. When they lose a drillstring from loss of position, the cost will exceed one million dollars in about a week. It takes a bit longer than that to get repositioned with another drill string AFTER recovery from the stormy seas. No off shore rig operator can afford to routinely be knocked off position and lose a drill string. But that is precisely what will happen more and more often.

The REAL real world of climate change will eventually convince the fossil fuelers that their rigs are no match for the increasingly violent sea conditions that the fossil fuel industry is RESPONSIBLE for CAUSING. What goes around, comes around.

 Climate Change, Blue Water Cargo Shipping and Predicted Ocean Wave Activity: Three Part Article (http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/climate-change/global-warming-is-with-us/msg4045/#msg4045)
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on January 20, 2016, 07:50:23 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5P_F82y-4LI&feature=player_embedded

Quote

We simply cannot afford ]to allow the corporate greed of the coal, oil and gas industries   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Fpirates5B15D_th.gif&hash=32438e1ed2c4d1823d4ed2a193286525c840a605) to determine the future of humanity. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Fmog.gif&hash=08e6f04144781466148f6693be6dc3451a322669)

Those entities with a financial interest in preserving this destructive system have denied and even covered-up the evidence of our changing climate,”   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimages.sodahead.com%2Fpolls%2F000370273%2Fpolls_Smiley_Angry_256x256_3451_356175_answer_4_xlarge.png&hash=15577651daa4c35ff4d6b26217f99db6ebfde0b3)

he said. “Enough is enough. You know better. The world knows better. History will place the blame for this devastation squarely at their feet.” (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Fsnapoutofit.gif&hash=911b14b142101df534f739771fb2d3836a807d19)

http://ecowatch.com/2016/01/20/dicaprio-corporate-greed-must-stop/
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on January 20, 2016, 09:47:49 pm
Forget ERoEI (Energy Return on Energy Invested) - Exxon's REAL WORLD=PRoPI (Profitable Return on Propaganda Invested) (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.freesmileys.org%2Fsmileys%2Fsmiley-devil19.gif&hash=6eeb0dbc471743691793f5130640fdcbd1f77b5c)


 
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California to investigate whether Exxon Mobil lied about climate-change risks   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.freesmileys.org%2Fsmileys%2Fsmiley-forum%2Fpopcorn.gif&hash=f4c8fc573041a73e34bfb823e0611fbfe8617d67)

Exxon Mobil, which operates a refinery in Torrance, above, has issued statements denying news reports that it suppressed climate-change research.  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2F2.bp.blogspot.com%2F_9HT4xZyDmh4%2FTOHhxzA0wLI%2FAAAAAAAAEUk%2FoeHDS2cfxWQ%2Fs200%2FSmiley_Angel_Wings_Halo.jpg&hash=13281f1944b60773bf12b29387b70be77cc1fe16) (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2F1.bp.blogspot.com%2F-TzWpwHzCvCI%2FT_sBEnhCCpI%2FAAAAAAAAME8%2FIsLpuU8HYxc%2Fs1600%2Fnooo-way-smiley.gif&hash=b8545bd420b1e2f2c7b9f665d2093523e4ad2251) (Christina House / For The Times)

Ivan Penn •Contact Reporter

January 20, 2016, 3:00 AM

California Atty. Gen. Kamala D. Harris is investigating whether Exxon Mobil Corp. repeatedly lied to the public and its shareholders about the risk to its business from climate change — and whether such actions could amount to securities fraud and violations of environmental laws.


Harris' office is reviewing what Exxon Mobil knew about global warming and what the company told investors, a person close to the investigation said.

The move follows published reports, based on internal company documents, suggesting that during the 1980s and 1990s the company, then known as Exxon, used climate research as part of its planning and other business practices but simultaneously argued publicly that climate-change science was not clear cut.

Those documents were cited in stories by reporters for Columbia University Energy and Environmental Reporting Fellowship, published in partnership with the Los Angeles Times. The nonprofit InsideClimate News also published several stories based on the documents.

Shortly after the news reports, Harris' office launched the investigation in response to the findings, the person said. New York's attorney general also is investigating the oil company as a result of the published reports.

Special Report Investigation: How Exxon went from leader to skeptic on climate change research (http://graphics.latimes.com/exxon-research/)

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A spokesman for Harris declined to confirm the investigation.

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Lieu said the investigation means that any damages won from Exxon Mobil could benefit Californians.  ;D

"I commend … Harris for taking this action," he said.   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fcliparts.co%2Fcliparts%2FBig%2FEgq%2FBigEgqBMT.png&hash=e7eec62f009cdd686ce795fad0a53c6befe748e9)

Lieu said he has sent letters to U.S. Atty. Gen. Loretta Lynch and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission calling for federal investigations of securities fraud and violations of racketeering, consumer protection, truth in advertising, public health, shareholder protection or other laws.

Lieu said he hopes the decision by Harris, representing a state with the eighth-largest economy in the world, will prompt other states and the Justice Department to investigate.

"I think this action will be taken very seriously by Exxon Mobil  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.freesmileys.org%2Fsmileys%2Fsmiley-scared005.gif&hash=2de3525707995f1cf9333ecfafd947caca42e8eb), " Lieu said.

Richard Keil, an Exxon Mobil spokesman, previously said that the company denies any wrongdoing in regard to the climate-change reports.

"We  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F165fs373950.gif&hash=ad797fcc08a061d3ae50ee49ccd9f3d517fb7496) unequivocally reject allegations that Exxon Mobil suppressed climate change research contained in media reports," Keil (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-030815183114.gif&hash=2bf1553e87e8605311feb874231953d5fb88ee9c) said  in a statement issued in response to the letters sent in October by Lieu and Mark DeSaulnier (D-Concord). Keil issued a statement with the same quote in early November when the New York investigation became public.

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Exxon Mobil continues to face calls from several current and former U.S. lawmakers for criminal investigations based on the media reports. They include Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders and Al Gore.

It is unclear what approach Harris intends to take in California's investigation.

Harris' office is casting a wide net and looking at a variety of issues, according to the person familiar with the matter.

What Exxon knew about the Earth's melting Arctic (http://graphics.latimes.com/exxon-arctic/)

Legal experts say the SEC requires that companies disclose the risks of climate change to their business operations but that the agency has taken almost no action to enforce it.

The moves by California and New York are seen as a step to fill that void.

Exxon Mobil already has received a subpoena for documents dating from 1977 from the office of Eric Schneiderman, New York's attorney general.

Schneiderman has at his disposal New York's Martin Act, a law that gives the state's attorney general broad power to prosecute companies for financial fraud.

Unlike federal securities law, the New York statute does not require the state to prove that a company intended to defraud   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-280515145049.png&hash=84e87515e750391c1f1bca6d6ae06485972bfa81) — only that it misrepresented relevant information or withheld it from investors.

The law applies to any company doing business in the state.

ivan.penn@latimes.com
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-exxon-global-warming-20160120-story.html

 
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on January 24, 2016, 10:29:45 pm
Arctic Report Card 2015
https://youtu.be/e0oLzNpEQ-w

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on January 25, 2016, 09:25:40 pm
Canada’s Trudeau to DiCaprio: Tone Down ‘Inflammatory Rhetoric’ on Climate Change

Cole Mellino | January 25, 2016 10:42 am

SNIPPET:

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told Leonardo DiCaprio to tone down his “inflammatory rhetoric” on climate change, arguing it was not helping those who have lost their oil industry jobs.  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F165fs373950.gif&hash=ad797fcc08a061d3ae50ee49ccd9f3d517fb7496)

http://ecowatch.com/2016/01/25/trudeau-dicaprio-climate-change/

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Agelbert NOTE:
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is a double talking defender of the unsustainable profit over planet polluting status quo.  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-200714183337.bmp&hash=fd5a6df63c32bd65dda7b6d93e788647ca3829df)

Go to hell, Trudeau. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Fwww_MyEmoticons_com__burp.gif&hash=8ff3ef6c016d8baf5f61ed5e8db58f069b64da00) You should go to prison for trying to sweep the massive Canadian pollution under your "business as usual" suicidally insane "rug".  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.desismileys.com%2Fsmileys%2Fdesismileys_2194.gif&hash=5a6b9202f44f22d5ce751c5414683a0944e92e0c)(https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.desismileys.com%2Fsmileys%2Fdesismileys_6869.gif&hash=f94938471d343a09155d1f60eefacdb2ceab2457)

As to those who do not feel comfortable with REALITY and wish to continue to believe self serving baloney, I have this to say to you: I will not allow your BS to go unchallenged. I feel exactly the same way about the evil causes of climate change as William Lloyd Garrison felt about slavery. And I AM NOT ALONE. 

When William Lloyd Garrison launched his crusading abolitionist newspaper The Liberator in 1831—at a time when Congress refused even to debate the issue of slavery, and three long decades before America would finally confront the sin of human bondage—he acknowledged that his call for the "immediate and complete emancipation of all slaves" was going to upset the polite politics and empty calculations of the elites.  

"I am aware that many object to the severity of my language; but is there not cause for severity?" Garrison wrote. "I will be as harsh as truth, and as uncompromising as justice. On this subject, I do not wish to think, or to speak, or write, with moderation. No! No! Tell a man whose house is on fire to give a moderate alarm; tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hands of the ravisher; tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen; but urge me not to use moderation in a cause like the present. I am in earnest—I will not equivocate—I will not excuse—I will not retreat a single inch—AND I WILL BE HEARD."  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.freesmileys.org%2Femoticons%2Ftuzki-bunnys%2Ftuzki-bunny-emoticon-028.gif&hash=24570cb7e8246617010ce900a07bc85117ff78ca)


These studies further confirm the reality that burning fossil fuels is poisoning the biosphere. 

Global civilization is threatened within 25 years. 

The  Hansen et al June 2015 study * and the Dutton et al July 2015 study ** evidences a 6 to 25 meter (19 to 82 feet!) sea level increase in the geological record when the CO2 parts per million (PPM) atmospheric concentration was between 300 and 400PPM. As of October of 2015, the CO2 concentration is at 400PPM. It is increasing at over 3PPM per year.  

*Atmos. Chem. Phys. Discuss., 15, 20059–20179, 2015 doi:10.5194/acpd-15-20059-

© Author(s) 2015. CC Attribution 3.0 License. 

Ice melt, sea level rise and superstorms: evidence from paleoclimate data, climate modeling, and modern observations that 2C global warming is highly dangerous 

J. Hansen1, M. Sato1, P. Hearty2, R. Ruedy3,4, M. Kelley3,4, V. Masson-Delmotte5, G. Russell4, G. Tselioudis4, J. Cao6, E. Rignot7,8, I. Velicogna8,7, E. Kandiano9, K. von Schuckmann10, P. Kharecha1,4, A. N. Legrande4, M. Bauer11, and K.-W. Lo3,4
 

** Science 10 July 2015: Vol. 349  no. 6244  DOI: 10.1126/science.aaa4019

Sea-level rise due to polar ice-sheet mass loss during past warm periods 

A. Dutton1,*,  A. E. Carlson2,  A. J. Long3,  G. A. Milne4,  P. U. Clark2,  R. DeConto5,  B. P. Horton6,7,  S. Rahmstorf8,  M. E. Raymo9

 

War & Climate Change: Jeremy Corbyn on the Brutal Quest for Oil & the Need for a Sustainable Planet: video. (http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/fossil-fuel-folly/fossil-fuels-degraded-democracy-and-profit-over-planet-pollution/msg4164/#msg4164)

Top Climate Expert Kevin Anderson: Crisis is Worse Than We Think & Scientists Are Self-Censoring to Downplay Risk. (http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/climate-change/global-warming-is-with-us/msg4163/#msg4163)

The biggest threat that climate change has in store for us. (http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/climate-change/global-warming-is-with-us/msg4160/#msg4160)

Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on January 28, 2016, 04:12:29 pm
The industrial machine is far more powerful and far more resilient than I think you imagine.  Global warming may wreak havoc, but not in any near term scenario, similarly we may ecologically scorch the earth but not enough in any near term to stop the show.

You may be correct with all of the above Roamer, but that doesn't mean it's right, as in the right thing to do or even respond to.  By that I mean, our industrialization is destroying a human supporting biome on planet Earth.  I don't think anybody here would argue that (besides trolls at least).  That being true, the most important thing we could do would be to advocate for change via Permaculture.  There is no better alternative IMO.  It's not a pastoral fantasy, it's an intelligent way to proceed into the future.  I agree that BAU is all mighty and powerful and seemingly unstoppable, but that doesn't mean it can't be stopped.  It needs to be stopped.  We are going to destroy our planet if we continue BAU.  Nothing is more important than stopping that.  However, I'm thinking about seven generations from now.  Do you think if things continue unabated with BAU there will be seven generations from now?  I just read an article where some MIT scientist linked autism to Monsanto's glyphosphate and predicts 1 out of every 2 children will have autism by 2025...that's **** ridiculous.  So we'll all be autistic and have our automated industrial wasteland? 

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  Yes credit to the periphery will be cut and that will include more and more serfs in the central countries but the lack of any other scaleable alternative and the ruthless ability of the machine to squash protests nearly guarantees that people will subsist off of whatever dole is thrown there way. 

Why is Permaculture not scaleable? 

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i think the best hope is for people to subvert the industrial powers in a distributed way.  Localized automation, distributed solar power, networked currencies ect. But the key is that the productive capacity of industrialism must be utilized not avoided.  Permaculture is a pastoral fantasy.  It won't compete for land in any meaningful way. 

How is it that Permaculture won't compete for land in any meaningful way?  That's a large bomb to drop dude.  It's also not true IMO.  Maybe Mark Shepard is in debt, but that doesn't mean it can't be done.  Before I go on, why do you now consider it a pastoral fantasy? 

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A far more plausible system would be one that integrates tech automation with a systems based ecological understanding in a way that is competitive.  Capitalism won't collapse in any near term way for that sort of thing to take hold.

Also, I think it's important to point out that Permaculture is not just about growing food, fiber, fuel, and medicine, it's also about the other 6 domains of the permaculture flower, and should be applied to all of those domains.  In other words, it should inform our thinking about how we organise that "tech automation with systems based ecological understanding," in fact, I'd argue that's exactly what Permaculture seeks to do. 

In short, explain yourself homey!  Why are you hating on Permaculture? 

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Lucid,
As you said, for those who can add and subtract in the only math that counts for the perpetuation of our species (i.e. BIOSPHERE MATH), THERE IS NO ALTERNATIVE to a low carbon economy.

(https://collapseofindustrialcivilization.files.wordpress.com/2013/11/snap-2013-11-06-at-14-31-28.png)

Dr. Richard A. Houghton, acting president of the WOODS HOLE RESEARCH CENTER says TINA to a Low Carbon Economy (http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/climate-change/global-warming-is-with-us/msg2114/#msg2114)


Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on January 28, 2016, 09:34:26 pm
Is there no alternative to a low carbon economy?  Well there shouldn't be one, I believe that.  It's not just the burning of fossil fuels that is so heartless and hollowed out spiritually.  It's the consumer society that we're supposed to perpetuate in this industrialized waste land that I'm more concerned about.  The endless consumption of the Earth's natural resources simply because of a small percentage of the population of the planets world view.  Those corporatocracy worshipping profit **** with no souls force this system on us.  It's out of control and wrecking the planet and yet we continue contributing because finding a way without money is impossible. 

I don't buy all organic because I cannot afford it.  I buy conventional potatoes, rice, and oatmeal and I feed it to my family.  Garlic and onions to.  I don't want to support Costco and other monster box stores.  We should subsidize the small permaculture farmers and watch the damn surplus of healthy, life giving food, fiber, fuel, and medicine bloom.  Instead we have Monsanto ensuring that by 2025 1 out of every child will have autism due to glyphosphate.  It's time the corporatocracy is held accountable for what it's doing to our children's...and our...future. 

Agreed.

The following picture is a somewhat metaphorical representation of what the polluters are visiting us with 24/7. WE are the ducks and that pond is the biosphere. :P
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on January 28, 2016, 09:40:14 pm
Aglebert NOTE: A geoengineering technofix that, like all the aerosol spraying SUPPORTED by the fossil fuel industry, ISN'T working.


Seeds of Doubt Over Iron Boost for Algae
Posted on Jan 28, 2016
By Alex Kirby / Climate News Network

LONDON—One keenly-argued possible way of moderating the build-up of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere may not work, scientists have concluded.
They say there is evidence that seeding the oceans with iron so that the algae that live there will multiply and devour more CO2—thus preventing it reaching the atmosphere and intensifying the human contribution to global warming—is not as promising a solution as its supporters hope.

The extra iron can certainly stimulate the algae to grow more vigorously, but at a cost. More algae in one part of the oceans may mean there will be fewer in other areas, the researchers say.

Temperature rise

They report in Nature journal that the depths of the central Pacific Ocean contain ancient sediments that cast doubt on iron’s ability to slow the Earth’s steady temperature rise.

In parts of the oceans that lack the iron that plants need, algae are scarce. Experiments have shown that dumping iron into these areas can encourage algal growth, so large-scale fertilization could theoretically reduce atmospheric CO2.

The seafloor sediments the team studied show that, during past ice ages, more iron-rich dust blew from cold and barren landmasses into the oceans, apparently producing more algae in these areas and, presumably, a creating natural cooling effect.

But the researchers say increased algal growth in one area can inhibit growth elsewhere, because ocean waters are always on the move, and algae also need other nutrients, such as nitrates and phosphates.

If you give them heavy doses of iron, the researchers say, the algae in one region may consume all those other nutrients, leaving the water with little to offer by the time it circulates elsewhere, so that adding iron achieves nothing.
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“The basic message is,
if you add to one place,
you may subtract from another”

The study’s lead author, Kassandra Costa, a doctoral student at Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory (LDEO), says: “There’s only a limited amount of total nutrients in the oceans. So if there’s greater use in one area, it seems you’d have lesser concentrations in other areas. The basic message is, if you add to one place, you may subtract from another.”

Much of the equatorial Pacific’s near-surface water comes from the Southern Ocean, where powerful winds circle Antarctica, helping to dredge large amounts of nitrates, phosphates and other nutrients from the depths where they tend to settle.

The nutrients are so abundant that the resident algae cannot use them all, and artificial fertilisation experiments have shown that adding iron there does cause more algae to grow.

Much of this nutrient-rich water eventually sinks and, in a century or two, reaches the mid-Pacific, where it meets opposing currents from the north and rises, making the nutrients available to near-surface algae. But most of these nutrients pass on by; the mid-Pacific is too far from iron-rich dust sources on land for algae to make much use of them.

Sediment analysed


In 2012, LDEO scientists took cores from the seabed in the region. Costa and her colleagues analysed sediments from the cores dating back to the last ice age, 17,000 to 26,000 years ago. They found two or three times more dust reaching the area compared with today, because of reduced plant cover in the cold, dry climate.

Marine plant growth might have been expected to have increased accordingly, but it didn’t. The sediments showed that productivity stayed the same, or even declined.

The team concluded that algae in the southerly latitudes, which were also dusted at the same time, snapped up the iron, along with most of the other nutrients, leaving the Pacific algae high and dry.

One of the study’s co-authors, Jerry McManus, LDEO professor of geochemistry, says: “This shows how different parts of the system are connected. If you push hard in one place, the system pushes back somewhere else.”

The study itself does not say so, but McManus adds that it suggests
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http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/seeds_of_doubt_over_iron_boost_for_algae_20160128
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on January 28, 2016, 10:37:31 pm
Jack-Up Barge Grounds Off Denmark

January 27, 2016 by Mike Schuler
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File photo: A2SEA

A offshore wind farm jack-up barge has grounded in the North Sea off Denmark after its tow line parted in heavy weather.

Offshore wind market service provider A2SEA has confirmed that its jack-up barge Sea Worker ran aground early Wednesday morning off the coast of Nymindegab, south of Hvide Sande in Denmark.

The jack-up broke free from its tug in heavy weather during a transit to Esbjerg and began drifting towards shore.

All crew members onboard were evacuated by a lifeboat from Hvide Sande prior to grounding. No injuries were reported.

Sea Worker is a modern jack-up barge specially equipped to operate in the offshore wind sector, according to A2SEA’s website.

https://gcaptain.com/2016/01/27/jack-up-barge-grounds-off-denmark/
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on January 31, 2016, 04:42:03 pm
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Weather Prevents Salvors from Boarding Listing Car Carrier

January 28, 2016 by Mike Schuler

modern express listing


For Latest Updates: Modern Express Adrift in Bay of Biscay (http://gcaptain.com/tag/modern-express-car-carrier/#.Vq59gf9gnm4)

Thursday: The Panamanian-flagged car carrier Modern Express continues to drift eastward in the Bay of Biscay as salvors assess options for saving the stricken ship.

On Thursday, the Modern Express was located approximately 168 nautical miles west of La Rochelle, France and drifting eastward at a rate of about 1.3 knots.

A salvage team from SMIT salvage arrived early Thursday along with the French Navy frigate Primauguet carrying a Lynx helicopter. Two Spanish tugs hired by the shipowner have also joined the frigate and the emergency tug Abeille Bourbon, which has been on scene since Wednesday, in the area.

According to France’s Maritime Prefect Atlantic, the vessel’s list has stabilized and the ship is now showing no signs of water ingress.

Weather has prevented salvors from boarding  the car carrier
to prepare it for possible towing. Salvors are still trying to determine the best course of action for saving the vessel.

gCaptain Full Coverage: Modern Express Adrift in Bay of Biscay (http://gcaptain.com/tag/modern-express-car-carrier/#.Vq59gf9gnm4)

As gCaptain has reported, two Spanish search and rescue helicopters evacuated all 22 crew members from the Modern Express on Tuesday after the ship developed a severe list while underway in the Bay of Biscay on a voyage from the country of Gabon to Le Havre, France. The roll-on/roll-off car carrier is carrying 3,600 tons of timber and construction equipment, according to the Maritime Prefect Altantic.

VIDEO:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4sGPBeBHag&feature=player_embedded


Several Dramatic Photos from Thursday:

https://gcaptain.com/weather-prevents-salvors-from-boarding-modern-express-car-carrier/
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on February 01, 2016, 07:14:46 pm
 What is Driving Climate Change? - Article by Doomstead Diner Administrator RE  (http://www.doomsteaddiner.net/forum/index.php/topic,140.msg96540.html#msg96540)[/center]

RE said,
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The other problem of course with flying in the face of conventional wisdom is that you get labeled as a "Tin Foiler". Particularly if you start to speculate on causation, which is pretty much entirely unprovable. I figure though that Copernicus was probably considered "Tin Foil" in his time, and Giordano Bruno was DEFINITELY considered Tin Foil, in fact he got Burned at the Stake for his beliefs.

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So, I soldier on here, hopefully not to get Burned at the Stake (even just metaphorically) because I present an alternative hypothesis for the primary driver for Climate Change. 

Well said. My difficulty with your theory has been postulated before, so I won't belabor the issue.  8)

Let us assume, instead, that you are right and the overwhelming cause of global warming is NOT Green House Gases from the burning of fossil fuels.

You have to answer the following question: WHO BENEFTS (i.e. CUI BONO?) from a SLOW weaning of the populace from fossil fuels?  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Facigar.gif&hash=dc9dccf92c6c88c99611b06c86d92629d69f2978)

The above question is only a moot point IF the added assertion you made is valid (see below).

Your assertion that the number of deaths resulting from an immediate cessation of the exploration for, and extraction and burning of, fossil fuels is greater than a slow weaning is based on your view of thermodynamics and the "high energy density irreplaceable advantages" of fossil fuels.

You assume that more people will die in a quick transition to a low carbon economy than in a slow transition. I disagree.
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But the fact is that neither you nor I can be absolutely certain of future events, so let's talk about your energy density assumptions. No, I'm not talking about earthquake wave energy transfer quantities. I am talking about enthalpy of formation calculations and energy sources for civilization.

You just talked about tin foil hats and Giordano Bruno. You could have added Nikola Tesla. 

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"All that was great in the past was ridiculed, condemned, combatted, suppressed, only to emerge all the more triumphantly from the struggle."  Nikola Tesla. 


In exactly the same spirit as your Geotectonic Theory, I have, for the last three years or so, tried to convince you, a chemist, that the thermodynamics equations that Charles Hall USED to compute his ERoEI HAPPY TALK for fossil fuels are grossly erroneous.

I have been ridiculed by trolls for the fossil fuel industry like MKing for claiming fossil fuels are LESS efficient than Renewable Energy based fuels and technologies.

I have repeatedly been visited with the claim, BY YOU, that the "higher energy density" of fossil fuels like gasoline makes them difficult to replace, despite my numerous posts providing proof that ETHANOL ERoEI, when calculated properly, is MUCH higher than the ERoEI of gasolline.

You have repeatedly disagreed with my posts about the superiority of other renewable energy technologies like solar and wind and their viability as replacements for fossil fuels.

Palloy has also been right there to attack me with spurious and defamatory snipes claiming i am "looking stupid and embarrassing myself" when I write articles (like my article on the increasingly violent oceans backed by TWO recent scientific studies (http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/climate-change/global-warming-is-with-us/msg4045/#msg4045)) advocating a rapid transition to 100% renewable energy. And later on, that biosphere math challenged mathematician claimed I am the one insulting him! LOL!

But, as you, Giordano Bruno, Nikola Tesla and myself accurately state, the TRUTH is the TRUTH.


Energy density published data and enthalpy of formation for chemical compounds is the basis of ALL energy density published data used to obtain ERoEI figures that the Palloys, Gail Tverbergs and Nicole Fosses of this world use to DOWNPLAY Renewable Energy sources and EXAGGERATE the "benefits to civilization" of fossil fuels.

If I can, thermodynamically and mathematically, PROVE to you that everything you were taught about enthalpy of formation using Hess's Law (which is the CORNERSTONE of the thermodynamics math used to determine ENERGY DENSITY results today), is slanted to overestimate fossil fuels and underestimate renewable energy crop based fuels, as well as the enthalpy of formation of WATER (hydrogen oxidation reaction), will you agree to review what you assume to be true about energy density?

My hope is that you are, unlike them, open mined about the possibility that what you assumed to be true at Columbia University regarding, SPECIFICALLY, Hess's Law, is inaccurate, even though it was a benefit to scientific advancement in the middle of the 19th century.

RE, we have a gamed (FAVORING fossil fuels) published energy density playing field. That results in gamed ERoEI's that people like Palloy pull out on a regular basis in order to downplay the thermodynamic efficiency of Renewable Energy. I am not interested in what MKing or Palloy (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-241013183046.jpeg&hash=51c9c4f17e747698c76c65c7c1814eff4f32c400) have to say. Their body of stuffed shirt misleading academic bullshit work goes before them.

I believe you, unlike them, have a mind, intelligent and open enough, to question your core beliefs if sufficent grounds are provided to prove they are inaccurate.
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Are you willing to question your most basic assumptions about enthalpy and energy density or not?
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on February 01, 2016, 07:20:48 pm
Are you willing to question your most basic assumptions bout enthalpy and energy density or not?

Of course I am.  Questioning "Accepted Wisdom" is what I DO.

Also by no means do I deny that burning Carbon has extreme deleterious effects on the overall biosphere.  My general opinion is the two issues are working in synergy.

In terms of "best approach" to dealing with the problems, promoting and subsidizing Renewable Energy is a worthwhile goal in and of itself.  How much of the population this can salvage and how much of the general biosphere it can improve is an open question, just as developing adaptive methods to survive under a higher AGT regime for the planet is an open question as well.  Many in the climate community contend NO Homo Saps can survive with an AGT 4C above current baseline. AKA Guy McPherson. I don't think that is true, considering especially that Ethiopians CURRENTLY survive at AGT above the global baseline.

The best effort IMHO is a combined effort to reduce carbon emissions and begin the process of moving the population from neighborhoods which clearly will not be viable habitat for Homo Sap in the not too distant future (like Miami) to places that might remain habitable, like say the Smokey Mountains of WV.  We also need to substitute water and energy intensive Ag with water and energy conservative food production methods like Hydroponics and Aquaculture.

I would ideally like to see a controlled descent in per capita energy consumption which maximizes the number of Homo Sap that can be supported at any given time while regenerating the rest of the biomass destroyed to date.  You can't turn this ship on a dime though, there is a LOT of inertia here. Pointing it in the right direction though is something that can be done. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.desismileys.com%2Fsmileys%2Fdesismileys_0293.gif&hash=b1af4868ed8f18c30e637f8cbcb79002f6f71039)
RE

Neither you nor I will ever be in charge of turning this ship around, on a dime or any other way, so, beyond posting scientific studies that provide a step by step doable transition to 100% renewable energy from time to time, I don't wish to argue the rate of transition with you. I am sure you are not pleased with news like THIS:

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Delivered by Philly Shipyard in December 2015, the MT Texas is the second of four LNG-ready Jones Act tankers for Crowley Maritime Corp. Photo credit: Philly Shipyard  :P
http://gcaptain.com/amp-slams-erroneous-report-against-outdated-jones-act/#.Vq65DP9gnm4 (http://gcaptain.com/amp-slams-erroneous-report-against-outdated-jones-act/#.Vq65DP9gnm4)

The fossil fuelers ARE NOT transitioning to renewable energy, slowly or otherwise. A ship like the above is built to last AT LEAST three decades. AND they have SEVERAL MORE on order.  :(


LNG Carriers in Service or on Order
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Returning to the subject of enthalpy and energy density, and in the spirit of pointing things in the right direction (even if government corruption by the dirty energy industries is making that rather difficult),  I am preparing a post on enthalpy and Hess's Law for you.

If you think it is not too boring, I'll consider publishing it on the blog. But I think the math, though relatively simple, will bore people who don't know any better and cause the trolls for fossil fuels to launch into paroxysms of derision and disdain. Anything that shows what an unsustainable and poisonous construct their "real world" is triggers an attack from them. I'm tired of sparring with those ****. That's why I am generally keeping to my channel.

I'll have it ready in a couple of days.  8)
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on February 01, 2016, 07:31:31 pm
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Delivered by Philly Shipyard in December 2015, the MT Texas is the second of four LNG-ready Jones Act tankers for Crowley Maritime Corp. Photo credit: Philly Shipyard  :P
http://gcaptain.com/amp-slams-erroneous-report-against-outdated-jones-act/#.Vq65DP9gnm4 (http://gcaptain.com/amp-slams-erroneous-report-against-outdated-jones-act/#.Vq65DP9gnm4)

The fossil fuelers ARE NOT transitioning to renewable energy, slowly or otherwise.
A ship like the above is built to last AT LEAST three decades. AND they have SEVERAL MORE on order.  :(

They may last for decades longer, they won't be transporting FFs though.  They'll follow the Chinese Container Ships into Mothballs in fairly short order.

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RE

What about this?

LNG Carriers in Service or on Order (http://www.shipbuildinghistory.com/history/highvalueships/lngactivefleet.htm)  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-311013200859.png&hash=a7aaaa9f04c1e3e2c948723b5f8c13fe814dacd4)


What about this?

They have a great future as repurposed refugee transport ships.  The current fleet is sinking rapidly and the ships just aren't big enough.

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Far as transporting NG goes, their future is so bright you need to wear Night Vision goggles.  ::)

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on February 05, 2016, 06:34:38 pm
If You Care About Environment & Climate, You'll Love Bernie (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.desismileys.com%2Fsmileys%2Fdesismileys_0293.gif&hash=b1af4868ed8f18c30e637f8cbcb79002f6f71039)

SustainableBusiness.com News

by Rona Fried

If you look at what's important to the environmental community, you can't help but notice this is exactly what Bernie Sanders proposes in his platform and legislation he's introduced throughout his career:

•a quick and complete shift to 100% renewable energy - no half measures

•massive investments in energy efficiency

•a carbon tax

•support states that want to ban fracking; bar the fossil fuel industry from public lands; no more dirty pipeline infrastructure

•ban offshore oil drilling and oil and gas exports; ban mountaintop coal mining and place a moratorium on nuclear energy

•an end to fossil fuel subsidies

•move our transportation sector beyond oil through electric vehicles and mass transit, including high-speed rail. Increase fuel economy standards to 65 miles per gallon by 2025, catching up to Europe and Japan.

•real protection and expansion of our public lands for wildlife and biodiversity

•ousting conventional agriculture (ie Monsanto) and fossil lobbyists

•a transition to sustainable agriculture and away from GMO and subsidies for big ag companies

•resources and attention to climate change that treat it as the emergency it is.

Sanders would provide tax incentives for renewable energy permanently and proposes $41 billion for programs that people in the fossil fuel industry transfer their skills to clean energy.

Sanders views climate change as the "single greatest threat facing our planet," at a time when it's still not viewed that way by most of the public. He's correct, of course, and has the nerve to state it.

 He's also correct when he says the reason the US hasn't taken the level of action necessary on climate change is: a "small subsection of the 1% are hell-bent on doing everything in their power to block action."

That's why reversing Citizen's United and getting big money out of politics is so important, he says.

Sanders views a transition to a green economy as we do: the opportunity for new industries to arise that will bring us the next "industrial" revolution, but this time creating tens of milions of well-paying jobs ... that do not foul our environment and peoples' health.

Bernie strongly favors organic agriculture. He co-sponsored legislation to nationally label foods that contain GMOs and wants Monsanto et. al. out of the way.

 And he would nominate Supreme Court justices that reinforce the direction our economy needs to go. 

Bernie says:
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"Right now, we have an energy policy that is rigged to boost the profits of big oil companies like Exxon, BP, and Shell at the expense of average Americans. The wealthiest industry in the history of our planet has bribed politicians into complacency in the face of climate change." 

"Enough is enough. It's time to take on the fossil fuel billionaires, accelerate our transition to clean energy, and finally put people before the profits of polluters."

 "What the scientists tell us is that we have a relatively short window of opportunity to bring about the fundamental changes that we need in our global energy system. It is absolutely vital that we do what many economists tell us we must, and that is put a price on carbon. It is the simplest and most direct way to make the kind of cuts in carbon pollution we need to successfully transition away from fossil fuels to energy efficiency and sustainable energy."

Climate Protection and Justice Act of 2015

 Introduced in Congress last year, this bill sets enforceable targets to reduce emissions from 1990 levels: 40% by 2030, and over 80% by 2050.

 A tax on carbon on fossil fuel producers and importers starts at $15 per ton in 2017 and rises to $73 per ton by 2035, adding another 5% a year after that. 

 The proceeds would go to households making less than $100,000 a year (80% of US families) to offset any rate hikes by fossil fuels companies. They are significant - a rebate of about $900 in 2017, growing to $1900 in 2030.

 It also provides $20 billion a year to the most vulnerable communities for climate resiliency projects; implements a "green tariff" that funds improvements in industrial energy efficiency; and programs that helps farms move to sustainable practices and renewable energy.

 While Hillary Clinton strongly supports much of Bernie's platform, she would never go as far, and the Republicans are a joke. Trump, for example, says climate change is a hoax perpetrated by the Chinese to kill US manufacturing.

Bernie was there at the historic Peoples' Climate March, where was Hillary and Obama? 

Read, Ahead of Iowa Caucuses: Archie Bunker, Head versus Heart.

Read our article, One Senator Says: We Must Choose Renewables And Give Fossil Fuels the Boot (http://www.sustainablebusiness.com/index.cfm/go/news.display/id/24250) and Bernie's climate bills introduced in 2013.

Here is Bernie's Climate Platform:
 
Website: berniesanders.com/issues/climate-change/

http://www.sustainablebusiness.com/index.cfm/go/news.display/id/26536 (http://www.sustainablebusiness.com/index.cfm/go/news.display/id/26536)
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on February 09, 2016, 02:19:17 pm
Get out of there! Shell evacuates Brent Bravo platform after leg damage
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Brent Bravo platform in the UK North Sea

Staff Writers February 9, 2016

Royal Dutch Shell evacuated nearly 80 workers from the Brent Bravo platform in the UK North Sea on Sunday after discovering damage to one of the facility’s legs.

A Shell spokesperson told the Offshore Post that 79 non-essential workers were evacuated from the platform ahead of a storm after damage was discovered on one of the platform’s three concrete legs.

Forty workers were moved to the Brent Charlie platform and 39 workers were taken to the Brent Delta platform as a precautionary measure, according to Energy Voice.

Shell said the damage was noticed before the storm approached the platform, but severe weather prevented immediate repair work.

A company spokesperson added that the relevant authorities have been notified.
Repair work on the damaged leg began on Tuesday, the BBC said.

No timeline for the work has been released.

Production at Brent Bravo and Brent Alpha stopped in November 2014 and production at Brent Delta was stopped in 2011 as part of Shell’s decommissioning of the Brent field.

Brent Charlie is the only platform still producing in the Brent field.
The Brent field is located 116 miles offshore, north-east of Lerwick, Scotland, at a water depth of 460ft, and consists of four large platforms; Alpha, Bravo, Charlie and Delta.

http://petroglobalnews.com/2016/02/shell-evacuates-brent-bravo-platform-after-leg-damage/

Agelbert Note: The ocean wave activity will continue to get more violent because of climate change. The engineering of the floating rig jack ups and platform oil rigs is insufficient to withstand this. People will die because the oil pigs refuse to do the physics math on the ocean wave activity increase. But I'm sure the oil pigs want we-the-people to bail them out for their loses. So it goes.


Climate Change, Blue Water Cargo Shipping and Predicted Ocean Wave Activity: Three Part Article (http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/climate-change/global-warming-is-with-us/msg4045/#msg4045)

Climate Change, Blue Water Cargo Shipping and Predicted Ocean Wave Activity: PART TWO (http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/climate-change/global-warming-is-with-us/msg4050/#msg4050)

Climate Change, Blue Water Cargo Shipping and Predicted Ocean Wave Activity: PART THREE (http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/climate-change/future-earth/msg4074/#msg4074)

Speaking of people dying on behalf of fossil fuel profits:

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Pemex Oil Platform

Pemex platform blaze kills three, injures seven

Staff Writers February 8, 2016

Three workers were killed and several others were injured on Sunday after a blaze broke out on a Pemex platform in the Gulf of Mexico.

According to Reuters, a fire started on the Abkatun A Permanente processing platform in the Bay of Campeche but was brought under control on Sunday.

Two Pemex workers and an employee of Mexico-based services firm Cotemar were killed during the accident and at least seven other people were injured.

The cause of the fire has not been disclosed yet.

A Pemex spokesman told Reuters that the platform is still operating and the state-owned company is still evaluating possible production impacts caused by the incident.
No evacuations were ordered after the blaze and no environmental impact has been reported.

The platform fire is just the latest accident at a Pemex operated facility.

The Abkatun A Permanente platform was the site of a deadly fire last April that killed seven people.

Last May, two workers died when a platform leg collapsed during maintenance work at the company’s shallow water Abkatun-Pol-Chuc oil field in the Bay of Campeche.
Five workers were injured in December after a fire broke out at the Pemex operated Lazaro Cardenas refinery in Minatitlan on Mexico’s Gulf Coast.

http://petroglobalnews.com/2016/02/pemex-platform-blaze-kills-three-injures-seven/
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on February 10, 2016, 10:44:42 pm
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Royal Caribbean’s Anthem of the Seas in fairer weather.

Anthem of the Seas Caught in Extreme Storm Off U.S. East Coast (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.desismileys.com%2Fsmileys%2Fdesismileys_1593.gif&hash=628238f2fc26695937f6e97b91b050976065743b)

February 8, 2016 by Mike Schuler

The 4,180 passenger cruise ship departed New York for Port Canaveral, Florida on Saturday and sailed directly into the path of rapidly deepening storm low off the Carolinas, which as of Saturday afternoon was forecasted to produce winds of 65 knots and seas to 11.5 meters (about 38 feet) by noon Sunday.

On Cruise Critic forums, one passenger described the ordeal in a post on Sunday night (the post below is unverified):

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We are on the Anthem right now, left NY yesterday, we sailed in a storm that intensified very quickly, Captain tried to turn ship but waited too long. We have been stuck in 125+ mph winds 30+ foot waves for 4 hours. Captain said they are in communication with the coast guard, struggling to point ship into wind but can’t move forward. All passengers told to stay in cabins water entered ship on upper decks, large white structure broke off top of ship landed in pool. At the height of storm waves breaking above the top of life boats and ship listing almost 45 degrees, with wind looked like a total white out. Conditions are improving but damage all over ship, crew look concerned and sounded very concerned on intracom. Some passengers sitting in muster stations.



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https://gcaptain.com/anthem-of-the-seas-caught-in-extreme-storm-off-u-s-east-coast/

Agelbert Note: The ocean wave activity will continue to get more violent because of climate change, year after year.

Climate Change, Blue Water Cargo Shipping and Predicted Ocean Wave Activity: Three Part Article (http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/climate-change/global-warming-is-with-us/msg4045/#msg4045)
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on February 12, 2016, 07:58:12 pm
Sailboat Lightning Strike Caught On Camera
February 11, 2016 by Alex Bering

Terrible day for this sailboat moored off of Kassandra in Northern, Greece. Might want to give a once over of the electronics after a direct hit like that. At least the boat owner is laid over in a beautiful place if she needs repair.


https://youtu.be/F4sETQhGFRg


https://gcaptain.com/sailboat-lightening-strike-caught-on-camera/
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on February 12, 2016, 08:01:27 pm
Incredible Footage: Heavy Weather Tow Of Russian Aircraft Carrier in Bay of Biscay

February 2012: New footage of the Russian aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov towed by the tug Nikolay Chiker after the aircraft carrier lost propulsion in the Bay of Biscay.

https://youtu.be/kLSaA3pO6Bc

http://gcaptain.com/incredible-footage-heavy-weather-tow-of-russian-aircraft-carrier-in-bay-of-biscay/
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on February 12, 2016, 08:10:22 pm
NTSB to Launch Second Search for El Faro’s VDR

February 11, 2016 by Mike Schuler

The National Transportation Safety Board on Thursday said it would launch a second expedition to search for evidence in its investigation of the loss of the cargo ship El Faro, which sank in the Atlantic during a hurricane on October 1, 2015.

A key objective of the upcoming mission will be locate the missing voyage data recorder and to provide investigators with a more extensive and detailed survey of the shipwreck.

The exact launch date is expected to begin in April and last about two weeks, although the exact launch date will be announced at a later date.

“The voyage data recorder may hold vital information about the challenges encountered by the crew in trying to save the ship,” said NTSB Chairman Christopher A. Hart. “Getting that information could be very helpful to our investigation.”

RELATED: First Photos and Video of El Faro Wreckage (at link below)

The 790-foot ship was located in about 15,000 feet of water near the Bahamas on October 31. Over the following few weeks, the ship and the debris field were documented with a video camera mounted on a remotely operated vehicle.

Video revealed that the navigation bridge structure and the deck below it had separated from the ship. The missing structure included the mast and its base where the VDR was mounted, yet neither the mast nor the VDR was found in the vicinity. The initial search mission was completed on November 15.

After reviewing the data and video of the wreckage, investigators determined that a return mission to El Faro was warranted.

In the upcoming search, a search area of approximately 35 square kilometers (13.5 square miles) will be photo- and video-documented by Sentry, an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) that will be launched from the research vessel Atlantis, owned by the U.S. Navy and operated by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI). Sentry can work at depths of nearly 20,000 feet and can be equipped with a wide array of sonar, camera and other sensors.

A VDR of the type that was mounted on El Faro is capable of recording conversations and sounds on the navigation bridge, which could provide investigators with important evidence as they seek to understand the sequence of events that led to the sinking. Investigators also hope to obtain high quality images of the bridge, debris field, and hull.

If the VDR is located, another mission using a remotely operated vehicle capable of recovering the recorder will be initiated.


https://gcaptain.com/ntsb-to-launch-second-search-mission-to-el-faro-wreck-in-search-of-vdr/
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on February 12, 2016, 08:39:11 pm
Washington Post

How teachers are getting it wrong on climate change

By Chris Mooney February 11

SNIPPET:

The study also found that most teachers are unaware of the strength of the scientific consensus about the human causes of climate change. The survey asked them “what proportion of climate scientists think that global warming is caused mostly by human activities?” For middle school teachers, 30 percent chose the option “81 to 100%,” which the researchers identified as the correct answer. High school teachers were only a little better, at 45 percent.

In addition, many teachers seemed misinformed about the subject matter. When asked what they would include in their courses on climate change, almost half selected off-topic items like “pesticides, ozone layer, or impacts of rocket launches.”

Teachers themselves showed much skepticism in their personal beliefs, too — while just 2 percent were in total denial of climate change, around 30 percent either said they believed it came from natural causes or that natural and man-made causes were equal contributors.  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.freesmileys.org%2Femoticons%2Ftuzki-bunnys%2Ftuzki-bunny-emoticon-023.gif&hash=e72013122d6634eacda71e7e47240da3c304c286)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2016/02/11/how-teachers-are-getting-it-wrong-on-climate-change/?wpisrc=nl_az_most
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on February 12, 2016, 08:44:37 pm
17 House Democrats Introduce ‘Keep It In the Ground Act’ to Prohibit New Fossil Fuel Extraction on Public Lands

SNIPPET:

Congressman Jared Huffman (D-San Rafael) and 16 other members of Congress introduced today the Keep it in the Ground Act. If passed, the bill would reduce carbon emissions by permanently barring new fossil fuel leases on all federal public lands and in federal waters.  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.emofaces.com%2Fpng%2F200%2Femoticons%2Ffingerscrossed.png&hash=d56f8009d18b55f4cea7be68284c0521be92fc5d)


http://ecowatch.com/2016/02/11/keep-it-in-ground-act/
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on February 12, 2016, 10:14:21 pm
Washington Post

How teachers are getting it wrong on climate change

By Chris Mooney February 11

SNIPPET:

The study also found that most teachers are unaware of the strength of the scientific consensus about the human causes of climate change. The survey asked them “what proportion of climate scientists think that global warming is caused mostly by human activities?” For middle school teachers, 30 percent chose the option “81 to 100%,” which the researchers identified as the correct answer. High school teachers were only a little better, at 45 percent.

In addition, many teachers seemed misinformed about the subject matter. When asked what they would include in their courses on climate change, almost half selected off-topic items like “pesticides, ozone layer, or impacts of rocket launches.”

Teachers themselves showed much skepticism in their personal beliefs, too — while just 2 percent were in total denial of climate change, around 30 percent either said they believed it came from natural causes or that natural and man-made causes were equal contributors.  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.freesmileys.org%2Femoticons%2Ftuzki-bunnys%2Ftuzki-bunny-emoticon-023.gif&hash=e72013122d6634eacda71e7e47240da3c304c286)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2016/02/11/how-teachers-are-getting-it-wrong-on-climate-change/?wpisrc=nl_az_most (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2016/02/11/how-teachers-are-getting-it-wrong-on-climate-change/?wpisrc=nl_az_most)
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Around here science teachers (like my daughter) are attacked by evangelicals wanting them to teach creationism. The parents of her students are just as likely to be climate change deniers as not. Some teachers probably go along to get along, in certain places. Not everyone is a champion of the cause, even if they personally understand what's going on.

My daughter, for better or worse, takes it head on. She does a much better job than I would with the parents. She manages to preserve her integrity and teach the truth, for the most part. I'm in awe. I'd be fired right away.

Eddie, the climate does not negotiate. Anybody that is a denier (and many of them are atheists, LIKE your pal MKing, so please don't assume that the creationists are the "enemy" here as you have a rather repetitious habit of doing  ;)) is either propagandized  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Fgen152.gif&hash=d5b10968fe56c4cb95fae17cee3cb420a5f4e2da) or pushing the propaganda.    (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-200714191329.bmp&hash=4764bfbe6bb0e11ca61102efa97a932a824f47e0)

If 30% of the teachers are getting it wrong because of the propaganda bulls hit from the profit over planet Predators 'R' US, we are probably fu cked. This is not hard. The profit over planet "business model" poses a DIRECT existential threat to our species. Does your daughter GET THAT? I don't think so. And I don't think so because YOU don't GET THAT.  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-200714183312.bmp&hash=02dafef2fe739676600fdc9bd56271f0f5ab3723)

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Your daughter can teach evolution until the cows come home, but if she doesn't put the fear of climate catastrophe in the minds of her students, she is, I'm sorry to say, part of the problem.  :(

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on February 13, 2016, 05:59:38 pm
(https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.freesmileys.org%2Femoticons%2Femoticon-object-106.gif&hash=f996659d18df7f3b445e6135e884397ac91f25b1) GREAT NEWS FOR THE BIOSPHERE AND FUTURE GENERATIONS IN THE USA!

This news will CRATER the markets in general, and the Fascist Fossil Fuel Polluter stocks IN PARTICULAR, on monday.      (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-200714183515.bmp&hash=4a3ad9d0a78a7e161f53ddd84f568082a5b0d2ad)

SCALIA, defender of fascism and fossil fuel piggery in the USA, on vacation in Texas (Oh , the irony!),  IS DEAD!  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fcliparts.co%2Fcliparts%2FBig%2FEgq%2FBigEgqBMT.png&hash=e7eec62f009cdd686ce795fad0a53c6befe748e9)  There is a God.

Senior U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Antonin Scalia found dead at West Texas ranch
 
By Gary Martin
 
Updated 4:29 pm, Saturday, February 13, 2016

Associate Justice Antonin Scalia was found dead of apparent natural causes Saturday on a luxury resort in West Texas, federal officials said.

Scalia, 79, was a guest at the Cibolo Creek Ranch, a resort in the Big Bend region south of Marfa.

According to a report, Scalia arrived at the ranch on Friday and attended a private party with about 40 people. When he did not appear for breakfast, a person associated with the ranch went to his room and found a body.
 

http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/us-world/article/Senior-Associate-Justice-Antonin-Scalia-found-6828930.php (http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/us-world/article/Senior-Associate-Justice-Antonin-Scalia-found-6828930.php)

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on February 13, 2016, 06:24:07 pm
(https://scontent.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xaf1/v/t1.0-9/12733553_1327712520590937_9172333259311769052_n.jpg?oh=0ae4f3393ef1e7262bffb9d33648dbcc&oe=572462BA)

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But I'll take what I can get!

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Now the 1% pigs for profit over planet are going to pull out all the stops to strong arm their Wall Street TOOL, Obama (who is trying to actually do something good for the environment) to put another fascist tool of the fossil fuelers into the Supreme Court. This will be fun to watch.  ;)

At any rate there is ONE LESS FASCIST RAT in the supreme court now.

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AND, by the way the posters on the Doomstead Diner forum react to this news, observant people will learn a LOT about the ACTUAL politics of the posters who, unlike you and I, have a habit of "modifying" their positions in accordance with the direction of the wind...  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2F2.bp.blogspot.com%2F_9HT4xZyDmh4%2FTOHhxzA0wLI%2FAAAAAAAAEUk%2FoeHDS2cfxWQ%2Fs200%2FSmiley_Angel_Wings_Halo.jpg&hash=13281f1944b60773bf12b29387b70be77cc1fe16)
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on February 13, 2016, 09:49:56 pm
Interesting and revealing comments.  8)

The average SCOTUS appointment from nomination to confirmation is two and half months. IF the republicans decide to filibuster a nomination they will have to do that for ELEVEN MONTHS, During an election year. Question after question to the Republican candidate about the damage this is doing to the democracy and the irresponsibility of a Republican congress. To sustain a filibuster for eleven months could cost the GOP heavy in Senate and House seats.

Interesting times.
Indeed!  That would be interesting if this issue causes heavy losses for the Republicans.

To be quite frank, there are two things I am afraid of when it comes to politics:

A liberal President, Congress, and Supreme Court;
A conservative President, Congress, and Supreme Court.

As long as one is working in opposition to the other two, damage gets limited.
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JD,
If your comments about what you are "afraid of in politics" are not another example of your peculiar sense of humor, then I feel sorry for you because there is a rather pressing issue in this country of in-your-face profit over planet fascism of, by and for an oligarchy. If you don't GET THAT, then you are in willful denial of our undemocratic and empathy deficit disordered reality.

AND, by the way the posters on this forum react to this news, observant people will learn a LOT about the ACTUAL politics of the posters who, unlike you and I, have a habit of "modifying" their positions in accordance with the direction of the wind...
You know what else modifies it's position in accordance with the position of the wind?
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So that it might keep spinning and extracting power....

That bit about the wind mill turning this way and that as "conditions change" might be considered a "successful strategy" and the mark of profitable situational ethics and game theory tactics. I don't recommend it because it is morally bankrupt, certainly not the mark of the proper growth of learning in an intelligent person. But it's quite popular in today's corporate "real world".    (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Facigar.gif&hash=dc9dccf92c6c88c99611b06c86d92629d69f2978)  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.freesmileys.org%2Fsmileys%2Fsmiley-devil19.gif&hash=6eeb0dbc471743691793f5130640fdcbd1f77b5c)

Unless I am mistaken, it appears to me that you do not want to change the corrupt status quo on the (Supine) Supreme Court that enabled Citizen's United, and before that the NAMING of an UNELELECTED bastard to be President in 2000.  Message received.

Surly,
Playing fascist, undemocratic and unconstitutional games with Senate rules for the sake of an oligarchic, profit over planet, biosphere degrading status quo is something the Republicans are expected to do, of course. They will do that to present a plausible case for denying Obama the right he has under the Constitution to name a new Supreme court Justice. As you said, a filibuster will hurt them. But they are toadies for the oligarchy and they will do what they are told to do in the defense of profit over people and planet. Let us hope they do not succeed. A Supreme Court Justice that will tip the balance in defense of a viable biosphere against profit over planet is worth a LOT. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bativert.ma%2Fimages%2Fimage3.jpg&hash=7c7c27d838504cb1d5c5a4c1efac44e790a39265)


Scalia died in his sleep during a visit to Texas.A government official said Scalia went to bed Friday night and told friends he wasn't feeling well. Saturday morning, he didn't get up for breakfast. And the group he was with for a hunting trip left without him.Someone at the ranch went in to check on him and found him unresponsive.

I swear I had nothing to do with it. Pure coincidence. I have an iron-clad alibi.

Obama will make the call. I expect he will go with Kalama Harris if she will accept the nomination, and that regardless, whomever he selects will be confirmed long before  the election.

Three liberal appointees is not, however, enough to shift the balance of the Supreme Court as it now exists. But longterm I expect Obama's appointments to the Supreme Court will be regarded as the best part of his legacy, which frankly doesn't amount to much otherwise.

AND, by the way the posters on this forum react to this news, observant people will learn a LOT about the ACTUAL politics of the posters who, unlike you and I, have a habit of "modifying" their positions in accordance with the direction of the wind... 

You contribute a lot here, but that kind of judgmental snark, given in advance of the evidence, is unnecessary and unwelcome. The world is seldom black and white, and modifying one's position is often the mark of personal growth. Me, I always call 'em like I see 'em. I surely don't need to kiss anybody's ass around here.

I suggest you don't quit your day job for comedy. Neither you nor I have a clue who Obama wants to name. You are the one getting ahead of matters here with your assumptions.

AS to the position of the Law right now, it favors Obama's policies, something you FORGOT to mention with your status quo inertia defending comment.  You are mistaken. Here's why:

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In the meantime, the court is split 4-4 between conservatives and liberals. So even if Republicans refuse to confirm a new justice, Obama's laws and executive orders are safe for another year in any case for which the opinion hasn't yet been finalized. You can't overturn an action on a 4-4 vote. This means that EPA's carbon rules are probably safe. Ditto for Obama's immigration executive order. Union shops in the public sector are probably safe. Abortion restrictions probably won't go anywhere. One-person-one-vote is probably safe.

http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2016/02/supreme-court-justice-anton-scalia-has-died

The dynamic for future generations and the biosphere has changed FOR THE BETTER already. It has simultaneously made the possibility of a Citizen's United being reversed a higher probability. I do not think that makes MKing happy. I do not think that makes JD happy. do not think that makes you happy. If it DOES make you happy, and I am mistaken about your rather far right wing views, TELL US ABOUT IT.

I am not asking you to kiss anybody's ass and I certainly am never going kiss yours.

As to your fascinating reaction to my "judgmental snark", see below:

 
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on February 14, 2016, 06:54:05 pm
I suggest you don't quit your day job for comedy. Neither you nor I have a clue who Obama wants to name. You are the one getting ahead of matters here with your assumptions.

AS to the position of the Law right now, it favors Obama's policies, something you FORGOT to mention with your status quo inertia defending comment.  You are mistaken.


Status quo inertia defending comment? Hardly. I hated Scalia, and anybody has to be better than him. I don't think the SCOTUS is going to do much for Obamas policies, a this point. He's a lame duck.
Washington Post

If Republicans block Obama’s Supreme Court nomination, he wins anyway

MONEY QUOTES:  ;D

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A court that cares about its image and constitutional role will not rule in the name of a majority that counts on a dead justice, especially on the core issues of American social life. Such posthumous decisions are so unprecedented they would make Bush v. Gore   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Fpirates5B15D_th.gif&hash=32438e1ed2c4d1823d4ed2a193286525c840a605) look like responsible judicial behavior.  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F4fvfcja.gif&hash=34a9a570347d39a0a892bc1f376c5e8b88add6b5)

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Now the Obama administration can simply have the Environmental Protection Agency come up with a slightly different new plan and run to the liberal D.C. courts to bless it and refuse to stay it. It’s unlikely the now-divided Supreme Court would come up with a majority to stay the new rules: The vote to stay the old ones was (naturally) 5 to 4. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fpm1.narvii.com%2F5869%2F6a64193d6770c3afd17406c78686c0eda32ded1c_hq.jpg&hash=fedf26e48d67cdd1e932380c7336ac18486d3fee)


That’s why the effect of an equally divided court has enormous potential to strengthen Obama’s hand in dealing with the Republican Senate in picking a replacement: Even if the GOP blocks his nominee, the policy outcomes would be very similar to what they’d be if the court had a liberal majority. The institutional cues for Obama are completely different than for the court. The Constitution clearly assigns the task of nominating judges to the president — with the Senate’s advice and consent, to be sure, but for most of American history, presidents got a fair amount of deference. Acting politically is consistent with occupying elected office, so that’s what Obama should do. Political considerations, after all, are what motivate Republicans to pledge to block nominees before any have been announced. This is the moment for Obama to assert his political prerogatives as firmly as his opponents always seem to do.

Right now, McConnell sounds like he doesn’t recognize the peril his party is in. If Obama signals that he’s willing to take advantage of the situation by taking actions like passing new environmental rules or moving for rehearing in the pending cases, he’ll put pressure on the Senate by getting what he wants without his court pick. Two-thirds of the people in the country live in blue-court America.

So maybe someone like D.C. Circuit Judge Sri Srinivasan —confirmed 97 to 0 just three years ago — will look better to the Senate than nearly a year of living with the appellate courts going wild while the cat’s away. Imagine the glee in the most-reversed circuit court in the nation, the liberal Ninth, which will now be able to tell Arizona and Alaska what to do without fear of contradiction. If Obama really cares about that legacy, nothing would establish it more firmly than using his unexpected advantage to appoint someone who will one day be as much of a hero to liberals as Scalia was to conservatives. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.desismileys.com%2Fsmileys%2Fdesismileys_0293.gif&hash=b1af4868ed8f18c30e637f8cbcb79002f6f71039)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2016/02/13/if-republicans-block-obamas-supreme-court-nomination-he-wins-anyway/ (https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2016/02/13/if-republicans-block-obamas-supreme-court-nomination-he-wins-anyway/)

Eddie, you may have hated Scalia and I may have solid common ground with you there, but the issue is not our personal feelings about Scalia. The issue is the opportunity his death provides to undue the damage to democracy and the biosphere that his decisions visited on this country. Ubi jus ibi remedium.  There was ZERO "Jus" (justice) while Scalia was there. Therefore, the death of this stalking horse for all things fascist is cause for SOME HOPE and measured     (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2FBanane21.gif&hash=ea8aefd6edec2a8f8e52b83aa2874cd9f97fe9ae)  ;D celebratory posts like mine.

His views on the Second Amendment, which you and MKing agreed with, are of little consequence in the light of the biosphere damage he and his pals from the fossil fuel industry, chemical industry and Big Ag subsidized monoculture maniacs defended on behalf of profit over planet (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-200714191329.bmp&hash=4764bfbe6bb0e11ca61102efa97a932a824f47e0):, despite their bullshit about "government interference in free enterprise", while CONVENIENTLY ignoring the subsidy THEFT from we-the-people.

The RIGHT WINGERS took over the US Government under Reagan and destroyed the little democracy we had left on behalf of corporate greed. They are FULLY represented in the Republican Party, STRONGLY represented in the "Democratic" Party and DOMINATED the supreme court until Scalia died. THAT IS AN OLIGARCHY! That is Corporate TYRANNY!  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F301.gif&hash=0291ed4abf2d80e420d1aa00d4eb3c5dd6bbfb53)

Half measures and slaps on the wrist are not going to stop the Predators 'R' US oligarchs. But a Supreme Court that actually upholds their responsibility, under the LAW, to defend future generations (TOTALLY ignored by Scalia et al (http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/fossil-fuel-folly/fossil-fuels-degraded-democracy-and-profit-over-planet-pollution/msg4480/#msg4480)) would DEFINITELY be a move towards sanity.   

Wedge issues like guns, abortion, school prayer, evolution teaching, creationism teaching, affirmative action, etc. are ALL divide and conquer BULLSHIT excuses to avoid the issue of Corporate Tyranny in order to PERPETUATE the Corporate TYRANNY. When smart people like you appear to not get that, I am flabbergasted at the strength of the propaganda based ideology that makes you unable to get the fact that business as usual is abysmally stupid.

I spent seven years of my youth, from age 7 to age 14, in Kansas. I know how they think because I used to think exactly like they did. Texans, regardless of any hyperbolic claims, think mostly along the same lines. The kids I grew up with would skin live rabbits and laugh while they were doing it. We would go to ground squirrel holes, pour water in them and the dumbest member of the group of **** (usually me) would grab the ground squirrel when it came up for air in a way as to avoid getting bitten, and quickly toss it in the Fort Leavenworth golf course lake. We would get great laughs watching it drown. If it looked like it could make it to shore, we tossed rocks at it. We killed life just for the fun of it. I hunted and shot whatever I could kill with a BB gun. BB guns don't do much damage so you have to get right up to the winged robin and shoot it point blank a few times (to put it out of its misery, of course - I saw it on TV with a horse so it must be okay! (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-200714191329.bmp&hash=4764bfbe6bb0e11ca61102efa97a932a824f47e0)).

THAT BEHAVIOR occurs because THAT is the American WAY, Eddie. THAT is F'D UP! That is how YOU and I were raised in the heartland of this nation. I learned the smart-ass way to deal with anybody questioning my behavior or views. In Texas they may talk about asking you to get "in range", but in Kansas I would just ask, "Have you ever woke up dead?  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-200714191329.bmp&hash=4764bfbe6bb0e11ca61102efa97a932a824f47e0)

THAT is what the MKings, Scalias, most of the kids I grew up with in Kansas, and your pals in Texas are ALL ABOUT. We were ALL brainwashed with  "Might is Right" from the time we were knee high to grasshoppers. EVERYTHING about Capitalism is an ideological consequence of, and justification for, "Might is Right". 

Thank GOD that there are people out to stop this morally bankrupt biosphere degrading insanity. I pray to GOD that it will be stopped. But, considering I cannot even get an intelligent medical professional who holds the same ideology that I once had to understand that, it doesn't look good.  :(

But, Scalia's death gives me a glimmer of hope.

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on February 14, 2016, 06:58:18 pm
If your comments about what you are "afraid of in politics" are not another example of your peculiar sense of humor, then I feel sorry for you because there is a rather pressing issue in this country of in-your-face profit over planet fascism of, by and for an oligarchy. If you don't GET THAT, then you are in willful denial of our undemocratic and empathy deficit disordered reality.

That bit about the wind mill turning this way and that as "conditions change" might be considered a "successful strategy" and the mark of profitable situational ethics and game theory tactics. I don't recommend it because it is morally bankrupt, certainly not the mark of the proper growth of learning in an intelligent person. But it's quite popular in today's corporate "real world".

Unless I am mistaken, it appears to me that you do not want to change the corrupt status quo on the (Supine) Supreme Court that enabled Citizen's United, and before that the NAMING of an UNELELECTED bastard to be President in 2000.
Oh sorry, you are very much mistaken, I want to change the corrupt status quo, I just have very little hope that either side of the profit-over-planet political machine will actually make any truly positive changes.  It's only given my expectation that any change will be for the worse that I prefer making as few changes as possible.  If suddenly the Democrats and Republicans were swept out and Greens and Socialists (and maybe a party dedicated to individual freedom, the Libertarians no longer qualify) took power, I would be all for making major changes.

The windmill was an example of my peculiar sense of humor.  ;)

Alright, let's talk about what Scalia championed about a week ago. I think Scalia's death undermines the profit over planet equation he and his pals just defended.


By Patrick Parenteau, professor of law and senior counsel at the Environmental and Natural Resources Law Clinic at Vermont Law School.


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This action is unprecedented in a number of ways.

The majority made none of the findings typically required to obtain a stay.


There is no analysis of the merits of any of petitioner’s claims.

There is no showing that the rule threatens any immediate harm to petitioners, especially given the long lead times EPA has built into the process.

There is no showing that the balance of hardships tips decidedly in favor of the petitioners,
especially given the fact that most states are well into the process of developing implementation plans and those that do not want to submit a plan don’t have to.

There is no showing that the stay is in the public interest, especially given the warnings from the scientific community that time is fast running out to avoid catastrophic consequences of climate disruption.

Never before has the court interjected itself in a case with such high stakes that hasn’t even been fully briefed and argued before the lower court.

http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/fossil-fuel-folly/fossil-fuels-degraded-democracy-and-profit-over-planet-pollution/msg4480/#msg4480

I really do not see how you can claim Scalia's death does not make a POSITIVE difference for the biosphere and future generations. I think, in the light of the proximate discarding of the above CRAP pushed by the fascist wing of the Supreme Court from the death of Scalia, the stalking horse for corporate profit over planet ever since Reagan put him there, it does.
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on February 15, 2016, 05:08:28 pm
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Stefanie Spear | February 14, 2016 9:50 am

https://youtu.be/6DHOZ0gXwf8

http://ecowatch.com/2016/02/14/penguins-die-iceberg-block-sea/


Fossil fuel Industry (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Facigar.gif&hash=dc9dccf92c6c88c99611b06c86d92629d69f2978) Reaction to this calamity OBVIOUSLY caused by Global Warming:  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Fbc3.gif&hash=e80a574cef1f1cd31dc58d76fe36b5ffb7fe7d5b)   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.desismileys.com%2Fsmileys%2Fdesismileys_6961.gif&hash=df13f27d25fd180bcc904f19809e2b35dc3309cf)

The Fossil Fuelers   DID THE Climate Trashing, human health depleteing CRIME,   but since they have ALWAYS BEEN liars and conscience free crooks, they are trying to AVOID   DOING THE TIME  or     PAYING THE FINE!     Don't let them get away with it! Pass it on! (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F176.gif&hash=121533221905789c6b8d57a9603883266d349266)


Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on February 15, 2016, 05:28:08 pm
FOUND: Lakes That Used to Be Mount Everest Glaciers

by Sarah Laskow / 01 Dec 2015

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A supraglacial lake on Mount Everest (Photo: C. Scott Watson)

On one side of Mount Everest, the ice is melting so fast that lakes are forming on the surface of glaciers.

As the Washington Post reports, a team of British geologists recently traveled to Mount Everest's Khumbu Glacier, the highest glacier in the world, and found that "for the first time supraglacial ponds on the ice river's surface have coalesced into lakes the length of several football fields."

Elsewhere in the Himalayas, other glaciers have been melting down into lakes, too; the worry is that these lakes will become so large that they will start flowing down the mountain and flood the area below. As ponds and lakes form, they may also speed up the melting of the glacier, the team explains, as they transfer thermal energy from the sun to the ice below. At the Khumbu Glacier, scientists have found ponds in the past; now, the BBC writes, those ponds are joining up to form these larger bodies of water.

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Researching supraglacial lakes (Photo: Owen King)

These changes are linked to climate change. This week's climate meeting in Paris aims to limit the increase in the world's warming, but even if the meeting succeeds, the commitments countries make will not keep global average temperatures from rising to a level that scientists consider dangerous. Right now, the world is heading towards a future where glaciers melt into floods.

Every day, we highlight one newly lost or found object, curiosity or wonder. Discover something unusual or amazing? Tell us about it! Send your finds to sarah.laskow@atlasobscura.com.

http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/found-lakes-that-used-to-be-mount-everest-glaciers
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on February 15, 2016, 07:25:24 pm
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For snow sports, it’s the winter of discontent

Feb. 14, 2016, 3:17 pm by Andrew Nemethy

SNPPET:

No winners, just losers and bigger losers
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Of all Vermont’s winter recreational sports venues, Alpine resorts are best able to weather this winter, largely thanks to extensive snow-making investments and upgrades in efficient high-tech equipment, according to Parker Riehle, president of the Vermont Ski Areas Association, which represents 19 Alpine and 30 Nordic areas. Still, he said rough estimates are that downhill resorts were “off substantially” over the Christmas vacation, when he said only 12 percent of the state’s Alpine trails were open.

“It could go down as the worst December we’ve ever had,” he said. Visits rebounded around Martin Luther King Jr. Day, and resorts are hoping to gain steam in the critical Washington’s Birthday week, which can be 20 percent of resorts’ annual business. Parker added that resorts have long accepted the annual fluctuation in visits and the vagaries of being in a snow-dependent industry, and have the financial strength to get through this year after two good winter seasons.

Full article:

http://vtdigger.org/2016/02/14/for-snow-sports-its-the-winter-of-discontent/

Agelbert NOTE: The "vagaries" of the seasons that point to some random mix of snowy winters and non-snowy winters is an interesting bit of wishful thinking, considering what the scientific consensus on climate change is.

On the average, it AIN'T gonna get colder here, PERIOD. That means there is a very distinct, ongoing and accelerating, climate change inertia towards NO SNOW. It's the global warming, stupid.  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.desismileys.com%2Fsmileys%2Fdesismileys_6869.gif&hash=f94938471d343a09155d1f60eefacdb2ceab2457)
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on February 16, 2016, 04:24:13 pm
Agelbert NOTE: I am placing this here, instead in government corruption, because the issue of Scalia's death is bound up with climate change legislation that he prevented. Now his death is being used as a baloney excuse to justify furthering his right wing agenda because Scalia was allegedly murdered.  ::)

RE and Surly,
Whether Scalia was murdered or not, any delay in the naming of a Supreme Court Justice does not serve the public interest.

THAT MEANS that the public interest dictates either an IMMEDIATE Recess appointment that the SENATE COULD NOT STOP, or naming a person like Elizabeth Warren out there NOW for Senate confirmation as Supreme Court Justice, 

Serving the public interest is a DUTY enshrined IN LAW both for the President and the Supreme court. For example, Scalia's court (and it WAS more his court than anybody else's!), in the NAME of the "public interest" decided an election for the presidency in 2000. NOW, there is NO justification for using Scalia's murder to make a case for FORCING the president to bow to Senate bullying and name a replacement with the same BULLSHIT right wing ideology as Scalia. And DON'T tell me that the noise about Scalia's alleged murder is purposed for any other reason. THAT is why they are making a big deal of it. And THAT is TYPICAL oligarchic perfidy.

This is the SAME type of "the devil made me do it" BALONEY that Obama used to avoid prosecuting the banksters after 2008. He did it AGAIN when he deliberately acted to water down single payer medical insurance by SHUTTING we-the-people OUT of the negotiations, inviting all the "health" insurance predatory pigs in and claiming the insurance pigs are "over 15% of the Economy".

 

Yes, President Obama Could Appoint a Scalia Replacement Today  ;D

The conservative freak-out   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.freesmileys.org%2Fsmileys%2Fsmiley-scared002.gif&hash=764898cfbf07ef2c41ffddc5e93fa0e1bed41bae) over the president's recess appointment power is legitimate.  ;D

—By Pema Levy  Tue Feb. 16, 2016 2:31 PM EST


The death of Justice Antonin Scalia came at an inopportune moment for conservatives, all but guaranteeing that the liberal side will prevail on a number of hot-button cases before the Supreme Court right now. But some conservatives are fretting that the timing might be far more dangerous than that, allowing President Barack Obama to bypass the Republican-controlled Senate and make a recess appointment to fill Scalia's seat.

"He could appoint [Vice President Joe] Biden tonight if he wanted to," a senior GOP Senate aide told the Washington Examiner over the weekend.

Setting aside the fact that the president is extremely unlikely to make a recess appointment in the next few days, the hand-wringers on the right do have a point. Between now and 3 p.m. ET on Monday, February 22, Obama could fill Scalia's seat with a recess appointment.

In a way, Republicans have themselves to blame for this situation. Obama's clear authority to replace Scalia is the result of GOP objections to some of the president's past recess appointments. Facing obstruction in the Senate, Obama invoked his recess appointment power to name three appointments to the National Labor Relations Board in January 2012. That action prompted a legal challenge, which led to a Supreme Court decision that clarified why Obama does have the power to make a recess appointment on the nation's top court to replace Scalia.

In 2014, the court held in NLRB v. Noel Canning that the president could fill any vacancy during a recess of at least 10 days—but left it up to the Senate to decide when it was in recess. This gave the Senate the power to block essentially all recess appointments by refusing to take a recess. (The Senate could perform a very limited amount of activity while most members are not in Washington, a technical workaround in order to avoid a recess.)

So it is quite a twist of fate that Scalia died during one of those rare times when the Senate is in a true, 10-day recess, without holding any pro-forma sessions. The Senate reached an adjournment agreement that stated that no pro-forma sessions would be held if the House agreed to the adjournment resolution, which the House did on February 12.

"They are not holding pro-forma sessions," says Victor Williams, a professor at the Columbus School of Law at Catholic University. "They are in a formal adjournment...My read is that they are out for 10 days."

According to Williams, the appointment would last until the end of the next session of the Senate, most likely in December 2017. At that point, the seat would again become vacant, until a new justice is confirmed.

Conservative law professor Elizabeth Price Foley reached the same conclusion about Obama's ability to make a recess appointment in a post on the conservative legal blog Instapundit.

Williams says the only possible counter-argument—though one he does not believe holds water—is that internal Senate rules do not include Sundays when counting days in a recess, meaning the Senate is arguably in an eight-day recess. However, the Noel Canning decision that established the 10-day minimum didn't mention not counting Sundays or holidays.

In the Noel Canning decision, Scalia authored a concurrence in which he argued that the majority did not go nearly far enough in restricting the president's recess appointment power. If the court had adopted Scalia's interpretation of the Constitution, Obama would not have the ability to appoint his replacement today.


http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/02/yes-president-obama-could-appoint-scalia-replacement-today (http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/02/yes-president-obama-could-appoint-scalia-replacement-today)



agelbert  • an hour ago 

This babble about a Senate Recess is hairsplitting legalese. We-the-people are SICK of these games played to AVOID serving the public interest.

The President has the power to name a new Supreme Court Justice NOW. If the Senate cooks up some more undemocratic, oligarchic BALONEY like they did with the "super majority", somehow not needed when Cheney was the tie breaker, they are looking for criminal charges for corrupt AND treasonous behavior.
 
Stella Luna > agelbert  • 44 minutes ago 

I'm with you. I think "We-the-people" need to stand up to these boneheads and support our POTUS in doing his job for the rest of his term! I'm tired of all the obstructionist BS, as well as the herd mentality Donald Trump and others are stirring up in trying to usurp the POTUS. Things are getting downright treasonous in this country at this point, with wingnuts like Alex Jones claiming President Obama engineered the death of Judge Scalia to bring about "the final war." This has been allowed to go on for far too long. Time to get back to reality!
 
Jeff > Stella Luna  • 8 minutes ago 

Was Obama hiding in his hotel room? Did he yell "boo" while Scalia was asleep? What's scary is a certain % of people will believe any idiotic thing Alex Jones dreams up. I'm pretty sure this one involves a time machine, a transporter, and a phaser.
 
Midas Mulligan > agelbert  • 27 minutes ago 

Viva la guillotine!


A hairsplitting ass hole rears his right wing oligarchy defending head:

ath716  • an hour ago 

However, the Noel Canning decision that established the 10-day minimum didn't mention not counting Sundays or holidays.


Umm...yes it did.

We agree with the Solicitor General that a 3-day recess would be too short. (Under Senate practice, “Sunday is generally not considered a day,” and so is not counted for purposes of the Adjournments Clause. )  :evil4:
 
agelbert > ath716  • an hour ago 

Playing legalese games does not serve the public interest. Any idiot, even a lawyer, can tell there is a pressing need to appoint a Supreme Court Justice NOW because of many issues that need to be ruled on FOR THE PUBLIC INTEREST. Avoiding this with hairsplitting fun and games is derogation of duty of the most oligarchic, empathy deficit disordered sort, PERIOD!

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TheCajunRaven  :icon_mrgreen: > agelbert  • 38 minutes ago 

“With respect to the Supreme Court at least, I will recommend to my colleagues that we should not confirm any Bush nominee to the Supreme Court except in extraordinary circumstances.”

“I will do everything in my power to prevent one more ideological ally from joining (John) Roberts and (Samuel) Alito on the court,” - Sen. Chuck Schumer, July 27, 2007Avatar

Jeff > TheCajunRaven  • 19 minutes ago 

But they were confirmed. No filibusters or other b.s. In fact, Senate Democrats have laid down for a number of really right wing picks to the court. Scalia, Thomas, Alito. These guys were all well-known right wing ideologues.

TheCajunRaven > Jeff  • 18 minutes ago 

If Obama appoints a strict constitutionalist and that person is rejected out of hand then you have an argument.    (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-280515145049.png&hash=84e87515e750391c1f1bca6d6ae06485972bfa81) (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-051113192052.png&hash=93c42ef9f18fc5d9da50fd91fc19f70009f95f85)

ANOTHER hairsplitter makes threats:

Midas Mulligan > agelbert  • 31 minutes ago 

Umm, that "hairsplitting fun and games" you lament is called the law. And btw, we have a name for people who take extralegal measures out of necessity, or the "public interest".
 
agelbert > Midas Mulligan  • 6 minutes ago 

B U L L S H I T. It's called LEGALESE, otherwise known as the COLOR of Law. Look it up, counselor.

"Extralegal" (a fascinating interpretation by you of my comment) measures are known as Ex curia solutions. They happen when oligarchic overreach occurs. Remember that.

Leges Sine Moribus Vanae
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on February 16, 2016, 06:42:15 pm
Obama will nominate a jurist (although any nominee would have to recognize that this move could be a career-killer), then Senate Republicans will block any nomination until after the elections.

Top Republicans have openly said there is only upside to blocking any Obama nominee. Senate obstruction itself becomes a campaign issue. The majority of Americans not sucking Koch get disgusted and throw da bumz out. But even if the Senate refuses to confirm Obama's pick and a Republican wins the White House, Obama can still get his nominee confirmed  in January 2017.

If Democrats win back the Senate (even if they lose the White House), they would control both branches of government for about two weeks before Obama leaves office. That overlap is set in stone. The Constitution mandates the new Congress begins work on January 3, while President Obama stays in power until January 20.

In this scenario Obama could send a Supreme Court nominee to that new Democratic majority, which would have 17 days to change the filibuster rules (the nuclear option) and ram in a vote before a new President takes power. This may at first glance seem farfectched, but Republican control of the Senate is tenuous, and don't think they don't know it-- Democrats only need to win four seats for a bare majority in January, while Republicans are defending far more seats (24 of the 34 up for election this cycle). At least six of these seats are in states that went for Obama in the last elections.

It's a theory...

Surly, you are getting mired in particulars. The filibuster rules CANNOT be used legally to stop the nomination of a Supreme Court Justice, as you will see in the following post.

All this Senate seat business is something they KNOW how to game. Have you forgotten the "super" majority BULLSHIT they pulled when they were outnumbered?

The issue here is that the Scalia death is an IRON CLAD legal opportunity to name a Supreme Court Justice (jurist or not) under the Law and the Public Interest.


John Oliver Slams Republicans for Attempting to Block Obama’s SCOTUS Choice


In his return to HBO’s Last Week Tonight, the Brit took aim at Mitch McConnell and the Republican leadership for advocating against the president’s constitutional right.

In an unprecedented move, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell released the following statement just one hour after the sudden passing of divisive Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia: “The American people should have a voice in the selection of their next Supreme Court Justice. Therefore, this vacancy should not be filled until we have a new president.”

While there have been Senate objections to SCOTUS appointees in the past under similar circumstances, launching an instant, preemptive rejection of any candidate the president chooses is a first.

And after a long hiatus, Last Week Tonight’s John Oliver took time on his late-night HBO program first to honor Scalia for being a “hugely significant justice” whose “death is the end of an era on the Supreme Court,” before addressing the elephant in the room: “The fact is, there is now a huge vacancy on the Supreme Court that needs to be filled—or, if you listened to the Republicans in the last 24 hours, not,” said Oliver.

He then threw to a clip of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump endorsing Sen. McConnell’s historic stand during last night’s South Carolina debate, saying, “I think it’s up to Mitch McConnell and everybody else to stop it. It’s called delay, delay, delay.”

 “Well, that does not bode well because Mitch McConnell is actually pretty good at delaying things for people—whether it’s legislation, court appointments, or orgasms,” joked Oliver. “Believe me, if you ever need to ‘delay, delay, delay’ [an orgasm], just picture [McConnell’s] face and I guarantee you nothing will happen possibly for the rest of your life.”

Oliver then explored the “strange, unwritten rule”  ;) that the Senate is using to justify the block: the “Thurmond Rule,” which says that no president in the last six months of their presidency should be able to appoint a judge that has a lifetime appointment.

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“If Mitch McConnell does want to invoke this rule, he will need to be careful because during the George W. Bush years, when Democrats were trying to pull this Thurmond Rule bullshit to prevent lower court appointments, he was pretty categorical about it,” he added.

He then threw to a 2008 clip of Sen. McConnell addressing the Senate:  ;D

“Our Democratic colleagues continually talk about the so-called Thurmond Rule, under which the Senate supposedly stops confirming judges in a presidential election year,” said McConnell. “This seeming obsession with this rule that doesn’t exist is just an excuse for our colleagues to run out the clock on qualified nominees who are waiting to fill badly-needed vacancies.”   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2F2.bp.blogspot.com%2F_9HT4xZyDmh4%2FTOHhxzA0wLI%2FAAAAAAAAEUk%2FoeHDS2cfxWQ%2Fs200%2FSmiley_Angel_Wings_Halo.jpg&hash=13281f1944b60773bf12b29387b70be77cc1fe16)


Oops. ;D  Sen. McConnell also stated in 2005 that he supported a sitting president’s absolute right to nominate judges, although that—again—was when a Republican sat in the White House.

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“Yes, it seems the ‘Thurmond Rule’ is a bit like God: When things are going your way, you don’t bring it up a lot, but as soon as you’re in trouble it is all that you talk about,” quipped Oliver.

Of course, since the Thurmond Rule applies to the last six months of a president’s term, it wouldn’t even come into effect until July 20. Either way, to outright deny President Obama’s choice to a fair nomination process would likely go against the wishes of the late Antonin Scalia, who, as Sen. Marco Rubio stated in the recent South Carolina debate, understood that the Constitution was not a “living and breathing” document and was meant to be interpreted by its “original meaning.”  ;)

“He’s right,” said Oliver. “Scalia loved the letter of the law—so let’s look at the letter as it applies here, shall we? Article II, Section 2 of the Constitution says, ‘[The President] shall nominate, and by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, shall appoint… Judges of the Supreme Court. That’s the president. This president. There is nothing in the Constitution about you getting to delay him for a year because of some bullshit tradition.”

He continued,
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“So to Senate Republicans, I say this: If you really loved Antonin Scalia, you wouldn’t honor his memory by desecrating the thing he loved the most. Think of Scalia like a Britta filter or a child’s hamster: Why don’t you honor his entire reason for being by swiftly and efficiently replacing him.”

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/02/14/john-oliver-slams-republicans-for-blocking-antonin-scalia-s-scotus-replacement.html (http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/02/14/john-oliver-slams-republicans-for-blocking-antonin-scalia-s-scotus-replacement.html)

Agelbert NOTE: Of course the oligarch army of double talking liars are ready for THAT too. That's where all the "Scalia was murdered" wailing and gnashing of teeth noise comes in. This is a "righteous indignation" (see sophist lawyer pounding the table when he can't pound the law) EXCUSE to push the President into naming a replacement with the SAME ideology as Scalia. They are clever bastards.

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on February 16, 2016, 07:08:01 pm
Elizabeth Warren Demolishes Arguments Against Filling Scalia’s Supreme Court Seat

It's the Constitution, stupid.


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U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren
on Sunday

The sudden death of Justice Scalia creates an immediate vacancy on the most important court in the United States.

Senator McConnell is right that the American people should have a voice in the selection of the next Supreme Court justice. In fact, they did — when President Obama won the 2012 election by five million votes.

Article II Section 2 of the Constitution says the President of the United States nominates justices to the Supreme Court, with the advice and consent of the Senate. I can't find a clause that says "...except when there's a year left in the term of a Democratic President."

Senate Republicans took an oath just like Senate Democrats did. Abandoning the duties they swore to uphold would threaten both the Constitution and our democracy itself. It would also prove that all the Republican talk about loving the Constitution is just that — empty talk.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/elizabeth-warren-scalia-supreme-court-seat_us_56c0a82be4b0c3c55051c5e1
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on February 16, 2016, 11:25:24 pm
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RE

http://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/Supreme-Court-Vacancy-Leaves-Energy-Industry-In-Limbo.html (http://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/Supreme-Court-Vacancy-Leaves-Energy-Industry-In-Limbo.html)

Supreme Court Vacancy Leaves Energy Industry In Limbo
By Julianne Geiger
Posted on Tue, 16 February 2016 22:57 | 0

The unexpected death of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia will likely prove to be a turning point in U.S. history, and no one will be immune—not oil, not coal, not natural gas, and not renewable energy. The future of the entire energy industry, which was already upended by the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Clean Power Plan, is now murkier than ever.

Just last week, the Supreme Court—at the time divided five to four—issued a temporary stay on the implementation of the EPA’s Clean Power Plan - a monstrosity of a plan at 1,560 pages—that would reduce carbon emissions from power plants in an effort, according to the EPA, to combat climate change.

The ruling was bad news for renewable energy and the EPA, and great news for coal—the industry that stood to lose the most from the Plan.

Although the Supreme Court issued a temporary halt, the case is actually being heard by a lower appeals court after 29 states filed suit against the EPA. Scalia’s death left the U.S. Supreme Court split down the middle with four justices appointed by Democratic presidents, and four justices appointed by Republican presidents. With the court now split 4-4, the EPA’s plan will likely revert to the lower court’s decision—which is probably bad news for coal.

Related: Would A Chesapeake Bankruptcy Boost Natural Gas Prices

Beyond the Clean Power Plan

A Reagan appointment, Justice Scalia was known for his constitutionalist views, his unfettered comments, and his passion for interpreting the constitution as the founders would have—he is also heralded by many on both sides of the aisle as the most consequential judge the U.S. Supreme Court has ever seen.

Scalia’s death has the potential to vastly change the dynamic of the court for a variety of hot-button issues, and the void has implications far beyond the Clean Power Plan, and generally speaking, could be a positive turn of events for the EPA.

Scalia served as the very ammunition for the states that are questioning the constitutionality of the Clean Power Plan. In a 2014 ruling with regards to the Clean Power Plan’s predecessor, the Clean Air Act, Scalia said “EPA's interpretation is also unreasonable because it would bring about an enormous and transformative expansion in EPA's regulatory authority without clear congressional authorization,” implying that the EPA cannot regulate without congressional approval.

The idea that the EPA might have to operate within the confines of stricter congressional oversight is now but a remote possibility—at least in the short term. And without Scalia, the 4-4 split could very well reopen the door for further broad-stroke EPA actions.

Related: Oil Price Volatility Off The Charts

A Sigh of Relief

Conservatives, the oil industry, and especially coal producers are all holding their breath, fearing that Obama’s nominee, whoever that may be, may for now, swing the Supreme Court in favor of natural gas and eventually, renewable energy.

But a sigh of relief may be in order. Although Obama will most certainly put forth a new nominee to take the place of Justice Scalia—a nominee that would, if approved, tip the blind scales of justice towards a more liberal and environmentally friendly agenda—in no realistic scenario would the current Senate approve such a nominee.

Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell has already announced that the Senate will reject any candidate that Obama puts forward.

If Obama were to successfully choose the next Supreme Court Justice, it would be the most noteworthy of Obama’s legacies—a third Obama-chosen life-term Justice, making a definitive mark on the Supreme Court with one-third of the Justices being his appointees.

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That scenario is unlikely, but that’s not Obama’s only path to appointing a new Justice. Obama may very well submit a nominee when the Senate is not in session, bypassing the need for Senate approval with a recess appointment. The Senate is currently in recess right now, leaving the door open for Obama to do just that. To prevent any recess appointments, the Senate is planning on holding as many pro forma sessions as necessary.

Another probable scenario is that the vacancy will remain until a new President is elected. While some are claiming that an extended vacancy is unprecedented, the U.S. has a history of long Supreme Court vacancies, especially when a vacancy occurs during the last year of a President’s term.

The longest vacancy was during President Tyler’s term, when the Supreme Court was one justice short for a whopping 835 days after the Senate rejected nine separate nominees.

Just days before Scalia’s death, Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said that the suggestion that she should nominate President Obama as a Supreme Court Justice was “a great idea”.

If one of the many Republican candidates are elected, a conservative nominee for Justice would be put forth, but the chances are that any other Justice would be less conservative than Scalia.

Related: UAE Offers India Free Oil To Ease Storage Woes

The Winners and Losers

Whatever the final outcome, the current situation has, at least for the time being, winners and losers.

Coal producers – Loser. The death of Scalia is bad news for coal. The EPA regulations that the Supreme Court placed on hold may be reinstated short-term.

Shale/Natural Gas – Winner. At least temporarily. If the halt on the Clean Power Plan is lifted, and with the EPA left to champion the efforts to move away from coal in favor of cleaner natural gas without the restriction of the Supreme Court or Congress, natural gas will get a share of the market currently held by coal. Longer term, any loosening of the EPA reins will be bad for natural gas as the shift to renewables is its ultimate goal.

Renewables – Winner. Although it may not be seen for quite some time, Justice Scalia’s death is good for clean and renewable energy efforts.


American Petroleum Institute – With the Supreme Court currently split down the middle, a recent lawsuit filed by the American Petroleum Institute against the EPA may never make it to the Supreme Court, or if it does, the court would be unable to read a decision, leaving its fate in the hands of the lower U.S. Court of Appeals. If unsuccessful, the lawsuit would favor biofuels over petroleum.

The energy industry must now hold its collective breath until such matters are resolved, and brace itself for the possibility that we will not see a ninth justice for quite some time.

By Julianne Geiger for Oilprice.com

Yep. 

I just read that Russia and the Saudis agreed to put a cork on "new production" in order to get the prices up by "easing the glut". To HELL with them. The glut is in. And it's not going away any time soon. But it will be fun to watch them try to game the system to jack up the prices.
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on February 16, 2016, 11:26:39 pm
Agelbert NOTE: Scalia was a cherry picking double talker. He always tried to twist the law to suit his ideology, not uphold it or defend it. His alleged "strict constitutionalist" views were a deliberately cultivated fiction he used as a fig leaf to foist his fascist ideology on the USA.
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By Richard A. Posner
August 24, 2012

SNIPPETS:


Judges like to say that all they do when they interpret a constitutional or statutory provision is apply, to the facts of the particular case, law that has been given to them. They do not make law: that is the job of legislators, and for the authors and ratifiers of constitutions. They are not Apollo; they are his oracle. They are passive interpreters. Their role is semantic.

The passive view of the judicial role is aggressively defended in a new book by Justice Antonin Scalia and the legal lexicographer Bryan Garner (Reading Law: The Interpretation of Legal Texts, 2012). They advocate what is best described as textual originalism, because they want judges to “look for meaning in the governing text, ascribe to that text the meaning that it has borne from its inception, and reject judicial speculation about both the drafters’ extra-textually derived purposes and the desirability of the fair reading’s anticipated consequences.” This austere interpretive method leads to a heavy emphasis on dictionary meanings, in disregard of a wise warning issued by Judge Frank Easterbrook, who though himself a self-declared textualist advises that “the choice among meanings [of words in statutes] must have a footing more solid than a dictionary—which is a museum of words, an historical catalog rather than a means to decode the work of legislatures.”

Scalia and Garner reject (before they later accept) Easterbrook’s warning. Does an ordinance that says that “no person may bring a vehicle into the park” apply to an ambulance that enters the park to save a person’s life? For Scalia and Garner, the answer is yes. After all, an ambulance is a vehicle—any dictionary will tell you that. If the authors of the ordinance wanted to make an exception for ambulances, they should have said so. And perverse results are a small price to pay for the objectivity that textual originalism offers (new dictionaries for new texts, old dictionaries for old ones). But Scalia and Garner later retreat in the ambulance case, and their retreat is consistent with a pattern of equivocation exhibited throughout their book.

One senses a certain defensiveness in Justice Scalia’s advocacy of a textualism so rigid as to make the ambulance driver a lawbreaker. He is one of the most politically conservative Supreme Court justices of the modern era and the intellectual leader of the conservative justices on the Supreme Court. Yet the book claims that his judicial votes are generated by an “objective” interpretive methodology, and that, since it is objective, ideology plays no role. It is true, as Scalia and Garner say, that statutory text is not inherently liberal or inherently conservative; it can be either, depending on who wrote it. Their premise is correct, but their conclusion does not follow: text as such may be politically neutral, but textualism is conservative.
A legislature is thwarted when a judge refuses to apply its handiwork to an unforeseen situation that is encompassed by the statute’s aim but is not a good fit with its text.

OMITTING CONTRARY evidence turns out to be Scalia and Garner’s favorite rhetorical device.


Scalia and Garner applaud a decision (State by Cooper v. French) holding that a refusal to rent a house to an unmarried heterosexual couple did not violate a statute forbidding discrimination in rentals on grounds of “marital status,” a term not defined in the statute. The court relied for this conclusion on another statute, one forbidding fornication. One may doubt whether that statute was the actual motivator of the decision, given the statement in the majority opinion—remarkable for 1990—that “it is simply astonishing to me that the argument is made that the legislature intended to protect fornication and promote a lifestyle which corrodes the institutions which have sustained our civilization, namely, marriage and family life.” This statement is not quoted by Scalia and Garner. (And two sentences later the judge referred, contrary to a Scalia-Garner Diktat, to the statute’s legislative history.)

After the refusal to rent, but before the court’s decision, the anti-discrimination law had been amended to define “marital status” as “whether a person is single, married, remarried, divorced, separated, or a surviving spouse”; and the man and woman who had wanted to rent were both single, a protected marital status under the amended statute. On the page following their discussion of the case, Scalia and Garner, having moved on to another case, remark that “the meaning of an ambiguous provision may change in light of a subsequent enactment … unless the ambiguous provision had already been given an authoritative judicial interpretation.” The original provision— “marital status”—had been undefined and therefore ambiguous, and had not been given an authoritative judicial interpretation. So the amendment, which broadened statutory protection to unmarried persons, provided some basis (though far from conclusive), consistent with textual originalism as understood by Scalia and Garner, for the court’s decision that they denounce. They do not mention this possibility.

Scalia and Garner are capable of reveling in absurdity. A provision of federal immigration law allowed the wife of a naturalized American citizen to be admitted to the United States for treatment in a hospital without being detained as an alien. The non-citizen wife of a native-born (as distinct from naturalized) American citizen was denied entry for treatment, and the Supreme Court upheld the denial in Chung Fook v. White. Scalia and Garner applaud the result, which gave more rights to the wife of a naturalized citizen than to the wife of a native-born citizen, while calling it “admittedly absurd.” They recognize a doctrine of “absurdity” that permits interpretive deviations from literal readings that produce ludicrous results, but they declare the doctrine inapplicable in this case because a provision relating to native-born Americans would be out of place in an immigration statute, which is about aliens—yet the citizen’s wife whose right of entry was in question was an alien.

They fail to mention that the Supreme Court appears to have agreed with the sensible alternative interpretation of the statute that the court of appeals had adopted.

THERE IS A COMMON THREAD to the cases that Scalia and Garner discuss.


Judges discuss the meanings of words and sometimes look for those meanings in dictionaries. But judges who consult dictionaries also consider the range of commonsensical but non-textual clues to meaning that come naturally to readers trying to solve an interpretive puzzle. How many readers of Scalia and Garner’s massive tome will do what I have done—read the opinions cited in their footnotes and discover that in discussing the opinions they give distorted impressions of how judges actually interpret legal texts?

Another problem with their defense of textual originalism is their disingenuous characterization of other interpretive theories, typified by their statement that textual originalism is the only “objective standard of interpretation even competing for acceptance. Nonoriginalism is not an interpretive theory—it is nothing more than a repudiation of originalism, leaving open the question: How does a judge determine when and how the meaning of a text has changed? To this question the nonoriginalists have no answer—or rather no answer that comes even close to being an objective test.” But “non-originalism” is not the name of an alternative method of interpretation. It is just a bogeyman, like what they call “so-called consequentialism”—“is this decision good for the little guy?”

A problem that undermines their entire approach is the authors’ lack of a consistent commitment to textual originalism. They endorse fifty-seven “canons of construction,” or interpretive principles, and in their variety and frequent ambiguity these “canons” provide them with all the room needed to generate the outcome that favors Justice Scalia’s strongly felt views on such matters as abortion, homosexuality, illegal immigration, states’ rights, the death penalty, and guns.

ANOTHER interpretive principle  ;) that Scalia and Garner approve is the presumption against the implied repeal of state statutes by federal statutes. They base this “on an assumption of what Congress, in our federal system, would or should normally desire.” What Congress would desire? What Congress should desire? Is this textualism, too?

The remarkable elasticity of Scalia and Garner’s methodology
is further illustrated by their discussion of a case in which the Supreme Court held, over a dissent by Scalia, that a federal statute providing that no state could require a statement relating to smoking and health to be placed on a cigarette package, other than the statement required by the statute, did not preempt state tort suits charging cigarette advertisers with misrepresentation concerning the health hazards of smoking.

The ruling was consistent with the canon approved by Scalia that I mentioned earlier—that a federal statute is presumed to supplement rather than displace state law. The majority held that suits based on the state’s view of the health hazards of smoking were preempted (and this part of the decision Scalia concurred in), just not suits based on the duty to avoid misrepresentation. Scalia and Garner ignore the distinction, saying instead that “when Congress has explicitly set forth its desire, there is no justification for not taking Congress at its word.” But the statute was not explicit about overriding all state tort suits that might relate to cigarette advertising—it did not mention such suits; and so the approved canon should have carried the day for Scalia.

Justice Scalia has called himself in print a “faint-hearted originalist.” It seems he means the adjective at least as sincerely as he means the noun.


https://newrepublic.com/article/106441/scalia-garner-reading-the-law-textual-originalism (https://newrepublic.com/article/106441/scalia-garner-reading-the-law-textual-originalism)
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on February 18, 2016, 06:56:02 pm
Agelbert NOTE: This was the situation the day before Scalia died. The article was updated with comments about the implications of his death. The coming battle in June now strongly favors the elimination of the pause pushed by the profit over planet crooks and liars both on and off the Court.  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fcliparts.co%2Fcliparts%2FBig%2FEgq%2FBigEgqBMT.png&hash=e7eec62f009cdd686ce795fad0a53c6befe748e9)

February 12, 2016 | 11:20 AM
The Supreme Court and the Clean Power Plan: What’s Next?

Tuesday’s Supreme Court decision was a setback for US efforts to fight climate change, but it’s not the final word on the EPA’s Clean Power Plan.

By now, you’ve seen the headlines: “Supreme Court Deals Blow to Obama’s Effort to Regulate Coal Emissions” (The New York Times), “Supreme Court Puts the Brakes on the EPA’s Clean Power Plan” (The Washington Post), and on and on. If that’s all you saw, you could easily conclude it’s game over for the Clean Power Plan. But you’d be wrong.  ;D

Let’s be clear: Tuesday’s decision was a real setback for the climate movement and a dark day on the calendar. But while the decision was disappointing, it’s not the end of the line for the plan or US efforts to fight carbon pollution – far from it. And it’s a strong reminder that we must continue taking bold action and put pressure on our leaders to take the fight against climate change seriously.

The Clean Power Plan, after all, set the first federal limits on carbon pollution from US power plants and was a cornerstone of the nation’s commitment to reduce overall emissions 26—28 percent below 2005 levels by 2025 in the Paris Agreement signed at the UN’s COP 21 climate conference last December. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) also projected the plan would create tens of thousands of jobs, save US citizens as much as $155 billion in energy costs between 2020—2030, and help prevent some 90,000 asthma attacks in children by 2030. Who wouldn’t want that? Well, it turns out that 27 states – many with significant coal and other fossil fuel interests – wouldn’t.

Let’s take a deeper look at the Supreme Court’s decision and its implications. Remember, there are many reasons to believe the court will ultimately uphold the Clean Power Plan and we’ll get back on track further down the road. Plus, there are several factors that could mitigate any final decision the court makes. Read on.

What happened?

In a nutshell, a group of states is suing the EPA over the Clean Power Plan, arguing that the regulation oversteps its authority in a series of areas. That case is being formed right now, but the opposing states requested a judicial stay, meaning that implementation of the Clean Power Plan would be paused until the litigation is resolved

There is a four-part test to determine whether a judicial stay is appropriate. Here at Climate Reality, we don’t believe that the opposing states' situation satisfies all aspects of this test, and the DC Circuit Court (where the case will be tried) agreed with us last month by rejecting the states' stay request.

The states then went to the Supreme Court to ask for the stay – a very unusual act. To the surprise of those on both sides, the Supreme Court determined that a stay was in fact in order by a vote of five to four.

This ruling was unprecedented, and the states could not produce one instance in which the Supreme Court had overruled a lower court on a judicial stay in the past without the merits of the case first being heard in the lower court.

What happens now?


For the time being, work to implement the Clean Power Plan is on pause. This does not mean it will be scrapped, or that EPA will lose the full case. This is merely a procedural act that delays implementation while the case moves forward.


Six Key Facts About America's Clean Power Plan  from The Climate Reality Project
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What is the new timeline for implementation?

Before yesterday, states had a deadline in September for submitting their initial implementation plans to EPA. That deadline no longer holds. 

The judicial stay covers both the DC Circuit Court and the Supreme Court. Arguments  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F3ztzsjm.gif&hash=8e015ba6a93bc1ec93ebde8fd6b2daa19e537306) in the DC Circuit Court case will be heard from both sides in June, and that court will decide on the merits of the case sometime in late summer or fall. Whoever loses that case will likely appeal to the Supreme Court through a writ of certiorari, asking the court to decide once and for all on the case. If the Supreme Court grants this writ, it would then hear and decide on that case sometime in 2017.

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Complicating the process is the recent passing of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, one of the five justices who voted for the stay. If the losing side in the DC Circuit Court case later this year appeals to the Supreme Court while Justice Scalia's former seat remains vacant and the eight justices vote as they did in deciding the stay, the four-to-four tie would mean the lower court's decision stands. While it's difficult to predict any outcome here with real certainty -- this picture could change significantly if a new justice is successfully appointed -- the lower court's previous rulings in favor of the Clean Power Plan   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F19.gif&hash=3f9f2fc2285bc756137e21463bc2a4c420b15ac3)lead many in the environmental community to be optimistic about its legal prospects.

Does this affect the Paris Agreement at all?

A good part of the Paris Agreement depends on trust. Signers had to trust that if they live up to their promises, everyone else will too. If it turns out the US can’t make good on its promise to cut emissions, other nations will hesitate to do the hard work to make good on their promises as well. That said, the White House made a point of assuring the international community that the US could meet its interim emissions reduction targets through other means like increasing energy efficiency. One White House official noted that last year’s extension of renewable energy tax credits will have “more impact over the short term” on emissions than the Clean Power Plan. Plus, the international community – which is not unfamiliar with the current state of the US Congress – was aware there could be bumps in the road.

However, if the Clean Power Plan is ultimately vacated in full or in part by the court, we’ll have to find a new way to regulate carbon pollution from power plants. After all, the Clean Air Act mandates that we regulate carbon pollution. But just how seriously would depend on the next administration.

Ready for the silver lining?


First, we believe – along with the White House and many in the environmental community – that the court will ultimately uphold the legality of the Clean Power Plan. After all, the same court that issued the stay on Tuesday has already ruled that the EPA had the authority to regulate carbon pollution under the Clean Air Act.

Meanwhile, at the same time that these 27 states’ attorneys general (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Fpirates5B15D_th.gif&hash=32438e1ed2c4d1823d4ed2a193286525c840a605) are suing the EPA to block implementation of the plan, several others have pledged to move forward on implementing it regardless. (Interestingly, this includes Colorado, whose attorney general is one of those in the suit.) Then there’s this: the court’s decision, “doesn’t really change anything,” for most utilities, according to a spokesman for the Edison Electric Institute, an association of investor-owned utilities.

That’s because market and environmental factors together mean that many utilities are already transitioning away from dirty fuels like coal to cleaner sources of power – and that movement will continue whatever happens at the Supreme Court.   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.desismileys.com%2Fsmileys%2Fdesismileys_0293.gif&hash=b1af4868ed8f18c30e637f8cbcb79002f6f71039)


So what can you do?


First, download our Clean Power Plan activist kit to learn more about this critical rule and the many benefits it will bring, both for our economy and our planet. Then, sign up for our email activist list, and we’ll keep you posted on how you can help protect and support key climate action initiatives.

http://www.climaterealityproject.org/blog/supreme-court-and-clean-power-plan-what-next


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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on February 19, 2016, 08:29:24 pm
02/18/2016 12:19 PM     
17 States Join to Make Clean Energy Future A Reality   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F19.gif&hash=3f9f2fc2285bc756137e21463bc2a4c420b15ac3)
SustainableBusiness.com News


In the wake of the Supreme Court decision to place the Clean Power Plan on hold, governors from 17 states are joining to make a clean energy future a reality under the "Governors' Accord for a New Energy Future."

 Governors say they plan to establish goals and benchmarks to accelerate energy efficiency and renewables, modernize the grid, and incentivize clean transportation, such as hydrogen and electric vehicles. 

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Renewables Beat Gas US 2015

Signatories represent 40% of US population:
Hawaii, California, Oregon, Washington, Nevada, Iowa, Minnesota, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Delaware, New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, and Vermont.    (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Ficare.gif&hash=7a81c13fb045a57fc456f34661fddcf04dbfe8b7)

The accord is based on the economic benefits of rapidly moving in this direction (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Felqahera-trading.com%2Fhome%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2012%2F04%2Fdollar-sign-thumbnail1.jpg&hash=e1962ecaa694d312d50a9984ee058a45aed1e860)  , not climate change  - which was intentionally omitted from the discussion to get bipartisan support.    (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-080515182559.png&hash=d4dfa952fa0f817bf30a8059a4c88d6fb05ee1bf)   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-200714191258.bmp&hash=e4ed21caaca822f7445ccafd39f49a9f84be90ca)

Michigan is the only state in the group that's working to block the Clean Power Plan in court, and Nevada's Governor signed on after the state just eliminated distributed solar incentives.   

Importantly, governors agree that it's time to transition from fossil fuels, and that it can be done profitably.   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fcliparts.co%2Fcliparts%2FBig%2FEgq%2FBigEgqBMT.png&hash=e7eec62f009cdd686ce795fad0a53c6befe748e9)

New York's Governor Cuomo sees the coalition "developing an effective national energy policy to ensure a safer, greener and more sustainable future for all." 

Parallel efforts include:
 
•City Energy Project which focuses on energy efficiency in buildings

•Carbon Neutral Cities Alliance, which consists of many of the world's largest cities

•"Under 2 MOU," led by Governor Brown, 12 governments are collaborating to stay under 2°C global temperature rise.

Read our article, Most Ambitious Climate Goals Lead to Greatest Economic Growth. 

Learn more about the Governors' Accord for a New Energy Future: 
 
Website: www.governorsnewenergyfuture.org/accord

http://www.sustainablebusiness.com/index.cfm/go/news.display/id/26552

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on February 19, 2016, 10:28:59 pm
The Washington Post

Energy and Environment

Scientists are floored by what’s happening in the Arctic right now


SNIPPET:

New data from NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration suggest that January of 2016 was, for the globe, a truly extraordinary month. Coming off the hottest year ever recorded (2015), January saw the greatest departure from average of any month on record, according to data provided by NASA.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2016/02/18/scientists-are-floored-by-whats-happening-in-the-arctic-right-now/
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on February 20, 2016, 06:05:06 pm
Cyclone Winston: strongest ever southern hemisphere storm hits Fiji  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.4smileys.com%2Fsmileys%2Fseasons-smileys%2Fstorm.gif&hash=50a9d315d4303958228c6e6a3dad1a23e1f87c78)


State of emergency declared as category five storm makes landfall, with winds gusting at up to 195mph  :o

Nadia Khomami and agencies
@nadiakhomami
   
Saturday 20 February 2016 07.39 EST  Last modified on Saturday 20 February 2016 17.50 EST 

A state of emergency has been declared in Fiji as tropical Cyclone Winston made landfall on the country’s main island, with estimated wind gusts of up to 195mph (315km/h).

The category five storm is thought to be the strongest recorded in the southern hemisphere.

An elderly man from Nabasovi, Koro Island is reported to have died as a result of the storm. Fiji Disaster Management Committee (DISMAC) officer Vatia Vasuca told FBC news the man died after a roof top fell on him.

Cyclone Winston began to make landfall on the main island of Vitu Levu after a national curfew took effect at 6pm local time. It had earlier sunk boats and caused flash flooding on the nation’s outer islands, including Vanua Levu.

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It is carrying average winds of 220km/h, with gusts of up to 315km/h recorded, according to Fiji’s meteorological service.

The Fijian government issued a list of 758 evacuation centres across the nation of just under 900,000 people. The country’s prime minister, Frank Bainimarama, said on Saturday that the island’s evacuation centres were operational and the government was prepared to deal with a potential crisis.

“As a nation we are facing an ordeal of the most grievous kind,” he wrote. “We must stick together as a people and look after each other.”

ABC quoted the prime minister expressing concerns that some people in urban areas did not appear to have heeded the warnings about the seriousness of the threat.

Save the Children Fiji’s chief executive, Iris Low-McKenzie, said the storm had the potential to cause “catastrophic damage” across Fiji, an island nation visited by hundreds of thousands of tourists every year. “We’re extremely concerned about the impact this will have on children, who are particularly vulnerable during emergencies,” she said.

The cyclone is likely to hit outer Fijian islands on Saturday night, making landfall just north of the capital and most populous city, Suva, early on Sunday morning. It is expected to impact every Fijian island before departing late on Sunday.

“This is a slow-moving storm that’s tracking an unusual pattern and has already hit Tonga twice. Alarmingly, it has intensified as it moved towards Fiji,” Low-McKenzie added. “It looks as though the storm could pass over the international airport in Nadi, which, if significant damage is caused, will make the humanitarian response all the more difficult.”

International flights to and from Fiji have been cancelled. As Fiji’s weather service warned people in the east to “expect very destructive hurricane-force winds”, Suva resident Alice Clements said the power had failed just after 5pm and she expected water supplies to be hit next.

“I have palm trees flying all around me at the moment,” said Clements, an official with a UN agency.

The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said the cyclone was following a path that might spare Suva the full force of its winds. Category five is the highest ranking on the hurricane wind scale.

“The cyclone has tracked further north than expected over the past 24 hours,” the UN agency said.

The Fiji Times newspaper reported some damage, including a roof being blown off one home, from some of the nation’s smaller islands to the east as the cyclone began to strike there. It said there had been a rush of buying at supermarkets and stores as people stocked up on essential supplies.

Many people were hoping the cyclone’s path would remain as forecast and thread between the islands of Vanua Levu to the north and Vitu Levu to the south, which is home to the capital Suva, so that both islands would avoid a direct hit.

Airlines operating in the region including Virgin Australia, Jetstar, Qantas and Fiji Airways all reported cancelled flights or altered timetables, with passengers told to consult their carrier for information.

Save the Children said it had stockpiled emergency supplies to ensure children could get back to school as soon as possible. “We have teams standing by to assess the storm damage, as well as teachers preparing to support children in emergency centres,” Low-McKenzie said.



Fiji PM decries Australia's 'climate change deniers' in Turnbull cabinet

 
Read more

http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/feb/20/cyclone-winston-virgin-australia-and-jetstar-cancel-services-to-and-from-fiji
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on February 21, 2016, 03:37:03 pm
The Profit Over Planet PIGGERY continues. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-200714183337.bmp&hash=fd5a6df63c32bd65dda7b6d93e788647ca3829df) Instead of investing in platforms for wind turbines, they keep making platforms for oil and gas extraction. They just don't get it. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Fgen152.gif&hash=d5b10968fe56c4cb95fae17cee3cb420a5f4e2da)   :(

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The new Marathon Oil Alba platform has been installed after being transported form Heerema’s Dutch fabrication yard to Equatorial Guinea.

Marathon Oil President and CEO, Lee Tillman   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-200714191329.bmp&hash=4764bfbe6bb0e11ca61102efa97a932a824f47e0). said: “we reached a major milestone in Equatorial Guinea with the successful installation of the jacket and topsides for the Alba field compression project,”

The new platform is part of the Houston based oil company’s ongoing expansion   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Fp8.gif&hash=34db9228a959b3b83fc65b38a1aa92a40d56f976)  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F126fs2277341.gif&hash=1a8375f11d76a653bcb48e30eaa7b652175f029d)into the international sectors.

https://youtu.be/Expgv5ILuBA
http://www.offshorepost.com/video-new-marathon-oil-alba-platform-installation/

The climate is going to hell in a CO2 climate change hand basket.

But all the biosphere math challenged Oil Bastards from TEXAS  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Facigar.gif&hash=dc9dccf92c6c88c99611b06c86d92629d69f2978) can say is:


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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on February 21, 2016, 07:08:44 pm
The Party is OVER
https://youtu.be/6rVuquKd7Rg
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on February 21, 2016, 07:52:34 pm
"We did not get to our imminent climate catastrophe by accident. WE got here because of the WORSHIP of 'PROGRESS'." 
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John Michael Greer: False Promises
https://youtu.be/hkwjTa3Wdn4
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on February 22, 2016, 11:08:25 pm
Investors are thinking anew about climate risk
Deborah Winshel, Special to Financial Post | February 11, 2016 | Last Updated: Feb 11 12:00 AM ET

SNIPPET:


1. Investor awareness of climate change risks driving promotion of sustainability issues.

The bury-your-head-in-the-sand strategy is not an option. Individual investors are beginning to take a stance on climate change in the way they invest, eliminating the most serious risks and putting their money in companies that support positive environmental outcomes. Many institutional investors are also using their influence and investment capital to bring about positive change. We believe that transparency and reporting standards will be critical as investors seek more information on carbon emissions and sustainability measures.

2. Industry participation in the climate change debate.


One of the unique things about the Paris summit is that it involved more than the usual participants. Attendees included not only diplomats, environmental ministers and heads of state, but leaders from the private sector. Many see opportunities in the transition to a low-carbon economy and are changing the way they do business, from green buildings to waste management to industrial efficiency. As companies old and new shift their focus to sustainability, new opportunities are being created for investors.

3. Increased research and development spending to reduce emissions and raise energy efficiency.

Prior to the Paris summit, 20 major countries agreed to double their clean energy research and development (R&D) spending over five years in an initiative called Mission Innovation. These countries produce three-quarters of global CO2 emissions from electricity generation and account for 80 per cent of the world’s clean energy R&D spending. The funding could make a massive difference in the development and adoption of renewable energy, as it creates opportunities for public-private partnerships to invest in this new technology.

4. Climate change risk mitigation efforts start at the local level. Although the Paris agreement established a global framework, any regulations in response to it will be localized.

Key markets like China, the European Union and the United States will have considerable influence on other countries’ responses. The expectation is that regulatory change will affect specific industries, from resources and power generation to manufacturing and building.
 What does this mean for you?

As noted in The Price of Climate Change, my colleagues and I believe these trends will not only encourage significant growth in clean technologies, energy efficiency and renewable infrastructure, but also greater transparency and reporting on sustainability and the carbon footprints of corporations around the globe. Furthermore, carbon-heavy industries are not immune from disruption, nor are asset prices from regulatory efforts to mitigate climate change risk. We believe investors should thoughtfully consider these dynamics in order to build sustainable portfolios and take advantage of investment opportunities as we move towards a low-carbon economy.

Deborah Winshel is global head of impact investing at BlackRock and a guest contributor to The BlackRock Blog.

http://business.financialpost.com/active-investor/investors-are-thinking-anew-about-climate-risk

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Post by: AGelbert on February 23, 2016, 04:06:26 pm
Climate Experts to American Geophysical Union: Reject Exxon Sponsorship  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fcliparts.co%2Fcliparts%2FBig%2FEgq%2FBigEgqBMT.png&hash=e7eec62f009cdd686ce795fad0a53c6befe748e9)

Climate Denier Roundup | February 23, 2016 8:30 am

More than 100 researchers—including James Hansen, Michael Mann and Kerry Emanuel—have signed an open letter pressing the American Geophysical Union (AGU) to end Exxon’s sponsorship of the group’s annual fall meeting. While Exxon is a major employer of geophysicists and does some significant research in the geophysical space, its long-time funding of climate denial puts Exxon at odds with AGU’s organizational support policy, which states that AGU won’t take money from groups that fund or disseminate misinformation.

The open letter argues, in light of the #ExxonKnew investigations, that Exxon has run afoul of AGU’s policy. In response, AGU first said it would keep the sponsorship because investigators have yet to definitively prove that Exxon funded denial, but the organization later said it would reconsider the issue at the AGU board of directors meeting in April.

Exxon’s sponsorship of AGU is a relatively contentious issue in academia. Some scientists see Exxon’s employment of geologists as sufficient justification for the relationship, since Exxon does perfectly respectable science in non-climate fields. But Exxon’s AGU sponsorship has been the subject of at least a little mockery in the deniersphere, with Anthony Watts making it a point to highlight in a post this year and last.

Whether or not AGU can afford to x-out Exxon’s sponsorship will be seen in April, but regardless, this represents yet another step in the ongoing effort to revoke Exxon’s social license to operate.

http://ecowatch.com/2016/02/23/climate-experts-agu-reject-exxon/
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on February 23, 2016, 10:18:54 pm
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Staff Writers  February 23, 2016   
 
Three U.S. House Democrats are calling for the Department of Justice (DOJ) to investigate whether Shell Oil misled the public about climate change.

According to the L.A. Times, U.S. Rep. Ted Lieu of California, Rep. Peter Welch of Vermont and Rep. Matt Cartwright of Pennsylvania sent a letter earlier this week asking the DOJ to investigate whether Shell “intentionally” hid information about climate change and engaged in a “misinformation” campaign.

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The letter also suggests that Shell, ExxonMobil and potentially other energy firms were involved in a conspiracy to obscure the impact of climate change.

The letter cites an L.A. Times investigation published in December that claims Shell redesigned a $3 billion North Sea platform to allow the facility to operate amid rising sea levels.

A Shell spokesman told the paper that Shell has included information about climate change and the challenges it poses in its publications, including its annual reports and Sustainability Report, for over 10 years.

“Recognizing the climate challenge and the role energy has in enabling a decent quality of life, we continue to pursue and advance constructive dialogue on this topic as the challenge is one for all of society,” the spokesman told the L.A. Times.

In October, Lieu sent a letter to the DOJ asking it to determine if Exxon misled the public about climate change and violated the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, commonly known as RICO.

Citing investigations conducted by the L.A. Times, Inside Climate News and Columbia University’s Energy and Environmental Reporting Project, Lieu also asked the DOJ to determine if Exxon violated shareholder protection, public health, truth in advertising, consumer protection and other laws.

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“These activists took those statements out of context and ignored other readily available statements demonstrating that our researchers recognized the developing nature of climate science at the time which, in fact, mirrored global understanding,” Exxon vice president of public and government affairs Ken Cohen said in response to Lieu’s letter.


Exxon confirmed in November that it received a subpoena from the attorney general of New York relating to climate change documents.

Exxon added that it has included information about the business risk posed by climate change for many years in its 10-K, Corporate Citizenship Report and in other reports to shareholders.  ;)

The New York Times reported that month that New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has been investigating the company for about a year and may be looking at information dating back to the 1970s.

Schneiderman is reportedly investigating whether Exxon misled investors by failing to disclose the potential impact climate change could have on its business.

The New York Attorney General’s Office has not commented on the matter.

http://petroglobalnews.com/2016/02/california-congressman-call-for-shell-climate-probe/
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on February 23, 2016, 10:58:44 pm

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El Faro’s Final Communications Played at Hearing – LISTEN

February 21, 2016 by Reuters

Feb 20 (Reuters) – The captain of the doomed El Faro warned that the “clock was ticking” as his cargo ship took on water in an Atlantic hurricane that would eventually sink the vessel, a U.S. Coast Guard panel heard on Saturday.

Captain Michael Davidson pleaded for help as his ship, operated by Tote Services, sailed into the path of Hurricane Joaquin near the Bahamas, according to a recording of his final calls played at the hearing.

He told an on-shore call center of a “maritime emergency,” saying water breached the hull, entering three holds.

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Soon afterwards, contact with the ship was broken, and Davidson and 32 others were lost at sea. The sinking ranks as the worst disaster involving a U.S.-flagged cargo ship in more than three decades.

Audio at link below:

https://gcaptain.com/el-faros-final-communications-played-at-hearing/



Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on February 24, 2016, 03:15:37 pm
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One of several graphics from the latest TED talk by Al Gore

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Dear A. G.,

Last week, Climate Reality Founder and Chairman Al Gore spoke at the 2016 TED (Technology, Entertainment and Design) conference in Vancouver, British Columbia. This talk came nearly a decade after Vice President Gore last spoke on the TED stage, and we can say with certainty, the future of our planet looks very different today than in 2006.

Today, we’re truly hopeful.  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bativert.ma%2Fimages%2Fimage3.jpg&hash=7c7c27d838504cb1d5c5a4c1efac44e790a39265)
 
Hope isn’t always easy. With global temperature records being broken month after month, rising seas off coastal cities like Miami causing “sunny day flooding,” droughts and wildfires destroying thousands of acres of forests, and more severe hurricanes and typhoons, many wonder how we’ll solve this planetary crisis in our lifetimes.

But we want to remind you that you can – and should – be hopeful. Here are a few reasons why:

•In 2000, analysts projected the world would have 30 gigawatts of wind energy capacity installed by 2010. In 2015, the world passed this mark by 14.5 times!

•Experts also projected in 2002 that the world would install 1 gigawatt of solar power per year by 2010. Last year, we beat that figure by 58 times over. And this year, we are on track to exceed that prediction by 68 times over!

•The cost of solar energy has decreased about 10 percent each year for the past 30 years, and we’re getting closer to grid parity in more and more markets around the world, which means solar power will soon cost less than electricity from fossil fuels in more and more places around the world!

Then there’s the Paris Agreement. In December, 195 nations reached a historic agreement at the UN’s COP 21 climate conference in Paris, to reduce carbon emissions and put us on a path to a sustainable future. The Paris Agreement marked a turning point for our movement and will have a positive impact on the health of people everywhere and the planet for generations to come.

Ready to learn more about the future of our planet? Watch our Chairman, Al Gore, give his latest TED talk and learn more about the challenges we’re facing, what the world can look like if our world leaders live up to their promises in the Paris Agreement, and why he’s optimistic that we can and will solve the climate crisis.

https://www.climaterealityproject.org/blog/ideas-worth-spreading

Thank you for all that you do every day,

- Your friends at Climate Reality

Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on February 27, 2016, 07:11:58 pm

7 NASA Selfies Show Just How Much Our Climate Is Changing

The Climate Reality Project | February 24, 2016 1:06 pm

We’ve all heard the line that “a picture is worth a thousand words.” So to bring home what’s happening to our planet, we rounded up a series of pictures of Earth through the years from the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). And while some pictures could use a thousand words to make their point, these images only need four: “Our climate is changing.”

Lyell Glacier, Yosemite National Park


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Photo credit: U.S. National Park Service. 1883 photo: USGS / Israel Russell. 2015 photo: NPS / Keenan Takahashi

The largest glacier in Yosemite National Park, the Lyell Glacier, has lost almost 80 percent of its surface area and about 120 vertical feet (37 meters) of ice. While this change has occurred over the span of 132 years from 1883–2015, more than 10 percent of the total ice loss has happened in the past four years, thanks to warming temperatures and dry weather.

Scientific research shows glaciers have been losing mass since at least the 1970s and ice mass has been declining more quickly in the last 10 years. This melting ice has contributed to rising sea levels around the world, putting millions of people near coastal areas at risk to severe flooding as storms intensify.



Lake Mead, Nevada


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Photo credit: NASA

Lake Mead, a reservoir outside of Las Vegas that sustains nearly 20 million people in California, Arizona and Nevada, has suffered from intense droughts in recent years. The reservoir’s water level declined about 120 feet (37 meters) between 2000–2015, hitting record lows as the drought spread across California and southwestern states in the U.S.

But it doesn’t end with dry heat: Droughts mean the water supplies we depend on are affected as bodies of water like Lake Mead decline. A report by the Natural Resources Defense Council found that one-third of all the counties in the U.S.’ lower 48 states are at higher risk of water shortages over the next 35 years because of climate change.


California Wildfires
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Photo credit: United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). From Latin America and the Caribbean Atlas of our Changing Environment (2010)

In May 2014, a series of wildfires hit the coastal area north of San Diego, California, thanks to a combination of heat, drought and dry winds that intensified the fires. The wildfires put thousands of nearby residents at risk, resulting in 175,000 evacuation notices.

Over the past decade, wildfires have caused significant damage throughout the western U.S. and other parts of the world and many scientists believe climate change is playing a role. There’s an average of 72,000 wildfires per year and nine of the 10 years with the most burned acres have occurred since 2000. We can’t yet say for sure, but we don’t think it’s a coincidence that the nine worst years for wildfires coincide with many of the hottest years on record.


Typhoon Haiyan, Philippines
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On Nov. 7, 2013, Typhoon Haiyan, known locally as Typhoon Yolanda, approached Guiuan on the Philippine island of Samar with winds close to 195 miles per hour (315 kilometers per hour). The storm became the deadliest on record in the Philippines and was responsible for more than 6,300 lost lives, more than 4 million displaced citizens and more than $2 billion in damages. Not all the devastation came when Haiyan first struck, as the storm also swelled the Agno River, shown in the second image above, causing severe flooding later.

Research shows that hurricanes and typhoons are likely to become more intense with stronger winds as the planet, including ocean temperatures, continues to warm. In the northwestern Pacific Ocean specifically, damaging typhoons have become about 10 percent more intense since the 1970s and even stronger storms are expected there as climate change worsens.

Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon
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The images above show what deforestation looks like via satellite in the Amazon, specifically in the Brazilian state of Rondônia. Rondônia has the highest rate of deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon, partly because of the area’s growing population from government-promoted immigration and the expansion of the wood-products industry. Rondônia’s population has more than doubled over the past three decades, from about 500,000 in 1980 to more than 1.7 million today.

Deforestation or the clearing of forests on a massive scale, is a major contributor to climate change and responsible for about 15 percent of all greenhouse gas emissions. In the last 50 years, about 50 percent of the world’s original forest cover has been lost due to deforestation. Deforestation not only releases greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, but it harms many other areas of the environment, including wildlife, water cycles and the livelihoods of people who rely on forests. Plus, as forests decline, so does their ability to act as carbon sinks that help remove greenhouse gases from the atmosphere. Talk about lose-lose-lose.

Population Growth in Beijing, China
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Photo credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech

The images above show the drastic population growth and infrastructure expansion in Beijing between 2000 and 2009. This has created what’s known as a “heat island effect,” which has contributed to an increase in winter temperatures by 5—7 degrees Fahrenheit (3—4 degrees Celsius).

With a population of more than 1 billion, an expanding middle class and an economy that has been rapidly growing over the past two decades, many eyes are on China to do its part in fighting climate change. Thankfully, that’s what China has pledged to do in a commitment last year to peak carbon emissions by 2030 and source 20 percent of its primary energy consumption from clean energy sources. This was a major win for the climate movement.

Earth’s Temperature Changes
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Photo credit: NASA

If we had to pick one satellite image comparison to sum up how climate change affects our planet, this would be it. These striking images compare temperatures in each region of the world more than 100 years apart. The left image shows Earth’s temperatures from 1880–1889 and the right image shows temperature from 2000–2009. What the two show is that Earth’s average surface temperature has increased 1.3 degrees Fahrenheit (0.7 degrees Celsius) since 1880, with two-thirds of this increase happening in the last 40 years.


DSCOVR

Seen enough before-and-after images? So have we. Which is why it’s worth taking a step back to look at the big picture and see just what’s at stake with a recent shot from NASA’s Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR).

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This beautiful planet is our home and it’s our responsibility to protect it from the devastation of a changing climate. Ready to learn how you can help? Sign up to receive updates from The Climate Reality Project to find out more about what’s changing in our climate, the solutions that exist and ways you can get involved.

http://ecowatch.com/2016/02/24/7-nasa-selfies-show-just-much-climate-changing/1/
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on February 29, 2016, 06:34:42 pm
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The temperature outside in Colchester, Vermont is 40 degrees F right now. It got up to 48 today. That is unheard of in February. Both January and February have been unusually warm.

This is confusing the birds that migrate.  :(

I just heard the honkers go over my house today (not more than ten minutes ago). This is very dangerous for them because sometimes a cold snap will kill thousands of them if they migrate too soon. Wednesday the temperature is predicted to drop to 5 degrees. Thousands of honkers, already approaching the Canadian border, will, in all probability, freeze to death.  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.desismileys.com%2Fsmileys%2Fdesismileys_2955.gif&hash=ddc12d8bdb1bc63b7998a6b086b79a71b7bda755)


The fossil fuel Industry and those who profit from the damage and death it visits on the biosphere do not care. Prison is too good for those greedballs.

The Fossil Fuelers   DID THE Climate Trashing, human health depleteing CRIME,   but since they have ALWAYS BEEN liars and conscience free crooks, they are trying to AVOID   DOING THE TIME or     PAYING THE FINE!     Don't let them get away with it! Pass it on! (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F176.gif&hash=121533221905789c6b8d57a9603883266d349266)
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on February 29, 2016, 06:39:01 pm
http://www.nature.com/ncomms/2016/160209/ncomms10627/full/ncomms10627.html (http://www.nature.com/ncomms/2016/160209/ncomms10627/full/ncomms10627.html)

This is with carbon. Now how will the earth progress with methane, and global dimming loss. I suspect that once society collapses, we will be burnt to a crisp within days.

Or, as the sun expands to a red giant, we will be burnt to a crisp within days, and then society collapses.

Whazzup Theta! So...society is still here...isn't that surprising! All those claims of collapse, and the grid is still working well enough that you can speculate on an interesting phenomena, the human ability to WASTE all that seeping methane, letting it mix with the atmosphere rather than being combusted to generate power first...that was why you commented on it, right? How we should instead be using it, rather than just letting it go?

As usual, MKing's "logic" is that, if any part of the use of dirty energy is useful, then all use of dirty energy is justified! IOW, if the sun is shining, there is no reason to make houses or ships that can handle STORMS.  :iamwithstupid:   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Fgen152.gif&hash=d5b10968fe56c4cb95fae17cee3cb420a5f4e2da)

Even Warren Buffet, no great friend of the rapid transition now required to get to 100% Renewable Energy, GETS IT. Berkshire Hathaway owns a LOT of stock in the property insurance business. They have no choice but to GET IT.
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“If there is only a 1% chance the planet is heading toward a truly major disaster and delay means passing a point of no return, inaction now is foolhardy. Call this Noah’s Law: If an ark may be essential for survival, begin building it today, no matter how cloudless the skies appear.” -  Warren Buffet

And we KNOW that the probability that the planet is heading toward a truly major disaster of climate catastrophe is certainly not 1%.

It's 100% if we continue on our present trajectory.
Top Climate Expert Kevin Anderson: Crisis is Worse Than We Think & Scientists Are Self-Censoring to Downplay Risk. (http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/climate-change/global-warming-is-with-us/msg4163/#msg4163)
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on March 01, 2016, 03:48:56 pm
02/29/2016 02:15 PM     

UK's Biggest Fossil Lobby Promotes Renewable Energy   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.coh2.org%2Fimages%2FSmileys%2Fhuhsign.gif&hash=3732d0427be65896527fc3805c5be54a33cffd3b) (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F128fs318181.gif&hash=eff6d5f3831782966c2ff2081f07bf7fc5b22a6b)

SustainableBusiness.com News

Why does the biggest fossil fuel lobbying group in the UK suddenly support renewable energy? It's just one more sign that we are making progress and the times - they are a'changin.  ;D

Energy UK's chief exective says the shift is urgent because they don't want to be left behind!, reports The Guardian.

"No one wants to be running the next Nokia (referring to the mobile phone company that was squashed by forward-looking rivals), CEO Lawrence Slade told The Guardian. Clearly, the direction is toward distributed energy and away from centralized power stations.

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He wants efficiency measures returned and regulatory support for energy storage to support solar and wind. He wants a long term plan for renewables so that investor confidence can return, but he also favors natural gas.  :P
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And after emissions from power plants dropped 13.6% last year because of declining coal use, government officials have been calling to bring it back - to keep the lights on.

 After shedding thousands of renewable energy jobs since the incentive cuts - and investors pulling out in droves - the government slimmed the cuts for rooftop solar by 65% instead of 87%. Why the cuts at all? Like in the US, conservatives  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F165fs373950.gif&hash=ad797fcc08a061d3ae50ee49ccd9f3d517fb7496) claim subsidies for solar and wind should be temporary (except for fossil fuels and nuclear  ;)) and claim it leads to higher utility bills.   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-030815183114.gif&hash=2bf1553e87e8605311feb874231953d5fb88ee9c)


"In just one month, one nuclear plant at Hinkley would swallow up four years' worth of subsidies for the whole solar sector  >:( .

Why are ministers signing a blank cheque for expensive, outdated nuclear power while pinching pennies for an energy source on the cusp of a massive investment boom?  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.desismileys.com%2Fsmileys%2Fdesismileys_1730.gif&hash=cdaf50326d98ff7b051a9c49e83d51c7bb687407) This makes no economic sense and will only put up [utility] bills in the long run," says Greenpeace.


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Fracking is the centerpiece of Prime Minister Cameron's energy plan. A leaked letter from three Cabinet ministers even suggests that permits should be removed from local control because the majority of citizens are squarely against it. The latest polls show 78% support for solar and wind, and 26% support for fracking. Parliament voted to allow fracking everywhere - in national parks and near drinking water supplies. In December, 159 permits were handed out, opening huge swaths of the countryside to fracking. Protests have been widespread.


Scotland banned fracking. (http://www.sustainablebusiness.com/index.cfm/go/news.display/id/26125)

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"Ministers happily take credit for being climate champions on an international stage [referring to the Paris Climate Agreement] while flagrantly undermining the renewable industry here at home," Caroline Lucas, a Green Party member of the Parliament, told Reuters.

Meanwhile, the formerly booming renewable energy industry is about to fall off a cliff. Last year, wind supplied 11% of electricity, generating power for 30% of households, about 8.25 million homes. And most of Britain's major cities have pledged to run on 100% renewables before 2050. 

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And this winter has the been the warmest in recorded history in England, up 7°C so far.
 


http://www.sustainablebusiness.com/index.cfm/go/news.display/id/26562
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on March 09, 2016, 07:40:26 pm
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The world warmed up some +15C decently, and I imagine the change in weather then would have been quite amazing. Pretending that our temperature rebound out of the LIA, even though it is a tiny fraction of the previous warming of the Young Dryas (without a coal fired power plant in sight no less), is yet another yammering about relative change, without mentioning the REAL change that dwarfs anything happening today.

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Agelbert comment: You have a truly boring penchant for repeating endlessly your cherry picked points in time posted for the single minded and erroneous fossil fueler rationalization that our present runaway green house gas caused global warming is "insignificant" (see "yammering"  ;)) in comparison.  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.desismileys.com%2Fsmileys%2Fdesismileys_2932.gif&hash=0eaec4791a5825821998245e7fcd7744b56557fe)

Numerous times, several people here have tried to set you straight on that and you always respond with some arrogant puffery about "ignorant" people that "don't understand science".
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So I will not bother to post a link (again) referring to the present scientific consensus, backed by reams of peer reviewed studies, that the RATE of increase in temperature is higher now than at any time in the past 4 million years or so.

Anyone that has read more than a day's worth of your posts can only have the following reaction:

https://youtu.be/B907aaDw7Ec# (https://youtu.be/B907aaDw7Ec#)
Video of yawning animals  ;D


Agelbert NOTE:
MKing's problem, though he refuses to see it as a problem, is that he cannot handle the long term implications of his profit over planet modus operandi. That is the REAL real world that he wishes, like all the biosphere math challenged reprobates that populate the fossil fuel industry, to mock due to his embrace of the Wall Street "real world" of "externalized" environmental costs.

He sincerely believes that any altruistic behavior is optional and usually the result of a "fool" and his money being parted. This is THE major flaw in his world view, drilled into him by the Predators 'R' US crowd since he was knee high to a grasshopper.  :(

MKing and his polluter pals ask themselves the following question: Why should they increase their operating costs to satisfy some touchy feely concept of altruistic behavior on behalf of future generations? They reason that, even if they eventually are held accountable by those future generations, no price for wrongful actions can be extracted from the dead. So, the polluters continue doing what they do BECAUSE, as long as they cannot be held accountable in the present from profit over planet, it is "foolish" to act ethically and "prudent" to profit by externalizing pollution costs.  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F2z6in9g.gif&hash=771b084a0f186d9cc14f31defd98a6c90b69b84f) (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Facigar.gif&hash=dc9dccf92c6c88c99611b06c86d92629d69f2978)

At that point they concoct a plethora clever rationalizations (it ain't that bad, there's "no evidence", they are "insulted" that anyone claims they aren't ethical, they "love their families", science "backs them up", if they don't do it, somebody else will, they don't want to "go back to caves", we will "adapt to that", We are Apex Predators so it's "the right way to be and we will destroy you if you get in our way", etc.)  worthy of the legal profession's best doubletalk including, but not limited to, innuendo, veiled threats and goal post moving fallacious debating sophistry, which they then repeat continuously.   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2F2.bp.blogspot.com%2F_9HT4xZyDmh4%2FTOHhxzA0wLI%2FAAAAAAAAEUk%2FoeHDS2cfxWQ%2Fs200%2FSmiley_Angel_Wings_Halo.jpg&hash=13281f1944b60773bf12b29387b70be77cc1fe16)

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Someday he, like the polluting fossil fuel, chemical and mining industries he worships in the name of "progress", (see: We "must pollute or go back to caves" baloney), will learn that the real fools are the ones that peddle his "real world" Wall Street religion. But by then it will probably be too late.   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-200714183337.bmp&hash=fd5a6df63c32bd65dda7b6d93e788647ca3829df)

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"The central problem with an argument that considers the effects of present actions on the future world lies in the fact that those acting today will not exist in the world they are affecting with their actions." - Theresa Morris

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The essay, "What it Means to be Responsible - Reflections on Our Responsibility for the Future" (http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/climate-change/future-earth/msg3867/#msg3867) by Theresa Morris, State University of New York at New Paltz references the work of Fitzpatrick, Jonas, Aristotle and others.

 I have summarized the essay    HERE  (http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/climate-change/future-earth/msg3867/#msg3867) to save the readers time.  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Freading.gif&hash=63e3e644b39258d4c4eedbcdaf322315b1856723)

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on March 09, 2016, 08:08:47 pm
February Shatters Global Temperature Records, Satellite Data Show

Climate Nexus | March 2, 2016 9:50 am

February ​shattered the global ​satellite temperature records to become the warmest ​above average month in recorded history. While not yet confirmed by official datasets, this new finding is particularly notable as it comes from one of the two satellite datasets frequently referenced by climate deniers.

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Temperature departure from normal over Earth in February 2016. Image credit: Roy Spencer, University of Alabama at Huntsville

Last month was likely somewhere between 1.15°C and 1.4°C warmer than average, marking the fifth straight month that global average temperatures were more than 1°C above average. Parts of the Arctic were 16°C above average, reaching temperatures more often seen in June. The region likely saw its lowest February sea ice levels ever, and the heat is only expected to continue through March.

For a deeper dive: News: Washington Post, Think Progress. Commentary: Slate, Eric Holthaus column

http://ecowatch.com/2016/03/02/february-record-hot/
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on March 09, 2016, 09:17:50 pm
David Suzuki: Putting a Price on Carbon

Dr. David Suzuki | March 2, 2016 2:00 pm

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The principle that polluters should pay for the waste they create has led many experts to urge governments to put a price on carbon emissions. One method is the sometimes controversial cap-and-trade. Quebec, California and the European Union have already adopted cap-and-trade and Ontario will join Quebec and California’s system in January 2017. But is it a good way to address climate change?

The program sets an overall limit—a cap—on the amount of greenhouse gas emissions a province can emit. It then tells polluters, such as heavy industry and electricity generators, how many tons of carbon each can release. For every ton, polluters need a permit or “allowance.” So, if a company’s annual limit is 25,000 tons, it would require 25,000 allowances. If a company exceeds its limit, it can purchase additional allowances from another firm that, because of its greater efficiency, has more allowances than it needs. This is the “trade” part of the equation.

https://youtu.be/MbUwhIROLek

Although an individual company can exceed its greenhouse gas limit by purchasing credits, the province as a whole can’t. The overall limit is reduced every year, so if the law is followed, cap-and-trade guarantees annual emissions reductions. The declining cap is the system’s great strength and the way it protects the environment.

How effective is it? Although the answer isn’t straightforward, there’s evidence cap-and-trade played a key role in reducing acid rain in the U.S. The 1990 Clean Air Act allowed power plants to buy and sell the right to emit sulphur dioxide. Since then, U.S. sulphur dioxide concentrations have gone down by more than 75 percent. As Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman wrote in the New York Times, “Acid rain did not disappear as a problem, but it was significantly mitigated.”

Despite this and other successes, some experts are skeptical, arguing that cap-and-trade amounts to little more than a cash grab by government, a tax in everything but name. Others say it’s a mistake to expect climate change can be addressed through markets, when the problem actually requires changing our entire approach to economics, with a commitment to a steady-state economy and an end to the commodification of nature.

Some experts have also noted that the emissions reductions it brings are often modest. A 2015 paper in Canadian Public Policy claimed Quebec’s system “is still too weak to meaningfully address the environmental imperatives as outlined in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s 2014 Fifth Assessment Synthesis Report, in which fully eliminating carbon emissions is the benchmark for long-term policy goals.” From 2013 to 2014, California’s allowance cap went from 162.8 to 159.7 megatons, a drop of less than two percent.

Ontario’s proposed legislation indicates its program will have some great strengths and a number of shortcomings. It will likely have wide coverage, applying limits on most of the province’s emissions, including those from transportation fuels. (California’s system did not initially include these fuels).

Ontario is expected to reduce emissions by more than four percent a year—about twice the initial rate of California—and generate $1.9 billion annually from the plan. That money will be invested in “green” projects throughout the province with the goal of reducing carbon emissions even further.

Ontario’s proposal to give away many allowances to big emitters is less encouraging. The government says it will eventually phase out this free disbursement, but in the meantime millions of dollars in government revenue that could be used to support renewable energy and public transit will be lost.

To keep the bulk of fossil fuels in the ground—as scientific evidence says we must—we need a variety of strategies. Cap-and-trade helps reduce emissions and generates billions of dollars for other strategies to address climate change. It also embodies the polluter pays principle. But it’s not enough on its own.

The David Suzuki Foundation and others have long argued that provinces and the federal government should put a price on carbon, through carbon taxes, cap-and-trade or a combination of both. The urgent need to address global warming means provinces that have adopted cap-and-trade need to strengthen it by ensuring emissions drop faster and polluters pay a price that truly reflects the damage caused by carbon pollution.
http://ecowatch.com/2016/03/02/cap-and-trade-climate-change/
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on March 09, 2016, 09:40:18 pm
https://youtu.be/LJbcWFTBn08
Rare Superbloom of Wildflowers in Death Valley: February 2016

Agelbert NOTE: I read about the deleterious health results of too much rain in desert areas in a book written by Lori Alvord , a lady surgeon who is Navajo.

I recommend it as it covers many subjects that people of conscience should become aware of.

The Scalpel and the Silver Bear: The First Navajo Woman Surgeon Combines Western Medicine and Traditional Healing
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on March 12, 2016, 05:12:12 pm


http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/floods-from-up-to-20-inches-of-rain-create-state-of-emergency-in-louis (http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/floods-from-up-to-20-inches-of-rain-create-state-of-emergency-in-louis)

Floods From up to 20 Inches of Rain Create State of Emergency in Louisiana  :(

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By: Jeff Masters , 4:22 PM GMT on March 11, 2016

A state of emergency has been declared by Governor John Bel Edwards for the entire state of Louisiana after a four-day deluge of rain dumped up to 20" of rain over northern portions of the state. The resulting record flooding has forced a call-up of the National Guard to help evacuate thousands of people from their homes. Five storm-related deaths have been reported since Monday--three in Louisiana and one each in Oklahoma and Texas. Hundreds of roads have been closed, including portions of two major interstate highways. One bridge collapsed on Louisiana Highway 557 in Ouchita Parish...


Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on March 12, 2016, 06:10:54 pm
Dear Citizens, Believe Glacier Studies Published and Give Historical Credit to Scientist Contributors Only if MALE scientists  ;) published them, ignoring allegedly irrelevant not well hung others...  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-200714191329.bmp&hash=4764bfbe6bb0e11ca61102efa97a932a824f47e0)
   
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Climate Deniers Mock ‘Feminist Glaciology’ Study

Climate Denier Roundup | March 9, 2016 9:41 am

There’s a study that’s been floating around lately, causing condescending eye-rolls among the climate deniers and raised eyebrows among even a couple more mainstream voices. The paper is a look at “Glaciers, gender and science” that applies “a feminist glaciology framework” to research, and in light of yesterday being International Women’s Day, we decided it deserves a little defending from the mockery it’s received in pretty much all the coverage except a blog post by the researcher’s university and one story from Oregon’s Register-Guard.

While people like Anthony Watts may be happy leaving the analysis at the level of stereotypes about how “millions of husbands and wives battle over the home thermostat,” this paper is actually an in-depth and well-researched look at how this specific scientific discipline has, like most others, historically ignored the female perspective. Photo credit: (at link) Wikipedia

First, some of the coverage is focusing on the National Science Foundation (NSF) grant that funded the research, but that line of attack ignores the fact that the paper is just one small part of a larger body of glacier research. So while some attempt to make it sound like the study cost taxpayers over $700,000, that’s actually the amount the lead researcher has gotten in total from the NSF throughout his career, not the cost of this study alone. Similarly, $400,000 was for the larger grant from the NSF for the entire glacial science history project, so again that’s way more than was spent on this single study.

Now that the pearl-clutching over the sticker shock has been dealt with, the content of the study can be looked at. As the larger grant is for constructing a history of glaciology, this particular paper looks at how gender has influenced the science of glaciers, finding that women’s voices have not been sufficiently represented. And since the impacts of climate change and glacial retreat fall disproportionately on women through factors like causing women to have to travel further for fresh water as glaciers retreat, those voices are especially important in helping society determine the best ways to adapt to changing conditions.

The paper draws on the literature of feminist political ecology and geography, which examines how resources are used and distributed through a gender-sensitive lens. It then lays out the four aspects of “feminist glaciology:” how gender influences those gathering data and producing knowledge of glaciers, how glacier science is influenced by gender, how historical power dynamics like colonialism coincide with male-centered ways of thinking, and finally the alternative methods that can be employed to provide a more robust and culturally comprehensive understanding of glaciers.

It provides examples of female explorers dating back to the 1770’s, who were hidden from the public and excluded from history, and more recent examples of 20th century female geologists facing marginalization. It wasn’t until the 1990s, for example, that the British allowed women to spend the winter in Antarctica. It also broaches the uncomfortable subject of the widespread sexual harassment of women in science, citing a 2014 finding that 64 percent of women in science had experienced sexual harassment, a rate 3.5 times greater than their male counterparts.

While people like Anthony Watts may be happy leaving the analysis at the level of stereotypes about how “millions of husbands and wives battle over the home thermostat,” this paper is actually an in-depth and well-researched look at how this specific scientific discipline has, like most others, historically ignored the female perspective.

Given how often they complain about being an ignored demographic, deniers might have been better off embracing this study as evidence of the potential for bias in science, instead of dismissing it as wasted funds.  ;)

http://ecowatch.com/2016/03/09/glaciers-gender-science/

Agelbert COMMENT: This is all true and only scratches the surface of the social Darwinist mindset of too many male scientists who refuse to accept their responsibility towards future generations.

These male scientists have embraced a doctrine, rejected by most brilliant female scientists, (and rejected by Darwin himself, by the way) that Homo SAP, because we are self aware "Apex Predators", are "justified" in valuing conscience free planetary resource predation over the Precautionary Principle of science that makes CARING (not a popular subject among male  scientists) sine qua non to the perpetuation of the species.

The classifying of CARING and ALTRUISTIC behavior as "subordinate" to PREDATION in an "apex predator" by these male scientists, is EXACTLY what has allowed the polluters to degrade the biosphere in the name of "progress".

We need more women in science to stop the "let's make another killing" mindset among too many male scientists bought and paid for by corporate polluters.

Caring is not optional if we wish to perpetuate our species. It's time to GROW UP and accept our responsibility to CARE for each other and the biosphere.

Why Dianoia is sine qua non to a Viable Biosphere. (http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/climate-change/future-earth/msg3867/#msg3867)
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on March 12, 2016, 07:24:10 pm
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Snow Geese

Early geese migration might mean early spring

SNIPPET:


Their name is deceiving, but snow geese are actually harbingers of spring, according to USD biology professor David Swanson.

And they are coming early this year.

Snow goose migration typically occurs from mid-March to early April, Swanson said, but this year flocks showed up on Feb. 19.

http://www.argusleader.com/story/news/2016/03/07/early-geese-migration-might-mean-early-spring/81445460/
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on March 12, 2016, 08:32:56 pm
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21 Kids Take on the Feds and Big Oil in Historic Climate Lawsuit

Our Children's Trust | March 10, 2016 9:04 am

SNIPPET:

At Wednesday morning’s historic hearing, U.S. Magistrate Judge Thomas M. Coffin questioned Department of Justice attorney Sean C. Duffy on whether the federal government was allowing tradeoffs between present and future generations.

To illustrate his question, the Judge used an example of a discount rate, and pondered whether the government’s actions were effectively trading future harm for present day benefits.

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the judge asked a flustered Duffy.

The hearing began with Duffy denying the federal government’s duty under the public trust doctrine to protect essential natural resources for the benefit of all present and future generations.

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The judge asked, “Both (water & air) are vital to life, right? ”  ;D

“Yes, your honor,” replied Duffy.

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The Judge also asked if the government could sell the Pacific Ocean to Exxon.

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Hundreds of students, activists, professors and citizens concerned about climate turned out in Eugene, Oregon to support 21 young plaintiffs, ages 8-19, in what Bill McKibben and Naomi Klein call the “most important lawsuit on the planet right now.”    (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F301.gif&hash=0291ed4abf2d80e420d1aa00d4eb3c5dd6bbfb53)


http://ecowatch.com/2016/03/10/climate-lawsuit-21-kids/
 
Agelbert NOTE: The responsibility to care for and preserve the biosphere on behalf of future generations, including returning it to the healthy state it was in over a century ago when we began to severely pollute it, is not optional (unless you are an Empathy Deficit Disordered Evolutionary Dead End).

Our Responsibility to Future Generations (http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/climate-change/future-earth/msg3885/#msg3885)
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on March 12, 2016, 08:43:13 pm
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Democratic Debate Puts Fossil Fuel Industry on Notice

350 Action | March 10, 2016 9:24 am

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Sanders called for a ban on fracking
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Sanders pushed for a price on carbon, while Clinton has not clearly endorsed the policy.
Sanders has refused to take money from the fossil fuel industry, while Clinton has said that she’ll “look into the matter” but has yet to follow up on that pledge. Sanders highlighted his refusal to accept fossil fuel donations on Wednesday, while Clinton stayed silent on the issue.

http://ecowatch.com/2016/03/10/democratic-debate-miami/
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on March 15, 2016, 08:26:55 pm
Scientists: Links Between Climate Change and Extreme Weather Are Clear

Climate Nexus | March 14, 2016 8:49 am

Scientists can now determine with confidence to what extent climate change has impacted some extreme weather events, according to a new report by a high-level panel from the National Academies of Sciences.

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NASA visualization of Super storm Sandy. Photo credit: NASA

The report looks at research papers assessing the connections between global climate change and individual events, and finds that their results—and consequentially, the field of climate attribution—are scientifically valid. Climate attribution has become more common since 2004, as scientists have developed the tools to create complex computer models and assess the historical record. The panel determined that there is highest confidence in studies looking at climate and extreme heat or cold and moderate confidence in findings on drought and extreme rain.

http://ecowatch.com/2016/03/14/link-climate-change-extreme-weather/
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on March 16, 2016, 10:10:02 pm
Ice Shelf Twice the Size of Manhattan Is About to Break Off From Antarctica

Cole Mellino | March 16, 2016 1:22 pm

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Christine Dow captured this image of the Nansen Ice Shelf via helicopter in December 2015. Photo credit: Christine Dow / NASA Earth Observatory

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http://ecowatch.com/2016/03/16/nansen-ice-shelf-antarctica/

Video: The situation is grave. A call for sanity.  (http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/climate-change/pollution/msg4364/#msg4364)

The more I thought about climate change, the more I realized I had to do something other than publish my studies in scientific journals. (http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/climate-change/global-warming-is-with-us/msg3542/#msg3542)

Top Climate Expert Kevin Anderson: Crisis is Worse Than We Think & Scientists Are Self-Censoring to Downplay Risk. (http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/climate-change/global-warming-is-with-us/msg4163/#msg4163)

The biggest threat that climate change has in store for us. (http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/climate-change/global-warming-is-with-us/msg4160/#msg4160) 
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on March 17, 2016, 09:04:14 pm
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Nicolas Torres March 17, 2016

The Obama administration has scrapped plans to auction offshore oil and gas leases in the Atlantic region citing local opposition and conflicts with military use.

The U.S. Department of Interior (DOI) said on Tuesday that it will not open up offshore blocks in the mid and south Atlantic area due to “current market dynamics, strong local opposition and conflicts with competing commercial and military ocean uses.”

“We heard from many corners that now is not the time to offer oil and gas leasing off the Atlantic coast. When you factor in conflicts with national defense, economic activities such as fishing and tourism, and opposition from many local communities, it simply doesn’t make sense to move forward with any lease sales in the coming five years,” Interior Secretary Sally Jewell said. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-080515182559.png&hash=d4dfa952fa0f817bf30a8059a4c88d6fb05ee1bf)

Energy industry group American Petroleum Institute  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F165fs373950.gif&hash=ad797fcc08a061d3ae50ee49ccd9f3d517fb7496)  condemned the decision and said it will stunt the growth of domestic energy supplies. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-030815183114.gif&hash=2bf1553e87e8605311feb874231953d5fb88ee9c)

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“The decision appeases extremists who seek to stop oil and natural gas production which would increase the cost of energy for American consumers and close the door for years to creating new jobs, new investments and boosting energy security,” API President and CEO Jack Gerard said
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The decision marks a reversal from a January 2015 DOI proposal that would have opened up tracts in offshore Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia.

The DOI’s proposed lease sale program currently includes 13 potential sales in six planning areas as part of its 2017 to 2022 oil and gas leasing program.

Ten of those potential sales would be located in the U.S Gulf of Mexico and three other sales would be located off the coast of Alaska.

The Gulf sale proposal will continue a new approach adopted by the agency that calls for two annual lease sales that include all of the Western and Central areas of the Gulf of Mexico as well the Eastern portion of the Gulf not subject to the current Congressional moratorium.

The potential Alaska leases will include one sale each in the Chukchi Sea, Beaufort Sea and Cook Inlet planning areas although the agency will take comment on other options, including an alternative that includes no new leasing and other measures to protect natural resources and reduce conflicts with other ocean uses.

Before the program is finalized and before any lease sales occur, the DOI will consider another round of public input on the proposal and its accompanying Draft Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement.

The agency added that it will continue to work with Canadian officials to evaluate potential lease sales in the Arctic.

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In 2015, Outer Continental Shelf oil and gas leases accounted for about 16 percent of domestic oil production and five percent of domestic natural gas production.   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Facigar.gif&hash=dc9dccf92c6c88c99611b06c86d92629d69f2978)  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.freesmileys.org%2Fsmileys%2Fsmiley-devil12.gif&hash=d1822754cefdd0f77369dacd157d00f5f8d3fff9)

http://petroglobalnews.com/2016/03/interior-department-rejects-atlantic-coast-drilling-plan/
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on March 19, 2016, 04:40:08 pm
Earth Hour 2016  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Fmog.gif&hash=08e6f04144781466148f6693be6dc3451a322669)

https://youtu.be/huu4QGhMfXE


SORRY 
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https://youtu.be/eRLJscAlk1M



HOW the TRUTH stated ABOVE has been KEPT FROM YOU by people in the FOSSIL FUEL INDUSTRY/GOVERNMENT  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.freesmileys.org%2Fsmileys%2Fsmiley-devil19.gif&hash=6eeb0dbc471743691793f5130640fdcbd1f77b5c)
https://youtu.be/UeVy3zPDrt0
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on March 22, 2016, 03:59:00 pm
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Note that the above scenarios assume that no geoengineering will take place.

The 2.3°C warming used in above image isn't the highest figure offered by the NASA site. An even higher figure of 2.51°C warming can be obtained by selecting a 250 km smoothing radius for the on land data.

 When adding the 0.3°C that temperatures rose before 1900, the rise from the start of the industrial revolution is 2.81°C (5.06°F), as illustrated by the image below.

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The image also shows that this is the average rise. At specific locations, it is as much as 16.6°C (30°F) warmer than at the start of the industrial revolution.


 Furthermore, temperatures are higher on the Northern Hemisphere than on the Southern Hemisphere. This is illustrated by the image below showing NASA temperature anomalies for January 2016 (black) and February 2016 (red) on land on the Northern Hemisphere. The data show that it was 2.36°C (4.25°F) warmer in February 2016 compared to 1951-1980.
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How much of the rise can be attributed to El Niño? The added trendlines constitute one way to handle variability such as caused by El Niño and La Niña events and they can also indicate how much warming could be expected to eventuate over the years to come.

 The February trendline also indicates that the temperature was 0.5°C lower in 1900 than in 1951-1980, so the total rise from 1900 to February 2016 is 2.86°C (5.15°F). Together with a 0.3°C rise before 1900, this adds up to a rise on land on the Northern Hemisphere of 3.16°C (5.69°F) from pre-industrial levels to February 2016. Most people on Earth live on land on the Northern Hemisphere. In other words, most people are already exposed to a temperature rise that is well above any guardrails that nations at the Paris Agreement pledged would not be crossed.

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Full article Sunday, March 13, 2016 Article:
http://arctic-news.blogspot.com/

Agelbert NOTE: Don't worry about this... According to the deniers, it's "El Niño" ... IOW, "nothing to see here. Move along, citizen."

And don't forget to BUY, BUY, BUY fossil fuels so you can burn them and provide more GOOD CO2 FOOD for plants...

And, OF COURSE, BUY, BUY, BUY fossil fuel industry stocks because they are well priced now due to, uh, challenging market conditions TOTALLY unrelated to those pesky, irrelevant, over subsidized, green scam (etc.) renewable energy technologies...

The fossil fuel industry corporations are CERTAINLY NOT welfare queen subsidy grabbing, government corrupting, democracy destroying, politician buying, court corrupting, greedy, pollution cost  externalizing, biosphere math challenged, conscience free, lying, double talking, Orwellian propaganda pushing crooks! SNIFF! They are, and have ALWAYS been, our loyal servants, working their poor fingers to the bone, just trying help us out while they sacrifice for us unworthy and ungrateful eco-leftists...

Climate change catastrophe? Waddayoutalkingabout? What part of NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG do you not understand?

We must not get hysterical or be chicken little nervous nellies. But it is TRUE, TRUE, TRUE that we are all gonna die without fossil fuels while we are returning to the caves from lack of the only TRULY  COMPETITIVE energy source (hydrocarbons, OF COURSE).

Stop trying to get in the way of fossil fuel industry profit over planet swag PROGRESS...

If I missed anything, I'm sure the deniers workin' hahd to bring us the truth, da trut and nuttin' but da trut  will provide some more "irrefutable" data with links to dis, dat and the other fossil fuel industry propaganda web sites. scientifically peer reviewed by at least one bought and paid for scientist...


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Are you tired of facts? Do you think all the concern about climate change is just a bunch of hooey? Then this newscast is for you. See bald eagles, coal mining, unpatriotic polar bears, politics and even a frozen pizza on this satirical episode of Climate Change Denier News. (http://www.theguardian.com/environment/video/2015/jul/03/climate-change-denier-news-frozen-pizza-senator-satirical-video)


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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on March 23, 2016, 07:20:37 pm
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Our leaders thought fracking would save our climate. They were wrong. Very wrong.

By Bill McKibben

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Howarth and Ingraffea  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F19.gif&hash=3f9f2fc2285bc756137e21463bc2a4c420b15ac3) began producing a series of papers claiming that if even a small percentage of the methane leaked—maybe as little as 3 percent—then fracked gas would do more climate damage than coal. And their preliminary data showed that leak rates could be at least that high: that somewhere between 3.6 and 7.9 percent of methane gas from shale-drilling operations actually escapes into the atmosphere.

To say that no one in power wanted to hear this would be an understatement (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Ffly.gif&hash=b0526635e8b47d751b0e429925d73d78f9d79fc6). The two scientists were roundly attacked (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Fswear1.gif&hash=87347674f9297191f3f8a447208170617da4caf6) by the industry; one trade group   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-200714191329.bmp&hash=4764bfbe6bb0e11ca61102efa97a932a824f47e0) called their study the “Ivory Tower’s latest fact-free assault on shale gas exploration.” Most of the energy establishment joined in. An MIT team, for instance, had just finished an industry-funded  ;D report that found “the environmental impacts of shale development are challenging but manageable”   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-220216203149.gif&hash=bd184b6edccce4045e246847a0c84e89bd5a18b6); one of its lead authors, the ur-establishment energy expert Henry Jacoby  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.whydidyouwearthat.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2011%2F01%2Ftumblr_l7j9nik8Wf1qaxxwjo1_5001.jpeg&hash=1ddbeb4da161820b2cf932e6f5f740e80f5bada6), described the Cornell research as “very weak.” One of its other authors, Ernest Moniz (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-241013183046.jpeg&hash=51c9c4f17e747698c76c65c7c1814eff4f32c400), would soon become the US secretary of energy; in his nomination hearings in 2013, he lauded the “stunning increase” in natural gas as a “revolution” and pledged to increase its use domestically. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.freesmileys.org%2Fsmileys%2Fsmiley-devil19.gif&hash=6eeb0dbc471743691793f5130640fdcbd1f77b5c)

The trouble for the fracking establishment  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F290.gif&hash=38949e35cf58eaa4218b5a8176767c806d2f8537) was that new research kept backing up Howarth and Ingraffea. In January 2013, for instance, aerial overflights of fracking basins in Utah found leak rates as high as 9 percent. “We were expecting to see high methane levels, but I don’t think anybody really comprehended the true magnitude of what we would see,” said the study’s director. But such work was always piecemeal, one area at a time, while other studies—often conducted with industry-supplied data—came up with lower numbers.

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That’s why last month’s Harvard study came as such a shock. It used satellite data from across the country over a span of more than a decade to demonstrate that US methane emissions had spiked 30 percent since 2002.(https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fmedia.tumblr.com%2Fc6492e4b47cfdbd50e74d285fde3c53e%2Ftumblr_inline_mm3g4yCaZc1qz4rgp.gif&hash=4b1cad5ea13f7430a0c01f3065039d21d78da398)(https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fmedia.tumblr.com%2F302d5f12cc0718fa860d4eb3560c6813%2Ftumblr_inline_mr7yzosKkc1qz4rgp.gif&hash=959ec57a0f0c635329f6a25ee0df1224254728b7)

The EPA had been insisting throughout that period that methane emissions were actually falling, but it was clearly wrong—on a massive scale. In fact, emissions “are substantially higher than we’ve understood,” EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy admitted in early March.

The Harvard study wasn’t designed to show why US methane emissions were growing—in other parts of the world, as new research makes clear, cattle and wetlands seem to be causing emissions to accelerate. But the spike that the satellites recorded coincided almost perfectly with the era when fracking went big-time.

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To make matters worse, during the same decade, experts had become steadily more worried about the effects of methane in any quantity on the atmosphere.

Everyone agrees that, molecule for molecule, methane traps far more heat than CO2—but exactly how much wasn’t clear. One reason the EPA estimates of America’s greenhouse-gas emissions showed such improvement was because the agency, following standard procedures, was assigning a low value to methane   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2F2.bp.blogspot.com%2F_9HT4xZyDmh4%2FTOHhxzA0wLI%2FAAAAAAAAEUk%2FoeHDS2cfxWQ%2Fs200%2FSmiley_Angel_Wings_Halo.jpg&hash=13281f1944b60773bf12b29387b70be77cc1fe16)   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-051113192052.png&hash=93c42ef9f18fc5d9da50fd91fc19f70009f95f85) and measuring its impact over a 100-year period. But a methane molecule lasts only a couple of decades in the air, compared with centuries for CO2. That’s good news, in that methane’s effects are transient—and very bad news because that transient but intense effect happens right now, when we’re breaking the back of the planet’s climate.

The EPA’s old chemistry and 100-year time frame assigned methane a heating value of 28 to 36 times that of carbon dioxide; a more accurate figure, says Howarth, is between 86 and 105 times the potency of CO2 over the next decade or two.

If you combine Howarth’s estimates of leakage rates and the new standard values for the heat-trapping potential of methane, then the picture of America’s total greenhouse-gas emissions over the last 15 years looks very different: Instead of peaking in 2007 and then trending downward, as the EPA has maintained, our combined emissions of methane and carbon dioxide have gone steadily and sharply up during the Obama years, Howarth says.

We closed coal plants and opened methane leaks, and the result is that things have gotten worse.

Full article
with irrefutable hard scientific data (that the liars and crooks working for the fossil fuel industry will, of course, rush to try to deny with mendacious propaganda  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-200714191329.bmp&hash=4764bfbe6bb0e11ca61102efa97a932a824f47e0)).

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http://www.thenation.com/article/global-warming-terrifying-new-chemistry/

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on March 23, 2016, 09:08:19 pm
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Whistling by the graveyard of climate change

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Mar. 22, 2016, 6:55 pm by Dan Jones


Editor’s note: This commentary is by Dan Jones, who is a managing partner in Net Zero Vermont and a former chair of the Montpelier Energy Advisory Committee.


A friend of mine says a lot of Vermonters are about to get a rude awakening over the next couple of weeks as the traditional sugaring season disappoints. Maybe you and your friends are sugar makers. Does the bare ground bush you are tapping look anything like a normal March? More like mid April, I’d say. How soon before the bud gets into the sap? Regular winters like this could ruin the maple sugar industry. Other friends wonder how the businesses people who depend on winter tourism could survive another snow-bare winter. By mid-December, only eight of Vermont’s 20 alpine downhill skiing resorts and two of its 30 nordic cross-country resorts had opened. On Christmas Eve, the temperature in Montpelier was 68 degrees.

I hear activists and climate scientists ringing the warning bells, but who else is doing so? Everywhere I turn, there are people who don’t want to think about our changing climate. Some people whistle by the graveyard proclaiming that this warm winter is simply a one-time event created by a strong El Nino. They seem to have not noticed that the warmest ever winter we’ve just witnessed was simply following a growing trend of warmest-ever summers, springs and fall seasons.

If I try to talk about rational responses to our challenging future these folks perform the psychic equivalent of covering their ears because they don’t want to be “bummed out by my negative thinking.” They aren’t prepared to face the overwhelming challenges of rapid climate change, which will include increased storm wreckage of our fragile infrastructure and pervasive economic disruption.

 It’s time to start making painful choices if we want to develop a Vermont that is going to allow our children, and theirs, to survive and prosper in a globally warmed world.   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.desismileys.com%2Fsmileys%2Fdesismileys_0293.gif&hash=b1af4868ed8f18c30e637f8cbcb79002f6f71039)


It turns out that there’s a psychological condition that explains this refusal to deal with the consequences any looming emergency such as global warming: it’s called “normalcy bias.” According to Wikipedia, normalcy bias is a mental state that people enter when facing a catastrophe: “It causes people to underestimate both the possibility of a disaster and its possible effects. This may result in situations where people fail to adequately prepare and, on a larger scale, the failure of governments to include the populace in its disaster preparations.” We think that because a disaster has never occurred, that it won’t; and when one does occur, we fail to react appropriately.

My wife is also curious about this bias. She is a writer who is currently collaborating on a book about stopping epidemics. A big question in the book is: Why can’t people and governments take measures to control the threats of a pandemic before it becomes a disaster? Medical science knows what to do with these challenges, but politicians refuse to act; just look at the painful history of the Reagan and Bush administrations’ criminal refusals to deal with the exploding national and international AIDS crisis.

I seriously believe we are facing a worse and more pervasive emergency in global warming  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.desismileys.com%2Fsmileys%2Fdesismileys_1593.gif&hash=628238f2fc26695937f6e97b91b050976065743b).


Vermont’s collective response to this crisis is going to require a lot more adaptation than we are comfortable accepting at the moment. Only a couple of years ago, I remember seeing a maps that showed how Vermont would have a climate like North Carolina by the end of this century. The winter we just passed winter in Vermont looked more like what’s normal in West Virginia. According to a new Australian study just published, we could find ourselves in a North Carolina climate by the end of this decade. A few more of such winters will wreak havoc on our state’s economics and pastoral lifestyle. Moreover, as the South and West get hotter and dryer, people will start to move north en masse. We don’t have the housing or infrastructure to support waves of climate refugees, and we don’t even want to discuss this possibility.

It’s time to overcome our normalcy bias and start looking ahead to a more challenging tomorrow. I find it unimaginable after all the climate change challenges of the past few years such as Irene, Sandy and this winter, we can’t understand that tomorrow will no longer look like yesterday. It’s time to start making painful choices if we want to develop a Vermont that is going to allow our children, and theirs, to survive and prosper in a globally warmed world.

If we were rational, we would immediately pass a carbon tax for both heating fuel and gas of about $100 per ton of CO2. We need this tax, and neither because instituting it would be a virtuous model for other states, nor would it help stop the warming. We need the money to immediately invest in our infrastructure and our efficiency so we will be prepared to meet momentous new demands looming in front of us. Along with that, our state and institutions must immediately shift away from investment in fossil fuel stocks because the more coal and oil we dig out of the ground, the more destruction we’ll sow and reap. As the damage becomes clearer, the return on these investments will plummet. Such fossil fuel disinvestment will allow us to preserve that capital as the real cost of carbon pollution becomes obvious to everyone.

Global warming is not happening in the future; it’s happening now, all around us. A couple of generations ago, Vermonters had no problem with sacrificing today to build a better tomorrow for their children. We need to remember those value of sacrifice and frugality, before our children curse our names because we failed to believe a crisis was upon us before it was too late.

http://vtdigger.org/2016/03/22/dan-jones-whistling-by-the-graveyard-of-climate-change/

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on March 24, 2016, 03:21:30 pm
03/23/2016 03:10 PM     

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SustainableBusiness.com News

This spring, huge rallies and protests are planned around the world against fossil fuels and to restore Democracy in the US.

On April 16-18, Democracy Awakening takes place in Washington DC.


We can't protect the environment without democracy, and environmental groups are joining with activists across the social spectrum to preserve our voice, such as labor, students and civil rights advocates.

"Corporate interests are holding our democracy hostage   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-200714183337.bmp&hash=fd5a6df63c32bd65dda7b6d93e788647ca3829df). Voter suppression is running rampant   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-200714183337.bmp&hash=fd5a6df63c32bd65dda7b6d93e788647ca3829df), fossil fuel money is warping our electoral process and now (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-200714183337.bmp&hash=fd5a6df63c32bd65dda7b6d93e788647ca3829df), leaders in Congress are even blocking fair consideration of a Supreme Court nominee (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-200714183337.bmp&hash=fd5a6df63c32bd65dda7b6d93e788647ca3829df) ," says Rachel Rye Butler of Greenpeace.

Democracy Awakening is about: 

•Restoring Voting rights by stopping voter suppression.


This is the first presidential election where state voter suppression laws are in force, making it much harder for students, minorities and older people to vote.

In Texas, for example, a special state-issued ID is required to vote, a drivers license or a student ID won't work. In North Carolina and Wisconsin, university students can't vote if their families live elsewhere, and so many campus voting places have been eliminated that it can take hours to even find a place to vote.
 
•Getting Money Out of politics through campaign finance reform, transparency and overturning Citizens United

Without fossil fuel interests (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-200714191329.bmp&hash=4764bfbe6bb0e11ca61102efa97a932a824f47e0) knocking on every Congressperson's door, a renewable energy economy is within our reach, for example.

They are calling for:

•Voting Rights Advancement Act: to restore and increase protection against voting discrimination.

•Voter Empowerment Act: to modernize voter registration and ensure equal access to voting for all.

•Democracy For All Amendment: would overturn Supreme Court decisions like Citizens United and limit influence of money in politics.

•Government By the People Act/Fair Elections Now Act: would amplify small contributions from everyday Americans.

May 4-15, Break Free From Fossil Fuels

People are mobilizing across the world to demand a rapid transition to renewable energy, and an end to taking fossil fuels out of the ground.

Globally coordinated mass actions are planned in the UK, Germany, Spain, Turkey, Israel, Australia, Brazil, Indonesia, Philippines Nigeria, South Africa, Canada and across the US.

They plan to occupy major fossil fuel sites, such as the largest coal mine in South Wales, where another may be built next door.

In the US, there will be "mass trespass at fracking sites", blockades at oil refineries and trains carrying oil.

The goal is to disrupt the power of the fossil fuel industry through "a series of peaceful, escalating actions...targeting the world's most dangerous and unnecessary fossil fuel projects," says organizer 350.org.

"The fossil fuel industry faces an unprecedented crisis - from collapsing prices, a new global climate deal, and an ever-growing movement calling for change.  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Fmaniac.gif&hash=9ecf389a7da25db958f3f63461cbb45a4b316c4e)

We have never had a better chance in history to break free from fossil fuels and build a just transition to clean and renewable energy," they say.

"There are no major economic or technical barriers to a future supported by renewable energy. Any new infrastructure built to support fossil fuel expansion, such as coal mines, power plants, oil rigs and export terminals will be a waste of money and further lock us into a path to irreversible climate change," states Arif Fiyanto, Coal Campaigner at Greenpeace Indonesia.

http://www.sustainablebusiness.com/index.cfm/go/news.display/id/26586 (http://www.sustainablebusiness.com/index.cfm/go/news.display/id/26586)

Agelbert NOTE: Yes, the goons for the fossil fuel industry in the USA and abroad will be waiting for the protesters defending democracy and demanding the end of profit over planet. Yes, the "authorities", the media and the police will ensure the responsible citizens of this world present will be demonized, brutalized, tased, shot at and, when they aren't arrested, even murdered.

AND THAT VIOLENCE will spell the final doom of the fossil fuel fascist pigs EVERYWHERE. Of course the bought and paid for media will do their damnedest to prevent those who died from being given martyr status. They will fail.

And for those of you clever bastards working for the fossil fuel industry that think your fascist intimidation tactics will work (as usual), let me remind you that the people you have hired to do your murder and mayhem will overreach in their violence. If you think you can "damage control" the fallout from the violence your goons love to dish out, you are going to be very disappointed. All those thousands of fossil fuel industry employees just fired and police with families experiencing the health downsides of petroleum pollution are not going to remain "loyal" to the profit over planet "business model".

Everyday people will WELCOME severe energy disruption and rolling black outs just to see the end of subsidy swag and the pollution buck passing from the fossil fuel fascists jumping on the Chapter 11 "bankruptcy" wagon.

The people finally KNOW that the fossil fuel industry Modus Operandi has NEVER been abut providing low priced energy and has ALWAYS been about competitor destruction through government corruption based monopoly price control.

The fossil fuel industry has lost the support of the people. When that happens to any industry or government, no matter how effective its police state tactics are, it FALLS. The quislings in government, Wall Street and Main Street will rush to the support of the fossil fuel profit over planet "business model", but they will not be able to prevent the FALL of the fossil fuel industry/GOVERNMENT. 

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TWO historical examples of what is about to happen: 

Truman wasn't the only president that pushed the use of nuclear weapons. Eisenhower wanted to nuke North Korea in the 1950s and Nixon wanted to nuke North Korea in 1969 as a "scare the commies" tactic to end the Viet Nam War. Eisenhower telegraphed his intent with a nukes=bullets speech that caused such an uproar he had to hastily shelve his "nuke bullets" (as you can see he, really did not believe the bomb was such an "awful thing" as he claimed). Nixon was convinced by the MASSES of people around the White House and across the country demanding an end to the Viet Nam War that he would be run out of office if he executed his nuke barbarity (I will provide documented evidence of what I just said to anyone interested.  ;D).

The fossil fuel industry, a business that became powerful and influential through corruption and violence, with a stranglehold on governments all over the world, is about to learn a lesson (see: French Revolution times 1000).

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on March 27, 2016, 04:51:26 pm
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The challenges of an observant scientist in a happy talk propagandized world.  :P


James Hansen: Dangerous Sea Level Rise Will Occur in Decades, Not Centuries

Lauren McCauley, Common Dreams | March 23, 2016 11:02 am

Dr. James Hansen, the former NASA scientist who is widely credited with being one of the first to raise concerns about human-caused global warming, is a co-author of a new report predicting that the world will undergo devastating sea level rise within mere decades—not centuries, as previously thought.

The report, published Tuesday in the open-access journal Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, paints an even bleaker picture of the planet’s future, positing that continued high fossil fuel emissions will “increase powerful storms” and drive sea-level rise of “several meters over a timescale of 50 to 150 years.”

Hansen, who now serves as the director of the Climate Science Awareness and Solutions program at Columbia University Earth Institute, published the findings along with an international team of 18 researchers and academics.

As the abstract states, the predictions “differ fundamentally from existing climate change assessments.” For example, the United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in 2013 predicted three feet of sea level rise by 2100 if greenhouse gas emissions continue unabated.

A draft version of Hansen’s paper released last year provoked wide debate among climate scientists.
Nonetheless, Michael Mann, a renowned climate scientist with the University of Pennsylvania, who is among those questioning some of the report’s “extraordinary” claims, told the New York Times, “I think we ignore James Hansen at our peril.”

The peer-edited report examines growing ice melt from Antarctica and Greenland and studies how that melting has historically amplified “feedbacks that increase subsurface ocean warming and ice shelf melting.” Taking into consideration “rapid, large, human-made climate forcing,” the study predicts a much more accelerated rate of sea level rise of several meters, beyond that which humanity is capable of adapting to.

Or, as Hansen put it,
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“We’re in danger of handing young people a situation that’s out of their control.”
These staggering claims come as climate scientists continue to reel from the frightening speed at which the Earth is warming. On Monday, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO, issued a report warning that climate change is occurring at an “alarming rate” and that world leaders must act to curb greenhouse gases now, “before we pass the point of no return.”

In a video released alongside the new report, Hansen, who left his position at NASA in 2013 so that he could fully commit himself to fighting climate change, says that the paper explores the consequences of continued greenhouse gas emissions. These include “superstorms stronger than any seen in modern times,” sea level rise that will erase “all coastal cities,” and, finally, “how soon we will pass points of no return.”

Watch here:

https://youtu.be/JP-cRqCQRc8

http://ecowatch.com/2016/03/23/james-hansen-sea-level-rise/ (http://ecowatch.com/2016/03/23/james-hansen-sea-level-rise/)
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on March 28, 2016, 02:32:45 pm
Bernie Sanders Giving The Establishment A Headache  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.after5catalog.com%2Fimages%2Fproducts%2F125-08110B1.jpg&hash=0853933859e224d8ffb59f912d6235849f313954)(https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Ftissue.gif&hash=f8d05db8e11569882e0effbdd719e2b2e95c6785) (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Fshame.gif&hash=88b5b0c8644862ef4930e3c7e3556db6c3bf600f)

https://youtu.be/ypnRNdJeuc4

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Cenk in rare form:"We're not knuckleheads, we're not low-information voters who got fed out talking points from your corporate media..."

Love me a good Cenk rant.

Cenk gets it. The Bernays style hired persuaders don't. When the consent of the governed can no longer be engineered, good things happen for we-the-people.

The following is an example of the failure of hired persuaders (i.e. consent engineers   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-311013201314.png&hash=0715eb72631014310634eb56176ff860c6d542f6)) to successfully bullshit some people.
Exxon Mobil must give shareholders climate vote, regulator rules (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fcliparts.co%2Fcliparts%2FBig%2FEgq%2FBigEgqBMT.png&hash=e7eec62f009cdd686ce795fad0a53c6befe748e9)

24/03/2016
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US oil major, alleged to have lied about the risks of global warming, has been ordered to consider shareholder resolution at next AGM

SNIPPET:

As SEC Mandates Climate-Risk Vote for Exxon Shareholders: Exxon Mobil must allow its shareholders to vote on whether the oil giant should fully disclose risks from climate change, according to a decision from the US Securities and Exchange Commission.

Exxon had argued that its existing climate-related information was sufficient, but the SEC determined that those reports are not enough to inform shareholders and protect their interests.

Exxon shareholders have never approved a climate change-related proposal before, but environmentalists cheered the decision as an important step towards acknowledging investors' growing concerns about climate risk.

http://www.climatechangenews.com/2016/03/24/exxon-mobil-must-give-shareholders-climate-vote-regulator-rules/
 
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on March 31, 2016, 11:22:46 pm
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A 1981 EXXON Graph:
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http://wattsupwiththat.com/2015/10/23/what-did-exxonmobil-know-and-when-did-they-know-it-part-deux-same-as-it-ever-was/

03/30/2016 12:41 PM
           
20 States Join to Prosecute(https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F2mo5pow.gif&hash=995f9f6c08dcd54f18425f2bfbe138901cf052b1) Fossil Fuel Industry (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Fswear1.gif&hash=87347674f9297191f3f8a447208170617da4caf6)on Climate Change

SustainableBusiness.com News

The" Exxon Knew" campaign launched by NY State Attorney General Schneiderman last year, is turning into in the first serious attempt to bring those responsible for climate change to justice. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.smiley-lol.com%2Fsmiley%2Fexagerent%2Fpolice%2Fenprison.gif&hash=4912c6e4685052e7a6084b2d6740020437d7dae4) (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.smiley-lol.com%2Fsmiley%2Fexagerent%2Fpolice%2Fboulet.gif&hash=d7b4519fc185b666c4c74a5bc63d4d0a70c0ad21)  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.desismileys.com%2Fsmileys%2Fdesismileys_2194.gif&hash=5a6b9202f44f22d5ce751c5414683a0944e92e0c)   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.desismileys.com%2Fsmileys%2Fdesismileys_6869.gif&hash=f94938471d343a09155d1f60eefacdb2ceab2457)

Attorney Generals from 20 states have joined to prosecute ExxonMobil and the fossil industry. Given the size and power of the industry, states have to work together to bring them to justice.

The coalition currently consists of: California, Connecticut, District of Columbia, Illinois, Iowa, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, Virginia, Vermont  ;D, Washington state, and US Virgin Islands. 

Many of these states are also working together to transition away from fossil fuels.
"Fossil fuel companies that deceived investors and the public about the dangers of climate change should be, must be held accountable," says Maura Healey, Massachusetts Attorney General (AG).

"It is troubling that, as the polar caps melt, there are companies that are looking at that as an opportunity to go and drill, to go and get more oil. How selfish can you be?," asks Earl Walker, US Virgin Islands AG. "Your product is destroying this Earth, and you want to do what? Destroy the planet further?"  ???

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It's About Time  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fcliparts.co%2Fcliparts%2FBig%2FEgq%2FBigEgqBMT.png&hash=e7eec62f009cdd686ce795fad0a53c6befe748e9)

We've been asking ourselves this question for decades. Over that time, we have witnessed the hundreds of millions of dollars pour in to confuse the public and to keep legislators on the side of misinformation.

It started in November, when NY State AG Eric Schneiderman began investigating Exxon when reports showed it was well aware of the danger of climate change in the late 1970s. Exxon not only hid the information from lawmakers and the public, it spent at least $100 million to confuse society on the subject to keep its profits flowing.

"Climate change is a hoax." "The climate is always changing." "Temperatures haven't risen in 15 years." "Scientists aren't certain about climate change"[/size] are among the many misinformed statements that have been repeated so often by politicians that the public still ranks climate low on their list of concerns.  >:(

And all this happens while Arctic ice is at its lowest level ever; we're losing the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets; the ocean is acidifying, killing marine life and coral reefs; and animals and plants are moving north as fast as possible. Then there's the intensifying droughts, floods, wildfires - none of this bothers anyone?  ???

That's what the power of misinformation has accomplished thanks to the fossil fuel industry, which includes Exxon and peers, trade associations, and the Koch Brothers' vast network.

"Big Polluters have done everything in their power to deny climate change, it is time for our justice system to take back the climate debate," says Annie Leonard, Executive Director of Greenpeace USA.

AGs are using the tobacco trials from the 1990s as a guide. It was attorney general investigations that resulted in high profile lawsuits that stopped Big Tobacco's lies about the dangers of their products. AGs were able to shut down their front groups and force the industry to pay billons of dollars for their deception.

As the world's second biggest polluter, Exxon alone is responsible for 3.1% of the greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

A parallel effort is underway in the Philippines, and teenagers are taking states and the feds to court for their lack of urgent action on climate.


California Law Would Help

In California, the Climate Science Truth & Accountability Act (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-210614221847.gif&hash=54129e3b65760aaddc6f2d7f42b34a7d839d2f27)   has been introduced by Sen. Ben Allen (D-Santa Monica).  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F19.gif&hash=3f9f2fc2285bc756137e21463bc2a4c420b15ac3)


If passed, the law would make it much easier to prosecute climate crimes. It extends the statute of limitations under California's Unfair Competition Law from four to 30 years, allowing prosecutors to file civil charges for fossil company activities going back decades, explains InsideClimate News.

Read our article, Corporations Step Up For Climate, As Exxon is Exposed (http://www.sustainablebusiness.com/index.cfm/go/news.display/id/26482)
 
Check out this website:

Website: http://exxonknew.org/

http://www.sustainablebusiness.com/index.cfm/go/news.display/id/26589

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on April 01, 2016, 08:12:19 pm
2016 Runaway Climate Change * Leading Scientist * Economy Collapse * Troubling


Published on Mar 4, 2016
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The latest on the huge temp jumps in 2015 and in the last few months. From looking at the data,we are past 1.5C average global temp ,getting close to a 2C temp. Exponential function is running the show now.

Leading scientist lays out for you the connections. The only truth teller, Professor Guy McPherson.

https://youtu.be/YK3aVa6tMZE


Accelerated modern human–induced species losses: Entering the sixth mass extinction
Gerardo Ceballos,  Paul R. Ehrlich,  Anthony D. Barnosky,  Andrés García, Robert M. Pringle and  Todd M. Palmer + Author Affiliations

Science Advances 19 Jun 2015: Vol. 1, no. 5, e1400253 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.1400253
http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/1/5/e1400253

About Gerardo Ceballos:

Professor Ceballos work has been diverse, and its impact clear. He started the Long Term Ecological Research Network Chapter in Mexico, and has the longest (22 years) population and community ecology study of small mammals in the Neotropics.

He proposed, for the first time, that prairie dogs were keystone species, which now is a well accepted fact and is being used as one of the main arguments for the conservation of prairie dogs and associated species in North America.

He has carried out the longest and more complete study on jaguars, and recently he finished the first jaguar census at a National scale, showing that there are roughly 4200 jaguars in Mexico. This pioneering work is leading to implement conservation actions to save this species from extinction.

Research Articles ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES



Agelbert NOTE: So, what exactly, is causing the unacceptably high rate of extinctions?   ???

Some think the factory style meat operations are more of a factor than CO2 pollution from fossil fuels. Of course Big meat and Big Ag are contributing factors in a fragmentation of human agency goosing extinctions. But there is simply no equivalence.

Here are the facts:


Extinctions ABOVE the background rate, are caused overwhelmingly as a result of habitat loss.

Habitat destruction is an important cause of known extinctions. As deforestation proceeds in tropical forests, this promises to become THE cause of mass extinctions caused by human activity. (http://www.snre.umich.edu/~dallan/nre220/outline6.htm)

What causes habitat loss?  ???

The above reference specifically FIRST mentions the food and habit needs.

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"All species have specific food and habitat needs."

Then it goes on to point out, how the activity, as a result of the increasing human population's needs, destroys wildlife habitat.
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"The more specific these needs and localized the habitat, the greater the vulnerability of species to loss of habitat to agricultural land, livestock, roads and cities."

Yes, we humans have been going to town on wildlife with hunting, fishing and agricultural land, livestock, roads and cities for centuries. But it wasn't just the population that increased rapidly after 1800.


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Atmospheric CO2 - Increase Since 1800
Mauna Loa Observatory | NOAA-ESRL Data
As of Sept. 13 - 19, 2015 + 120.61 ppm

http://co2now.org/Current-CO2/CO2-Now/weekly-data-atmospheric-co2.html

Although this study is limited to birds, and the study clearly states that they are not projecting the numbers to all species, I present it to you so you can see the difference between PRE-1800 extinction rates and POST-1800 extinction rates.

The number of known extinctions before 1800 is increasing as taxonomists describe new species from skeletal remains. (ii) One should calculate extinction rates over the years since taxonomists described the species. Most bird species were described only after 1850. (iii) Some species are probably extinct; there is reluctance to declare them so prematurely.

Thus corrected, recent extinction rates are ≈100 E/MSY.
In the last decades, the rate is <50 E/MSY, but would be 150 E/MSY were it not for conservation efforts.

Increasing numbers of extinctions are on continents, whereas previously most were on islands.

We predict a 21st century rate of ≈1,000 E/MSY.

Extinction threatens 12% of bird species; another 12% have small geographical ranges and live where human actions rapidly destroy their habitats.

If present forest losses continue, extinction rates will reach 1,500 E/MSY by the century’s end. Invasive species, expanding human technologies, and global change will harm additional species.

Human impacts on the rates of recent, present, and future bird extinctions (http://www.pnas.org/content/103/29/10941.full)

The CO2 pollution alone (never mind the plethora of other industrial pollutants being spewed 24/7 by coal burning power plants, chemical manufacturers, mining operations, drilling operations, fracking and heavy industry) has been proven to overheat the atmosphere, threatening land animals, increase the acidity of the oceans and also overheat them.

Unless the species in this 4C plus planet, that CO2 pollution GUARANTEES us, do not have specific needs that are localized, like the extremophiles, they are far more habitat loss threatened, (see: ALL vertebrates) by CO2 caused deforestation, desertification, acidification and degradation of arable land than from loss of habitat due to agricultural land and livestock. Ocean dead zones form fertilizer runoff are a drop in the bucket compared with the effect of acidification on mollusk shells.

Yes, if we cleaned up our CO2 polluting act, a rather tall order considering the technological difficulty of trying to lower the parts per million (PPM) count in the global atmosphere (The U.S. Navy does it on their submarines - and they DON'T have the technology to keep it lower than 7,000-8,000 PPM! - Image the cost of doing that in the entire atmosphere to get down to 280-290PPM. The technology Has not been invented.), humans would still be causing wildlife extinctions due to our agricultural and animal husbandry caused habitat destruction.

But without the CO2 pollution, the extinction rate drops well below the present Permian extinction rate.

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on April 01, 2016, 08:17:54 pm
Dr. Michael Mann - Are We In Runaway Climate Change?  ???

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Dr. Michael Mann, Earth System Science Center-Penn State University/Dire Predictions: Understanding Climate Change (2nd edition) joins Thom. We had all better hope these scientists are wrong about the planet’s future. Scientists now say that ice melt in Greenland and Antarctica could speed up faster than we previously thought. But that's not just going to raise sea levels - it could drive storms stronger than anything humans have ever seen.    (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-300714025456.bmp&hash=f4e4a260bd60d3f34ca86fed93c47d5fb4117cfd)


https://youtu.be/FYztqmno6jw

http://www.thomhartmann.com/bigpicture/dr-michael-mann-are-we-runaway-climate-change
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on April 01, 2016, 09:40:45 pm
2016 Runaway Climate Change * Leading Scientist * Economy Collapse * Troubling


Published on Mar 4, 2016
Leading scientist lays out for you the connections. The only truth teller, Professor Guy McPherson.

https://youtu.be/YK3aVa6tMZE


Accelerated modern human–induced species losses: Entering the sixth mass extinction
Gerardo Ceballos,  Paul R. Ehrlich,  Anthony D. Barnosky,  Andrés García, Robert M. Pringle and  Todd M. Palmer + Author Affiliations

Science Advances 19 Jun 2015: Vol. 1, no. 5, e1400253 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.1400253
http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/1/5/e1400253

About Gerardo Ceballos:

Professor Ceballos work has been diverse, and its impact clear. He started the Long Term Ecological Research Network Chapter in Mexico, and has the longest (22 years) population and community ecology study of small mammals in the Neotropics.

He proposed, for the first time, that prairie dogs were keystone species, which now is a well accepted fact and is being used as one of the main arguments for the conservation of prairie dogs and associated species in North America.

He has carried out the longest and more complete study on jaguars, and recently he finished the first jaguar census at a National scale, showing that there are roughly 4200 jaguars in Mexico. This pioneering work is leading to implement conservation actions to save this species from extinction.

Research Articles ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES



Agelbert NOTE: So, what exactly, is causing the unacceptably high rate of extinctions?   ???

Some think the factory style meat operations are more of a factor than CO2 pollution from fossil fuels. Of course Big meat and Big Ag are contributing factors in a fragmentation of human agency goosing extinctions. But there is simply no equivalence.

Here are the facts:


Extinctions ABOVE the background rate, are caused overwhelmingly as a result of habitat loss.

Habitat destruction is an important cause of known extinctions. As deforestation proceeds in tropical forests, this promises to become THE cause of mass extinctions caused by human activity. (http://www.snre.umich.edu/~dallan/nre220/outline6.htm)

What causes habitat loss?  ???

The above reference specifically FIRST mentions the food and habit needs.

Then it goes on to point out, how the activity, as a result of the increasing human population's needs, destroys wildlife habitat.
Yes, we humans have been going to town on wildlife with hunting, fishing and agricultural land, livestock, roads and cities for centuries. But it wasn't just the population that increased rapidly after 1800.


http://co2now.org/Current-CO2/CO2-Now/weekly-data-atmospheric-co2.html

Although this study is limited to birds, and the study clearly states that they are not projecting the numbers to all species, I present it to you so you can see the difference between PRE-1800 extinction rates and POST-1800 extinction rates.

The number of known extinctions before 1800 is increasing as taxonomists describe new species from skeletal remains. (ii) One should calculate extinction rates over the years since taxonomists described the species. Most bird species were described only after 1850. (iii) Some species are probably extinct; there is reluctance to declare them so prematurely.

Thus corrected, recent extinction rates are ≈100 E/MSY.
In the last decades, the rate is <50 E/MSY, but would be 150 E/MSY were it not for conservation efforts.

Increasing numbers of extinctions are on continents, whereas previously most were on islands.

We predict a 21st century rate of ≈1,000 E/MSY.

Extinction threatens 12% of bird species; another 12% have small geographical ranges and live where human actions rapidly destroy their habitats.

If present forest losses continue, extinction rates will reach 1,500 E/MSY by the century’s end. Invasive species, expanding human technologies, and global change will harm additional species.

Human impacts on the rates of recent, present, and future bird extinctions (http://www.pnas.org/content/103/29/10941.full)

The CO2 pollution alone (never mind the plethora of other industrial pollutants being spewed 24/7 by coal burning power plants, chemical manufacturers, mining operations, drilling operations, fracking and heavy industry) has been proven to overheat the atmosphere, threatening land animals, increase the acidity of the oceans and also overheat them.

Unless the species in this 4C plus planet, that CO2 pollution GUARANTEES us, do not have specific needs that are localized, like the extremophiles, they are far more habitat loss threatened, (see: ALL vertebrates) by CO2 caused deforestation, desertification, acidification and degradation of arable land than from loss of habitat due to agricultural land and livestock. Ocean dead zones form fertilizer runoff are a drop in the bucket compared with the effect of acidification on mollusk shells.

Yes, if we cleaned up our CO2 polluting act, a rather tall order considering the technological difficulty of trying to lower the parts per million (PPM) count in the global atmosphere (The U.S. Navy does it on their submarines - and they DON'T have the technology to keep it lower than 7,000-8,000 PPM! - Image the cost of doing that in the entire atmosphere to get down to 280-290PPM. The technology Has not been invented.), humans would still be causing wildlife extinctions due to our agricultural and animal husbandry caused habitat destruction.

But without the CO2 pollution, the extinction rate drops well below the present Permian extinction rate.

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I caution all about the reliability of the views of  Guy McPherson.  McPherson is way, way out on an edge -- well out beyond the views of most climatologists and other climate scientists.  I personally don't find him all that credible.  I do, however, think the climate crisis is very real and that we should all be taking giant strides, quickly, to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions.

Guy banned me from his forum years ago because I'm too much of a hopium person for him.  ;)

But I have a lot of college level science knowledge about the biosphere and all the interactions required to keep it viable. McPherson is extrapolating along a cause and effect horizon devoid of innovation or interruption of the present profit over planet wanton degradation of our biosphere. I understand, on a very technical and detailed level, that he is not making stuff up even though I, unlike him, DO have some hope for the future. Actually, I welcome his posts and videos because he scares the S H I T out of people.  ;D

JRM, people NEED to have the S H I T scared out of them NOW. I know you think Guy is crackpot. I read your back and forth with K-Dog.  K=Dog is an engineer and he fact checked Guy six ways from Sunday. I have fact checked the studies he references in his lectures too. I'm not a despairing F U C K like many of Guy's followers but he is not talking hysterical bullshit, as you believe.

When you listen to him, just consider it a thought exercise. Forget his conclusions and carefully look at each and every positive (biosphere damage reinforcing) feedback mechanism he claims is being goosed into runaway mode. Everything he posted on that video is accurate, except of course, what he ASSUMES will happen in the future.

I assume we will get out of this somehow. But we must continue to weigh the evidence as long as it is peer reviewed and documented. Yes. Guy collects and collates the data with a bias towards futility and nihilism. That PISSES you off. Sorry, you do not understand human nature if you think he is going to get some huge following of suicidal crazies that will off themselves because they, like their leader, believe there is no hope.

JRM, the DANGEROUS people out there are the fossil fuel propagandists saying everything is hunky dory and we are just in a "bump" in the energy road now. Because of Corporate Fossil Fuel Industry Corrupted Government, our TRAJECTORY is F U C K E D UP.

THIS is what our government is mostly about even WITHOUT considering the profit over planet MO the elites worship:

We are a banker constructed Imperialist nation, ruled by a consortium of global psychopaths, hell bent on destroying the very planet itself in their selfish quest for money, power and the control of all of us. At this rate the human race may not even be here for the 22nd century.

We need a RADICAL rediscovery of what it means to be a RESPONSIBLE being in harmony with the other beings in the biosphere that we need in order to survive and thrive. We are not there yet. The mindset of most of the people in power lacks this sine qua non requirement for the perpetuation of the human species.

I think there is hope. But it is not a sure thing. That's why I rant and rave for people to do the RIGHT thing.

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on April 01, 2016, 09:51:26 pm
Naomi Klein on Why Climate Change is ‘Incredibly Threatening To Our Elites’

https://youtu.be/g_2GjzS576A

Agelbert NOTE: Naomi thinks the elite IDIOTS actually smell the climate catastrophe coffee.  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.desismileys.com%2Fsmileys%2Fdesismileys_2932.gif&hash=0eaec4791a5825821998245e7fcd7744b56557fe)  Unfortunately for the rest of us, all evidence shows that they are trying to PR happy talk the masses into ignoring the in-your-face pollution that keeps the elites rich while it degrades the biosphere.

Bill Gates Enjoys his morning Joe:
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on April 03, 2016, 06:01:34 pm
Guy banned me from his forum years ago because I'm too much of a hopium person for him.  ;)

But I have a lot of college level science knowledge about the biosphere and all the interactions required to keep it viable. McPherson is extrapolating along a cause and effect horizon devoid of innovation or interruption of the present profit over planet wanton degradation of our biosphere. I understand, on a very technical and detailed level, that he is not making stuff up even though I, unlike him, DO have some hope for the future. Actually, I welcome his posts and videos because he scares the S H I T out of people.  ;D

JRM, people NEED to have the S H I T scared out of them NOW. I know you think Guy is crackpot. I read your back and forth with K-Dog.  K=Dog is an engineer and he fact checked Guy six ways from Sunday. I have fact checked the studies he references in his lectures too. I'm not a despairing F U C K like many of Guy's followers but he is not talking hysterical bullshit, as you believe.

When you listen to him, just consider it a thought exercise. Forget his conclusions and carefully look at each and every positive (biosphere damage reinforcing) feedback mechanism he claims is being goosed into runaway mode. Everything he posted on that video is accurate, except of course, what he ASSUMES will happen in the future.

I assume we will get out of this somehow. But we must continue to weigh the evidence as long as it is peer reviewed and documented. Yes. Guy collects and collates the data with a bias towards futility and nihilism. That PISSES you off. Sorry, you do not understand human nature if you think he is going to get some huge following of suicidal crazies that will off themselves because they, like their leader, believe there is no hope.

JRM, the DANGEROUS people out there are the fossil fuel propagandists saying everything is hunky dory and we are just in a "bump" in the energy road now. Because of Corporate Fossil Fuel Industry Corrupted Government, our TRAJECTORY is F U C K E D UP.

THIS is what our government is mostly about even WITHOUT considering the profit over planet MO the elites worship:

We are a banker constructed Imperialist nation, ruled by a consortium of global psychopaths, hell bent on destroying the very planet itself in their selfish quest for money, power and the control of all of us. At this rate the human race may not even be here for the 22nd century.

We need a RADICAL rediscovery of what it means to be a RESPONSIBLE being in harmony with the other beings in the biosphere that we need in order to survive and thrive. We are not there yet. The mindset of most of the people in power lacks this sine qua non requirement for the perpetuation of the human species.

I think there is hope. But it is not a sure thing. That's why I rant and rave for people to do the RIGHT thing.

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Guy's science is formulated from a gravity based Universe model.
This is why I don't waste my time chasing my tail around the dining room table.

A gravity based view  ;D:
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on April 03, 2016, 07:15:16 pm
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on April 06, 2016, 12:33:48 am
Surgeon General’s Warning: We Must Act on Climate

Nadia Prupis, Common Dreams | April 5, 2016 9:43 am

Climate change is a serious threat to public health, particularly for pregnant women, children, communities of color and low-income people, a government report issued Monday has warned.

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The report, The Impacts of Climate Change on Human Health in the United States: A Scientific Assessment, finds that rising temperatures in the coming years will bring along with them the increased risk of:

death from heat stroke, particularly in the summer months;

chronic and acute respiratory issues;

vector-borne illnesses like the West Nile virus and Lyme disease, as well as the new emergence of new pathogens;

chemical toxins in the food chain;

and mental health consequences of being exposed to climate disasters—among a litany of other risks.
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“Every American is vulnerable to the health impacts associated with climate change,” White House Science Adviser John Holdren said Monday. “Some are more vulnerable than others.”

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In particular, the report finds, those facing the highest risk are pregnant women, children, communities of color, the elderly, people who work outdoors, those with disabilities or preexisting medical conditions, immigrants and low-income people.

“I don’t think we have seen something like this before where we have a force that has such a multitude of impacts,” said Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, comparing the effects to the polio epidemic. However, he said, polio was cured through a vaccine—which does not exist for climate change.

“There is not one single source we can target,” he said. “As far as history is concerned this is a new kind of threat that we are facing.”

The report was produced by eight government agencies, including the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). It comes just ahead of the April 22 meeting between world leaders in New York, where they are expected to formally sign the landmark climate agreement finalized in Paris in December.

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EPA director Gina McCarthy said the report aimed to show that climate change is
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“Climate change endangers our health by affecting our food and water sources, the air we breathe and the weather we experience,” McCarthy said. “It will exacerbate certain health effects that already exist and create new ones.”

The report also predicts that extreme heat could cause 11,000 more premature deaths a year by 2030 than previously predicted.

Bottom line, said Murthy, “If we want to safeguard the health of current and future generations, we have to address climate change.”

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Avoiding all the risks outlined in the report will be impossible, said Holdren, as “climate change is already underway and no matter what we do it cannot be stopped overnight.
 
But there is a huge difference between the magnitude if we fail to act … and if we take the actions set out in the Climate Action Plan and the Paris climate agreement.”

Climate change “is a pervasive problem with many dimensions of impacts,” Holdren said, “which together I think make it the most serious threat we face.”

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http://ecowatch.com/2016/04/05/impacts-of-climate-change/

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on April 08, 2016, 08:28:00 pm
His Popeness did not invite Clinton or Trump or Cruz!  This is as close to an endorsement as the Vicar of Christ on Earth can do.  :icon_sunny:

A few pics of Bernie shaking hands with El Popo will definitely get him some votes from the devotees of the Holy Roman Catholic Church!  :icon_sunny:

http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2016/04/08/bernie-sanders-accepts-pope-franciss-invitation-to-travel-to-the-vatican/?_r=0 (http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2016/04/08/bernie-sanders-accepts-pope-franciss-invitation-to-travel-to-the-vatican/?_r=0)

Bernie Sanders Accepts Pope Francis’s Invitation to Travel to the Vatican

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Bernie Sanders spoke at the Pennsylvania A.F.L.-C.I.O. Convention in Philadelphia on Thursday.Credit Mark Makela for The New York Times

Updated, 11:18 a.m. | Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont has accepted an invitation from the Vatican to attend a conference on social, economic and environmental issues.

The Sanders campaign made the announcement on Friday as the senator made the rounds of the morning television news programs. Mr. Sanders will take a break from campaigning in New York, just days ahead of the April 19 primary there, to attend the conference hosted by the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences. Mr. Sanders, clarifying what he said earlier about a sit-down with Pope Francis, said he had not confirmed yet whether the two men would actually meet.

“I am delighted to have been invited by the Vatican to a meeting on restoring social justice and environmental sustainability to the world economy,” Mr. Sanders said in a statement. “Pope Francis has made clear that we must overcome ‘the globalization of indifference’ in order to reduce economic inequalities, stop financial corruption and protect the natural environment. That is our challenge in the United States and in the world.”

In an interview with The Times on Friday, Mr. Sanders stressed that Pope Francis has played a “profound role in raising consciousness throughout the world, not just within the Catholic community but within all communities.”

“To me, this a source of real pride and excitement that I have been invited to speak to a major conference at the Vatican on how we can create a world economy that is moral and how we address the massive levels of wealth and income inequality that exist around the world, how we deal with unemployment, how we deal with poverty and how we create an economy that works for all people rather than the few,” Mr. Sanders said.

On MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” program, Mr. Sanders explained that while he disagrees with Pope Francis on issues relating to women’s rights and gay rights, he admires the pope for speaking about income inequality and the need for people to help one another.

“He has played an unbelievable role, an unbelievable role of injecting a moral consequence into the economy,” said Mr. Sanders, who would become the first Jewish president in the United States if elected. “He is talking about the idolatry of money, the worship of money, the greed that’s out there, how our whole culture is based on: ‘I need more and more and more. And, I don’t have to worry about veterans sleeping out on the street or elderly people who can’t afford their prescriptions.’”

Mr. Sanders also addressed the back and forth between him and his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton during interviews on morning television. He said he is “trying to stay away from personal attacks” and hopes to stop bickering about their credentials to be president.

Mr. Sanders also appeared at a town-hall-style event on NBC’s “Today” show and took questions from voters about his stances on gun manufactures’ liability, breaking up commercial banks and how he would protect women’s rights.

The “Today” anchor Savannah Guthrie asked Mr. Sanders about his latest spat over qualifications with Mrs. Clinton.

“Did you overreact because you thought she said something more than she did?” Ms. Guthrie asked.

“Here’s the truth,” Mr. Sanders said. “I’ve known Hillary Clinton for 25 years. I respect Hillary Clinton. We were colleagues in the Senate, and on her worst day, she would be an infinitely better president than either of the Republican candidates.”

Ms. Guthrie asked, “She’s qualified?”

“Of course,” Mr. Sanders said. “But the point is I would hope we get away from these attacks, which by the way, the media likes very much, and start focusing — maybe we can do that today — on the real issues.”

Echoing his earlier comments, Mr. Sanders also said in his interview with The Times that he wanted to move past the squabbling with Mrs. Clinton but said he would also continue to fight back if he felt attacked again.

“My hope right now is that Secretary Clinton will stop the levels of negativity,” Mr. Sanders said. “I want to run an issue-orientated campaign.”

The senator said he planned to host a series of rallies throughout New York, which he called an important state to win.

Mr. Sanders also appeared on ABC’s “The View” later in the day.

Find out what you need to know about the 2016 presidential race today, and get politics news updates via Facebook, Twitter and the First Draft newsletter.

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This is also evidence that Trump has managed to P I S S  OFF the Pope!  :o  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F4fvfcja.gif&hash=34a9a570347d39a0a892bc1f376c5e8b88add6b5)

Yes, Hillary  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F165fs373950.gif&hash=ad797fcc08a061d3ae50ee49ccd9f3d517fb7496) will probably try to claim the "Pope should not be involving himself in the U.S. political process"  ::). Yes, of course. The Pope should leave issues of inequality, morality, profit over planet (and so on - you get the idea     (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-200714191329.bmp&hash=4764bfbe6bb0e11ca61102efa97a932a824f47e0)) to the spiritual realm and the hereafter  ;). What does he know about what's right and wrong for loyal Patriotic Americans? The Pope even believes that CO2 is a pollutant instead of excellent plant food provided free by our loyal servants from the fossil fuel fascists industry!  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Ftissue.gif&hash=f8d05db8e11569882e0effbdd719e2b2e95c6785) (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Fshame.gif&hash=88b5b0c8644862ef4930e3c7e3556db6c3bf600f)

YEP! The climate deniers  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.whydidyouwearthat.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2011%2F01%2Ftumblr_l7j9nik8Wf1qaxxwjo1_5001.jpeg&hash=1ddbeb4da161820b2cf932e6f5f740e80f5bada6) and papal conspiracy theorists (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Fp8.gif&hash=34db9228a959b3b83fc65b38a1aa92a40d56f976) (see Rense or Prison Planet hysterics) will howl and whine that Sanders AND the Pope are not "objective" about the (wait for it  ;D) the "real world".  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.freesmileys.org%2Fsmileys%2Fsmiley-scared002.gif&hash=764898cfbf07ef2c41ffddc5e93fa0e1bed41bae)


But it won't work.   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-200714191258.bmp&hash=e4ed21caaca822f7445ccafd39f49a9f84be90ca)  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.freesmileys.org%2Femoticons%2Femoticon-object-062.gif&hash=88ceb4a34a12b2bea2fd9edd887da26d73308257) Senator Sanders from Vermont will be President Elect in November. 



The Invitation by the Pope will, in fact, take care of any further alleged "Pinocchio award" defamation the Washington Post or other establishment bullshitters wish to continue slandering Senator Sanders with.

The Pope ain't perfect  ;D. But it is rather difficult for the presstitutes to claim someone the pope invites to speak is not credible or sincere or truthful.    (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-200714191258.bmp&hash=e4ed21caaca822f7445ccafd39f49a9f84be90ca)

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on April 11, 2016, 09:43:24 pm
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"Since 2003, Greenland has lost on average more than 600 trillion pounds of ice a year and that affects the way the Earth wobbles in a manner similar to a figure skater lifting one leg while spinning.

Think of it as a billion trucks each year dumping ice out of Greenland. On top of that, West Antarctica loses 275 trillion pounds of ice and East Antarctica gains about 165 trillion pounds of ice yearly."
- NASA scientist Eirk Ivins

NASA: Global warming is now changing how Earth wobbles
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/nasa-global-warming-is-now-changing-how-earth-wobbles/2016/04/08/e11ccdae-fdb4-11e5-813a-90ab563f0dde_story.html
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Greenland ice melt
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on April 13, 2016, 04:20:37 pm

Greenland’s Ice Melt Breaks Record, Starting Nearly Two Months Early

Climate Nexus | April 13, 2016 9:50 am

Greenland’s melt season kicked off a month and a half early this year, scientists at the Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI) reported.

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Gyldenlove Glacier, Greenland. Photo credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

Greenland’s melt season typically runs from June until September, but almost 12 percent of Greenland’s ice sheet was melting as of Monday, which scientists say is unprecedented.

“We had to check that our models were still working properly,” said Peter Langen, a climate scientist at DMI.


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Maps show the current melt area centered around southwest Greenland. The graph shows the current melt season in blue and the average in black. Photo credit: Polar Portal

Areas of Greenland recorded temperatures this month that would have been unusually warm even in July and scientists expect more temperature records to be broken before the season is over.
http://ecowatch.com/2016/04/13/greenlands-ice-melt-early/
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on April 18, 2016, 06:03:46 pm
04/18/2016 12:09 PM

Another Pitch For Bernie Sanders: Tuesday is Important, New York
SustainableBusiness.com News

by Rona Fried

 Last week, at a crucial point in his campaign, Bernie Sanders took a day to fly to Rome and speak at a conference at the Vatican. Although he met Pope Francis, no photos were given to the press, and when reporters asked why, Bernie said: because I didn't want it turned into a political event.

 That tells you a lot about who Bernie Sanders is. 


As does the reason Bernie was invited to speak: he is the only US presidential candidate who shows deep interest in the teachings of Pope Francis, explained Bishop Marcelo Sanchez.

While Bernie's vision and his nerve to champion big goals is constantly questioned by his opponent and the press, the facts are that Americans want what he proposes:

•73% want the wealthiest to pay more in taxes
•66% want large corporations to pay their fair share in taxes
•59% support tuition-free public college
•55% support universal health care


In my opinion, skepticism toward Bernie's "realism" and "practicality" says more about the status of our democracy than about him. Since Reagan entered office and the Koch Brothers began dumping money in earnest to influence us, our country has been moving to the right. 

We need to open our eyes again to what is possible.

Our country needs fundamental change, not change around the edges. It is true that our economy is more and more rigged as our politics becomes more corrupt. And it is true that the only way out is for Americans to stand up en masse and to have a President (and hopefully a Congress) that supports their efforts to turn this situation around. 

In Europe, Bernie's views are mainstream. He arrived in Italy to applause and adulation. 
 

During his Vatican speech, Bernie said:


"Some might feel it is hopeless to fight the economic juggernaut, that once the market economy escaped the boundaries of morality it would be impossible to bring the economy back under the dictates of morality and the common good.

I am told time and time again by the rich and powerful, and the mainstream media that represent them, that we should be "practical," that we should accept the status quo; that a truly moral economy is beyond our reach.

Yet Pope Francis himself is surely the world's greatest demonstration against such a surrender to despair and cynicism. He has opened the eyes of the world once again to the claims of mercy, justice and the possibilities of a better world. He is inspiring the world to find a new global consensus for our common home."

"The challenges facing our planet are not mainly technological or even financial, because as a world we are rich enough to increase our investments in skills, infrastructure, and technological know-how to meet our needs and to protect the planet. Our challenge is mostly a moral one, to redirect our efforts and vision to the common good."


On Climate Change & Environment

 So far, we are taking Clinton's approach. We are moving forward incrementally and science is clear: it is not getting us where we need to be. Ecosystems are crashing around the world, we're in the midst of the 6th mass extinction, and we have a 50/50 chance of keeping global temperature rise to 2°C.

 While Clinton supports fracking as a transition fuel, study after study shows we can get to 100% renewable energy without it ... and fast. And studies show that because of fracking, we're stoking climate change through spiking methane emissions.

 As Secretary of State, Clinton promoted fracking and GMO agriculture across the world, and basically approved the Keystone Pipeline.  To her credit, Clinton also formed an international coalition to address short-term climate forcers, which includes methane.

 Instead, Sanders is a co-sponsor of the Keep It In the Ground bill, which would put an end to extracting fossil fuels from public lands. He supports organic agriculture, another proven way to quickly bring down emissions, while curbing dangerous herbicides and pesticides.

Bernie is right: we need "wartime level mobilization" NOW to get off fossil fuels
- an immediate end to subsidies, a carbon tax, and an all-out shift to clean energy. That will, by the way, create many millions of jobs and the healthy, prosperous world we all want to live in.
 
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The question isn't about Bernie's vision, it's about ours.

Do WE have the vision to see that we can live in a world that cherishes nature, that runs on clean energy, and where businesses care about people and the planet?  ??? Or is that too pie in the sky for us? If it is, the Koch Bros et al. have us exactly where they want us.  :(

Read my articles, (at link below) What Would Happen if Bernie Sanders's New Deal is Enacted?, If You Care About Environment & Climate, You'll Love Bernie, Presidential Candidates: Archie Bunker, Head versus Heart.

http://www.sustainablebusiness.com/index.cfm/go/news.display/id/26599
Please pass this on, the planet you save may be your own.
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on April 19, 2016, 09:55:17 pm
Democracy in Action: Arrests at Capitol Building Protests Top 1,400

Posted on Apr 18, 2016

SNIPPET 1:

Protesters have made their voices heard in Washington D.C. Over the past week, more than 1,400 people were arrested at the Capitol for participating in the Democracy Awakening and Democracy Spring movements.
Members of Democracy Spring began protesting corporate financial influence in politics several weeks ago. They were soon joined by members of Democracy Awakening, who protested discriminatory voting laws.

SNIPPET 2:

Groups including the NAACP, Sierra Club, Greenpeace and Every Voice participated in the protests. Actress Rosario Dawson, who has been vocal about income inequality, was arrested Friday afternoon. Ben & Jerry’s founders Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield, famous for their political activism as well as their ice cream, were seen stamping bail money with the words “NOT TO BE USED TO BRIBE POLITICIANS.”

SNIPPET 3:

According to ReThink Media, the 1,400-plus arrests are the most arrests for a protest in Washington, D.C., surpassing those of the 2013 Tar Sands protest at the White House.

http://www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/democracy_in_action_arrests_at_capitol_building_protests_top_20160418

Petunia
The msm is really worthless. They haven't covered this at all and it is part of the story they are covering, which is the lack of democracy in the two political parties.

agelbert > Petunia

Not only have not covered it, they are claiming Senator Sanders, who is defending democracy and DEFENDING Clean Energy by demanding a ban on Fracking and the elimination of Fossil Fuel dirty energy subsidies, is "attacking" clean energy!

The Washing Post just spewed a propaganda piece worthy of Orwell's 1984: titled,
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"Mr. Sanders’s war on clean energy (Washington Post editorial $)".

WTF!!!?

USA Today was right behind them with this IDIOCY defending fracking because we are "all gonna die without our loyal servants in the Fracking industry":
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"Keep on fracking (USA Today, editorial)".

The MSM is pulling out ALL THE STOPS to prevent Senator Sanders form becoming president. That means it's a great idea to vote for him!
 

Bernie Sanders Leads Hillary Clinton in Three National Polls

Posted on Apr 18, 2016

“Did anyone imagine Bernie Sanders ahead of Hillary Clinton in three major national polls, and almost tied in others, by mid-April of 2016?” asks journalist H.A. Goodman.

After once being down by more than 50 points:

Bernie Sanders is ahead of Clinton nationally in the PRRI/The Atlantic poll, 47 percent to 46 percent.

Bernie Sanders beats Clinton nationally in the McClatchy-Marist poll, 49-47 percent.

Bernie Sanders is also ahead of Clinton in the Ipsos/Reuters national poll, 49-[48] percent.

Read Goodman’s analysis of these findings and the general trends for Sanders and Clinton here.

—Posted by Alexander Reed Kelly.

http://www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/bernie_sanders_leads_hillary_clinton_in_three_national_polls_20160418
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on April 20, 2016, 07:48:20 pm
Eddie and JRM,
I am already living hand to mouth in a manufactured home with increasing health problems. Frankly speaking, a fascist fuckdom will not make it much worse because people like me are not a threat to the power structure.

If you are right, then you are in worse trouble than I am.

WHY?

Because you have a lot more to lose than I do.  And mark my words, all your dreams for a life style you are used to, never mind a better one, will be ruthlessly and callously dashed.  :(

Because you have a lot more to lose than I do.  And mark my words, all your dreams for a life style you are used to, never mind a better one, will be ruthlessly and callously dashed.

Personally, so long as I have food and shelter and clothing, I'll be okay.  My concerns are not mostly about myself, but for the wider world.  I do want to be a positive contributer to the wilder world, of course, and so I need some reason for hope to keep trying to contribute.

I don't see Hillary as MORE harmful or dangerous than any who have been president over the last 30 to 50 years. 

We do not have another 30 to 50 years of business as usual. Business as usual is a death sentence for humanity. So the effect of a Hitlery Presidency versus a Trump Presidency is a distinction without a biosphere trashing difference.

We are out of time for Business as usual piecemeal action on behalf of future generations, JRM. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-041115022304.png&hash=cd8cb8e28ab8f7fc78c1ea00d30a661bd937aed5)  And Business as Usual Hillary isn't give is any more time than Trump to get our act together.

 I have two posts lined up in regard to the cognitive difficulty we humans face when ascertaining the required action in the face of climate change catastrophe. I would be interested in what both you and Eddie think about those posts.  8)

Here's the first one:


The Psychology of Climate Change Inaction A team of psychologists, biologists, and economists lays out a plan of action.

By Nathan Collins

For decades, climate scientists have wondered why their near-consensus on the existence and danger of global warming hasn’t translated into government action, much less a public that accepts climate change as reality. Now, a diverse team of scientists has an answer: Basically, human psychology is ill-suited to comprehend and deal with what’s going on with the environment.

“Why has it been so difficult to elicit substantive actions to alleviate this climate disruption?” writes a team of scientists led by Stanford University psychologist Lee Ross. In part, the answer lies with businesses and politicians who are more concerned with short-term gains than long-term sustainability, but that’s only part of the problem. “Some specific features of the climate change threat combine with certain aspects of human psychology to make the challenge of collective national and international action an especially daunting one,” the researchers write.

The team, which includes Nobel Prize-winning economist Kenneth Arrow and biologist Paul Erhlich, author of The Population Bomb, outlines a number of different problems that lie at the nexus of climate change and psychology. Some of those problems are matters of scale. When temperatures swing by tens of degrees over the year or even over a day, for instance, it’s hard to understand how a one- or two-degree increase in the global average temperature could lead to more floods and famines.

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“People are all too aware that their own efforts, and those of their communities, will not really make a difference.”

Similarly, addressing climate change means taking a very long view. For many, weighing the choice between driving and walking to run errands is a matter of convenience, not the state of the climate 100 years from now.

That’s compounded by the fact that no one person has the power to avert a climate disaster. “People are all too aware that their own efforts, and those of their communities, will not really make a difference,” the authors write. “To the extent that people feel [global] collective efforts will not be undertaken, they are understandably unwilling to exert effort” themselves.

One surprisingly powerful way to combat those problems: creating social norms. In one 2007 experiment, psychologists found that distributing flyers with the message “the majority of your neighbors are undertaking energy-saving actions every day” worked to encourage conservation better than distributing flyers emphasizing environmental impacts. In that vein, television shows that address climate change, even obliquely, could foster a norm of environmental responsibility.

“There is obviously no magic bullet that would alleviate the environmental crisis, but some obvious opportunities exist for constructive action [and] we cannot afford for the pace of social change to be slow,” Ross and his colleagues write. “The scale of the task is daunting, and many more individuals and organizations must be recruited in order to undertake the necessary steps.

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But the task is nowhere near as daunting as the prospects for civilization if it is not accomplished.”

https://psmag.com/the-psychology-of-climate-change-inaction-70e43cd81084#.7gsx0h7vg (https://psmag.com/the-psychology-of-climate-change-inaction-70e43cd81084#.7gsx0h7vg)




Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on April 20, 2016, 07:59:39 pm
I never had much hope that American politics would turn around.

 I will admit to being sort of blindsided by the whole Trump thing, but it lines up pretty good with all the Strauss and Howe stuff about a strong leader emerging that will take the country into the fourth turning, which always involves a big war.

Why do you think I'm growing veggies and trying to raise pigs? It's not because I love the smell of pig poop.

My father only lived to be 9 years older than I am now. What happens to me is not that important now. I have had quite a good life, and it's still good at the moment. Best to live one day at a time.

I agree, in general, with your sentiment. Have you discussed that with your children? If so, what do they think about it? As the Native Americans say, "Today is a good day to die".

But what happens to future generations is part of our responsibility as we live day to day. So, you must be thinking about them when you farm and engage in animal husbandry.

What happens to you is important because your children are important. So, you are wrong in saying that what happens to you is not important. You are still in the prime of your life and a pillar of your community that many people look up too, including your children.

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on April 20, 2016, 08:01:15 pm
Why Our Brains Weren't Made To Deal With Climate Change

April 19, 201612:00 AM ET

SNIPPET:


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Mendenhall Glacier in MASSIVE RETREAT

The Mendenhall glacier, visited by tens of thousands of tourists each year, has receded more than a mile and a half in the last half century.

"It's sort of just collapsed in on itself," says John Neary, director of the Mendenhall Glacier Visitor Center.

Many see the glacier's retreat as an ominous symbol of climate change. But not all. Shankar talks with tourists who are skeptical that climate change is even occurring. And so the question: Is there something about the human brain that makes it hard for us to grapple with climate change?

After returning from vacation, Shankar calls George Marshall, author of Don't Even Think About It: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Ignore Climate Change, about the behavioral challenges and solutions to addressing climate change.

http://www.npr.org/2016/04/18/474685770/why-our-brains-werent-made-to-deal-with-climate-change (http://www.npr.org/2016/04/18/474685770/why-our-brains-werent-made-to-deal-with-climate-change)
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on April 20, 2016, 08:02:13 pm
We do not have another 30 to 50 years of business as usual. Business as usual is a death sentence for humanity. So the effect of a Hitlery Presidency versus a Trump Presidency is a distinction without a biosphere trashing difference.

I agree.  And even Bernie Sanders can't do a heck of a lot so long as the whole system doesn't change, and I don't think ANY politician can change the whole system.  What we deeply need is a whole system change that arises at the grass roots -- and perhaps (if we are very lucky) simultaneously in the seats of power.  But without it arising from the grass roots it ain't gonna happen.  What we need is a shift in CULTURE which becomes a shift in politics.   A shift in politics is not apt to happen first, but to follow a  shift in culture.

Rarely do dramatic cultural shifts happen in a matter of years, or even decades.  They tend to be slow!  But there is good news.  Some dramatic shifts in culture HAVE already occurred in relatively short time spans.   One impressive one is the incredible rapidity with which much of the world has embraced or at least accepted LGBT people as just folks, regular people, not monsters.  And while things are still **** poor on the racial issues front in places and at times, we've come a long, long way in a relatively short time in this arena as well.

What is clearly needed now is a mass rebellion -- much bigger than what happened in the 60s, which resulted in a "counterculture" which was quickly co-opted by the consumer-capitalist-entertainment world.  It was this which the "counterculture" was ultimately rebelling against, and we're well overdue for a recurrence of that event, only differently.  Because it can't be the same as last time. They never are.

And remember,  disillusionment is just as powerful a force of social transformation as active rebellion.  If folks stop wanting the BS they've been sold as "the good life" (which it ain't) they will not work 40-60 hours a week chasing after it.  And They (with a capital T) can't jail all of the dissenting rebels.  There won't be jails enough when the smoke clears.

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on April 20, 2016, 08:03:26 pm
What is clearly needed now is a mass rebellion -- much bigger than what happened in the 60s, which resulted in a "counterculture" which was quickly co-opted by the consumer-capitalist-entertainment world.  It was this which the "counterculture" was ultimately rebelling against, and we're well overdue for a recurrence of that event, only differently.  Because it can't be the same as last time. They never are.

Sadly, such a mass rebellion is very unlikely now, because too few people are educated or literate in the true senses of these terms.  Too many Americans (which is where it needs to happen most) know no history, no social or political philosophy, are basically ignorant and hypnotized by consumerism ... or drunk or drugged....  Too few are part of any of the transformative movement/s..., and have never even heard of them.  The last time I felt any hope for transformation was during the Occupy "movement," and today I can't even find folks who want to commemorate the five year anniversary of Occupy! as if it never happened, or mattered.  How quickly we forget!

That is why the ONLY HOPE we have is for ACCELERATED SEA LEVEL RISE from a large chunk of Greenland's ice sliding into the ocean. Trillions of dollars of lost ocean front property is, ironically enough, the "IT" that will get us off of fossil fuels and moving towards a viable biosphere in Wartime economy velocity (less than a decade). 

The really serious stuff like ocean acidification and reduced photosynthetic efficiency that ACTUALLY endangers our species goes right over the elite greed ball heads. Oh but let shipping and coastal property go belly up and the attention of the Predators' R' US crowd will be very focused very quickly.  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.freesmileys.org%2Fsmileys%2Fsmiley-scared002.gif&hash=764898cfbf07ef2c41ffddc5e93fa0e1bed41bae)


OVERNIGHT, every Republican and his Saudi brother will claim that they "always supported action on climate change".  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2F2.bp.blogspot.com%2F_9HT4xZyDmh4%2FTOHhxzA0wLI%2FAAAAAAAAEUk%2FoeHDS2cfxWQ%2Fs200%2FSmiley_Angel_Wings_Halo.jpg&hash=13281f1944b60773bf12b29387b70be77cc1fe16)   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-220216203149.gif&hash=bd184b6edccce4045e246847a0c84e89bd5a18b6)

They will holler and scream that they are "conservatives" and we all have to "conserve" the environment! SUBSIDIES for Renewable Energy will become gargantuan and, OF COURSE, the fossil fuel industry will immediately be transformed (WITHOUT ANY PENALTY FOR A CENTURY OF PROFIT OVER PLANET) to a Renewable Energy Industry.

I probably won't be here to see it but it might be fun to watch all the deniers trying to rewrite history.

But by then it may be too late to stop 80% death of most mammalian species leaving only 20% or less to survive the climate change catastrophe.


Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on April 20, 2016, 08:13:30 pm
South Florida Republicans are fed up with their party leaders  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Fswear1.gif&hash=87347674f9297191f3f8a447208170617da4caf6)on climate change

By Jason Margolis • Apr 15, 2016

SNIPPET:

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“People in Washington, or in Tallahassee, just seem like they’re living on a different planet.”

http://nashvillepublicradio.org/post/south-florida-republicans-are-fed-their-party-leaders-climate-change#stream/0 (http://nashvillepublicradio.org/post/south-florida-republicans-are-fed-their-party-leaders-climate-change#stream/0)
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on April 20, 2016, 08:14:32 pm
Don't let Antarctica's size fool you. It's melting fast.  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.freesmileys.org%2Femoticons%2Ftuzki-bunnys%2Ftuzki-bunny-emoticon-028.gif&hash=24570cb7e8246617010ce900a07bc85117ff78ca)

PRI's The World

April 15, 2016 · 3:00 PM EDT

By Carolyn Beeler

SNIPPET:

Scientists have long warned about the potential for the West Antarctic Ice Sheet to dump an incomprehensible amount of ice into the sea as global temperatures rise.

But their warnings were generally about a future hundreds of years away.

Now, a new report suggests that future could be much closer.

It found that West Antarctic melt could add more than three feet to global sea levels by the end of this century.

http://www.pri.org/stories/2016-04-15/dont-let-antarcticas-size-fool-you-its-melting-faster-ever (http://www.pri.org/stories/2016-04-15/dont-let-antarcticas-size-fool-you-its-melting-faster-ever)
Tech & Science
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on April 20, 2016, 09:46:24 pm
But by then it may be too late to stop 80% death of most mammalian species leaving only 20% or less to survive the climate change catastrophe.

Okay, okay.... But something is left out of this whole approach to trying to understand our collective situation, and that something, to me, is the pervasive sense (which ALMOST EVERYONE I know or whom I have spoken with about these big topics) that we are powerless, that we can't actually make any changes or choices, that we are all driven by "forces" more potent than we are individually or collectively....

So, even if we did all agree that anthropogenic climate change is very real and a very big threat to life on our planet, won't we all collectively shrug our shoulders and go on doing things just the way we have been doing -- with this very high energy approach to life?

I say "very high energy approach to life" because I think that's the ultimate crux of the problem in the short run.  Fossil fuels are just too deeply entrenched for us to turn on a dime to renewables.  And such a turn on a dime is what we both know is needed to prevent the worst of the worst.

(I think we need to both rapidly end fossil fuel use AND figure out various ways to draw carbon out of the atmosphere -- which I think we can figure out if we can buy a little time by stopping the very excessive emissions.)

If fossil fuels are too deeply entrenched for us to turn on a dime, it's over.

I do not think that is true. I repeat that a rapid rise in sea level will turn that crap off on a decade long dime.

Don't be so pessimistic!  :icon_sunny:

We CAN do it!

 The World Could Phase Out Fossil Fuels Within a Decade

By Anthony Cuthbertson On 4/18/16 at 12:48 PM

The G7 leading industrial nations pledged last year to phase out fossil fuels by the year 2100. While the announcement by German Chancellor Angela Merkel was hailed by environmental campaigners as historic, a new study claims the feat could theoretically be achieved by 2026.

Researchers at the University of Sussex found that, if the right measures were put in place, the world could completely transition away from fossil fuels in less than a decade.

“Energy transitions have no magic formula,” the study, published in the journal Energy Research and Social Science, states. “Moving to a new, cleaner energy system would require significant shifts in technology, political regulations, tariffs and pricing regimes, and the behaviour of users and adopters.

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Try Newsweek for only $1.25 per week  ::)


“Left to evolve by itself, as it has largely been in the past, this can indeed take many decades. A lot of stars have to align all at once. But we have learnt a sufficient amount from previous transitions that I believe future transformations can happen much more rapidly.”

Fossil fuels, the biggest contributor to greenhouse gases, have been steadily losing ground to clean energy solutions, such as wind and solar, in developed nations. This has been helped by significant cost reductions in technologies—solar dropped in cost by around two-thirds between 2009 and 2014. However, a separate study by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) earlier this year found that only new taxes on carbon emissions will cause society to shift its reliance from fossil fuels.

According to Benjamin Sovacool, director of the Sussex Energy Group at the University of Sussex and lead author of the study, the need to switch to renewable energy sources is of “paramount importance.” In technical terms, it could be achieved swiftly with strong intervention from governments and industry.

Despite the potential for such a relatively quick transition, the research claims that the practicalities of actually achieving it mean it would never happen that fast in reality. They also suggest that fossil fuels will never fully be replaced as a source of power.

The study concludes: “Given these attributes of complexity, timing, and causality, most energy transitions have been, and will likely continue to be, path dependent rather than revolutionary, cumulative rather than fully substitutive.

“Older sources of energy—such as muscle power, animate power, wood power, and steam power—still remain in use throughout the world today, they have not entirely been replaced by fossil, nuclear, and modern renewable energy.”

http://www.newsweek.com/fossil-fuels-environment-renewable-energy-448982 (http://www.newsweek.com/fossil-fuels-environment-renewable-energy-448982)
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on April 20, 2016, 10:00:02 pm
NEVER GIVE UP.

https://youtu.be/DFhJUk7LNT0


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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on April 21, 2016, 02:47:15 pm
We're fiddling as the climate burns: Column

Michael Honda and Michael Shank 11:47 a.m. EDT April 19, 2016

Michael Honda represents California’s 17th Congressional District and has served in the House since 2001. Follow him on Twitter: @RepMikeHonda. Michael Shank, on Twitter @Michael_Shank, is head of communications for the U.N. Sustainable Development Solutions Networkand teaches at New York University and George Mason University. The views expressed here are his own.


The elites are aflutter about the climate crisis. Here's how to get more people alarmed and engaged.

SNIPPET:


Sixth, we need a different way to tell our story. “Energy independence” was once touted as the go-to narrative for many climate advocates. The idea was simple: let’s get off petrol state dependence and reliance as it’s too volatile and comes with too much security and market risk.

While America is achieving energy independence, we’re now producing more oil and gas than ever before, all under the “energy independence” rubric.    (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-200714183337.bmp&hash=fd5a6df63c32bd65dda7b6d93e788647ca3829df)


Instead, we should promote the “democratization of energy” — our right to harness the sun and the wind and to be free of utility control. Even libertarians might like that idea. ;D


Going forward, we can’t continue to rely primarily on Paris, discreet policy and scientific evidence. We need money, messengers, mainstream approaches and more. And we need them now.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2016/04/19/climate-change-paris-urgency-alarm-mike-honda-michael-shank/83157286/

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on April 22, 2016, 11:41:45 pm

China Wants Ships to Use Faster Arctic Route Opened by Global Warming     (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F126fs2277341.gif&hash=1a8375f11d76a653bcb48e30eaa7b652175f029d)  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Fgen152.gif&hash=d5b10968fe56c4cb95fae17cee3cb420a5f4e2da)
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Reuters

April 20, 2016 9:51 AM

BEIJING—
China will encourage ships flying its flag to take the Northwest Passage via the Arctic Ocean, a route opened up by global warming, to cut travel times between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, a state-run newspaper said on Wednesday.

China is increasingly active in the polar region, becoming one of the biggest mining investors in Greenland and agreeing a free trade deal with Iceland. In 2013, the Arctic Council admitted emerging powers China and India as observers.

Shorter shipping routes across the Arctic Ocean would save Chinese companies time and money. For example, the journey from Shanghai to Hamburg via the Arctic route is 2,800 nautical miles shorter than going by the Suez canal.

China's Maritime Safety Administration this month released a 356-page guide in Chinese offering detailed route guidance from the northern coast of North America to the northern Pacific, the China Daily said.

"Once this route is commonly used, it will directly change global maritime transport and have a profound influence on international trade, the world economy, capital flow and resource exploitation," ministry spokesman Liu Pengfei was quoted as saying.

Chinese ships will sail through the Northwest Passage "in the future", Liu added, without giving a timeframe.

Asked if China considered the Northwest Passage an international waterway or Canadian waters, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said China had noted that Canada considered it to cross its waters, although some countries believed it was open to international navigation.

"China has also noted that Canada has taken some management and control steps in the Northwest Passage, including that foreign ships before entering or crossing its exclusive economic zone and territorial waters report to and obtain Canada's permission," she told a daily news briefing.

The route would also be strategically important to China, another maritime official, Wu Yuxiao, told the China Daily.  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Fpirates5B15D_th.gif&hash=32438e1ed2c4d1823d4ed2a193286525c840a605)

"Many countries have noticed the financial and strategic value of Arctic Ocean passages. China has also paid much attention," Wu said.

He pointed to risks, such as lack of infrastructure and possible damage by ice and unpredictable weather.

"As sea ice has declined due to global warming, Arctic navigation has increasing possibilities.   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Facigar.gif&hash=dc9dccf92c6c88c99611b06c86d92629d69f2978) That's why we need guidance for ships with the Chinese flag."    (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-200714183337.bmp&hash=fd5a6df63c32bd65dda7b6d93e788647ca3829df)

Melting sea ice has spurred more commercial traffic and China has sought to become more active in the Arctic, where it has said it has important interests.

Chinese ships, even merchant vessels, using the Northwest Passage could raise eyebrows in Washington.

In September, five Chinese Navy ships sailed in international waters in the Bering Sea off Alaska, in an apparent first for China's military at a time when U.S. President Barack Obama toured the U.S. state.

http://www.voanews.com/content/china-wants-ships-to-use-faster-arctic-route-opened-by-global-warming/3293786.html



NEW Chinese Proverb:
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on April 24, 2016, 04:12:03 pm

The Greenland Ice Melt Writing on the Accelerated Sea Level Rise Wall thanks to YOU KNOW WHO  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.freesmileys.org%2Fsmileys%2Fsmiley-devil12.gif&hash=d1822754cefdd0f77369dacd157d00f5f8d3fff9)

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Fossil Fuel Industry Welfare Queen IN HOUSE Reaction to the above Irrefutable Scientifically Measured Data:   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Fwww_MyEmoticons_com__smokelots.gif&hash=094f88de6782c1cd03ed5321b387792046eb3cdd)   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.freesmileys.org%2Fsmileys%2Fsmiley-scared002.gif&hash=764898cfbf07ef2c41ffddc5e93fa0e1bed41bae) (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.freesmileys.org%2Fsmileys%2Fsmiley-scared005.gif&hash=2de3525707995f1cf9333ecfafd947caca42e8eb) (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Fpirates5B15D_th.gif&hash=32438e1ed2c4d1823d4ed2a193286525c840a605)


Fossil Fuel Industry Welfare Queen FOR PUBLIC CONSUMPTION Reaction to the above Irrefutable Scientifically Measured Data:

(https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Fbc3.gif&hash=e80a574cef1f1cd31dc58d76fe36b5ffb7fe7d5b) (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.desismileys.com%2Fsmileys%2Fdesismileys_6961.gif&hash=df13f27d25fd180bcc904f19809e2b35dc3309cf) Don't worry about this... According to the Exxon scientists (that weren't fired  ;)), it's "El Niño" ... IOW, "nothing to see here. Move along, citizen."

And don't forget to BUY, BUY, BUY fossil fuels so you can burn them and provide more GOOD CO2 FOOD for plants...

And, OF COURSE, BUY, BUY, BUY fossil fuel industry stocks because they are well priced now due to, uh, challenging market conditions TOTALLY unrelated to those pesky, irrelevant, over subsidized, green scam (etc.) renewable energy technologies...

The fossil fuel industry corporations are CERTAINLY NOT welfare queen subsidy grabbing, government corrupting, democracy destroying, politician buying, court corrupting, greedy, pollution cost  externalizing, biosphere math challenged, conscience free, lying, double talking, Orwellian propaganda pushing crooks! SNIFF! They are, and have ALWAYS been, our loyal servants, working their poor fingers to the bone, just trying help us out while they sacrifice for us unworthy and ungrateful eco-leftists...

Climate change catastrophe? Waddayoutalkingabout? What part of NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG do you not understand?

We must not get hysterical or be chicken little nervous nellies. But it is TRUE, TRUE, TRUE that we are all gonna die without fossil fuels while we are returning to the caves from lack of the only TRULY COMPETITIVE energy re source (hydrocarbons, OF COURSE).

Stop trying to get in the way of fossil fuel industry profit over planet swag PROGRESS...

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 Are you tired of facts? Do you think all the concern about climate change is just a bunch of hooey? Then this newscast is for you. See bald eagles, coal mining, unpatriotic polar bears, politics and even a frozen pizza on this satirical episode of Climate Change Denier News. (http://www.theguardian.com/environment/video/2015/jul/03/climate-change-denier-news-frozen-pizza-senator-satirical-video)

Agelbert NOTE: Considering the track record of scheming and skullduggery the fossil fuel crooks and liars have since Rockefeller funded Prohibition efforts to destroy the ethanol competition while pretending to support temperance, a bit of arctic ice interesting news April 12, 2016 may be worth investigating.

You see, 2016 is breaking records on the temperature and ice melt score so massively (i.e. irrefutable evidence of an exponential, NOT LINEAR,  increase in warming) that the fossil fuel industry moles in our government may wish to somewhat muddle the DATA that scientists rely on to measure the ice melt.

The propagandist liars for hire would need spotty ice melt data to continue the "doubt is our product" meme they have pushed for at least 46 years about the causal link between increased greenhouse gases produced by burning fossil fuels and global warming.

IOW, the fossil fuelers, being bound to their welfare queen 'business model' that externalizes the environmental costs so they can pretend to be "profitable", NEED to DO SOMETHING to have a propaganda tool to spread DOUBT about validity of the ice melt data scientists are measuring from the poles.

Perhaps they have begun to do just that.


Sensor on F-17 experiencing difficulties, sea ice time series temporarily suspended

April 12, 2016    

NSIDC has suspended daily sea ice extent updates until further notice, due to issues with the satellite data used to produce these images. The vertically polarized 37 GHz channel (37V) of the Special Sensor Microwave Imager and Sounder (SSMIS) on the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) F-17 satellite that provides passive microwave brightness temperatures is providing spurious data  ;). The 37V channel is one of the inputs to the sea ice retrieval algorithms, so this is resulting in erroneous estimates of sea ice concentration and extent  ;). The problem was initially seen in data for April 5 and all data since then are unreliable  ;), so we have chosen to remove all of April from NSIDC’s archive.  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Ffly.gif&hash=b0526635e8b47d751b0e429925d73d78f9d79fc6)


It is unknown at this time if or when the problem with F-17 can be fixed.  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2F2.bp.blogspot.com%2F_9HT4xZyDmh4%2FTOHhxzA0wLI%2FAAAAAAAAEUk%2FoeHDS2cfxWQ%2Fs200%2FSmiley_Angel_Wings_Halo.jpg&hash=13281f1944b60773bf12b29387b70be77cc1fe16) (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.freesmileys.org%2Fsmileys%2Fsmiley-devil12.gif&hash=d1822754cefdd0f77369dacd157d00f5f8d3fff9)


In the event that the sensor problem has not been resolved, NSIDC is working to transition to another satellite in the DMSP series. Transitioning to a different satellite will require a careful calibration against the F-17 data to ensure consistency over the long-term time series. While this transition is of high priority, NSIDC has no firm timeline on when it will be able to resume providing the sea ice time series.   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-280515145049.png&hash=84e87515e750391c1f1bca6d6ae06485972bfa81)   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-051113192052.png&hash=93c42ef9f18fc5d9da50fd91fc19f70009f95f85)

For background information on the challenges
of using data in near-real-time, see the ASINA FAQ, “Do your data undergo quality control?”

https://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/

What a Convenient Excuse to doubt the Polar ice melt exponential increase in general and the Greenland massive ice melt increase in particular...
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Agelbert NOTE: For background information on the challenges of publishing accurate ice melt data in the face of fossil fuel industry skullduggery, seek multiple sources for ice melt data (i.e. European Satellites too!). The fossil fuelers are a cornered animal. They have never had any ethics whatsoever so you can expect them to get even more ruthless in their efforts to avoid the demise of their deleterious 'business model'. Screw em' if they can't handle reality or take responsibility for their actions!
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on April 24, 2016, 04:44:04 pm
Winter is Leaving

https://youtu.be/f-mIp8HWxcc

https://secure.oceanconservancy.org/site/Advocacy;jsessionid=40E4823523F1669FD7E1B54624EEE3CD.app203b
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on April 26, 2016, 08:01:31 pm
Scientists collaborate to sort fact from fiction in climate change media coverage

Derek Markham

Derek Markham (@derekmarkham)
Science / Climate Change
 April 25, 2016


Climate Feedback quote from Naomi Oreskes (Graphic at link)
© Climate Feedback
 
A new global collaboration platform aims to help the general public know which climate change articles they can trust, based on evaluations and feedback from actual scientists.

Even as the media coverage of climate issues continues to grow, so does the amount of climate misinformation and the number of misinterpretations of climate data and research findings, which can lead to mistrust and skepticism about those issues. Part of that may be because of the never-ending quest for readers and pageviews, which is behind the rash of clickbait headlines and sensational "science by press release," wherein writers spin an article around the most buzzworthy element in the story, which may or may not be relevant or even true, and which then becomes referenced as a "fact" in future articles.

Another part of the climate change coverage is driven by opposition and skepticism, which also falls prey to the lure of click-worthy headlines and the use of data taken out of context, or which conveniently leaves out part of the story in order to cater to their audience's beliefs and to support their own viewpoint.

Either way, when it comes to climate coverage, it's hard for the average non-scientist to weed out the junk science and junk reporting, and to be able to identify accurate information about climate issues. And if it's hard to tell what's truth and what's fiction in climate news, it's going to be even harder to build the level of trust, interest, and buy-in from enough people in order to transform our energy, food, and water systems into more resilient and more sustainable versions. So not only is it important that inaccuracies in climate reporting from opposition groups be addressed and refuted, but it's also important that well-intentioned but misleading environmental reporting also be corrected.

And that's where Climate Feedback comes in. Climate Feedback, which is a "global network of 100+ scientists and counting," aims to add a peer-review element to online climate coverage, essentially allowing scientists to annotate climate articles on the web and give feedback on the scientific accuracy of the stories. The platform will allow readers to see the annotations along with the original article, so that they can see any inconsistencies or errors and get a more accurate understanding of climate science. Climate Feedback will also help publishers and journalists produce more accurate climate stories, and to get connected with expert sources working in the field, and could help boost reader trust levels for future coverage if they know the articles are peer-reviewed, in a sense.

Excellent Video at article link

Climate Feedback is also building a "Scientific Trust Tracker," which will serve as a reliable resource for the public to reference when evaluating the credibility of the news organizations and websites behind the climate reporting, and allow readers to know who to trust when it comes to online climate coverage.

In order to really boost the Climate Feedback project, and provide more annotations on climate stories, the organization is actively crowdfunding on Indiegogo, with a goal of raising $30,000 USD over the next month. Considering that the climate is one of the hottest topics in the media, and in politics, these days, it sure does seem like a natural fit for news organizations to help fund, similar to the way that experts and other professional resources are maintained by those outlets.

Climate Feedback annotation (Graphic on Wall Street Journal Propaganda at article link)
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"Climate Feedback brings the expertise of the scientific community into the world of online climate coverage to provide readers and authors with in-situ feedback about the content’s scientific credibility.    (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fus.cdn2.123rf.com%2F168nwm%2Flenm%2Flenm1201%2Flenm120100200%2F12107060-illustration-of-a-smiley-giving-a-thumbs-up.jpg&hash=2046bc6d662e09d3014a2c404a2af6ba17f8217c)

Climate Feedback is a project born from the reality that we are at a critical moment in history, one in which important decisions about climate change must be made.

 
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It’s a project born from the understanding that in order for our democracies to choose the right courses of action, citizens must have access to scientifically accurate information. And it’s a project born from the belief that it’s the civic duty of scientific professionals to better inform their fellow citizens in their respective areas of expertise."

If you'd like to get a dose of scientific accuracy with your climate journalism, head over to the "Scientific Feedbacks" page on Climate Feedback, and if you'd like to see a sea change in climate coverage, consider becoming a backer of the #StandWithScience campaign. And if you're a scientist, consider applying to be a part of this innovative climate science media initiative.

http://www.treehugger.com/climate-change/scientists-collaborate-sort-fact-fiction-climate-change-media-coverage.html

Agelbert NOTE: If you are a fossil fueler fronting as a scientist, be sure and question the "credibility" of the above post and 99% of the scientific community.
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on April 26, 2016, 09:12:39 pm
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Abandon hype in climate models

SNIPPET 1:

The economic models that are used to inform climate policy currently contain an unhealthy dose of wishful thinking.

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SNIPPET 2:

The IPCC’s own scenario database suggests that the ambition of the Paris Agreement cannot be achieved without negative emissions technologies. Even with rapid decarbonisation, there will be a need to achieve net negative emissions during the second half of this century. That objective cannot be achieved from a standing start. Well-functioning methods would need to be developed and rolled out at a rate unprecedented in human history.

Yet to model what you want to happen, rather than what there is evidence could happen, is to lose the thread of reality. It is redolent of a defeated leader issuing orders to armies that have long since ceased to exist – not so much vision, as delusion.

Should modellers be able to model what they like? Of course. Scenarios allow us to undertake useful thought experiments that provide us with the means to assess potentially novel approaches.

But it is hazardous to rely on science fiction in the development of the scenarios that are used to inform policymakers. To include scenarios for avoiding dangerous climate change that employ entirely speculative approaches seems reckless in the extreme.

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Some will defend the use of these technological imaginaries in IPCC scenarios by arguing that without them hopes of avoiding dangerous climate change are forlorn and that this would generate a degree of despair that would undermine the will to act. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.coh2.org%2Fimages%2FSmileys%2Fhuhsign.gif&hash=3732d0427be65896527fc3805c5be54a33cffd3b)

But that is not the role of models. “Fake it ‘til you make it” may work as a tactic, but it is a lousy strategy. 

As the dust settles on the Paris Agreement and policymakers face up to the challenge of achieving the ambition set out by their leaders, we need to reflect on what actually needs to happen. Policymakers can only hope to develop realistic plans, if the basis on which they are making those plans is itself realistic. While the boundary between ambition and delusion may be not be entirely sharp, the inclusion of negative emissions amounting to 600-800 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide (equivalent to 15-20 years of current annual emissions) is clearly more than a stretch goal. For this reason, negative emission techniques should be excluded from the mitigation scenarios used by the IPCC unless and until there is sufficient evidence to warrant their inclusion and then only on a scale that is demonstrably realistic.

The IPCC recently announced a Special Report on the 1.5 °C target. To be credible, this must include detailed assessment of proposed negative emission techniques, drawing on a wide range of expertise from natural sciences, engineering, social sciences and the humanities to assess to what extent, if any, such approaches could be deployed without creating countervailing side-effects.

On the basis of such a comprehensive assessment, policy makers will then have to make an explicit decision either to invest in the necessary research, development and demonstration of the technologies or to explain how they propose to meet their ambitious targets without such interventions. Policymakers cannot be allowed to hide behind the vague language of the Paris Agreement (“achieve a balance between anthropogenic emissions by sources and removals by sinks of greenhouse gases”).

In the absence of comprehensive research and indications of political feasibility, it seems prudent to exclude from the models what is currently magical thinking. Only by undertaking research will it be possible to determine whether today’s science fiction could be transformed into tomorrow’s science reality.

Tim Kruger is a James Martin Fellow at Oxford University and manages the Oxford Geoengineering Programme. Oliver Geden is head of EU division at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP). Steve Rayner is James Martin Professor of Science and Civilization and Director of the Institute for Science, Innovation and Society (InSIS) in the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography at Oxford University.


https://www.theguardian.com/science/political-science/2016/apr/26/abandon-hype-in-climate-models (https://www.theguardian.com/science/political-science/2016/apr/26/abandon-hype-in-climate-models)
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on April 27, 2016, 09:33:17 pm
Record-Breaking Hot Ocean Temperatures Are Frying The Great Barrier Reef  >:(

 by Ryan Koronowski Apr 26, 2016 9:41 am

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http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2016/04/26/3769440/great-barrier-reef-bleaching/ (http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2016/04/26/3769440/great-barrier-reef-bleaching/)

Agelbert NOTE:
I predict the barrier reef damage will cause a sea change FOR THE BETTER in Australian people and politics. The Australians are now beginning to extract their heads from their fossil fuel worshipping asses. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fcliparts.co%2Fcliparts%2FBig%2FEgq%2FBigEgqBMT.png&hash=e7eec62f009cdd686ce795fad0a53c6befe748e9)

The people of Australia are finally learning (the HARD WAY) about VIABLE BIOSPHERE MATH.

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The Australian fossil fuel industry bought and paid fors will be thrown OUT of politics!  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Fmaniac.gif&hash=9ecf389a7da25db958f3f63461cbb45a4b316c4e)

Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on April 27, 2016, 09:45:37 pm
‘Days of Revolt’: Chris Hedges, Tim DeChristopher Discuss Far-Reaching Effects of Climate Change

Posted on Apr 26, 2016
 
In this week’s episode of “Days of Revolt,” Truthdig columnist Chris Hedges sits down with Tim DeChristopher, founder of the Climate Disobedience Center.

The two analyze how the industrialized world fails to significantly confront climate change, beginning with the “exercise in make-believe” that was the 2015 Paris climate conference.

DeChristopher explains that the drastic effects of global warming aren’t just occurring in a vacuum. For example, water shortages in parts of the southern United States play out in areas with pre-existing social tensions, such as racism and xenophobia, creating the potential to trigger violent human responses. Another example is Syria, where, as DeChristopher points out, the CIA actually admitted that climate change accelerated the beginning of civil war.

Still, DeChristopher says, “I don’t think it’s inevitable that hardship pits people against one another. I think it’s also possible that hardship can be an awakening.” But he says he struggles to cope with the “mania of hope.”

He and Hedges agree that, especially among younger activists, spiritual motivations can be helpful in confronting the unraveling of the climate.
 
DeChristopher says that most scientists acknowledge that the current rate of climate change is unstoppable, but it’s time for the rest of the world to stop living in denial.

Despite 175 nations signing a “landmark” agreement on climate change last week, the industrialized world still has a way to go in confronting the realities of climate change.

Watch the full interview (AT LINK) below:

http://www.truthdig.com/avbooth/item/days_of_revolt_chris_hedges_tim_dechristopher_discuss_20160426

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on April 30, 2016, 05:40:28 pm
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Posted on Apr 29, 2016

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Tim Radford, a founding editor of Climate News Network, worked for The Guardian for 32 years, for most of that time as science editor. He has been covering climate change since 1988.

 
Around 12 million trees have perished in California in the last year.

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February 6, 2016 -  A large patch of dead trees are seen in the Sierra Nevada from a helicopter tour in December. The mostly ponderosa and sugar pine trees are dying off in large numbers around Bass Lake and throughout the Sierra Nevada due to a bark beetle infestation brought on by four years of extreme drought in California.  CRAIG KOHLRUSS  - ckohlruss@fresnobee.com
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This piece first appeared at Climate News Network.

LONDON—Scientists in the US have identified the factors that make a tree more likely to perish in a drought, after conducting an exhaustive examination of 33 separate scientific studies of tree mortality involving 475 species and 760,000 individual trees.

The answer they come up with is that the deciding factor is how efficiently trees draw water from the ground to their leaf tips.

This is not a surprising conclusion, but scientists don’t trust the obvious: they like to check these things.
 
And William Anderegg, assistant professor of biology at the University of Utah, and colleagues report in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on a list of 10 tree traits that could play a role in survival or death by drought. These include simple differences such as deciduous or evergreen, rooting depth, wood density, leaf characteristics.


Adapt and survive

Such research matters. In 2002 in the southwestern US, 225 million trees died where they stood because of drought. Texas alone lost 300 million trees in 2011. In California in the last year, 12 million trees have perished.

With losses on this scale, and more drought and heat extremes in store as climates begin to change because fossil fuel combustion worldwide has increased the levels of atmospheric greenhouse gases, foresters and conservationists need to know which species are most likely to adapt and survive, and what these species have that others do not.

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“These widespread tree die-offs are a really early and visible sign of climate change already affecting our landscapes.”

In fact, deciding factors centre on the ability of a tree to draw water through the piping in its tissues.
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The forest giants may have to pump 200 litres of water every hour at a speed of 50 metres an hour to the topmost leaves, at a pressure of 30 atmospheres.


And the process is at risk of interruption during drought by air bubbles. To put it heartlessly, trees, like humans, can perish from embolism. 

“It’s a little bit akin to a tree heart attack,” Dr Anderegg says. “You can actually hear this on a hot summer day if you stick a microphone up a tree. You can hear little pings and pops as these pipes get filled with air.”

Those species already adapted to dry climates seem to be less at risk, while those that normally flourish in wetlands are more vulnerable to drought. So far, so obvious. But not all forest physiology is so obvious.

Forest cycle

Late last year, Dr Anderegg and his fellow researchers established that it was the increasing heat of the tropic night that was most likely to change tropical forests into carbon sources, rather than carbon sinks. What mattered was not global warming of itself, but how the warming was distributed through the forest’s diurnal cycle.

And since the world’s forests fulfil a vital role as carbon sinks—sequestering 2.4 billion tons of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide every year, which is at least a quarter of all the carbon dioxide emissions from factory chimneys, motor exhausts and other human economic activity—what happens to forests as the world warms is vital for humankind as well.

But global warming is also increasing the risk of forest loss by drought and wildfires.

“These widespread tree die-offs are a really early and visible sign of climate change already affecting our landscapes,” Dr Anderegg says.

http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/droughts_are_triggering_tree_heart_attacks_20160429


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June 9, 2015 - The western U.S. has been a hotspot for forest die-offs such as this one in Colorado. Photo Credit:  William M. Ciesla, Forest Health Management
- See more at: http://www.news.ucsb.edu/2015/015489/predicting-tree-mortality#sthash.U87dovZv.dpuf

Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on May 03, 2016, 06:29:35 pm
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Largest Civil Disobedience in History of the Environmental Movement Begins Today

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Starting today, a global wave of peaceful direct actions lasting for 12 days will take place across six continents targeting the world’s most dangerous fossil fuel projects, under the banner of Break Free.

2015 was the hottest year ever recorded and the impacts of climate change are already hitting communities around the world. From rising sea levels to extreme storms, the need to act on climate change has never been more urgent. Added to that, the fossil fuel industry faces an unprecedented crisis—from collapsing prices, massive divestments, a new global climate deal and an ever-growing movement calling for change. The time has never been better for a just transition to a clean energy system.

To harness the moment, activists and concerned citizens committed to addressing climate change—from international groups to local communities to individual citizens—will unite to ensure that strong pressure is maintained to force energy providers, as well as local and national governments, to implement the policies and additional investments needed to completely break free from fossil fuels.

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People worldwide are providing the much needed leadership by intensifying actions through peaceful civil disobedience on a global scale as so much remains to be done in order to lessen the effects of the climate crisis. This includes demanding governments move past the commitments made as part of the Paris agreement signed last month.

In order to address the current climate crisis and keep global warming below 1.5 C, fossil fuel projects need to be shelved and existing infrastructure needs to be replaced now that renewable energy is more affordable and widespread than ever before. The only way to achieve this is by keeping coal, oil and gas in the ground and accelerating the just transition to 100 percent renewable energy. During Break Free people worldwide are rising up to make sure this is the case.

Actions taking place between May 3-15 include:

United States: Across the U.S. activists will target six key areas of fossil fuel development between May 12-15. Including the new tar sands pipelines in the Midwest with an action near Chicago; fracking in the Mountain West with an event outside Denver; “bomb trains” carrying fracked oil and gas to a port in Albany, New York; Shell’s devastating refinery pollution north of Seattle; action around offshore drilling in the Arctic, Atlantic and Gulf coasts taking place in Washington, DC; and dangerous oil and gas drilling in Los Angeles. These diverse actions will all escalate critical local campaigns that target the unjust practices of the fossil fuel industry. More detail on the individual actions can be found below.

•May 12 & May 14 in Colorado (Denver): On May 12, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) intends to hold a fossil fuel auction and hundreds of people will be there to tell them to keep it in the ground. Activists will be mobilizing first at the BLM auction and then a few days later on May 14th in a community working to defend itself from fracking near Denver.

•May 13-15 in the Pacific Northwest (Anacortes, Washington): The Shell (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-230216221448.png&hash=94af4f1b4c63e415fffb3622699c1e3d9910ce19) and Tesoro refineries just north of Seattle are the largest unaddressed source of carbon pollution in the Pacific Northwest and refine nearly half of all the gas and diesel consumed in the region; this system must change—within years, not decades. Thousands of people will converge upon the March Point refineries in Anacortes, Washington. Hundreds of people will risk arrest by engaging in peaceful civil disobedience on land and sea on May 13th, 14th and 15th as part of a mass action to Break Free from Big Oil and hasten the just transition to 100 percent renewable energy.

•May 14 in the Northeast (Albany, New York) Crude oil “bomb” trains roll through Albany, polluting the air in surrounding communities and contributing to the climate crisis. On May 14th, activists will gather for a massive action to stop these dangerous trains in their tracks. Joining others all around the world, they will put their bodies in the way of fossil fuels to show the collective power of this movement.

•May 14 in California (Los Angeles): 2016 is a critical year in the fight to move California away from dangerous fossil fuels and toward the renewable energy future we need. From the neighborhoods in Richmond alongside a toxic, explosive oil refinery to residents living only feet away from neighborhood drilling in South LA, frontline communities across the state are living with the insidious threats of fossil fuels. That’s why thousands of Californians will be marching in Los Angeles on May 14 to demand a ban on urban drilling and all new fossil fuel infrastructure. As the home of the largest urban oil field and the largest city in California, Los Angeles is the clear target for this action. Change can begin in LA to move the whole state off fossil fuels and toward 100 percent renewable energy.

•May 15 in Washington, DC: On May 15, a coalition of organizations and frontline activists will rally at the White House and then march to one of the bodies of water in DC. Frontline activists from the Gulf, Arctic and Atlantic will come together in DC backed by national organizations to say, “Stop Drilling everywhere. No sacrifice zones.” Expanding offshore drilling or cutting it out entirely is the biggest climate decision that Obama will make before the end of his presidency and this action will show that there is a mass movement calling on him to #keepitintheground.

•May 15 in the Midwest ([Whiting, Indiana, near Chicago): The Midwest has a long history with the fossil fuel industry and this May communities in the region are taking action to Break Free from athen industry that’s driving the climate crisis. The fossil fuel industry threads the Great Lakes region with pipelines, putting local communities at risk with refining impacts and petcoke piles. Communities are breaking free from business as usual and taking on Enbridge’s tar sands proposed expansion plans. On Sunday, May 15 at noon, hundreds of Midwesterners will assemble for a rally in the Whiting Lakefront Park near the BP Whiting Refinery and near the 2014 oil spill into the waters of Lake Michigan.

Australia:
On May 8 some 600+ people will gather at the largest coal port in the world, in Newcastle. They will demonstrate their resolve to make the climate a key issue in the coming election and show their determination to continue resisting coal no matter who is in the Prime Minister’s chair.

Brazil: Actions will be taking place at three locations across the country. Between May 5-15 there will be a rural fair in Maringa, which will include a big rally on May 6, calling for a ban on fracking. On May 7 in Toledo there will be a mass anti-fracking action with thousands of people attending. And on May 14 there will be a march and mass civil disobedience targeting a coal power plant in Pecem, Ceará.

Canada:
On May 13 and 14 hundreds of people will take action on the land and the water in Vancouver to oppose the proposed Kinder Morgan Transmountain tar sands pipeline, surrounding the Westridge Marine terminal.

Ecuador:
An action is being organized on May 14 by Yasunidos bringing people together from around the country with a call to keep the oil in ground and protect the Yasuni National Park.

Germany: During the weekend of May 13-15 a few thousand activists are expected to come to Lusatia where they will engage in civil disobedience to stop the digging in one of Europe’s biggest open-pit lignite mines, which the Swedish company Vattenfall has put up for sale. The action will show any future buyer that all coal development will face resistance and demonstrate the movement’s commitment against fossil fuel corporations.

Indonesia: There will be a mass action of thousands of people at the Presidential Palace in Jakarta on May 11. The action will include participants from many of the communities leading resistance to coal projects from around the country. The mobilization will target President Joko Widodo demanding he revise his ambitious 35,000 Megawatt energy plan by moving away from coal and embracing renewable energy. A few days later there will be one or more actions at the site of coal infrastructure projects.

New Zealand: Between May 4-15 hundreds of people around New Zealand will take action to shut down the operations of one of New Zealand’s biggest investors and lenders to the fossil fuel industry, ANZ bank. There will be blockades, disruptive actions and culture jamming from North to South.

Nigeria:
In the Niger Delta actions will be held in three iconic locations to show what happens when the oil goes dry and the community is left with the pollution and none of the wealth. An action at Ogoni land will demand an urgent clean-up of decades old oil spills and underscore how it is possible for citizens to resist the power of the oil corporations and keep their oil in the ground where it belongs. Another action will be on the Atlantic coast, where Exxon’s offshore wells frequently leak, impact fisheries and harm coastline communities’ livelihoods.

Philippines: On May 4 anti-coal activists from all over the Philippines will converge in a climate march that aims to mobilize 10,000 people in Batangas City, where JG Summit Holdings aims to put up a 600-Megawatt coal fired power plant that is set to occupy a 20-hectare site in Barangay Pinamucan Ibaba, Batangas City. The people will be demanding the cancellation of the coal plant in Batangas as well as all 27 other proposed plants in the Philippines.

South Africa: Two actions will take place each with hundreds of people highlighting the local impacts of coal and climate change. The first on May 12 will see people gathering in Emalahleni, one of the most polluted towns in the world, to speak out on the effects of climate change. The second on May 14 is focused on the Gupta residence in Saxonwold, Johannesburg.

Turkey: Community leaders will head a mass action in Aliağa on May 15 at a coal waste site to call for a stop to four fossil fuel plant projects in the surrounding area. This action will unite several fights against individual coal plants into a unified stance against the current Turkish government’s plan to dramatically expand the use of coal in the country.

UK: The Reclaim the Power network will unite hundreds of people on May 3 at the UK’s largest opencast coal mine—Ffos-y-fran, near Merthyr Tydfil in south Wales. The action will take place just a few days before the Welsh Assembly elections on May 5. The Welsh Assembly voted for a moratorium on opencast coal mining last April, but this has yet to become legally binding.

http://ecowatch.com/2016/05/03/break-free/

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Agelbert NOTE:
The fossil fuel industry is a wounded animal. There will be a lot of trouble before those profit over planet BASTARDS go down.

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on May 04, 2016, 02:19:32 pm
The Changing Earth: It’s Not Just A New Normal (Start at 10:21 to skip introductions)  8)

https://youtu.be/SGRgmdSJNng

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on May 04, 2016, 06:44:05 pm
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Jimmy Kimmel herein takes on Princess Dumbass of the Northwoods and her assorted acolytes who insist  methane is a vitamin.

From the comments: "Jimmy takes a moment to talk about climate change and the confusing political argument that has emerged around it. NASA says that 97 percent of climate scientists agree that the warming we are experiencing is very likely due to human activity - but some politicians still want us to believe it’s all a hoax. So we enlisted the help of real climate scientists to clear some things up for us."

https://youtu.be/9UCdFbyL8y0

Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on May 04, 2016, 07:37:49 pm
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Bill McKibben: It’s Time to Turn Up the Heat on Those Who Are Wrecking Planet Earth


Bill McKibben | May 4, 2016 9:48 am

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Global warming is the biggest problem we’ve ever faced as a civilization—certainly you want to act to slow it down, but perhaps you’ve been waiting for just the right moment.

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The moment when, oh, marine biologists across the Pacific begin weeping in their scuba masks as they dive on reefs bleached of life in a matter of days. The moment when drought in India gets deep enough that there are armed guards on dams to prevent the theft of water. The moment when we record the hottest month ever measured on the planet, and then smash that record the next month, and then smash that record the next month? The moment when scientists reassessing the stability of the Antarctic ice sheet have what one calls an “OMG moment” and start talking about massive sea level rise in the next 30 years?

That would be this moment—the moment when 135 children have drowned in Thailand trying to cool off from the worst heatwave on record there. The moment when, in a matter of months, we’ve recorded the highest wind speeds ever measured in the western and southern hemispheres.

For years people have patiently and gently tried to nudge us onto a new path for dealing with our climate and energy troubles—we’ve had international conferences and countless symposia and lots and lots and lots of websites. And it’s sort of worked—the world met in Paris last December and announced it would like to hold temperature increases to 1.5C or less. Celebration ensued. But what also ensued was February, when the planet’s temperature first broke through that 1.5C barrier. And as people looked past the rhetoric, they saw that the promises made in Paris would add up to a world 3.5C warmer—an impossible world. The world we’re starting to see take shape around us.

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So there’s a need to push harder. A need, as it were, to break free from some of the dogma that’s surrounded this issue for a very long time. Yes, we need to have “everyone work together.” Yes, we need a “multi-faceted, global effort.” But you know what we really need? We need to keep oil and gas and coal in the ground, keep it from being burned and adding its freight of carbon to the global total.


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Which is why, from one end of the planet to the other, people are taking greater risks this month. In one of the biggest coordinated civil disobedience actions the world has ever seen, frontline communities and climate scientists and indigenous people and faith leaders and just plain people who actually give a damn will be sitting down and sitting in and standing pat—blocking, at least for a few hours, those places where the coal and oil and gas currently reside, in the hopes of helping keep them there.

In Australia they’ll be taking to kayaks at the world’s largest coal port in Newcastle, and in Brazil it’s the fracking onslaught they’re opposing. In Vancouver they’ll be surrounding a new proposed oil terminal on the coast, and in Indonesia they’ll be outside the presidential palace in Jakarta. Coal will be the target in the Philippines and Turkey and the UK; oil in Nigeria; gas in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado—on and on around the planet, a swell of people saying the time has come.

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The time has come to show that we understand we’re in this together across borders and boundaries.

The time has come to take action commensurate with the scale of the problem. Yes, risking arrest is harder than signing a Facebook petition. But experience has shown it can often work—that’s what kicked the fight against the Keystone pipeline into high gear, turning it into the highest profile defeat of the oil industry in a generation. That’s what made it impossible for Shell to keep drilling in the Arctic, and for Adani to find the funds they need to build Earth’s biggest coal mine.

Not everyone can do it—there are regimes that are too authoritarian for anyone to dare even peaceful civil disobedience of this kind. But for those of us who still live in places theoretically committed to freedom, it’s time to put that privilege to use.

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http://ecowatch.com/2016/05/04/bill-mckibben-break-free/ (http://ecowatch.com/2016/05/04/bill-mckibben-break-free/)
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on May 04, 2016, 09:18:29 pm
Delhi schools ordered to close early for summer as temperatures soar

All schools in the Indian capital have been told to take ‘mandatory summer vacation’ as heatwave continues


Vidhi Doshi in Mumbai

Wednesday 4 May 2016 06.49 EDT  Last modified on Wednesday 4 May 2016 17.00 EDT 

All schools in Delhi have been ordered to take a “mandatory summer vacation” from 11 May amid a heatwave that has swept the city.

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Officials say temperatures will continue to rise in the coming weeks, after reaching 44C (111F) on Monday – the hottest day of the year so far.
 
Schools in other parts of India have already been forced to close because of heatwaves and a drought that has affected 330 million people across India.

Delhi’s state-run schools finish for the summer on 10 May anyway, but private and municipal schools’ term dates vary. Many schools’ end-of-term tests will now need to be rescheduled.

Nav Bharti public school was due to break up for the summer on 18 May. Its headteacher, Sanjay Bhartiya, said the government’s decision would cause a scheduling nightmare. “We had cycle tests and unit tests scheduled for the second week of May, so now all our schedule will be disturbed,” he said.

“We are going to follow the government’s order, there is no alternative right now. But in the school calendar, one week matters a lot. We understand the government’s concern over the heatwave but this abrupt decision will definitely affect us.”

Madhulika Sen, headteacher at Tagore International school, Vasant Vihar, which will lose three working days because of the government’s order, was less forgiving. “Where the temperature is concerned, the government schools have no infrastructure – no fans, no back up for electricity, drinking water. They can’t handle the heatwave, so it makes sense for the government schools to be closed.”

“But I don’t know why private schools have been affected because we have all the infrastructure – many schools even have air conditioning. The government just doesn’t want to make it sound as though children in government schools are finishing earlier than private school students,” she said.

For some though, the decision is a practical one. Madhurie Singh, the founder of a school comparison website who has two children, said: “The most important thing is health. Distances in Delhi are huge, and kids can spend an hour or more travelling to school.

“Over a period of time, the climate is changing, and perhaps it is time to look at how the school year can be restructured around that change.”

Extreme weather is becoming increasingly common in India. Last year, hundreds of people died in floods in the southern city of Chennai.

The heatwave is adding to the woes of millions of people who are suffering from drought. Weak monsoons for the last two years have forced hundreds of migrants to leave their ancestral lands in search of water in the cities. Rural parts of the country have been hit the worst, with farmers suffering from poor harvests and no clean water to drink or wash.

The scarcity of water has caused political tensions, with states in northern India battling over control of rivers. Armed guards have been deployed at dams to protect what is becoming an increasingly precious resource.


Earlier this year, rioters in the state of Haryana cut off the water supply to Delhi until the government met their demands to change their caste status.

India’s prime minister, Narendra Modi, has promised long-term solutions to drought during election rallies, but so far, government efforts to provide relief to the millions of people in drought-hit regions have been slow and ineffective.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/may/04/delhi-schools-ordered-to-close-early-for-summer-as-temperatures-soar

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on May 05, 2016, 09:48:52 pm
News from Norway: World’s largest sovereign wealth fund turns up climate heat on Exxon, Chevron

Nicolas Torres  May 5, 2016

The world’s largest sovereign wealth fund said Tuesday it will back shareholder proposals that would require ExxonMobil and Chevron to disclose how climate change could impact their businesses.


According to Reuters, Norges Bank Investment Management, the manager of Norway’s Government Pension Fund Global, will vote in favor of shareholder proposals that would require the companies to disclose more information about business risks and opportunities tied to climate change.

The Chevron shareholder proposal requests that the company’s board “adopt long-term, quantitative, company-wide targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions in products and operations that take into consideration the global commitment…to limit warming to 2°C.”

Chevron’s board said in the company’s proxy statement that it shares concerns about climate change risks but it believes the proposal is “based upon the flawed premise that a global agreement to limit warming to 2 degrees Celsius requires each individual fossil fuel producer to curtail development of resources proportionately.”

Exxon’s shareholder proposal requests that the company begin publishing an annual assessment of long term portfolio impacts related to public climate change policies by 2017 “at reasonable cost and omitting proprietary information.”

Exxon’s board has urged shareholders to vote against the measure and said the company “is confident that [its] robust planning and investment processes adequately contemplate and address climate change related risks, ensuring the viability of its assets as detailed in the above report.”

NBIM will also support a proposal to separate the chairman position at ExxonMobil from the CEO post that are both currently held by Rex Tillerson, Bloomberg said.

The fund is also expected to oppose Tilllerson’s re-election to Exxon’s board and the re-election of Chevron CEO and chairman John Watson to his company’s board, Bloomberg added.

According to NBIM’s website, the fund currently holds a 0.78 percent stake in Exxon worth about and has invested $2.54 billion in the company.

NBIM holds a 0.85 percent stake in Chevron and has invested $1.44 billion in the company.

News of the fund’s plans comes just weeks after the Rockefeller Family Fund said it will divest from its fossil fuel holdings and issued a strongly worded condemnation of ExxonMobil.

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“We would be remiss if we failed to focus on what we believe to be the morally reprehensible conduct on the part of ExxonMobil,” the fund said.

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on May 09, 2016, 02:18:27 pm
Early start to Greenland Ice Sheet melt season

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These warm April conditions follow on the warmest winter (January 1 to March 31, 2016) recorded for the Arctic.

Large areas of the Arctic reported the warmest conditions in 67 years of weather model data, including the northern half of the Greenland Ice Sheet, much of the central Arctic, southern Alaska and the Canadian Rockies, and parts of central Siberia. The north-central Pacific and northern Atlantic saw temperatures among the lowest on record for that period.

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Data are from ESRL NCEP weather reanalysis. Credit: Brian Brettschneider

SEE BELOW the REACTION to the above HARD SCIENCE REALITY by the fossil fuel industry SHILLS:

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LIST of Fossil Fuel Industry funded BULLSHIT ARTISTS paid to print pseudo-science denying the cause and effect relationship between the burning of fossil fuels and climate change catastrophe:
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on May 15, 2016, 06:30:56 pm
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Posted on May 14, 2016

By Tim Radford / Climate News Network

Tim Radford, a founding editor of Climate News Network, worked for The Guardian for 32 years, for most of that time as science editor. He has been covering climate change since 1988.
 
This piece first appeared at Climate News Network.

LONDON—Seismic waves that race through Greenland’s bedrock may help answer questions about the pattern of melting and freezing over the Northern Hemisphere’s biggest single sheet of ice.

Scientists need answers because Greenland remains a puzzle: the glaciers may be accelerating their pace towards the sea—but, despite rising temperatures, the interior is not losing ice, according to a second study.

And a third study presents a new paradox: there may be little ice melt over most of the icecap, but changing climatic conditions suggest that less snow is falling.
 
There is enough ice packed on Greenland to raise global sea levels by seven metres if it melts. Right now, the flow from the island’s glaciers is probably pushing up sea levels by 0.6mm a year.


Harsh conditions

There is repeatedly confirmed evidence that glaciers are melting at an accelerating rate, and several consequences of global climate change that suggest that this process should go on accelerating.

But research in Greenland’s harsh conditions is challenging, and year-round continuous observation so far has been almost impossible, even with airpower and satellite studies.

But German Prieto, assistant professor of geophysics in the department of Earth, atmospheric and planetary sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and colleagues report in Science Advances journal that they could exploit the one source of evidence that would never falter.

The waves that crash on the coastline send tiny seismic shudders through the rock, and seismic wave velocity changes with rock density. So the reasoning is that changes in the mass of ice pressing down on the rocks could be revealed by changes in the speed of the waves through the rock.

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Every time we go back to Greenland, the edge of the ice  is further away from the coast.

“With our technique, we can continuously monitor ice sheet volume changes associated with winter and summer,” Dr Prieto says. “That’s something that global models need to be able to take into account when calculating how much ice will contribute to sea level rise.”

Ocean waves generate signals that sensors can pick up continuously, and Dr Prieto says: “They happen 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and they generate a very small signal, which we generally don’t feel. But very precise seismic sensors can feel these waves everywhere in the world. Even in the middle of continents, you can see these ocean effects.”

The scientists recorded seismic data from a small network of sensors on Greenland’s west coast between January 2012 and January 2014, and could detect changes in wave velocity of as little as 1%.

They recorded very large slowdowns in 2012, compared to 2013, and these matched satellite observations of abnormally large melting that year, which suggests that climate science now has another way of looking at changes in the ice.

But Max Berkelhammer, assistant professor in the department of Earth and environmental science at the University of Illinois, and colleagues report in the same journal that, if anything, ice could be accumulating at the centre of the island.

The scientists collected three years of data from Greenland’s Summit Camp, which is 3,200 metres above sea level. They found that snow—which, if it were rain, would be somewhere between 2cm and 10 cm a year—is settling on the island’s heart. Since the high ice at the heart of the island stays far below freezing point, that suggests that 40% of the ice cover rarely experiences melting.

The researchers were interested in the rate at which ice and snow could sublimate and be dispersed by the winds. Overall, they could find no net loss of ice—but that does not mean climate change is not affecting the island.

“This is small potatoes compared to the calving that’s going on along the coasts,” Dr Berkelhammer says. “Every time we go back to Greenland, the edge of the ice is further away from the coast.”

More moisture

And one factor at work in maintaining stability is climate change itself, according to a study in Science Advances. As air warms, it can hold more moisture. So, in a warming world, precipitation should be on the increase and snow should be accumulating.

Hans Christian Steen-Larsen, postdoctoral researcher in the Centre for Ice and Climate at the Niels Bohr Institute of the University of Copenhagen, and colleagues measured the water vapour over the ice sheet for three years.

They identified an insulating layer of air over the surface of the ice sheet that formed each winter to screen the high heart of the island from both evaporation and precipitation, and isolate the ice from changes in the upper atmosphere.

Stagnant air keeps the surface cold and dry. Just 100 metres higher, the atmosphere is much more dynamic. Ultimately, such research could pay off in a better understanding of climate change.

“We have simply discovered an important process that helps to explain why there is no relationship between temperature and precipitation on the Greenland ice sheet,” Dr Steen-Larsen says.

http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/shock_impacts_hit_greenlands_ice_20160514
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on May 16, 2016, 06:30:52 pm
Learn how Russia really upset the fossil fuel GOVERNMENT in the USA in November of 2004.  ;D

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on May 19, 2016, 03:26:08 pm
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10 Things to Know about the Walrus

Posted On May 19, 2016 by Guest Blogger

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When you think of walruses, you may picture their tusks—the huge pinniped’s most familiar characteristic. But there is so much more to these “elephants of the sea”! Here are some less-obvious facts about these ice-dwelling creatures.

1. Biologists classify the walrus as a carnivore, or meat eater, which puts the animal in the same broad category as wolves, foxes and lions.

2. The polar bear, weighing as much as 1,200 pounds, is often touted as North America’s largest terrestrial carnivore. But it’s a mere wisp compared to the ocean-going male walrus, which can tip the scales in excess of 3,700 pounds.

3. Walruses depend on sea ice, and spend much of the summer on flows from which they dive into relatively shallow waters in search of food. In winter, the walruses go to shore and feed in near-shore waters. They communicate with grunting and roaring sounds.

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4. Despite their size and their ability to stay underwater for up to half an hour, walruses are not deep divers—they usually feed at depths of less than 300 feet.

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5. Walruses find much of their food by poking around on the ocean floor. When a walrus finds a tasty crab or clam buried in sand, it creates powerful suction with its mouth to vacuum it up. Walruses are not picky eaters—they feed mainly on mollusks, but will also eat worms, cephalopods, crustaceans and more. They even nosh on an occasional seal, though observations of walruses hunting their close relatives are rare.

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6. Walruses are able to locate buried food thanks to the 400-700 stiff bristles, or vibrissae, which grow on their muzzles. Like a cat’s whiskers, vibrissae are sensitive to touch, telling the walrus when it has come in contact with an appropriate food. Vibrissae can grow up to a foot long, but scraping against sand and rock usually keeps them shorter.

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7. Adult walruses have few enemies, mostly due to their massive size and sharp tusks, which can grow to more than three feet long. Bears sometimes attack young walruses, as do orcas. A bear attack on a beached walrus herd can make the pinnipeds rush headlong for the safety of water, causing injuries to adult walruses in the general crush and making them vulnerable to bear attacks.

8. The scientific name for the walrus genus is Odobenus, which is Greek for “tooth walker,” so-called because walruses sometimes use their tusks to haul themselves onto ice.

9. The brownish, heavily seamed skin of the walrus is over 1.5 inches thick and covers a layer of blubber that can get to 3.9 inches thick.  The skin grows paler as the animals age, until the dark brown of the young fades to cinnamon in mature animals. The color depends partly on blood flow to the skin; when in cold water, blood flow to the skin reduces, so the skin of a pink walrus can turn nearly white.

10. Walruses breed from January to March while winter is in full swing, and females give birth about 16 months later. A newborn calf can weigh 100 to 165 pounds and may stay with the mother for two years or more, though usually weaned after a year.

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The Ocean Conservancy is using science-based solutions to tackle the biggest threats to our ocean, including ones that threaten walruses and other wildlife. See how you can take action.

http://blog.oceanconservancy.org/2016/05/19/10-things-to-know-about-the-walrus/#more-12079 (http://blog.oceanconservancy.org/2016/05/19/10-things-to-know-about-the-walrus/#more-12079)

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No ice in shallow water off the continental shelf, no Walruses. GET IT?

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Fossil Fuel Industry response to ALL THE ABOVE:

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on May 20, 2016, 03:46:39 pm
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Fossil Fuel Industry-Funded Attorneys General Try to Block Exxon Climate Fraud Probe

Elliott Negin, Union of Concerned Scientists | May 20, 2016 11:31 am

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In late March, 17 attorneys general held a press conference to announce they will defend the new federal rule curbing power plant carbon emissions and investigate energy companies that may have misled investors and the public about climate risks. They call themselves AGs United for Clean Power and so far attorneys general from California, Massachusetts, New York and the Virgin Islands have launched investigations of ExxonMobil, the world’s largest publicly traded oil company, for fraud.

In response, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and Alabama Attorney General Luther Strange decided to push back. On May 16, they intervened on behalf of ExxonMobil to quash one of the investigations of the Irving, Texas-based company, accusing AGs United for Clean Power of trying to stifle the “debate” over climate science.

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Paxton called Walker’s investigation a “fishing expedition of the worst kind,” representing “an effort to punish Exxon for daring to hold an opinion on climate change that differs from that of radical environmentalists.” Echoing Paxton, Strange charged the “fundamental right of freedom of speech is under assault by an attorney general pursuing an agenda against a business that doesn’t share his views on the environment.”

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Fishing expedition? Free speech?

The facts say otherwise.


Like the other three investigations, Walker’s probe followed the release of documents by the Union of Concerned Scientists, InsideClimate News and the Los Angeles Times revealing that Exxon scientists conducted cutting-edge climate research decades ago and warned top management of the potentially catastrophic risks posed by global warming. Regardless, the company publicly emphasized uncertainty about climate science for years and, to a certain extent, still does. Furthermore, it has been financing a network of advocacy groups and think tanks to spread disinformation about climate science and the viability of renewable energy for the last two decades.

Based on that preliminary evidence, there is strong justification for Walker and the other AGs to investigate further.

As for the free speech argument, Walker and the other AGs have subpoenaed internal company documents to determine whether ExxonMobil’s statements to investors regarding climate risks contradicted what it was hearing from its own scientists. If so, ExxonMobil could be guilty of fraud and fraud is not protected by the First Amendment.

Surely Paxton and Strange, the chief legal officers in their states, are aware of that. And, according to Robert Percival, director of the Environmental Law Program at University of Maryland’s law school, their “political grandstanding” will likely have no impact on the case.

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Both Paxton and Strange are from energy-producing states and, no surprise, they receive generous campaign funding from electric utilities and fossil fuel industries
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SNIPPET of the Exxon MONEY ACTION (Climate Denier Liars 'R' US  :evil4:):
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Organization ExxonMobil Funding (1998-2014)

AEI American Enterprise Institute $3,770,000
CEI Competitive Enterprise Institute $2,005,000
ALEC American Legislative Exchange Council $1,730,200
American Council for Capital Formation Center for Policy Research $1,729,523
Frontiers of Freedom $1,272,000
Annapolis Center $1,153,500
Atlas Economic Research Foundation $1,082,500
National Black Chamber of Commerce $1,025,000
US Chamber of Commerce Foundation $1,000,000

Paxton was first elected Texas’ attorney general in 2014. Before that, he served in the Texas House of Representatives for 10 years and the Texas Senate for two. During the 12 years he spent at the state house, he received only $69,000 in campaign contributions from oil and gas companies. But when he ran for attorney general, they contributed $929,000, nearly twice as much as any other sector. The energy companies that chipped in for his run for attorney general included Chesapeake Energy, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, Koch Industries, Marathon Oil and Phillips 66. ExxonMobil sat out Paxton’s 2014 campaign, but between December 2006 and October 2012, the company’s political action committee gave him $3,250, according to state ethics disclosure filings. Not much, but the rest of the industry has more than made up for it.

Strange became Alabama’s attorney general in 2010. In 2014, mining, oil and gas and electric companies and their trade associations collectively donated $177,850 to his reelection campaign, placing them among his top contributors. His benefactors that year included the American Coal Association, American Gas Association and Koch Industries, but his biggest energy industry supporter was Alabama Power, which gave him a whopping $72,500.

Alabama Power is a subsidiary of Southern Company, one of the nation’s largest electric utilities. Three of the company’s coal-fired power plants are the biggest carbon emitters in the country. Two are located near Atlanta and the third, near Birmingham, is operated by Alabama Power. Southern Company’s support for the climate science denier network, meanwhile, goes back more than 20 years. And just last year it was revealed that the company had been secretly funding dubious research conducted by climate contrarian aerospace engineer Wei-Hock “Willie” Soon since 2005. Soon’s studies concluded that solar activity is the main cause of global warming and carbon emissions have little or no impact.

Given the support Strange gets from Southern Company, Koch Industries and other interested parties, perhaps it’s no coincidence that the day after the AGs for Clean Power held their press conference, he issued a joint press release with Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt insisting there is a lively debate over the reality of climate change. “Reasonable minds can disagree about the science behind global warming and disagree they do,” they said. The debate “should not be silenced with threats of criminal prosecution by those who believe that their position is the only correct one and that all dissenting voices must therefore be intimidated and coerced into silence.”

Leaving aside the fact that reasonable minds at this point do not disagree about climate science, the AGs for Clean Power investigations are not about debating the science of global warming. They are about something quite different: when scientists told energy companies about the risks of climate change and what company executives did in response.


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All but one of the 17 attorneys general behind AGs for Clean Power belong to the Democratic Attorneys General Association (DAGA). But Paxton, Strange and Pruitt have their own coalition, the Republican Attorneys General Association (RAGA). Both associations get their share of corporate support, but the coal, oil and gas and electric utility industries have placed most of their bets on RAGA.

DAGA gets relatively limited support from the energy industry. Since January 2015, for example, it has received $80,000 from that sector, according to data compiled by the Center for Responsive Politics. Its top energy industry donor was the American Petroleum Institute (API), the oil and gas industry’s primary trade association, which donated $25,000.

By comparison, RAGA pulled in more than $800,000 from coal, oil and gas and utilities over the same time frame, according to Center for Responsive Politics data. The top RAGA donor was coal giant Murray Energy, which chipped in $250,000. Two years ago, Murray Energy CEO Bob Murray unsuccessfully sued the Environmental Protection Agency over the Clean Power Plan, charging that the agency has been “lying” about the reality of global warming and that the Earth is actually cooling. Koch Industries, meanwhile, donated $125,400. The coal, oil and gas conglomerate’s co-owner, Charles Koch, recently told ABC News that “the evidence is overwhelming” that the climate is “changing in a mild and manageable way.” Other major energy industry RAGA funders included API and ExxonMobil, which each donated $50,000 and Southern Company, which contributed $35,000.

The industry’s support for RAGA has paid off big time—for both sides. According to a December 2014 New York Times exposé on the secret links between the energy industry and attorneys general, AGs “in at least a dozen states are working with energy companies and other corporate interests, which in turn are providing them with record amounts for their political campaigns, including at least $16 million” in 2014. Those AGs include Paxton, Strange and Pruitt.

The Times found that Pruitt and other energy industry-funded AGs have invited industry lobbyists to draft letters for them to send to federal agencies, promoted energy industry-written bills in their state legislatures and joined energy companies as plaintiffs in court challenges. Strange, Pruitt and other RAGA attorneys general even went so far as to file an amicus brief in support of Bob Murray’s challenge to the Clean Power Plan.

Legal experts told the Times that the scope of the AGs’ collaboration with the energy industry is “unprecedented” and “threatens the integrity of the office.”

“When you use a public office, pretty shamelessly, to vouch for a private party with substantial financial interest without the disclosure of the true authorship, that is a dangerous practice,” said David B. Frohnmayer, a Republican who served as Oregon’s attorney general for a decade. Terry Goddard, a Democrat who served two terms as Arizona’s attorney general, agreed. “It is a magnificent and noble institution, the office of attorney general, as it is truly the lawyer for the people. That independence is clearly at risk here.”

Goddard got that right. By definition, attorneys general are the “people’s lawyer” and their duties include investigating—and suing—companies that flout state laws. That is exactly what AGs in California, Massachusetts, New York and the Virgin Islands are doing. By intervening on behalf of ExxonMobil, Paxton and Strange are trying to stop Claude Walker from doing his job. If they were truly independent and took the responsibility of their office seriously, they would open ExxonMobil investigations of their own.

Elliott Negin is a senior writer at the Union of Concerned Scientists. Unless otherwise noted, all campaign contribution data came from the National Institute on Money in State Politics website.


http://ecowatch.com/2016/05/20/block-exxon-climate-probe/

Agelbert NOTE: A bullshit artist for the fossil fuel industry trots out the "Exxon is a great investment" style propaganda (along with the MKing style "you are hypocrite" straw grasping). I explained the facts to her.  ;D

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If someone doesn't like Exxon Mobil, then perhaps they: 1) shouldn't buy their gas or natural gas or plastics (ha ha - good luck with that!) 2) don't buy their stock (one of the few dividend aristocrats remaining) and 3) check your 401K for mutual funds and get rid of all of good performers (because they are the ones that have XOM in them). These liberal, showboating, hypocritical (do you use any petroleum related products?....fly anywhere lately?) Attorney Generals make me sick. Go after someone else - like big Pharma.
 
agelbert > 1Wausaugirl1

People HAVE been selling fossil fuel stocks. People ARE using less and less fossil fuels for everything from heating to transportation..

That is why the fossil fuel industry has been steadily losing energy market share and that is why reputable asset management firms like IMPAX have, with a recent 7 year stock tracking study, recommended and acted on TOTAL divestment from the DOOMED fossil fuel industry and its stocks.

Do you know why Exxon hasn't tanked? It is because their soon to not be CEO anymore, Tillerson, under harsh criticism for doing this, SPENT over 2 BILLION DOLLARS of the corporation's funds in BUYING BACK STOCK to keep the price from cratering.

So, whether people like you want to believe it or not, it's OVER for the polluting bastards running the fossil fuel industry.

But, hey, feel free to back up the truck and buy lots of fossil fuel stocks! There really is one born every minute. But I'm not one of them.
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on May 21, 2016, 09:35:36 pm
El Nino Sparks Record Jump in CO2:

The level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere reached 407.42 parts per million (ppm) in April amplified by El Nino, according to readings at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii.

This is a worrying 4.16 ppm rise from last year. Since 1950, the biggest record ppm level increase had been 3.7. "I think we're essentially over for good," Ralph Keeling, the director of the Mauna Loa CO2 program, known for his famous “Keeling Curve” said. El Nino leads to higher CO2 emissions by stimulating drought in tropical regions that cause more wildfires.

In early May, southern hemisphere CO2 emissions were also reported to have crossed the 400 ppm mark for the first time. (News: AP, InsideClimate News, Decoded Science. Commentary: Guardian, Graham Readfearn column)

http://insideclimatenews.org/news/18052016/atmospheric-co2-carbon-dioxide-400-ppm-climate-change-keeling-curve

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on May 21, 2016, 10:04:28 pm
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Road markings appear distorted as asphalt starts to melt because of the high temperature in New Delhi on May 24 of LAST YEAR.  It's WORSE this year.

India just recorded its hottest temperature on record: 51 degrees Celsius

By Andrew Freedman
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Misery Index showing temperatures plus dewpoint levels across India on May 19, 2016.

Image: Earth Simulator (at article link)


India just set a new national record heat benchmark when the small city of Phalodi, in northwest India, recorded a high temperature of a whopping 51 degrees Celsius, or 123.8 degrees Fahrenheit, on May 19.

The data, recorded by the India Meteorological Department (IMD), shows that the high temperature eclipsed the previous national high temperature of 50.6 degrees Celsius, which was set way back in 1886.

SEE ALSO: Earth just recorded its warmest April on record, and it wasn't even close

The all-time record comes during a stifling heat wave that has enveloped much of the country following a series of deadly heat waves earlier this spring that struck India, Thailand, Cambodia and other parts of Southeast Asia. The IMD has issued warnings for "severe heat wave" conditions across large parts of India through the weekend.

India is known for its stifling heat during the months of April and May, when the subcontinent heats up ahead of the summer monsoon.

But the temperatures reached this year have been downright dangerous, and are thought to be a contributor to hundreds, if not thousands, of premature deaths.

The heat wave comes as sea surface temperatures in the Indian Ocean have eclipsed all-time record values, and as the globe has smashed temperature records as if it were going out of style.

On Wednesday, for example, the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announced that the 12 months ending in April 2016 were the most unusually warm 12-straight months in the agency's 137 years of temperature data.

According to NASA, it is almost certain that 2016 will be the planet's warmest year, beating 2015.

According to Chris Burt, a weather historian at Weather Underground, Cambodia and Laos each set all-time record highs for any day of the year during the month of April.

India's record will now join them among the many heat records shattered during 2016 so far, with more still to come.

http://mashable.com/2016/05/19/india-hottest-temperature-record/#VdkPp8ytEGqW

Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on May 23, 2016, 11:10:29 pm
Lake Mead Falls to Historic Low Levels

Lake Mead, the nation’s largest reservoir serving 20 million people, dropped to its lowest level on Friday since being built in 1936, according to the U.S Bureau of Reclamation. Supplied by the Colorado River and considered full at 1,220 feet above sea level, Lake Mead hit 1,074 feet on Friday.

It has not reached full capacity since 1983 and water levels have dropped consistently due to the 16-year long drought in the Colorado River basin.

“This problem is not going away and it is likely to get worse, perhaps far worse, as climate change unfolds,” said Brad Udall, a senior water and climate research scientist at Colorado State University. (Desert Sun, IB Times $, USA Today, Christian Science Monitor, Inquisitr)

VIDEO and PHOTOS  :o at Link

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on May 23, 2016, 11:17:54 pm
Deadly Heat Wave Affecting Millions in South Asia

 Hundreds of farmers have died in more than 13 states in India due to the crippling heat wave that has been devastating the region for the last few weeks, withering crop production. In one region alone in central India, more than 400 farmers have committed suicide this year, driven by the failure of their farms and inability to pay back loans.

Neighboring Pakistan is also reeling from the extreme heat prompting the excavation of mass graves to pre-empt the impacts of the heat wave.

The Indian Meteorological Department has warned that heat wave conditions will continue for this week as well, as reports surface once again of roads melting, this time in the state of Gujarat. (News: Independent, Times of India, AP, Sydney Morning Herald $, New York Times $, ABC News, FirstPost, Huffington Post, (Reuters, Pakistan Today. Background: Climate Signals)

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bhopal/Farmers-fight-drought-but-face-discom-drubbing/articleshow/52370053.cms

http://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2016/05/20/national/scorching-heat-prevails-throughout-pakistan-temperature-likely-to-reach-52c-in-larkana/

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on May 25, 2016, 03:33:13 pm
Study evaluates geo-engineering to reduce global warming by increasing aerosol levels

Christine Lepisto (@greenanswer)
Science / Climate Change
 May 24, 2016

Aerosols can cause cloud formation or reflect solar radiation, cooling the earth
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For those who lower their stress levels with the hope that we will be able to geo-engineer our way out of any impending global warming crises, here is another bit of sobering news.

The suggestion has been made that increasing aerosol levels in the atmosphere cools the earth. It does work: for example, after a volcanic eruption, the aerosol particles in the stratosphere reflect solar radiation back into space. In the troposphere, aerosols promote cloud formation and whiter clouds, which also reflect more solar warmth away from the planet. The unfortunate events following the attacks of 9-11 gave scientists a unique opportunity to improve modeling of the effects of contrails, by comparing the before (normal trans-Atlantic air traffic) and after (reduced flight frequencies) situations.

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Now a study by Anton Laakso of the Finnish Meteorological Institute proves that even if a proposal so wrought with potential unintended consequences could get approved, it can't fix our global warming problem.

The more aerosols added to the atmosphere, the less effective the cooling.

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Read the full study here: Modelling radiative and climate effects of aerosols: from Anthropogenic emissions to geoengineering (https://helda.helsinki.fi/handle/10138/161360)

http://www.treehugger.com/climate-change/study-evaluates-geo-engineering-reduce-global-warming-increasing-aerosol-levels.html

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Agelbert NOTE:
In regard to the "no evidence of aerosol spraying going on (paid for by WE-THE-PEOPLE on behalf of the fossil fuel indusrty): I suppose the following is a photograph of beer kegs loaded between passenger flights for Department of Defense personnel...
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Fossil Fuel Industry response to the peer reviewed scientific study evidencing the fact that aerosol spraying DOES NOT WORK:

Obviously, the above study is part of the climate change conspiracy scam irresponsibly pushed by 97% of all climate scientists because they are, uh, greedy and make money from deriding sound science based atmosphere cooling aerosol spraying (not that there is a any global warming, of course! - This is merely a taxpayer funded effort/precaution to prevent it    (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Fbudo.gif&hash=677248a20d98332a6b04ab5797696b4b96cbed38)). SNIFF!

These unscientific scientists not in our employ irresponsibly support green boondoggle scams that will cause mass starvation to the poor of this world that the fossil fuel industry has always been loyal to and has always worked its altruistic and loyal fingers to the bone to provide cheap energy for. 
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on May 25, 2016, 07:07:43 pm
Offshore Drilling Foes Invoke 1953 Law to Prod Obama on U.S. Ban

May 24, 2016 by Bloomberg

SNIPPET:

It isn’t clear how many greenhouse gas emissions would be unleashed if energy companies tapped U.S. Arctic and Atlantic resources, but calculations from the Stockholm Environment Institute suggest a halt to oil and gas leasing on both federal lands and waters would keep 5 gigatons of carbon dioxide from entering the atmosphere between now and 2040.

Walling off the Arctic would show the U.S. is committed to a lower-carbon future, instead of keeping the options on the table just in case, said Representative Jared Huffman, a Democrat from California.

“We have to keep 80 percent of the world’s known fossil fuel reserves in the ground or we are going to irreparably damage this planet,” Huffman said. “It’s time to start taking these areas off the map” and “draw the line that all of the science is telling us we need to draw.”  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Fcowboypistol.gif&hash=2dc97f743dffca22404e6e4e0822765e60b33f38)

https://gcaptain.com/ffshore-drilling-foes-invoke-1953-law-to-prod-obama-on-u-s-ban/


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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on May 25, 2016, 08:16:06 pm
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Fossil Fuel Investments Growing Riskier for Insurers, Report Warns

With nearly $500 billion invested, a new analysis recommends insurance companies take a harder look at the consequences of climate change and a lower-carbon future.

By Zahra Hirji
 
May 24, 2016

The 40 largest insurance companies in the United States have $237 billion invested in electric and gas utilities, $221 billion tied to oil and gas companies and nearly $2 billion locked into coal, a new report reveals.

With nearly a half-trillion dollars in bonds, equity and other holdings tied to the fossil fuel industry, an analysis published Tuesday by the sustainability group Ceres says insurers should be evaluating their investment exposure to climate change risks.

Insurers "cannot afford to overlook this," warned Cynthia McHale, director of the insurance program at Ceres.

According to McHale, insurers face a lot of uncertainty in damage payouts to customers, because they don't know when, how often or how large those payouts will be. To ensure they have enough money to respond, insurers have historically been very conservative in their investments—and that's usually meant a lot of investments in fossil fuel companies and utilities.

But these "carbon assets" are increasingly viewed as risky, she said. In the short term, major fluctuations in energy markets could put the value of these investments at risk.

In the long term, these assets could become obsolete if the world pivots away from fossil fuels in a bid to halt catastrophic climate change. According to a study published in Nature last year, about a third of oil reserves, half of natural gas reserves and more than 80 percent of coal reserves need to stay in the ground in order for the world to keep global warming to no more than 2 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels, the goal of the Paris climate agreement. And if these resources are never extracted, they will be worthless.

While the Ceres study spotlights insurance, McHale also notes that carbon assets pose a risk to all investors. To this end, at the Paris talks last December, a new task force was launched that aims to guide companies on disclosing their climate-related financial risks. The task force is run by Michael Bloomberg, the billionaire former mayor of New York. Another member is Mark Carney, governor of the Bank of England; he has repeatedly spoken out about the particular risks climate change poses to the insurance industry.

In the Ceres study, McHale and her colleagues used publicly available information on company-owned bonds, funds and equity to determine how much money the country's leading insurance companies had invested in fossil fuels and utilities by the end of 2014.

They found that most companies had 4 to 6 percent of their bond portfolios tied to oil and gas and a few, including Ameriprise, Lincoln National and Voya Financial, had up to 10 percent. Ceres calls these investments especially risky, since more than 70 percent of publicly traded oil and gas companies have had a credit downgrade in the last two years. Even oil giants Royal Dutch Shell, Total, Chevron and ExxonMobil were downgraded in February by Standard & Poor's.

Insurers had even higher investments in electric and gas utilities, with two companies having at least 16 percent of their bond portfolios connected to those industries.

"This Ceres report has highlighted in a public fashion the exposure that [insurers have] to a carbon-intensive, or fossil fuel-dependent industry," said Alex Bernhardt, head of responsible investment at Mercer Investments. Mercer released a study last June offering guidance for companies on how they could quantify their climate risks.

According to McHale, the goal of this report isn't to get companies to immediately dump their energy investments. Instead, Ceres hopes to motivate companies to engage with the companies they are investing in. She said she would encourage insurance companies to keep investments in oil or utility companies that are investing in renewables, or taking steps to identify and disclose their climate risks. Moreover, McHale said she hoped insurers would press companies that aren't doing much on climate now to be more pro-active.

One area where insurers already appear to be paying close attention to the market is coal. Insurers had invested only $1.8 billion in coal by December 2014, a struggling industry that's been plagued by bankruptcies, decreasing stock value and increased federal regulation. Since the start of the year, the nation's top two coal companies, Peabody and Arch Coal, have declared bankruptcy.

According to California's insurance commissioner Dave Jones, it's too early to know if insurers are getting out of the coal industry for good. In January, Jones called on all 1,300 insurers operating in California to voluntarily divest from thermal coal this year. Jones told InsideClimate News he believes investments in coal "aren't going to hold value" over time.

Earlier this month, Jones mandated that all major insurers operating in California disclose their fossil fuel investments to state officials by July. Jones is the first financial regulator to take this step. He thinks this will help insurers confront their climate risks—and he hopes other regulators in the insurance and banking industry will follow suit.

Ceres also recommends regulators require companies to disclose carbon assets.

The Ceres report also revealed the insurance industry had already invested about $7 billion in clean energy companies—and recommended companies continue to expand their investments in that industry.   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.clipartbest.com%2Fcliparts%2Fxig%2Fojx%2Fxigojx6KT.png&hash=6706182c9f1427099a77e10d1758e61d9cadb701)

http://insideclimatenews.org/news/24052016/insurers-climate-change-risks-global-warming-fossil-fuel-investments-oil-gas-coal-report-warns

Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on May 27, 2016, 03:37:37 pm
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Duncan Meisel - 350.org

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Friends,

More than a week after the final Break Free action, and I'm still reeling from the beauty and power of what this movement accomplished.

Here's a new video that helps share this awe-inspiring picture of a growing movement with the world --  take a moment to appreciate what we can do together, and then hit share to spread the inspiration: (https://breakfree2016.org/?utm_medium=email)

There's a lot to learn from this moment. Here are some important lessons from Break Free that I think should shape our work moving forward:

We’re more powerful together. The defining feature of each Break Free action was mass participation to escalate campaigns: in other words, getting more people to do more than they had done before to stop fossil fuel projects. This dynamic opened the door to thousands of new people joining actions, or joining them in new ways, and pushed campaigns to new heights of local and national news coverage.

We can be serious and joyful at the same time.
This is a serious moment for our planet, and our movement. But by bringing people together, we can create joyful moments of power, opportunity and hope -- exactly what this planet needs right now.

Build bridges locally and globally.
Here are two of my favorite Break Free stories. In Germany, participants in Ende Gelände (who shut down a coal mine and power plant for 48 hours) talked about how their conversations with a Nigerian activist joining actions to break free from oil helped ground their action in a global struggle. And then in Albany, New York a local organizer who has been fighting toxic, explosive oil trains in her neighborhood for years called the thousands of Break Free participants in town their 'spinach,' adding strength to locally-rooted projects for justice. This shows how building bridges across movement and geographic boundaries makes our fight so much stronger.

We have the fossil fuel industry worried, so be ready for anything.
Many Break Free actions generated reactions from government or industry, despite the global commitment to disciplined, peaceful action. In South Africa, the country's most powerful family used every tool possible to silence a protest of their coal holdings; in Germany, Ende Gelände participants were targeted by the far-right; in Ecuador Yasunidos members have been threatened with suspension from their jobs for protesting oil; and in the United States Big Oil has launched a nationwide, multi-million dollar effort to discredit climate activists trying to keep oil in the ground -- and now 350 and our allies are being targeted by Congress.

Despite all of this, people power won the day, and will continue to -- as long as we stay ready for anything.

Make a place for everyone. Not everyone at Break Free actions joined civil disobedience, but everyone had a role to play, which is why so many actions were successful. People cooked meals, arranged transportation, shared on social media, or joined our Digital Witness project to monitor actions from around the world -- and that's why this worked.

Seize every moment, and never give up. This is a scary moment for the planet -- but thanks to you, there's never been a better time to break free from fossil fuels. Let's keep going.

Thank you for your inspiration, your participation and every other contribution to this movement,

Duncan
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on May 27, 2016, 05:54:47 pm
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Granddaughter of Exxon Scientist Confronts CEO Over Funding Climate Denial
Democracy Now! | May 27, 2016 9:39 am

At its annual meeting in Dallas, Texas, ExxonMobil shareholders rejected a series of resolutions Wednesday calling for climate action, including resolutions backed by CalPERS, the California Public Employees’ Retirement System, as well as New York state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli and the Church of England. Shareholders did pass a measure to let minority shareholders nominate outsiders for seats on the board, raising the possibility that a climate activist could someday become a director at Exxon.

It was the first Exxon annual meeting since a series of revelations that for decades the company covered up its own scientific findings linking rising carbon emissions to dangerous climate change. At the shareholders meeting, the granddaughter of a former Exxon scientist questioned the CEO of Exxon about the company’s record. We speak to the woman, Anna Kalinsky.


https://youtu.be/7Xzjfh83ycI

Here’s the transcript of the interview:

Nermeen Shaikh: At its annual meeting in Dallas, Texas, ExxonMobil shareholders rejected a series of resolutions Wednesday calling for climate action, including resolutions backed by CalPERS, the California Public Employees’ Retirement System, as well as the New York [state] Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli and the Church of England. Shareholders did pass a measure to let minority shareholders nominate outsiders for seats on the board, raising the possibility that a climate activist could someday become a director at Exxon. It was the first Exxon annual meeting since a series of revelations that for decades the company covered up its own scientific findings linking rising carbon emissions to dangerous climate change. At the shareholders meeting, the granddaughter of a former Exxon scientist questioned theCEO of Exxon about the company’s record. This is part of what she said.

Anna Kalinsky: It’s good to have the opportunity to speak to you. So, my name is Anna Kalinsky. And my grandfather, James F. Black, was a scientist for Exxon for over 40 years. He started with Standard Oil during World War II, later earned dozens of patents for Esso and, later, Exxon. In 1977, he briefed the company’s top executives on the scientific realities of climate change. He said that present thinking holds that man has a time window of five to 10 years before the need for hard decisions regarding changes in energy strategies might become critical, like you acknowledged on your slides. This is over 30, almost 40, years ago.

Amy Goodman: That was Anna Kalinsky, who is the granddaughter of James Black, who was a scientist for Exxon for over 40 years. We’re going to hear Rex Tillerson’s answer, the CEO of Exxon, in a moment. But first to Anna herself, who’s joining us now from Dallas along with 350.org co-founder Bill McKibben.

We welcome you both to Democracy Now! Anna McKibben—Anna Kalinsky, let’s begin with you. Talk about what your grandfather found as an Exxon scientist.

Anna Kalinsky: Absolutely. So, like I said, my grandfather worked for Exxon for about 40 years. And in 1977, he gave a presentation to top Exxon management. And he laid out very clearly that the planet was warming, that this was because of rising carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere and that those levels were rising because of the burning of fossil fuels. And at the time, he told Exxon that humankind had five to 10 years to start really making the hard decisions regarding climate change or else the situation could become dire.

Nermeen Shaikh: And, Anna Kalinsky, how many other scientists at Exxon at the time, in the 1970s, were doing comparable research, research comparable to what your grandfather, James F. Black, did?

Anna Kalinsky: So, I don’t have an exact number for you, but we know that at the time there were other scientists at Exxon doing climate research and that other organizations, in addition to Exxon, were receiving similar briefings.

Amy Goodman: I want to play Exxon CEO Rex Tillerson’s response to your question at Wednesday’s meeting.

Rex Tillerson: We will continue to engage in the policy discussions, as we currently do, with a number of broad-based groups on all sides of these issues and we’ll continue to be active in the discussions legislatively in Washington and elsewhere, including through the IPCC, on what we think are thoughtful, sensible policy actions that accommodate both our need for economic growth as well as addressing these risks, which are going to be very, very daunting.

Amy Goodman: So that’s Rex Tillerson, the CEO of Exxon. Anna Kalinsky, your response to his answer to your question?

Anna Kalinsky: I find it incredibly frustrating. To say that we’re looking at all sides of the climate change issue is ignoring that there has been global consensus on the realities of climate change for years and that Exxon has now, at this point, had four decades of knowledge about climate change, has their own scientists working, who know about these sorts of things. And for CEO Tillerson to say that Exxon wouldn’t be taking decisive action either to cut ties with groups which deliberately spread climate change misinformation, groups like the American Legislative Exchange Council [ALEC] and that Exxon also, even though they acknowledged during their shareholders meeting that climate change is real and that burning of fossil fuels has an effect, that it was more important for them to focus on their immediate bottom line, it’s incredibly disheartening.

Nermeen Shaikh: Well, your grandfather, James F. Black, presented his climate research findings to Exxon executives in July 1977, as you pointed out to the Exxon CEO. He concluded by saying, quote, “There is general scientific agreement that the most likely manner in which mankind is influencing the global climate is through carbon dioxide release from the burning of fossil fuels. A doubling of carbon dioxide is estimated to be capable of increasing the average global temperature from 1 degree to 3 degrees centigrade, with a 10 degree centigrade rise predicted at the poles.” Anna, that was your grandfather’s report in 1977 to senior Exxon executives. So could you say a little about what you think the situation would be today, had Exxon executives listened to the advice of your grandfather?

Anna Kalinsky: Absolutely. And something I think that’s important to note is that Exxon actually did for a while take what my grandfather said seriously. He gave that initial briefing in 1977 and in 1978 Exxon had him give a similar briefing to a larger group. And for a while, they actually were funding climate change research. And for a few years, Exxon really was on the cutting edge of climate change science. And then, that spun around to the situation we’re at today, where Exxon publicly and anonymously is funding these groups that spread climate change misinformation. But I think that had my grandfather been listened to back in the ’70s and had an organization like Exxon really taken action, we would be much closer or already at a much more greener climate, an economy of greener energy sources instead of our continued reliance on fossil fuels.

Amy Goodman: Anna—

Anna Kalinsky: And I—yes?

Amy Goodman: Can you talk about the petition you delivered at the Exxon shareholders meeting and when you came to understand, as you were growing up, how significant your grandfather was in this whole climate change issue in exposing the large fossil fuel companies, like Exxon and how you decided to speak out yourself?

Anna Kalinsky: So, I came down as a volunteer with ClimateTruth.org, which is a group that works against the spread of climate change denial, climate change disinformation. And when I went to the shareholders meeting, I delivered a petition with almost 35,000 signatures asking—or demanding, rather, that Exxon leave ALEC, that they cut associations with ALEC, one of those groups which spreads climate change misinformation.

But as for my relationship with my grandfather growing up, he died a few years before I was born, so I never actually had the opportunity to meet him. But I was the only scientist growing up in my family. I graduated last year with an undergraduate degree in chemistry, just like he did. And so, he was always a mythological sort of figure for me. He was the person where my love of science came from. And so, I grew up with stories from my mother about things that my grandfather did, his research. The climate change was one of the things that I learned about.

And then, this past fall, when InsideClimate News started publishing the articles about how Exxon has known about climate change since the ’70s and how he was featured very strongly in that, it was something that gave me a lot of pride. I was really excited that my family was a part of this. And as time has gone on, you know, I’ve continued to feel that way. So, when ClimateTruth.org asked me to come down here, I was really proud to carry on the family legacy of speaking out against Exxon and speaking kind of on behalf of science and not political rhetoric.

http://ecowatch.com/2016/05/27/granddaughter-exxon-scientist/
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on May 27, 2016, 08:18:16 pm
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Has Exxon Doomed Our Planet?

https://youtu.be/nbIKatsOgsw

http://www.thomhartmann.com/bigpicture/has-exxon-doomed-our-planet

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on May 27, 2016, 09:14:28 pm
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https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/may/25/exxonmobil-ceo-oil-climate-change-oil-production

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on May 28, 2016, 08:26:03 pm
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on May 28, 2016, 08:58:40 pm
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10 Popular Dive Sites Closed in Thailand Due to Coral Bleaching Crisis

Katie Pohlman | May 27, 2016 1:28 pm

Some of Thailand’s most prized dive sites have been closed indefinitely after the Department of National Parks’ survey found coral bleaching on 80 percent of some of the reefs.

This is a bold move for a country where tourism accounts for 10 percent of its economy—and where officials were hoping to attract 32 million tourists this year, The Guardian reported. But then again, it sends the message Thailand officials want: Ignorant tourism is killing the reefs.


A turtle swimming over bleached coral in February at Heron Island in the Great Barrier Reef. Photo credit: The University of Queensland (picture at article link)

“The coral reefs are affected by unaware tourists–when they go diving they may touch or step on the reef. Closing those spots will help the reefs recover naturally,” Reungsak Theekasuk, national park officer director, told AFP.

The closed diving sites are off beaches from Rayong province in the east to Satun in the south. These closings come after Thai officials closed Koh Tachai, a popular island in the Andaman Sea, earlier this month. The island is closed indefinitely.

“This is such a small island, I would say it could accommodate just a few hundred tourists a day,” Tunya Nethithammakul, director general of the Department of National Parks, told CNN. “But it turned out that at certain points there were almost 2,000 tourists visiting the island (daily).”

The closings are shunned by the tourism industry, but officials say it is a necessary step in protecting the country’s ecosystem.

“The problem is that we have damaged our marine resources for a long time,” Thon Thamrongnawasawat, deputy dean of fisheries at Kasetsart University in Bangkok and a leading advocate of marine conservation, told the New York Times. “If we want it to recover, we must use strong medicine. I am not proposing to close all islands. But we have to start thinking about the plan to tackle the increasing number of tourists.”

Photo credit: The University of Queensland (picture at article link)


While the popular diving sites and island are closed, officials will inspect them to determine if tourists will be allowed back by peak tourism season, which begins in November.

“Where we see there is still a crisis, we will have to keep the area and reefs preserved,” Reungsak told The Guardian.

Coral bleaching is primarily caused by warming waters. When corals come under environmental stress, they shed the algae that gives them their color. The coral then become white, or bleached. If the stress continues, the coral will eventually die, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

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This phenomenon has been a major problem for the world’s reefs for the last decade. The U.S. lost half of its coral reefs in the Caribbean in 2005 due to a bleaching event, according to NOAA. Earlier this year, the Great Barrier Reef suffered its worst coral bleaching event in history.

It is possible, though, for reefs to bounce back after bleaching events with the proper management.

Even if you don’t live right by the ocean, your decisions can affect coral reefs as well, find out what you can do to help prevent coral bleaching.

http://ecowatch.com/2016/05/27/thailand-dive-sites-coral-bleaching/ (http://ecowatch.com/2016/05/27/thailand-dive-sites-coral-bleaching/)

Agelbert NOTE: Check out the current Sea Surface Temperature at the following web site:

Real-Time Sea Surface Temperature Data
https://www.ceoe.udel.edu/our-people/profiles/moliver/orb-lab/real-time-sea-surface-temperatures (https://www.ceoe.udel.edu/our-people/profiles/moliver/orb-lab/real-time-sea-surface-temperatures)


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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on May 31, 2016, 07:48:05 pm
Stephen Hawking: One Thing Threatens Us More Than Donald Trump … Climate Change

Sydney Robinson, The Ring of Fire | May 31, 2016 1:16 pm
 
Astrophysicist Stephen Hawking has often been consulted in matters unrelated to space and many consider him among the most intelligent individuals to have lived. Which is why during an interview on Tuesday, Hawking’s assertion that there was something more dire facing America and the world than Donald Trump, people sat up and took notice.

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Hawking’s assertion that there was something more dire facing America and the world than Donald Trump, people sat up and took notice.

Hawking was asked if he could explain the rise of Trump, to which the man replied, “I can’t. He is a demagogue, who seems to appeal to the lowest common denominator.”
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“A more immediate danger is runaway climate change,” Hawking said.

“A rise in ocean temperature would melt the ice-caps and cause a release of large amounts of carbon dioxide from the ocean floor. Both effects could make our climate like that of Venus, with a temperature of 250 degrees.”

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Nevertheless, just like Sen. Bernie Sanders’ comments saying that climate change is more dangerous to the U.S. than ISIS, Hawking’s comments show the true enemy is ourselves.

http://ecowatch.com/2016/05/31/hawking-trump-climate-change/

Agelbert NOTE: Below, please find, the correct definition of "ourselves" in the above statement about WHO the TRUE ENEMY is.

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on June 01, 2016, 09:40:01 pm
Oil and gas are a bad bet, warns Canadian government group

By Melissa Cronin  on May 31, 2016 


One of the world’s largest fossil fuel producers is on the verge of cleaning up its act.



In coming years, Canada can expect a switch from oil and gas to renewables, according to a draft policy report from a government group. Even more importantly, the report notes, Canada should expect some of its oil to likely “remain in the ground.”     (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F19.gif&hash=3f9f2fc2285bc756137e21463bc2a4c420b15ac3)   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-200714191258.bmp&hash=e4ed21caaca822f7445ccafd39f49a9f84be90ca)

Sound familiar? That phrase just so happens to mimic the rallying cry of the U.S. environmental movement.

The dose of reality for Canada’s tar sands industry comes from Policy Horizons Canada, which provides advice to the federal government on emerging policy issues. CBC News obtained the report via an access to information request.

“It is increasingly plausible to foresee a future in which cheap renewable electricity becomes the world’s primary power source and fossil fuels are relegated to a minority status,” the report reads. It urges against investment in new oil and gas infrastructure projects, calling them “high risk” for becoming unprofitable. Electric cars like Tesla even made an appearance in the report, with forecasts showing that cars that use lithium-ion batteries would become affordable sooner than previously expected.

If the report’s takeaways stand, it means a big turnaround for a country that was until recently all-in on fossil fuels. Canada is the world’s fifth largest producer of oil, providing an estimated 6 percent of global energy supplies.

http://grist.org/climate-energy/oil-and-gas-are-a-bad-bet-warns-canadian-government-group/
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on June 02, 2016, 10:52:03 pm
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Palloy on June 01, 2016, 09:20:43 PM

I can see a kind of H-G/bandit symbiosis culture, with the bandits having to be very careful they don't kill off the H-Gs altogether - a bit like the situation at the start of The Magnificent Seven, or the Sheriff of Nottingham scenario.  I can't see many Amerikans going for that, no TV and no Twitter and all.

I don't know so much about "way too many alternative ways to feed ourselves that don't require fossil fuels and JIT delivery."  What are you thinking about?  - apart from bean sprouts.

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You are quite right about not knowing so much, PERIOD. You don't know about Renewable Energy solutions to feeding ourselves because you can't handle the idea that people can feed themselves without fossil fuels. You seem to take absolutely every opportunity you can to make that groundless and silly assertion. Your assertion is also Orwellian because there is no other option but a full transition to Renewable energy. 

Your quaint belief that hunter gatherers will survive with over a century of increasingly intolerable baked in temperatures, even if all pollution ended tomorrow (which it most certainly won't), is an exercise in fantasy.

I recently posted an article on that place in the world where the MOST uncontacted tribes ARE (Brazil). Virtually all of them are Hunter Gatherer tribes. Survival International makes it quite clear that they are the most threatened humans on the planet. YOU ignore those realities with your fanciful idea that H-G groups are "more resilient" in a collapse scenario. That is ridiculous.

At present, it is true that it is civilization that is the greatest threat to those tribes. So you might argue that a collapse would favor their survival. But that's bullshit because the collapse will be triggered by climate change catastrophe, not your silly idea that the "energy will run out".

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The runaway greenhouse will completely destroy ANY chance the H-G tribes in tropical areas have to survive.

But since you don't really understand, though you pretend you do  ;), what a runaway greenhouse is, let me post it here so you can pretend it isn't "relevant" to your dystopian collapse scenario.

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The troposphere is warmed in part through absorption of radiation by H2O and CO2, the stratosphere is warmed, indeed created, through absorption of radiation by O3.5

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   the absorption of terrestrial radiation is dominated by triatomic molecules – O3 in the UV, H2O, CO2 and others in the IR because it so happens that triatomic molecules have rotational and vibrational modes that can easily be excited by radiation with wavelengths in the IR (infrared).

These molecules are present in tiny concentrations (see Table 1.2) but play a key role in the absorption of terrestrial radiation (see Fig.2.6). They are known as Greenhouse gases. This is the fundamental reason why atmospheric radiation may be so vulnerable to the human-induced changes in composition shown in Fig.1.3. p466

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The Earth radiates energy away at the same rate as it is received from the Sun. The Earth’s emission temperature is 255K; that of the Sun, 6000K. The outgoing terrestrial radiation peaks in the infrared; the incoming solar radiation peaks at shorter wavelengths, in the visible. p26

Negative Feedback mechanisms cool the planet and positive feedback mechanisms warm it.

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  The most important negative feedback regulating the temperature of the planet is the dependence of the outgoing longwave radiation on temperature. p536

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A powerful positive climate feedback results from the temperature dependence of saturated water vapor pressure, es, on T ; see Eq.(1.4). If the temperature increases, the amount of water that can be held at saturation increases. This further raises surface temperature. p546

THAT is WHY it is called a RUNAWAY GREENHOUSE. The HOTTER IT GETS from the addition of more and more CO2, the more water vapor (also a powerful GHG) is lofted into the lower atmosphere, WHICH, IN TURN, increases the RATE of the heating increase.

Increased temperature jacks up positive feedback mechanisms while it suppresses the negative feedback regulating the temperature of the planet BECAUSE the outgoing longwave radiation (IR) can no longer exit the atmosphere.

WE ARE THERE. NOW it is getting increasingly hotter at an increasing RATE.

Of course, people who lack critical thinking skills will have difficulty wrapping their "we are all gonna die without fossil fuels" fecal coliform infested brains around the FACT that we ARE all gonna DIE if we don't stop burning fossil fuels. You are one of them.

Absorption frequencies for energy transfer and good info on water and CO2 molecules as well as UV energy
http://gs105cocc.wikispaces.com/file/view/CH03_EOC_ExamSample.pdf (http://gs105cocc.wikispaces.com/file/view/CH03_EOC_ExamSample.pdf)

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2. http://www.grida.no/files/publications/vital_ozone_graphics_2/ozoneII_updt.pdf (http://www.grida.no/files/publications/vital_ozone_graphics_2/ozoneII_updt.pdf)
3. http://www.grida.no/publications/vg/ozone/page/1395.aspx (http://www.grida.no/publications/vg/ozone/page/1395.aspx)
4. http://ozonewatch.gsfc.nasa.gov/ (http://ozonewatch.gsfc.nasa.gov/)
5. http://paoc.mit.edu/labweb/notes/chap3.pdf (http://paoc.mit.edu/labweb/notes/chap3.pdf)
6 .http://paoc.mit.edu/labweb/notes/chap2.pdf (http://paoc.mit.edu/labweb/notes/chap2.pdf)
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on June 03, 2016, 03:40:16 pm
As California Goes, So Goes the Planet

Josh Fox | June 3, 2016 12:58 pm

We need democracy like we need water. California primary voters must choose Bernie Sanders or the state will continue to experience a serious drought of both.

Despite California’s claims to be an environmental leader, its government has been co-opted by the oil and gas industry and its citizens and climate are suffering. Gov. Brown   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Fd2.gif&hash=98d536bf1047a88ef91e9c45e08b725347c9fe13) (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Facigar.gif&hash=dc9dccf92c6c88c99611b06c86d92629d69f2978) has turned a blind eye to poor and Latino communities living next to polluting fracking wells and fracking wastewater being used to irrigate crops.  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F2z6in9g.gif&hash=771b084a0f186d9cc14f31defd98a6c90b69b84f)

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California primary voters must choose Bernie Sanders or the state will continue to experience a serious drought of both. Photo credit: Berniesanders.com

Under a Hillary Clinton presidency, California and the rest of the country would get even more fracking and fracked gas infrastructure. Her campaign took nearly $7 million from oil and gas lobbyists. Her State Department created the Global Shale Gas Initiative to promote fracking in 30 countries. Newly unearthed State Department emails show how aggressive that initiative was, working closely with oil and gas companies and enlisting help from 13 federal agencies to expand fracking into Europe, even where governments opposed it.
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As president Bernie Sanders would support state fracking bans, ban fossil fuel extraction on federal lands, end government subsidies for oil and gas companies and bar their lobbyists from the White House. He’d change the Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Power Plan, so it would require reducing methane as well as CO2 emissions and favor building renewables instead of more gas plants.  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bativert.ma%2Fimages%2Fimage3.jpg&hash=7c7c27d838504cb1d5c5a4c1efac44e790a39265)

The choice between these two futures is an existential one. Here’s why:
Fracked oil and gas operations leak natural gas, which is mostly methane, a warming agent 86 times more potent than CO2 over 20 years. Industry statistics indicate onshore operations annually emit over four times more natural gas than the massive blowout at the Aliso Canyon storage facility. Just weeks after it was capped, Gov. Brown signed a bill allowing SoCalGas to resume operating there, provided the wells pass safety tests. But they aren’t “safe;” they leak. SoCal’s Aliso Canyon facility was only the best known leak; CPUC found hundreds of others last year, including a different Aliso Canyon operator caught deliberately venting natural gas in January, in the middle of the blowout.

Meanwhile the industry is pushing more fracked gas pipelines, gas plants and injection wells, which means more leaks. California is green-lighting and enabling the expansion. Over the past year the state even approved fracking wastewater injection wells near fault lines, raising earthquake risks.

If it stays on this path, it will lock in fracked oil and gas for the next 40 years. Then we can forget about California’s environmental leader image or meeting Paris climate agreement goals of keeping warming under 2 degrees centigrade (we’ve already locked in 1.5 degrees, at 2 degrees sea levels rise 5 to 9 meters).

Even as it struggles with Biblical droughts and wildfires, California continues to frack oil wells and expand fracked gas infrastructure, further damaging the climate. This sets a hypocritical example for the rest of the world. As the world’s eighth largest economy, California’s choices influence others’. As the world’s third largest consumer of gasoline and diesel, with the fourth highest per capita GHG emissions, it should make better ones.

California could set a very different example by choosing the only candidate who opposes fracking. Clinton and Brown both worked against concerned citizens trying to ban fracking; Sanders invited us into his office to talk policy. He and we understand we need nothing less than a political revolution to say “no” to big oil and gas and start scaling up renewables now.

So there’s more at stake in Tuesday’s primary than California’s 475 delegates. Whether or not the outcome clinches the nomination, it will send an influential global signal about what Californians are prepared to do about climate change. And as California goes, so goes the planet.

Josh Fox’s final film in his GASLAND trilogy How to Let Go of the World and Love All the Things Climate Can’t Change opens in the Los Angeles area on June 3 and airs on HBO June 27.

http://ecowatch.com/2016/06/03/california-goes-goes-planet/#comment-2710713017

Agelbert NOTE: A Sanders Administration means an END to Fossil Fuel Industry Welfare Queen Handouts!
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on June 04, 2016, 03:12:36 pm
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The results won't change the Democratic contest—but the campaign has changed everything.

Does the outcome of next Tuesday’s California primary matter? Conventional wisdom says no; news outlets are already pinpointing the precise time of the evening when Hillary Clinton will clinch the nomination with victories elsewhere—three hours before the polls close in the Golden State.

Naturally, this perturbs Bernie Sanders fans, who see it as one more way the Democratic nomination contest has been rigged from the start. But they should know that the election in California is of critical importance—not to deciding the 2016 Democratic nomination (already a done deal), but to determining the future of the Democratic Party. The coalition Sanders has assembled in California, and the way he’s campaigned in the state, is a sneak preview of the next generation of liberal politics, in a state that’s always seen as a bellwether for the rest of the nation. In a sense, the final vote tally really doesn’t matter—because, in the most important and lasting ways, Sanders has already won California.

I’ll be perfectly honest: As a California resident, I never thought Sanders had a chance to win the state, or even to compete as strongly as he has. I’ve seen way too many ideologically strident campaigns fail to deliver results in what’s generally considered America’s most liberal state. I remember one House candidate in 2008, backed by Progressive Democrats of America, who lost a primary to someone who never spent a dime, mainly because she had “educator” as her ballot designation. That race had incredibly low turnout, which is sadly the norm in a state without much of a political culture.

California is a liberal state, but it’s also a “machine” state: The labor federation’s preferred candidates, or the Democrats with high name recognition, are typically quite successful. The state is so massive that organizing on the ground can prove impossible. So can encouraging higher turnout among normally less-reliable voting groups.

This all made Hillary Clinton look like the perfect candidate for California. She garnered all the important endorsements, including governor and one-time bitter rival Jerry Brown. She certainly has the name ID. And she’s had an edge throughout the Democratic primary season with minority voters—which bodes well for a majority-minority state. A year ago this time, Clinton was up on Sanders in the well-respected Field Poll by a rather intimidating margin: 66-9.

But recent enhancements to voter registration laws have fostered political participation in California. Diligent work by progressives in 2012 to mobilize young and minority voters helped save the state, in fact, when they turned out to pass a budget-balancing tax hike on people making over $500,000 a year. (Don’t believe the Jerry Brown hagiographies; it was progressives, who forced Brown to place a winnable initiative on the ballot, who really primed California for its turnaround.) In just the first three months of this year, nearly 1 million voters registered—most of them Democratic, with big spikes for Latinos and young voters.

Those new voters have changed the composition of California’s electorate—and they’ve helped turn the Sanders-Clinton contest into, well, a contest. The most accurate polls statewide show the race a virtual tie; the Field Poll puts Clinton at 45 percent and Sanders at 43.

That doesn’t mean Sanders will win the state on Tuesday. Clinton is leading by nine points among the large number of Democrats who have already voted, meaning Sanders has the bigger challenge of turning voters out on Election Day. Not many will: In 2014, an incredible 69 percent of the votes in California were cast before election day in early voting or vote by mail. And to guard against a late Sanders surge, Clinton has returned to the state with her husband, planning 30 events in the final five days before the primary. She’s also made a million-dollar TV ad buy, nearly matching Sanders’s $1.5 million in ad spending.

“You have the power to choose a new direction for the Democratic Party,” Sanders says in “California,” the aptly named ad he’s been running in the state. It sounds like typical political happy talk, but his campaign has actually borne it out. Sanders has camped out in California for weeks, campaigning in spots that haven’t welcomed Democrats in many years, including Central Valley towns like Visalia and Vista and Bakersfield and Santa Maria, which are now between 45 and 70 percent Latino.

Sanders hasn’t just shown up to greet Californians and then jetted out. With a robust volunteer base, he’s been able to muster a statewide ground game, in contrast to most Democrats who prefer to run up the score in California’s urban metropolises. Clinton is still winning the Central Valley, but Sanders is keeping pace enough to remain competitive overall, thanks to a strong advantage in the Bay Area.

What is more striking is how the demographic splits we’ve seen across the country in the primaries aren’t translating to California. Sanders is only losing the Latino vote in the Field Poll 46-42. The African-American vote, while in favor of Clinton, is not the blowout we’ve seen elsewhere (57-36), and Sanders is winning the “Asian-American/other” category, which is actually bigger than the black vote (there are twice as many Asian-Americans as African-Americans in California), by a healthy margin.

The reason for this is an incredible divide on age, which does mirror what we’ve seen in other primaries. Sanders is winning 75-15 among Californians under 30, while Clinton has nearly a two-to-one advantage among voters 50 and older. Among first-time voters, Sanders is winning by a remarkable 60-21. This first-time voter split is similar to other primaries. The difference is that California simply has a lot more young voters to surge to the polls and make manifest Sanders’s “political revolution.”

Demographically, California represents the Democratic Party’s future. Latino voters in the state are young, in many cases the sons and daughters of immigrants who were born and raised elsewhere. And these voters have been engaged by an explicitly progressive message. That will matter long after this presidential race is over. Assuming that national Democrats don’t completely alienate the Latino electorate, the changing face of California’s voter population will determine a new generation of leadership. A realignment is happening in California, where the most powerful politicians in the state—Jerry Brown, Dianne Feinstein, and Barbara Boxer —are all septuagenarians or older, and either termed out, retiring, or on the way. (To those watching the Democrats’ geriatric presidential primary, this may sound familiar.) Young, ambitious, and (mostly) nonwhite politicians will fill those seats, and could lead the nation someday. At the least, they’ll lead the biggest chunk of liberal America, whose ideas and policies will resonate across the country.

In the short term, that could mean that instead of a Governor Gavin Newsom in 2018—instead of someone who’s strong on social issues but more moderate economically, in the Clinton mold—you could see John Chiang, the more liberal son of Taiwanese immigrants. You could see a Latino breakthrough statewide, reflecting their dominance in the state’s legislative leadership. And all would-be leaders will have to pay heed to the large bloc of progressive young voters that the Sanders campaign has helped to usher in.

Delegates and vote counts and nominations aside, Sanders’s campaign has reinvented Democratic politics in California. When—not if—his progressive successors rebuild the coalition, it will change liberal politics, both here and across the country.

https://newrepublic.com/article/133945/bernie-sanders-already-won-california (https://newrepublic.com/article/133945/bernie-sanders-already-won-california)

Agelbert NOTE: Senator Sanders is the only presidential candidate that understands the gravity of our situation and will to do something to lessen the impact of catastrophic climate change. This is why Senator Sanders is the only choice for those who wish to ensure that the next generation will inherit a viable biosphere.

He understands the irrefutable scientific reality of the following:

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The troposphere is warmed in part through absorption of radiation by H2O and CO2, the stratosphere is warmed, indeed created, through absorption of radiation by O3. 

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the absorption of terrestrial radiation is dominated by triatomic molecules – O3 in the UV, H2O, CO2 and others in the IR (infrared) because it so happens that triatomic molecules have rotational and vibrational modes that can easily be excited by radiation with wavelengths in the IR.  These molecules are present in tiny concentrations (see Table 1.2) but play a key role in the absorption of terrestrial radiation (see Fig.2.6). They are known as Greenhouse gases.

This is the fundamental reason why atmospheric radiation may be so vulnerable to the human-induced changes in composition shown in Fig.1.3. p46.

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The most important negative feedback regulating the temperature of the planet is the dependence of the outgoing longwave radiation on temperature. p53.

IR (infrared) is longwave radiation.

THE HOTTER IT GETS, the less effective the negative feedback mechanisms that were hitherto keeping a cooling balance on our planet are. The more CO2 in the atmosphere, the greater the positive feedback mechanisms heating our planet are.

THAT is why it is called a runaway greenhouse; the hotter it gets, the faster the RATE of HEATING increase.

If Senator Sanders does not become President of the United States, there will not BE a "next time" for any progressive successors to rebuild the coalition.


Quotes from  - U.S. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse October 29, 2014
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“Pollution-driven climate change hurts our economy, damages our infrastructure and harms public health,” he told his audience. “However, none of these costs are factored into the price of the coal or oil that’s burned to release this carbon. The big oil and coal companies have offloaded those costs onto society. Economics 101 tells us that’s a market failure; in the jargon, that negative externalities are inefficient. If a company participates in an activity that causes harm, it should have to compensate those harmed.”

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“By making carbon pollution free, we subsidize fossil fuel companies to the tune of hundreds of billions of dollars annually,” he continued. “By making carbon pollution free, we fix the game, favoring polluters over newer and cleaner technologies that harvest the wind, sun and waves.  Corporate polluters, not bearing the costs of their products, are in effect cheating their competitors."

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on June 06, 2016, 02:40:09 pm
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https://youtu.be/Lw9sbdWIIag (https://youtu.be/Lw9sbdWIIag)

Star Trek Actors Arrested, Call on Gov. Cuomo to Boldly Go Beyond Fossil Fuels

Sandra Steingraber | June 6, 2016 12:52 pm

Early this morning on a hillside above Seneca Lake, actors James Cromwell and John “J.G.” Hertzler of Star Trek fame joined 17 area residents in an act of civil disobedience that is part of an ongoing citizen campaign against salt cavern gas storage.

While blockading the main entrance to the Crestwood compressor station, the two actors urged Gov. Cuomo to stand up to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) for green-lighting an expansion of this fracked gas infrastructure project against overwhelming local opposition and for undermining the governor’s own stated commitment to a rapid transition to renewable energy.

Starting at 6:45 a.m. and continuing until their arrests by Schuyler County deputies shortly before 7:30 a.m., the protesters blocked all traffic from leaving and entering the facility, including two Crestwood tanker trucks. All 19 were transported to the Schuyler County sheriff’s department, charged with disorderly conduct, ticketed and released.

“The prettiest place I’ve ever seen is right here: the Finger Lakes region of New York … Governor Cuomo, we, the people, do not want to see these pristine lakes turned into cheap, contaminated, industrialized storage facilities for Crestwood and Con Ed. Stand with us, Governor!,” John Hertzler, 66, who played Klingon General Martok on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, said.

“Defend your own program for getting New York State off of fossil fuels and transitioned to renewable energy. FERC—the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission—seeks to keep us chained to the energy of the past and, in so doing, threatens our water, our lands, our safety and the very climate of this, our planet. Boldly go with us, Governor Cuomo, into a renewable energy future.”

Hertzler lives in the Finger Lakes region with his family in the town of Ulysses where he serves on the town board.

James Cromwell, 76, who played Zefram Cochrane in Star Trek: First Contact and who was nominated for an Academy Award for his role as Farmer Arthur Hoggett in Babe, called on New Yorkers to join the We Are Seneca Lake movement.

“FERC-approved fracked gas infrastructure projects are taking over our entire state—from the crumbly salt caverns of Seneca Lake, where the gas will be stored, to the pipelines and compressor stations that devastate our farmlands, wetlands and maple groves, all the way to the burner tips of the natural gas-fired power plants that are planned for downstate,” he said. “
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With all of New York under attack by the fossil fuel industry and by the rogue agency called FERC, all New Yorkers now need to stand up, stand together and say no.”

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Photo credit: We Are Seneca Lake

Referencing the films in which the two have appeared, protesters held banners and signs that read, “We Are Seneca Lake, Babe/And We Will Not Be FERC-ed” and “Trekkies Against Crestwood-Con Ed Boldly Going Toward Renewables.”

The total number of arrests in the 20-month-old We Are Seneca Lake civil disobedience campaign now stands at 604.

Crestwood’s methane gas storage expansion project was originally approved by FERC in October 2014 in the face of broad public opposition and unresolved questions about geological instabilities, fault lines and possible salinization of Seneca Lake, which serves as a source of drinking water for 100,000 people. In spite of near-unanimous citizen opposition, FERC’s last-minute permit extension on May 16 gave Crestwood’s Arlington subsidiary another two years to build out its natural gas storage facility.

Salt cavern storage accounts for only seven percent of total underground storage of natural gas in the U.S. but, since 1972, is responsible for 100 percent of the catastrophic accidents that has resulted in loss of life.

Crestwood also seeks to store two other products of fracking in Seneca Lake salt caverns—propane and butane (so-called Liquefied Petroleum Gases, LPG)—for which it is awaiting a decision by Gov. Cuomo’s Department of Environmental Conservation.

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John Hertzler. Photo credit: We Are Seneca Lake

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http://ecowatch.com/2016/06/06/star-trek-actors-arrested/ (http://ecowatch.com/2016/06/06/star-trek-actors-arrested/)
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on June 06, 2016, 06:51:02 pm
WHERE WILL YOU BE WHEN THE END GAME BEGINS? (http://www.doomsteaddiner.net/forum/index.php/topic,7305.msg105173.html#msg105173)

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The only way physical force has any chance of working against the Empire is when applied in overwhelming numbers against all vulnerable borders on a continuous basis. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.desismileys.com%2Fsmileys%2Fdesismileys_0293.gif&hash=b1af4868ed8f18c30e637f8cbcb79002f6f71039) Since this requires great sacrifice by the population at large, Jane and Joe will only turn to these devices as a last resort, when all hope is lost and abject desperation sets in.  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.desismileys.com%2Fsmileys%2Fdesismileys_0293.gif&hash=b1af4868ed8f18c30e637f8cbcb79002f6f71039)

Even then, the controlling elite are expert at employing propaganda and psychological operations to turn Jane against Joe, thereby minimizing the effectiveness of the opposing force. One must be competently conditioned to kill on command in great numbers with ruthless efficiency to be considered an effective fighting force. Quite frankly an angry mob is the exact opposite, making it very easy to turn each upon the other since the only driving force of the mob is blind emotional outburst easily subverted and misdirected. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.desismileys.com%2Fsmileys%2Fdesismileys_2932.gif&hash=0eaec4791a5825821998245e7fcd7744b56557fe)

So, why do I disagree with the logical and reasonable paragraph prefixed with the "even then" (damned if you do and damned if you don't) qualifier?

BECAUSE, overwhelming numbers against all vulnerable borders on a continuous basis is EXACTLY what catastrophic climate change is DOING and will increasingly DO in  increasing severity. The sales pitch of all empires is that they are the "lesser evil" that protects you from the "greater evil" of anarchy.

THAT sales pitch loses all meaning when the empire cannot deliver. The desperation of the people that will be inexorably, and unstoppably, triggered will NOT be born of anger at the injustices of the empire, as the author (and some doomers here  ;)) erroneously believe. If that was the case, the "even then" paragraph would be valid.

Catastrophic climate Change is NOT some "mob" motivating force the empire can twist into blame the victim bullshit where the people point the finger at themselves, instead of TPTB.

Catastrophic climate Change triggers the most basic drive of our species, the will to survive. There is NO WAY the empire will survive when people see it is impotent against Catastrophic climate Change.

ALL the manipulative sociological skills that can be brought to bear from the elite pig knowledge of ALL the political history of revolutions and ALL the clever psychological tricks that have worked in the past to thwart the fall of despotic power structures WILL NOT WORK against the juggernaut of a people faced with destruction from Catastrophic climate Change.

The "END GAME", as referred to in this article, is not some gate keeper controlled mechanism that we-the-people have no effective power to undermine because the empire has all it's despotic and psychological propaganda ducks in a row. SURE, they DO have that.

But it's the RUNAWAY GREENHOUSE that is calling the shots here. The RUNAWAY GREENHOUSE is the self inflicted wound that the fossil fuel loving empire has foisted on itself.

The RUNAWAY GREENHOUSE IS THE END GAME. And the END GAME has begun.

Why do I say that? Because the point at which you do not need any more CO2 to trigger an increased RATE in the increase in warming (i.e. the "runaway" stage of GHG warming) is now in the past. We can argue about when we passed that point and some hairsplitting idiot here will descend into ridicule, puffery, snide remarks or a plethora of irrelevant bullshit about how fossil fuels are "our savior", not our doom. If the hairsplitters want to bask in dumb ass denial disguised as erudite prudence, that's their problem.

At present, H2O vapor has taken over as THE GHG, because there is so much more of it than CO2, to reinforce the accelerating RUNAWAY GREENHOUSE heating. The earth has ALWAYS controlled it's heat balance by radiating in the infrared band.

Somewhere above 350 PPM (Parts Per Million) of CO2, enough water vapor began to be wafted into the atmosphere above two thirds of the surface of the earth, where all that ocean is, to make a very efficient barrier to the planet's normal infrared radiative energy that used to make it out into space. WE ARE THERE. The END GAME has begun.

Of course we are STILL putting out even MORE CO2, trapping more heat and goosing more evaporation of surface water to trap even more heat (and so on), so the END GAME promises to be very exciting.

Empire will not be able to do JACK S H I T about it.

Have a nice day.

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on June 06, 2016, 10:35:32 pm
Sudden appearance of crater dubbed ‘the Gateway to the Underworld’ in Siberia is a warning to our warming planet

Such slumps have been ‘increasing in extent and intensity’ in the frozen north, scientists say


Dramatic pictures and article at link:

http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/gateway-to-the-underworld-siberia-batagaika-siberia-russia-permafrost-melting-a7063936.html (http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/gateway-to-the-underworld-siberia-batagaika-siberia-russia-permafrost-melting-a7063936.html)
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on June 07, 2016, 04:17:27 pm
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on June 07, 2016, 10:45:49 pm
Agelbert NOTE: To be filed in the same category as questions about bear defecation locations.

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June 6, 2016

As states and corporations increasingly head to court over climate change, a lawyer lays out an ethical roadmap to give the environment a louder legal voice

By Brian Bienkowski
The Daily Climate

SNIPPET:

“It is an issue of social justice, human rights and fundamental ethics.  We have a profound responsibility to protect the fragile web of life on this Earth, and to this generation and those that will follow,” said United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon at a Vatican meeting with Pope Francis last year.

You will find no such language in the American Bar Association Model Rules of Professional Conduct—ethical rules adopted in the 1980s.
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However, it’s not completely unheard of. In Lininger’s home state, for example, the Sustainable Future Section of the Oregon state bar is designed to involve the lawyers in playing a role in reducing man-made climate change and sustainability promotion.

“Ultimately the legal profession is supposed to achieve justice,” Siegel said. “Justice can’t include just helping clients, when there’s an existential threat to our life support system all professions need to grapple with that—including lawyers.”


http://www.dailyclimate.org/tdc-newsroom/2016/june/climate-change-green-law-exxon-legal-energy
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on June 08, 2016, 05:55:02 pm
Atmospheric CO2 Reaches a New High, Arctic Ice Shrinks to a New Low

The atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide reached a new high of 407.7 parts per million, a 3.76 ppm increase since last May, as measured at the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii.

According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the planet last saw such an increase in carbon dioxide between 17,000 and 11,000 years ago.

Last month, Arctic ice levels hit a record low, with the average area of sea ice on the Arctic Ocean being just 4.63 million square miles, according to the National Snow and Ice Data Center.

This follows previous record lows set this year in January, February, and April.

http://www.climatecentral.org/news/arctic-sea-ice-breaks-may-record-20415

Have a nice day.
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on June 09, 2016, 11:18:13 pm
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Judge Sees Cost of Carbon Clearly Through Pro-Pollution Smoke Screen
 
There’s a new non-peer-reviewed working paper (http://dailycaller.com/2016/06/07/experts-debunk-obamas-social-cost-of-carbon-estimate-it-might-be-negative/)making the rounds that suggests that the social cost of carbon might be negative, meaning carbon pollution is a good thing. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Fugly004.gif&hash=c56db4280057389afd154a1cb4057410151579c8)

It’s written by some guys at the fossil-fuel (and cult leader Rev. Sun Myung Moon) funded Heritage Foundation and Ross McKitrick, the Canadian economist perhaps best known for his many failed attempts to disprove Dr. Mann's hockey stick graph.

The study was funded by Heritage, the Koch-founded and funded Cato Institute, and the Canada-based Frontier Centre for Public Policy (while the Frontier Centre’s funding sources are unknown, its President Peter Holle is on CFACT’s Board of Advisors…).
 
In a nutshell, the paper uses the denier-beloved estimates of climate sensitivity (1.64°C) based on the faux pause of the last decade and a half to suggest CO2 doesn’t cause much warming and in fact, according to one model, carbon pollution will be good for us.
 
Wouldn’t it be great if there were some sort of unbiased and neutral third party that could hear the best of “both sides” of the debate and render a judgment about who’s right?  ;D
 
Well, turns out exactly that has already happened, back in April. In a lawsuit in Minnesota, now-bankrupt coal giant Peabody Energy put forth its best case for a low climate sensitivity to argue for a low, and possibly even negative, social cost of carbon.

The judge ruled that the prior amount the state estimated the burning of fossil fuels to cost society, $0.44 to $4.53 per ton, was too low.

The new figure is between $11 and $57 per ton, with the range being a result of how one chooses to discount future costs, itself a complicated issue (though it can be explained with otters (http://grist.org/article/discount-rates-a-boring-thing-you-should-know-about-with-otters/)).
 
The experts hired by Peabody Energy argued that the world hasn’t been warming much, so the climate’s not as sensitive to carbon dioxide as we thought, and carbon dioxide is good anyway so we shouldn’t penalize it.  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Ftissue.gif&hash=f8d05db8e11569882e0effbdd719e2b2e95c6785)

They claimed, like this new white paper, that climate sensitivity is around 1.5°C. The judge ruled that Peabody failed to demonstrate that convincingly, and sided with the robust mainstream science pointing to sensitivity in the 2-4.5°C range.
 

The Guardian’s 97% blog covered this twice, first a fairly  brief summary (http://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2016/may/02/peabody-coals-contrarian-scientist-witnesses-lose-their-court-case), then a more  in-depth look (http://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2016/may/11/coal-made-its-best-case-against-climate-change-and-lost) at the Peabody side’s losing argument. But now, John Mashey at DeSmog has poured through the hundreds of pages of court documents to produce an incredibly  impressive post cataloging (http://www.desmogblog.com/2016/06/07/peabodys-outlier-gang-couldnt-shoot-straight) the complex web of testimony, rebuttals to testimony, rebuttals to rebuttals (called surrebuttals) and ultimate hearings and judgements/findings.

There’s lots of great language about how Peabody’s team cherry-picked and misrepresented science, used straw men and attacked the messengers. Par for the course for the deniersphere, but nice to see it skewered so thoroughly in court.  ;D  

With so much on the line, one can rest assured Peabody hired the best experts they could. Those experts turned out to be some of the usual suspects of the deniersphere (Mashey’s post has a great table on the experts and their fossil fuel connections and payments).

These “experts" failed spectacularly to make any sort of convincing argument. But they did essentially the same exact thing this new white paper does- point to the few studies claiming a low climate sensitivity to argue a low social cost of carbon, and suggest carbon pollution might even be good for society.  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2F1.bp.blogspot.com%2F-TzWpwHzCvCI%2FT_sBEnhCCpI%2FAAAAAAAAME8%2FIsLpuU8HYxc%2Fs1600%2Fnooo-way-smiley.gif&hash=b8545bd420b1e2f2c7b9f665d2093523e4ad2251)
 
So this new paper, funded by the fossil fuel industry’s non-profit surrogates, came to the same conclusion that a fossil fuel company's top experts presented in court. And lost. Badly
 
One might think the fossil fuel industry would be wise to save its money and stop funding these sorts of pro-pollution attacks on the science. But from their perspective, as long as we’re arguing about the science, we’re not arguing about solutions. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-311013200859.png&hash=a7aaaa9f04c1e3e2c948723b5f8c13fe814dacd4)
 
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on June 10, 2016, 06:57:28 pm
Arctic, Greenland Stuck in Feedback Loop of Melting

Climate Nexus | June 10, 2016 9:48 am

Diminishing Arctic sea ice could make Greenland’s melting even worse, a new study shows. Changing temperatures at the poles driven by global warming have the potential to impact the jet stream, causing it to bend further north than usual.

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Melt water flows through a channel in Greenland’s ice. Photo credit: Marco Tedesco / Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

“Blocking events” caused by the jet stream that exacerbate ice melt have become increasingly common over Greenland since the 1850s. Accelerating Greenland’s melt could not only cause increased sea level rise but a slew of other climate impacts connected to changing ocean temperatures, which in turn would drive more changes.

One scientist said, “It’s a complicated puzzle—but it’s really starting to come together.”

http://ecowatch.com/2016/06/10/arctic-greenland-ice-melt/

Agelbert NOTE: The Greenland melt rate is one of those issues that has consistently been underestimated.

When, not if, a huge chunk slides off within a decade or so and trillions of dollars of ocean front property value goes bust, many deniers will yell and scream that the scientists failed to warn us about it.

Well, they are trying. But every time they make halfway realistic projections, they are demonized as "alarmists". So, they deliberately err on the side of more conservative (and less realistic) projections.   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-200714183312.bmp&hash=02dafef2fe739676600fdc9bd56271f0f5ab3723)

But anybody that thinks sea level isn't going to rise several FEET is in la la land.  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Fgen152.gif&hash=d5b10968fe56c4cb95fae17cee3cb420a5f4e2da)

The Ice MELTING at BOTH POLES facts

"Since 2003, Greenland has lost on average more than 600 trillion pounds of ice a year and that affects the way the Earth wobbles in a manner similar to a figure skater lifting one leg while spinning.

Think of it as a billion trucks each year dumping ice out of Greenland. On top of that, West Antarctica loses 275 trillion pounds of ice and East Antarctica gains about 165 trillion pounds of ice yearly." - NASA scientist Eirk Ivins

Expect a Florida coast (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frs165.pbsrc.com%2Falbums%2Fu55%2FBJ_BOBBI_JO9%2FSummer%2520and%2520Spring%2520activties%2Fsterb038.gif%7Ec100&hash=4bfe69c61e0459e68422b031f8e8f2eaf6b5a7bd) Bull market in houseboats.  ;)

If you track the current Greenland ice melt, you will observe that the melt is approaching TWO standard deviations above normal for this time of the year. THAT is WAY OUT THERE in the rapid melt rate danger zone. 

Track Greenland ice melt (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.desismileys.com%2Fsmileys%2Fdesismileys_1593.gif&hash=628238f2fc26695937f6e97b91b050976065743b) at the following link:

http://nsidc.org/greenland-today/

Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on June 12, 2016, 02:29:20 pm
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In scientific assessment of variation, a typical broad measurement of what’s normally expected is the range between 2 standard deviations above the mean and 2 standard deviations below the mean.  In a normal distribution of events, 95% of events will have measurements within +/- 2 standard deviations of the mean.  To have an event with some characteristic more than 2 standard deviations above the average of that characteristic means you have a rather unusual event on your hands.  By scientific standards, this is the moment when one ought to take notice.
http://irregulartimes.com/2016/04/28/greenland-ice-melt-spikes-far-beyond-normal-in-april-2016/

Greenland melt rate just EXCEEDED, not one, but TWO STANDARD DEVIATIONS!  :o 
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Greenland Ice Sheet Today is produced at the National Snow and Ice Data Center by Ted Scambos, Julienne Stroeve, and Lora Koenig with support from NASA. NSIDC thanks Jason Box, Xavier Fettweis, and Thomas Mote for data and collaboration.

http://nsidc.org/greenland-today/ (http://nsidc.org/greenland-today/)

Agelbert NOTE: Don't expect the "we are all gonna die without our civilization savior and loyal servant fossil fuels" biosphere math challenged greed balls to DO THE ENERGY MATH on the gargantuan amount of ENERGY it takes to exceed two standard deviations in the Greenland ice melt rate. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Ffly.gif&hash=b0526635e8b47d751b0e429925d73d78f9d79fc6)(https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F237.gif&hash=13b71d2444f84b15c53fb1c0272c080f48a165f1)

And you will CERTAINLY not ever catch them admitting that said ENERGY MUST BE SUBTRACTED from the Energy Return on Energy Invested of fossil fuels.   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F290.gif&hash=38949e35cf58eaa4218b5a8176767c806d2f8537)  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-051113192052.png&hash=93c42ef9f18fc5d9da50fd91fc19f70009f95f85)

Fossil fuel energy "experts"  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fdrphilyerboots.files.wordpress.com%2F2012%2F05%2Fcherry-picking.jpg&hash=c196a0ec409afacfa8f087d5a4556de272d44c6b) do not DO Social Costs of Carbon (SCC).  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F2z6in9g.gif&hash=771b084a0f186d9cc14f31defd98a6c90b69b84f)


Fossil Fuel Industry PUBLIC Reaction to the Runaway Greenhouse Caused two standard deviations (PLUS) Accelerated Greenland Ice Melt:

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Fossil Fuel Industry PRIVATE Reaction to the Accelerated Greenland Ice Melt:

Get somebody from our bought and paid for EIA (Energy Information fossil fuel happy talk Administration) pals to "have a talk"  with Jason Box , Xavier Fettweis and Thomas Mote about that alarmist data and, by the way, how do we ride the coming bull market in Florida houseboats?   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-311013200859.png&hash=a7aaaa9f04c1e3e2c948723b5f8c13fe814dacd4)


The Fossil Fuelers DID THE Climate Trashing, human health depleting CRIME, but since they have ALWAYS BEEN liars and conscience free crooks, they are trying to AVOID  DOING THE TIME or  PAYING THE FINE! Don't let them get away with it! Pass it on! (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F176.gif&hash=121533221905789c6b8d57a9603883266d349266)
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on June 12, 2016, 07:44:11 pm
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Some inconvenient information for that 54% that believe all the fossil fuel cherry picked energy math that picks fossil fuels as ENERGY "winners" over Renewable energy:

GRIST Article on Discount Rates, Energy and Climate Change


SNIPPET 1:
How much is it worth to us today to avoid climate disruption later this century? To understand how that question has typically been answered, you need to understand what economists call “discount rates,” key parameters in the economic models used to assess climate policy costs. Such models inform policymaking and shape conventional wisdom, but their use of discount rates has led them to lowball the threat and recommend insufficient action to meet it.

SNIPPET 2:
Let’s recall a vexing fact about climate change: There’s a substantial time lag between causes and effects. Greenhouse gases emitted today affect global temperatures in 50 years or so, just as we’re experiencing temperature rise caused by emissions 50 years ago. This time lag complicates efforts to do something about the problem, to say the least, as people are not generally temperamentally inclined to sacrifice now to gain benefits (or to avoid costs) 50 years down the road. We prefer instant gratification; we’re pretty myopic.

The policy challenge, then, is to pull those damages out of the future and into the present. We need to amplify that distant signal so that it is heard in everyday economic decision-making.

The preferred way to achieve this goal is to put a price on carbon, via a tax or a cap. The carbon price is meant to reflect the damages emissions will cause later, or, in dork-speak, to “internalize the externalities.”

To do this properly — to figure out the “right” price for a ton of CO2 emissions — we have to answer two questions. One, how much damage will a ton of carbon do? And two, how much is it worth to us to avoid that amount of damage?

Climate science can help answer the first question, though it can’t, and likely never will be able to, give us a precise figure. Especially at regional or more granular levels, precision is impossible given the limitations of current science and the inherent complexities of the global atmospheric system. But if we want a figure or range of figures to work with, we can choose from the center of the probability distribution and get something that’s “good enough for government work,” as they say.

The second question is trickier. The physical sciences cannot answer it.
How much future climate mitigation is worth to us today — what’s called the social cost of carbon — is a matter for economics and ethics. And it’s here that discount rates enter the picture.


SNIPPET 3:
Here’s a thought experiment. Say I gave you a choice: I’ll give you $100 today or $100 in 10 years. You’d choose today, obviously. What if the choice was $70 today or $100 in 10 years? Hm … tougher. $50 today?

If you choose $50, you’re saying you value dollars today twice as much you value as dollars 10 years from now.

The degree to which you prefer present benefits (money today) over future benefits (money in the future) is known as your “revealed time preference.” It is “revealed” in that it is reflected in your savings and investment decisions, even if it is never articulated.

Now, here’s another scenario. What would you pay today to avoid $100 in damage to your car a year from now? In making this decision, you would think about what else you could do with the money in the meantime. “Hm, I could put $100 in a bank account and, at a 3 percent interest rate, in a year I’d have $103. I could pay off the repair bill and pocket $3 in profit!” In a situation of 3 percent interest rates, it’s only worth $97 to you today to avoid $100 in damage a year from now. Otherwise you could make more by investing the money differently. What if the $100 in damage was in 10 years? Then it would only be worth $67. How about 30 years? Just $41.

How much an investment pays relative to other uses of the same resources is known as its “opportunity cost” — for every investment, you choose to forego other opportunities.

Revealed time preference and opportunity costs together lead us to discount the value of future benefits. Think of it like compound interest, only run in reverse; to an investor today, returns lose some percentage of their “net present value” each year they recede into the future.

That percentage, the amount that a benefit declines in value each year into the future it extends, is the discount rate. In financial transactions, the discount rate is typically set somewhere around prevailing market interest rates.

OK! We know what discount rates are and how they factor into savings and investment decisions. So far so good. Things get a little stickier and more complicated when it comes to climate change, though.


SNIPPET 4:
Let’s focus on the time spans. Consider: If we have a discount rate of 3 percent — which is a fairly representative rate in economics — and we face $100 of climate damages in 2100 (roughly 87 years from now), it is worth about $7 to us to avoid it. Hardly anything.

To make it more vivid, imagine climate change were on track to cause $5 trillion ($5,000,000,000,000) in damages by the end of the century. That’s an unthinkably large number. (Go ahead, try to think about it.) And it represents unthinkable suffering. But at a discount rate of 3 percent, it would be worth just $382 billion to us today to avoid it. For perspective, that’s a little more than half the annual U.S. military budget.


SNIPPET 5:
So what should the discount rate be? What number should economists use when modeling climate change policy? And how do we decide?


SNIPPET 6:
Those who argue for a higher discount rate (in the 3-5 percent range), like Nordhaus himself [PDF], favor what they see as a descriptive rather than prescriptive approach. Ours is not to ask what the discount rate “should” be, ours is but to determine people’s actual time preferences as revealed in their everyday market behavior (i.e., look to prevailing market interest rates). It’s the only way to avoid “paternalism,” smuggling moral judgments into economics.

One of their primary assumptions is that people in the future will be richer than us, and thus better prepared to deal with climate damages. If it’s a choice between making them richer and reducing their climate damages, we should generally lean toward making them richer. Only if climate mitigation investments offer a rate of return higher than prevailing interest rates are they worthwhile. Otherwise, we’d be better off just putting the money in a bank.

For my part, I find arguments for a lower (or even zero) discount rate much more persuasive. This does not strike me as an area where “paternalism” can or should be avoided. We’re literally the parents (and grandparents) in this situation!

Agelbert NOTE: I wish to point out here that EVERY DOOMER on this site, including you, RE, believes we will be poorer, not richer, in the future. Consequently, EVERY DOOMER here has NO RIGHT to advocate for a high discount rate. A high discount rate is USED by the cheerleaders for DIRTY ENERGY to low ball the SCC (Social Costs of Carbon).


SNIPPET 7:
It’s one thing for an investor to make decisions about how much future value she will sacrifice for present value. It’s another for her to make decisions about how much value future people will sacrifice for her present value. Those are decisions that affect other people, paradigmatically ethical decisions, so it is no longer her discount rate alone that’s relevant. There’s no avoiding ethical judgment here.

More arguments against high discount rates can be found in  this post (https://www.nrdc.org/issues/clean-us-power-plants) from NRDC chief economist Laurie Johnson (to whom we will return later). I’ll share her top-line points.

First:
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An increasingly disrupted climate may hamper economic productivity, causing economic growth rates to deviate below their historical trajectories. If worse-case climate risks materialize, climate change could even reverse economic growth. In that instance, people in the future would be poorer than people today, not wealthier.

More from Johnson:
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Private investors (and hence market returns) do not take into account pollution externalities resulting from production, such as the depreciation of natural capital (e.g., loss of natural habitats to development and pollution) and public health damages, or other potentially negative social impacts related to economic production, such as inequality. They therefore tend to overestimate the impact growth has on real social welfare.

Yes. Private investment decisions are made entirely within market rules, but some market rules may be maladapted to social welfare, especially future social welfare. (“You can emit carbon for free,” for instance, seems like a rather imprudent rule.) Market growth in these circumstances only exacerbates maladaption. Social and ethical decisions must encompass a broader perspective than markets can provide.

The more provocative way to put this point is that global economic growth is entirely consistent with the loss of the entire African continent to drought and disease. After all, Africa doesn’t contribute much to global GDP.  :evil4:


SNIPPET 8:
Say you could ask the people of 2100 (some of whom may be your children or grandchildren), “would you rather inherit $1 trillion in cash or $1 trillion worth of avoided drought, storm, and famine?” Which do you think they would choose?

They will have lost biodiversity, up to half the species on the planet. They will have lost millions of acres of old-growth and tropical forest, most of the world’s coral reefs, and the bulk of world’s annual sea ice. Those things will never return, not in time spans relevant to our species. The natural world that has provided us sustenance since we were primates can not be restored once it’s gone. And there’s more to the biosphere than the “services” it provides humans. Some damages cannot be captured in dollar terms.

Anyway, those are the arguments for a low-or-zero discount rate.


SNIPPET 9:
Say we’re convinced by these arguments and adopt a low discount rate, a social cost of carbon that reflects that low discount rate, and a price on carbon that reflects our new social cost of carbon. What are the consequences?


Well, for one thing, renewable power immediately becomes cheaper than fossil-fuel power, including natural gas.




FINAL SNIPPET:
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Overall, the analysis shows that if the well-being of future generations is properly taken into consideration, the benefits of cleaner electricity sources are greater than their upfront costs, both for new generation, and for replacing our dirtiest plants. In contrast, using the government’s estimate of CO2 damage costs tends to favor dirtier energy sources, and an ever riskier climate.

So if you take equity into account and use a low discount rate — that is, if you choose to treat future generations and vulnerable peoples with moral regard — clean energy is already cheaper than dirty energy.

That’s something I wish I could get people to understand: The “cost” of a form of energy is not an objective property of the universe, measured by a market cost-o-meter. It’s a social construct, the result of assumptions built into the way we calculate value. Those assumptions are not holy writ. They can be contested.

http://grist.org/article/discount-rates-a-boring-thing-you-should-know-about-with-otters/ (http://grist.org/article/discount-rates-a-boring-thing-you-should-know-about-with-otters/)

Agelbert Note: Anybody with a modicum of objectivity and a couple of brain cells to rub together understands that the dirty energy status quo is UNSUSTAINABLE. But the people believing the gamed math favoring dirty energy, like many here, believe that the "solution" is dead people BECAUSE Renewable Energy isn't part of the "real world".

So, they read articles like the one above and IMMEDIATELY claim damages from climate change are "over blown" DESPITE their claims that "no fossil fuels equals civilization collapse". WTF?!!!

The entire argument of ANYBODY defending fossil fuels is that one should continue an abusive relationship with a psychopath because the first couple of dates were a lot of fun, WHICH INCLUDES the biosphere math challenged, codependent mental illness based notion that we cannot live without that psychopath.  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Fgen152.gif&hash=d5b10968fe56c4cb95fae17cee3cb420a5f4e2da)

As the article above pointed out, it is DIRTY ENERGY that WILL collapse our civilization, NOT the LACK of available fossil fuels. The LONGER we try to rely on DIRTY ENERGY, the more SEVERE the climate change COST will be.

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on June 14, 2016, 03:56:10 pm
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World’s Biggest Banks Are Driving Climate Change, Pumping Billions Into Extreme Fossil Fuels

Rainforest Action Network | June 14, 2016 11:59 am

A report released Tuesday by Rainforest Action Network, BankTrack, Sierra Club and Oil Change International provides the first look at bank financing for fossil fuels since the Paris climate agreement, showing that the world’s biggest banks are driving climate change by pumping hundreds of billions of dollars into extreme fossil fuels.

The seventh edition of an annual report, Shorting the Climate: Fossil Fuel Finance Report Card 2016, embarks on new territory to evaluate the bank policies and exposure of 25 U.S., European and Canadian banks in extreme fossil fuels—the most carbon intensive, financially risky and environmentally destructive sub-sectors. This includes coal mining, coal power, extreme oil (tar sands, Arctic oil, ultra-deep drilling) and North American liquefied natural gas export.

The report card, which also graded banks on their human rights policies, shows that banks performed poorly in all sectors. Levels of exposure were high across the board on the order of tens or hundreds of billions of finance for extreme fuel companies, demonstrating that banks are locking the world onto a path of major climate instability. Grades on policies were also poor, with an overall D average for the report card, showing that a vast majority of banks have no significant policies in place to stop funding extreme fossil fuels.

“In finance terms, ‘short-selling’ or ‘shorting’ is when an investor profits if a company or asset declines in value,” Jason Opeña Disterhoft, senior campaigner with Rainforest Action Network, said. “It means betting on failure. After the Paris agreement, financing extreme fossil fuels amounts to shorting the climate. These bets are also at the expense of some of the most vulnerable communities living in fossil fuel ‘sacrifice zones’ around the world. We need banks to move now to help pivot the economy away from extreme fossil fuels for the sake of the planet and its people.”

At a time when the world’s nations have agreed to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius to avoid the most catastrophic effects of climate change, leading financial institutions have continued business as usual investment in fossil fuels in direct contradiction of global consensus.
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In just the past three years, these banks have sunk $42 billion for companies active in coal mining; $154 billion for the 20 largest coal-fired power producers; $306 billion for companies that drill extreme oil; and $282 billion for companies building liquefied natural gas export infrastructure. If governments follow through on the Paris agreement and limit carbon emissions, these investments could likely result in stranded assets and significant losses.

The report card does reflect bank movement on coal mining, where 10 of the biggest U.S. and European banks committed to reduce funding for the coal mining sector in the last year. Based on their ability to quickly switch their stance on coal over the last year alone, banks are capable of making the critical choice to cut out extreme fossil fuel investments. Not only can they do it, it is a critical step to follow through on promises made in Paris to stabilize the climate.

“Many banks announced a move away from coal in the run up to COP21 and after, but most of these focused only on coal mining,” Yann Louvel, BankTrack’s climate and energy coordinator, said. “Our assessment clearly shows that they still have a long way to go to concretely exit this industry and even more for the other extreme fossil fuel sectors. None of these banks can claim to support the Paris agreement, to be aligned with a 2° scenario or to be fighting climate change—as we too often read in their sustainability reports—if they continue to finance these destructive sectors.”

http://ecowatch.com/2016/06/14/banks-drive-climate-change/

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"The United States is a strange country.  The population accepts the destruction of privacy and civil liberty out of fear of essentially non-existent terrorists created by propaganda, but ignores the threat of climate change presented by independent scientists, a threat amplified by the ongoing multi-year drought in California and the western US. 

It seems very strange to me that with Lake Mead drying up and California left with only one year's water supply that the US government is focused on gratuitous but expensive wars and in turning over environmental decisions to polluting corporations via TTIP.

Whatever this is, it is not leadership."--  Paul Craig Roberts

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on June 15, 2016, 03:18:17 pm
How We Get to a 100% Renewable Energy Future

Richard Heinberg | June 15, 2016 12:20 pm

I spent the last year working with co-author David Fridley and Post Carbon Institute staff on a just-published book, Our Renewable Future. The process was a pleasure: everyone involved (including the twenty or so experts we interviewed or consulted) was delightful to work with and I personally learned an enormous amount along the way. But we also encountered a prickly challenge in striking a tone that would inform but not alienate the book’s potential audience.

As just about everyone knows, there are gaping chasms separating the worldviews of fossil fuel promoters, nuclear power advocates and renewable energy supporters. But crucially, even among those who disdain fossils and nukes, there is a seemingly unbridgeable gulf between those who say that solar and wind power have unstoppable momentum and will eventually bring with them lower energy prices and millions of jobs and those who say these intermittent energy sources are inherently incapable of sustaining modern industrial societies and can make headway only with massive government subsidies.

We didn’t set out to support or undermine either of the latter two messages. Instead, we wanted to see for ourselves what renewable energy sources are capable of doing and how the transition toward them is going. We did start with two assumptions of our own (based on prior research and analysis), about which we are perfectly frank: one way or another fossil fuels are on their way out and nuclear power is not a realistic substitute. That leaves renewable solar and wind, for better or worse, as society’s primary future energy sources.

In our work on this project, we used only the best publicly available data and we explored as much of the relevant peer-reviewed literature as we could identify. But that required sorting and evaluation: Which data are important? And which studies are more credible and useful? Some researchers claim that solar PV electricity has an energy return on the energy invested in producing it (EROEI) of about 20:1, roughly on par with electricity from some fossil sources, while others peg that return figure at less than 3:1.

This wide divergence in results of course has enormous implications for the ultimate economic viability of solar technology. Some studies say a full transition to renewable energy will be cheap and easy, while others say it will be extremely difficult or practically impossible. We tried to get at the assumptions that give rise to these competing claims, assertions and findings, and that lead either to renewables euphoria or gloom. We wanted to judge for ourselves whether those assumptions are realistic.

That’s not the same as simply seeking a middle ground between optimism and pessimism. Renewable energy is a complicated subject and a fact-based, robust assessment of it should be honest and informative; its aim should be to start new and deeper conversations, not merely to shout down either criticism or boosterism.

Unfortunately, the debate is already quite polarized and politicized. As a result, realism and nuance may not have much of a constituency.

This is especially the case because our ultimate conclusion was that, while renewable energy can indeed power industrial societies, there is probably no credible future scenario in which humanity will maintain current levels of energy use (on either a per capita or total basis). Therefore current levels of resource extraction, industrial production and consumption are unlikely to be sustained—much less can they perpetually grow. Further, getting to an optimal all-renewable energy future will require hard work, investment, adaptation and innovation on a nearly unprecedented scale. We will be changing more than our energy sources; we’ll be transforming both the ways we use energy and the amounts we use. Our ultimate success will depend on our ability to dramatically reduce energy demand in industrialized nations, shorten supply chains, electrify as much usage as possible and adapt to economic stasis at a lower overall level of energy and materials throughput. Absent widespread informed popular support, the political roadblocks (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Fpirates5B15D_th.gif&hash=32438e1ed2c4d1823d4ed2a193286525c840a605)
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to such a project  [/color]will be overwhelming.

That’s not what most people want to hear. And therefore, frankly, we need some help getting this analysis out to the sorts of people who might benefit from it. Post Carbon Institute’s communications and media outreach capabilities are limited. Meanwhile the need for the energy transition is urgent and the longer it is delayed, the less desirable the outcome will be. It is no exaggeration to say that the transition from climate-damaging and depleting fossil fuels to renewable energy sources is the central cause of our times. And it will demand action from each and every one of us.

You can help by visiting the Our Renewable Future website (http://ourrenewablefuture.org/), familiarizing yourself with the issue, sharing your thoughts and spreading the word with friends, family, colleagues and allies.

http://ecowatch.com/2016/06/15/our-renewable-future-heinberg/

Rob Brown: Great column. To have a future, humanity has to embrace renewable energy. We may never get to 100% renewables but, unless targets are set, progress will not be made. A number of countries have reached the 50%+ barrier on renewable power. These countries have been steadily reducing CO2 emissions and other types of pollution for decades. Sweden is a good example.

https://sweden.se/society/ener...
 
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And Amory Lovins has shown how to do that. The Post Carbon Institute's insistence that a 100% Renewable Energy powered civilization, in order to be sustainable, requires a lower energy use is true. BUT, their attempt to equate a lower total energy use to an obligatory lower standard of living is flawed because, as Amory Lovins painstakingly proves in his peer reviewed work titled Reinventing Fire, Renewable Energy plus energy use efficiency improvements can shave over 80% of current energy demand off of our civilization without any lowering of our standard of living.

Richard Heinberg portrays this 'type of energy use' argument as two sides of a polarized, and irrational, debate. It's not. Those defending unsustainable dirty energy have conclusively been proven to be, not just wrong, but an existential threat to our biosphere.

Richard Heinberg fails to point out the fact that political roadblocks to 100% Renewable energy have zero basis in science, both from an energy density happy talk for fossil fuels point of view, and climate cause and effect. It is those vested interests in a dirty energy status quo who don't want to hear the facts, not those advocating a 100% Renewable Erengy transition.

This is not, as Heinberg claims, about what "people want to hear" about the transition to Renewable Energy. This is about, as he points out without sufficient emphasis, the FACT that any dirty energy scenario is not optional to a 100% Renewable energy scenario, PERIOD.
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on June 17, 2016, 07:37:17 pm
Greenland sets melt records in 2015 consistent with 'Arctic amplification'

June 9, 2016

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Study recorded record melts in Greenland. Credit: Professor Edward Hanna of the University of Sheffield

Following record-high temperatures and melting records that affected northwest Greenland in summer 2015, a new study has provided the first evidence linking melting in Greenland to the anticipated effects of a phenomenon known as Arctic amplification.

Arctic amplification is the faster warming of the Arctic compared to the rest of the Northern Hemisphere as sea ice disappears.

It is fuelled by a feedback loop: rising global temperatures are melting Arctic sea ice, leaving dark open water that absorbs more solar radiation which in turn warms the Arctic even more.

Arctic amplification is well documented, but its effects on the atmosphere are more widely debated.

One hypothesis suggests that the shrinking temperature difference between the Arctic and the mid-latitudes will lead to a slowing of the jet stream, which circles the northern latitudes and normally keeps frigid polar air sharply separated from warmer air further south.

Slower winds could create wilder swings of the jet stream, allowing warm, moist air to penetrate further north.

The new study, published in Nature Communications and conducted by researchers from the University of Sheffield and Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, among several other institutes, shows that those anticipated effects occurred over northern Greenland during the summer of 2015, including a northern swing of the jet stream that reached latitudes never before recorded in Greenland at that time of year.

Edward Hanna, Professor in Climate Change in the Department of Geography, University of Sheffield, said: "Our results show the effects of a strongly warming Arctic and disturbed atmospheric jet stream on causing a record melt of the far northern reaches of the Greenland Ice Sheet last summer.

"The study is closely linked to ongoing work conducted at the University of Sheffield which analyses the connection between Arctic climate change and extreme weather events across the densely-populated northern hemisphere mid-latitudes."

Professor Marco Tedesco, Research Professor at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory and adjunct scientist at NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies is the lead author of the study.

"How much and where Greenland melts can change depending on how things change elsewhere on Earth," he said.
 
"If loss of sea ice is driving changes in the jet stream, the jet stream is changing Greenland, and this, in turn, has an impact on the Arctic system as well as the climate. It's a system, it is strongly interconnected and we have to approach it as such."

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Changes in runoff from the Greenland ice sheet during July 2016 compared to the 1981-2010 mean. Redder colors indicate more runoff. Credit: Tedesco et al., Nature Communications, 2016

The Greenland ice sheet, Earth's second largest after Antarctica, holds enough ice that, if it were to melt entirely, it would raise average global sea level by about seven meters. Understanding the drivers of melting is critical to understanding how quickly and by how much sea level will rise in the future and how Greenland's freshwater runoff will affect ocean circulation and ecology.

Northwest Greenland's summer of melt started in June 2015, when a high-pressure ridge squeezed off from the jet stream, the study shows. It moved westward over Greenland until it sat over the Arctic Ocean and affected weather across the island through mid-July.

That high-pressure system, called a cut-off high, brought clear skies and warmed northern Greenland, helping set records for surface temperature and meltwater runoff in the northwest, the study shows. With less summer snow falling and melting underway, northern Greenland's albedo, or reflectivity, also decreased. A less-reflective surface absorbs more solar energy, which feeds more melting, as Tedesco illustrated in a study earlier this year on the darkening of Greenland.

Northern Greenland also set an unusual July record for wind: the winds blew east to west on average, rather than the usual west to east; only two other years on record show easterly winds on average in July, both slower. At the same time, the jet stream's northernmost ridge swung farther north than ever recorded for that month, passing 76 degrees North latitude, nearly two degrees further north than the previous July record, set in 2009, the authors write.

The same atmospheric pattern had a different impact on southern Greenland, where new melting records have been set over the past decade. The south saw more snow during summer of 2015 and less melting than previous years.

The authors stop short of confirming Arctic amplification as the cause of the warming, but they say the results fit the anticipated effects of Arctic amplification described by Jennifer Francis  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F19.gif&hash=3f9f2fc2285bc756137e21463bc2a4c420b15ac3) of Rutgers University and Stephan Vavrus of the University of Wisconsin in a 2012 paper.

This animation (at article link) shows changes in the polar jet stream from June 1, 2015 to July 31, 2015. The jet stream is approximated by crosses. The northerly shift of the jet stream may be linked to a warming arctic, and record melt of the Greenland ice sheet in 2015. Credit: Marco Tedesco/Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

Recent studies exploring the potential effects of Arctic amplification have showed that high-pressure blocks connected to northward swings of the jet stream have become more common near Greenland.

Professor Hanna also released a study in May using the Greenland Blocking Index to measure the strength of stationary high-pressure systems over the past 165 years and found that seven of the top 11 systems had occurred since 2007.

"The significant increase in Greenland high-pressure blocking that has occurred in the last 20 to 30 years is clearly related to recent record warming over the region, as well as jet-stream changes," he said.

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"This makes it more likely than not that within the next five to 10 years we will witness further record Greenland melt events like in 2012 and 2015."

Whether the patterns seen in 2015 will continue in the future remains to be seen. This spring, Arctic sea ice set another record low for its maximum extent for the year.

"Greenland also experienced early season melt in early April of this year comparable to April 2012. Record setting melt occurred later that summer, but it is too early to tell whether the same will hold true in 2016," said co-author Thomas Mote of the University of Georgia.

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"The conditions we saw in the past aren't necessarily the conditions of the future," Tedesco said. "If humans change the forcing, we are going into uncharted territory."

 Explore further: Jet stream changes cause climatically exceptional Greenland Ice Sheet melt

More information: M. Tedesco et al, Arctic cut-off high drives the poleward shift of a new Greenland melting record, Nature Communications (2016). DOI: 10.1038/ncomms11723

Journal reference: Nature Communications search and more info website

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http://phys.org/news/2016-06-greenland-arctic-amplification.html
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Post by: AGelbert on June 17, 2016, 09:30:48 pm
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June 16, 2016
 
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Shallow lakes on the Coastal Plain of Alaska. New research finds permafrost below shallow lakes such as these is thawing as a result of changing winter climate. Credit: Christopher Arp, University of Alaska Fairbanks.

New research shows permafrost below shallow Arctic lakes is thawing as a result of changing winter climate.

Warmer winters combined with an increase in snowfall during the last 30 years have limited the growth of seasonal lake ice. In response, lakebed temperatures of Arctic lakes less than 1 meter (3 feet) deep have warmed by 2.4 degrees Celsius (4.3 degrees Fahrenheit) during the past three decades, and during five of the last seven years, the mean annual lakebed temperature has been above freezing.

These rates of warming are similar to those observed in terrestrial permafrost, yet those soils are still well below freezing and thaw is not expected for at least another 70 years. However, a regime shift in lake ice is leading to sub-lake permafrost thaw now.

Since permafrost underneath lakes is generally warmer than the surrounding terrestrial permafrost, rising temperatures in the lakebeds make permafrost thaw sooner than beneath surrounding dry land. These lakes may cover 20 to 40 percent of the landscape in vast areas of Arctic lowlands.

"During the 1970s, late winter lake ice thickness measurements commonly exceeded 2 meters (6.5 feet) in northern Alaska. Such thick ice growth helps to limit sub-lake permafrost thaw by freezing the sediments solid each winter. However, during winter field surveys over the last decade, lake ice has typically only grown to 1.5 meters (5 feet) thick, and has been as thin as 1.2 meters (4 feet)," said Christopher Arp, research assistant professor at the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) Water and Environmental Research Center and lead author of the new study accepted for publication in Geophysical Research Letters, a journal of the American Geophysical Union.

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Chris Arp, lead author of the new study (left), and Ben Gaglioti of UAF (right) hold a drill bit used to take samples of permafrost. Credit: Guido Grosse, Alfred Wegener Institute.

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These drastic reductions in lake ice, caused by changes in winter climate, are the primary reason that shallow lakebed temperatures are warming and the permafrost below them is thawing.

Interactions and feedbacks among climate, permafrost, and hydrology underscore the complexity of forecasting change in the Arctic. For example, thinner lake ice may help fish overwintering, or it may help the oil industry since they need lake water to build winter ice roads. However, sub-lake permafrost thaw will likely unlock a portion of the permafrost carbon pool and potentially release this carbon in the form of greenhouse gases.
 
These findings also highlight the importance of conducting winter fieldwork in the Arctic.

"Arctic lakes and ponds are typically ice covered for nine months of the year, but research on them typically occurs during the short Arctic summer. To more fully understand Arctic lake dynamics and to document the changes we have observed requires also doing fieldwork under often harsh conditions during the cold and dark arctic winter," said Benjamin Jones of the U.S. Geological Survey in Anchorage and co-author of the new study.

"With further thawing of sub-lake permafrost there is a good chance that the ground will subside, increasing the lake depth and accelerating further permafrost thawing. In contrast, the warming on the land may increase the protective vegetation layer and delay thawing of permafrost outside of lakes," said Vladimir Romanovsky of the UAF Geophysical Institute and co-author of the new study.

With increasingly warmer and snowier winters yielding thinner lake ice, shallow lakes will likely continue to warm, Arp said.

 Explore further: New permafrost is forming around shrinking Arctic lakes, but will it last?

More information: Christopher D. Arp et al, Threshold Sensitivity of Shallow Arctic Lakes and Sub-lake Permafrost to Changing Winter Climate, Geophysical Research Letters (2016). DOI: 10.1002/2016GL068506

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on June 17, 2016, 09:39:29 pm
May goes down as Earth's hottest on record: NASA

June 14, 2016
 
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Recent predictions by US scientists anticipate that 2016 will go down as Earth's hottest year on record—on the heels of record-setting years in 2014 and 2015

May's temperatures broke global records yet again, as the northern hemisphere finishes its hottest spring on record, statistics released Tuesday by NASA showed.

The Arctic in particular experienced abnormal heat, causing Arctic sea ice and the Greenland ice sheet to start melting unusually early, said NASA.

Alaska recorded its warmest spring on record by a wide margin, and in Finland the average May temperature was between three and five degrees warmer than usual in most regions, according to data from the Finnish Meteorological Institute.

"The state of the climate so far this year gives us much cause for alarm," said David Carlson, Director of Geneva's World Climate Research Programme, in a release from the World Meteorological Association.

Now dissipated, the El Nino weather pattern factored into 2016's record-setting heat, but meteorologists say greenhouse gases emitted from human activities remain the underlying cause.

"The super El Nino is only partly to blame. Abnormal is the new normal," Carlson added.

Strong El Nino temperatures did cause more than 53 percent of Australia to experience its warmest autumn on record.

May's exceptional warmth was accompanied by extreme weather events including abnormally heavy rains throughout Europe and the southern United States, as well as "widespread and severe" coral reef bleaching.

Austraila's Bureau of Meteorology blamed warm waters for "unprecedented" bleaching of the Great Barrier Reef.

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In late May, NOAA announced that April also registered its highest temperatures ever, marking the twelfth consecutive month of record heat.

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on June 17, 2016, 10:04:39 pm
Carbon dioxide biggest player in thawing permafrost

June 13, 2016

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Carbon release is caused by permafrost thaw in the Arctic, but depends on soil moisture. Credit: Dr Iain Hartley


Carbon dioxide emissions from dry and oxygen-rich environments are likely to play a much greater role in controlling future rates of climate change caused by permafrost thaw than rates of methane release from oxygen-poor wetlands in the Arctic, according to research by a scientist at the University of Exeter.

Dr Iain Hartley, an associate professor in the department of Geography, and his co-authors found that both temperature and soil conditions affected the quantity of carbon released from thawing permafrost. A 10 °C increase in soil temperature released twice as much carbon into the atmosphere, but even more importantly, drier, oxygen-rich soil conditions resulted in more than three times more carbon release than wetter, low oxygen soil conditions.

The study published in Nature Climate Change and led by Northern Arizona University assistant research professor, Christina Schädel, analysed 25 Arctic soil incubation studies and discovered that the majority of that carbon emitted was in the form of carbon dioxide even in the low oxygen conditions, with only five per cent of the total anaerobic products being methane.

This means that even though methane packs 34 times the climate warming punch of carbon dioxide, methane fluxes were not high enough to compensate for the smaller total quantity of carbon released under low oxygen conditions in wet soils.

Dr Hartley said: "In different boreal and arctic ecosystems, permafrost thaw can expose previously-frozen organic matter to very different soil conditions. The results of our study indicate that where the soils remain dry there is much greater potential for large amounts of carbon to be released to the atmosphere and for there to a positive feedback to climate change."

Scientists in the international Permafrost Carbon Network that Schädel co-leads with Northern Arizona University professor of ecosystem ecology, Ted Schuur, provided much of the data.

Dr Schädel said: "Our results show that increasing temperatures have a large effect on carbon release from permafrost but that changes in soil moisture conditions have an even greater effect," says Schädel. "We conclude that the permafrost carbon feedback will be stronger when a larger percentage of the permafrost zone undergoes thaw in a dry and oxygen-rich environment."

As the permafrost thaws, microbes wake up and begin digesting the newly available remains of ancient plants and animals stored as carbon in the soil. This digestion produces either carbon dioxide or methane, depending on soil conditions. Scientists want to understand the ratio of carbon dioxide to methane gas released by this process because it affects the strength of the permafrost carbon feedback loop: greenhouse gases released due to thawing permafrost cause temperatures to rise, leading to even more thawing and carbon release. Furthermore, the Arctic permafrost is like a vast underground storage tank of carbon, holding almost twice as much as the atmosphere. At that scale, small changes in how the carbon is released will have big effects.

The current study zeroed in on two factors: soil temperature and the availability of oxygen. Soils in the lab were incubated at a range of warmer temperatures projected for the future. The availability of oxygen is important because it determines how microbes digest carbon. Oxygen-rich, or aerobic, conditions are found in dry soils and produce carbon dioxide. Oxygen-poor, or anaerobic, conditions are found in wet soils and produce both carbon dioxide and methane. Lab incubations mimicked these two conditions.

The question of whether wet or dry soils will dominate the future Arctic permafrost zone remains. This study highlights the need to monitor changes in wetness associated with permafrost thaw, changes that will ultimately determine how much carbon will be released from across the Arctic landscape.

 Explore further: Researchers clarify impact of permafrost thaw

More information: Potential carbon emissions dominated by carbon dioxide from thawed permafrost soils, Nature Climate Change, DOI: 10.1038/nclimate3054

Journal reference: Nature Climate Change search and more info website

Provided by: University of Exeter search and more info website

http://phys.org/news/2016-06-carbon-dioxide-biggest-player-permafrost.html#jCp

Agelbert NOTE: This is reasonably good news. But the soil mechanisms that may inhibit the anaerobic action that produces increased methane from soils when they begin to warm, if they are indeed curtailed (though STILL adding more CO2)  after the warming exceeds 10°C, still do not account for the methane bursts predicted for the shallow continental shelves that soon will lose their frozen bottom status as the ocean temperature rises.

At any rate the Fat Lady in the Arctic is singing her head off that the use of fossil fuels to power our civilization is a suicidal gesture.

JDwheeler explained our situation quite clearly:
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Here's something else to consider about rationality and climate change...

In Russian Roulette, you only have a 17% chance of losing.
Yet, most people don't want to play Russian Roulette.

But if you lose at Russian Roulette, at least it's only your own life.
If we lose at Climate Change, it's the lives of everyone we love.

So, if we won't play Russian Roulette because we have a 17% chance of losing,
are we more than 83% sure that a Climate Change caused Mass Extinction will NOT happen?  Because if not, we might as well be pointing a gun to our children's heads if we do not take drastic action to reduce the deleterious effects of Climate Change.

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
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June 16, 2016

Sobering Climate Milestone at the Coldest Place on Earth: Carbon dioxide levels at the South Pole surpassed the symbolic threshold of 400 parts per million (ppm) for the first time in four million years, according to NOAA. Scientists predict CO2 concentrations will likely never go down in our lifetimes.

Other locations around the world have already surpassed 400 ppm, but South Pole’s remote location means it is the last to register increasing emissions. It has been continually recording the “same, relentless upward trend in CO2 as the rest of world,” NOAA noted.

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on June 18, 2016, 03:25:47 pm
Round Island, Alaska is a bird nesting and Walrus haul out sanctuary.

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Round Island, Alaska

It is places like these that Walrus populations will be forced to go when the ice is gone. Up to 14,000 have been spotted here although 1,000 is the norm you can spot on the web cam.

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For feeding, Walrus require a depth of 300 feet or less. Although round Island surroundings fit the bill, the food supply is insufficient for the overwhelming majority of Walrus. They require ice floats further north over the shallow portions of the continental shelf. They will not have them soon.

The fossil fuel industry, the principal cause of this existential threat to this marine vertebrate,  does not care about the Walrus population.

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Togiak Walrus line the beaches next to "the dragon's spine" on Round Island, Alaska

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Up to 14,000 of the tusked mammals haul out on the island while the females are off raising their pups.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/walrus-cam-returns-after-10-years-to-alaska-s-round-island-1.3084043


Round Island Live Web Cam
http://explore.org/live-cams/player/walrus-cam-round-island

How long are we going to allow our government(s) to keep SUBSIDIZING the fossil fuel industry profit over planet?

Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on June 21, 2016, 09:17:07 pm
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Breaking Americans’ Addiction to ‘Meth’ (Methane Gas, That Is)

Posted on Jun 18, 2016

By Stanley Heller

On June 12, I listened to Dr. Robert Howarth tell a meeting of 350CT, a Connecticut-based group promoting grass-roots environmental organization, about a briefing he had given last month to the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. Howarth is professor of ecology and environmental biology at Cornell University and an associate of former top NASA climate scientist James Hansen. In 2011 he was in the running for Time magazine’s “Person of the Year.” His message this summer is that we know what to do to solve our climate worries, but we’re on the wrong path and have only a very short time to change direction.

The COP21 climate meeting in Paris last December finally recognized what ought to be the absolute limit for global warming: no more than 1.5 degrees Celsius. Beyond that point, we would initiate feedback loops that drive things totally out of control. An example would be a major spike in global temperatures following the melting of the Arctic permafrost.

The politicians talk about the year 2100 and 2050, but we don’t have that long to fix things. Howarth said his best estimates suggest the world will pass the 1.5-degree mark in 13 years and the two-degree mark in 28 years.

The problem therefore is in the short run. To avoid feedback loops, we need to urgently reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Unfortunately, we seem to be going in the wrong direction. The Obama administration has been happily pushing fracked natural gas as a “bridge” fuel to the time many decades in the future when we will go 100 percent renewable. Howarth explains that this won’t work because natural gas is a much worse greenhouse gas in the critical short run than carbon dioxide is.
 
Natural gas is almost entirely methane, and Howarth has calculated that the global warming effects of methane over a 20-year period are 105 times that of carbon dioxide.

There’s another problem. In the U.S., we now get a majority of our natural gas by fracking shale rock. Howarth said that getting the gas this way leaks three times as much methane into the air as do traditional extraction methods. In his 2014 State of the Union speech President Obama boasted about how much the U.S. had cut back on carbon dioxide emissions during his presidency. (Some of that was because of the Great Recession.)

Howarth agrees that carbon dioxide emissions have not been rising for the last five years, but that misses the point. Because of fracking, total U.S. greenhouse gas emission since 2008 has risen at the most rapid rate ever, Howarth said. Our “meth” habit—our growing addiction to methane gas—is keeping us on the road to climate catastrophe.

Howarth said part of the problem is that the Environmental Protection Agency is misinforming us. It’s vastly underestimating the greenhouse effects of methane partly because it uses defective equipment to measure it and partly because it talks about effects over 100 years when it should be focusing on a period of 20 years. A report by Harvard climate scientists released this past winter said that though the EPA had been saying human-caused methane emissions have not increased recently, years of satellite data show otherwise. They “suggest that U.S. methane emissions have increased by more than 30% over the 2002–2014 period.”

Now, here’s the good news. Cutbacks in carbon dioxide output are absolutely necessary, but we won’t see the effects for a very long time. Cutbacks on methane (and “black carbon” soot from burning), however, can reduce the effects of global warming in the coming decades. The fight against fracking is thus the fight against global warming.

The world needs to go fossil-free by 2050, and the U.S. must lead the way by going fossil-free by 2035. One means of achieving this, Howarth said, is by imposing a tax on methane emissions that would be 105 times the cost of a tax on CO2 emissions. But the fossil fuel industry would probably spend years or decades tying the effort up in court, as they’re doing with Obama’s modest EPA coal regulations.

I propose an ecosocialist solution: Declare a state of emergency, nationalize the energy industry and go on a crash “Manhattan project” program to completely change energy/heating/transportation. Howarth didn’t call for that, but he did point out that there have been massive changes in energy use in this country in a matter of decades, pointing to a transformation from transportation by horse to automobiles in just 40 years.

A complete ban on fracking would get the ball rolling. On July 24, thousands of people will gather on the streets of Philadelphia to demand an end to fracking. It’s billed as a “March for a Clean Energy Revolution.” The website is cleanenergymarch.org. It’s the day before the Democratic Party Convention and there will be tons of media in the city. The next day, an event called “Socialist Convergence” will examine the proposal of “ecosocialism.”

We don’t have time for the conventional proposals. We don’t have decades to wait while politicians make the usual crummy deals. We are balanced over a chasm, and the tipping points are almost upon us. Drastic changes are necessary, and tens of thousands of us have to get into the streets and start demanding it.

#BanFracking

#KeepItInTheGround

Stanley Heller is Administrator of Promoting Enduring Peace and host of the TV program “The Struggle.”


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Rich Grisham
   

There is a couple problems here. First, the people of the US and the world have absolutely no influence over energy decisions in the US or around the world. Second, the people are not organized and educated enough to combat the powerful forces that have both the means and organization to maintain this system set to self-destruct. It is a game against time and if the science is to be believed, the time is shorter than we hoped, so for those who believe in the science, they must find different and more urgent ways to organize and educate the people. They are losing to "skeptics" because the gas and oil industry propagandist are not asking people to sacrifice anything, so the battle is uphill all the way and against the clock for those who believe in global warming.
 
agelbert > Rich Grisham  • 2 days ago 

Bingo!

But Amory Lovins, Chief Scientist of the Rocky mountain Institute, made it quite clear in his peer reviewed paper, titled "Reinventing Fire", that we could phase out all fossil fuels by 2050 with any lowering of standard of living through Renewable energy plus efficiency increases that would eliminate 90% of the energy we use to do exactly the same things that power our civilization.

The fossil fuel industry propagandists don't want people to know that because it is the death knell for dirty energy.

"Hitting peak oil will come faster than any of us think. But don't blame dwindling supply — it's all about disappearing demand" Amory Lovins

Amory Lovins on Energy Efficiency Breakthroughs (real world 90% plus waste reduction) that seem hard to believe:

"Only puny secrets need protection; big discoveries are protected by public incredulity."

Agelbert NOTE: The following truth filled comment was "Detected as spam" by the Koch patrol on Disqus, that CENSORS any hint that the fossil fuel industry and its corrupted liars inside gooberment are pushing mendacious happy talk in defense of the polluters. These BASTARDS are relentless in their zeal to keep people from knowing the truth. When ridicule does not work, just flag the truth as "spam".  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Fmocantina.gif&hash=d013c741bcf9a78776eec19c2c3aac449c35d75c)

As a whistleblower pointed out, our government has been deliberately lowballing methane emissions at drill sites for SEVERAL DECADES. A team from the University of Texas, in cahoots with the EPA, deliberately set out to game the numbers.

The whistleblower was none other than the INVENTOR of the device used by the fossil fuel industry to measure methane leaks at well sites.

"The EPA’s failure to order feasible reductions of methane leaks and venting has robbed humanity of crucial years to slow the climate crisis," said Jim Warren, director of NC WARN. "The cover-up by Allen’s team has allowed the industry to dig in for years of delay in cutting emissions—at the worst possible time."

The cover-up was discovered by NC WARN, the group wrote in its complaint, when it became aware that the very inventor of the Bacharach Hi-Flow Sampler, an engineer named Touché Howard, had been attempting to blow the whistle for years on the crucial instrument’s malfunctioning. The critical failure causes the instrument to under-report methane emissions "up to 100-fold," the organization wrote.

The complaint describes Howard’s repeated attempts to warn the EPA and Allen about the instrument and the silence he received in response.

"It appears that the goal of the [University of Texas] team was not to critically examine the problems but to convince [Environmental Defense Fund, who co-authored the study] and its production committee members that no problems existed, " NC WARN added.

http://ecowatch.com/2016/06/10...

The entire argument of ANYBODY defending fossil fuels is that one should continue an abusive relationship with a psychopath because the first couple of dates were a lot of fun, WHICH INCLUDES the biosphere math challenged, codependent mental illness based notion that we cannot live without that psychopath.

IF the fossil fuel industry had a product that could compete on a level energy playing field with Renewable Energy, they would not CONTINUALLY stoop to this mendacity, propaganda and government corruption of pollution energy stats and energy math.

The method in the fossil fuel industry criminal modus operandi exposes their recognition that fossil fuels CANNOT compete with Renewable Energy on a level, full disclosure, energy playing field.
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Post by: AGelbert on June 21, 2016, 09:27:31 pm
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Southwest US Extreme Heat June 2016

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In mid-June 2016 temperatures began soaring across the Southwest, breaking records. This historic heatwave is forecast to extend through June with temperatures approaching 120˚ in some locations.

In Phoenix temperatures are likely to approach the city's all-time record high of 122°F, with the National Weather Service calling the heat “rare, dangerous, and deadly.”

A surge in humidity may accompany the 2nd half of the heatwave. As the climate warms, the most extreme heat events are becoming dramatically more frequent.

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Heat stress is also rising steeply as heatwaves are becoming increasingly humid due to climate change.

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on June 23, 2016, 08:02:44 pm
Agelbert NOTE: This is cross posted from another forum where the lawyer liar and pseudo Christian, Ashvin is currently peddling the Christian TALK in his accustomed sanctimonious hypocritical fashion.

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He may be going to Hell, but God does not celebrate that fact and neither should we. We most certainly should not cross our fingers and hope that more bankers or any other "ledge leaners" follow suit.

How do you know He doesn't celebrate? You have God on Speed Dial?  He made the rules.

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Yeah and he communicated those rules to us clearly in his revelation.

"This is good, and pleases God our Savior, who wants all people to be saved and to come to a knowledge of the truth. For there is one God and one mediator between God and mankind, the man Christ Jesus, who gave himself as a ransom for all people."

"The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness, but is longsuffering to usward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance."

If he wants ALL people to know the truth and repent and be saved, and sacrificed his only son to achieve that purpose, and NOT all people know the truth, repent and are saved, then obviously he is not happy about that. Simple logic here.


Here's some simple logic that the nameless learned counselor has derided as the unproven hyperbole of wide eyed 'sky is falling' "conspiracy theorists". The fellow below knows a thing or two about Christianity and Christian moral imperatives (if you engage in wilful ignorance of them, you are in sin). Of course a Calvinist pseudo Christian might take issue with such a "judgmental" point of view.
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Learned counselor claimed a fellow I was debating called Alan was "reasonable". Below please find, a 278 day plus old direct quote from the last post on that debate where I addressed, in my "unreasonable fashion", the questions put forth by learned counsel.

Said questions were allegedly based on the excuse that learned counsel, a very intelligent and well read individual (that has apparently been living in a climate science news blackout bunker for several years), had not had time to research the global warming issue in his busy life.

Ashvin,
Here I continue to address your questions with a post from Eddie that I comment on.


Because of that 40 year time lag, it is simply impossible, even with drastic measures to stop the continued increase in deleterious effects of global warming for that length of time, even if we go 100% green today. IOW, we have to go to more than 100% green to actually address the baked in time lag. We have go to, say 130% or so, so as to rapidly return the atmosphere to pre-industrial levels. This is certainly not limited just to CO2 reduction. Many other toxic products of industry must be eliminated somehow.

A lot of people missed the memo on this, but I've read it from a number of sources I trust.



Exactly. AS David Wasdell states in the following video, if you wish to actually ameliorate the existential threat from catastrophic climate change, you must use the projected climate condition of about 40 years from now as your target, not what is observed at present. Acting on the present guarantees failure due to the fact that the feedback mechanisms are moving faster than the policies to ameliorate climate change. This is politically very unpalatable. But it is the only approach with science behind it. IOW, if the IPCC predicted 470 ppm of CO2 and a 2 degree C increase by 2055, then drastic action to eliminate any target above that must be taken now.

Of course, that is not happening. Every day that isn't happening makes it more and more difficult to deal with.
 
https://youtu.be/W_aMbM20mbg (https://youtu.be/W_aMbM20mbg)

David Wasdell, Director of the Meridian Programme, is a world-renowned expert in the dynamics of climate change. He is also a reviewer of the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) assessment reports and the author of numerous papers and presentations on climate change and related topics.

Kevin Anderson, former Director of the Tyndall Centre (the UK's top academic institute researching climate change), said that a global society (like the one we have now) is not possible with our present level of technology in 4degree C or higher world. And that's where we are going, despite the IPCC figures all revolving about an alleged agreement (with no teeth, no enforcement and all voluntary carbon limits. LOL!) by the piggy countries s of taking measures to keep the planet  below 2 degrees C. Collapse is baked in, so to speak, thanks to government piecemeal incremental measures.

Back to David Wasdell, he clearly and calmly stated that the 30 or so positive feedback loops, if not addressed with absolute limits on carbon output, including even foregoing even biofuels, approximately 80% of life on Earth may die. If that isn't an existential threat, I don't know what is.


Ashvin asked,

What are the chances that scientific technology will progress quickly enough to offer viable solutions (I believe you say this is a very good chance)?'

According to both the scientists I mentioned, we do not have the technology to stop this catastrophe at this time, once the runaway greenhouse positive feedback loops push us past a certain point. Some say we have passed it. Due to the 40 year bake and the paltry government measures being employed, it sure looks that way. Drastic measures to stop emitting CO2 might change that equation.

But it is not realistic to expect governments to engage in them. When large masses of people are dying and a public outcry is sounded, it will be about 40 years too late.

All that said, there are technofix types that claim we just have to put a pack of aerosols up there and cool the planet like volcanic eruptions have partially done in the past. There is evidence that our government has been doing just that since 2000. It doesn't seem to be working. Maybe it's just a conspiracy theory, but some very obvious man made 'cloud' grids have been videoed for some time. And, they are not jet contrails.

Another less messy and much more expensive approach is to block out a portion of the sunlight reaching earth with some giant aluminum vapor coated, 1 mil thick, polyester film a few thousand miles in diameter to cool the planet. But we have no way of knowing whether such a simple solution would not trigger some, even worse, unforeseen climate effect. It certainly is true that the massive sun shield qualifies in the 'any port in the N.T.H.E. storm' category.

But it would do nothing to eliminate the other industrial toxins, unrelated to CO2, that have upped the probability of getting cancer in our lives from 1 in 10 back in 1950 to 1 in 2 (for men) and 1 in 3 (for women) at present. And no, that isn't because we "live longer" ( check the social Security stats and you will find the longevity increase applies to the top 20% wage earners. The bottom 80% "longevity increase" looks like a rounding error.  :P). ; it's because we are subject to more pollutants in our food, air and water from birth than any humans in history. 

We have a plethora of severe problems and the rug the gooberment keeps trying to sweep them under is starting to look like Mount Everest.


-What are the chances that the above technology, or other mitigating policies, will be implemented by corporations and governments which can make a difference when push comes to shove (I believe you say this is a low chance, but quite possible)?

-What are any other known or as of yet unknown factors which may serve to mitigate the destructive trends?


Well, here's the situation, according to Professor Emeritus Richard Somerville  Please note that he is a very conservative scientist. But he makes it clear how serious the urgency is BECAUSE of the limitations of our technology and government reaction times.

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The above graph is discussing the procedure to limit the damage to 2 degrees C. That was in 2013. He explained that the required carbon limits, if not enforced by 2020, will basically be impossible to implement. We are passing by 2015 with no end in site to the INCREASE in carbon pollution.

As he said, once the window is closed, it will remain closed. That is a scientist's way of stating an existential threat. He understands the technology. He understands what will happen when we cannot hope to stop the positive feedback mechanisms from overwhelming reforms. He understands that will head us to 4 degrees C or more. That is a dire threat to our species, and literally millions of other species we share this planet with.


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Notice how the IPCC sea level rise predictions only fit the data at the extreme end. It is not logical to think that they aren't erring on the side of caution. They are. Therefore, only the most extreme scenarios they come up with can be considered 'in the ball park'.

Every time a report comes out, they have to admit that, yeah, the ice melted more than predicted and several other predictions were a bit on the, uh, conservative side. Each report published every 7 or 8 years gets a little more real. Consequently, it is prudent to assume that a worse than their worse case scenario is highly probable.

That is why I believe firmly that mankind faces an existential threat from Global Warming AND all the other industrial pollution factors degrading the biosphere.

That is why I focused initially on extinctions with Alan. When the extinction rate of species in our biosphere is 1,000 to 10,000 the normal background rate of the last ten thousand years (at least!), it's logical to then assume our species faces an existential threat.

This extinction rate cannot be neatly approached as the product of a single cause. Our society is lousy at dealing with multiple causes. It's like we are as bad as crows (they can't count above three).

But  there are thousands of toxic chemicals, radionuclides and aerosols, along with the CO2 damage that have joined together to drown us in our industrial effluents. CO2 pollution is what we should all agree on. As you can see from Alan's posts, even that is like pulling teeth.

Also, there are too many corporations stuck in the incremental measures approach to expect them to own up the their responsibility to future generations. I just posted an article on the good and the bad corporations. But the 'good" are STILL not at 100% renewable energy. And the bad ones are worse than ever. :emthdown:

It's hard to communicate this threat dispassionately. I do the best I can. We are in a world of trouble.

These are the web sites Professor Emeritus Richard Somerville recommends for reliable information. I hang around RealClimate regularly. I have posted articles from RealClimate here during the last year and have recommended it to all readers. They are the ones who are now looking very hard at the meltwater tunneling by supercritical water (liquid water several degrees below freezing due to massive glacier pressures lubricating glacier movement) beneath Greenland glaciers that is NOT addressed in any of the IPCC predictions that David Wasdell discussed.

They cover all the climate bases. RealClimate is staffed exclusively by climate scientists.
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Ashvin went away. He never answered. I'm certain he is a busy fellow, but considering the importance of this issue, the fact that he could not find the time in 278 days to drop in and view it is prima facie evidence of willful denial and ignorance of this issue.

His excuse that he "hadn't had the time to research the issue" is a sophist canard. IOW, it's a cheap dodge and a LIE to disguise the fact that he is on the denier side of this issue, and wants to STAY there.

I am posting this here because he came to this forum and mocked, derided and insulted me as a wide eyed conspiracy theorist, as is his ridicule laced wont.

I am NOT posting this here to give him an opportunity to answer. He is now banned from my forum for his abysmal lack of objectivity and serial mendacity.

I post it here so that the disingenuous MO of this lawyer LIAR pseudo Christian, which includes, among other sophist unethical tricks, faking an intellectually honest interest in an issue (that he only wishes to ridicule though attack the messenger chicanery) is exposed for all to see objectively.

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IGNORANCE is NO EXCUSE:
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It is therefore inexcusable that some members of Congress and other politicians continue to ignore or plead ignorance to the irrefutable science, and dangers, of climate change.

We know the continued argument in their echo chamber, that the science is unclear or the dangers are not real, is a lie — a dangerous lie.

The science is clear. Already, 2015 is the hottest year to date and might top 2014 as the hottest year on record, and carbon dioxide has reached its highest level in 800,000 years. These record-breaking events are related: carbon dioxide and global temperatures are rising together, thanks to human activities. - Rep. A preponderance of "H"'s Johnson (D-Ga.)

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“No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.”  - Atwood H. Townsend
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“The sin which is unpardonable is knowingly and wilfully to reject truth, to fear knowledge lest that knowledge pander not to thy prejudices.”  - Aleister Crowley
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“People are stupid. They will believe a lie because they want to believe it's true, or because they are afraid it might be true.” - Terry Goodkind
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“We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.” - Benjaming Franklin
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“But you can't make people listen. They have to come round in their own time, wondering what happened and why the world blew up around them. It can't last.” - Ray Bradbury


Alan's GRAB BAG of DENIER excuses that ASHVIN has no problems with:

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on June 23, 2016, 08:52:23 pm
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Survey Shows Strength of Climate Science

One of the first peer-reviewed surveys of scientists used to determine the level of consensus on human-made climate change was undertaken by Dennis Bran and Hans von Storch in 1996. They used a standard survey response format known as the “Likert Scale,” where respondents answer questions based on a scale of 1 to 7 to determine, for example, how confident they are that warming is happening or that it’s human-caused.

They’ve repeated the survey a few times since 1996, and have recently released the 5th International Survey of Climate Scientists, for 2015/2016. Bart Verheggen helpfully goes over the key consensus findings as well as a couple of issues with the survey.

Because of the Likert Scale response format, though, describing the findings in numbers isn’t as effective as just looking at the graphs of responses. In many cases, the responses are so lopsided that some very clear statements can be made.

We can see that, as science has progressed, the level of risk associated with climate change has increased as has what’s at stake. In contrast to folks like Judith Curry who play up uncertainty as an excuse for inaction, the majority of scientists think that since 1996, climate science uncertainty has dropped.

Meanwhile, if society were to listen to voices highlighting uncertainty, and fail to act because of them, the potential for catastrophe for some parts of the world is fairly great.


To the point of the GOP AGs suggesting that Gore and others could be held responsible for exaggerating climate risks, scientists clearly think sea level rise will be just as bad as we thought five years ago, if not worse. The same can be said for other negative impacts. Over the last five years, the urgency to act on climate change has grown.

As for the public, scientists clearly think they should be told to be worried as we are already starting to experience the impacts of climate change. For example, they agree that the frequency of extreme events is increasing, as well as the intensity of those events, and the probability that those extreme events occur. Scientists expect these extreme events to become more powerful, tropical storms to get more intense, and certainly not any less frequent. Heat waves over the last 20 years are growing more intense as well as more frequent.

Most importantly, an overwhelming majority of scientists are convinced that climate change poses a serious and dangerous threat to humanity, with only 2% responding that they’re not at all convinced. Again, with the Likert scale it’s a bit difficult to put simply. Assuming a 4 out of 7 is the midway point between “not at all” concerned and "very much" concerned, 8% of respondents fell between 1 and 3, 5.667% right in the middle at 4, and 85.74% between 5 and 7.

So, deniers claiming the science is still too uncertain to take action or that the public shouldn’t be worried need to take heed of this survey (like they have in the past, if even just to spin it) and accept that they’re a fringe minority at odds with an overwhelming consensus. That’s the facts, whether they Likert or not.

https://ourchangingclimate.wordpress.com/2016/06/22/new-survey-of-climate-scientists-by-bray-and-von-storch-confirms-broad-consensus-on-human-causation/

Agelbert NOTE: SAMPLE of DIRECT QUOTES from a fellow named Alan that Ashvin found "reasonable":

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I don't know enough about the climate issue. But I've been reading about it sporadically for 25+ years, and from everything I can gather, the scientists doing the analyses and projections are quite fallible, do not necessarily understand with such certainty the things they claim to understand, and cannot, in the end, be taken quite AS seriously as you seem to be taking them.

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The environmental harm of something must be weighed against benefits or desirable effects.

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the Doom overreactions and the propaganda spewing are two sides of a counterfeit coin. Neither one reflect reality and are counter-productive to real progress.

All the above represent denier methods of temporizing, creating false equivalences and ignoring the FACT that dirty energy ENVIRONMENTAL HARM is greater that the alleged benefits.

Alan brought up a lot of the other denier happy talk about "greening the planet with more CO2" (which I countered and he ignored) while he refused to even consider the danger the sixth mass extinction represents to humanity and the biosphere as a cause for rejection of incremental reforms in favor of the drastic government funded action climate scientists advocate.

In short, both Alan and Ashvin are world class foot draggers that ridicule, disdain and disparage the action recommended by 97% of climate scientists as "extremist".

IOW, from Alan or Ashvin, do not expect intellectual honesty. What you can expect is  verbal goal post moving and a barrage of ridicule, derision and defamatory 'attack the messenger' type invective, along with continuous mendacity filled attempts to undermine the seriousness of the validity of the climate change threat.  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-200714183337.bmp&hash=fd5a6df63c32bd65dda7b6d93e788647ca3829df)
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on June 23, 2016, 09:23:20 pm
Pres. Obama Calls for Protecting Parks from Climate Change

President Obama warned that the country’s national parks are at risk from climate change while visiting Yosemite Falls with his family over the weekend.

Obama criticized opponents who pay “lip service” to beauty but oppose climate action, saying, "Make no mistake. Climate change is no longer just a threat. It's already a reality.” He drove the point home, adding, “Rising temperatures could mean no more glaciers at Glacier National Park. No more Joshua trees at Joshua Tree National Park.” (Guardian, AP, National Geographic, The Hill, Bloomberg, LA Times $, USA Today, ThinkProgress)

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/06/president-obama-yosemite-national-parks-climate-conservation/
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on June 24, 2016, 07:45:59 pm
Heat wave smashes temperature records in Southwest

By Devin Henry - 06/23/16 11:01 AM EDT

A string of cities in the southwestern United States saw record warmth this week as a heat wave sizzled in the region.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration collected the temperature records after days of triple-digit heat descended on Arizona, Nevada and southern California and published them on Thursday.

Extreme heat gave Phoenix its fifth-hottest day on record — a 118-degree scorcher on Sunday. That same day, Tucson, Ariz. hit 115 degrees, its third-hottest day ever. Yuma, Ariz., meantime, topped out at 120 degrees, its fourth-hottest day on record, while Santa Fe’s mark of 102 degrees tied its heat record. 
Arizona wasn’t the only state to see near-record heat. Burbank, Calif., (111 degrees) and Las Vegas (115 degrees) both broke daily heat records on Monday. And Needles, Calif.,  hit 125 degrees on Monday, its hottest mark ever for June. The 98-degree low temperature in the Arizona-California border town on Tuesday was a new record hot monthly low, as well.

NOAA said the heat wave can be traced to an area of high pressure planted over the region. And the heat didn’t end this week. The Arizona Republic on Thursday predicted a high of 111 for Phoenix, with temperatures pushing 112 degrees by Sunday.

The weather, besides breaking records, turned deadly as well: at least four hikers in Arizona died as a result of the heat, The Washington Post reports.

The heat has also lead to wildfires in the region, with 65,000 acres having burned in Arizona, 53,000 acres in New Mexico and 5,000 acres outside of Los Angeles.

http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/284607-heatwave-smashes-temperature-records-in-southwest
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on June 24, 2016, 11:37:39 pm
Greenland’s three melt surges rival 2012 record

June 22, 2016 

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Greenland’s 2016 melt season started fast. It maintained a brisk pace with three extreme spikes in areas of melt through June 19. On June 9, Nuuk, the capital, reached the warmest temperature ever recorded for the month of June anywhere on the island, 24 degrees Celsius (75 degrees Fahrenheit).

Overview of conditions

Surface melting on Greenland’s Ice Sheet proceeded at a brisk pace, with three spikes in the melt extent in late spring. At this point, the pace rivals but is slightly behind the record surface melt and runoff year of 2012 (record since 1979), although ahead of the three preceding seasons. Melting in 2016 is especially severe in southwestern Greenland, and moving beyond the 1981 to 2010 rate everywhere except the northwestern coast (northern Melville Coast). This has led to the early formation of melt ponds along the southwestern flank of the ice sheet and early run-off from the ice sheet.

Conditions in context

A pattern of higher pressure over central Greenland continued the trend of southerly wind influx along the southwestern coast, consistent for the spring period. This trend was also observed in the early April spike in ice surface melt area. Temperatures were mildly warmer than average (0.5 to 2 degrees Celsius or 1 to 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) over most of coastal Greenland but slightly below average in the interior.

Air temperatures in Nuuk, the capital of Greenland, reached 75 degrees Fahrenheit on June 9, marking the highest temperature ever recorded on the island for June. When air flows downhill, air compresses and warms. The persistent high pressure pattern in northeastern Greenland forced downsloping winds, and with a low pressure center to the south of Greenland, temperatures rose. Such conditions are responsible for record or near-record warm temperatures along western Greenland.

Jet stream meanders led to 2015 melt pattern

Wind patterns and weather control the amount of melting on Greenland. In addition, meltwater runoff adds ice to the sea each year. Using sophisticated climate models and Greenland’s past weather data, a new study has shown that in 2015 Greenland’s weather changed to favor more melting in the northern part of the island. In earlier years, high-pressure systems over Greenland promoted increased melting in its southwestern portion. In 2015, a persistent high-pressure ridge set up further north, over the Arctic Ocean and the northern half of the island, pulling warm air northeastward over the southern half of Greenland—shifting the areas of frequent melting northward. Snowfall increased in the south.

The high-pressure system in 2015 ‘detached’ from the jet stream and disconnected from its flow. Disconnected high or low pressure areas are more common when the jet stream meanders more evidently, pushing long loops high into the Arctic or southward into temperate areas. In the summer of 2015, the jet stream flowed in record high latitudes and with strong north-south winds (rather than east-west winds) gave rise to exceptional Arctic atmospheric conditions, which are consistent with Arctic amplification. This suggests that the removal of sea ice in the Arctic promotes a more ‘wavy’ jet stream that, in turn, modulates melting over Greenland and affects climate over the temperate areas of the northern continents. (Contributed by Dr. Marco Tedesco, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory)

Tough time for research teams in Greenland

Greenland’s variable melt affected science teams working high on the ice. “As we crossed Greenland’s interior this spring, melt hounded us most of the way,” said CU Boulder researcher Mike MacFerrin. “As temps soared near freezing, snow began melting on our drills, causing them to occasionally freeze solid in boreholes as we worked. One of our stuck drills required 30 gallons of boiling water, aircraft cable, and a snowmobile to finally retrieve,” he said. Toward the end of their trip, the team worked through slushy days with nighttime temperatures only dropping to -1 degrees Celsius. “We got our work done, but the early-season melt tossed us curve balls along the way,” he added.

MacFerrin and the rest of the NASA-funded “FirnCover” team are primarily tasked with measuring firn compaction—the rate snow slowly compresses into glacial ice—which is crucial to accurately map Greenland and Antarctica’s changing masses. “The increases in high-elevation melt complicate everything we’re trying to measure,” MacFerrin said. “It’s the biggest factor reshaping the interior of Greenland’s snow and firn. Enhanced melt over the past ten to fifteen years has affected every site we visit.”

Computer models simulate compaction, but most of the models were not intended to capture the types of rapid changes currently observed across Greenland. “We’re doing what we can to account for it, but we feel like we’re barely keeping up,” he said.

Further reading

Arctic cut-off high drives the poleward shift of a new Greenland melting record
The 2016 Greenland ice sheet SMB
Polar Portal’s Greenland surface conditions for June 2016
PROMICE: Programme for Monitoring of the Greenland Ice Sheet


http://nsidc.org/greenland-today/

Agelbert NOTE: More eye opening explanatory charts and photographs at article link. If you are not part of the reality based community, please assume this article by climate scientists is "alarmist" 'sky is falling' hyperbole, as any climate change denying IDIOT will be quick to tell you.  ;)   
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on June 26, 2016, 03:13:33 pm
Methane Emissions From Onshore Oil and Gas Equivalent to 14 Coal Plants Powered for One Year

Andy Rowell, Oil Change International | June 21, 2016 9:49 am

When we talk about climate change all too often we focus on carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas. But there is a much more potent greenhouse gas, methane, which is much more efficient at trapping radiation than CO2. Some estimates put it at 87 times more potent over a 20 year lifetime than carbon dioxide.

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Flaring is the burning of natural gas that cannot be processed or sold *.  Flaring disposes of the gas while releasing methane emissions into the atmosphere. Photo credit: North Dakota Department of Health

And who is the biggest culprit for releasing methane in the U.S.? It is the oil and gas industry, which is the largest industrial source of methane pollution in the country, releasing 33 percent of all methane emissions in 2014.

There are a staggering amount of old and new wells with the potential to release methane. At least 3.5 million wells have been drilled in the U.S., with a quarter of those still active. Many old and new ones are leaking the potent greenhouse gas. Adding to the problem, there will be thousands of old wells leaking methane which the authorities do not even know the whereabouts of.

First let’s look at existing wells.

A new report, published by the Center for American Progress on Monday, reveals that the onshore oil and gas industry’s methane emissions totaled more than 48 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent or CO2e, in 2014.

To put this into perspective, this is the equivalent of 14 coal-fired power plants powered for one year.

The worst culprits were ranked in order and came out as: ConocoPhillips, Exxon, Chesapeake Energy, EOG Resources and BP.


Concern has been growing about the oil industry’s methane emissions for a while. Last month, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finalized limits on methane emissions from new sources in the oil and gas sector. Indeed, the Obama administration has set a goal of reducing methane emissions from the oil and gas sector by 40 percent from 2012 emissions levels by 2025.

The biggest emitters were not necessarily the biggest natural gas producers. For example, ConocoPhillips was the sixth largest natural gas producer in 2014.

The parts of the country experiencing the worse methane pollution are of course the main oil and gas producing areas including the following: the Anadarko Basin of Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas; the Gulf Coast Basin of Louisiana and Texas; the San Juan Basin of Colorado and New Mexico; the Permian Basin of New Mexico and Texas; and the Appalachian Basin in the eastern part of the U.S.

But now let’s look at old wells.

There are other areas too which are suffering from chronic methane leakage from old wells. Yesterday, Bloomberg ran an article on the problems of methane leakage affecting Pennsylvania, the birthplace of the U.S. oil industry, where “century-old abandoned oil wells have long been part of the landscape.”

Bloomberg reports that these abandoned wells as now the “focus of growing alarm,” especially ones close to the new fracking fields, due to them leaking methane.

“We had so much methane in our water, the inspector told us not to smoke a cigar or light a candle in the bath,” Joe Thomas, a machinist, whose 40-acre farm has at least 60 abandoned wells, tells Bloomberg.

Pennsylvania’s Attorney General is now reviewing the rules requiring drillers to document wells within 1,000 feet of any new potential fracking site. The obvious worry is that abandoned wells might interact with new fracking wells, creating an easy methane escape route from the frack well. And in Pennsylvania only ten percent of abandoned wells are documented.

One person searching for these abandoned wells is Laurie Barr, who co-founded Save Our Streams Pennsylvania. Over the last five years she has located almost 1,000 wells, most of which were not recorded.

Bloomberg quotes Mary Kang, a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University in California who co-authored a widely cited paper on methane leakage from Pennsylvania’s wells. “These old wells are emitting methane into the atmosphere and they are worth considering in greenhouse-gas emissions inventories,” she said.

http://ecowatch.com/2016/06/21/methane-emissions-fracking/ (http://ecowatch.com/2016/06/21/methane-emissions-fracking/)

* Agelbert NOTE: First, there is a lot more than methane in flared gases. There are a host of VOCs (volatile organic compounds), many of them carcinogenic and/or otherwise toxic. These gases CAN be captured. NOT capturing them constitutes the accustomed fossil fuel industry practice of "externalizing" pollution costs onto the biosphere in general and  we-the-people in particular. The reason oil and gas flare is  because they cannot capture or sell the methane content PROFITABLY.

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Jeff
Frackers should be forced to capture all emissions. Allowing them to flare off GHGes and a fuel source is ridiculous.

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Yes, methane may be what finishes us, if not Fukushima, the already out of control geoengineering or the US power structure fomenting WWIII. And the convergence of some or all of these. . . . . well, you get the point.

Thawing permafrost is spontaneously igniting fires across the Arctic. And this is fact, not alarmist diatribe. On the scale these fires occur or will occur, there will be no way to extinguish underground peat fires. Peat bogs release enormous amounts of methane and are up to 60 feet deep. The formerly frozen methane undersea hydrates and clathrates are thawing and releasing. The number of positive feedback loops already in play is disputed, but I've heard the number 16 quoted.

Shell abandoned off shore drilling the Chukchi Sea, saying there was no substantial amount of oil there. All the companies do their homework and know oil exists there in vast quantities. This, after three years of desperately trying and after embarrassing failures that channelled the Keystone cops (but lacking their humor). Shell had built an entire town to service its employees near Barrow. But Shell ran as if demons were chasing it.

This happened less that thirty days after breaking through the oil bearing layer. It returned all its leases except one, claiming an "impairment." Very shortly after all the other companies, except Spanish Repsol, holding leases in the Chukchi quietly returned them.

http://www.adn.com/energy/arti... (http://www.adn.com/energy/arti...)

So what might this impairment be? I think Shell hit methane. The clathrate gun has already fired.
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Agelbert > Bella_Fantasia

Well said.

I applaud this EchoWatch article but wish to point out an error in it. The article stated that Flaring is the burning of natural gas that cannot be processed or sold.

These gases CAN be captured. The technology to capture and process them has existed for over 50 years (at least!). Oil and gas corporations CHOOSE to avoid the expense of capturing them.

WHY?

Frist, there is a lot more than methane in flared gases. There are a host of VOCs (volatile organic compounds), many of them carcinogenic and/or otherwise toxic.

NOT capturing them constitutes the accustomed fossil fuel industry practice of "externalizing" pollution costs onto the biosphere in general and we-the-people in particular. The reason oil and gas corporations flare is because they cannot capture or sell the methane content PROFITABLY.

IOW, they do not have a competitive product if they act responsibly by capturing the leaked gases and processing as hazardous waste all the VOCs to separate them from the leaked methane. So they just dump them onto us. The EPA looks the other way.

lance Geologist
one learns more by thinking and looking up answers. Thus my question, Based on the picture of gas(methane) flaring, what is the end product of the burning of methane? Is the burning of methane gas releasing methane to the atmosphere , or releasing something else? Then, is this article truthful?

agelbert > lance Geologist
You are obviously not a geologist. Geologists are scientists. Look up black body radiation. Look up tri-atomic IR absorption. Learn the fact that the Earth radiates in the IR band. CH4, though not a tri-atomic IR GHG like H2O and CO2, is over 80 times more powerful as a GHG.

Yes, the LEAKED methane THAT IS NOT BURNED degrades within a few months of entering the atmosphere. But before it degrades, it TRAPS MORE IR radiation than the CO2 and H2O produced by a coal burning plant.

If you were a scientist, you would understand that.

Jeff
Congress needs to mandate that they capture all gas, no flare offs. People need to pay the full cost of that gas, end the externalization of environmental degradation costs. If people are forced to pay their full share, they'll stop acting irresponsibly to the extent that they, and you currently do.


Marc McGuire
In Louisiana, where I live, there are 3,000 "ABANDONED" Oil and Gas Wells!
Hillary "WALL STREET JUNKIE" Clinton, "BOUGHT AND PAID FOR" the Oil and Gas Industry is a World Wide "SUPPORTER" of Fracking!

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Agelbert NOTE: To paraphrase Bella_Fantasia, this is SCIENCE, not alarmist diatribe.

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on June 26, 2016, 05:01:31 pm
Flawed Logic

Why forests cannot offset fossil fuel emissions


November 2013

The fossil fuel industry frequently argues that emissions caused by burning oil, coal and gas or other fossil carbon could be made up for by forest conservation. Using forests as an offset, the argument goes, would allow industry to keep emitting without having any detrimental effects on the climate. This briefing explains the flawed logic behind that argument.

There are countless reasons to protect forests but using them as a carbon offset mechanism for emissions from fossil fuels is not one of them and will not save the climate.

Recent estimates suggest deforestation is responsible for about 10 to 15 % of anthropogenic – or manmade – carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions1. Consequently, stopping deforestation is a crucial component in achieving the dramatic emission cuts we need to make in order to avoid catastrophic climate change. Offsets, by definition, do not reduce overall emissions but merely shift them from one place to another.

In addition to that the unique characteristics of forest carbon (explained below), illustrate that it is impossible to replace fossil carbon with forest carbon. Taken together this makes it mandatory that reductions in deforestation are in addition to, and not instead of, cuts in fossil carbon emissions.

Forest carbon is different to fossil carbon

Climate change is caused by greenhouse gases, primarily CO2, accumulating in the atmosphere.

There are two principal pools of carbon whose differences and very unique characteristics are frequently misunderstood:

■ The active carbon pool or “biosphere” is made up of all carbon that circulates between the atmosphere, land and oceans2. Only carbon in this pool can actively contribute to climate change.

■ The passive carbon pool or “lithosphere” comprises carbon that has been buried underground for several million years (for example, as coal, oil or gas). Carbon in this pool does not contribute to climate change as long as it is not transferred to the active carbon pool.

Plants, and in particular woody plants such as trees
, contain carbon. When these are cut down, for example by deforestation, this carbon is released into the atmosphere where it contributes to climate change.

Protecting the world’s forests is therefore crucial to maintain as much of their carbon as possible locked up. At the same time, however, it is important not to increase the overall amount of carbon in the active pool because it is ultimately the size of this pool that is critical for climate change.

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The bigger the active carbon pool is, the more CO2 is in the atmosphere, contributing to climate change.

Stopping the increase of carbon in the active pool can only be achieved by reducing and ultimately stopping the burning of fossil carbon. Burning fossil fuels almost irreversibly transfers carbon that was stored for millions of years in the passive carbon pool to the active carbon pool.

As a consequence, there is more carbon available to be in the atmosphere, where it enhances the natural greenhouse effect and gives rise to climate change.

This means that fossil carbon and forest carbon are not interchangeable. A tonne of fossil carbon is not the same as a tonne of forest carbon. Increases in the release of the former cannot simply be made up by decreases in the release of the latter.

Using forests as an offset option creates the false impression that we can continue to burn fossil fuels if we just reduced deforestation when in reality we are turning passive carbon into active carbon that will further increase the already dangerous CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere.

http://www.greenpeace.org/international/Global/international/briefings/forests/2013/Offsets-briefing-Flawed-Logic.pdf (http://www.greenpeace.org/international/Global/international/briefings/forests/2013/Offsets-briefing-Flawed-Logic.pdf)

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Agelbert NOTE: Now why would the fossil fuel industry want to create the false impression that we can use forests as a carbon offset option?

For that matter, why do climate change deniers peddle the false claim that more CO2 "greens" the planet when it has been scientifically measured that, even when more CO2 is present, photosynthesis is IMPAIRED by increased heat? The expected increase in photosynthetic activity (i.e. greening) in the arctic will not, by at least one order of magnitude, compensate for the massive LOSS of  photosynthetic efficiency (i.e. BROWNING) in the temperate and equatorial zones.

Because their energy SOURCE (oil and fossil methane gas are NOT an energy  REsource - only biogas produced methane can be considered a REsource because it is RENEWABLE ENERGY based) "business model" is unprofitable if they cannot "externalize" the pollution costs onto the biosphere in general and we-the-people in particular.

Dirty energy cannot compete with renewable energy on a level cost playing field.

Because it took a while for that open sewer called the atmosphere to back up and exhibit global warming, the BULLSHIT that fossil fuels are the "savior" of civilization has brain washed humans for over a century.

But it was always a lie. The polluters are simply crooks and liars.

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"The core responsibility assigned to governments in democracies is the public welfare, protecting the human birthright to basic needs: clean air, water, land, and a place to live, under equitable rules of access to all common property resources.

It is astonishing to discover that major political efforts in democracies can be turned to undermining the core purpose of government, destroying the factual basis for fair and effective protection of essential common property resources of all to feed the financial interests of a few.

These efforts, limiting scientific research on environment, denying the validity of settled facts and natural laws, are a shameful dance, far below acceptable or reputable political behavior. It can be treated not as a reasoned alternative, but scorned for what it is – simple thievery." —George M. Woodwell, Woods Hole Research Center founder

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“By making carbon pollution free, we subsidize fossil fuel companies to the tune of hundreds of billions of dollars annually,” he continued. “By making carbon pollution free, we fix the game, favoring polluters over newer and cleaner technologies that harvest the wind, sun and waves. Corporate polluters, not bearing the costs of their products, are in effect cheating their competitors.

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on June 26, 2016, 05:30:15 pm
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on June 27, 2016, 03:12:21 pm
Climate Feebacks Feebacks Kick In More

Droughts and heatwaves are putting vegetation under devastating pressure while also causing wildfires resulting in deforestation and loss of peat at massive scale, contributing to the rapid recent rise in carbon dioxide levels.

 
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It will take a decade before these high recent carbon dioxide emissions will reach their full warming impact.

Furthermore, as the world makes progress with the necessary cuts in greenhouse gas emissions, this will also remove aerosols that have until now masked the full wrath of global warming. By implication, without geoengineering occurring over the coming decade, temperatures will keep rising, resulting in further increases in abundance and intensity of droughts and wildfires.

Temperatures in the Arctic are rising faster than elsewhere. The image below shows that Arctic waters are now much warmer than in 2015. On June 22, 2016, sea surface near Svalbard was as warm as 13.8°C or 56.9°F (green circle), i.e. 11.6°C or 20.9°F warmer than 1981-2011.

 
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Wildfires can release huge amounts of carbon dioxide (CO2), carbon monoxide (CO), methane and soot. The image below shows that on June 23, 2016, wildfires north of Lake Baikal caused emissions as high as 22,953 ppb CO and 549 ppm CO2 at the location marked by the green circle.

 
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As increasing amounts of soot from wildfires settle on its ice and snow cover, albedo decline in the Arctic will accelerate. In addition, heatwaves are causing rapid warming of rivers ending in the Arctic Ocean, further speeding up its warming. Then, there's the huge danger of methane releases from the seafloor of the Arctic Ocean.

 
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Frozen methane clathrates burning in the arctic ocean

Meanwhile, rising temperatures will also result in more water vapor in the atmosphere, further amplifying warming.


In conclusion, feedbacks are threatening to cause runaway warming, potentially making temperatures rise by more than 10°C or 18°F within a decade.

The situation is dire and calls for comprehensive and effective action as described in the Climate Plan.

 
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More Details about the Climate Plan at link: http://arctic-news.blogspot.com/p/climateplan.html (http://arctic-news.blogspot.com/p/climateplan.html)

http://arctic-news.blogspot.com/ (http://arctic-news.blogspot.com/)

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David Wasdell's full bio: http://www.meridian.org.uk/About/Director/Pro-About_the_Director1.htm

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on June 27, 2016, 06:08:01 pm
Record-Breaking Flooding Devastates West Virginia

At least 26 people were killed as once-in-a-thousand year floods swept through West Virginia late last week. Governor Earl Ray Tomblin declared a state of emergency in 44 of the state’s 55 counties as more than 100 homes were destroyed and tens of thousands were left without power.

As much as 8-10 inches of rain fell in just 8 hours in parts of the state. The region of the US that includes West Virginia has experienced a 71% increase in extreme precipitation since 1958.

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“One of the clearest signs of climate change, over much of the world, is the increase in the fraction of the rain that falls in the heaviest events,”  climate scientist Chris Fields said.

 (News: Slate, Washington Post $, Think Progress, Reuters, The Hill, USA Today, Think Progress, VICE News. Commentary: Grist, Kate Yoder column, Gizmodo, Sophie Kleeman column. Background: Climate Signals)

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on June 27, 2016, 06:17:09 pm
Experts React to Brexit Vote, Voice Concern for Climate Policy

 A number of climate experts and analysts have spoken out after the UK’s decision to leave the European Union, concerned about what Brexit could mean for international and domestic climate policy. The UK has traditionally been a leader on climate policy, but the next prime minister could change that.

Boris Johnson, the former mayor of London and one of the favorites to succeed Prime Minister David Cameron, has drawn criticism for his skepticism on climate change, even being called “an embarrassment to London’s scientists.” British ministers are expected to vote next week on an ambitious national greenhouse gas reduction target, but some have “huge concerns” over the fate of the vote.

 The loss of the UK could also imperil EU climate ambition, as the UK has often acted as a counter to nations that push for slower and weaker emissions cuts. 

(News: Climate Home, ClimateWire $, Think Progress, InsideClimate News, Independent, Quartz, National Geographic, BBC, Grist, BusinessGreen. Commentary: Washington Post, Chris Mooney column $, The Guardian, Fiona Harvey column, New York Times, Andrew Revkin column $, Financial Times, Nick Butler column $, Grist, Clayton Aldern column, The Guardian, Dana Nuccitelli column, Los Angeles Times editorial $, Minneapolis Star Tribune editorial)
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on June 27, 2016, 08:32:59 pm
Agelbert NOTE: Below, please find, the reason I called BULLSHIT on this June 24, 2016  statement by Ashvin, which could have come for Trump himself.
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Ashvin said, "Either way I'm really glad a country FINALLY decided to protect their sovereignty and their people."

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It’s A Small World:Leavers, Deniers and Trump

On Friday, we made a joking reference to how right-wing politics and climate denial operate within a single, metaphorical room. In light of the Brexit vote, it seems appropriate to remind everyone how right-wing climate denial in the UK is similarly closely tied to other right-wing politics, by operating out of literally the same building.   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-200714191329.bmp&hash=4764bfbe6bb0e11ca61102efa97a932a824f47e0)

Last January, Kyla Mandel at DeSmog UK made the initial connection, showing how many climate deniers are campaigning for England to leave the EU, including many names common to this column, like Matt Ridley and James Delingpole. Then the building where these two policy circles intersect was mentioned last February, when the Independent revealed that the Global Warming Policy Foundation/Forum is one of many groups that call a single townhouse at 55 Tufton Street home.

More recently, Mandel used the very neat LittleSis mapping tool to visualize the close relationship between the various anti-climate and pro-Leave organizations and their leadership. She even included a floor plan for the building, which reinforces just how cramped those quarters are.

The overlap of climate denial and EU rejection is likely in part organic. Polling described by Assaad Razzouk in The New Statesmen indicates that “Leave” voters are more likely to be science deniers of various stripes, as half of those who wanted the UK to exit “agree that those who question evolution ‘have a point’.” The Leavers also had trouble getting other facts straight, for example about NHS costs falling upon the UK’s exit.

Overall, according to Razzouk,
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“The Leave campaign would never have been able to make many of its claims if more voters were prone to fact-checking and less prone to fear-mongering.”

Speaking of fear-mongering, Donald Trump landed in Scotland shortly after the votes were counted and tweeted that Scotland was “going wild over the vote. They took their country back, just like we will take America back.” Which is some nice rhetoric, but as was quickly pointed out, in need of fact-checking, since 62% of Scotland’s voters wanted to stay in the EU.
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on June 29, 2016, 01:39:44 pm
Rob Brown post at EchoWatch:

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Mainstream media has not been doing a good job of addressing the linked issues of CO2 pollution, AGW and ocean acidification. It has been left to others, including prominent religious figures, to stress the scientific and moral reasons for quickly tackling climate change.

http://edenkeeper.org/2016/06/27/pope-global-call-solar-catholic-schools/

"Pope’s Global Call for Solar Catholic Schools is Laudato Si’ in Action"

"Demonstrating the Catholic Church’s commitment to the environment, as embodied in Pope Francis’ Laudato Si’, top Vatican officials responded enthusiastically to dozens of catholic schools in Queensland, Australia going solar. All 31 schools in the Townsville Diocese have recently switched to solar power, resulting in annual electricity savings of $250,000." (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fus.123rf.com%2F400wm%2F400%2F400%2Fyayayoy%2Fyayayoy1106%2Fyayayoy110600019%2F9735563-smiling-sun-showing-thumb-up.jpg&hash=09b45642ec6d7943d30b5b87548676e3ee7dbe3d)

"The resounding success of Australia’s pilot project is now prompting Vatican officials to seek global implementation of solar-powered catholic schools."

"With over 1,000 solar panels installed on the Vatican’s audience hall, “The Green Pope” has first-hand experience with “going solar.”

"From his detailed, micro view of planning individual solar schools, to his macro view of global humanity’s responsibility as steward of God’s creation, Pope Francis is one of Earth’s eminent champions of faith-based environmental activism."

“The urgent challenge to protect our common home,” states Pope Francis, “includes a concern to bring the whole human family together to seek a sustainable and integral development, for we know that things can change. He adds, “The Creator does not abandon us; he never forsakes his loving plan or repents of having created us. Humanity still has the ability to work together in building our common home.”

Lots more at the link.


31 Science Groups to Congress: Greenhouse Gases Emitted by Human Activities Is Primary Driver of Climate Change

Climate Nexus | June 29, 2016 10:46 am

http://ecowatch.com/2016/06/29/scientists-congress-climate-change/
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on July 05, 2016, 12:29:09 am
Lethal Seas

Don't miss this documentary. It's a carefully presented hard science documentary that leaves absolutely no room for the fossil fuel industry to claim THEY aren't the ones causing this damage.

I think it understates the CO2 acidification problem. WHY? Because when it lays out the zooplankton butterfly evidence (and also the shrimp like zooplankton in passing - i.e. ALL the zooplankton that form CaCo3 exoskeleton shell) of mass die offs from the inability to manufacture Calcium Carbonate shells, they only say "these are the base of much of the ocean's food chain".

THAT statement, while scientifically accurate, ignores the fact that the BIOMASS of those tiny critters known as zooplankton is GIGANTIC in comparison with ALL of the rest of the non-plant biomass in the oceans.

They worry about salmon that would lose 15% of their diet. That's a big worry, as the scientist from Woods Hole Research points out.

But to someone who is not a geeky science loving type like myself, the threat to marine life, and the dire consequences for the rest of the biosphere if that threat is not curtailed, is not made sufficiently clear.

What am I talking about.?

I am talking about the fact that the zooplankton biomass exceeds that of all the things that eat them many times over!

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Chapter 13 Study Guide (http://www.google.com/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&ved=0ahUKEwi737fMttvNAhWFjz4KHdrNCq0QjhwIAw&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.svsd410.org%2Fsite%2Fhandlers%2Ffiledownload.ashx%3Fmoduleinstanceid%3D3619%26dataid%3D8973%26FileName%3Dchapter%252013%2520study%2520guide%2520rev%25209-22-2014.pdf&psig=AFQjCNF9Fo4Uixjet4Pyp8vISBnZozNCfg&ust=1467777086887198&cad=rjt)

This video is a must see. The work shown is an example of the scientific method as it is supposed to be executed. The objectivity of these scrupulously methodical scientists is a breath of fresh air.   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Fcomputer3.gif&hash=cd6007945e9cbaabf029ebaef6ad36b8505bc341)

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We MUST stop burning fossil fuels.   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F301.gif&hash=0291ed4abf2d80e420d1aa00d4eb3c5dd6bbfb53)


http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/earth/lethal-seas.html

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Lethal Seas

A unique coral garden in Papua New Guinea shows what the future may hold as oceans acidify.   Aired May 13, 2015 on PBS 

Program Description


A deadly recipe is brewing that threatens the survival of countless creatures throughout Earth’s oceans. For years, we’ve known that the oceans absorb about a quarter of the carbon dioxide in our atmosphere.

But with high carbon emissions worldwide, this silent killer is entering our seas at a staggering rate, raising the ocean’s acidity.

It’s eating away at the skeletons and shells of marine creatures that are the foundation of the web of life. NOVA follows the scientists making breakthrough discoveries and seeking solutions.

Visit a unique coral garden in Papua New Guinea that offers a glimpse of what the seas could be like a half-century from now.

Can our experts crack the code of a rapidly changing ocean before it’s too late?
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on July 05, 2016, 12:58:41 am
So Long, Nigel Farage, the Latest Rat to Jump from the Sinking Brexit Ship (http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/07/04/so-long-nigel-farage-latest-rat-jump-sinking-brexit-ship)

Although Mr. Farage has said some hard truths from time to time, I cannot accept the "National sovereignty" excuse he gave for pushing BREXIT BECAUSE he is a global warming DENIER.

IOW, he WANTS MORE fossil fuel AND nuclear power "investment" and LESS "regulation" from EU environmental standards requiring LESS emissions.

He is, therefore, incapable of doing the right thing for future generations. EVERY OTHER ISSUE is subordinate to the issue of CO2 pollution and the sixth mass extinction it has triggered.

Nigel Blowhard Farage  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Fgen152.gif&hash=d5b10968fe56c4cb95fae17cee3cb420a5f4e2da) does not understand that.
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on July 05, 2016, 02:02:56 am
(https://summitvoice.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/hurricane_depth.jpg)
A NASA visualization of Hurricane Floyd approaching the Florida coast.

Atlantic Hurricane Season: What to Expect In 2016

July 3, 2016 by Bloomberg ES
 
by Brian K Sullivan (Bloomberg) Colorado State University edged up its seasonal Atlantic hurricane forecast to 15, three more than in an average year.

The new prediction is that six of those storms will become hurricanes and two will grow into major systems with winds of 111 miles (179 kilometers) per hour or more before the season ends Nov. 30. The total includes the four storms that have developed already this year.

“I still think we are looking at a near-average season,” Phil Klotzbach, the forecast’s lead author, said in a telephone interview.

Atlantic storms, among the most powerful on Earth, can exact a high toll in human life, cause billions of dollars in property damage and roil energy and agriculture markets. About 5 percent of U.S. marketed natural gas production comes from the Gulf of Mexico, along with 17 percent of crude oil, Energy Information Administration data show. The Gulf region also is home to more than 45 percent of petroleum-refining capacity and 51 percent of gas processing.

Florida, a frequent target of storms, is the world’s second-largest orange-juice producer, behind Brazil. More than 6.6 million homes with an estimated reconstruction cost of $1.5 trillion lie in vulnerable areas along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts, according to the Insurance Information Institute in New York.

Contributing Influences

Klotzbach said the influences contributing to storm development are “a pretty mixed bag.”

Odds are rising that a La Nina, a cooling of the equatorial Pacific, will develop later this year. That can influence weather patterns across the world and make it easier for storms to form in the Atlantic by cutting down on wind shear that can rip storms apart.

To offset La Nina’s influence, air pressure across the basin has been higher than normal through June and at least one model shows those conditions could persist through a large part of the season.

Higher pressures are conducive to storm development, he said. There also are pools of cool water in the northern Atlantic and along the coast of Africa that could retard storm growth.

In May, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration called for 10 to 16 storms across the Atlantic, with four to eight becoming hurricanes. The total fell within the near-normal range, according to Kathryn Sullivan, NOAA administrator.

©2016 Bloomberg News

https://gcaptain.com/atlantic-hurricane-season-what-to-expect-in-2016/


Agelbert NOTE:
So, NOAA thinks this season will be in the near-normal range. Colorado State is also expecting a near normal season contingent on a delay in La Niña formation and some other factors.

Colorado State PREDICTION: 15 (three more than average) with six of those storms becoming hurricanes and two growing into major systems with winds of 111 miles (179 kilometers) per hour or more before the season ends Nov. 30.  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.desismileys.com%2Fsmileys%2Fdesismileys_2932.gif&hash=0eaec4791a5825821998245e7fcd7744b56557fe)

Because of the exceptionally high sea surface temperatures. I think it will be a season above normal in number of storms by at least 5 (18-20) and near normal in the number of hurricanes, but the destructive winds will be significantly higher than normal.

Agelbert prediction: Six of those storms will become hurricanes and ALL SIX will grow into major systems with winds of 121 miles (194 kilometers) per hour or more before the season ends Nov. 30.

I don't use a crystal ball. ;D  I read a lot and study the charts and data.

In 2012 I predicted the first ice free arctic for 2017. At the time, most people said a 2017 ice free arctic summer was way off and it would not happen for at least 20 years (if at all).

Now the scoffers aren't talking about 2030 or 2040; they ARE talking about sea routes by 2020.

I'm sticking with my 2017 date. I've been watching the arctic through the Cryosphere web site since 2002.  8)

Sorry to bore you with this. I state it in order that you understand that I do not make these predictions lightly. I make them because I think they will come to pass.

Hiding from accepting the reality of the most probable CO2 caused arctic scenario, as the fossil fuelers consistently do in order to keep "justifying" dirty energy, is not prudent or intelligent behavior. I can only feel sorry for those who relegate these predictions to "scaremongering hyperbole".
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on July 05, 2016, 01:53:26 pm
This is what Earth will look like if we melt all the ice


Agelbert NOTE: The "if" in the title of this three year old article is now a "WHEN".  >:(

Chris Tackett (@ChrisTackett)
Science / Climate Change

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Screen capture Rising Seas Interactive Map

National Geographic has a good, but disturbing, interactive map showing what 216 feet of sea level rise will do to coastlines around the world.


The maps here show the world as it is now, with only one difference: All the ice on land has melted and drained into the sea, raising it 216 feet and creating new shorelines for our continents and inland seas.

There are more than five million cubic miles of ice on Earth, and some scientists say it would take more than 5,000 years to melt it all. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F126fs3187425.gif&hash=698371058827d6a11faaaa56c2531639421f9477) *

If we continue adding carbon to the atmosphere, we’ll very likely create an ice-free planet, with an average temperature of perhaps 80 degrees Fahrenheit instead of the current 58.

Of course, it's not necessary for all of the ice to melt for us to experience devastating effects of sea level rise. Just from the current sea level rise caused by melting ice and thermal expansion, we're already seeing destruction from higher water. Right now, Alaskan villages are worrying about what to do as melting ice threatens to erode their village out from underneath their feet. In the Pacific, low-lying islands face existential questions such as if a country is underwater, is it still a nation-state?

With Arctic temperatures at their highest in 44,000 years, ice cover has hit record lows and scientists report that sea level is rising 60% faster than anticipated. Just six feet of sea level rise would be enough to ruin South Florida and experts warn that we've already "baked in" approximately 70 feet of sea level rise.

This shouldn't be taken to mean it's too late to act, but illustrations like this can serve as a useful reality check that unless we act now to stop greenhouse gas emissions, we're going to see worse and worse effects as time goes on.

To add some context, this is all the water on Earth if it was in the same place.

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For more info on the image above, see: If You Put All Earth's Water In One Place, It'd Look Like This. (http://www.treehugger.com/clean-water/if-you-put-all-water-earth-one-place-itd-look-like-this.html)

On the scale of the planet, the oceans aren't that deep, so it doesn't take that much of a change to affect coastlines.

http://www.treehugger.com/climate-change/what-earth-will-look-if-climate-change-melts-all-ice.html

* This article was written November 5, 2013. Since then, two peer reviewed scientific studies determined that it will NOT take thousands of years for the ice to melt, but LESS than a century.

Furthermore, the 70 feet that was baked in three years ago is at 82 feet (and counting) to the BAKED IN amount, even if we stopped burning fossil fuels today.

Global civilization is threatened within 25 years.

The  Hansen et al June 2015 study ** and the Dutton et al July 2015 study *** evidences a 6 to 25 meter (19 to 82 feet!) sea level increase in the geological record when the CO2 parts per million (PPM) atmospheric concentration was between 300 and 400PPM. As of October of 2015, the CO2 concentration is at 400PPM. It is increasing at over 3PPM per year.  

**Atmos. Chem. Phys. Discuss., 15, 20059–20179, 2015 doi:10.5194/acpd-15-20059-
© Author(s) 2015. CC Attribution 3.0 License. 

Ice melt, sea level rise and superstorms: evidence from paleoclimate data, climate modeling, and modern observations that 2C global warming is highly dangerous 

J. Hansen1, M. Sato1, P. Hearty2, R. Ruedy3,4, M. Kelley3,4, V. Masson-Delmotte5,
G. Russell4, G. Tselioudis4, J. Cao6, E. Rignot7,8, I. Velicogna8,7, E. Kandiano9,
K. von Schuckmann10, P. Kharecha1,4, A. N. Legrande4, M. Bauer11, and
K.-W. Lo3,4


*** Science 10 July 2015: Vol. 349  no. 6244  DOI: 10.1126/science.aaa4019
Sea-level rise due to polar ice-sheet mass loss during past warm periods

A. Dutton1,*,  A. E. Carlson2,  A. J. Long3,  G. A. Milne4,  P. U. Clark2,  R. DeConto5,  B. P. Horton6,7,  S. Rahmstorf8,  M. E. Raymo9

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on July 05, 2016, 03:45:30 pm
2016 Arctic Sea Ice Headed To Zero

The image below shows that Arctic sea ice extent on July 3, 2016, was 8,707,651 square km, i.e. less than the 8.75 million square km that extent was on July 3, 2012.

(https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-mMyqnkla4zc/V3sxG_D2CgI/AAAAAAAAU48/x0l9ZElz0pIjkGvfT_Oya2YxPFtxPQYIQCLcB/s1600/July-3-2016.png)
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 In September 2012, Arctic sea ice extent reached a record low. Given that extent now is only slightly lower than it was in 2012 at the same time of year, can extent this year be expected to reach an even lower minimum, possibly as low as zero ice in September 2016?

 The ice this year is certainly headed in that direction, given that the sea ice now is much thinner than it was in 2012. The image below shows sea ice thickness on July 7, 2012, in the left-hand panel, and adds a forecast for July 7, 2016 in the right-hand panel.


(https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-V1uNbNDwYjY/V3sxhK_O7fI/AAAAAAAAU5A/yQSZWMnKuJoxD-JaUmfOc3qfGahS1iMAACLcB/s1600/July-7-2012-2016.png)

Besides being thinner, sea ice now is also much more slushy and fractured into small pieces. The animation below shows that the sea ice close to the North Pole on July 4, 2016, was heavily fractured into pieces that are mostly smaller in size than 10 x 10 km or 6.2 x 6.2 miles. By comparison, sea ice in the same area did develop large cracks in 2012, but even in September 13, 2012, it was not broken up into small pieces.
(https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-6bjz0mL1reM/V3sxyipfQ-I/AAAAAAAAU5E/K2jlTXcgWfAG5xCI1EpTAy59ajtSpvrnwCLcB/s1600/SamCaranaJuly4-2016.gif)

One big reason behind the dire state the sea ice is in now is ocean heat. On July 2, 2016, sea surface near Svalbard (at the location marker by the green circle) was as warm as 16.7°C or 62.1°F, i.e. 13.5°C or 24.3°F warmer than 1981-2011. This gives an indication how much warmer the water is that is entering the Arctic Ocean.

(https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-D04NgCLTDbg/V3syFMs8UUI/AAAAAAAAU5I/L01NFYjJOQYgJtpbZ7FfxuEcWreLtIGbwCLcB/s1600/July-2-2016.jpg)


 As the sea ice disappears, less sunlight gets reflected back into space, resulting in additional warming of the Arctic Ocean. In October 2016, the sea ice will return, sealing off the Arctic Ocean, resulting in less heat being able to escape, at the very time the warmest water is entering the Arctic Ocean from the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. The danger of this situation is that a large amount of heat will reach the seafloor and destabilize hydrates, resulting in huge abrupt methane releases that will further contribute to warming. When adding in further factors such as discussed e.g. at this earlier post (http://arctic-news.blogspot.com/2016/03/february-temperature.html), this adds up to a potential temperature rise of more than 10°C or 18°F compared to pre-industrial times in less  than ten years time from now.

 The situation is dire and calls for comprehensive and effective action, as described at the Climate Plan. (http://arctic-news.blogspot.com/p/climateplan.html)

http://arctic-news.blogspot.com/

Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on July 05, 2016, 08:01:12 pm
2016 Arctic Sea Ice Headed To Zero

The image below shows that Arctic sea ice extent on July 3, 2016, was 8,707,651 square km, i.e. less than the 8.75 million square km that extent was on July 3, 2012.

(https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-mMyqnkla4zc/V3sxG_D2CgI/AAAAAAAAU48/x0l9ZElz0pIjkGvfT_Oya2YxPFtxPQYIQCLcB/s1600/July-3-2016.png)
  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-041115022304.png&hash=cd8cb8e28ab8f7fc78c1ea00d30a661bd937aed5)

 In September 2012, Arctic sea ice extent reached a record low. Given that extent now is only slightly lower than it was in 2012 at the same time of year, can extent this year be expected to reach an even lower minimum, possibly as low as zero ice in September 2016?

 The ice this year is certainly headed in that direction, given that the sea ice now is much thinner than it was in 2012. The image below shows sea ice thickness on July 7, 2012, in the left-hand panel, and adds a forecast for July 7, 2016 in the right-hand panel.


(https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-V1uNbNDwYjY/V3sxhK_O7fI/AAAAAAAAU5A/yQSZWMnKuJoxD-JaUmfOc3qfGahS1iMAACLcB/s1600/July-7-2012-2016.png)

Besides being thinner, sea ice now is also much more slushy and fractured into small pieces. The animation below shows that the sea ice close to the North Pole on July 4, 2016, was heavily fractured into pieces that are mostly smaller in size than 10 x 10 km or 6.2 x 6.2 miles. By comparison, sea ice in the same area did develop large cracks in 2012, but even in September 13, 2012, it was not broken up into small pieces.
(https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-6bjz0mL1reM/V3sxyipfQ-I/AAAAAAAAU5E/K2jlTXcgWfAG5xCI1EpTAy59ajtSpvrnwCLcB/s1600/SamCaranaJuly4-2016.gif)

One big reason behind the dire state the sea ice is in now is ocean heat. On July 2, 2016, sea surface near Svalbard (at the location marker by the green circle) was as warm as 16.7°C or 62.1°F, i.e. 13.5°C or 24.3°F warmer than 1981-2011. This gives an indication how much warmer the water is that is entering the Arctic Ocean.

(https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-D04NgCLTDbg/V3syFMs8UUI/AAAAAAAAU5I/L01NFYjJOQYgJtpbZ7FfxuEcWreLtIGbwCLcB/s1600/July-2-2016.jpg)


 As the sea ice disappears, less sunlight gets reflected back into space, resulting in additional warming of the Arctic Ocean. In October 2016, the sea ice will return, sealing off the Arctic Ocean, resulting in less heat being able to escape, at the very time the warmest water is entering the Arctic Ocean from the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. The danger of this situation is that a large amount of heat will reach the seafloor and destabilize hydrates, resulting in huge abrupt methane releases that will further contribute to warming. When adding in further factors such as discussed e.g. at this earlier post (http://arctic-news.blogspot.com/2016/03/february-temperature.html), this adds up to a potential temperature rise of more than 10°C or 18°F compared to pre-industrial times in less  than ten years time from now.

 The situation is dire and calls for comprehensive and effective action, as described at the Climate Plan. (http://arctic-news.blogspot.com/p/climateplan.html)

http://arctic-news.blogspot.com/ (http://arctic-news.blogspot.com/)


AG,
I don't know if this is Palloy approved material or not.  ;)
We may get a little girl hissy fit  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F165fs373950.gif&hash=ad797fcc08a061d3ae50ee49ccd9f3d517fb7496) out of the old chap.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=m8V9WWCAC1M

Az,   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fus.cdn2.123rf.com%2F168nwm%2Flenm%2Flenm1201%2Flenm120100200%2F12107060-illustration-of-a-smiley-giving-a-thumbs-up.jpg&hash=2046bc6d662e09d3014a2c404a2af6ba17f8217c)   Professor Peter Wadhams is one the most respected authorities on the arctic and the multiple positive feedback loops wiping out the ice there.

Excellent video! (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Fthankyou.gif&hash=dddf44270b9e7683ff5cbcca041427744de34fe5)

And yeah, a certain member of the Diner proletariat is biosphere math challenged.  ;) His credibility on climate issues is right there with fossil fuel industry happy talk in my book, despite his claim to being a doomer. Palloy has attempted to discredit the great work by Sam Carana and studiously avoided agreeing with videos and quotes by Wadhams that I have posted in the last few years.

A doomer that lives in the tropics, and claims hunter gatherers there will be the "survivors" in a global economic collapse, does not get the fact that the tropics will be the HARDEST HIT die-off zones with global warming.

The hunter gatherer groups, most of whom live in the tropics, are TOAST if climate change is not severely curtailed by stopping CO2 emissions within a decade. The tropics are home to over 90% of all land based species in our biosphere.

The rate of heat increase is too fast for biological adaptation in the tropics. And, they CANNOT just move north!

Their habitat destruction, a DIRECT CONSEQUENCE of the fossil fuel industry dirty energy "business model", will severely degrade biosphere diversity.

The Precautionary Principle of Science DICTATES that the loss of 80% (or more) of species diversity represents an existential threat to macroscopic species in general and mammalian vertebrates in particular.

But telling Palloy that is like talking to a wall. So it goes.
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on July 05, 2016, 08:24:48 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=m8V9WWCAC1M
Ice Free Arctic? Professor Peter Wadhams explains the dire situation in the arctic.
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on July 05, 2016, 10:37:59 pm
https://youtu.be/wE53Or56eNM
Crazy Weather and the Arctic Meltdown: Dr Jennifer Francis
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on July 06, 2016, 09:09:38 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wE53Or56eNM&feature=player_embedded
Crazy Weather and the Arctic Meltdown: Dr Jennifer Francis


My point of contention here is that the melting is coming from a warmer land mass from underneath.

as well as a warmer atmosphere.


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Az,
The issue for you is that warming from below may be contributing as much or more than atmospheric warming caused by the burning of fossil fuels (i.e. CO2  pollution).

I wish that was true. Overwhelmingly, the culprit here is CO2 pollution. CO2 pollution is an existential threat to humanity and several thousand other macroscopic species in our biosphere. We are not talking about a 60/40 split in warming action. We are talking about over 99% CO2 caused warming versus less than 1% warming from below. 

I know you don't agree with that, but that is what the scientific consensus has concluded. I just ask you to look at the evidence below. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Freading.gif&hash=63e3e644b39258d4c4eedbcdaf322315b1856723)

I am sure you remember the fossil fuel industry propaganda that a "pause" in global warming had occurred for about ten years after the year 2000.

A statistical analysis of the warming in the atmosphere was done for the last several decades in order to extract non-human causative factors. The purpose of that exercise was to see exactly what the trend was sans natural effects like volcanic activity (e. g. Pinatubo eruption caused temporary cooling) and the geothermal warming from beneath the land masses that you are concerned with.

When they did that, the alleged "plateau" where the "global warming stopped" for about a decade after 2000 (that the fossil fuel industry pushed all over the media and Congress - Snowleopard  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-200714191329.bmp&hash=4764bfbe6bb0e11ca61102efa97a932a824f47e0) and MKing (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-200714191329.bmp&hash=4764bfbe6bb0e11ca61102efa97a932a824f47e0) pushed it here) was shown to be a cherry picked fraud.

Furthermore, with the natural background effects stripped out, the atmospheric increased warming effects from CO2 pollution stood out glaringly as the exclusive cause of the INCREASE in oceanic and atmospheric warming.

WHY?

Because the others remained in a range of variability with no significant up or down trend.

Dr. Francis shows a bar chart produced by the insurance industry of the total infrastructure destruction in human civilization over several decades. This is used by actuaries to determine risk and price the premiums for property insurance.

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Geophysical events (Earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions, etc.) certainly are a huge concern for insurance companies. But the bottom line is that their MAIN concern is the atmospheric caused extreme weather events.

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Because atmospheric caused extreme weather events, unlike the geophysical caused extreme events, are increasing

Persistent weather patterns are THE cause of the increase in extreme weather events.

The following graphic shows various sites in Alaska where evidence of permafrost warming, due to a warmer atmosphere, not warming from below (those areas are not volcanic or geothermal hot spots), has been measured.

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The ocean heat increase is a function of CO2 pollution, not warming from below. Yes, there are volcanoes on the sea floor. But the amount of heat now being reflected back into the oceans from the IR CO2 and water vapor GHG blanket is over 99% of the scientifically measured increase in ocean heat.

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All the above cause Persistent Weather Patterns .
 
As Dr. Francis points out, CO2 pollution that causes global warming is THE reason for Persistent Weather Patterns.

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The cause of global warming and the crazy weather it brings is not limited to CO2 pollution. But all the other contributing factors to Earth's climate like volcanic activity and warming from beneath are, according to the scientific consensus and the insurance companies that pay VERY close attention to what may damage insured property, not statistically increasing significantly. 

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on July 06, 2016, 09:40:22 pm
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on July 08, 2016, 03:26:26 pm
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In June, Record Heat in America and All-Time Low Ice Extent in Arctic

June was the warmest on record since 1895 in the United States, with a monthly average temperature of 71.8°F in Lower 48 states, 3.3°F above normal.
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According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, there have also been eight weather and climate disasters with losses exceeding $1 billion each in the first half of the year – a combination of severe storms and massive flooding.

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In the Arctic, sea ice extent plunged 100,000 sq. miles below the previous record low set in June 2010, the National Snow and Ice Data Center showed.

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The sea ice extent was 525,000 sq. miles below the 1981-2010 long-term average. From mid-June onwards, ice cover reduced 70 percent faster than typical rate of ice loss, at an average rate of 29,000 sq. miles a day. (Guardian, AP, Washington Post $, The Hill, Bloomberg, Climate Central, Guardian, Washington Post $)


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No ice in shallow water off the continental shelf, no Walruses. GET IT?

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on July 08, 2016, 08:08:08 pm
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Nepartak Causes Devastation in Taiwan

Super typhoon Nepartak made landfall on the east coast of Taiwan on Friday morning with winds of 145 mph and intense rains lashing the region.

The category 4 typhoon caused at least two deaths and injured 72 others in Taitung in southeastern Taiwan, with power outages affecting 360,000 homes.

Residents have reported roofs being ripped off buildings, cars overturning and trees being uprooted. The typhoon has been downgraded to a category 2 storm as it heads to China but will still bring heavy rain to the country that has been experiencing torrential rain with flooding.

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The dramatic intensification of the storm over the last three days was fueled by unusually warm seas, potentially linked to global warming.

(News: New York Times $, Focus Taiwan, CNN, Guardian, TIME, Popular Science. Background: Climate Signals)
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on July 08, 2016, 08:15:27 pm
National Snow and Ice Data Center Arctic Sea Ice DECLINE Extent Update

Extent loss slows, then merges back into fast lane
July 6, 2016   
 
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June set another satellite-era record low for average sea ice extent, despite slower than average rates of ice loss.

The slow rate of ice loss reflects the prevailing atmospheric pattern, with low pressure centered over the central Arctic Ocean and lower than average temperatures over the Beaufort Sea.

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Monthly June ice extent for 1979 to 2016 shows a decline of 3.7% per decade. Credit: National Snow and Ice Data Center
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https://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/


Agelbert NOTE: An ice free arctic will accelerate ocean warming (resulting in more frequent extreme weather events caused by more intense and frequent El Niño type atmospheric warming - an EL Niño is an oceanic mechanism for offloading excess heat into the atmosphere).

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Fossil fuel industry RESPONSE to all the above:

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on July 09, 2016, 06:14:24 pm
National Snow and Ice Data Center Arctic Sea Ice DECLINE Extent Update

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Extent loss slows, then merges back into fast lane
July 6, 2016   
 
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June set another satellite-era record low for average sea ice extent, despite slower than average rates of ice loss.

The slow rate of ice loss reflects the prevailing atmospheric pattern, with low pressure centered over the central Arctic Ocean and lower than average temperatures over the Beaufort Sea.

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Monthly June ice extent for 1979 to 2016 shows a decline of 3.7% per decade. Credit: National Snow and Ice Data Center
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https://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/


Agelbert NOTE: An ice free arctic will accelerate ocean warming (resulting in MORE El Niño type atmospheric warming). A warmer ocean will exacerbate acidification damage and increase coral reef destruction.  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-070814193155.png&hash=144ce9330e49ee84060db8753a8db69c39a14913)


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Fossil fuel industry RESPONSE to all the above:

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on July 10, 2016, 05:43:26 pm
National Snow and Ice Data Center Arctic Sea Ice DECLINE Extent Update

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Extent loss slows, then merges back into fast lane
July 6, 2016   
 
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Monthly June ice extent for 1979 to 2016 shows a decline of 3.7% per decade. Credit: National Snow and Ice Data Center
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https://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/


Agelbert NOTE: An ice free arctic will accelerate ocean warming (resulting in MORE El Niño type atmospheric warming). A warmer ocean will exacerbate acidification damage and increase coral reef destruction.  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-070814193155.png&hash=144ce9330e49ee84060db8753a8db69c39a14913)


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Fossil fuel industry RESPONSE to all the above:

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Agelbert NOTE: An ice free arctic will accelerate ocean warming (resulting in more frequent extreme weather events caused by more intense and frequent El Niño type atmospheric warming - an EL Niño is an oceanic mechanism for offloading excess heat into the atmosphere).

Playing devil's advocate here but some people argue that Arctic sea ice melt is not a problem because ice levels in Antarctica are growing. In fact according to NASA (http://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/nasa-study-mass-gains-of-antarctic-ice-sheet-greater-than-losses) the amount of ice in Antarctica is growing and is at its highest level. This would seem - at least on surface - to contradict the global warming hypothesis. Indeed this fact is often used by climate change deniers to negate the claims of mainstream scientists. What would be your counterargument against this observation?

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MONSTA SAID: "In fact according to NASA (http://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/nasa-study-mass-gains-of-antarctic-ice-sheet-greater-than-losses) the amount of ice in Antarctica is growing and is at its highest level.
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Your pretense of "objectivity" is a typical "emulate to undermine" propaganda technique where you are, oh so friendly and willing to discuss this and that as a pal of the opponent while you use Orwellian discourse to undermine the scientific consensus. How unethically clever of you. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-200714191329.bmp&hash=4764bfbe6bb0e11ca61102efa97a932a824f47e0)

But your BULLSHIT about Antarctic Ice is a rather threadbare bit of DENIER based propaganda (attempting to push the lie with cherry picked info from NASA that LEAVES OUT other pertinent NASA info) that has been debunked YEARS AGO.

The Ice is MELTING at BOTH POLES facts:

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"Since 2003, Greenland has lost on average more than 600 trillion pounds of ice a year and that affects the way the Earth wobbles in a manner similar to a figure skater lifting one leg while spinning.

Think of it as a billion trucks each year dumping ice out of Greenland. On top of that, West Antarctica loses 275 trillion pounds of ice and East Antarctica gains about 165 trillion pounds of ice yearly." - NASA scientist Eirk Ivins

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Monsta, YOU ARE A LIAR!

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on July 11, 2016, 01:56:40 am
Which emits more carbon dioxide: volcanoes or human activities?

Author: Michon Scott, Rebecca Lindsey.

June 15, 2016

Human activities emit 60 or more times the amount of carbon dioxide released by volcanoes each year. Large, violent eruptions may match the rate of human emissions for the few hours that they last, but they are too rare and fleeting to rival humanity’s annual emissions. In fact, several individual U.S. states emit more carbon dioxide in a year than all the volcanoes on the planet combined do.

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On the scale of carbon dioxide emissions, human sources far outweigh volcanoes. NOAA Climate.gov cartoon by Emily Greenhalgh.


Human activities

Human activities—mostly burning of coal and other fossil fuels, but also cement production, deforestation and other landscape changes—emitted roughly 40 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide in 2015. Since the start of the Industrial Revolution, more than 2,000 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide have been added to the atmosphere by human activities according to the Global Carbon Project.

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Since the start of the Industrial Revolution, human emissions of carbon dioxide from fossil fuels and cement production (green line) have risen to more than 35 billion metric tons per year, while volcanoes (purple line) produce less than 1 billion metric tons annually. NOAA Climate.gov graph, based on data from the Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center (CDIAC) at the DOE's Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Burton et al., 2013.

Volcanoes

Volcanoes emit carbon dioxide in two ways: during eruptions and through underground magma. Carbon dioxide from underground magma is released through vents, porous rocks and soils, and water that feeds volcanic lakes and hot springs. Estimates of global carbon dioxide emissions from volcanoes have to take both erupted and non-erupted sources into account.

Mount Merapi degassing (picture at article link)
Much of the carbon dioxide released by volcanoes is emitted by degassing of subterranean magma when the volcano is not erupting. In this photo, volcanic gases and steam rise from Mount Merapi, Indonesia, on May 20, 2012. Creative Commons license by Jimmy McIntyre.

In a 2011 peer-reviewed paper, U.S. Geologic Survey scientist Terry Gerlach summarized five previous estimates of global volcanic carbon dioxide emission rates that had been published between 1991 and 1998. Those estimates incorporated studies reaching back to the 1970s, and they were based on a wide variety of measurements, such as direct sampling and satellite remote sensing. The global estimates fell within a range of about 0.3 ± 0.15 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide per year, implying that human carbon dioxide emissions were more than 90 times greater than global volcanic carbon dioxide emissions.

Mount Saint Helens erupting (picture at article link)
On May 18, 1980, Mount Saint Helens experienced an explosive eruption, sending a column of ash, steam, and gases up to 60,000 feet above sea level. For about nine hours, carbon dioxide emissions from the volcano may have matched human emissions, but such massive eruptions are rare and fleeting. U.S. Geological Survey photo by Robert Krimmel.

In 2013, another group of scientists—Michael Burton, Georgina Sawyer, and Domenico Granieri—published an updated estimate using more data on carbon dioxide emissions from subsurface magma that had become available in the years since the last global estimate. While acknowledging a large range of variability in the estimates, the authors concluded that the best overall estimate was about 0.6 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide per year.

While higher than Gerlach's estimate, the figure is still just a fraction of carbon dioxide output from human activities. Gerlach remarked via email, “Taken at face value, their result implies that anthropogenic CO2 exceeds global volcanic CO2 by at least a factor of 60 times.”

Occasionally, eruptions are powerful enough to release carbon dioxide at a rate that matches or even exceeds the global rate of human emissions for a few hours. For example, Gerlach estimated that the eruptions of Mount St. Helens (1980) and Pinatubo (1991) both released carbon dioxide on a scale similar to human output for about nine hours. Human emissions of carbon dioxide continue day after day, month after month, year after year.

Today versus the past

Volcanic activity today may pale in comparison to the carbon dioxide emissions we are generating by burning fossil fuels for energy, but over the course of geologic time, volcanoes have occasionally contributed to global warming by producing significant amounts of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases.

For example, some geologists hypothesize that 250 million years ago, an extensive flood of lava poured continually from the ground in Siberia perhaps hundreds of thousands of years. This large-scale, long-lasting eruption likely raised global temperatures enough to cause one of the worst extinction events in our planet's history. Current volcanic activity doesn't occur on the same massive scale.

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Today, rather than warming global climate, volcanic eruptions often have the opposite effect. That's because carbon dioxide isn't the only thing that volcanoes inject into the atmosphere. Even small eruptions often produce volcanic ash and aerosol particles. **

Double Aerosol Layer from Pinatubo eruption (picture at article link)
Taken by astronauts from the Space Shuttle in early August 1991, this photo of the Earth's limb shows the double layer of volcanic aerosol particles (interpretation from Self et al., 1999) that spread through the stratosphere following the catastrophic eruption of Mt. Pinatubo. Encircling the globe at altitudes even higher than the tops of thunderstorm clouds, the particles reflected so much incoming sunlight that global surface temperatures cooled off for two years. Photo courtesy NASA JSC's Gateway to Astronaut Photography of the Earth.

Whether from small or large eruptions, volcanic aerosols reflect sunlight back into space, cooling global climate. The 1815 eruption of Mount Tambora produced enough ash and aerosols to cancel summer in Europe and North America in 1816.

References

Boden, T.A., Marland, G., Andres, R.J. (2015). Global, Regional, and National Fossil-Fuel CO2 Emissions, Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, U.S. Department of Energy, Oak Ridge, Tenn., U.S.A.

Burton, M.R., Sawyer, G.M., Granieri, D. (2013). Deep carbon emissions from volcanoes. Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry, 75, 323–354.

Cook, J. (2015). Do volcanoes emit more CO2 than humans? Skeptical Science. Accessed May 11, 2016.

Gerlach, T. (2011). Volcanic versus anthropogenic carbon dioxide. EOS, 92(24), 201–202.

Hawaiian Volcano Observatory. (2007, February 20). Which produces more CO2, volcanic or human activity? U.S. Geological Survey. Accessed May 11, 2016.

Houghton, R.A., van der Werf, G.R., DeFries, R.S., Hansen, M.C., House, J.I., Le Quéré, C., Pongratz, J., Ramankutty, N. (2012). Chapter G2 Carbon emissions from land use and land-cover change, Biogeosciences, 9, 5125-514.

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Agelbert NOTES: * The aerosol particles from volcanic eruptions have temporarily SLOWED the RATE of temperature increase due to GHG pollution. To call THAT "cooling" is a misnomer.

**In the temperature and CO2 concentration graph below that Mt Washington (1980) and Pinatubo (1991) DID NOT "cool" the atmosphere. They were a blip on the inexorable temperature increase due to GHG pollution.

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on July 11, 2016, 02:46:14 pm
Agelbert NOTE: This is a cross post from the Doomstead Diner Forum. I am referring to the diner when I say "here".  8)

This is what I mean about contradictory information:

Quote from: Maria-José Viñas from NASA's Earth Science News Team
According to the new analysis of satellite data, the Antarctic ice sheet showed a net gain of 112 billion tons of ice a year from 1992 to 2001. That net gain slowed to 82 billion tons of ice per year between 2003 and 2008.

"We're essentially in agreement with other studies that show an increase in ice discharge in the Antarctic Peninsula and the Thwaites and Pine Island region of West Antarctica," said Jay Zwally, a glaciologist with NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and lead author of the study, which was published on Oct. 30 in the Journal of Glaciology. "Our main disagreement is for East Antarctica and the interior of West Antarctica – there, we see an ice gain that exceeds the losses in the other areas."  Zwally added that his team "measured small height changes over large areas, as well as the large changes observed over smaller areas."[/
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Check the link in question for quote: http://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/nasa-study-mass-gains-of-antarctic-ice-sheet-greater-than-losses (http://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/nasa-study-mass-gains-of-antarctic-ice-sheet-greater-than-losses)

What you DELIBERATELY do not wish to understand, is that this NOT about a "DEBATE" on whether global warming is a "hypothesis" or not. Of course the DENIERS wish to make it appear that their IS a "debate". YOU are, by the last three posts, doing EXACTLY THAT.   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-200714183312.bmp&hash=02dafef2fe739676600fdc9bd56271f0f5ab3723)

Since you are an Admin here, I cannot delete your propaganda disguised as "objective" debate.

So, I will, as RE never fails to remind me, have to LIVE WITH IT.


Okay, let us begin, Mr. Monsta.

You stated that you merely wish to clarify the Antarctic growth "FACT". You did not, as you DID when mentioning global warming, call that a "hypothesis". SO, anyone reading WHAT YOU WROTE would immediately, while ignoring an entire post covering MANY global warming issues and fact I had just laboriously published, AS-U-ME that global warming is a "hypothesis" and Antarctic Ice increase is a "fact". DON'T PRETEND YOU WERE NOT AWARE OF THAT BIASED PHRASEOLOGY ON YOUR PART.

Let's pretend, just for the hell of it, that we aren't talking about global warming. Let's pretend that the only issue here is Antarctic Ice. And mind you, we HAVE TO DO THAT in order to discus objectively what you claim is a "fact".  The REASON for that is that the TOTAL amount of ice mass on the LAND MASS of this forking planet is  declining.

But, as I said, let's stick with Antarctica and not mention Greenland and umpteen land glaciers with ice melt decline (that YOU failed to bring up when you mentioned Antarctic ice "growth" as a "valid" argument by the deniers).


Here are the facts on that NASA study you linked:

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What's Going on in Antartica?

According to this study, the gains in ice from increased precipitation in the continent's interior, particularly across the East Antarctic Ice Sheet, is enough to offset the melting occurring in the West Antarctic and Antarctic Peninsula.

However, the study does not contradict the troubling trends seen in Western Antarctica where there has been widespread loss of ice along the Bellingshausen and Amundsen Seas
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And what this study really illustrates is how difficult it is for scientists to measure small changes in ice
. Fortunately, NASA is developing new tools—due to launch in 2018—that will help scientists more accurately measure long-term ice changes in Antarctica.


The research on this continues, but is hardly a reason for not taking action on climate today.

http://www.ecowatch.com/whats-going-on-in-antarctica-is-the-ice-melting-or-growing-1882118412.html (http://www.ecowatch.com/whats-going-on-in-antarctica-is-the-ice-melting-or-growing-1882118412.html)

Now the above analysis will be USED by the DENIERS, to NOT justify radical action (i.e. PHASE OUT the burning of your beloved Fossil fuels) to ameliorate catastrophic climate change.

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This is unethical cherry picking  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fdrphilyerboots.files.wordpress.com%2F2012%2F05%2Fcherry-picking.jpg&hash=c196a0ec409afacfa8f087d5a4556de272d44c6b) of the most dastardly sort that favors foot dragging on behalf of the dirty energy producers.   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Facigar.gif&hash=dc9dccf92c6c88c99611b06c86d92629d69f2978)

SO, if you truly are OBJECTIVE on the issue of Global Warming in general and total planetary ice mass, both on land and in the ocean, in particular, you will stop taking a study about Antarctic ice (that is itself inconclusive and subject to review) out of PLANETWIDE context.

That is precisely what you did. Stop doing that. You NEVER post here agreeing that radical action must be engaged in to stop global warming. You only show up to question a post that underlines the danger of global warming. That is evidence of your bias FOR the fossil fuel industry and AGAINST radical action to phase out fossil fuels in order to give the next generation a chance to survive, REGARDLESS of your claims to the contrary.

All that said, I am quite willing to go into excruciating detail about glaciers, Antarctica, Greenland and floating ice everywhere. But I will NOT accept ANY a priori allegation that global warming is a "hypothesis".

Global Warming is an existential threat to most macroscopic species of land and sea vertebrates in general and humans in particular.

Global Warming is NOT a "hypothesis". The existential threat it presents may be a hypothesis, but it is NOT a "debatable" one, according to the scientific community.  Anyone that claims that is not the scientific consensus is a suicidal fool or a tool of the fossil fuel industry :iamwithstupid:  (which is the same thing).

Have a nice day.
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on July 11, 2016, 02:49:23 pm
Thanks for that explanation agelbert. It is as I thought: even if we assume that ice is growing in Antarctica (which is not certain by itself) it does not dispute the trend of overall global warming as Antarctica is only a region and regional differences are not reflective of the overall global trend. For example whilst there is growth in the south pole it is not enough to offset ice melt in the Arctic. Moreover even NASA itself stated that growth trends in the Antarctica is likely to reverse in the near future and does even state the business of measuring growth/melt is a complex one.

I know I have been a bit hard in driving a point home but it is important to tackle common counter-arguments as there are many people out there (and I feel these sceptics are growing). It is easier to do that if you can speak with confidence and that confidence does not come if you are unsure yourself. Like I said earlier, there is some conflicting information out there. Not all of us are experts to confidently shift the wheat from the chaff hence the question and acting as devil's advocate.

Also sorry about using the term "global warming hypothesis" I mistakenly used the incorrect term. What I should have used is the term scientific theory so I apologise there. As further clarification you got to remember that I am firm believer in limits to growth and part of limits to growth is believing that growth at some point stops due to some limiting factor be it energy/resource depletion or excess pollution of which global warming is a subset of excess pollution. So to believe in limits is to believe in global warming.

Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on July 11, 2016, 02:54:51 pm
Thanks for that explanation agelbert. It is as I thought: even if we assume that ice is growing in Antarctica (which is not certain by itself) it does not dispute the trend of overall global warming as Antarctica is only a region and regional differences are not reflective of the overall global trend. For example whilst there is growth in the south pole it is not enough to offset ice melt in the Arctic. Moreover even NASA itself stated that growth trends in the Antarctica is likely to reverse in the near future and does even state the business of measuring growth/melt is a complex one.

I know I have been a bit hard in driving a point home but it is important to tackle common counter-arguments as there are many people out there (and I feel these sceptics are growing). It is easier to do that if you can speak with confidence and that confidence does not come if you are unsure yourself. Like I said earlier, there is some conflicting information out there. Not all of us are experts to confidently shift the wheat from the chaff hence the question and acting as devil's advocate.

Also sorry about using the term "global warming hypothesis" I mistakenly used the incorrect term. What I should have used is the term scientific theory so I apologise there. As further clarification you got to remember that I am firm believer in limits to growth and part of limits to growth is believing that growth at some point stops due to some limiting factor be it energy/resource depletion or excess pollution of which global warming is a subset of excess pollution. So to believe in limits is to believe in global warming.

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As to the population issue, I ask you to always remember that 17% problem. Because of the GREED of that 17%, killing off the other 83% (about 6 billion people) will reduce the resource consumption by only 20%. THAT will NOT save the  biosphere from catastrophic climate change.

This graphic is probably dated. It is quite possible that less than 10% of the human greedballs at the 'might is right,' Predators 'R' US top now consume 80% of available resources.

 
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This graphic is also somewhat dated, but the resource consumption disconnect with population size is rather obvious.


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I have a hypothesis as to the root of that problem: Humanity's failure to adopt altruism as its guiding principle in favor of 'might is right' based greed is the underlying cause of the unsustainability of our "civilization".

Monsta, I do not think that a mass die off of the poorest 6 billion people n the planet will put a dent in the human industrial piggery degrading the biosphere.

If, as many here at the diner assume (and some even celebrate!     (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-200714183337.bmp&hash=fd5a6df63c32bd65dda7b6d93e788647ca3829df) ), the 'greed is good' mindset is hardwired into humanity, then we really are doomed.

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It REALLY WAS a good ride, not for you and me, but for TPTB. So expect them to do WHATEVER to prolong their RIDE, against all scientific evidence that EXPLOITATION WITHOUT REFLECTION OF FELLOW EARTHLINGS OF ALL SPECIES (not just humans) AND THE BIOSPHERE FOR PROFIT OVER PLANET is deleterious (i.e. SUICIDAL/abysmally STUPID) to the Homo SAP species.
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on July 15, 2016, 02:33:23 pm
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'This reshuffle risks dropping climate change from the policy agenda altogether—a staggering act of negligence for which we will all pay the price'.

Less than a day after becoming the U.K.'s unelected leader, Prime Minister Theresa  May (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Fgen152.gif&hash=d5b10968fe56c4cb95fae17cee3cb420a5f4e2da) closed the government's climate change office, a move instantly condemned as "shocking" and "plain stupid."

May shuttered the Department for Energy and Climate Change (DECC) on Thursday and moved responsibility for the environment to a new Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy. The decision comes the same week as the U.K. government's own advisers warned in a report that the nation was not ready for the inevitable consequences of climate change, including deadly heat waves and food and water shortages.

"This is shocking news. Less than a day into the job and it appears that the new prime minister has already downgraded action to tackle climate change, one of the biggest threats we face," said Craig Bennett, CEO of the environmental group Friends of the Earth. "This week the government's own advisors warned of ever growing risks to our businesses, homes and food if we don't do more to cut fossil fuel pollution."

Bennett wrote in an op-ed for the Independent:

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    [....] Time is running out to avert catastrophic climate change and to halt the decline of nature. This is about protecting people as well as the planet we live on. There is no time to lose for the new prime minister in changing path—and, thanks to David Cameron, so much time has already been lost.

Caroline Lucas, the Green Party's sole Member of Parliament (MP) in the House of Commons, tweeted that the move was "a serious backwards step" and told the Independent, "The decision to shut down DECC is a deeply worrying move from Theresa May. Climate change is the biggest challenge we face, and it must not be an afterthought for the government."

May also made several controversial appointments to her new post-Brexit cabinet, including naming her one-time rival for prime minister, Andrea Leadsom  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-311013200859.png&hash=a7aaaa9f04c1e3e2c948723b5f8c13fe814dacd4), as Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.

Leadsom
in 2015 served as Minister for Energy at the Department of Energy and Climate Change, during which she reportedly asked officials whether climate change was real.
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Environmental groups were distressed. Greenpeace executive director John Sauven said Thursday, "The voting record and affiliation with climate skeptics of key cabinet appointees are deeply worrying. They show a lack of understanding posed by climate change to the UK and the world."

"If we are to continue to have a key global role in environmental action, we need urgent reassurance from the new government that the hard won progress on climate and renewables targets, air pollution, and the protection of wildlife will not be sidelined or abandoned in the Brexit negotiations," Sauven said.

And it was not just the advocacy sector that slammed the decision.

Former Labour leader Ed Miliband tweeted, "DECC abolition just plain stupid. Climate not even mentioned in new [department] title. Matters because departments shape priorities, shape outcomes."

Stephen Devlin, an environmental economist at the New Economics Foundation, released a press statement titled "We Can't Afford to Scrap DECC" wherein he described May's action as "a terrible move" and said it "signals a troubling de-prioritization of climate change by this government."

"This reshuffle risks dropping climate change from the policy agenda altogether—a staggering act of negligence for which we will all pay the price," Devlin said.

http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/07/15/shocking-plain-stupid-theresa-may-shuts-climate-change-office (http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/07/15/shocking-plain-stupid-theresa-may-shuts-climate-change-office)[/size]
From Theresa May,  Andrea Leadsom and the dirty energy producers in the U. K. to YOU.
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Agelbert NOTE: "Dropping" climate change from government policy is the wet dream of the profit over planet bastards all over the planet. But those, like me, in the reality based community, know that you CANNOT "externalize" catastrophic climate change.

Reality WILL bite the U.K. VERY HARD for this abysmally stupid behavior. It will be amusing, in a gallows humor sort of way, to watch Catastrophic Climate Change DROP the non-Scottish part of the U.K. to third world status in the next decade.

Scotland will be attacked by Theresa May and her Leadsom GOONS for its stance on Renewable Energy. Scotland will prevail.
 
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on July 15, 2016, 06:43:20 pm
Algae are melting away the Greenland ice sheet
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'Black and Bloom' project explores how microorganisms help to determine the pace of Arctic melting.

Alexandra Witze
 
15 July 2016

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Algae that live on snow and ice produce a kaleidoscope of colours. Jason Edwards/NGC

Researchers are fanning out across the Greenland ice sheet this month to explore a crucial, but overlooked, influence on its future: red, green and brown-coloured algal blooms. These darken the snow and ice, causing it to absorb more sunlight and melt faster.

The £3-million (US$4-million) Black and Bloom project aims to measure how algae are changing how much sunlight Greenland’s ice sheet bounces back into space. “We want to get a handle on just how much of the darkness is due to microbes and how much to other physical factors”, such as soot or mineral dust, says Martyn Tranter, a biogeochemist at the University of Bristol, UK, and the project’s principal investigator.

Team scientists arrived near Kangerlussuaq, Greenland, this week for 6 weeks of observations. The work will continue for two more summers, exploring different parts of the ice sheet. Ultimately, the scientists hope to develop the first deep understanding of  how biological processes affect Greenland’s reflectivity.

From these results, climate modellers should be able to improve their estimates of how the ice sheet  —  which contains enough water to raise sea levels by seven metres — is likely to melt in the coming decades. The past several years, as well as the current one, have seen temperature and melting records set across Greenland.

Black and Bloom will provide “a one-of-a-kind dataset” to help researchers better understand Greenland's future, says Marco Tedesco, a geophysicist at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory in Palisades, New York.

Tranter adds that the work could also affect predictions of water supplies in other areas, such as the Himalayas, where algal blooms dot water-producing glaciers.


Summer party

For decades, most studies on Greenland microbiology focused on cryoconite holes, small pits on the surface of the ice sheet that are filled with dark organic matter and ice-adapted algae. But enormous blooms of photosynthetic algae also cover the snow-strewn ice sheet every summer1. Some, such as Chlamydomonas nivalis, spread first as greenish blooms as they begin to photosynthesize, and then turn a reddish colour as they produce carotenoid pigments to protect themselves from the sun’s ultraviolet rays.

“They’re extremely lazy algae — they sleep for nine months and then wake up and have a party,” says team member Liane Benning, a biogeochemist at the University of Leeds, UK, and the GeoForschungsZentrum research centre in Potsdam, Germany.

The algae creates vast, colourful fields of what is popularly known as 'watermelon snow'. Last month in Nature Communications, Benning and her team reported sampling watermelon snow at glaciers across the Arctic2. They found 6 types of algae living at 40 red-snow sites in Norway, Sweden, Greenland and Iceland.

By comparing the optical properties of red snow to clean snow, they estimated that algal blooms could reduce reflectivity by 13% over the melting season. “Wherever we look, the impact is quite dramatic,” Benning says.

After the snow cover melts for the season, other species of alga take over. These ice-adapted algae are typically brownish-grey, less visibly dramatic than the red and green blooms but just as important for darkening the ice sheet. Only in the past few years have scientists begun to realize that some of the dark particles on the ice sheet are in fact these ice algae and not soot, Benning says.


A rotten discovery

Tranter says he got the idea for Black and Bloom about four years ago, when he was working on the margins of the Greenland ice sheet and forgot his glacier goggles. He put his shaded cycling glasses on instead, and suddenly colour popped out at him. “Everywhere the ice surface was melting I could see a mauve colour,” he says. “I said guys, there’s tons of algae growing in this rotten ice.”

Black and Bloom is the first effort to systematically explore algae’s role in darkening ice sheets3. This initial field season focuses on southwest Greenland, at a 'dark snow' site where collaborators Jason Box and Marek Stibal of the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland have been quantifying the soot and mineral dust that settles onto Greenland. Now the microbiologists have arrived with equipment to sample the various algal and bacterial species that pockmark the ice.

The heart of Black and Bloom is a study region half a kilometre long on each side. Here, the researchers will collect samples of black carbon and microoganisms while measuring incoming sunlight and reflectivity. They will also venture out on transects, both on foot and using unmanned aerial vehicles, to get a broader perspective on the algal blooms.

With longer melting seasons over the past few years, the algae have more time to bloom and darken the sheet
, Tranter says. Next year, the team plans to go out earlier in the season, to be there in May when the snow begins to melt and the algae wake from their winter nap.

Nature doi:10.1038/nature.2016.20265

http://www.nature.com/news/algae-are-melting-away-the-greenland-ice-sheet-1.20265
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on July 15, 2016, 08:05:03 pm
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Britain’s Climate Change Department Dissolved: The United Kingdom’s newly-appointed Prime Minister Theresa May :(https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Fgen152.gif&hash=d5b10968fe56c4cb95fae17cee3cb420a5f4e2da) axed the 8-year-old Department of Energy and Climate Change on Thursday and folded some elements into an expanded Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Fd2.gif&hash=98d536bf1047a88ef91e9c45e08b725347c9fe13) (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Facigar.gif&hash=dc9dccf92c6c88c99611b06c86d92629d69f2978) The new department would be led by Greg Clark  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-311013200859.png&hash=a7aaaa9f04c1e3e2c948723b5f8c13fe814dacd4), formerly minister for local government under David Cameron and the shadow secretary for energy and climate change between 2008 and 2010. May’s decision drew angry reactions from some members of the green community for giving climate change issues the backseat while others expressed hope that Clark could introduce a carbon floor price since he “gets climate change.” (BBC, Financial Times $, Independent, New Scientist, Climate Home, Times $, Carbon Brief, Guardian, Newsweek. Commentary: BusinessGreen, James Murray column; Politics, James Thornton op-ed; Guardian, Damian Carrington column)



Alaska Swelters Under Heat Wave: A massive heatwave struck Alaska this week, with the town of Deadhorse witnessing a high of 85°F. This has been the warmest ever in Deadhorse, where average temperatures tend to be 57°F at this time of the year. The temperatures were in the 80s across the region. The highest ever temperature record in Alaska was in 1915 when it reached 100°F in Fort Yukon on June 27. This year Alaska has witnessed a freakishly warm first six months with the state’s temperature averaging 30.4°F, 9°F higher than normal. As a result, the state’s fire season had an early start this year and more wildfires are feared due to the heatwave. (USA Today, Alaska Dispatch News, ThinkProgress, Mashable)



Warm Ocean Water May Be Driving Antarctic Ice Retreat: A group of researchers suspect that warm ocean water may be the main reason behind the retreating glaciers in the Antarctic Peninsula. A study published in Science has found that warm temperatures melting the glaciers from below are the biggest driver behind the retreat -- not atmospheric warming as is generally suspected. The researchers compared the ocean temperatures and region’s ice loss between 1945 and 2009 and found a clear correlation. “The Antarctic Peninsula is one of the largest current contributors to sea-level rise, and the glaciers here are highly sensitive, so [they] are key indicators of how the ice will respond to future changes,” says Alison Cook, lead author of the paper. (Washington Post $, Christian Science Monitor, Carbon Brief)

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on July 15, 2016, 08:35:35 pm
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DENIER ROUNDUP

July 15, 2016

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Post-Brexit, UK Rearranges DECC Chairs
 

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The Independent published a story with reactions, which are all pretty uniformly negative “Plain stupid” is how Ed Miliband described the move and Green Party MP Caroline Lucas said, “To throw [DECC] into the basement of another Whitehall department, looks like a serious backwards step.”
 
WWF-UK CEO David Nussbaum was a bit more optimistic though, saying that the combination of business and energy departments “can be a real powerhouse for change, joining up Whitehall teams to progress the resilient, sustainable, and low carbon infrastructure that we urgently need.”
 
This is similar to a perennial business and sustainability question, of whether it’s better to have a dedicated executive-level sustainability officer, or to have an environmental ethos instilled throughout the entire business, so that those environmental concerns aren’t siloed. In the end, it depends on the degree to which sustainability can be integrated throughout the organization. If everyone is on board, then a dedicated person is redundant. If not, then that sustainability staffer is essential for making sure the issue remains a priority for the organization.
 
 So what about the new UK government? Things aren’t perfectly clear, but the signs indicate that this will certainly not be the “greenest government”. Carbon Brief dug up the new Prime Minister’s praise for the UK’s Climate Change Act back in 2008, but she has been silent on the subject since then. And Greg Clark, the leader of the new Department of Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy, has also said good stuff in the past, so there’s hope.
 
 But the newly appointed Environment Secretary is Andrea Leadsom who, according to an Independent headline, “backs fox hunting, selling off forests, and opposes climate change measures.” When Leadsom first became a Department of Energy minister in 2015, her first two questions were “is climate change real?” and “is hydraulic fracturing safe?” She is apparently “now completely persuaded,” and while it’s not clear in which direction she is persuaded on regarding climate change, the rest of the quote indicates that she thinks fracking is safe. And it seems that back in 2008, ALEC brought Leadsom to the US so that she could attend a conference where speakers called climate change “a huge, huge myth.”
 
It remains to be seen then, whether this DECC-demotion is indicative of a deprioritization of climate change in the UK or just a change in name with minimal impacts. In other words, we’ll have to wait and see whether they’re rearranging deck chairs or just throwing DECC overboard altogether.

Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on July 15, 2016, 09:25:35 pm
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July 16, 2016 12:58 PM EDT

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Some reasons why fraud by Fossil Fuel industry is worse than Tobacco fraud.

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1. Man Made climate change is the most important and direct threat to every living person on the planet increasing each day. Delay and deceit schemes counter the scientific urgency mandating collective action.

2. Children and future generations were mostly not affected by smoking and most had a choice to smoke or not. Prevention being worth a pound of cure it was a battle between the Marlboro Man, Fake doctors and the growing evidence . Today and for the future more and more simply do not have a choice to move and the poor pay the first costs that can't move from the harms of fossil fuel burning.

3. With most people owning shares through retirement funds etc. it would be critical for the fossil fuel industry to clearly and as soon as known to inform investors that their products will face increasing resistance from the consuming world to cut back on use which strands most of their reserves. This coincides with the clear scientific warnings to leave about 4/5 of known reserves in the ground. So to promise years of dividends and not clearly articulate the knowns of science is simple fraud.

4. It is well known that the industry has funded denial. Not only funded denial but lobbied to get more of our air, land, and water as the socialized costs continue to be paid by the public and hidden from the bottom lines of their companies. With the World Health Organization now claiming from 4.5 to over 6 million premature deaths from outdoor air pollution it is a precursor to climate change and implies not just ignoring real costs that the poor pay but shows by denying man made climate change a willful disregard for life on a massive scale.

So while the same tactics of delay and deceit like Hillary using All Of The Above to increase world wide extraction and burning are used for iffy and ever distant restraint, we saw industry scientists waving the wrong flag which killed many.

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on July 18, 2016, 02:28:05 pm
Climate| Jul 18, 2016

Watch the Climate Change Ad Fox News Refused to Run

and Climate Nexus ByClimate Nexus

Fox News declined to run an ad that calls out the network for refusing to acknowledge human-caused climate change.

The advertisement, sponsored by Friends of the Earth, shows a mock Fox News anchor reporting on extreme weather events while the newsroom slowly floods and then asks, "What will it take for Fox News to accept that humans are changing the climate?"

 
https://youtu.be/CIOuOAetZq4

Fox News, meanwhile, agreed to run other ads by Partnership for Responsible Growth (PRG) that show conservative leaders talking about the need for climate action. PRG is also behind an ongoing 12-part climate change ad series in the Wall Street Journal.

http://www.ecowatch.com/climate-change-ad-fox-news-refused-to-run-1929513722.html


Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on July 20, 2016, 02:52:07 pm
Climate| Jul 20, 2016

June Was Earth's 14th Straight Record Warm Month, Greenland Loses Shocking 1 Trillion Tons of Ice


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June has continued the unprecedented heat streak for the 14th month, with globally averaged temperatures being a full 1.62 F (0.9 C) warmer than the average across the 20th century, according to the latest data by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and confirmed by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).  NOAA

The effects of last year's El Niño, which contributed to spike in temperatures, is fading but the record heat streak over the Earth has remained. According to NOAA, the first half of 2016 was 0.36 F (0.2 C) warmer than last year and this year is on track to becoming the third consecutive year to set a new global heat record.

Another indication of warming is Greenland's melting ice. (http://www.ecowatch.com/arctic-greenland-stuck-in-feedback-loop-of-melting-1891170115.html) A satellite study has also shown that Greenland has lost a shocking 1 trillion tons of ice in just four years between 2011 and 2014. Ice loss from Greenland, which has been 9 trillion tons in the past century, may have contributed to a full inch of sea-level rise in the last 100 years.

http://www.ecowatch.com/june-record-hot-month-greenland-loses-tons-of-ice-1933857436.html

Agelbert NOTE: Fossil fuel Profit over Planet "Industry" Reaction to ALL THE ABOVE:

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If you think this warming is linear (i.e. not accelerating), you do not understand the physics of ice versus open ocean.

It takes 334 Joules of heat to melt one gram of ice, but once that ice melts into water, it only takes about 42 Joules of heat to warm the water by another TEN degrees Celsius.

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on July 21, 2016, 06:26:59 pm
July 21, 2016

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Denier Roundup

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Those who derived their power from profits found science-based health and environmental regulations an affront to their business models. Exploiting the postmodern concept that there is no objectivity enabled authoritarians to push their public policy agendas with PR instead of relying on scientific evidence to justify their positions.

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Harold Hamm:  Sergeant in the War on Science

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Last night, oil tycoon Harold Hamm addressed the Republican National Convention. Since this post was written before his speech, we won’t address what was said. Instead, we’ll provide just a bit of history on Hamm and the wider sociopolitical history that has led us to a campaign season where facts have fallen by the wayside and emotional rhetoric have risen in importance.
 
Hamm is the billionaire CEO of the oil company Continental Resources. Before being identified as a potential candidate for a cabinet position and “Trump’s energy whisperer,” Hamm was in the news a year ago for his attempt to silence scientists who were linking Oklahoma’s massive uptick in earthquakes (from one-ish a year in 2009 to over 500 in 2014) to the massive uptick in fracking operations. Hamm apparently  ;) tried to get a University of Oklahoma scientist fired (http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-05-15/oil-tycoon-harold-hamm-wanted-scientists-dismissed-dean-s-e-mail-says) for doing their job in pursuing the science that might interfere with his profits. 
 
This brings us to the larger point of science as a counterbalance to power.
It’s the major theme in Shawn Otto’s newest book, The War on Science: Who’s waging it, Why it matters, What we can do about it. (https://www.amazon.com/War-Science-Waging-Matters-About/dp/1571313532)

Otto traces the history of science and politics, starting with the “self-evident” nature of our rights within the Declaration of Independence. Science’s search for the underlying truth of nature, Otto writes, has always been a political force. Not in the partisan sense, but in the power sense. “Science is the great equalizer,” Otto told us via email. “It underpins the whole argument for democracy. But it’s also political, because it either confirms or disrupts somebody’s vested interests, and those people tend to fight back when science suggests certain laws or regulations they don’t like."
 
Fast-forward to the 20th century, when science ended World War II with the power of the atomic bomb. In the ensuing years, science enjoyed the financial support of the military and retreated from the public sphere, as it no longer needed public engagement for funding.
 
At the same time, the public was growing increasingly wary of science, the cause of their children’s pointless “duck and cover” drills in case of nuclear attack.

Meanwhile, in the humanitarian departments of academia, the postmodernist movement was questioning the fundamental nature of science as a way to discover objective truth, portraying it as just another “metanarrative” -- a story told by the ruling class in order to retain power.


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This postmodernism, mostly a leftist concept, provided the intellectual underpinning for the larger war on science by the axis of industry and religious forces who coopted that language to insist we “teach the controversy.” Those who derived their power from religion found evolution and stem cells to be affronts to the sacred notion of a creator.

Those who derived their power from profits found science-based health and environmental regulations an affront to their business models. Exploiting the postmodern concept that there is no objectivity enabled authoritarians to push their public policy agendas with PR instead of relying on scientific evidence to justify their positions.

 
Which brings us back to this election cycle and the celebration of a man who has attempted to use his power to silence the science that threatens his profits. Instead of being run out of democratic society for this blatant display of authoritarianism, Hamm’s been given direct access to a candidate, a prime time speaking slot at the convention, and possibly a cabinet position.  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Fmocantina.gif&hash=d013c741bcf9a78776eec19c2c3aac449c35d75c)  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F2z6in9g.gif&hash=771b084a0f186d9cc14f31defd98a6c90b69b84f) 

Unlike most books of its type, The War on Science offers up a robust battle plan to restore science to its rightful place as an objective arbiter of the reality we all share, and upon which policy decisions must be made.
 
It won’t be an easy fight, but it’s one we can’t afford to lose. As the government scales of checks and balances are increasingly tilted in favor of the rich and powerful, science offers the strongest anti-authoritarian weapon available to restore power to the people.

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on July 21, 2016, 07:18:45 pm
Earth  Environment  July 20, 2016

North American forests unlikely to save us from climate change, study finds

 
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A sub-alpine forest in Colorado. Forests in the southwestern US are expected to be among the hardest-hit, according to the projections resulting from the study. Credit: Sydne Record

Forests take up 25-30 percent of human-caused emissions of carbon dioxide—a strong greenhouse gas—and are therefore considered to play a crucial role in mitigating the speed and magnitude of climate change. However, a new study that combines future climate model projections, historic tree-ring records across the entire continent of North America, and how the growth rates of trees may respond to a higher concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has shown that the mitigation effect of forests will likely be much smaller in the future than previously suggested.

Published in the journal Ecology Letters, the study is the first to reveal the possible impact of a changing climate on the growth rate of trees across all of North America, in other words, how their growth changes over time and in response to shifting environmental conditions. The result are detailed forecast maps for the entire North American continent that reveal how forest growth will be impacted by climate change.

The research team, led by scientists at the University of Arizona in Tucson, combined climate projections for North America developed by the International Panel for Climate Change (IPCC) with historic tree-ring records based on samples covering the period 1900 to 1950 at 1,457 sampling sites across the continent.

"We then looked at how the growth of those trees changed historically under various past climates and used that to predict how they will grow in the future across the continent all the way from Mexico to Alaska," said the study's first author, Noah Charney, a postdoctoral research associate in UA's Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology.

"The research is unprecedented and novel in the use of big biological data," said co-author Brian Enquist, a professor in the UA's Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and a fellow of the Aspen Center for Environmental Studies in Aspen, Colorado. "We utilized a network of more than two million tree-ring observations spanning North America. Tree-rings provide a record into how trees that grow in different climates respond to changes in temperature and rainfall."

The study calls into question previous conclusions about how forests will respond to warmer average temperatures, increased greenhouse gas emissions, and shifting rainfall patterns.

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Projected change in forest growth rates for the second half of this century. With the exception of coastal areas, growth rates are projected to go down throughout the North American continent. Credit: Noah Charney

The team was startled to find no evidence for a greenhouse-gas absorbing process called the boreal greening effect in their simulations. Boreal greening refers to the assumption that trees in high latitudes, where colder temperatures limit growth, should benefit from warmer temperatures and higher concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and, as a result, "green" under the effects of climate change. In turn, these thriving boreal forests should be able to scrub more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, so goes the idea, dampening climate change.
 
"Until now, there wasn't a good way to take into account how trees respond to climate change under novel climate conditions," added senior author Margaret Evans, an assistant research professor in the UA's Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research (LTRR) and the UA's Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. "Our study provides that perspective. We see that as trees are pushed under the effect of climate change, their response changes."

"Many previous climate modeling studies counted on the boreal forests to save us from the climatic disaster by offsetting our emissions, but we don't' see any greening in our results," said Valerie Trouet, an associate professor in the LTRR. "Instead, we see browning. The positive influence warmer temperatures are believed to have on boreal forests—we don't see that at all."

The most dramatic changes in projected forest growth rates were found in the interior West of the North American continent, with up to 75 percent slower growth projected for trees in the southwestern U.S., along the Rockies, through interior Canada and Alaska. Increases in growth were seen only along certain coastal areas, mostly in the Pacific Northwest, Northeastern Quebec and the Maritime Provinces and the Florida panhandle.

Some of the predictions arising from the simulations are already happening, the team found.

"In Alaska, for example, where trees have been projected to respond positively to warming temperatures under the boreal greening effect, we see that trees are now responding negatively instead," Evans said. "Trees in very high latitudes are limited by cold temperatures, so yes, in warmer years they grow more, but there is a tipping point, and once they go past that, a warmer climate becomes a bad thing instead of a good thing."

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A deciduous Forest in Tennessee. Credit: Noah Charney

The research indicates that the warming climate already is rapidly pushing many forests towards that tipping point, which may be reached as early as 2050: In addition to being rapidly exposed to temperatures they have not experienced in their lifetimes and are not evolutionarily prepared for, being hampered in their growth makes trees even more vulnerable to added stresses.

"There is a critical and potentially detrimental feedback loop going on here," Charney said. "When the growth rate of trees slows down in response to environmental stressors such as cold or drought, they can get by for a few years, but over time, they deplete their resources and are much more susceptible to additional stressors, such as damage by fire or a big drought or insect outbreaks. Year after year of slow growth therefore means forests become less and less resilient."
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As a result, a forest can go from being a climate asset to a carbon producer very quickly.

"It's like a thermostat gone bad," Evans said. "Forests act as a carbon sink by taking carbon dioxide out of atmosphere, but the more the climate is warming, the slower the trees are growing, the less carbon they suck up, the faster the climate is changing."

"The results also highlight the potential importance of locally adapted forest management strategies to help mitigate the decreases in forest growth predicted by our analyses," Charney said.

The implications could potentially apply worldwide. While their models did not include data from outside the North American continent, it "seems very likely that the conclusions drawn in this study apply in the Eurasian forest as well," Evans said. "The boreal forests in Eurasia are more extensive and even more important than the ones in continental North America."

Explore further: Climate change is killing our trees

More information: Noah D. Charney et al, Observed forest sensitivity to climate implies large changes in 21st century North American forest growth, Ecology Letters (2016). DOI: 10.1111/ele.12650

Journal reference: Ecology Letters search and more info website

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on July 21, 2016, 09:56:26 pm
There’s Nothing “Unrealistic” About Seeking Real Action on Climate Change

Rather than tackle climate change head-on, Obama administration officials (https://smileyshack.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/stupid-im-with-arrow-left.gif) continue to attack  “Keep It in the Ground” movement  

I’ve been in D.C. for a long time, so I’m used to hearing politicians and Beltway insiders say ridiculous things.

But recent news that one of President Obama’s top science advisers, John Holdren, brushed off the growing “Keep It in the Ground” movement — which aims to spur real action in the face of the rapidly expanding climate crisis — as “unrealistic” was a doozy.

I wouldn’t blink twice if this came out of the mouth of a Big Oil spokesman, but a top scientist in the Obama administration? Seriously?

There’s absolutely no doubt that we’re running out of time to take the kind of action that’s needed to truly curb the climate crisis and avoid some of its worst effects, including rising seas inundating our coastal communities, deadly heat waves, food shortages and humanitarian crises as people flee climate-ravaged regions of the world.

World leaders, including the United States, gathered in Paris last year and agreed to take significant steps to rein in climate change and keep the world’s global temperatures “well-below” 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels and to pursue efforts to limit warming increase to 1.5 degrees Celsius. Unfortunately, the voluntary pledges by individual countries, including the U.S., are not enough to reach those targets.

The United States needs to take significant additional steps to align its climate goals with its energy policies. And that should start with a ban on new fossil fuel leases on America’s public lands and oceans — lands that are owned by all of us and have become a significant contributor to the climate crisis.

Holdren, like Interior Secretary Sally Jewell before him, has conflated the request to end new federal fossil fuel leasing — a process that locks in fossil fuel extraction and investment for decades — as a demand to immediately end fossil fuel production and consumption. By responding to a demand nobody has made, the administration leaves the public empty-handed when seeking an honest and substantive policy response to the request of ending new federal fossil fuel leasing.
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Holdren also seems to think that we have another 30 to 40 years before we need to take serious action and that we can afford to lock in decades more of carbon pollution based on fracked gas and gas pipelines because he thinks it’s less polluting than coal. Well, that’s simply not true — we don’t have 30 to 40 years to wait before we make sharp reductions in greenhouse gas pollution. And when you properly account for the methane emissions of gas production and pipeline transmission it can be even worse for the climate than burning coal.

A study commissioned last year by the Center for Biological Diversity and Friends of the Earth revealed that a ban on new fossil fuel leasing on federal lands and oceans would keep up to 450 billion tons of carbon pollution from entering the atmosphere. That’s the annual pollution equivalent of more than 118,000 coal-fired power plants. Another recent study revealed that oil, gas and coal already leased to the fossil fuel industry would last between 25 and 40 years, far beyond the point the world will exceed the carbon pollution limits set out in the Paris agreement.

Last week the Center led more than 250 climate, community and tribal organizations in filing a landmark legal petition calling on the Obama administration to halt all new leasing on federal lands for oil, gas, tar sands and oil shale.

Our petition is the natural outgrowth of a growing grassroots movement in the United States — regular, everyday people who see the unfolding climate disaster and want something done. Thousands of people are showing up to protest fossil fuel lease sales around the country, from the Gulf Coast to Colorado to Washington, D.C. They understand the time for action is now, and we need something big enough to make a real impact on our climate future.

John Holdren can call it “unrealistic” if he likes, but the “Keep It in the Ground” movement is the best, most real option on the table right now to truly start handling this crisis. President Obama can implement this ban immediately, without waiting for Congress. Unfortunately, though, his administration has yet to propose nearly enough of the kind of major changes that are needed to address a problem of this magnitude.
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Want to know what’s “unrealistic?” Relying on hope — rather than change — to get us out of this mess.

Randi Spivak is public lands director at the Center for Biological Diversity.


https://medium.com/center-for-biological-diversity/theres-nothing-unrealistic-about-seeking-real-action-on-climate-change-31f66682a298#.yc6cqie8o

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on July 25, 2016, 04:12:47 pm
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WHY should you care about what burning fossil fuels does to coral reefs when you make so much money from dividends on fossil fuel stocks and/or have a nice big land yacht to drive hither and yon with all that "cheap" gasoline these days? ???

Because there is no such thing as a cheap fossil fuel or a free externalized pollution "lunch".
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Corals are like speed bumps. They slow down waves and lessen wave energy.

This protects coastlines from hurricanes, cyclones and tsunamis.

Coral reefs protect the shoreline in 81 countries around the world, sheltering the 200 million people living along those coasts.

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“We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.” - Benjamin Franklin

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“But you can't make people listen. They have to come round in their own time, wondering what happened and why the world blew up around them. It can't last.” - Ray Bradbury

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on July 27, 2016, 03:02:52 pm
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Christine Lepisto (@greenanswer)
Science / Climate Change
 July 26, 2016


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Wanted poster for "global warm mongering" with picture of former Vice President Al Gore spotted by photographer "at 5th and B."
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The "proof" of many scientific theories lies in the reliability of the results that can be predicted based on that theory. If a theory is correct, predictions should be consistent, and then those predictions should be confirmed by observations.

That has left climate change scientists in a bit of a pickle. Studies predicting the future effects of warming based on studies of past temperature records have been predicting less future warming than studies based on climate models. This also leaves political decision-makers in doubt: what effects can realistically be expected in 30 years, or 70 years?

Which brings us to those who want us to believe that climate change is a myth. The first commenter under an op-ed calling for prosecution of climate deniers reminds us:

"Computer model have been grossly inaccurate and are not a substitute for empirical studies [sic]."

One can hardly blame those whose interests would be harmed by serious action to avert global warming for grasping at such inconsistencies. Will they stop grasping and accept the truth now?

A NASA-led study has found that "almost one-fifth of the global warming that has occurred in the past 150 years has been missed by historical records due to quirks in how global temperatures were recorded."

The problem arises from a couple of fundamental issues with older temperature records. First, they under-represent the climate in Arctic regions where measurements are difficult to make. Because the Arctic is warming faster than the rest of the Earth, the missing data underestimates the effects of global warming.

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Second, the historical record mixes air and water temperature records, while models deal with air temperatures only. Finally, there used to be more ice. So there were more temperature readings taken over icy areas while later observations were based on water temperatures. Water warms more slowly than air, so these two issues also lead to cooler predictions based on historical data.

When the scientists ran modern climate models using historical data that was limited to measurements analogous to modern temperature records, their results landed smack in the middle of the range of predictions calculated by the models of the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change).

Scientists were aware of these issues before, but this is the first time the magnitude of their effect on the predictions has been studied. As noted by lead author Mark Richardson, "They're quite small on their own, but they add up in the same direction. We were surprised that they added up to such a big effect."

Read more in the article Reconciled climate response estimates from climate models and the energy budget of Earth in Nature Climate Change (http://www.nature.com/articles/nclimate3066.epdf?referrer_access_token=krUW3ir0EJ1tZ-Err0GI2NRgN0jAjWel9jnR3ZoTv0NOBFLlgBpqyT9xywaN72XIzvJC9OQRQ793cAIgOfiJ1SIuU7_9pIYwe_AVqNHa3lExvGUsZKAdQJccJowHPSpcZY8i2Vrzk9mxxwElAZuiWkafayXammOA_Xp2XUHZiQiqbw4lVN2HNc9DFOHkfv0D-buFf-Gx5ma0PKr_VLEZO36ZIDfh_coZ1SZtT94T3-o%3D&tracking_referrer=www.treehugger.com), 2016; (DOI: 10.1038/nclimate3066).
 

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•Scientists collaborate to sort fact from fiction in climate change media coverage
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on July 27, 2016, 03:26:46 pm
Outlook grim for state of Assam, with heavy rain that has buried hundreds of villages and displaced wildlife set to continue for two days.

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People push a car across a flooded highway in Kaziranga national park on Tuesday.

Severe floods in India have affected more than 1.6 million people, buried hundreds of villages and submerged most of a national park, forcing wildlife to seek refuge on roads, authorities have said.

With the weather office forecasting heavy rain for at least another 48 hours, the outlook is grim for the tea-growing, north-eastern state of Assam. It is only four years since it suffered its worst floods, which killed 124 people and displaced 6 million.

In neighbouring Nepal, flash floods and landslides have swept through villages, killing at least 58 people over two days, home ministry official Yadav Koirala told Reuters on Wednesday.

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A one-horned rhinoceros swims through flood waters in Kaziranga national park, which is home to two-thirds of the world’s population of the animals.

Floods and landslides are common in India and Nepal during the June-September monsoon season, and the death toll runs into the hundreds every year.

“The situation has turned from bad to worse since Tuesday, and over a million people have been shifted to relief camps,” said Keshab Mahanta, Assam’s water resources minister.

The Brahmaputra river and its tributaries have burst their banks, affecting more than half of the region’s 32 districts. Police and rescue workers said at least 12 people had drowned across Assam in recent days.

Animals from the state’s national parks came on to roads built on banks and other high ground as the flood inundated forests.

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Rescuers attend to a rhinoceros calf affected by flooding in the park.

The state has five national parks, including the Kaziranga national park, which is home to two-thirds of the world’s one-horned rhinoceroses.

“More than 80% of the park is under water,” said Suvasis Das, a forestry official in the park.

Forest officials said they rescued a three-month-old rhino that took shelter in a backyard in a village. At least 20 hog deer were either washed away or drowned.

Assam’s chief minister, Sarbananda Sonowal, has urged authorities to provide safe drinking water to prevent the outbreak of disease.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jul/27/flooding-in-india-affects-16m-people-and-submerges-national-park

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on July 27, 2016, 08:59:27 pm
Climate| Jul 27, 2016

Bill Nye   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-080515182559.png&hash=d4dfa952fa0f817bf30a8059a4c88d6fb05ee1bf)
 Destroys Climate Change Conspiracy Theories 

and EWContributor   

https://youtu.be/AuicZK8Pbqw


http://www.ecowatch.com/bill-nye-destroys-climate-change-conspiracy-theories-1946221897.html

Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on July 28, 2016, 07:55:38 pm
July 27, 2016

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US Military Bases Threatened by Climate Change

US military bases along the East and the Gulf Coast could lose large chunks of land due to global warming-driven sea level rise, a new analysis by the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) shows.

UCS analyzed 18 installations representing more than 120 coastal bases and found that by 2050, most of sites will see more than 10 times the number of floods they experience at present.

Stressing the need for greater adaptation measures, the analysis also shows that four bases in Florida, Virginia and South Carolina risk losing 75 to 95 percent of their land by end of the century. (USA Today, IB Times $, Atlanta Journal Constitution, Union Leader, Virginian-Pilot, Christian Science Monitor. ThinkProgress, InsideClimate News)

http://www.ucsusa.org/global-warming/global-warming-impacts/sea-level-rise-flooding-us-military-bases#.V5qaYq1THm5



 
Scientists Urge Govt. to Stop Federal Coal Leasing

A group of 67 prominent scientists have demanded an end to coal leasing on federal land in a letter they wrote to the Obama administration. More than 40 percent of coal mined in the US currently comes from federal land. In order to meet commitments made under the Paris Agreement, the “vast majority of known coal in the United States must stay in the ground,” the scientists told Interior Secretary Sally Jewell and Bureau of Land Management Director Neil Kornze. (Climate Central, ThinkProgress, Greenwire $, Bonner County Daily Bee)
   http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/programs/public_lands/energy/dirty_energy_development/coal/pdfs/16_7_26_Scientist_sign-on_letter_Coal_PEIS.pdf


 
Philippines Takes Polluters to Task for Human Rights Violations

Forty-seven of the world’s largest fossil fuel and cement companies have been called on to answer allegations that pollution from their operations violates the human rights of millions of Filipinos. Such an investigation is one of the first in the world to be launched by a government body.

In a 60-page document, the Commission on Human Rights of the Philippines demands that giants such as ExxonMobil, Shell, BP and Chevron explain how violations of rights to “life, food, water, sanitation, adequate housing, and self-determination” caused by climate impacts will be “eliminated, remedied and prevented.”

The Philippines produces less than one percent of global emissions, but is extremely vulnerable to climate impacts. (News: Guardian, Climate Home, Reuters, IB Times $. Commentary: Huffington Post, Jennifer L Morgan op-ed)

http://www.climatechangenews.com/2016/07/27/oil-majors-summoned-to-philippines-human-rights-inquiry/
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on July 29, 2016, 08:58:54 pm
Something Is Causing Siberia's Tundra to Literally Bubble Underground

Written by Sarah Emerson Contributing Editor
 
July 20, 2016 // 02:00 PM EST

The frigid plains of northern Siberia are becoming a hotspot for mysterious geological phenomena. Over the past couple of years, sudden craters have been exploding from the permafrost-laden ground. Last month, we reported on a giant chasm in the Sakha Republic that looms so wide and deep, locals refer to it as a “gateway to the underworld.”

Now, the frozen tundra on Siberia’s remote Belyy Island is home to the region’s newest aberration: eerie, rippling, underground bubbles.
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In a video released today by the Siberian Times, researchers Alexander Sokolov and Dorothee Ehrich investigate a seemingly nondescript tract of grass that turns out to be a large, concealed pocket of… something. Kind of like a trampoline, the subterranean bubble forcibly undulates as Sokolov puts pressure on one side using his foot. According to the Russian scientists, a total of 15 blister-like patches were discovered on the island.

The researchers who captured the strange footage said both methane and carbon dioxide poured out of the bubble when it was punctured. It’s still unclear why or how these pockets of gas first formed, but it’s possible that an unusual heat wave caused permafrost to thaw, which allowed trapped methane gas to escape.

This wouldn’t be the first time that leaky methane has been blamed for Siberia’s wild anomalies. Geologists suspect that massive sinkholes and craters started to pop up when previously frozen tundras began to rapidly melt. Many scientists are concerned that Arctic methane emissions could “trigger additional warming.” One study estimated that by 2100, up to 205 billion tons of carbon emissions will be released by permafrost if climate change continues to worsen.

Belyy Island sits in the Arctic Ocean’s Kara Sea, and is a popular destination for researchers studying the ways climate change is affecting northern ecosystems. The area is home to a large population of polar bears, which Russian biologists recently started tracking with satellite collars.

According to Sokolov, the island has been unseasonably warm this summer, causing bands of hungry polar bears to come ashore in search of food. Climate change, it seems, is shaking up our world in more ways than just one.
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Topics: Siberia's Underground Bubbles, Methane, craters, sinkholes, Batagaika Crater, Russia, arctic, climate change, polar bears, Carbon Emissions, Siberian Times   

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on July 30, 2016, 07:22:09 pm
Coral (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Fearthhug.gif&hash=3abcf70466f34337f2d702ebd9e02c650d5c4c20)
 ls are Like… What?! 

Posted On July 25, 2016 by Sarah Cooley

 
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This week we’re celebrating all things coral! It’s no secret that coral reefs are spectacular ecosystems, but we wanted to do a deep dive into what exactly makes corals so special. Check out nine ways corals are even cooler than you thought:

1)  Corals are like speed bumps. They slow down waves and lessen wave energy. This protects coastlines from hurricanes, cyclones and tsunamis. Coral reefs protect the shoreline in 81 countries around the world, sheltering the 200 million people living along those coasts.


 
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2)  Corals are like nurseries.
They provide homes and hiding places for marine animals large and small. An estimated 25% of all fish species call reefs home, and even more fish species spend part of their young lives there. Losing reefs to ocean warming or acidification costs animals their homes.


3) Corals are like history books. Corals’ hard calcium carbonate skeletons contain bands, like tree rings, that record environmental changes in temperature, water chemistry and sediment. These records help scientists reconstruct what past ages were like before humans kept records.


 
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4) Corals are like tropical rainforests.
Both corals and tropical rainforests support an incredible array of life. Both are also under stress from human activities. Rising temperatures, heavy fishing (hunting) pressure and physical destruction are just some of the human-caused problems hurting both corals and rainforests.

5) Corals are like Venus flytraps. Some corals can eat passing plankton by grabbing them from the ocean and ingesting them. This provides a source of fatty acids for corals, and it is thought to help corals resist bleaching and other stresses.

6) Corals are like solar panels. Coral animals contain “symbionts,” which are small cells that photosynthesize, or harvest the sun’s energy, and pass some of it along to the coral in exchange for housing.

 
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7) Corals are like flowers.(https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-210614220933.gif&hash=7776323fc3649096af67c27660adde4a9fb71743) To reproduce, most corals release gametes, or eggs and sperm, into the water. This is similar to how flowers release pollen (gametes) into the wind. Both corals and flowers decide when to reproduce based on temperature and lighting.

8 ) Corals are like medicine cabinets.  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F8.gif&hash=c1d98e606d7f558df4040f88e7997b3e11e9448c) Coral reefs and the animals that live around them have many chemical defenses to drive away predators. These chemical compounds could be the inspiration for future medicines, nutritional supplements, pesticides and more.

 
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parrotfish on patrol  ;D

9) Corals are like rock quarries. Broken bits of coral create silt and sand that forms seafloor and sandy beaches in many tropical locations. Some coral breakdown is normal, like when parrotfish crunch off bites of coral to digest the living coral tissue, and spit out or excrete the hard skeleton crumbs. Other breakdown isn’t normal, such as the physical and chemical breakdown of coral by ocean acidification, dynamite fishing, ship strikes or other human-caused stress.

http://blog.oceanconservancy.org/2016/07/25/corals-are-like-what/#more-12444


Agelbert NOTE: Humanity must protect Coral Reefs as if our lives depended on it - Because our lives DO depend on it. Protecting this vital part of the biosphere is a sacred trust that we, as self aware beings, alone are responsible for.

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on July 31, 2016, 07:28:53 pm
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 ls are Like… What?! 

Posted On July 25, 2016 by Sarah Cooley

 
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This week we’re celebrating all things coral! It’s no secret that coral reefs are spectacular ecosystems, but we wanted to do a deep dive into what exactly makes corals so special. Check out nine ways corals are even cooler than you thought:

1)  Corals are like speed bumps. They slow down waves and lessen wave energy. This protects coastlines from hurricanes, cyclones and tsunamis. Coral reefs protect the shoreline in 81 countries around the world, sheltering the 200 million people living along those coasts.


 
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2)  Corals are like nurseries.
They provide homes and hiding places for marine animals large and small. An estimated 25% of all fish species call reefs home, and even more fish species spend part of their young lives there. Losing reefs to ocean warming or acidification costs animals their homes.


3) Corals are like history books. Corals’ hard calcium carbonate skeletons contain bands, like tree rings, that record environmental changes in temperature, water chemistry and sediment. These records help scientists reconstruct what past ages were like before humans kept records.


 
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4) Corals are like tropical rainforests.
Both corals and tropical rainforests support an incredible array of life. Both are also under stress from human activities. Rising temperatures, heavy fishing (hunting) pressure and physical destruction are just some of the human-caused problems hurting both corals and rainforests.

5) Corals are like Venus flytraps. Some corals can eat passing plankton by grabbing them from the ocean and ingesting them. This provides a source of fatty acids for corals, and it is thought to help corals resist bleaching and other stresses.

6) Corals are like solar panels. Coral animals contain “symbionts,” which are small cells that photosynthesize, or harvest the sun’s energy, and pass some of it along to the coral in exchange for housing.

 
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7) Corals are like flowers.(https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-210614220933.gif&hash=7776323fc3649096af67c27660adde4a9fb71743) To reproduce, most corals release gametes, or eggs and sperm, into the water. This is similar to how flowers release pollen (gametes) into the wind. Both corals and flowers decide when to reproduce based on temperature and lighting.

8 ) Corals are like medicine cabinets.  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F8.gif&hash=c1d98e606d7f558df4040f88e7997b3e11e9448c) Coral reefs and the animals that live around them have many chemical defenses to drive away predators. These chemical compounds could be the inspiration for future medicines, nutritional supplements, pesticides and more.

 
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parrotfish on patrol  ;D

9) Corals are like rock quarries. Broken bits of coral create silt and sand that forms seafloor and sandy beaches in many tropical locations. Some coral breakdown is normal, like when parrotfish crunch off bites of coral to digest the living coral tissue, and spit out or excrete the hard skeleton crumbs. Other breakdown isn’t normal, such as the physical and chemical breakdown of coral by ocean acidification, dynamite fishing, ship strikes or other human-caused stress.

http://blog.oceanconservancy.org/2016/07/25/corals-are-like-what/#more-12444


Agelbert NOTE: Humanity must protect Coral Reefs as if our lives depended on it - Because our lives DO depend on it. Protecting this vital part of the biosphere is a sacred trust that we, as self aware beings, alone are responsible for.

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on July 31, 2016, 07:50:49 pm
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Senator Hirono Speaks Up for Coral Reefs

Posted On July 27, 2016 by Guest Blogger

 
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Written by Hawaiian Senator Mazie K. Hirono.

Last month, 2,500 people from 97 countries flew to Hawaii–not for vacation, but to address the international crisis facing coral reefs around the world.

Participating in the 13th International Coral Reef Symposium, these world leaders, scientists, activists and students issued a powerful call to action to address the growing threat of coral bleaching around the world.

Failing to take action now will have increasingly profound consequences in the future because the health of coral reef ecosystems are not only critical for the health of our environment, but also for our economy. And as we celebrate National Coral Week, we have the opportunity to amplify the voices of advocates like Dr. Robert Richmond and Dr. Ruth Gates in Hawaii to ensure these vital ecosystems receive the attention they deserve.

Coral reefs are essential to our oceans and environment, especially in island and coastal communities. In my home state of Hawaii, more than 640 square miles of coral reefs surround the main Hawaiian Islands–more than the total landmass of the island of Oahu. Our reefs are home to more than a quarter of the world’s marine life, including thousands of species that are only found in the Islands.

Protecting our reefs is not just an environmental issue. It is an economic imperative. When coral reef ecosystems are healthy, they drive a tremendous amount of economic activity. In Hawaii, our reefs generate nearly $800 million for local businesses every year. Worldwide, coral reefs generate more economic activity than any other type of ecosystem.

Unfortunately, our coral reefs are under severe stress from coral bleaching and other environmental threats. There have only been three major coral bleaching incidents recorded in history–and two of them occurred in the last two years. These rare events are likely to become only more common as ocean temperatures continue to rise.

As an island state, Hawaii is particularly susceptible to the economic impact of coral bleaching. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration found that last year’s bleaching event killed 90 percent of West Hawaii Island coral colonies.

 
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We must work together to break this cycle and to promote healthy coral reef ecosystems both in Hawaii and around the world. It has recently been found that approximately a third of the corals in the Great Barrier Reef are also dead or dying as a result of the current bleaching event.

Unfortunately, there is a disconnect in Washington between what scientists know and what Congress is willing to do to address this environmental crisis. Too many of my colleagues (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Fgen152.gif&hash=d5b10968fe56c4cb95fae17cee3cb420a5f4e2da) in Congress deny basic science when making national policy. To them, global warming is a myth, and climate change and the rising temperature and acidity of our oceans have no impact on the lives of everyday Americans.

We know this is fundamentally untrue, but we can’t just count on these members coming to their senses. We have to dedicate ourselves to the hard work it will take to educate policymakers and other naysayers to change their views.

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While there’s much we can do to address this problem, earlier this year I introduced legislation to spark innovation in coral reef health research. My bill would direct federal agencies and the private sector to team up in offering a competitive prize to stimulate innovative solutions to protect our reefs.

I’m also working to build consensus in both parties for additional action. For example, I led a bipartisan letter to the Obama Administration to make sure our nation’s leaders are paying attention to the crisis facing our coral reefs, and urge the Administration to take action on new solutions to preserve, sustain, and restore coral reef ecosystems.

As a member of the Senate’s Energy and Natural Resources committee, I will continue to be a strong advocate for science-based policies that protect our environment, grow our economy, and address climate change.
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Protecting our coral reefs requires all of us to put our heads together–scientists, policymakers, technology developers, etc. to create solutions so that future generations can enjoy healthy, vibrant ocean environments. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fcliparts.co%2Fcliparts%2FBig%2FEgq%2FBigEgqBMT.png&hash=e7eec62f009cdd686ce795fad0a53c6befe748e9)
 

Mazie K. Hirono was elected to the Senate in 2012 and sworn in as Hawaii’s first female senator and the country’s first Asian-American woman senator. Hirono’s priority is to ensure that every American family has the opportunity to work and succeed.

http://blog.oceanconservancy.org/2016/07/27/senator-hirono-speaks-up-for-coral-reefs/#more-12487

Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on August 01, 2016, 11:13:11 pm
https://youtu.be/fU3FNOsX3QU

Methane Emissions From Arctic Ocean Seafloor
 
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I discuss a recently published paper (May, 2016) titled "Effects of climate change on methane emissions from seafloor sediments: A review".

Rapidly declining sea ice and snow cover is darkening the Arctic, leading to large temperature amplification. I talk about some of the paper highlights, and how a warmer, wavier and more open Arctic is leading to many physical and geochemical processed that are causing increased methane concentrations in both the water column and the atmosphere.

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Methane Clathrate


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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on August 02, 2016, 04:07:53 pm
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By Abel Valdivia, Marine scientist at Center for Biological Diversity, marine conservation, fisheries, coral reefs, climate change, R stats, landscape photography, astrophysics

Jul 20, 2016 ·3 min read

New research shows climate change is causing widespread degradation of coral reefs


 
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Tropical corals around the world are dying. Scientists used to assume that degradation had multiple synergistic causes, from global warming down to pollution, overfishing, and other localized impacts. But new research that I co-authored shows that global stressors are overwhelming the effects of more localized forces. Not surprisingly, it zeroes in on a single culprit: our over-reliance on fossil fuels.

The implications of this study are alarming, but they also clarify what we must do, adding to a growing body of scientific research calling for a rapid transition to renewable energy sources. Simply put, corals and the diverse ecosystem they support are unlikely to recover if we don’t address climate change now.

 
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Extensive bleaching, like that shown above, degrades and depletes the marine food chain.

Coral reefs are among the most important and diverse ecosystems in the ocean. They supply food for humans and myriad coastal and oceanic food webs, not to mention supporting entire local economies through tourism and protecting coastal areas from storms and erosion. Carbon emissions that are steadily warming the planet and are being absorbed by the ocean are slowly killing corals by warming and acidifying the water they live in.

This isn’t news. We already knew global warming harms coral reefs; since last year we’ve seen that reality on vivid display during massive coral bleaching episodes from the Hawaiian Islands to the Great Barrier Reef. But some in the scientific community believed we could buy ourselves some time with better management of local factors, such as creating marine protected areas that minimized the impacts of fishing and addressing water-quality problems in coastal areas.

That hope was based on the belief that isolated coral reefs are in better shape, having more live corals and less seaweed than those near urban areas, which are presumably more profoundly affected by human activities. But when we analyzed a database of more than 1,700 coral reef surveys from around the world, we found that conventional wisdom didn’t hold up to scrutiny.

 
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Healthy coral reefs have more living coral and less seaweed, factors that we’d expect to find in areas untouched by people. But the data showed no correlation between isolation and healthy coral reefs, leaving only one possible cause for their steady global degradation: ocean warming and acidification, both caused by global carbon emissions.

Don’t get me wrong: Local stewardship of coral reefs is extremely important. Recent research has shown bright spots across the world’s reefs where good governance is driving fish communities to thrive unexpectedly. In fact, biodiversity of reef fish makes these ecosystems more resilient and able to adapt to changing ocean conditions, so we should control overfishing. Coastal runoff and local pollution sources can also undermine the health of coral reef communities.

There’s much we should do to restore the health of oceans, which have been hurt by generations of abuse and neglect. We need to protect endangered species, from the chambered nautilus to sharks and whales; reduce the amount of plastic pollution building up in the oceans; prevent the devastating oil spills that go along with offshore drilling; regulate wasteful fishing practices that kill mountains of unintended bycatch; and generally become better stewards of our seas.

But when it comes to saving our coral reefs for the future, there’s one important thing we must do immediately: end our unhealthy addiction to fossil fuels.

https://medium.com/center-for-biological-diversity/to-save-corals-stop-burning-fossil-fuels-217c35a852b4#.pi7oxza73

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on August 10, 2016, 10:53:14 pm
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In the amicus brief filed on Tuesday, the attorneys general of the states, including Massachusetts, New York and Mississippi, argue that legal precedent nullifies the oil giant’s lawsuit because Exxon should be making a challenge to an AG in their home state, not Texas.

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http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-08-09/exxon-climate-fight-with-green-states-heats-up-in-court

Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on August 11, 2016, 02:58:37 pm
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The Kawahiva's land is being targeted by illegal loggers and cattle ranchers © FUNAI 2013


On UN Indigenous Peoples’ Day, Survival International is calling for the full demarcation and protection of the land of the Kawahiva people, an uncontacted tribe in the Amazon that is at extremely high risk of extinction.

With the eyes of the world on Brazil during the Rio Olympics, campaigners are hoping that more will be done to secure their land for them, and to give them the chance to determine their own futures.

Many powerful people in the region, including José Riva – dubbed “the most corrupt politician in Brazil” – are targeting the tribe’s land. The Indians are acutely vulnerable to the threat of forced contact from these loggers and ranchers.

In April 2016, pressure from Survival International supporters helped push the Brazilian Minister of Justice to sign a decree ordering the full mapping out and protection of the tribe’s land.

But despite this, the Minister’s demand has not been carried out. Until the Brazilian indigenous affairs department enacts the demarcation, the tribe faces annihilation.

First contact has been catastrophic for many Brazilian tribes. Jirusihú, from the Zo’é people in the northern Amazon, who were forcibly contacted by evangelical missionaries in the 1980s, said: “After the outsiders came, Zo’é became sick and some died. Back then… there was diarrhea and there was pain. Fever killed many, many Zo’é.”

 
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Brazilian tribes like the Zo'é have suffered terribly since forced contact. © Fiona Watson/Survival


Many tribes have been wiped out as a direct result of land theft and forced contact. Konibu, the last shaman of the Akuntsu people, died in May 2016. He left behind just four members of his tribe.

Uncontacted tribes are the most vulnerable peoples on the planet. Whole populations are being wiped out by genocidal violence from outsiders who steal their land and resources and by diseases like flu and measles to which they have no resistance.

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We know very little about uncontacted tribes, but we do know there are more than a hundred around the world. Brazil is home to more of these peoples than any other country on Earth.

All uncontacted tribal peoples face catastrophe unless their land is protected, but, in areas where their rights are respected, they continue to thrive.

Survival’s Director Stephen Corry said: “It’s time for Brazil finally to end centuries of genocide by respecting the rights of its tribal peoples and protecting their land. Uncontacted tribes are not backward and primitive relics of a remote past. They are our contemporaries and a vitally important part of humankind’s diversity.”

http://www.survivalinternational.org/news/11377

Agelbert NOTE:
For those wishful thinkers who believe the fairy tale that hunter gatherers have a greater chance for survival than the rest of homo sapdom, perhaps you need to wrap your head around the scientific consensus that the biodiversity in the tropics (that all those hunter gatherer tribes living there REQUIRE to survive and thrive) is more degraded by climate change than the biodiversity in any other part of the planet.

Climate Change: Why the Tropical Poor Will Suffer Most
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/538586/climate-change-why-the-tropical-poor-will-suffer-most/


Tropical ecosystems appear to be more sensitive to climate change and less able to store carbon
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/tropics-feel-the-heat-of-climate-change/

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on August 11, 2016, 03:54:22 pm
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on August 11, 2016, 07:46:02 pm
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The EU’s new Science Advice Mechanism

August 11, 2016 at 3:48 pm
 
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SAM Jan 2016 w900 2 - Georges Boulougouris - EC Audiovisual Service

The new EU Science Advice Mechanism, convening for its inaugural meeting in January 2016.

In July, Science reminded its readers of the existence of the European Commission’s new Science Advice Mechanism (SAM), a panel of internationally-recognised scientists tasked with providing scientific advice, in a mechanism intended to address the shortcomings of the ill-fated, single-headed role of Chief Scientific Adviser abandoned in 2014.

In fact, the SAM has already held its first two panel meetings, on 29 January and 16-17 March this year, at which it was agreed its first two questions would relate to “improving the measurements of CO2 emissions so they more closely resemble real-world emissions” and (more vaguely) cybersecurity and “the single digital market”.

A number of the problems with the initial Chief Scientific Adviser position appear, at least to some extent, to have been resolved: there is now a panel of advisers representing diverse interests and backgrounds; they have a reasonable budget; and they have a much larger team of support staff to do the research on which their advice will be based (see the legislative mandate here).

Problems of budget and staffing are relatively trivial, however, compared to the challenge of giving the SAM appropriate mandate and oversight, to ensure that it complements rather than supplants the political process.

This is important because, while it is intuitive to say that policy should in some way follow the evidence, it is in fact only in some very specific circumstances (sometimes described as “tornado politics”) possible or appropriate for “the evidence” to play a decisive role in what the appropriate policy outcome is (and even then, with certain important caveats).

This is because when people disagree it is very often due to their wanting different outcomes, not because they interpret “the evidence” in different ways. Resolving disagreement and defining a mutually acceptable course of action is what politics is for; if the job is handed over to scientists (or handed over further still, to some dictat of “the evidence”), the political solution is short-circuited and there is a deficit of democracy.

Keeping politics separate from science is therefore important. Political processes should be transparent, not masked behind a supposedly scientific debate which is in reality determining a political outcome. Conversely, if science is a proxy battleground for politics, its value in understanding our factual environment, the consequences of our actions, and the mechanisms by which we can most likely expect to achieve our desired goals, becomes diminished.

However, only so much can be done in defining how the SAM should function; it is as much up to the recipients of advice from the SAM as it is up to the SAM itself that its pronouncements are not taken as determining outcomes when politics is required instead. As to whether and how that happens, only time will tell.

https://healthandenvironmentonline.com/2016/08/11/the-eus-new-science-advice-mechanism/

Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on August 11, 2016, 09:07:35 pm
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August 11, 2016

Fossil Fuel Export Moratorium Issued on Cherry Point

Whatcom County, Washington, passed an emergency moratorium on new fossil fuel shipments through Cherry Point, a major export hub, citing environmental and safety issues. The ordinance does not affect current refining or oil shipments.

The county council is expected to hold public hearings during the 60-day moratorium as the county finalizes an update to its 20-year comprehensive plan, which could include a permanent ban on exporting coal or natural gas.

In May, the US Army Corps of Engineers denied a permit to build the country’s largest coal-export terminal at Cherry Point after objections from the Lummi tribe.

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http://www.bellinghamherald.com/news/local/article94774637.html

 
Middle East Heat a Harbinger of Future Disasters
Recent extreme heat events in the Middle East have climate scientists worried about future climate-related catastrophes.

Temperatures have climbed above 115°F across the region this summer, and Kuwait and Iraq recently recorded most likely the hottest temperatures ever in the Eastern Hemisphere.

Record-breaking extreme heat -- estimated to have claimed more lives than wars -- has worsened over the years and recent studies have suggested future climate change will make parts of the region uninhabitable.

A sergeant major in Iraq equated the heat wave to a weapon of mass destruction, saying, “It makes my skin crawl. It is killing us.”
 https://psmag.com/the-unique-burden-of-covering-climate-change-in-the-middle-east-73dd95c51860#.16l8zkgwd



Volcano Eruption Masked Sea Level Rise

The temporary global cooling effect of a major volcanic eruption in 1991 could have slowed the rate of sea level rise, but a “detectable acceleration” is likely in the next decade as its effects fade, new research shows.

Scientists have recorded a steady 3 millimeters per year increase in sea levels since 1993, when satellite record-keeping began.

However, a climate model that negates the effects of the eruption of Mt. Pinatubo in the Philippines showed a much quicker rise in sea levels. "Now that the impacts of Pinatubo have faded, this acceleration should become evident in the satellite measurements in the coming decade, barring another major volcanic eruption," the study’s lead author said.

http://www.climatecentral.org/news/volcano-hid-sea-level-rise-acceleration-20595
 

US News

•In California's climate debate, state lawmakers push for more authority (LA Times $)

•Solar manufacturers pivoting away from big U.S. utility projects http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-08-10/solar-manufacturers-pivoting-away-from-big-u-s-utility-projects

•Electric car charging station companies issue warning over VW settlement
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-volkswagen-emissions-settlement-idUSKCN10L038

•California mayors voice support for climate proposal (LA Times $)

•Investors (https://smileyshack.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/stupid-im-with-arrow-left.gif) have $100 billion to spend on oil assets no one else wants http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-08-11/oil-busts-leery-bankers-and-100-billion-for-distressed-deals

•Thousands of lives could be saved in California by stricter air pollution limits, study finds (LA Times $)

•With droughts and downpours, climate change feeds Chesapeake Bay algal blooms
http://phys.org/news/2016-08-droughts-downpours-climate-chesapeake-bay.html

•Illinois leaders promote NY energy program as model
http://qctimes.com/business/illinois-leaders-promote-ny-energy-program-as-model/article_aca789d5-6c72-541d-9ead-b6865a98f8ed.html

•Pilot Fire: School districts still closed, fire at nearly 7,800 acres
http://www.scpr.org/news/2016/08/10/63463/pilot-fire-school-districts-still-closed-fire-at-n/

•Climate could be pivotal in this congressional race between two California Democrats (Grist)
http://grist.org/election-2016/climate-could-be-pivotal-in-this-congressional-race-between-two-california-democrats/

•Sometimes art has to get gritty—especially when big oil provides the muse https://www.nrdc.org/onearth/sometimes-art-has-get-gritty-especially-when-big-oil-provides-muse

•Elon Musk's new solar project: 'It’s not a thing on the roof. It is the roof'
http://www.ecowatch.com/elon-musks-new-solar-project-1966820558.html

•Growing Zika cases weigh on state lawmakers (E&E News $)



World News

•This island in Russia's Arctic is vanishing into the sea
http://www.takepart.com/article/2016/08/10/this-island-in-russian-arctic-is-vanishing-into-the-sea-climate-change

Scotland completely powered by wind turbines for a day [img width=60]http://us.cdn2.123rf.com/168nwm/lenm/lenm1201/lenm120100200/12107060-illustration-of-a-smiley-giving-a-thumbs-up.jpg[/img]   
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/aug/11/scotland-completely-powered-by-wind-turbines-for-a-day

•Solar and wind 'cheaper than new nuclear' by the time Hinkley is built (Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/aug/11/solar-and-wind-cheaper-than-new-nuclear-by-the-time-hinkley-is-built

•Sydney Opera House targets 'carbon neutral' status by 2023 (Business Green $)

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http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-08-09/scottish-ministers-appeal-court-ruling-that-blocks-offshore-wind

Emma Thompson tells it like it is in this video:
https://youtu.be/xGzLn7LpvAs
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/08/10/bbc-let-emma-thompson-get-away-with-inaccurate-climate-change-cl/

•Mountain biodiversity more vulnerable to climate change than previously reported
http://billingsgazette.com/news/state-and-regional/montana/um-research-mountain-biodiversity-more-vulnerable-to-climate-change-than/article_dbc994ed-fb73-5d50-9aae-55bcea71d469.html

•Three more ways climate change is going to change our lives
https://psmag.com/three-more-ways-climate-change-is-going-to-change-our-lives-eb563e5781d6#.jk3wvgto3

•At least three dead in Portugal wildfires as flames creep into downtown Funchal
http://mashable.com/2016/08/10/portugal-wildfire-photos/?utm_cid=mash-com-Tw-science-link%23O4Smx57EK9q2#KAbHB2Davqqn

•Rice farmers bracing for droughts, floods
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/28321/rice-farmers-bracing-for-droughts--floods/

•Lake Tanganyika ecosystem sensitive to climate change
http://www.voanews.com/a/lake-tanganyika-climate-change/3458543.html

•How climate change will hurt humanity's closest cousins
http://phys.org/news/2016-08-climate-humanity-closest-cousins.html

•Tackling cities’ hidden climate footprint
http://ensia.com/notable/cities-hidden-climate-impact/


ANALYSIS & OPINION

•Tax carbon, California — the rest of the nation will thank you (LA Times, Michael Wara, Adele Morris & Jerry Taylor op-ed $)

•Piecing together the Arctic’s sea ice history back to 1850
https://www.carbonbrief.org/guest-post-piecing-together-arctic-sea-ice-history-1850

•If the US took its climate goals seriously, coal beneath federal land would stay there
http://www.vox.com/2016/8/10/12410048/coal-leasing-2-degrees

•Unprecedented federal court ruling elevates environmental justice over demands of industry
http://fusion.net/story/335110/federal-court-elevates-social-cost-of-carbon-over-industry-demands/

•The Galileo gambit and other stories: the three main tactics of climate denial
https://theconversation.com/the-galileo-gambit-and-other-stories-the-three-main-tactics-of-climate-denial-63719?

•ExxonMobil’s (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-311013200859.png&hash=a7aaaa9f04c1e3e2c948723b5f8c13fe814dacd4) latest campaign to stymie federal climate action (Huffington Post, Elliot Negin op-ed)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/elliott-negin/exxonmobils-latest-campai_b_11408752.html

•Fracking ‘bribes’ raise problematic questions
 https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/aug/10/fracking-bribes-raise-problematic-questions
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on August 11, 2016, 09:45:24 pm
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Massachusetts AG defends climate investigation against Exxon
   
By Timothy Cama - 08/08/16 05:25 PM EDT

Massachusetts’s attorney general is fighting Exxon Mobil Corp.’s attempts to have a Texas court block its climate change investigation into the oil giant.

Maura Healey (D), the state’s top lawyer, filed a pair of briefs late Monday in the Texas federal court where Exxon sued to stop Healey’s wide-ranging demand for documents related to its stance on climate change going back to the 1970s.

Healey believes Exxon might have violated state law and committed fraud by understating the company’s research into global warming and trying to sow public doubt about the role of fossil fuels in climate change. She sent her civil investigative demand — similar to a subpoena — earlier this year.

Now Healey is accusing Exxon of “forum-shopping,” or trying to get a Texas court to intervene in a matter that should be handled in Massachusetts.

“This court should reject Exxon’s transparent attempt at forum-shopping and dismiss this case,” Douglas Cawley, who is representing Healey’s office, wrote in a brief with the federal District Court for the Northern District of Texas.

“Exxon has challenged the validity of the [demand] in Massachusetts state court and will have a full and fair opportunity to press its claims there,” he said. “Notwithstanding that fact, Exxon also elected to file a nearly identical suit in this court and asks the court to exercise personal jurisdiction over Attorney General Healey — despite the fact that all relevant events alleged in the complaint occurred in Massachusetts or New York and no relevant events occurred in Texas.”

Healey also filed a brief opposing Exxon’s attempt in the Texas court to get a preliminary injunction against the investigative demand while the litigation is ongoing.

The court, Cawley wrote in the brief, “need not reach Exxon’s preliminary injunction motion because it should dismiss Exxon’s suit for lack of personal jurisdiction over Attorney General Healey, as well as on the other grounds set forth in her motion to dismiss.”

Healey and her colleagues in New York, California and the Virgin Islands have launched investigations into Exxon’s stance on climate.

Healey agreed last month to hold off on enforcing her investigative demand while Texas challenges it in court, a standard practice in similar cases.

http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/290790-massachusetts-ag-defends-climate-investigation-against-exxon

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on August 16, 2016, 08:21:55 pm
August 16, 2016

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Taking the Earth's Temperature

 “Our Warm Regards,” a new podcast on climate issues hosted by meteorologist Eric Holthaus, released a new episode that discusses taking the Earth’s temperature. Click here (https://soundcloud.com/warmregardspodcast/how-do-you-take-the-planets-temperature) for the latest episode. 


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July 2016 Hottest Month Ever, NASA Shows

 Global temperatures in July were 0.84°C (1.51°F) above the 1950-1980 average, making it the hottest month since record keeping began, as well as the hottest July ever. The latest NASA data show that July is now the tenth consecutive record warm month, and 2016 is still on track to be the hottest year on record. Gavin Schmidt, director of NASA’s Goddard Institute of Space Studies, expects July to be the last record warm month of 2016 as the effects of El Niño fade.
http://www.climatecentral.org/news/july-another-record-hot-month-20605


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McKibben: It’s WWIII, We’re Losing   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-041115022304.png&hash=cd8cb8e28ab8f7fc78c1ea00d30a661bd937aed5)

 Bill McKibben, in an in-depth piece headlined “A World at War”, explains exactly why the Democratic Party platform commits to address climate change “on a scale not seen since World War II.” He stakes out a forward position for the party’s climate policy, writing,
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“It’s not that global warming is like a world war. It is a world war.”


McKibben calls on the next president to display the same urgency and foresight as FDR and take immediate action, because, with the devastation from climate-strengthened extreme weather events happening right now: “World War III is well and truly underway. And we are losing.”
https://newrepublic.com/article/135684/declare-war-climate-change-mobilize-wwii

Agelbert NOTE: I agree. We ARE losing.  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.desismileys.com%2Fsmileys%2Fdesismileys_2953.gif&hash=b84c0ae260f7ac760e54bcdc33d788c36faa07c1)

And ANYTHING the "Democratic" (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2F1.bp.blogspot.com%2F-TzWpwHzCvCI%2FT_sBEnhCCpI%2FAAAAAAAAME8%2FIsLpuU8HYxc%2Fs1600%2Fnooo-way-smiley.gif&hash=b8545bd420b1e2f2c7b9f665d2093523e4ad2251) Party platform commits to is to be categorized as an election campaign empty promise.

But the politicians all over the world will NOT be able to keep a lid on the ongoing climate change catastrophe. Eventually, though far too late for most of us, the empathy deficit disordered psychopaths running this biosphere into the Sixth Great Extinction will commit to seriously addressing climate change by phasing out fossil fuels and accelerating the transition to a 100% Renewable Energy economy.

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Because, the biosphere math challenged poobahs will witness rain bombs and other increasingly frequent sorts of climate change caused damage to THEIR properties and THEIR profits.

 
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Hammond, La. August 13, 2016 after record amount of rainfall - Don't think that the high end properties all over the WORLD are not going to take an increasingly severe beating too (as well as the stock of property insurance corporations that the rich of this world own).

Until hard experience forces these stupid greed balls to extract themselves from their blind devotion to profit over planet, they will continue to make up fairy tales, doubletalk, bold faced mendacity and blatantly false happy talk in defense of the corrupt and unsustainable fossil fuel status quo (SEE latest Fossil Fuel Industry/Koch chicanery below).

Experience is not the best teacher for people who actually believe that they can perpetually distort reality by "externalizing" the consequences of their hubris onto we-the-people and the rest of the life forms in the biosphere; it's the ONLY teacher.

Selfish people are nauseatingly predictable.

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Though they still refuse to support/to spend on Trump, the Kochs apparently feel they have to do something with their $750 million budget to influence voters. Beyond focusing on down-ballot races, they’re also revving up a new (probably) anti-electric car and (definitely) pro-fossil fuel front group as part of their ongoing efforts documented by the new microsite, KochsVsClean. Teased last February, publicly announced on Saturday and exposed by DeSmog’s Sharon Kelly on Sunday, the “Fueling U.S. Forward” group seeks to get the public emotionally invested in fossil fuels as being “pro-human.”
 
To do so, it will deploy the kind of doublespeak propaganda that we’ve come to expect from these entrenched interests, if its name or debut are any indication. As described in the post you should just go read at DeSmog (http://www.desmogblog.com/2016/08/14/new-koch-back-campaign-rolled-out-red-state-gathering-aims-promote-positives-fossil-fuels), the president and CEO of the new group told the crowd at the Red State 2016 gathering that not only are fossil fuels all the usual talking points of “reliable, abundant, efficient,” but also they are “sustainable.”
 
Which, of course, is as backwards as can be. Not only are fossil fuels finite resources that will at some point be depleted if we continue business-as-usual, but they’re also mostly responsible for that little old thing called climate change. So even if they were a renewable resource, they still wouldn’t be sustainable indefinitely, in that if we continue burning them, it would render the planet incapable of sustaining human life. 
 
At this point, you may be wondering why the Kochs are bothering to spend big bucks on such an obviously absurd ad campaign. Is this just fodder for talk show mockery, like John Oliver’s brilliant (though NSFW) skewering of the American Petroleum Institute’s new ad campaign?
 
Unfortunately, it’s much more than that. Though those who oppose renewables may not be nationally successful, they are finding wins at the state level. Case in point: the coal-heavy Wyoming, where state legislators are considering a massive tax increase on wind power  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Fmocantina.gif&hash=d013c741bcf9a78776eec19c2c3aac449c35d75c)  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Facigar.gif&hash=dc9dccf92c6c88c99611b06c86d92629d69f2978) as a major new project is being developed.
 
Seems without the glare of national media, deniers are able to advance their anti-clean energy agenda. This means instead of going forward on the path to a clean energy future, the Kochs’ funding is not fueling the U.S. forward, but backwards to the time when our only energy options were their “pro-human”* fossil fuels (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-220216203149.gif&hash=bd184b6edccce4045e246847a0c84e89bd5a18b6).

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http://www.desmogblog.com/2016/08/14/new-koch-back-campaign-rolled-out-red-state-gathering-aims-promote-positives-fossil-fuels

 
The Fossil Fuelers   DID THE Climate Trashing, human health depleteing CRIME,   but since they have ALWAYS BEEN liars and conscience free crooks, they are trying to AVOID  DOING THE TIME   or   PAYING THE FINE!     Don't let them get away with it!   Pass it on!  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F176.gif&hash=121533221905789c6b8d57a9603883266d349266)

Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on August 17, 2016, 03:33:17 pm
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Epicureanism is a system of philosophy based upon the teachings of the ancient Greek philosopher Epicurus, founded around 307 BC. Epicurus was an atomic materialist, following in the steps of Democritus. His materialism led him to a general attack on superstition and divine intervention.[/quote]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epicureanism (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epicureanism)

Since most people, whether they have studied philosophy or not, believe that "pleasure is the greatest good", then espousing an Epicurean type world view should come naturally. But these modified Epicureans of today reject a very important part of the epicurean philosophy.

THAT IS, eschewing a modest life.

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Epicurus believed that what he called "pleasure" was the greatest good, but that the way to attain such pleasure was to live modestly, to gain knowledge of the workings of the world and to limit one's desires[/i][/b].
Cool... so since becoming a doomer, I've become a true Epicurean... my greatest joy in life is listening to my daughter's laughter.

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Since I am a bit of a 'no spiritual gain without pain' fanatic, I can never embrace Epicureanism, but I applaud your modest life style.
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Epicureanism is a system of philosophy based upon the teachings of the ancient Greek philosopher Epicurus, founded around 307 BC. Epicurus was an atomic materialist, following in the steps of Democritus. His materialism led him to a general attack on superstition and divine intervention.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epicureanism (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epicureanism)

Since most people, whether they have studied philosophy or not, believe that "pleasure is the greatest good", then espousing an Epicurean type world view should come naturally. But these modified Epicureans of today reject a very important part of the epicurean philosophy.

THAT IS, eschewing a modest life.
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Epicurus believed that what he called "pleasure" was the greatest good, but that the way to attain such pleasure was to live modestly, to gain knowledge of the workings of the world and to limit one's desires.
Cool... so since becoming a doomer, I've become a true Epicurean... my greatest joy in life is listening to my daughter's laughter.

Glad to know that there is a name for it.

One of the greatest keys to happiness (IMO) is knowing what is "enough." A daughter's laughter is MORE than enough. I'd suggest it is great wealth.


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Thank you for your words of wisdom.

It is a dark time. All words of wisdom are welcome in a time of a great flowering of evil, such as this one, so massive that it threatens most of the material macroscopic biosphere's viability.

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The above is a reasonable facsimile of the full moon view last night and tonight from my kitchen windows as I ponder the future of humanity. Will humans ever learn to respect, revere and protect God's creation or will they continue to invent ever more convoluted and self delusional excuses for the rejection of God mandated altruism?

Will the leaders of humanity continue to embrace the celebration of blatant, vulgar and sinful rampant and unrepentant egotism?


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e·go·tism
/ˈēɡəˌtizəm/

noun

noun:
egotism

the practice of talking and thinking about oneself excessively because of an undue sense of self-importance.

synonyms
: self-centeredness, egomania, egocentricity, self-interest, selfishness, self-seeking, self-serving, self-regard, self-love, narcissism, self-admiration, vanity, conceit, self-importance; boastfulness 

A remnant will do the right thing. Most probably will not. May God have mercy on all of us.


Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on August 18, 2016, 02:05:16 am
Agelbert NOTE: Originally published in September of 2015 in three parts. I'm reposting it in full, with a few graphics changes, for you to pass on to friends and family. Its message continues to be of the utmost importance to intelligent, caring humans.

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Dianoia is sine qua non to a viable biosphere.- A. G. Gelbert

The following multi-part article post makes a case for the premise that ignoring, deriding or mocking the high probability of the existential threat we face from anthropogenic climate change is irresponsible. Anyone who is alive after around 2040 will pay for their present irresponsible, egocentric, empathy deficit disordered behavior.

Unfortunately, the innocent will suffer equally along with the criminally negligent reprobates who support incremental measures to deal with this existential threat. Have a nice day.

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The essay, "What it Means to be Responsible - Reflections on Our Responsibility for the Future" by Theresa Morris, State University of New York at New Paltz references the work of Fitzpatrick, Jonas, Aristotle and others. I have summarized the essay to save the readers time.

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FitzPatrick, W.J. 2007. Climate Change and the Rights of Future Generations: Social Justice Beyond Mutual Advantage. Environmental Ethics. 29(4): 369-388.

The author discusses the moral responsibilities that current generations have to future generations, and how arguing for protecting the rights of future generations is an effective answer to political arguments against taking mandatory measures to curb greenhouse gas emissions when these are unpopular with a democratic populace.

Climate Change, Engineered Systems, & Society Bibliography
http://www.onlineethics.org/Resources/Bibliographies/ClimateChangeBib.aspx (http://www.onlineethics.org/Resources/Bibliographies/ClimateChangeBib.aspx)
Theoretical & Applied Ethics Vol. 1, Issue 42 2, Spring 2011

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What it Means to be Responsible
Reflections on Our Responsibility for the Future
Theresa Morris, State University of New York at New Paltz

The concept of responsibility is a central one in ethics but it seems to require rethinking when we consider the fact that oftentimes the consequences of actions in contemporary, technological society extend far into the future. To whom or what are we responsible, and how far into the future do our obligations extend?

In this essay, I consider the question of our possible responsibility for the future, specifically the future state of our planet, and the well-being of future people and other beings. I argue that we do have responsibilities to future people and an obligation to try to preserve and protect the planet and its living beings for the future, and I present a new concept of responsibility, one that provides a way of understanding our actions in light of concern for the future.


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The central problem with an argument that considers the effects of present actions on the future world lies in the fact that those acting today will not exist in the world they are affecting with their actions.
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Why should people, now living, care about the consequences of their actions on a future world whose inhabitants are currently non-existent? Even if held accountable by those future generations, no price for wrongful actions can be extracted from the dead. We lack the usual motivations for acting ethically in situations that might impact future generations, and though we may imagine angry voices condemning us for our lack of forethought and care some several generations into the future, we will never hear those words of contempt.

Despite this, Attfield (1998) argues that "intergenerational justice remains a serious possibility, as actual future generations which come into being, and find that they have been deprived by earlier generations of opportunities for satisfying some of their most basic needs, could reasonably criticize their ancestors for failing to facilitate the satisfaction of foreseeable vital interests" (p.211).

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Ethical arguments struggle, however, when lack of proximity is a factor, for it is difficult to take into consideration the impact of our actions on those spatially distant from us.

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This problem arises whenever we are asked to take into consideration or contribute to the welfare of those who live in distant places, those who do not share our community, and those whose suffering we do not directly experience.
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Without the presence of the other face-to-face, without a real relation to the other person, it is difficult to remain aware of and concerned about his or her need.

How much more difficult then, to take into consideration those who do not yet exist, those others we will never know and can only imagine.

The difficulty is further complicated by the fact that often the choices we make today, choices that involve use of finite resources, for instance, or the use of technology that may have deleterious aftereffects, may seem at the time to be valuable for the comfort, health or well-being of the contemporaneous human population. Indeed, most of our ethical deliberation is concerned with present actions.

In what way and how can it be argued that sacrifices or restrictions on some very useful and beneficial activities and technologies must be made in order to benefit future peoples who do not yet exist?
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Responsibility in Aristotle

For Aristotle, the capacity human beings have to think about what they will do is what lies at the root of our responsibility for our actions. We are free to act, within certain necessary limits, and we have the capacity to think about our choices, therefore responsibility accompanies actions when, as Aristotle says, the "source is in oneself."

Rational beings with the capacity to choose among actions and bring about ends cannot escape from the notion of responsibility. It is a given, provided one is free from coercion in one's actions. Here responsibility is not responsiveness to the Other, not responding to another's need or want, as in Levinas. Rather, it is that since we are free to make choices and commit acts, we must accept responsibility for the consequences of those choices.

For Aristotle, to act responsibly is to act beautifully, because when a person does so he or she engages the greatest capacity available to human beings; that is "thinking things through," dianoia . What differentiates ethical choice from willing, desiring, and wishing, for Aristotle, is that it involves deliberation (NE 1112a 15).

To think things through is to look ahead and estimate consequences using imagination and forethought and to make judgments about possible actions based on experience and memory; this is the kind of reasoning that responsibility requires.

Aristotle says, "We deliberate about things that are up to us and are matters of action" (NE 1112a32). Choice is not something that is shared by irrational beings, it is the mark of a being with self-control (NE 1111b15).


Thus choice is firmly in the realm of practical, ethical action. With his emphasis on dianoia, Aristotle offers one way to think about responsibility to the future; it is the lack of "thinking things through," in preference for shortsightedness regarding means and ends, that results in acts of harm, both to the environment and to future people.

If we fail to think things through to the consequences of our actions we are not acting responsibly.

And ignorance is no justification for poor choices, for Aristotle points out that we can be ignorant and still responsible. If we deliberately become irrational, as when we become drunk, or when we ought to know something and yet fail to, we are still held responsible, "on the grounds that it is up to people themselves not to be ignorant, since they are in control of how much care they take" (NE 1114a).

Aristotle is rigorous in his insistence that human beings, because they are rational and have the capacity to "think things through," are responsible for their actions.

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World Bank Warns of Severe Threat to Food Supplies from Climate Change (http://www.sustainablecitiescollective.com/david-thorpe/1019761/world-bank-warns-severe-threat-food-supplies-climate-change)

But perhaps, Aristotle says, "one is not the sort of person who takes any care" (NE 1114a5). Perhaps here we have the crux of it; that there are people who don't care, who are careless.

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We must act on Global Warming: Climate Change has already made the world three times more dangerous. (http://charlescharliecharles.com/2014/08/we-must-act-on-global-warming-climate-change-has-already-made-the-world-three-times-more-dangerous/)

Aristotle says such people, despite their lack of care, are still responsible because it was always in the beginning up to them to use their intelligence to make good choices and the fact that they don't care is the result of a long line of deliberations that denigrated the value of their own beautiful actions, the concerns of others, and the consequences of their actions on themselves and others.

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On Aristotle's view, we always become who we are through a series of choices over time, and those choices form our moral character.
The Problem of Responsibility Today

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That ignorance is no excuse for Aristotle seems to indicate that those of us who fail to acknowledge scientifically based warnings about climate change, or who acknowledge the warnings and refuse to heed them, are responsible for our failure.

To think things through would be to take into account in deliberating about our choices the realities that face us, the sure consequences of some of our actions, those that we have experience and knowledge enough to foresee.  If the consequences of our actions today extend far into the future, this would require that we take that far future into consideration in our actions.
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It is just because of this farther extension of consequences into the future that Jonas argues that human action today differs radically from human action in Aristotle's time. As he says, "modern technology has introduced actions of such novel scale, objects, and consequences that the framework of former ethics can no longer contain them" (Jonas, 1984, p. 6). Powerful technologies in use today have effects that extend far into the future, and this includes harms that arise directly from their manufacture and use, such as resource depletion and pollution from hazardous waste, as well as harms that occur because of the scope their reach, as in climate change. The negative effects are not limited to the earth and its ecosystems but include effects on communities of people whose livelihoods are harmed and whose basic goods, such as water and air, are polluted and rendered unusable.

These consequences affect living beings over their lifetimes, threaten the health of the planet, and are passed down to future generations as the integrity of the global ecosystem is damaged over time.

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For Jonas, technology has enabled us to greatly extend the scope of our actions and magnified their repercussions, and yet our concept of responsibility has not grown to encompass the new range of action.

Particularly, Jonas has in mind the repercussions of genetic engineering, nuclear technologies, and other technologies that have the capacity to impact the future in highly significant ways: "more specifically, it will be my contention that with certain developments of our powers the nature of human action has changed, and since ethics is concerned with action, it should follow that the changed nature of human action calls for a change in ethics as well, in the more radical sense that the qualitatively novel nature of certain of our actions has opened up a whole new dimension of ethical relevance for which there is no precedent in the standards and canons of traditional ethics" (1984, p. 1).

For example, the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf had consequences that extend far into the future, affecting marine and coastal ecosystems, the livelihood of human beings dependent on a healthy environment for sustenance, and marine life far from the origin of the spill.

Ecosystems are by nature interconnected and interdependent, and the reach of the spill was extensive. Its impact is not limited in space or time. As well, we might ask who exactly is responsible for the oil spill in the Gulf? Is it the technicians and engineers, the government regulations that allow drilling to be done in extreme conditions, the companies making a profit, or the consumers whose desire for cheap fossil fuel drives the market?

This kind of diffusion of responsibility, a diffuse collective responsibility that Stephen Gardiner refers to as a "fragmentation of agency," means that it is difficult to assign responsibility.

As Gardiner points out, "climate change is caused not by a single agent but by a vast number of individuals and institutions not unified by a comprehensive structure of agency. This is important because it poses a challenge to humanity's ability to respond" (2010, p. 88).

How much is up to us then, to use Aristotle's term, in today's technological, global world? The notion of collective responsibility is pertinent because in a democratic society responsibility for collective actions like oil drilling would seem to rest with all citizens.

How we are to understand democratic responsibility, diffused among many, is a significant problem given the altered nature of human action and the extended reach of the consequences of our actions. And because the consequences will fall primarily on future generations, there is a disincentive to alter our behavior, particularly if that might make current lives more difficult.
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While there have been past periods in Earth's history when temperatures were warmer than they are now, the rate of change that is currently taking place is faster than most of the climate shifts that have occurred in the past, and therefore it will likely be more difficult to adapt to.
The Last Time CO2 Was This High, Humans Didn’t Exist (http://www.climatecentral.org/news/the-last-time-co2-was-this-high-humans-didnt-exist-15938)

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Without a Trace ‘The Sixth Extinction,’ by Elizabeth Kolbert

New York Times Sunday Book Review Snippet:

In the same way, and for many of the same reasons, many today find it inconceivable that we could possibly be responsible for destroying the integrity of our planet’s ecology.

There are psychological barriers to even imagining that what we love so much could be lost — could be destroyed forever.

As a result, many of us refuse to contemplate it. Like an audience entertained by a magician, we allow ourselves to be deceived by those with a stake in persuading us to ignore reality. ...

... we continue to use the world’s atmosphere as an open sewer for the daily dumping of more than 90 million tons of gaseous waste. ...

... The resulting rapid warming of both the atmosphere and the ocean, which Kolbert notes has absorbed about one-third of the carbon dioxide we have produced, is wreaking havoc on earth’s delicately balanced ecosystems.

It threatens both the web of living species with which we share the planet 
and the future viability of civilization. “By disrupting these systems,” Kolbert writes, "we’re putting our own survival in danger.”  (http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/16/books/review/the-sixth-extinction-by-elizabeth-kolbert.html)


While a new ethical understanding
that takes into consideration the extended consequences of our actions in a technological society seems necessary, another question arises: where do our obligations end if we begin to think of extending them to future beings and the future existence of a livable planet?

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How might such seemingly open-ended obligations be argued for? And if, to be responsible, as Aristotle claims, is to "think things through," are there limits to our capacity to be responsible?


Rethinking Responsibility

Here I think it is a good moment to turn to Jonas, who argues in The Imperative of Responsibility that, difficult as it may seem, we do have a responsibility for the future.

He presents an argument for responsibility based on the presence of an objectively existing good, and he claims that fulfillment of the human good results from taking the effects of our actions on the future into account (Jonas, 1984, pp. 80-82).

When we are not able to predict the long-term consequences of our actions he argues that we should proceed with prudence, even to the extent of being guided by fear, in order to ensure that we do not create extensive future harms.

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For Jonas, the human being occupies a special place in the lifeworld. Jonas sees the human being as that being which is uniquely capable of responsibility, and the presence of this capacity entails that it must be acted on if a one is to fully become the being one is capable of becoming.

The capacity for responsibility contributes to the "what it is to be" a human being and as such, informs the telos of human being. Jonas says that
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"every living thing has its own end which needs no further justification. In this, man has nothing over other living beings, except that he alone can have responsibility also for them, that is, for guarding their self-purpose" (Jonas, 1984, p. 98).

For Jonas, the fact that each organism desires and pursues the continuance of its own life points to the fact that life is a value for each being. Life is a good and as such it presents the being with the capacity to take responsibility with an imperative to protect and preserve it, to recognize the value it is for all living beings. The particular human good lies in the capacity of the human being to recognize and respond to the imperative of responsibility.

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The practice of taking responsibility for our choices, of taking the well-being and future of the planet and its beings into consideration, draws out the higher capabilities of the rational animal.

For Jonas, the imperative of responsibility commands us to respond ethically for the sake of the good that is evidenced in Being, a good that reveals itself in each living beings' pursuit of its own continuance, its desire for life.

As well, responsibility includes protecting the possibility for the continued existence of human freedom and ethical responsiveness.

As Jonas says, "the secret or paradox of morality is that the self forgets itself over the pursuit of the object, so that a higher self (which indeed is also a good in itself) might come into being.

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The good man is not he who made himself good but rather he who did the good for its own sake.

As Jonas tries to show, the good of the human and the good in the world are not separate but the same.

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Taking responsibility for the future becomes necessary as soon as we recognize our potential to harmfully impact the future and, as Aristotle argues, once this recognition registers, ignorance is no longer an acceptable plea.

Rights and Responsibility

Another means of arguing for responsibilities to future generations, one that is less metaphysical and more supportive of political action, is to consider the question of the rights of future people. A proponent of this view is Hiskes (2009), who argues that "global warming and climate change have made it abundantly clear that the human impact on the environment is an emergent one, the product of uncounted individual decisions and choices on one hand, and public policies and political omissions on the other, which make every one of us responsible for putting all the rest of us in a new situation of risk, and not only "all of us" but those who come after us as well" (p.146).

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Hiskes goes on to explain that "rights are necessarily the legal response to harms, real or potential. The fact that they are new and collective harms that do not fit within the traditional individualist language of either rights or responsibility do not alter the equation of rights as a response to harm.

New harms demand new rights. Because they are emergent harms, the rights that they begat will share their emergent ontological nature" (p. 146).

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This argument supports the contention that we cannot disregard responsibilities to the future simply because future people do not now exist.

Future people are continually coming into existence, even as the effects of our actions emerge over long periods of time. There is a synchrony in terms of the emergence of future beings and the emergence of harms.

Both are initiated in the present, in the actions of present day beings, and both concern a time after present day actors are gone.

Future needs are predictable and future beings are coming into being all the time. It is not as if the future exists at some point far into the distance, with no connection to the present. The future is always coming into being, it follows closely on the heels of the present, and while we see changes in each generation, physical human beings will always need clean air to breathe and water to drink, as well as fire to stay warm.

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The realities of life for future beings are being established now through our contemporary actions and this is a fact we cannot deny. If we refuse to take responsibility for the impact of our actions on future generations, we must admit that we are willfully disregarding this fundamental reality and its ethical implications.


In a similar vein, Fitzpatrick (2007) argues that a conception of justice based upon a notion of "mutual advantage among cooperating parties of roughly equal power and vulnerability" is too restrictive (p. 377).

Justice, insofar as it relates to rights and obligations, is a concept not limited to those sharing space and time. He says that, "attribution of rights to future generations will therefore be legitimate if we can speak of an earlier generation's wronging future generations by spoiling the environment the former was given and has relied upon for its flourishing in the same way that future generations depend upon it for theirs" (Fitzpatrick, 2007, p. 377).


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Fitzpatrick turns to a notion of stewardship to frame the question of responsibilities to future generations; contemporary inhabitants of the Earth do not own it, they have merely inherited it and should care for it sustainably in order to pass a flourishing environment down to future generations.

Future generations have a right to inherit a healthy ecosystem, just as we did, and this right entails an obligation on the part of the living to pass down a viable planet. The responsibility to do so is centered in the right future generations have to be protected from harms caused by others, as well as the right to inherit and enjoy what previous generations have inherited and enjoyed.

That people depend upon a healthy environment to flourish, and that a diminished environment is harmful to people is at the basis of Fitzpatrick's argument.
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"The core responsibility assigned to governments in democracies is the public welfare, protecting the human birthright to basic needs: clean air, water, land, and a place to live, under equitable rules of access to all common property resources.

It is astonishing to discover that major political efforts in democracies can be turned to undermining the core purpose of government, destroying the factual basis for fair and effective protection of essential common property resources of all to feed the financial interests of a few.

These efforts, limiting scientific research on environment, denying the validity of settled facts and natural laws, are a shameful dance, far below acceptable or reputable political behavior. It can be treated not as a reasoned alternative, but scorned for what it is – simple thievery." —George M. Woodwell, Woods Hole Research Center founder

He considers future people to be the moral equals of presently living people, and therefore claims we cannot disregard their rights or turn aside from our responsibility not to cause them harm.

He argues that "if we fail to conserve limited natural resources, or to control dangerous waste, or to curb greenhouse gas emissions, then we will be causing people harm, not merely failing to benefit them" (Fitzpatrick, 2007, p. 377).


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The currently prevailing “law of the jungle”, causing the atmosphere to be overused in terms of the deposition of carbon ad infinitum, is thus de-legitimized by the Pope.

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The fact that these people do not exist simultaneously with us is not a reason to fail to take them into ethical consideration. Fitzpatrick concludes by arguing that we need to reconsider the meaning of justice rights in order to include responsibilities to future generations in our consideration because there is simply no justification possible for disregarding the effects of our actions on the future.

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There is no doubt that accepting responsibility for the future will require a great deal of effort and even sacrifice on the part of those of us living today.
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In the next and final section, I take a brief look at the way in which an ethic of care might provide the needed motivation for the difficult changes that taking future generations into ethical consideration might require.

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Motivation and Care

To accept the burden of responsibility for what is up to us, difficult as it is where our technological reach is so extended and agency is so fragmented, is to strive to fulfill the capacity we have to respond to the good and protect and preserve it.

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This task, however, is difficult, not only because of the extent of effects in time and space, fragmentation of agency, and the difficulty of predicting harms, but also because in many cases we may benefit now from actions that result in harms to future generations.

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What could motivate us to make the necessary sacrifices required by responsibility of this scope and nature?

Jonas turns to the human capacity for care for an answer to this question. He uses the analogy of the parent and child to demonstrate that we are attuned to caring in a fundamental way (Jonas, 1984, pp. 98-108).

 Jonas sees that caring is a mode of being for the human being, one that is demonstrated naturally in the attention and love parents give to their children as they nourish these beings who will exist in the future.

It can be argued that the care of children is ultimately selfish, a way to project particular and individual genetic material forward. Yet, at the same time, most stable societies demonstrate their concern and care about the future through the fostering of all children in the society and through their concern with passing down cultural and physical artifacts to posterity.

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If selfish instincts were at issue here, individuals would not bequeath to unknown future others the endowments and monuments and institutions they have.

Jonas’ example of the statesman as a paradigm of responsibility toward the future reflects the important role of democratic social institutions and governments in responsibility. Established to foster and preserve culture and enable the orderly transfer of power from generation to generation, governments, at their best, are concerned with bettering the conditions of the people and ensuring that opportunities, values, artifacts, inventions, techniques, and other "objects" cultivated and produced by society are preserved and passed down.

This example illustrates the presence, in social institutions, of a fundamental care and concern with the future and future peoples that can serve as an example and guide for a practical ethic of responsibility for the future.

It is only through care of the future that we can extend the reach of our grasp on life through bequeathing a planet that is livable and viable, one that preserves and protects the cycle of life for the beings who will inhabit it.


The natural drive toward transcendence of finitude through leaving behind works, objects or beings of lasting value can be engaged as a motivating force in an ethics that is concerned with extending its reach to future generations.

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There is, finally, another way to think of the role of care as a motivating force for assuming responsibility; not necessarily care or love for future persons unknown to us, but love for the Earth and for life itself.

Perhaps we should reframe the question of an ethics of responsibility for the future, because it can be argued that we are motivated to moderate and measure our actions toward nature and to care about the health and continued viability of the Earth because of our love for it, and for the life it offers.

We are capable of caring not only about those potential beings of the future who will inherit this planet but also about the planet itself as a living being we will pass down.[1] Inspired by the beauty of existence, fleeting though it is, we desire its continuance even though we will not be here to enjoy its pleasures forever, and this too is reflective of our ethical capacity.

Conclusion

In the preceding I've shown what I see is a need for a reconsidered understanding of the meaning and extent of responsibility today, and I've talked about some of the difficulties facing us in attempting to accept responsibility for the future, as well as some of the motivational forces that might help us overcome those difficulties.

To begin to take responsibility for the Earth and future generations we can consider ourselves as caretakers, trustees or stewards. We can pursue sustainable practices that conserve resources and other basic goods for future generations to benefit from and enjoy.

Recognizing the presence of the good in existence, we can protect it by considering the long-term effects of our choices and actions on the future. The damage we've done has been done collectively, as Fitzpatrick points out, and the only way to prevent further damage and protect the future is through collective action.

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Taking responsibility will require thinking about ourselves differently, as well. We must develop a new self understanding, one that reflects our increasing knowledge concerning the extent of the effects of our actions on the Earth and the future. The human capacity for responsibility is a reflection of what Jonas calls "the higher self," a good-in-itself that comes into being when we recognize the value of life, reflect on the consequences of our choices, and take responsibility for the harms we cause.

Thus, a significant aspect of the good of the human being is the human capacity to bear responsibility.

The continued existence of the good for all beings rests on humans assuming that responsibility, and the time for us to recognize that is now.

If we fail to take responsibility it will be a failure of justice and of love, towards both future beings and the planet.



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Notes

1. "When men act for the sake of a future they will not live to see, it is for the most part out of love for persons, places and forms of activity, a cherishing of them, nothing more grandiose. It is indeed self-contradictory to say: 'I love him or her or that place or that institution or that activity, but I don't care what happens to it after my death.' To love is, amongst other things, to care about the future of what we love" (Passmore, 1980, p. 53


References

Adam, G. (2011). Futures Tended: Care and Future-Oriented Responsibility. Bulletin of Science, Technology and Society,
31, 1, 17-27.

Aristotle. (2002). Nicomachean Ethics, J. Sachs (trans). Newburyport, MA: Focus Publishing.

Attfield, R. (1998). Environmental Ethics and Intergenerational Equity. Inquiry, 41, 2, 207-222.

Fitzpatrick, W. J. (2007). Climate Change and the Rights of Future Generations: Social Justice Beyond Mutual Advantage.

Environmental Ethics, 29, 4, 369-388.

Gardiner, S. M. (2010). A Perfect Moral Storm. In Climate Ethics. NY: Oxford University Press.

Hiskes, R. P. (2009). The Human Right to a Green Future. NY: Cambridge University Press.

Jonas, H. (1984). The Imperative of Responsibility. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.

Passmore, J. (1980). Conservation. In Responsibilities to Future Generations. Buffalo, NY: Prometheus Books..

https://blogs.montclair.edu/tae/files/2011/03/Vol.-1-Issue-2-Morris.pdf

Agelbert NOTE: The mens rea (http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/fossil-fuel-folly/fossil-fuels-degraded-democracy-and-profit-over-planet-pollution/msg3875/#msg3875) of the fossil fuel industry and almost half of the world’s 100 largest companies, including Procter & Gam ble and Duke Energy, has been recently exposed. They all funded lobbyists and propagandists in order to obstruct climate change legislation.

I use the Latin legal expression, "mens rea", because the above obstructionists of climate change legislation were knowledgeable over 40 years ago of the damage that burning fossil fuels causes to the biosphere in general and humans in particular.

As Theresa  Morris made quite clear in her essay, these corporations made the wrong choice. And they made that choice because they refused to think things through.

Theresa  Morris said,
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This task, however, is difficult, not only because of the extent of effects in time and space, fragmentation of agency, and the difficulty of predicting harms, but also because in many cases we may benefit now from actions that result in harms to future generations.

Ethical considerations aside for a moment, the people in these powerful corporations are not stupid. They love their own children.

So, if they knew, because over 40 years ago ExxonMobil scientists laid out the facts to oil executives (http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/fossil-fuel-folly/fossil-fuels-degraded-democracy-and-profit-over-planet-pollution/msg3873/#msg3873), who then secretly joined with several other corporations to fund denial of climate change and obstruct climate change legislation, why did they, with malice and aforethought, engage in disguising the fact that they were, and are, getting an F in viable biosphere math?

Some will say that it's a no brainer that they did it for profit. While that is partially true, it ignores the fact that big oil corporations DO believe their own scientists. It also ignores the fact that fossil fuel corporations DO NOT believe the happy talk propaganda that they fund.

They plan ahead. They plan to take advantage of the 'Fragmentation of Agency' mentioned by  Stephen Gardiner. The corporations did not get limited liability laws passed because they wanted to be socially responsible. I believe they will use the 'Fragmentation of Agency', in regard to biosphere damage claims, to unjustly limit their liability in a typically unethical "damage control" exercise.

One of the themes about human history that I have tried to communicate to readers over and over is that predatory capitalist corporations, while deliberately profiting from knowingly doing something that causes pollution damage to the populace, always plan AHEAD to socialize the costs of that damage when they can no longer deny SOME liability for it. Their conscience free lackey lawyers will always work the system (http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/fossil-fuel-folly/fossil-fuels-degraded-democracy-and-profit-over-planet-pollution/msg2122/#msg2122) to limit even PROVEN 100% liability.

When 100% liability is blatantly obvious, as in the Exxon Valdes oil spill, they will shamelessly use legalese to limit the liability. ExxonMobil pulled a fast one on the plaintiffs by getting "punitive", rather than "compensatory" damages. See what the learned counselor said, "The purpose of punitive awards is to punish, not to destroy, according to the law". Ethics free Exxon and its ethics free lawyers KNOW how the Court System "works". JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL LAW [Vol. 18:151] The purpose of this comment is to describe the history of the Exxon Valdez litigation and analyze whether the courts and corresponding laws are equipped to effectively handle mass environmental litigation. (http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/fossil-fuel-folly/fossil-fuels-degraded-democracy-and-profit-over-planet-pollution/msg2123/#msg2123).

While the profits are rolling in, they will claim they are "just loyal public servants, selflessly providing a service that the public is demanding", while they laugh all the way to the bank. When the damage is exposed, they will claim we are "all equally to blame" (i.e. DISTORTED Fragmentation of Agency).

This is clearly false because polluting corporations, in virtually all cases, AREN'T non-profit organizations. If they were NOT PROFITING, THEN, and only then, could they make the claim that "we all benefited equally so we all are equally responsible to pay equally for the cost."

Those who presently benefit economically from the burning of fossil fuels, despite the scientific certainty that this is ushering in a Permian level mass extinction, will probably be quick to grab on to a severely distorted and duplicitous version of the 'Fragmentation of Agency' meme, in regard to assigning the proportionate blame for the existential threat our species is visiting on future generations.

Privatizing the profits and socializing the costs is what they have done for over a century in the USA. They have always gotten away with it. That is why, despite having prior knowledge that their children would be negatively impacted by their decisions, they decided to dispense with ethical considerations.

They assumed that, with all the profits they would accumulate over the last 40 years (or as long as the populace can be blinded to the truth of the existential threat), they could protect their offspring when things got "difficult".

They know that millions to billions of people, in all probability, will die. But they think their wealth can enable them to survive and thrive.   

As for the rest of us, who obtained a pittance in benefits in comparison to the giant profits the polluters raked (and still continue to rake) in, we can expect an army of corporate lawyers descending on our government(s) demanding that all humans, in equal portions, foot the bill for ameliorating climate change.

The lawyer speak will probably take the form of crocodile tears about the "injustice of punitive measures" or, some double talk legalese limiting "punitive damage claims" based on Environmental LAW fun and games (see: "punitive" versus "compensatory" damage claims).

This grossly unjust application of the 'Fragmentation of Agency' is happening as we speak. The poorest humans are paying the most with their health for the damage done by the richest. The richest have avoided most, or all, of the deleterious effects of climate change.

When the governments of the world finally get serious about the funding needed to try to clean this mess up (present incremental measures ARE NOT sufficient), the rich plan to continue literally getting away with ecocide, and making sure they don't pay their share of the damages for it. 

As Kevin Anderson (after showing the alarming rate of increase in CO2 emissions) put it in the graphic below, the 1% bear about 50% of the blame.

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Since, according to the U.N., the richest 20% of the world's population uses 80% of the resources, the 'Fragmentation of Agency' pie chart for the damage done to the biosphere should look like this:
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The way the fossil fuel industry, and almost half of the world’s 100 largest companies, will want that 'Fragmentation of Agency' pie chart to look like is as follows:

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The world of business has made many Empathy Deficit Disordered, unethical choices. We are all paying for their rejection of  their responsibility to use dianoia in their decision making process.

But they are relatively few in number. Their chicanery would cease from a huge public outcry if they did not have so many people aiding and abetting their unethical biosphere destroying modus operandi.

Those are the comfortable millions who have swallowed the corporate happy talk propaganda.

Those are the people that continue to delay progress on the implementation of the drastic government action we must demand, which is desperately needed to stem, or eliminate, the length and breadth of the climate change damage existential threat.

The people who think that this climate change horror can be addressed by incremental measures are, as Aristotle said, deliberately becoming irrational.

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Thus choice is firmly in the realm of practical, ethical action. With his emphasis on dianoia , Aristotle offers one way to think about responsibility to the future;

it is the lack of "thinking things through," in preference for shortsightedness regarding means and ends, that results in acts of harm, both to the environment and to future people.

If we fail to think things through to the consequences of our actions we are not acting responsibly.


And ignorance is no justification for poor choices, for Aristotle points out that we can be ignorant and still responsible.

If we deliberately become irrational, as when we become drunk, or when we ought to know something and yet fail to, we are still held responsible, "on the grounds that it is up to people themselves not to be ignorant, since they are in control of how much care they take" (NE 1114a).

Dianoia is sine qua non to a viable biosphere.

Please pass this on with attribution to Theresa Morris, State University of New York at New Paltz. I just summarized her essay and added images to enhance the gravity and importance of her message. We are in a world of trouble. 

A. G. Gelbert
Colchester, Vermont


Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on August 19, 2016, 02:38:37 pm
Friday, August 19, 2016
   
Storms over Arctic Ocean

Posted by  Sam Carana

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 Winds over the Arctic Ocean reached speeds of up to 32 mph or 52 km/h on August 19, 2016. The image below shows the Jet Stream crossing Arctic Ocean on August 19, 2016 (see map on above image for geographic reference).


 
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The Naval Research Lab image below shows a forecast for sea ice speed and drift run on August 15, 2016, and valid for August 17, 2016.

 
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 These storms come at a time when the sea ice has become extremely thin, as illustrated by the Naval Research Lab sea ice thickness animation below, covering a 30-day period run on August 17, 2016, with a forecast through to August 25, 2016. The animation shows that the multi-year sea ice has now virtually disappeared.

 With the sea ice in such a bad shape, strong winds can cause a rapid drop in sea ice extent, at a time when the Arctic still has quite a bit of insolation. At the North Pole, insolation will come down to zero at the time of the September 2016 Equinox.

 
 
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Even more terrifying is the Naval Research Lab's Arctic sea ice thickness forecast for August 25, 2016, run on August 17, 2016, using a new Hycom model, as shown below.


 
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 With the thicker multi-year sea ice virtually gone, the remaining sea ice is prone to fracture and to become slushy, which also makes it darker in color and thus prone to absorb more sunlight.

 Furthermore, if strong winds keep hitting the Arctic Ocean over the next few weeks, this could push much of the sea ice out of the Arctic Ocean, along the edges of Greenland and into the Atlantic Ocean.



 Strong winds are forecast to keep hitting the Arctic Ocean hard for the next week, as illustrated by the image below showing a forecast for August 24, 2016.


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As sea ice extent falls, less sunlight gets reflected back into space and is instead absorbed by the Arctic. Once the sea ice is gone, this can contribute to a rapid rise in temperature of the surface waters.

 The image below shows sea surface temperature anomalies in the Arctic (latitude 60°N-90°N) compared to 1961-1990.

 
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 The Climate Reanalyzer image below also shows sea surface temperature anomalies August 16, 2016, this time compared to 1979-2000.

 
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 The image below, from an earlier post, shows sea surface temperature anomalies on August 12, 2016, in the left-hand panel, and sea surface temperature anomalies in the righ-hand panel.


 
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Sea surface temperature and anomaly. Anomalies from +1 to +2 degrees C are red, above that they turn yellow and white

Above image also shows that on August 12, 2016, sea surface temperatures near Svalbard (at the location marked by the green circle) were as high as 18.9°C or 65.9°F, an anomaly of 13.6°C or 24.4°F.

 Where seas are shallow, a surface temperature rise can quickly warm up water all the way down to the Arctic ocean seafloor, where it can destabilize methane hydrates contained in sediments.

 This could make that huge amounts of methane get released from the seafloor. Given that many of the seas in Arctic are very shallow, much of this methane can enter the atmosphere without getting broken down in the water, resulting in huge additional warming, especially over the Arctic. As discussed in an earlier post, this could contribute to a global temperature rise of over 10°C or 18°F by the year 2026.

 One of the people who has been warning about these dangers for many years is Professor Peter Wadhams, whose new book A Farewell to Ice was recently launched (256 pages, published September 1, 2016).

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 The situation is dire and calls for comprehensive and effective action, as discussed at the Climate Plan (http://arctic-news.blogspot.com/p/climateplan.html).

http://arctic-news.blogspot.com/

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Agelbert NOTE:The above is the part of the Precautionary Principle of Science that the fossil fuel industry AND all the other polluters out there have never been able to get through their Biosphere Math Challenged heads.

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on August 19, 2016, 06:56:23 pm
Did federal agents spy on offshore oil lease protesters in New Orleans?

By Sue Sturgis August 11, 2016

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Hundreds of protesters disrupted an offshore oil and gas lease auction held in March at the Superdome in New Orleans. This week, an environmental group filed information requests with federal agencies to find out if undercover law enforcement agents were among the protesters. (Photo by Paul Corbit Brown/Rainforest Action Network.)
 

Back in March, hundreds of protesters descended on the Superdome in New Orleans to disrupt a federal auction for new Gulf of Mexico oil and gas leases.

 
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They waved signs, carried banners and chanted "Shut it down!" and "the Gulf is not for profit!" The action was part of the international Keep It in the Ground campaign seeking to halt the extraction of fossil fuels in order to prevent devastating climate change.

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Now an advocacy group wants to know if federal officials worked with local law enforcement and oil and gas industry insiders to spy on environmentalists involved in that and other protests held as part of the campaign.

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This week the Center for Biological Diversity filed Freedom of Information Act requests with the federal agencies that oversee oil and gas leasing. The Aug. 11 filings came in response to a recent report by The Intercept that revealed several participants in a May protest of a fossil fuel auction in Lakewood, Colorado, were actually undercover agents sent by law enforcement to monitor the demonstration, and that they were relying on intelligence gathered by Anadarko Petroleum, a major Texas-based oil and gas producer.

The Center's filings seek information about all offshore and onshore federal fossil fuel auctions conducted by the Bureau of Ocean and Energy Management (BOEM) and the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) since last August, including the March 23 New Orleans auction and 13 others targeted by protesters. To read the request sent to BLM, click here.

"There's a large and growing movement of peaceful protesters calling on their government to make a moral choice to save our climate and end new fossil fuel leasing on public lands," said Taylor McKinnon with the Center. "The public has a right to know whether the government has launched a surveillance program targeting climate activists who are courageously speaking up for what's right."

The protest in New Orleans drew about 200 people from across the Gulf region, with buses bringing demonstrators from Texas, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida. Despite the boisterous protest, the auction proceeded as scheduled.

Over the past decade, the burning of federal fossil fuels has been responsible for nearly a quarter of all U.S. energy-related emissions. An 2015 report commissioned by the Center and Friends of the Earth found that remaining federal fossil fuel deposits — oil, gas, coal, oil shale and tar sands — that have not been leased to industry contain up to 450 billion tons of potential greenhouse gas pollution, the release of which would have calamitous effects on the climate.

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Climate change and related sea-level rise are already taking a heavy toll on communities along the U.S. Gulf Coast.

Earlier this year, for example, the Isle de Jean Charles Band of Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw Indians announced plans to resettle their chronically flooded South Louisiana community to drier land using a $48 million grant won in the National Disaster Resilience Competition sponsored by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and The Rockefeller Foundation.

https://www.facingsouth.org/2016/08/did-federal-agents-spy-offshore-oil-lease-protesters-new-orleans

 
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on August 19, 2016, 09:48:11 pm
Agelbert NOTE: Those 'thousand year' floods and 'once in a lifetime' fires just keep happening over and over, for some reason.     (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-200714191404.bmp&hash=007a2c20b76f970316a559a6e27cfd70c11f5998) But don't ask anybody from the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (see Orwell) why that is. They are either too biosphere math challenged or too fossil fuel friendly to think intelligently.    (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-200714183337.bmp&hash=fd5a6df63c32bd65dda7b6d93e788647ca3829df)


The picture below is from ONE year ago.
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Cars in flames on Interstate 15 after winds drove a wildfire over the highway in San Bernardino County, California

Here's a headline from LAST year: California's Valley, Butte Fires Among Worst in State History
http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/western-wildfires/californias-valley-butte-fires-among-worst-state-history-n430606

August 18,2016

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‘Once in a Lifetime' Fire Shocks CA

With more than 25,000 acres still burning, firefighters managed to achieve four percent containment of the Blue Cut fire in California late Wednesday night. The blaze, which spread from a few acres to 30,000 in just 24 hours, was called a “once in a lifetime kind of fire” by the US Forest Service. Sizzling temperatures, tree die-off and the ongoing drought – exacerbated by climate change – created a perfect storm of conditions for the fire.

Wildfires of this magnitude don’t usually occur until the fall, but climate change is making wildfire season longer and more intense.

https://twitter.com/ClimateSignals/status/766015431916130304




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NOAA Confirms July Hottest Month Ever

July 2016 was the hottest month ever recorded NOAA data show, reaffirming findings released by NASA earlier this week. Global temperatures were 1.57°F above the 20th century average, beating last July’s record by 0.11°F. Since May 2015, every consecutive month has broken a monthly heat record.

Last month also marked the 40th consecutive July with temperatures above the 20th century average. There is a 99 percent chance that 2016 will be the third year in a row to claim the hottest ever title.

http://www.climatecentral.org/news/july-makes-15-record-hot-months-in-a-row-20611



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Alaska Village Votes to Relocate

The residents of Shishmaref, Alaska voted to leave their ancestral home and relocate to safer ground as climate change-driven sea level rise threatens to engulf the coastal village. Home to more than 600 Inupiat Inuit residents, the remote island in Alaska is experiencing rapid coastal erosion as sea levels rise and permafrost thaws. The estimated cost of relocation is $180 million, which the community could struggle to raise due to a lack of federals funds. In Alaska, 30 other villages face a similar threat.

http://grist.org/article/alaska-native-village-votes-to-relocate-in-the-face-of-rising-sea-levels/



Natural Gas Emissions to Surpass Coal

Carbon dioxide emissions from natural gas are projected to exceed emissions from coal by 10 percent this year for the first time since 1972, according to the US Energy Information Administration. Last year, natural gas use was 81 percent higher than coal, though their emissions were nearly equal. The EIA also noted that the country’s overall carbon intensity has fallen 10 percent since 2005, driven by a decrease in coal use and an uptake of renewables, along with natural gas.

http://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/u.s.-natural-gas-co2-emissions-will-top-coal-emissions-in-2016

Agelbert NOTE: The EIA downplays EVERYTHING BAD the fossil fuelers DO to our environment while insisting that fossil fuels are an energy REsource, not an energy  source (i.e. fossil fuels CANNOT be REUSED, unlike Renewable Energy). They are staunch defenders of the fossil fuel industry welfare queens, so it is prudent to assume the CO2 and other fossil fuel burning caused pollutant amounts damaging our environment are a LOT higher than they are admitting.
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The Texan method, taught originally to Ronald Reagan, on how to select the 'right' people to head government regulatory agencies created to defend the environment.

Denier Promoted to Trump Advisor

 Early last week, The Hill published an op-ed that attacks the Clean Power Plan.

 It was nothing particularly special, authored by Kathleen Hartnett-White   (https://smileyshack.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/stupid-im-with-arrow-left.gif), a long-time resident of (but usually minor player in) the deniersphere. As a former chair of the Texas (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Flibertyblitzkrieg.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2015%2F09%2FScreen-Shot-2015-09-11-at-10.03.46-AM.jpg&hash=26bc1f4dbf463a0fe84973be044cd0cab2f4dfa7) Commission on Environmental Quality  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-051113192052.png&hash=93c42ef9f18fc5d9da50fd91fc19f70009f95f85)  and current director of the Armstrong Center for Energy & the Environment at the oil, tobacco and other industry-funded Texas (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-311013200859.png&hash=a7aaaa9f04c1e3e2c948723b5f8c13fe814dacd4) Public Policy Foundation (TPPF), her denial efforts rarely reach outside the Lone Star State.

 Not anymore. Just two days after her Hill op-ed, Hartnett-White was named to Donald Trump’s Economic Advisory Council, along with the president of the TPPF, Brooke Rollins.

 Hartnett-White’s book about energy policy is on the reading list that the Koch Brothers gave to their donors, and she’s well-connected in the Texas political realm as TPPF holds events which draw people like Ted Cruz   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-200714191329.bmp&hash=4764bfbe6bb0e11ca61102efa97a932a824f47e0) and Lamar Smith  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-200714191329.bmp&hash=4764bfbe6bb0e11ca61102efa97a932a824f47e0) .

She’s also well-connected in the deniersphere, holding an advisory position on the CO2 Coalition, the new incarnation of the George Marshall Institute that’s been more aptly described by John Mashey as the CO2 CoalOILition. (http://www.desmogblog.com/2016/03/20/will-happer-rebrands-gmi-as-CO2-Coalition-CoalOILition)

 With this promotion to the national stage, we can surely expect to see more of Hartnett-White in the future. Though everything’s bigger in Texas, it looks like her career’s going to be bigger once she gets out of it!


Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on August 22, 2016, 07:34:46 pm
The Collapse of Rome: Washington’s $6.5 trillion Black Hole (http://journal-neo.org/2016/08/22/the-collapse-of-rome-washington-s-6-5-trillion-black-hole/)
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It recalls the final days of the Roman Empire which collapsed during the Fourth Century AD not from foreign invasion, but from internal moral rot and corruption.

Well, the western part collapsed in the 5th century, not the 4th, while the eastern part didn't completely give up the ghost for another millenium (though admittedly it also lost major chunks of territory after a couple of cenuries, mostly to the Arabs). And it did not collapse due to "internal moral rot and corruption". True, there was rampant corruption, but no more than there ever was. It collapsed because in the 4th century it got a major hit from the Persians, and though it recovered from that, it was not able to get strong enough to stop the ever-growing-stronger Germanic tribes. So basically, its problem was that it stayed the same, while its enemies got stronger.

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The roots of the decline and ultimate collapse of the Roman Empire, in its day also the world’s sole superpower, lay in the political decision by a ruling aristocracy, more accurately, an oligarchy of wealth, boring old patriarchs of that day, to extend the bounds of empire through wars of conquest and plunder of foreign lands. They did so to feed their private wealth and personal power, not to the greater good of the state.

The economic model of the Empire of Rome was based on the plunder of conquered territories. As the empire expanded, it installed remote military garrisons to maintain control and increasingly relied on foreign mercenaries to man those garrisons
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The maximum extent of the Empire came in the 2nd century AD, and it didn't collapse for another three hundred years. So how did it survive for three hundred years without conquering new territory?[/size]

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In the process of military expansionism the peasantry, the heart of the empire, became impoverished. Small farmers were bankrupted and forced to flee to Rome to attempt a living as proletarians, wage laborers. They had no voting rights or other citizen rights. In the eyes of the rich, they were simply the ‘mob’ that could be bought, manipulated, and directed to attack an opponent; they were the ‘demos,’ the masses, the public. Roman ‘democracy’ was all about mass manipulation in the service of empire.

The peasantry was always impoverished, in Egypt, Babylonia, Greece, everywhere. The only "democracy" in all this was in some Greek city-states, and even there it just meant a larger oligarchy than was usual.

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When the two brothers Gracchus tried in the second century AD to ease the growing gap between rich and the rest by introducing agriculture reforms that limited the powers of the wealthy Senators, they were assassinated by the men of wealth.

That occurred in the 2nd century BC, not AD -- a hundred years before Caesar conquered Gaul, or six hundred years before it all collapsed.

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Higher taxes forced many more small farmers to let their land go barren. To distract its citizens from the worsening conditions, the Roman ruling oligarch politicians handed out free wheat to the poor and entertained them with circuses, chariot races, throwing Christians to the lions and other entertainments, the notorious “bread and circuses” strategy of keeping unrest at bay.

The phrase "bread and circuses" was coined about 100 AD, or almost four centuries before the collapse.

So, all in all, I guess if we are going to learn a lesson from history, we should expect the American empire to last about another three or four hundred years, at which time about half of it will collapse. I personally think it will be different this time.


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 ‘The Sixth Extinction,’ by Elizabeth Kolbert  New York Times Sunday Book Review Snippet:  In  ............  of both the atmosphere and the ocean, which Kolbert notes has absorbed about one-third of the carbon  ............  of civilization. “By disrupting these systems,” Kolbert writes, "we’re putting our own survival in danger. ......
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Organic life, we are told, has developed gradually from the protozoan to the philosopher, and this development, we are assured, is indubitably an advance. Unfortunately it is the philosopher, not the protozoan, who gives us this assurance. --  Bertrand Russell

We are a banker constructed Imperialist nation, ruled by a consortium of global psychopaths, hell bent on destroying the very planet itself in their selfish quest for money, power and the control of all of us. At this rate the human race may not even be here for the 22nd century.

Psalm 52:7 Lo, this is the man that made not God his strength; but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himself in his wickedness.

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on August 22, 2016, 10:09:36 pm
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The Madhouse Effect

How Climate Change Denial Is Threatening Our Planet, Destroying Our Politics, and Driving Us Crazy

Michael E. Mann  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F19.gif&hash=3f9f2fc2285bc756137e21463bc2a4c420b15ac3)
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Columbia University Press


The award-winning climate scientist Michael E. Mann and the Pulitzer Prize–winning political cartoonist Tom Toles have been on the front lines of the fight against climate denialism for most of their careers. They have witnessed the manipulation of the media by business and political interests and the unconscionable play to partisanship on issues that affect the well-being of billions. The lessons they have learned have been invaluable, inspiring this brilliant, colorful escape hatch from the madhouse of the climate wars.

The Madhouse Effect portrays the intellectual pretzels into which denialists must twist logic to explain away the clear evidence that human activity has changed Earth's climate. Toles's cartoons collapse counter-scientific strategies into their biased components, helping readers see how to best strike at these fallacies. Mann's expert skills at science communication aim to restore sanity to a debate that continues to rage against widely acknowledged scientific consensus. The synergy of these two climate science crusaders enlivens the gloom and doom of so many climate-themed books—and may even convert die-hard doubters to the side of sound science.   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.emofaces.com%2Fpng%2F200%2Femoticons%2Ffingerscrossed.png&hash=d56f8009d18b55f4cea7be68284c0521be92fc5d)



About the Author

Michael E. Mann is Distinguished Professor of Atmospheric Science and director of the Earth Systems Science Center at Penn State University. He is the author of The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines (Columbia, 2012) and a fellow of the American Meteorological Society, the American Geophysical Union, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Tom Toles is the Pulitzer Prize–winning cartoonist of the Washington Post. He has a particular interest in climate change science and has worked consistently to advance understanding of this subject, including its political context, since the 1980s.



http://cup.columbia.edu/book/the-madhouse-effect/9780231177863


Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on August 24, 2016, 08:28:18 pm
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Seals Uncover Climate Threat

Elephant seals have helped uncover a new threat from global warming --  melting Antarctic ice sheets are slowing the production of “bottom water,” which could affect the global flow of ocean heat.

For a   new study in Nature Communications (http://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms12577), scientists used instruments fitted on seals in East Antarctica to measure the fresh water leaching from melting ice, which hinders the formation of deep, cold water.

This could disrupt the ocean's "conveyor belt,” which would trigger increased sea level rise and change weather patterns in some places.

https://www.carbonbrief.org/seals-help-scientists-get-to-the-bottom-of-antarctic-changes

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on August 25, 2016, 03:22:30 pm
Water Is Life, Oil Is Death: The People vs. the Bakken Pipeline in Iowa and the Dakotas

Posted on Aug 22, 2016

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People opposing the Dakota Access pipeline project, also known as the Bakken pipeline, rally in Des Moines, Iowa. (Barbara Rodriguez / AP)

The American version of democracy focuses on elections and candidates. As the venerable left intellectual Noam Chomsky observed in June, “Citizenship means every four years you put a mark somewhere and you go home and let other guys run the world. It’s a very destructive ideology … a way of making people passive, submissive objects.” Chomsky added that we “ought to teach kids that elections take place, but that’s not [all of] politics.” There’s also the more urgent and serious politics of popular social movements and direct action beneath and beyond the election cycle.

We might refine Chomsky’s maxim to read “and let rich guys run the world into the ground” or “let rich guys ruin the world.” With anthropogenic (really “capitalogenic”) global warming, the nation and world’s corporate and financial oligarchs are bringing the planet to the brink of an epic ecosystem collapse.

We might also put some meat on the bones of Chomsky’s pedagogical advice by “teach[ing] kids” about the people’s politics being practiced in the upper Midwest and northern Great Plains by citizen activists fighting to help avert ecological calamity by blocking construction of what North Dakota Sioux leader David Archambault II calls “a black snake” of “greed.” The snake in question is the planet-baking Dakota Access/Bakken pipeline, what Iowa activists call “The Next Keystone XL.”

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As progressives flocked to presidential candidate Bernie Sanders’ impressive rallies in Iowa over the past year, the Texas-based company Dakota Access LLC, a division of the ecocidal corporation Energy Transfer Partners LP, moved methodically ahead with its plan to build the Bakken pipeline. This $3.8 billion, 1,134-mile project would carry 540,000 barrels of primarily fracked crude oil from North Dakota’s “Bakken oil patch” daily on a diagonal course through sacred North Dakota Sioux tribal sites and burial grounds, South Dakota, Iowa, the Missouri and Mississippi rivers and many other major waterways, to Patoka, Ill. It would link with another pipeline that will transport the black gold to terminals and refineries along the Gulf of Mexico for export to the global market.

In March, five weeks after Sanders essentially tied Hillary Clinton in the Iowa caucus, the corporate-captive Iowa Utilities Board (IUB) approved the giant Iowa portion of the project, granting Dakota Access eminent domain across the entire route through 18 counties—the last major administrative hurdle for the project. The “regulatory” boards in the other three states had already signed off. There was still some slim hope that the Army Corps of Engineers could be persuaded to block the project. That hope was dashed July 25. 

Dakota Access construction crews have begun moving dirt and tearing up farmers’ crops along the pipeline’s projected path. Pipeline workers with out-of-state license plates are showing up in hotels, motels and camps—and on dating sites like “Plenty of Fish”—along the route. Construction began in South Dakota, North Dakota and Illinois in May. Pipe has been laid in Lee County in Iowa’s southeast corner and Lyon County in the northwest. Last week, a pipeline trench crossed the popular Chichaqua Valley Trail in central Iowa. A young woman from central Iowa reports that a local dating website is “swarming” with out-of-state pipeline workers staying in campsites and elsewhere.

Dakota Access first applied to the IUB for a pipeline permit in the fall of 2014, just before Sanders’ first visit to Iowa. Slowly but surely, as media-driven popular excitement over the largely Iowa-focused presidential contest built last year, the company quietly pressed ahead with a public relations offensive (with a strong emphasis on “jobs for Iowans”) against the opposition of environmentalists and concerned citizens. There was only one formal IUB public hearing, and it lasted just one day. The opponents of the pipeline represented a cross-section of Iowans. The proponents were almost entirely from construction unions, many from out of state. Opponents who attended multiple “informational meetings” staged by Dakota Access reported numerous blatant inconsistencies, contradictions and lies in the “facts” presented by the company. While the state dived further into the quadrennial caucus commotion, Dakota Access moved the pipeline through the required administrative and public relations hoops under the media-politics radar.

The stakes are high in the fight against the project. “If the Bakken Pipeline is built,” the progressive lobbying organization Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement (CCI) notes, “it would seriously harm Iowa’s already impaired water quality, threaten the integrity of the fertile farmland of thousands of everyday Iowans, and contribute to our dependence on fossil fuels. This steers us away from developing renewable energy infrastructure and curbing the most catastrophic impacts of climate change.” CCI is part of a broad statewide anti-Bakken group called the Bakken Pipeline Resistance Coalition (BPRC) that includes more than 30 organizations. BPRC is engaged in the difficult work of grass-roots politics and direct action—both legal and extra-legal—beneath and beyond the major-party and candidate-centered presidential election extravaganzas that take early root in Iowa (thanks to its first-in-the-nation caucuses) every four years.

A Fake ‘Public Utility’

The IUB’s decision in March was rich with Orwellian irony. Iowa law forbids the condemning of agricultural land for private development. It is true, as Dakota Access argues, that the law excludes utilities under the jurisdiction of the IUB from the private development limitation. And that includes pipelines if they serve a “public purpose.” But this pipeline would simply transport oil through Iowa and therefore serve no discernible public good for the state and, in fact, promises to do considerable harm to the state’s environmental and financial health. Opponents rightly point out that like all pipelines, it will eventually spill, and Dakota Access LLC will leave Iowa holding the bag for the cleanup.

Like something out of Kafka, the IUB will have no power to enforce any kind of public regulations whatsoever on the operators of the private interstate pipeline they approved as a “public utility.” 

The IUB’s decision was another example among many that Iowa is up for sale to big business under the right-wing administration of Republican Gov. Terry Branstad.

The giant Canadian pipeline company Enbridge and Marathon Petroleum are impressed by Dakota Access’ success in gaining the approval of “regulators.” The two corporations recently put up $2 billion ($1.5 billion from Enbridge and $500,000 from Marathon) to purchase 49 percent of the Bakken pipeline. A likely consequence if the project is completed is that Canadian tar-sands oil will flow through the pipeline—and Iowa—toward the Gulf Coast. That oil is one of the most carbon-rich, planet-cooking fossil fuels on earth. Dire environmental concern about the mining of Canadian tar sands oil was the main reason climate activists like Bill McKibben engaged in high-profile protests of the proposed Keystone XL pipeline—a leading news story a few years ago.

Read the other two pages of this three page article at link below:
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http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/water_life_oil_death_people_vs_bakken_pipeline_in_iowa_dakotas_20160822

Agelbert NOTE: The concentration of Mens Rea Criminal Corporate Corruption of the Federal and many State Governments in the USA (and the world, for that matter) based in TEXAS is evidence that the Nietzsche style Empathy Deficit Disordered Territorial Imperative is an integral part of the MORALLY BANKRUPT Texan culture and world view. TEXANS, of all people on the planet, are the greatest threat to the biosphere that humanity has ever faced.

One way or the other, the TEXAN Oil & Gas worshipping culture will soon end.

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TEXAN has his morning coffee

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The Fossil Fuelers in general, and TEXANS IN PARTICULAR,    DID THE Climate Trashing, human health depleting CRIME,   but since they have ALWAYS BEEN liars and conscience free crooks, they are trying to AVOID  DOING THE TIME   or   PAYING THE FINE!     Don't let them get away with it!   Pass it on!  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F176.gif&hash=121533221905789c6b8d57a9603883266d349266)
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on August 26, 2016, 03:09:41 pm
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Figure 3. The map shows average ocean sea surface temperature (SST) and sea ice concentration for August 7, 2016. SST is measured by satellites using thermal emission sensors, which produce global data adjusted after comparison with ship and buoy data. Sea ice concentration is derived from NSIDC sea ice concentration near-real-time data. Also shown are drifting buoy temperatures at the ocean surface (colored circles); gray circles indicate that temperature data from the buoys are not available.

Credit: M. Steele, Polar Science Center/University of Washington

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What is quite unusual this year is the early ice retreat and resulting ocean warming in the western Beaufort Sea and in the western East Siberian Sea. The extent of warming to the north of these two seas is also unusual, as well as the extent of this warming to the north.

These two areas typically melt out later in the season, when atmospheric heating rates have declined from their mid-summer peak. Thus the exposed ocean warms, but not all that much. This pattern was true during the record-setting year of 2012, when by the end of summer, these areas were substantially cooler than surrounding seas that had melted out earlier.

This year, however, the melt out was early and extensive enough that the ocean has already warmed substantially in these two areas.

https://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/


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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on August 28, 2016, 06:00:26 pm
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NTSB: El Faro Master Gave Order to Abandon Ship, VDR Data Reveals

August 24, 2016 by gCaptain

 
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The stern of the El Faro is shown on the ocean floor taken from an underwater video camera on November 1, 2015. Image courtesy NTSB via Reuters

Twenty-six hours of data and audio pulled from the El Faro’s voyage data recorder is providing investigators with important clues about the ship’s sinking during Hurricane Joaquin last October, including that the Master gave the order to abandon ship about 10 minutes before the data cuts off.

The new details were released Wednesday by the National Transportation Board after it revealed that it successfully recovered about 26 hours worth of information from the VDR, which was recovered earlier this month off the coast of the Bahamas.

Information recovered includes bridge audio, weather data and navigational data. The NTSB said that it will be convening a voyage data recorder group to help develop a detailed transcript of the sounds and discernible words captured on the El Faro’s bridge audio.

The voyage data recorder from El Faro, the American cargo ship that sank during Hurricane Joaquin in October 2015 with loss of all 33 on board, was successfully recovered from the ocean floor Aug. 8, 2016, and transported to the NTSB’s laboratory in Washington, D.C. for review. Information from the El Faro’s VDR was successfully recovered Aug. 15.

The NTSB said Wednesday that numerous events leading up to the loss of the El Faro are heard on the VDR’s audio, recorded from microphones on the ship’s bridge. The quality of the recording is degraded because of high levels of background noise, and there are other when the content of crew discussion is difficult to determine, the NTSB said. At other times the content me be able to be determined using audio filtering.

A few key points outlined today by the NTSB:

•The recording began about 5:37 a.m., Sept. 30, 2015 – about 8 hours after the El Faro departed Jacksonville, Florida, with the ship about 150 nautical miles southeast of the city.

•The bridge audio from the morning of Oct. 1, captured the master and crew discussing their actions regarding flooding and the vessel’s list.

•The vessel’s loss of propulsion was mentioned on the bridge audio about 6:13 a.m. Also captured was the master speaking on the telephone, notifying shoreside personnel of the vessel’s critical situation, and preparing to abandon ship if necessary.

•The master ordered abandon ship and sounded the alarm about 7:30 a.m., Oct. 1, 2015.
The recording ended about 10 minutes later when the El Faro was about 39 nautical miles northeast of Crooked Island, Bahamas.

The times are preliminary and subject to change and final validation by the voyage data recorder group, the NTSB noted.

The VDR group’s technical experts will continue reviewing the entire recording, including crew discussions regarding the weather situation and the operation and condition of the ship.

Families of the El Faro’s crew were briefed about the results of the audition Wednesday prior to the NTSB’s release to the public.

The NTSB said it remains unknown how long it will take to develop the final transcript of the El Faro’s VDR. The length of the recording and high levels of background noise will make transcript development a time consuming process, the NTSB said.

Federal law prohibits the NTSB from releasing the audio from the VDR, but they plan to make a transcript of its contents public likely by the end of this year, the NTSB told gCaptain.

https://gcaptain.com/nstb-26-hours-of-information-recovered-from-el-faros-vdr/

Agelbert NOTE: The container ship El Faro sank during Hurricane Juaquin on October 1, 2015. All 33 crewmembers perished. The lifeboats on El Faro were also 65 feet above the water line. From the condition of the lifeboat that was recovered, the evidence indicates a giant wave sank the El Faro. The authorities have not admitted this as of yet. But I am not the only one that strongly suspects that the condition of the lifeboat is evidence that a giant wave sank El Faro (Spanish for "Lighthouse"). 

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"A heavily damaged lifeboat from the El Faro was discovered, with no one ..."

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Coast Guard Investigates El Faro Life Boat
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Published on Oct 5, 2015
A Coast Guard Air Station Miami MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew investigates a life boat Sunday, Oct. 4, 2015, that was found from the missing ship El Faro. El Faro lost propulsion and communications prior to Hurricane Joaquin passing directly over it. U.S. Coast Guard video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQv_NxVBge0&feature=player_embedded


Warming oceans are with us now and increasing the violence of the oceans. By chance, I recorded the SST (Sea Surface Temperature) off the East Coast of the USA the day before Hurricane Juaquin sank the El Faro container ship. Here's the September 30, 2015 (8 day average - proof  that it was really consistently hot out there!) screenshot:

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Here's two days later (one day after the El Faro Container ship sank). I superimposed the hurricane location. It is a one day average SST so the conditions when the El Faro sank are displayed.  I was not aware that the El Faro had been lost at the time I made these screenshots. Notice the cooler spot on the ocean precisely where Hurricane Juaquin is lashing El Faro. A hurricane transfers several degrees of water temperature directly to the atmosphere, which, in turn, increases the ferocity of the winds. Ferocious winds produce ferocious waves.

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El Faro departed Jacksonville en route to San Juan, Puerto Rico.

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The El Faro was one of TWO cargo ships that went down because of Hurricane Juaquin (the 215 ft. MV Minouche that went down didn't make national headlines, because people, perhaps, might start to get "unnecessarily alarmed" about the increasing shipping losses from our increasingly violent oceans). All 12 crew of the MV Minouche were rescued.

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MV Minouche

The Coast Guard pilot's voice shakes as he describes conditions they have never before experienced in rescue attempts when they were searching for the El Faro and rescuing the crew of the MV Minouche.

https://youtu.be/_xFT9JD2f1A

US Coast Guard search for El Faro; 12 rescued from MV Minouche
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Published on Oct 5, 2015
A US Coast Guard C-130 pilot describes a flight through Hurricane Joaquin in 100 knot winds and over 40-foot waves in search of the cargo ship El Faro, which has been reported sunk after debris was found. Part two of this video features footage from an Oct. 1 rescue of 12 people from the MV Minouche near the Bahamas.

The El Faro, that went down with a crew of 33, all lost, 294 cars, trailers and trucks, along with hundreds of containers, had a type of lifeboat that is a death boat (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-070814193155.png&hash=144ce9330e49ee84060db8753a8db69c39a14913) in stormy seas.

Here's a comment by a fellow who's handle is deckofficer:

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Hurricane Joaquin vs. M/V El Faro's final voyage, weather and decision-making...

I guess the only point I would like to make is some owners don't seem to value the lives of their crews. Schedules are tight and safety equipment is in many cases the bare minimum for certification. In the case of SS El Faro (it is my understanding this is a steam ship, not diesel) the open life boats as high on the super structure as they were meets requirements but certainly doesn't offer the all sea state conditions of deployment as free fall enclosed life boat capsules. If these souls are lost at sea, it is maddening that the simple added investment of better emergency egress would have saved their lives. I have done more lifeboat drills than I can remember, and for the older style gravity systems there was a good reason these drills only occurred on calm days.

When sea state is overwhelming and you have lost propulsion and need to abandon ship, do you want this....


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Or this....

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https://youtu.be/a7giEX-vIyo

Bob
USCG Unlimited Tonnage Open Ocean (CMA)

http://www.cruisersforum.com/forums/f122/hurricane-joaquin-vs-m-v-el-faros-final-voyage-weather-and-decsion-making-154191-3.html

Free fall enclosed life boat capsules are a great idea. They should be mandatory. The fact that they aren't is mute evidence of the neoliberal Empathy Deficit disordered "cost/benefit analysis" that values goods more than lives. As long as people continue to line up to crew the ships, management will cut corners on life support.

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But the greedball shippers are increasingly going to have a bit more to worry about than whether they have a labor force or not. Thanks to the fossil fuel industry socialized cost of CO2 pollution (even though Big Oil is getting a bit of payback from the oceans with oil rig difficulties and tanker losses), this is no longer going to be about whether the "demand" for products "justifies" cargo shipping.

I am grateful to Paul Beckwith of the University of Ottawa for alerting me to the threat from violent oceans that mankind faces.

Paul Beckwith is a part time professor at the University of Ottawa and a post graduate studying and researching abrupt climate change, with a focus on the arctic.

An Ocean Full of 30 meter Tall Waves

by Paul Beckwith

Published on Jul 23, 2015

"Near the end of the previous warm period (Late-Eemian) when the sea level was +5 to +9 meters higher than today, persistent long period long wavelength waves 30 meters high battered the Bahamas coastline. Will we see these massive storm generated waves soon? No ship could survive this..." 

https://youtu.be/rq24d3-bIU4

If the ships cannot handle the seas (NO ship is designed, or can cost effectively be designed, to handle anywhere near 100 tons per square meter of force on her hull), shipping itself will no longer be cost effective unless cargo ships morph into cargo submarines. The cost of doing that is staggering. Even if they designed them to ride just beneath the wave turbulence, they still would have to submerge to one half the wavelength of ocean waves.

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Deep-Water Waves

If the water depth (d) is greater then the wave base (equal to one-half the wavelength, or L/2), the waves are called deep-water waves. Deep-water waves have no interference with the ocean bottom, so they include all wind-generated waves in the open ocean. Submarines can avoid large ocean waves by submerging below the wave base.
http://www2.fiu.edu/~kpanneer/lab_assignment/Lab8_Waves.pdf


The wave that hit the Draupner platform in 1995 was over 90 ft. high and had a wavelength of 231 meters (which it covered in only 12 seconds! - 45 mph). To avoid these waves, a submerged cargo vessel or tanker would have to withstand pressures at a minimum of 116 meters below sea level.

That may be a piece of cake for a normal submarine but it would cost multiples of what cargo and tanker vessels cost now to make cargo submarines and tankers capable of routinely submerging to 400 or 500 feet.

And in water that is too shallow to get under the wave action, they will not avoid being damaged or sunk. Those waves Paul Beckwith mentions will be visiting the coastlines regularly in a ΔT = plus 2C (and beyond) world.

During WW2 the Germans actually made submarine tankers. They nicknamed them "Milk Cows". The German type XIV U-Boat could resupply other boats with 432 t (425 long tons) of fuel. I'm sure ExxonMobil will look into it when the going gets REALLY rough on the oceans, instead of doing the right thing and giving up fossil fuels. They aren't known for their ability to consider the wider consequences of their greed based, short term profit motive stupidity. But I digress.  ;D

Besides the large increase in sea level, the wave action predicted makes every hull design of modern shipping inadequate. It will be very hard to sustain our level of civilization without the benefits of modern shipping.

Redesigning hulls will not work for the simple reason that the waves, now called "rogue" waves, of those oceans will be routine. 30 to 35 meter tall waves exert forces on a hull of about 100 tons per square meter. No modern hull design exceeds 30 tons per square meter.
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Hellespont Alhambra (now TI Asia), a ULCC TI class supertanker, which are the largest ocean-going oil tankers in the world

To give you a better idea of the huge threat a giant wave or three is to a large tanker or cargo vessel,  I took some screenshots from a video of a wave laboratory testing the effects of 72 ft. waves on a modern supertanker. I'm sure Big Oil is paying attention, regardless of what they say in public.  ;)

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The tanker completely capsized. In a real world situation, this is a death blow to the crew because it happens too fast to get survival gear on or reach the lifeboats, even if they are the emergency egress sealed type you saw earlier. That is why both tanker and cargo ships do everything they can to avoid being broadsided. In the real world, when the engines are lost in these types of seas, the only way to survive is to immediately abandon ship on a free fall enclosed life boat capsule.

If the above series of screen shots are not convincing enough to the reader of the threat shipping faces from giant waves, the following video series will leave no doubt in your mind that world shipping is incapable of handling the routine 30 to 35 meter waves that the Hansen et al June 2015 paper predicts for a ΔT = plus 2C (and beyond) world.

The following video series is the first of an excellent BBC series that describes the difficulties that shipping faces with giant waves. Some of the material I have covered is presented with some added background provided. You will learn much from these videos. You will learn that absolutely nothing I have told you is exaggeration or hyperbole.

The threat is real and it is getting worse. I urge you to set aside some time to view them because this concerns our future as a civilization. We are not prepared for a ΔT = plus 2C  world (and beyond).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YVZn46KgTs&list=PLF7FBE5EA5E56AF7E&feature=player_detailpage

Global Civilization is threatened within 25 years or less by the scientifically predicted ocean surface wave activity in the Hansen et al June 2015 study * and the Dutton et al July 2015 study ** evidencing a 6 to 25 meter (19 to 82 feet!) sea level increase in the geological record when the CO2 parts per million (PPM) atmospheric concentration was between 300 and 400PPM. As of October of 2015, the CO2 concentration is at 400PPM. It is increasing at over 3PPM per year.

* Atmos. Chem. Phys. Discuss., 15, 20059–20179, 2015 doi:10.5194/acpd-15-20059-2015 © Author(s) 2015. CC Attribution 3.0 License.

Ice melt, sea level rise and superstorms: evidence from paleoclimate data, climate modeling, and modern observations that 2 C global warming is highly dangerous
J. Hansen1, M. Sato1, P. Hearty2, R. Ruedy3,4, M. Kelley3,4, V. Masson-Delmotte5, G. Russell4, G. Tselioudis4, J. Cao6, E. Rignot7,8, I. Velicogna8,7, E. Kandiano9, K. von Schuckmann10, P. Kharecha1,4, A. N. Legrande4, M. Bauer11, and K.-W. Lo3,4

www.atmos-chem-phys-discuss.net/15/20059/2015/
http://www.atmos-chem-phys-discuss.net/15/20059/2015/acpd-15-20059-2015.pdf

** Science 10 July 2015: Vol. 349  no. 6244  DOI: .1126/science.aaa4019 

Sea-level rise due to polar ice-sheet mass loss during past warm periods
A. Dutton1,*,  A. E. Carlson2,  A. J. Long3,  G. A. Milne4,  P. U. Clark2,  R. DeConto5,  B. P. Horton6,7,  S. Rahmstorf8,  M. E. Raymo9
 
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/349/6244/aaa4019.abstract

Furthermore, the rate of increase is also rising, evidencing, not only the lack of concerted action by the governments of the industrialized nations of the world to stop using fossil fuels, but an increase in their use, along with the incredibly destructive policies of subsidizing the exploration for fossil fuels.

If drastic action is not taken to avert this violent oceans catastrophe for human civilization, our global civilization will collapse into "sea-locked" regions unable to conduct trade across the oceans except via air transportation, a method that is not economically feasible to use for bulk cargo.

Port facilities and coastal airport facilities will become unusable. In addition, the salt water fishing industry would also collapse, both from the violent oceans and the increasing rate of marine extinctions, creating joblessness, food shortages and widespread hunger.

At least 25 percent of the world's arable land, all of which is low lying and near sea coasts, will be lost due to salt water invasion of the water table, even several miles from the coasts.

Have a nice day.

Climate Change, Blue Water Cargo Shipping and Predicted Ocean Wave Activity
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Post by: AGelbert on August 28, 2016, 06:29:20 pm
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Lightning strike kills 323 wild reindeer in southern Norway

PUBLISHED Sun, August 28, 2016 - 1:21pm EDT 

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 Photos: Håvard Kjønholt/Norwegian Environment Agency 
 
More than 320 wild reindeer have been found dead after a single lightning strike struck a mountain plateau in southern Norway, local officials say, making it one of the deadliest lightning strikes ever recorded. (more)
 
The incident is believed to have happened on Friday afternoon when thunderstorms hit Hardangervidda National Park, which is located in southern Norway and is a popular destination for tourists, featuring one of the country's largest glaciers.

 The incident was first reported on Friday evening after a hunting supervisor found the group of dead reindeer on the Hardangervidda mountain plateau, but it took until Sunday before officials could visit the site to assess the situation.

 "Our people in the field have found 323 dead reindeer, of which 5 had to be put down due to injuries," said Elin Fosshaug Olsø, a spokeswoman for the Norwegian Environment Agency. All of the dead reindeer were found in a radius of just 50 meters (165 feet).

 "We believe all reindeer were killed as a result of one single powerful lightning strike, because of the way they were positioned," Olsø explained. "We have never experienced such a large number of reindeer killed by lightning at the same time before. This is as far as we know a unique incident."

 Lightning strikes sometimes kill groups of animals if they are gathered tightly together, but Friday's incident in Norway involved a remarkably high number of dead animals, possibly one of the highest ever recorded.

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stephen whitaker

Talking about FAIRNESS, as much as LAW:

The PSB, being a court, and the Rising Tide folks not being a party, the Board is required to hear from the ‘public’ only by written comment filed with the Clerk or at a duly warned public hearing.

The current ‘Modus Interruptus’ is not entirely a result of a few people not playing nice, but by a continuing grievous failure of those supposed to be representing the interest of the public, the Department of Public Service, simply not doing its job.

When the public feels that the system is rigged, the protections failed, the fix is in, and the captains of industry are going to have their way, with collusion from the Governor and his Commissioner of Public Service, protest and even revolt is a time tested tool of bringing broader attention to the injustice.

The DPS lost it years ago and corrective measures are needed. The statutes provide for the appointment of an Independent Public Advocate. The Board should exercise this option.

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Margolis: Drowning in a tide of arrogance

Sep. 4, 2016, 7:54 pm by Jon Margolis 25 Comments

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(Editor’s note: Jon Margolis is VTDigger’s political columnist.)


In early August, a federal judge ruled that the Public Service Board’s decision to ban the public from a hearing “cannot be sustained under the First Amendment.”


The board complied.

Sort of.  ;)

Told that it must allow “public attendance” at its Aug. 4 hearing about extension of a gas pipeline through a park in Hinesburg, the PSB decided to allow six members of the public into the hearing room.

“It turned out to be eight,” said Lisa Barrett, the retired lawyer who was the plaintiff in the lawsuit filed after the board first said it would permit no one (later amended to allow reporters) to enter the hearing room in Berlin, a “training room” of the Agency of Natural Resources that has space for about 70 spectators.

The PSB, Barrett said, “complied with the letter of the court order.”

Now, to be fair to the Public Service Board, it should be noted that some of its antagonists appear equally indifferent to the First Amendment. Members of a group called Rising Tide Vermont have attended earlier hearings neither to listen nor to speak but to shout, thereby depriving others of the right to listen or to speak.

As U.S. District Judge Christina Reiss noted in her ruling, “There is, of course, no First Amendment right to disrupt adjudicatory proceedings. … To the extent disruptive participants make it difficult to see or hear the board’s proceedings, they may impair the First Amendment rights of other members of the public.”

The First Amendment exists primarily to limit the power of the government. Rising Tide is not the government and so may not, strictly speaking, be bound by those limits.

Then again, perhaps private individuals should follow the spirit of the Constitution even if not bound by its letter. John Franco, the lawyer who argued the case in court on Barrett’s behalf, said, “People have a First Amendment right to go to hearings, to speak and to listen. Interfering with (that) right is a very, very bad thing to start doing.”

Rising Tide does not see it that way.

“This is frankly an unjust process,” said Will Bennington, the Rising Tide spokesman. Bennington denied that the protesters had shouted; they were singing. But he did not deny that the aim was to “prevent (the process) from going forward.” In the view of Rising Tide, Bennington said, pipeline owner Vermont Gas Systems is “stealing from 80-something-year-old widows. We have no intention of letting them make their argument.”

Hmm. Let’s parse this for a minute. A small, un-elected band of devoted — arguably zealous — people has arrogated to itself the power to interrupt if not to halt the legal proceedings of a state agency operating according to laws passed by the elected representatives of the people.

The difference between this zealotry and fascism is … just what?

Especially because there is no evidence that the zealots speak for a majority. No one has taken a poll, but state legislators tend to know what their constituents think (otherwise they don’t stay in office), and two who represent the area to be served by the pipeline, Sen. Chris Bray, D-Addison, and Rep. Harvey Smith, R-New Haven, report that most of their constituents seem to have accepted the PSB’s earlier decision that the pipeline is in the public good.

“It hasn’t been a hot topic,” Smith said.

Bray, citing cost overruns and apparent inconsistency with state’s renewable energy goals, has his own reservations about the wisdom of the project. But while he noted that a vocal minority in his district opposes the pipeline, “in general, most people accept it as reasonable.”

As long as fairness is in the air, let’s show a little toward the pipeline opponents, too. The Public Service Board, while it operates within the law and its proceedings are available online, is perhaps the most aggravating, imperious and haughty agency in all of state government.

This does not mean the three commissioners and their 24-person staff are imperious and haughty people. They may or may not be. It’s the law that makes the board — a quasi-judicial body — all but impervious to public sentiment. Its job is to determine whether a proposed project is in “the public good.” With precious few exceptions, it decides that it is.

Just the other day, for instance, it ruled that a proposed solar project in Morgan met that “public good” test. The residents of Morgan were almost to a person opposed to the project. That didn’t matter. Perhaps it shouldn’t. The PSB’s decision may have been the right one. But it’s easy to see why many rank-and-file folks don’t like it.

They dislike it even more because, as in the case of the gas line, utilities whose projects get PSB approval often resort to eminent domain, seizing (and paying for) property — or the limited use of property, through easements — whose owners do not want to sell it.

The board itself has no power of eminent domain. The utilities do. The law gives it to them. But it’s all part of the same process, and not everyone makes the distinction. Eminent domain is often necessary. The constitutions of both the United States (Fifth Amendment) and Vermont (Chapter 1, Article 2) specifically authorize it. But it is a sweeping exercise of government power, often maddening to the affected property owners and their friends and neighbors.

To some extent, then, the board and its staff are not responsible for their bad rep. But some of their actions exacerbate it. Just consider its original order to close that hearing:

“Access to the hearing site will be controlled by law enforcement officials, who will only permit the entry of the parties, their counsel, their witnesses, the board members, board staff, and the court reporter. All persons who attend … will be required to present a form of valid photo identification (e.g., a driver’s license, a passport, a government employee badge) in order to enter the hearing site.”

And no one on the PSB staff thought to say something like, “Uh, boss, won’t somebody point out that this sounds like the directive of an agency of a police state?”

Not if an agency doesn’t care what anybody thinks.

Furthermore, as Judge Reiss’ decision points out, the PSB did not bother to take other steps to deal with its (legitimate) concern about protesters disrupting the hearing. It didn’t even bother to ask the disrupters to stop disrupting, or, failing that, to leave the hearing room. It could have arranged with law enforcement to have the disrupters ejected.

It did not. Instead, it just ordered the meeting closed. Two of the three board members, including Chairman James Volz, are lawyers. So are at least six members of its staff. It boggles the mind to suppose that not one of them knew their order could not stand.


Asked whether that had been discussed, PSB chief counsel June Tierney, generally cooperative and accommodating in an interview, declined to answer.

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Barbara Alsop

As you point out, Mr. Margolis, utilities get what they want before the PSB, even when they don’t do due diligence. This has been true from the time of rural electrification, when the naysayers were the current ratepayers who didn’t want to subsidize extension of electricity to rural towns. Then the “public good” was not in much doubt since electricity was obviously the path to the future.

The issue of utilities is not so clear any more. The regulators and the companies have reached an agreement that more is generally better, and they get along just fine without public input. But times are changing, as is the climate, and when the state won’t work to stop the changes, someone else has to assert the true public good. In 1992, the world first tried to slow the leviathan of climate change in Kyoto, and the US said no dice. In the years since, science has become a dirty word in this country, and the people have to protect themselves when their government doesn’t do it any more.

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 11, 2016, 01:52:02 pm
RAMPANT DEFORESTATION CONTINUES IN BRAZIL
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A thick blanket of smoke rises from fire in the Amazon rainforest.

Forest fires in the Amazon region are reaching record levels as Brazil’s government fails to tackle the deforestation that fuels the country’s high rate of emissions.

SÃO PAULO, 9 September, 2016 – Brazil’s new president, Michel Temer, will next week sign up to the Paris Agreement on climate change by committing Brazil to a reduction of 37% of its greenhouse gas emissions by 2025, and of 43% by 2030.

But critics say that the commitment glosses over the government’s failure to address the legal and illegal forest clearance that is adding to global warming.

Brazil’s emissions are the seventh highest in the world, and they come mostly from what is called land-use change − in other words, deforestation.

The government has promised that all illegal deforestation will be ended by 2030 – which, as critics point out, allows for it to continue for another 14 years − and sidesteps the thorny question of legally-permitted deforestation.

Scientists from the US space agency NASA and the University of California, Irvine, warn that lower rainfall in the Amazon basin because of the 2015-2016 El Niño phenomenon’s climate effects means that the region is now even drier than it was in 2005 and 2010, which were years of unprecedented drought.
Amazon biome

It is heading for a very bad fire season, fed by dieback − a process in which the forest dries out, storing less carbon, producing less rainfall, and worsening global warming.

The dry season in Brazil now extends from July to November, and a record number of 53,000 forest fires – mostly in the Amazon region − had been detected by the beginning of this month.

The largest number of fires  − around 15,000 − were detected by Brazilian scientists, using satellite images, in the state of Mato Grosso, which contains part of the Amazon biome − a region sharing similar climate, animals and plants. Most of them had been started deliberately.

The result is a drastic change in the landscape. The state takes its name from the dense forest – mato grosso roughly translates from Portuguese as “thick bushes” – that once covered it. But large swaths are now turning into savannah.

Environment journalist Sucena Shkrada Resk, who has just travelled to the region, described seeing a “gradual but accentuated process of savanna-isation”, which she blamed on monoculture practices, extensive cattle farming, illegal logging, and degradation caused by wildcat mining:

“In many places the soil is sandy,” she reported. “Few farmers worry about restoring degraded areas, and you even see hilltops cleared of vegetation. Official reserves and APPs [areas of permanent protection] are more and more fragilised.”

She described groups of cows seeking shade under a single remaining tree, while the ashes and soot from the fires cause breathing difficulties, forcing many people to seek help at the under-equipped health posts and hospitals.

    “Few farmers worry about restoring degraded areas, and you even see hilltops cleared of vegetation”

Resk said the level of big rivers such as the Teles Pires and Juruena, and their tributaries, is well below normal levels.

One area of dense rainforest remains in the north of the state: the Xingu national park, one of Brazil’s largest indigenous territories, covering 12,000 square miles.

It was created in 1961 by the explorers and protection agents Orlando and Claudio Vilas Boas to save indigenous tribes threatened by the advance of Brazil’s road network, and it is home to 6,500 indigenous people from 16 different ethnic groups.

But the Xingu park is now entirely surrounded by big ranches and farms, which have cleared all the rainforest for their cattle and crops of soya and maize. The result is a noticeable change in temperature and rainfall within the park.

In a documentary called Where have all the swallows gone? − produced by two Brazilian environmental organisations, the Socioambiental Institute and the Catitu Institute – one of the Xingu residents says: “When the crickets begin to sing, we know that in three days’ time it will begin to rain. Then it is the time to plant sweet potatoes, squash, peanuts, yams, chili peppers.

“But they are no longer singing. The heat has dried up their eggs.”
Herald the rains

The film shows how climate change induced by forest clearing is affecting life in the Xingu park. The swallows, which used to fly in bands to herald the rains, have also disappeared.

Fires that once were used in a controlled way for clearing land now spread very easily, affecting big areas of the park. The intense heat is killing fruit and food crops, and the local people fear that future generations will have to depend on white people’s food.

Marina Silva, a former environment minister, says: “They are besieged by the model of economic production that Brazil adopts and gives incentives to.”

Other factors driving deforestation are the revised Forest Code of 2012, which gave amnesty to farmers who had illegally cleared land. It also reduced protected areas, and weakened environmental management and control in the state of Amazonas, which was once largely untouched by fires and deforestation but is now one of the states most affected.

So while Brazil is officially signing up to the Paris Agreement to reduce emissions overall, the reality is that the Amazon − the source of most of the deforestation-linked emissions − is at risk as never before. And at the same time, emissions from energy, agriculture and industry continue to rise.

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Post by: AGelbert on September 12, 2016, 08:53:05 pm
Louisiana flood costs nearly double some estimates thanks to climate change, 80% uninsured

By James Dennin
September 09, 2016
 
A series of storms battered the gulf coast in August, particularly in Louisiana and Mississippi, in what was the worst natural disaster to hit the United States since Hurricane Sandy.

Now that the flooding has finally receded, watchdogs have gotten a better grip on the extent of the damage.

Some 110,000 homes and 100,000 vehicles were damaged or destroyed in the flooding, with a total cost projected to be between $10 billion and $15 billion, according to a Friday report from the insurer Aon.

Most crucially, only 20% of losses were insured through some sort of government program, at most, meaning that figure could be even lower. Many have taken to sites like GoFundMe to try and recoup their losses.
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Rain fell for seven days in the worst natural disaster since Hurricane Sandy.

The federal government has already spent more than $660 million on temporary shelters and other relief efforts, but that's won't be nearly enough.

All week, Louisiana Gov. John Bell Edwards lobbied officials in Washington, D.C. to get an aid bill passed for more flood relief.

Even with additional federal support, state officials are unsure of how they're going to cover the bill, which earlier this week was thought to be closer to $8.7 billion.

Climate change was likely a factor in making the seven-day storm so bad, according to a report released Wednesday by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Scientists predicted that the likelihood of such an event is 40% higher than it would have been in pre-industrial times, and scientists expect that this sort of event will happen every 30 years in the Gulf region.

The storms are also more intense
, the same study found.

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Post by: AGelbert on September 15, 2016, 05:03:43 pm
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Posted On September 15, 2016 by Becca Robbins Gisclair

Today, the National Snow and Ice Data Center announced that sea ice in the Arctic Ocean hit the second lowest minimum on record during the summer of 2016.

It matters.

This is why:


Sea ice is the foundation of the Arctic ecosystem. Wildlife like the iconic polar bear depends on sea ice to hunt prey such as ringed seals, forage and breed. As their sea ice habitat continues to diminish, it is estimated that by 2050, global polar bear populations will decrease by 30%.

 
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Polar bears are highly dependent on sea ice.


Sea ice is tied to indigenous culture and the subsistence way of life.

The Arctic is home to indigenous communities that depend on a healthy marine environment to survive. As sea ice diminishes, many communities are being forced to travel much further to hunt, and face new challenges like more frequent, more severe storms.


Sea ice loss makes the Arctic vulnerable to increasing vessel traffic


— and the risks that come with it like higher risk of oil spills, impact of noise pollution on marine wildlife, possible whale strikes, and the introduction of invasive species. By 2025, vessel traffic through the Bering Strait is projected to increase anywhere from 100 – 500% from what it was in 2013. Recently, the luxury ship Crystal Serenity became yet another symbol of a changing Arctic as she cruised through the Northwest Passage.

 
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Sea ice plays a vital role in regulating heat on a rapidly warming planet. Melting snow and sea ice reduces the ability of the Arctic region to reflect sunlight.  While this phenomena accelerates global warming worldwide, the Arctic itself is warming two times faster than the rest of the planet.

What Ocean Conservancy is doing:

As a science-based conservation organization with a deep commitment to the Arctic, Ocean Conservancy is working to better understand and address the impacts of climate change and sea ice retreat. By promoting integrated Arctic management, working with indigenous  communities, and promoting vessel traffic measures like designated shipping routes, we hope to mitigate the causes and impacts of a rapidly warming Arctic.

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Post by: AGelbert on September 17, 2016, 01:39:14 pm
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BOB KLEIN ON THE CULTURAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL
 TRADEOFFS OF OUR ENERGY CHOICES

(Editor’s note: The following comes from the recent Vermont Folklife Center exhibit, Portraits in Action: Pioneers in Renewable Energy, Environmental Conservation, and Land Use Planning. For more, visit their website.)
Bob Klein, the first director of Vermont Chapter of the Nature Conservancy, makes an argument for thinking big and stretching beyond our comfort collective zone—listen below (at article link) —then read his response to the question: What will bring us to the next level in meeting the energy and environmental challenges we are facing today?

What will bring us to the next level in meeting the energy and environmental challenges we are facing today?

Whatever energy sources we utilize in Vermont inevitably will have cultural and environmental consequences. Whether we like it or not, with energy development there’s no free lunch. There have always been tradeoffs.
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Having discovered that the environmental cost of burning fossil fuel is unacceptable, we’ll transition to other energy sources, and make new tradeoffs over the decades to come.
Meeting “the next level of environmental and energy challenges” should involve confronting these tradeoffs consciously. There’s room to decide what impacts we’re willing to accept. We can weigh the consequences of certain energy choices against things we value – local control, scenery and open space, prime ag soils, natural areas, and recreational access to land, for example. Some energy choices could even have an impact on Vermont’s rural character itself.

We may be facing a climate emergency, but this need not lead to a suspension of the rules. We do not have to leave the adoption and siting of alternative energy sources to chance. Like other kinds of development, state, regional, and local planning can steer renewable energy installations away from other things that we value. Geographic Information Systems and resource mapping tools have never been more widely available. We just need to use these tools, together with an enabling policy framework, to meet the challenges before us.

Portraits in Action: Pioneers in Renewable Energy, Environmental Conservation, and Land Use Planning brings together a diverse cross section of twenty-five pioneers, activists, and leaders in renewable energy, environmental conservation, and land use planning, and invites them to speak to the issues at hand. It is both an oral history and a call to action.

The Vermont Folklife Center’s mission is to broaden, strengthen, and deepen our understanding of Vermont and the surrounding region; to assure a repository for our collective cultural memory; and to strengthen communities by building connections among the diverse peoples of Vermont. For more, visit us.

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Global Warming and the Future of Humanity

An Interview With Noam Chomsky and Graciela Chichilnisky

The Earth's climate is being radically modified by human action, creating a very different planet, one that may not be able to sustain organized human life in anything like a form we would want to tolerate.

How serious of an issue is climate change? Does global warming really threaten human civilization? Can it be reversed, or is it already late?

In this exclusive interview for Truthout, two scholars, Noam Chomsky, one of the world's leading public intellectuals, and Graciela Chichilnisky, a renowned economist and climate change authority who wrote and designed the carbon market of the Kyoto Protocol, concur on a few key points. First of all, global warming and climate change constitute the greatest challenge facing humanity, and may pose an even greater threat to our species than that of nuclear weapons. Secondly, the operations of the capitalist world economy are at the core of the climate change threat because of over-reliance on fossil fuels and a perverse sense of economic values. Thirdly, the world needs to adopt alternative energy systems as quickly as possible. And finally, it is crucial to explore technologies to assist us in reversing climate change -- as time is running out.

C. J. Polychroniou: A consensus seems to be emerging among scientists and even political and social analysts that global warming and climate change represent the greatest threat to the planet. Do you concur with this view, and why?

Noam Chomsky: I agree with the conclusion of the experts who set the Doomsday Clock for the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists. They have moved the Clock two minutes closer to midnight -- three minutes to midnight -- because of the increasing threats of nuclear war and global warming. That seems to me a credible judgment. Review of the record shows that it's a near miracle that we have survived the nuclear age. There have been repeated cases when nuclear war came ominously close, often a result of malfunctioning of early-warning systems and other accidents, sometimes [as a result of] highly adventurist acts of political leaders. It has been known for some time that a major nuclear war might lead to nuclear winter that would destroy the attacker as well as the target. And threats are now mounting, particularly at the Russian border, confirming the prediction of George Kennan and other prominent figures that NATO expansion, particularly the way it was undertaken, would prove to be a "tragic mistake," a "policy error of historic proportions."

As for climate change, it's by now widely accepted by the scientific community that we have entered a new geological era, the Anthropocene, in which the Earth's climate is being radically modified by human action, creating a very different planet, one that may not be able to sustain organized human life in anything like a form we would want to tolerate. There is good reason to believe that we have already entered the Sixth Extinction, a period of destruction of species on a massive scale, comparable to the Fifth Extinction 65 million years ago, when three-quarters of the species on earth were destroyed, apparently by a huge asteroid. Atmospheric CO2 is rising at a rate unprecedented in the geological record since 55 million years ago. There is concern -- to quote a statement by 150 distinguished scientists -- that "global warming, amplified by feedbacks from polar ice melt, methane release from permafrost, and extensive fires, may become irreversible," with catastrophic consequences for life on Earth, humans included -- and not in the distant future. Sea level rise and destruction of water resources as glaciers melt alone may have horrendous human consequences.

Graciela Chichilnisky: The consensus is that climate change ranks along with nuclear warfare as the top two risks facing human civilization. If nuclear warfare is believed to be somewhat controlled, then climate change is now the greatest threat.

As difficult as it is to eliminate the risk of nuclear warfare, it requires fewer changes to the global economy than does averting or reversing climate change. Climate change is due to the use of energy for industrial growth, which has been and is overwhelmingly based on fossil fuels. Changing an economic system that is bent on uncontrolled and poorly measured economic growth and depends on fossil energy for its main objectives, is much more difficult than changing how nuclear energy is used for military purposes. Some think it may be impossible.

Virtually all scientific studies point to increased temperatures since 1975, and a recent story in The New York Times confirms that decades-long warnings by scientists on global warming are no longer theoretical as land ice melts and sea levels rise. Yet, there are still people out there who not only question the widely accepted scientific view that current climate change is mostly caused by human activities, but also cast a doubt on the reliability of surface temperatures. Do you think this is all politically driven, or also caused by ignorance and perhaps even fear of change?

Chomsky: It is an astonishing fact about the current era that in the most powerful country in world history, with a high level of education and privilege, one of the two political parties virtually denies the well-established facts about anthropogenic climate change. In the primary debates for the 2016 election, every single Republican candidate was a climate change denier, with one exception, John Kasich -- the "rational moderate" -- who said it may be happening but we shouldn't do anything about it. For a long time, the media have downplayed the issue. The euphoric reports on US fossil fuel production, energy independence, and so on, rarely even mention the fact that these triumphs accelerate the race to disaster. There are other factors too, but under these circumstances, it hardly seems surprising that a considerable part of the population either joins the deniers or regards the problem as not very significant.

Chichilnisky: Climate change is new and complex. We don't have all the answers. We are still learning how exactly the Earth reacts to increased CO2 and other greenhouse gases. We know it leads to warming seas which are melting the North and the South Poles, rising and starting to swallow entire coastal areas in the US and elsewhere, as the New York Times article documents. We know that the warming rising seas will swallow entire island nations that are about 25 percent of the UN vote and perhaps at the end, even our civilization. This realization is traumatic and the first reaction to trauma is denial. Since there is some remaining scientific uncertainty, a natural response is to deny that change is occurring. This is natural but it is very dangerous. Signs of a poorly understood but treatable house fire requires action, not inaction. While denial leads to certainty, it is only the certainty of death. This is true for individuals and also for civilizations.

Political parties often take advantage of denial and fear in a moment of change. This is a well understood phenomenon that often leads to scapegoat-ism: blaming outsiders, such as immigrants, or racial and religious minorities. The phenomenon is behind Brexit and the violence in the political cycles in the US and EU. After denial comes anger and finally, acceptance. I think some are still between denial and anger, and I hope will reach acceptance, because there is still time to act, but the door is closing fast.

In global surveys, Americans are more skeptical than other people around the world over climate change. Why is that? And what does it tell us about American political culture?

Chomsky: The US is to an unusual extent a business-run society, where short-term concerns of profit and market share displace rational planning. The US is also unusual in the enormous scale of religious fundamentalism. The impact on understanding of the world is extraordinary. In national polls almost half of those surveyed have reported that they believe that God created humans in their present form 10,000 years ago (or less) and that man shares no common ancestor with the ape. There are similar beliefs about the Second Coming. Senator James Inhofe, who headed the Senate Committee on the environment, speaks for many when he assures us that "God's still up there and there's a reason for this to happen," so it is sacrilegious for mere humans to interfere.

Chichilnisky: The "can do" logic, by its own nature, does not accept limits. And an empire does not have a graceful way to evolve out of this role. History demonstrates this time and again. Trying to conserve a privileged global position makes change traumatic for the US.

The first reaction to trauma is denial, as I explained, then comes anger and finally, acceptance. I think the US is still between denial and anger, and I hope we will reach acceptance because almost perversely, right now, only the US has the technology that is needed for global economic change.

Recent data related to global emissions of heat-treating gases suggest that we may have left behind us the period of constantly increased emissions. Is there room here for optimism about the future of the environment?

Chomsky: There is always room for Gramsci's "optimism of the will." There are still many options, but they are diminishing. Options range from simple initiatives that are easily undertaken like weatherizing homes (which could also create many jobs), to entirely new forms of energy, perhaps fusion, perhaps new means of exploiting solar energy outside the Earth's atmosphere (which has been seriously suggested), to methods of decarbonization that might, conceivably, even reverse some of the enormous damage already inflicted on the planet. And much else.

Chichilnisky: This is good news, it is a step in the right direction. But the road is miles long and the first step, while necessary, does not determine success. It is far from enough. The problem that few people appreciate and was only recently observed in the IPCC [Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change] data is that CO2 stays hundreds of years in the atmosphere once emitted. It does not decay as particles or sulfur dioxide does. We have used the majority of our carbon budget and we are already at dangerous levels of CO2 concentrations, about 400 parts per million. The levels were 250 before industrialization. So the problem is what we have done already and, therefore, what must be undone.

According to the Fifth Assessment Report of the IPCC, page 191, in most scenarios we now have to remove the CO2 we emitted. These emissions were recent, mostly since World War II -- 1945 -- which was a turning point of the world economy. This was the era of US dominance and of globalization based on over-extraction of natural resources from poor nations and overconsumption of those same resources by the rich industrial nations. The era of galloping increase of wealth by the very few and the even faster galloping and record inequality and poverty in the world economy as a whole. This is the divide between the [global] North that houses 18 percent of the global population and the [global] South that houses over 80 percent.

Given that change in human behavior happens slowly and that it will take many decades before the world economy makes a shift to new, clean(er) forms of energy, should we look toward a technological solution to climate change?

Chomsky: Anything feasible and potentially effective should be explored. There is little doubt that a significant part of any serious solution will require advances of technology, but that can only be part of the solution. Other major changes are necessary. Industrial production of meat makes a huge contribution to global warming. The entire socioeconomic system is based on production for profit and a growth imperative that cannot be sustained.

There are also fundamental issues of value: What is a decent life? Should the master-servant relation be tolerated? Should one's goals really be maximization of commodities -- Veblen's "conspicuous consumption"? Surely there are higher and more fulfilling aspirations.

Chichilnisky: We seem to have no alternative. I would like to say that the problem could be solved by green energy sources. However, they can no longer solve the problem: many studies have demonstrated that the long-run solutions, such as planting more trees, which are critical to human survival, and adopting cleaner forms of energy, which are the long-run energy solution, cannot be utilized in the timescale that matters. That is the problem. Technology is a many-headed monster and perhaps it would be better to regress to a safer past and avoid technological change; it is tempting to think like that. But UN studies have shown that even if we planted a tree on every square yard available in the planet by the end of the century we would only capture at most 10 percent of the CO2 we need to reduce. This does not mean that we should not plant trees; we should, for biodiversity's sake, and for our long-term future together with the other species.

Trees and clean energy [are] the long-run solution but we have no time to wait for the long run. We need a short-run solution now, and one that encourages and facilitates the transition to the long-run solution. This is the technology that IPCC proposes, to remove CO2 directly from air. I cofounded a company called Global Thermostat that uses the heat and the power from clean and fossil energy sources, such as solar plants and wind farms, to remove CO2 from air. It provides a short-run solution that facilitates and accelerates the advent of the needed long run.

Many in the progressive and radical community, including the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS), are quite skeptical and even opposed to so-called "geo-engineering" solutions. Is this the flip side of the coin to climate change deniers?

Chomsky: That does not seem to me a fair assessment. UCS and others like them may be right or wrong, but they offer serious reasons. That is also true of the very small group of serious scientists who question the overwhelming consensus, but the mass climate denier movements -- like the leadership of the Republican Party and those they represent -- are a different phenomenon altogether. As for geoengineering, there have been serious general critiques that I think cannot be ignored, like Clive Hamilton's, along with many positive assessments. It is not a matter for subjective judgment based on guesswork and intuition. Rather, these are matters that have to be considered seriously, relying on the best scientific understanding available, without abandoning sensible precautionary principles.

Chichilnisky: The remedy could be worse than the disease. Certain geoengineering processes have been proposed that could be very dangerous and must be avoided. Geoengineering means changing the Earth's fundamental large-scale processes. We know little of the consequences of the geoengineering process, such as spraying particles into the atmosphere that shade the planet from the sun's rays and could decrease its temperature. But this process is how dinosaurs disappeared from the Earth about 60 million years ago, by particles spewed by a volcano or a giant meteorite impact, and our species could follow suit. The sun is the source of all energy on planet Earth and we cannot experiment with our only energy source. Changing the world's oceans to increase their uptake of CO2, as other geoengineering solutions propose, is equally dangerous, as the increased resulting acidity of the oceans kills tiny crustaceans, such as krill, that are the basis of the pyramid of life on the planet as we know it.

What immediate but realistic and enforceable actions could or should be taken to tackle the climate change threat?

Chomsky: Rapid ending of use of fossil fuels, sharp increase in renewable energy, research into new options for sustainable energy, significant steps toward conservation, and not least, a far-reaching critique of the capitalist model of human and resource exploitation; even apart from its ignoring of externalities, the latter is a virtual death knell for the species.

Chichilnisky: Here is a plan consisting of realistic and enforceable actions that can be taken now to tackle the climate change threat: We have to remove the CO2 that the industrial economy has already emitted, which otherwise will remain in the atmosphere for hundreds of years and alter the Earth's climate irreversibly. It is possible to do this. The technology now exists to remove carbon directly from the atmosphere and is proven, very safe and inexpensive. This new technology works by taking the CO2 directly from pure air -- or a combination of industrial sources and pure air -- using as a power source not electricity, but mostly the inexpensive heat that is residual of most industrial processes. The CO2 removed from air is stabilized on earth by selling it for useful commercial purposes with a benefit. CO2 from air can replace petroleum: it can produce plastics and acetate, it can produce carbon fibers that replace metals and clean hydrocarbons, such as synthetic gasoline. We can use CO2 to desalinate water, enhance the production of vegetables and fruit in greenhouses, carbonate our beverages and produce biofertilizers that enhance the productivity of the soil without poisoning it. Carbon negative technology is absolutely needed now as reported by the UNFCCC [United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change] Fifth Assessment Report of the IPCC, p. 191, and also in four articles of the 2015 Paris Agreement.

Is there a way to predict how the world will look like 50 years from now if humans fail to tackle and reverse global warming and climate change?

Chomsky: If current tendencies persist, the outcome will be disastrous before too long. Large parts of the world will become barely habitable affecting hundreds of millions of people, along with other disasters that we can barely contemplate.

Chichilnisky: It is easier to create the future than to predict it. Right now we must implement the requirements of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the UN Kyoto Protocol, as well as the Paris Agreement recommendations: immediately we must remove the CO2 we have already emitted from the planet's atmosphere and extend the Kyoto emission limits. This is the only possible alternative in most scenarios to catastrophic climate change. This can and must be done.

The funding provided by the Kyoto Protocol Carbon Market could build carbon negative power plants in poor nations. Carbon negative power plants can provide energy while they overcome poverty and change economic values in the right direction.

The UN carbon market, which is international law since 2005, will produce a much needed change in global economic values. The change in economic values created by the new markets for global public goods will reorient our global economy and under the right conditions can usher the satisfaction of basic needs of the present and of the future. This is what is needed right now. We need to support our future instead of undermining human survival. Let's do it.

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 22, 2016, 01:13:31 pm

‘We’ve been underestimating ice loss by about 20 billion tonnes of ice per year’

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GNET station ASKY in Greenland. 'We’ve underestimated the rate of ice loss by about 7.6 per cent,' says Michael Bevis one of the co-authors of the study.

A new study based on GPS measurements of the Earth's crust suggests the Greenland ice sheet is melting about seven per cent faster than previously believed and may contribute more to future sea level rise than predicted.

"We've underestimated the rate of ice loss by about 7.6 per cent," said Michael Bevis of The Ohio State University, one of the study's co-authors.

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The new finding shows that Greenland did not lose about 2,500 gigatons of ice from 2003-2013 as scientists previously believed, but nearly 2,700 gigatons.

The research found that Greenland did not lose about 2,500 gigatons of ice from 2003-2013 as scientists previously believed, but closer to 2,700 gigatons — a difference Bevis calculates at 7.6 percent.

The study, published in the journal Science Advances, is an international effort that started in 2007, with contributions from the U.S., Denmark and Luxembourg.

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Over the past two decades the Greenland ice sheet has been shrinking — partly due to accelerated glacier flow and partly because of surface melt.

However, scientists have not been able to pinpoint exactly how much the melting ice sheet is contributing to global sea level rise — information key to making predictions about future sea rise levels.

Part of the challenge has been a lack of on-site data.

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For this study teams of scientists spent years installing GPS devices around the entire perimeter of the Greenland ice sheet in order to collect new data.

Quantifying the uplift rate

For this study, teams of scientists spent years installing GPS devices around the entire perimeter of the Greenland ice sheet.

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Locations of the GNET GPS stations (red dots) and RSL observations (green dots).

The researchers wanted to separate two different kinds of movement. The first is elastic motion caused by an uplift or bouncing of the bedrock underneath the ice sheet due to recent ice loss.

"The Earth is a big elastic, like a spring: you put something heavy on it, it bends down. If that load decreases because it's melting away, then this upper spring rises," said Bevis.

The other movement comes from a delayed response to the ice losses since the Last Glacial Maximum — 20,000 years ago — in a process called viscous rebound.

"This is the first time we've been able to separate which part is elastic and which part is this viscous rebound," said Bevis.

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'What we found was really surprising,' says Bevis.

Hotspots distorting data

"What we found was really surprising," said Bevis.

The team discovered that the hotspot in the Earth's mantle that feeds Iceland's active volcanoes has been distorting data.

Forty million years ago, parts of Greenland passed over a particularly hot column of partially molten rock that now lies beneath Iceland — a result of the Earth's crust in that region slowly moving northwest.

The hotspot softened the rock, lowering the viscosity of the mantle along a path running deep below the surface of Greenland's east coast.

During the last ice age, the massive weight from Greenland's ice sheet caused the crust underneath to slowly sink into the softened mantle rock.

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The team discovered that the hotspot in the Earth’s mantle that feed Iceland’s active volcanoes has been distorting data.

As that ice age came to an end, the crust began to lift. That uplift motion is still continuing as the mantle rock flows (slowly) inwards and upwards beneath Greenland.

This kind of phenomenon has been seen before, explains Bevis, in places, like Patagonia in South America, that are tectonically active.

"This one is a bit more of a surprise because it was 40 million years ago that that hotspot passed under the eastern margin of Greenland and it's still got this anomalous structure," said Bevis.

The findings, he said, show that scientists must pay much more attention to the movement of rock masses in order to prevent confusing rock mass changes with ice mass changes.

Projections for the future

William Colgan, from York University's Lassonde School of Engineering, studies the Greenland ice melt and its effects on the ocean.

"We care about how much water Greenland added to the ocean coming out of the last glaciation," he said.

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'As we enter a new even warmer period due to climate change we like to assess our projections for the future based against what we know about the past behaviour of the ice sheet,' says York University's William Colgan.

"We like to assess our projections for the future based against what we know about the past behaviour of the ice sheet."

The new study estimates the Greenland ice sheet was almost 44 per cent larger during the last glaciation than previously believed.

"That's a big difference," said Colgan.

"It means instead of Greenland contributing something like 3.5 metres of sea level to the world's oceans since the peak of the last glaciation, it may have in fact contributed more like 4.6 metres of global sea level rise."

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 23, 2016, 12:38:07 pm

With a catastrophic season of wildfires, megafloods and major hurricanes, the climate-change siege is fully upon us

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Firefighters build a fire line during the Blue Cut Fire in California's San Bernardino County in August.

Southern California was ready to burn. El Niño rains that topped off reservoirs in the north of the state barely drizzled down south, leaving the region in a worst-in-centuries drought. By June, tree die-off in state forests, accelerated by bark beetles feasting on dry pines, had more than doubled from 2015, topping 66 million. Record heat – 122 degrees in Palm Springs – pushed the extreme fire conditions typical of September and October into midsummer. So when sparks hit the ground in August, fires across the state literally exploded. "It's almost like the mountains are just doused in gasoline," said one fire captain.

In the mountains above San Bernardino, the Blue Cut Fire consumed 30,000 acres in a single day, jumping an eight-lane interstate, spawning fire tornadoes and erecting a wall of flame nearly 90 feet tall. "It moved with an intensity and a ferocity that veteran firefighters haven't seen before," said San Bernardino County fire chief Mark Hartwig. The inferno forced the evacuation of 82,000 residents in less than 12 hours, many riding out on fire engines. Before a merciful break in the winds allowed firefighters to gain the upper hand, the Blue Cut destroyed more than 300 homes and buildings. Up the coast, firefighters battled the 46,000-acre Chimney Fire, narrowly saving the Hearst Castle – the extravagant mansion that inspired Xanadu in Citizen Kane.

As California was gripped by fire, the hottest August in recorded history unleashed extreme weather events in every corner of the United States. Hawaii braced for an unprecedented "double hurricane," back-to-back systems that barreled down on the Big Island before passing just offshore. Then Hermine, the first hurricane to hit the Florida capital of Tallahassee since 1985, sent tropical-storm warnings north into New England.

In Louisiana, an unnamed superstorm – a windless hurricane – dumped up to 30 inches of rain, killing at least 13 people and inundating more than 60,000 homes in dozens of parishes. A "weather autopsy" led by scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration linked the superstorm to climate change. The lead author, NOAA scientist Karin van der Wiel, said "human-caused, heat-trapping greenhouse gases" had likely produced "a near doubling of the odds of such a storm."
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A superstorm this summer inundated more than 60,000 Louisiana homes.

It may seem far-fetched that global warming is producing both megafires and superstorms. But climate scientists say the same thermodynamics are driving both disasters. Simply put, a hotter atmosphere demands more water. In the drought-prone West, it sucks soils, shrubs and trees bone-dry – setting the stage for fire. A 2015 Columbia University study found California's drought was up to 25 percent more severe due to global warming.

In a wet environment like the coastal South, the atmosphere can become supersaturated. As the world has warmed, extreme rain events have spiked in the Southeast, making a mockery of traditional storm-risk metrics. The Louisiana superstorm was the second "one-in-1,000-year" rainfall event to hit the state this year alone. In South Carolina, another one-in-1,000-year event dropped 26 inches of rain last October.

Despite their Old Testament scale, these weren't "acts of God," nor were they "natural disasters" – not strictly speaking, not anymore. We all had a hand in this destruction. "Unfortunately, this is just the start," says David Titley, a retired rear admiral with a doctorate in meteorology who spearheaded the Navy's Task Force on Climate Change. "We have seen the fires, the intense rainfall events time and time again – just in the United States, let alone the rest of the world." If we fail to take decisive action, Titley says, we will "make this worse and worse and worse." The only question, he says, is "How many times are we going to get punched in the gut?"

As fiery as 2016 has already been, California is only now entering peak season, when firestorms get whipped by the Santa Ana winds. Across the West, the fire season now lasts 105 days longer than it did in 1970. Big fire has hit the Northern Rockies hard, with a tenfold increase in major blazes on Forest Service land in Wyoming, Montana and Idaho. Indeed, Idaho was battling the largest blaze in the nation this summer: The Pioneer Fire, spanning nearly 200,000 acres in the remote Boise National Forest, defied containment with "extreme fire behavior."

The science connecting wildfire to global warming is unequivocal. A 2016 report from the National Academy of Sciences states plainly, "An increase in fire risk in California is attributable to climate change." If emissions continue unchecked, an earlier report found, days of extreme-fire risk in California are projected to increase by a factor of six by the end of the century. "We're looking at potential holocausts of fire that are unlike anything we have now," says Char Miller, a professor of environmental analysis at Pomona College. "And we're pretty shocked now."

California has had to confront the perils of climate change and fire more than anywhere else; its massive population has built out into lands that were already prone to burning. "That means you have more people that you have to defend in a landscape that's becoming less defensible," says Miller. "There are 20 million people around the Angeles National Forest. What if your capacity to protect it is limited because the natural system is a tinderbox?"

In response, California is making massive investments in its fire defenses. Gov. Jerry Brown stood on the site of the Rocky Fire that charred nearly 70,000 acres north of Napa in 2015 and warned that climate-aggravated wildfire is a "new normal." Brown has budgeted hundreds of millions of dollars for additional firefighting resources – more than $200 million in 2016 alone – allowing the state to hire more full-time firefighters and bring on more seasonal hands earlier in the year.

When big fires hit, the state now deploys drones and sophisticated computer modeling to pinpoint hot spots and coordinate the firefighting response. To minimize fire risk upfront, the state is requiring landowners to clear out dead trees and create "defensible space" around homes, and educating citizens accustomed to earthquake risk to adopt similar disaster planning for fire.

But even these investments may not be enough to prevent an "apocalyptic" fire, Miller warns. "If you're living in a fire system that is fueled by drought, fueled by a warming and drying planet," he says, "there's a moment at which the fire's just gonna take off – without our being able to control it."

The world witnessed this kind of calamity at a different latitude of the North American West this past spring when an explosive wildfire in Alberta, Canada, devastated the city of Fort McMurray – epicenter of that country's tar-sands oil extraction. The region had experienced a warm winter and under 40 percent of average precipitation. About 1.5 million acres (an area larger than Delaware) were scorched, destroying 2,400 structures and causing almost $3 billion in damages, the most expensive "natural" disaster in Canada's history.

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The aftermath of this year's Alberta wildfires

Boreal forests below the Arctic Circle are now burning at a rate not seen in at least 10,000 years. Mike Flannigan, a professor of wildland fire at the University of Alberta, calls the Fort McMurray blaze "consistent" with what we expect in an age of global warming. "A warmer world has more fire," he says. "We're going to see more and more of these."

In the aftermath of the Louisiana superstorm, Donald Trump flew in for a photo-op; cameras captured him unloading a shipment of Play-Doh for flood survivors. The Republican nominee has staked out wildly inconsistent stances on issues from immigration to taxes, but has firmly denied the threat of global warming, which he has blasted in tweets as "bullshit" and a "hoax." In an interview on CNN last September, Trump insisted flatly, "I don't believe in climate change."

Trump vows to "cancel" the Paris Climate Agreement, to "rescind" the Obama administration's Climate Action Plan, to "save the coal industry" and "to ask TransCanada to renew its permit application for the Keystone Pipeline." As for the EPA? "We are going to get rid of it in almost every form," he has said. "We're going to have little tidbits left."

In perhaps the sharpest issue contrast of the presidential race, Hillary Clinton calls climate change a "defining challenge of our time." She has outlined an agenda to slash carbon emissions by 80 percent by 2050 and vowed to make the United States "the world's clean-energy superpower," starting with a campaign to install half a billion solar panels. Clinton's plans focus on empowering states and cities, reflecting the reality that Republicans in Congress have gridlocked climate legislation on the Hill as formidably as they've stymied gun control.

Moving away from carbon isn't cheap. But neither is the foot-dragging status quo. The cost of climate-amplified catastrophes is increasingly borne by taxpayers, who fund FEMA's emergency response and the huge relief packages hurried through Congress. "It comes down to billions and even trillions of dollars, and many, many lives lost," Titley says. "That's a carbon tax." Inaction, he adds, is suicide. "Think of climate change as an escalator going out of a subway system," he says. "We're about on the second step of that long tunnel going up."

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/features/summer-of-hell-and-high-water-shows-climate-change-is-here-w441345
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Post by: AGelbert on September 25, 2016, 02:57:41 pm
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Previously thought to be barely affected by the formation of meltwater ponds, new research has shown East Antarctica experienced large numbers of supraglacial lakes developing during the summer months of every year between 2000 and 2013. Jim Drury reports.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FG-7OD0LrQc&feature=player_embedded
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 27, 2016, 02:26:40 pm
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Polluting Dogs (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-241013183046.jpeg&hash=51c9c4f17e747698c76c65c7c1814eff4f32c400) Have Their Day: Clean Power Plan Arguments Begin
 
 Oral arguments on the legality of the Clean Power Plan (CPP) begin today, kicking off a series of arguments, appeals and apparently, advertisements. And regardless of how these judges (six appointed by Ds, four by Rs) rule in the D.C. District Court, a West Virginia vs EPA Supreme Court showdown is nearly a sure thing. 
 
 So here’s a run-down of preliminary coverage. Two GOP-appointed EPA administrators penned an op-ed for the NY Times that explains Why Obama is right on clean energy. Their main point is that the CPP is in line with 45 years of the federal government’s power to set standards that states find ways to meet. Also at NYT is an explainer about why the clerical error that stipulates that the EPA can’t regulate something twice (think double jeopardy) has bearing on the ruling. But one expert was quoted saying such an interpretation is not likely to be endorsed by the court, as it is “like exempting restaurants from food handling requirements because they are subject to the fire code.”
 
Law professor Alice Kaswan explains in The Hill that aside from the climate benefits, “the rule could prevent 3,600 premature deaths, 90,000 asthma attacks, and 300,000 missed work and school days each year, leading to air quality-related economic benefits of at least $11 to $28 billion by 2030.”


But you wouldn’t hear that from the WSJ, who offered up about a third of yesterday’s opinion page for attacks on the CPP, with an editorial as well as an op-ed by lawyers Rivkin and Grossman. Both pieces clutch their pearls and stick to tired talking points. Even their rhetoric remains the same, as this week’s editorial headline, The ‘Clean Power’ Putsch, echoes one published last year when they dubbed it the Climate-Change Putsch. (They have yet to fully break Godwin’s law and refer in name to Hitler’s failed Beer Hall Putsch, so cheers to that...)
 
 The fossil fuel industry’s full court press extends beyond the WSJ. The “clean coal” lobby has taken the unusual (but not unprecedented) approach of running fear-mongering radio ads about how the life and climate-saving CPP will render legislators incapable of protecting their constituents (apparently “constituents” means fossil fuel companies). This hyperbolic ad sounds like a parody of melodramatic movie trailers, made complete by the video version that literally shows the constitution burning. That bit of over-the-top imagery is based on a quote from Peabody Energy’s lawyer Lawrence Tribe, but as PoliticoPro’s coverage explains, the ad flirts with rules prohibiting lawyers communicating with judges outside the courtroom. Using of one of the lawyer’s quotes is, if nothing else, “highly unprofessional,” according to an ethics lawyer from the George W. Bush administration.
 
 Whether or not the judges will be persuaded remains to be seen. Since recent reporting shows most of the states suing over the plan being too burdensome are nevertheless already on track to meet its targets, challengers have an uphill battle. But unfortunately, even if the plan goes ahead, we’ll still need more emission reductions to meet the Paris goals, as evidenced by another new study. (http://bigstory.ap.org/article/bad3b09fd1694027882aeb2013c44696/us-not-track-meet-2025-carbon-pollution-cutting-goal)
 
 By striking the plan down then, we’d be even further from climate safety. So this courtroom drama is truly courting disaster.

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 28, 2016, 03:00:48 pm
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Judges Hear Clean Power Plan Arguments

Executive authority and the scope of the Clean Air Act were the focus of the oral arguments on the Clean Power Plan. While tough questions were asked of both sides, supporters of CPP remain confident that the judges (six out of 10 of whom were appointed by Democrats) will uphold the rule. Providing additional context,

Senators Sheldon Whitehouse, Harry Reid, Barbara Boxer and Edward Markey released a report,  “The Brief No One Filed,” (https://www.whitehouse.senate.gov/download/cpp-brief-no-one-filed-report) detailing the connections of the challengers of CPP with the fossil fuel industry, which gave over $107 million to authors of briefs opposing the rule.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-09-27/obama-s-power-plan-forces-new-energy-economy-critics-claim





Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 29, 2016, 02:26:48 pm
Putting carbon back in the land is just a smokescreen for real climate action: Climate Council report  
September 28, 2016 4.12pm EDT

Authors Martin Rice   
Head of Research, The Climate Council of Australia and Honorary Associate, Department of Environmental Sciences, Macquarie University


Will Steffen   
Adjunct Professor, Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University


The authors do not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and have disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond the academic appointment above.



Partners Australian National University Macquarie University

Australian National University and Macquarie University provide funding as members of The Conversation AU.


Just as people pump greenhouse gases into the atmosphere by burning fossil fuels, the land also absorbs some of those emissions. Plants, as they grow, use carbon dioxide and store it within their bodies.

However, as the Climate Council’s latest report shows, Australia’s fossil fuels (including those burned overseas) are pumping 6.5 times as much carbon into the atmosphere as the land can absorb. This means that, while storing carbon on land is useful for combating climate change, it is no replacement for reducing fossil fuel emissions.

Land carbon is the biggest source of emission reductions in Australia’s climate policy centrepiece – the Emissions Reduction Fund. This is smoke and mirrors: a distraction from the real challenge of cutting fossil fuel emissions.


Land carbon

Land carbon is part of the active carbon cycle at the Earth’s surface. Carbon is continually exchanging between the land, ocean and atmosphere, primarily as carbon dioxide.

In contrast, carbon in fossil fuels has been locked away from the active carbon cycle for millions of years.

Carbon stored on land is vulnerable to being returned to the atmosphere. Natural disturbances such as bushfires, droughts, insect attacks and heat waves, many of which are being made worse by climate change, can trigger the release of significant amounts of land carbon back to the atmosphere.

Changes in land management, as we’ve seen in Queensland, for example, with the relaxation of land-clearing laws by the previous state government, can also affect the capability of land systems to store carbon.

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Burning fossil fuels and releasing CO₂ to the atmosphere thus introduces new and additional carbon into the land-atmosphere-ocean cycle. It does not simply redistribute existing carbon in the cycle.

The ocean and the land absorb some of this extra carbon. In fact, just over half of this additional carbon is removed from the atmosphere, and split roughly equally between the land and the ocean. However, this leaves almost half of the CO₂ emitted from fossil fuel combustion in the atmosphere. It’s this remaining CO₂ that is driving global warming.


Figure 2. (at article link)  Changes in the global carbon cycle from 1850 to 2014. Positive changes (above the horizontal zero line) show carbon added to the atmosphere and negative changes (below the line) show how this carbon is then distributed among the ocean, land and atmosphere. Adapted from Le Quéré et al. 2015, data from CDIAC/NOAA-ESRL/GCP/Joos et al. 2013/Khatiwala et al. 2013.

Although Australia’s land sector has absorbed more carbon than it has emitted over the past decade or two, this has been overshadowed by our domestic fossil fuel emissions and those from our exported fossil fuels. These are roughly 6.5 times greater than the uptake of carbon by Australian landscapes.

Under international carbon accounting protocols, emissions are assigned to the country that burns the fossil fuels. However, many Australians are becoming increasing concerned about the ethics associated with exploiting our fossil fuels, no matter where they are burned.

In short, we’ve got a big problem that requires a global response, which includes a strong commitment from Australia.



Falling short of our commitment

Last December, Australia joined the rest of the world in pledging to do everything possible to limit global warming to no more than 2°C above pre-industrial levels, and furthermore to pursue efforts to limit the increase to 1.5°C. Yet Australia lacks a robust, credible long-term plan to cut Australia’s CO₂ emissions from fossil fuel combustion.

Current climate change policies and practices in Australia allow for the use of land carbon “offsets” – that is, carbon taken up by land systems can be used to offset or subtract from fossil fuel emissions. For example, the government’s Emissions Reduction Fund (ERF) provides financial incentives for organisations or individuals to adopt new practices or technologies that reduce or sequester greenhouse gas emissions.

Currently, vegetation (land system) projects represent the majority of ERF-accepted projects (185 out of 348). And yet, while storing carbon on land can be useful, it must be additional to, and not instead of, reducing fossil fuel emissions. Moreover, numerous critiques have questioned the effectiveness of the ERF.


Problems of scale

We also have a problem of scale. Reducing emissions through land carbon methods could save up to 38 billion tonnes of carbon globally by 2050 if combined with sustainable land management practices. By comparison, global carbon emissions from fossil fuel combustion are currently around 10 billion tonnes per year.

If this rate is continued, total fossil fuel emissions from 2015 to 2050 will be about 360 billion tonnes – nearly 10 times larger than the maximum estimated biological carbon sequestration of 38 billion tonnes over the same period.

It is now virtually certain that the carbon budget (the amount of carbon that can be produced while keeping warming below a certain level) will be exceeded. To meet the Paris 1.5°C aspirational target (and probably to meet the 2°C target) will require the use of negative emission technologies throughout the second half of the century.

However, no proposed negative emission technology has yet been proven to be feasible technologically at large scale and at reasonable cost, so this approach remains an in-principle option only. For effective climate action, the emphasis must remain on reducing emissions from fossil fuel combustion.

Using land carbon to “offset” our fossil fuel emissions is ultimately a smokescreen for real climate action.

Our thanks to Jacqui Fenwick for co-authoring this article and the report.

https://theconversation.com/putting-carbon-back-in-the-land-is-just-a-smokescreen-for-real-climate-action-climate-council-report-65475

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 29, 2016, 02:51:13 pm
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Climate Science History in Primary Documents
 
 If you spend any amount of time talking climate change online, before long you’ll run into someone who thinks they’re clever in pointing out that They used to call it global warming, but then when it stopped warming, they switched to climate change! There are a number of ways in which this can easily be proven wrong. One is to point out that the IPCC was never the IPGW. Another is to point out that it was actually GOP messaging guru Frank Luntz   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-311013200859.png&hash=a7aaaa9f04c1e3e2c948723b5f8c13fe814dacd4) who recommended they use “climate change” because it didn’t sound as ominous as “global warming.”  ;)
 
Now there’s a resource that shows that the concept of climatic change (as opposed to global warming) is over a century old. Brad Johnson has put together a  timeline of climate change science (https://medium.com/@climatebrad/climate-hearings-af27a3886a43#.g7cwzqj4j), dating back to John Tyndall’s work in 1861 and ending with the Clean Air Act Amendments in 1990.
 
So in response to those who claim that climate science is still in its infancy and in no way certain, we can point out that the hypothesis emerged before cars did. In 1882 H.A. Phillips wrote a letter to Nature warning us that “increasing pollution of the atmosphere will have a marked influence on the climate.”
 
By the 1920s, warnings of coal combustion changing the climate began appearing in the popular press. In the 1950s, the greenhouse metaphor was in full force, with both the Washington Post and New York Times running stories with the sort of straightforward reporting one still occasionally wishes were more common. “Industrial Gases Warming Up Earth, Physicist Notes Here” said the Post, while the Times ran a story headlined “Why Earth Warms; Scientist Blames Man-Made Changes on Earth’s Surface.”
 
There’s even a video from 1958 that warns its viewers that the expected few degrees of warming from car and industry emissions would melt the polar ice caps and “tourists in glass bottom boats would be viewing the drowned towers of Miami through 150 feet of tropical water.” 

https://youtu.be/T6YyvdYPrhY

Despite our scientists knowing of this problem for over a century, Ralph Keeling concludes a statement (https://scripps.ucsd.edu/programs/keelingcurve/2016/09/23/note-on-reaching-the-annual-low-point/) on annual CO2 concentrations by pointing out that “we won’t be seeing a monthly value below 400 ppm this year – or ever again for the indefinite future.”
 
Thankfully, the Paris agreement does look like it will go into effect this year, and India’s Parliament just ratified it, so that’s progress.
 
But think where we’d be if oil, gas and coal money hadn’t fueled a decades-long misinformation effort to deny the evidence scientists spent a century compiling.

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on October 01, 2016, 04:14:19 pm
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Posted on Sep 30, 2016

By Paul Brown / Climate News Network

(at article link) A bridge damaged by devastating floods in Alberta, Canada, in 2013. (Gregg Jaden via Flickr)

LONDON—A rise in world temperatures of 1.5°C degrees can no longer be avoided, according to the world’s leading climate scientists, who say that the majority of people have yet to wake up to the stark realities and dangers of climate change.

In a devastating summary of the crisis the world faces, the seven scientists say that propaganda by the fossil fuel lobby and failure of politicians to take action in the last 10 years means changes in lifestyles and radical action is needed if catastrophe is to be avoided.

Sir Robert Watson, former chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), says: “Climate change is happening now and much faster than anticipated.”

A doubling or tripling of existing efforts is necessary, he says, to avoid exceeding the 2°C degree danger threshold on global temperature rise agreed by the world’s government at last year’s Paris climate conference.
 
In a paper titled The Truth About Climate Change (https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B7HRGKIJWol-OEZfNDFjRHUwM2c), the scientists depart from the normal cautious assessment that has characterised IPCC reports.

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Instead, they paint a stark picture of rising temperatures causing floods and wildfires, food and water shortages, damage to human health, and widespread disruption of services and destruction of roads, railways bridges and buildings.

Sir Robert, now director of strategic development at the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research at the University of East Anglia, UK, was joined in producing the report by Italy’s Dr Carlo Carraro, vice-chairman of the IPCC working group III, and by other expert climate scientists from Argentina, Austria, Brazil, and the US.

The scientists say that the public has misunderstood the imminent dangers of climate change, believing that it will happen sometime in the future rather than now.

Large numbers of people have been misled into believing that economic growth can only be achieved by burning coal, gas and oil. And despite overwhelming scientific evidence, pressure from sectors benefiting from the use of fossil fuels has halted climate action.


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Climate change is
happening now and
 much faster than anticipated.”

The calculation that the rise to 1.5°C can no longer be avoided is based on the scientific evidence of the time lag between carbon dioxide being emitted by man into the atmosphere and the resultant heating up. The full effects of the greenhouse gases emitted in 2016 will only be felt in 2030.


The paper says that, by 2015, the global temperature had risen by 1°C above pre-industrial levels, that it is certain to rise another half a degree by 2030. and will continue to rise to 2°C by 2050 unless drastic action is taken to reduce emissions.

However, this is only the average temperature. Parts of Asia and the Middle East will warm considerably faster than this, and the Arctic has already seen a 4°C increase.

All the calculations are backed up by published scientific papers and have been peer reviewed by Dr Thomas Stocker, professor of climate and environmental physics at Bern University in Switzerland, in an attempt to prevent the fossil fuel lobby attacking the findings.

Dangerous overheating

With the majority of the world’s energy still coming from fossil fuels, and the expanding population demanding yet more energy generation, the scientists say saving the planet from dangerous overheating is now a daunting task.

To have any hope of solving the problem, the world needs to reach net zero emissions by 2060 to 2075. Although switching to renewables and planting more forests are important components of how to do this, it cannot be achieved by these methods alone.

Only by carbon capture from the atmosphere and storing it underground, or by some other method of removing carbon from the air, can zero emissions be achieved in time.

Despite the gloom, the scientists say there are two causes for optimism.

The first is that by 2018 all countries are committed to making improvements to their existing pledges to cut carbon, which still gives sufficient time to adopt the necessary policies to take effective action.

The second is the pledge by the IPCC to improve its communications so the public understands quite how serious the situation really is.

Paul Brown, a founding editor of Climate News Network, is a former environment correspondent of The Guardian newspaper, and still writes columns for the paper.

http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/propaganda_has_hidden_climate_change_from_the_public_20160930
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on October 01, 2016, 04:31:26 pm
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Perhaps the best New Yorker cartoon of all time?


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Of course it is expected that embracing an empathy deficit disordered ideology would result in catastrophe.

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But it gets lonely out there for people like you and I, of the reality based community.

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on October 01, 2016, 05:10:22 pm
This Video of a Lab Simulated Rogue Wave Will Make Your Palms Sweat

September 30, 2016 by Mike Schuler

It’s a sailor’s worst nightmare. A monster wave that comes out of nowhere, two to three times bigger than the others. In certain cases, waves like this are capable of swallowing a ship whole. Yet to this day we still don’t know much about rogue waves or how they form. Actually, most of what we do know about these freak waves comes from actual experience. We know they’re out there, and many of you could probably share a sea story or two of your own.

But researchers at the Aalto University in Finland say they are now able to recreate the phenomenon in realistic oceanic conditions inside a laboratory, which is helping them learn more about how and why these mysterious and sometimes deadly waves form.

Check it out:



https://youtu.be/i9P2M94xSyc

[embed=640,380]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9P2M94xSyc[/embed]

Professor Amin Chabchoub from the Aalto University explains:

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“Potentially extremely dangerous realistic rogue waves can now be controlled and generated at will in laboratory environments, in similar conditions as they appear in the ocean. This will help us not only to predict oceanic extreme events, but also in the design of safer ships and offshore rigs. In fact, newly designed vessels and rig model prototypes can be tested to encounter in a small scale, before they are built, realistic extreme ocean waves. Therefore, initial plans may change, if models are not resistant enough to face suddenly occurring freak waves.”


According to the researchers:

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“The birth of rogue waves can be physically explained through the modulation instability of water waves. In mathematical terms, this phenomenon can be described through exact solutions of the nonlinear Schrödinger equation, also referred to as “breathers”.

(These breathers describe the dynamics of unstable water waves that become rogue: the instability arise from a calm state. As a result, now we know how rogue waves may appear in realistic oceanic conditions.)
 
For a couple of years, the research team around Professor Chabchoub has already been able to create steered rogue waves in laboratory wave flumes. However, this has only succeeded in perfect regular wave conditions. In nature, this is rarely the case.

The results of their findings were published today in the Physical Review Letters 2016. Here are some more photos from the lab: (at article link)

https://gcaptain.com/video-lab-simulated-rogue-wave-will-make-palms-sweat/


Agelbert NOTE: To give you a better idea of the huge threat a giant wave or three is to a large tanker or cargo vessel,  I took some screenshots from a video of a wave laboratory testing the effects of 72 ft. waves on a modern supertanker. I'm sure Big Oil is paying attention, regardless of what they say in public.  ;)

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The tanker completely capsized. In a real world situation, this is a death blow to the crew because it happens too fast to get survival gear on or reach the lifeboats, even if they are the emergency egress sealed type. That is why both tanker and cargo ships do everything they can to avoid being broadsided. In the real world, when the engines are lost in these types of seas, the only way to survive is to immediately abandon ship on a free fall enclosed life boat capsule.

If the above series of screen shots are not convincing enough to the reader of the threat shipping faces from giant waves, the following video series will leave no doubt in your mind that world shipping is incapable of handling the routine 30 to 35 meter waves that the Hansen et al June 2015 paper predicts for a ΔT = plus 2C (and beyond) world.

The following video series is the first of an excellent BBC series that describes the difficulties that shipping faces with giant waves. Some of the material I have covered is presented with some added background provided. You will learn much from these videos. You will learn that absolutely nothing I have told you is exaggeration or hyperbole.

The threat is real and it is getting worse. I urge you to set aside some time to view them because this concerns our future as a civilization. We are not prepared for a ΔT = plus 2C  world (and beyond).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YVZn46KgTs&list=PLF7FBE5EA5E56AF7E&feature=player_detailpage

Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on October 03, 2016, 02:15:48 pm
Now a Cat 4 blasting through the Carribean, with an estimated track headed for the US mainland. Bears watching.

Hurricane Matthew may barrel toward US East Coast (http://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/hurricane-matthew-may-threaten-us-atlantic-coast-next-week-dangerous-surf/60414938)

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Hurricane Sandy on global warming steroids  :o? ???

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Hurricane Sandy Track
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on October 03, 2016, 05:31:20 pm
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More atmospheric carbon dioxide in the 1960s meant greenery flourished – but our photosynthesising friends have long had their fill. Kate Ravilious reports.

Trees and plants have had enough. For the past few decades they've obliged us by guzzling ever-greater amounts of atmospheric carbon dioxide every year – but now they've gone on a diet.

New data shows 'peak carbon', when vegetation consumed its largest carbon dioxide feast, occurred in 2006, and since then appetite has been decreasing.

“It's the first evidence that we are tipping over the edge potentially towards runaway or irreversible climate change,” says James Curran, former chief executive of the Scottish Environment Protection Agency and co-author of the study published in the journal Weather.

The news has come as a shock. Previous estimates indicated that peak carbon would not be reached until at least 2030.

Instead, the new data reveals that trees and plants are already 10 years beyond peak carbon. In 2014 alone, the shortfall in carbon absorption was equivalent to a year's worth of human-produced emissions from China.

“By next year the shortfall might equate to the emissions of China plus Australia, for example,” Curran explains.

“Every year it is getting a little bit worse.”

Carrying out the work in their own time with their own funds, Curran and his son Sam analysed the ups and downs in atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations recorded at the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii since 1958.

During northern hemisphere summer, carbon dioxide levels dip as fresh plant growth draws out carbon dioxide (the southern hemisphere is ocean dominated and so fails to balance this effect out).

The Mauna Loa data revealed carbon dioxide dips were deeper through the 1960s and early 1970s as northern hemisphere plants flourished in a rising carbon dioxide world.

But beyond the 1970s that rate slowed, reaching a peak in 2006 and declining thereafter.

“Some of the assumptions made in the study still need to be validated, but it does highlight that potentially the benefits of global carbon dioxide fertilisation are already behind us,” says Andreas Heinemeyer from the University of York in the UK, who was not involved in the study.

Exactly why plants and trees lost their appetite so soon is not yet known, but Curran believes it is likely linked to stresses associated with global warming to date such as drought, heat and fires.

This decline in plant's carbon dioxide appetite helps explain why atmospheric carbon dioxide levels have been rising faster than ever of late, despite our emissions more or less stabilising in recent years.

And as the plants' appetite continues to decline, the fight to tackle global warming will become even harder.

“There will come a point at which plants and trees stop soaking up any carbon dioxide and then the biosphere transitions into an emitter,” Curran says.

“Then – even if we stop all man-made emission – the planet itself goes on emitting and climate change is irreversible.”

It is a bleak outlook, and Curran believes only drastic action can wrestle global warming under control: “It suggests to me that we urgently need to get to grips with declining biodiversity across the globe, and consider radical new policies such as re-wilding large areas of landscape.”

https://cosmosmagazine.com/climate/trees-and-plants-reached-peak-carbon-10-years-ago?

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on October 04, 2016, 08:44:15 pm
NASA Time-Lapse: Watch Hurricane Matthew Develop Into Intense Cat 4 Storm  :o

By Mike Schuler on Oct 03, 2016 10:51 am

Hurricane Matthew has grown into an intense Category 4 hurricane with max sustained winds of 140 mph as it approaches western Haiti on Monday.

Over the weekend, Mathew actually reached Category 5 status late Saturday before dropping to Category 4 status the next day. A NASA satellite captured this video of the storm developing over the southeastern Caribbean:

https://youtu.be/oTGtS6FXqqY

A Hurricane Warning is currently in effect for Jamaica; Haiti; Cuban provinces of Guantanamo, Santiago de Cuba, Holguin, Granma, and Las Tunas; and the Southeastern Bahamas, including the Inaguas, Mayaguana, Acklins, Crooked Island, Long Cay, and Ragged Island.

According to the National Hurricane Center, the center of Matthew is forecasted to approach southwestern Haiti Monday night, bringing with it life-threatening rain, wind and storm surge to portions of Haiti.

Another NASA satellite showed Matthew was packing heavy rainfall falling at a rate of over 6.4 inches in some areas. In fact some areas may received up 40 inches of rain!

“Heaviest rain was seen well to the east of Hurricane Matthew’s center,” said Hal Pierce of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, who created the image below. “This area of strong convective storms has been persistent over the past few days. This area of intense rainfall is due to convergence between the trade winds (prevailing easterlies) and the wind flow from the south with Matthew. This area of heavy rainfall with Matthew may cause devastating torrential rainfall as it moves slowly over Haiti.” Up to 40 inches (1016 mm) of rainfall have been predicted over Haiti, according to NASA.

 
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The storm is forecasted to move near eastern Cuba late Tuesday, and move near or over portions of the southeastern and central Bahamas Tuesday night and Wednesday.

The latest forecast from the NHC actually shows the eye of Matthew passing over Crooked Island, Bahamas, near where the El Faro sank one year ago during Hurricane Joaquin, by Wednesday morning.

Later this week Matthew will make its way up the southeast coast of the U.S. before models begin to differ on its forecasted track.

https://gcaptain.com/nasa-time-lapse-watch-hurricane-matthew-develop-intense-cat-4-storm/



Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on October 05, 2016, 02:07:54 pm
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Climate| Oct. 05, 2016 08:42AM EST

4 Reasons the Paris Agreement Won’t Solve Climate Change

James Hansen

Many hail the Paris agreement—set to cross the threshold this week to come into effect—as a panacea for global climate change. Yet tragically, this perspective neglects to take into account the scientific reality of our climate system, which tells a much different story.

Our latest research, Young People's Burden: Requirement of Negative CO2 Emissions, appeared Monday as a "Discussion" paper in Earth System Dynamics Discussion, and outlines how—if national governments neglect to take aggressive climate action today—today's young people will inherit a climate system so altered it will require prohibitively expensive—and possibly infeasible—extraction of CO2 from the atmosphere.

https://youtu.be/twkL0m3iKvc

Global temperatures are already at the level of the Eemian period (130,000 to 115,000 years ago), when sea level was 6-9 meters higher than today. Considering the additional warming "in the pipeline," due to delayed response of the climate system and the impossibility of instant replacement of fossil fuels, additional temperature rise is inevitable.


Continued high fossil fuel emissions place a burden on young people to undertake "negative CO2 emissions," which would require massive technological CO extraction with minimal estimated costs of $104-$570 trillion this century, with large risks and uncertain feasibility.


Continued high fossil fuel emissions unarguably sentences young people to either a massive, possibly implausible cleanup or growing deleterious climate impacts or both, scenarios that should provide incentive and obligation for governments to alter energy policies without further delay.


The paper provides the underlying scientific backing for the Our Children's Trust lawsuit against the U.S. government, which argues that climate change jeopardizes the next generation's inalienable rights under the U.S. Constitution to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.


The paper offers an opportunity to examine the current state of the planet with respect to climate change. Four key takeaways include:

1. The Paris Climate Accord is a precatory agreement, wishful thinking that mainly reaffirms, 23 years later, the 1992 Rio Framework Convention on Climate Change. The developing world need for abundant, affordable, reliable energy is largely ignored, even though it is a basic requirement to eliminate global poverty and war. Instead the developed world pretends to offer reparations, a vaporous $100B/year, while allowing climate impacts to grow.

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2. As long as fossil fuels  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Facigar.gif&hash=dc9dccf92c6c88c99611b06c86d92629d69f2978) (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Fpirates5B15D_th.gif&hash=32438e1ed2c4d1823d4ed2a193286525c840a605) are allowed to be held up as the cheapest reliable energy, they will continue to be the world's largest energy source and the likelihood of disastrous consequences for young people will grow to near certainty.

3. Technically, it is still possible to solve the climate problem, but there are two essential requirements:
(1) a simple across-the-board rising carbon fee collected from fossil fuel companies at the source, and (2) government support for RD&D (research, development and demonstration) of clean energy technologies, including advanced generation, safe nuclear power.

4. Courts are crucial to solution of the climate problem. The climate "problem" was and is an opportunity for transformation to a clean energy future. However, the heavy hand of the fossil fuel industry works mostly in legal ways such as the "I'm an Energy Voter" campaign in the U.S. Failure of executive and legislative branches to deal with climate change makes it essential for courts, less subject to pressure and bribery from special financial interests, to step in and protect young people, as they did minorities in the case of civil rights.

http://www.ecowatch.com/james-hansen-climate-change-2030724330.html

Agelbert NOTE: Fossil Fuel Polluting Parasites Industry (https://smileyshack.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/stupid-im-with-arrow-left.gif) reaction to the above hard truths:

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on October 06, 2016, 02:51:56 pm
The Global Warming Elephant in the Coastal Property Insurance Room

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Hurricane Matthew October 6, 2016

If they haven't done it yet, every major coastal property insurer in the USA will sing ALL TOGETHER (after Matthew):

It's the Global Warming, STUPID!

Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on October 07, 2016, 09:45:26 pm
Gov. Rick Scott warns Hurricane Matthew ‘might kill you’ — but he won’t let employees blame climate change (https://www.rawstory.com/2016/10/gov-rick-scott-warns-hurricane-matthew-might-kill-you-but-he-wont-let-employees-blame-climate-change/)

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Florida Gov. Rick Scott is freaking out over the potentially devastating Hurricane Matthew — but he has banned state workers from discussing the climate change that may have made the storm so strong.

The category 4 hurricane is expected to make landfall late Thursday between West Palm Beach and Cape Canaveral, with sustained winds up to 140 mph, and could reach category 5 strength.

“This is going to kill people,” Scott said, urging residents to evacuate or prepare at least a three-day supply of food, water and medicine. “Charge your phone, do not surf, do not go to the beach. This will kill you.”

Matthew quickly turned from a tropical storm into a category 5 hurricane, and even thought it had weakened to category 4 before it hit Haiti — the hurricane was the strongest to hit the island nation in a generation.

Scientists warned that Matthew’s strength could not be officially blamed on climate change until an attribution study was conducted, but the hurricane is part of a recent pattern of stronger storms caused by rising ocean temperatures.

Florida officials might have a difficult time completing those studies, because Scott has unofficially banned state employees from using the terms “climate change” or “global warming” in any state documents.

Officials with the Florida Department of Environmental Protection told the Miami Herald last year that high-ranking officials in the Scott administration had forbid them from using any terms they did not consider to be “a true fact.”

The unwritten policy reportedly went into effect after Scott, who has said he’s not convinced that climate change is caused by human activity, took office five years ago.

A spokeswoman for Scott insisted there was no policy on using those scientific terms — but a top-ranking DEP official could not be goaded into using the phrase “climate change” in a hearing held shortly after the prohibition was reported.

DEP staffers expressed frustration with the intrusion of political correctness into their research, saying they were tasked with studying the effects and economic impact of climate change but could not even use the correct terms in meetings or documents.


It’s an indication that the political leadership in the state of Florida is not willing to address these issues and face the music when it comes to the challenges that climate change present,” said Christopher Byrd, a former attorney with the DEP’s Office of General Counsel.

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on October 08, 2016, 12:00:10 pm
Climate| Oct. 06, 2016 03:00PM EST

Is the Media to Blame for Climate Inaction?  ???

Carl Pope
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For years climate reporting had two strands: climate science got more alarming as we got closer and closer to exceeding various warming thresholds, and climate diplomacy and public policy were a relatively unbroken saga of disappointment and delay.

The media flocks to bad news, conflict, grid-lock, failure. Both strands of the pre-2014 climate story nourished this appetite. Since 2014, however, the climate story grew more complex, hopeful—but harder for the media to summarize. Greenhouse gas concentrations continue to grow at an alarming rate; projections of the risks of these concentrations become steadily graver, more bad news. So this week we were told that the planet was hotter than it has been in the last 100,000 years.

Current climate commitments fall far short of what is needed to avoid catastrophe—which causes concerned observers to argue that the world is not taking the problem seriously.

But on the solutions front, progress is accelerating. Climate diplomacy and public policy are not only galloping ahead at an unprecedented speed, their pace is increasing. We are in danger of not realizing that.

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First, with ratification by the EU of the Paris agreement came into legally binding force, five years earlier than originally envisaged. Media coverage of this possibility has focused on one defensive motivation, the desire to ensure that a potential Trump Administration could not pull the U.S. out. But that fear moved ratification up only a few months. It's clear that the major emitters wanted to ratify Paris in early 2017 at the latest, a step which not only locks in the U.S. but also accelerates all of the processes embodied in the bottom up Paris agreement—a critically important factor in maximizing the odds that the next round of global commitments , due in 2019, are as ambitious as possible.

Second
, next week in Kigali, the world for the first time is poised to commit to the total phase out of one of the six major climate pollutants, HFC refrigerants. While these chemicals—an unintended consequence of the Montreal Protocol phase out of ozone layer destroying chemicals which the HFC's replaced—have thus far contributed only a small part of overheating to date, their use is growing rapidly, their phase out is expected to cut mid-century temperatures by a startling .5-1 degrees, avoiding the emissions of HFC's with the warming potential of 200 billion tons of CO2.

Third, the global community for the first time established an effective global emission limit for an entire sector of the economy, flying. At the Montreal meeting of the International Civil Aviation Organization, 60 countries representing 80 percent of the world's aviation agreed to cap global emissions from air travel at the 2019-2020 level, requiring emissions growth after that date to be offset. There are significant limitations to this agreement—we will need to phase out all emissions by 2050 not just emissions growth. There are concerns that the use of offsets, while offering a promising funding mechanisms to reduce deforestation, postpones the problem of eliminating aviation's reliance on fossil fuels. This is still a powerful precedent, and the airline industry overall actually favored a faster timeline.

Canada, which only a year ago was viewed as a major barrier to climate progress, became the first industrial nation outside the EU to embrace a national carbon price, putting in place one of the ingredients for a eventual global financial regime capable of achieving a decarbonized world economy by 2050.

The Netherlands concluded it would shut down its almost brand new fleet of coal power plants, because the nation could not meet its Paris climate pledge without doing so.

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•The Polish government, which badly wants to delay the fading of coal from the EU's energy mix, didn't choose to blockade early EU ratification of the Paris agreement.

•A fractious, challenging U.S.-China relationship on security issues was not allowed to get in the way of the two countries coming together on the aviation deal in Montreal.

•India's legitimate anger at the U.S. over how the Trade Representative is handling WTO complaints against India's efforts to build its domestic solar industry did not yield to India either refusing to ratify Paris this year or its declining to permit the phase out of HFC's.

•The major developing countries agreed, voluntarily, to participate in capping aviation climate pollution, when they still have many important reforms they are still seeking on climate finance from the industrial world.

•Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau chose to commit his government to carbon pricing without waiting for the reluctant, slower Provincial governments like Manitoba to agree.

•The Dutch government did not hide behind Europe's post-Brexit financial uncertainties to delay the decision on shutting down its coal plants.

Per se, road blocks not thrown up, or excuses for delay not offered, don't solve the problem. But they are significant and consequential signals that countries, including the biggest emitters and the historic laggards, are now serious above moving forward. And since forward momentum in the climate space creates its own tail winds (through economies of deployment), this first round of speed will turbo-charge the next round, giving us a serious shot of meet the de-carbonization imperative.

This week is what momentum feels like—and we need to find a way to better celebrate momentum, because it is the single process with the best shot of rescuing a stable climate.

http://www.ecowatch.com/climate-change-media-2033063230.html
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on October 08, 2016, 12:21:27 pm
Nice video model of projected interaction between Matthew and Nicole with "Fujiwara Effect".

Matthew looks like it will come around for another strafing run, although the projection is for it to weaken.

RE


http://www.businessinsider.com/hurricane-matthew-loop-hit-florida-twice-2016-10 (http://www.businessinsider.com/hurricane-matthew-loop-hit-florida-twice-2016-10)

It's looking likelier that Hurricane Matthew could pummel Florida twice

    Rafi Letzter

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Hurricane Matthew, poised to become a historic and dangerous storm for Florida as it advances toward the state, could actually strike the peninsula twice in the next several days.

The storm's outer bands are already being feltelt in Florida, and it's expected to make landfall early Friday and cause massive flooding over the weekend from Florida to South Carolina. Then it should turn out to sea Sunday.

But here's the thing: Another storm is on Matthew's heels, Hurricane Nicole. And the way they interact could have consequences along the peninsula.

Screen Shot 2016 10 06 at 2.59.56 PMNOAA

It's now looking more likely that smaller, Category 1 Nicole would push and push on Matthew, shoving the bigger storm back toward land even as it tries to move out over the water. The result could be Matthew doing a full loop — and making landfall in Florida twice. Here's how a storm model predicts that would look:

As Jason Samenow at The Washington Post reported Wednesday, when a loop was still an outlandish possibility, it's very difficult to predict exactly how tropical cyclones will interact with one another. But typically they either repel or "orbit" one another because of a phenomenon known as the "Fujiwhara effect."

A few other storms have turned loops before, but it's rare. Some models predicted Hurricane Hermine would turn a loop earlier this year, but that turned out not to happen.

The most recent example of the Fujiwhara effect was in 1995, when Hurricane Iris interacted with Hurricane Humberto and then absorbed Tropical Storm Karen.

If Matthew does strike twice, it would almost certainly return as a much weaker storm, probably at tropical storm strength.

At this point, to prepare for the major strike coming on Friday, Floridians should continue to evacuate or bunker down, depending on local advisories. And residents in Florida and throughout the Southeast US should continue to follow weather reports as the storm gets closer
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on October 08, 2016, 01:30:48 pm
How Matthew and Nicole have lowered ocean temperature
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If you go to the following web site and get the  3 and 8 day averages, you will see how much hotter the ocean under the two hurricanes was prior to their passing.  8)

https://www.ceoe.udel.edu/our-people/profiles/moliver/orb-lab/real-time-sea-surface-temperatures/orb-lab-maracoos-sst-east-coast

Remember folks, the hotter the oceans get, the more hurricanes will form because hurricanes are the WAY (aside from normal evaporation) the oceans rid themselves of heat. OVER 85% of global warming caused by the burning of fossil fuels has been absorbed by the oceans.

Anyone who thinks this is not going to get MUCH WORSE is a fool, a moron or an employee of the fossil fuel industry (but I repeat myself).
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on October 08, 2016, 02:09:11 pm
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October 7, 2016 by Mike Schuler

Check out this amazing video showing a crew of NOAA Hurricane Hunters fly through the eye wall and into the eye of Hurricane Matthew aboard a WP-3D Orion aircraft.

https://gcaptain.com/watch-hurricane-hunters-fly-eye-hurricane-matthew/
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on October 09, 2016, 04:51:09 pm
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Posted on Oct 8, 2016

By Alexander Reed Kelly

Every week the Truthdig editorial staff selects a Truthdigger of the Week, a group or person worthy of recognition for speaking truth to power, breaking the story or blowing the whistle. It is not a lifetime achievement award. Rather, we’re looking for newsmakers whose actions in a given week are worth celebrating.

Roughly 200 years after humans sparked global warming, Sir Robert Watson and his colleagues at the Universal Ecological Fund addressed the public about climate change with a clarity that is rare for major institutions. “Climate change is happening now,” the international group of climate scientists wrote in a report titled “The Truth About Climate Change.” And it’s happening “much faster than anticipated.”

The scientists are attempting to correct the impression that climate change is a far-off problem, when in fact it’s playing out right now.

How did we get here? The “urgency of climate change has been misunderstood by most,” the group continues. Authoritative bodies such as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) produce reliable studies, but the vast majority of the public doesn’t hear from the scientific community directly. In addition, the group says, “Information from these other sources has often been confusing for the public.” And to compound the problem, “there has been deliberate misinformation from deniers and sectors with vested interests in maintaining the current situation.”


 
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Indeed, journalists recently showed that executives at ExxonMobil knew about the dangers of climate change 40 years ago and kept their knowledge a secret. In September, U.S. environmental activist Bill McKibben said that the public must “check the power of the fossil fuel industry. … It’s going to take an immense amount of work, but if we don’t win, then there won’t be any future.”

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ExxonMobil and other oil companies succeeded splendidly at confusing people.  :( “This miscommunication of climate change has created some misunderstandings in the public, which has led many to perceive climate change as abstract, distant and even controversial,” the UEF scientists continued. “As a result, what is actually happening with the climate and the immediate actions required to address climate change have been misunderstood.” Many people, for instance, have been convinced that burning coal, gas and oil is essential to economic growth, as if the production and maintenance of wind turbines and solar panels doesn’t create jobs.

Despite their work, many experts—including the IPCC—have fallen short of their commitment to the truth in relationship to the public. British climate scientist Peter Wadhams criticized his fellow scientists in September for failing to fully represent the dangers of climate change to the public. They “were too frightened of [losing] their jobs or losing their grants to spell out what was really happening,” he told Climate News Network. Wadhams cites measurements he took personally to predict that ice in the Arctic will disappear in the summers by 2020—30 years ahead of IPCC estimates.

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“They know it is happening, but they do not want to frighten the horses,” Wadhams said. “It is bordering on the dishonest.”

Watson and company don’t sugarcoat the facts; they plainly describe what must be done to avert the worst effects of climate change. If implemented and improved upon, the decisions made at the United Nations climate conference in Paris at the end of 2016 “will affect and benefit all of us. Over the next few years, we will have to produce energy from low-carbon sources, use energy more efficiently, travel less and even change our diets. The climate will still continue to change and we will continue to experience unusual weather everywhere.” Europe, for example, faces high winds and flooding estimated to cost more than $210 billion annually by 2070, in addition to the many lives likely to be lost if infrastructure is not updated to account for the frequency and intensity of storms.

Though the Paris accord established an international “pledge and review” system for monitoring signatory countries’ efforts to oppose climate change, the efforts are only reviewed every five years, and “current pledges” are “far from sufficient to put the world on a pathway to meet the average temperature rise target of 2 degrees Celsius,” according to the UEF report. Though temperatures have risen by about 1 degree on average, a delay by decades in the heating effect of atmospheric carbon means the amount of carbon already in the atmosphere is enough to rise 1½ degrees Celsius. And because any global target temperature rise is an average, a 2 degree rise would be devastating, as much of the world would undergo a rise of 3 degrees or more. Moreover, the agreement’s nonbinding international pledges are “subject to approval at the national level through policies, regulations and incentives for their implementation in each country. Thus, pledges may be changed, raising or reducing the overall [greenhouse gas] emission reduction targets.”

Getting to net zero carbon emissions could be achieved with the rapid build-out of renewable energy infrastructure, a doubling of the earth’s forest cover, carbon capture and storage technology, and machines that remove carbon from the atmosphere, the authors wrote. But many technologies are unproven at a large scale and others remain to be developed.

“As the number of weather-related events due to climate change continues to rise, their impact on water resources, food production, human health, services and infrastructure in urban and rural areas, among other sectors, will be more frequent and intense,” the authors continue. “Some of the impacts of climate change may be beneficial, while most will not, negatively impacting lives and livelihoods everywhere.”

But there is reason to hope, so long as hope is joined with action. “There is still time to slow down the current path towards reaching the 2 degree C target within the next few decades,” the authors conclude. “First, and most importantly, there are still four years before the implementation of the [pledges] in 2020. By 2018, all countries agreed to revise their pledges—sufficient time to significantly raise the ambition of actions to reduce [greenhouse gas] emissions and to adopt the necessary policies for their effective implementation in all countries. Second, the IPCC has already committed to improving its communications to make their reports more accessible for the public to understand.”

Will the IPCC get better at informing the public? With pressure from the likes of Watson, it may. For this reason, Sir Robert Watson is our Truthdigger of the Week.  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-080515182559.png&hash=d4dfa952fa0f817bf30a8059a4c88d6fb05ee1bf)

http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/truthdigger_of_the_week_sir_robert_watson_british_climate_expert_20161008
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on October 11, 2016, 06:35:46 pm
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Hurricane Matthew: Unwrapping the Tinfoil

October 11, 2016
 
 Hurricane Matthew wasn’t an ordinary storm. It killed more than a thousand people in Haiti and at least 30 in the US. Its trail of widespread devastation was shocking and it will take the affected regions time to recover.
 
 But while 1.5 million people were being asked by Republican governors to head to safety for the fear for their lives, Matt Drudge wondered if the government was lying to its people to “make an exaggerated point on climate.” During the time when the hurricane-related death toll in Haiti jumped from 20 to more than 300, Drudge questioned the National Hurricane Center’s data in a now-infamous tweet. Several people (such as Jason Samenow of WaPo and Libby Nelson of Vox) wrote against his outrageous claims for not only trying to score cheap political gains but also putting lives in danger.
 
 Not to be outdone, Rush Limbaugh also accused the government of “hyping Hurricane Matthew to sell climate change,” earning the ire of even the Daily Dot.
 
 Without having any other evidence to disprove the solid climate science linking Hurricane Matthew to climate change, the denial community has been repeating one fact ad nauseam – the arbitrarily defined “major hurricane drought.” It’s a classic case of cherry-picking data that trivializes the lives disrupted and lost by major storms like Matthew, Sandy and others.
 
 While the US has been fortunate that no hurricane has made landfall in the past decade as a Cat 3 or higher, the fact remains that hurricane activity in the Atlantic basin has increased since the 1970s. And there is also increasing evidence that landfalling typhoons in Asia have become more intense over the last four decades due to warmer waters. Politifact has a great article (http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2016/oct/07/rush-limbaugh/rush-limbaugh-wrong-lack-hurricanes-diminishes-cli/) on this subject.
 
 From the time it became apparent that the hurricane would seriously impact the US, everyone swung into action. Experts examined climate signals to understand in advance what potential impacts might be. Governors announced states of emergency and mandated evacuations. Climate deniers peddled conspiracy theories.

 While most stocked up on food and water, deniers  (https://smileyshack.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/stupid-im-with-arrow-left.gif) were content with tin foil.
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on October 11, 2016, 08:04:22 pm
Fracking (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-070814193155.png&hash=144ce9330e49ee84060db8753a8db69c39a14913)  is a form of climate-change denial  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F301.gif&hash=0291ed4abf2d80e420d1aa00d4eb3c5dd6bbfb53)

Josh Fox

Local communities are showing the courage to fight fossil fuel madness. We can all help them prevail.
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Monday 10 October 2016 15.39 EDT  Last modified on Tuesday 11 October 2016 06.04 EDT 

Here’s one thing we don’t often want to admit: it is too late to stop many of the harshest and most destructive aspects of climate change from materialising. We’re out of time. Superstorms, droughts, floods, disappearing islands, coastlines and lost species are already here.

We need to face the fact that the climate crisis is upon us, and that the greenhouse gases we’ve already emitted have locked in even worse that’s yet to come. The mass deaths in Haiti and the evacuation of 1.5 million people from the Florida coast in the wake of Hurricane Matthew is just the kind of weather-related event that we can expect to happen more frequently in a warmer world.

So what do we need to do? Run and cower in the corner? Accept futile half-measures? (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2F1.bp.blogspot.com%2F-TzWpwHzCvCI%2FT_sBEnhCCpI%2FAAAAAAAAME8%2FIsLpuU8HYxc%2Fs1600%2Fnooo-way-smiley.gif&hash=b8545bd420b1e2f2c7b9f665d2093523e4ad2251) No, courage is what the movement fighting climate change and fossil fuels needs most now. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fcliparts.co%2Fcliparts%2FBig%2FEgq%2FBigEgqBMT.png&hash=e7eec62f009cdd686ce795fad0a53c6befe748e9) Lack of courage by western governments is having devastating consequences, and in the case of America, one of them is fracking. This is the unacceptable “solution” to the climate crisis that the US has been pushing all across the world. The decision by the British government last week to overturn Lancashire’s rejection of fracking shows that the UK  (https://smileyshack.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/stupid-im-with-arrow-left.gif), too, seems to be falling for it.

 
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Our movement and our scientists, by contrast, do have the courage to identify what needs to be done. Bill McKibben, founder of 350.org, estimates that we have 17 years to replace all fossil fuel infrastructure with renewable energy. That means no new fossil fuel projects. Period. We burn down what we have, and we build renewable energy sources as fast as we can. That means no new pipelines, no new fracking fields, no new offshore drilling, no new tar sands or coal mines.

That would mean no new fracking in the US or the UK. You cannot be a climate leader and support fracking: it is a new form of climate denialism. One only has to look at the brave stand people all across the world are taking to fight fossil fuel developments to see the kind of courage our governments lack but that the future will demand. Britain has seen protests in Balcombe in West Sussex, and in Blackpool, while in the US we have had brave pipeline fighters in Nebraska and Standing Rock reservation, North Dakota.

The neoliberal promise that we can both prevent catastrophic warming and allow energy companies to get rich extracting and burning more fossil fuels, including shale gas, is a fallacy. We can’t. Yet the US State Department’s shale gas initiative is seeking to expand fracking to other countries, even when their citizens don’t want it. The UK’s Institute of Gas Engineers and Managers, IGEM, cites it as a model for the world, and now Britain is seeking to import its own US-style fracking boom.

The world Obama is referring to is something else, in which fossil fuel lobbyists (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-241013183046.jpeg&hash=51c9c4f17e747698c76c65c7c1814eff4f32c400) obscure the will of the people.

The Lancashire decision will have to be fought off with passion, enthusiasm and courage. This means putting ourselves and, yes, sometimes our bodies on the line to stop this march of fossil fuel madness.

Last week, even as superstorm Matthew bore down on America’s east coast, Barack Obama said at the premiere of Leonardo DiCaprio’s new climate change film that keeping fossil fuels in the ground isn’t practical, and that we have to accept fracking as a way to cut emissions because “we have to live in the real world”. 
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The real world, I assume, is the one that science is describing – that says we cannot develop more fossil fuels. The world Obama is referring to is something else – a bubble – in which fossil fuel lobbyists obscure the will of the people under their superstorm of campaign cash and political influence.   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Facigar.gif&hash=dc9dccf92c6c88c99611b06c86d92629d69f2978) (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F2z6in9g.gif&hash=771b084a0f186d9cc14f31defd98a6c90b69b84f)
 
We can’t afford to dig up the fossil fuel deposits we’ve already developed, let alone develop new ones, especially shale gas. Some peer-reviewed research finds that shale gas is worse for the climate than coal or oil, because fracking and transporting it emits massive quantities of methane, which is over 80 times more powerful a warming agent than carbon dioxide over 20 years.

Those are the same 20 years in which we must replace our fossil fuel infrastructure with renewables to have a fighting chance against catastrophic warming. I recently filmed activists in China risking their freedom to speak out against coal; indigenous people deep in the Amazon confronting the ravages of oil companies; Pacific Climate Warriors blockading coal tankers with canoes, chanting: “We are not drowning – we are fighting!” We all need their courage and inventiveness now. The climate movement can prevail against the odds if it has enough bravery, community resilience, creativity, awareness of rights, and love. Luckily these are the things climate can’t change.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/oct/10/fracking-climate-change-denial-fight-fossil-fuel-madness

Agelbert NOTE: Fracking accelerates climate catastrophe, but it will endanger something else in England (and France), if the UK is fracked. What I am talking about is that fracking causes minor earthquake activity. Increased tectonic activity was NOT part of the future scenario envisioned by the engineers who built the chunnel under the English channel.

The PATH of the chunnel had to be very precise because the rock layer they needed to tunnel through has unstable bands both above and below it.

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Therefore, the chunnel is particularly susceptible to LEAKS from increased earthquake activity (new fissures opening up above or below the chunnel rock band).  The Frackers will swear up and down that the 14 billion dollar chunnel will not be endangered by fracking caused seismic activity. They are LIARS.

Watch the video on how the chunnel was made (several people lost there lives in the effort) and learn WHY that chunnel is NOT designed to handle increased seismic activity. Also, please pass this on to anyone you know in England.

https://youtu.be/L7GFFntXi8I

The precautionary principle of science must be applied here and NO FRACKING must be allowed in the U.K.

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If Fracking is allowed in the U.K., the consequences will be disastrous.
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on October 14, 2016, 01:24:40 pm
Climate| Oct. 13, 2016 11:47AM EST

Massive Iceberg Breaks Off Glacier in 'Biggest Calving Event in North America' in 33 Years

Dan Zukowski

A nearly three-quarter-square-mile chunk of ice broke off the Porcupine Glacier in British Columbia this summer, but it was only detected recently when the National Aeronautics and Space Administration posted a satellite image of the area. Glaciologist Mauri Pelto called it "the biggest calving event in North America" that he has ever seen.

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The breakup at Porcupine is the largest single iceberg (by area) to calve from a North American glacier in recent decades. NASA Earth Observatory] (graphic at article link)


The Porcupine Glacier, a 12-mile-long tongue of an ice field in the Hoodoo Mountains of Northern British Columbia, has been studied for many years. From 1985 to 2005, researchers saw a reduction of 0.3 percent a year. The glacier has also been thinning, at a rate of about 2.5 inches per year. As it melts, it grows a lake at the end of the glacier.

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"The volume loss has been speeding up in these glaciers," Pelto told The Globe and Mail.

The Landsat 8 satellite passed over Porcupine Glacier on Aug. 27 revealing the breakaway ice as compared to an image made two days earlier. Dr. Pelto, who has been analyzing satellite imagery of the area's glaciers since the 1980s, said the Porcupine Glacier event is part of a broader trend in which glaciers are retreating rapidly. This summer's sudden calving event shrunk the glacier back a full mile.

Pelto is a professor of environmental science at Nichols College in Dudley, Massachusetts, a small town on the Connecticut border south of Worcester. Pelto has been making field trips to the North Cascades every year since 1983 and uses satellite images to see the larger view.

"Without the images, we would just have the isolated point measurements of ground truth at specific times," Pelto said.

This calving event would have been unlike those often seen in Alaska, where a large section of ice crashes dramatically into the sea. The Porcupine Glacier features a low slope, so the iceberg would have simply slid into the lake.

"It would have been more like if you're pushing off from the shore in a canoe. It didn't break off and fall in," Pelto explained.

During his three decades of research, Pelto has also observed a large number of new alpine lakes being formed and expanded as glaciers have retreated in the Alps, Himalayas, Andes, North America, New Zealand, and Norway. He has also witnessed new islands revealed off the coast of Greenland and Novaya Zemlya that had been hidden under ice for thousands of years.

The U.S. Geological Survey says that Alaska's glaciers are losing 75 billion tons of ice each year. That's an amount of water that would fill Yankee Stadium 150,000 times, year after year.


http://www.ecowatch.com/iceberg-calving-british-columbia-glacier-2043759021.html
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on November 01, 2016, 10:09:09 pm

Listen to 58 years of climate change in one minute

BY John Ryan, KUOW Public Radio   October 31, 2016 at 2:10 PM EDT
https://youtu.be/Y45Mm-EHcxs

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/listen-58-years-climate-change-one-minute/
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on November 04, 2016, 06:04:32 pm
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"This generation has altered the composition of the atmosphere on a global scale through radioactive materials and a steady increase in carbon dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels."

-- President Lyndon B. Johnson, Feb. 2, 1965

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"God always forgives, but the earth does not. Take care of the earth so it does not respond with destruction,"

 -- Pope Francis, at a UN conference in Rome, Nov. 19, 2014
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on November 05, 2016, 01:44:11 pm
The earth forgives too, but she doesn't forgive on a timeline most humans can relate to......LOL.

That's debatable Eddie. I'm no scientist,  but there is some real bad destruction going on it seems. It would appear to me that somethings are destroyed forever in the true sense, like a particular species let's say.

Well said. I agree 100%. Much of the damage already done, and in the process of occurring, is not reversible, at least not in our lifetimes.  :(

The following article discusses one of the MANY types of fossil fuel industry caused lethal pollution impacting our biosphere 24/7:

Energy| Nov. 01, 2016 01:59PM EST

How Fracking Impacts Water-Stressed Regions

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SNIPPET:

Ceres researchers mapped water use in hydraulic fracturing across the U.S., using data from FracFocus.org and the World Resources Institute, and found that 57 percent of hydraulically fractured oil and gas wells between Jan. 1, 2011 and Jan. 1, 2016 were in regions of high water competition.

Our newly released interactive map shows water use by shale play and operator. Check it out:

http://www.ecowatch.com/impact-fracking-water-2074553674.html

Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on November 05, 2016, 03:40:37 pm
The earth forgives too, but she doesn't forgive on a timeline most humans can relate to......LOL.

That's debatable Eddie. I'm no scientist,  but there is some real bad destruction going on it seems. It would appear to me that somethings are destroyed forever in the true sense, like a particular species let's say.

Well said. I agree 100%. Much of the damage already done, and in the process of occurring, is not reversible, at least not in our lifetimes.  :(

The following article discusses one of the MANY types of fossil fuel industry caused lethal pollution impacting our biosphere 24/7:

Energy| Nov. 01, 2016 01:59PM EST

How Fracking Impacts Water-Stressed Regions

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SNIPPET:

Ceres researchers mapped water use in hydraulic fracturing across the U.S., using data from FracFocus.org and the World Resources Institute, and found that 57 percent of hydraulically fractured oil and gas wells between Jan. 1, 2011 and Jan. 1, 2016 were in regions of high water competition.

Our newly released interactive map shows water use by shale play and operator. Check it out:

http://www.ecowatch.com/impact-fracking-water-2074553674.html (http://www.ecowatch.com/impact-fracking-water-2074553674.html)

I think both of you are missing the point I was trying to make. I agree with both of you that many of the planet's ecosystems and the physical environment are permanently damaged, at least from the perspective of Man, living at the top of the food chain, with His Big Brain suddenly realizing he has been shitting where he eats for far too long.

I was just thinking about what that scientist that Leo interviewed pointed out, that life on earth is not going to end. It just won't be what we've evolved into. Life will once again be slime molds floating around in really warm water.

Once man is gone for good, though, Mother Earth will immediately set about healing herself, and although the state of things will be further down the hill of entropy, the earth will once again find a way to evolve, just in some way we can't imagine.

We are horribly anthropocentric in our viewpoint. Most of us, myself included, are profoundly saddened to think of a world without humans and other higher animals. But the earth will still be here after we're gone, and some many millions of years from now, some other interesting species may walk in our ancient footsteps. At least it makes me feel better to imagine that.


Yes, we are anthropocentric, and horribly so in many ways that have harmed, and continue to harm, the biosphere we depend on. But my understanding of what the Pope was saying, and GO's understanding too, was that the earth isn't going to forgive humans. I am certain he was not referring to other species, as you point to as a form of natural forgiveness (i.e. other species that will survive our demise). The scientist that stated that lower order life (i.e. non-self aware) would always be around despite our horrendously irresponsible behavior, did not appear to be voicing a message of hope, but of warning that we must change our destructive 'business as usual' behavior once and for all.

That was the point of the Pope's saying the earth does not forgive. Why do you think GO and I missed the point? (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.desismileys.com%2Fsmileys%2Fdesismileys_6656.gif&hash=2038f9b45636a93e5c0f4ee508ce29778fe9e9b4)


We are as cognizant as you are of the ability of simpler, more adaptable, non-self aware species to survive our poor stewardship. I do not consider it a responsible, positive or hopeful gesture for homo sapiens to hand down a biosphere suitable for simpler, tougher organisms, considering that we have the knowledge, self-awareness, free will and the responsibility to do be sustainable stewards of our biosphere. We cannot assume that our mistakes are acceptable simply because we have so many human empathy deficit disordered polluting elite that "do what they do".

Or do you think we are an evolutionary dead end and cannot escape our ultimate demise?

I like to think we can recognize our mistakes and correct them, not for our egotistical anthropocentric good, but for our logical anthropocentric reasonable perpetuation of our species, which ultimately involves the preservation and protection of hundreds of thousands of species populating the biosphere which we depend on. Don't you agree that doing the right thing by the biosphere is our responsibility? The Pope does. GO and I agree with him.
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on November 06, 2016, 02:35:20 pm
That's debatable Eddie. I'm no scientist,  but there is some real bad destruction going on it seems. It would appear to me that somethings are destroyed forever in the true sense, like a particular species let's say.

Well said. I agree 100%. Much of the damage already done, and in the process of occurring, is not reversible, at least not in our lifetimes.  :(

The following article discusses one of the MANY types of fossil fuel industry caused lethal pollution impacting our biosphere 24/7:

Energy| Nov. 01, 2016 01:59PM EST

How Fracking Impacts Water-Stressed Regions

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SNIPPET:

Ceres researchers mapped water use in hydraulic fracturing across the U.S., using data from FracFocus.org and the World Resources Institute, and found that 57 percent of hydraulically fractured oil and gas wells between Jan. 1, 2011 and Jan. 1, 2016 were in regions of high water competition.

Our newly released interactive map shows water use by shale play and operator. Check it out:

http://www.ecowatch.com/impact-fracking-water-2074553674.html (http://www.ecowatch.com/impact-fracking-water-2074553674.html)


I think both of you are missing the point I was trying to make. I agree with both of you that many of the planet's ecosystems and the physical environment are permanently damaged, at least from the perspective of Man, living at the top of the food chain, with His Big Brain suddenly realizing he has been shitting where he eats for far too long.

I was just thinking about what that scientist that Leo interviewed pointed out, that life on earth is not going to end. It just won't be what we've evolved into. Life will once again be slime molds floating around in really warm water.

Once man is gone for good, though, Mother Earth will immediately set about healing herself, and although the state of things will be further down the hill of entropy, the earth will once again find a way to evolve, just in some way we can't imagine.

We are horribly anthropocentric in our viewpoint. Most of us, myself included, are profoundly saddened to think of a world without humans and other higher animals. But the earth will still be here after we're gone, and some many millions of years from now, some other interesting species may walk in our ancient footsteps. At least it makes me feel better to imagine that.



Yes, we are anthropocentric, and horribly so in many ways that have harmed, and continue to harm, the biosphere we depend on. But my understanding of what the Pope was saying, and GO's understanding too, was that the earth isn't going to forgive humans. I am certain he was not referring to other species, as you point to as a form of natural forgiveness (i.e. other species that will survive our demise). The scientist that stated that lower order life (i.e. non-self aware) would always be around despite our horrendously irresponsible behavior, did not appear to be voicing a message of hope, but of warning that we must change our destructive 'business as usual' behavior once and for all.

That was the point of the Pope's saying the earth does not forgive. Why do you think GO and I missed the point? (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.desismileys.com%2Fsmileys%2Fdesismileys_6656.gif&hash=2038f9b45636a93e5c0f4ee508ce29778fe9e9b4)


We are as cognizant as you are of the ability of simpler, more adaptable, non-self aware species to survive our poor stewardship. I do not consider it a responsible, positive or hopeful gesture for homo sapiens to hand down a biosphere suitable for simpler, tougher organisms, considering that we have the knowledge, self-awareness, free will and the responsibility to do be sustainable stewards of our biosphere. We cannot assume that our mistakes are acceptable simply because we have so many human empathy deficit disordered polluting elite that "do what they do".

Or do you think we are an evolutionary dead end and cannot escape our ultimate demise?

I like to think we can recognize our mistakes and correct them, not for our egotistical anthropocentric good, but for our logical anthropocentric reasonable perpetuation of our species, which ultimately involves the preservation and protection of hundreds of thousands of species populating the biosphere which we depend on. Don't you agree that doing the right thing by the biosphere is our responsibility? The Pope does. GO and I agree with him.


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Well, I think it comes down to whether you want to lay blame on Man for his mistakes. The Pope POV does, and lots of people agree with that. But how in the hell can you really expect our species to have collectively stopped on a dime and reversed our consumption of fossil fuels in such a short time?

Look, my own father rode to town in a wagon pulled by mules when he was a small child. He was a depression era kid whose first car was a model A. He lived only 69 years on this earth, but by the time he passed away in 1989, we were already well on our way to ecological disaster.

Sure, there was a strong environmental movement in the 1970's that, if it had persisted might have made a difference. But it didn't die out because most humans don't care, It was murdered by corporate interests.

I tend to look at it in more philosophical terms, and not view our failures as evidence that most men are deliberately making a decision to serve evil over good. It's not that black and white to me. There are definitely some evil people in leadership rules, who took the short road to wealth, ignoring what they knew to be the right action. I hope those people end up in Catholic Hell, even though I don't really believe in hell in the same way the Pope does.

Are we an evolutionary dead end? It sure looks that way to me. But I hope I'm wrong about that. I don't take any joy in having that POV.

Of course we have been on this destructive trajectory for centuries. My father also was a Depression kid. Your father was a saint compared with my father's views on the environment. He would happily fire the howitzers at or poison anything or anybody that he was ordered to destroy for God and country. He was a loyal officer of the U.S. Army.

Long before your dad and mine, the U.S. government actively terraformed the land we occupy now by sending seed packets for planting various apple and other species of plant life to make the pioneers "self sufficient". The idea was to find out which ones could thrive the most in the different climates people settled in. ALL the seeds were of what now are 'native' species, but were invasive species at that time. All these biosphere modifications destroyed much of the viability of the native plant life and the sustainable life style of the native humans.

This is the history of the USA. The real life character behind Johnny Appleseed was a smart business man that would precede the pioneers by planting apple trees in the frontier lands. The government would give free land to (white European only) settlers if they had X amount of apple trees of at least three years of age. Jonny would "sell" land with three year old apple trees on it to newly arrived settlers so they could get a deed to the land. It is a huge irony that the huge generational wealth from those families is considered a point of Libertarian pride when it was the U.S. Government that subsidized their first efforts. LOL.

When the game switched to industrializing everything with "cheap" energy, including agriculture, there were MANY voices from the scientific community that explained, in detail, how to do all this without trashing the environment. But the irrational exploitive and destructive modus operandi held sway.  It wasn't just a few bad apples that overrode prudent development on behalf of short term gargantuan, empire building profits. We had a choice here and in Europe and in Australia and South America and in China and everywhere else. We made the wrong choices. We knew then and mostly know now what the right choices are.

I can't blame anyone else but homo sapiens for what is continuing to degrade the biosphere. Whether we discard the moral dimensions of that destructive behavior or not, it is still destructive, life killing behavior that is the species level equivalent of suicide. We are supposed to be rational. We are supposed to sapient. Suicide is irrational. Whether we are all just crazy or not, we still bear 100% of the responsibility for catastrophic, sixth extinction level climate change.

As to your belief that we cannot alter our course rapidly enough to prevent our demise, perhaps you are right.  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-041115022304.png&hash=cd8cb8e28ab8f7fc78c1ea00d30a661bd937aed5)
But like you, I hope not. 
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on November 09, 2016, 06:28:40 pm
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Climate Today: Good News, Bad News and TBD News

Tom Hughes, Energy Independent Vermont info@energyindependentvt.org
 
November 9, 2016 4:40 PM
 
 Anthony,

First, the bad news.

A climate science denier has been elected president. Donald Trump threatens to move America and the world backward in the fight against a crisis that threatens life as we know it. While this is truly terrifying news, I take solace in the words of Calvin Coolidge:

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“If the spirit of liberty should vanish in other parts of the Union, and support of our institutions should languish, it could all be replenished from the generous store held by the people of this brave little state of Vermont.”

To help replenish your spirits, I hope you’ll join us in ten days at the Climate Solutions Summit on Nov. 19. Register here (http://action.vpirg.org/site/Calendar?id=100722&view=Detail) if you haven't already.

Second, the good news, and there’s a lot of it.

•Vermont IS a brave little state and voters here rejected Donald Trump.

•In addition, Vermont elected incredibly strong pro-climate candidates up and down the ballot. Patrick Leahy and Peter Welch re-join Bernie Sanders to make up the best congressional delegation in America.

•David Zuckerman will make an outstanding pro-climate lieutenant governor.

•Two supporters of carbon pricing won election to the Senate from Chittenden County and a member of the Climate Caucus won in Windsor County.

•Pro-climate candidates for state representative performed extraordinarily well in the face of a massive onslaught of misleading ads paid for by the fossil fuel industry, and that chamber remains loaded with committed, talented legislators ready to fight for clean energy and bold climate action.

Finally, the news that is still to be determined.

Over the course of the campaign, Phil Scott’s position on climate change “evolved” and he professes a vision of an energy independent Vermont. Where we differ is on the roadmap to reach that shared destination. We look forward to working with Governor Scott on ways to clean our air and grow our economy. It was just 10 years ago that a Republican governor put a price on carbon pollution in the electric sector in Vermont. Should Gov. Scott choose, he can continue Vermont’s non-partisan approach to climate change.

It was a mixed bag of an election for environmentalists. But one thing is certain … global warming doesn’t care about political parties. It threatens us all. For that reason, pro-climate Vermonters will continue to push for bold climate action in the years ahead.

Sincerely,

Tom
 
 
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on November 10, 2016, 08:09:00 pm
Scientists: Trump climate policies will mean "game over" 

Climate change may be escalating so fast it could be 'game over', scientists warn


New research suggests the Earth's climate could be more sensitive to greenhouse gases than thought, raising the spectre of an 'apocalyptic side of bad' temperature rise of more than 7C within a lifetime

The Independent, (UK), Nov. 10, 2016

It is a vision of a future so apocalyptic that it is hard to even imagine.

But, if leading scientists writing in one of the most respected academic journals are right, planet Earth could be on course for global warming of more than seven degrees Celsius within a lifetime.

And that, according to one of the world’s most renowned climatologists, could be “game over” – particularly given the imminent presence of climate change denier Donald Trump in the White House.

Scientists have long tried to work out how the climate will react over the coming decades to the greenhouse gases humans are pumping into the atmosphere.

According to the current best estimate, by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), if humans carry on with a “business as usual” approach using large amounts of fossil fuels, the Earth’s average temperature will rise by between 2.6 and 4.8 degrees above pre-industrial levels by 2100.

However new research by an international team of experts who looked into how the Earth’s climate has reacted over nearly 800,000 years warns this could be a major under-estimate.

Because, they believe, the climate is more sensitive to greenhouse gases when it is warmer.

A reconstruction of the Earth's global mean temperature over the last 784,000 years, on the left of the graph, followed by a projection to 2100 based on new calculations of the climate's sensitivity to greenhouse gases (Friedrich, et al. (2016). In a paper in the journal Science Advances, they said the actual range could be between 4.78C to 7.36C by 2100, based on one set of calculations.

Some have dismissed the idea that the world would continue to burn fossil fuels despite obvious global warming, but emissions are still increasing despite a 1C rise in average thermometer readings since the 1880s.

And US President-elect Donald Trump has said he will rip up America’s commitments to the fight against climate change.

Professor Michael Mann, of Penn State University in the US, who led research that produced the famous “hockey stick” graph showing how humans were dramatically increasing the Earth’s temperature, told The Independent the new paper appeared "sound and the conclusions quite defensible".

“And it does indeed provide support for the notion that a Donald Trump presidency could be game over for the climate,” he wrote in an email.

“By ‘game over for the climate’, I mean game over for stabilizing warming below dangerous (ie greater than 2C) levels.

“If Trump makes good on his promises, and the US pulls out of the Paris [climate] treaty, it is difficult to see a path forward to keeping warming below those levels.”

Greenpeace UK said the new research was further evidence that urgent action was needed.

Dr Doug Parr, the environmental campaign group’s chief scientist, said: “The worrying thing is the suggestion climate sensitivity is higher [than thought] is not incompatible with higher temperatures we have been seeing this year.

“If there is science backing that up, that there’s a higher sensitivity of the climate to greenhouse gases, that puts at risk the prospect of keeping the globe at the Paris target of well below 2C.

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“Anybody who understands the situation we find ourselves in would have already have realised we are in an emergency situation.” 

Dr Tobias Friedrich, one of the authors of the paper, said: “Our results imply that the Earth’s sensitivity to variations in atmospheric carbon dioxide increases as the climate warms.

“Currently, our planet is in a warm phase – an interglacial period – and the associated increased climate sensitivity needs to be taken into account for future projections of warming induced by human activities.

“The only way out is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions as soon as possible.”

Dr Andrey Ganopolski, who was involved in the research and on the IPCC’s latest report, admitted their work was controversial with some scientists disagreeing and others agreeing with their findings.

“In our field of science, you cannot be definite by 100 per cent. There are always uncertainties and we discuss this in the paper,” he said.

“If we have more and more results of this sort, then we have more reasons to be concerned.”

Dr Ganopolski, of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany, suggested their findings meant it would be harder to prevent the world entering dangerous global warming of 2C or above.

“Our results mean it is not impossible to stay within 2C but it probably – if we are right and climate sensitivity is higher than this – would require even strong cuts in carbon emissions,” he said.

“Whether it’s feasible politically … I believe it is feasible technically.

“It would be really good to stay below 1.5C or close to that, whether it’s feasible I’m probably a bit sceptical about that.”

Commenting on the paper, Professor Eric Wolff, of Cambridge University, said using data from the past was a “powerful way of understanding the climate”.

But he noted the authors had used different ways of estimating average global temperature, some of which had produced “a lower range of values”. 

“The estimates of temperature in this paper are subject to large uncertainties, and therefore the range of estimates for 2100 is also very wide,” Professor Wolff said.

“Still, it's encouraging that it overlaps with model estimates and confirms that the emission reductions promised in Paris are essential to avoid unacceptable climate changes."

Mark Lynas laid out what would happen as the temperature rises in his award-winning book, Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet.

He was shocked by the researchers’ results.

“It sounds on the apocalyptic side of bad and, in some ways, it is realistic because ‘business as usual’ just got more likely as Trump wants to rebuild the pipelines … the complete ‘fossilisation’ of the US,” he said.

“It was game over at six [degrees] to be honest. I don’t think there was much more to add, other than turning the planet into Venus.”

Nasa recently said Venus may once have been habitable before runaway global warming turned the planet into its current version of hell with temperatures of more than 460C, almost no water and an atmosphere of mainly carbon dioxide with clouds of sulphuric acid.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/climate-change-game-over-global-warming-climate-sensitivity-seven-degrees-a7407881.html
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on November 11, 2016, 03:19:57 pm
They keep making the same mistakes because NO ONE has yet pointed out what the problems are, and what needs to be done to ameliorate the coming catastrophe as best we can.  Anonymous says in that video what their plan is, but THEY still think that after smashing Capitalism everyone will have enough - they won't.

We need a Manifesto for Ameliorating The Collapse, otherwise we will have the full-on Collapse, and eating bananas and insects will seem pretty good.  It needs to be apocalyptic. Only a doomer could write it.  I nominate RE, but everyone can have a go.

**** it's hot - it's black dark and still 32°C indoors with the fan going.

I am certain that the catastrophic climate change we are now in will provide all the conditions for a truly apocalyptic collapse of human civilization.

By the way, how do you keep your computer from overheating in those temps? My cores are running between 28 and 32C with a house temperature of 69F (about 21C). The temperature spikes sporadically to 36C when I play computer chess but the cores are supposed to be able to handle up to 100C. Perhaps they can, but I won't let them get anywhere near that. Other components, like memory might get fried along the way so I watch that closely.

Right now, the outside air temp is 41F, which is a bit warm for November in Vermont. There has been no snow to speak of and the first frost was over a month behind schedule. Nights are more like early October here now than the middle of November. Due to the lack of below freezing temps at night, the oaks still have more than half of their leaves. Normally the leaves are all down by now. Of course I am saving on heating bills.

If you haven't done so, I recommend you check out Radio Ecoshock. There is some new and thoroughly apocalyptic news coming from the scientific community.

http://www.ecoshock.org/ (http://www.ecoshock.org/)

Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on November 11, 2016, 05:35:17 pm
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AG: By the way, how do you keep your computer from overheating in those temps? My cores are running between 28 and 32C with a house temperature of 69F (about 21C).

At midnight it was 29°C and at dawn 27°C, inside.  My PCs both are fanless, low power boards, one running at 54, 54, 55, 55°C, and the other (running 2 SETI tasks at 50% load) 75, 77.  The laptop has a fan assist, which always comes on when booting, and hardly ever at other times, 65, 65.  They all have temperature monitors displaying all the time, with warnings at 80, and cut-out at 100, but that never happens.  The OrangePi PC is sold as very overclocked, and had warnings and cut-outs regularly, so I followed users' advice and down-rated it from 1.6 GHz to 1.2 GHz, still slightly above its nominal 1.0 GHz.  It also has a heatsink added, and runs cooler if it is not in its case, 55 - 75.  It is really noticeable that CPU-intensive work drives the temperature way up - SETI is a real test.

So I take temperature seriously, but I'm not concerned if its always below 80°C.  Keeping me cool is done with cold (not freezing) beer.

My archive of busted PC parts demonstrates that power supply/fans are the weakest link in regular PC hardware, followed by capacitors on the motherboard overheating/leaking.  I'm staggered at how much capacity power supplies provide - 750 W is common, whereas all four of my computers consume less than 50 W.


Interesting. Thanks for the info. My new computer is so quiet I don't know if the fan is running. So, I installed the CoreTemp utility to watch the cores.
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on November 11, 2016, 06:11:11 pm
If you haven't done so, I recommend you check out Radio Ecoshock. There is some new and thoroughly apocalyptic news coming from the scientific community.

http://www.ecoshock.org/ (http://www.ecoshock.org/)

Checked out the site. Didn't see much of anything related to a scientific community, looks like another advocacy blog. Does one of their positions or claims, somewhere, actually have a nugget of science hidden in it somewhere?


LOL! You see, your inability to refrain from mocking serious posts about NEW SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH and your mendacious habit of lying about their existence, all because you are not interested in anything remotely related to objective climate science that points directly at the suicidal stupidity of burning those fossil fuels you are perpetually, and irrationally, defending is just one of the reasons you always end up being banned.

Dear Sweet Dannny Boy, I guessed you missed this accidentally on purpose:


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ISABEL MONTANEZ – A WARNING FROM DEEP TIME

We know that a changing climate is already affecting the plant world in many ways. There are changes in rainfall, drought, pests, and fires to name a few. But what we didn’t know until now is that an altered plant world can increase the pace of climate change, leading to unpredictable outcomes.

Isabel Montañez is from the UC Davis Department of Earth and Planetary Science. Dr. Montañez is a geologist, President-Elect for the Geological Society of America, and helps edit a number of scientific journals. Isabel is the lead author of an important study published October 24th, 2016 in the journal “Nature Geoscience”. A group of scientists managed to study an ancient time relevant to our own. Their results from hundreds of millions of years ago are not comforting.

The paper is “Climate, pCO2 and terrestrial carbon cycle linkages during late Palaeozoic glacial–interglacial cycles“. That was published in the journal Nature Geoscience on October 24, 2016. Isabel Montanez is the lead author.

If I understand this paper correctly, the upper end of the range of greenhouse gases added by tropical deforestation could be 300 parts per million carbon dioxide added to the atmosphere. That’s an astounding doubling of the CO2 Earth held in the atmosphere at the start of our industrial revolution. That sounds like a big deal!

That mean that natural feedbacks could be much larger, or at least as large, as all human emissions into the atmosphere so far. That should make us shiver, because once these natural processes kick in, I suspect there is little to nothing humans could do to stop them. That is another reason why we have to start cutting our emissions drastically now.

This is new research. Previous reports by Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change did not include this large-scale feed-back. Neither did the Paris climate talks. That means any carbon budgets and predictive pathways are underestimated. They will need to be adjusted.

On a personal level, I fear Nature will take over from human drivers, in a wrenching shift in the climate. At that point, we couldn’t stop the big change.


TECHNIQUES AND LINKS

Humans have a limited time to reconstruct what we need to know. Should we just continue to recover the whole past history of life on Earth, or do we need to focus on times that matter to our predicament now? Isabel says that is a hot topic now in the research community.

I recall interviewing Dr. Bob Spicer at UK’s Open University about 7 years ago. He explained how an analysis of fossilized plant leaves can tell a whole story about the past, including the ancient atmosphere. This team led by Montanez used that technique as well as others that measure chemical residues left by plants in the soil.

(Bob Spicer interview in this Radio Ecoshock show for January 4, 2008)

http://www.ecoshock.net/eshock08/ES_080104_Show_LoFi.mp3 (http://www.ecoshock.net/eshock08/ES_080104_Show_LoFi.mp3)

The title of this paper talks about “pCO2”. What is that, and why use pCO2 instead of just CO2 for carbon dioxide? Apparently scientists use this term for atmospheric CO2 (Pressurized) as opposed to the possible liquid form of CO2. Now you know.

Read more about this new science in this article from phys.org
 Download or listen to this interview with Isabel Montanez in CD Quality or Lo-Fi

Or listen right now.

http://www.ecoshock.net/downloads/ES_Montanez_LoFi.mp3 (http://www.ecoshock.net/downloads/ES_Montanez_LoFi.mp3)

And you missed THIS TOO, MKing:


DAVID BROWN – THE MEKONG DELTA GOES UNDER FROM CLIMATE CHANGE

“No delta area, not the mouths of the Ganges, the Nile or the Mississippi, is more vulnerable than the Mekong estuary to the predictable impacts of climate change.”
-David Brown

Unless you are one of the 17 million people living there, you probably don’t know much about the Mekong Delta. Maybe you have images of the Vietnam war, but that was in another century.

Rice pours out of the Mekong Delta, exported all over the world. But the delta is due to become the world preview of highly populated lands disappearing under rising seas. David Brown is a retired American diplomat and experienced Vietnam expert. He’s lived and taught there. David just released a stunning four part series on the perils of the Delta. Its published at the popular online site Monga Bay. We reached David at his home in Fresno California.

daivid-brown


Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on November 11, 2016, 10:00:34 pm
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“First comprehensive climate report for North Sea region”

Scientists expect an average increase in air temperature in the North Sea region of 1.7 - 3.2 °C by the end of the century, compared to the period 1971-2000, according to the report “North Sea Region Climate Change Assessment” published by Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht (HZG).

This was the first comprehensive climate report for the North Sea region, HZG writes in a press release. A rise in sea level of 30-100cm is very likely and climate change is expected to significantly change the different eco-systems in and around the North Sea.

Download the full report in English here. (http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-39745-0)

Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on November 13, 2016, 03:41:36 pm
The unbearable HEAT is NOT far away.  :(
https://youtu.be/7PQei8mL5x0

https://youtu.be/O21gA921SBQ

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on November 13, 2016, 05:03:05 pm
Published on Oct 28, 2016

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The rate of climate change clearly has gone beyond linear, as indicated by the presence of myriad self-reinforcing feedback loops, and now threatens our survival as a species.

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Excerpt from the October 16, 2013 lecture by Guy McPherson: How Do We Act in the Face of Climate Chaos? Watch the full lecture here:

https://youtu.be/HVps2BTOpjY

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on November 13, 2016, 05:43:25 pm
https://youtu.be/LorNNCUbAuQ

Published on May 20, 2016

Guy McPherson presents “Responding to Abrupt Climate Change” in Encinitas, CA. May 17, 2016. McPherson is an award-winning Professor Emeritus of Natural Resources, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology at the University of Arizona. McPherson answers questions from the audience.
Video recording and edits by Dwain Deets.

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on November 13, 2016, 07:01:57 pm
Published on Sep 10, 2016

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on November 14, 2016, 08:34:54 pm
Global Energy News | Sun Nov 13, 2016 | 7:11pm EST

U.S. will be 'rogue' state if it ditches climate accord: U.N. envoy
 
By Laurie Goering

MARRAKESH, Morocco (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The United States would become "a kind of rogue country" if it pulls out of an international agreement to combat global warming, leaving the world more vulnerable to droughts and other climate extremes, warned Mary Robinson, a former Irish president and human rights advocate.

"It would be a tragedy for the United States and the people of the United States if the U.S. becomes a kind of rogue country, the only country in the world that is somehow not going to go ahead with the Paris Agreement," Robinson said in an interview with the Thomson Reuters Foundation on Sunday.

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, a Republican, has promised to pull the United States out of that global climate accord, which was agreed last year by 193 countries and which came into effect earlier this month, just in advance of his election.

The deal aims to hold climate change to "well below" 2 degrees Celsius of warming by moving the world economy away from fossil fuels.

The agreement provides for $100 billion a year in international funding from 2020 to help poorer countries develop cleanly and adapt to the already inevitable impacts of climate change.

Robinson, who now runs a foundation focused on seeking justice for people hit hard by climate impacts despite having contributed little to the problem, said she was confident other countries would continue their backing for the accord regardless of any action taken by the United States.

"I don't think that the process itself will be affected (if) one country, however big and important that country is, decides not to go ahead," she said on the sidelines of U.N. climate talks in Marrakesh, due to end on Friday.
 
But a pullout could mean a "huge difference" to already difficult efforts to gather enough international finance to help poorer countries develop their economies without increasing their emissions, "which is what they want to do", she said.

"The moral obligation of the United States as a big emitter, and a historically big emitter that built its whole economy on fossil fuels that are now damaging the world – it's unconscionable the United States would walk away from it," she said of the threat to withdraw from the Paris deal.

LIFE WITHOUT WATER
 
However, Robinson said she sympathized with Americans who had lost their jobs in polluting industries such as coal, many of whom supported Trump in his election campaign.

"Clearly they're hurting at the moment," she said, calling for assistance to help such workers retrain and win new jobs in a clean energy economy.

"But it's not a future to go backward into coal and have higher emissions in the United States," she warned. "The impact of that will be felt by poor communities and poor countries all over the world."

As a U.N. envoy for El Nino and climate change, she said she had been in dry regions of Honduras where women told her they no longer had water as a result of worsening drought.
 

Also In Global Energy News China says air pollution worsens in October

"I saw the pain on the faces of those women. And one of the women said to me, and I'll never forget, 'We have no water. How do you live without water?' ... I'm hearing that all over the world," she said.

If the United States backs away on adopting clean energy, it also would be handing China the leadership role in a key new industry, she said.

"That's not what so many states, businesses, cities and academic communities and local communities want in the United States," she said.

She urged Americans upset about the proposed changes in U.S. policy to make their voices heard.

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"People in the United States have to get up and make a big noise, and business in the United States has to make a big noise about this," she said.


(Reporting by Laurie Goering; editing by Megan Rowling; Please credit the Thomson Reuters Foundation, the charitable arm of Thomson Reuters, that covers humanitarian news, climate change, women's rights, trafficking and property rights. Visit news.trust.org)

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-climatechange-accord-usa-idUSKBN13900L
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on November 15, 2016, 02:14:56 pm
Climate| Nov. 14, 2016 01:39PM EST

Noam Chomsky: 'The Republican Party (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Fpirates5B15D_th.gif&hash=32438e1ed2c4d1823d4ed2a193286525c840a605)
 Has Become the Most Dangerous Organization in World History'

Truthout

By C.J. Polychroniou

On Nov. 8, Donald Trump managed to pull the biggest upset in U.S. politics by tapping successfully into the anger of white voters and appealing to the lowest inclinations of people in a manner that would have probably impressed Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels himself.

But what exactly does Trump's victory mean and what can one expect from this megalomaniac when he takes over the reins of power on Jan. 20, 2017? What is Trump's political ideology, if any and is "Trumpism" a movement? Will U.S. foreign policy be any different under a Trump administration? Some years ago, public intellectual Noam Chomsky warned that the political climate in the U.S. was ripe for the rise of an authoritarian figure. Now, he shares his thoughts on the aftermath of this election, the moribund state of the U.S. political system and why Trump is a real threat to the world and the planet in general.

Q. Noam, the unthinkable has happened: In contrast to all forecasts, Donald Trump scored a decisive victory over Hillary Clinton, and the man that Michael Moore described as a "wretched, ignorant, dangerous part-time clown and full-time sociopath" will be the next president of the U.S. In your view, what were the deciding factors that led American voters to produce the biggest upset in the history of U.S. politics?

A. Noam Chomsky

Before turning to this question, I think it is important to spend a few moments pondering just what happened on Nov. 8, a date that might turn out to be one of the most important in human history, depending on how we react.

No exaggeration.

The most important news of Nov. 8 was barely noted, a fact of some significance in itself.


On Nov. 8, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) delivered a report at the international conference on climate change in Morocco (COP22) which was called in order to carry forward the Paris agreement of COP21. The WMO reported that the past five years were the hottest on record. It reported rising sea levels, soon to increase as a result of the unexpectedly rapid melting of polar ice, most ominously the huge Antarctic glaciers. Already, Arctic sea ice over the past five years is 28 percent below the average of the previous 29 years, not only raising sea levels, but also reducing the cooling effect of polar ice reflection of solar rays, thereby accelerating the grim effects of global warming. The WMO reported further that temperatures are approaching dangerously close to the goal established by COP21, along with other dire reports and forecasts.

Another event took place on Nov. 8, which also may turn out to be of unusual historical significance for reasons that, once again, were barely noted.

On Nov. 8, the most powerful country in world history, which will set its stamp on what comes next, had an election. The outcome placed total control of the government—executive, Congress, the Supreme Court—in the hands of the Republican Party, which has become the most dangerous organization in world history.

Apart from the last phrase, all of this is uncontroversial. The last phrase may seem outlandish, even outrageous. But is it? (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F126fs3187425.gif&hash=698371058827d6a11faaaa56c2531639421f9477) The facts suggest otherwise. The party is dedicated to racing as rapidly as possible to destruction of organized human life. There is no historical precedent for such a stand.

Is this an exaggeration? Consider what we have just been witnessing.

During the Republican primaries, every candidate denied that what is happening is happening—with the exception of the sensible moderates, like Jeb Bush, who said it's all uncertain, but we don't have to do anything because we're producing more natural gas, thanks to fracking. Or John Kasich, who agreed that global warming is taking place, but added that "we are going to burn [coal] in Ohio and we are not going to apologize for it."

The winning candidate, now the president-elect, calls for rapid increase in use of fossil fuels, including coal; dismantling of regulations; rejection of help to developing countries that are seeking to move to sustainable energy; and in general, racing to the cliff as fast as possible.

Trump has already taken steps to dismantle the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) by placing in charge of the EPA transition a notorious (and proud) climate change denier, Myron Ebell (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-311013200859.png&hash=a7aaaa9f04c1e3e2c948723b5f8c13fe814dacd4). Trump's top adviser on energy, billionaire oil executive Harold Hamm (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-311013200859.png&hash=a7aaaa9f04c1e3e2c948723b5f8c13fe814dacd4), announced his expectations, which were predictable: dismantling regulations, tax cuts for the industry (and the wealthy and corporate sector generally), more fossil fuel production, lifting Obama's temporary block on the Dakota Access Pipeline.

The market reacted quickly. Shares in energy corporations boomed, including the world's largest coal miner, Peabody Energy, which had filed for bankruptcy, but after Trump's victory, registered a 50 percent gain.

The effects of Republican denialism had already been felt. There had been hopes that the COP21 Paris agreement would lead to a verifiable treaty, but any such thoughts were abandoned because the Republican Congress would not accept any binding commitments, so what emerged was a voluntary agreement, evidently much weaker.


Effects may soon become even more vividly apparent than they already are. In Bangladesh alone, tens of millions are expected to have to flee from low-lying plains in coming years because of sea level rise and more severe weather, creating a migrant crisis that will make today's pale in significance. With considerable justice, Bangladesh's leading climate scientist said that "These migrants should have the right to move to the countries from which all these greenhouse gases are coming. Millions should be able to go to the United States." And to the other rich countries that have grown wealthy while bringing about a new geological era, the Anthropocene, marked by radical human transformation of the environment. These catastrophic consequences can only increase, not just in Bangladesh, but in all of South Asia as temperatures, already intolerable for the poor, inexorably rise and the Himalayan glaciers melt, threatening the entire water supply. Already in India, some 300 million people are reported to lack adequate drinking water. And the effects will reach far beyond.

It is hard to find words to capture the fact that humans are facing the most important question in their history—whether organized human life will survive in anything like the form we know—and are answering it by accelerating the race to disaster.

Similar observations hold for the other huge issue concerning human survival: the threat of nuclear destruction, which has been looming over our heads for 70 years and is now increasing.

It is no less difficult to find words to capture the utterly astonishing fact that in all of the massive coverage of the electoral extravaganza, none of this receives more than passing mention. At least I am at a loss to find appropriate words.

Turning finally to the question raised, to be precise, it appears that Clinton received a slight majority of the vote. The apparent decisive victory has to do with curious features of American politics: among other factors, the Electoral College residue of the founding of the country as an alliance of separate states; the winner-take-all system in each state; the arrangement of congressional districts (sometimes by gerrymandering) to provide greater weight to rural votes (in past elections, and probably this one too, Democrats have had a comfortable margin of victory in the popular vote for the House, but hold a minority of seats); the very high rate of abstention (usually close to half in presidential elections, this one included). Of some significance for the future is the fact that in the age 18-25 range, Clinton won handily and Sanders had an even higher level of support. How much this matters depends on what kind of future humanity will face.

According to current information, Trump broke all records in the support he received from white voters, working class and lower middle class, particularly in the $50,000 to $90,000 income range, rural and suburban, primarily those without college education. These groups share the anger throughout the West at the centrist establishment, revealed as well in the unanticipated Brexit vote and the collapse of centrist parties in continental Europe. [Many of] the angry and disaffected are victims of the neoliberal policies of the past generation, the policies described in congressional testimony by Fed chair Alan Greenspan—"St. Alan," as he was called reverentially by the economics profession and other admirers until the miraculous economy he was supervising crashed in 2007-2008, threatening to bring the whole world economy down with it. As Greenspan explained during his glory days, his successes in economic management were based substantially on "growing worker insecurity." Intimidated working people would not ask for higher wages, benefits and security, but would be satisfied with the stagnating wages and reduced benefits that signal a healthy economy by neoliberal standards.

Working people, who have been the subjects of these experiments in economic theory, are not particularly happy about the outcome. They are not, for example, overjoyed at the fact that in 2007, at the peak of the neoliberal miracle, real wages for nonsupervisory workers were lower than they had been years earlier, or that real wages for male workers are about at 1960s levels while spectacular gains have gone to the pockets of a very few at the top, disproportionately a fraction of 1%. Not the result of market forces, achievement or merit, but rather of definite policy decisions, matters reviewed carefully by economist Dean Baker in recently published work.

The fate of the minimum wage illustrates what has been happening. Through the periods of high and egalitarian growth in the '50s and '60s, the minimum wage—which sets a floor for other wages—tracked productivity. That ended with the onset of neoliberal doctrine. Since then, the minimum wage has stagnated (in real value). Had it continued as before, it would probably be close to $20 per hour. Today, it is considered a political revolution to raise it to $15.

With all the talk of near-full employment today, labor force participation remains below the earlier norm. And for working people, there is a great difference between a steady job in manufacturing with union wages and benefits, as in earlier years and a temporary job with little security in some service profession. Apart from wages, benefits and security, there is a loss of dignity, of hope for the future, of a sense that this is a world in which I belong and play a worthwhile role.

The impact is captured well in Arlie Hochschild's sensitive and illuminating portrayal of a Trump stronghold in Louisiana, where she lived and worked for many years. She uses the image of a line in which residents are standing, expecting to move forward steadily as they work hard and keep to all the conventional values. But their position in the line has stalled. Ahead of them, they see people leaping forward, but that does not cause much distress, because it is "the American way" for (alleged) merit to be rewarded. What does cause real distress is what is happening behind them. They believe that "undeserving people" who do not "follow the rules" are being moved in front of them by federal government programs they erroneously see as designed to benefit African-Americans, immigrants and others they often regard with contempt. All of this is exacerbated by [Ronald] Reagan's racist fabrications about "welfare queens" (by implication Black) stealing white people's hard-earned money and other fantasies.

Sometimes failure to explain, itself a form of contempt, plays a role in fostering hatred of government. I once met a house painter in Boston who had turned bitterly against the "evil" government after a Washington bureaucrat who knew nothing about painting organized a meeting of painting contractors to inform them that they could no longer use lead paint—"the only kind that works"—as they all knew, but the suit didn't understand. That destroyed his small business, compelling him to paint houses on his own with substandard stuff forced on him by government elites.

Sometimes there are also some real reasons for these attitudes toward government bureaucracies. Hochschild describes a man whose family and friends are suffering bitterly from the lethal effects of chemical pollution but who despises the government and the "liberal elites," because for him, the EPA means some ignorant guy who tells him he can't fish, but does nothing about the chemical plants.

These are just samples of the real lives of Trump supporters, who are led to believe that Trump will do something to remedy their plight, though the merest look at his fiscal and other proposals demonstrates the opposite—posing a task for activists who hope to fend off the worst and to advance desperately needed changes.

Exit polls reveal that the passionate support for Trump was inspired primarily by the belief that he represented change, while Clinton was perceived as the candidate who would perpetuate their distress. The "change" that Trump is likely to bring will be harmful or worse, but it is understandable that the consequences are not clear to isolated people in an atomized society lacking the kinds of associations (like unions) that can educate and organize. That is a crucial difference between today's despair and the generally hopeful attitudes of many working people under much greater economic duress during the Great Depression of the 1930s.

There are other factors in Trump's success. Comparative studies show that doctrines of white supremacy have had an even more powerful grip on American culture than in South Africa, and it's no secret that the white population is declining. In a decade or two, whites are projected to be a minority of the work force and not too much later, a minority of the population. The traditional conservative culture is also perceived as under attack by the successes of identity politics, regarded as the province of elites who have only contempt for the ''hard-working, patriotic, church-going (white (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2F2.bp.blogspot.com%2F_9HT4xZyDmh4%2FTOHhxzA0wLI%2FAAAAAAAAEUk%2FoeHDS2cfxWQ%2Fs200%2FSmiley_Angel_Wings_Halo.jpg&hash=13281f1944b60773bf12b29387b70be77cc1fe16)) Americans with real family values'' who see their familiar country as disappearing before their eyes.

One of the difficulties in raising public concern over the very severe threats of global warming is that 40 percent of the U.S. population does not see why it is a problem (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Fgen152.gif&hash=d5b10968fe56c4cb95fae17cee3cb420a5f4e2da), since Christ is returning in a few decades. About the same percentage believe that the world was created a few thousand years ago. If science conflicts with the Bible, so much the worse for science. It would be hard to find an analogue in other societies.

The Democratic Party abandoned any real concern for working people by the 1970s and they have therefore been drawn to the ranks of their bitter class enemies, who at least pretend to speak their language—Reagan's folksy style of making little jokes while eating jelly beans, George W. Bush's carefully cultivated image of a regular guy you could meet in a bar who loved to cut brush on the ranch in 100-degree heat and his probably faked mispronunciations (it's unlikely that he talked like that at Yale), and now Trump, who gives voice to people with legitimate grievances—people who have lost not just jobs, but also a sense of personal self-worth—and who rails against the government that they perceive as having undermined their lives (not without reason).

One of the great achievements of the doctrinal system has been to divert anger from the corporate sector to the government that implements the programs that the corporate sector designs, such as the highly protectionist corporate/investor rights agreements that are uniformly mis-described as "free trade agreements" in the media and commentary. With all its flaws, the government is, to some extent, under popular influence and control, unlike the corporate sector (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Fpirates5B15D_th.gif&hash=32438e1ed2c4d1823d4ed2a193286525c840a605). It is highly advantageous for the business world to foster hatred for pointy-headed government bureaucrats and to drive out of people's minds the subversive idea that the government might become an instrument of popular will, a government of, by and for the people.

To read Chomsky's answers to non-eco-related questions, click here (follow link below). Reposted with permission from our media associate Truthout.


http://www.ecowatch.com/noam-chomsky-trump-2093271018.html

Agelbert NOTE: The "Christians" that claim there is nothing to worry about because Christ is probably coming in a few decades are NOT CHRISTIANS! They are pseudo-Christian cult worshippers that REJECTED the true Christian Gospel of responsible stewardship for creation AND the Commandment to love thy neighbor as thyself IN SIN EMBRACING FAVOR of the self worship idolatry of American Exceptionalism, greed and war.

As a Christian, I too believe that we are in the End Times and Christ is coming soon. But regardless of WHEN Christ is coming, as a Christian, I MUST be a good steward of creation and speak out against those who champion egotistical greed and short term pecuniary gain through the polluting exploitation of nature and the consequent degradation of our God given biosphere.

The true Christians in the USA will NEVER support a fascist climate trasher like Trump. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F301.gif&hash=0291ed4abf2d80e420d1aa00d4eb3c5dd6bbfb53)
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on November 16, 2016, 01:43:56 pm
Climate| Nov. 15, 2016 03:35PM EST


Alaska Sees 'Astounding' Rise in Temperature as 'Drill, Baby, Drill' Planned for Arctic


Dan Zukowski

http://www.ecowatch.com/alaska-record-temperature-2094322291.html
 
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on November 16, 2016, 02:19:07 pm
Climate Change Is Affecting All Aspects of Life on Earth

Even a small rise in global average temperature has affected species across ecosystems, changing their genes, physiology, morphology, and phenology.  :(

By Shreya Dasgupta

https://psmag.com/climate-change-is-affecting-all-aspects-of-life-on-earth-229265b77c5#.95f95yc5w


Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on November 17, 2016, 02:53:00 pm
Trump Watch| Nov. 16, 2016 01:15PM EST

365+ Businesses Call on Trump to Support Paris Climate Agreement

http://www.ecowatch.com/business-trump-paris-agreement-2095804158.html
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on November 18, 2016, 02:18:38 pm
196 Countries Reaffirm Commitment to Paris Climate Deal, Isolating Trump Even More  ;D

http://www.ecowatch.com/paris-climate-agreement-trump-2098316719.html
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on November 18, 2016, 02:22:59 pm
North Pole an Insane 36 Degrees Warmer Than Normal as Region Hits Record Low Sea Ice Extent  :(

http://www.ecowatch.com/north-pole-sea-ice-melt-2098350838.html
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on November 20, 2016, 05:44:45 pm
Will Fantasy & Anger Sink the Climate? ???  :P

Posted on November 16, 2016, by Radio Ecoshock

SNIPPET:

It’s not that we are being lied to on a massive scale. We are, but that’s not the point. We are lying to ourselves on a massive scale. The agreement reached by our political leaders in Paris reflects our own unwillingness to make deep changes now to save the climate. As we see in this paper, it also marks our very human way of answering a real threat with procrastination and fantasy.

But first of course, we fell into talking about the climate impact of the election of Donald Trump. Kevin suggests we get out of the fixation with 320 million people in the United States, and look toward the almost 7 billion other humans on the planet. According to the Paris accord, and countless national and local actions, they believe climate change is real.

http://www.ecoshock.org/2016/11/will-fantasy-anger-sink-the-climate.html
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on November 21, 2016, 01:01:52 pm
Trump Watch| Nov. 20, 2016 09:08AM EST

World Leaders Call on Trump to 'Drop His Campaign Pledge to Cancel the Paris Agreement'

Common Dreams

http://www.ecowatch.com/donald-trump-paris-climate-agreement-2101330464.html

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The Climate Mobilization: Catalyzing the Emergency Climate Movement
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on November 21, 2016, 01:57:01 pm
Something really crazy is happening in the Arctic  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-300714025456.bmp&hash=f4e4a260bd60d3f34ca86fed93c47d5fb4117cfd)

 By Tom Yulsman | November 20, 2016 7:22 pm 


At a time when sea ice should be expanding, it’s actually shrinking.   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.coh2.org%2Fimages%2FSmileys%2Fhuhsign.gif&hash=3732d0427be65896527fc3805c5be54a33cffd3b)

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http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/imageo/2016/11/20/something-really-crazy-is-happening-in-the-arctic/#.WDNCFuTrthh
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on November 21, 2016, 11:13:47 pm
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Süddeutsche Zeitung

Trump’s shadow over Marrakesh

The Paris Climate Agreement would never have been approved so quickly  ;D without the looming threat of a Donald Trump presidency, writes Michael Bauchmüller in a commentary in Süddeutsche Zeitung.

But his election now throws a dark shadow over current efforts to protect the climate. “The good news: Even Trump won’t be able to stop the technological change, not even within his own country.

Climate protection has become big business.” (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.desismileys.com%2Fsmileys%2Fdesismileys_0293.gif&hash=b1af4868ed8f18c30e637f8cbcb79002f6f71039)


http://www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/klimaschutz-trumps-schatten-ueber-marrakesch-1.3257682

Agelbert NOTE: As I wrote about a week ago, Fascist Fossil Fuel Defender Trump is succeeding in triggering a massive backlash that is uniting the rest of the planet against polluters everywhere.(https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.desismileys.com%2Fsmileys%2Fdesismileys_6869.gif&hash=f94938471d343a09155d1f60eefacdb2ceab2457)   I said that he would be to polluters what Fukushima was to the nuclear power plants. And the quick and massive agreement from nearly 200 countries on addressing climate change is proof that it is happening.(https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-200714191258.bmp&hash=e4ed21caaca822f7445ccafd39f49a9f84be90ca)    (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-080515182559.png&hash=d4dfa952fa0f817bf30a8059a4c88d6fb05ee1bf)



Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on November 22, 2016, 05:14:29 pm
For this time of the year, 2016 just broke the record of the year with least ice cover (2012). We are now in uncharted Territory.  :o  :P

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Sluggish ice growth in the Arctic

Nov. 2, 2016

SNIPPET:

After a quick initial freeze-up during the second half of September, ice growth slowed substantially during early October. On October 20, 2016, Arctic sea ice extent began to set new daily record lows for this time of year. After mid-October, ice growth returned to near-average rates, but extent remained at record low levels through late October.

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High sea surface temperatures in open water areas were important in limiting ice growth. October air temperatures were also unusually high, and this warmth extended from the surface through a considerable depth of the atmosphere.



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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on November 23, 2016, 07:01:59 pm
Agelbert NOTE: I was amazed that the Mayor of Houston, Texas signed this excellent letter filled with hard truths that Fossil Fuel Polluter Defender Trump (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.desismileys.com%2Fsmileys%2Fdesismileys_6869.gif&hash=f94938471d343a09155d1f60eefacdb2ceab2457) will NOT be able to ignore. 

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American mayors working together to strengthen local efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and support binding federal and global-level policymaking.

yesterday·5 min read

Open Letter to President-elect Donald Trump on Climate Action

November 22, 2016

Dear President-elect Trump,

As Mayors, we have taken it upon ourselves to take bold action within our cities to tackle the climate crisis head-on. We write today to ask for your partnership in our work to clean our air, strengthen our economy, and ensure that our children inherit a nation healthier and better prepared for the future than it is today.

We lead 37 small and large American cities, comprising nearly 31 million Americans in both blue and red states. We have joined together in the U.S. Mayors’ National Climate Action Agenda (MNCAA), or the #ClimateMayors, in addressing the greatest challenge of our time, climate change. Each of our cities is committing to ambitious targets to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, set climate action, regularly report on our progress, share lessons and hold each other accountable. Around the globe, cities are working together through organizations like C40 as well.

The effects of climate change — extreme storms, wildfires and drought; sea level rise and storm surge; choking air pollution in cities; disruption of agricultural supply chains and jobs in rural heartlands; and coastal erosion, to name a few  are a clear and present danger to American interests at home and abroad. This is why the U.S. Department of Defense stated in 2015 “that climate change is an urgent and growing threat to our national security”. Furthermore, estimates have shown these impacts from climate change could cost the American economy $500 billion annually by 2050, and that figure will only rise unless we work together to stem, and ultimately reverse, the amount of greenhouse gases entering our atmosphere.

The cost of prevention pales in comparison to cost of inaction, in terms of dollars, property and human life. As our incoming President, as a businessman, and as a parent, we believe we can find common ground when it comes to addressing an issue not rooted in politics or philosophy, but in science and hard economic data. Simply put, we can all agree that fires, flooding and financial losses are bad for our country, that we need to protect our communities’ most vulnerable residents who suffer the most from the impacts of climate change, and that we all need healthier air to breathe and a stronger economy — rural and urban, Republican and Democrat — and in terms of our domestic quality of life and our standing abroad.

On November 8, American voters approved more than $200 billion in local measures, funded by their own local tax dollars, to improve quality of life and reduce carbon pollution. Seventy percent of voters in Los Angeles County, the car capital of the world, approved a $120 billion, multi-decade commitment to public transit. Seattle voters approved transit investments totaling $54 billion; Austin voters approved a record-setting $720 million mobility bond; Boston voters approved investment in affordable housing, parks, historic preservation and more.

As President, you will have the power to expand and accelerate these local initiatives which the people resoundingly supported. We call upon you and the federal government you will lead to help cities leverage funds for the hundreds of billions of dollars in transit, energy, infrastructure and real estate development necessary to upgrade our infrastructure for the 21st century. We ask that you lead us in expanding the renewable energy sources we need to achieve energy security, address climate change and spark a new manufacturing, energy and construction boom in America. We ask that you help provide American businesses the certainty to invest through continued tax credits for electric vehicles, solar power, renewables and other clean technologies. And we ask that you shift to embrace the Paris Climate Agreement and make U.S. cities your partner in doing so.

While we are prepared to forge ahead even in the absence of federal support, we know that if we stand united on this issue, we can make change that will resonate for generations. We have no choice and no room to doubt our resolve. The time for bold leadership and action is now.

Signed,

Mayor Eric Garcetti
City of Los Angeles, CA

Mayor Martin J Walsh
City of Boston, MA

Mayor Bill de Blasio
New York City, NY

Mayor Edward B Murray
City of Seattle, WA

Mayor Stephen K Benjamin
 City of Columbia, SC

Mayor Jennifer W Roberts
 City of Charlotte, NC

Mayor Rahm Emanuel
City of Chicago, IL

Mayor Greg Stanton
City of Phoenix, AZ

Mayor Jim Kenney
City of Philadelphia, PA

Mayor Buddy Dyer
City of Orlando, FL

Mayor Roy D Buol
City of Dubuque, IA

Mayor Charlie Hales
City of Portland, OR

Mayor Jackie Biskupski
Salt Lake City, UT

Mayor Libby Schaaf
City of Oakland, CA

Mayor Sam Liccardo
City of San Jose, CA

Mayor Muriel Bowser
Washington, DC

Mayor Christopher B Coleman
City of Saint Paul, MN

Mayor Kasim Reed
City of Atlanta, GA

Mayor Sly James
City of Kansas City, MO

Mayor Michael B Hancock
City and County of Denver, CO

Mayor Steve Adler
City of Austin, TX

Mayor Ed Lee
City of San Francisco, CA

Mayor Bill Peduto
City of Pittsburgh, PA

Mayor Kitty Piercy
City of Eugene, OR

Mayor Tom Bates
City of Berkeley, CA

Mayor Tony Vasquez
City of Santa Monica, CA

Mayor Joseph A Curtatone
City of Somerville, MA

Mayor Steve Skadron
City of Aspen, CO

Mayor Suzanne Jones
City of Boulder, CO

Mayor Jack Thomas
Park City, UT

Mayor Mary Casillas Salas
City of Chula Vista, CA

Mayor Elizabeth B. Tisdhal
City of Evanston, IL

Mayor-elect Darrell Steinberg
City of Sacramento, CA

Mayor Sylvester Turner*
City of Houston, TX  :o  ;D

Mayor Patrick Burt*
City of Palo Alto, CA

Mayor Mitch Landrieu*
City of New Orleans, LA

Mayor Phillip Levine*
City of Miami Beach, FL

*Updated signatories as of 2:30PM November 23, 2016
https://medium.com/@ClimateMayors/open-letter-to-president-elect-donald-trump-on-climate-policy-and-action-33e10dcdcf85#.79e9x69hf
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on November 24, 2016, 01:16:37 pm
Agelbert REMINDER to those who will be "offended" (because they are supporters of the President Elect) by the hard truths stated in the article below:
 
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TOPICS: Democracy & Government

TAGS: 2016 election, donald trump, hillary clinton, media criticism
Democracy & Government


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No matter how the rest of the world looked at us on Nov. 7, they will now look at us differently.

By Neal Gabler | November 10, 2016

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The sun sets behind the Jefferson Memorial in Washington. (Photo By Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

America died on Nov. 8, 2016, not with a bang or a whimper, but at its own hand via electoral suicide. We the people chose a man who has shredded our values, our morals, our compassion, our tolerance, our decency, our sense of common purpose, our very identity — all the things that, however tenuously, made a nation out of a country.

Whatever place we now live in is not the same place it was on Nov. 7. No matter how the rest of the world looked at us on Nov. 7, they will now look at us differently. We are likely to be a pariah country. And we are lost for it. As I surveyed the ruin of that country this gray Wednesday morning, I found weary consolation in W.H. Auden’s poem, September 1, 1939, which concludes:


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BY Neal Gabler | November 8, 2016

“Defenseless under the night
 Our world in stupor lies;
 Yet, dotted everywhere,
 Ironic points of light
 Flash out wherever the Just
 Exchange their messages:
 May I, composed like them
 Of Eros and of dust,
 Beleaguered by the same
 Negation and despair,
 Show an affirming flame.”

I hunt for that affirming flame.

This generally has been called the “hate election” because everyone professed to hate both candidates. It turned out to be the hate election because, and let’s not mince words, of the hatefulness of the electorate. In the years to come, we will brace for the violence, the anger, the racism, the misogyny, the xenophobia, the nativism, the white sense of grievance that will undoubtedly be unleashed now that we have destroyed the values that have bound us.

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We all knew these hatreds lurked under the thinnest veneer of civility. That civility finally is gone.

We all knew these hatreds lurked under the thinnest veneer of civility. That civility finally is gone. In its absence, we may realize just how imperative that politesse was. It is the way we managed to coexist.

If there is a single sentence that characterizes the election, it is this: “He says the things I’m thinking.” That may be what is so terrifying. Who knew that so many tens of millions of white Americans were thinking unconscionable things about their fellow Americans? Who knew that tens of millions of white men felt so emasculated by women and challenged by minorities? Who knew that after years of seeming progress on race and gender, tens of millions of white Americans lived in seething resentment, waiting for a demagogue to arrive who would legitimize their worst selves and channel them into political power? Perhaps we had been living in a fool’s paradise. Now we aren’t.

This country has survived a civil war, two world wars, and a great depression. There are many who say we will survive this, too. Maybe we will, but we won’t survive unscathed. We know too much about each other to heal. No more can we pretend that we are exceptional or good or progressive or united. We are none of those things. Nor can we pretend that democracy works and that elections have more or less happy endings. Democracy only functions when its participants abide by certain conventions, certain codes of conduct and a respect for the process.

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No more can we pretend that we are exceptional or good or progressive or united. We are none of those things.

The virus that kills democracy is extremism because extremism disables those codes. Republicans have disrespected the process for decades. They have regarded any Democratic president as illegitimate. They have proudly boasted of preventing popularly elected Democrats from effecting policy and have asserted that only Republicans have the right to determine the nation’s course. They have worked tirelessly to make sure that the government cannot govern and to redefine the purpose of government as prevention rather than effectuation. In short, they haven’t believed in democracy for a long time, and the media never called them out on it.

Democracy can’t cope with extremism. Only violence and time can defeat it. The first is unacceptable, the second takes too long. Though Trump is an extremist, I have a feeling that he will be a very popular president and one likely to be re-elected by a substantial margin, no matter what he does or fails to do. That’s because ever since the days of Ronald Reagan, rhetoric has obviated action, speechifying has superseded governing.

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The media can’t be let off the hook for enabling an authoritarian to get to the White House. Long before he considered a presidential run, he was a media creation — a regular in the gossip pages, a photo on magazine covers, the bankrupt (morally and otherwise) mogul who hired and fired on The Apprentice. When he ran, the media treated him not as a candidate, but as a celebrity, and so treated him differently from ordinary pols. The media gave him free publicity, trumpeted his shenanigans, blasted out his tweets, allowed him to phone in his interviews, fell into his traps and generally kowtowed until they suddenly discovered that this joke could actually become president.

Just as Trump has shredded our values, our nation and our democracy, he has shredded the media. In this, as in his politics, he is only the latest avatar of a process that began long before his candidacy. Just as the sainted Ronald Reagan created an unbridgeable chasm between rich and poor that the Republicans would later exploit against Democrats, conservatives delegitimized mainstream journalism so that they could fill the vacuum.

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With Trump’s election, I think that the ideal of an objective, truthful journalism is dead, never to be revived.

Retiring conservative talk show host Charlie Sykes complained that after years of bashing from the right wing, the mainstream media no longer could perform their function as reporters, observers, fact dispensers, and even truth tellers, and he said we needed them. Like Goebbels before them, conservatives understood that they had to create their own facts, their own truths, their own reality. They have done so, and in so doing effectively destroyed the very idea of objectivity. Trump can lie constantly only because white America has accepted an Orwellian sense of truth — the truth pulled inside out.

With Trump’s election, I think that the ideal of an objective, truthful journalism is dead, never to be revived. Like Nixon and Sarah Palin before him, Trump ran against the media, boomeranging off the public’s contempt for the press. He ran against what he regarded as media elitism and bias, and he ran on the idea that the press disdained working-class white America. Among the many now-widening divides in the country, this is a big one, the divide between the media and working-class whites, because it creates a Wild West of information – a media ecology in which nothing can be believed except what you already believe.

With the mainstream media so delegitimized — a delegitimization for which they bear a good deal of blame, not having had the courage to take on lies and expose false equivalencies — they have very little role to play going forward in our politics. I suspect most of them will surrender to Trumpism — if they were able to normalize Trump as a candidate, they will no doubt normalize him as president.

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Cable news may even welcome him as a continuous entertainment and ratings booster. And in any case, like Reagan, he is bulletproof. The media cannot touch him, even if they wanted to. Presumably, there will be some courageous guerillas in the mainstream press, a kind of Resistance, who will try to fact-check him. But there will be few of them, and they will be whistling in the wind. Trump, like all dictators, is his own truth.

What’s more, Trump already has promised to take his war on the press into courtrooms and the halls of Congress. He wants to loosen libel protections, and he has threatened Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos of Amazon with an antitrust suit. Individual journalists have reason to fear him as well. He has already singled out NBC’s Katy Tur, perhaps the best of the television reporters, so that she needed the Secret Service to escort her from one of his rallies. Jewish journalists who have criticized Trump have been subjected to vicious anti-Semitism and intimidation from the alt-right. For the press, this is likely to be the new normal in an America in which white supremacists, neo-Nazi militias, racists, sexists, homophobes and anti-Semites have been legitimized by a new president who “says what I’m thinking.” It will be open season.

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This converts the media from reporters to targets, and they have little recourse. Still, if anyone points the way forward, it may be New York Times columnist David Brooks. Brooks is no paragon. He always had seemed to willfully neglect modern Republicanism’s incipient fascism (now no longer incipient), and he was an apologist for conservative self-enrichment and bigotry. But this campaign season, Brooks pretty much dispensed with politics. He seemed to have arrived at the conclusion that no good could possibly come of any of this and retreated into spirituality. What Brooks promoted were values of mutual respect, a bolder sense of civic engagement, an emphasis on community and neighborhood, and overall a belief in trickle-up decency rather than trickle-down economics. He is not hopeful, but he hasn’t lost all hope.

For those of us now languishing in despair, this may be a prescription for rejuvenation. We have lost the country, but by refocusing, we may have gained our own little patch of the world and, more granularly, our own family. For journalists, Brooks may show how political reporting, which, as I said, is likely to be irrelevant in the Trump age, might yield to a broader moral context in which one considers the effect that policy, strategy and governance have not only on our physical and economic well-being but also on our spiritual well-being. In a society that is likely to be fractious and odious, we need a national conversation on values. The media could help start it.

But the disempowered media may have one more role to fill: They must bear witness. Many years from now, future generations will need to know what happened to us and how it happened. They will need to know how disgruntled white Americans, full of self-righteous indignation, found a way to take back a country they felt they were entitled to and which they believed had been lost. They will need to know about the ugliness and evil that destroyed us as a nation after great men like Lincoln and Roosevelt guided us through  previous crises and kept our values intact. They will need to know, and they will need a vigorous, engaged, moral media to tell them. They will also need us.

We are not living for ourselves anymore in this country. Now we are living for history.

Neal Gabler is an author of five books and the recipient of two LA Times Book Prizes, Time magazine's non-fiction book of the year, USA Today's biography of the year and other awards. He is also a senior fellow at The Norman Lear Center at the University of Southern California, and is currently writing a biography of Sen. Edward Kennedy.

http://billmoyers.com/story/farewell-america/

Agelbert NOTE: Great article, but, unlike the author, many millions of Americans, like myself, KNEW about this suicidal trajectory, of which the ubiquitous racism is but one symptom of America's moral decay.

Neal Gabler is a good man of principle. He is clear on what is right and what is wrong. However, as the reality of the WAY things REALLY are in the USA struck him like a kick in the groin, Neal Gabler's surprise is evidence that he was a victim of white privileged liberal wishful thinking. None of the following was a surprise to me and millions of other Americans of mixed ancestry that know the score.

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If there is a single sentence that characterizes the election, it is this: “He says the things I’m thinking.” That may be what is so terrifying. Who knew that so many tens of millions of white Americans were thinking unconscionable things about their fellow Americans? Who knew that tens of millions of white men felt so emasculated by women and challenged by minorities? Who knew that after years of seeming progress on race and gender, tens of millions of white Americans lived in seething resentment, waiting for a demagogue to arrive who would legitimize their worst selves and channel them into political power? Perhaps we had been living in a fool’s paradise. Now we aren’t.

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I dated it to when THIS GUY had the nomination for VP stolen from him so the Truman party hack could do the bidding of the M.I.C. when Roosevelt died.
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But, you know what? The abysmally stupid and morally corruptive embrace of greed, xenophobia and racism is the LEAST of our worries as a people in this perfect storm of Wall Street 'dial a reality' that so many fools and knaves wish to celebrate.

Below please find, America TODAY:
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Like Goebbels before them, conservatives understood that they had to create their own facts, their own truths, their own reality. They have done so, and in so doing effectively destroyed the very idea of objectivity. Trump can lie constantly only because white America has accepted an Orwellian sense of truth — the truth pulled inside out.


BUT, THIS is America in the NEAR FUTURE:

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on November 24, 2016, 07:18:43 pm
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http://www.treehugger.com/slideshows/climate-change/enjoy-them-while-they-last-trump-may-stop-nasas-politically-correct-environmental-monitoring/

Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on November 27, 2016, 11:06:54 pm
Overheated Arctic sign of climate change 'vicious circle'

November 24, 2016

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Ice cover at the top of the globe shrank to its smallest area in 2016—some 4.14 million sq km (1.6 million sq miles)—on September 16

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Freakishly high temperatures in the Arctic driven by heat-packed oceans and northward winds have been reinforced by a "vicious circle" of climate change, scientists said Thursday.

Air above the Polar ice cap has been 9-12 degrees Celsius (16.2 to 21.6 degrees Fahrenheit) above average during the last four weeks, according the data from the Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI), which tracks hourly changes in Arctic weather.

And during several days last week, temperatures above the North Pole were a balmy zero degrees Celsius (32 degrees Fahrenheit), a full 20C (36F) above the levels typical for mid-November, said Martin Stendel, a DMI climate researcher based in Copenhagen.

"This is by far the highest recorded" in the era of satellite data, starting in 1979, he told AFP.

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"What we are observing is very unusual."

At this time of year, open Arctic ocean exposed by sea ice melted away in summer should be freezing again, with thousands of square kilometres icing over every day.

But that has not been happening, at least not at the same pace, said Stendel.

"Not only was the ice not growing as it would normally, there was further melting due to warm air coming in," he explained by phone.

The US National Snow and Ice Data Center reported that sea ice extent in October was the lowest on record, some 6.4 million square kilometres (2.5 million square miles).

Ice cover at the top of the globe shrank to its smallest area in 2016—some 4.14 million sq km (1.6 million sq miles)—on September 16.

Several factors have caused the Arctic to overheat since late October, say scientists.

The most immediate are warm winds sweeping up from western Europe and off the west coast of Africa.

"The winds carrying this heat is a temporary—and fairly unprecedented—weather phenomenon," said Valerie Masson Delmotte, a scientist at the Climate and Environment Sciences Laboratory in Paris.

Only since Thursday have they abated.

Mirror effect

A second contributor is the record-strong Pacific Ocean El Nino that tapered off earlier this year—after pumping a couple tenths of a degree of added warming into the atmosphere.

But reinforcing these periodic, if powerful, drivers is the biggest one of all: global warming, experts agreed.

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About 80 percent of solar radiation from the Sun bounces back into space when it falls on white snow and ice

"The long-term decline in sea ice in the Arctic can be attributed to climate change," said Ed Blockley, lead scientist at the UK Met Office's Polar Climate Group.     

Manmade climate change caused by heat-trapping greenhouse gases has already pushed up Earth's average surface temperature by 1.0 C (1.8 F) since the pre-industrial era.

It the Arctic, however, the pace of warming has been twice as fast, caused in part by a vicious circle that scientists call "positive feedback".

About 80 percent of solar radiation from the Sun bounces back into space when it falls on white snow and ice, what Delmotte called a "mirror effect".

But when those same sunrays hit deep blue sea—far more of which is now exposed—80 percent of that warmth is absorbed into the water instead, and stored there.

"If you look at the extent of sea ice, then you can see the vicious circle right away, because there's a clear downward trend," said Stendel.

And in the short term, that exposed sea water is slowing the reformation of ice.

At just under zero degrees Celsius, the sea water is vastly warmer "compared to the ice that should be there", Stendel added.

Air temperatures above the thick layer if ice replaced by open sea "are generally minus 30 to minus 40 Celsius".

The loss of ice cover could have far reaching consequences.

"It amplifies global warming in general, and increases warming especially in nearby continents," Delmotte told AFP.

One of those neighbouring land masses Greenland, whose huge ice sheet—melting rapidly—contains enough water to lift global sea levels by several metres.

http://phys.org/news/2016-11-overheated-arctic-climate-vicious-circle.html
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on November 29, 2016, 11:07:18 pm
Key glacier in Antarctica is cracking from the inside out


Melissa Breyer (@MelissaBreyer)
Science / Climate Change
 November 29, 2016

SNIPPET:

New discovery points to troubling signs for the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, the collapse of which would prove catastrophic.

In 2015, a 225-square-mile iceberg in Antarctica made the headlines when it parted ways with its “mother,” the Pine Island Glacier. The Pine Island Glacier and its partner, the Thwaites Glacier, bound the edge of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, one of the most active ice sheets on the continent. The two glaciers work to plug up the ice flow, in a way, and keep nearly 10 percent of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet from escaping into the sea. Scientists believe that the collapse of the Ice Sheet would lead to a sea-level rise of nearly 10 feet. More than half of the world's freshwater is frozen in Antarctica.

http://www.treehugger.com/climate-change/key-glacier-antarctica-cracking-inside-out.html

Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on December 01, 2016, 08:44:45 pm
https://youtu.be/q0GSUgCtOg0
Time to wake up

This senator has given 150 pleas for climate action. Now, he has a few words for Trump. All of these Senate floor speeches have urged the same thing since 2012: Democratic Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island keeps warning his political peers of the perils of ignoring climate science.

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While the president-elect mocked Republican politicians groveling before the Koch brothers at their “beg-a-thon,” as he called it, he is busy filling his staff with Koch operatives.  Donald Trump may have won the presidency. But with operatives like Myron Ebell, the Koch brothers are moving in to run it.

The new president will hear from our military, our national labs, and NASA (who, with a rover driving around on Mars, may actually know a little science) that this is deadly serious. I encourage President-elect Trump to listen to these voices of reason and expertise, not to the Swamp Things. Don’t be taken in by industry lobbyists and front groups, scratching and clawing to protect a $700 billion conflict of interest.



 http://grist.org/briefly/this-senator-has-given-150-pleas-for-climate-action-now-he-has-a-few-words-for-trump/
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on December 01, 2016, 11:03:33 pm
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Cracks in the Big Picture

Posted on December 1, 2016, by Radio Ecoshock 
 
SUMMARY: Climate scientist Paul Beckwith will tell us why sea ice around the world is in retreat, and what it means for our weather. Is it a planetary climate emergency? From the Center for Negative Carbon Emissions, Dr. Klaus Lackner explains capturing carbon from the atmosphere. It may be our best chance.  Radio Ecoshock 161130

Get ready. We’re going to visit the hot Arctic, where the winter sea ice is almost refusing to form. It’s at a record low for November. Climate scientist Paul Beckwith will tell us why sea ice around the world is in retreat, and what it means for our weather. Yes we get to Trump, the chances of hope, and the planetary climate emergency.

Then something completely different. From the Center for Negative Carbon Emissions, Dr. Klaus Lackner will explain our options for capturing carbon from the atmosphere. It may be our only chance to save the climate we need to survive.

I’m Alex Smith, and this is Radio Ecoshock.

Download, listen to or share this 28 minute interview with Paul Beckwith:
http://www.ecoshock.org/2016/12/cracks-in-the-big-picture.html

PAUL BECKWITH ON ARCTIC CLIMATE MADNESS

In the summer of 2007, you could hear the thud of scientists’ jaws dropping as they watched the Arctic sea ice almost vanish. It was a world wake-up call on global warming. This year, as we languished in the media tsunami of the American election, there has been another great turning point. It’s like a climate change siren, blaring from the dark Arctic sea, and we are too far away to hear it. But know it or not, we will suffer the consequences.

Here to explain is one of our favorite climate scientists and Arctic watcher, Paul Beckwith. Paul has two Masters Degrees, he’s working on his PhD on extreme climate change. He teaches at the University of Ottawa in Canada, and he educates us all with his YouTube videos.

In a nutshell, here is the problem. The Arctic is very much hotter than normal in 2016. In fact, this may be the first year in recorded history the annual average mean temperature in the Arctic will be over the freezing mark. Arctic temperatures in October were the hottest ever recorded, and it looks like another record will be set in November.

This is the time of year when the covering of sea ice should be rapidly forming. It’s not. Unless a super deep-freeze sets in later this winter, that could mean (a) thinner ice next year and (b) less ice coverage during next summer. That reduces the amount of heat reflected back into space by sea ice, which means the darker Arctic Ocean, and the planet generally, received more heat.

Fairly recent science says that lack of sea ice also means the Jet Stream, and the Polar Vortex, will be disturbed, forming unnatural bends, tending to settle for longer, moving slower. That disrupts the weather in the Northern Hemisphere even more than we have already experienced. Look out.

Paul explains the science behind this so neatly and clearly. I highly recommend this interview. Even though I’ve talked with a lot of scientists, and research this stuff daily – I still learned brand new things from Paul as we talked. It seems like a lot of loose threads come together to form a pattern we can all understand.

Download, listen to or share this 28 minute interview with Paul Beckwith:
http://www.ecoshock.org/2016/12/cracks-in-the-big-picture.html

Download, listen to or share this 28 minute interview with Klaus Lackner:
http://www.ecoshock.org/2016/12/cracks-in-the-big-picture.html


Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on December 03, 2016, 09:55:26 pm

Our Climate Change Emergency & Three-Legged Barstool Survival

Part I

https://youtu.be/iOztwk6bjjU
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on December 05, 2016, 02:08:42 pm
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How to Save the Planet From Trump

Bill McKibben

We're going to be dealing with an onslaught of daily emergencies during the Donald Trump years. Already it's begun—if there's nothing going on (or in some cases when there is), our leader often begins the day with a tweet to stir the pot and suddenly we're debating whether burning the flag should lose you your citizenship.

These crises will get worse once he has power—from day to day we'll have to try and protect vulnerable immigrants or deal with the latest outrage from the white supremacist "alt-reich" or confront the latest self-dealing scandal in the upper reaches of the Tower. It will be a game (though not a fun one), for 48 months, of trying to preserve as many people and as much of the Constitution as possible.

And if we're very lucky, at the end of those four years, we might be able to go back to something that resembles normal life. Much damage will have been done in the meantime, but perhaps not irreparable damage. Obamacare will be gone, but something like it—maybe even something better—will be resurrectable. The suffering in the meantime will be real, but it won't make the problem harder to solve, assuming reason someday returns. That's, I guess, the good news: that someday normal life may resume.


But even that slight good news doesn't apply to the question of climate change. It's very likely that by the time Trump is done we'll have missed whatever opening still remains for slowing down the trajectory of global warming—we'll have crossed thresholds from which there's no return. In this case, the damage he's promising will be permanent, for two reasons.

The first is the most obvious:
The adversary here is ultimately physics, which plays by its own rules. As we continue to heat the planet, we see that planet changing in ways that turn into feedback loops. If you make it hot enough to melt Arctic ice (and so far we've lost about half of our supply) then one of the side effects is removing a nice white mirror from the top of the planet. Instead of that mirror reflecting 80 percent of the sun's rays out to space, you've now got blue water that absorbs most of the incoming rays of the sun, amping up the heat. Oh, and as that water warms, the methane frozen in its depths eventually begins to melt—and methane is a potent greenhouse gas. Even if, someday, we get a president back in power who's willing to try and turn down the coal, gas and oil burning, there will be nothing we can do about that melting methane. Some things are forever, or at least for geologic time.

There's another reason too, however
, and that's that the international political mechanisms Trump wants to smash can't easily be assembled again, even with lots of future good will. It took immense diplomatic efforts to reach the Paris climate accords—25 years of negotiating with endless setbacks. The agreement itself is a jury-rigged kludge, but at least it provides a mechanism for action. It depends on each country voluntarily doing its part, though, and if the biggest historic source of the planet's carbon decides not to play, it's easy to guess that an awful lot of other leaders will decide that they'd just as soon give in to their fossil fuel interests too.

So Trump is preparing to make a massive bet: a bet that the scientific consensus about climate change is wrong, and that the other 191 nations of the world are wrong as well. It's a bet based on literally nothing—when The New York Times asked him about global warming, he started mumbling about a physicist uncle of his who died in 1985. The job—and it may not be a possible job—is for the rest of us to figure out how to make the inevitable loss of this bet as painless as possible.

It demands fierce resistance to his silliness—clearly his people are going to kill Obama's Clean Power Plan, but perhaps they can be shamed into simply ignoring but not formally abrogating the Paris accords. This is work not just for activists, but for the elites that Trump actually listens to. Here's where we need what's left of the establishment to be weighing in: Fortune 500 executives, Wall Streeters—anyone who knows how stupid a bet this is.

But we also need to be working hard on other levels. The fossil fuel industry is celebrating Trump's election, and rightly so—but we can continue to make their lives at least a little difficult, through campaigns like fossil fuel divestment and through fighting every pipeline and every coal port. The federal battles will obviously be harder, and we may lose even victories like Keystone. But there are many levers of power, and the ones closer to home are often easier to pull.

We also have to work at state and local levels to support what we want. The last election, terrible as it was, showed that renewable energy is popular even in red states—Florida utilities lost their bid to sideline solar energy, for instance. The hope is that we can keep the buildout of sun and wind, which is beginning to acquire real momentum, on track; if so, costs will keep falling to the point where simple economics may overrule even Trumpish ideology.

And of course we have to keep communicating, all the time, about the crisis—using the constant stream of signals from the natural world to help people understand the folly of our stance. As I write this, the Smoky Mountain town of Gatlinburg is on fire, with big hotels turned to ash at the end of a devastating drought. Mother Nature will provide us an endless string of teachable moments, and some of them will break through—it's worth remembering that the Bush administration fell from favor as much because of Katrina as Iraq.

None of these efforts will prevent massive, and perhaps fatal, damage to the effort to constrain climate change. It's quite possible, as many scientists said the day after the election, that we've lost our best chance. But we don't know precisely how the physics will play out, and every ton of carbon we keep out of the atmosphere will help.

And amidst this long ongoing emergency, as I said at the beginning, we've got to help with all the daily crises. This winter may find climate activists spending as much time trying to block deportations as pipelines; we may have to live in a hot world, but we don't have to live in a jackbooted one, and the more community we can preserve, the more resilient our communities will be. It's hard not to despair—but then, it wasn't all that easy to be realistically hopeful about our climate even before Trump. This has always been a battle against great odds. They're just steeper now.

http://www.ecowatch.com/climate-change-mckibben-trump-2123936205.html

The Fossil Fuelers   DID THE Climate Trashing, human health depleteing CRIME,   but since they have ALWAYS BEEN liars and conscience free crooks, they are trying to AVOID   DOING THE TIME or     PAYING THE FINE!     Don't let them get away with it! Pass it on!    (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F176.gif&hash=121533221905789c6b8d57a9603883266d349266)
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on December 05, 2016, 02:23:14 pm
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Trump Watch| Dec. 05, 2016 01:22PM EST
Why We Should Never Get Over the House Science Committee's Breitbart Tweet

Union of Concerned Scientists

SNIPPET:

We Cannot Normalize Science Denial

Despite this pervasive record of science-slamming, the House Science Committee was still taken to task for the recent climate-denying tweet and this is a good thing. We cannot normalize science denial. It is entirely inappropriate for members of Congress to be peddling misinformation on climate science—especially when they are in charge of the House Science Committee. The world noticed this and called them on it.

http://www.ecowatch.com/house-science-committees-breitbart-tweet-2129501405.html


 
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on December 05, 2016, 02:39:23 pm
Climate| Dec. 04, 2016 12:07PM EST

5 Fascinating Google Earth Time-Lapse Videos Show 32 Years of Climate

https://youtu.be/E-4DeQ2TPcc
https://youtu.be/jwSjKjwkAOY
https://youtu.be/YBz_7qTNCQE
https://youtu.be/OmNJAOM_6_A
https://youtu.be/vVrlv1bvrHk
http://www.ecowatch.com/google-earth-climate-change-2120502683.html
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on December 07, 2016, 07:09:16 pm
Climate| Dec. 06, 2016 02:08PM EST


Polar Sea Ice the Size of India Vanishes in Record Heat, Scientists Say

Lorraine Chow

SNIPPET:

The trends in Antarctic sea ice do not contradict evidence that the climate is warming. Watch here for an explainer on how sea ice behaves very differently in the two regions.

https://youtu.be/MPnj9eR7t0g

http://www.ecowatch.com/sea-ice-melt-arctic-antarctica-2131564812.html
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on December 08, 2016, 07:44:50 pm
https://youtu.be/Coz0CTrNMCY


Do The Math - The Movie - The Truth About Climate Change
Bill McKibben 

Nov 21, 2016

The fossil fuel industry is killing us. They have five times the amount of coal, gas and oil that is safe to burn - and they are planning on burning it all. Left to their own devices, they'll push us past the brink of cataclysmic disaster - life as we know it will be irrevocably altered forever. Unless we rise up and fight back.

DO THE MATH chronicles "America's leading environmentalist" Bill McKibben in a David-vs-Goliath battle to fight the fossil fuel industry and change the terrifying math of the climate crisis. Bill McKibben is going after Big Oil, Big Coal, and Big Gas directly - energizing a movement like the ones that overturned the great immoral institutions of the past century - such as Apartheid in South Africa.

Putting his body on the line to stop the Keystone XL Pipeline and leading universities and institutions to divest in the corporations destroying our livelihoods,

McKibben is uniting the growing global majority that view the climate crisis as the most important moral issue of the day.

The film also features a veritable who's who of the climate movement including Dr. James Hansen (Frmr. Director, NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies), Naomi Klein (Author, The Shock Doctrine), Van Jones (CNN Correspondent & Author, The Green Collar Economy) Lester Brown (President, Earth Policy Institute), Michael Brune (Executive Director, Sierra Club), Bobby Kennedy Jr. (President, Waterkeeper Alliance) Majora Carter (Founder, Sustainable South Bronx), Phil Radford (Executive Director, Greenpeace), James Gustave Speth (Co-Founder of NRDC), among others.
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on December 09, 2016, 09:49:27 pm
State of the climate and oceans Nov 2016

Peter Carter 

7,991 views

Published on Nov 9, 2016

The latest data and reports on climate change, ocean acidification, ocean heat and ocean de-oxygenation for November 2016.


https://youtu.be/-bmRdRX_9a4
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on December 10, 2016, 10:01:43 pm
https://youtu.be/PrHp59egmR0

  December 9, 2016

Climate Scientists Speak Out Against Trump's Plans to Cut NASA Funding

Dr. Kevin Trenberth is among the many who signed an open letter calling on President-elect Trump not to cut funding for research or censor scientists.

http://therealnews.com/t2/story:17858:Climate-Scientists-Speak-Out-Against-Trump%27s-Plans-to-Cut-NASA-Funding
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on December 10, 2016, 10:33:31 pm
Agelbert NOTE: This 2015 presentation is a must see for those who want to know how desperate the situation is for oceanic life, thanks to Homo SAPdom.  :(

https://youtu.be/glHZ0GLmUQ0

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Understanding Climate Change   
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on December 11, 2016, 04:49:22 pm
https://youtu.be/3NtU8Nydlk4

Abrupt Climate Change and Extreme Events : Prof Paul Mayewski (September 2016)
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on December 12, 2016, 01:39:02 pm
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The above is the Arctic. Wait until you see the Antarctic.  :o  :(
 

Sea ice hits record lows

December 6, 2016 

SNIPPET:

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Average Arctic sea ice extent for November set a record low, reflecting unusually high air temperatures, winds from the south, and a warm ocean. Since October, Arctic ice extent has been more than two standard deviations lower than the long-term average.

Antarctic sea ice extent quickly declined in November, also setting a record low for the month and tracking more than two standard deviations below average during the entire month.


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For the globe as a whole, sea ice cover was exceptionally low.

http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/


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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on December 12, 2016, 07:22:24 pm
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Methane emissions are racing toward nightmare status

Concentrations of the potent greenhouse gas rose faster and faster in the last decade, and particularly in the last two years, according to two new studies.
 
“If methane keeps going up, we could easily see a degree Fahrenheit increase, independent of CO2,” by the end of the century says Stanford earth scientist Robert Jackson, a coauthor of both studies. “That would be a worst-case scenario.”

The cause is largely biological. It’s too soon to pin the blame on one factor, whether flooded rice paddies, growing cattle herds, belching landfills, melting permafrost, or gassy wetlands, but agriculture deserves particular attention, the studies show. That doesn’t mean we can ignore the methane contributions of oil and gas exploration, Jackson cautions, but rather that ag deserves “the same level of scrutiny.”

Today, atmospheric methane is up 150 percent from preindustrial levels, so every little bit to reduce emissions counts. Switching up rice varieties, feeding cattle a less gassy diet, and catching emissions from landfills before they’re belched are all important steps, scientists say. Spiking methane isn’t good, but it is a growing opportunity to fight back against changing climate.

http://grist.org/briefly/methane-emissions-are-racing-toward-nightmare-status/

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on December 13, 2016, 07:04:16 pm
The Shrinking Polar Ice  :(

https://youtu.be/Vj1G9gqhkYA

WHEN, not if, all the ice melts:

https://youtu.be/VbiRNT_gWUQ
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on December 13, 2016, 09:07:43 pm
Just what the heck is going on with our climate? Jeremy Hoffman (November 2016)


https://youtu.be/1vQkO0M2uYM

Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on December 13, 2016, 09:34:50 pm
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https://youtu.be/qYlRk377Wq0
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on December 14, 2016, 05:17:21 pm
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State and International Governments, Tribal Nations, Businesses Join Forces to Combat Ocean Acidification

Posted On December 14, 2016 by Sarah Cooley

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Post by: AGelbert on December 14, 2016, 05:39:28 pm
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19-Meter North Atlantic Wave Sets New World Record

December 13, 2016 by Mike Schuler

An expert committee convened by the World Meteorological Organization has established a new world record significant wave height of a massive 19 meters (62.3 feet!) measured by a buoy in the North Atlantic.

The wave was recorded February 4, 2013 by an automated buoy in the North Atlantic ocean between Iceland and the United Kingdom at approximately 59° N, 11° W. The agency said the wave followed the passage of a very strong cold front, which produced winds of up to 43.8 knots (50.4 miles per hour) over the area.

gCaptain actually reported about the storm while tracking it across the northeastern Atlantic, and at one point we saw it producing significant wave heights of 17 meters (about 56 ft)! Keep in mind wave the term “significant wave height” means the average of the highest one-third of waves, so individual waves could be much higher!

The WMO Commission for Climatology’s Extremes Evaluation Committee, with scientists from Great Britain, Canada, the United States of America and Spain, classified the new record as “the highest significant wave height as measured by a buoy”.

noaa-opc-significant-wave-height-analysis-12z-04-feb-2013 (chart at article link)
NOAA chart dated February 4, 2013 showing a significant wave height of 17 meters.

“This is the first time we have ever measured a wave of 19 meters.  :o It is a remarkable record,” said WMO Assistant Secretary-General Wenjian Zhang. “It highlights the importance of meteorological and ocean observations and forecasts to ensure the safety of the global maritime industry and to protect the lives of crew and passengers on busy shipping lanes.”

The WMO says the previous record wave height of 18.275 meters (59.96 feet) was measured on 8 December 2007, also in the North Atlantic.

The buoy which recorded the wave is a part of the UK Met Office’s network of Marine Automatic Weather Stations, used to complement ship-based measurements and satellite observations which monitor the oceans and forecast meteorological hazards on the high seas.

“We need high quality and extensive ocean records to help in our understanding of weather/ocean interactions,” said Zhang. “Despite the huge strides in satellite technology, the sustained observations and data records from moored and drifting buoys and ships still play a major role in this respect.”

A separate record – that of the highest significant wave height as measured by ship observation – was measured in February 2000 in the Rockall Trough, also in the North Atlantic between the UK and Iceland.

“The new world record will be added to the official WMO archive of weather and climate extremes which is being constantly updated and expanded thanks to continued improvements in instrumentation, technology and analysis,” said Randall Cerveny, Joint Rapporteur on World Records of Climate and Weather Extremes for WMO.

The archive includes the world’s highest and lowest temperatures, rainfall, heaviest hailstone, longest dry period, maximum gust of wind, as well as hemispheric weather and climate extremes.

https://gcaptain.com/19-meter-north-atlantic-wave-sets-new-world-record/

Agelbert NOTE: Yes, giant waves making shipping difficult to impossible have been predicted by Climate Scientists to increase, in frequency, size and duration, as a Climate Change consequence of Global Warming.

Here's my three part article that contains a lot of info on shipping that you may be interested in reading, as well as the references to recent, peer reviewed scientific studies predicting giant waves:

Climate Change, Blue Water Cargo Shipping and Predicted Ocean Wave Activity: Three Part Article (http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/climate-change/global-warming-is-with-us/msg4045/#msg4045)

Climate Change, Blue Water Cargo Shipping and Predicted Ocean Wave Activity: PART TWO (http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/climate-change/global-warming-is-with-us/msg4050/#msg4050)

Climate Change, Blue Water Cargo Shipping and Predicted Ocean Wave Activity: PART THREE (http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/climate-change/future-earth/msg4074/#msg4074)
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on December 14, 2016, 08:23:21 pm
NTSB Releases El Faro VDR Bridge Audio Transcript; Opens Investigation Docket

December 13, 2016 by gCaptain

http://gcaptain.com/ntsb-releases-el-faro-vdr-bridge-audio-transcript/

Agelbert NOTE: EVERYTHING said on the bridge during the last several harrowing hours is posted. The crew did all they could, but the storm was too strong.

Climate Change will make the oceans more and more hostile to shipping as the years go by.
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on December 15, 2016, 10:51:36 pm
Local extinctions are increasing as the warming progresses


Surprising Number of Species Going Extinct in Their Usual Homes, Study Says

InsideClimateNews.org, Dec. 2016

As species struggle to move to adapt to climate change, many are disappearing from the warmest parts of their usual range, research shows.

Hundreds of species around the world—plants, animals, marine life—are experiencing local extinctions due to climate change, according to a new study. Researchers say it's likely to be just the beginning.

As the climate warms, these species, which range from types of chipmunks to grasses to sea snails, are no longer showing up in the places they used to call home. The phenomenon isn't isolated to one particular geographical region or temperature zone, the study found.

Of the 976 species analyzed in the study, which was published Thursday in the journal PLoS Biology, nearly 50 percent have already become extinct along the "warm edge" of their range. It's a reflection of a known process, by which species are moving poleward and to higher altitudes to escape changes to their habitats as the climate warms. The study's author, John J. Wiens, said local extinctions are inherent in range shifts.

The species being impacted can't exactly say, "'Oh, it's too hot here, I'm heading north,'" said Wiens, who is an ecologist and evolutionary biologist at the University of Arizona.

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The species have three choices: Adapt to the changing temperature, emigrate or die.

Wiens analyzed other research that assessed range shifts for other species, looking for patterns. What he found surprised him.

"The overall striking pattern is how similar it is," he said, pointing out that it's not just 50 percent of tropical amphibians, or 50 percent of temperate marine species that are going locally extinct. "It's about 50 percent all over the world and for all these different groups of organisms."

Since 1880, the world's climate has warmed 1.7 degrees Fahrenheit, according to NASA. But that hardly compares to what's in store. The National Climate Assessment outlines a best-case scenario for global warming that raises temperatures 2.5 degrees Fahrenheit above the average from 1901-1960 by the end of the century, and that can only be accomplished with aggressive policies and regulations. The business-as-usual scenario results in 8 degrees of warming by the end of the century, and it could go as high as 11 degrees.

Though species have adapted throughout history as the climate has shifted, the difference now is the pace of change. It's happening so quickly, species don't have enough time to change along with their changing habitats.

"We do a lot of work that's projecting into the future," said Chad Wilsey, the director of conservation science for the National Audubon Society. "But climate change has been going on certainly in the last 40 years, and we can already document those impacts."

Wilsey, who has studied climate-driven species range shifts among birds and other species, reviewed Wiens' study internally for Audubon. Wilsey said it was an important overview, but cautioned that his small sample size makes any sweeping conclusions difficult. That said, Wilsey said he expects that science will reaffirm Wiens' work. "I think over time we will have more evidence that confirms this initial review of studies," he said. "I actually think that a pattern exists. It's real."

Jennifer Sunday, a climate change ecologist at the University of British Columbia, also said that the small sample size is limiting. "Some of these data, once he breaks them down, some categories have just one study touching on it," she said. "It might be a little early to be teasing out some of these comparisons."

Sunday did find Wiens' methods compelling. To find the studies to include in his survey, Wiens searched for work that dealt with range contractions, rather than seeking out studies that dealt specifically with the term "local extinction." That allowed him to cast a wider net and hopefully avoid publication bias.

Though the study found that local extinctions were happening worldwide and across species, it did find a higher rate of local extinction among species in tropical and subtropical zones. Wiens explained this by highlighting a study that contrasted elevations in Costa Rica and Colorado. In Colorado, it's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. Thus, species are more able to adapt, because they have evolved to do so. In the tropics, however, temperatures do not vary much between seasons, so species are less prepared to adapt to changes. "That's bad news when climate changes rapidly," said Wiens.

"There have been a lot of predictions about extinctions. What I take away from this is that those are already happening. They're already really widespread all over the world, but the amount of climate change that has happened is actually really small relative to what we're expecting."

https://insideclimatenews.org/news/09122016/species-extinction-climate-change

 
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Post by: AGelbert on December 16, 2016, 10:28:24 pm
NASA Produces First 3D Animation of Global Carbon Emissions

Carbon Brief

By Leo Hickman

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the U.S. space agency, has released an "eye-popping" three-dimensional animation showing carbon dioxide emissions moving through the Earth's atmosphere over the course of a year.

It says the 3-D visualization is "one of the most realistic views yet" of the "complex patterns in which carbon dioxide in the atmosphere increases, decreases and moves around the globe."

The data used to produce the visualization was collected by NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) satellite from September 2014 to September 2015. The data was then modeled and visualized by the Global Modeling and Assimilation Office at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

View animation at article link:
http://www.ecowatch.com/nasa-carbon-emissions-climate-change-2147029807.html

Carbon Brief emailed some questions to NASA about the visualization, which it says is the first of its kind. The answers below are provided by Dr. Lesley E. Ott, a carbon cycle scientist at Goddard's Global Modeling and Assimilation Office and Gregory W. Shirah, who leads the development of Earth science-related scientific visualizations at Goddard.

Carbon Brief: How was the visualization "made"?

Dr. Lesley E. Ott: The carbon dioxide field was produced by combining information from our GEOS modeling system with OCO-2 observations using a technique called data assimilation. In this merged view, the model helps fill in gaps where OCO-2 can't observe and also provides more information about the 3D structure of atmospheric carbon dioxide, which is quite complex but can't be observed directly from the satellite. Meanwhile, the data helps correct errors in the model's emissions and transport patterns. This carbon dioxide analysis provides one of the most complete, data-driven views of atmospheric carbon dioxide to date.

Gregory W. Shirah:
To make the actual visualization (ie, paint the pixels), we use Pixar's Renderman to render the images. We use Autodesk's Maya to set up the 3D environment and we used IDL to process the data. My colleague and I actually just gave a talk at Pixar today and showed this movie to them.

Carbon Brief: Specifically, what questions are you hoping it will help to answer?

Dr. Lesley E. Ott: The main goal of OCO-2 and most carbon cycle modeling is to better understand the processes that control carbon sources and sinks. About 50 percent of human emissions are absorbed by plants on land and in the oceans, but scientists don't have a good understanding of how or even where this is happening. We start by running the model with a 'first guess' of sources and sinks, and the data assimilation allows us to quantify how and where the model differs from the observations. Eventually, we'll be able to use these techniques to create more accurate maps of source and sinks, and from there we can improve climate models to better predict changes in the natural carbon cycle. This analysis product is something of a mid-point. We still have a lot of work left to do to understand the carbon cycle more fully, but developing these modeling and data assimilation tools is an important advance that will help us get where we need to be.

Carbon Brief: Why are these questions so important to answer?

Dr. Lesley E. Ott: Understanding the natural land and ocean carbon sinks is critical to understanding and predicting the trajectory of climate over the coming decades. If the land and ocean can't continue to sequester carbon at the current rate, we could see carbon dioxide accumulate in the atmosphere more quickly than we're expecting, leading to more rapid climate change.

Carbon Brief: The CO2 seems to be largely concentrated in the Northern hemisphere. Beyond this being where the majority of human-caused emissions are released, please can you explain the processes driving this and what the implications might be?

Dr. Lesley E. Ott:The highest carbon dioxide mixing ratios are seen in the Northern hemisphere during winter months. Most of the human emissions originate from this region, but it also holds the majority of the world's land masses and vegetation stocks, which decompose and release carbon during the winter. When plants start to grow again in the spring, you see massive amounts of carbon drawn out of the atmosphere, but not quite enough to balance out the increase from human emissions. If we ran the visualization for a longer time period, you would see the carbon dioxide released in the north mix with southern hemisphere air, but that inter-hemispheric mixing can take about a year. So even though that mixing is going on here, what really jumps out is the seasonal cycle of carbon dioxide.

Carbon Brief: How is this new visualization an advance on ones produced before?

Dr. Lesley E. Ott: Before OCO-2, we had a satellite called AIRS [Atmospheric Infrared Sounder] providing information about CO2. There's an example of what that data looks like here.


Carbon Brief: How is this new visualization an advance on ones produced before?

Dr. Lesley E. Ott: Before OCO-2, we had a satellite called AIRS [Atmospheric Infrared Sounder] providing information about CO2. There's an example of what that data looks like here.

https://youtu.be/SOWu3tkQLok


AIRS was designed to study temperature and moisture, primarily, but did give information about carbon dioxide in the mid- and upper troposphere. Since it has very little information near the surface to tell us about sources and sinks, it hasn't been as widely used as the datasets from GOSAT and OCO-2.

Looking at the OCO-2 data alone is also interesting—take a look at this.

and this.

https://youtu.be/LO3y_92Fq1g

The first animation shows the observations with minimal averaging at first and then switches to a view of the data averaged over larger areas to fill in the map. This is nice for giving a sense of what OCO-2 can and can't do. It's a huge advance over AIRS, both in terms of near surface sensitivity and accuracy. At 0.25 percent (or 1 parts per million, ppm), OCO-2 gives us one of the most accurate atmospheric composition measurements ever made from space. But the trade-off is that we can't make OCO-2 observations in cloudy regions or areas with high aerosol loadings. And because the measurement technique uses reflected sunlight, there are no measurements during night or polar night. OCO-2 also has a fairly narrow swath as you see early in the first video meaning that we can only observe a subset of the world every day, even under ideal conditions. When we try to average the measurements to cover some of these gaps, you can see that we get a sense of where CO2 is being taken up and released, but we still have large gaps in coverage in high-latitude regions and that sense of how CO2 moves through the atmosphere really isn't there.


As highlighted in the new animations, the alternative method of creating CO2 maps from observations through assimilation into a weather model (compared to the OCO-2 averaging shown above), preserves much more detail about the atmospheric transport. The model brings in information in areas without observations, but it also brings all the vertical information since the OCO-2 measurement is column only. This animation is also new and produced from the same dataset.

https://youtu.be/DP7DC6jY40A
That really shows you how the data assimilation technique is working. Early on as the movie is going fairly slowly, there are some nice examples of how the model is helping us interpret what the observations are capturing. In the observations, we can see transitions between high and low CO2, but the merged product underlay helps us understand that those are due to the movement of weather fronts or plumes of fire emissions off of Africa. We chose to highlight the 3D visualization which is flashier, but this one is also quite informative.

Gregory W. Shirah: We have created some 3D (volumetric) visualizations in the past—I think of CO2 from AIRS—but they were very limited. For example, relatively small/regional areas, like Southern California or single snapshots in time from a swath of satellite data. To my knowledge, this is the first time a global, time-varying CO2 model has been shown this way. I'm not even sure if any global model has been shown this way.

http://www.ecowatch.com/nasa-carbon-emissions-climate-change-2147029807.html
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on December 17, 2016, 04:18:47 pm
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SNIPPET:
By Sydney Robinson

Though Donald Trump's reign of terror includes the promise to revoke all progress made on the climate change front, certain elected officials are not willing to take his destructive refusal to accept basic scientific facts lying down.

California Gov. Jerry Brown responded to indications from the Trump campaign to end the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's climate change research with a declaration that California intends to continue carrying out climate research no matter what the POTUS orders.


https://youtu.be/5MLHWFO6DwE

FULL ARTICLE with added video:

http://www.ecowatch.com/brown-trump-climate-change-nasa-2151171091.html
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on December 17, 2016, 05:55:17 pm
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El Faro Container Ship sank October 1, 2015 in a hurricane.

El Faro, Top 10 Failures Of The NTSB Investigation – gLive E21

December 16, 2016 by gCaptain

Agelbert NOTE: For full background info on the following video, see the post after the video. The full transcript shows that massive waves were striking the El Faro over an hour before it sank. Beyond some talk about "seas near Alaska", the crew never estimates the size of those waves.

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Cargo ship severely listing as El Faro did shortly before sinking in a hurricane.

A wave that hit the ship causing a list of over 38 degrees is mentioned as a historical occurrence but at no time does the crew, or the NTSB that heard the full transcript, (except with "uhhhh" and "are you okay?" and "do you want a chair? - to the helmsman") directly mention wave height as a clear and present danger.

Admittedly, it was dark until the last hour or so, so they had no way of visual measurement. But as experienced mariners, they should have intuited wave height from the pounding.

When the ship was hulled, obviously it was caused by a powerful wave.

I do not understand why the NTSB doesn't not want to talk about wage height and damage unless they were told NOT to mention it because of the link between climate change and increasingly dangerous destructive waves. In the following video, the fact that the fuel is stored inside a double hull is pointed at as a major fault in the ship design. The containers are stored two hulls away from the sea. BUT, the fuel is only ONE hull from the sea.

SO, if the outer hull is pierced, the fuel gets contaminated and you lose power. This is a potential death sentence in rough seas. This happened to the El Faro.

But anyone reading/listening to the transcript of the last few hours will note the massive hits they (low frequency sounds recorded and helmsman difficulties) got BEFORE they lost power.

In fact, the ship was hulled BEFORE it lost power. So the wave height should be considered as the primary cause of the eventual sinking instead of the admittedly faulty design of storing fuel in between hulls (a stupidity born of crude oil tanker design documented by an MIT graduated expert in a book he wrote - mentioned in the video).

https://youtu.be/DUsfE6dI8Ko
https://gcaptain.com/el-faro-top-10-failures-ntsb-investigation-glive-e21/


NTSB Releases El Faro VDR Bridge Audio Transcript; Opens Investigation Docket

December 13, 2016 by gCaptain

http://gcaptain.com/ntsb-releases-el-faro-vdr-bridge-audio-transcript/

Agelbert NOTE: EVERYTHING said on the bridge during the last several harrowing hours is posted. The crew did all they could, but the storm was too strong.

Climate Change will make the oceans more and more hostile to shipping as the years go by. Yes, giant waves making shipping difficult to impossible have been predicted by Climate Scientists to increase, in frequency, size and duration, as a Climate Change consequence of Global Warming.

Here's my three part article that contains a lot of info on shipping that you may be interested in reading, as well as the references to recent, peer reviewed scientific studies predicting giant waves:

Climate Change, Blue Water Cargo Shipping and Predicted Ocean Wave Activity: Three Part Article (http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/climate-change/global-warming-is-with-us/msg4045/#msg4045)

Climate Change, Blue Water Cargo Shipping and Predicted Ocean Wave Activity: PART TWO (http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/climate-change/global-warming-is-with-us/msg4050/#msg4050)

Climate Change, Blue Water Cargo Shipping and Predicted Ocean Wave Activity: PART THREE (http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/climate-change/future-earth/msg4074/#msg4074)
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on December 18, 2016, 07:29:11 pm
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WE GET TO BE HERE AT THE END

GUY McPHERSON

https://youtu.be/FWo5rvpnb0Y
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on December 18, 2016, 08:56:13 pm
Death Valley and Climate Change
https://youtu.be/uZhB6wlEGPU
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on December 21, 2016, 07:54:32 pm
EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE that the climate models have been UNDER-predicting the rapidity of Climate Change.  :o

Not only is the ice going faster than predicted, but the release of soil carbon and methane (not even in the models!) is accelerating the RATE of global warming! 

Watch and learn how the Gulfstream Current is definitely slowing down thanks to the continued suicidal stupidity of burning fossil fuels.  >:(

https://youtu.be/lqMDFjeNr7U

Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
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Post by: AGelbert on December 23, 2016, 06:01:21 pm
Environment

31 Times We Helped Fight Climate Change in 2016

By Joe McCarthy| Dec. 14, 2016

It took a while, but the consensus is now clear: climate change is a real and is a serious threat to the planet. Even better than this recognition, countries are finally doing something meaningful about it.

In the past, the stranglehold of fossil fuels proved too hard to break. But now renewable energy, combined with a renewed sense of purpose on the global stage, is making solutions appear more viable than ever. 

Part of this urgency stems from the endless parade of horrible environmental news: 2016 was the hottest year in recorded history, pollution is making life unlivable in cities across the world, oceans and forests are dying, and species are plummeting. Despite this narrative of darkness, 2016 had many environmental wins that show climate change can be reined in. 

Here are 31 wins from the past year.


Global Wins



The Fight Against Climate Change Is Now Law


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This is the biggest victory of the year. Countries finally see eye-to-eye on climate change and are striving to work together. The historic Paris Agreement binds countries around the world to robust climate change strategies. Read More. 


170 Countries Agree to Ban HFCs



Rwanda Climate Meeting to ban HFCs, greenhouse gas found in air conditions and refrigerators
Image: AP Photo/Desmond Boylan, File

This is another big global win. Back in 1989, the world acted swiftly to ban chlorofluorocarbons. Twenty-seven years later, the world acted swiftly to ban hydrofluorocarbons, another ozone-eating emission. Read More. 


This Global Treaty Could Save the World's Fish


Caribbean reef shark surrounded by jacks
Image: Wikipedia Commons / Andrejs Jegorovs

The oceans are a bulwark against climate change because they absorb a substantial amount of carbon dioxide. While saving fish might seem tangential to climate change, any globally coordinated effort to regulate the oceans is useful because it provides a framework for future deals. Read More.


The Ozone Hole Is Shrinking


 
Ozone layer
Image: NASA

With the ozone recovering, the fight against climate change just got a little easier. Read More.


China's Message to (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F2mo5pow.gif&hash=995f9f6c08dcd54f18425f2bfbe138901cf052b1) US: (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Fswear1.gif&hash=87347674f9297191f3f8a447208170617da4caf6) Take Climate Change Seriously


US President Barack Obama with Chinese President Xi Jinping at G20 Summit
Image: AP

Historically, the US struggled to get China to set limits on emissions. So it’s good to see China — the biggest emitter in the world — taking on more of a leadership role. Read More.


India Steps Up Environmental Commitments


Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi at ratification of Paris Agreement on Climate Change with the UN
Image: AP Photo/Manish Swarup

As the third-biggest emitter and the fastest growing economy in the world, India's embrace of renewable energy is absolutely critical to any global climate strategy. In 2016, they made some bold commitments. Read More. 


Renewable Energy



India Turns On World's Largest Solar Power Plant


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Image: Flickr: DFID

Solar technology is improving each year and the costs of installation and upkeep are dropping fast. Few countries are investing in the sun’s power as much as India and earlier this year, the country unveiled the largest solar power plant ever created. For India, this is just the beginning. Read More.


UK Goes Record 6 Days Without Burning Coal — 1st Time Since 1881


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Any day without coal — the dirtiest possible energy source — is a good day. The UK, the original industrial power, managed to pull off this streak. Read More.


Vietnam Throws Out Coal Plans


Coal plant
Image: Flickr: Senor Codo

At this point, coal is unnecessary and needs to be abandoned. Countries like Vietnam are showing that this can be done. Read More. 


Scotland Goes Coal-Free


scotland-closes-longannet-last-coal-energy-plant- Hero.jpg
Image:  Flickr: Graeme Maclean

Vietnam canceled future plans for coal plants, but Scotland got rid of coal entirely. Read More.


Solar Roads in France Will Provide Power to Over 5 million people



solar-roads-in-france-will-provide-power-to-over-5 Hero.jpg
Image:  Flickr: Activ Solar

This awesome project is called “Wattaway.” In the future, all roads could generate solar power. Read More.


Enormous Solar Plant Switches on in the Sahara


Solor Power in Sahara-HERO.jpg
Image: Flickr: GW Solar Institute

This enormous solar farm will be able to power 1.1 million homes when it’s fully completed in 2018. It's already visible from space. Read Now. 


The UK Will Officially Enshrine Zero-Carbon Target in Law

Wind Farm off the coast of Britain
Image: AP Photo/Harry Hamburg

Bold moves, even if they’re rhetorical, can help move the needle on climate change. Even though Britain offered no timeline, this promise acts as a sort of commitment device — clearly stating that a zero-carbon future is possible can quiet all the doubters who stand in the way. Read More. 


California Takes Lead on US Climate Action


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Even though President-elect Donald Trump might stand in the way of federal climate action, a lot can still be done on the state level. California is showing that it wants to be a leader on this front. Read More.


Barcelona Plans to Ban Cars From 60% of Streets


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The world is still dominated by cars and the number of cars in use is rapidly rising as poor countries make middle class living more accessible. With that in mind, it’s good to see some major cities make an effort to move beyond cars, because a future with less cars is better for the planet. Read More. 


The World Can Now Use More ‘Clean’ Energy Than ‘Dirty’ Energy


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The world recently passed a major milestone — more money is being invested in renewable energy than dirty energy sources. Read More.


Costa Rica Is Trying to Go a Year Without Fossil Fuels

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Image: Flickr: trishhartmann

Costa Rica has an abudance of powerful rivers that fuel some mighty hydroelectric plants. While hydropower remains controversial, it's better for the environment than fossil fuels. Read More.


Corporate Sustainability



Patagonia's Black Friday Scheme Just Raised $10M for the Planet


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The problem of climate change can’t be solved without the private sector. That’s why it’s so encouraging to see a fashion giant like Patagonia campaign so forcefully for the planet. Read More. 


Adidas Shoes Made From Ocean Plastic Are Finally Here


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Another win for corporate sustainability — Adidas partnered with ___ to cull plastic from the oceans to make these cool shoes. While not directly related to climate change, the massive problem of ocean pollution is in the same environmental matrix. Read More.


Conservation


Obama Protects ‘Fragile and Unique’ Arctic Ocean From Offshore Drilling


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Obama isn’t sitting around during his final year in office. He’s cementing his legacy and tying up loose ends. One area that he’s been particularly active in is conservation. Future generations will undoubtedly thank him for protecting fragile spaces like the Arctic Ocean. Read More. 


Obama Creates First US National Monument in Atlantic Ocean


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Image: Flickr: Hammonton Photography

Oceans take up more than 70% of Earth. When they’re healthy, the rest of the planet is healthy. That’s why the creation of this massive marine sanctuary was so important. Read More. 


To Protect Hawaii’s Waters, Obama Creates World’s Largest Marine Reserve

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The waters around Hawaii are biologically rich but they’re also fragile. Now a huge swath will remain protected. Read More.


Obama Ends Drilling Plans in Atlantic



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This is another last-minute victory by Obama. Read More.


Norway Commits to Zero Deforestation


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Deforestation and climate change go hand-in-hand — the more trees there are, the more carbon is absorbed. Good job, Norway. Read More.


New Zealand Grants Personhood to River and Park


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Image: The New York Times

This might seem silly, but with legal protections, wildlife is a lot safer from destruction. And if corporations can be considered people, why not actual living organisms? Read More.


People Power


These Kids Are Suing the Government Over Climate Change


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Image: Youtube/Alliance for Climate Education

Twenty kids aged 8 to 20 are tired of watching politicians equivocate on climate change and are saying that the status quo of fossil fuels is legitimately criminal. Go youth! Read More.


Standing Rock Protests Halt Dakota Access Pipeline


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Image: Facebook/Veterans for Standing Rock/Wes Clark Jr.

The fight to stop the Dakota Access Pipeline achieved a major victory earlier this month when the Army Corps of Engineers announced plans to look for a new route. While this isn't the end of the saga, it showed that environmental protest can be effective. Read More.

4,000,000 Pounds of Trash Cleared in World’s Largest Beach Cleanup


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This is a great example of how regular people can make a big difference. Read More.


Leonardo DiCaprio Uses Oscar Win to Call for Climate Change Action

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If you combine his influence and passion, DiCaprio might be the world’s biggest environmental champion. When he won his first Oscar earlier this year, he used the occasion to call for climate action. Read More. 


Indian Woman Brings Global Attention to Massive Forest Fires

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Droughts are becoming more common as climate change intensifies. In some places, this drying out is causing devastating forest fires that get worse each year. This woman was tired of the sense of complacency surrounding the burning of a forest in India. So she decided to act. Read More.


Pope Gets 3,500 UK Churches to Switch to Renewable Energy

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Image: Flickr: Catholic Church (England and Wales)

Pope Francis has emerged as a fierce defender of the environment. As one of the most influential people on the planet, his words carry a lot of weight. Read More. 


Topics|Environment, Climate change, 2016, End of the Year

Written by Joe McCarthy

Joe McCarthy is a Content Creator at Global Citizen. He believes apathy is the biggest threat to creating a more just world and tries his hardest to stay open-minded and curious. Living in New York keeps him aware of how interconnected our world is, how every action has ripples.

https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/31-environmental-victories-of-2017-climate-change/
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on December 26, 2016, 03:13:58 pm
Agelbert NOTE: The Term "Christian Climate Scientist" is NOT an oxymoron. Climate Scientist Katharine Hayhoe's life work is evidence that you do not need to be a left wing treehugger to understand, and work to ameliorate, Catastrophic Climate Change.

Katharine Hayhoe: (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F19.gif&hash=3f9f2fc2285bc756137e21463bc2a4c420b15ac3) Why Climate Change Should Matter to You

Katharine Hayhoe

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Climate change isn't a niche issue that only matters to people who think or act or vote a certain way. Each of us, exactly who we are, with exactly the values we already have, already have every reason we need to care.


https://youtu.be/Nvr8WJwKcIA

FULL excellent article:

http://www.ecowatch.com/hayhoe-climate-change-2117925528.html
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on December 28, 2016, 01:49:15 pm
Paul Hawken: 'Best Video Ever Made on Climate Change'
https://youtu.be/dHpHxA-9CVM

Associated Article:
http://www.ecowatch.com/greenpeace-arctic-glacier-video-2167189282.html
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on December 28, 2016, 04:30:47 pm
2016: Wild Weather Year For The U.S.

December 28, 2016

By WeatherBug Meteorologists, Chad Merrill and Alexa Maines

The U.S. had wild swings in the weather this year. Crippling snow, extreme floods and record warmth topped headlines for the first half of 2016.

January: Blizzard Cripples East Coast


 The fourth largest winter storm since 1900 shut down much of the East Coast not too long after the start of the New Year. More than 20 inches of snow fell on 21 million people in the Northeast by the January 22-24 blizzard conclusion. A state of emergency was declared for 11 states and Washington, D.C. The storm left the East Coast at a standstill with more than 13,000 flights being cancelled. Travel bans were implemented for New York City and Newark, N.J.

 The blizzard blew through the record books along Interstate 95. John Fitzgerald Kennedy Airport in New York City was buried under 30.5 inches, breaking the former all-time snowfall record of 26 inches set in 2003. La Guardia Airport in New York City barely surpassed its all-time snowfall record from the January 1996 blizzard by 0.1 inches, ending up with 27.9 inches. Other all-time snowfall records set from this storm included Newark, N.J., with 27.9 inches, Baltimore with 29.2 inches, Harrisburg, Pa., with 30.2 inches and Allentown, Pa., with 31.9 inches.

 More than 40 people died in the blizzard and a quarter of a million people were without power in the height of the storm.

February: Record Warmth Invades U.S.


 The final month of meteorological winter was a warm one for the U.S. and concluded a record warm season. The average temperature in the U.S. for the second month of the year was 39.5 degrees, making it the seventh warmest on record. Alaska had its warmest February on record. The second month of the year helped push the U.S.’s average winter temperature to 36.8 degrees, making it the warmest winter on record.

 NOAA reports temperature-related energy demand for the month was the ninth lowest on record. The warmth in February contributed to lack of snow cover. NOAA indicates snow coverage in the U.S. was 1.05 million square miles, making it the 13th smallest since records began 50 years ago. California had its 14th driest February, seeing only 30 percent of average precipitation.

 California’s largest reservoir, the Shasta Dam, saw 2.99 inches of rain, making it the 15th driest February since records began in 1943. While most El Nino winters tend to bring soggy weather to California, the Pacific jet stream shifted a bit farther north than usual this winter, leaving central and southern California drier than usual.

March: Rain Floods Lower Mississippi Valley

 As winter turned into spring, Mother Nature unleashed heavy rain on the Lower Mississippi Valley. So much rain fell that records were shattered and significant flooding occurred. Little Rock, Ark., and Memphis, Tenn., had their wettest March on record with 12.33 inches and 16.20 inches respectively. Louisiana had its second wettest March, Arkansas had its third wettest March while Mississippi had its fourth wettest March since records began in 1895.

 Four people were killed and 300 homes in the Mississippi delta were flooded. The Sabine River, which borders Louisiana and Texas, crested at 33.24 feet March 15, flooding more than 400 homes.

April: Deadly Flooding Grips Houston

 A large low pressure pushed into the Central U.S. during the middle of the month producing heavy rain in the Houston area. In less than 24 -hours on April 18, up to 15 inches soaked Houston with rain falling at the rate of 4 inches per hour at times. The Houston Hobby Airport got drenched with a record 5.16 inches April 18. Eight people died in the flooding while 1,200 people were rescued from their homes. More than 100,000 people were left without power and damage was estimated at $5 -billion. The flooding resulted in more than 600 flight cancellations and delays.

May: More Downpours Soak Waterlogged Texas

 As if eastern Texas didn’t have its share of rain in April, a separate storm system dumped more flooding rain in late May. Houston saw more than 4 inches of rain May 26-27, with a daily rainfall record of 2.64 inches falling May 27. At least six people died in the flooding. The Brazos River crested at a record 54 feet on the last day of the month, demolishing the former record by 3 feet. About 2,600 inmates from two prisons near the Brazos River had to be evacuated due to the rising water. Houston Continental Airport saw almost two feet of rain April into May compared to the average of 8.40 inches for both months combined.

June: Deadly Flooding Socks West Virginia

 By June, attention turned from the flooding in the southern Plains and Lower Mississippi Valley to the Mid-Atlantic. Intense thunderstorms dropped 8 to 10 inches of rain June 23 on southern West Virginia, producing the third deadliest flooding in the state’s history. Twenty-three people died, more than 1,200 homes were destroyed by the rising water and the Elk River reached a record crest of 33.37 feet. Officials had to rescue more than 60 people by boat. To make matters worse, only two percent of residents impacted by the flooding had flood insurance.

 As 2016 continued, more flooding, an active hurricane season, drought and an Arctic invasion made headlines for the year’s second half.

July: Flooding Devastates Ellicott City, Md.

 Localized heavy rain pushed through the Mid-Atlantic at the end of July, resulting in devastating flooding. On July 30, more than 6 inches of rain swamped the suburban city of Ellicott City, Md., in just a couple of hours. Since Ellicott City is settled in a deep valley, a flash flood devastated the historic downtown area. Two people died and the flooding produced at least $22.4-million dollars in damages. Emergency officials responded to 120 water rescues. Ellicott City was declared a disaster. More than 100 homes were destroyed and more than 170 cars damaged from the flooding.

August: Heavy Rain Floods Louisiana

 A stationary storm system caused relentless rain to fall over southern Louisiana the week of August 8. Up to 30 inches of rain walloped Baton Rouge within just a few days. The Red Cross said this was the worst disaster to hit the United States since Hurricane Sandy. Thirteen people died and the flooding produced more than $10-billion in damages. More than 60,000 homes were damaged or destroyed and the entire state was put under a declaration of emergency. Not to be outdone, 20,000 people and more than 1,000 pets had to be rescued from the high water.

September: Hurricane Hermine Wreaks Havoc on Florida

 What started as a tame hurricane season quickly ramped up in September. Hurricane Hermine formed in the Gulf of Mexico on August 28, and made landfall on the Florida Panhandle September 2. It was the first hurricane to make landfall in Florida since Hurricane Wilma in 2005. Category 1 Hermine wreaked havoc on the Southeast during Labor Day Weekend, creating many vacation and travel problems. The Dominican Republic and Cuba saw the worst of Hermine, with up to 5 inches of rain falling in one day.

 The storm damaged 200 homes in the Dominican Republic before producing $800-million in damage in the U.S. The storm left more than a quarter of a million people in the dark along Florida’s Gulf Coast and two people in Florida died as a result of the storm.

October: Hurricane Matthew Punishes East Coast

 Deadly  Hurricane Matthew formed in the Atlantic September 27 and rapidly intensified as it passed through the warm Caribbean. In just 24-hours from early afternoon Thursday, September 29 to early Friday afternoon, September 30, Matthew intensified from a Category 1 hurricane to a major Category 3 hurricane, with winds increasing from 75 mph to 120 mph. After wreaking havoc on Jamaica, Haiti and Cuba, Matthew made a beeline for the Florida’s Atlantic Coast, where it brought strong storm surge, intense wind gusts and torrential rain to the Southeast Coast. Matthew finally made landfall on October 8 in McClellanville, S.C., and quickly dissipated as it swept out to sea.

 The storm produced more than $6-billion in damages in the U.S. and left more than one million people without power. Emergency officials responded to more than 880 flood rescues in North Carolina. Matthew put a big wrinkle in the U.S. transportation system, with more than 3,500 flights cancelled. In total, Matthew was responsible for more than 49 deaths in the Southeast.
 
November: Southeast Drought Helps Ignite Big Wildfires

 The second largest number of wildfires ever recorded in the U.S. occurred in November. A total of 8,560 wildfires burned more than 275,000 acres. One of those wildfires, fueled by the intense Southeast drought, burned 17, 860 acres in the Great Smoky Mountains. Strong winds ahead of a storm system allowed the fire to grow out of control and sweep through Gatlinburg, Tenn. More than 100 people were hurt, 14 people died and more than 1,400 buildings were damaged or destroyed during the November 28 event. Mother Nature finally came to the rescue and produced more than 4 inches of rain less than 24-hours after the deadly wildfire, helping to squelch the flames.

December: Arctic Outbreak Chills Northern Tier

 The U.S. quickly jumped into meteorological winter head first. Multiple Arctic plunges produced several daily cold weather records in December. Denver’s record low for December 17 of minus-13 degrees was shattered by two degrees. Denver’s high temperature of 3 degrees that same day blew away the former coldest high temperature for December 17 of 7 degrees set in 1884.

 Several Montana cities also felt the Arctic chill. Belgrade Field, Dunkirt, Ennis and Valentine all set new cold high temperature records, staying at least 31 degrees below zero for a high temperature.

 The cold weather helped unleash a snowy month across the northern tier. On December 5, Chicago got slammed with 6.4 inches of snow, breaking the former daily snow record of 5.1 inches set just 6 years ago. The Twin Cities just clinched the daily snow record December 10 by getting coated with 2 inches. The former record of 1.8 inches set December 10, 2013 was therefore wiped off the board.

2016 Recap

 Even so, 2016 will likely end up as one of the top 5 warmest years on record. Through the end of November, the U.S.’s average temperature was just 0.1 degrees Fahrenheit shy of the warmest year on record (2012). Alaska, Georgia, Montana, North Carolina, North Dakota, South Carolina and Virginia all had their warmest year so far.

 While precipitation was 1.37 inches above average in the U.S., most of this occurred in the northern tier. Wisconsin had its second wettest year-to-date, Minnesota its third wettest and Washington its eighth wettest year so far. On the contrary, Georgia, Connecticut and Massachusetts ranked in the top 10 for driest years on record.

http://weather.weatherbug.com/news/2016-Wild-Weather-Year-For-The-U-S

Agelbert NOTE: Trump voters are not impressed by the alarmist (i.e. reality based) reporting of weather evidencing Catastrophic Climate Change CAUSED by the burning of fossil fuels claims by 97% of those deluded climate scientists.

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Trump supporters heard Trump say he likes clean air and water, so that's all they need to hear. Here's a nice picture of a Trump supporter below:

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Have a nice day.
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on December 30, 2016, 05:25:40 pm
2017: An Ice Free Summer in the North Pole plus the End of Liberty in the USA

Agelbert NOTE: I await 2017 with trepidation. In 2012 I predicted that the North Pole would have an Ice Free summer in 2017.  I expect that, also in 2017, the last remaining bit of Liberty we have in the USA will be TRUMPED. I may be off by a couple of years with the North Pole, but unfortunately the TRUMPING of our remaining Liberty is already in the final stages.   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-200714183337.bmp&hash=fd5a6df63c32bd65dda7b6d93e788647ca3829df)


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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on January 01, 2017, 03:27:36 pm
JENNIFER HYNES INTERVIEW WITH PETER WADHAMS

Published on Dec 31, 2016

DEC 2016 INTERVIEW ON EXTINCTION RADIO .NET

https://youtu.be/HQMc-Tdqsd0

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on January 04, 2017, 09:00:33 pm
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2016 Weather Makes a Pricey Year For Insurers

Natural disasters cost insurers nearly $50 billion in payouts in 2016 - double the $27 billion paid in 2015, according to a new analysis by global research firm Munich Re.

The analysis shows $10.2 billion in overall losses in North America, which saw more natural disasters in 2016 than in any year since 1980.

Munich Re researcher Peter Hoppe emphasized to USA Today that while specific weather events cannot be directly attributed to climate change, "there are now many indications that certain events – such as persistent weather systems or storms bringing torrential rain and hail – are more likely to occur in certain regions as a result of climate change." (Reuters, USAToday)

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-disaster-insurance-idUSKBN14O0XG
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on January 04, 2017, 10:39:05 pm
WATCH: Boxing Day Storm in North Sea

January 4, 2017 by Mike Schuler

https://youtu.be/f0QIM6FSnBc
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Another great heavy seas video posted by Bigwavemaster1, who works on an Emergency Response & Rescue Vessel providing support to offshore oil platforms in the North Sea.

The video was filmed on Boxing Day (December 26) as Storm Conor hammered the UK with heavy wind and rain.

https://gcaptain.com/watch-boxing-day-storm-north-sea/
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on January 06, 2017, 02:23:57 pm
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Oh puh-leasee.... the infamy was when the nomination was stolen from Bernie.  Had that never happened, November 8th would have turned out quite differently.

That infamy culminated on November 8, 2016. Consequently, I think the poster is appropriate, considering what we are about to endure as a result.

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There is a certain dark irony to the fact that a system designed to prevent the people from choosing an unqualified demagogue has resulted in the election of an unqualified demagogue not chosen by the people. -- Scott Lemieux

http://prospect.org/article/indefensible-electoral-college

The fundamental problem reformers face is that the two Electoral College malfunctions in the past 16 years have both benefitted Republicans. Had John Kerry gotten 150,000 more votes in Ohio in 2004, he would have won the presidency without winning the popular vote, and a sequence in which each party got stiffed in turn might have created the necessary bipartisan consensus to change a bad system. But with one party clearly benefitting from the Electoral College, getting rid of it will be impossible.

In the meantime, the Democrats need to emphasize that Donald Trump was not the people’s choice. Paul Ryan has already claimed a mandate for a radical and deeply unpopular policy agenda. More people voted for Clinton’s agenda, which should be a good reason for Democrats to unite in opposition to put pressure on wavering Republicans in the Senate. The Democratic Party cannot normalize the Trump administration. Trump’s popular vote loss is a perfect way of illustrating his incompatibility with norms of American governance.

The Electoral College, tilting the playing field in favor of a party increasingly hostile to racial minorities has the regrettable effect of shielding it from reform in the next few years.

But Hillary Clinton got more votes than Donald Trump: That is an undisputable and politically significant fact that progressives need to point out to the American public early and often. -- Scott Lemieux

http://prospect.org/article/indefensible-electoral-college

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January 6, 2017

Confirmation Hearings for Trump's Climate-Denying Cabinet Begin Next Week

Lindsay Meiman of 350.org discusses next Monday's Day Against Denial demonstrations against what some are calling the most fossil fuel-friendly cabinet in history.

https://youtu.be/UCzkDQGAfmM

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KIM BROWN: Hmm. So, Lindsay, talk about the title of the event, the "Day of Denial," and who or what it refers to specifically.

I mentioned Rex Tillerson, Scott Pruitt, Rick Perry. So, tell us why you are concerned about their cabinet posts and who else will these protests… who they’re aimed at?

LINDSAY MEIMAN: Absolutely. So, Donald Trump has tapped individuals with a dangerous history of climate denial for each and every cabinet position pertaining to energy and environment.

   So, through our Day Against Denial actions, we are calling on all 100 senators to reject Rick Perry for the Secretary of Energy; Representative Ryan Zinke to lead the Department of the Interior; anti-EPA zealot Scott Pruitt, who would run the EPA; and Rex Tillerson, the recent former CEO of ExxonMobil, who has been tapped as Secretary of State.

And Exxon specifically is currently under fire for its key role in orchestrating a decade's long and ongoing campaign of deception to sow doubt among the public about climate change. And so, the only reason we've been faced with a phony debate about climate change for the last decades, for my entire life, is because Exxon has poured an incredible amount of money and resources into sowing doubt and blocking climate action.

Rex Tillerson has never worked anywhere besides Exxon so the company's climate crimes are really inseparable from Rex Tillerson's climate crimes.

If Rex Tillerson were our Secretary of State, our international climate policy would be in the hands of the former head of the world's wealthiest and most deceitful oil corporation. And we won't stand for that and that's why people are taking action.

KIM BROWN: Now six Democratic senators, including independent senator from Vermont, Bernie Sanders, and Maryland Senator Ben Cardin, they signed an open letter to President-elect Donald Trump pressing for more details related to Scott Pruitt's nearly $200,000 of fossil-fuel industry donations to his non-profit organization, saying that Pruitt's financial ties to the industry he would regulate as EPA Chief is, quote, "troubling."

So, can you talk about Scott Pruitt's potential conflicts of interest?

LINDSAY MEIMAN: When it comes to Scott Pruitt, Trump couldn't have picked a better puppet of the fossil fuel industry.

   Recent investigations showed that when he was the Oklahoma Attorney General, Pruitt took industry memos word-for-word and put them on his own letterhead. So, he's truly using the words of the fossil fuel industry.

   He formed a secret alliance with oil-and-gas companies, oil-and-coal companies, to gut environmental regulations. He has defended ExxonMobil's climate cover-up.

   This is a man who cares more about the profits of a coal company and their CEOs than the health of our children or the future of our planet.

   The hundreds of thousands of dollars in donations that Big Oil has given to Pruitt gives us every reason to believe that in this position, he would continue on this path of environmental destruction and prioritize big corporations over the American people.

   The fossil fuel industry -- coal, oil and gas companies -- has long had this strangle-hold over our economy and democracy. Only now, Trump is stacking his cabinet, not only with people who have profited from the fossil fuel industry, but with the very industry itself.

KIM BROWN: So, Lindsay, in what ways can we keep these politicians accountable? How are you going to be able to try to flip senators or encourage senators who demonstrably have ties to the fossil fuel industry or who are determined to, sort of, stay lock-step within the partisan bounds of either, you know, the Democratic or Republican Party?

   I mean, how are you going to try and convince these senators not to confirm these somewhat troubling nominees?

LINDSAY MEIMAN: That's a great question. Well, Monday's Day Against Denial is a great place to start. It is only the beginning of the mass opposition against Trump's hate and corruption.

   And with this corrupt federal administration, that's showing it will regress on climate action, it's more crucial than ever that we pressure our state- and local-elected officials to stand with our communities and with science.

   The only reason that climate change has become this political debate is because the fossil fuel industry has poured billions into making sure that there is doubt and deception amongst the public.

   But we know that science is not something to believe in. Climate change is not something to believe in and without a healthy planet and a livable future, these donations and these finances are pretty much worthless if our planet is unstable.

KIM BROWN: So, are we already seeing a backlash against Trump's proposed fossil-friendly-climate-denying administration in terms of growing public activism?

LINDSAY MEIMAN: Absolutely. So not only is Trump stacking his administration with greedy fossil-fuel billionaires, he's also tapping people like Jeff Sessions, a known racist who has gone out of his way to implement loopholes for fracking companies and even has a history of fighting legal immigration.

   Not only are we seeing the existing movements ratchetting up but also Trump's election has sparked an incredible amount of new people being activated; realizing that now is the moment to take action.

KIM BROWN: And lastly, Lindsay, talk about why action on climate change is urgent and how much damage a Trump Administration could potentially do if we don't hold them accountable.

LINDSAY MEIMAN: Well, 2016 was the hottest year in recorded history, breaking records of 2015 and 2014 and the years before that.

   Communities around the world and across the U.S. experienced extreme weather from droughts and floods to storms and hurricanes at a pace and magnitude that far exceeded previous predictions.

   And all of this is happening at one degree Celsius of warming.

   On Trump's business-as-usual path, we are expecting five to seven degrees of warming. And that's why we need everyone to join together to try to stop this “Climate Denial Cabinet.”

   In stacking his administration with these fossil- fuel billionaires, Trump is essentially declaring war on our planet and against the people.

   It's clear that Trump's plan is to continue to prioritize profit and greed at the expense of a livable planet and thriving communities.

   But we have a vision for our world, one that is very different from the one that Trump and his fossil-fuel billionaire ilk are setting out on; one that is powered by 100% renewable energy. A world where the economy prioritizes 1ow-income communities and communities of color and workers -- not the wealthy to get even wealthier. A world where we can come together to transition away from fossil fuels in a just way. Not a world that Trump will perpetuate, that feeds off hate and divisiveness.

   It's going to be a big fight ahead and we might lose some battles but we won't back down.

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on January 09, 2017, 05:44:18 pm
Jan 6, 12:49 PM EST


Study documents tree species' decline due to climate warming

By DAN JOLING
Associated Press

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on January 09, 2017, 05:58:49 pm
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The Very Real Threat of Trump’s Climate Denialism

The incoming Trump administration seems to be in a competition with itself to pretend climate change isn’t real—and that has very real consequences.

Paul A. Offit
01.07.17 12:01 AM ET

During the past few months, Scott Pruitt, Donald Trump’s pick to head the Environmental Protection Agency, Rick Perry, Trump’s pick to head the Energy Department, and Donald Trump himself have all said that they don’t believe in climate change. The most upsetting part of their statements has been the misuse of the word believe.

Religion is a belief system. You have to believe that Moses parted the Red Sea or that Lazarus was raised from the dead. Because these phenomena violate the laws of nature, they are matters of faith.

Science, on the other hand, isn’t a belief system. It’s an evidence-based system. For example, you don’t have to believe in the theory of evolution. All you have to do is examine 250,000 years of fossil records to know that humans and apes evolved from a common ancestor. You don’t have to believe in the germ theory. All you have to do is recognize that vaccines, antibiotics, and sanitation programs have increased our lifespan by 30 years during the past century. And you don’t have to believe in the theory of gravity. All you have to do is drop your pen. None of these concepts are theories any more. They’re facts supported by evidence.

So what about climate change? Where is the evidence? To know whether climate change exists, you need to answer only one question: Have human activities increased the amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the environment? The clearest answer to this question can be found in Michael Mann’s, The Madhouse Effect: How Climate Change Denial Is Threatening Our Planet, Destroying Our Politics, and Driving Us Crazy (Columbia University Press, 2016). Mann, a Distinguished Professor of Atmospheric Science at Penn State University, is a leader in the field.

CO2 is released into the atmosphere by the burning of fossil fuels such as coal, oil, and natural gas, all of which are derived from the remains of living organisms (hence the word fossil). Before the Industrial Revolution, scientists detected about 280 parts of CO2 per million parts of atmosphere (parts per million or ppm). Today, that figure has risen to about 400 ppm. These studies, however, only looked back over the last 200 years or so. To look further back in time, scientists have examined ice cores generated in places like the North Pole, which allowed them to determine CO2 concentrations thousands of years ago. Examination of these cores showed that we have now reached CO2 levels in the atmosphere that haven’t been seen since the dawn of human civilization (about 10,000 years ago) and probably as long as 5 million years ago.

The question at this point is who cares. Why does it matter that CO2 levels in the atmosphere have increased? For this answer we turn to Joseph Fourier, a French mathematician and physicist, who made the single most important observation in all of climate science: CO2 is a heat-trapping gas. As levels of CO2 in the atmosphere increase, the temperature on the surface of the Earth will also increase. This is called “the greenhouse effect.”

Sometimes people like Donald Trump, Scott Pruitt, and Rick Perry describe climate change as a “controversial new science.” In truth, it’s not new at all. Joseph Fourier made his observations in the early 1800s, well before Charles Darwin advanced his theory of evolution.

Because of rising CO2 levels, the Earth’s surface temperature has increased 1.5oF (1oC). This might not sound like a lot, but it’s already having an effect. The most obvious outcome has been a series of devastating heat waves, like those that recently affected Europe, India, and Pakistan. In the United States, record daily high temperatures have doubled during the past 50 years. Indeed, California is experiencing its worst drought in more than a millennium.

Increased temperatures have caused a melting of the Greenland and West Antarctic Ice Sheets, resulting in a rise in ocean levels of about 10 inches; by the end of the century it will be 3 feet. This 10-inch rise in ocean levels has already caused problems for low-lying island nations like those in the tropical Pacific. Rising oceans also provided for an ironic moment during the 2012 presidential race when Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney mocked President Barack Obama for expressing his concern. A few weeks later, Superstorm Sandy hit the coast of New Jersey. The global sea level rise added another 25 square miles and $2 billion to the devastation, according to Mann. Storms like Superstorm Sandy, once expected to occur every century, are now expected to occur every few years.

Increasing numbers of heat waves, melting ice caps, and rising oceans aren’t the only problems caused by global warming. Warmer air holds more moisture than cooler air, producing more rain, snow, and flooding. That’s why it was possible for Texas (the home of Rick Perry) to experience both a record drought in the summer of 2011 and a record flood in the spring of 2015. Pestilence will also have its day. As the Earth’s surface warms, mosquito-borne illnesses like dengue, malaria, and Zika will spread beyond tropical regions.

At present, about 30 billion tons of CO2 are released into the atmosphere every year. At this rate, CO2 concentrations should reach 550 ppm by midcentury. At that point, the earth’s temperature will have risen about 5.5oF (3oC), beyond the tipping point, when it will be too late to reverse the trend. Typically, geologists divide the Earth’s history into a series of eras, like Mesozoic or Paleozoic. The current era is called the Anthropocene, meaning that the biggest threat to the planet isn’t meteors or tectonic shifts in land masses; it’s human activity.

It’s not too late. By turning away from fossil fuels and turning toward renewable sources of energy like those generated by the sun, wind, and rivers, there’s still plenty of time to reverse this trend. The Paris climate summit in 2015 and President Obama’s Clean Power Plan in the same year were good starts. And while it is reasonable for politicians to argue whether the programs that have been put in place have been the most efficient way to spend limited resources, it is madness to claim that the problem doesn’t exist.

The simple truth is that it will cost less money to curb CO2 emissions today than to mitigate the problems created by the greenhouse effect tomorrow.

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Because, as noted by Raymond Aron, “The judgment of history is without pity.”

Paul A. Offit, MD is a professor pediatrics and director of the Vaccine Education Center at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. He is the author of Pandora’s Lab: Seven Stories of Science Gone Wrong (National Geographic Press, April 2017).

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/01/07/the-very-real-threat-of-trump-s-climate-denialism.html
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on January 10, 2017, 11:45:20 pm
No 'Pause' in Global Warming: Oceans Heating Up and Sea Levels Rising at Alarming Pace
https://youtu.be/gApBYZhVXl8

Published on Jan 9, 2017

UC-Berkeley climate scientist Zeke Hausfather details the findings of a new report that confirms NOAA findings about climate change.
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Agelbert NOTE: Fossil Fuel Industry Reaction to the above IRREFUTABLE scientific data:

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on January 11, 2017, 04:34:09 pm
Dec. 12, 2016
NASA/USGS Satellite Provides Global View of Speed of Ice

SNIPPET:

Glaciers and ice sheets move in unique and sometimes surprising patterns, as evidenced by a new capability that uses satellite images to map the speed of flowing ice in Greenland, Antarctica and mountain ranges around the world.

With imagery and data from Landsat 8, a joint mission of NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey, scientists are providing a near-real-time view of every large glacier and ice sheet on Earth. The NASA-funded Global Land Ice Velocity Extraction project, called GoLIVE, is a collaboration between scientists from the University of Colorado, the University of Alaska, and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. It aims to better understand how ice flow is changing worldwide – and its impact on sea level.

https://youtu.be/EahiP3Qa7QY


More info with revealing graphics:  8)

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2016/nasa-usgs-landsat-8-satellite-provides-global-view-of-speed-of-ice
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on January 11, 2017, 04:40:27 pm
Dec. 13, 2016

Eye-Popping View of CO2, Critical Step for Carbon-Cycle Science  :o

https://youtu.be/syU1rRCp7E8

More info:

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2016/eye-popping-view-of-co2-critical-step-for-carbon-cycle-science
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on January 11, 2017, 04:48:00 pm
Dec. 13, 2016

Ocean CO2 CAUSED Acidification

https://youtu.be/CFjX35aAO_M


Published on Jan 9, 2017

SET TO JAN 2017 INTERVIEW ON EXTINCTION RADIO.NET


Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on January 11, 2017, 06:50:31 pm
We Just Passed a Dangerous New Climate Tipping Point
https://youtu.be/Lns9UsMPQVw
http://www.thomhartmann.com/bigpicture/we-just-passed-dangerous-new-climate-tipping-point
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on January 12, 2017, 02:23:25 pm
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Tillerson Confirmation Hearings: USA! USA! Oil good! Climate Change ho-hum...

I listened to and watched nearly 4 HOURS of the C-SPAN Tillerson Confirmation Hearings. Our Senators mostly live in an alternate universe where flag waving propaganda about how the US giving aid to all those corrupt countries that abuse our infinite kindness and good intentions is so sad and we have so many enemies and we have to stop terrorism and, interspersed with the occasional concern about whether Tillerson will go after Russia even if Exxon has control of land in Russia the size of Wyoming is, some mild climate change concerns. It's great gallows humor if you like that sort of thing.  :P

Tillerson must have trained fossil fuel industry propagandists liars on public discourse! ;)  I've gotta admit, the guy dances with the best liars around.  His body language when Chad came up was the give away that he was nervous. They didn't press him on that DELIBERATE interference against US policy to GUARANTEE Exxon/Chad Dictator sponsored CORRUPTION and Resource theft (of course  ;)).

All that said, he WILL help keep the crazies in Congress from trying to nuke Russia in order to enable the fossil fuel industry corrupted US Government to finish the destructive degradation of the biosphere...

But, hey, it will take longer to overheat than to die from being nuked, right?

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http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3018 (http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3018)

Finally, The REAL REASON Why Trump Picked Exxon CEO Rex Tillerson AND Why He's Taking a 99% PAY CUT  ;)   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-200714191329.bmp&hash=4764bfbe6bb0e11ca61102efa97a932a824f47e0)

Published on Dec 16, 2016

This Exclusive Report FINALLY Explains the mystery surrounding WHY Trump Picked the filthy-rich CEO of Exxon Mobile Rex Tillerson for Secretary of State.

He certainly is not a household name and most American's have never heard of him. Trump who has been selecting mostly loyalists, didn't even know Tillerson previously.

Rachel Maddow explains just how Tillerson made it on Trump's radar and also why Tillerson, who's never worked anywhere but Exxon, would take a job that's offering a 99% PAY DECREASE.

This is an extremely tangled web which only Rachel could properly navigate through. It's FASCINATING information that everyone should be aware of. Great Reporting.


https://youtu.be/CgtFBI2I0eM

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on January 12, 2017, 04:45:42 pm
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New Report Evaluates Risks of Vessel Traffic in the Bering Sea

Posted On January 12, 2017 by Andrew Hartsig

As Arctic sea ice continues to melt, the Bering Sea—including the narrow Bering Strait—is experiencing more and more ship traffic. As ship traffic increases, so too do the risks, including oil spills, vessel strikes on marine mammals, air pollution, discharge of wastes into the water, and production of underwater noise.

A new report, commissioned by Ocean Conservancy and conducted by Nuka Research and Planning Group LLC, evaluates the risks from vessel traffic in the Bering Strait.

The Bering Sea is used by millions of seabirds, and an array of marine mammals including whales, seals, walruses and polar bears. Alaska Native peoples who live near the Bering Sea depend on its fish and wildlife as a key source of food and to support cultural practices that date back millennia. And the Bering Sea is home to rich commercial fisheries: in 2014, five of the top 10 most valuable commercial fisheries in the United States were based in or near the Bering Sea.

There’s no doubt that these waters are astoundingly abundant, and there is a lot at stake. So what did the risk assessment find about the risks posed by vessel traffic in the Bering Sea? ???

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•Right now, in the Northern Bering Sea and Bering Strait region, most oil exposure and risk is associated with vessels that service the region, primarily delivering fuel and goods to communities or exporting resources from mines. In contrast, in the Southern Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands, most oil exposure comes from vessels that are just passing through the region, transiting Great Circle Route.

•“Lightering” (transferring fuel from one ship to another offshore via hoses) is a significant source of risk in the Northern Bering Sea.

•In the future, as more ships transit the Bering Strait, there will be more oil spill exposure.

•Much of the increase in ship traffic is expected to come from bulk carriers and tankers serving resource extraction projects elsewhere in the Arctic. These vessels are a particular concern because they generally use heavy fuel oil—a “persistent” fuel that, if spilled, would be virtually impossible to clean up and would likely have impacts for years. Cruise ship and tourism traffic is also likely to increase in the future.

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Fortunately, the risk assessment makes clear that we can take pragmatic steps to reduce the risks from increasing vessel traffic in the Bering Sea. In doing so, we should make use of extensive traditional knowledge from Alaska Natives about the Bering Sea ecosystem to inform the development of mitigation measures and response planning. Some options could include:

•Using routing measures such as traffic lanes and Areas to be Avoided to reduce exposure to hazards;

•Improving vessel communications and monitoring systems to help avoid conflicts between vessels and subsistence hunters and to reduce impacts to marine mammal aggregations;

•Tightening requirements for vessel waste management to avoid or reduce impacts of harmful pollution;

•Engaging in rigorous planning for disabled vessels so that incidents don’t become accidents;

•Evaluating lightering practices to determine whether there are ways to improve safety and reduce the risk of spills; and

•Developing community spill response that incorporates not only local response capacity but also local input into response planning.

The Bering Sea hosts abundant marine life that supports the people of the region, as well as rich commercial fisheries. And now, the Bering Sea and Bering Strait are growing more important as an international shipping route. Ocean Conservancy is working with others who care about the health and resilience of the Bering Sea to advance practical, common-sense ways to reduce the risks associated with vessel traffic. Putting in place key measures to increase safety and reduce risk makes sense now, and will pay dividends in the future, as shipping transits through the Bering Strait and Bering Sea increase.

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Posted in Science & Conservation | Tagged Andrew Hartsig, Arctic sea ice, Bering Sea, Nuka Research and Planning Group LLC, the arctic, vessel traffic
 


About Andrew Hartsig


Andrew Hartsig is the director of Ocean Conservancy’s Arctic Program. He lives and works in Anchorage, Alaska. In a bid to put off taking the bar exam after law school, he paddled a sea kayak from Bellingham, Washington to Juneau, Alaska in the summer of 2005. (Ed. note: Fortunately, he made it back safely and passed with flying colors.)


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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on January 13, 2017, 10:34:00 pm
https://youtu.be/gHMoa_dqBdc
A Discussion with Naomi Oreskes & Steven Chu
(December 2016)

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Johnny Drivebye

This is a great video.  Thanks for this upload.  I've wondered why people aren't talking about this correlation very much as it should be the biggest story in the news.  I don't know how much can change. I just wish there could be justice for these peddlers of doubt.

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on January 14, 2017, 05:47:51 pm
Agelbert REMINDER to those who will be "offended" (because they are supporters of the President Elect) by the hard truths stated in the article below:
 
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TOPICS: Democracy & Government

TAGS: 2016 election, donald trump, hillary clinton, media criticism
Democracy & Government


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No matter how the rest of the world looked at us on Nov. 7, they will now look at us differently.

By Neal Gabler | November 10, 2016

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The sun sets behind the Jefferson Memorial in Washington. (Photo By Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

America died on Nov. 8, 2016, not with a bang or a whimper, but at its own hand via electoral suicide. We the people chose a man who has shredded our values, our morals, our compassion, our tolerance, our decency, our sense of common purpose, our very identity — all the things that, however tenuously, made a nation out of a country.

Whatever place we now live in is not the same place it was on Nov. 7. No matter how the rest of the world looked at us on Nov. 7, they will now look at us differently. We are likely to be a pariah country. And we are lost for it. As I surveyed the ruin of that country this gray Wednesday morning, I found weary consolation in W.H. Auden’s poem, September 1, 1939, which concludes:


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BY Neal Gabler | November 8, 2016

“Defenseless under the night
 Our world in stupor lies;
 Yet, dotted everywhere,
 Ironic points of light
 Flash out wherever the Just
 Exchange their messages:
 May I, composed like them
 Of Eros and of dust,
 Beleaguered by the same
 Negation and despair,
 Show an affirming flame.”

I hunt for that affirming flame.

This generally has been called the “hate election” because everyone professed to hate both candidates. It turned out to be the hate election because, and let’s not mince words, of the hatefulness of the electorate. In the years to come, we will brace for the violence, the anger, the racism, the misogyny, the xenophobia, the nativism, the white sense of grievance that will undoubtedly be unleashed now that we have destroyed the values that have bound us.

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We all knew these hatreds lurked under the thinnest veneer of civility. That civility finally is gone.

We all knew these hatreds lurked under the thinnest veneer of civility. That civility finally is gone. In its absence, we may realize just how imperative that politesse was. It is the way we managed to coexist.

If there is a single sentence that characterizes the election, it is this: “He says the things I’m thinking.” That may be what is so terrifying. Who knew that so many tens of millions of white Americans were thinking unconscionable things about their fellow Americans? Who knew that tens of millions of white men felt so emasculated by women and challenged by minorities? Who knew that after years of seeming progress on race and gender, tens of millions of white Americans lived in seething resentment, waiting for a demagogue to arrive who would legitimize their worst selves and channel them into political power? Perhaps we had been living in a fool’s paradise. Now we aren’t.

This country has survived a civil war, two world wars, and a great depression. There are many who say we will survive this, too. Maybe we will, but we won’t survive unscathed. We know too much about each other to heal. No more can we pretend that we are exceptional or good or progressive or united. We are none of those things. Nor can we pretend that democracy works and that elections have more or less happy endings. Democracy only functions when its participants abide by certain conventions, certain codes of conduct and a respect for the process.

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No more can we pretend that we are exceptional or good or progressive or united. We are none of those things.

The virus that kills democracy is extremism because extremism disables those codes. Republicans have disrespected the process for decades. They have regarded any Democratic president as illegitimate. They have proudly boasted of preventing popularly elected Democrats from effecting policy and have asserted that only Republicans have the right to determine the nation’s course. They have worked tirelessly to make sure that the government cannot govern and to redefine the purpose of government as prevention rather than effectuation. In short, they haven’t believed in democracy for a long time, and the media never called them out on it.

Democracy can’t cope with extremism. Only violence and time can defeat it. The first is unacceptable, the second takes too long. Though Trump is an extremist, I have a feeling that he will be a very popular president and one likely to be re-elected by a substantial margin, no matter what he does or fails to do. That’s because ever since the days of Ronald Reagan, rhetoric has obviated action, speechifying has superseded governing.

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The media can’t be let off the hook for enabling an authoritarian to get to the White House. Long before he considered a presidential run, he was a media creation — a regular in the gossip pages, a photo on magazine covers, the bankrupt (morally and otherwise) mogul who hired and fired on The Apprentice. When he ran, the media treated him not as a candidate, but as a celebrity, and so treated him differently from ordinary pols. The media gave him free publicity, trumpeted his shenanigans, blasted out his tweets, allowed him to phone in his interviews, fell into his traps and generally kowtowed until they suddenly discovered that this joke could actually become president.

Just as Trump has shredded our values, our nation and our democracy, he has shredded the media. In this, as in his politics, he is only the latest avatar of a process that began long before his candidacy. Just as the sainted Ronald Reagan created an unbridgeable chasm between rich and poor that the Republicans would later exploit against Democrats, conservatives delegitimized mainstream journalism so that they could fill the vacuum.

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With Trump’s election, I think that the ideal of an objective, truthful journalism is dead, never to be revived.

Retiring conservative talk show host Charlie Sykes complained that after years of bashing from the right wing, the mainstream media no longer could perform their function as reporters, observers, fact dispensers, and even truth tellers, and he said we needed them. Like Goebbels before them, conservatives understood that they had to create their own facts, their own truths, their own reality. They have done so, and in so doing effectively destroyed the very idea of objectivity. Trump can lie constantly only because white America has accepted an Orwellian sense of truth — the truth pulled inside out.

With Trump’s election, I think that the ideal of an objective, truthful journalism is dead, never to be revived. Like Nixon and Sarah Palin before him, Trump ran against the media, boomeranging off the public’s contempt for the press. He ran against what he regarded as media elitism and bias, and he ran on the idea that the press disdained working-class white America. Among the many now-widening divides in the country, this is a big one, the divide between the media and working-class whites, because it creates a Wild West of information – a media ecology in which nothing can be believed except what you already believe.

With the mainstream media so delegitimized — a delegitimization for which they bear a good deal of blame, not having had the courage to take on lies and expose false equivalencies — they have very little role to play going forward in our politics. I suspect most of them will surrender to Trumpism — if they were able to normalize Trump as a candidate, they will no doubt normalize him as president.

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Cable news may even welcome him as a continuous entertainment and ratings booster. And in any case, like Reagan, he is bulletproof. The media cannot touch him, even if they wanted to. Presumably, there will be some courageous guerillas in the mainstream press, a kind of Resistance, who will try to fact-check him. But there will be few of them, and they will be whistling in the wind. Trump, like all dictators, is his own truth.

What’s more, Trump already has promised to take his war on the press into courtrooms and the halls of Congress. He wants to loosen libel protections, and he has threatened Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos of Amazon with an antitrust suit. Individual journalists have reason to fear him as well. He has already singled out NBC’s Katy Tur, perhaps the best of the television reporters, so that she needed the Secret Service to escort her from one of his rallies. Jewish journalists who have criticized Trump have been subjected to vicious anti-Semitism and intimidation from the alt-right. For the press, this is likely to be the new normal in an America in which white supremacists, neo-Nazi militias, racists, sexists, homophobes and anti-Semites have been legitimized by a new president who “says what I’m thinking.” It will be open season.

This converts the media from reporters to targets, and they have little recourse. Still, if anyone points the way forward, it may be New York Times columnist David Brooks. Brooks is no paragon. He always had seemed to willfully neglect modern Republicanism’s incipient fascism (now no longer incipient), and he was an apologist for conservative self-enrichment and bigotry. But this campaign season, Brooks pretty much dispensed with politics. He seemed to have arrived at the conclusion that no good could possibly come of any of this and retreated into spirituality. What Brooks promoted were values of mutual respect, a bolder sense of civic engagement, an emphasis on community and neighborhood, and overall a belief in trickle-up decency rather than trickle-down economics. He is not hopeful, but he hasn’t lost all hope.

For those of us now languishing in despair, this may be a prescription for rejuvenation. We have lost the country, but by refocusing, we may have gained our own little patch of the world and, more granularly, our own family. For journalists, Brooks may show how political reporting, which, as I said, is likely to be irrelevant in the Trump age, might yield to a broader moral context in which one considers the effect that policy, strategy and governance have not only on our physical and economic well-being but also on our spiritual well-being. In a society that is likely to be fractious and odious, we need a national conversation on values. The media could help start it.

But the disempowered media may have one more role to fill: They must bear witness. Many years from now, future generations will need to know what happened to us and how it happened. They will need to know how disgruntled white Americans, full of self-righteous indignation, found a way to take back a country they felt they were entitled to and which they believed had been lost. They will need to know about the ugliness and evil that destroyed us as a nation after great men like Lincoln and Roosevelt guided us through  previous crises and kept our values intact. They will need to know, and they will need a vigorous, engaged, moral media to tell them. They will also need us.

We are not living for ourselves anymore in this country. Now we are living for history.

Neal Gabler is an author of five books and the recipient of two LA Times Book Prizes, Time magazine's non-fiction book of the year, USA Today's biography of the year and other awards. He is also a senior fellow at The Norman Lear Center at the University of Southern California, and is currently writing a biography of Sen. Edward Kennedy.

http://billmoyers.com/story/farewell-america/

Agelbert NOTE: Great article, but, unlike the author, many millions of Americans, like myself, KNEW about this suicidal trajectory, of which the ubiquitous racism is but one symptom of America's moral decay.

Neal Gabler is a good man of principle. He is clear on what is right and what is wrong. However, as the reality of the WAY things REALLY are in the USA struck him like a kick in the groin, Neal Gabler's surprise is evidence that he was a victim of white privileged liberal wishful thinking. None of the following was a surprise to me and millions of other Americans of mixed ancestry that know the score.

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If there is a single sentence that characterizes the election, it is this: “He says the things I’m thinking.” That may be what is so terrifying. Who knew that so many tens of millions of white Americans were thinking unconscionable things about their fellow Americans? Who knew that tens of millions of white men felt so emasculated by women and challenged by minorities? Who knew that after years of seeming progress on race and gender, tens of millions of white Americans lived in seething resentment, waiting for a demagogue to arrive who would legitimize their worst selves and channel them into political power? Perhaps we had been living in a fool’s paradise. Now we aren’t.

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I dated it to when THIS GUY had the nomination for VP stolen from him so the Truman party hack could do the bidding of the M.I.C. when Roosevelt died.
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But, you know what? The abysmally stupid and morally corruptive embrace of greed, xenophobia and racism is the LEAST of our worries as a people in this perfect storm of Wall Street 'dial a reality' that so many fools and knaves wish to celebrate.

Below please find, America TODAY:
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Like Goebbels before them, conservatives understood that they had to create their own facts, their own truths, their own reality. They have done so, and in so doing effectively destroyed the very idea of objectivity. Trump can lie constantly only because white America has accepted an Orwellian sense of truth — the truth pulled inside out.


BUT, THIS is America in the NEAR FUTURE:

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Good and pretty much accurate article by NG.

However, nowhere in it does he acknowledge the underlying cause for all of this, which is Industrialization, Environmental Destruction, Resource Depletion and Population Overshoot.  It's not like it's just "Goodbye Amerika", it's "Goodbye World" because the same political phenomenon is occurring everywhere.

I'm also not sure I agree that Trumpty-Dumpty will remain the "Teflon Don" through the next 4 years.  I expect to see a major downleg during this timespan which he will not be able to cover over with Tweets.  He'll lose his support base of reactionary righties as their economic circumstances worsen.


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Agreed.

In a sane world, we would do something like set up a Carbon Pollution Score for everybody. Here's a recent post of mine on the internet:

The very idea of the possibility of democratic activity under the present power structure is ludicrous, as well as pathetic. IF, or WHEN, we ACTUALLY decided to do the biosphere math for what our species needs to DO RIGHT, while being held responsible for what we do wrong without any regard to class structure or privilege, we would have to start from where we are NOW. That is, we value human power over other humans by what we OWN.

Based on that, a Carbon Pollution Score (CPS) must be computed for every human alive based on OWNERSHIP, not income. That, of course, means stock ownership along with land, buildings, vehicles, clothes, etc.

A CPS that is negative means the human having it will be rewarded. A CPS that is low to moderate will not result in being penalized with asset reduction. A moderate to high CPS will result in asset stripping and prison sentences, the higher the CPS, the longer the prison time in a negative CPS environment.

But that would be egalitarian. That would be logical. That might enable our species to live in harmony with each other and the biosphere. So, I don't expect the high CPS score Plutocrats will allow that. They prefer our suicidal profit over planet fascist paradise.   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Fp8.gif&hash=34db9228a959b3b83fc65b38a1aa92a40d56f976)  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F126fs2277341.gif&hash=1a8375f11d76a653bcb48e30eaa7b652175f029d)
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on January 14, 2017, 11:31:49 pm
Very impressive graphics!

https://youtu.be/mC6fQ8zSul4

Potential abrupt and dramatic changes and the Atlantic

Published on Oct 10, 2016

Published by Earth101 Show your support and subscribe to them too.

A slowdown or even collapse of the Gulf Stream System as a result of global warming has long been a concern of climate scientists and has fuelled the imagination of Hollywood. Recent studies provide evidence for a AMOC slowdown. University of Iceland on May 27th 2016 at the conference "The Past, the Future. How Fast, How Far? Threats Facing the Climate System"

Related German article http://scilogs.spektrum.de/klimaloung...

Related Cold Blob (North Atlantic) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_bl...)


Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on January 16, 2017, 03:30:59 pm
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Washington, D.C. presidential inauguration weather history

By Justin Grieser

January 16, 2013

Agelbert NOTE: This article is informative, as well as being educational (before 1937 inaugurals were held in March - BUT the weather was actually COLDER than the average of January 20th inaugurals!  :o). Anyone who reads this article objectively (i.e. someone who isn't a climate denier propagandized fool or a propagandist liar working for the fossil fuel industry) and then looks at the forecast for January 20, 2017 will not fail to notice the accelerating trend of Global Warming.

SNIPPET:

What are typical weather conditions on Inauguration Day in the nation’s capital? And which years had the warmest, coldest, wettest or snowiest ceremonies?


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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on January 17, 2017, 03:12:17 pm
Unrelenting Global Warming Sends Sea Ice to Record Low, As Scientists Feel Heat, Too

https://insideclimatenews.org/news/09012017/arctic-antarctica-sea-ice-climate-change-noaa-nasa-trump
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on January 18, 2017, 12:41:52 pm
2016 sets third consecutive record for hottest year

Earth Sets a Temperature Record for the Third Straight Year

The New York Times, Jan. 18, 2017

Marking another milestone for a changing planet, scientists reported on Wednesday that the Earth reached its highest temperature on record in 2016 — trouncing a record set only a year earlier, which beat one set in 2014. It is the first time in the modern era of global warming data that temperatures have blown past the previous record three years in a row.

The findings come two days before the inauguration of an American president who has called global warming a Chinese plot and vowed to roll back his predecessor’s efforts to cut emissions of heat-trapping gases.

The data show that politicians cannot wish the problem away. The Earth is heating up, a point long beyond serious scientific dispute, but one becoming more evident as the records keep falling. Temperatures are heading toward levels that many experts believe will pose a profound threat to both the natural world and to human civilization.

In 2015 and 2016, the planetary warming was intensified by the weather pattern known as El Niño, in which the Pacific Ocean released a huge burst of energy and water vapor into the atmosphere. But the bigger factor in setting the records was the long-term trend of rising temperature, which scientists say is being driven by increasing levels of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases.

“A single warm year is something of a curiosity,” said Deke Arndt, chief of global climate monitoring for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. “It’s really the trend, and the fact that we’re punching at the ceiling every year now, that is the real indicator that we’re undergoing big changes.”

The heat extremes were especially pervasive in the Arctic, with temperatures in the fall running 20 to 30 degrees Fahrenheit above normal across large stretches of the Arctic Ocean. Sea ice in that region has been in precipitous decline for years, and Arctic communities are already wrestling with enormous problems, such as rapid coastal erosion, caused by the changing climate.

“What’s going on in the Arctic is really very impressive; this year was ridiculously off the chart,” said Gavin A. Schmidt, head of the Goddard Institute for Space Studies in Manhattan, a unit of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration that tracks global temperatures.

But Arctic people were hardly alone in feeling the heat. Drought and starvation afflicted Africa. On May 19, the people in the town of Phalodi lived through the hottest day in the recorded history of India, 123.8 degrees Fahrenheit.

El Niño has now ended, and climate scientists almost universally expect 2017 to be cooler than the year before. But the scale of the heat burst has been startling to many of the experts, and some of them fear an accelerated era of global warming could be at hand over the next few years.

Even at current temperatures, billions of tons of land ice are melting or sliding into the ocean. The sea is also absorbing most of the heat trapped by human emissions. Those factors are causing the ocean to rise at what appears to be an accelerating pace, and coastal communities in the United States are spending billions of dollars to fight increased tidal flooding. Their pleas for help from Congress have largely been ignored.

The finding that a record had been set for the third year in a row was released on Wednesday by three government agencies, two American and one British, that track measurements made by ships, buoys and land-based weather stations. They analyze the figures to correct for known problems, producing an annual average temperature for the surface of the Earth. The national meteorological agency of Japan also confirmed the findings in a preliminary analysis.

The findings about a record-warm year were also confirmed by the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature project, a nonprofit California group set up to provide a temperature analysis independent of governments. That group, however, did not find that three records had been set in a row; in its analysis, 2010 was slightly warmer than 2014.

In addition to the surface measurements, satellites are used to measure the temperature of the atmosphere a few miles above the surface. Two groups that analyze these figures showed a record-warm 2016 in data going back to 1978, though in one data set it was a record by only a small margin.

Since 1880, NOAA’s records show only one other instance when global temperature records were set three years in a row: in 1939, 1940 and 1941. The Earth has warmed so much in recent decades, however, that 1941 now ranks as only the 37th-warmest year on record.

The modern era of global warming began around 1970, after a long stretch of relatively flat temperatures, and the past three years mark the first time in that period that three records were set in a row. Of the 17 hottest years on record, 16 have now occurred since 2000.

Two of the agencies that issued Wednesday’s figures, NOAA and NASA, will soon report to cabinet secretaries appointed by President-elect Donald J. Trump, who has expressed doubt about the findings of climate science. Mr. Trump famously issued a tweet in 2012 that said: “The concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing noncompetitive.”

Fear has erupted within the agencies about whether their data will now be subject to political manipulation. However, Mr. Trump and his cabinet nominees have given no detailed indication of what their broad climate policies are likely to be, much less how they will manage the scientific enterprise of monitoring the climate.

Some Republicans in Congress have long been hostile to the findings of climate science, and have repeatedly investigated scientists. It is not clear what will happen with these efforts in the new political era.

Beginning in 2015, for instance, the chairman of the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology, Texas Republican Lamar Smith, issued subpoenas to NOAA, seeking to prove that adjustments the agency made to its data set were a deliberate attempt to make global warming appear worse.

But a paper recently issued by the Berkeley group confirmed the scientific validity of the changes NOAA had made. “NOAA was not cooking the books,” said Zeke Hausfather, a researcher with the Berkeley Earth project and the lead author of the paper.


Kristina Baum, a spokeswoman for the committee, said in an email that in the new Congress, Mr. Smith “anticipates fewer subpoenas because he believes that the new administration’s agencies will be more forthcoming with the committee’s requests for information.”

Democrats on the Science committee have been exasperated by what they regard as attempts by Republicans in Congress to intimidate scientists and undermine basic scientific findings.

Eddie Bernice Johnson, a Texan who is the ranking Democrat on the committee, said in a statement,
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“As the world breaks temperature records seemingly every single year, we desperately need this committee’s and our country’s leadership to reject this anti-science agenda, and get serious about addressing the reality of climate change.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/18/science/earth-highest-temperature-record.html
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on January 18, 2017, 05:29:32 pm
World’s Top Banks Are Making Slow Progress On Climate-Related Risks

January 17th, 2017 by Joshua S Hill


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https://cleantechnica.com/2017/01/17/worlds-top-banks-making-slow-progress-climate-related-risks/
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on January 19, 2017, 02:41:15 pm
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Sessions is a looming threat to people of color and the planet

Posted Jan. 13, 2017 / Posted by: Judith Browne Dianis, executive director of national office of Advancement Project and Erich Pica, president of Friends of the Earth U.S.

At few points in our generation does Congress seem poised to vote on something so colossally consequential for the wellbeing of people of color. The nomination of Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) as United States attorney general presents U.S. senators with one such decision. The question is, will they step forward on climate priorities and racial equity, or will they dangerously turn their back on the progress our country has made?

With Sessions as attorney general, communities of color stand to lose significantly. Charged with enforcing civil rights laws, the Department of Justice has historically played an important role in bringing us closer to an inclusive democracy.

Whether it was filing lawsuits to end segregation, protecting organizers during the civil rights movement, fighting housing and voting discrimination or challenging discriminatory policing policies, the Department of Justice has responded to the racial justice movement over decades, helping secure protections.
Under Sessions’ leadership, immigrant families will be criminalized and police reform efforts will stop dead in their tracks, among other things. Even worse, a Sessions’ Department of Justice will probably do affirmative damage on civil rights. Further, Sessions will hurt communities of color, who are hard hit by environmental racism by eviscerating enforcement of fundamental environmental laws.

Wrapped in racial injustice, environmental abuses have harmed people of color across the country — in communities ranging from Flint, Michigan to Mossville, Louisiana. The climate change-induced flooding and oil spill pollution in the Gulf Coast have disproportionately harmed people of color and low-income communities.

Legal enforcement of governmental responsibility is often the last and only recourse in these cases. Weakening enforcement tools would be disastrous to the progress communities of color have made.

As a senator for the state of Alabama, Sessions voted against environmental protection 93 percent of the time. In 2015, Sessions said that carbon dioxide is only “a plant food and it doesn’t harm anybody.” This shows a pattern of refusing to connect scientific cause-and-effect, which makes him unfit to set polluter prosecution priorities.

Sessions would also choose a next head of the Environment and Natural Resources Division at the Department of Justice, who will have the power to weaken consequences against those who violate the nation's civil and criminal pollution control laws. They could refuse to defend EPA and other agencies against corporations. That puts environmental programs at risk to fossil fuel interests who are pursuing ongoing legal fights over public lands and waters for Native American sovereignty. This will embolden polluters to be even more litigious to undermine environmental justice.

A look at Sessions’ record on voting rights, immigration, racial justice and civil liberties reveals not just a disregard for communities of color but he is an enemy of progress. As an attorney in Alabama, Sessions went on a witch hunt to persecute civil servants who were registering voters in historically Black counties under allegations of voter fraud that were quickly rejected by a jury. Sessions has called the Voting Rights Act, an anti-discrimination law that guarantees free and fair elections, “a piece of intrusive legislation,” a view held by supporters of Jim Crow.

Voting is the most fundamental way that communities empower themselves against polluters and the politicians that support them.

When Sessions was vetted in 1986, during a confirmation hearing to be appointed a federal judge, his history on race led to a rejection of his ways by a Republican-controlled Senate. Yet time has not improved the senator’s record, and now the 2017 Republican-controlled Congress is positioning itself to overlook it.

As recently as last summer, the courts forcefully went on record decrying rampant attempts to make it harder for people of color to vote. As the attorney general in charge of setting guidelines for which cases can and cannot be brought to court, Sessions poses a danger to voters of color as well as every American who is not white, male, straight and citizen-born. Sessions’ clear prejudices and racism make him willfully blind to some of the most pressing civil rights abuses and environmental injustices in our country.

With the stakes too high to let Sessions run unchecked with the Trump administration’s racist agenda, the choice before the Senate is clear. We cannot trust Jefferson Beauregard Sessions to serve as the top enforcer of our constitution and our laws. Senators must stand definitively on the right side of history. Our people and our planet depend on it.

Friends of the Earth


http://www.foe.org/news/blog/2017-01-sessions-is-a-looming-threat-to-people-of-color-and-2 (http://www.foe.org/news/blog/2017-01-sessions-is-a-looming-threat-to-people-of-color-and-2)

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on January 19, 2017, 07:07:04 pm
Brutal Heat Waves Crush Eastern Australia

Dr. Reese Halter

Jan. 18, 2017 11:57PM EST

SNIPPET:

A hot air mass parked over central Australia is delivering the second brutal heat wave this month. January is quickly approaching a record-breaking month Down Under.

http://www.ecowatch.com/deadly-heat-wave-australia-2199419828.html
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on January 19, 2017, 07:32:51 pm
(https://www.cleanenergywire.org/sites/all/themes/clew/logo.png)

January 19, 2017

Frankfurter Rundschau / Deutsche Umwelthilfe (DUH)

Four lost years in the USA

The EU must take over America’s role and keep China and India on board with global climate protection efforts to get ahead during Donald Trump’s presidency, according to environmental organisation Deutsche Umwelthilfe (DUH). The EU is a global leader in renewables and efficiency, and should offer technological partnerships to China and India, DUH co-head Sascha Müller-Kraenner told Frankfurter Rundschau in an interview.


Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change (MCC)


Trump has substantial potential to cause trouble on climate policy

Incoming US president Donald Trump could have many indirect effects on international climate policy, according to Ottmar Edenhofer, Director of the Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change (MCC). “Trump could try to drive the export of coal,” said Edenhofer, who is also the chief economist at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK). “The economic policy of the new president could also lead to rising interest rates, which would compromise the competitiveness of renewable energies.

This is because the profitability of climate-friendly technologies, in contrast to coal-fired power plants, is determined primarily by their investment costs, which are dependent on the interest rate.”

https://www.cleanenergywire.org/news/trumps-impact-renewables-drop-offshore-wind-costs




Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on January 21, 2017, 05:27:42 pm
Agelbert NOTE: Try not to get sea sick.  :P  :D THIS is ROCK and ROLL on the high seas!

AND, it's going to get a LOT worse within less than a decade.

https://youtu.be/6vnyXgIvDhc

Watch: 2.5 Hours of a Ship in Heavy Seas

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January 20, 2017 by Mike Schuler

A little background here. Bigwavemaster1 works on a Emergency Response & Rescue Vessel providing support to offshore oil platforms in the North Sea – no matter how bad the weather gets. To his surprise his heavy seas videos have attracted quite a bit of interest on Youtube. But as he points, he doesn’t have the option to just close his browser and go to sleep!


A couple of people have asked me to make a long video of storm footage. Apparently it’s relaxing??? (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.coh2.org%2Fimages%2FSmileys%2Fhuhsign.gif&hash=3732d0427be65896527fc3805c5be54a33cffd3b)   It helps them sleep ???  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.desismileys.com%2Fsmileys%2Fdesismileys_1402.gif&hash=704ddbc7a892750ad55e7a7bea92270b1df3ecba) (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.desismileys.com%2Fsmileys%2Fdesismileys_6656.gif&hash=2038f9b45636a93e5c0f4ee508ce29778fe9e9b4) Not quite sure how that works since it’s the last thing that we can do!!!   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Fwww_MyEmoticons_com__smokelots.gif&hash=094f88de6782c1cd03ed5321b387792046eb3cdd)

http://gcaptain.com/watch-2-5-hours-of-a-ship-in-heavy-seas/

Here's my three part article that contains a lot of info on shipping and its dire future due to climate change that you may be interested in reading:

Climate Change, Blue Water Cargo Shipping and Predicted Ocean Wave Activity: Three Part Article (http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/climate-change/global-warming-is-with-us/msg4045/#msg4045)

Climate Change, Blue Water Cargo Shipping and Predicted Ocean Wave Activity: PART TWO (http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/climate-change/global-warming-is-with-us/msg4050/#msg4050)

Climate Change, Blue Water Cargo Shipping and Predicted Ocean Wave Activity: PART THREE (http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/climate-change/future-earth/msg4074/#msg4074)
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on January 23, 2017, 07:08:14 pm
  January 22, 2017

Students Plan National Day of Action Against Trump's Climate Denial

Xiuhtezcatl Martinez  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F19.gif&hash=3f9f2fc2285bc756137e21463bc2a4c420b15ac3) and Varshini Prakash  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-080515182559.png&hash=d4dfa952fa0f817bf30a8059a4c88d6fb05ee1bf) say we need to build a movement to protect the planet for future generations.

https://youtu.be/YXgfLoEcKhs

TRANSCRIPT:

SHARMINI PERIES: It's The Real News Network. I'm Sharmini Peries, coming to you from Baltimore.

On Monday, January 23rd, two days after the Donald Trump Inauguration as President, it is slated to be a Student National Day of Action, scheduled within the first 100 hours of Donald Trump's presidency. Hundreds of students across the country are committed to walk out of their classrooms, in protest of the fossil fuel friendly Trump administration. The demonstration is a call to academic administrators to divest from fossil fuels and invest in renewable energy.

With us to discuss Monday's National Student Day of Action, and what is at stake for youth with the new Trump administration, is Xiuhtezcatl Martinez and Varshini Prakash. Mr. Martinez is a 16-year-old indigenous climate activist, hip-hop artist and a powerful voice on the front lines of a global youth-led environmental movement.

And we are also joined by Varshini Prakash. She is the Senior Campaign Coach of the Divestment Student Network. She started organizing as a student campaigner, at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, where she led her divestment campaign to a victory, in spring of 2016. She has organized for four years in the youth climate movement. I thank you both for joining us today.

VARSHINI PRAKASH: Hi. Well, thank you so much.

XIUHTEZCATL MARTINEZ: Hey, yeah, it's a pleasure to be here.

SHARMINI PERIES: So, Mr. Martinez, let me begin with you. You have been involved in environmental activism for some time now. When did your awareness develop as an individual, in terms of knowing that you wanted to affect change, and how did you get involved in this movement?

XIUHTEZCATL MARTINEZ: Yeah, for me, my engagement and involvement in the climate and the environmental movement began very early on, just as a, you know, young kid having a very important connection to the world, and to the nature around him. I saw that as human beings, we're having a really negative impact on the environment. I also saw that speaking up and using our voices has a positive impact on getting other people to take action as well, alongside taking action in my own life.

So, I think as I began to have awareness of my own actions, my own voice, my own words, I began to understand my importance to share that with the world. I began public speaking when I was six years old, been doing it ever since then, and I think there's just a great urgency to take action, now more than ever, as a young person, as a representative of one of the younger generations. And there's going to be more impact, especially today, with a President that has been elected in our country -- we need broad, bold, action today.

SHARMINI PERIES: Right. And your action far precedes the actions that you're planning, in terms of the Trump Presidency. You've been doing this for a long time. Give me some indication of the kinds of big campaigns you've been involved in. And I understand you're also in the midst of a court battle. Tell us a bit more about that.

XIUHTEZCATL MARTINEZ: Yeah, so one of the biggest fights I've been a part of is the anti-fracking movement here in Colorado. Where we are working directly to, sort of, protect our water, our air and the health of the people in our communities by putting bans and moratoriums on fracking across the State, which is a harmful extraction process of natural gas and fossil fuels that is really harming our communities. And we are also involved in a lawsuit against the State of Colorado, to hold our elected officials accountable for protecting people from fracking.

The larger lawsuit that I'm a part of, that has gotten a lot of media attention is, myself and 20 other youth plaintiffs, suing the Federal government for violating our constitutional rights to life, liberty and property. By failing to take action on climate change, because of their knowledge of climate change over the last several decades, and doing nothing in our favor to protect us in any significant way. So, that's a really important lawsuit that I'm a part of.

I've been on front-line movements here in Colorado, and in my own communities, to get pesticides out of parks, to work to transition away from fossil fuels infrastructure, towards renewable energy. You know, to promote more, just healthy, sustainable, lifestyles. I've done education programs all over the world as a speaker and, you know, a public kind of spokesperson, a voice for our generation. I've spoken at the UN a handful of times. I've given TED Talks. A lot of it is about getting more young people to realize that we need more young leaders out there.

You know, it's not just about me, or just about one organization. It's about all of us being a part of a greater movement to protect the planet for future generations.

SHARMINI PERIES: That's great. I'll come back to you about the court case against the government, but before I do that, let me go to Ms. Prakash. Varshini, talk about the ways in which you got involved in this very progressive movement of the Divestment Campaign on campuses and the major successes you've had so far.

VARSHINI PRAKASH: Yeah, absolutely. I resonate a lot with what Xiuhtezcatl is saying, and I remember feeling a lot, when I was younger, just this anger and a little bit of helplessness around seeing the world around me getting destroyed. Seeing us destroying our land, polluting our water, ruining the air for generations to come. And seeing the place that young people really are put into, where our whole futures are at stake because of what the fossil fuel industry is doing to our world, and our economy.

And when I got to college, I sort of, got really invested in environmental issues, and started organizing with the Divestment Campaign at U Mass Amherst. Mostly because I saw that this was one of the most impactful ways that youth were able to come together and take action collectively. And actually push our administrations to show what real moral leadership on climate looks like, and stand up for the values that they purported. And it was one of the ways that we could actually organize and mobilize hundreds to thousands of students on our campus, and across the country, to stand up to the fossil fuel industry, right in our homes.

So, yeah, that's a little bit of how I got involved. And then I was working on my campaign for two, three years, and actually, led a series of escalations and negotiations, and talked to hundreds of people on campus. And actually culminated this past spring in a direct action, where we held an occupation for five days. Engaged over 700 students, faculty, alumni and staff. And we actually won our campaign at the end of that, and have one debt estimate for U Mass as a result... so, yeah.

SHARMINI PERIES: That's great. Congratulations. So, let me go to Xiuhtezcatl here. The Earth Guardians is involved in a landmark U.S. federal climate lawsuit, and you mentioned that. Tell us about the legal case against the U.S. government and the polluting industries.

XIUHTEZCATL MARTINEZ: Right, so this is a lawsuit directly against U.S. federal government, for failing to adequately take action on climate change. Failing to mitigate the industries that have created this crisis, and actually creating laws in support of these very industries of the fossil fuel companies. What happened is, when we filed this lawsuit, it was immediately challenged by the U.S. government and the fossil fuel industry. They came together, one of the most powerful governments and one of the most powerful industries on the planet -- came together against 21 youth saying, "You do not have the right to file this lawsuit. You do not have the right to sue for your future."

And after this Motion to Dismiss was reviewed by two different judges. It went through the legal process, and they actually denied the Motion to Dismiss, and granted us easement to continue with our lawsuit forward. And we're actually going to be going to trial in May of 2017, of this year. So, we're very excited. I'm going to be testifying alongside a handful of our... judges, and a handful of our other youth plaintiffs, as well.

So, it's really exciting to see things have moved forward. In this first step, we have (audio skip) a multi-billion dollar conglomerate, of different fossil fuel companies, and the U.S. government. When they tried to take away our rights or use our legal system, you know, our legal system stood up for young voices. And we're kind of excited to see where, you know, this momentum takes us in the future, and can inspire other people all over the world to get involved in this way as well.

SHARMINI PERIES: Xiuhtezcatl, speaking about testifying, Rex Tillerson, the former CEO of ExxonMobil, at senate hearings for his nomination as Secretary of State -- purposefully obstructionist on the answer when he was questioned about Exxon, whether Exxon knew about climate change? And when they knew about it? Let's have a look.

REX TILLERSON: How I would deal with the past history I have, in my prior position with ExxonMobil. I've made clear in my disclosures, and I think in answers to questions that have been posed, that obviously there's a statutory recusal period, which I will adhere to, on any matters that might come before the State Department that deal directly and specifically with ExxonMobil.

Beyond that though, in terms of broader issues, dealing with the fact that it might involve the oil and natural gas industry itself, the scope of that is such that I would not expect to have to recuse myself. In any instance where there is any question or even the appearance, I would expect to seek the guidance of counsel from the Office Ethics in the State Department, and will follow their guidance as to whether it's an issue that I should recuse myself from. Yeah.

SHARMINI PERIES: So, I understand Rex Tillerson was called to testify in the Earth Guardian's legal case, as well. Why should the U.S. government and industry be held accountable for climate change? And what's your beef with Tillerson?

XIUHTEZCATL MARTINEZ: I think the reason that the U.S. government is accountable for protecting our climate is because of the Constitution, because we have constitutional rights as American citizens to life, liberty and property. As well as the public trust doctrine, which says that our resources are to be held in trust for present and future generations, including the earth, the air, the water. We understand that the atmosphere is a resource that doesn't belong to anybody, but that affects everybody, especially because of the climate crisis in place. We are affecting our atmosphere in an unprecedented way.

So, really, we have an inalienable right to a healthy climate because inaction on climate change means a direct violation on our life, our liberty and our property.
Every one of these 21 youth plaintiffs, myself included, has stories of how they're already being impacted on climate change. My story is about the forest in my hometown, about forest fires, about floods, heatwaves, shorter winters, droughts. And every young person has a different perspective, and we are the evidence in this lawsuit that shows that American citizens are having their constitutional rights violated, because our government is failing to protect us from the impacts of climate change.

And as time continues, you know, to pass by, it's only going to get worse, unless we find real concrete solutions in the very near future. What's really cool about this lawsuit is that we are working with top climate scientists, former NASA scientist James Hansen, to formulate a very concrete, solid, climate recovery plan. So, if we win this lawsuit at a national level, it'll actually have the courts enforce climate recovery solutions all over the nation. Reducing our greenhouse gas emissions by a significant amount every year.

We're not asking for money. We're not just doing this for show. We actually have a concrete plan for how to get the United States to take responsibility and accountability for their impact on the global climate crisis.

SHARMINI PERIES: All right. So, I imagine that the student action on Monday is going to also draw attention to this particular case you're doing. But let me go to you, Varshini. Tell us about the actions coming up on Monday across the country, and what you hope to accomplish with it, and the number of students you think are going to be involved in this effort.

VARSHINI PRAKASH: Yeah, absolutely. So, in the first 100 hours of the first 100 days of Trump's presidency, the Student Fossil Fuel Divestment Movement is going to be holding the first, and largest, youth-led national action of 2017. So, this coming Monday, January 23rd, 100's of students across the country will be walking out of class to resist and reject Donald Trump's dangerous policies and climate denialism. And I think we have more than enough proof to know that this next administration will be ignoring the realities of climate change, and instead, focusing on the interests of the one percent.

I mean, we've seen appointments of ExxonMobil CEO, Rex Tillerson, amongst Wall Street bankers and white supremacists and billionaires. And as young people with our futures at stake, we are demanding in this action that our institutions show what moral leadership on climate looks like. And stand up to Trump by divesting from the fossil fuel industry, and reinvesting in climate solutions that will help build a more equitable economy for all of us.

XIUHTEZCATL MARTINEZ: Right. And just to add on to that, I think that this is really a wake-up call to Donald Trump, to show him that there are almost 75 million young people under the age of 18 that didn't vote in this last election. But we will be suffering from the consequences of climate change because of his failure to act in this next four years.

Our right to a just and livable future is non-negotiable. This is... we are here to fight for our right to live in a country, and live in a world, that is unaffected by the climate crisis, and he has a responsibility as our President to play that role as a leader.

SHARMINI PERIES: Right. So, this is going to be, as we have discussed, a very fossil fuel friendly administration. Rex Tillerson, Secretary of State, anti-environmental regulations from... I guess, a supporter... former Oklahoma Attorney General, Scott Pruitt, as head of the EPA, and Rick Perry, who is planning to dismantle the EPA altogether.

So, given... I mean, I can go on with the list. This is the most anti-environmental climate change administration we'll ever have in power. And it's ironic, because the Paris Agreement has just been signed, but there's no indication that we will tilt in that direction.

So, Varshini, let me ask you, the Monday action is one action, but as you know from your success at University of Massachusetts Amherst, it's going to take a sustained effort to topple this administration who more or less, represents the ruling elite. Which happens to be in favor... climate change denials, and favors the fossil fuel industry, like the Koch brothers and Tillersons and Exxons and so forth. So, what is going to be your plan for sustained action in this area?

VARSHINI PRAKASH: Absolutely. Yeah, I think what you're saying is really right. Young people in this country are facing a ton of uncertainty and pain. I mean, we're up to our necks in debt. Our economy is unstable. Inequality is through the roof. Black and brown kids are being incarcerated. We know that a president who picks the interests of the one percent over the interests of the people, will never be the leader that we need to face what's coming, as evidenced by all those appointments.

And that's why we need really powerful movements now more than ever. And that's why youth are saying from day one -- we're not going to lie low. They want us to be scared. They want us to be depressed. They want us to be sad. But that's not what we're going to do. We're here to fight. And I think what this means is that our generation has to be the leaders of this country, that our President will never be. And we didn't ask for this responsibility. We're also extremely ready to take this fight into our own hands and push our institutions to demonstrate what leadership looks like.

Luckily, our movement knows how to wield people power. We've seen it over and over again, on college campuses in the fight for divestment. In the fight against Keystone, at Standing Rock where Water Protectors stood with dignity in the face of police dogs and pepper spray. Like, we really know that collective action works. And young people understand that now is the time for action, not the time for retreat. So, yes this is only the beginning.

And right after the action, we're actually laying out a strategy for a wave of continuing escalations throughout the spring, from coordinated student actions, to massive marches. And calling upon millions to resist, because we know we cannot just stand by while Trump stacks his cabinet with climate deniers and white supremacists and Wall Street bankers. The very same people who've been responsible for the pain caused over the last few decades, and the same people who are standing in the way of progress now.

SHARMINI PERIES: The top 500 or so university endowments, hold nearly $400 billion, if you can get people to divest on that, that could send a real message to the administration and those who control the coal, oil and gas industries.

So, let me go to you, Mr. Martinez. As Varshini said, you know, it's really going to take the next generation to force a change here. But we're locked into this administration for the next eight years -- that means a lot of education on the ground -- and lots of mobilization.

So, let me ask you the same question. What are you planning to do in order to mobilize the young people into action?

XIUHTEZCATL MARTINEZ: I think if you look at some of the most successful movements of our time, that have been directly towards fighting fossil fuel infrastructure, you can look at what happened in North Dakota. What is happening in North Dakota with the North Dakota Access Pipeline, where you know, the mobilization of people to protect indigenous land, indigenous rights to protect sacred water, and to kind of... the planet for future generations brought together, you know, tens of thousands of people. Millions of people supported, from all over the world, to support the stopping of this pipeline, and it's drilling across Dakota land. They're still drilling the pipeline, regardless of Obama's denial of a grant to easement, and people are still out there camping, protesting.

So, I think if we can find other ways to mobilizing and bringing people together in the way that what happened at Standing Rock, I think we're going to be incredibly successful. So, we have a series of days of divestment as well. For divesting from banks and getting, actually, different focuses of people all over the country, to pull money out of banks that are funding fossil fuel projects and that are funding pipelines, specifically all over the country.

A lot of action momentum is going to be going into these actions, as well as my own local community fighting to ban fracking. I think this year more than ever we're going to need concise, organized, undivided action from the environmental movement. We've been incredibly horrible at staying connected, and working together where, you know, if we have two different environmental organizations at the same place, you can't work together because everybody's squabbling over funding.

It's not about that. It's about the future of our planet. And it's not just about the environment anymore. It's about human rights and human lives. The climate crisis is taking human lives. We have millions of people that have become climate refugees because of the crisis at hand. And now more than ever, we have to pull our money, we have to pull our support and we have to pull our use out of fossil fuels. This is not an infrastructure that is going to be valid any longer.

Travelling to a country like Sweden showed me that, you know, they have one of the fastest growing economies in the world. And at the same time they have 50% off of fossil fuels, and plan to be 100% off of fossil fuels by 2040. It's remarkable. Like, we do not need fossil fuel infrastructures to sustain our economy, to have a healthy economy. We have to look towards the sun. We have to look towards renewable energy. We have to look towards young people, because the solutions are in our hands, and the movements will create the solutions that we need, are thought up in the minds of the youth today, with the support of every other generation.

So, we've got a lot of work to do, especially under this administration. Now more than ever it's time for people to unite. Set aside everything else that divides us and come together to protect this planet.

SHARMINI PERIES: All right, Varshini, let me give you the last word. If you were a young person out there who is just moved by what you two have just said, and want to get involved, how do they do it?

VARSHINI PRAKASH: Absolutely, join us. Wherever you are, whatever you want to do, you can find us on 350.org, or Students Divest.org, or on Facebook, I would say whatever you can, join us. Join an action. You can find those online. You can find those on Facebook and Twitter. Follow us. Join... takes like, meeting a few other people and taking action together to change the world. And I think we just need as many people to participate as possible.

So, I would just say like, no matter what, whoever you are, wherever you are, there is a place for you in this movement. There's a place for you, to fight the climate crisis, and it is possible, and we need you.

SHARMINI PERIES: Right. Varshini Prakash and Xiuhtezcatl Martinez, I thank you both for joining us today.

VARSHINI PRAKASH: Thank you so much.

XIUHTEZCATL MARTINEZ: Appreciate it.

SHARMINI PERIES: And thank you for joining us on The Real News Network.

http://therealnews.com/t2/story:18156:Students-Plan-National-Day-of-Action-Against-Trump%27s-Climate-Denial
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on January 23, 2017, 09:03:48 pm
An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power

https://youtu.be/-fzGq3A1Yc4

Al Gore's Prediction Comes True

Article and interesting videos at link:

http://www.ecowatch.com/gore-sequel-truth-to-power-2209223662.html
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on January 23, 2017, 09:59:15 pm
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Expanded photo gallery: Montpelier mobbed by women protesting Trump

Jan. 22, 2017, 11:53 pm by Anne Galloway

SNIPPET:

Police estimate between 15,000 and 20,000 people overwhelmed Montpelier on Saturday as part of the Women’s March at the Statehouse on Saturday. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-210614221847.gif&hash=54129e3b65760aaddc6f2d7f42b34a7d839d2f27) (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-200714183515.bmp&hash=4a3ad9d0a78a7e161f53ddd84f568082a5b0d2ad)  Read the story.  (at article link)


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Hundreds of Vermonters also traveled to Washington, D.C. to participate in a rally of 500,000 people who were demonstrating in protest of newly inaugurated President Donald Trump’s stances on women and people of color. Find the article here.  (at article link)


VTDigger interviewed Vermonters who attended Trump’s inauguration Friday. The story is here. (at article link)


MANY Great pictures at link!

https://vtdigger.org/2017/01/22/photo-gallery-montpelier-mobbed-women-protesting-trump/
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on January 24, 2017, 09:10:39 pm
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More than 100 Illinois architects publish open letter to Trump on climate change

By Nausheen Husain

January 23, 2017, 10:10 AM
More than 120 architecture and design firms from Illinois signed an open letter last week to President Donald Trump pressing the new president on climate change and energy use. The letter originated from Architects Advocate, a group started in July by four partners at Chicago-based Krueck+Sexton Architects. The group has not received a response from the Trump administration yet.

The goal of the advocacy group, according to one of the organization's founders, Tom Jacobs, is to enact meaningful legislation to mitigate the effects of climate change. For now, Jacobs said, it's important for the architect community to speak out.

"I always found it odd that it was agreed upon that climate change action was needed," Jacobs said, "but the thought was not loudly out there."

The letter advocates that the Trump administration create an even playing field among all energy sources by providing subsidies for renewable energy technologies, instead of just for the fossil fuel and nuclear energy industries. It also asks that the U.S. continue its participation in the Paris Climate Agreement, from which President Trump has indicated he may want to retreat. The Trump administration's plan on energy, called An America First Energy Plan, has so far focused on the rejection of "burdensome regulations," as well as tapping domestic energy reserves to lessen the dependence on foreign oil.

Read the Letter at article link.


Illinois companies that have signed the letter:

•2 Point Perspective Inc.: Architecture + Interiors, Chicago
•2rz Architecture, Chicago
•34-Ten, Chicago
•AltusWorks, Chicago
•Antunovich Associates, Chicago
•Archeworks, Chicago
•Archimage Architects Ltd., Chicago
•Architects Advocate, Chicago
•Architecture Is Fun, Chicago
•Denise R. Arnold LLC, Chicago
•Bailey Edward Design, Chicago
•Bauer Latoza Studio, Chicago
•Lee Bey Architectural Photography, Chicago
•bKL Architecture, Chicago
•Booth Hansen, Chicago
•Boyer Architects LLC, Evanston
•Brininstool + Lynch, Chicago
•Brubaker Design, Chicago
•Brush Architects, Chicago
•Burhani Design Architects, Chicago
•CAMESgibson, Chicago
•Casagrande Architects LLC, Chicago
•Circo Architects, Riverside
•Civic Projects, Oak Park
•Cook Architectural Design Studio, Chicago
•Cordogan Clark & Associates, Chicago
•David Fleener Architects, Chicago
•Deanna Berman Design Alternatives, Chicago
•Design Smak, Evanston
•Design Team, Highland Park
•Development Management Associates, Chicago
•Dirk Denison Architects, Chicago
•Eastlake Studio, Chicago
•Eckenhoff Saunders Architects, Chicago
•Ellipsis Architecture, Chicago
•Farr Associates, Chicago
•Fieldwork Design Group, Chicago
•Greater Good Studio, Chicago
•Terry Guen Design Associates, Chicago
•Harboe Architects, Chicago
•Tom Harris Architectural Photography, Chicago
•Hartshorne Plunkard Architecture, Chicago
•Heitzman Architects, Oak Park
•Hinterlands Urbanism and Landscape, Chicago
•HJKessler Associates, Chicago
•Holbert and Associates, Chicago
•Heidrun Hoppe Associates, Evanston
•HouseHaus, Chicago
•HPZS, Chicago
•husARchitecture Inc., Chicago
•Paul Hydzik Photography, Chicago
•JAHN, Chicago
•JDD-Architects, Chicago
•JGMA, Chicago
•Jurassic Studio, Chicago
•Edward Keegan Architect, Chicago
•Kipnis Architecture + Planning, Chicago
•Krueck + Sexton Architects, Chicago
•Kuklinski + Rappe Architects, Chicago
•Landon Bone Baker Architects Ltd., Chicago
•Latent Design, Chicago
•Lawton Stanley Architects, Chicago
•Legat Architects, Chicago
•Lenet, Chicago
•Lightswitch Architectural, Chicago
•Liv Companies, Burr Ridge
•MAS Studio, Chicago
•Mauro Crestani & Associates, Chicago
•McKay Landscape Architects, Chicago
•Dan Miller Architects Ltd., Chicago
•Morgante Wilson Architects, Evanston
•moss, Chicago
•MRSA Architects, Chicago
•MX3 ARCHITECTS, Chicago
•Nadi Design, Chicago
•Nicholas Design Collaborative, Chicago
•Norman Kelley, Chicago
•Northlight Architects LLC, Chicago
•Nushu, Chicago
•OKW Architects, Chicago
•Pappageorge Haymes Partners, Chicago
•Carlo Parente Architect, Chicago
•Paul Preissner Architects, Chicago
•Charles Pipal, Riverside
•Prassas Landscape Studio LLC, Chicago
•Public Design Architects, Oak Park
•Vladimir Radutny Architects, Chicago
•Kathryn Quinn Architects, Chicago
•(r)evolution architecture, LaGrange
•Risinger + Associates, Chicago
•Rockford Architects Inc., Rockford
•Rockwell Associates Architects, Evanston
•Ross Barney Architects, Chicago
•Thomas Roszak Architecture, Chicago
•Rubiostudio, Chicago
•S. Conger Architects, Chicago
•Sam Marts Architects & Planners, Chicago
•scrafano architects, Chicago
•Searl Lamaster Howe Architects, Chicago
•Serena Sturm Architects, Chicago
•SHED Studio, Chicago
•site, Chicago
•SKJN Architekten Corp., Chicago
•SMNG A Ltd., Chicago
•SPACE Architects + Planners, Chicago
•STL Architects, Chicago
•Walter Street ARCHITECTURE, Chicago
•Studio Dwell Architects, Chicago
•Studio Nigro Architecture + Design, Chicago
•Suski Design, Chicago
•The Organic Garden Coach, Downers Grove
•Thirst, Chicago
•Threshold Acoustics LLC, Chicago
•Tilton, Chicago
•Topiarius, Chicago
•UrbanWorks, Chicago
•Constantine D. Vasilios & Associates Ltd, Chicago
•Vinci | Hamp Architects, Chicago
•visualizedconcepts inc., Chicago
•von Weise Associates, Chicago
•Rinda West Landscape Designs, Chicago
•Whitney Inc., Oak Brook
•Stephen J. Wierzbowski, Chicago
•Worn Jerabek Wiltse Architects P.C., Chicago
•Wrap Architecture, Chicago
•Gerhard Zinserling Architects, Chicago

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/data/ct-architects-advocate-letter-htmlstory.html


Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on January 25, 2017, 02:51:55 pm
Meet the Amazing Women Fighting to Preserve the Arctic Refuge From Drilling

SNIPPET:

To oil companies in Washington D.C., the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is nothing more than a place to drill.

To the Gwich’in community of Alaska and Northern Canada, it’s their home. After 30 years of fighting to protect the area, the community is still doing everything they can to keep oil companies off their land.

Fortunately, the non-profit conservation group Alaska Wilderness League and the apparel company Patagonia have joined forces to help the community with their mission by releasing a 15-minute documentary called “The Refuge.” The film tells the story of two Gwich’in women fighting to protect their home and gives viewers an insight into the struggles of the Gwich’in. 

Video in article:
https://youtu.be/A4DH5cK37Y8

http://www.onegreenplanet.org/environment/women-fighting-to-preserve-the-arctic-refuge-from-drilling/
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on January 25, 2017, 08:32:20 pm
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@Scout_Finch on Twitter
   
Wednesday Jan 25, 2017 · 10:36 AM EST


SNIPPET:

Popular Science noted how dangerous this is for the public at-large, "Late Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis once wrote that “sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants.” Science will suffer without transparency—and so will we."

Rogue scientists are plotting to fight back. An “alt” account popped up on Twitter with news of a scientists march on Washington after the National Park Service feeds were ordered to be shut down:


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AltUSNatParkService  ‎@AltNatParkSer 


Can't wait for President Trump to call us FAKE NEWS.

You can take our official twitter, but you'll never take our free time!

10:07 PM - 24 Jan 2017

 
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 200,813 200,813 likes
 

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on January 25, 2017, 09:40:21 pm
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2950-10K • 11 min 27 sec ago

Regarding the election that just took place....We all knew that if the illegal seizure of our government was successful, the future of the entire planet would end up in deep peril. Weeks of opportunity went by to legally correct and redirect this evil back to where it came from. I'm still outraged the election wasn't declared invalid. It seems not a single Dem including Obama nor our Justice dept. cared to step up and do what was right for humanity. Obama wouldn't even fire Comey.

Sure, we've turned a blind eye to election fraud before, and it got us into endless war that is still costing trillions, not to mention a crashed economy. This time however it's far more evil. The entire planet is about to get sodomized by a few bloated old wheezers/sniffers with bad hair dye, and it seems we are all just standing by and watching the assault unfold.

How many years do the Koch's have left, a couple at best? ....and how many more billions do they need?

Just in case you haven't figured it out yet, I'm sure most have....Trump has the same type of mental illness that Hitler had. Standing in his shadows are Pence, Ryan, and McConnell ... just plain old SS type dumb- asses, all totally ignorant of the magnitude of what is about to unfold.

I sure hope I'm wrong, but I'm afraid the only way to stop this now is the old fashion way. Crack open your history books...it ain't pretty.

http://www.thomhartmann.com/blog/2017/01/coming-war-net-neutrality
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on January 25, 2017, 10:31:26 pm
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Weather's Not Great in Europe

Europe is facing an increase in "multiple climatic hazards," with conditions expected to worsen due to the growing effects of climate change, according to a new European Environment Agency (EEA) report.

The comprehensive report accounts for the effects of climate change on increased extreme weather across the continent, including heat waves, floods, droughts, and storms.

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The EEA projects that the southern region will become a "climate change hot spot" as temperatures continue to rise.

The report also finds that climate-related extreme weather events cost the EU € 400 billion since 1980 and have caused over 80,000 deaths in that period.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-europe-climatechange-idUSKBN15912K



Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on January 26, 2017, 01:23:35 pm
Agelbert NOTE: Excellent Comment on a lame stream media article pretending that Trump is not a climate denier in the service of the Fossil fuel Industry.

The Washington Post

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SNIPPET:
By Todd Stern 

January 24

Todd Stern, a visiting lecturer at Yale Law School, was U.S. special envoy for climate change from 2009 to 2016.


As President Trump takes the reins of power, anxiety and uncertainty are the order of the day for those concerned about the threat of climate change. Trump has ranged from disbelieving (climate change is a Chinese “hoax”) to dismissive (we should “cancel” the 2015 Paris agreement) to open (“I’m looking at it very closely. . . . I have an open mind to it”) on the issue. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-030815183114.gif&hash=2bf1553e87e8605311feb874231953d5fb88ee9c)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/trump-can-make-the-deal-of-the-century-on-climate/2017/01/24/903cf778-e199-11e6-a547-5fb9411d332c_story.html?utm_term=.e2f7d1f8918a


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billwilson18041

1/25/2017 6:06 PM EST

On one side you see a Real Estate agent who got rich not paying back his debts and abusing our courts. On the other side we have every scientific organization in the world that studies the subject of man made climate change saying it is real and needs urgent attention.
 
So never mind the millions dying prematurely from fossil fuel burning, the millions of asthma's, rare cancers and massive environmental harms because he already knows it is bad for R. Estate sales especially his Florida bunker.

Full speed ahead with DAPL and KeystoneXL despite the war on ourselves and warnings it means game over.

The evidence is already in and Uncle Donald wants our R. Estate from sea to sea to monetize it and keep all the costs off the cooked books of his oil buddies and his cabal.

And the Reich Wing talk hosts know far more than the scientists too so count on millions being glad for the r a p e and pillage as they stuff their pockets selling out their own children.

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on January 27, 2017, 05:40:09 pm
Ebell: (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-311013200859.png&hash=a7aaaa9f04c1e3e2c948723b5f8c13fe814dacd4)  Purge Necessary at EPA to Rid 'Scientists Who Believe the Global Warming Alarmist Agenda'

 Climate Nexus

In various interviews on Thursday, former U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) transition chief Myron Ebell confirmed the Trump team would probably seek significant cuts to the agency's workforce and budget, but would not provide details of specific policy recommendations he made to the president.

Ebell, who told the AP that the federal government has "been staffed with scientists who believe the global-warming alarmist agenda," floated the idea of downsizing EPA from 15,000 to 5,000 employees as an "aspirational goal" but acknowledged that getting cuts that significant past Congress would be a challenge for the administration.

On the Hill, Sen Tom Harper, D-DE, blasted EPA Administrator nominee Scott Pruitt for giving answers "shockingly devoid of substance" to senators' written follow-up questions, as Oklahoman environmental lawyers lobbied lawmakers Wednesday to highlight Pruitt's cozy relationship with industry during his time as Oklahoma attorney general.

http://www.ecowatch.com/ebell-epa-purge-2218823381.html

Agelbert NOTE: The future looks BRIGHT, for Tardigrades.  Welcome to Fossil Fuel World. If humanity survives the current Fascist Fuel Industry PUPPET (Trumplethinskin (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-270117175421.png&hash=cf39e823dd9156833bfa885808a876bf518bd0d6) (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Fp8.gif&hash=34db9228a959b3b83fc65b38a1aa92a40d56f976) ) at the White House, it will be a miraculous event. Have a nice day.

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DOOM WEEK ON PLANET EARTH
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It REALLY WAS a good ride, not for you and me, but for TPTB. So expect them to do WHATEVER to prolong their RIDE, against all scientific evidence that EXPLOITATION WITHOUT REFLECTION OF FELLOW EARTHLINGS OF ALL SPECIES (not just humans) AND THE BIOSPHERE FOR PROFIT OVER PLANET is deleterious (i.e. SUICIDAL/abysmally STUPID) to the Homo SAP species.

Tomorrow is Yesterday...
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on January 30, 2017, 08:24:36 pm
'A Nightmare Without An End': Wildfires Burn Out Of Control In Chile

January 27, 201712:15 PM ET

The government of Chile says wildfires that have killed at least 10 people are the worst blazes in the country's history.

Several firefighters are among the dead.

"We have never seen anything on this scale, never in the history of Chile," President Michelle Bachelet said earlier this week, after her administration declared a state of emergency. "The truth is that the forces are doing everything humanly possible and will continue until they can contain and control the fires."

Reporting from Rio de Janeiro, NPR's Philip Reeves said Thursday that hundreds of thousands of acres have been destroyed in the southern and central parts of the country and that an entire town was incinerated. "Reports say flames ripped through a place called Santa Olga, burning down its kindergarten, post office and about 1,000 homes," he said.

At least one body was recovered from the ashes in Santa Olga, according to Deutsche Welle, and about 6,000 residents fled the city as the flames moved in.
"This is an extremely serious situation — of horror, a nightmare without an end," the mayor of the coastal city of Constitucion told the German broadcaster. "Everything burned."

The fast-spreading flames have laid waste to forests and vineyards, Phil reported. Chile is a major exporter of wine and grapes and has a growing timber market.
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While fires are common in Chile at this time of year, "these have taken on disastrous proportions, thanks to prolonged drought, strong winds and unusually hot weather," Phil said.

In addition to local weather patterns, which themselves are shaped by global climate change, a review of Chile's wildfires published in November in the journal Global and Planetary Change warned the "pattern, frequency and intensity" of wildfires in the country "has grown at an alarming rate" in recent years, in part because of intensive forest management practices that led to a large amount of flammable fuel in the country's forests.

As of Thursday morning, Chile's National Emergency Bureau was tracking 100 active fires covering about 920 square miles, 30 of which have been contained, according to The New York Times.

The newspaper reported:
"In total, 4,000 people — including firefighters, troops and national forestry bureau officers — and 46 aircraft have been deployed to combat the fires, according to the National Emergency Bureau.

"Some residents, lacking any training or protective gear, have used tree branches and bottles of water to try to douse the flames.
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The Chilean government has appealed for international help. The U.S. Embassy in Santiago said earlier this week that the U.S. government was donating $100,000 "for the local procurement and delivery of firefighting equipment, such as chainsaws and weather monitoring tools requested by the National Forestry Corporation."

The U.S. Agency for International Development and the U.S. Forest Service sent four people to "assess the situation and advise local authorities."

On Wednesday, a privately owned Boeing 747 "supertanker" plane arrived in Santiago to help control the fires from the air. Such planes are capable of dumping 20,000 gallons of flame retardant, Wired magazine reported.

The aircraft is owned by Colorado Springs, Colo.-based Global SuperTanker Services, according to The Gazette newspaper.

The paper reported that the mission, including a 12-person crew, was paid for by Fundación Viento Sur, which is part of the Walton Family Foundation and run by Ben Walton and his Chilean-native wife, Lucy Ana Walton de Avilés. The New York Times reported the price tag for the supertanker was $2 million.

The plane is being deployed in the Maule region, north of the destroyed town of Santa Olga, according to Deutsche Welle.

Several Pictures at link:
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/01/27/511975089/a-nightmare-without-an-end-wildfires-burn-out-of-control-in-chile
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on February 01, 2017, 02:14:57 pm
Agelbert NOTE: Anchor dragging on a ship the size of a U.S. Navy’s guided missile cruiser is more evidence that the extremely rough ocean conditions predicted due to Catastrophic Climate Change are increasingly being experienced.  :o  :(

U.S. Navy Ship Runs Aground Off Japan

January 31, 2017 by gCaptain .3K

USS Antietam (CG54). U.S. Navy file photo (at article link)


The U.S. Navy’s guided missile cruiser USS Antietam ran aground off the coast of Yokosuka, Japan on Tuesday, damaging the ship’s props and causing hydraulic oil to spill into the water.

The incident was first reported by the Navy Times. The report, citing two Navy officials familiar with the incident, says the ship grounded after dragging anchor in high winds near its home port of Yokosuka. The grounding caused the ship to dump some 1,100 gallons of oil into the water, the officials said.

The extent of the damage and grounding is unclear, but the U.S. Navy did confirm that the ship damaged during anchoring in a statement obtained by gCaptain.com.

In the statement, the Navy confirmed that the Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser USS Antietam (CG 54) damaged its propellers while anchoring in Tokyo Bay in the vicinity of Yokosuka, Japan, Jan. 31. The ship was towed back to port following the incident.

“The ship safely returned to Fleet Activities Yokosuka with the help of tugs. There were no injuries to U.S. or Japanese personnel. The incident did result in the discharge of hydraulic oil into the water,” the Navy statement said.

“The Navy is cooperating with the Government of Japan and Japanese Coast Guard in response to this issue and is taking appropriate measures to minimize impacts to the environment,” the statement added.

The Navy has launched and investigation to assess the full extent of the damage. 

The USS Antietam is homeported in Yokosuka, Japan.

http://gcaptain.com/report-us-navy-ship-antietam-runs-aground-off-japan/


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Philippines Asks China :o to Patrol Piracy-Plagued Waters

January 31, 2017 by Reuters l 

International Maritime Bureau map showing reported incidents of piracy in southeast Asia during 2016. Image: IMB Piracy Reporting Centre (at article link)

ReutersMANILA, Jan 31 (Reuters) – Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte on Tuesday said he had asked China to help in the fight against Islamic State-linked militants by sending ships to patrol southern waters plagued by raids on commercial vessels.

Speaking to newly promoted army generals, Duterte said he had sought China’s help in dangerous waters in the south to check the activities of Abu Sayyaf, a Muslim rebel group sustained by piracy and kidnap-for-ransom activities.

A surge in piracy off parts of the Philippines is forcing ship-owners to divert vessels through other waters, pushing up costs and shipping times.

Duterte said piracy in the Sulu Sea between eastern Malaysia and the southern Philippines would escalate to levels seen in Somalia, and raise insurance costs for firms and increase prices of consumer goods and services.

“We would be glad if they have their presence there … just to patrol,” Duterte said, adding that China could send coastguard vessels, not necessarily “gray” warships.

“In the Malacca Strait and here in Sulu Sea remains to be a big problem,” he said. The Malacca Strait, between Malaysia’s west coast and the Indonesian island of Sumatra, has over the years also been plagued by pirates.

He did not say if China had responded.

The Philippines, Malaysia and Indonesia had an agreement to patrol and tackle the Abu Sayyaf in the Sulu and Celebes Sea after they kidnapped the crew of Indonesian and Malaysian tug boats and South Korean and Vietnamese merchant ships.

Philippine Defence Secretary Delfin Lorenzana last week said cooperation might be expanded to include Brunei and Singapore. The United States has also expressed concern about the security problem and held exercises with Malaysia and the Philippines last year.

Lorenzana said on Tuesday the military had intensified operations on land with the aim of defeating Abu Sayyaf within six months. (Reporting by Manuel Mogato; Editing by Martin Petty, Robert Birsel)

(c) Copyright Thomson Reuters 2017.

http://gcaptain.com/philippines-asks-china-patrol-piracy-plagued-waters/
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on February 10, 2017, 02:35:49 pm
Hundreds of Pilot Whales Die in Devastating Mass Stranding in New Zealand

Lorraine Chow

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http://www.ecowatch.com/pilot-whales-stranded-new-zealand-2252575529.html

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on February 10, 2017, 02:44:30 pm
Kids Name Trump as Defendant in Landmark Climate Case

Our Childrens Trust

SNIPPET:

Youth plaintiffs (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F19.gif&hash=3f9f2fc2285bc756137e21463bc2a4c420b15ac3) in Juliana v. United States filed a notice Thursday with a federal court in Oregon, naming Donald J. Trump as a defendant in their landmark climate case on pace for trial this fall. Plaintiffs have substituted President Trump as a named party in place of former President Barack Obama under the Federal Rules.

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http://www.ecowatch.com/trump-kids-climate-lawsuit-2250707551.html
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on February 10, 2017, 02:57:31 pm
https://youtu.be/KByJUYJX42U
http://www.ecowatch.com/trump-kids-climate-lawsuit-2250707551.html

Agelbert NOTE: The Trump profit over planet rampage on behalf of the fossil fuel industry polluters is in full swing, no matter what assurance you get from EPA officials in public statements. The truth is that they will not stop until they are thrown out. The Trump Administration is the enemy of the biosphere. The damage they will do, if they are not stopped quickly, will most likely be beyond our ability to repair.

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"What Trump wants to eradicate is science for the people, science in the public interest. He's not talking about defunding corporations and their investigation of science. He's talking about defunding the government and their scientific research. And so, that actually links with... dovetails with his assault on education, on health care, and it's really an assault on the facts, on truth. And that is the broader battle that we're engaged in." -- CHRIS WILLIAMS

http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=18294

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on February 11, 2017, 01:56:10 pm
February 10, 2017

How U.S. States and Cities Can Take on Climate Change in Spite of Trump's Denialism

Daphne Wysham warns that a carbon tax plan proposed by Republican elder statesmen would roll back critically important environmental regulations   >:(

https://youtu.be/OgGXS45PyQk

http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=18350


William W Haywood
We must remember that science cannot lie about climate change. And is atmospheric mining of CO2 possible?

agelbert > William W Haywood

Agreed.

As to extracting CO2 from the atmosphere, it is not possible with the present technology to get it below 5,000 PPM. Yes, we are at a bout 400 PPM and the composite equivalent GHG level is at about 490 PPM (Dr. Chu). So why do I mention that huge number of 5,000 PPM as the best we can do? Because the U.S. Navy has not been able to achieve any better than that in their nuclear powered submarines. In fact, THAT is the main reason they have to surface. They run the atmosphere at about 8,000 PPM CO2. They need to be below 12,000 PPM because that is when people start to have cognitive problems from anoxia. running at 8,000 PPM CO2 is the most economically feasible level they can achieve right now. And 5,000 PPM of CO2 is the absolute limit of the scrubbing technology. When the fossil fuel industry claims that CO2 extraction from the atmosphere is now doable, meaning we can all "keep burning fossil fuels", they are lying.

So, yeah, machines that can get the earth's atmosphere back to 350 PPM is a pipe dream. The only sound policy is to stop burning fossil fuels. And even that still guarantees nearly another 100 years of global warming from the baked in pollution. We are headed for extinction because of profit over planet insanity.

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on February 12, 2017, 10:22:29 pm
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https://youtu.be/t580j47Y0Do
Gary Null and Guy Mcpherson: collapse of civilization within next 10 years, due to climate change

Published on Jan 26, 2017

The Gary Null Show – 01.26.17

How long does humanity have? A look at feedback loops and worse case scenarios for our species


Dr. Guy McPherson is a professor emeritus of Natural Resources, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Arizona. He has specialized in forest resources, energy decline and climate change and its economic consequences. In the past he has also taught at Texas A&M and University of California at Berkeley.

Having become disillusioned with the American university environment and academia, and after attempts by university officials to silence his outspokenness about the human causes of climate change, Guy abandoned his tenured position as a full professor for ethical reasons of conscience.

He is the author of several books, the latest co-written with Carolyn Baker entitled “Extinction Dialogs: How to Live with Death in Mind.”

He is also the co-host of the radio program Nature Bats Last heard every Tuesday evening at 3 pm Eastern time on the Progressive Commentary Hour. His website is GuyMcpherson.com
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on February 14, 2017, 07:43:40 pm
Dahr Jamail to Joanna Macy
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During the end of 2016 you held several one-week intensives where you spoke of seeing people wanting, more than anything, to simply be able to be present and feel this time, despite how painful and heartbreaking that is to do now. You said that instead of doing so, particularly at this time when so much is vanishing before our eyes, and the planet is screaming at us at the top of what is left of its lungs, people are choosing to put their heads in the bucket of manure that is our corporate press, and infinite other distractions. Please talk more about all of these.

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Learning to See in the Dark Amid Catastrophe

 An Interview With Deep Ecologist Joanna Macy

 Monday, February 13, 2017 

By Dahr Jamail, Truthout | Interview

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It's 3:23 in the morning
and I'm awake
because my great great grandchildren
won't let me sleep
my great great grandchildren
ask me in dreams
what did you do while the planet was plundered?
what did you do when the earth was unraveling?
—Drew Dellinger

We are living in a time of the convergence of multiple cataclysmic forces: runaway anthropogenic climate disruption (ACD), chronic wars and the most grotesque economic inequality ever witnessed on Earth. And all are worsening by the day.

Humans have changed the chemistry of the oceans and altered the very atmosphere of Earth. The planet's largest ecosystems are in free-fall collapse as ACD proceeds apace. Racism, sexism, xenophobia and myriad other structural forms of hate are amplifying around the globe as a fascist authoritarian has ascended to the US presidency, the most powerful office in the world. This reality-television star, failed businessman, sexual predator, and hate-and-fear monger is clearly aiming for the fast track toward totalitarian rule.

"[The totalitarian leaders'] careers reproduce the features of earlier mob leaders: failure in professional and social life, perversion and disaster in private life," Hannah Arendt, author of the essential The Origins of Totalitarianism, wrote. "The fact that their lives prior to their political careers had been failures, naïvely held against them by the more respectable leaders of the old parties, was the strongest factor in their mass appeal."

Sound familiar?


Origins, published in 1951, should be mandatory reading for anyone concerned about what is happening in the US right now, and what may be to come. Arendt, a world-renowned and respected philosopher during her time, could have also been called a prophet.

"The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist," Arendt also wrote. "But people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists."

Many believe that Trump's chief strategist and senior counsel, Steve Bannon -- the racist, Islamophobic, anti-Semitic, misogynist former chief executive of Breitbart -- is essentially the puppeteer pulling the strings. Bannon's goal? "I want to bring everything crashing down, and destroy all of today's establishment," he told the Daily Beast in 2013.

More recently, just after Trump won the election, Bannon was quoted by The Hollywood Reporter as saying, "Darkness is good. Dick Cheney. Darth Vader. Satan. That's power." (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-311013200859.png&hash=a7aaaa9f04c1e3e2c948723b5f8c13fe814dacd4)

The news on all fronts is truly horrific. Yet as these malevolent forces charge ahead, equal and opposite reactions of resistance, awakening and love for humanity and the planet are emerging. Not even one month into the presidency, the Trump administration has spawned global demonstrations the likes of which are comparable to those that occurred in February 2003 in opposition to the US-led invasion of Iraq.

Clearly an awakening is well underway.

Hannah Arendt begins Origins with an epigram from her teacher Karl Jaspers that seems apt: "Give in neither to the past nor the future. What matters is to be entirely present."

That statement parallels what I was told by one of the great teachers of our time, Joanna Macy.

"The most radical thing any of us can do at this time is to be fully present to what is happening in the world," she told me in 2006.

Macy, an eco-philosopher and a scholar of Buddhism, general systems theory and deep ecology, cofounded with her husband Fran Macy a method of grieving, healing and empowerment that evolved into what is now called the Work That Reconnects.

I attended one of her workshops in 2006 in order to deal with the Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder I was struggling with as a result of my reporting from the front lines in Iraq, and wrote about that experience here.

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After taking some time to herself in the wake of Trump's ascendency to power, Macy emerged with an offering of a retreat in Abiqui, New Mexico, aptly titled, "In the Dark, the Eye Learns to See."

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on February 14, 2017, 10:54:29 pm
Act now before entire species are lost to global warming, say scientists
Climate change is threatening about 700 endangered species and policymakers must act urgently to lessen impact.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/feb/13/act-before-entire-species-lost-global-warming-say-scientists
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on February 15, 2017, 10:06:31 pm
"Climate Change is the Greatest Market Failure in History" - Dan Miller

https://youtu.be/vms9wQYjfeQ
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Published on Feb 15, 2017

Thom speaks with Dan Miller (Managing Director, The Roda Group) about the benefits of a "fee and dividend" system for carbon emissions where citizens could get paid the more fossil fuels are extracted. But, would it be at the expense of important regulations on polluters?
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on February 16, 2017, 12:03:45 pm
Al Gore: Climate Changes Health

SNIPPET:

Today we face a challenging political climate, but the climate crisis shouldn't be political. It is not only the greatest existential crisis we face: it is also causing a global health emergency, where the stakes are life and death.

Because of the urgency of these threats, several partners and I are hosting a Climate & Health Meeting Thursday at the Carter Center in Atlanta, Georgia. The event will fill a void left when the Climate & Health Summit, originally to be hosted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), was abruptly cancelled last month.

http://www.ecowatch.com/al-gore-climate-health-summit-2263378610.html

The Fossil Fuelers   DID THE Climate Trashing, human health depleteing CRIME,   but since they have ALWAYS BEEN liars and conscience free crooks, they are trying to AVOID   DOING THE TIME or     PAYING THE FINE!     Don't let them get away with it! Pass it on!    (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F176.gif&hash=121533221905789c6b8d57a9603883266d349266)


Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on February 16, 2017, 04:32:07 pm
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Fossil fuels subsidies ‘jeopardising climate deal’, say major investors

Published on 15/02/2017, 12:01am
 
A group of investors and insurers who manage $2.8trn has called on the G20 to end public funding for coal, oil and gas by 2020   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fcliparts.co%2Fcliparts%2FBig%2FEgq%2FBigEgqBMT.png&hash=e7eec62f009cdd686ce795fad0a53c6befe748e9)

By Karl Mathiesen 


Investors with US$2.8 trillion  :o under management have called on the world’s leading economies to stop subsidising fossil fuels within four years.

The group, which includes insurance brands Legal & General and Aviva, issued a statement on Wednesday calling for a 2020 deadline to be set for a phase out of subsidies for coal, oil and gas by the G20 nations. G20 foreign ministers are meeting this week ahead of a leaders’ summit in Hamburg in July.

The G7 nations have pledged to end their subsidies by 2025, but much of the world’s carbon emissions growth is coming from countries on the next rung of the economic ladder.

The G20, which encompasses many of the world’s emerging economies, have agreed to phase out “inefficient fossil fuel subsidies that encourage wasteful consumption” over the “medium term”. But despite increasing pressure from civil society and some countries within the G20, the commitment has remained hazy.

The group of fund managers, many of which hold large fossil fuel investments, said a clear signal from the world’s biggest economies would give them the confidence to shift capital towards clean energy.

Meryam Omi, head of sustainability and responsible investment strategy at Legal and General, said: “The current level of inefficient subsidies and lack of transparency are jeopardising the global goal of meeting the Paris climate targets and of ensuring a secure, healthy and reliable energy system.

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Subsidies can come in the form of tax breaks, direct finance and indirect assistance but the definition is a subject of debate. Because of this, estimates of global fossil fuel subsidies vary widely, but even conservative estimates set the annual spend in the hundreds of billions.

Secretary general of the Mercator Research Institute Brigitte Knopf leads a task force charged with advising on the G20 meeting’s climate agenda. She said the topic of phasing out fossil fuel subsidies would be discussed at the meeting.

“However, in the current political situation we will see what is realistic in the end,” she said. The meeting will be the first multilateral talks attended by the new US president Donald Trump and a major test of his anti-globalist agenda.

The US has led on this matter in the past, last year presenting a joint peer review with China. Germany and Mexico are set to follow suit. But Trump has already reversed many of the pro-climate initiatives of his predecessor Barack Obama.

On fossil fuel subsidies, Knopf said “a clear deadline would certainly help with this endeavour. However, a phase-out year of 2020 is very ambitious. In 2016, the G7 have agreed on a date of 2025 and I don’t expect that the G20 can become more ambitious than the already positive signal of a joint 2025 deadline. It is also very well possible for the G20 to come out with a two-step approach of different speeds, meaning that the industrialized countries agree to phase out earlier than the emerging economies.”

Shelagh Whitley, head of climate and energy at the ODI, said ministers and leaders meeting in Hamburg in July must heed the financial sector.

“Global investors and insurers are sending a clear message to governments that burning public money through fossil fuel subsidies is not just bad for the planet, but bad economic policy too,” she said.

A similar call was made by three insurers ahead of last year’s of G20 nations in China. In repeating their statement they were joined by a dozen investment groups and insurers. In terms of wealth managed, the group is equal in size to the world’s largest public fund - the US Social Security Trust Funds –  and more than three times larger than the largest sovereign wealth fund, Norway’s.

Foreign ministers from the G20 will meet in Bonn, Germany, later this week.

http://www.climatechangenews.com/2017/02/15/fossil-fuels-subsidies-jeopardising-climate-deal-say-major-investors/

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"The fossil fuel industry swallows up $5.3 trillion a year worldwide in hidden costs to keep burning fossil fuels, according to the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
 
This money, the IMF noted, is in addition to the $492 billion in direct subsidies offered by governments around the world through write-offs and write-downs and land-use loopholes.

In a sane world these subsidies would be invested to free us from the deadly effects of carbon emissions caused by fossil fuels, but we do not live in a sane world. "  -- Chris Hedges

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on February 17, 2017, 05:21:49 pm

No, absolutely not — the NOAA did not ‘fake’ any climate change data

The fact that we are still debating man-made climate change in 2017 is depressing. We have thousands of peer reviewed studies, a scientific consensus, and even an international agreement on climate change — but some people just don’t get it. Or rather, they don’t want to get it. In a recently published article, David Rose from the Daily Mail claims that we were all tricked into believing climate change is real when nothing’s really happening. This is, to put it in a term that mister Rose might understand, bollocks.


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The article came out with the title Exposed: How world leaders were duped into investing billions over manipulated global warming data. First of all, the title is a true Daily Mail classic — it has all the right clickbait elements. A catchy and needless intro to grab your attention (Exposed), strong words to show how they have the truth and everyone else is wrong (duped, manipulated), and big words to show the scale of the “lie” (world leaders, investing billions).

It is, indeed, a true tabloid title, but that’s the least of the problems here. The article caused quite a stir last week, with people presumably believing it to be true — though truth is likely of secondary importance for most Mail readers. The gist was about two climate scientists arguing about methodology. Not about the validity of any climate data, just about the methodology. This type of argument is quite common in most fields of science but can be easily taken out of context by an ill-intentioned “journalist.”

Basically, Rose interviewed retired NOAA scientist John Bates, who expressed some criticism about his former colleague, Thomas Karl, particularly about a 2015 paper that he had published (again, note — one paper on climate change, among thousand others). Rose turned Bates into a “whistleblower” and then made the whole thing out to be a global conspiracy to promote the hidden agenda of climate scientists. Checkmate, atheists! Well, in reality, nothing could be further from the truth.

Bates wasn’t even questioning climate change, he was just making a point about how Karl wasn’t rigorous enough in analyzing data about the so-called “global warming hiatus” which we discussed in 2015. The idea that climate change has been naturally slowing down has since been debunked by several other studies, but it is still being cherry picked by some parts of the media. So Daily Mail’s David Rose jumped onto this bandwagon and made it seem that Bates was accusing the NOAA of tampering with data, and then spilled all of this onto climate change itself, inventing this huge conspiracy. Because you know, people love conspiracies. Bates was quick to clarify that this is not the case and told E&E News that:


“The issue here is not an issue of tampering with data, but rather really of timing of a release of a paper that had not properly disclosed everything.”

So what we have here is a debate on a paper, not a debate on climate change. For the billionth time, there is no debate on climate change. The only thing that’s left to talk about is how we can limit its impact and adapt to a warmer future. However, a lie gets halfway around the world by the time the truth puts its pants on, and the Daily Mail article went viral, while Bates’ rebuttal didn’t.


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It’s really not the first time something like this has happened — and probably not the last time either. NOAA has been harassed by climate change denial groups for years. Again, this is not a science war, this is just a media war. The science is clear, but the media is trying to make it look like it isn’t.

“They’re not serious articles,” said Adam Sobel, a Columbia University climate scientist, referring to a similar article published in the Daily Mail. “They paint it as though it’s an argument between Breitbart and Buzzfeed when it’s an argument between a snarky Breitbart blogger  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-311013201314.png&hash=0715eb72631014310634eb56176ff860c6d542f6) and the entire world’s scientific community, and the overwhelming body of scientific evidence.”

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Furthermore, as we pointed out in a previous article, David Rose himself is a well-known climate change denier, who has published questionable articles in the past (to say the least). He stated that global land temperatures have plunged by more than 1C since the middle of this year. But this is not only false and misleading, it’s also pointless:

• for starters, this claim relies only on satellite data, which only dates to 1978. Surface thermometers, going back to 1800 put the drop into perspective: it is a drop, but not a record one.

• secondly, the claim conveniently discusses only land temperatures – when you consider both ocean and land temperatures (so essentially, global temperatures), the drop isn’t so significant.

• also, this event is completely normal when an El Niño event transitions to La Niña. Every serious climate scientist knew and expected this, and to claim that this was surprising or somehow related to long-term global shifts is irresponsible.

• lastly, this was greatly exaggerated and taken out of the global context – it was made to seem as if this (again, completely expected change) took everyone by surprise and meant that global warming isn’t happening.


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“This is an astounding example of cherry-picking the data,” said Kerry Emanuel, a professor at MIT. “Global land temperatures fluctuate significantly from one month to the next, and the article in question appears to have cherry-picked a drop on global land temperatures (not including the ocean, which covers 70% of the globe) for a single month.”

At this point, it seems safe to say David Rose is a man with an agenda — denying climate change and inventing conspiracies. The Daily Mail is a publication supporting that agenda, but it’s not the only one. Several other publications around the world vomit similar stories. Make of that what you wish, but as Futurism points out, keep in mind Occam’s razor: “Among competing hypotheses, the one with the fewest assumptions should be selected.”

Would you go with the idea that the entire scientific community, the world’s best and brightest minds, are faking a massive amount of data, working together worldwide to develop the world’s biggest scam? Or is it just that the media is following lobby interests and distorting the truth? Choose wisely.

http://www.zmescience.com/science/news-science/noaa-climate-change-16022017/

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on February 18, 2017, 05:55:03 pm
https://youtu.be/oyixrC3KxK0
Near term climate catastrophe Jan2017

Published on Jan 10, 2017

Near term Climate catastrophe predicted by leading scientists. See why this is happening, and likely near-term events.


 
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on February 19, 2017, 09:45:31 pm
Scribblers of Climate Truth
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What is happening and what is coming? Alex’s guest is risk analyst, published author, and host of Robert Scribbler’s Blog. From the worst fears to faint glimmers of hope, the hunt for climate truth. Plus short clips of Dr. Michael Mann (when money buys anti-science) and Dr. Jennifer Francis (a new Arctic feedback). Radio Ecoshock 170125

Download or listen to this Radio Ecoshock show in CD Quality (56 MB) or Lo-Fi (14 MB)

http://www.ecoshock.org/2017/01/scribblers-of-climate-truth.html

I’ve got lots of goodies for you in this blog:

* a new You tube video from Radio Ecoshock “Climate Science Stunners”
* a link to Dr. Jennifer Francis video, revealing a new Arctic feedback
* links to every post we discussed this week, from Robert Scribbler’s Blog
* a link to the Commonwealth Club of California panel discussion “Is Climate Denial Destroying Our Planet?”

CLIMATE SCIENCE STUNNERS

Climate science is coming in so fast, we can hardly make sense of it. So I’ve begun a new series of You tube videos on the most important climate stories I covered in 2016. The first one is one the Arctic, where the greatest change of all took place.

https://youtu.be/8OCrkkr6x5c

There will be more Climate Science Stunners as I get time. Please subscribe to my You tube Channel and invite others to do the same. We’ve just got to get this information out there, whether Donald Trump likes it or not!

Before we get to the star of this week’s show, here is the video link for the 2 minutes from Dr. Jennifer Francis from Rutgers that I play in this week’s show. This was just posted on You tube January 16th by John Cook. It’s about a new Arctic feedback.
https://youtu.be/w_EzF4k9_QY

Let’s move on now with our guest, Robert Marston Fanney from Robert Scribbler’s Blog.

ROBERT MARSTON FANNEY – THE “SCRIBBLER”

In world where unreality is taking over, there is a floodlight to find the facts. It’s called science, but that’s not easy to understand. We need translators, we need scouts to call out from ahead. Robert Marston Fanney is one of those voices.

He has two great skills that helped him. Robert was a threat analyst for the world’s premier information group, Jane’s. He knows how to dig and research. Robert Marston Fanney is also the author of a popular science fiction series called “Luthiel’s Song“. Taking those skills to analyze danger, and his creative writing, Robert Marston Fanney has produced one of the world’s top hubs for disseminating climate science. It’s called Robert Scribbler’s Blog.

It’s a pleasure to welcome Robert Marston Fanney back to Radio Ecoshock.

It’s been a while, but now three years later, people are still downloading our first conversation in 2013 at a rate of about 200 a month. That was “I Have a Confession to Make”. It’s even more for our 2015 Radio Ecoshock show “Five Stories Seldom Told”.


Download or listen to this Radio Ecoshock show in CD Quality (56 MB) or Lo-Fi (14 MB)

http://www.ecoshock.org/2017/01/scribblers-of-climate-truth.html



Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on February 19, 2017, 10:51:59 pm
https://youtu.be/ghPySwzNjhU
It may be too late.  :(
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on February 19, 2017, 10:57:45 pm
https://youtu.be/bv7zFAdZ6LI
It's too late to do anything about climate change.... right? ???

Global Weirding with Katharine Hayhoe

Published on Feb 15, 2017

Global Weirding is produced by KTTZ Texas Tech Public Media and distributed by PBS Digital Studios. New episodes every other Wednesday at 10 am central. Brought to you in part by: Bob and Linda Herscher, Freese and Nichols, Inc, and the Texas Tech Climate Science Center.
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on February 20, 2017, 11:38:12 am
Manhattan-Sized Iceberg Breaks off Antarctica

Feb. 19, 2017 02:04PM EST

Julia Travers

SNIPPET:

Antarctica's Pine Island Glacier lost another large chunk of ice at the end of January. The section of ice that broke off the glacier on the western coast of Antarctica was roughly the size of Manhattan. It was 10 times smaller than the piece the same glacier sloughed in July 2015.

After the enormous piece of ice broke off The Pine Island Glacier in 2015, cracks were spotted during a late 2016 flyover, Climate Central reported. The recent smaller, though still substantial, ice breakage is considered an "after-shock" event, Ohio State glaciologist Ian Howat told NASA. NASA's Operational Land Imager captured a series of images documenting the ice loss.

Eye opening graphics!  :o

http://www.ecowatch.com/iceberg-breaks-off-antarctica-2268242877.html
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on February 20, 2017, 04:45:05 pm
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Exxon-Mobil and Lee Raymond who was at the Company from 1963-2005 was the person who started the cover-up of climate change. Lee Raymond has also been on the Board of Directors when JPMorgan/Chase committed all their criminal acts leaving that company with a Rap Sheet a mile long. $20 BILLION in fines, but NO-ONE went to jail for all the financial burdens and losses JPM/CHase caused millions of people. Chase is still illegally foreclosing on homes.

Another person on the Board of Directors for Exxon is William Weldon who is also on the Board for JPMorgan/Chase. Weldon was the CEO at Johnson & Johnson during the production and sales of the TOXIC TALC that is causing cancer in so many women.
Jamie Dimon head of JPM/Chase walks around scot-free from the long Rap Sheet of Criminal Acts that were instigated by him. Now Jamie Dimon is out promoting the "Millions in Grants" that JPM/Chase is giving to communities and for scholarships for education ~~~ BUT ~~~ Dimon does NOT explain that this is STOLEN money from illegal home foreclosures, from illegal criminal acts, benefitting the bank.

These men have NO consciences, they are a narcissistic group of men with no morals, who only think of MONEY and GREED and Trump is at the top of the list with his egomaniac personality who will give these men a clearance to destroy for their own personal benefit.  Gerry Lednicky Seger

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https://youtu.be/ox5hbkg34Ow

Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on February 21, 2017, 08:39:17 pm
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Viewing Trump's Extreme Climate Denial From a Small Island Nation in Peril

 Monday, February 20, 2017 

By Dahr Jamail, Truthout | Report

SNIPPET:

As global ocean waters warm, coral bleaching events continue to wipe out reefs.

Recently released data from Japan's Environment Ministry revealed that coral bleaching has killed 70.1 percent of that nation's largest coral reef, off the coast of Okinawa, as of the end of 2016. That is up from 56.7 percent, merely a few months earlier.

As the atmosphere warms, it can hold more moisture, so extreme flooding is becoming the norm across the globe.

According to the reinsurance giant Munich Re, the US had more floods in 2016 than any year in recorded history with 19 different floods swamping the nation.

http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/39540-viewing-trump-s-extreme-climate-denial-from-a-small-island-nation-in-peril
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on February 22, 2017, 02:41:51 pm
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Pioneers: Climatologists' 38-year-old paper predicted what we're seeing happen in the Arctic melt 

By Meteor Blades   

Wednesday Feb 22, 2017 · 12:22 PM EST

SNIPPET:

"It was one of these landmark papers," said Mark Serreze, director of the National Snow and Ice Data Center. "She was the first to put together the thermodynamic sea ice model.

What's more, collection of better data on sea ice over recent years has strengthened the models, making their predictions even more reliable—and disturbing. [...]

Serreze, who began his career in 1982, said Parkinson's results—and the reality of what is happening now in the Arctic—would have been hard to believe then. "I just could never have imagined it," he said. "Over the course of my career, to see this happening to the Arctic? It's this eye-opener to me that climate change is not this far away thing—it's here and now."


http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/2/22/1636438/-Pioneers-Climatologists-38-year-old-paper-predicted-what-we-re-seeing-happen-in-the-Arctic-melt#comment_65603276






Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on February 22, 2017, 05:45:39 pm
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on February 24, 2017, 01:07:15 pm
February 24, 2017

736 Record Highs Set This Week

SNIPPET:

Multiple cities—from Washington, DC to Toronto to Milwaukee—smashed temperature records this week, as a record February warm spell continues to spread across the U.S.

Nearly 3,000 daily maximum temperature records were set during the first half of the month. During the past week, 736 record highs were set with no record lows recorded. Thursday, Falcon Dam, Texas recorded a (yet unverified) temperature of 107 F—the highest temperature ever recorded in the U.S. in February.

The unusually early spring weather is triggering a new type of guilt among the climate conscious: Both the Chicago Tribune and the Atlantic highlighted this week the bizarre mental calculus of enjoying warm weather that's a clear sign of a changing climate.

http://www.ecowatch.com/record-heat-february-2282386621.html
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on February 26, 2017, 08:32:14 pm
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https://youtu.be/ZhN1GTVEsFw

DO THE MATH

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on February 27, 2017, 04:46:08 pm
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Neuroscientist Shruti Muralidhar, front left, and microbiologist Abhishek Chari, front right, hold placards and chant during a demonstration by members of the scientific community, environmental advocates, and supporters, Sunday, Feb. 19, 2017, in Boston. The scientists at the event said they want President Donald Trump's administration to recognize evidence of climate change and take action on various environmental issues. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

Scientists hold rally in Boston to protest threat to science

February 19, 2017

Hundreds of scientists, environmental advocates and their supporters held a rally in Boston on Sunday to protest what they see as increasing threats to science and research in the U.S.

The scientists, some dressed in white lab coats, called on President Donald Trump's administration to recognize evidence of climate change and take action on various environmental issues.

Geoffrey Supran, a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who studies renewable energy solutions to climate change, said scientists are responding to the Trump administration's "anti-science rhetoric."

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Johanna Klein, of Brookline, Mass., an internal medical doctor, center, holds a placard and chants during a demonstration by members of the scientific community, environmental advocates and supporters, Sunday, Feb. 19, 2017, in Boston. The scientists at the event said they want President Donald Trump's administration to recognize evidence of climate change and take action on various environmental issues. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

"We're really trying to send a message today to Mr. Trump that America runs on science, science is the backbone of our prosperity and progress," Supran said.

The "Rally to Stand Up for Science" in Boston's Copley Square was held outside of the American Association for the Advancement of Science annual meeting, one of the first major gatherings of scientists since Trump was elected in November.

Protesters held signs that read "Science Matters," ''Scientists Pursuing Truth, Saving the World" and "Make America Smart Again."

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During six years as the attorney general of Oklahoma, Pruitt filed 14 lawsuits challenging EPA regulations. He previously expressed skepticism about scientific evidence showing the planet is heating up and that humans are to blame. However, during his Senate confirmation hearing last month, he said he disagreed with Trump's past statements that global warming is a hoax.

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https://phys.org/news/2017-02-scientists-rally-boston-protest-threats.html
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on February 27, 2017, 08:03:55 pm
Published on Feb 21, 2017

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https://youtu.be/8CPrwfe7hWM
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on March 01, 2017, 04:16:54 pm
Chicago had no snow in January or February, a first in 146 years

The National Weather Service says it didn't snow in Chicago in January or February, the first time that's happened in 146 years of official record-keeping.

http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/chicago-had-no-snow-in-january-or-february-a-first-in-146-years/

Agelbert NOTE: IOW, SINCE they started keeping accurate records 146 years ago, IT'S BEEN A LOT LONGER THAN 146 years; try 3 MILLION Years.

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Tomorrow is Yesterday...

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on March 01, 2017, 04:55:27 pm
Fox News Tucker Carlson  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-241013183046.jpeg&hash=51c9c4f17e747698c76c65c7c1814eff4f32c400)  implodes as Bill Nye The Science Guy schooled him on climate change        (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F4fvfcja.gif&hash=34a9a570347d39a0a892bc1f376c5e8b88add6b5)


By Egberto Willies   

Tuesday Feb 28, 2017 ·  7:00 AM EST

Bill Nye, The Science Guy, kept his cool as his well-designed answers to Tucker Carlson's 'gotcha' questions caused the host to lose it.

Bill Nye came very prepared to confront one of Fox News' biggest blowhards. He kept his cool with circumspect answers that caused Carlson to flip out as seen in this excerpted video. After several minutes of setup and back and forth, Tucker Carlson asked Bill Nye a very specific question. Bill Nye's answer did not conform to the answer Carlson was expecting to give climate change deniers some plausibility.

"The Climate is always changing," Carlson said. "You've conceded that."

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"You have said that human activity increases the speed of that change," Carlson said. "And my point is, what would the climate look like right now without human activity. At what point would have warmed or cooled."

Nye's answer was excellent. Instead of going into the technical weeds which lose more than half the audience, he described it regarding today's natural events.

"It would look like it did in 1750," Nye replied. "Britain would not be well suited to growing grapes as it is today. French winemakers would not be buying land to the north as they are now. People who plan to run ski resorts would still be able to do in Europe. And the parasites..."

"You are using the language of politics," a flustered Carlson interjected. "You are not a scientist as you know. You are a popularizer. And that's fine. .. To the extent that you prevent people from having an honest conversation, you are doing a great disservice to science. Don't you think that."

"You asked how long it would be before, what the climate would be like if humans weren't involved right now," Nye asked. "Is that Right?"

"Yes," Tucker answered. "That is exactly right. At what point would it have changed. And I am saying you don;t actually know because it is unknowable. So why aren't you open to question."

"This is how long it takes you to interrupt me," Nye replied holding up a phone with a six-second timer on it. "It takes you quite a bit less than six seconds. So the climate would be like it was in 1750. And the economics would be that you could not grow wine-worthy grapes in Britain as you can today because the climate is changing. The use of pesticides in the Mid-West would not be increasing because the parasites are showing up sooner, or the pests are showing up sooner and hanging around longer. The forest in Wyoming would not be overwhelmed by pine bark beetles as it is because of climate change. That's how the world would be different if it weren't for humans."

"So much of this you don't know," an unhinged Carlson protested. "You pretend that you know. But you don't know. And you bully people who ask you questions."

Who is bullying who in this interview? Who is losing it?

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Carlson got beaten at his own game. Nye took the lead in personalizing climate change first. He framed the results of climate change. Carlon was unable to segue into the false argument that climate change regulations hurt jobs and freedom. Nye would have refuted the jobs argument noting that the green energy sector is growing faster than the dirty energy sector. Bill Nye debated from the position of strength, science, and humanity. Carlson lost the discussion before he even started.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2017/02/28/1638509/-Fox-News-Tucker-Carlson-implodes-as-Bill-Nye-The-Science-Guy-schooled-him-on-climate-change

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on March 01, 2017, 05:40:32 pm
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March 1, 2017

Greenpeace’s research team just received some new information about the specifics of the devastating EPA cuts we told you about this morning — and it’s not pretty.

Here’s what we found out Trump wants on the chopping block:


•ONE FIFTH of the total EPA budget could be cut.

•Critical climate change initiatives could receive  ZERO funding.

•Clean water grants for Alaska Native villages on the front lines of climate change could receive ZERO funding.

•Project funds for crucial community pollution projects like cleaning up abandoned industrial sites, tracking hazardous waste, and ensuring environmental justice — could be completely CUT.


These shocking proposed cuts come less than 24 hours after Trump’s joint address to Congress where he stated his administration wants to “promote clean air and clear water.” Trump's actions are completely opposite to what he’s saying. It’s impossible to protect our communities and the environment while at the same time slashing programs that protect public health. Millions of people around the country will be affected by these cuts, but especially the most vulnerable.

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on March 01, 2017, 05:56:48 pm
Wed Mar 1, 2017 | 1:24pm EST

Thousands of soy trucks stranded on swamped Amazon highway in Brazil

By Gustavo Bonato | SAO PAULO

About 3,000 trucks carrying soy beans are backed up on a major road to port through the Amazon region that has become impassible due to swamps caused by heavy rainfall, highway police said on Wednesday.

Trucks have become bogged down on an unpaved section of the BR-163 highway in southern Pará state, running up loses of $400,000 a day for grain traders moving soy from Mato Grosso to northern ports, the main lobby for Brazil's soy business said.

Some vehicles have been pulled through with the help of heavy earthmoving equipment, but the bulk of the trucks cannot advance, according to the highway police in Santarém in Pará.

"Things are still critical. Work on the road has improved the situation somewhat, but the rain really complicates the work," highway police officer Bruno Bittencourt told Reuters.
 
Weather permitting, the national highway department DNIT expects to free the traffic flow of loaded trucks heading north on BR-163 by Friday with the help of Army engineers.

Southbound traffic heading for Mato Grosso has been moving forward since Tuesday on the swamped 37 km (23 mile) section, the DNIT said in a statement.

Thomson Reuters' Agriculture Weather Dashboard, however, forecast continued heavy rainfall in the area for the next two weeks.
 
The BR-163 highway, which the government says will be fully paved in Para state by next year, is a vital route for shipping out Mato Grosso soy through port terminals on the Tapajós River in Itaituba, in the Miritituba district.

Major grain companies Cargill, Bunge and Hidrovias do Brasil have terminals that load barges on the river for transshipment in ports down river near Belém.
 
But no soy has arrived in Miritituba since Feb. 18, according to Daniel Furlan Amaral, manager of Abiove, the lobby for companies that export and process soy in Brazil.

Also In Commodities

Oil slips after U.S. crude stocks build to record high


The trading companies declined to comment on the holdup.

(Reporting by Gustavo Bonato; Writing by Anthony Boadle; Editing by Alistair Bell)


http://www.reuters.com/article/us-brazil-soybeans-road-idUSKBN1685AN
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on March 01, 2017, 07:46:11 pm
The Himalayan Glaciers Are Melting Faster Than Anywhere On Earth

Published on Sep 7, 2016
Melting Himalayas (2009): The consequences of glacial melt in the Himalayas could be disastrous.

https://youtu.be/hPa_m5qNF6s



Glacier melt in B.C. at 'shocking' levels
Published on Oct 21, 2015
Scientists say it's just a matter of time before a warming planet causes B.C.'s glaciers to melt away altogether.

https://youtu.be/r3GmC9E6Vz4





ScienceCasts: No Turning Back - West Antarctic Glaciers in Irreversible Decline

Published on May 13, 2014

Visit http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/... for more. (IF Trump hasn't sabotaged them yet  >:(  :P)

https://youtu.be/W2pYHMx5bN8

Agelbert NOTE: NASA said the glaciers will be "history in a few hundred years".   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.coh2.org%2Fimages%2FSmileys%2Fhuhsign.gif&hash=3732d0427be65896527fc3805c5be54a33cffd3b)


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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on March 02, 2017, 11:20:06 pm
Published on Sep 16, 2016
Prof J Kroth: Is America on the brink? - September 16, 2016
https://youtu.be/wRmrwVqdg9U

Prof. Jerry Kroth, a psychologist, looks at that question. What brings down an Empire?

Kroth looks at things slightly differently from financial pundits and stock market gurus. Instead of economics, he looks through the prism of social science. Which country produces over 80% of hard core p o r n in the world? Which country has the highest rate of r a p e? What is the truth behind horror films or reality shows such a Fear Factor?

For example, while Mr. Trump continues to claim that Climate Change is just Chinese propaganda, what toll is Climate Change, and its ensuing natural disasters since 1982, actually having on the US?

Using anthropologist, Jared Diamond and historian Arnold Toynbee's seven major factors leading to societal collapse, Kroth asks how the U.S. stacks up on those seven factors. The report card is awful, and the current situation foreboding to the extreme. Data comes from his new book, Implosion: delusion, denial, and the prospect of collapse More info at collectivepsych.com
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on March 03, 2017, 12:15:40 pm
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February 28, 2017 | Rona Fried | Climate Change

EPA To Be Decimated, As US Sets 2805 Record High Temperatures

SNIPPET:

As the Trump Administration prepares to decimate the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), scientific agencies are tying February’s warmth to climate change.

With record temperatures like the 99° seen in the EPA Administrator’s home state of Oklahoma, there have been 2,805 record highs this month across the US. For much of the winter, the Arctic has been 40° above normal and another huge glacier is breaking off Antarctica – if the whole thing goes it will add 2 feet of sea level rise. About half of the coral is dead in Australia’s Great Barrier Reef and over 100 million trees have died in the US West.

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And now we have a president and his cabinet who either deny the existence of climate change or don’t know if it’s caused by humans. “Leave it to the scientists” is often the new catch phrase – we couldn’t agree more!

Just don’t cut those scientists out of the budget! And stop deleting the words “climate change” from federal websites like the State Department, EPA and Energy Department.

Read our article, It’s a First in 4 Million Years, Antarctica Reaches 400 ppm (http://www.sustainablebusiness.com/first-4-million-years-antarctica-reaches-400-ppm/)

Meanwhile, At the Vatican

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on March 03, 2017, 04:04:52 pm
'Shell knew': oil giant's 1991 film warned of climate change danger

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https://youtu.be/vTlYYlRN0LY

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Published on Feb 28, 2017

In 1991, Shell produced a public documentary on global warming called Climate of Concern.

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• Shell’s 1991 warning: climate changing ‘at faster rate than at any time since end of ice age’ ► https://www.theguardian.com/environme...

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on March 05, 2017, 04:07:48 pm
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Well, it's a long story.  8) For an appropriately informative explanation, please watch this short video, and then watch the absolutely outstanding, hard hitting, fact filled video titled, "The Cross of the Moment".   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-080515182559.png&hash=d4dfa952fa0f817bf30a8059a4c88d6fb05ee1bf) (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-080515182559.png&hash=d4dfa952fa0f817bf30a8059a4c88d6fb05ee1bf) (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-080515182559.png&hash=d4dfa952fa0f817bf30a8059a4c88d6fb05ee1bf)

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The Fermi Paradox  Published on May 6, 2015

The universe is unbelievably big – trillions of stars and even more planets. Soo… there just has to be life out there, right? But where is it? Why don’t we see any aliens? Where are they? And more importantly, what does this tell us about our own fate in this gigantic and scary universe?

https://youtu.be/sNhhvQGsMEc



Climate Documentary: The Cross  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-150715183719.png&hash=7b222546f30a032efc31223d85eea0535ed42a49) of the Moment

https://youtu.be/6UuSxiCJ0co

Published on Sep 18, 2016

The Cross of the Moment attempts to connect the dots between Fermi’s Paradox, climate change, capitalism, and collapse. Interviews with top scientists and public intellectuals are woven together into a narrative that is challenging, exhausting, and often depressing as it refuses to accept the easy answers posited by other overly-simplistic climate change documentaries.

Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on March 06, 2017, 05:42:47 pm
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"The earth is speaking now, but man won't listen." -- Darryl "Grey Eagle" Brown, a spiritual leader of the Choctaw tribe, June 12, 2016

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“Those of us who spend our days trawling . . .the scientific literature on climate change are becoming increasingly gloomy about the future of human civilization. We are well past the time of niceties, of avoiding the dire nature of what is unfolding, and politely trying not to scare the public.”   -- Elizabeth Hanna, of the Australian National University, on that country's record heat wave and wildfire epidemic

Emotional health becoming a worldwide casualty of climate change

"A sense of despair": The mental health cost of unchecked climate change

CBSNews.com, Feb. 27, 2017

Climate change is taking an obvious physical toll on earth: from depleted farmland to the rise of toxic pollution to the degradation of long-stable ecosystems to the disappearance of biodiversity and endangered species.

But looking beyond the physical, experts are also trying to sound the alarm about the quieter, more insidious effects of climate change: namely, that global warming is threatening the emotional health of humans worldwide.

“We see a sense of despair that sets in as inevitably Mother Nature, who we think of as our nurturing force, tells us we’re not going to be able to survive the conditions she’s set for us,” Dr. Lise Van Susteran, a practicing psychiatrist and expert on the dangers of climate change on mental health, told CBS News.

Dr. Van Susteran presented on this topic earlier this month at the Climate and Health Meeeting in Atlanta, a conference that looked at climate change through the lens of public health. Former Vice President Al Gore organized the meeting when, days before President Trump’s inauguration, a long-planned Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) summit on the topic was abruptly cancelled.

Extreme weather, extreme trauma, extreme aggression

Study after study shows that climate change has led to an increased burden of psychological disease and injury worldwide, particularly in developing countries.

What’s behind this link? For starters, climate change has normalized extreme weather events. These events, including floods, tornadoes, fires, drought, and sea level rise, are known to trigger mental health problems including post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety, depression, the abuse of alcohol and drugs, and more.

Extreme weather has a particularly disturbing link to increased aggression. In 2013, researchers from Princeton University and the University of California-Berkeley found that even slight spikes in temperature and precipitation have increased the risk of personal violence and social upheaval throughout human history.

The researchers found that just one standard-deviation shift in heat or rainfall increases the risk of a riot, civil war or ethnic conflict by an average of about 14 percent. A similarly sized uptick in heat or rain triggers a 4 percent increase in person-on-person violence like r a p e, murder and assault.

With projections that the Earth may warm between three and four degrees Fahrenheit by 2050, the researchers warned that climate change is almost certainly the precursor to more human conflict in the near future.

Global warming is a particularly corrosive force in some farming economies where overheating, unpredictable weather, new invasive species, and land losses are sinking communities into extreme poverty and creating a breeding ground for violent conflict. 

For millions, the effects of climate change are so severe that leaving home is the only option for survival. Thirty-two million people fled their homes because of extreme weather in 2012 alone, according to the United Nations.

Escaping hazards ranging from mudslides to drought, climate refugees add more stress to an already dire refugee situation worldwide. According to the UN, the world is currently witnessing the highest levels of displacement on record.

As climate refugees become more and more common, refugee laws lag behind: none of the existing international or regional refugees law mechanisms specifically addresses climate refugees, the UN says.

Problems can affect anyone, anywhere

Climate change is triggering mental health problems beyond just developing countries and conflict zones.

In cities, babies who are exposed in the uterus to higher levels of urban air pollutants (known as polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons) are more likely to develop symptoms of anxiety and depression down the line, Columbia University researchers found in 2012. Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons are the chemicals come from burning fossil fuels.

“Climate anxiety” can cripple individuals regardless of their geography, privilege, or vulnerability to the effects of climate change, Dr. Van Susteran said. Joining with other mental health professionals, she is one of the founders behind the Climate Psych Alliance, a new coalition trying to raise awareness about the links between climate change and clinical trauma.

“You can see how desperate, angry, despairing people are,” she said. “It’s a legitimate response to what people see as inaction, intentional inaction... Whether we know it or not, whether you accept it or not, everyone experiences climate anxiety.”

Seen through a certain lens, inaction on global warming meets the criteria of child abuse for future generations, she said.

“When children believe their parents didn’t do something right, or did something wrong, they spend a whole lifetime feeling abandoned. What in the world are future generations going to think or feel when they know that action could have been taken?”

Climate change: the hidden catalyst

In the age of an unstable climate, the link between natural disasters and psychological trauma is “under-examined, underestimated and not adequately monitored,” Italian researchers assessed in a January study in the journal Occupational and Environmental Medicine. That research gap is particularly worrisome in Africa, German researchers said in a paper published last year.

Climate change is often the hidden catalyst — the fuel behind war, displacement and collapsed economies that doesn’t make it into the headlines.

Syria’s civil war, for instance, is most frequently framed as an entrenched political conflict. Closer examination shows that’s far from the full story: in fact, the country’s six-year conflict is rooted in a devastating drought. Earnings depleted and Syrian farmers moved to overcrowded cities, where political corruption and public health crises helped foment bloody revolution.

Climate change carries enormous political risk for the 21st century, Dr. Van Susteran warned.

“In times of peril and scarcity, people regress,” she said. “They turn to what they perceive as strong leaders to protect them, and are willing to give up their freedoms and values in exchange for perceived security.”

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/despair-mental-health-trauma-cost-unchecked-climate-change/

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“[The environment] will be fine, we can leave a little bit, but you can’t destroy businesses.”  -- Donald Trump (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Fgen152.gif&hash=d5b10968fe56c4cb95fae17cee3cb420a5f4e2da), quoted in The Guardian (U.K.), Nov. 12, 2016

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on March 09, 2017, 05:08:22 pm
Trump  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-241013183046.jpeg&hash=51c9c4f17e747698c76c65c7c1814eff4f32c400) Files Motion to Delay Kids' Historic Climate Lawsuit

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Further, the Trump administration(https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F165fs373950.gif&hash=ad797fcc08a061d3ae50ee49ccd9f3d517fb7496) asked for expedited review of both motions, arguing the plaintiffs' Jan. 24 letter requesting the government to retain records relating to climate change and communications between the government and the fossil fuel industry was overly burdensome. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-030815183114.gif&hash=2bf1553e87e8605311feb874231953d5fb88ee9c)
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"This request for appeal is an attempt to cover up the federal government's long-running collusion with the fossil fuel industry," Alex Loznak, 20-year-old plaintiff and Columbia University student, said. "My generation cannot wait for the truth to be revealed. These documents must be uncovered with all deliberate speed, so that our trial can force federal action on climate change."
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on March 10, 2017, 02:29:38 pm
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 Yesterday morning on CNBC, EPA Administrator and fossil fuel industry errand-boy Scott Pruitt denied the fact that carbon dioxide is the primary driver of climate change.
 
 Scientists beg to differ. By which we mean “plainly contradict, mock and ridicule.”
 
Here are some examples of what they have to say, in order of serious to snarky:
 
Noah Diffenbaugh ((https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Ffox.graphics%2Ffiles%2Fflame-icon-vector.jpg&hash=49a29f2de7e63d0eb664c00375c037082b2c535d)): “To deny that reality not only is a denial of scientific evidence but it also threatens the safety and security of Americans who face increasing odds of extreme events like the California drought, the flooding from Superstorm Sandy, and the heat wave that decimated crops in the mid-west in 2012.”
 
Ben Santer ((https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Ffox.graphics%2Ffiles%2Fflame-icon-vector.jpg&hash=49a29f2de7e63d0eb664c00375c037082b2c535d)): “Mr. Pruitt is wrong… We can’t afford to reject this clear and compelling scientific evidence when we make public policy. Embracing ignorance is not an option.”
 
Kevin Trenberth ((https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Ffox.graphics%2Ffiles%2Fflame-icon-vector.jpg&hash=49a29f2de7e63d0eb664c00375c037082b2c535d)(https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Ffox.graphics%2Ffiles%2Fflame-icon-vector.jpg&hash=49a29f2de7e63d0eb664c00375c037082b2c535d)): “Pruitt has demonstrated that he is unqualified to run the EPA or any agency. There is no doubt whatsoever that the planet is warming and it is primarily due to increased carbon dioxide in the atmosphere from burning of fossil fuels.”
 
Michael Mann ((https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Ffox.graphics%2Ffiles%2Fflame-icon-vector.jpg&hash=49a29f2de7e63d0eb664c00375c037082b2c535d)(https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Ffox.graphics%2Ffiles%2Fflame-icon-vector.jpg&hash=49a29f2de7e63d0eb664c00375c037082b2c535d)(https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Ffox.graphics%2Ffiles%2Fflame-icon-vector.jpg&hash=49a29f2de7e63d0eb664c00375c037082b2c535d)): “Pruitt is an antiscience, anti-environmental zealot and a thinly veiled shill for fossil fuel interests. If ever there was a case of the fox guarding the henhouse, this is surely it.”
 
Richard Somerville ((https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Ffox.graphics%2Ffiles%2Fflame-icon-vector.jpg&hash=49a29f2de7e63d0eb664c00375c037082b2c535d)(https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Ffox.graphics%2Ffiles%2Fflame-icon-vector.jpg&hash=49a29f2de7e63d0eb664c00375c037082b2c535d)(https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Ffox.graphics%2Ffiles%2Fflame-icon-vector.jpg&hash=49a29f2de7e63d0eb664c00375c037082b2c535d)(https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Ffox.graphics%2Ffiles%2Fflame-icon-vector.jpg&hash=49a29f2de7e63d0eb664c00375c037082b2c535d)(https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Ffox.graphics%2Ffiles%2Fflame-icon-vector.jpg&hash=49a29f2de7e63d0eb664c00375c037082b2c535d)): “Scott Pruitt should begin his new job by accepting the fundamental findings of modern climate science.”
 
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 And the winner is Don Wuebbles, who simply said ((https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Ffox.graphics%2Ffiles%2Fflame-icon-vector.jpg&hash=49a29f2de7e63d0eb664c00375c037082b2c535d) x (https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/50/68/b7/5068b72771f8fa084fb71f9f29233344.jpg)): “I suggest he talk with his own scientists and read the National Climate Assessment.”
 
Apparently, when Pruitt went around the EPA “listening,” he wasn’t paying much attention. Perhaps to get his attention his new employees should email him- on either his official government account or his personal one. After all, we know that despite telling the Senate otherwise, he used his personal email for official business.

 Anyway, if Pruitt keeps this up, all these sick burns are going to make it even harder for him to deny that it’s getting hotter...

Great Barrier Reef coral bleaching worsens as scientists fear heatwave's impact

https://www.buzzfeed.com/robstott/theres-been-another-mass-coral-bleaching-event-on-the-great
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on March 10, 2017, 04:00:12 pm
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Note: the grey area is the average sea ice area for the day of year +/- two standard deviations (+/- 2σ). Average and standard deviation are computed from the 1981-2010 (WMO standard) data.

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on March 10, 2017, 04:50:52 pm
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On March 2, 2017, Antarctic sea ice extent was at a record low since satellite readings started.

As the image below shows, sea ice extent in 2017 (light blue) around Antarctica has been more than 1 million km² lower than the 1981-2010 median.

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At the same time, Arctic sea ice extent was at a record low for the time of the year since 1979.

As the image underneath shows, Arctic sea ice extent in 2017 has also been more than 1 million km² lower than the 1981-2010 median.

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For about half a year now, global sea ice extent has been more than 2 million km² lower than it used to be, not too long ago, as illustrated by the image below, by Wipneus.

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This means that a lot of sunlight that was previously reflected back into space, has been absorbed instead by Earth, contributing to global warming, especially at the poles.

Greater warming at the poles has also caused more extreme weather, resulting in stronger winds and waves and in wild weather swings, further accelerating the decline of the sea ice.

The combination of rising ocean heat and stronger winds looks set to devastate the sea ice around Antarctica. Ocean heat is increasing particularly in the top layer (see image on the right).

Warming water is increasingly reaching the coast of Antarctica. The image below illustrates how much sea ice melt has occurred close to the coast of Antarctic over the past few months, while much sea ice has drifted away from the coast due to strong currents and wind.

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As said, less sea ice means that a lot of sunlight is no longer reflected back into space, but is instead further warming up the poles. As a result, methane levels can be very high at both poles. The combination image below shows methane levels as high as 2560 ppb on March 1, 2017. The image in the panel on the left shows high methane levels over Antarctica in an area with much grey, indicating that it was hard to get a good reading there. On the image in the panel on the right, high methane levels do show up clearly in that area.

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As discussed before, methane hydrates can be present both on Greenland and on Antarctica underneath thick layers of snow and ice. Due to global warming, wild weather swings are now common at the poles, as illustrated by the image below. This can cause sequences of rapid and extreme expansion, compacting and fracturing of snow and ice, resulting in destabilization of methane hydrates contained in the permafrost.

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The image below shows methane levels as high as 2562 ppb, with solid magenta-colored areas showing up over the Laptev Sea on March 4, 2017.

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The image below shows that sea surface temperatures in the Arctic Ocean were as high as 12.7°C or 54.9°F on March 3, 2017 (at the location marked by the green circle), i.e. 12°C or 21.6°F warmer than in 1981-2011.

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The danger is that self-reinforcing feedback loops such as albedo decline and methane releases will further accelerate warming and will, in combination with further warming elements, cause a temperature rise as high as 10°C or 18°F by the year 2026, as described at the extinction page (http://arctic-news.blogspot.com/p/extinction.html).

The situation is dire and calls for comprehensive and effective action as described in the  Climate Plan (http://arctic-news.blogspot.com/p/climateplan.html).

http://arctic-news.blogspot.com/2017/03/low-sea-ice-extent-contributes-to-high-methane-levels-at-both-poles.html
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on March 12, 2017, 01:06:27 pm
This Single Photo of a Polar Bear Will Show You WHY We Need to Stand Up for the Planet

Latrice Harrison   

March 12, 2017  653 Comments

SNIPPET:

Whether or not everyone can agree on it, climate change is happening. According to NASA, the average global temperature has increased by over three degrees in the last hundred years. In addition, sea levels are up by over an inch, while overall precipitation has increased by eight inches. These rapid changes spell bad news for every living thing on the planet, but particularly for the Polar Bear. These animals are native to the arctic circle, where they have evolved to roam large sheets of ice, hunting the seals that also make their homes here. However, due to the rapid increase in ocean temperatures, the ice sheets are melting at the rate of 8.6 million acres per year, creating major changes in the polar bear’s natural habit.

While the governments of the world bicker about the causes of this situation, the glaciers are melting, fast. This means a change in the migration patterns of the seals, which forces the bears to journey far and wide looking for food, or to starve trying. Some bears are trying to adapt by swimming miles, sometimes for days on end looking for the seals. While others are adapting by feeding on new food sources. There have been recent reports of bears raiding dumpsters and even eating dolphins, who have also been forced into new migration patterns by changing water temperatures.

None of these animals understands that its habitat is disappearing. They don’t know why this is happening, or what to do about it. They only know that they are hungry and trying to feed themselves and their babies in the best way that they can. These bears are apex predators. Most of them have never even seen a human, yet they are becoming the poster children of global warming, victims of human offenses a whole world away. By now, we are all familiar with the idea that Polar Bears are disappearing, but a recent image from Kerstin Langenberger Photography of an emaciated bear in the Arctic solidifies what exactly this means:

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Full article:

http://www.onegreenplanet.org/environment/photo-of-a-polar-bear-will-show-you-why-we-need-to-stand-up-for-the-planet/

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The Fossil Fuelers   DID THE Climate Trashing, human health depleteing CRIME,   but since they have ALWAYS BEEN liars and conscience free crooks, they are trying to AVOID   DOING THE TIME or     PAYING THE FINE!     Don't let them get away with it! Pass it on!    (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F176.gif&hash=121533221905789c6b8d57a9603883266d349266)
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on March 12, 2017, 04:03:03 pm
March 11, 2017

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Paul Jay says that the elites and their corporate media are not dealing with the climate crisis with the urgency it deserves because they think they will be ok and live by the philosophy of 'to hell with what comes tomorrow'.

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https://youtu.be/5ovIy-dHO48

http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=18529
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on March 14, 2017, 12:36:24 pm
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Oceans found to be dramatically hotter than previously thought

The world’s oceans are storing up staggering amounts of heat — and it’s even more than we thought


The Washington Post, March 10, 2017

The world is getting warmer every year, thanks to climate change — but where exactly most of that heat is going may be a surprise.

As a stunning early spring blooms across the United States, just weeks after scientists declared 2016 the hottest year on record, it’s easy to forget that all the extra warmth in the air accounts for only a fraction of the heat produced by greenhouse gas emissions. In fact, more than 90 percent of it gets stored in the ocean. And now, scientists think they’ve calculated just how much the ocean has warmed in the past few decades. 

A new study, in the journal Science Advances, suggests that since 1960, a staggering 337 zetajoules of energy — that’s 337 followed by 21 zeros  — has been added to the ocean in the form of heat. And most of it has occurred since 1980.

“The ocean is the memory of all of the past climate change,” said study co-author Kevin Trenberth, a senior scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research. 

The new value is a number that significantly exceeds previous estimates, Trenberth noted. Compared with ocean warming estimates produced by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the new values are about 13 percent greater. This is the result of a new methodology for estimating ocean warming, involving a series of steps “that really make this paper different than previous ones,” Trenberth told The Washington Post. 

In previous decades, there have been a lot of challenges associated with monitoring temperature changes in the ocean. Before the year 2000 or so, most monitoring instruments had to be deployed from ships. This mean that scientists only had the most reliable data for parts of the world that lie along major shipping routes. 

In the past 15 years, though, scientists have developed the “Argo” network, a system of free-drifting devices that are designed to periodically adjust their buoyancy, so they can sink several thousand meters into the sea, collect measurements, and then rise back up to the surface. There are now about 3,500 of these devices deployed throughout the world’s oceans, leading to a much better dispersal of observations. 

The new study, which was led by Lijing Cheng of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and included other scientists from that institution, from the National Center for Atmospheric Research, and from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, employs a new methodology for using both the recent Argo measurements and past observations from ships to produce a continuous series of estimates from 1960 to 2015.

The scientists incorporated an updated database of pre-Argo measurements that have been corrected for certain biases, as well as information from climate models, and extended existing observations of ocean conditions taken at specific locations to larger areas of the sea. They then conducted a comparison of recent Argo data with measurements created using their new methodology and found that the method produces true-to-life results. 

The results suggest that the ocean has been sucking up more heat than previous research has indicated. In fact, according to Trenberth, the new estimates help explain observations of global sea-level rise that scientists have had difficulty accounting for until now.

A certain percentage of sea-level rise can be attributed to the expansion of ocean water, caused by rising water temperatures, while the rest comes from melting glaciers. Scientists have good estimates of how much melting ice is going into the ocean, but they’ve come up a bit short in the past in trying to reconcile the rest of the planet’s observed sea-level rise with their estimates of how much the ocean has warmed in recent decades. 

“This actually fills in the gap,” Trenberth said. 

The study also suggests that the extra heat is not being stored evenly throughout the oceans.
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The Atlantic and Southern oceans, in particular, are the biggest new heat reservoirs, the results indicate, storing about 59 percent of the heat despite accounting for less than half of all the ocean area in the world.

The researchers think the reason has to do with a major ocean current system known as “overturning circulation.” This system is kind of like a giant ocean conveyor belt that runs warm water from the equator toward the poles, where it cools, sinks to the bottom of the oceans and flows back in the other direction. The system helps transport both heat around the world, and the overturning process is pronounced in both the Atlantic and Southern ocean waters. 

While the paper’s staggering new results reaffirm the importance of the ocean as a climate change buffer — without it, much of that heat would remain in the atmosphere or the earth’s land masses — it’s certainly not without consequences. Rising ocean temperatures are believed to be a major cause of the mass coral bleaching that’s occurred all over the world over the past several years, in conjunction with an unusually strong El Niño beginning in 2015.

It’s still unclear how other organisms might be affected, but many marine animals thrive best within specific temperature ranges. Many marine biologists believe that continued warming, along with other climate-related changes such as ocean acidification, may force certain species to migrate to cooler or deeper areas in the future. 

Trenberth added that increasing heat moving into the surface of the ocean could also lead to “dead spots” in the ocean — places where layers of warm water get stuck on top of layers of cooler water. When this stratification happens, it can become more difficult for the waters to mix and churn as they normally would, a process that helps stir up nutrients and oxygen that are vital to marine organisms. 

All this is to say that climate change affects far more than just our air temperature — and the new study documents its clear progression in places thousands of meters below the surface of the sea. The results also come at a sensitive point for ocean and climate research, just a week after The Washington Post revealed a proposal from the Trump administration that calls for significant budget cuts for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, including a 26 percent cut for its Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research. It’s the primary research arm of NOAA, Trenberth pointed out, and such drastic cuts to the program could mean even basic observations programs like Argo may no longer continue. 

“As a result, the information will not even be there,” Trenberth said. “That would be tragic.” (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-070814193155.png&hash=144ce9330e49ee84060db8753a8db69c39a14913)

Chris Mooney contributed to this report. 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/03/10/the-worlds-oceans-are-storing-up-staggering-amounts-of-heat-and-its-even-more-than-we-thought/



Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on March 15, 2017, 04:54:15 pm
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http://www.ospo.noaa.gov/Products/ocean/sst/contour/


Agelbert Observation: The Ocean off the East Coast of the USA is WAY TOO HOT for this time of the year. Yes, we just had a huge snow storm. I just roof raked about 30 inches off my happy ;D manufactured home with the aid of my wife.  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Fthankyou.gif&hash=dddf44270b9e7683ff5cbcca041427744de34fe5) (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-080515182559.png&hash=d4dfa952fa0f817bf30a8059a4c88d6fb05ee1bf)


And NO, that doesn't mean their "ain't no global warming". These types of high precipitation storms in the summer AND the winter are precisely what has been predicted as just one of the effects of global Warming (and this was predicted decades ago, by the way).
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What that hot ocean  means is that the transition from winter to summer will be violent, as well as sudden. This has also been predicted by climate scientists as a result of Global Warming.

In Vermont, just one of the downsides of a fast transition from winter to summer temperatures is that it spells doom for the Maple Syrup harvesting business. WHY? ???  Because they require spring temperatures above freezing (0 degrees C is freezing) in the day and below freezing at night.

Thank the fossil fuel industry   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Fpirates5B15D_th.gif&hash=32438e1ed2c4d1823d4ed2a193286525c840a605) and the Trump Wrecking Crew   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Fpirates5B15D_th.gif&hash=32438e1ed2c4d1823d4ed2a193286525c840a605) (sorry for repeating myself  ;)) for the high Maple Syrup Prices and (among a LONG list of actions that are degrading the biosphere) for refusing to put a certain type of bumblebee we are losing in Vermont on the endangered species list.  >:(
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on March 16, 2017, 05:00:35 pm
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"Climate 101" with Bill Nye

https://youtu.be/3v-w8Cyfoq8

https://www.climaterealityproject.org/video/climate-101-bill-nye

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The Fossil Fuelers   DID THE Climate Trashing, human health depleting CRIME,   but since they have ALWAYS BEEN liars and conscience free crooks, they are trying to AVOID   DOING THE TIME or     PAYING THE FINE!     Don't let them get away with it! Pass it on!    (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F176.gif&hash=121533221905789c6b8d57a9603883266d349266)
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on March 16, 2017, 05:13:52 pm
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SORRY, NEMO:

The only hope to save the world's coral reefs is to take immediate action to stop climate change, according to new research published Wednesday in the journal Nature. The study analyzed 2016 bleaching events in the Great Barrier Reef, finding that they were mostly driven by rising temperatures and that local efforts to reduce pollution and overfishing did little to keep the reefs alive.

2016 was the worst year for coral bleaching worldwide, with over 90 percent of the corals on the Great Barrier Reef affected. Only 9 percent of the reef has avoided bleaching since 1998.

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“Climate change is not a future threat,” the study's lead author told the New York Times. “On the Great Barrier Reef, it’s been happening for 18 years.”

http://mashable.com/2017/03/15/great-barrier-reef-coral-bleaching-report/#eKF3klmkyiqC
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on March 16, 2017, 05:21:49 pm
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Doctor's Orders:  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F34y5mvr.gif&hash=835b3a3f26d5d1b7f0acc379ad8ebd3fe9eea488)

Groups representing more than half the doctors in the U.S. affirmed Wednesday that climate change is already harming Americans' health. In a new report, the Medical Society Consortium on Climate & Health, a group comprised of 11 major medical societies representing more than 400,000 doctors, state that "climate change is already causing problems in communities in every region of our nation."

This many doctors coming together on an issue "only happens when the stakes are really high,” Mona Sarfaty, director of the Consortium, told the Huffington Post. The report divides health impacts into three categories: direct harms from climate change-altered weather, increased spread of disease and contamination, and mental health effects.

https://insideclimatenews.org/news/15032017/climate-change-health-disease-doctors

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on March 16, 2017, 05:44:15 pm
Republicans file climate resolution as public concern hits 30-year high

Published on 16/03/2017, 11:01am 

In a repudiation of President Trump’s stance, 17 lawmakers from his party are calling for “economically viable” climate policies.


By Megan Darby 

SNIPPET:

US president Donald Trump (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F126fs2277341.gif&hash=1a8375f11d76a653bcb48e30eaa7b652175f029d) may be determined to de-fund climate science, scrap emissions curbs and bring back coal, but there is dissent in his party ranks.   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fcliparts.co%2Fcliparts%2FBig%2FEgq%2FBigEgqBMT.png&hash=e7eec62f009cdd686ce795fad0a53c6befe748e9)

In a resolution filed on Wednesday, 17 Republican lawmakers registered concern about the risks associated with climate change and called for “economically viable” policies to address it.

Led by New York representative Elise Stefanik, Florida’s Carlos Curbelo and Pennsylvania’s Ryan Costello, the green conservatives warned: “If left unaddressed, the consequences of a changing climate have the potential to adversely impact all Americans.”

They expressed support for measures to address the causes and effects of global warming, “using our tradition of American ingenuity, innovation, and exceptionalism”.

It came as a Gallup poll showed 45% of Americans worry “a great deal” about global warming, the highest level in three decades. Belief the phenomenon is primarily caused by human activity – reflecting the scientific consensus – also reached a record high of 68%.

Gallup suggested a series of warm weather records, coupled with anxiety about Trump’s dismissive stance, could be behind the heightened climate concern.

http://www.climatechangenews.com/2017/03/16/republicans-file-climate-resolution-public-concern-hits-30-year-high/

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on March 17, 2017, 01:01:43 pm
Republican War on Facts modus operandi
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Tanker Dumping Ballast Polluted Water with BMS (Ballats Managemenet System). BMS is a fig leaf for in-your-face ocean pollution for fossil fuel profits.
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When the Road Runner learned that Wile E. Coyote was a Trumper Fossil Fueler. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F4fvfcja.gif&hash=34a9a570347d39a0a892bc1f376c5e8b88add6b5)
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Orwellian Ethics - the old Blame the Victim Fossil fueler TRICK - owl scripture
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Destroying the earth corrupt government fossil fuelers
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Roy Scranton: Learning to Die in the Anthropocene- Reflections on the End of Civilization - VIDEO

https://youtu.be/N0yUX12ZoTA
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on March 17, 2017, 07:08:32 pm
Yes, this goes here. You will find out why in the second half of the audio program.  8)

Economic Update: Housing Crisis in the US
Friday, March 17, 2017 

By Richard D. Wolff, Truthout | Audio Segment

This week's episode discusses the Fed and interest rates, new US and China inequality data, wage stagnation, and big bankers' affinity for Trump. The episode also includes an interview with Walter South, founder of The Trust for Affordable Housing.

http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/39884-economic-update-housing-crisis-in-the-us
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on March 18, 2017, 02:25:13 pm
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Greenland Ice melt


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Scientists Calculate That Humans Cause at Least Half the Loss of Arctic Sea Ice

Posted on Mar 17, 2017

By Tim Radford / Climate News Network

http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/humans_cause_at_least_half_of_sea_ice_loss_20170317

Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on March 19, 2017, 08:30:37 pm
2017-03-17 - Huge swath of mangrove forest bakes to death in Australia: (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Ffox.graphics%2Ffiles%2Fflame-icon-vector.jpg&hash=49a29f2de7e63d0eb664c00375c037082b2c535d)
http://www.fasterthanexpected.com/2017/03/14/they-died-of-thirst-extreme-conditions-wipe-out-forest-over-1000-kilometres/ (http://www.fasterthanexpected.com/2017/03/14/they-died-of-thirst-extreme-conditions-wipe-out-forest-over-1000-kilometres/)

Quote: "The death of mangrove forests stretched over 1000 kilometres of Australia’s northern coast a year ago has been blamed on extreme conditions including record temperatures. Dr Duke said scientists now know that mangroves, much like coral reefs, are vulnerable to a warming climate and extreme weather events. Until now, Australian mangroves were considered to be in relatively good condition, and there had never been such dieback recorded."

Quote: "The death of so much mangrove forest in one hit is 'unprecedented', a researcher says."

Note: So it's not 'just' the Great Barrier Reef being wiped out in Australia now, but some large areas of land-based life too..

Yep. And they certainly were warned about all these deleterious offects of Catastrophic climate Change for over 50 years.

I recently answered a confused fellow who is still sitting on the fence in regard to Global Warming and how burning fossil fuels is causing Catastrophic climate change.

"The trouble I have with the whole "climate change" discussion is why this warming trend is bad."   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Fgen152.gif&hash=d5b10968fe56c4cb95fae17cee3cb420a5f4e2da)

I answered:

It's BAD because most of the effects HAVE NOT been felt. IOW, the OCEAN is a HEAT TIME BOMB that we do not have the technology to handle.

Also, the greening of latitudes near the poles will NOT compensate for the browning near the equator BECAUSE over 80% of all the land species in the biosphere (BOTH flora nd fauna) occupy the tropics.

Finally, ocean acidification, if not stopped by a MASSIVE international effort to prevent more CO2 pollution from the burning of fossil fuels, guarantees MOST of the shell forming species (which happen to be food for ALL of the larger fish species we eat) will die along with most of the Oxygen producing algae (ocean phytoplankton), which now provides HALF (or more) of the Oxygen we get. That's right, at least HALF of all photosynthesis comes from ocean algae, NOT land based plants. And then there's the deforestation on land... Do you get the picture?

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The ocean CANNOT continue that massive absorption of CO2 for more than another decade or so before saturation is reached, acidification causes massive phytoplankton and shell forming species die offs. AND THEN MOST OF THE HEAT GOES DIRECTLY INTO THE ATMOSPHERE (as opposed to a mere 2.3% now).

If anybody thinks the oceans will continue to buffer our giant carbon pollution, they are living in la la land (or work for the fossil fuel industry — but I repeat myself).

EVERY POLITICIAN, be they a Democrat or Republican, that takes a nickel from the fossil fuel industry should be THROWN OUT IN 2018, OR SOONER.

In January of 2017, NASA released data confirming that globally, 2016 was the hottest year on record -- the third consecutive year this record has been broken. Even more disturbing, in the last three years alone global temperatures rose 0.4°C: an extreme acceleration of planetary warming that has been unmatched in 136 years of record keeping.

According to the reinsurance giant Munich Re, the US had more floods in 2016 than any year in recorded history with 19 different floods swamping the nation.

http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/39540-viewing-trump-s-extreme-climate-denial-from-a-small-island-nation-in-peril

BUT, it seems the fossil Fuel Industry has convinced the governments of the world that THERE IS NO ALTERNATIVE to the fossil fuel business model...

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on March 20, 2017, 04:26:21 pm
Caught on video

March 12, 2017 5:00 pm 

New footage shows giant waves crashing into a cruise ship while a passenger is looking out the window

https://youtu.be/o9waSshoWOc

Footage from inside of a Royal Caribbean cruise ship that ran into a storm last year shows the scary moment 30 foot waves crash into the ship as a passenger looks out the window.

The ship was carrying more than 4,500 guests and 1,600 crew members and was heading to Port Canaveral in Florida, but it was forced to turn around and return to New Jersey due to the weather. Passengers were forces to stay in the cabins overnight while the rough winds and waves knocked items about the ship.

In the video, the passenger looking out the window says, “We’re just staying in one place, hoping not to die.”

When the waves hit, his friend says, “Jesus Christ man. We’re underwater, under the third floor.”

The ship suffered damages, and four people were injured during the storm. At times the boat was sent leaning at a 45 degree angle. The National Weather Services Ocean Prediction Center issued an alert four days prior to the cruise, but Royal Caribbean said the weather was not predicted. It was originally headed to Florida and the Bahamas, and all guests were given full refunds and discounts on future cruises.

Later that year, it was caught in another storm while on making its way to Bermuda.

http://rare.us/rare-news/caught-on-video/new-footage-shows-giant-waves-crashing-into-a-cruise-ship-while-a-passenger-is-looking-out-the-window/

Climate Change, Blue Water Cargo Shipping and Predicted Ocean Wave Activity: PART TWO (http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/climate-change/global-warming-is-with-us/msg4050/#msg4050)
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on March 20, 2017, 06:04:37 pm
You can keep that cruise ship travel.
I must have drowned in a previous life.


Same here. A brother of mine took me for a ride on his sailboat (37' Westphal Dualer) once. Well, we got to the mouth of the harbor and the seas were a bit on the choppy side. THEN we experienced what sailors call an accidental jive (NO FUN AT ALL!  :o). The sheets were loose and the main mast was busy trying to knock us into the water.

After a few minutes of mayhem, my brother managed to start the auxiliary engine and bring us back into the harbor away from the chop and back to a level footing.

After that, I told my brother I would only ride on a sailboat again when they started making them with gimbaled cabins. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.desismileys.com%2Fsmileys%2Fdesismileys_6869.gif&hash=f94938471d343a09155d1f60eefacdb2ceab2457)  Of course nobody makes sailboats with gimbaled cabins. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-051113192052.png&hash=93c42ef9f18fc5d9da50fd91fc19f70009f95f85)

 I had watched the gimbaled sink remain upright while all the gyrations were going on and I thought that was kind of neat.    (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F8.gif&hash=c1d98e606d7f558df4040f88e7997b3e11e9448c) At any rate, give me a catamaran or a tri-maran any day over a single keel sailboat. I DO NOT like to have to lean sideways all the time.  :P I expect sailors to call me an old fuddy duddy. That's their problem!   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F4fvfcja.gif&hash=34a9a570347d39a0a892bc1f376c5e8b88add6b5)
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on March 20, 2017, 07:42:10 pm


Climate Change Is Making Kenya's Droughts More Severe

 Monday, March 20, 2017 

By Lyndal Rowlands, Inter Press Service | Report

SNIPPET:

United Nations—The Super El Nino of 2015 to 2016 wrought droughts and floods around the world, yet it is its sister La Nina that is now fuelling drought and hunger in East Africa.

IPS spoke with Macharia Kamau, Kenya's Permanent Representative to the United Nations and an expert on climate change and El Nino and La Nina.

"Climatic events have taken on a rather different pattern now because of climate change," said Kamau.

These events, such as the current drought in East Africa, are becoming "more severe," "less predictable" and are happening "more often," he said. "Those three things put everyone who is on the path of these climatic events at higher risk."

Kenya's current severe drought, exacerbated by the recent La Nina, has left over two million people in Kenya without enough to eat.

http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/39860-climate-change-making-kenya-s-droughts-more-severe
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on March 21, 2017, 12:20:08 pm

You can keep that cruise ship travel.
I must have drowned in a previous life.


Same here. A brother of mine took me for a ride on his sailboat (37' Westphal Dualer) once. Well, we got to the mouth of the harbor and the seas were a bit on the choppy side. THEN we experienced what sailors call an accidental jive (NO FUN AT ALL!  :o). The sheets were loose and the main mast was busy trying to knock us into the water.


After a few minutes of mayhem, my brother managed to start the auxiliary engine and bring us back into the harbor away from the chop and back to a level footing.

After that, I told my brother I would only ride on a sailboat again when they started making them with gimbaled cabins. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.desismileys.com%2Fsmileys%2Fdesismileys_6869.gif&hash=f94938471d343a09155d1f60eefacdb2ceab2457)  Of course nobody makes sailboats with gimbaled cabins. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-051113192052.png&hash=93c42ef9f18fc5d9da50fd91fc19f70009f95f85)

 I had watched the gimbaled sink remain upright while all the gyrations were going on and I thought that was kind of neat.    (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F8.gif&hash=c1d98e606d7f558df4040f88e7997b3e11e9448c) At any rate, give me a catamaran or a tri-maran any day over a single keel sailboat. I DO NOT like to have to lean sideways all the time.  :P I expect sailors to call me an old fuddy duddy. That's their problem!
   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F4fvfcja.gif&hash=34a9a570347d39a0a892bc1f376c5e8b88add6b5)

Great story. It's jibe, fwiw.

I have done everything wrong, so I can't criticize. It does sound like your brother might have been learning his own way around boats. Live and learn, as they say. I have had similar experiences. It helps greatly if you know what you're doing. :)


Eddie said, "It's a jibe".
I stand corrected.  :-[ I ain't no sailor but I remembered part of the word, anyways. I didn't mean to jive ya.  :icon_mrgreen: Sailors have strange words. I always thought sheets were something you covered yourself with in bed, not a line or a rope.  ;)

Yeah, my brother (an airline pilot) had just bought the boat (1973-74). It's a wonder he didn't sink it.  :P
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on March 21, 2017, 05:50:41 pm
Devastating photos of the El Niño-driven flooding that has killed more than 70 people in Peru (http://www.businessinsider.com/el-nio-related-storms-flooding-kill-more-than-70-people-in-peru-2017-3/#over-the-weekend-floodwaters-surged-into-trujillo-the-countrys-third-largest-city-leaving-people-clinging-to-each-other-for-safety-huaycos-what-peruvians-call-powerful-avalanches-of-mud-and-stone-coming-down-from-andean-hillsides-after-heavy-rains-continued-to-do-damage-6)


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Peru El Nino Lima flooding damage destruction. A dog stands among the debris of a destroyed home in Huachipa, Lima, Peru, March 19, 2017

The rapid and unusual warming of the waters off northern Peru has unleashed the deadliest rainfall the South American country has seen in decades.

Significant amounts of rain have fallen over relatively short periods of time in some parts of the Andean country.

The downpours have overwhelmed riverbanks and caused mudslides.

We've never seen anything like this before," said Jorge Chavez, a general in charge of organizing the government's response,

From one moment to the next, sea temperatures rose and winds that keep precipitation from reaching land subsided," Chavez said.

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Devastating photos of the El Niño-driven flooding that has killed more than 70 people in Peru (http://www.businessinsider.com/el-nio-related-storms-flooding-kill-more-than-70-people-in-peru-2017-3/#over-the-weekend-floodwaters-surged-into-trujillo-the-countrys-third-largest-city-leaving-people-clinging-to-each-other-for-safety-huaycos-what-peruvians-call-powerful-avalanches-of-mud-and-stone-coming-down-from-andean-hillsides-after-heavy-rains-continued-to-do-damage-6)

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on March 22, 2017, 12:50:59 pm
The Oceans Are Heating Faster

https://youtu.be/kNwiHHo6Scc

Big Picture Fact Of the Day...

For more information on the stories we've covered visit our websites at thomhartmann.com - freespeech.org - and RT.com. You can also watch tonight's show on Hulu - at Hulu.com/THE BIG PICTURE and over at The Big Picture YouTube page. And - be sure to check us out on Facebook and Twitter!

Thom Hartmann
Mar. 20, 2017 5:57 pm
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on March 23, 2017, 01:20:21 pm
Michael Mann The Madhouse Effect: Climate Change Denial in the Age of Trump

https://youtu.be/rfjBM_BB-ic

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on March 25, 2017, 08:12:16 pm
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Defending the Climate in the Age of Trump
https://youtu.be/eMVcYfzoszc

Published on Mar 25, 2017

Centre for Sustainable Economy's Ted Gleichman says we need to see the fossil fuel industry as a rogue industry that can no longer be considered just another normal part of the economy

Visit http://therealnews.com for more stories and help support our work by donating at http://therealnews.com/donate.
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on March 27, 2017, 07:46:32 pm
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March 27, 2017

Study Links Extreme Weather Events to Climate Change

Dr. Michael Mann says the way climate change affects the jet stream is intensifying and increasing the regional scale of droughts and flooding.


https://youtu.be/gThvsFZ8nQo

http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=18755
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on March 27, 2017, 08:33:05 pm
Less Sea Ice now than ANY OTHER TIME IN RECORDED HUMAN HISTORY (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-310714182509.png&hash=7a8191a3d5ff15c51ad36a342a0cd50a90b956bd)
https://youtu.be/nAXSAF0_bcU

Mar. 24, 2017 6:40 pm

Big Picture Fact Of The Day...

Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on March 27, 2017, 09:38:31 pm
Agelbert NOTE: This video covers it ALL. Prof Veerabhadran Ramanathan, a thoroughly credentialed scientist, was FORCED, after DECADES of a career believing we could "handle" the climate change from homo sap produced greenhouse gases, to alter his view DRASTICALLY because of irrefutable empirical evidence he was observing. That's right, he was collecting the data for DECADES until a pattern emerged that shocked him out of complacency. If you ever plan to watch ANYTHING about Global Warming, THIS is the video to watch over and over. I WISH the deniers would watch it and see every argument they have presented  (claiming fossil fuels are off the hook as the main cause) taken apart piece by piece.

'Climate change morphing into an existential problem' with Prof Veerabhadran Ramanathan 

Oxford Martin School

https://youtu.be/uk7XkTwLOh4

Streamed live on Mar 10, 2017

This is a joint event with the Oxford Martin School and the Oxford Climate Research Network (OCRN)

With unchecked emissions of climate pollutants, there is a 50% probability for the planetary warming to cross the so-called dangerous threshold of 20C by 2050; and there is at least a 5% probability the warming can exceed a catastrophic 60C in about 80+ years.

For the bottom three billion in rural areas, 20C would be enough to pose existential threats. With a 60C warming accompanied by 10 billion population, loss of bio diversity and species extinction, we should ask: whether civilisation as we know it can be extended beyond this century? ???  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2F1.bp.blogspot.com%2F-TzWpwHzCvCI%2FT_sBEnhCCpI%2FAAAAAAAAME8%2FIsLpuU8HYxc%2Fs1600%2Fnooo-way-smiley.gif&hash=b8545bd420b1e2f2c7b9f665d2093523e4ad2251) Is there still time to avoid such catastrophes?  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.desismileys.com%2Fsmileys%2Fdesismileys_1730.gif&hash=cdaf50326d98ff7b051a9c49e83d51c7bb687407) The answer is Yes. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.emofaces.com%2Fpng%2F200%2Femoticons%2Ffingerscrossed.png&hash=d56f8009d18b55f4cea7be68284c0521be92fc5d)  But, we need to reinforce the technological and the market-based solutions with societal transformation. An alliance between scientists, policy makers, religious institutions and health care providers has a good chance to bring the needed transformation.

Oxford Martin School,
University of Oxford
www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk

Agelbert NOTE: I do not see the proposed "solutions" materializing any time soon. Have a nice day.
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on March 29, 2017, 08:31:26 pm
Understanding Trump’s Climate Action “Sledgehammer”

President Trump's Executive Order rolling back the U.S. climate strategy threatens America's health and prosperity and diminishes America's standing in the world. Kristin Igusky and Rebecca Gasper unpack the EO. (It’s worse than you think.)

http://www.wri.org/blog/2017/03/deeper-look-trumps-climate-action-sledgehammer
 
Heritage (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-311013200859.png&hash=a7aaaa9f04c1e3e2c948723b5f8c13fe814dacd4) Gets It Wrong on Costs of Climate Action

Economist Noah Kaufman shows how a Heritage Foundation report on the costs and benefits of climate action beloved by the Trump administration reaches false conclusions by cherry picking  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fdrphilyerboots.files.wordpress.com%2F2012%2F05%2Fcherry-picking.jpg&hash=c196a0ec409afacfa8f087d5a4556de272d44c6b) its data.

http://www.wri.org/blog/2017/03/heritage-foundation-gets-it-wrong-costs-and-benefits-climate-action


Unchecked Consumption Is the Elephant in the Boardroom

Businesses grow by selling more stuff to more people. But in a resource-constrained future, companies won’t thrive with that model. New WRI research explores this “elephant in the boardroom.”

http://www.wri.org/blog/2017/03/unchecked-consumption-elephant-boardroom
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on March 29, 2017, 09:29:03 pm
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Scientists identify new mechanism through which climate change causes droughts and flood


Mihai Andrei March 29, 2017

As if global warming wasn’t wreaking enough havoc on the world, researchers have found that it is in fact doing even more harm than we thought.   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-300714025456.bmp&hash=f4e4a260bd60d3f34ca86fed93c47d5fb4117cfd) 


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Visualization of a wavy jet stream. Image credits: NASA.

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The effects of climate change are so deep and far-reaching it would take far too long to discuss them here — you can read detailed articles on NASA, the EPA, or WWF. Some of the most noticeable effects include amplifying drought and flooding, which were discussed in this study.

Climate and weather shouldn’t be mistaken for one another, but climate does affect the weather, sometimes with disastrous effects. What this study does is show another mechanism through which it does that, uncovering “a clear fingerprint of human activity.”

“Our work shows that climate change isn’t just leading to more extreme weather through the usual mechanisms,” said lead author Michael Mann, a professor at Penn State University in the United States.

Basically, what Mann and his collaborators found is that climate change affects jet stream in a way that “favours more extreme and persistent weather anomalies.”

Jet streams are fast flowing, narrow, meandering air currents found in the atmosphere. They are westerly winds, flying from west to east, and form as a result between the atmospheric heating by solar radiation and the Coriolis force that acts on those streams (the Coriolis force is caused by the planet’s rotation around its own axis). Driven by the contrast between hotter and colder air, jet streams can reach speeds greater than 100 miles per hour (160 km/h) — which is why sometimes faster to travel from Los Angeles to New York than the other way around. But that’s not all jet streams do.

“Relatively small changes to the jet stream can have a large effect on weather and extreme weather,” co-author Dim Coumou, a professor at the Institute for Environment Studies and VU University Amsterdam, told AFP.

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NASA: Greenland Ice is melting 
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As the climate becomes more unstable, the media becomes more silent
How Broadcast Networks Covered Climate Change In 2016 
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Mediamatters.org, March 17, 2017

In 2016, evening newscasts and Sunday shows on ABC, CBS, and NBC, as well as Fox Broadcast Co.'s Fox News Sunday, collectively decreased their total coverage of climate change by 66 percent compared to 2015, even though there were a host of important climate-related stories, including the announcement of 2015 as the hottest year on record, the signing of the Paris climate agreement, and numerous climate-related extreme weather events. There were also two presidential candidates to cover, and they held diametrically opposed positions on the Clean Power Plan, the Paris climate agreement, and even on whether climate change is a real, human-caused phenomenon. Apart from PBS, the networks also failed to devote significant coverage to climate-related policies, but they still found the time to uncritically air climate denial -- the majority of which came from now-President Donald Trump and his team.

Total Climate Coverage On Broadcast Networks Cratered In 2016

Combined Climate Coverage On ABC, CBS, NBC, And Fox News Sunday Decreased Significantly From 2015 To 2016, Despite Ample Opportunity To Cover Climate Change. In 2016, ABC, CBS, NBC, and Fox Broadcasting Co.’s Fox News Sunday* aired a combined 50 minutes of climate coverage on their evening and Sunday news programs, which was 96 minutes less than in 2015 -- a drop of about 66 percent.

*Fox Broadcast Co. does not air a nightly news program

As was the case in 2015, ABC aired the least amount of climate coverage in 2016, covering the topic for just six minutes, about seven minutes less than in 2015. All the other major networks also significantly reduced their coverage from the previous year, with NBC showing the biggest decrease (from 50 minutes in 2015 to 10 minutes in 2016), followed by Fox (39 minutes in 2015 to seven minutes in 2016) and CBS (from 45 minutes in 2015 to 27 minutes in 2016).

Networks Had Ample Opportunity To Cover Climate Change In 2016. Despite the pronounced decline in climate coverage, the networks had ample opportunity to cover climate change in 2016. As The New York Times reported, in 2016, climate change took on “a prominence it has never before had in a presidential general election” given the stark contrast between the candidates’ views. Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump had a long track record of climate denial and differed with Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton on a range of important climate issues, including the Paris climate agreement, the Clean Power Plan, and the continued use of coal as an energy source, with Trump pledging that he would put coal miners “back to work” and Clinton proposing a plan that would help coal communities transition to clean energy. Additionally, there were also a host of non-election climate stories worthy of coverage in 2016, including extreme weather events tied to climate change, like Hurricane Matthew and the record-breaking rainfall and flooding in Louisiana (which the American Red Cross described as “the worst natural disaster to strike the United States since Superstorm Sandy”); the signing of the Paris climate agreement and the U.N. climate summit in Morocco; the official announcement from NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration that 2015 was the hottest year on record by far; and investigations by state attorneys general into whether ExxonMobil committed fraud by misleading the public on climate change. [The New York Times, 8/1/16; Media Matters, 5/26/16; The Huffington Post, 9/8/16; DonaldJTrump.com, 9/15/16; Media Matters, 3/15/16, 10/7/16, 8/17/16; The Huffington Post, 4/22/16; The Guardian, 4/22/16; InsideClimate News, 11/3/16; The New York Times, 1/20/16; InsideClimate News, 12/28/16]

ABC, CBS, NBC, And Fox Failed To Discuss Climate-Related Ramifications Of A Clinton Or Trump Presidency Until After The Election. ABC, CBS, NBC, and Fox News Sunday did not air a single segment informing viewers of what to expect on climate change and climate-related policies or issues under a Trump or Clinton administration. While these outlets did devote a significant amount of coverage to Trump’s presidency, airing 25 segments informing viewers about the ramifications or actions of a Trump administration as they relate to climate change, all of these segments aired after the election. Examples of post-election coverage include a PBS NewsHour segment about Trump’s selection of Scott Pruitt to head the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Pruitt’s history of climate denial and ties to the fossil fuel industry; a CBS Evening News segment about Trump appointing climate denier Myron Ebell to his EPA transition team; and an NBC Nightly News report on Trump’s promise to roll back President Barack Obama’s executive actions on climate change. [PBS NewsHour, 12/7/16; CBS Evening News, 11/15/16; NBC Nightly News, 11/9/16**]

**We included citations of specific shows when we described the content of a segment. We did not include show citations for general tallies. We linked to episodes that were available online but listed only the date for those that were not.

PBS NewsHour Was The Only Show To Discuss Climate Ramifications Of A Clinton Or Trump Presidency Prior To The Election. PBS NewsHour*** was the only show in our study that examined what impact a Trump or a Clinton presidency would have on climate-related issues and policies before the election. On the September 7 edition of PBS NewsHour, correspondent William Brangham discussed “what a Clinton or Trump administration might mean with regards to climate change” with The New York Times’ Coral Davenport and The Washington Post’s Chris Mooney. And a September 22 segment explored “what the early days of a Trump presidency might look like” and featured Judy Woodruff interviewing Evan Osnos of The New Yorker about whether Trump would renounce the Paris climate agreement. [PBS NewsHour, 9/22/16, 9/7/16]

***Unlike the nightly news shows on ABC, CBS, and NBC that air for a half hour seven days a week, PBS NewsHour airs five days a week and is a half hour longer.

Tyndall Report Found No Discussion Of Climate Change In Issues Coverage During Campaign. The Tyndall Report, which tracks the broadcast networks' weeknight newscasts, analyzed election-related issues coverage on the major networks’ weeknight newscasts and found no issues coverage devoted to climate change in 2016 up through October 25. The Tyndall Report defines election-related issues coverage as that which “takes a public policy, outlines the societal problem that needs to be addressed, describes the candidates' platform positions and proposed solutions, and evaluates their efficacy.” [The Intercept, 2/24/17; Media Matters, 10/26/16; Tyndall Report, 10/25/16]

Networks Aired A Disproportionate Amount Of Climate Coverage After Election Day. In the roughly 45 weeks before the November 8 election, the networks aired a total of 55 segments about climate change -- roughly one per week. After the election, the networks aired 32 climate-related segments over approximately seven weeks till the end of the year -- about five stories per week.

Networks Ignored Links Between Climate Change And National Security And Rarely Addressed Economic And Public Health Impacts, But Some Detailed Impacts On Extreme Weather And Plants And Wildlife.

Networks Did Not Air A Single Segment On Link To National Security. Numerous military and intelligence organizations have sounded the alarm on climate change’s connection to national security. A September 2016 report prepared by the National Intelligence Council and coordinated with the U.S. intelligence community stated, “Climate change and its resulting effects are likely to pose wide-ranging national security challenges for the United States and other countries over the next 20 years.” And following Trump’s election victory, “a bipartisan group of defense experts and former military leaders sent Trump’s transition team a briefing book urging the president-elect to consider climate change as a grave threat to national security,” E&E News reported. Yet the national security implications of climate change never came up in any of the networks’ climate coverage for 2016. [Media Matters, 1/13/17; Scientific American, 11/15/16]

PBS Was The Only Network To Address Economic Impacts Of Climate Change. PBS was the only network to report on the economic impacts of climate change. Two segments about Washington state’s carbon tax ballot initiative that aired on the April 21 and October 20 editions of PBS NewsHour featured the president of the Washington State Labor Council explaining that Washington’s shellfish industry “has left the state and gone to Hawaii because the acid levels in the ocean has risen so much.” And on the November 17 edition of PBS NewsHour, correspondent William Brangham reported that 365 American companies “have written to the president-elect imploring him to uphold the Paris accords and warning -- quote -- ‘Failure to build a low-carbon economy puts American prosperity at risk.’” [PBS NewsHour, 4/21/16, 10/20/16, 11/17/16]


Networks Rarely Addressed How Climate Change Impacts Public Health.

The World Health Organization, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the National Climate Assessment have all concluded that climate change has a significant influence on human health and disease. And as 2016 saw the first local spread of the Zika virus in the continental United States, Climate Signals found that “climate change creates new risks for human exposure to vector-borne diseases such as Zika, particularly in the United States where rising heat and humidity are increasing the number of days annually in which disease vectors thrive.” However, only two segments on NBC Nightly News dealt with the link between climate change and public health -- no other network covered the issue. In a January 18 report about the spread of Zika, correspondent Tom Costello noted, “Researchers are also studying whether climate change and El Nino are causing certain mosquitoes populations to grow.” And a July 4 report about a massive algae bloom creating a toxic emergency in Florida featured correspondent Gabe Gutierrez explaining, “The debate is raging over what`s to blame for this latest growth, but scientists say there are many factors including population growth and climate change.” [World Health Organization, accessed 3/21/17; CDC.gov, accessed 3/21/17; National Climate Assessment, accessed 3/21/17; Climate Signals, 8/23/16; NBC Nightly News, 1/18/16, 7/4/16]

CBS And ABC Rarely Covered Climate Link To Extreme Weather, While NBC And Fox Ignored It Completely. 2016 saw no shortages of extreme weather events influenced by climate change, with Hurricane Matthew making landfall on the East Coast; wildfires -- which have become a consistent threat thanks, in part, to climate change -- charring more than 100,000 acres in seven states in the Southeast; and record rainfall and flooding in Louisiana causing what the American Red Cross called “the worst natural disaster to strike the United States since Superstorm Sandy.” Yet NBC and Fox never addressed the link between climate change and extreme weather, while CBS did so in four segments and ABC did so in just one segment. By contrast, PBS NewsHour aired eight segments dealing with the link between climate change and extreme weather. [The Weather Channel, 10/9/16; Media Matters, 10/6/16; The New York Times, 11/29/16; Climate Central, 11/23/16; Media Matters, 8/17/16]


PBS Led The Networks In Stories Detailing Climate Impacts On Plants And Wildlife.

PBS provided the most coverage of climate impacts on plants and wildlife (six segments), followed by CBS and NBC (three segments each), and ABC (one segment). Examples of this reporting included a “Climate Diaries” segment on CBS Evening News about how climate change is “taking a toll on endangered mountain gorillas” in Central Africa by making their food supply less predictable and forcing human populations searching for water into their territory and an NBC Nightly News segment about how Yellowstone grizzlies are threatened because one of their food sources -- seeds from whitebark pine trees -- has been decimated by climate change. Another example was a PBS NewsHour segment reporting that “two-fifths of bees, butterflies, and related pollinating species are heading toward extinction” thanks to “a range of factors, ranging from pesticide use to climate change to habitat loss.” [CBS Evening News, 11/17/16; NBC Nightly News, 5/22/16; PBS NewsHour, 2/26/16]


Specific Climate-Related Policies Received Sparse Coverage Outside Of PBS


The Clean Power Plan Was Almost Completely Ignored On Sunday Shows And Received Sparse Coverage On Nightly News Shows. The broadcast networks provided scant coverage of the Clean Power Plan even though Trump had promised during the campaign to eliminate the policy. The Clean Power Plan establishes the first-ever federal limits on carbon pollution from power plants and serves as the linchpin of President Obama’s program to meet the nation’s emissions reduction obligation under the Paris agreement. Fox News Sunday was the only Sunday show to feature a climate-related segment on the Clean Power Plan, in which Washington Post editorial writer Charles Lane claimed that the Democrats’ focus on the plan is an example of how “environmentalism in a crucial way worked against the Democratic Party this year,” because Trump carried coal-dependent states in the election. But contrary to Lane’s claim, numerous polls conducted in the run-up to the election indicated that a majority of Americans consider climate change an important issue and favor government action to address it. On nightly news shows, ABC was the only network that did not air a climate-related segment on the plan, while PBS NewsHour covered the Clean Power Plan the most (seven segments), followed by CBS Evening News (three segments) and NBC Nightly News (two segments). [DonaldJTrump.com, 9/15/16; The White House, 8/3/15; The New York Times, 3/2/16; Fox News Sunday, 11/13/16; Media Matters, 11/29/16]

PBS Far Outpaced Networks In Coverage Of U.N. Climate Agreement And Summits. In 2016, world leaders met on Earth Day for the signing ceremony of the Paris climate agreement reached by 195 nations and later again in Morocco for talks about implementing the climate accord. In Trump’s first major speech on energy policy, in May, he vowed that he would “cancel” the Paris climate agreement. But after the election he told The New York Times, “I have an open mind to it.” Despite these developments, PBS was the only network to devote significant coverage to the U.N. climate agreement and U.N. climate-related summits, doing so in 21 segments, while CBS aired five segments, NBC and ABC aired just three, and Fox aired just two. [USA Today, 4/22/16; The New York Times, 12/12/15; InsideClimate News, 11/3/16; BBC.com, 5/27/16; DonaldJTrump.com, 5/26/16; The New York Times, 11/23/16]

CBS, NBC, And Fox Addressed The Climate Impacts Of The Keystone XL Pipeline Only Once, While ABC And PBS Failed To Do So At All. During the campaign, Clinton and Trump staked out opposing positions on whether to approve the Keystone XL pipeline, which would transport tar sands oil that is 17 percent dirtier than average and would “increase emissions of carbon dioxide and other gases linked to global warming” from Canada to the U.S. Gulf Coast. Yet there was a dearth of coverage on Keystone XL’s link to climate change, with CBS, NBC, and Fox each airing just one segment that connected Keystone XL to climate change and ABC and PBS ignoring the topic completely. The networks also ignored Keystone XL more broadly -- airing just four additional non-climate-related segments on the pipeline. [Business Insider, 9/25/16; Media Matters, 1/15/15]

Fox Was The Only Network To Cover The Dakota Access Pipeline In A Climate Context. The Standing Rock Sioux and other Native American tribes, as well as environmental activists, protested against the construction of the Dakota Access pipeline in 2016, citing, among other concerns, the impact a continued buildup of oil infrastructure would have on climate change. Yet Fox was the sole network to cover the Dakota Access pipeline in a climate context. On the December 11 edition of Fox News Sunday, host Chris Wallace previewed his upcoming interview with Trump by saying that he would “ask [Trump] to clear up exactly where he stands on climate change.” After returning from a commercial break, Wallace said to the Trump, “Let me ask you a couple specific questions. Will you still pull out of the Paris climate agreement, which has been signed by more than 100 countries to reduce carbon emissions? Will you restart the Dakota Access pipeline, which the Army just stopped?” To which Trump replied that he was “studying” the Paris climate agreement and would “have [Dakota Access] solved very quickly” when he takes office. ABC, CBS, NBC, and PBS did air multiple segments on the Dakota Access pipeline (airing eight, 10, four, and 10 segments, respectively), but none of these segments linked it to climate change. [MPR News, 12/7/16; Time, 12/1/16, 10/28/16; Fox News Sunday, 12/11/16]

Major Networks Completely Ignored The “Exxon Knew” Story. Reports from InsideClimate News and the Los Angeles Times revealed that Exxon’s own scientists had confirmed by the early 1980s that fossil fuel pollution was causing climate change, yet Exxon-funded organizations helped manufacture doubt about the causes of climate change for decades afterward in what became known as the “Exxon knew” scandal. The reports prompted the attorneys general in New York, California, and Massachusetts to each launch investigations of Exxon, as well as countersuits from Exxon and subpoenas from members of Congress in defense of Exxon. Yet none of the networks covered any of these developments over the course of 2016. [Media Matters, 9/1/16; InsideClimate News, 12/28/16]

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CBS, Fox, And PBS Aired A Combined Five Segments That Included Unrebutted Climate Science Denial In 2016 -- All From Trump Or Trump Officials. In 2016, CBS Evening News, PBS NewsHour, and Fox News Sunday aired a combined five segments that misled audiences by featuring climate science denial. Half of Fox News Sunday’s climate-related segments included climate denial. In every instance, it was Trump or Trump officials promoting denial.

• On the September 27 edition of CBS Evening News, correspondent Julianna Goldman fact-checked a portion of the September 26 presidential debate in which Clinton stated, “Donald thinks that climate change is a hoax perpetrated by the Chinese. I think it’s real,” and Trump interjected, “I did not. I did not. … I do not say that.” Goldman noted that Trump had in fact tweeted that climate change is a hoax, but she did not fact-check the veracity of Trump’s statement that climate change was a hoax. [CBS Evening News, 9/27/16; Media Matters, 5/26/16]

• On the November 9 edition of PBS NewsHour, during a segment on world leaders’ reactions to Trump’s election victory, correspondent Margaret Warner reported, “Also in question is America’s participation in the Paris climate accord. Trump has called climate change a hoax, and while it would take four years to formally pull out of the agreement, there are no sanctions in place for ignoring it.” And in a report on the ways in which Trump would dismantle environmental policy on the November 17 edition of PBS NewsHour, correspondent William Brangham stated, “Trump has repeatedly expressed his own skepticism about climate change, like in this 2012 tweet, when he said: ‘The concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing noncompetitive.’ Two years later, he wrote: ‘Global warming is an expensive hoax.’" In neither instance did the correspondent note that Trump’s statements are at odds with the scientific consensus that climate change is real and human-caused. [PBS NewsHour, 11/9/16, 11/17/16]

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Other Nightly News Segments On PBS, CBS, And NBC Also Included Climate Science Denial, But Reporters Pushed Back On Those Claims, Noting That They Conflicted With Established Climate Science. Segments on PBS, CBS, and NBC nightly news shows also included climate denial, but reporters noted that that these statements were at odds with established climate science.

• In a segment about Trump selecting Scott Pruitt as his nominee to head the Environmental Protection Agency on the December 8 edition of PBS NewsHour, anchor Judy Woodruff reported, “Pruitt is in sync with President-elect Trump on a range of issues, including his skepticism about man-made global warming. Writing in the National Review this year, he said: ‘That debate is far from settled. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-311013200859.png&hash=a7aaaa9f04c1e3e2c948723b5f8c13fe814dacd4) Scientists continue to disagree about the degree and extent of global warming.’ In fact, the vast majority of scientists agree that human activity contributes to global warming, all of which underscores questions about whether a Trump administration will refuse to abide by the Paris accords on greenhouse gas emissions.” And on the December 14 edition of PBS NewsHour, Woodruff asked Sean Spicer, who was then communications director for the Republican National Committee, “Does the president-elect still believe, as he said on the campaign trail, that the science behind climate change is still not settled, in other words, something that most climate scientists say is absolutely correct?” Spicer replied by denying the consensus on human-caused climate change, stating that Trump “understands that there’s elements of man, mankind, that affect climate, but the exact impact of it and what has to be done to change that is something there is some dispute about within the community, not just science, but within the industry.” [PBS NewsHour, 12/8/16, 12/14/16]

• A November 15 CBS Evening News segment on the appointment of climate denier Myron Ebell to Trump’s EPA transition team featured footage of Trump calling climate change a “hoax,” followed by correspondent Chip Reid stating, “President-elect Donald Trump has left little doubt where he stands on the issue of climate change. He wants a dramatic increase in the production of coal and oil, which he says will create jobs. And his EPA transition team is being led by Myron Ebell, a leading climate change skeptic. Ebell, who is not a scientist, disagrees with the overwhelming majority of climate scientists who say the driving force behind the warming planet is the burning of fossil fuels.” [CBS Evening News, 11/15/16]

• The December 14 edition of ABC’s World News Tonight featured footage of Trump transition official Anthony Scaramucci denying climate change by arguing, “There was overwhelming science that the Earth was flat. ... We get a lot of things wrong in the scientific community.” Correspondent Brian Ross introduced Scaramucci’s comments as “a Trump transition official continu[ing] the public assault on established science.” [ABC’s World News Tonight, 11/14/16]

Because hosts or correspondents on these programs noted that the statements in question contradicted mainstream climate science, they were not counted as denial in our study.

Climate Scientists Were Completely Absent From ABC’s World News Tonight … Again

For The Second Consecutive Year, ABC’s World News Tonight Did Not Feature A Single Scientist In Its Climate Coverage. ABC’s World News Tonight did not feature a single scientist in its climate coverage for the second year in a row. By contrast, NBC Nightly News and CBS Evening News featured five and six scientists, respectively, and PBS NewsHour featured 18.

Sunday Shows Did Not Feature A Single Scientist In Climate-Related Coverage. After featuring just two scientists over a five-year period from 2009 to 2013, the Sunday shows featured seven scientists in 2014 alone, and then backslid in 2015, quoting or interviewing just two scientists (4 percent of all Sunday show guests). In 2016, that backslide continued, with the Sunday shows featuring no scientists in their climate-related coverage.

PBS And CBS Frequently Aired Coverage Related To Climate-Related Scientific Research, While NBC And ABC Did So Less Often. PBS and CBS far outpaced their counterparts in the number of segments focusing on climate-related scientific research that they aired on nightly news shows. PBS NewsHour aired 10 segments on climate-related scientific research, including a segment that featured scientists explaining climate change’s influence on wildfires in Southern California and flooding in Louisiana; CBS Evening News aired seven segments on climate-related research, including a segment featuring interviews with scientists who discovered unprecedented rates of sea ice melt in the Arctic Circle. Conversely, NBC Nightly News aired just three segments on climate-related research, and ABC’s World News Tonight aired just two. None of the Sunday shows featured any segments on climate-related scientific research. [PBS NewsHour, 8/17/16; CBS Evening News, 3/4/16]

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Sunday Shows’ Climate Coverage Dropped By 85 Percent

Every Network’s Sunday Show Significantly Decreased Its Climate Coverage. After dropping slightly from a high of 81 minutes of coverage in 2014 to 73 minutes in 2015, the Sunday shows’ climate coverage dropped 85 percent to just 11 minutes of coverage in 2016 -- the third-lowest amount in the eight-year time frame Media Matters has examined. Every network saw significant declines in Sunday show coverage, with Fox leading the way (down 32 minutes from the previous year), followed by NBC (down 17 minutes), CBS (down 10 minutes), and ABC (down four minutes).

Bernie Sanders Brought Up Climate Change Four Times As Much As Hosts Did On ABC, CBS, And NBC Sunday Shows. On every Sunday show except Fox News Sunday, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) brought up climate change significantly more often than the hosts themselves did. ABC’s This Week, CBS’ Face the Nation, and NBC’s Meet the Press aired a combined five segments in which the hosts brought up climate change, while Bernie Sanders brought up climate change 21 times during his appearances on those shows. Because our study counted only those segments where a media figure brought up or discussed climate change, those 21 segments were not counted in this study's overall network tallies.

Nightly News Shows On ABC, CBS, and NBC Aired Roughly Half As Much Climate Coverage As They Did In 2015

NBC Nightly News And CBS Evening News Significantly Decreased Climate Coverage, And ABC Once Again Lagged Behind Network Counterparts. The nightly news shows on ABC, CBS, and NBC collectively decreased their climate coverage from approximately 73 minutes in 2015 to just over 39 minutes in 2016 -- a drop of 46 percent. NBC Nightly News had the biggest drop in climate coverage, decreasing by about 22 minutes, followed by CBS Evening News, which had a drop of approximately nine minutes. ABC’s World News Tonight, which aired significantly less climate coverage than its competitors in 2014 and 2015, once again continued its downward trend, dropping even further from roughly seven minutes of climate coverage in 2015 to just four minutes in 2016.

For Second Year In A Row, PBS Aired More Climate Coverage Than All Other Nightly News Programs Combined. For the second consecutive year, PBS NewsHour aired more segments addressing climate change than the other nightly news shows combined. PBS NewsHour aired 46 climate-related segments, while ABC (five), CBS (19), and NBC (12) aired a combined 36 climate-related nightly news segments. However, PBS NewsHour’s climate coverage decreased from 2015, when the network aired 58 climate-related segments.

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In 2017 So Far, CBS Evening News Has Already Aired More Than Half The Amount Of Climate Coverage It Did In All Of 2016. In the first few months of 2017, CBS Evening News has already aired about 17 minutes of climate-related coverage, just eight minutes less than the show aired for all of 2016. In fact, CBS Evening News aired nearly half as much climate coverage as it did in all of 2016 in just one week of 2017; this coverage was during a series of climate-related reports from Antarctica for its “Climate Diaries” series. [Media Matters, 2/13/17]

In Early Months Of 2017, NBC Nightly News Has Already Aired Nearly Half As Much Climate Coverage As It Did In All Of 2016. In just over two months, NBC Nightly News has already aired about five minutes of climate-related coverage, roughly half as much as the show aired for all of 2016.


Methodology

This report analyzes coverage of "climate change" or "global warming" between January 1, 2016, and December 31, 2016, on four Sunday news shows (ABC's This Week, CBS' Face the Nation, NBC's Meet the Press, and Fox Broadcasting Co.'s Fox News Sunday) and four nightly news programs (ABC's World News Tonight, CBS Evening News, NBC Nightly News, and PBS NewsHour) based on Nexis transcripts. Fox Broadcasting Co. airs Fox News Sunday but does not air a nightly news equivalent; Fox News is a separate cable channel. PBS NewsHour is a half-hour longer than its network nightly news counterparts, but it airs five days a week, compared to seven days a week for the other nightly news shows (PBS NewsHour Weekend was not included in this analysis). In one instance, Nexis categorized a segment that did not mention "climate change" or "global warming" as being about climate change; because the segment provided other clear indications that it was indeed about climate change, it was included. To identify the number of segments networks aired on the Keystone XL and Dakota Access pipelines, we used the search terms Keystone w/20 pipe! And Dakota w/20 pipe!.

Our analysis includes any segment devoted to climate change, as well as any substantial mention (more than one paragraph of a news transcript or a definitive statement by a media figure) about climate change impacts or actions. The study did not include instances in which a non-media figure brought up climate change without being prompted to do so by a media figure unless the media figure subsequently addressed climate change. We defined media figures as hosts, anchors, correspondents, and recurring guest panelists. The study also does not include teasers if they were for segments that aired later on the same program. We acquired time stamps from iQ media and applied them generously for nightly news segments when the overall topic was related to climate change. For instance, if a nightly news segment about an extreme weather event mentioned climate change briefly, the entire segment was counted as climate coverage. However, if a significant portion of the segment was not related to climate change, such as a report on the pope giving a speech about climate change, immigration, religious freedom, and outreach to Cuba, only the portions of the segment that discussed climate change were counted. For the Sunday shows, which often feature wide-ranging discussions on multiple topics, we used only the relevant portion of such conversations. All coverage figures have been rounded to the nearest minute. Because PBS NewsHour is an hour-long show and the other networks’ nightly news programs are half-hour shows, our analysis compared PBS NewsHour's climate coverage to other nightly news programs' coverage in terms of topics covered and number of segments, but not in terms of number of minutes.

Research intern Katherine Hess and Sarah Wasko contributed to this study.

https://www.mediamatters.org/research/2017/03/23/how-broadcast-networks-covered-climate-change-2016/215718

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on April 01, 2017, 03:36:04 pm
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/colombia-flooding-more-than-100-dead-after-rivers-overflow-and-sweep-through-city/ (http://www.cbsnews.com/news/colombia-flooding-more-than-100-dead-after-rivers-overflow-and-sweep-through-city/)

More than 100 dead in flooding as landslide rips through city

In this handout photo released by the Colombian National Army, soldiers carry a victim on a stretcher, in Mocoa, Colombia, Saturday, April 1, 2017 AP
 

BOGOTA, Colombia -- Colombia President Juan Manuel Santos says at least 112 people have been killed after intense rains triggered an avalanche of mud and water from overflowing rivers that swept through a small city and destroyed homes while people slept.

The incident happened around midnight in Mocoa, a city of about 350,000 located near Colombia’s border with Ecuador, tucked between mountains and at the crux of two rivers.

Santos arrived at the disaster zone Saturday, warning the death toll could rise as the search for survivors continues.


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In this handout photo released by the Colombian National Army, soldiers and residents work together in rescue efforts in Mocoa, Colombia, Saturday, April 1, 2017
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Muddy water and debris quickly surged the city’s streets, toppling homes, ripping trees from their roots, lifting cars and trucks and carrying them downstream. With most of the community deep in slumber when the water avalanche began, many residents did not have enough time to climb on top of their roofs or seek safety on higher ground.

Herman Granados, a surgeon at the local hospital, said he believed there are likely more than 300 people injured and that doctors were quickly running out of blood. He suspected the death toll would rise.

“Under the mud, I am sure there are many more,” he said Saturday after working throughout the night on patients.

Witnesses described feeling buildings vibrate as the flood began. Although an alarm reportedly went off, it could not be heard throughout the city, survivors said. Videos that some residents posted online showed vast areas filled with wood planks and debris. People could be heard calling out the names of missing loved ones.

“There are many people looking for their relatives,” said Oscar Forero, a spokesman with the Colombian Red Cross.

The Red Cross planned to set up a special unit in Mocoa Saturday afternoon to help relatives search for their relatives.

Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on April 03, 2017, 05:17:20 pm
Greenland's Coastal Glaciers Rapidly Withering Away

By Cassie Kelly

31 March, 2017

Greenland's icy coastlines are withering away at a rapid pace. With ever rising temperatures in the region, scientists fear the glaciers may never grow back.

A team from Ohio State University discovered that about 20 years ago, melting on the island reached a tipping point. In this event, a layer of old snow called the firn, was frozen over and the ice sheet growth was stunted. This caused the new growth on the coastlines to halt. Combined with rising temperatures of the sea, the ice has been melting away in large sectors. At the rate it's going, the team said there will be a 1.5 inch increase in global sea level rise by 2100.

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The find is important because it reveals exactly why the most vulnerable parts of Greenland ice are melting so quickly: the deep snow layer that normally captures coastal meltwater was filled to capacity in 1997. That layer of snow and meltwater has since frozen solid, so that all new meltwater flows over it and out to sea.

Though these findings are bad news, the researchers said there is no "immediate cause for panic." The Greenland Ice Sheet—the second largest ice cache in the world—is relatively intact. Associate professor at Ohio State, and co-author of the study Ian Howat, said the outer layers of ice contribute a small portion to the greater sheet, and that their melting may even be ephemeral, or seasonal to some degree.

"Since this 'tipping point' was reached in the late 90's before warming really took off, it indicates that these peripheral glaciers are very sensitive and, potentially, ephemeral relative to the timescales of response of the ice sheet," said Howat.

Full article with revealing graphics:

http://www.ecowatch.com/greenland-coastal-glaciers-melting-2337977456.html



Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on April 04, 2017, 02:45:02 pm
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Mihai Andrei March 30, 2017

The once pristine-white snow of the Arctic is slowly turning green. This phenomenon, first noticed in 2011, was as surprising as it was disturbing but now, researchers believe they know how it happened.

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The green shows the area of sea ice where plankton is able to grow. Image credits: Christopher Horvat.

In 2011, scientists had to rub their eyes — twice. They had observed something unprecedented: a massive bloom of phytoplankton beneath the Arctic ice, in waters that should have been way to dark for any light to penetrate them. How then did the light go in, allowing the phytoplankton to conduct photosynthesis?

Using numerical modelling fitted with observations, researchers from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) found that global warming caused the melting of a significant quantity of ice and this thinning allowed the light to get through and facilitating this bloom. Blooms like this, they say, will become much more common in the future, and will create major disruptions in Arctic food chains.

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“Our big question was, how much sunlight gets transmitted through the sea ice, both as a function of thickness, which has been decreasing, and the melt pond percentage, which has been increasing,” said Chris Horvat, first author of the paper and graduate student in applied mathematics at SEAS. “What we found was that we went from a state where there wasn’t any potential for plankton blooms to massive regions of the Arctic being susceptible to these types of growth.”

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These are melt ponds on the surface of Arctic ice. Image credits: NASA.

Phytoplankton is at the very bottom of the entire food chain in the Arctic. Every summer, ice retreats and uncovers parts of the plankton, creating a massive boom which attracts fish, which in turn attract larger predators. If blooms happen earlier and more often, it forces us to rethink our entire idea of the food web, with dramatic and as-of-yet unforeseeable consequences.

Due to rising temperatures, ice thickness in the Arctic has reduced by an average of about a metre in the past 30 years. Two decades ago, only 3-4% of the Arctic sea ice was thin enough to allow blooms underneath. Nowadays, almost a third of the ice extent can host blooms.

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“The meter decline in sea ice thickness in the Arctic in the past 30 years has dramatically changed the ecology in that area,” said Horvat. “All of a sudden, our entire idea about how this ecosystem works is different. The foundation of the Arctic food web is now growing at a different time and in places that are less accessible to animals that need oxygen.”

Recent climate change may have markedly altered the ecology of the Arctic Ocean, researchers warily conclude.

Journal Reference: Christopher Horvat, David Rees Jones, Sarah Iams, David Schroeder, Daniela Flocco, and Daniel Feltham — The frequency and extent of sub-ice phytoplankton blooms in the Arctic Ocean. DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.1601191

http://www.zmescience.com/science/arctic-ice-green-30032017/

Agelbert NOTE: Please remember the above objective, credentialed science and call BULLSHIT when some fossil fuel industry propagandist tells you how nice and dandy the "greening" of the Arctic is for the biosphere.  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.desismileys.com%2Fsmileys%2Fdesismileys_2932.gif&hash=0eaec4791a5825821998245e7fcd7744b56557fe) AND, right after they spew that bit of Orwellian mindfork, they add to it by calmly stating what a "great thing" it is that our loyal servants, the fossil fuelers  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2F2.bp.blogspot.com%2F_9HT4xZyDmh4%2FTOHhxzA0wLI%2FAAAAAAAAEUk%2FoeHDS2cfxWQ%2Fs200%2FSmiley_Angel_Wings_Halo.jpg&hash=13281f1944b60773bf12b29387b70be77cc1fe16), are ready, willing and able (See Putin with is "first do no harm" statement about running TWELVE natural gas tankers across the Arctic as often as possible. :P.) to make sure that phytoplankton in the Arctic has LOTS of CO2 "food" to eat...

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Expect them to try to bill us for the "gift" of CO2 soon, very soon.   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Facigar.gif&hash=dc9dccf92c6c88c99611b06c86d92629d69f2978)(https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-311013200859.png&hash=a7aaaa9f04c1e3e2c948723b5f8c13fe814dacd4)
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on April 04, 2017, 05:48:00 pm
Hailstones pierce galvanized steel roof
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=uFhVxB0Rrm8
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on April 08, 2017, 02:35:06 pm
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The forests won’t fix our CO2 problem — in fact, they’ll scrub less than we assumed
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Alexandru Micu March 7, 2017

Carbon dioxide absorption by growing biosphere may have been overestimated up to now, a new study concludes. This is due to previous estimates not taking into account the limiting factor of essential nutrients on plant development.

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Image via Pixabay.

One effect of rising concentrations of CO2 in our atmosphere is that plants have more of the gas — a prime source of carbon — to metabolize, improving growth rates. It also raises average temperatures in cold areas, promoting plant growth. Satellite imagery has shown that while growth has declined in some areas, our planet is getting greener overall.

Climate scientists have pointed out that this increased quantity of plants will be able to scrub even more CO2 out of the atmosphere, forming a natural carbon sink, and helping mitigate our emissions. But they have overestimated just how much the biosphere will grow, and thus how much more carbon it will soak. By testing the effect of higher CO2 levels on forests growing in tropical and subtropical soils, a team from the Western Sydney University in Australia has found that the biosphere will likely grow less than what previous estimates have projected.

Plenty of carbon, scarce phosphorus

The team, led by David Ellsworth of Western Sydney University in Australia, says that forests will absorb around a tenth less CO2 than previously expected, meaning CO2 levels will rise even faster than our current models predict. The main limiting factor opposing CO2’s fertilizing effect is the lack of phosphorous in tropical and subtropical regions, they explain.

To determine how much the biosphere will grow, the team artificially raised CO2 levels in six plots of a mature eucalyptus forest near Sydney, which were growing in characteristically phosphorus-poor soil. The plots were covered in a mix of individuals of diverse species and ages.

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Previous similar work in temperate forests (whose soils are much richer in phosphorus) found that CO2 increase could boost growth by as much as 20%. Ellsworth’s team found no evidence of growth boost in their plots at all. They attribute this difference to the limiting effect of phosphorous (a key nutrient) on growth. The results are backed by previous results, showing plant growth in the past 30 years didn’t see as much an increase as we estimated.

Another (very) limiting factor is human activity. Although some forests will grow faster if left to their own devices, we have a pretty consistent habit of cutting them down. Martin Brandt et al. show that while there’s overall more woody vegetation in Africa, the effects of warmer climate and rising levels of CO2 are offset by deforestation for raw materials and arable land in highly populated, humid areas, leading to a decrease in woody vegetation for these regions. The biggest increase in forests was seen in dry areas with low human populations, but it’s unclear if this makes up for the losses in vegetation elsewhere.

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Ellsworth also points out that an increase in plant growth doesn’t necessarily translate to an increase in CO2 absorption and storage by plants.

Where does this leave us? Well, while it would be a nice turn of events it seems unlikely that the trees will clean our mess. So overall the situation takes a turn for the worse. Our best bet, as up to now, is to limit emissions and find ways to sequester CO2. In the meantime, we should also try as much as possible to mitigate the damage.

The full paper “Elevated CO2 does not increase eucalypt forest productivity on a low-phosphorus soil” has been published in the journal Nature Climate Change.

http://www.zmescience.com/ecology/phosphorus-limits-forest-growth/

Agelbert NOTE: The above is objective scientific reporting. Unfortunately for those of us in the reality based community, the probability of seeing or reading about this in Fox News (and most other media in the USA   :P ) is about 7%.

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READ ON:

Most Americans believe climate change is real but the media war on science clearly shows its teeth

Tibi Puiu April 7, 2017

On Wednesday, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D) gave his 163rd “Time to Wake Up” address on climate change in front of his colleagues from Congress informing them that most Americans believe climate change is real. Whitehouse cited a recent study released by Yale University scientists to highlight the gap between what lawmakers say and do in Congress and what their constituents really think and expect from their elected representatives.

https://youtu.be/_ojext-vajY

According to the Yale study, 70% of Americans believe in climate change. That might sound like good news but there are a couple of caveats that we need to pay attention to. For instance, the same study found only 53% of Americans believe climate change is caused by human activity. In other words, one in two people thinks the direction climate is heading is completely natural or impossible to influence, which is just borderline better than outright climate change denial.

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Counties where adults discuss global warming at least occasionally. The west part of the country is far more involved in the climate change conversation. Credit: Yale University.

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What can explain these stats in light of an overwhelming scientific consensus? It’s the media war on science, of course. The Yale survey found 49 percent of people thought that “most scientists think global warming is happening,” when in fact 97% of climate scientists agree climate change is not only happening but is caused by humans. It reminds me of the confusion around the health risks of smoking tobacco. Despite the fact that ever since the freaking 1950s an overwhelming majority of doctors cautioned patients that smoking can kill, the general public was polarized by Big Tobacco marketing campaigns and bogus cherry-picked studies made by ill-intentioned scientists or no real scientists at all, for that matter. Almost everyone nowadays knows smoking kills and it would be silly to think otherwise because you just can’t keep the lid on this kind of thing for too long — but just a few decades ago things weren’t that clear in the eyes of the general public.

So the confusion among the general public is understandable when you realize the country’s biggest broadcast networks collectively aired shows or news covering climate change for no more than 50 minutes for the whole year of 2016. That’s how much time the planet and the livelihoods of millions of species are worth to them. When they do talk about climate change or events under a climate change lens, often there are no real scientists invited to the discussion or, worse, they air climate denialism.

With half the population of the country dazed and confused, this Presidential Administration feels legitimized to undo policies that were actually helping the environment and enacting policies that will make it worse. The most recent attack on climate and science, in general, was last week’s executive order to destroy the Clean Power Act under which hundreds of new power plants would have been closed and replaced with renewable energy. The idea is to make ‘coal great again’, you know, last century’s tech which has been getting killed by the market for years. Reviving coal use is like trying to put back horse drive carriages on the road. Pure lunacy, just like one of the most embarrassing anti-science hearing ever that took place recently. Last week was a ‘good one’.

“Typical for this insider friendly administration. It’s a polluter’s wish list that’s terrible for the American people. ‘Sad,’ as the President would say,” Sen. Whitehouse spoke in front of Congress colleagues.

“The question of carbon dioxide as a polluter has been settled by the Supreme Court. So you have as a matter of law a dangerous pollutant and under the law it must be regulated. So this performance by the Trump show is a waste of time because ultimately lawyers and courts will give ‘the law’ — the final say,” he later added.

Yet again, it seems policy makers act with total impunity against the wishes of their constituents. The Yale study found 82 percent of respondents said the country should fund research into renewable energy sources. Moreover, 75 percent said the government should regulate CO2 as a pollutant.

ALSO READ  Trump orders media blackout at the EPA, tells employees to 'cut climate change webpage' (http://www.zmescience.com/science/news-science/trump-bans-epa-24012017/)

If you feel justifiably underrepresented by these recent developments, don’t stand idle. Write to your senator letting him or her know that what you care about stands in stark contrast to Congress and Oval Office action. But before you do that, talk to your friends and family about this. A previous study found two-thirds of Americans are worried about climate change but rarely talk about it publically.   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Fgen152.gif&hash=d5b10968fe56c4cb95fae17cee3cb420a5f4e2da)

http://www.zmescience.com/ecology/climate/climate-change-wake-up/

ANOTHER Agelbert NOTE: The REASON Americans don't talk about their worries on climate change publicly is BECAUSE of the media propaganda blitz funded BY THE FOSSIL FUEL INDUSTRY. It's called Cognitive dissonance through AGNOTOLOGY. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-311013200859.png&hash=a7aaaa9f04c1e3e2c948723b5f8c13fe814dacd4)

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on April 09, 2017, 02:07:52 pm
April 4, 2017 | Rona Fried | Climate Change, Policy



Climate Denial Is Now US Policy

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The impact of Trump’s executive order – which unravels all traces of climate change initiatives in the federal government – is already being felt. Climate Change Denial is now US policy.

An empowered Department of Energy (DOE) is showing the most ridiculous display of bravado – telling its Office of International Climate and Clean Energy to no longer use the phrases “climate change,” “emissions reduction” or “Paris Agreement” in written communications, reports Politico.  Even without a “banned word list,” staff at other DOE divisions and the State Department  are also avoiding “hot-button” climate-related terms. The mission to address climate change has been scrubbed from every relevant federal agency, including the State Department, where it was a priority.

An empowered House of Representatives has already passed two bills: The Honest and Open New EPA Science Treatment Act (HONEST Act) restricts EPA from using anything other than publicly available science to justify new regulations.  Another bill directs EPA’s Science Advisory Board – which reviews and advises on scientific research – to include more members from the private sector.



Climate Change Natural Disasters:

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NOAA, which faces steep budget cuts …

Interior Secretary Zinke immediately reversed the coal leasing moratorium on federal lands. In response, environmental groups and the Northern Cheyenne tribe filed a lawsuit. The tribe wasn’t consulted as law requires, and “Trump upended a public process intended to stop taxpayer losses on coal mined from our public lands where land is auctioned for “pennies on the dollar to coal companies that reap fat profits ruining our land and water,” explains Bill Corcoran of Sierra Club.

36 House Democrats introduced legislation that declares Trump’s executive order null and void (good luck with that!). The “Congressional Leadership in Mitigating Administration Threats to the Earth” (CLIMATE Act) also prohibits federal funds for implementing or enforcing the order.

Benefits for Oil & Gas Companies Exaggerated
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Trump’s move to cleanse the US of climate regulations so the oil and gas industry can thrive not only ignores the “energy boom” we already have in efficiency and renewable energy, it doesn’t make much difference for fossil companies. Although they are always happy to make a few more cents, regulations have had little impact on their business.

13 of the 15 biggest producers state in SEC filings that complying with Obama’s regulations had no impact on operations or their financial condition. The other two say they spend less than 3% of revenue on complying, reports Reuters.

So, In exchange for more pollution, drillers make a bit more money. Instead of dropping 28% (the US pledge to the Paris Climate Agreement), US carbon emissions will likely remain flat through 2025, according to one analysis.  But Trump is just getting started – he can do a lot more damage, potentially eliminating tax credits for renewable energy, ignoring the new Montreal Protocol commitment to phase out HFCs, watering down fuel economy vehicle standards, etc.

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Details of the Executive Order:

◾rescinds President Obama’s Climate Action Plan – his comprehensive template that guided policy

◾directs the EPA to begin the repeal process of the Clean Power Plan, which cuts emissions from power plants 32% by 2030 – the largest single source of US emissions. It also repeals emissions standards for new power plants. Fact: every industry has pollution controls Except power plants!

◾eliminates regulations that would cut methane emissions from oil and fracking on public land 40% by 2025. Fact: these emissions could easily be captured and sold profitably, but the industry refuses, losing natural gas worth $330 million a year. These emissions make natural gas as bad as coal.

◾lifts the moratorium on new coal mining leases on federal land. Fact: in the last few auctions no company even bid!

◾federal agencies no longer have to cut their own emissions – the goal of 42% by 2025 is gone. They also don’t have to boost use of renewable energy – the goal of using 30% renewables for ALL energy by 2025 is gone.

◾Obama’s visionary order is gone: federal agencies had to establish standards to that development projects have a “net benefit” for our nation’s land, water and wildlife.

◾federal agencies no longer have to consider climate ramifications when planning infrastructure investments or make sure those projects can withstand climate change. They no longer have to incorporate sea level rise projections into planning and construction along US coasts, for example.

◾repeals Obama’s order to publish annual federal subsidies for fossil fuels.

◾repeals requirement for Defense Department to include climate change risks in national security strategies and policies.

◾Every federal agency must identify all regulations and policies that could possibly slow the growth of fossil energy production and develop plans to deal with that in the next 170 days.

While Obama’s executive orders are now repealed, rescinding EPA regulations like the Clean Power Plan and methane emissions won’t be easy. The EPA will have to take the same steps of public hearings and comment periods as Obama’s EPA did to develop the rules in the first place. With the long list of policies Trump wants thrown out, his administration will also be tied up in lawsuits for years.

Lawsuit Filed Against Keystone Pipeline

When Trump gave the State Department 60 days to issue a permit for the Keystone Pipeline, seven environmental groups filed suit.  US law requires an up-to-date comprehensive environmental review that accounts for potential threats to the climate, water resources, wildlife, and communities along the pipeline route.

The biggest threat to the pipeline could come from Nebraska – which never gave TransCanada a permit for a route through the state.  The decision could take up to a year and could easily be denied because of renewed lawsuits from landowners that don’t want a foreign company bullying them with eminent domain. The route also cuts through Sioux treaty lands and is near several other tribal reservations, all of whom say they haven’t been consulted. Meanwhile, a University of Nebraska study projects 91 significant spills from Keystone along its 1,179-mile route.

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17 states plus Washington DC, 5 cities and 1 county have formed a coalition to take legal action. “We’re very confident the EPA can’t simply dismantle the Clean Power Plan and leave nothing in its place,” says New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman.

The states: New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Vermont, Maine, Delaware, Maryland, District of Columbia, Virginia, Illinois, Iowa, New Mexico, California, Oregon, Washington, Hawaii. The cities: New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, Boulder, South Miami and Broward County, Florida.

Members of the Mayors National Climate Action Agenda sent an open letter to Trump saying they represent over 41 million Americans in 75 cities: “Climate change is both the greatest single threat we face, and our greatest economic opportunity for our nation.” After affirming their commitment to taking every possible action, they say,  “We are standing up for Americans harmed by climate change: coastal residents confronting erosion and sea level rise; young and old suffering from worsening air pollution and at risk from extreme heatwaves; mountain residents engulfed by wildfires; farmers struggling at harvest time due to drought; and communities across our nation challenged by extreme weather.”

“There is no question that to act on climate is to act in our best economic interests. Through expanded climate policies, we have grown jobs and expanded our economies while cleaning our air. This Order moves our nation in the wrong direction and puts American prosperity at risk,”  state West Coast governors and mayors of Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, Oakland and Los Angeles.

60% of the US pledge in the Paris Climate Agreement can be met by states and business leaders, says the Sierra Club. The Clean Power Plan alone would have met 15% of the goal to reduce greenhouse gases 28% by 2025.

http://www.sustainablebusiness.com/climate-denial-now-us-policy/

Agelbert NOTE: The Fossil Fuel Industry Business Model is now US Policy. Have a nice day.

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Now for some prophecy about Earth in the year 2114 and the Biosphere:   

4K | Biosphere Full - Director's Extended Cut

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Biosphere | Broadcast TV version - Remastered Picture and Sound with New Unreleased Footage.
https://youtu.be/I54vzcQmnKY






Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on April 09, 2017, 08:47:03 pm
Climate Change Extreme Weather Events 
https://youtu.be/VDaLT_iLJR8

Climate Change - Future Change | Know About Weather, Facts, Effects, Climate Condition

Published on Oct 20, 2015

Climate change is a change in the statistical distribution of weather patterns when that change lasts for an extended period of time. Climate change may refer to a change in average weather conditions, or in the time variation of weather around longer-term average conditions (i.e., more or fewer extreme weather events). Climate change is caused by factors such as biotic processes, variations in solar radiation received by Earth, plate tectonics, and volcanic eruptions. Certain human activities have also been identified as significant causes of recent climate change, often referred to as "global warming".

Scientists actively work to understand past and future climate by using observations and theoretical models. A climate record—extending deep into the Earth's past—has been assembled, and continues to be built up, based on geological evidence from borehole temperature profiles, cores removed from deep accumulations of ice, floral and faunal records, glacial and periglacial processes, stable-isotope and other analyses of sediment layers, and records of past sea levels. More recent data are provided by the instrumental record. General circulation models, based on the physical sciences, are often used in theoretical approaches to match past climate data, make future projections, and link causes and effects in climate change.

Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on April 10, 2017, 01:40:54 pm
Agelbert NOTE: This October 2016 article is every bit as much required reading today as it was before the Trump Wrecking Crew conned their way into the White House.

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The only thing the scientists didn’t mention is that this attitude is not just Trump’s. It is embraced by almost the entire Republican party.

Previously, climate scientists have said these policies show “incredible ignorance” and constitute “an existential threat to this planet.”

2015 was hotter and 2016 will be the hottest year yet:

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Scientists Call Out Trump for Denying Climate Change (http://www.sustainablebusiness.com/scientists-call-trump-denying-climate-change/)


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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on April 15, 2017, 04:28:45 pm
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'First Protest in Space' Slams Trump With Astronaut's Famous Quote


As President Donald Trump takes aim at Earth science with his proposed NASA cuts, the Autonomous Space Agency Network (ASAN) has launched the "first protest in space."

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The independent space agency, which advocates for DIY space exploration, launched a weather balloon 90,000 feet above Earth carrying a rude tweet directed at Trump's frequently used Twitter handle, literally taking the act of protesting the president to new heights:

"@realDonaldTrump LOOK AT THAT, YOU SON OF A B I T C H"

The balloon lifted off on April 12, or Yuri's Night, named for Yuri Gagarin, the first human to launch into space.

The missive was in reference to the words of the late Edgar Mitchell, NASA astronaut and sixth person to walk on the moon, who once said about his humbling experience in space:


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"From out there on the Moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, 'Look at that, you son of a b i t c h.'"

ASAN's feat was also in solidarity with the upcoming March for Science on April 22, Earth Day.

In case you are wondering, it does not actually cost that much to send a tweet to space. The whole operation only set back ASAN $750 for two helium tanks, 160 cubic feet of helium, a camera and a balloon.

Trump's reaction, if he were to see the suborbital slam, is sure to be priceless.   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.desismileys.com%2Fsmileys%2Fdesismileys_0293.gif&hash=b1af4868ed8f18c30e637f8cbcb79002f6f71039) (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F4fvfcja.gif&hash=34a9a570347d39a0a892bc1f376c5e8b88add6b5)

Watch the whole execution here:

https://youtu.be/damWIvQn1Eo

http://www.ecowatch.com/space-protest-trump-2360853514.html

Agelbert NOTE: In other different, but totally related, news, Pruitt needs money for 24/7 bodyguards. I can't imagine why....

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Pruitt (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F165fs373950.gif&hash=ad797fcc08a061d3ae50ee49ccd9f3d517fb7496) Requests Funds for 24/7 Fleet of Bodyguards as Climate Deniers   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Fpirates5B15D_th.gif&hash=32438e1ed2c4d1823d4ed2a193286525c840a605) Demand More Action

http://www.ecowatch.com/pruitt-bodyguards-climate-deniers-2359009625.html
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on April 17, 2017, 05:49:53 pm
Fantastic graphics showing how the Earth works (from space) (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F19.gif&hash=3f9f2fc2285bc756137e21463bc2a4c420b15ac3)

How the earth works from space

https://youtu.be/W7kFl2KOhRA



Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on April 18, 2017, 01:36:28 pm
2017-04-16 - Global storm intensity rising with wrong seasons in wrong places:
http://www.sott.net/article/348344-Global-storm-intensity-rising-with-wrong-seasons-in-wrong-places (http://www.sott.net/article/348344-Global-storm-intensity-rising-with-wrong-seasons-in-wrong-places)

https://youtu.be/U2HfTRBy7v8

I just watched that video. AZ. This guy detailed a bunch of accurate information on increasing storm cell intensity throughout the world and then TOTALLY FAILED to understand that the ONLY REASON storm cell intensity increases is BECAUSE of EXTRA FREE ENERGY IN THE ATMOSPHERE! Extra free energy is EXCLUSIVELY the result of an INCREASE in average global temperatures! It's totally irrational, as well as disingenuous, to connect this with a "mini ice age". (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-200714183337.bmp&hash=fd5a6df63c32bd65dda7b6d93e788647ca3829df)

2015 was hotter and 2016 is the hottest year yet:

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Scientists Call Out Trump for Denying Climate Change (http://www.sustainablebusiness.com/scientists-call-trump-denying-climate-change/)

AZ, this "new mini ice age" guy is a lying propagandist BULLSHIT ARTIST. Every news item he posted in his video, INCLUDING the cold waves clashing with heat waves, is a GLOBAL WARMING indicator, not a cooling indicator.

The guy that made that video is one of THESE BASTARDS:

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He needs to get the SAME MESSAGE recently given to Trump:

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'First Protest in Space' Slams Trump With Astronaut's Famous Quote


As President Donald Trump takes aim at Earth science with his proposed NASA cuts, the Autonomous Space Agency Network (ASAN) has launched the "first protest in space."

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The independent space agency, which advocates for DIY space exploration, launched a weather balloon 90,000 feet above Earth carrying a rude tweet directed at Trump's frequently used Twitter handle, literally taking the act of protesting the president to new heights:

"@realDonaldTrump LOOK AT THAT, YOU SON OF A B I T C H"

The balloon lifted off on April 12, or Yuri's Night, named for Yuri Gagarin, the first human to launch into space.

The missive was in reference to the words of the late Edgar Mitchell, NASA astronaut and sixth person to walk on the moon, who once said about his humbling experience in space:


Quote
"From out there on the Moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, 'Look at that, you son of a b i t c h.'"

ASAN's feat was also in solidarity with the upcoming March for Science on April 22, Earth Day.

In case you are wondering, it does not actually cost that much to send a tweet to space. The whole operation only set back ASAN $750 for two helium tanks, 160 cubic feet of helium, a camera and a balloon.

Trump's reaction, if he were to see the suborbital slam, is sure to be priceless.   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.desismileys.com%2Fsmileys%2Fdesismileys_0293.gif&hash=b1af4868ed8f18c30e637f8cbcb79002f6f71039) (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F4fvfcja.gif&hash=34a9a570347d39a0a892bc1f376c5e8b88add6b5)

Watch the whole execution here:

https://youtu.be/damWIvQn1Eo (https://youtu.be/damWIvQn1Eo)

http://www.ecowatch.com/space-protest-trump-2360853514.html (http://www.ecowatch.com/space-protest-trump-2360853514.html)

Agelbert NOTE: In other different, but totally related, news, Pruitt needs money for 24/7 bodyguards. I can't imagine why....

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Pruitt (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F165fs373950.gif&hash=ad797fcc08a061d3ae50ee49ccd9f3d517fb7496) Requests Funds for 24/7 Fleet of Bodyguards as Climate Deniers   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Fpirates5B15D_th.gif&hash=32438e1ed2c4d1823d4ed2a193286525c840a605) Demand More Action

http://www.ecowatch.com/pruitt-bodyguards-climate-deniers-2359009625.html (http://www.ecowatch.com/pruitt-bodyguards-climate-deniers-2359009625.html)

Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on April 18, 2017, 07:06:27 pm
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Eddie : Wow. Hmm. Bring it on
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And not a moment too soon.   8)


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NASA snaps picture of huge crack in Greenland ice shelf

Mihai Andrei April 17, 2017

An unexpected crack has emerged across a giant Greenland glacier, raising concerns that a big chunk of the glacier might splinter off into the ocean.

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Image credits: NASA.

Petermann Glacier is a large glacier located in North-West Greenland. It consists of a 70 km (43 mi) long and 15 km (9.3 mi) wide floating ice tongue with a thickness varying from 600 m (2,000 ft) at its grounding line to about 30–80 metres (98–262 ft) at its front. The glacier was first monitored from 2002 through 2009, when a series of satellite images showed that several rifts and cracks were starting to emerge on the glacier, largely due to rising temperatures. A large chunk estimated to be 100 square miles (260 km2) calved in 2010, and now, scientists are worried about a new such event — or potentially, an even larger one. If the two were to merge, then they could break off more than half of the iceberg.

“Last week, an ice sheet covering 100 square miles broke off Greenland,” then-Rep. Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), the chairman of the Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming, said of the 2010 calving. “This giant ice island is more than four times the size of Manhattan. It is the largest piece of Arctic ice to break free in nearly half a century.”

Researchers working with NASA as part of the IceBridge operation captured the photo above, clearly showing that a new rift has opened near the center of the glacier’s floating ice shelf — relatively close to another, even larger rift which is slowly extending towards the glacier’s center. This new crack is quite bizarre, especially due to its location.

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The crack’s estimated depth. Image credits: NASA.

New cracks typically emerge on the extremity of the iceberg, as it interacts with the warmer water and partially starts to melt. But this one is very close to the center of the glacier, suggesting a different mechanism is to blame here. At the moment, it’s not clear what this mechanism is, though Stef Lhermitte, an associate professor at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands who discovered the crack, suggests the cause might be warmer weather beneath the glacier.

It’s also not clear whether or not the glacier will calve but if it does, the resulting chunk will likely be approximately 50 to 70 square miles in size (130 – 180 square km). This would not raise sea levels as the ice is already floating on the surface of water but it would make room for new ice to begin flowing into the sea which could increase sea levels slightly.

http://www.zmescience.com/science/news-science/nasa-greenland-glacier-calve-17042017/
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on April 20, 2017, 03:05:49 pm
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Antarctica is covered in hundreds of meltwater rivers and streams, and we had no idea this was happening

Tibi Puiu April 20, 2017

The first continent-wide survey of meltwater on Antarctica found alarming high numbers of pools, ponds, channels, rivers, and streams flowing across all sides of the continent. Scientists have always known that the Antarctic Western Peninsula is melting at an alarmingly high rate but they didn’t expect the whole continent to be awash with meltwater during the ephemeral summer.

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An enormous waterfall gushes off the Nansen Ice Shelf. Credit: Jonathan Kingslake


700 rivers, ponds, and streams cover the entire continent during Antarctic summer


The team, led by Jonathan Kingslake, a glaciologist at Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, combed through both aerial photography and satellite imagery of Antarctica from when the first very first records started onward. Some of the photos taken by military aircraft are as old as 70 years while the satellite imagery was assessed from 1973 onward.

What they found surprised everyone. During the summer, which corresponds to the Northern latitude winter, an extensive network of some 700 rivers, channels, and streams pop up. Some of these meltwater flows occur even at southern latitudes where scientists thought liquid water couldn’t flow. In some cases, some parts of the water network had existed for decades.

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The scale of the summer melting is staggering. This photo was taken by NASA’s Landsat 4 satellite. We’re looking at 520 square miles of East Antarctica’s Amery Ice Shelf. Credit: NASA.

It’s not clear yet from the data whether the meltwater rivers have been growing. Follow-up observations might reveal more but, for now, there’s no reason to think the Antarctic summer springs and rivers have been growing, Kingslake said.
 
According to the survey which was documented in two papers published in the journal Nature (one and two), some of the meltwater bodies can grow to gargantuan proportions. Some ponds were 50 miles long, fed by streams which carried as much water as the Hudson river. There are even waterfalls such as the one where meltwater drains into the ocean at the edge of the Nansen Ice Shelf. You can see amazing footage of the drainage system in question below.

https://youtu.be/dAOBbXQys78

There are various mechanisms through which the meltwater network forms during the Antarctic summer. Some of the regions form after winds blow surface snow and expose the dark ice below which absorbs more sunlight. Once this happens, a feedback loop is triggered where the melting ice starts exposing more dark ice as the water flows through the snow. In other regions, the meltwater surfaces around rocky mountain outcroppings which peak out of the ice.

(Antarctica graphic at article link)
Much of Antarctica’s ice is littered with seasonally flowing meltwater streams. Each “X” shows where an individual drainage system was identified. Until recently, scientists used to think these features are confined to the northern Antarctic Peninsula, on the upper left of the map. Credit: Nature, 2017.

Because the water freezes back once the temperature takes a dip, it’s not thought that the meltwater has a considerable influence on Antarctic ice levels. However, as average temperatures continue to rise, meltwater will only get more widespread, potentially threatening the integrity of ice shelves. The 12,000-year-old Larsen Ice Shelf famously collapsed due to warm water beneath. Other ice shelves might meet a similar fate according to some climate models. If more collapse, inland glaciers currently blocked by the ice shelves could be free to migrate to the open ocean, where they’d melt and rise the sea level.

http://www.zmescience.com/science/news-science/antarctica-rivers-34423/
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on April 21, 2017, 01:00:49 pm
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March 21, 2017

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After months of organizing, tomorrow’s the big day. Scientists and fans of evidence and truth, reality, and not being deliberately ignorant will join together to march for science in 500+ cities around the world. We’ve shared our thoughts on the March along the way. Towards the end of a particularly philosophical piece, David Roberts captures our thinking pretty well: the Koch-funded right has spent decades politicizing science. It’s well past time scientists fight back.

The amount of (digital) ink that’s been spilled on this topic has been impressive, and videos like Neil DeGrasse-Tyson’s are certainly inspirational. But beyond there’s also been plenty of grassroots action that's well deserving of praise. In the last week alone we’ve seen op-eds on the March from across the country--Louisiana, Wyoming, Alabama, Connecticut, New Jersey, Florida, New Jersey again, Pennsylvania, Florida again, Missouri, Maryland, and a third in Florida--featuring a surprisingly strong showing in red states.

But of course, not everyone is as enthusiastic as the scientists and students writing into local papers. The forces of anti-science are upset that their climate denial and evolution denial are being excluded, with someone from the creationist Discovery Institute calling it a “March for Conformity.” Similarly, the Friends of [junk] Science put out a short video with the same line of attack.

The idea that a pro-science event should include those who get paid to cast doubt on science is obviously pretty funny, but since they don’t seem to get the irony of their request, it's also slightly sad. Less funny is CEI’s attempt at being funny, in the form of a new blog post with a handful of so-called jokes about the marchers. WUWT reblogged the post, and its commenters also tried their hand at comedy.

Let’s just say their sense of humor is as keen as their sense of irony and self-awareness, none of which is any better than their sense of what’s credible science.

If you'll be marching in DC, be sure to find the Climate Nexus booth and tell our digital team your story! We’ll be at 15th & Constitution from 10:30-12:30, then in front of the Natural History Museum from 2:30-4, so stop by for your shot at social media infamy.

And if you see signs that say “Don’t greenhouse gaslight us!” or “DeNile belongs in Egypt, not the White House!” or “We are the Knights who say NIH!” or “Think Science is in trouble? Here’s  your sine…” then you’re looking at yours truly and family, so come say hi! Or don’t: meeting your heroes can be disappointing. (Now THAT is a joke!)  ;D

https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2017/4/19/15282820/march-for-science-political

Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on April 21, 2017, 07:15:03 pm
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The "Value" of recoverable crude oil  and The Unburnable Carbon Quandary


I calculated a couple of years ago that the value of all the estimated recoverable crude oil in all the oil fields in the world was only worth 20 trillion USD or so at current prices. This did not include tight oil only recoverable with fracking, but it's a number that says a lot about the debt level and the likelihood of it ever being paid back.

We are all dead if they even get to burn a tenth of that oil...

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But we get to die from lots of other profit over planet  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Facigar.gif&hash=dc9dccf92c6c88c99611b06c86d92629d69f2978)(https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.smilies.4-user.de%2Finclude%2FSpiele%2Fsmilie_game_017.gif&hash=e8548890f80af23241a1d43a1ab1ca8031301f20) reasons even before that.   :P

Here’s where you’re most likely to die from air pollution
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But don't worry, Pruitt and Trump have a plan....
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on April 23, 2017, 03:21:11 pm
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on April 23, 2017, 11:25:10 pm
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http://arctic-news.blogspot.com/2017/

 
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on April 24, 2017, 04:51:56 pm
The Weather App on my Smart Phone tells me it is currently 55F on my back porch.  So at least for today when I go out to smoke a Cancerette, I won't die from Heat Stroke.

I got more proximal Death Vectors on my plate to worry about at the moment.

1- My own personal Health issues will kill me.

2- The monetary system will crash and there will be no Ribeye Steaks in the freezer at 3 Bears when I run out of the ones in my own freezer a year or so after TSHTF.

3- The Donald will pitch a Thermonuclear Bomb on Moscow because Vlad the Impaler will not give him any more Golden Showers.

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True. You folks in Alaska will never have a heat problem. The Floridians, howevah, on the off chance that WW3 doesn't break out before that, are STILL in for a WORLD of hurt long before the rest of us.  ;D

Agelbert NOTE: Republican Climate Change Denying Florida will eventually be swamped by the ocean, not just from sea level rise, but much sooner by SINKING from a DISSOLVING coral base.
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How an Argument (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F3ztzsjm.gif&hash=8e015ba6a93bc1ec93ebde8fd6b2daa19e537306) Led to a Big Discovery: An Interview with USGS Scientist Kim Yates

Posted On April 24, 2017 by Sarah Cooley

Dr. Kim Yates, research oceanographer with the U.S. Geological Survey. Credit: Benjamin Drummond for Ocean Conservancy. (at article link)

The Ocean Conservancy ocean acidification team has spent time in Florida over the past year talking with fishermen and scientists to better understand how changes in ocean chemistry are affecting Florida’s coastal communities and its marine resources, including its iconic coral reefs and fish. On our most recent visit, we interviewed Dr. Kim Yates, an oceanographer with the U.S. Geological Survey, who is an expert on ocean acidification impacts on coral reef ecosystems about vanishing sea floors and how arguing with a boat captain led her to a major scientific discovery.

Ocean Conservancy: Dr. Yates, how does ocean acidification affect coral reefs and the ecosystems around them?

Dr. Kim Yates: The animals that create coral reefs thrive in a particular range of pH and carbonate, which is a chemical they use to help build their skeletons. Reefs provide habitat for fish and other reef life, but the skeletons of reef organisms also naturally break down and make sand. And much of that sand supports a lot of ecosystems around the reef. That sand also helps nourish beaches along coral reef coastlines. Ocean acidification causes reefs to slow down their growth rate, and when that happens, they don’t break down into as much sand that supports the surrounding ecosystems and even the beaches. And when the pH of seawater decreases from ocean acidification, it can actually even cause the sand that’s made out of that carbonate material to start dissolving.

OC: But corals only border some areas of Florida. Why should the whole state pay attention to ocean acidification?  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.desismileys.com%2Fsmileys%2Fdesismileys_1730.gif&hash=cdaf50326d98ff7b051a9c49e83d51c7bb687407) ???

KY: One of the most unique and interesting things about the state of Florida is that our entire state sits on top of what we call a carbonate platform, or rock made out of the same material as coral skeletons. We don’t know how ocean acidification is going to affect the bedrock that supports our entire state. When ocean acidification decreases the pH of seawater, it can cause that carbonate material to dissolve. So this problem of ocean acidification is not just localized to our coral reefs, or to our shellfish beds, it’s a statewide problem for Florida.

OC: What inspired you to look at Florida’s bedrock and sand, and not just living corals?

KY: That research actually started with an argument I had with a boat captain. One day we were working out in the Florida Keys on a reef and I was snorkeling around, looking for a place to put some instrumentation down on the sea floor. And the captain told me to motion to him when I found a good place and he would bring to boat over, close enough so we could put the instrumentation on the sea floor. So I looked around, and I found the spot, and I motioned to the boat captain, but the boat captain wouldn’t come over. And so I motioned to the boat captain again and he still wouldn’t come over. And so, somewhat frustrated, I swam all the way back to the boat and I said, “Captain, you told me to let you know when I wanted you to come over and anchor the boat. And you wouldn’t come. What’s going on?” He said, “I can’t bring the boat over there. It’s only two feet deep.” I looked at him and said, “No, there’s 12 feet of water over there.” And he said, “No there’s not,” and he pulled out the chart, and he laid it on the table and said, “See, it’s only 2 feet deep.” Sure enough, the chart said two feet deep. I had to put him in the water and swim him over to show him there was actually 12 feet of water there.  :o

Thinking about it later, I realized there was either a serious problem with the nautical chart or we were missing ten feet of sea floor in that location. As it turns out, many modern day nautical charts actually combine sea floor or water depth data from decades past. So if you’re looking at a 2010 nautical chart, it might combine data measured by hand from the 1870s and the 1930s and the 1950s as well as modern data measured by satellite. And so we launched a large-scale investigation, comparing all of the historical water depth data to modern elevation data.

Dr. Yates prepares her equipment to collect data. Photo Credit: Benjamin Drummond for Ocean Conservancy. (at article link)

OC: What did your research show?

KY: We discovered that coral reef degradation in Florida has caused a dramatic decrease in regional sea floor elevation. In other words, coral reef breakdown is flattening the sea floor.

But coral reefs and a bumpy sea floor are important for slowing down big waves. When you stand on a beach and watch surfers, they are usually way offshore because that’s where the big waves are. You can see those big waves breaking offshore, and the surfers ride them as they are breaking. But, by the time the waves reach the beach where you are standing, they are much smaller. That’s because coral reef structure and shallow seafloor breaks the big waves up offshore before they make it to the beach. When you lose that shallow seafloor or coral reef structure, or both, those big waves can make it to the beach before they break up. There, they will cause more erosion and damage along the coastline. The shallow seafloor and coral reefs act as a natural barrier that breaks up large waves before they hit the coastline.

South Florida is particularly vulnerable to sea level rise because the highest areas on land in the Florida Keys are only about six feet above sea level. So when you have incoming storm waves, everyday waves and coastal erosion, it’s much more concerning when you’re only living about six feet above sea level. Reefs are a key defense protecting us from ocean waves. Our research is going to help USGS better predict how these changes are going to affect these coastal communities today and into the future.

Dr. Yates’ research made the front page of the Miami Herald on April 21. Learn more about how she and her fellow scientists have uncovered the phenomenon of a vanishing sea floor off the coast of Florida.

http://blog.oceanconservancy.org/2017/04/24/how-an-argument-led-to-a-big-discovery-an-interview-with-usgs-scientist-kim-yates/#more-14228 (http://blog.oceanconservancy.org/2017/04/24/how-an-argument-led-to-a-big-discovery-an-interview-with-usgs-scientist-kim-yates/#more-14228)

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on April 24, 2017, 05:54:33 pm
True. You folks in Alaska will never have a heat problem. The Floridians, howevah, on the off chance that WW3 doesn't break out before that, are STILL in for a WORLD of hurt long before the rest of us.  ;D

Florida is NOT a good choice as a Retirement Collapse Hole!

If you want to play golf for a few X-tra years before you go personally EXTINCT, we have some decent links here in the Matanuska-Susitna River Valley.   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-260116191529.png&hash=cbc70d3107f019cfbef88dc573223aefa7732476)


Palmer, AK Golf Course
I can get there on my Ewz!
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Check out this economic info from Prof. Wolff. This guy has more common sense than most economists out there.

https://youtu.be/3DdYJIM9fgo

In this educational video Richard Wolff, a University of Massachusetts professor of economics emeritus, Marxist economist and founder of Democracy at Work, defines public debt and explains the process of printing money. Professor Wolff also talks about the role that corporate banks play in this system as well as how politicians exploit the mechanism of money printing in order to garner political capital or justify going to wars.

http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/40328-richard-wolff-on-public-debt-printing-money-and-how-governments-pay-for-wars
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on April 26, 2017, 07:18:29 pm
Quickening Arctic Thaw Could Cost Trillions, International Study Says

April 25, 2017 by Reuters

ReutersBy Alister Doyle, Environment Correspondent

OSLO, April 25 (Reuters) – The Arctic’s quickening thaw is melting the permafrost under buildings and roads from Siberia to Alaska, raising world sea levels and disrupting temperature patterns further south, an international study said on Tuesday.

The frigid region’s shift to warmer and wetter conditions, resulting in melting ice around the region, may cost the world economy trillions of dollars this century, it estimated.

The report by 90 scientists, including United States experts, urged governments with interests in the Arctic to cut greenhouse gas emissions. U.S. President Donald Trump doubts that human activities, led by use of fossil fuels, are the main driver of climate change.

“The Arctic is warming faster than any other region on Earth, and rapidly becoming a warmer, wetter and more variable environment,” according to the study, which updates scientific findings from 2011.

“Increasing greenhouse gas emissions from human activities are the primary underlying cause,” they wrote in the study commissioned by the Arctic Council grouping the United States, Russia, Canada, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland and Iceland.

Arctic warming could have cumulative net costs from 2010-2100 of between $7 trillion and $90 trillion, it said, with harm exceeding benefits such as easier access for oil and gas exploration and shipping, it said.

The period 2011-2015 was the warmest since records began in 1900. Sea ice on the Arctic Ocean, which shrank to a record low in 2012, could disappear in summers by the 2030s, earlier than many earlier projections, it said.


ACCELERATING MELT


“The Arctic is continuing to melt, and it’s going faster than expected in 2011,” Lars-Otto Reiersen, head of the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP) which prepared the report, told Reuters.

Among signs of harm, thawing permafrost has triggered more landslides at Russia’s Bovanenkovo gas field in Siberia. Rare warmth and spring floods closed the highway to Alaska’s North Slope oilfields for three weeks in 2015.

Further inland in Alaska, though, there have been drier conditions, meaning wildfires were worse there now than at any time in the past 10,000 years, it said.

Rising temperatures are threatening livelihoods of indigenous hunters and thinning sea ice vital to wildlife such as polar bears and seals.

The Arctic is warming fast partly because snow and ice reflect the sun’s faint heat into space. The thaw exposes ever more darker-colored sea water and ground that absorb more of the sun’s heat, in turn accelerating the melt.

Walt Meier, a NASA scientist who was among the authors, said there was also new evidence since 2011 that the thickest Arctic sea ice, which survives multiple summers, was breaking up.

“Multi-year ice used to be a big consolidated pack. It’s almost like a big thick ice cube versus a bunch of crushed ice. When you warm the water, the crushed ice melts a lot quicker,” he told Reuters.

Among recommendations, the report said Arctic states and those interested in the region “should lead … global efforts for an early, ambitious and full implementation” of a Paris Agreement in 2015 among almost 200 nations to limit warming.

Reiersen at AMAP said that appeal for action was similar to ones issued in the past by Arctic governments. The eight Arctic Council nations are due to hold a meeting of foreign ministers in Fairbanks, Alaska, on May 11.

But it is unclear if the scientists’ advice will be heeded in the conclusions of the U.S.-led meeting.

Trump threatened in his campaign to withdraw from the Paris Agreement and has sometimes tweeted that global warming is a hoax, preferring to bolster the U.S. fossil fuel industry. (Reporting by Alister Doyle; Editing by Tom Heneghan)

(c) Copyright Thomson Reuters 2017.

http://gcaptain.com/quickening-arctic-thaw-could-cost-trillions-report/

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If you think the economy is more important than the environment, try holding your breath while counting your money." - Professor Guy McPherson
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on April 26, 2017, 08:30:25 pm
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epa.gov/sites/production/files/2016-07/models-observed-human-natural


And file this away for future reference too.

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on April 30, 2017, 09:05:33 pm
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Earth's Melting Glaciers
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ByLorraine Chow 21 April, 2017

If you don't agree with 97 percent of climate scientists that climate change is real, you should at least believe your own eyes.

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The Earth's rapidly rising temperatures has dramatically transformed our landscapes, as you can see quite clearly in these vivid photos of the world's melting glaciers.

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Retreat of the Columbia Glacier, Alaska, USA, by ~6.5 km between 2009 and 2015. Credit: James Balog and the Extreme Ice Survey

The photos appeared in the new paper "Savor the Cryosphere," published in the peer-reviewed GSA Today, a publication of the Geological Society of America. The cryosphere is the Earth's frozen waters.
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"We have unretouched photographic evidence of glaciers melting all around the globe," co-author Gregory Baker, adjunct professor of geology at the University of Kansas, said.

"That includes the ice sheets of Greenland and Antarctica—they're reduced in size. These aren't fancy computer models or satellite images where you'd have to make all kinds of corrections for the atmosphere. These are simply photos, some taken up to 100 years ago, and my co-authors went back and reacquired photos at many of these locations. So it's just straightforward proof of large-scale ice loss around the globe."

Baker's research career centers on geophysical imaging of Earth's subsurface and geoscience education.

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Stein Glacier, Switzerland, retreat of ~550 m from 2006 to 2015. Credit: James Balog and the Extreme Ice Survey

Photographer James Balog, who was featured in the Emmy Award winning climate change documentary, Chasing Ice, contributed photographs from the Extreme-Ice Survey.

Other co-authors of the paper include Richard Alley, an American geologist who was invited to testify about climate change by Vice President Al Gore; Patrick Burkhart of Slippery Rock University; Lonnie Thompson of the Byrd Polar Research Center at Ohio State University; and Paul Baldauf of Nova Southeastern University also contributed to the paper.

The team hopes the paper will raise awareness about the world's melting glaciers.

"We have all heard of the impact of melting ice on sea level rise, but the public also need to be aware that places around the world depend on glaciers for their water and are going to come under increasing stress, and we already see how water shortages lead to all kinds of conflict," Baker said.

"The other critical point often overlooked is that when glaciers melt we're losing these scientific archive records of past climate change at specific locations around the Earth, as if someone came in and threw away all your family photos."

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Solheimajokull, Iceland, retreat of ~625 m from 2007 to 2015. Credit: James Balog and the Extreme Ice Survey

"Glacier ice contains fingerprint evidence of past climate and past biology, trapped within the ice," Baker continued.

“Analyzing ice cores is one of the best ways to analyze carbon dioxide in the past, and they contain pollen we can look at to see what kind of plant systems may have been around. All of this information has been captured in glaciers over hundreds of thousands of years, and sometimes longer—Greenland and Antarctica cover perhaps up to a million years. The more that glacial ice melts, the more we're erasing these historical archives that we may not have measured yet in some remote glaciers, or deep in ice caps, that can tell us the history of the Earth that will be gone forever."

http://www.ecowatch.com/melting-glacier-greenland-antarctic-2370635797.html
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on May 03, 2017, 09:50:13 pm
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In his conclusion, Judge Coffin wrote that the hypothetical questions the Trump administration and fossil fuel industry defendants wish to present to the appellate court "would put the cart before the horse, and thus fail to satisfy the standards for interlocutory appeal."

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on May 05, 2017, 03:41:44 pm
Agelbert NOTE: The following video is Historically Accurate, Prophetic, and Pertinent to the Present.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvRhiKA7g0c&feature=player_embedded
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on May 05, 2017, 07:04:54 pm
The reality of climate change | David Puttnam | TEDxDublin

https://youtu.be/SBjtO-0tbKU

Published on Dec 1, 2014

This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. David Puttnam looks at Climate Change through different lenses, all of which reveal the unsustainable ways in which we are living. Climate Change is real, but throughout history humans have failed to set political and economic concerns aside for our greater good. Will we ignore this latest warning?

Lord David Puttnam produced award-winning films including Chariots of Fire, Bugsy Malone, and The Mission. He now works at the intersection between education, media, and policy. In 2007 he was appointed Chairman of the Joint Parliamentary Committee on the Draft Climate Change Bill.

Agelbert NOTE: David Puttnam points out that the argument to NOT ban slavery in England was an economic one. It was claimed that 25% of the English economy depended on it. He shows that the REAL issue WAS, as today with climate change IS, the ethically bankrupt firm belief that disregard for the suffering of humans in the pursuit of profit is "REQUIRED" in order to maintain our "economy".(https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2F1.bp.blogspot.com%2F-TzWpwHzCvCI%2FT_sBEnhCCpI%2FAAAAAAAAME8%2FIsLpuU8HYxc%2Fs1600%2Fnooo-way-smiley.gif&hash=b8545bd420b1e2f2c7b9f665d2093523e4ad2251)  It was a lie then (England's GDP increased markedly after slavery was banned) and it's a lie now.

But those who perpetrate it (The Polluting Fossil Fuel Industry Profit over People and Planet Crooks and Liars) have been clever enough to fund the duplicitous and mendacious Propaganda that claims, as the tobacco corporations did, that there is "doubt" as to whether or not climate change is a threat to humanity AND what causes it.

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The Fossil Fuelers   DID THE Climate Trashing, human health depleting CRIME,   but since they have ALWAYS BEEN liars and conscience free crooks, they are trying to AVOID   DOING THE TIME or     PAYING THE FINE!     Don't let them get away with it! Pass it on!    (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F176.gif&hash=121533221905789c6b8d57a9603883266d349266)
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on May 08, 2017, 02:52:25 pm
 
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Road to Trump's Climate Change Hell Paved by Obama and Clinton  >:(

https://youtu.be/ev4uBSFyMCY

Published on May 7, 2017

Gerald Horne, Robert Pollin and Paul Jay discuss the debate within the Trump White House on whether to leave the Paris climate accords or just undermine them; and how this relates to the fight within the Democratic Party.
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on May 08, 2017, 11:37:21 pm
https://www.climatecommunication.org/wp-content/themes/climatecommunication/video/1000_yrs_graph/index.files/html5video/1000_years.mp4

https://www.climatecommunication.org/climate/the-problem-1000-years-video/
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on May 10, 2017, 04:36:04 pm
April 27, 2017

Former Astronaut: Can't Hide Climate Data

Leland Melvin says we must use science to ensure our children's future.

https://youtu.be/PRmfCUmYTMY

http://therealnews.com/t2/story:18942:Former-Astronaut%3A-Can%27t-Hide-Climate-Data

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on May 14, 2017, 05:56:33 pm
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Thursday, May 11, 2017
   
Arctic Sea Ice May 2017

Last year, the Arctic was some 3.5°C warmer than it was at the start of the Industrial Revolution. Was this 3.5°C a spike or was it part of a trend pointing at even higher temperature anomalies this year and the following years?

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Above image shows NASA annual mean 64°N-90°N land-ocean temperature anomalies from 1951-1980, with +0.59°C added for the rise from 1750 to 1951-1980. A polynomial trend is added (based on 1880-2016 data), pointing at 4.5°C anomaly by 2019.

Will the Arctic keep warming over the coming years in line with this trend? Let's have a look at what affects temperatures in the Arctic most, specifically Ocean Heat, Sea Ice, Land Temperatures and Emissions.

1. Ocean Heat[/size]

Warmer Oceans on the Northern Hemisphere will contribute strongly to warming in the Arctic. Here's a graph showing a trend pointing at continued warming of the oceans on the Northern Hemisphere.

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Will oceans keep warming like that, in particular the North Atlantic? The Coriolis force keeps pushing warm water of the North Atlantic along the Gulf Stream toward the Arctic Ocean.

 On the image below, the Gulf Stream shows up as the warmer water (orange and yellow) off the coast of North America.

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Thus, as oceans keep warming, warmer water will reach the Arctic Ocean, melting the sea ice from below.

The image on below shows that the sea surface was 9.3°C or 16.8°F warmer than 1981-2011 on May 7, 2017, at the location marked by the green circle.

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2. Sea ice

 Meanwhile, the sun will warm up the sea ice from above. The sea ice acts as a barrier, insulating the water of the Arctic Ocean from the heat from above. As long as there is sea ice, water just underneath the sea ice will stay close to freezing point.

 Sea ice can strongly affect the amount of heat that is retained by Earth. Sea ice reflects most sunlight back into space, but in the absence of sea ice, most sunlight will instead be absorbed by oceans.

 For almost a year now, global sea ice extent has been way below what it used to be, meaning that huge amounts of sunlight that were previously reflected back into space, are now instead getting absorbed by Earth, as shown by the graph below (by Wipneus).

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Over the past 365 days, most of the Arctic has been more than 2.5°C or 4.5°F warmer than it was in 1981-2010. Decline of the snow and ice cover contributes strongly to these temperature anomalies.

When looking at albedo changes, sea ice area is an even more critical measure than sea ice extent. For a discussion of the difference between area and extent, see this NSIDC page. The image below shows trends for both Arctic and Antarctic sea ice area pointing downward.

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When looking at sea ice volume, zero sea ice in September 2017 is within the margins of the trendline below.

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Given the speed at which many feedbacks can kick in and the interaction between warming elements, Arctic sea ice volume could be zero by September 2017.

Arctic sea ice is at a record low volume for the time of the year (see graph below by Wipneus). This means that there is very little sea ice left to act as a buffer this year. Therefore, heat that won't be consumed in the process of melting the ice will instead speed up Arctic warming.

 As said - less sea ice additionally makes that less sunlight will be reflected back into space, and that instead more heat will speed up Arctic warming.

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As the sea ice gets thinner, it becomes more fragile. Furthermore, changes to the Jet Stream can fuel strong winds and waves, which are also more likely to hit the ice as the size of the open water increases.

 The satellite image below of the Beaufort Sea shows that the sea ice is crac ked in many places and broken into pieces by winds, waves, currents and ocean heat. A huge crack can be seen running along the Canadian Archipelago toward Greenland (bottom right on the image).

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An animation (1.3 MB) is added at the end of this post showing the sea ice breaking into pieces in the Beaufort Sea from April 26 to May 10, 2017. It illustrates that a combined force of winds, waves, currents and ocean heat can break even the thicker ice into pieces, with the danger that all ice can be pushed out of the Arctic Ocean.

3. Temperatures on land

 High temperatures on land will affect the Arctic in a number of ways. What kind of temperatures can be expected over the coming months, which are so critical for Arctic sea ice?

- Heatwaves


 Heatwaves over the continents can more easily extend over the Arctic Ocean as the Northern Polar Jet Stream becomes more wavy. Heatwave conditions are more likely to occur as the jet stream is changing due to accelerated warming of the Arctic.

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High temperatures on land can also cause wildfires that can in turn cause huge quantities of emissions, including soot that when settling on snow and ice, can strongly speed up melting. The image below shows carbon dioxide as high as 607 ppm and carbon monoxide as high as 24.84 over Laos on May 4, 2017.

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- Warm water from rivers flowing into the Arctic Ocean


Furthermore, high temperatures on land will warm up the water of rivers flowing into the Arctic Ocean.

- El Niño

An El Niño event can dramatically boost temperatures of the atmosphere. What are the projections for an El Niño in 2017? The image below, by the ECMWF (European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts), indicates an El Niño that is gaining strength.

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4. Emissions and Greenhouse Gas Levels

Continued emissions and high greenhouse gas levels are responsible for warming of the planet. Have efforts to cut emissions been successful? Is growth in greenhouse gas levels slowing down? The image below shows accelerating growth of carbon dioxide levels recorded at Mauna Loa, Hawaii.

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 The image below shows carbon dioxide levels recorded at Barrow, Alaska.

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The image below shows methane levels at Barrow, Alaska.

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In conclusion, indications are that warming in the Arctic will continue in 2017, which spells bad news for Arctic sea ice and for the world at large, as discussed in earlier posts.

The situation is dire and calls for comprehensive and effective action, as described in the Climate Plan.

The animation below shows the break up of the sea ice in the Beaufort Sea from April 26 to May 10, 2017. It illustrates that a combined force of winds, waves, currents and ocean heat can break even the thicker ice into pieces, with the danger that all ice can be pushed out of the Arctic Ocean.


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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on May 14, 2017, 09:37:51 pm
You can always fit a polynomial trend to any data set, in fact you can fit a number of different ones depending on how many terms you choose to use - the "order" of the polynomial.  But for the trend to have any meaning, there should be a reason for thinking that the one you choose is the best one.  Sam Carana always thinks the SCARIEST one is the right one to choose, and forgets to label his charts with which one he did choose.  One chart IS labeled as having a trend that is quadratic (order=2).  If he had chosen order=2 for all his trends, they wouldn't curve upwards or downward so much, and produce less scary predictions.

In the green circle diagram, it is a case of choosing the worst area to focus on (biased data selection) and ignoring all the rest.

"Arctic sea ice volume could be zero by September 2017"
 - but only if you are forecasting the biggest/steepest drop in the data set, from ~4,300 km3 to zero in one year.  This would be extremely unlikely, the most likely figure being the trend average of 3,000 km3.  Big difference. 

Using the minimum number for ice volume is already selecting the worst daily reading out of all the daily readings that year.  The proper way of doing it is to choose a day of the year which is on average the most likely to be the minimum, (September 21?) and stick with it, because the variation of a few days or weeks is due to weather, not climate change.  Sam knows all of this, of course, because he couldn't be so consistently biased otherwise.

When the satellites finally do measure a reading of zero sea ice, that doesn't mean there is actually no ice there, it just means there are no icebergs big enough to fill 15% of a pixel in the image.  I did work it out once - Wikipedia gives the pixel sizes for various satellite images in terms of km2 at the sea surface.  I can't remember the figure now, but it is still HUGE.

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Listen Palloy,

Stop Ad homineming Sam Carana. He's not here to defend himself (I've been told the name is actually a composite of a group of climate scientists, but I have not confirmed it. I can certainly understand their need to avoid attacks by the fossil fuel crooks and liars, however.). Anyone can read an X, Y grid and figure the graphs out. YOU are the one using the adjective "scary", not Mr. Carana. Attacking the messenger is a fallacious debating technique. STOP IT NOW!   

You have beat the "polynomial is baloney" dog to death. So stop cherry picking math concepts to suit your foot dragging about how dire the situation is. The HARD DATA points indisputably towards ZERO ICE. The HARD DATA evidences an INCREASING SLOPE in the melt. So, YEAH, a STEEPER SLOPE (i.e. MORE absolute amount of ice melted in a given year) than before increase in total ice loss is rational and logical, even if it offends your polynomial senses.  ;D   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-141113185701.png&hash=615e3c1aa9c374cb1eab5bfc1e9494f2cb05e9f7)

Let us say that we miss that one day of zero ice this year and it does, as you fervently hope   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-311013201314.png&hash=0715eb72631014310634eb56176ff860c6d542f6), take 12 years to have ONE day of ZERO floating North Polar Ice. We haven't HAD ONE DAY OF ZERO ICE FOR SEVERAL THOUSAND YEARS!

What part of that are you too dense to understand?

Palloy equivocates AGAIN:
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Note that the 1982 figure, an exceptionally low figure, wasn't surpassed in lowness for 12 years, so even if September 2017 produced 1 day of no sea ice, it might not happen again for another 12 years, or even longer.

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The statement you just made is so science challenged as to be sad. Every square meter of the arctic ocean that is NOT covered with ice ACCELERATES the trend for less ice due to a known formula of iceless ocean heat build up versus ice albedo reflection. No ice means MULTIPLES of solar photon heat added to the ocean versus ice cover. So, ACCELERATION of  the melt RATE is the expected physical result. You are cherry picking a trend by isolating a small portion of the melt graph.  : (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-311013201314.png&hash=0715eb72631014310634eb56176ff860c6d542f6)

That is exactly what the LIARS that said we had a "pause" in atmospheric temperature increase did. There WAS NO PAUSE. The ice decrease RATE is INCREASING, so your "12 years for another ice free day" is empty straw grasping illogic.  Try again.

I predicted, In 2012, that the summer of 2017 would be the first summer in the arctic that we had an ice free arctic. I think I may be off by no more than a year (2018 at the latest).
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on May 15, 2017, 11:16:38 pm
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Edge of the Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf

11. May 2017   Antarctic
 
Irreversible ocean warming

threatens the Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf

AWI climate researchers have deciphered the processes driving an irreversible inflow of warm water under the ice shelf, which could begin within the next few decades

By the second half of this century, rising air temperatures above the Weddell Sea could set off a self-amplifying meltwater feedback cycle under the Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf, ultimately causing the second-largest ice shelf in the Antarctic to shrink dramatically. Climate researchers at the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), recently made this prediction in a new study, which can be found in the latest issue of the Journal of Climate, released today. In the study, the researchers use an ice-ocean model created in Bremerhaven to decode the oceanographic and physical processes that could lead to an irreversible inflow of warm water under the ice shelf - a development that has already been observed in the Amundsen Sea.

When it comes to the fate of the great Antarctic ice shelves, the sea ice surrounding them is of central importance. For example, in the southern Weddell Sea so much sea ice forms during the autumn and winter months that the amount of salt released in the process turns the water around and below the 450,000 km2 Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf into a massive protective sheath. So far, this barrier of extremely salty water, with an average temperature of ca. minus 2 degrees Celsius, has protected the shelf from the inflow of water masses that are 0.8 degrees warm, which the Weddell Gyre transports along the edge of the continental shelf (see graphic).

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New simulations from climate researchers at the AWI now indicate that this cold-water barrier could be permanently lost in the course of the next few decades. The reason: rising air temperatures over the Weddell Sea, which could cause less sea ice to form. “We can already see the first signs of this trend today. First of all, less sea ice is forming in the region, and secondly, oceanographic recordings from the continental shelf break confirm that the warm water masses are already moving closer and closer to the ice shelf in pulses,” says Dr Hartmut Hellmer, an oceanographer at the AWI and first author of the study.


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These comparatively small-scale changes may mark the beginning of a fundamental and irrevocable transformation in the southern Weddell Sea. The researchers expect the effects to become noticeable by 2070. “Our simulations show that there will be no turning back once the warm water masses find their way under the ice shelf, since their heat will accelerate the melting at its base. In turn, the resulting meltwater will produce an intensified overturning, which will suck even more warm water from the Weddell Gyre under the ice. As such, according to our calculations, the hope that the ocean would someday run out of heat won’t pan out in the long run,” Hellmer explains.


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Aerial photo of edge of Ronne Ice

As a result of the dramatic melting on its underside, the shelf’s grounding line will shift further south and the ice will gradually lose direct contact with the seafloor. To date, frictional contact with the seafloor has helped to slow down the ice flow. Once this natural brake is gone, the draining of ice from the Antarctic Ice Sheet will quicken. “The meltwater feedback cycle under the ice shelf will only slow down once the shelf has collapsed, or no more glacial ice flows in from inland to take its place. So we’re talking about processes that will continue over several centuries,” says co-author and AWI model designer Dr Ralph Timmermann. 

The researchers’ forecasts are based on the AWI’s BRIOS (Bremerhaven Regional Ice-Ocean Simulations) model, a coupled ice-ocean model that the team forced with atmospheric data from the SRES-A1B climate scenario, created at Britain’s Met Office Hadley Centre in Exeter. The dataset includes e.g. information on the future development of winds and temperatures in the Antarctic, and is based on the assumption that the carbon dioxide concentration in the atmosphere will reach 700 parts per million by the year 2100. “Accordingly, our model used climate data that is similar to the IPCC’s (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) current business-as-usual scenario. The results clearly show that even limiting global warming to two degrees Celsius won’t be enough to save the Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf,” says co-author and AWI researcher Dr Frank Kauker.

In addition, the authors believe the predicted changes in the Weddell Sea offer a new perspective on current developments in the Amundsen Sea. As Hartmut Hellmer explains, “When it comes to the Amundsen Sea, where warm water has already reached the continental shelf and even the grounding line of some ice shelves, we can safely say that this inflow of heat cannot be stopped; the climate regime change has already taken place. In other words, the losses of mass of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet will intensify – just like the models predict.”

To measure the forecasted inflow of warm water under the Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf, in the past two Antarctic summers scientists from the Alfred Wegener Institute and the British Antarctic Survey drilled through the ice at seven sites to deploy oceanographic recording devices below it. Thanks to their efforts, every night fresh data on the water temperature, salinity, flow speed and flow direction is transmitted to the AWI facilities in Bremerhaven via satellite. “However, it will take a few years before we can use this latest data to reliably document the changes,” says Hellmer.   

Original publication

Hartmut Hellmer, Frank Kauker, Ralph Timmermann, Tore Hattermann: The fate of the southern Weddell Sea continental shelf in a warming climate, Journal of Climate, DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-16-0420.1

https://www.awi.de/nc/en/about-us/service/press/press-release/irreversible-melt-rate-increase-could-endanger-the-filchner-ronne-ice-shelf.html


Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on May 21, 2017, 01:51:59 pm

Arctic stronghold of world’s seeds flooded after permafrost melts, The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/may/19/arctic-stronghold-of-worlds-seeds-flooded-after-permafrost-melts

Severe Storms, Tornadoes Kill 3 and Injure Dozens More In the Midwest, Plains, The Weather Channel

 https://weather.com/news/news/severe-storms-tornadoes-heavy-rain-us-plains-midwest-impact


Agelbert NOTE: California understands what needs to be done and is DOING it.  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-080515182559.png&hash=d4dfa952fa0f817bf30a8059a4c88d6fb05ee1bf)


California grid sets record, with 67% of power from renewables, SFGate

http://www.sfgate.com/business/article/State-breaks-another-renewable-energy-record-11156443.php

We have no other option but to transition to 100% Renewable Energy simply because Catastrophic climate change will kill all of us if we don't.

I recently answered a confused fellow who is still sitting on the fence in regard to Global Warming and how burning fossil fuels is causing Catastrophic climate change.

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I answered:

It's BAD because most of the effects HAVE NOT been felt. IOW, the OCEAN is a HEAT TIME BOMB that we do not have the technology to handle.

Also, the greening of latitudes near the poles will NOT compensate for the browning near the equator BECAUSE over 80% of all the land species in the biosphere (BOTH flora and fauna) occupy the tropics.

Finally, ocean acidification, if not stopped by a MASSIVE international effort to prevent more CO2 pollution from the burning of fossil fuels, guarantees MOST of the shell forming species (which happen to be food for ALL of the larger fish species we eat) will die along with most of the Oxygen producing algae (ocean phytoplankton), which now provides HALF (or more) of the Oxygen we get. That's right, at least HALF of all photosynthesis comes from ocean algae, NOT land based plants. And then there's the deforestation on land... Do you get the picture?
http://cdn.zmescience.com/w...

The ocean CANNOT continue that massive absorption of CO2 for more than another decade or so before saturation is reached, acidification causes massive phytoplankton and shell forming species die offs. AND THEN MOST OF THE HEAT GOES DIRECTLY INTO THE ATMOSPHERE (as opposed to a mere 2.3% now).

If anybody thinks the oceans will continue to buffer our giant carbon pollution, they are living in la la land (or work for the fossil fuel industry — but I repeat myself).
EVERY POLITICIAN, be they a Democrat or Republican, that takes a nickel from the fossil fuel industry should be THROWN OUT IN 2018, OR SOONER.

In January of 2017, NASA released data confirming that globally, 2016 was the hottest year on record -- the third consecutive year this record has been broken. Even more disturbing, in the last three years alone global temperatures rose 0.4°C: an extreme acceleration of planetary warming that has been unmatched in 136 years of record keeping.

According to the reinsurance giant Munich Re, the US had more floods in 2016 than any year in recorded history with 19 different floods swamping the nation.

All this will only continue to get worse, thanks to the burning of fossil fuels. We HAVE TO STOP!

http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/39540-viewing-trump-s-extreme-climate-denial-from-a-small-island-nation-in-peril

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No, absolutely not — the NOAA did not ‘fake’ any climate change data
http://www.zmescience.com/science/news-science/noaa-climate-change-16022017/

Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on May 21, 2017, 09:27:33 pm
Scientists figured out why a giant crack in Antarctica is growing so fast, and it points to an even bigger problem

Emma Fierberg and Jessica Orwig
 
 May 12, 2017, 4:41 PM

VIDEO and article at link:

http://www.businessinsider.com/antarctica-giant-crack-growing-fast-larsen-c-2017-5


   
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on May 23, 2017, 01:31:28 pm
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SOLUTIONS:
Stop hoping we can fix climate change by pulling carbon out of the air, scientists warn (Washington Post $), Al Gore at Cannes: 'Trump cannot stop the solutions to the climate crisis' (The Guardian, AP, Reuters)   
 

NEWS
 


•Climate Cowards — and Heroes (New York Times, David Leonhardt column $)

•Mountain Valley Pipeline disrespects our landscape, our opinions (Roanoake Times, Andrew Downs op-ed)

•A Momentous Month for Tackling Climate Change (Forbes, Mindy Lubber op-ed)

•Why Scientific Consensus Is Worth Taking Seriously (Bloomberg View, Faye Flam column)

•EPA transition leader says the agency is ‘an impending disaster for Trump’ (ThinkProgress, Joe Romm column)

•How inaction on climate change puts America's economy at risk (The Hill, Valerie Klarpus op-ed)

 
DENIER ROUNDUP


Update on the Swamp II: Zinke Hides from Greens & Trump Hides Lobbyists, but There’s No Hiding Industry Influence at EPA

While the president is overseas (definitely NOT performing Satanic rituals), scrutiny of his cabinet of deniers continues apace. Let’s take a look at what broke over the weekend.

At the Washington Post, Juliet Eilperin takes a closer look at the company Interior Secretary Zinke has been keeping since his appointment. “Company” is the right word: according to the Post,
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Meanwhile over at the New York Times, Eric Lipton reports on just how serious Trump was about draining the swamp (spoiler: not very).

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Not only is Trump hiring lobbyists despite his own ban on doing so, but now the administration is trying to keep those decisions secret so the public doesn’t even know what swamp creatures have been hired. The Office of Government Ethics requested the information (something Obama made public automatically) and the Trump administration responded with a letter that says, in so many words, "nah."

Fortunately, there are always other ways to suss out industry influence, and this administration is not subtle. A Saturday NYT story by Hiroko Tabuchi and (again) Eric Lipton highlights the unabashed industrial influence in Trump's DC by examining the tight relationship between Devon Energy and Scott Pruitt. Less than a week after Pruitt officially took his new gig, Devon sent the EPA a letter saying that it was reconsidering settling a case to pay a six-figure fine and install pollution reduction equipment. Instead, it wanted to reopen negotiations, pay a measly $25,000 and scrap plans to clean up its act.

While this reversal is hardly surprising, it’s enough to trigger some Congressional interest. In response to the NYT story, Senator Carper (D-DE) sent a letter to the EPA Saturday requesting information on what the agency’s been up to during Pruitt’s tenure, compared to what it did in terms of enforcement under Obama.

Good luck to Senator Carper though, because so far the Trump administration doesn’t seem to be taking transparency seriously. While the right loved to trash Obama’s promise to be the most transparent administration in history (their criticism to a limited extent warranted), Trump’s certainly not going to claim that mantle. He won’t end up as the third or fourth most transparent administration of the last thirty years.

At this rate, he’d be lucky to take the fifth.  ;D

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Trump "Transparency"



 
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on May 28, 2017, 06:15:32 pm
wikiHow to Identify Your Non‐Negotiables in Life

Three Parts:Talking With OthersWriting Your Non-Negotiables DownEnforcing Your Non-NegotiablesCommunity Q&A

Non-negotiables are those beliefs in your life that you would never go against. Having this set of values allows you to live the best life you can, and one that you are proud of. Deciding what these are may be intimidating, but when you talk with others, write them down, and enforce them, you can figure out your non-negotiables and start living your life accordingly.

http://www.wikihow.com/Identify-Your-Non%E2%80%90Negotiables-in-Life

Agelbert NOTE: Although crooks and liars have their own version of non-negotiables, like never admitting that they committed a crime or enjoy stealing from people, a non-negotiable to seek is an ETHICAL non-negotiable that reflects your VALUES, not your selfish wants. 

Habakkuk, a minor prophet of the Old Testament, had a non-negotiable (see below) that I agree with.  It is HARD for me to follow. But it IS non-negotiable, as far as I'm concerned.  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Fcowboypistol.gif&hash=2dc97f743dffca22404e6e4e0822765e60b33f38)

Habakkuk's name means to “embrace” or “wrestle.” As is usually the case, his name has something to do with the message of the book.

Quote
Habakkuk Chapter 3:17-19

Although the fig tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be in the vines; the labour of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no meat; the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd in the stalls:

Yet I will rejoice in the LORD, I will joy in the God of my salvation.

The LORD God is my strength, and he will make my feet like hinds' feet, and he will make me to walk upon mine high places.
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on May 29, 2017, 05:56:22 pm
http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/29/us/alaska-bogoslof-volcano-eruption/ (http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/29/us/alaska-bogoslof-volcano-eruption/)

Highest aviation alert level issued after Alaskan volcano erupts
Joe Sutton Profile

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By Euan McKirdy and Joe Sutton, CNN

Updated 8:28 AM ET, Mon May 29, 2017
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An ash cloud from the erupting Bogoslof volcano, seen from nearby Unalaska island.

"Lightning in the Aleutians is mostly due to volcanic plumes, as the meteorological conditions for lightning are not common," Freymueller said.

"The combination of lightning and seismic data allowed us to go to red within about half an hour of the start of the eruption."

The eruption lasted for about 50 minutes, the AVO said.


Flight path concern

The volcano sits under the flight path of many flights from Asia to North America and its ash cloud could adversely affect aircraft. "Ash and aircraft do not mix, as volcanic ash is abrasive, melts at jet engine temperatures, and can cause engine failure," according to the United States Geological Survey.

Aircraft are often instructed to fly around or over ash clouds, although in some circumstances air traffic has been grounded due to the hazards from airborne ash. In 2010 the eruption of the Eyjafjallajokull volcano in Iceland caused the cancellation of flights around Europe for six days.

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) last week said that flights were being rerouted around a similar ash cloud when the volcano previously erupted, according to CNN partner CBC.

'Heightened state of unrest'

An image taken by AVO scientists around 14 minutes after the start of the eruption, from nearby Unalaska Island, showed a large white-gray mushroom cloud form over the site. Ash fallout was occurring to the west of the site, according to AVO.

Bogoslof volcano remains at a heightened state of unrest and in an unpredictable condition," according to a report issued by the Observatory, which added that "additional explosions producing high-altitude volcanic clouds could occur at any time."


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Bogoslof volcano

It warns that continuing low-level activity could "pose a hazard in the immediate vicinity of the volcano."

Previous volcanic activity earlier in 2017 "significantly changed the shape and coastline of the island" and the land mass tripled in size between early 2015 and January of this year.

There have been eight documented eruption events at Bogoslof, the most recent one in 1992. Previous eruption events have lasted weeks to months, according to the AVO. This current eruption sequence started in December, 2016.


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On the bright side, if she blows big time, all those aerosols will slow down global warming for a few years.   8)
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on May 29, 2017, 07:14:05 pm
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We can’t count on trees to solve our global warming mess — there’s just too much CO2 out there

LAST UPDATED ON MAY 29TH, 2017 AT 5:10 PM BY TIBI PUIU

SNIPPET:

Massive reforestation can’t save us from runaway global warming, despite what intuition might tell us. According to a recent study which simulated CO2 removal from a biosphere point of view, biomass plantations would be inadequate in steering us away from a potentially disastrous 2 degrees Celsius global warming scenario. Instead, we have to cut off fossil fuels immediately and plant biomass at the same time if we’re to have a winning shot at this.

Trees — don’t overestimate them

We all know deforestation is running rampant all over the world. According to the World Resources Institute, more than 80 percent of the Earth’s natural forests already have been destroyed. Up to 90 percent of West Africa’s coastal rain forests have disappeared since 1900. This destruction is continuing on a daily basis. The U.S. State Department estimates that forests four times the size of Switzerland are lost each year because of clearing and degradation. That’s because every year our cities grow bigger, and so do our crop fields and industrial centers to support an ever growing and affluent population.

Here’s what the forest cover in Central Europe used to look like some 1,100 years ago.

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Credit: Michael Williams (2006) – Deforesting the Earth From Prehistory to Global Crisis, An Abridgment. University Of Chicago Press.

Trees are incredibly useful. They provide shelter and food for millions of species, enrich the soil, and — perhaps most importantly — suck out CO2 and expel O2. That’s literally the reverse of human respiration and for millions of years, this delicate interplay has worked out just fine for everyone. But then humans started digging and burning billions of tonnes of carbon that was stored in the crust for ages. Coupled with massive deforestation, human activity has released so many greenhouse gases into the atmosphere that the world is now nearly 1 degree Celsius warmer than at the start of the Industrial Revolution.

Though alarmed, some people might feel comfortable knowing that we can always replant our forests to offset all the damage we’ve caused in the last 150 years. But that’s just wishful thinking, according to an international team of researchers who simulated what would happen if we grew biomass under three scenarios: business as usual (unabated burning of fossil fuel resources), Paris Agreement (190+ countries pledged to reduce or cap emissions on a case by case basis. For instance, the U.S.  pledged to lower emissions by at least 26 percent below 2005 levels by 2025), and very ambitious CO2 reductions.

The team found that if we continue to burn fossil fuels at this current rate, the number of trees we’d need to plant would be simply staggering and impractical. Even if we’d plant nothing but poplar trees or switchgrass, which have some of the highest density of stored biomass (50% carbon), under this scenario the size of the plantation would replace natural ecosystems around the world almost completely.

“If we continue burning coal and oil the way we do today and regret our inaction later, the amounts of greenhouse gas we would need to take out of the atmosphere in order to stabilize the climate would be too huge to manage, says Lena Boysen from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Germany, lead-author of the study published in a journal of the American Geophysical Union, Earth’s Future.

In the case of scenario #2, even if all the Paris pledgers put their money where their mouth is, we’d still be in trouble. The biomass plantations required by mid-century to extract all that remaining excess CO2 from the atmosphere would be enormous. We’d have to replace natural ecosystems on fertile land the size of more than one-third of all forests we have today on our planet. If that’s not an option, we can always convert a quarter of the land used for agriculture into biomass plantations. But in doing so, we’d seriously jeopardize global food security.

Lastly, if the world was very serious about climate change and ambitiously decided to reduce carbon emissions, then fierce competition for land and food could be less pronounced than in the other two scenarios. However, even in this scenario, we’d have to use high-tech carbon-storage-machinery that captures more than 75 percent of extracted CO2 to limit warming to around 2°C by 2100.  :P

“As scientists we are looking at all possible futures, not just the positive ones,” says co-author Wolfgang Lucht from PIK. “What happens in the worst case, a widespread disruption and failure of mitigation policies? Would [color=greents[/color] allow us to still stabilize climate in emergency mode?” ???

Quote
“The answer is: no. There is no alternative for successful mitigation. In that scenario plants can potentially play a limited, but important role, if managed well.”

Quote
The fact is, there is no simple solution such as ‘planting more trees’ to such a complex problem like global warming.

Consider the following:

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http://www.zmescience.com/ecology/climate/trees-cant-save-us/
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on May 30, 2017, 02:37:26 pm
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We can’t count on trees to solve our global warming mess — there’s just too much CO2 out there

LAST UPDATED ON MAY 29TH, 2017 AT 5:10 PM BY TIBI PUIU

SNIPPET:

Massive reforestation can’t save us from runaway global warming, despite what intuition might tell us. According to a recent study which simulated CO2 removal from a biosphere point of view, biomass plantations would be inadequate in steering us away from a potentially disastrous 2 degrees Celsius global warming scenario. Instead, we have to cut off fossil fuels immediately and plant biomass at the same time if we’re to have a winning shot at this.

Trees — don’t overestimate them

We all know deforestation is running rampant all over the world. According to the World Resources Institute, more than 80 percent of the Earth’s natural forests already have been destroyed. Up to 90 percent of West Africa’s coastal rain forests have disappeared since 1900. This destruction is continuing on a daily basis. The U.S. State Department estimates that forests four times the size of Switzerland are lost each year because of clearing and degradation. That’s because every year our cities grow bigger, and so do our crop fields and industrial centers to support an ever growing and affluent population.

Here’s what the forest cover in Central Europe used to look like some 1,100 years ago.

(https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fcdn.zmescience.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2017%2F05%2Fforest-cover-central-europe.png&hash=7d2a7d4929ea346ea9781399030ab82da7731e1e)
Credit: Michael Williams (2006) – Deforesting the Earth From Prehistory to Global Crisis, An Abridgment. University Of Chicago Press.

Trees are incredibly useful. They provide shelter and food for millions of species, enrich the soil, and — perhaps most importantly — suck out CO2 and expel O2. That’s literally the reverse of human respiration and for millions of years, this delicate interplay has worked out just fine for everyone. But then humans started digging and burning billions of tonnes of carbon that was stored in the crust for ages. Coupled with massive deforestation, human activity has released so many greenhouse gases into the atmosphere that the world is now nearly 1 degree Celsius warmer than at the start of the Industrial Revolution.

Though alarmed, some people might feel comfortable knowing that we can always replant our forests to offset all the damage we’ve caused in the last 150 years. But that’s just wishful thinking, according to an international team of researchers who simulated what would happen if we grew biomass under three scenarios: business as usual (unabated burning of fossil fuel resources), Paris Agreement (190+ countries pledged to reduce or cap emissions on a case by case basis. For instance, the U.S.  pledged to lower emissions by at least 26 percent below 2005 levels by 2025), and very ambitious CO2 reductions.

The team found that if we continue to burn fossil fuels at this current rate, the number of trees we’d need to plant would be simply staggering and impractical. Even if we’d plant nothing but poplar trees or switchgrass, which have some of the highest density of stored biomass (50% carbon), under this scenario the size of the plantation would replace natural ecosystems around the world almost completely.

“If we continue burning coal and oil the way we do today and regret our inaction later, the amounts of greenhouse gas we would need to take out of the atmosphere in order to stabilize the climate would be too huge to manage, says Lena Boysen from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Germany, lead-author of the study published in a journal of the American Geophysical Union, Earth’s Future.

In the case of scenario #2, even if all the Paris pledgers put their money where their mouth is, we’d still be in trouble. The biomass plantations required by mid-century to extract all that remaining excess CO2 from the atmosphere would be enormous. We’d have to replace natural ecosystems on fertile land the size of more than one-third of all forests we have today on our planet. If that’s not an option, we can always convert a quarter of the land used for agriculture into biomass plantations. But in doing so, we’d seriously jeopardize global food security.

Lastly, if the world was very serious about climate change and ambitiously decided to reduce carbon emissions, then fierce competition for land and food could be less pronounced than in the other two scenarios. However, even in this scenario, we’d have to use high-tech carbon-storage-machinery that captures more than 75 percent of extracted CO2 to limit warming to around 2°C by 2100.  :P

“As scientists we are looking at all possible futures, not just the positive ones,” says co-author Wolfgang Lucht from PIK. “What happens in the worst case, a widespread disruption and failure of mitigation policies? Would [color=greents[/color] allow us to still stabilize climate in emergency mode?” ???

Quote
“The answer is: no. There is no alternative for successful mitigation. In that scenario plants can potentially play a limited, but important role, if managed well.”

Quote
The fact is, there is no simple solution such as ‘planting more trees’ to such a complex problem like global warming.

Consider the following:

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http://www.zmescience.com/ecology/climate/trees-cant-save-us/ (http://www.zmescience.com/ecology/climate/trees-cant-save-us/)

Considering that trees can self-reproduce, and spread themselves throughout suitable areas for their species, how much more likely is it that replacing FF-fired power stations with solar panels, which are energy-intensive to manufacture, will be possible?  The danger of watching the Dollars instead of the Kilowatt.hours (Energy) should be obvious.  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.coh2.org%2Fimages%2FSmileys%2Fhuhsign.gif&hash=3732d0427be65896527fc3805c5be54a33cffd3b)
 
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The only thing rather obvious is that you are a study in cherry picking irrelevancy. Self reproduction is NOT the issue, Einstein. The ISSUE is the RATE of self reproduction that you conveniently ignored.

If you were seriously debating this issue (which you certainly are not), you would bring up duckweed, which can double it's population every 48 hours or so. Duckweed (e.g. Lemna minor - there are several species) also has a longer growing season and greater temperature tolerance than any tree. IOW, it can grow where trees grow AND in gigantic swaths of the planet where trees cannot grow. However, there are problems with the duckweed approach that, again, require a multifaceted, multidisciplinary biosphere remediation approach that, of course, requires, as a sine qua non part of the approach, a 100% transition to Renewable Energy within a decade or so to actually give us a fighting chance to make it through the Catastrophic climate years now upon us.
 
But you are merely trying to throw mud at solar panel technology, and just found another duplicitous way to pitch your ATTACK on Renewable Energy in defense of the UNSUSTAINABLE fossil fuel "real world" polluting status quo. It's really quite clever of you because your pitch appears to be cheerleading nature in general and trees in particular, RATHER than a backdoor attempt to defend the biosphere destroying fossil fuel CO2 producing profit over planet. Nice try!   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-051113192052.png&hash=93c42ef9f18fc5d9da50fd91fc19f70009f95f85) (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fpm1.narvii.com%2F5869%2F6a64193d6770c3afd17406c78686c0eda32ded1c_hq.jpg&hash=fedf26e48d67cdd1e932380c7336ac18486d3fee)


As Thom Hartmann recently pointed out, he worried back in 1996 about the issue you fossil fuelers are so fond of repeating ad nauseam. THAT IS, that you need fossil fuels to make solar panels. Guess what, Einstein? THAT AIN'T necessary no more! Solar powered factories NOW can can routinely produce the temperatures needed to make the glass (the highest temperatures needed to make solar panel components).  So your argument is DEAD. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.funny-emoticons.com%2Ffiles%2Ffunny-animals%2Fblue-bird-emoticons%2F801-listen-up%21.png&hash=f7fb2b5263a68b91c628fc597877983f813843e5)

AND, all along I have, as Thom Hartmann and many others have, advocated using fossil fuels to build the renewable energy infrastructure to permanently get off of fossil fuels.  During all that time, people like YOU have claimed, "its too hard" or "the ERoEI is too low" or other assorted foot dragging BALONEY pushed by the fossil fuel crooks and liars.

YOU were wrong with your convenient (for the fossil fuel industry  ;) (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-311013200859.png&hash=a7aaaa9f04c1e3e2c948723b5f8c13fe814dacd4) ) arbitrary narrow focus. YOU are STILL  wrong. Maybe someday, when you actually bring yourself to compute the ENERGY COST of pollution on human health care COSTS, you will get your mathematician head out of your cherry picking ASS and see what a ruinously LOW (as in NEGATIVE NUMBERS!) the ERoEI of any fossil fuel POISON is.

DINNER IS SERVED, PALLOY (see link below  ;D).

https://cleantechnica.com/2017/05/29/gas-cars-much-dirtier-expected/

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Chow down, Palloy!
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on May 31, 2017, 05:03:01 pm
Moscow (CNN)A fierce storm whipped through Moscow on Monday, killing 16 people, toppling thousands of trees and damaging several buildings, officials said.

Eleven people were killed in Moscow and three others elsewhere in the region, said Svetlana Petrenko, spokeswoman for the Russian Investigative Committee. It's not clear where the other two victims died.

State-run news agency Tass reported that 168 people were injured in the storm -- the deadliest in years -- and 146 were hospitalized, according to Alexei Khripun, who leads Moscow's department of health.

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Alexander Golod's pyramid in Istrinsky District, Moscow Region, was destroyed by the storm

Of the 108 people who remain in the hospital, 22 are children. Tass said the injuries range from cuts and bruises to head and spine injuries.

"I can't remember within my recollection any other such calamity with the number of dead and injured as big as this one," Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin told Tass, adding that the families of those killed will receive 1 million rubles ($17,760) each.

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CNN meteorologist Taylor Ward said most of the damage appeared to come from strong straight-line winds, with gusts measuring 101 kph (63 mph).

According to Sobyanin, the storm uprooted about 3,500 trees. Transportation was affected in the capital and more than 50 flights were delayed in the region, Tass reported.

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A woman walks past a fallen tree on a car after a heavy storm in Moscow.

The surrounding region endured similar damage, with 3,000 trees blown down, 322 cars damaged and the roofs of 42 houses and maternity clinics sustaining damage, Tass said.
In 1998, a strong wind storm hit Moscow, killing as many as 11 people.

http://edition.cnn.com/2017/05/30/europe/moscow-storm/index.html (http://edition.cnn.com/2017/05/30/europe/moscow-storm/index.html)

Agelbert NOTE: Russia just got a visit from the ghost of Climate change Future. Putin had better start paying attention and get his head out of his fossil fuel worshiping ASS. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.desismileys.com%2Fsmileys%2Fdesismileys_6869.gif&hash=f94938471d343a09155d1f60eefacdb2ceab2457)

Predicted Wind Speed increases are SUPPOSED to be modest. But I think they are being overly conservative about the AMOUNT of increase, even though they are absolutely correct about the unavoidable INCREASE. If you have been subjected to any mendacious propaganda that claims Climate Change will produce "slower" wind speeds, be sure and throw this document at those LIARS:
Climate Change Effects On Wind Speed - 3Tier  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fs15.rimg.info%2Fdcda0e08e538cb37431314e6bd49279b.gif&hash=4e8b4ba5ce94991ab2f42c4c663e9f6991bbf4f4)

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... changes likely will continue. A recent review of historic ... energy production of existing and planned wind ... Predicted changes in wind speeds due to global warming are expected to be modest, but ... els predict stronger surface wind speeds.
http://www.3tier.com/static/ttcms/us/documents/NAWP-July08.pdf
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on May 31, 2017, 09:02:59 pm
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May 31, 2017

Trump and the Future of the Paris Climate Accord

Climate scientist Dana Nuccitelli discusses the Trump Administration's tendency to embrace fake climate news and the administration's hostility to sound climate change policy.

https://youtu.be/j9cw9g-Q3Yc
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on June 01, 2017, 08:01:48 pm
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June 1, 2017

Trump Pulls Out of the Paris Climate Accord


Daphne Wysham, director of the climate and energy program at the Center for Sustainable Economy, joins Sharmini Peries to talk about the ramifications of the US pulling out of the Paris accord.

https://youtu.be/P5GX5qYAIBc


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http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=19233
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on June 01, 2017, 08:33:26 pm
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RMI Statement on U.S. withdrawal from the Paris Agreement

June 1, 2017  |  By Jules Kortenhorst
Friends,

We are greatly disappointed in President Trump’s decision to pull the United States out of the Paris Climate Agreement.

The Paris Agreement constitutes humanity’s best effort to put a global governance mechanism in place to address the global climate change threat. It is and will remain an unprecedented achievement by nations who have shown the political will to jointly tackle the unprecedented challenge that global warming presents. The withdrawal of the United States will significantly undermine these efforts, as the U.S. is the leading emitter of greenhouse gases per capita. However, we are confident that the Paris Agreement will endure.

U.S. climate action will not go dark. We are encouraged by the efforts of American states, cities, and businesses that strive to reduce emissions and whose efforts will carry on undeterred by this federal decision. In fact, the commitments of governors, mayors, and business leaders to join forces to aggregate their climate actions demonstrate the degree to which the United States will continue to lead on climate even as the federal administration takes a step backward. This effort, which could be aggregated as an alternative NDC (nationally determined contribution) or an “SDC—societally determined contribution,” could seek to show that on many of the most important climate metrics—from share of renewable energy to investment in clean mobility solutions—the actions of states, cities, and companies will keep the United States moving forward, albeit at a less aggressive pace than would be the case otherwise.

The energy transition to renewables and energy efficiency will continue unabated. This is evident year after year, both in the U.S. and abroad. In the electricity system, renewable energy and natural gas together produced half of U.S. electricity supplies last year, while coal made up only 30 percent—the smallest share since officials started keeping track 70 years ago. States from New York to Oregon to Michigan have raised their Renewable Portfolio Standards, which set requirements for utilities to source energy from renewable projects. And corporations signed 2.5 gigawatts worth of long-term power contracts with wind and solar projects last year. While jobs in the coal industry won’t come back, those in solar, wind, energy efficiency, and spin-off industries will only grow. The U.S. solar industry employed 260,077 workers last year, a nearly 25 percent increase in the number of jobs since 2015. Betting on energy technologies of the past is bad for business and bad for jobs.

And in fact, in other parts of the world, leaders fully appreciate the power of this new industrial revolution, and are standing ready to step into the leadership void that will be created by the U.S. withdrawal from Paris. China, India, and Europe, together with all but three countries around the world (Syria, Nicaragua, and now the U.S.) are committed to implementing the Paris agreement even after this set back.

At Rocky Mountain Institute, we will stay focused on our mission to transform global energy use to create a clean, prosperous, and secure low-carbon future, and we work with all willing partners to do so.

Best,

Jules Kortenhorst

CEO

https://www.rmi.org/news/rmi-statement-u-s-withdrawal-paris-agreement/
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on June 01, 2017, 09:50:37 pm
Catastrophic Climate Change is HERE NOW! (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-070814193155.png&hash=144ce9330e49ee84060db8753a8db69c39a14913)

The Great Barrier Reef Can't Be Saved  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-120716190938.png&hash=01feab1c7345a4e98764e0f9d24b2d69171b93c2)
https://youtu.be/3D3JWiMDtds

But don't worry about a thing. Trumpy will make sure it all goes away ....

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on June 02, 2017, 01:32:31 pm
Trump Dumps Paris Climate Accords, Musk Dumps Trump  ;D


June 2nd, 2017 by Steve Hanley

What Trump DID accomplish by today’s grandstanding action:

⦁   Stuck it to the ⦁   global community, our European and Japanese allies, and our friendly rivals in China and India. They spent years negotiating this deal, and they’re staying the course – although they are angry that the testy toddler who somehow stumbled into the White House has walked away from the table.

⦁   Thrilled what’s left of his base – although his approval rating continues to hover at catastrophic levels, and even his strongest partisans are starting to waver.

⦁   Thrilled the looters of the rabid right, like the Mercers and the Koch brothers  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Facigar.gif&hash=dc9dccf92c6c88c99611b06c86d92629d69f2978), who are pleased they can suck a few more years of double-digit profits out of the American public (aka “Trump’s base” – the beleaguered Midwesterners who’s jobs are being exported and whose safety net is being shredded).

https://cleantechnica.com/2017/06/02/trump-will-pull-us-paris-climate-agreement-four-years/
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on June 02, 2017, 02:47:32 pm
Trump Dumps Paris Climate Accords, Musk Dumps Trump  ;D


June 2nd, 2017 by Steve Hanley

What Trump DID accomplish by today’s grandstanding action:

⦁   Stuck it to the ⦁   global community, our European and Japanese allies, and our friendly rivals in China and India. They spent years negotiating this deal, and they’re staying the course – although they are angry that the testy toddler who somehow stumbled into the White House has walked away from the table.

⦁   Thrilled what’s left of his base – although his approval rating continues to hover at catastrophic levels, and even his strongest partisans are starting to waver.

⦁   Thrilled the looters of the rabid right, like the Mercers and the Koch brothers  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Facigar.gif&hash=dc9dccf92c6c88c99611b06c86d92629d69f2978), who are pleased they can suck a few more years of double-digit profits out of the American public (aka “Trump’s base” – the beleaguered Midwesterners who’s jobs are being exported and whose safety net is being shredded).

https://cleantechnica.com/2017/06/02/trump-will-pull-us-paris-climate-agreement-four-years/ (https://cleantechnica.com/2017/06/02/trump-will-pull-us-paris-climate-agreement-four-years/)

Mildly encouraging. Lots of support for the Paris Accords among the capitalists. They aren't all stupid. I was surprised at the backlash. I'm sure you read that Elon Musk bailed on his Trump advisory role.

I know you think that Capitalists like Musk, who actually know how to add and subtract in biosphere math, get it. I agree. But the issue is not Capitalism. Capitalism is part of the problem, not part of the solution. Again, I know you vigorously disagree, so I won't belabor the issue.

All that said, what I find encouraging in Trump's profit over planet action(s) is the confirmation of the fascist right wing overreach I expected ever since the Trump fossil fuel TOOL got (s)elected. The latest bit of overreach FORCES the media to DISCUSS CLIMATE Change, SOMETHING FOX NEWS (and practically, though not as obviously, all other Capitalist news networks in the USA AND the world) generally avoid like the "externalized costs are going to eat our profit over planet lunch if we can't pass that buck onto the rubes   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Fwww_MyEmoticons_com__smokelots.gif&hash=094f88de6782c1cd03ed5321b387792046eb3cdd)" PLAGUE.

Also, this forces idiots that think profit is God to think about how they are shooting themselves in the FACE, not just the foot, by trashing the commons (otherwise known as the biosphere) for money.

As I guessed way back in November, Trumpy has managed to UNITE a rather  disparate group of powerful nations AGAINST polluting the atmosphere by burning fossil fuels. This is a good thing, although I seriously doubt that most people in Texas would agree that banning the production of fossil fuels, with prison sentences for corporations that do so, is a good thing. But THAT is where, INEVITABLY, this is going, Eddie.  And no, this is not something decades away, as you might surmise. Laugh if you wish, but it would be prudent to get OUT of absolutely any investment based on the health of the fossil fuel fascists now. Forewarned is forearmed. I know what I am talking about. Be well and act prudently.
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on June 02, 2017, 02:50:01 pm
Catastrophic Climate Change is HERE NOW! (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-070814193155.png&hash=144ce9330e49ee84060db8753a8db69c39a14913)

The Great Barrier Reef Can't Be Saved  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-120716190938.png&hash=01feab1c7345a4e98764e0f9d24b2d69171b93c2)

https://youtu.be/3D3JWiMDtds

But don't worry about a thing. Trumpy will make sure it all goes away ....

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Yeah. I know. It's extremely **** depressing. I never even got to see it. Of course, I'm afraid of Box Jellyfish. When the reef dies, that's probably what'll be left anyway.


I know that Jellyfish are extremely hardy. The collapse of the life producing Great Barrier Reef biome, it being that reefs have such a disproportionately large role (over 90% of fish nurseries are in reefs - the rest are in estuaries) for life in the oceans, will result in effect that may well be far more deleterious than boosting jellyfish populations.

The question is, will the phytoplankton and zooplankton take up the slack to keep fish populations (after the mollusks can't make shells and die in droves so the fish have no food) all over the planet from collapsing (and going extinct) or not? I don't think so. WHY?

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Marine Trophic Pyramid


The trophic pyramid has mandatory TEN TO ONE energy math that no species can get around. The food chain BELOW the life forms that feed on it MUST be ten times larger than the one above it or the species above it goes extinct. The reefs system, plus the phytoplankton and the zooplankton, have now been reduced BELOW the thermodynamic requirement of ten times (at least) the size of the predators that feed on it.

Expect over a third or more of all macroscopic (i.e. especially the ones we eat) marine species to die within a decade. The collapse of the Ocean species web is now inevitable (and has been ongoing for at least a decade already, albeit at a slower pace than we will now experience).

Do the math on the size of the Great Barrier Reef versus all the other reef systems on the planet. Then you will see that the Great Barrier Reef is about HALF of all the planetary reef systems in area. That is now practically DEAD.

We know who the Criminals in this profit over biosphere destruction are. It's time we went after them. The planet will be just fine. It is in our best interest to make it illegal to pollute the biosphere, whether it be from burning fossil fuels or other chemical processes the polluters make money off of.

The total of all Reef systems occupy a small percentage of the total surface area of the oceans. But if the reefs die, which is exactly what is happening, and is exactly what has been predicted by climate scientists for DECADES, we aren't gonna make up for that by eating crickets.  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-150715183719.png&hash=7b222546f30a032efc31223d85eea0535ed42a49)
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on June 02, 2017, 08:00:17 pm
Three Major States Already "joining" Paris Accord  ;D

By oregonj 

Thursday Jun 01, 2017 · 5:46 PM EDT

SNIPPET:

THE UNITED STATES CLIMATE ALLIANCE HAS BEEN FORMED

The governors of New York, California and Washington in the past hour have announced the formation of an alliance of US states to follow the Paris Accords.  This represents over one-fifth of the US economy, and it is only the beginning of many more states prepared to join.

Once again, a Trump policy will be marginalized.  Still dangerous — but it will be a lot more smoke (literally) than fire.

Full article:
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/6/1/1668055/-Three-Major-States-Already-joining-Paris-Accord
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on June 02, 2017, 09:34:05 pm
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German Reactions to Trump Paris Accord Withdrawal

SNIPPET:

Martin Schulz, Social Democratic (SPD) frontrunner for the federal elections:

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"You can withdraw from a climate agreement but not from climate change, Mr. Trump. Reality isn't just another statesman you shove away. ... there is no reasonable alternative to a sustainable climate policy. ..."



https://www.cleanenergywire.org/news/german-reactions-us-decision-withdraw-paris-agreement
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on June 02, 2017, 09:46:07 pm
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Climate change will ruin Hawaii, new study finds

LAST UPDATED ON JUNE 2ND, 2017 AT 4:18 PM BY ALEXANDRA GEREA

America’s favorite travel destination, Hawaii, is in for some nasty times.  :(

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http://www.zmescience.com/ecology/climate/climate-change-hawaii-02062017/
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on June 03, 2017, 06:06:31 pm
The 6th Mass Extinction Event is here * Geologic History shows why CO2 caused Global Warming before (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-070814193155.png&hash=144ce9330e49ee84060db8753a8db69c39a14913)

Marc Haneburght

Published on Jun 1, 2017

Runaway Climate Change is causing exponential major flooding (happening now) due to more heavy rainfall on Earth, and are taking too much nutrients by rivers into the oceans, creating anoxia events. A deadly purple sulfur bacteria. Too much is never a good thing. It's what made oil deposits happen in the past.

In the past the dinosaurs roamed the planet during the start of an extinction event, now it will be us. The next clever beings might learn in time what we did wrong, maybe not.

The planet might turn into Mars because of nobody being at the controls of nuclear power plants that will destroy the ozone with massive amounts of radiation.

Oceanic anoxic events or anoxic events (anoxia conditions) refer to intervals in the Earth's past where portions of oceans become depleted in oxygen (O2) at depths over a large geographic area. During some of these events, euxinia, waters that contained H2S hydrogen sulfide, developed. Although anoxic events have not happened for millions of years, the geological record shows that they happened many times in the past.

Anoxic events coincided with several mass extinctions and may have contributed to them. These mass extinctions include some that geobiologists use as time markers in biostratigraphic dating. Many geologists believe oceanic anoxic events are strongly linked to slowing of ocean circulation, climatic warming, and elevated levels of greenhouse gases.

Global warming. The biggest story ever. Too big for the general public.  >:(

Agelbert NOTE: MUST SEE video! (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F301.gif&hash=0291ed4abf2d80e420d1aa00d4eb3c5dd6bbfb53) To skip ancient history, begin at the 32 minute mark. SADLY, the video has been terminated. :( However, the notes I took will  be of interest to you. Also, Do aan internet search for "Sixth Mass Extinction" for more information. There is a wealth of irrefutable information out there that concerns all responsible people.

This video is tremendously educational and instructive because it demonstrates exactly how our scientists accurately determined CO2 levels in the distant past, as long ago as 200 million years, when today's oil deposits are believed to have been formed.

How did they do it? ??? They found 200 million year old fossils of a plant called a Ginko, that did NOT "evolve" AT ALL  ;D, all the way to the present (leaf structure is identical to modern Ginko leaves).

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Permian Ginko leaf fossil on left  - Modern Ginko Leaf on right

The Ginko has pores in the underside of the leaves. The number of pores it forms is a function, as has been determined by empirical evidence, of the available atmospheric CO2. IOW, the more  CO2, the more pores.

The fossilized Ginkos leaf pore totals, exactly as the leaf pore totals of modern Ginko test plants grown in increasingly higher CO2 containing atmospheres, evidence 4 times the CO2 level of pre-industrial human civilization. THAT was an ice free world.

HOWEVER, that was NOT a "tropical paradise", as the fossil fuel fascist propagandist crooks and liars want you to believe. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.coh2.org%2Fimages%2FSmileys%2Fhuhsign.gif&hash=3732d0427be65896527fc3805c5be54a33cffd3b)

Once the ice is GONE, some death dealing chemical processes begin until just about every macroscopic oxygen breathing life form is dead. It begins with the death of most of the species populating the Marine Trophic Pyramid. HOW? ???

When the ice is gone, the ocean currents that circulate oxygen throughout the oceanic depths in a 500 year cycle come to a HALT. This makes more and more parts of the ocean anoxic, so all the oxygen breathers die or flee closer to the still oxygenated shallows.

Meanwhile, the high CO2 levels acidify the oceans, killing off the Oxygen producing phytoplankton (can't make their Calcium Carbonate structure - like mollusks also can't - despite having more CO2 "food" available) that had become widespread with the early initial increase of CO2 levels (see massive algae blooms going on as we speak).

The dead Phytoplankton begin to sink through the shallows, triggering bacterial feeding frenzy activity of a type of purple bacteria that decomposes phytoplankton, hates oxygen, but needs sunlight (it uses the sun but excretes H2S - Hydrogen sulfide poisonous gas, not  oxygen).

So THEN the shallows become anoxic too. Then what is left of the oxygen breathers die. This not "just evolution", as the idiots who compare our fossil fuel based civilization's stupid and suicidal greedy activity to massive volcanic eruptions, as if  humans have as little free will as a volcano, ridiculously claim. But the imbeciles who wish to perpetuate the fossil fuel burning status quo frequently resort to this craven attempt to avoid responsibility for the harm being done. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-200714183337.bmp&hash=fd5a6df63c32bd65dda7b6d93e788647ca3829df)

Allowing the CO2 to get so high that it triggers the death of most marine life is Genocidal Criminal Negligence.

https://youtu.be/3D3JWiMDtds

What just happened in the death of the Great Barrier reef is just the beginning of the heating process resulting from too much CO2. There is still a lot of ice. There is still oceanic circulation and oxygenation.

But ALREADY, JUST THE HEAT is killing the most important marine life nurseries in the oceans. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-070814193155.png&hash=144ce9330e49ee84060db8753a8db69c39a14913)

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SO WHAT, you might ask. The dinosaurs were around for millions of years. Don't we have lots of time too?   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F126fs3187425.gif&hash=698371058827d6a11faaaa56c2531639421f9477)

WHY? ???

Because the RATE we are putting CO2 in the atmosphere is THOUSANDS of TIMES FASTER than when the massive volcanic eruptions caused CO2 triggered extinctions!

When the  ice is gone and that rotten egg  smell from ubiquitous  Hydrogen sulfide poisonous gas reaches your nostrils, expect a VERY brief growth industry in canned oxygen.  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-311013200859.png&hash=a7aaaa9f04c1e3e2c948723b5f8c13fe814dacd4) (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Fdesertsmile.gif&hash=293fbde1c87dec2d81c5907e3fbac7d8e5bba7a9) But don't expect the Fossil Fuel Fascist "industry"   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-140415130805.png&hash=23d2e6dc6311a26c399bf0cb60868bcff2781a58) to admit they destroyed the biosphere for short term profit.

Coming soon to your home: DOOM WEEK ON PLANET EARTH
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The Fossil Fuelers   DID THE Climate Trashing, human health depleting CRIME,   but since they have ALWAYS BEEN liars and conscience free crooks, they are trying to AVOID   DOING THE TIME or     PAYING THE FINE!     Don't let them get away with it! Pass it on!    (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F176.gif&hash=121533221905789c6b8d57a9603883266d349266)
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on June 04, 2017, 04:16:17 pm
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187 mayors adopt Paris climate accord after U.S. pulls out (updated)
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“The world cannot wait—and neither will we”
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BY ALISSA WALKER@AWALKERINLA  JUN 3, 2017, 11:19AM EDT

https://www.curbed.com/2017/6/1/15726376/paris-accord-climate-change-mayors-trump
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on June 06, 2017, 08:14:27 pm
Fact-Checking Trump on Climate Finance

by Joe Thwaites and Niranjali Manel Amerasinghe - June 05, 2017

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http://www.wri.org/blog/2017/06/fact-checking-trump-climate-finance
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on June 06, 2017, 09:30:16 pm
The Extreme Hurricane Season
https://youtu.be/HLvwH86kmG8


Can We Stop the GOP From Destroying the Planet?

https://youtu.be/1_OUxzrr_T0

Hune 6, 2017

Big Picture Interview: Dick Russell, Horsemen of the Apocalypse: The Men Who Are Destroying the Planet and How They Explain Themselves to Their Own Children. As the US pulls out of the Paris Climate Deal - why does mainstream media continue to treat global warming like a culture war debate?

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on June 06, 2017, 10:04:33 pm
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Trump's Climate Withdrawal Is an Impeachable Offense

Tuesday, June 06, 2017

By Marjorie Cohn, Truthout | News Analysis

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http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/40838-trump-s-climate-withdrawal-is-an-impeachable-offense
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on June 09, 2017, 07:48:47 pm
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This is definitely the best resource I’ve encountered for a crash course in the root causes of climate change and the potential negative outcomes if the global community continues to ignore the problem.  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.desismileys.com%2Fsmileys%2Fdesismileys_0293.gif&hash=b1af4868ed8f18c30e637f8cbcb79002f6f71039)  Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway have condensed years of research into a tiny book––all the better to penetrate the noosphere of a world demanding easily-digested reading options.

Presented as a fictional academic paper from the perspective of a Chinese historian three hundred years in the future, this text is packed with useful insights, the most intriguing of which are a handful of big-picture assessments of the recent historical trends that have contributed to runaway carbon emissions and the intractability of governments in addressing the problem with the seriousness it deserves.  The book’s tone is historically detached, chiding, playful, and ultimately chilling as our fictional narrator blithely scrutinizes the reader’s confused present and bleak future. Oreskes and Conway paint a hellish picture of 21st century Western life that would be alarmist   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.coh2.org%2Fimages%2FSmileys%2Fhuhsign.gif&hash=3732d0427be65896527fc3805c5be54a33cffd3b) ::) if the real risk were not so imminent, so thoroughly empirically supported, and so extreme in magnitude.

One of the intellectual highlights here is Oreskes and Conway’s critique of reductionism/specialization in the practice of science, which they claim as the primary contributor to the scientific community’s sluggish attempts to popularize and push for government action to address what ought to be extraordinarily disturbing data. Reductionism, they posit, “impeded investigations of complex systems” and “also made it difficult for scientists to articulate the threat posed by climate change, since many experts did not actually know very much about aspects of the problem beyond their expertise” (14).  This trend meant that there was little inquiry into “systems science, complexity science, and…earth systems science” (15).  This seems   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.coh2.org%2Fimages%2FSmileys%2Fhuhsign.gif&hash=3732d0427be65896527fc3805c5be54a33cffd3b) a fair and accurate complaint , and yet the authors say nothing about how an appropriately holistic science would function in practice. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.desismileys.com%2Fsmileys%2Fdesismileys_2932.gif&hash=0eaec4791a5825821998245e7fcd7744b56557fe)  To support a scientific apparatus capable not only of investigating specialized fields (which no doubt would still be necessary), but also of identifying and articulating robust patterns between disciplines in order to fashion a better picture of the ecological landscape, would require far more public and private investment than scientific endeavors currently enjoy, at least in the United States. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.desismileys.com%2Fsmileys%2Fdesismileys_2932.gif&hash=0eaec4791a5825821998245e7fcd7744b56557fe) Just another reason why public funding for science is so important.  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Ffc06.deviantart.net%2Ffs71%2Ff%2F2009%2F347%2F2%2F6%2FWTF_Smiley_face_by_IveWasHere.jpg&hash=8ca673f8cf785d9dac626f9fd91e37a1a318c7ac)


The other, more destructive component of the climate problem is the western addiction to neoliberalism, or what Oreskes and Conway refer to as “market fundamentalism. 
 This ideology is all too familiar to anyone who has watched with dismay as the economic obsession with market autonomy has eroded the public sphere over the last several decades, sidelining infrastructure, worker’s rights, and sensible pollution prevention in favor of the consolidation of wealth into fewer and fewer hands.  Oreskes and Conway cleverly point out that individual freedom, the cornerstone concept of the neoliberal worldview, will be drastically imperiled in a world where we do nothing to prevent climate change: “Neoliberalism, meant to ensure freedom above all, led eventually to a situation that necessitated large-scale government intervention” (48).  The authors warn that if we continue to allow the fossil fuel industry to pursue short term profits that wreck the environment, disasters will become the norm, and governments will increasingly be forced to intervene in order to retain whatever semblance of peace can be salvaged from the chaos.  Without swift government action to implement proper regulations and actively bolster a transition to a green, sustainable economy, it’s not absurd to suggest that future Westerners may very well experience martial law on a mass scale.

Most disquieting (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2F1.bp.blogspot.com%2F-TzWpwHzCvCI%2FT_sBEnhCCpI%2FAAAAAAAAME8%2FIsLpuU8HYxc%2Fs1600%2Fnooo-way-smiley.gif&hash=b8545bd420b1e2f2c7b9f665d2093523e4ad2251) is Oreskes and Conway’s suggestion that the failure of Western civilization to respond adequately to this crisis might be construed as evidence for the impotency of the democratic way of life (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2F1.bp.blogspot.com%2F-TzWpwHzCvCI%2FT_sBEnhCCpI%2FAAAAAAAAME8%2FIsLpuU8HYxc%2Fs1600%2Fnooo-way-smiley.gif&hash=b8545bd420b1e2f2c7b9f665d2093523e4ad2251), even to the point of discrediting democracy as a desirable form of political organization for future generations:(https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2F1.bp.blogspot.com%2F-TzWpwHzCvCI%2FT_sBEnhCCpI%2FAAAAAAAAME8%2FIsLpuU8HYxc%2Fs1600%2Fnooo-way-smiley.gif&hash=b8545bd420b1e2f2c7b9f665d2093523e4ad2251)By blocking anticipatory action, neoliberals did more than expose the tragic flaws in their own system: they fostered expansion of the forms of governance they most abhorred” (52).  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.desismileys.com%2Fsmileys%2Fdesismileys_0293.gif&hash=b1af4868ed8f18c30e637f8cbcb79002f6f71039) The authors imagine that autocratic China, while suffering serious losses of its own, would muster more efficient and large-scale responses compared to Western nations,   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fcliparts.co%2Fcliparts%2FBig%2FEgq%2FBigEgqBMT.png&hash=e7eec62f009cdd686ce795fad0a53c6befe748e9) thus obviating climate change’s worst consequences and retaining the basic structure of Chinese civilization.  Indeed, China’s recent environmental woes have already caused the government to enact green reforms, which they can institute by fiat rather than having to push them through a body of elected representatives.  Conversely, many democratic  ::) nations still struggle to wrest the legislative power of elected officials from corporate influence   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-241013183046.jpeg&hash=51c9c4f17e747698c76c65c7c1814eff4f32c400)and systemic political gridlock. 

Confronting climate change, then, may mean more than just trying to avoid disaster or preserve biological flourishing––it might mean proving to the world that letting people have a say in how their government is run is a fundamentally efficacious idea that’s here to stay, and not some whimsical, ill-fated experiment that occurred as we blindly rushed from one feudal era to the next. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.coh2.org%2Fimages%2FSmileys%2Fhuhsign.gif&hash=3732d0427be65896527fc3805c5be54a33cffd3b) (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Ffc06.deviantart.net%2Ffs71%2Ff%2F2009%2F347%2F2%2F6%2FWTF_Smiley_face_by_IveWasHere.jpg&hash=8ca673f8cf785d9dac626f9fd91e37a1a318c7ac)

http://www.words-and-dirt.com/words/book-review-naomi-oreskes-and-erik-m-conways-the-collapse-of-western-civilization/

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Agelbert NOTE: The above review tries to be objective and FAILS. Naomi is stating clearly that China actually DOES do the will of the people and the "democracies" are NOTHING OF THE KIND because Corporate FASCISM corrupted them into oligarchies that ignored climate change on behalf of profit over biosphere.

Listen to an interview at the link below, and read my note  ;D, for true objectivity.
NAOMI ORESKES PAINTS THE DARK PICTURE IF WE IGNORE CLIMATE CHANGE (http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/climate-change/future-earth/msg7306/#msg7306)
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on June 10, 2017, 09:25:17 pm
Agelbert NOTE: More signs of rougher oceans due to Global Warming are evidenced below. The North Atlantic is not supposed to be so rough in June, but the weather is more like January and February in its ferocity. It will get worse every year.

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Update 2: Canada Launches Rescue Mission as Weather System Hits Trans-Atlantic Sailing Race

June 10, 2017 by Reuters

SNIPPET"

This screen grab taken at approximate 17:37 ET shows the location of sailing yachts participating in the OSTAR 2017 race in relation to the weather system. Image credit: MyLiveRegatta (at article link)

Update 2 (June 10) – Below is an update provided by the Royal Western Yacht Club, which is hosting the trans-Atlantic race event. All sailors in distress are reported safe:

In the early hours of Friday 9th June, 60 knot winds and 15 metre seas  :o were experienced by competitors, caused by a very low depression (967 mb). These extreme conditions caused damage to many boats with 3 emergency beacons (EPIRB) triggered. The Canadian coastguard in Halifax immediately reacted to the situation sending ships and air support to all the boats in distress.

The boats affected over the past 36 hours are:

TAMARIND – Suffered severe damage. Skipper well with no injuries. Rescued by Queen Mary en route to Halifax.

HAPPY – Dismasted. Both crew rescued by ocean going tug APL FORWARD. No injuries reported.

FURIA – Boat sunk. Crew resuced by survey vessel THOR MAGNA. No injuries reported.

HARMONII – Mainsail and track damage. Retired. Heading under engine for the Azores. Skipper ok, no injuries.

SUOMI KUDU – Mainsail problems. Retired. Heading back to UK. Skipper ok, no injuries.

All other competitors safe but still experiencing a 10 – 15 metre swell, no injuries reported.

Full article with update:


http://gcaptain.com/canada-launches-rescue-mission-as-weather-system-hits-trans-atlantic-sailing-race/

Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on June 11, 2017, 04:14:18 pm
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The Brutal Logic of Climate Change

https://youtu.be/7IbyiOoVgnQ

Carbon Neutral University Sheffield

Published on May 19, 2017
Full length talk that covers the facts of climate change, the urgency with which it needs to be addressed and actions we can take to stop it. Delivered by Dr Aaron Thierry at the University of Sheffield, hosted by the Carbon Neutral University Network.
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on June 11, 2017, 05:49:06 pm
Florida plans to abandon Property to the Sea (Sea Level Rise)


https://youtu.be/FadyWlTdi2Y

Published on Jun 10, 2017

One idea likely to be both controversial and expensive: demolishing properties and returning developed areas back to nature. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local...
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on June 11, 2017, 06:05:03 pm
Climatematters.tv – Is it Game Over for the Climate? ???

https://youtu.be/XVH2yVQSxvM

Published on Apr 2, 2017

Eminent Arctic and Ocean Physics scientist, Dr. Peter Wadhams, and Dr. Maria Pia Casarini discuss the possibility that it's 'game over' for the climate. Hosted by Stuart Scott, at COP22 Marrakesh. Please watch and share.

Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on June 12, 2017, 07:24:15 pm
Agelbert NOTE: Here the biological logic of closing the high seas to fishing (Dr. Lubchenco calls it the Wet West - referring to the "Wild West" term because anything goes and there is ZERO respect for sustainability) is mentioned, although also pointed out by Dr. Lubchenco is the fact that major governmetns refuse to do so.  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.desismileys.com%2Fsmileys%2Fdesismileys_2955.gif&hash=ddc12d8bdb1bc63b7998a6b086b79a71b7bda755)

As Economist P. Dasgupta laments, collective action to stop, or even ameliorate, this crisis consistently fails to be achieved, even though we are basically out of time for additional delays.

Biological Extinction | Discussion #6

Casina Pio IV


https://youtu.be/3lhDFqA6BpM

Published on Mar 2, 2017
How to Save the Natural World on Which We Depend

PAS-PASS Workshop
Casina Pio IV, 27 February-1 March 2017

On our 4.54 billion year old planet, life is perhaps as much as 3.7 billion years old, photosynthesis and multi-cellularity dozens of times independently around 3.0 billion years old, and the emergence of plants, animals, and fungi onto land, by at least the Ordovician period, perhaps 480 million years ago, forests appearing around 370 million years ago, and the origin of modern groups such as mammals, birds, reptiles, and land plants subsequently. The geological record shows that there have been five major extinction-events in the past, the first of them about 542 million years ago, and suggests that 99% of the species that ever lived (5 billion of them?) have become extinct. The last major extinction event occurred about 66 million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous Period, and, in general, the number of species on earth and the complexity of their communities has increased steadily until near the present.
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on June 12, 2017, 07:45:11 pm
Biological Extinction | Discussion #7

Casina Pio IV

https://youtu.be/zMItroMIaok

Published on Mar 2, 2017
How to Save the Natural World on Which We Depend

PAS-PASS Workshop
Casina Pio IV, 27 February-1 March 2017
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on June 12, 2017, 09:54:27 pm
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TUESDAY, JUNE 6, 2017

High Waves Set To Batter Arctic Ocean

High temperatures hit Pakistan end May 2017. The image below shows readings as high as 51.1°C or 123.9°F on May 27, 2017 (at green circle).

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As the image below shows, sea temperature was as high as 32.6°C or 90.6°F on May 28, 2017 (at the green circle), 1.8°C or 3.2°F warmer than 1981-2011.


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High temperatures over land and at the sea surface reflect an atmosphere that contains huge amounts of energy. On May 28, 2017, the Convective Available Potential Energy (CAPE) reached levels as high as 7448 J/kg at the location in the United States marked by the green circle. Storms hit a large part of the United States, with baseball-sized hail reported on May 27, 2017.

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Agelbert NOTE: Go to article link for referenced link.

Here's a link to a reported 56 °C (132 °F) temperature recorded in Iran and here's a link to an article describing a May 28, 2017, reading in Turbat, Pakistan, initially reported by the Pakistan Meteorological Department as 53.5°C (128.3°F) and later upgraded to 54.0°C (129.2°F.)

How could it be possible for growth of energy in the atmosphere to be accelerating, when CO₂ emissions from fossil fuels and industry (including cement production) have barely shown any recent growth, as discussed in an earlier post and as reported by EIA?

The image below depicts this possibility, while a recent post discussed the following scenario:

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Warmer water tends to form a layer at the surface that does not mix well with the water underneath, as discussed before. Stratification reduces the capability of oceans to take up heat and CO₂ from the atmosphere. Less take-up by oceans of CO₂ will result in higher CO₂ levels in the atmosphere, further speeding up global warming.

Additionally, 93.4% of global warming currently goes into oceans. The more heat will remain in the atmosphere, the faster the temperature of the atmosphere will rise. This feedback can cause very rapid and strong global warming. as depicted on the image on the right and as also described as feedback #29 on the feedbacks page.

With this in mind, forecasts of storms hitting the Arctic Ocean over the next few months look even more frightening.


Waves as high as 2.34 m or 7.7 ft are forecast to hit the Arctic Ocean on June 8, 2017, at the location marked by the green circle.

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How is it possible for waves to get that high in a part of the Arctic Ocean that is surrounded by continents that act as shields against winds?

On June 8, 2017, temperatures are forecast to be as high as 40.6°C or 105.2°F near Phoenix, Arizona, and as high as 26.0°C or 78.7°F in Alaska, as the image below shows.

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The image below shows that on June 12, 2017, temperatures as high as 35.1°C or 95.3°F were recorded over a river in Siberia that ends in the Lena River which in turn ends in the Arctic Ocean (left panel, green circle), while waves near Novaya Zemlya were recorded as high as 4.54 m or 14.9 ft (top right panel, green circle).

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The image below shows that on June 6, 2017, temperatures on the coast of Hudson Bay (green circle) were as high as 31.6°C or 89°F.

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Four cyclones are visible on the above image. Strong winds over the Arctic Ocean can cause high waves that can break up the sea ice and strengthen currents that are pushing warm water into the Arctic Ocean and sea ice out of the Arctic Ocean.

These stronger winds, currents and waves come at a time that the Arctic sea ice thickness is at record low, as illustrated by the image below by Wipneus and underneath by Larry Hamilton.

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Let's take a closer look at some further feedbacks that are at work behind the increasingly thinner ice, higher temperature, stronger wind and higher waves in the Arctic.

• Sea Ice Decline - The snow and ice cover over the Arctic Ocean make that sunlight is reflected back into space (albedo loss). In the absence of this cover, the Arctic Ocean will absorb more heat. Furthermore, open oceans are less efficient than sea ice when it comes to emitting in the far-infrared region of the spectrum.

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• Buffer Loss - The snow and ice cover over the Arctic Ocean acts as a buffer, absorbing heat that in the absence of this buffer will have to be absorbed by the Arctic Ocean, as discussed in earlier posts such as this one.

• Jet Stream Changes - Rising temperatures in the Arctic are causing wind patterns to change, in particular the jet stream.

As a result, warm air can more easily get carried by wind from land over the Arctic Ocean.

The image below shows the Jet Stream on June 6, 2017. As temperatures over the Arctic rise faster than they do at the Equator, the jet stream becomes more wavy. Instead of circumnavigating Earth in a straight and narrow band that keeps the cold air over the Arctic separate from warmer temperatures south of the jet stream, a more wavy jet stream enables more warm air to flow into the Arctic and more cold air to leave the Arctic.

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Winds are particularly strong over oceans and, as the Atlantic Ocean keeps warming up, those winds can push more warm water into the Arctic Ocean, as discussed in an earlier post. This can dramatically warm up the water of the Arctic Ocean.

• Clouds and Water Vapor - Loops of the jet stream extending over the Arctic can also bring stronger winds and more clouds and water vapor into the Arctic.

This is another self-reinforcing feedback that goes hand in hand with the above feedbacks. As temperatures rise in the Arctic, loss of sea ice will increase, resulting in more open water. This, in combination with stronger winds and warmer water will also result in more clouds and water vapor over the Arctic, further speeding up the temperature rise in the Arctic.

• Decline of Snow and Ice Cover on Land - Rising temperatures in the Arctic are also speeding up the decline of the snow and ice cover on land. This will result in albedo loss and will also trigger further feedbacks, such as soil destabilization and warm water from rivers flowing into the Arctic Ocean.

• Soil destabilization - Heatwaves and droughts destabilize the soil. Soil that was previously known as permafrost, was until now held together by ice. As the ice melts, organic material in the soil starts to decompose and the soil becomes increasingly vulnerable to wildfires. All his can result in high emissions of CO₂, CH₄, N₂O, soot, etc., which in turn causes further warming, specifically over the Arctic. The danger of wildfires is illustrated by the image below.

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• Warmer Rivers - High temperatures on land can strongly warm up water of rivers flowing into the Arctic Ocean. This is also illustrated by the above image.

• Seafloor Methane - Another huge dangers is that all this additional heat will reach the seafloor of the Arctic Ocean and will trigger destabilization of methane hydrates contained in sediments at the seafloor. Stronger winds can mix warmer water all the way down to the seafloor, and destabilize hydrates that can contain huge amounts of methane, resulting in release of huge quantities of methane into the atmosphere.

The situation is dire and calls for comprehensive and effective action, as described in the Climate Plan.

http://arctic-news.blogspot.com/2017/06/high-waves-set-to-batter-arctic-ocean.html

Agelbert NOTE: The battered ocean racer sail boats I recently posted on provide evidence of even larger waves (http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/climate-change/global-warming-is-with-us/msg7311/#msg7311) than those predicted in this post. The problem continues to grow while our leaders pretend there is no problem...

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on June 18, 2017, 11:16:15 pm
Four missing after tsunami strikes Greenland coast

Source: BBC

6 hours ago

The surge of water is also reported to have swept away 11 homes in the village of Nuugaatsiaq.

Police chief Bjørn Tegner Bay said he was unable to confirm whether there had been fatalities, according to KNR, Greenland's broadcasting corporation.

The authorities believe a magnitude four earthquake caused the tsunami.

According to the police chief, it struck off Uummannaq, a small island well above the Arctic Circle.

Meteorologist Trine Dahl Jensen told Danish news agency Ritzau that for such an earthquake to hit Greenland was "not normal", as she warned of the risk of aftershocks.............................

Read more: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-40320629
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on June 19, 2017, 08:32:12 pm
Scientists Saw a Nearly Unheard of Antarctic Meltdown

Brian Kahn By Brian Kahn
 
Published: June 17th, 2017

Antarctica is unfreezing. In the past few months alone, researchers have chronicled a seasonal waterfall, widespread networks of rivers and melt ponds and an iceberg the size of Delaware on the brink of breaking away from the thawing landscape.

A new study published in Nature Communications only adds to the disturbing trend of change afoot in Antarctica. Researchers have documented rain on a continent more known for snow and widespread surface melt in West Antarctica last summer, one of the most unstable parts of a continent that’s already being eaten away by warm waters below the ice.

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Surface melt became widespread over West Antarctica in January 2016.
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he findings, published Thursday, indicate that last year’s super El Niño played a large role in driving the meltdown, but researchers are concerned that overlaying natural climate patterns onto the long-term warming driven by carbon pollution could put Antarctica’s ice in an even more precarious position.

“There’s a substantial loss of ice going on from warm water eating away at the bottom of some critical ice shelves,” David Bromwich, a climate modeler at Ohio State, said. “If we move into the future and we’ve got a lot of melting from the top as well, that means things would proceed even faster. It’s not a good prescription.”

The research, which Bromwich helped produced, stemmed from a series of coincidences starting at the top of the West Antarctic ice sheet, nearly 6,000 feet above sea level. Researchers stationed there in January 2016 noticed surface melt starting in the middle of the month and even reported seeing rain as warm, moist air poured into the region.

Bromwich said he had never heard of rain falling on that region of the ice sheet, though the Antarctic Peninsula further north will occasionally get a few showers. His and other researchers’ curiosity was piqued and using satellite imagery and high altitude balloon data, they were able to confirm the melt not just at the top of the ice sheet but across much of West Antarctica.

About 300,000 square miles of the ice sheet near the Ross Sea experienced melt, making it the second-largest surface melt ever documented in that region of Antarctica. The meltdown was caused by incredibly  ;)  :D mild air. Temperatures spiked 27°F (15°C) above where they were at in early January in some locations, pushing them above freezing for a two-week period at lower elevations of the ice sheet.

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The biggest driver of the Antarctic heat wave was the super El Niño, then at its peak in the tropical Pacific. It helped rearrange the atmosphere so a high pressure system off Chile’s coast could steer abnormally balmy weather toward West Antarctica. The pattern has played out in other El Niño years, causing similar widespread melt events.

Ted Scambos, a researcher at the National Snow and Ice Data Center, said the study did a good job of explaining the mechanisms behind the meltdown and could be helpful in further understanding the forces at play in the region's climate.

The rain that preceded the major melt also may have also played a role in preconditioning the surface melt that Bromwich said was essentially a thick layer of slush covering the ice sheet.

What happened in West Antarctica last January was driven by natural climate shifts, but overlaying it on climate change is bad news for the region where ice shelves are melting from below.

Research has shown that those disappearing ice shelves could trigger “unstoppable” melt as warm water eventually pushes up under parts of the marine ice sheet itself, sending sea levels at least 10 feet higher. Surface melt events like the one Bromwich and his colleagues documented will only compound the speed at which the ice sheet melts.

Previous research has shown that the odds of a super El Niño like the one that boiled the ocean in 2015-16 are likely to double as the climate warms, further compounding the risk. There were also strong winds out of the west that helped blunt some of the melting in January 2016, but if the meteorological odds don’t line up in the future, the region could be in even deeper trouble.

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What this particular event reported in this paper means is that regardless of how strong the westerlies are, we’re likely to get widespread melting,” Bromwich said. “And if they’re weak, we’ll get extreme melting.

http://www.climatecentral.org/news/unprecedented-west-antarctic-meltdown-21553

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An enormous waterfall gushes off the Nansen Ice Shelf. Credit: Jonathan Kingslake
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on June 20, 2017, 07:15:49 pm
Globe has third warmest May on record

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Agelbert NOTE: The above graphic is self explanatory, but be sure and read the full article that accompanied the graphic.

Author: NCEI staff

June 20, 2017

SNIPPET 1:

Below the map is a time series of temperatures each May from 1880-2017 compared to the twentieth-century average (1901-2000). The solid gray line shows the long-term trend, which is 0.13°F (0.07°C) per decade.


SNIPPET 2:

The May globally averaged sea surface temperature was 1.28°F above the 20th century monthly average of 61.3°Fthe third highest global ocean temperature for May in the record, behind 2016 and 2015.

The map above comes from Climate.gov Data Snapshots map collection. It is based on the official NOAA global temperature product, but uses a little more interpolation to estimate temperatures in areas with missing data. The data for the graph came from NCEI's Climate at a Glance web analysis tool.

https://www.climate.gov/news-features/featured-images/globe-has-third-warmest-may-record
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on June 22, 2017, 02:37:11 pm
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Louisiana’s coastline is sinking much faster than anyone thought, new study finds

LAST UPDATED ON JUNE 19TH, 2017 AT 6:44 PM BY MIHAI ANDREI

SNIPPET:

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“Coastal Louisiana has experienced catastrophic rates of wetland loss over the past century, equivalent in area to the state of Delaware” — that’s not something you want to see, but that’s the intro of a new study published by the Geological Society of America."

http://www.zmescience.com/science/geology/louisiana-sinking-coastline-climate-16062017/

Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on June 23, 2017, 07:33:58 pm
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Study documents accelerated climate change in Spanish mountains

LAST UPDATED ON JUNE 22ND, 2017 AT 5:12 PM BY ALEXANDRA GEREA

SNIPPET:

If you want to see climate change in action in a civilized place (as opposed to the Arctic wilderness), Spain is the place to go. Spain has been hot since the end of the ice age, but in recent decades, it’s getting hotter and hotter. In the past three decades alone, temperatures have risen by 2.5 °C in Spain, surpassing the European average of 0.95°C. However, warming doesn’t happen in a uniform fashion, and researchers wanted to see how the country’s northern mountains are affected.

http://www.zmescience.com/science/news-science/pyrenees-climate-change-22062017/
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on June 25, 2017, 09:43:13 pm
When Do You Call It A Climate Emergency?

Posted on June 15, 2017, by Radio Ecoshock
 
Incredible heat records, Biblical downpours not reported. Canadian climate scientist Paul Beckwith & Alex get it on the record. Plus some new science from Norway. Bright young mind Pavel Serov on Arctic sea-bed methane risks & rewards. When the glaciers melted before, methane blew up from the sea floor, leaving craters we see today. Could it happen again? Why are China and Japan trying to tap those reserves anyway? Radio Ecoshock

Paul Beckwith is from the University of Ottawa. He’s a regular contributor to Radio Ecoshock – and each time it’s very popular!

Pavel Serov is with CAGE, the Centre for Arctic Gas Hydrate, Environment and Climate at the University of Tromso in Norway. He’s just published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) “Postglacial response of Arctic Ocean gas hydrates to climatic amelioration.”  Their are a lot of warnings about frozen methane (“clathrates”) holding more greenhouse gases than may exist in the atmosphere already. As the climate shift warms the seas, will they be liberated, and how fast?

Download or listen to this Radio Ecoshock program in CD Quality (57 MB) or Lo-Fi (14 MB)

http://www.ecoshock.org/2017/06/when-do-you-call-it-an-emergency.html
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on June 26, 2017, 04:42:06 pm
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June 26, 2017

Estimates of Sea Level Rise by 2100 Have Tripled in the Past Few Years

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Environmental activist Peter Sinclair examines the growing threat of sea level rise


SNIPPET from the video interview:

The IPCC estimate relied on the notion that expanding ocean waters and the melting of relatively small glaciers would fuel the majority of sea level rise, rather than the massive ice sheets of Greenland and Antarctica. It turns out, however, that scientists were underestimating the rate at which the giant ice sheets of Antarctica and Greenland were melting. About one month ago, scientists increased their estimates of sea level rise even further. New research, including from the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, increased the plausible sea level rise maximum to as much as 2.7 meters. Thus, in the space of a mere five years, the scientific community nearly tripled its estimate of maximum sea level rise under a business-as-usual scenario.

These three estimates in maximum plausible sea level rise received extensive media coverage, but the far more alarming scientific estimate has received little, if any, attention as far as we can tell at The Real News.

Earlier this year, NASA scientist Eric Rignot: gave a presentation in which he predicted that if we experience global warming in the range of 1.5 degrees Celsius to two degrees Celsius over pre-industrial levels, we are committing the planet to sea level rise of six to nine meters. Moreover, according to Dr. Rignot, sea level rise of that magnitude may occur within the next 100 to 200 years. Let's listen to some of what Dr. Rignot had to say
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Eric Rignot: By 2100, more than one meter, very likely. This is not a futuristic situation. It's on pace now. The irony of this is when we started talking about this 10 years ago, everybody was raising eyebrows, one meter sea level rise. You're crazy, right? Now it's common knowledge. I watch these interviews. Everybody says, "Yeah, one meter sea level rise per century." Sometimes I even want to say, "Which publication are you referring to?" Twitter. Twitter. Sea level rise commitments, to me that was probably one of the biggest news in the last decade. We see a lot of happening in the ice sheets, but the [inaudible 00:03:00] coming very strong and clearly and saying, "If you warm the climate this much, it's six to nine meters."

https://youtu.be/B2k6sDTJ5yk

Read full transcript at the link below:

http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=19241



Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on June 26, 2017, 05:49:26 pm
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June 20, 2017

Coastal Cities Unprepared for Major Floods As Sea Levels Rise

The Trump Administration is making it even harder for coastal cities to defend themselves against increased flooding brought about by climate change, says Michael Oppenheimer, professor of Geosciences and International Affairs at Princeton University.

https://youtu.be/5UATYS--tOk
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on June 26, 2017, 09:13:16 pm
AGELBERT NOTE: This is reposted from the Doomstead Diner Forum today:  ;D
 
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June 26, 2017

Estimates of Sea Level Rise by 2100 Have Tripled in the Past Few Years

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Environmental activist Peter Sinclair examines the growing threat of sea level rise


SNIPPET from the video interview:

The IPCC estimate relied on the notion that expanding ocean waters and the melting of relatively small glaciers would fuel the majority of sea level rise, rather than the massive ice sheets of Greenland and Antarctica. It turns out, however, that scientists were underestimating the rate at which the giant ice sheets of Antarctica and Greenland were melting. About one month ago, scientists increased their estimates of sea level rise even further. New research, including from the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, increased the plausible sea level rise maximum to as much as 2.7 meters. Thus, in the space of a mere five years, the scientific community nearly tripled its estimate of maximum sea level rise under a business-as-usual scenario.

These three estimates in maximum plausible sea level rise received extensive media coverage, but the far more alarming scientific estimate has received little, if any, attention as far as we can tell at The Real News.

Earlier this year, NASA scientist Eric Rignot: gave a presentation in which he predicted that if we experience global warming in the range of 1.5 degrees Celsius to two degrees Celsius over pre-industrial levels, we are committing the planet to sea level rise of six to nine meters. Moreover, according to Dr. Rignot, sea level rise of that magnitude may occur within the next 100 to 200 years. Let's listen to some of what Dr. Rignot had to say
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Eric Rignot: By 2100, more than one meter, very likely. This is not a futuristic situation. It's on pace now. The irony of this is when we started talking about this 10 years ago, everybody was raising eyebrows, one meter sea level rise. You're crazy, right? Now it's common knowledge. I watch these interviews. Everybody says, "Yeah, one meter sea level rise per century." Sometimes I even want to say, "Which publication are you referring to?" Twitter. Twitter. Sea level rise commitments, to me that was probably one of the biggest news in the last decade. We see a lot of happening in the ice sheets, but the [inaudible 00:03:00] coming very strong and clearly and saying, "If you warm the climate this much, it's six to nine meters."

https://youtu.be/B2k6sDTJ5yk

Read full transcript at the link below:

http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=19241 (http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=19241)

Agelbert NOTE: Recently I updated and republished parts one and two of a three part article I wrote that includes the fact that 6 meters of sea level rise is our trajectory, unlike the low balled IPCC estimates had claimed of about 1 meter by 2100. I received a much better reaction at the Daily Kos, where I published them, than here, where good old Palloy went out of his way to claim, with a smiley, that my article was trash and worthy of being ripped up and discarded. Palloy was wrong, about a year and a half ago when I first published the article series here, and I have been proven accurate about our trajectory, as the scientific community is now admitting. No, I don't expect Pally to apologize. People like him are not fond of admitting error. Too bad for him.

Here are some of the comments from Part One recently published at Daily Kos. Yes, there were a couple of naysayers, but the positive comments were welcome encouragement for all the research I performed to provide the public with this urgent and valuable information.


ian douglas rushlau Jun 18 · 09:36:06 AM
Agelbert,

This is fantastic!

Comprehensive, and clearly presented so those of us who aren’t atmospheric scientists can grasp the significance of the various strands of data. Love the graphics!

This is an example of an effect of AGW that, as you highlight, the insurance companies are all aware of, but most folks wouldn’t consider (the insurers are pretty up on AGW generally, though they seem reluctant to say so publicly):

Most of those affordable products in our homes are a direct result of a the uninterrupted global lifeblood of efficient blue ocean shipping.
Will enough people connect the dots when the cost of living outstrips any reasonable prospect of income for many people? Will enough people who have ever identified with the GOP connect the dots?

It’s hard to fix the world when 30% of the population keeps right on trying to break it, and steals our tools in the process.

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Agelbert  ian douglas rushlau Jun 18 · 03:53:48 PM
Thank you! I authorize you and all readers here to post any part or the whole of this article anywhere with, or without, attribution.

People need to know what we are up against.

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Stormynurse Jun 18 · 10:12:10 AM
Wow! What an intensive, comprehensive diary. Will take me awhile to read it all, which I definitely intend to do. Written down so I can keep getting back. Thank you for your incredible effort.

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Agelbert  Stormynurse Jun 18 · 04:11:04 PM
You are very welcome. The comment by you and others here today have given me added encouragement to post the the other two parts as soon as possible.

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jjohnjj Jun 18 · 11:07:55 AM
Thank you for this work. A good Climate Diary leaves me thinking, “Christ, I knew it was bad… but not that bad!”

I agree that it’s important to shift the political debate to near-term economic effects. Visions of Florida disappearing, Atlantis-like, under the waves are simply too easy for ordinary people to dismiss with a nervous giggle. Talking about crop failures and ruined seaports has a better chance of holding their attention until the next election.

I am reminded of a Sci-Fi novel, “The Kraken Wakes”, written by John Wyndham (author of “Day of the Triffids”). The story is a wet version of “War of the Worlds”. One protagonist is a reporter for the BBC, the other is an outspoken professor, whose warnings (of course) go unheeded.

Mysterious fireballs plunge into the oceans. Unseen aliens are believed to be colonizing the deep ocean trenches. Attempts to the communicate fail, a submersible is destroyed along with its crew, and humans nuke the visitors.

The aliens retaliate by releasing betentacled sea monsters that attack surface ships… and the world economy goes straight to hell, triggering social and political collapse. Before the conflict ends, the aliens have started melting the polar ice cap; London and the Netherlands are flooded.

…Pretty good for a book published in 1953.

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Agelbert  jjohnjj Jun 18 · 03:59:43 PM
You are very welcome. Naomi Oreskes has a good sci-fi book out called “View From the Future: The Collapse of Western Civilization”, a scenario where the world reels from dealing with Catastrophic climate Change.  She is an authority on what the fossil fuel industry has been up to for the last several decades, and why that is so dangerous for us.

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subtropolis Jun 18 · 02:41:58 PM
I’ve never believed the forecasts for how quickly the ice caps could disappear. I acknowledge that the scientists must be conservative, of course, but i’ve always felt that they were being far too conservative. Feedback is a ****.

I posted this comment a few days ago but it seems relevant here:

Opening up their sack, the children chorus, "Oh Snowman, what have we found?" They lift out the objects, hold them up as if offering them for sale: a hubcap, a piano key, a chunk of pale-green pop bottle smoothed by the ocean. A plastic BlyssPluss container, empty; a ChickieNobs Bucket O'Nubbins, ditto. A computer mouse, or the busted remains of one, with a long wiry tail.

Snowman feels like weeping. What can he tell them? There's no way of explaining to them what these curious items are, or were. But surely they've guessed what he'll say, because it's always the same.

"These are things from before." He keeps his voice kindly but remote. A cross between pedagogue, soothsayer, and benevolent uncle - that should be his tone.

"Will they hurt us?" Sometimes they find tins of motor oil, caustic solvents, plastic bottles of bleach. Booby traps from the past. He's considered to be an expert on potential accidents: scalding liquids, sickening fumes, poison dust. Pain of odd kinds.

—Margaret Atwood, Oryx & Crake
When the seas around the world are battering our infrastructure to bits there won’t be any jokes about suddenly getting to enjoy seaside property.

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Agelbert  subtropolis Jun 18 · 04:08:40 PM
Well said. There is a predicted sequence to these events. I hope to educate readers on what they will be. For example, the acidification of the oceans is already affecting fishing deleteriously. The next big hit has begun with salt intrusion along the coasts, threatening a huge amount of near sea level land that is used for crop growing. This is happening now, well before port facilities and homes are affected, though the papers aren’t talking about it.

Most people are not aware of how much farm land is near sea level along the coasts of the continents. It is a significant amount.

But when the turbulent oceans make shipping nearly impossible, that will get plenty of attention.

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jjohnjj Jun 18 · 05:49:23 PM
The Oxnard Plain, just north of Los Angeles, is prime coastal farmland with 18 feet of topsoil. But but there is little rain in SoCal and this region does not get state water via canal. As more acres were planted with strawberries and tract homes, once-generous quantities of groundwater have been overdrafted with ever-deeper wells.

It’s not widely known that saltwater aquifers extend inland from the sea below coastal land. When freshwater is taken out, saltwater moves in, contaminating wells nearest to the coast. In Oxnard they actually treat wastewater and pump it into the ground to recharge the the most vulnerable aquifers.

Saltwater_Intrusion_Oxnard.jpg
Sea level rise is going to exacerbate this problem before obvious issues like beach erosion become visible.

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graceadams830  jjohnjj Jun 20 · 04:23:02 PM
On top of fact that all of California is susceptible to drought.

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Pescadero Bill  greenandblue Jun 19 · 11:34:08 AM
Therefore, humanity should surely act upon a worse case scenario given the uncertainty presented by the level at which CO2 is rapidly and catastrophically increasing.

2 degrees warmer climate in late Pliocene meant 12-32 meters higher sea levels
Sea level has some catching up to do. How quickly that happens is the question. In any case, sea level rise is locked into our future. Infrastructure meant to last into next century has to take the potential for at least 6 meters of sea level rise into consideration.

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Pescadero Bill  Pescadero Bill Jun 19 · 11:48:34 AM
More on that — e360.yale.edu/…

“That was a natural warming period in Earth’s history,” Scambos says. “We’re putting our pedal to the metal today; we’re driving the system very hard.”

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greenandblue  Pescadero Bill Jun 19 · 12:39:27 PM
Yes, our emissions have been terrible. It looks like we may have started changing.

Global CO2 emissions since 1980 (solid black) and country pledges under the Paris Agreement (dashed) compared to a high emissions scenario (orange) and a scenario compatible with limiting warming to 2C above pre-industrial levels (blue).
This does not include methane release from permafrost or clathrates. Even so, there is hope that we can control the temperature increase.

New analysis from Climate Dynamics this week finds that to keep warming well below 2C and to pursue efforts to limit it to 1.5C in the most cost-effective way, rich countries must phase out coal-fired electricity by 2030, China by 2040 and the rest of the world by mid-century.
China is now leading in switching to renewables. The US is lagging and dragging its feet. We have to change, but there is next to zero probability that there will be a 6 m rise in seal level in the coming 1-3 decades.

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Agelbert  greenandblue Jun 19 · 06:04:22 PM
Zero probability? What science paper are you getting that thoroughly unscientific bit of hyperbole from, the latest Koch Brothers New Ice Age predictions paper?

Shame on you.

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greenandblue  Agelbert Jun 19 · 06:42:14 PM
The 2016 Nature paper that I cited lists means and standard deviations. It’s 1.05   or - 0.30 m for 2100 in their worst case model. However, I made a mistake. That paper only accounts for Antarctica. This 2017 Science article predicts the following.

eight ice sheet models predicted anywhere between 0 and 27 cm of sea level rise in 2100 from Greenland melt.
Add them together, and it is still less than the 2 m I mentioned.

I am not ashamed for citing and trusting experts in their Science and Nature publications from 2016 and 2017. I could be wrong, so I sincerely ask for references predicting a 6 m rise in seal level by 2050.

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Agelbert  greenandblue Jun 19 · 07:18:05 PM
Well, you should be. It is disingenuous to fixate on the most conservative scenarios when you yourself admitted that the common wisdom assumes Catastrophic climate change, as in RCP  8.5 or GREATER.  Also, all the sea level rise scenarios in the peer reviewed papers have variations based on the rate of achieving equilibrium. What was assumed to take centuries (the  scientific rationale behind SLOW sea level rise), now is occurring much, much faster than predicted.

If you want to hair split with me until the cows come home on this issue, go for it, but “erring on the side of caution” is NOT about what the Precautionary Principle of Science is all about.

And that appears to be what you are using to defend the most conservative scenarios.

Are you aware of the fact that ALL the RCP scenarios, including the “Business as Usual” clusterfork, are based on mathematical modeling that EXCLUDES the increasing arctic positive feedback (“positive” is the term for things getting a lot worse than expected) that accelerated the melt rate in Greenland? That means the paper you referenced is low balling the sea level rise.

Yes, I can provide quotes from IPCC officials, just like the methane discussion in the video in Part 1, calmly explaining, that, no, we haven’t incorporated added positive feedback activity in any of the models.

That’s why I wrote the article. If you are waiting for an Affidavit from the IPCC that we are going to climate hell in a hand basket for you to agree that the drastic recommendations posted in the article are sine qua non for our survival, then you  will be very disappointed.

 There is also a 40 year baked in factor that the papers do not want to deal with, except as statistical bell curve “outlier” predictions.

But that 40 year baked in CO2 pollution (some say it only 30 years while others say up to 50)  means that if we stop ALL burning of fossil fuels today, the warming and sea level rise will continue for another forty years before we can begin to return to a less destructive climate.

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greenandblue  Agelbert Jun 19 · 09:09:38 PM
Climate change and the permafrost carbon feedback

A number of ecosystem and Earth system models have incorporated a first approximation of global permafrost carbon dynamics….Model scenarios show potential carbon release from the permafrost zone in the range 37–174 Pg carbon by 2100 under the current climate warming trajectory (Representative Concentration Pathway RCP 8.5).

...At these rates, the observed and projected emissions of CO2 and CH4 from thawing permafrost are unlikely to occur at a speed that could cause abrupt climate change over a period of a few years to a decade. A large pulse release of permafrost carbon on this timescale could cause climate change that would incur catastrophic costs to society, but there is little evidence from either current observations or model projections to support such a large and rapid pulse.
They also consider undersea methane clathrates.

What is clear is that it would take thousands of years of CH4 emissions at the current rate to release the same quantity of CH4 (50 Pg) that was used in a modelled ten-year pulse to forecast tremendous global economic damage as a result of Arctic carbon release8, making catastrophic impacts such as those appear highly unlikely
Finally, once again, none of this suggests that we do not have a serious problem. Our differences in conclusions about timing arise from how much we trust researchers in the field and the peer reviewed publications.

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greenandblue  Agelbert Jun 19 · 09:36:11 PM
RCP-8.5 is not conservative in terms of C emissions.

Development of global primary energy supply in RCP8.5 (left-hand panel) and global primary energy supply in 2100 in the associated mitigation cases stabilizing radiative forcing at levels of 6, 4.5, and 2.6 W/m2
Development of global GHG emissions (CO2-eq., CO2, CH4, and N2O) in RCP8.5 and MESSAGE mitigation scenarios of this study (brown lines). For a comparison the trends of the official RCPs described elsewhere in this SI are shown as well (red = RCP6, blue = RCP4.5, green = RCP3-PD)
It is conservative in accounting for mitigation and changes to renewable energy, which is not accounted for in the diary of comments of the diary author.

As always, it can be improved, as noted with permafrost. But that does not make it conservative.

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greenandblue  greenandblue Jun 19 · 09:55:14 PM
Correction, diary or comments by the author

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Agelbert  greenandblue Jun 19 · 07:29:05 PM
To give an idea about how far behind reality most of the published papers on sea level rise are, read this article from just two day ago:

SCIENTISTS SAW A NEARLY UNHEARD OF ANTARCTIC MELTDOWN

By Brian Kahn
   Published: June 17th, 2017
Antarctica is unfreezing. In the past few months alone, researchers have chronicled a seasonal waterfall, widespread networks of rivers and melt ponds and an iceberg the size of Delaware on the brink of breaking away from the thawing landscape.

A new study published in Nature Communications only adds to the disturbing trend of change afoot in Antarctica. Researchers have documented rain on a continent more known for snow and widespread surface melt in West Antarctica last summer, one of the most unstable parts of a continent that’s already being eaten away .by warm waters below the ice.

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greenandblue  Pescadero Bill Jun 19 · 12:04:42 PM
If we act upon the theoretically possible, then we should evacuate California, Japan and the rest of the ring of fire immediately. We need to base our actions in established and accepted science, while trusting experts with track records in studying the systems in question. Nobody here is arguing that humanity is sufficiently prepared for climate change. That is why we had the Paris agreement, and why leaders are pushing for more. IMO, making claims that exceed accepted science by an order magnitude in the near term and the timing of changes by two orders of magnitude, all while pushing unsubstantiated claims about the IPCC will do more to cause hopelessness and panic or doubt then they will to stimulate preparation. Saying that we have to build infrastructure for the next century is one thing. Saying that we must do it all in the next decade is not realistic or based in accepted science.

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Agelbert  greenandblue Jun 19 · 05:23:00 PM
Evacuate CALIFORNIA!!? Talk about being unrealistic. Hyperbole is a fallacious debating technique totally at odds with sound science.

If you want to make an argument that a 10 year transition is not “realistic”, provide some data instead of attempts at ridicule.

Nothing I wrote is simply a “low probability theoretical” possibly, but a GUARANTEED RCP- 8.5 outcome. And, YEAH, we ARE ON RCP- 8.5 or greater according to ALL the latest stats and data on global average temperatures and CO2 pollution levels. There is NOTHING “theoretical” about our present trajectory.

This web site run by Climate Scientists will fill you in, if you are interested in reality, that is.

www.realclimate.org (http://www.realclimate.org)

Look around your home, pal. How many appliance/machines/vehicles/gizmos/computers do you have there that are OLDER than 20 years? Usually, the answer is ZERO.

Do you know why that is? It’s because MTBF (mean time before failure) designs in our civilization TURN OVER NEW MACHINES in a much shorter than 20 year cycle.

Consequently, ANY PROCESS to transition to Renewable Energy in our civilization is NOT held back by industry or replacement costs spanning one, or at most, two decades. If you knew anything about how our manufacturing industries work, you would understand that.

The ONLY thing holding back the transition away from fossil fuel powered machinery is entrenched corruption defending polluting fuel sources, which fund ridiculously unscientific status quo defending propaganda like claiming a ten year transition is “unrealistic”.

Try again. :>)

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greenandblue  Agelbert Jun 19 · 05:35:05 PM
sea level will most likely rise a minimum of 6 meters within 10 years, not 35 years.
Please provide a reference. It’s not in the Science paper you linked. I posted a reference of an estimate of 2 m by 2100. Here is the source in Nature. I was being generous. The authors state greater than 1 m, but I said 2m.

Also, please provide a reference predicting that rogue waves of up to 35 m will be frequent enough to  destroy the shipping industry.

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Agelbert  greenandblue Jun 19 · 06:47:55 PM
Please read PART II. It will be out around this Sunday.

As to the sea level rise within a decade, that is referenced in PART III. If you cannot wait that long, go to my forum, register, log in and I will be happy to provide sufficient well referenced data to answer your questions and doubts.

Your assumption that my article is “unrealistic” lacks objectivity. If our dire circumstances make you so uncomfortable that you have to retreat into overly conservative scenario happy talk, and then proceed to attempt to undermine the very high probability events predicted, then you have a denial problem.

The view, that you apparently have, that starkly stating the urgency of a radical transition will “create hopelessness” if no action is taken is what is unrealistic. People that need to be babied lack critical thinking skills.

We are walking the plank to extinction. This is not hyperbole. We need to turn around. We are not doing that. That is also not hyperbole.

Your comment about the fact that our emissions are steadily going down, while accurate, is not a sign of hope because of the FACT that our emissions must STOP, or we will certainly sentence billions of people, and a large part of the biosphere’s species we depend on to death.

That is reality. Why are you so uncomfortable with reality? Face it. 

I’m not a doomer. I propose solutions.  But the point at which those solutions could be incremental and gradual passed over 20 years ago. It is clear that you are not prepared to accept the reality of the urgency to take drastic action. But soon you will.

Renewable Revolution
 

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greenandblue  Agelbert Jun 19 · 08:22:21 PM
I didn’t say emissions were steadily going down. Here is what I said.

It looks like we may have started changing.
It’s far from acceptable or sustainable, but I will take it as a hopeful step. I will also accept the word of experts  when it comes to timing. Once again.

New analysis from Climate Dynamics this week finds that to keep warming well below 2C and to pursue efforts to limit it to 1.5C in the most cost-effective way, rich countries must phase out coal-fired electricity by 2030, China by 2040 and the rest of the world by mid-century.
If you want to persuade me that your timing is correct, please provide references to predictions of a 6 m rise in sea level by 2050, along with one for increased frequency of waves that will destroy international shipping.

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greenandblue  Agelbert Jun 19 · 09:50:49 PM
I don’t understand this.

starkly stating the urgency of a radical transition will “create hopelessness” if no action is taken is what is unrealistic.
It will increase the probability of taking insufficient action. It is not a response of taking no action. If you can believe psychology experts, then you might be interested to know that creating hopelessness and other negative outcomes are real dangers associated with climate change communication.

Indeed, recognition that the psychological impacts of climate change pose a current threat to individual and community health—even to those who have not directly experienced biophysical impacts—has  the potential to lead to more active mitigation and adaptation activities.
Until it is falsified, I see no to disbelieve peer reviewed climate change science. Overstating the danger is denying the state of climate science and it risks tuning people out to effective responses.

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greenandblue  greenandblue Jun 19 · 09:51:43 PM
Correction, I see no reason to disbelieve...

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greenandblue  Agelbert Jun 19 · 05:43:26 PM
The ONLY thing holding back the transition away from fossil fuel powered machinery is entrenched corruption defending polluting fuel sources
I disagree. It’s not that simple. But then, if you are correct that sea levels will rise 6 m in the next 10 years, then transitioning away from fossil fuels is not the only thing we need to do in that time frame.

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Agelbert  greenandblue Jun 19 · 07:55:22 PM
You are entitled to your opinion, of course.

In regard to the rapid sea level rise, here is a scenario, though you won’t find it published yet, that I envision based on new discoveries about the nature and movement of the  Greenland ice sheet. There is far more lubrication form melt water going on between the nearly mile high ice than had been assumed. Even the the temperature of the ice next to the ground is well below freezing, a phenomenon of liquid water is occurring due to the high pressure of the ice cap. The melt begins on the surface, but tunnels down to the ground here it spreads in capillaries and tributaries between the ice and the ground. This is not static. The area of the ice cap being lubricated by this super pressurized melt water increases ever year. Already the rate of glacier flows toward the ocean has accelerated. But the danger, in regard to rapid sea level rise, is that enough lubrication occurs to slide a massive amount of ice covering several hundred square mile into the ocean at once. This would ,in turn, trigger much faster movement (and melt rate) of the ice behind the broken segment on land. If this happens all over Greenland, a jump of a few inches could occur in only one year.

Watch Greenland. When she starts to really melt, all bets are off on slow sea level rise and there will be a lot of overly conservative scientists with egg on their faces.

Remember, the issue is not whether a change in temperature of 2 degrees C can raise the sea level 6 meters or more (that has been established by the measurement of the amount of ice on Antarctica and Greenland that would melt into the oceans). The issue is how fast it takes to reach equilibrium.

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greenandblue  Agelbert Jun 19 · 08:28:44 PM
I asked about this, though not as detailed or eloquently, in a comment in a another thread. Even so, I do not see it adding 6 m to sea level in the coming 1-3 decades, and this unrealized hypothesis is not enough to make me disregard peer reviewed experts.

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Agelbert  greenandblue Jun 20 · 01:17:29 PM
That’s your problem; you are reality challenged.

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greenandblue  Agelbert Jun 20 · 07:17:33 PM
OK, then enlighten me. Show us the public data and models where you or others have made the observations and done the calculations for the volume of ice threatening to collapse into the ocean as you described. Describe the details of any models of the physical processes involved, and present graphical maps of the probabilities for each region of ice cover to collapse.

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Agelbert  greenandblue Jun 23 · 06:04:58 PM
Sorry to be repetitive, but the models have been conclusively proven to be massively erroneous short on predicting ice melt , acidification rates and temperature increase rates. And none of the models even dwelt with wave action!

The only model  pointing somewhat towards reality is RCP 8.5. And that is, as the observed versus predicted effects evidence, short of reality as well, even tough that is considered the “business as usual” scenario.

The models have NOT been updated to reflect melt realities in Greenland and the positive feedback loops already evidenced.

The models have NOT been updated to reflect the new ancient evidence of more rapid equilibrium rates per Hansen and Dutton papers.

If that does not convince you that all the models are way too conservative, what can I say? Of course we need new models. They aren’t out yet. But the trajectory is clearly dangerous.

Part Two is now published for your perusal.


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Agelbert  greenandblue Jun 19 · 05:37:21 PM
I provide the details evidencing a 6 meter (or more) rise in part three. But as to your scientific paper reference, did you not read in my article about the massivly embarrasing errors from all the IPCC predictions? Where in God’s good earth do you think that “2 meter rise” prediction comes from, if not from the VERY SAME people in the IPCC betting on an RCP-  2.6 happy talk scenario when we left THAT ONE in the CO2 pollution dust over 15 years ago!!!?

They are overly conservative. Do you understand what that means? The evidence is in. They were, and ARE, wrong. Now if you want to believe outdated predictions, that is your thing. But if you want to get real about the existential threat the continued burning of fossil fuels represents to our civilization, then start looking at the trajectory, not the happy talk.

You are jumping the gun here. The rising sea level rate is important, but is not the main thrust of this three part article, which includes the predicted turbulent ocean conditions that will make modern shipping impossible. Read all the parts as a unit before going out of your way to doubt my conclusions and recommendations. Objectivity demands it.

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greenandblue  Agelbert Jun 19 · 07:40:20 PM
Here is what the IPCC says

Models  reproduce  observed  continental-scale surface temperature patterns and trends over many decades
Comparison of observed and simulated climate change based on three large-scale indicators in the atmosphere, the cryosphere and
the ocean: change in continental land surface air temperatures (yellow panels), Arctic and Antarctic September sea ice extent (white panels), and upper
ocean heat content in the major ocean basins (blue panels). Global average changes are also given. Anomalies are given relative to 1880–1919 for surface
temperatures, 1960–1980 for ocean heat content and 1979–1999 for sea ice. All time-series are decadal averages, plotted at the centre of the decade.
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greenandblue  Agelbert Jun 19 · 07:47:56 PM
I asked for 2 references that are directly relevant to this diary.

1. 6 m rise in sea level by 2050

2. increased frequency of what are now called rogue waves of up to 35 m in height to the point of destroying international shipping.

There is no reason to withhold references.

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Agelbert  greenandblue Jun 19 · 05:57:21 PM
So tell me, what part of the  “near unanimous opinion outside of American conservatives that business as usual would be catastrophic”  truth about our situation do you think objectively defends piecemeal, step by step, remedial scenarios like you are advocating?

Which of my recommendations do you think are “unnecessary”? Or would you just toss them all out because you think they are “too drastic” (to polluter stock prices)?

Catastrophic is the trajectory we are on. Remedial actions CANNOT by mealy mouthed or piecemeal, unless you want to guarantee failure.

The giant waves are no longer going to be “rogue”. That is why structural improvements on ships will not cut it. Part II details all that. The predicted wave activity will routinely impact hulls with over 90 TONS per square meter of pressure. Ship hulls today are designed for much less (about 30 tons per square meter MAX, and then only if they bend to take the blow).

Try to be more patient instead of rushing to undermine the credibility of a well researched article. And try to be more patient abut reading all three parts before jumping to conclusions.

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greenandblue Jun 19 · 07:45:02 PM
None. I am advocating trusting experts. If you provide references to back up claims that are one to two orders of magnitude beyond peer reviewed publications that I listed, then I will be more inclined to believe you.

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greenandblue Jun 19 · 10:37:21 PM
Thank you for writing an intriguing diary and for participating in the discussion. I believe that you can do good work in getting people to respond to climate change, though you can see I have some reservations. If you provide the requested references, then I will reconsider these reservations. I do not want to continue hijacking your diaries or to appear as a stalker, so, in the coming weeks, I will refrain from commenting in your diaries, except to express the reservations laid out here, or, even better, to acknowledge any updated references.

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graceadams830 Jun 20 · 05:32:01 PM
I suspect USA problem is  mostly political. I suspect we will have to pay double, to pay FOB prices for fossil fuel to get permission to keep it in the ground so we  can buy renewable energy to use. I have given my local soup kitchen some money over past few years to invest in improving their energy efficiency to prepare for rooftop solar. I hope in December 2017 to be able to give them some money for solar power.

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greenandblue Jun 20 · 10:00:58 PM
You mentioned a Hansen paper from 2015, but I didn’t see it linked, and my requests for references were not met, so I didn’t try to track it down until today, when I found this one.

Ice melt, sea level rise and superstorms: evidence from paleoclimate data, climate
modeling, and modern observations that 2◦ C global warming is highly dangerous
It is a great paper that I recommend for anybody interested. It is not my field of expertise, so I can’t fully critique it, but I can provide a few quotes that are relevant to this thread. I removed some citations for ease of reading.
Ice  melt  cooling  is  advanced  as  global  ice  melt  reaches  1 m  of  sea  level
in 2060, 1/3 from Greenland and 2/3 from Antarctica.
Melting at ice shelf grounding lines in West Antarctica and Wilkes Basin in East Antarctica has potential to result in rapid, nonlinear sea level rise because these basins have retrograde beds (beds sloping inland), a configuration with potential for unstable grounding line retreat and substantial ice sheet disintegration .... Multiple submarine valleys make much of the Greenland ice sheet vulnerable to
thermal forcing by a warming ocean, but with a few exceptions the valleys are prograde and thus rapid nonlinear growth of ice melt is not likely.
correlations of paleo temperatures and sea level show that lag of sea level change behind temperature is of order a century, not a millennium.
At any rate, it is not a decade, as implied in the diary. But don’t let that make you complacent. There is a lot of reason to be very concerned.

Sea level increases as  large  as ∼40 m  were  associated  with  large  insolation  forcings  at  107  and  86 ky b2k...Sea level rise as great as 10–15 m occurred in conjunction with some other D–O events during 65–30 ky b2k
Given current ice sheet melt rates, a 20 year doubling rate produces multi-meter sea level rise in a century, while 10 and 40 year doubling times require 50 and 200 years, respectively.
The doubling refers to loss of ice, and we are headed for the 10 year doubling time.  The authors also spell out why CO2 is a climate control knob, and we are putting amounts into the atmosphere that have not been seen in hundreds of thousands of years, at least.

In short, we don’t seem to be looking at 6 m in the next 1-3 decades, but if we do not act fast, then we will be looking at 6 m at minimum.

In regards to the potential for shutting down shipping, there is some reason to be concerned presented in this paper. There are many lines of evidence. One is boulders on island ridges.

Enormous  boulders  tossed  onto  an  older  Pleistocene  landscape provide a metric of powerful waves at  the  end  of  stage  5e...The boulders must have been transported to their present position by waves, as two of the largest ones are located on the crest of the island’s ridge
Which is applicable today and moving forward.

This image of our planet with accelerating meltwater includes growing climate chaos and storminess, as meltwater causes cooling around Antarctica and in the North Atlantic while the tropics and subtropics continue to warm.
I don’t see any probabilities for the frequencies of these storms, and how much it would be expected to slow global shipping. If they are periodic events, and not constant, then satellites and weather forecasts might be able to guide shipping routes and timing. At any rate, it won’t be nearly as easy as we have it now.

To be somewhat repetitive, the author and I agree on the big picture, if not the timing or specific details. References that I have found indicate that the changes are coming, but maybe not as fast as is written in this diary. It might give us time to work, but not for complacency. Urgency is still required.

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Agelbert  greenandblue Jun 23 · 05:37:54 PM
We are in agreement that urgency is required. Part Two of this series is now published here. I hope it answers some of your questions.

www.dailykos.com/ (http://www.dailykos.com/)...

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Agelbert  greenandblue Jun 23 · 05:43:47 PM
Also, Part Three, to be published within a week, deals with the Hansen paper and much of what you just quoted. That is why I asked you to be patient at the outset when you asked for references. Part Three has links to the Hansen paper and another one as well, which I listed in the Ethical Executive Summary comment request by another poster.




Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on June 26, 2017, 09:25:49 pm
June 6, 2017

Agelbert NOTE: This is a sobering interview with much information about our dangerous climate change PRESENT, never mind our future, evidencing that we are basically out of time to successfully attack this Climate Emergency. From now on it will be a steady, painful attrition retreat from our from our previous state of plenty.  :(
 
https://youtu.be/s5OQJY75J-Q
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on June 26, 2017, 09:44:25 pm
Published on Jun 18, 2017

Many have wondered about the identity of the prolific writer at Arctic-news.blogspot.com with the
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https://youtu.be/LWUm_Oq4BpE

Agelbert NOTE: Sam Carana's posts may be found at the Arctic News Blog.
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http://arctic-news.blogspot.com/2017/
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on June 26, 2017, 11:25:09 pm
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Better late than never, I suppose.  ;)

Greenland now a major driver of rising seas: study

June 26, 2017 by Marlowe Hood

SNIPPET:

Ocean levels rose 50 percent faster in 2014 than in 1993, with meltwater from the Greenland ice sheet now supplying 25 percent of total sea level increase compared with just five percent 20 years earlier, researchers reported Monday.

The findings add to growing concern among scientists that the global watermark is climbing more rapidly than forecast only a few years ago, with potentially devastating consequences.

Hundreds of millions of people around the world live in low-lying deltas that are vulnerable, especially when rising seas are combined with land sinking due to depleted water tables, or a lack of ground-forming silt held back by dams.

Major coastal cities are also threatened, while some small island states are already laying plans for the day their drowning nations will no longer be livable.

"This result is important because the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)"—the UN science advisory body—"makes a very conservative projection of total sea level rise by the end of the century," at 60 to 90 centimetres (24 to 35 inches), said Peter Wadhams, a professor of ocean physics at the University of Oxford who did not take part in the research.

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That estimate, he added, assumes that the rate at which ocean levels rise will remain constant.

"Yet there is convincing evidence—including accelerating losses of mass from Greenland and Antarctica—that the rate is actually increasing, and increasing exponentially."

Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2017-06-greenland-major-driver-seas.html#jCp (https://phys.org/news/2017-06-greenland-major-driver-seas.html#jCp)
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on June 28, 2017, 07:51:56 pm
Agelbert NOTE: This is a snippet from a Common Sense Proposal, totally free of hyperbole or alarmist claims, which was written some years ago. It's message is even more pressing, and valid, today.

University of New South Wales PhD candidate Laurence L. Delina has investigated the rapid, large, socio-economic changes made by several countries just before and during World War 2, wrote professor Mark Diesendorf from UNSW Australia in The Conversation:

“Laurence Delina found that we can learn from wartime experience in changing the labour force and finance. However, he also pointed out the limitations of the wartime metaphor for rapid climate mitigation.



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Wartime mobilisation for climate  mitigation. Preprint   
of paper subsequently in Energy   Policy (2013) 58:371-­‐380.

 
1. Introduction

The German Advisory Council on Global Change (WBGU) calculates that, to keep global warming less than 2ºC above preindustrial temperature (which may not be safe) with a probability of 67%, global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions would have to peak by 2020 and reach zero by 2040 (WBGU, 2009: Fig. 3.2-1).

If the peak occurs after 2020, the maximum reduction rate would have to exceed 9% per year, an almost impossible challenge in the absence of widespread economic collapse.

Thus we are living in the critical decade, in which we must turn around the current warming trajectory, which has ‘roughly a 20% likelihood of exceeding 4ºC by 2100 and a 10% chance of 4ºC being exceeded as early as the 2070s’ (World Bank, 2012:1). Climate mitigation must be an urgent, rapid and effective transition.
 
This paper is motivated by the need to develop contingency plans now for possible future emergency climate mitigation responses. Considering that these responses entail the mobilisation of a huge volume of resources, we explore the extent to which emergency strategies could be devised reflecting the scale and scope of mobilisation for World War 2 (WW2).

To set the rapid mobilisation scenario in motion, we consider a hypothetical sudden major global climate impact that could galvanise governments around the world to take rapid actions. Such an event could be, for example, a sudden global sea level rise of about 2 metres caused by the collapse of part of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, which is currently being undermined by ocean surface temperatures several degrees warmer than a few decades ago and is losing mass at an increasing rate (Vaughan, 2008:72-76; Rignot et al., 2011).

In addition to the already expected emergency adaptation efforts from governments (which is important in addressing immediate threats but is beyond the scope of this paper), the scenario has governments of developed and rapidly developing countries—all OECD countries and newly industrialised countries such as Brazil, India, China and South Africa—agreeing to achieve a global target of close to zero emissions from the energy sector in 25 to 40 years.

This international context is a vital component for rapid mitigation, especially in setting up the stage for deep national emission cuts, either in the form of a strengthening of the Kyoto Protocol or as an entirely new protocol.

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http://climatesafety.net/australia-laurence-delina-learning-from-war/

Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on June 28, 2017, 08:30:57 pm
Mesmerising animation of 2016 sea surface temperature

April 20, 2017

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still image from the Year of Sea Surface Temperature animation, showing record low sea ice extent in late 2016. Credit: European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT)

In a recent animation produced by EUMETSAT, Remote Sensing Scientist Anne O'Carroll describes a year of sea surface temperature (SST) in 2016.

The animation combines satellite data with ocean surface measurements. The satellite data used come from both the geostationary ring of satellites and polar-orbiting satellites including from Europe, America and Japan.

The global sea surface temperature animation is compiled from the Operational Sea Surface Temperature and Sea Ice Analysis (OSTIA) as produced by the UK Met Office. The products are available from the Copernicus Marine Environment Monitoring Service (CMEMS).

"The animation is important to see the changes on a global scale of the surface temperatures of our ocean and to consider how these influence weather patterns and thus our daily lives," Mrs O'Carroll said.

Mrs O'Carroll goes through each month of the year highlighting specific weather events, currents and changes in temperatures in different zones of the Earth, focusing especially on El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and La Niña.

As seasons change, colder temperatures are coloured in blue while warmer surface temperatures evolve from yellow to magenta, and while currents move we can see the changes in temperatures twirling around.

According to the scientist, "The animation shows the beauty of the movement of our ocean and the changes in temperature and how energy is distributed and spreads around our globe, affecting the weather, climate, ecosystem and all our daily lives."

https://youtu.be/thhFs8WYBrE


Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2017-04-mesmerising-animation-sea-surface-temperature.html#jCp
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on June 28, 2017, 09:48:26 pm
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on June 29, 2017, 02:37:27 pm
JUNE 29, 2017

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Next Three Years Will Decide Fate of Our Planet's Climate, Experts Warn

SNIPPET:

Never has the paradox been greater. While the most powerful politician in the world is a climate denier, scientists are now warning that we have just three years to start making radical reductions to greenhouse gases.

Put it another way: that is the term of the Trump presidency. We have three and a bit years left of Trump (if he does not get impeached in the meantime) and we have three years left to save the climate, and begin to bring emissions down by 2020.

Writing in the scientific journal Nature, leading climate scientists have issued their sternest warning yet that time is seriously running out to prevent runaway climate change.

"Should emissions continue to rise beyond 2020, or even remain level, the temperature goals set in Paris become almost unattainable," they warn. "Lowering emissions globally is a monumental task, but research tells us that it is necessary, desirable and achievable."

Indeed, if action is not taken by 2020, we could see that Paris agreed limit of 1.5 to 2 degrees being surpassed quite quickly.

They tell world leaders to be driven by the science rather than "hide their heads in the sand." "Entire ecosystems" were already collapsing, they warn.

The article was signed by more than 60 scientists, including professor Michael Mann of Pennsylvania State University as well as politicians such as former Mexican President Felipe Calderon and ex-Irish President Mary Robinson, and former UN climate chief Christiana Figueres.

https://www.ecowatch.com/climate-change-scientists-nature-2450295396.html (https://www.ecowatch.com/climate-change-scientists-nature-2450295396.html)



Adrian Grenier: 'We Must Usher in a New Era of Compassion Through Forward Thinking Environmental Programs'

By Stefanie Spear
 
Adrian Grenier was named UN Goodwill Ambassador earlier this month.The Hollywood actor, best known for his iconic role of A-list movie star Vincent Chase in the HBO smash hit and film Entourage, will advocate for drastically reducing single-use plastic and protection of marine species, and encourage his followers to make conscious consumer choices to reduce their environmental footprint, according to the UN Environment announcement.

"Together we must usher in a new era of compassion and carefulness through forward thinking environmental programs to drive measurable change," Grenier said. "I am personally committed to creating ways in which the global community can come together to help solve our most critical climate crises through routine, collective action.

"The more we connect to nature in our daily lives, the more dedicated we will become to our individual commitments. Together, I believe we can go further, faster in our race to achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals by 2030."

Watch the video above to learn more.

https://youtu.be/SbPSy0tqtqo (https://youtu.be/SbPSy0tqtqo)


We've Made History': Ireland Joins France, Germany and Bulgaria in Banning Fracking  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-080515182559.png&hash=d4dfa952fa0f817bf30a8059a4c88d6fb05ee1bf)​

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Trial Date Set in Kids Climate Lawsuit Against U.S. Government

SNIPPET:

U.S. Magistrate Judge Thomas Coffin (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Fminzdr.gif&hash=f5927d7395d8a28c69df2a0a3a98660932c6903f) issued an order Thursday in the climate lawsuit brought by 21 youth, Juliana v. United States, setting a trial date for Feb. 5, 2018 before U.S. District Court Judge Ann Aiken in Eugene, Oregon.

Juliana v. United States was brought by 21 young plaintiffs and Earth Guardians who argue that their constitutional and public trust rights are being violated by the government's creation of climate danger. The case is one of many related legal actions brought by youth in several states and countries, all supported by Our Children's Trust, seeking science-based action by governments to stabilize the climate system.

https://www.ecowatch.com/our-childrens-trust-trial-date-2450252842.html (https://www.ecowatch.com/our-childrens-trust-trial-date-2450252842.html)

Agelbert NOTE: Our very existence hangs in the balance, and our "legal" system schedules  a trial on this issue for February of 2018...  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Fgaah.gif&hash=e43fa6be4258ba495007b2bbb3e7dd2f60288fcd)

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Trump's Energy Week Looks Like His Health Care Bill: A Disaster for America

SNIPPET:

We don't work on health care on a day-to-day basis at Oil Change International (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F19.gif&hash=3f9f2fc2285bc756137e21463bc2a4c420b15ac3) , but having tracked the oil and gas industry   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Fpirates5B15D_th.gif&hash=32438e1ed2c4d1823d4ed2a193286525c840a605) for over a decade, we know a disaster when we see one. That's why we joined 16 major environmental organizations on a letter to Senators expressing our outrage at the cruelty demonstrated in the bill now being considered by lawmakers. The legislation would make it harder for low-income people to afford health insurance and access frontline service providers—the same Americans that shoulder the heaviest burden from industrial pollution, environmental disasters and the effects of climate change. We know that there can be no climate justice without social justice. And this health care bill is not a just policy.

In what amounts to a staggering transfer of wealth, the GOP health care bill slashes public services and forces ordinary Americans to absorb the costs in higher premiums or going without health care, to make room for tax cuts for the nation's richest households. The Congressional Budget Office calculates it would cut $772 billion in funding over the next ten years to Medicaid, a critical program that makes health care affordable to tens of millions who couldn't otherwise afford it. These cuts could force rural hospitals and clinics to shut their doors, leaving families living in poverty outside of population centers even farther from preventative and emergency services.

https://www.ecowatch.com/energy-week-health-care-bill-2449710526.html (https://www.ecowatch.com/energy-week-health-care-bill-2449710526.html)


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Agelbert NOTE: The 'fox' in the EPA 'hen house'  is doing exactly what Fracking billionaire Hamm (Pruitt's OWNER) and the rest of his polluter pals want him to do.

https://www.ecowatch.com/monsanto-glyphosate-resistance-2449686645.html (https://www.ecowatch.com/monsanto-glyphosate-resistance-2449686645.html)

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Agelbert NOTE: Unlike onshore wind turbines, Offshore wind turbines are not limited in size and diameter by highway overpass heights and highway widths. So, these new giants will be far more efficient, AND RELIABLE, than any fossil fuel or nuclear power plant that has EVER been built. Therefore, expect Trump and friends to go to great lengths to keep these Renewable Energy Marvels from going up in our oceans and the great lakes. The Fossil Fuelers have NEVER been about a level ERoEI (energy return on energy invested) playing field. And as to the claim of these crooks and liars that they provided, and still provide, a polluting product because we-the-people "wanted" them to, as government subisies of polluting fuels for a century attest, just throw the following quote at them: ;D
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"There is a nice legal concept called estoppel. If you argue that you didn't kill the Major in the library with the Ming vase because you were in bed with his wife, you are estopped from pleading self-defence. In the same way, polluters are estopped from arguing that they were only complying with public policy as laid down in the law, because they spent tens of millions shaping those policies and laws to their advantage." James Wimberley

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on June 30, 2017, 05:12:35 pm
To whom it may concern: NONE of the IPCC Climate models, including the RCP 8.5 "business as usual" polluting, has GREENLAND ICE in the sea level rise calculations programmed into the models...

Greenland now a major driver of rising seas: study

June 26, 2017 by Marlowe Hood

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Greenland contains enough frozen water to lift oceans by about seven metres (23 feet), though experts disagree on the global warming threshold for irreversible melting, and how long that would take once set in motion.

Ocean levels rose 50 percent faster in 2014 than in 1993, with meltwater from the Greenland ice sheet now supplying 25 percent of total sea level increase compared with just five percent 20 years earlier, researchers reported Monday.

The findings add to growing concern among scientists that the global watermark is climbing more rapidly than forecast only a few years ago, with potentially devastating consequences.

Hundreds of millions of people around the world live in low-lying deltas that are vulnerable, especially when rising seas are combined with land sinking due to depleted water tables, or a lack of ground-forming silt held back by dams.

Major coastal cities are also threatened, while some small island states are already laying plans for the day their drowning nations will no longer be livable.

"This result is important because the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)"—the UN science advisory body—"makes a very conservative projection of total sea level rise by the end of the century," at 60 to 90 centimetres (24 to 35 inches), said Peter Wadhams, a professor of ocean physics at the University of Oxford who did not take part in the research.

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That estimate, he added, assumes that the rate at which ocean levels rise will remain constant.

"Yet there is convincing evidence—including accelerating losses of mass from Greenland and Antarctica—that the rate is actually increasing, and increasing exponentially."

Greenland alone contains enough frozen water to lift oceans by about seven metres (23 feet), though experts disagree on the global warming threshold for irreversible melting, and how long that would take once set in motion.

"Most scientists now expect total rise to be well over a metre by the end of the century," Wadhams said.

The new study, published in Nature Climate Change, reconciles for the first time two distinct measurements of sea level rise.

The first looked one-by-one at three contributions: ocean expansion due to warming, changes in the amount of water stored on land, and loss of land-based ice from glaciers and ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica.

Overall, the pace of global average sea level rise went up from about 2.2 millimetres a year in 1993, to 3.3 millimetres a year two decades later

'A major warning'

The second was from satellite altimetry, which gauges heights on the Earth's surface from space.

The technique measures the time taken by a radar pulse to travel from a satellite antenna to the surface, and then back to a satellite receiver.

Up to now, altimetry data showed little change in sea levels over the last two decades, even if other measurements left little doubt that oceans were measurably deepening.

"We corrected for a small but significant bias in the first decade of the satellite record," co-author Xuebin Zhang, a professor at Qingdao National Laboratory of Marine Science and Technology in China's Shandong Province, told AFP.

Overall, the pace of global average sea level rise went up from about 2.2 millimetres a year in 1993, to 3.3 millimetres a year two decades later.

In the early 1990s, they found, thermal expansion accounted for fully half of the added millimetres. Two decades later, that figure was only 30 percent.

Andrew Shepherd, director of the Centre for Polar Observation and Modelling at the University of Leeds in England, urged caution in interpreting the results.

"Even with decades of measurements, it is hard to be sure whether there has been a steady acceleration in the rate of global sea level rise during the satellite era because the change is so small," he said.

Disentangling single sources—such as the massive chunk of ice atop Greenland—is even harder.

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"This is a major warning about the dangers of a sea level rise that will continue for many centuries, even after global warming is stopped," said Brian Hoskins, chair of the Grantham Institute at Imperial College London.

https://phys.org/news/2017-06-greenland-major-driver-seas.html
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on June 30, 2017, 06:05:15 pm
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Larsen C Ice Shelf Rift Approaching Its End, Outer Edge Moving Away From Ice Shelf At Speed Of 33 Feet Per Day

June 30th, 2017 by James Ayre

SNIPPET:

What’s happening is that the ice near where the rift began is now moving away from the rest of the ice shelf at a rate of around 33 feet per day, which is apparently unprecedented. There is still a tether of about 8 miles keeping the soon-to-be iceberg from breaking loose, but given how fast the far edge from this tether is now moving away from the ice shelf, this tether likely won’t last too long.

To put that all in plainer language, the future iceberg is now “wiggling like a loose tooth.”

FULL ARTICLE:

https://cleantechnica.com/2017/06/30/larsen-c-ice-shelf-rift-approaching-end-outer-edge-moving-away-ice-shelf-speed-33-feet-per-day/

Agelbert NOTE: And it is WINTER in Antarctica now. When summer comes, ....      (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-300714025456.bmp&hash=f4e4a260bd60d3f34ca86fed93c47d5fb4117cfd) 
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on June 30, 2017, 06:28:13 pm
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Larsen C Ice Shelf Rift Approaching Its End, Outer Edge Moving Away From Ice Shelf At Speed Of 33 Feet Per Day

June 30th, 2017 by James Ayre

SNIPPET:

What’s happening is that the ice near where the rift began is now moving away from the rest of the ice shelf at a rate of around 33 feet per day, which is apparently unprecedented. There is still a tether of about 8 miles keeping the soon-to-be iceberg from breaking loose, but given how fast the far edge from this tether is now moving away from the ice shelf, this tether likely won’t last too long.

To put that all in plainer language, the future iceberg is now “wiggling like a loose tooth.”

FULL ARTICLE:

https://cleantechnica.com/2017/06/30/larsen-c-ice-shelf-rift-approaching-end-outer-edge-moving-away-ice-shelf-speed-33-feet-per-day/ (https://cleantechnica.com/2017/06/30/larsen-c-ice-shelf-rift-approaching-end-outer-edge-moving-away-ice-shelf-speed-33-feet-per-day/)

And there will be an armada of ships racing to the free floater to raid its body of newly bottled drinking water for sale to the sheeple public. Be the 1st on your block for "Pure Antarctic-an" bottled water. Survey Says ..... 3 bucks a bottle, chilled of course at Wally-World.

HERE COMES WATER WORLD, READY OR NOT!  :P

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Let's get that ice water for Mr. Trump and Our Dear Leader Rex Tillerson!  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Fpirates5B15D_th.gif&hash=32438e1ed2c4d1823d4ed2a193286525c840a605)
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on June 30, 2017, 07:48:04 pm
Driving home today (in NY State) I was in the hardest downpour I have ever seen. I was driving uphill on had 6 inches of water on the road. There was rain mixed with sleet and small branches. Two lanes reduced to 5 MPH all with flashers on. Then after about 15 minutes it stopped.

There will be more of these events and they will occur more often. They are called microbursts. Their increasing frequency and duration are part of the predicted Catastrophic climate Change now arriving thanks to the fossil fuel polluter fascists.

We had a couple of them recently in Vermont:

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Two Microburst Event on 18 May 2017
1.) Introduction:
On 18 May 2017 scattered strong to locally severe thunderstorms erupted across portions of the Champlain Valley, as well as parts of central and northern Vermont. A warm, moist, and unstable air mass was in place from the Eastern Adirondack Mountains into Vermont with surface temperatures in the mid-80s to lower 90s. The temperature reached 93 degrees in Burlington, VT, which tied the all-time record for warmest maximum temperature for the month of May, along with breaking the daily maximum temperature for the date. This impressive heat helped to fuel the afternoon and evening showers and thunderstorms.

This severe weather event had three areas of concentrated that included Western Addison County on Potash Bay Road, South Burlington/Williston area, and across the Northeast Kingdom near Barton, VT. The NWS Burlington Office determined from a storm survey the damage which destroyed a camp and knocked down trees and powerlines on Potash Bay Road in the town of Addison, VT was caused by a microburst with estimated wind speeds of 80 to 100 mph. Another microburst occurred in South Burlington causing trees and power lines to come down, along with a measured 58 mph wind gust at Burlington International Airport, before we lost power to the observing equipment. Additional damaging thunderstorm wind gusts blew over a
tractor trailer in Barton, VT with areas of trees and powerlines down in parts of the Northeast Kingdom. Figure 1 below shows a plot of storm reports across the North Country on 18 May 2017.
See Appendix A for entire listing of severe weather reports received by NWS BTV.
 

Read more at link:

http://www.weather.gov/media/btv/events/2017-05-18%20Microbursts/summary.pdf (http://www.weather.gov/media/btv/events/2017-05-18%20Microbursts/summary.pdf)

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on June 30, 2017, 07:55:57 pm
https://youtu.be/bkaChcbYpE8

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Published time: 30 Jun, 2017 15:18

Moscow Region has been hit by a powerful storm that brought heavy torrential rains and hail. The capital has not seen such a storm in almost 100 years, according to meteorologists.  :o  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-150715183719.png&hash=7b222546f30a032efc31223d85eea0535ed42a49)
                   

https://www.rt.com/news/394826-moscow-storm-hail-rain/

Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on July 02, 2017, 07:21:40 pm
More PROOF that the Temperature "hiatus" was Fossil Fuel Funded BULLSHIT! (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.desismileys.com%2Fsmileys%2Fdesismileys_6869.gif&hash=f94938471d343a09155d1f60eefacdb2ceab2457)

Major Correction to Satellite Data Shows 140% Faster Warming Since 1998

July 2, 2017

By Zeke Hausfather

A new paper published in the Journal of Climate reveals that the lower part of the earth's atmosphere has warmed much faster since 1979 than scientists relying on satellite data had previously thought.

Researchers from Remote Sensing Systems (RSS), based in California, have released a substantially revised version of their lower tropospheric temperature record.

SNIPPET:
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Both the old record, version 3 in grey, and new record, version 4 in red, are shown in the figure above, along with the difference between the two, in black. The trends since 1998 for both are shown by dashed lines.

Most of the difference between the old and new record occurs after the year 2000. While the old record showed relatively little warming during the oft-debated post-1998 "hiatus" period, the new record shows warming continuing unabated through to present. Similarly, while the old RSS v3 record showed 2016 only barely edging out 1998 as the warmest year in the satellite record, the new v4 record shows 2016 as exceeding 1998 by a large margin.

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https://www.ecowatch.com/data-correction-climate-change-2450843224.htm
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on July 03, 2017, 06:25:21 pm
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Angela Merkel, German Chancellor: ‘We cannot wait to act until the [climate] science has convinced every last doubter’

LAST UPDATED ON JUNE 30TH, 2017 AT 10:37 PM BY MIHAI ANDREI 

SNIPPET:

The world’s largest economies will continue implementing the Paris Agreement, despite US President Donald Trump announcing his intention to exit the pact. The German chancellor, Angela Merkel, who presides this year’s G20 summit, directly referenced Trump, saying that we can’t wait for the science to convince “the last doubter.” It’s interesting to note that Merkel has a PhD in Physical Chemistry and this seems to show in her attitude towards science.  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.clker.com%2Fcliparts%2Fc%2F8%2Ff%2F8%2F11949865511933397169thumbs_up_nathan_eady_01.svg.hi.png&hash=599691109af22b33f1d59dd61eb97448a9427020)

G20: We’ll go forth with Paris

Full truth filled, hard hitting article with graphics:

http://www.zmescience.com/science/news-science/us-vs-world-climate-30062017/
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on July 03, 2017, 07:41:35 pm
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It's Raining in Antarctica While Trump Slashes Climate Science Funding

Monday, July 03, 2017

By Dahr Jamail, Truthout | Report

SNIPPET:

And the records continue to be broken. NASA data showed May to be the second hottest on record, barely trailing 2016 by one-tenth of a degree, and this was the second-warmest spring on record, again only behind 2016. The first five months of this year make it likely that this will be the second hottest year on record, again only behind last year.

Meanwhile, parts of Antarctica are literally beginning to turn green, as scientists there are finding a four- to five-fold increase in the amount of moss growth on the ice continent's northern peninsula.

Even more stunning news comes from Antarctica in a study published in the June 15 issue of the journal Nature Communications which revealed that over an area of West Antarctica, scientists were stunned to find rainfall and a melt area larger than the size of Texas in 2016.

Yes, it is now raining in Antarctica.

The New York Times published a fantastic interactive piece on the ice continent that is well worth a look, while warm temperatures last fall caused water to breach the entrance of the Arctic's "Doomsday" seed vault, one of humans' last hopes of preserving seeds to survive a global catastrophe.

Meanwhile, Arctic sea ice is disappearing off Alaskan coasts more than a month earlier than normal, and due to congressional budget cuts, the 38-year continuous US Arctic satellite monitoring program is about to end, leaving researchers in the dark about ongoing sea ice losses.

And this May, atmospheric CO2 content set an all-time monthly high when it reached 409.65ppm, according to NOAA data.

Full article:

http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/41136-it-s-raining-in-antarctica-while-trump-slashes-climate-science-funding

Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on July 04, 2017, 02:11:56 pm
This is Really Obvious Now! Rising Sea Levels Due To Climate Change Now Impacting Globally

https://youtu.be/M-A_iXyPcFs

Richard Aguilar

Published on Jul 3, 2017

SUBSCRIBE: https://goo.gl/w3A8IS

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Climate change- Thai village disappearing as sea levels rise.

Could rising waters submerge the state of Florida-.

Egypt's coastal cities affected by rising sea levels.

Economic Impact of climate change and Sea Level Rise.

Expert's opinion on the rising sea levels.

Netherlands farm works to adapt to climate change effects.

Port city in Brazil is seeing effects of climate change.

Research Shows Impact Of Rising Sea Levels On Stockton, Sacramento.

Rising Sea Levels Could Flood Naval Academy In Annapolis.

Agelbert NOTE:(https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.funny-emoticons.com%2Ffiles%2Ffunny-animals%2Fblue-bird-emoticons%2F801-listen-up%21.png&hash=f7fb2b5263a68b91c628fc597877983f813843e5)  The following is, for a given CO2 concentration and consequent temperature increase, the scientifically determined for the past (and predicted for the future) sea level rise when equilibrium is reached for the global average temperature change (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Ffox.graphics%2Ffiles%2Fflame-icon-vector.jpg&hash=49a29f2de7e63d0eb664c00375c037082b2c535d):   
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As of April of 2017, the CO2 concentration passed 410PPM. It is increasing at over 3PPM per year. Have a nice day.
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on July 04, 2017, 07:09:02 pm
Two gaping holes recently emerged in Siberia accompanied by explosions with billowing smoke and fire (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Ffox.graphics%2Ffiles%2Fflame-icon-vector.jpg&hash=49a29f2de7e63d0eb664c00375c037082b2c535d)

By Pakalolo 

Tuesday Jul 04, 2017 · 6:08 AM EDT

The indigenous reindeer herding Nenets people, who reside in the Yamal region of Siberia, alerted local media of two recent explosions in their remote and empty permafrost landscape. The Nenets reported what is believed to be methane explosions where they saw “fire in winter 2017, but it might mean January to March or April. In other words, it exploded when snow was still flying.”

The second explosion was documented on June 28, 2017. “The second bang was so loud it was picked up by seismic stations located in neighboring settlements and near a local gas field. The new hole is approximately eight meters (26 feet) in diameter and at least 20 meters (65 feet) deep.” reports IFL Science.

Due to the explosive circumstances, the local scientists are treating this as a methane gas explosion. Many regions of the Arctic have methane locked within their permafrost. The thawing of this permafrost - often from natural cases, sometimes by exacerbated human-made process - causes this gas to “seep out.” If underground, it can cause a pressure build-up and eventually result in a pop and a bang. In this instance, it isn't clear how the fire was involved, although is methane is flammable.

https://youtu.be/H2EpCoQjPu8


The Barents Observer reports:

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These kinds of explosions have been previously documented in Siberia and elsewhere in the Arctic tip of the world. A recent study in the journal Science showed how portions of the Arctic seafloor is caked in craters caused by methane explosions.

The release of this methane is not just dangerous due to these hard-to-predict explosive tendencies. The release of this methane is also believed to have a dramatic effect on climate change. After all, just like carbon dioxide, it is a greenhouse gas.
https://thebarentsobserver.com/en/arctic/2017/07/methane-explodes-under-yamal-tundra-creates-another-sinkhole


The Siberian Times has jaw dropping pictures of these craters.


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The account of an exploding hill is consistent with the scientific theory that sees the craters as mainly - but not only - formed by exploding pingo mounds.

Helicopter reconnaissance of the site shows a crater appearing in a river, so it assumed the 'hill' was beside or abutting the river.

The crater is some 30-35 kilometres is around 100 km of Russia's new state-of-the-art Arctic port of Sabetta.

It is in an area of crater-shaped lakes.
http://siberiantimes.com/other/others/news/big-bang-and-pillar-of-fire-as-latest-of-two-new-craters-forms-this-week-in-arctic/


The below methane clip is from Yale Climate Connections.

One of the most feared of climate change "feedbacks" is the potential release of greenhouse gases by melting arctic permafrost soils.  New research indicates a critical threshold of that feedback effect could be closer than we once thought.

https://youtu.be/FLCgybStZ4g

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/7/4/1677706/-Two-gaping-holes-recently-emerged-in-Siberia-accompanied-by-explosions-with-billowing-smoke-and-fire#comment_67036415

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on July 06, 2017, 02:49:28 pm
Latest Study Shows Ocean Temperatures Rising Faster Than Expected

July 6th, 2017 by Steve Hanley

SNIPPET:

Oceanographers say the world’s oceans are heating up faster than expected. They warn that higher ocean temperatures will have a significant impact on global warming and climate change. Lots of people, many of them senior political leaders in the United States, dismiss climate scientists as nerds who worship data and care not a fig for the needs of business. Chances are, most of them would plead guilty to that charge because absent data, there is no science. However, the needs of businesses are also inherently tied to a livable climate and human society, and they understand that as well.

The Oceans Are Temperature Buffers

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ARGO ocean bouy

The earth is like a giant terrarium. If it gets too hot, species die. If it gets too cold, species die. The oceans act as a temperature buffering system. They can absorb enormous amounts of heat and sequester it for decades, centuries, or even longer. If the atmosphere gets too hot, some of that excess heat gets absorbed by the seas. If the atmosphere cools, some of that heat is given up again to stabilize temperatures.

You chemistry majors out there will remember that a buffer can operate over a wide range of conditions to stabilize a chemical reaction, but once its limits are exceeded, all hell breaks loose. That’s what has climate scientists concerned. A new study says ocean temperatures are rising much faster than expected, signalling that the oceans’ ability to buffer global temperatures may be in danger.

Monitoring Oceans Is Difficult

But gathering accurate data about the seas is difficult.


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https://cleantechnica.com/2017/07/06/latest-study-shows-ocean-temperatures-rising-faster-expected/
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on July 07, 2017, 05:21:04 pm
Agelbert NOTE: Translation of the scientist speak below is: (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.funny-emoticons.com%2Ffiles%2Ffunny-animals%2Fblue-bird-emoticons%2F801-listen-up%21.png&hash=f7fb2b5263a68b91c628fc597877983f813843e5) DON'T COUNT ON geo-engineered technofix pie in the sky aerosols to slow or stop Global Warming fueled Catastrophic Climate Change!  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.desismileys.com%2Fsmileys%2Fdesismileys_6869.gif&hash=f94938471d343a09155d1f60eefacdb2ceab2457)

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The polluting status quo defending, taxpayer gouging, pseudo-scientific wishful thinking aerosol spraying technofix SCAM WILL NOT COOL THE ATMOSPHERE!  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-120716190938.png&hash=01feab1c7345a4e98764e0f9d24b2d69171b93c2)


It is becoming painfully clear to climate scientists, although it has always been clear to me ;D, that the only realistic climate mitigation action humanity can take is to STOP BURNING hydrocarbons! (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F301.gif&hash=0291ed4abf2d80e420d1aa00d4eb3c5dd6bbfb53)


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Volcano reveals simpler than expected cloud-climate response to tiny aerosol particles

July 7, 2017 aerosols, GCMs Ed Hawkins

In new research a volcanic eruption is exploited as a natural laboratory to test how tiny aerosol particles in the atmosphere influence climate through their effect on cloud.

Guest post by Richard Allan  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-080515182559.png&hash=d4dfa952fa0f817bf30a8059a4c88d6fb05ee1bf)   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F34y5mvr.gif&hash=835b3a3f26d5d1b7f0acc379ad8ebd3fe9eea488)

Pollution haze presents a serious health problem for many regions, particularly large cities such as Beijing. Yet small pollutant particles in the atmosphere, or aerosol, also influence our climate through a “parasol effect” which shades the surface from incoming sunlight. Increased aerosol pollution has contributed a cooling influence on climate, without which the planet would have warmed even more than it has done in response to rising greenhouse gas concentrations, also the product of human activities.

Quantifying the size of this cooling effect is a great challenge due to the complex interactions of aerosol particles with sunlight, particularly through indirect effects that make clouds reflect more sunlight back to space. Understanding and reproducing the correct aerosol-cloud effects in simulations is crucial for our ability to project future climate change as well as interpreting historical warming of climate.

In our study we use a novel approach to tackle the challenge of how aerosol cools climate. In September and October 2014 a massive volcanic fissure eruption in Holuhraun, Iceland (Figure 1) continually injected vast quantities of sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere at rates exceeding European industrial emissions. It effectively mimicked a sulfate aerosol pollution haze, being an ideal natural experiment to test simulations of the cloud-aerosol effects on climate.

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Figure 1: Eruption of Holuhraun, September 4th 2014. Source: Peter Hartree

Satellite measurements covering the aerosol haze could identify a large region of smaller, more numerous cloud droplets (Figure 2, top). We also demonstrated that the UK Met Office Hadley Centre climate model (HadGEM3) was able to capture this effect, building confidence in understanding of aerosol interaction with cloud. However, further anticipated modifications in cloud properties such as the quantity of cloud water were not detectable above the month to month fluctuations in weather patterns (Figure 2, bottom).

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Figure 2: The volcanic aerosol haze caused a decrease in cloud droplet size (top) but further indirect effects on cloud properties were undetectable in the satellite data compared to the month to month fluctuations in weather patterns

Our findings are important since some climate models built by different teams of scientists and considered in the study produce a strong additional cooling effect from aerosol influences on cloud characteristics such as cloud water and longevity. Discounting simulations that producing unrealistically strong aerosol cooling effects offers a potential route for improving confidence in climate change projections.

There are a number of challenges to overcome in constraining the cloud-aerosol effect on climate. One limitation of the current analysis is that the expected aerosol cloud brightening signal is difficult to discern above the substantial month to month fluctuations in weather patterns when considering satellite data measuring the total sunlight reflected from the planet (Figure 3):


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Figure 3: In a simulation it is possible to compute the effect of the volcanic aerosol haze on the amount of absorbed sunlight (top) as well as the effect of year to year fluctuations in cloudiness unrelated to the volcano (middle). Because of the large effect of weather patterns it is therefore difficult to detect a signal of the aerosol-cloud cooling effect from the CERES satellite measurements (bottom). Source: Malavelle et al. (2017) supplementary information Figure S7.5

A further caveat is that the findings primarily apply for sulfate aerosol interaction with low altitude clouds in the North Atlantic. How generally the results apply globally to contrasting cloud and aerosol types is questionable. Preliminary analysis suggests similar effects were apparent for a contrasting case at Mount Kilauea, Hawaii during 2008 and for idealised simulations in which the volcano was transported to other regions of the globe and even back in time! Yet uncertainties in the satellite observations and the representation of fine detail depicted by the simulations plus the reliability of their input variables further confound understanding. Nevertheless, the results present tantalising evidence that the cloud-aerosol effect on climate is smaller than previously thought.

For further details, please see our publication (available from the authors):
Malavelle et al. (2017), Strong constraints on aerosol-cloud interactions from volcanic eruptions, Nature, 546, 485-491, doi:10.1038/nature22974.

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http://www.climate-lab-book.ac.uk/2017/volcano-reveals/

Agelbert NOTE: We need LESS aerosols in our atmosphere, not more. Aerosols HURT air breathing critters, including humans. It is abysmally stupid to even think of trying to "cool" the atmosphere with aerosols when all the other deleterious effects aerosols HAVE NOW will be exacerbated if we INCREASE the amount of aerosols in our atmosphere.  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F126fs2277341.gif&hash=1a8375f11d76a653bcb48e30eaa7b652175f029d)     (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Fgen152.gif&hash=d5b10968fe56c4cb95fae17cee3cb420a5f4e2da)

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THIS is how LESS aerosols resulting from the transition to Renewable Energy HELPS the biosphere in general and humans in particular:
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on July 07, 2017, 06:19:07 pm
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To the G20, at their summit, July 2017

Warning of climate change emergency

Dear world leaders,

You will have received an increasing number of warnings from scientists about the seriousness of climate change and therefore how important it is to reduce CO2 emissions.   We take the logic further, using the latest scientific evidence about the current situation and observed trends.  Our conclusion is that interventions must be taken immediately to reduce the forcing agents that are driving climate change, especially in the Arctic.  At minimum, CO2 must be taken out of the atmosphere and the Arctic cooled.

Climate change is already serious

This is evidenced by the persistence of droughts and severity of floods in many parts of the Northern Hemisphere, with a growth in such weather extremes and damage therefrom over the past thirty years.  Unrest and civil strife, particularly in Egypt and the Middle East, has been enflamed by crop failures and hunger.   A relationship between riots and the food price index has been established.

Reducing CO2 emissions has limited immediate effect

Anthropogenic global warming (AGW) is mainly driven by the excess of CO2 in the atmosphere.  CO2 has a long lifetime, so any reduction in emissions will only have a gradual effect on the level of CO2 in the atmosphere; global warming from the remaining “legacy” CO2 in the atmosphere will continue for decades if not centuries.

Limiting AGW to 2°C this century (let alone 1.5°C) requires intervention

Average global surface temperature has risen between 1.1°C and 1.3°C since pre-industrial times (the baseline for AGW).  The current underlying rate of AGW is at least 0.2°C per decade and greenhouse gas levels are rising.  Recent modelling suggests that 2°C warming will be reached by around 2040, even on the most optimistic IPCC scenario of CO2 emissions reduction.  Thus keeping to 2°C this century requires a slowing of the warming rate to a fraction of its current rate well before 2040 – for example a reduction to 0.1°C per decade by 2030.  This will require a reduction in net climate forcing, through a reduction in forcing agents (CO2 and methane in the atmosphere and albedo loss in the Arctic) and/or through application of specific global cooling methods.

Removing excess CO2 from the atmosphere

The CO2 level probably needs to be reduced from the current level of over 400 ppm down to 240 ppm or less by 2030 in order to reduce both AGW and ocean acidification to acceptable levels.

Cooling the Arctic and saving the sea ice

The Arctic is warming rapidly, driven by albedo positive feedback.  Observations suggest that the sea ice is in a death spiral.  By 2030 the ocean could be virtually free of sea ice for several months of the year.  This state could herald an abrupt change in atmospheric circulation and hence climate regime for the Northern Hemisphere.  (Currently climate change is driven by a combination of global warming and a reduced temperature gradient between Arctic and lower latitudes.)   To avoid the catastrophic consequences of such climate regime change, there is extreme urgency for the Arctic to be cooled and sea ice preserved.

Preventing Greenland Ice Sheet disintegration

Reducing the temperature in the Arctic would have the further effect of halting ice mass loss from the Greenland Ice Sheet, which otherwise threatens to disintegrate and produce sudden sea level rise.  This would flood small islands and devastate low-lying areas around the world where there are cities, nuclear power stations, infrastructure, and farm land.  With the added possibility of mega-tsunamis as huge chunks of ice slide into the sea, cooling the Arctic should seem even more urgent.

Suppressing methane

The suppression of methane emissions may be vital to prevent global warming getting out of hand.  Fugitive emissions should be kept down to around 1% production – in some wells and in fracking they amount to as much as 10% of production.  Natural emission of methane from wetlands has been growing but could be suppressed using diatom and nutrient treatment.  Emissions of methane from subsea permafrost have been growing alarmingly, threatening to reach the gigaton level which would approximately double the rate of global warming.  Means of avoiding such an outburst need to be found and rapidly implemented.

Conclusions

Stephen Hawking has suggested that only a relatively small increase in CO2 emissions, e.g. from US, could launch the planet towards runaway global warming and Venus-like temperatures, hot enough to boil away the oceans.  While we do not think it likely that our planet will get so hot, there is now overwhelming evidence that the Earth’s climate has already passed a “point of no return”, accelerating inexorably towards unsurvivable conditions unless it is promptly restrained by human intervention.  On current trends AGW could reach 3°C by 2050 with mean sea level rising up to a metre.  This alone would present an existential threat to civilisation.  With tipping points being passed in the Arctic, intervention becomes even more extremely urgent.

We suggest that the G20 should initiate an international project, with the Manhattan project’s focus and intensity, in order to determine and implement the optimum strategy for keeping the planet safe for future generations.  Committing to CO2 reductions is not enough.  An international collaboration, demonstrably in the interests of all humanity, could be a binding force for all nations to come together in peace and common purpose.


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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on July 07, 2017, 06:35:05 pm
Climate Scientist Paul Beckwith (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F19.gif&hash=3f9f2fc2285bc756137e21463bc2a4c420b15ac3) discusses the mechanism of methane explosions

Published on Jul 2, 2017

No place on Earth is warming faster than the high Arctic, and Siberia is rapidly changing before our very eyes. Along with reports on Siberian locals having swimsuit skiing day, papers are headlining new crater formation from methane explosions.

https://youtu.be/BAtupbr80pE

https://paulbeckwith.net/

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on July 07, 2017, 08:15:25 pm
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The Gary Null radio show tells it like it is. In the second half of this show, you will learn what we are in store for in an ice free planet. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-150715183719.png&hash=7b222546f30a032efc31223d85eea0535ed42a49)

It is an on-air health forum featuring knowledgeable guests and well-researched scientific information that is presented objectively and in layperson's terms. The program's combination of provocative interviews, controversial commentary, and listener call-ins motivate listeners to change their lives for the better.  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-080515182559.png&hash=d4dfa952fa0f817bf30a8059a4c88d6fb05ee1bf)

This is the June 15, 2017 show.

Listen here:

http://tunein.com/topic/?topicId=114567159

As opposed to the reality based scientist interviewed above, the profit over planet Cretins in various countries are salivating at the coming 'Arctic Economic Bonanza' (SEE BELOW).    (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Facigar.gif&hash=dc9dccf92c6c88c99611b06c86d92629d69f2978)  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Fpirates5B15D_th.gif&hash=32438e1ed2c4d1823d4ed2a193286525c840a605)(https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F126fs2277341.gif&hash=1a8375f11d76a653bcb48e30eaa7b652175f029d)

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on July 08, 2017, 06:34:27 pm
 
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Climate Change Is Driver Behind June 2017 Heatwave (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Ffox.graphics%2Ffiles%2Fflame-icon-vector.jpg&hash=49a29f2de7e63d0eb664c00375c037082b2c535d) In Europe

July 8th, 2017 by James Ayre

SNIPPET:

Climate change, and more specifically the overall warming of the global climate, was a noted driver of the recent June 2017 heatwave in Europe, according to a new analysis from researchers involved with Climate Central’s World Weather Attribution program and partners.

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Unfortunately, what was a debilitating heatwave in 2017 will be nothing special fairly soon. In other words, this June’s heatwave in Europe will be typical of the month before too long, certainly before the end of the century. And a European heatwave in a few decades will be significantly worse than the one in 2017.

FULL ARTICLE:

https://cleantechnica.com/2017/07/08/climate-change-driver-behind-june-2017-heatwave-europe/
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on July 08, 2017, 08:22:43 pm
Recent Violent Floods, a Gas Pipeline Explosion and Dead Sea Drying  :(

This happened on our Earth 3-4 July 2017  :(

World of Signs

https://youtu.be/mJkMfwv97to

Published on Jul 4, 2017

If you have any events you want to share that are similar to my content you can send them in via my whatsapp contact: (+49)017686237973

Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on July 08, 2017, 08:46:40 pm
This happened on our Earth 7-8 July 2017  :o

World of Signs


https://youtu.be/WUav-EwjSUM


Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on July 09, 2017, 01:18:21 pm
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Climate Change and Arctic Oil  :P
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on July 10, 2017, 06:25:10 pm
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A firefighter maneuvers his vehicle down a private road as the Alamo fire burns near Santa Maria on Saturday.


The Alamo fire, near Highway 166 in northern Santa Barbara County, has grown to more than 23,000 acres near the San Luis Obispo County line, Cal Fire said Sunday. At least 200 people threatened by the blaze were evacuated from a remote area east of Santa Maria.

The Whittier fire near Lake Cachuma, about 35 miles south, has scorched about 7,800 acres, according to officials with Los Padres National Forest.

In Butte County, north of Sacramento, the Wall fire has burned 4,400 acres and destroyed 10 structures, while threatening hundreds more, according to Cal Fire. Four injuries have been reported.

Evacuation orders remain in effect throughout the area, officials said. The fire, which started Friday, is 17% contained.

The Winter fire in nearby Yolo County has burned 1,800 acres and is 25% contained, officials said. Mandatory evacuation orders have been issued in some areas.

In Santa Barbara County, water-dropping helicopters and retardant-dropping air tankers aided some 1,000 firefighters from across the state who were scrambling to contain the Alamo fire, the largest active fire in the state. Columns of smoke could be seen from miles away as the fire outraced efforts to contain it, at one point growing by more than 3,000 acres over a four-hour period Friday.

“Low humidity, high heat and the winds are right — and there’s just a lot of stuff to burn,” said Santa Barbara County spokeswoman Gina DePinto. She said firefighters’ main focus Saturday was to secure the south and east sides of the blaze. If winds from the northeast shift toward the northwest, as expected, homes could burn, she said.

If the Alamo fire crosses Tepusquet Canyon, it could push farther east into an area of the Los Padres National Forest that burned in 2009, which might help slow the fire because the brush and the trees are relatively young, officials said.

But between the high temperatures and changing winds, Cal Fire spokesman Chris Elms said, the fire fight will be tough regardless of the fuel.

"It's off to the races," Elms said of the fire's growth.

The Alamo fire was 10% contained as of Sunday morning, officials said.

The fire near Lake Cachuma, called the Whittier fire, was burning on both sides of Highway 154 and initially left some 80 campers trapped at the Circle V Ranch Camp. But U.S. Forest Service firefighters reached the group, which was sheltering in place, said Capt. Dave Zaniboni of the Santa Barbara County Fire Department.

The fire, which started about 2 p.m. Saturday, lies in an area filled with oaks, Chamise brush, Manzanita shrubs and ceanothus plants that haven’t burned since 1955, said Gary Helming, the battalion chief for the U.S. Forest Service in Los Padres National Forest.

"The brush is tall and thick," he said. "We have very active burn conditions. We are seeing rapid and large growth."

By Saturday evening, the Whittier fire had reached the top of the Santa Ynez mountain range and flames could be seen from Goleta, north of Santa Barbara. The fire, which is 5% contained, has burned 20 structures on both sides of Highway 154, officials said.

Sarah Gustafson, who moved from Washington to California seven months ago, lives in the shadow of the Santa Ynez Mountains down a winding road between Lake Cachuma and San Marcos Pass off Highway 154.

She said she was getting her tires changed on the Santa Barbara side of the mountains Saturday when she saw a pillar of smoke rise on the other side of the mountain.

Gustafson, who works at a veterinary hospital, panicked: Her six beloved cats were trapped at home.

"It was my worst-case scenario," she said. "I wasn't home, I wasn't able to get there and I had to evacuate."

Once her tires were secure she navigated around road closures and made her way over the mountain range along Old San Marcos Road as the fire exploded from 300 to more than 3,000 acres along a stretch of forest that fire officials said had not burned since 1955.

"It was terrifying," she said. "The sky was orange and black, you could see flames up on the ridge. When I got home it was smokey with ash."

The fire was still a ways away and she managed to cram her six cats — Severus, Malfoy, Mama, Smee, Nibbles, and her kitten Gidget — into cat containers then into a Toyota Solara for the race back to Santa Barbara.

She spent the night in the parking lot of the Red Cross shelter set up at San Marcos High School in Santa Barbara with her cats, a portable DVD player and Season 6 of “The Simpsons” to keep her company.

It was her first fire.

"It all happened in a matter of hours," she said.

Nearby in the parking lot, Jerome and Caroline Clemenceau, who are from the western Vendee region of France, sipped coffee and ate cereal with their two daughters in their rented recreational vehicle.

The married couple, both 42, had spent five months traveling the United States from the Gulf Coast in Florida and Louisiana to Arches National Park in Utah and Mesa Verde National Park.

They wrapped things up in California, taking in Yosemite before ending their trip camping along the Santa Ynez River.

They spent the day sightseeing in Santa Barbara when a huge cloud of smoke came up over the mountain.

"We have never seen that kind of thing before," Jerome said.

"There was ash falling on our car, the sun was red -- suddenly we couldn't see anything. It was strange," his wife said. "It was very impressive."

Fernando Salazar, a biologist from Colombia, and his daughter Veronica Salazar, who recently graduated from MIT, didn't know what to make of the smoke plume at first.

"We thought it was smog," he said.

The pair darted up the hill from Santa Barbara in their rental car to the Los Prietos campground in Los Padres National Forest to retrieve their camping gear.

"It was an inferno," Salazar said. "The sky was beautiful, the sun was red."

The pair had seen Yellowstone, Yosemite and points in between during their road trip.

"And we end it with a fire," he said.

Farther south, downtown Los Angeles hit a record high of 98 degrees Saturday, beating out the 131-year-old record of 95 degrees set in 1886, according to the National Weather Service.

Record-high temperatures were also recorded in Long Beach, 96 degrees, and Burbank, 105, while Palmdale tied its record of 110. Woodland Hills also reported a temperature of 110.

The San Fernando Valley was especially hard hit by triple-digit temperatures. By 3 p.m., the mercury registered 107 degrees at Lake Balboa, near Encino.

The heat, humidity and beating sun gave park visitors plenty to complain about.

"Man, it’s brutal out here," said a shirtless man carrying a cooler back to his truck.

Meanwhile, an explosion at a power plant in the San Fernando Valley caused a fire that burned for hours Saturday, knocked out traffic lights, stranded people in elevators and left about 140,000 customers without power, officials said.

The power outages hit businesses and residents in Northridge, Winnetka, Reseda, Lake Balboa, Tarzana, North Hills, Granada Hills, Chatsworth, West Hills, Canoga Park and Woodland Hills, according to the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power. It was unknown when power would be restored.

Residents of an apartment complex near the DWP plant on Parthenia Street in Northridge reported hearing a loud explosion at the plant just before 7 p.m., and firefighters arrived to find a gigantic container of mineral oil – used as a cooling agent for electrical equipment – on fire, said Los Angeles Fire Department spokesman Brian Humphrey.

Humphrey said firefighters had controlled the blaze by 8:30 p.m. and were able to extinguish the flames by 9 p.m. “These were fierce flames, with smoke towering more than 300 feet into the sky,” Humphrey said.

No one was injured. He said mechanical failure related to cooling equipment might have caused the explosion, though the investigation was still young.

Power was fully restored to all DWP customers Sunday morning.

Temperatures in Los Angeles should begin cooling on Sunday by as much as 5 to 10 degrees in some areas, with the trend continuing over the next few days, said Hall, the meteorologist. The coast is expected to cool to the mid-70s and downtown to the mid-80s during the same period, he said.

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-fire-and-heat-20170708-story.html (http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-fire-and-heat-20170708-story.html)
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on July 11, 2017, 06:06:32 pm
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Jet Stream Shift South Can Take Out Larsen C

Paul Beckwith

https://youtu.be/pNBF0JqqcAc

Published on Jul 10, 2017

Following up on my previous jet stream video, I now discuss how a slight southward shift of the Southern Hemisphere jet stream can nudge the 10% section of the Larsen C ice shelf that is poised to break off, seaward, and essentially rip it off the main ice shelf.

Do we really want to risk everything on our planet by allowing abrupt climate change to proceed unchecked? (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2F1.bp.blogspot.com%2F-TzWpwHzCvCI%2FT_sBEnhCCpI%2FAAAAAAAAME8%2FIsLpuU8HYxc%2Fs1600%2Fnooo-way-smiley.gif&hash=b8545bd420b1e2f2c7b9f665d2093523e4ad2251)
 NOT ME(https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F301.gif&hash=0291ed4abf2d80e420d1aa00d4eb3c5dd6bbfb53). We cannot roll over and succumb, like we are doing. We must declare a global climate emergency, as the first step to concerted action for climate restoration.   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fcliparts.co%2Fcliparts%2FBig%2FEgq%2FBigEgqBMT.png&hash=e7eec62f009cdd686ce795fad0a53c6befe748e9)

Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on July 11, 2017, 09:02:50 pm
Even Climate Scientists Are Now Revealing Their Fears For The Future! CLIMATE CHANGE TRUTH

https://youtu.be/eugO8yPVz4w

Published on Jul 4, 2017

'Science march' to challenge Denier's climate change views. - Many Climate scientists reveal their fears for the future - Scientists Fear Climate Change Will Soon Turn Deadly.

Watch the video to see all these and many more...

Don't forget to subscribe for upcoming videos - Richard Aguilar
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on July 14, 2017, 12:31:04 pm
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Tomorrow is Yesterday...

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Sea Surface Temperature Anomaly
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The 6th Mass Extinction Event is here * Geologic History shows why CO2 caused Global Warming before (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-070814193155.png&hash=144ce9330e49ee84060db8753a8db69c39a14913)
Marc Haneburght

Published on Jun 1, 2017

Runaway Climate Change is causing exponential major flooding (happening now) due to more heavy rainfall on Earth, and are taking too much nutrients by rivers into the oceans, creating anoxia events. A deadly purple sulfur bacteria. Too much is never a good thing. It's what made oil deposits happen in the past.

In the past the dinosaurs roamed the planet during the start of an extinction event, now it will be us. The next clever beings might learn in time what we did wrong, maybe not.

The planet might turn into Mars because of nobody being at the controls of nuclear power plants that will destroy the ozone with massive amounts of radiation.

Oceanic anoxic events or anoxic events (anoxia conditions) refer to intervals in the Earth's past where portions of oceans become depleted in oxygen (O2) at depths over a large geographic area. During some of these events, euxinia, waters that contained H2S hydrogen sulfide, developed. Although anoxic events have not happened for millions of years, the geological record shows that they happened many times in the past.

Anoxic events coincided with several mass extinctions and may have contributed to them. These mass extinctions include some that geobiologists use as time markers in biostratigraphic dating. Many geologists believe oceanic anoxic events are strongly linked to slowing of ocean circulation, climatic warming, and elevated levels of greenhouse gases.

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https://youtu.be/XY4mH6tokBE

*Agelbert NOTE: MUST SEE video! (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F301.gif&hash=0291ed4abf2d80e420d1aa00d4eb3c5dd6bbfb53) To skip ancient history, begin at the 32 minute mark.

This video is tremendously educational and instructive because it demonstrates exactly how our scientists accurately determined CO2 levels in the distant past, as long ago as 200 million years, when today's oil deposits are believed to have been formed.

How did they do it? ??? They found 200 million year old fossils of a plant called a Ginko, that did NOT "evolve" AT ALL  ;D, all the way to the present (leaf structure is identical to modern Ginko leaves).

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Permian Ginko leaf fossil on left  - Modern Ginko Leaf on right

The Ginko has pores in the underside of the leaves. The number of pores it forms is a function, as has been determined by empirical evidence, of the available atmospheric CO2. IOW, the more  CO2, the more pores.

The fossilized Ginkos leaf pore totals, exactly as the leaf pore totals of modern Ginko test plants grown in increasingly higher CO2 containing atmospheres, evidence 4 times the CO2 level of pre-industrial human civilization. THAT was an ice free world.

HOWEVER, that was NOT a "tropical paradise", as the fossil fuel fascist propagandist crooks and liars want you to believe. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.coh2.org%2Fimages%2FSmileys%2Fhuhsign.gif&hash=3732d0427be65896527fc3805c5be54a33cffd3b)

Once the ice is GONE, some death dealing chemical processes begin until just about every macroscopic oxygen breathing life form is dead. It begins with the death of most of the species populating the Marine Trophic Pyramid. HOW? ???

When the ice is gone, the ocean currents that circulate oxygen throughout the oceanic depths in a 500 year cycle come to a HALT. This makes more and more parts of the ocean anoxic, so all the oxygen breathers die or flee closer to the still oxygenated shallows.

Meanwhile, the high CO2 levels acidify the oceans, killing off the Oxygen producing phytoplankton (can't make their Calcium Carbonate structure - like mollusks also can't - despite having more CO2 "food" available) that had become widespread with the early initial increase of CO2 levels (see massive algae blooms going on as we speak).

The dead Phytoplankton begin to sink through the shallows, triggering bacterial feeding frenzy activity of a type of purple bacteria that decomposes phytoplankton, hates oxygen, but needs sunlight (it uses the sun but excretes H2S - Hydrogen sulfide poisonous gas, not  oxygen).

So THEN the shallows become anoxic too. Then what is left of the oxygen breathers die. This not "just evolution", as the idiots who compare our fossil fuel based civilization's stupid and suicidal greedy activity to massive volcanic eruptions, as if  humans have as little free will as a volcano, ridiculously claim. But the imbeciles who wish to perpetuate the fossil fuel burning status quo frequently resort to this craven attempt to avoid responsibility for the harm being done. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-200714183337.bmp&hash=fd5a6df63c32bd65dda7b6d93e788647ca3829df)

Allowing the CO2 to get so high that it triggers the death of most marine life is Genocidal Criminal Negligence.

https://youtu.be/3D3JWiMDtds

What just happened in the death of the Great Barrier reef is just the beginning of the heating process resulting from too much CO2. There is still a lot of ice. There is still oceanic circulation and oxygenation.

But ALREADY, JUST THE HEAT is killing the most important marine life nurseries in the oceans. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-070814193155.png&hash=144ce9330e49ee84060db8753a8db69c39a14913)

Sea Surface Temperature Anomaly
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SO WHAT, you might ask. The dinosaurs were around for millions of years. Don't we have lots of time too?   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F126fs3187425.gif&hash=698371058827d6a11faaaa56c2531639421f9477)

WHY? ???

Because the RATE we are putting CO2 in the atmosphere is THOUSANDS of TIMES FASTER than when the massive volcanic eruptions caused CO2 triggered extinctions!

When the  ice is gone and that rotten egg  smell from ubiquitous  Hydrogen sulfide poisonous gas reaches your nostrils, expect a VERY brief growth industry in canned oxygen.  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-311013200859.png&hash=a7aaaa9f04c1e3e2c948723b5f8c13fe814dacd4) (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Fdesertsmile.gif&hash=293fbde1c87dec2d81c5907e3fbac7d8e5bba7a9) But don't expect the Fossil Fuel Fascist "industry"   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-140415130805.png&hash=23d2e6dc6311a26c399bf0cb60868bcff2781a58) to admit they destroyed the biosphere for short term profit.

Coming soon to your home: DOOM WEEK ON PLANET EARTH
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The Fossil Fuelers   DID THE Climate Trashing, human health depleting CRIME,   but since they have ALWAYS BEEN liars and conscience free crooks, they are trying to AVOID   DOING THE TIME or     PAYING THE FINE!     Don't let them get away with it! Pass it on!    (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F176.gif&hash=121533221905789c6b8d57a9603883266d349266)
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on July 15, 2017, 12:48:18 pm
Abrupt Climate Mayhem Now, in Spite of Main-Stream-Climatologist Posturing

https://youtu.be/M2KLqSq8O9E

Paul Beckwith

Published on Jul 13, 2017

Quite frankly, I am sick and tired of people, especially main-stream-talking-head-scientists, downplaying the huge unprecedented threats that are accumulating daily and will soon take down our civilizations. Our world is one that is full of specialists, with no ability to join-the-dots and recognize that humanities existence, and that of our entire ecosystems of plants and animals is degrading rapidly. Even exponentially.  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F301.gif&hash=0291ed4abf2d80e420d1aa00d4eb3c5dd6bbfb53)
 

From my chair, I categorically state that anybody who downplays the significance and importance of our planets peril is part of the problem, and needs to get with the program or step aside so that the rest of us can do what is needed. The public needs the truth, no matter how bad it is to have any hope of changing course. And the truth is truly awful, at present


Mass Animal Die-Offs from Abrupt Climate Mayhem

https://youtu.be/kMuhjPWyHW0

Published on Jul 13, 2017

Accelerating, abrupt climate change is an enormous threat to humanity, as outlined in the well written, long-overdue article "Uninhabited" published in New York Magazine. But it is even worse for non-human animals and plants. At least we regulate our body temperatures and some of us have access to air-conditioning.

What about animals that have body temperatures the same as their surroundings? Their metabolic rate doubles with a temperature rise of 18 F (10 C). Even a 2 C rise (Paris Agreement) increases metabolism 20%, decreasing lifetime 20%. Many species around our planet are today undergoing mass die-offs.

To me, it appears that Earth is losing its ability to sustain life, under the onslaught of human stupidity. Countries are dropping like dominos as infrastructure is decimated from abrupt climate change induced extreme weather.
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on July 17, 2017, 05:03:35 pm
Greenhouse Gases Are Rapidly Changing the Atmosphere

By Brian Kahn

SNIPPET:

Published: July 13th, 2017
Humanity’s grand experiment in the atmosphere continues, and a new report documents just how far it’s gone.

On Tuesday, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration released its annual index of 20 key greenhouse gases. It shows that their direct influence on the climate has risen 140 percent since 1750, with 40 percent of that rise coming in just the past 26 years. That increase is almost entirely due to human activities and has caused the planet to warm 1.8°F (1°C) above pre-industrial temperatures.

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Radiative forcing, relative to 1750, of all the long-lived greenhouse gases. The NOAA annual greenhouse gas index, which is indexed to 1 for the year 1990, is shown on the right axis. Credit: NOAA

The index takes greenhouse gas measurements from about 80 ships and observatories around the world — gathered in all their parts per million and parts per billion glory — and boils them down into a simple numerical index, which defines the rise from 1700-1990 as 100 percent or simply 1. This year’s number: 1.4.

It’s a simple number that contains multitudes. For example, carbon dioxide's influence on the climate has increased 54 percent overall since 1990. The four other major greenhouse gases in the index, which include nitrous oxide, methane and two types of chlorofluorocarbons, are responsible for 42 percent of the increase with 15 minor greenhouse gases accounting for the missing 4 percent.

Carbon dioxide has risen rapidly in the atmosphere, with 2016 marking the second-largest annual increase ever observed at the Mauna Loa Observatory, the world’s main measuring station.

Full article with another eye opening graphic: (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-310714182509.png&hash=7a8191a3d5ff15c51ad36a342a0cd50a90b956bd)

http://www.climatecentral.org/news/greenhouse-gases-atmosphere-21618

Agelbert NOTE: We go full Renewable energy or we are toast.

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on July 19, 2017, 12:55:22 pm
Schroders Launches Climate Progress Dashboard, Tracks Current Course Of 4°C Warming

Global asset manager Schroders has launched its own Climate Progress Dashboard which it has designed to provide investors “a unique insight” into the global progress towards limiting global warming to the 2°C target and the overall progress of the transition to a low-carbon global economy.

July 19th, 2017 by Joshua S Hill

SNIPPET:

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Currently, and somewhat disturbingly, the Dashboard predicts — based on all 12 of the indicators — that Earth is on course to see a temperature rise of 4°C above pre-industrial levels, and double the Paris Climate Agreement. Specifically, according to Schroders, while “global political action points to a 3.6°C temperature rise, current oil and gas production is running at a level consistent with temperature rises twice that level, highlighting the risks that remain inherent in energy companies.”

Unsurprisingly, Schroders also points to the recent decision by US President Donald Trump to withdraw his country from the Paris Climate Agreement.

https://cleantechnica.com/2017/07/19/schroders-launches-climate-progress-dashboard-tracks-current-course-4c-warming/ (https://cleantechnica.com/2017/07/19/schroders-launches-climate-progress-dashboard-tracks-current-course-4c-warming/)

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COMMENTS:  8)

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Steve_S
2C is what they are calling as an "average" but that is not reality. Some areas are already seeing increases far beyond that, as yet, I have not seen a single report that indicates any temperature drops occurring anywhere on this planet.

Considering the vastness of our Oceans and the fact that they are warming every year which requires an extreme amount of energy to do so AND while there is billions of litres of Glacier / Ice Melt dumping in which is a cooler simultaneously, what are we "Bargaining" here ?

Simple enough... Take a pot, put 1 litre of cold water in it and set it on the stove to boil. Takes only a minute or two and voila.... Triple the amount of water & the longer it takes... Start tossing in ice cubes while attempting to boil it, it will take much longer to gain temp... A LOT of heat has to be applied to keep a Temp Increase WHILE adding cold to it !!! Come on, basic grade school science covers this (well used to anyways).

IF you stopped everything that increases global temps TODAY, the momentum / inertia that we have put into affecting the climate, will continue to carry the rising temps forward unabated for decades.

If a 50 Tonne freight car on a rail track is pushed manually to a speed of 15kmh by two men, it takes a while but will get there, now take those two men and set them in front and try to stop it, what happens ? splat ! Will it take 20 ? 30 ? 100? to stop that 50 tonne railcar ? Our Planet, the "Gold Fish bowl" we live in is far more than 50 Tonnes and it took far more than 2 burly lads pushing it to this point.... It will take many many more to stop it.

agelbert > Steve_S
Excellent and accurate analysis of the sad situation we are in. Thank you.
 
Freddy D
Project Drawdown lays out a comprehensive plan to reverse global warming (not just slow emissions). 80 feasible and economical solutions to restore greenhouse gases to a sustainable state.

Well worth a look. EVs are part of the overall solution for sure, but only 6%.

Kurt Lowder > Freddy D
do you agree though that EVs will make batteries much cheaper so they are vital to make battery storage affordable enough for 100% renewable power.

Freddy D  > Kurt Lowder
Absolutely and Project Drawdown shows how 100% renewable energy is 24% of the overall solution. And that cheaper batteries enables that. Oh, it also lays out how much cheaper that will be than today's approach.

It's a great analysis and well worth a look.

agelbert > Freddy D
Excellent! Now THAT is what I call responsible behavior!


What it Means to be Responsible (http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/climate-change/future-earth/msg3867/#msg3867)
Reflections on Our Responsibility for the Future

Kurt Lowder
i do not think we will get anywhere near 4 degrees celcius. I have seen prices of renewables, batteries, and EVs fall so fast. we are just getting to the point where all these technologies start to take off. we have barely started up the S-curve.
 

agelbert  > Kurt Lowder
I wish I could agree with you, because you are certainly right about the acceleration of the transition to renewables. The problem is that, as Steve_S points out in another comment, in order to stop the climate change inertia at 2C, you have to have stopped emitting GHG pollutants DECADES AGO!

The only way we can keep the lid at 2C, which incredibly dangerous in itself, by the way, is to have some sort of massive international program to reduce our CO2 PPM back to 350 PPM within about 50 years.

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There is absolutely no evidence that major world governments have the will to stop polluting (i.e. ADDING CO2 towards 4C PLUS!), never mind financing the reduction of CO2 (e.g. massive duckweed ponding on deserts to jack up CO2 absorption and eventually reduce it to 350 PPM) and other GHG pollutants.

If the governments of the world acted responsibly, this is what they would do:



Reflections on Our Responsibility for the Future
What it Means to be Responsible (http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/climate-change/future-earth/msg3867/#msg3867)


André Balsa
I think it's important to note that the Schroders "Climate Progress Dashboard" is NOT a scientific tool or model to predict global warming.
The IPCC does provide us with reports which are based on the best current climate science which provide different global warming scenarios according to possible future emissions, usually "low", "medium", "business as usual" and "high" emissions.
4C warming is consistent with the "business as usual" scenario.
It is the responsibility of our generation and of financial institutions such as Schroders to make sure we implement as soon as possible public policies to reduce emissions to levels compatible with the "low" scenario.
 
agelbert  > André Balsa
No, 4C is NOT consistent with the "business as usual" scenario. IPCC modelling is ridiculously low balling the RCPs (Representative Concentration Pathways). WHY? Because they exclude several positive feedback loops that are now being observed. The amount of ice melt we NOW have was predicted for 2050! And that is in RCP 8.5 ("business as usual"). And they admit the ice melt from Greenland hasn't even been included in any of the models!

Furthermore, the temperature rise, as well as the RATE of temperature and the RATE of increased ocean acidification predicted in RCP 8.5 are much lower than our present reality. The other "less severe" RCPs are simply wishful thinking happy talk BECAUSE "economic" considerations (Lawyers from various countries, including the USA, MODIFIED all the RCPs AFTER the IPCC scientists submitted them and BEFORE they were published to "protect" GDP among various polluter nations).


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The line with the number "1" is the IPCC RCP-8.5 scenario. The temperature increases in lines 2 and 3 ARE NOT in the IPCC RCP-8.5 scenario.

Business as usual is a death sentence for over 75% (or more) of life on Earth.

CHANGES IN THE ARCTIC AND THEIR CLIMATE FEEDBACK IMPLICATIONS: Interview with Scott Goetz

https://youtu.be/NDxw0PcRgE0 (https://youtu.be/NDxw0PcRgE0)


The people that defend business as usual are deluded. There is evidence, which I presented in an article (see below), that even the RCP-8.5 scenario is too conservative.

Climate Change, Blue Water Cargo Shipping and Predicted Ocean Wave Activity: PART 1 of 3 (http://www.dailykos.com/story/2017/6/18/1671829/-Climate-Change-Blue-Water-Cargo-Shipping-and-Predicted-Ocean-Wave-Activity-Part-1-of-3)
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on July 20, 2017, 12:55:44 pm
Grows FAST in almost all geographic areas, at nearly any altitude = SOLUTION to Global Warming!   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fcliparts.co%2Fcliparts%2FBig%2FEgq%2FBigEgqBMT.png&hash=e7eec62f009cdd686ce795fad0a53c6befe748e9)

Agelbert NOTE: Although the following post is about duckweed as a bio-fuel source, it is just as important, if not more so, to understand that duckweed is the ONLY plant out there that could actually lower the amount of CO2 in our atmosphere. This, of course, would be contingent on the banning of the burning of fossil fuels. We know the corrupted powers that be don't want to do that.  >:( But even if they don't, they will soon be FORCED to seek out the plant that is most likely to "sequester Carbon" (what a ridiculous bit of jargon for absorption of CO2!) at a rate that could start us on the way back to 280PPM of CO2 (Pre-industrial levels).

The geo-engineering techno-fix fossil fuel industry SCAM simply will not work. But the fossil fuel industry corrupted governments all over the world will probably try it, which will certainly make some people rich while it makes things worse for the biosphere. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-200714183337.bmp&hash=fd5a6df63c32bd65dda7b6d93e788647ca3829df)

A massive Duckweed production campaign all over presently non-arable land areas would work IF if  banned the burning fossil fuels completely.

That would be the intelligent and prudent thing to do.

So, we can count on our fossil fuel industry corrupted governments to NOT do it.  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-200714183337.bmp&hash=fd5a6df63c32bd65dda7b6d93e788647ca3829df)

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https://youtu.be/AVogwEYXGLo

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Pond-dwelling powerhouse’s genome points to its biofuel potential


Duckweed is a tiny floating plant that’s been known to drive people daffy. It’s one of the smallest and fastest-growing flowering plants   ;D that often becomes a hard-to-control weed in ponds and small lakes. But it’s also been exploited to clean contaminated water and as a source to produce pharmaceuticals. Now, the genome of Greater Duckweed (Spirodela polyrhiza) has given this miniscule plant’s potential as a biofuel source a big boost. In a paper published February 19, 2014 in the journal Nature Communications, researchers from Rutgers University, the Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute and several other facilities detailed the complete genome of S. polyrhiza and analyzed it in comparison to several other plants, including rice and tomatoes.

Duckweed, a small, common plant that grows in ponds and stagnant waters, is an ideal candidate as a biofuel raw material.  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F128fs318181.gif&hash=eff6d5f3831782966c2ff2081f07bf7fc5b22a6b) ;D Photo (at link) by Texx Smith, via flickr
 
Simple and primitive, a duckweed plant consists of a single small kidney-shaped leaf about the size of a pencil-top eraser that floats on the surface of the water with a few thin roots underwater. It grows in almost all geographic areas, at nearly any altitude. Although it’s a flowering plant, it only rarely forms small indistinct flowers on the underside of its floating leaves. Most of the time, it reproduces by budding off small leaves that are clones of the parent leaf. It often forms thick mats on the edges of ponds, quiet inlets of lakes and in marshes. It’s among the fastest growing plants, able to double its population in a couple of days under ideal conditions. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F170fs799081.gif&hash=ec7f929a28b215e9c00ec270a26b830d596920b2)

These and other properties make it an ideal candidate as a biofuel feedstock – a raw source for biofuel production. For example, unlike plants on land, duckweeds don’t need to hold themselves upright or transport water from distant roots to their leaves, so they’re a relatively soft and pliable plant, containing tiny amounts of woody material such as lignin and cellulose. Removing these woody materials from feedstock has been a major challenge in biofuel production. Also, although they are small enough to grow in many environments, unlike biofuel-producing microbes, duckweed plants are large enough to harvest easily. ;D

S. polyrhiza turns out to have one of the smallest known plant genomes, at about 158 million base pairs and fewer than 20,000 protein-encoding genes. That’s 27 percent fewer than Arabidopsis thaliana – which, until recently, was believed to be the smallest plant genome – and nearly half as many as rice plants.

Spirodela is one of the smallest plants in the world. Here (at the link)it is displayed with other comparable plants.

 
“The most surprising find was insight into the molecular basis for genes involved in maturation – a forever-young lifestyle,” said senior author Joachim Messing, director of the Waksman Institute of Microbiology at Rutgers University.

S. polyrhiza leaves resemble cotyledons, embryonic leaves inside plant seeds that become the first leaves after germination. But where other plants develop other kinds of leaves as they mature, S. polyrhiza’s never progresses and continuously produces cotyledon leaves. This prolonging of juvenile traits is called “neoteny.” S. polyrhiza had fewer genes to promote and more genes to repress the switch from juvenile to mature growth.

“Because of the reduction in neoteny, there is an arrest in development and differentiation of organs. So this arrest allowed us to uncover regulatory networks that are required for differentiation and development,” Messing said.

Also intriguing to the research team were which genes were preserved over time and which were not. Many of the genes responsible for cellulose and lignin production in land dwelling plants were missing, (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.clker.com%2Fcliparts%2Fc%2F8%2Ff%2F8%2F11949865511933397169thumbs_up_nathan_eady_01.svg.hi.png&hash=599691109af22b33f1d59dd61eb97448a9427020)  and there were fewer copies of those that were present. Genes for another compound related to cell walls called “expansins” which are involved with cell wall and root growth were also reduced.

Genes for starch production, on the other hand, were retained and are probably used for creating starch-filled turions, specialized buds produced by aquatic plants for overwintering, enabling them sink to the bottom of ponds and revive in warmer weather. Moreover, despite the reduced number of total genes, S. polyrhiza has more copies of genes for enzymes involved in nitrogen absorption and metabolism than in other plants. This is probably linked to the plant’s ability to utilize excess nitrogen in contaminated waters. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.clker.com%2Fcliparts%2Fc%2F8%2Ff%2F8%2F11949865511933397169thumbs_up_nathan_eady_01.svg.hi.png&hash=599691109af22b33f1d59dd61eb97448a9427020)


A thorough understanding of the genome and cellular mechanisms of S. polyrhiza could greatly enhance current efforts to recruit duckweed as a biofuel source. Messing estimates that duckweed will be a viable biofuel source within the next five years and points to Ceres Energy Group in New Jersey, which is already producing electricity from duckweed. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F19.gif&hash=3f9f2fc2285bc756137e21463bc2a4c420b15ac3) Understanding which genes produce which traits will allow researchers to create new varieties of duckweed with enhanced biofuel traits, such as increased reduction of cellulose or increased starch or even higher lipid production. Starch can be directly used as a biofuel source and it can be converted to ethanol, the way corn is currently converted to ethanol fuel, but oils would have greater energy than ethanol.

Duckweed is a relatively simple plant with fronds that float on the surface of the water and roots that extend into the water. In the flask on the left, you can see the dormant phase, turions, that have dropped to the bottom. Photo (at link) by Wenquin Wang
 
“Classical breeding or genetics does not apply here because of its clonal propagation and rare flowering, but these organisms can be transformed with DNA,” Messing said. “Therefore, new variants can be created with modified pathways for industrial applications. These variants would be an enhancement over what can be done now.”

This genome was sequenced as part of a DOE Office of Science JGI Community Science Program (CSP) project (formerly the Community Sequencing Program). It exemplifies the collaborative approach and innovative projects that the CSP enables among researchers. Messing pointed to the study’s advances over previous research.

“The sequencing of this genome opens new frontiers in the molecular biology of aquatic plants,” said Messing. “This publication represents the single largest advance in this field and a new milestone in plant molecular biology and evolution, as previous studies were either classical botany or biochemistry of photosynthesis. The placement of the Spirodela genome as a basal monocot species will serve as a new reference for all flowering plants.”

A video interview with Messing on the promise of duckweed can be found here:
https://youtu.be/PLVPfoKw2rs

The authors on the publication also include researchers from MIPS/IBIS, Helmholtz Center Munich, Germany; University of California, Davis; Georgia Institute of Technology; Brookhaven National Laboratory; Donald Danforth Plant Science Center; University of Jena, Germany, HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology; and the Leibniz-Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), Germany.

The DOE Joint Genome Institute has announced a new call for letters of intent for the 2015 Community Science Program, due April 10, 2014. Details of the 2015 CSP call can be found at: http://bit.ly/CSP-15.

The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, supported by the DOE Office of Science, is committed to advancing genomics in support of DOE missions related to clean energy generation and environmental characterization and cleanup. DOE JGI, headquartered in Walnut Creek, Calif., provides integrated high-throughput sequencing and computational analysis that enable systems-based scientific approaches to these challenges. Follow @doe_jgi on Twitter.

DOE’s Office of Science is the largest supporter of basic research in the physical sciences in the United States, and is working to address some of the most pressing challenges of our time. For more information, please visit science.energy.gov.

Filed Under: News Releases
http://jgi.doe.gov/pond-dwelling-powerhouses-genome-points-biofuel-potential/
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on July 24, 2017, 02:09:45 pm
Global Average Temperature plot at two meters

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Fossil Fuel Industry reaction to the above:

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on July 24, 2017, 02:56:20 pm
Agelbert Note: Hat tip to Azozeo (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-080515182559.png&hash=d4dfa952fa0f817bf30a8059a4c88d6fb05ee1bf) for this news:

2017-07-19 - Methane oozing from melting permafrost in Canada, ground starting to resemble swiss cheese:
http://insideclimatenews.org/news/18072017/arctic-permafrost-melting-methane-emissions-geologic-sources-study

http://www.fasterthanexpected.com/2017/07/19/methane-seeps-out-as-arctic-permafrost-starts-to-resemble-swiss-cheese/

http://phys.org/news/2017-07-permafrost-greenhouse-gas.html]http://phys.org/news/2017-07-permafrost-greenhouse-gas.html

http://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-05783-2

Quote: "Global warming may be unleashing new sources of heat-trapping methane from layers of oil and gas that have been buried deep beneath Arctic permafrost for millennia.

As the Earth's frozen crust thaws, some of that gas appears to be finding new paths to the surface through permafrost that's starting to resemble Swiss cheese in some areas, scientists said. In a study released today, the scientists used aerial sampling of the atmosphere to locate methane sources from permafrost along a 10,000 square-kilometer swath of the Mackenzie River Delta in northwestern Canada, an area known to have oil and gas desposits.

Deeply thawed pockets of permafrost, the research suggests, are releasing 17 percent of all the methane measured in the region, even though the emissions hotspots only make up 1 percent of the surface area, the scientists found
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on July 24, 2017, 09:27:21 pm
Wildfires Are About to Go From Bad to Worse in California

Deluges of rain are helpful, but they can be deadly too.

DOUGLAS MAIN JUL. 24, 2017 6:00 AM

SNIPPET:

It’s the dry season for Cali, he notes, with significant rainfall not expected until the winter. The only hope for significant rains would be if some tropical storm systems from the eastern Pacific made their way north, which is possible but isn’t in the cards in the near future.

“There have been a number of systems, but they’re far south,” Weber says. “Other than that, there’s not much hope for California to get much rain, and…probably we’ll continue to see wildfires get worse.”

He adds, “We had a persistent ridge of high pressure,” which some have called a “ridge of death,” that “persisted for an unusually long time over the Southwest.” It parked itself there for most of the month and “really dried things out,” making conditions ripe for fires. It has since moved eastward over Texas and Kansas, which are now expecting record highs over the next five days or so, he added.

For what it’s worth, such persistent heat ridges are expected to be more common in a “climate change scenario,"” although one can’t point to a single weather event and say it’s due to global warming, Weber says.

Full article:

http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2017/07/wildfires-are-about-to-go-from-bad-to-worse-in-california/
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on July 24, 2017, 09:40:27 pm
MPR News Weather and its underlying science


Climate Cast™

The wildfire-climate change feedback loop

SNIPPET:

Wildfires have always been a part of the American landscape. But recent data shows some worrying links between even small climate changes and dramatic increases in wildfire activity. Just a few degrees rise in temperatures in the western U.S has exponential impacts on wildfire activity.

The data is as alarming as it is clear.

Climate Central analyzed 45 years of U.S. Forest Service records from the western U.S.. They found large fires on Forest Service land are increasing dramatically. The average number of fires over 1,000 acres each year has more than tripled since the 1970s.

This week on MPR News Climate Cast, I asked wildfire and climate expert Dr. Michael Flannigan from the University of Alberta in Canada about those trends.

Full article with audio
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http://blogs.mprnews.org/updraft/2017/07/the-wildfire-climate-change-feedback-loop/
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on July 25, 2017, 02:29:10 pm
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A precis of my take on our collective stupidity

This is a response to requests I received to clarify what I meant by “stupidity” in the following tweet:

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Meticulous and diligent research has furnished us all with a scientific understanding of how the climate works and the role of increasing atmospheric emissions on rising global temperatures.

Shamefully our responses to the challenges posed by this knowledge have been dominated by a litany of scams: Offsetting (getting the poor to diet for us); CDM (officially sanctioned offsetting); EUETS (with so many permits issued the CO2 price remains irrelevant); ‘negative emission technologies’ (sucking 100s of billions of tonnes of CO2 directly from the atmosphere) – and once we’ve acknowledged these have failed we’ll call in Dr Strangelove’s Geo-engineering.  At the same time we have stubbornly refused to try actual and meaningful mitigation? Twenty-seven years after the first IPCC report, emissions this year will be 60% higher than in 1990; abject failure despite the wealth of knowledge we’ve accrued on both the problem and what we need to do about it.

The academic community has remained pliant, the NGOs have been co-opted, the policymakers run scared of their electorate and the economists have been hoodwinked by astrology. The polarising journalists chase advertising revenue, and the public ‘want their cake and eat it’. The naked emperor has been running amuck for a quarter of a century – and we’ve all been party to her delusion.

Certainly we’ve developed a wonderful ability to detail the world as an elaborate collection of building blocks, but thus far we’ve demonstrated no similar aptitude to respond to systemic challenges. Climate change is an example par-excellence, dominated as it is by a Gatling gun of silver bullets – technocratic competitors all vying to solve the problem. There’s no recognition that our systemic malaise has regressed far beyond a soothing ointment or sticking plasters. Sadly, climate change is not the only example of our collective stupidly.  Imposing peace through aerial bombing, razor wire to control migration and our unrelenting penchant for blaming others for our own ills, all point in the wrong direction.

This collective stupidity may yet prove to be more nurture than nature – but to date the signs are not promising.

This entry was posted in Blog on July 24, 2017.

http://kevinanderson.info/blog/a-precis-of-my-take-on-our-collective-stupidity/
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on July 26, 2017, 12:47:14 pm
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on July 26, 2017, 02:23:46 pm
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LAST UPDATED ON JULY 26TH, 2017 AT 12:16 AM BY MIHAI ANDREI

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Greenland: it’s getting darker, increasing fears about global warming and sea level rise


Researchers fear that the darkening of Greenland will create a feedback loop with severe results.


The snowball effect — we often use it as a metaphor for something that starts off small but then builds up on itself more and more, until it becomes massive. Nature often works like that; after all, the snowball is, above all, a natural metaphor. But there’s more to snow than just rolling balls. Take albedo for example.

Albedo is a measure of how much solar energy the Earth (or any body for that matter) reflects back. The whiter and object is, the more energy it reflects. The darker it is, the more energy it absorbs. As you can imagine, snow is pretty white; it’s one of the whitest things on Earth. As snow melts, it exposes either the underlying rock or the vegetation that takes its place — either way, something darker. As a result, even more solar energy is absorbed and even more snow melts, and so on. This is what we call a feedback loop, and it’s what is happening nowadays in Greenland, leaving researchers extremely worried.

A five-year project called Black and Bloom wants to have a deeper look at that. They want to mix local data with computer models to predict how this change in albedo will contribute to rising sea levels. Greenland’s ice sheet alone contributes to 1mm a year to rising sea levels, and things may even be worse than we thought.

New data is showing that Greenland is riddled with dark-green patches of algae, bacteria, and minerals. Prof Martyn Tranter of Bristol University, who is leading the project, told the BBC:

“People are very worried about the possibility that the ice sheet might be melting faster and faster in the future. We suspect that in a warming climate these dark algae will grow over larger and larger parts of the Greenland ice sheet and it might well be that they will cause more melting and an acceleration of sea level rise. Our project is trying to understand just how much melting might occur.”
To make things even more complex, recent data has shown that most of this dark matter, once thought to be rock or soot, is actually biological. Algae is starting to assert dominance more and more, but for once, no one’s really happy to see natural plant life expand. How does the biological factor play into climate models, which tend to treat all factors as un-living? We don’t really know, but it might be worse.

In a paper recently published in Science Advances, Stefan Hofer, a PhD student at Bristol, analyzed data over 20 years and found a 15% decrease in cloud cover over Greenland in the summer months. This may be particularly significant considering the emerging algae. While temperature is certainly one of the main drivers of melting, clearer skies also contribute.

But clearer skies do more than just melt ice and snow, they offer more energy to the algae, which can encourage them to grow even more. It’s basically a feedback loop on steroids. The clear weather acts on two fronts, adding an extra punch to the snowball effect researchers were already predicting.

The consequences of this effect are not yet understood. Greenland’s ice sheet is up to 3km thick and would raise sea levels by seven meters if all of it would melt into the sea. Of course, no one’s saying that will happen now or in the next decades, but until 2100, global sea levels are expected to rise by several cm, and just a few cm can wreak havoc on the world’s coasts.

Journal Reference: Stefan Hofer, Andrew J. Tedstone, Xavier Fettweis and Jonathan L. Bamber — Decreasing cloud cover drives the recent mass loss on the Greenland Ice Sheet. DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.1700584

http://www.zmescience.com/science/news-science/greenland-algae-darker-25072017/
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on July 29, 2017, 12:43:36 pm
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“Drawdown” — The Definitive Guide To Combating Climate Change

July 29th, 2017 by Steve Hanley

SNIPPET:

Drawdown Surprises  :o

We here at CleanTechnica, we focus heavily on the electrification of the transportation sector. That is critically important, of course, but would you care to guess what the one area is that we as a people have total control over and that has the potential to keep more carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere than making every car and truck on the planet run on electricity?

#1 is something we have touched on here only briefly — refrigerant management. Read more about it on page 164. The authors estimate that this one area could keep nearly 90 gigatons of carbon dioxide from entering the atmosphere. Electric cars? About 4 gigatons.  :P

Here are the other 9 items on the Top 10 list and their carbon reduction potential:

Wind Turbines (Onshore) — 84.60 gigatons
Reduced Food Waste — 70.53 gigatons
Plant-rich diet — 66.11 gigatons
Tropical Forests — 61.23 gigatons
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Family Planning — 59.60 gigatons
Solar Farms — 36.90 gigatons
Silvopasture — 31.19 gigatons
Rooftop Solar — 24.60 gigatons


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With savings, people — or deferred costs. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F129fs238648.gif&hash=bbf8ad9cbaff9e7d3097c40c21a931e6649a237f) (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fcliparts.co%2Fcliparts%2FBig%2FEgq%2FBigEgqBMT.png&hash=e7eec62f009cdd686ce795fad0a53c6befe748e9) The authors estimated total economic savings at just under $74 trillion.



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The trick, of course, is that the costs come up front. The savings often come later. Human beings seem genetically incapable of making hard choices today that will have extraordinary benefits later. Deferred gratification could be the death knell for the capitalist model prevalent in most countries today. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.clker.com%2Fcliparts%2Fc%2F8%2Ff%2F8%2F11949865511933397169thumbs_up_nathan_eady_01.svg.hi.png&hash=599691109af22b33f1d59dd61eb97448a9427020)(https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-141113185047.png&hash=384024358ff8d5e7133d19b6e6638da4584a8154)

Pie-in-the-sky projections about future savings are discounted.    (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Fgen152.gif&hash=d5b10968fe56c4cb95fae17cee3cb420a5f4e2da) Either they are treated as irrelevant or derided as #FakeNews.  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-120716190938.png&hash=01feab1c7345a4e98764e0f9d24b2d69171b93c2)

The world operates on what I like to call the Wimpy Theory. Wimpy was a character in Popeye cartoons (some of you may be old enough to remember watching cartoons on television on Saturday mornings). Wimpy had one line that he used all the time. It went like this: “I will gladly pay you Tuesday for a cheeseburger today.” It’s the “kick the can down the road” theory of global management and it will kill us all if we don’t stop — all except the lucky few who can escape to Mars aboard Elon Musk’s magic carpet.  ::)

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https://cleantechnica.com/2017/07/29/drawdown-definitive-guide-combating-climate-change/ (https://cleantechnica.com/2017/07/29/drawdown-definitive-guide-combating-climate-change/)

Agelbert NOTE: I have a couple of things to say.

First of all, the contents of this article should be required reading for everyone that can read, not just students.

The issue of Deferred Gratification is not new. t is called Common Sense and every religion out there advocates it. Only the SCAM called "greed is good" Capitalism actually labels deferred gratifcation as a "weakness". That explains why Capitalism has been so morally destructive to human society and environmentally disastrous to the biosphere.

Theresa Morris wrote an excellent Essay that fleshes out what we must do. The article here deals with nuts and bolts economic realities. Theresa goes further and explains specifically WHY we should opt for deferred gratification as a matter of ethics, not just survival. I added graphics to underline the importance of her essay and some comments at the end. But the work is hers and it deserves to be broadcast far and wide, just like the article here.

I am posting here two of the graphics I included in my comments on Theresa's Essay in order to explain to readers how TPTB, who are well aware of the dangers inherent in climate change (though they won't admit it), plan to make all the rest of us pay for what those actually DOING over 90%  (about ONE percent of the world population) of the damage are liable for (i.e. environmental damage through government policies subsidizing polluters actively and passively through mendacious happy talk propaganda born of corporate corruption). (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-120716190938.png&hash=01feab1c7345a4e98764e0f9d24b2d69171b93c2)

IOW, those responsible for the damage plan to spread the cost to further enrich the oligarchic polluters that got us into this mess in the first place. The operative phrase is "Fragmentation of Agency". 

The "Agency" definition here is the responsibility for harm and the consequent responsibility to pay for mitigating said harm. 

"Fragmentation" refers to what percentage of all those with Agency in doing the harm are responsible to pay to mitigate and eventually repair said harm.

Since, according to the U.N., the richest 20% of the world's population uses 80% of the resources, the 'Fragmentation of Agency' pie chart for the damage done to the biosphere should look like this:

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The fossil fuel industry, and almost half of the world’s 100 largest companies, want that 'Fragmentation of Agency' pie chart to look like is as follows:

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The above graphic is how TPTB polluters will try to pass most of the buck away from themselves and onto we-the-people.

We either take to heart what this Cleantechnica article makes very clear and also adopt the common sense ethical recommendations of visionaries like Theresa Morris, or we are toast.

What it Means to be Responsible - Reflections on Our Responsibility for the Future  by Theresa Morris, State University of New York at New Paltz (http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/climate-change/future-earth/msg7563/#msg7563)
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on July 30, 2017, 05:52:26 pm
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Documenting Electric Utilities' Early Knowledge and Ongoing Deception on Climate Change  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-120716190938.png&hash=01feab1c7345a4e98764e0f9d24b2d69171b93c2)

Wednesday, July 26, 2017

By Staff, Energy and Policy Institute | Report

SNIPPET:
 
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Nearly 50 years after scientists began to warn the electric utility industry about climate change,  some utilities continue to stand in the way of real progress in addressing the problem. (Photo: Ed G / Flickr)

Scientists had begun to warn electric utilities about climate change by 1968, and by 1988 the industry's official research and development organization had acknowledged that, "There is growing consensus in the scientific community that the greenhouse effect is real."

Despite this early knowledge about climate change, electric utilities have continued to invest heavily in fossil fuel power generation over the past half a century, and since 1988 some have engaged in ongoing efforts to sow doubt about climate science and block legal limits on carbon dioxide emissions from power plants.

The Energy and Policy Institute's new report provides a first look into the electric utility industry's nearly 50-year long relationship with climate science, based largely on original research that reviewed scores of industry documents.

Below are just a few of the key findings from the report.

The Electric Utility Industry Was Warned About Climate Change in 1968

Dr. Donald F. Hornig, a science advisor to President Lyndon B. Johnson, warned the 1968 Annual Convention of the Edison Electric Institute about the threat that allowing CO2 emissions from burning fossil fuels to build up in the atmosphere could one day pose to the climate.

"Such a change in the carbon dioxide level might, therefore, produce major consequences on the climate -- possibly even triggering catastrophic effects such as have occurred from time to time in the past," Hornig said.

Utilities Sponsored Climate Change Research During the 1970s and 1980s

While the science on climate change was limited compared to what we know today, by 1971 electric utilities knew enough to include research into the "effects of CO2" in the industry's long-term research and development goals for through the year 2000. More than 50 electric utilities contributed to the development of these goals, as did industry associations like EEI.

Utilities, through the largely customer funded Edison Electric Institute and Electric Power Research Institute, sponsored cutting edge climate research during the 1970s and 1980s. During the 1980s, EPRI funded research by influential scientist Charles Keeling and the Scripps Institution of Oceanography that documented "virtually all that we knew at the time from measurements of atmospheric CO2." Between 1985 and 1988, EEI and EPRI co-sponsored another study which found that "climate changes possible over the next 30 years may significantly affect the electric utility industry."

A 1978 article, "CO2 and Spaceship Earth," in the EPRI Journal included this graph from Dr. Charles Keeling and the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, which showed the rise in average atmospheric CO2 levels since 1958. EPRI later sponsored the work of Keeling and Scripps during the 1980s.

Utilities Knew Long Ago That Climate Change Concerns Could Warrant a Shift Away From Fossil Fuels

"If a consensus arose that we had to limit or curtail the use of hydrocarbons because of their impact on climate, the implications would be enormous," Dr. Carroll L. Wilson, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, warned at EEI's Annual Convention in 1971.

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"If this turns out to be of major concern, then fossil fuel combustion will be essentially unacceptable, an important justification for expanding the nuclear and solar energy options," Dr. Cyril Comar, director of EPRI's environmental assessment department, told Congress in 1977.

"As consensus builds that man is changing the earth's climate, policymakers are turning their attention to the issue and exploring potential responses," the EPRI Journal reported that same year:

One page from a 1988 EPRI Journal article on "The Politics of Climate"

By 1988, electric utilities were at a critical juncture. They could either be a part of the solution to climate change, or a part of the problem.

Some Utility Interests Responded to the "Growing Consensus" on Climate Change With Disinformation

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http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/41408-utilities-had-early-knowledge-of-climate-change-nearly-50-years-of-ongoing-deception (http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/41408-utilities-had-early-knowledge-of-climate-change-nearly-50-years-of-ongoing-deception)

Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on July 31, 2017, 02:00:27 pm
Agelbert NOTE: This is a great story and the comments are educational.   

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By Tom Lewis | June 20, 2017 | Climate

“This is the Captain speaking. First, let me make this absolutely clear: there is no reason to worry.”
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On a mid-morning in May, the telephone rang in the modest home of the mayor of Tangier, a village of 470 people on tiny Tangier Island, 12 miles off the coast of Maryland in the Chesapeake Bay. It was the president of the United States calling. If you lived there, you would not know which to think more odd; that the president was calling James “Ooker” Eskridge, or that Ooker was in his house to take the call, on a fair-weather weekday, and not on the water crabbing (he had been warned the call was coming).

If you live anywhere else on the planet Earth, you will be hard put to decide which part of the ensuing conversation was the most strange.

The President had seen something on television, which is what stimulates his cumbersome thought processes. The piece on CNN documented the fact that Tangier Island was slowly but inevitably disappearing as the waters of the Bay responded to global climate change. In the mid-1800s, Tangier Island sprawled over 2,000 acres, and was home to watermelon farmers, dairymen and a variety of entrepreneurs other than watermen. By 1997, only 768 acres of land were left, 83 of them habitable. Today, the island is even smaller.

The island is losing ground because it is sinking, in response to the retreat of the glaciers that until 10,000 years ago or so bore down on the crust of New England and bulged up the crust farther south; being subjected to fiercer and more frequent storms;being immersed by water that is expanding because it is getting warmer every year, and that is being augmented by melting glaciers and ice caps around the world.[/color]

Geologists calculate that until around 1900, sea levels in the Chesapeake Bay rose at an average of three feet per thousand years, and have risen three feet in the one hundred years since. Tangier is now losing nine acres of land a year to erosion and rising tides.

All but the sinking are directly attributable to climate change, a consequence of human pollution.

All of this has been known, confirmed and re-checked for many years now, so it is perhaps not surprising that a President who has not shown himself to be especially up-to-date on the problems of the real world would be moved, on learning of the island’s predicament, to reach out. To say what, one wonders. To offer sympathy? Or support? Federal aid for the inevitable migration of the inhabitants of the island to somewhere else?

None of the above. The president called the mayor to say, and I’m quoting here, “Don’t worry about it.” The island has been there for a long time, the President astutely observed, and he expressed his confidence that the island would still be there a long time from now. The mayor should not worry, but be happy.
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So the water’s rising a hundred times faster than in previous millennia — don’t worry about it. So the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers estimates that Tangier Island will be habitable for at most another 50 years, possibly as few as 20. Why would anyone worry?

But what is truly astonishing about this conversation — the part that is breath-stopping, jaw-dropping, vertigo-inducing, stupefying — is not the consummate ignorance of the President, with which we are all now familiar, but of the Mayor, who agrees with Trump that there is nothing to worry about because there is no such thing as climate change, and the consequent rising of the seas. “I’m out there on the water every day,” says Ooker, “and I don’t see it.(https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-280515145049.png&hash=84e87515e750391c1f1bca6d6ae06485972bfa81)”

Perhaps he marks the waterline on the outside of his boat every day, and seeing no change from day to day, has concluded that the water cannot be rising.   
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By coincidence, in the same week Scientific American published a story about the struggle to save Deal Island, also in the Chesapeake Bay, from an identical onslaught by rising tides, a struggle complicated by the fact that the overwhelming majority of the inhabitants of Deal Island, just like those who live on Tangier Island — don’t believe in climate change.

It’s as if the captain of the Titanic had assembled the passengers, formed them up on the tilting deck, up to their asses in water on the silent, motionless, burbling ship and said, “Don’t you worry about a thing. This ship brought us here all the way from England and there’s no reason to think she won’t take us the rest of the way.”

Depressing enough. But what makes one truly suicidal is the way the passengers are cheering, and agreeing, and saying to each other, “That’s our kind of captain.   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Fgen152.gif&hash=d5b10968fe56c4cb95fae17cee3cb420a5f4e2da)"

 http://www.dailyimpact.net/2017/06/20/i-told-you-not-to-worry-about-the-climate/

As for more information on sea level rise, might I recommend the work of Dredd who has been studying this in depth for years now. For example (from https://blogdredd.blogspot.com/2017/06/peering-into-world-of-science.html), do you know how the heat from the atmosphere is being absorbed by the ocean? One would naturally think that the surface is heating up the most.

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“a new analysis by three ocean scientists at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory not only confirms that the extra heat has been going into the ocean, but it shows where. According to research by Veronica Nieves, Josh Willis, and Bill Patzert, the waters of the Western Pacific and the Indian Ocean warmed significantly from 2003 to 2012. But the warming did not occur at the surface; it showed up below 10 meters (32 feet) in depth, and mostly between 100 to 300 meters (300 to 1,000 feet) below the sea surface. They published their results on July 9, 2015, in the journal Science.”

Before the island is completely submerged, there may not be enough food to go around, since the rate at which our ability to grow crops (especially grain) is diminishing substantially each year due to exacerbated heat or lingering cold, droughts, floods, hail, wind damage, pest infestations, (crop) disease, soil erosion and depletion, and other climate change effects, oh and Monsanto.

We have way too much methane going into the atmosphere now too. From seemorerocks today, this ~ 15 min video from Paul Beckwith:

Arctic Methane & Jet Stream Disruption
http://robinwestenra.blogspot.com/2017/06/the-test-from-paul-beckwith-on-arctic.html

So, in short (and to quote Jason Box):

“we’re f u c k e d!”

James M Dakin June 20, 2017 at 11:54 am
I’m not so sure why you find this so amazing. You live on the island, you spent a lot of money for a house or lot, why would it be in your economic interest to admit your investment was asinine? Are the Californians living on the quake line admitting they were idiots for paying a quarter mill for a future rubble pile? What about all those folks on the Florida coast?

Tom Lewis June 21, 2017 at 5:22 am
Understood. But at some point it stops being about investment and starts being about survival. On an island that’s down to a square mile, with maximum elevation of four feet, at the beginning of a hurricane sweason that is expected to be “active,” it’s about survival now.

Brian Miller June 24, 2017 at 6:13 am
James, that is spot on for most people. However, most of the families in the bay are people of very modest means. Most are descendants of families that have been there since the 1600-1700’s. It is difficult for them to imagine any other way of life. Which, I guess gets to the heart of Tom’s article, our blindness to things we know will kill us. We are all standing on the deck of the Titanic. Some of us are wisely saying we saw the iceberg and predicted what would happen. Some are saying there is no iceberg. And, some are saying that the iceberg is naturally occurring and we should just live with it. But, very few are clambering into the lifeboats (in this analogy).

I’m aware of the need to get into the lifeboat but I dither at the bow. I live on a small farm that is fairly self-sustaining all within a modern context. But, it is that last qualifier that qualifies me as partially blind. I can squint and see what is coming due to human consumption of fossil fuels, yet I drive, take the occasional plane, buy clothes that are part of the global supply chain that is killing the planet. The poor folks on Tangier Island just want to keep crabbing. The threat to their way of life was sealed when we first started burning fossil fuels. It wouldn’t matter who they voted for or supported.

Rob Rhodes June 20, 2017 at 12:20 pm
I think what you describe here is an example of a population overwhelmingly still in the first stage of grief; denial. Even most people I know who intellectually accept AGW carry on consuming resources at five times the world average, 20 times the poor world and believe ‘They’ are doing something about it, ‘They’ will fix it, ‘They’ have to.

Good to have you back, I hope we will hear more from you soon. Cheers.

Ken Barrows June 20, 2017 at 12:48 pm

Maybe they think Jesus will return before climate change does its thing.  ::)

Dennis Mitchell June 20, 2017 at 1:58 pm
Maybe Jesus will return because climate change does it’s thing. Plague, famine, earthquakes, and 100 pound hail, are close to the effects of climate change. (and will be be pissed!)



Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on August 03, 2017, 02:15:28 pm
Human beings are now waging war against life itself as we continue to destroy not just individual lives, local populations and entire species in vast numbers but also the ecological systems that make life on earth possible.

By doing this we are now accelerating the sixth mass extinction event in earth’s history and virtually eliminating any prospect of human survival.

In a recently published scientific study ‘Biological annihilation via the ongoing sixth mass extinction signaled by vertebrate population losses and declines’ the authors Gerardo Ceballos, Paul R. Ehrlich and Rodolfo Dirzo document the accelerating nature of this problem.

"Earth’s sixth mass extinction is more severe than perceived when looking exclusively at species extinctions… That conclusion is based on analyses of the numbers and degrees of range contraction… using a sample of 27,600 vertebrate species, and on a more detailed analysis documenting the population extinctions between 1900 and 2015 in 177 mammal species." Their research found that the rate of population loss in terrestrial vertebrates is "extremely high" – even in "species of low concern".

More than 40% of the species had experienced severe population declines.

In their sample, comprising nearly half of known vertebrate species, 32% (8,851 out of 27,600) are decreasing; that is, they have decreased in population size and range. In the 177 mammals for which they had detailed data, all had lost 30% or more of their geographic ranges and more than 40% of the species had experienced severe population declines. Their data revealed that "beyond global species extinctions earth is experiencing a huge episode of population declines and extirpations, which will have negative cascading consequences on ecosystem functioning and services vital to sustaining civilisation. We describe this as a 'biological annihilation' to highlight the current magnitude of earth’s ongoing sixth major extinction event."

Illustrating the damage done by dramatically reducing the historic geographic range of a species, consider the lion. Panthera leo "was historically distributed over most of Africa, southern Europe, and the Middle East, all the way to north-western India. It is now confined to scattered populations in sub-Saharan Africa and a remnant population in the Gir forest of India. The vast majority of lion populations are gone."

Why is this happening? Ceballos, Ehrlich and Dirzo tell us: "In the last few decades, habitat loss, overexploitation, invasive organisms, pollution, toxification, and more recently climate disruption, as well as the interactions among these factors, have led to the catastrophic declines in both the numbers and sizes of populations of both common and rare vertebrate species."

The vast majority of lion populations are gone.

Further, however, the authors warn that the true extent of this mass extinction has been "underestimated, because of the emphasis on species extinction." This underestimation can be traced to overlooking the accelerating extinction of local populations of a species.

Population extinctions today are "orders of magnitude more frequent than species extinctions. Population extinctions, however, are a prelude to species extinctions, so earth’s sixth mass extinction episode has proceeded further than most assume." Moreover, and importantly from a narrow human perspective, the massive loss of local populations is already damaging the services ecosystems provide to civilisation (which, of course, are given no value by government and corporate economists).

As Ceballos, Ehrlich and Dirzo remind us: "When considering this frightening assault on the foundations of human civilisation, one must never forget that earth’s capacity to support life, including human life, has been shaped by life itself." When public mention is made of the extinction crisis, it usually focuses on a few (probably iconic) animal species known to have gone extinct, while projecting many more in future. However, a glance at their maps presents a much more realistic picture: as much as 50% of the number of animal individuals that once shared earth with us are already gone, as are billions of populations.

Furthermore, they claim that their analysis is conservative given the increasing trajectories of those factors that drive extinction together with their synergistic impacts. "Future losses easily may amount to a further rapid defaunation of the globe and comparable losses in the diversity of plants, including the local (and eventually global) defaunation-driven coextinction of plants."

Future losses easily may amount to a further rapid defaunation of the globe.

They conclude with the chilling observation: ‘Thus, we emphasize that the sixth mass extinction is already here and the window for effective action is very short.’

Of course, it is too late for those species of plants, birds, animals, fish, amphibians, insects and reptiles that humans have already driven to extinction or will yet drive to extinction in the future. 200 species yesterday. 200 species today. 200 species tomorrow. 200 species the day after. And, as Ceballos, Ehrlich and Dirzo emphasize, the ongoing daily extinctions of myriad local populations.

If you think that the above information is bad enough in assessing the prospects for human survival, you will not be encouraged by awareness or deeper consideration of even some of the many variables adversely impacting our prospects that were beyond the scope of the above study.

While Ceballos, Ehrlich and Dirzo, in addition to the problems noted above, also identified the problems of human overpopulation and continued population growth, as well as overconsumption (based on "the fiction that perpetual growth can occur on a finite planet") and even the risks posed by nuclear war, there were many variables that were beyond the scope of their research.

Ranging from nitrogen deposition to ocean acidification, and including such basics as soil, water, and air; virtually every ecological system upon which life depends is failing.

For example, in a recent discussion of that branch of ecological science known as ‘Planetary Boundary Science’, Dr Glen Barry identified "at least ten global ecological catastrophes which threaten to destroy the global ecological system and portend an end to human beings, and perhaps all life. Ranging from nitrogen deposition to ocean acidification, and including such basics as soil, water, and air; virtually every ecological system upon which life depends is failing".

Moreover, apart from the ongoing human death tolls caused by the endless wars and other military violence being conducted across the planet – see, for example, ‘Yemen cholera worst on record & numbers still rising’ – there is catastrophic environmental damage caused too.

In addition, the out-of-control methane releases into the atmosphere that are now occurring and the release, each and every day, of 300 tons of radioactive waste from Fukushima into the Pacific Ocean are having disastrous consequences that will negatively impact life on earth indefinitely. And they cannot be reversed in any timeframe that is meaningful for human prospects.

Apart from the above, there is a host of other critical issues – such as destruction of the earth’s rainforests, destruction of waterways and the ocean habitat and the devastating impact of animal agriculture on meat consumption – that international governmental organisations such as the UN, national governments and multinational corporations will continue to refuse to decisively act upon because they are controlled by an insane global elite.

So time may be short, the number of issues utterly daunting and the prospects for life grim. But if, like me, you are inclined to fight to the last breath, I invite you to consider making a deliberate choice to take powerful personal action in the fight for our survival. If you do nothing else, consider participating in the fifteen-year strategy of ‘The Flame Tree Project to Save Life on Earth’. You can do this as an individual, with family and friends or as a neighbourhood.

If you are involved in (or considering becoming involved in) a local campaign to address a climate issue, end some manifestation of war (or even all war), or to halt any other threat to our environment, I encourage you to consider doing this on a strategic basis. And if you would like to join the worldwide movement to end violence in all of its forms, environmental and otherwise, you are also welcome to consider signing the online pledge of ‘The People’s Charter to Create a Nonviolent World’.

We might be annihilating life on earth but this is not something about which we have no choice.

In fact, each and every one of us has a choice: we can choose to do nothing, we can wait for (or even lobby) others to act, or we can take powerful action ourselves. But unless you search your heart and make a conscious and deliberate choice to commit yourself to act powerfully, your unconscious choice will effectively be the first one (including that you might take some token measures and delude yourself that these make a difference). And the annihilation of life on earth will continue, with your complicity.

Extinction beckons. Will you choose powerfully?

https://www.opendemocracy.net/robert-j-burrowes/biological-annihilation-and-sixth-mass-extinction (https://www.opendemocracy.net/robert-j-burrowes/biological-annihilation-and-sixth-mass-extinction)
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on August 03, 2017, 02:16:50 pm
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Even if all fossil fuel emissions stopped in 2017, warming by 2100 is very likely to reach about 2.3 F.

Even if humans could instantly turn off all our emissions of greenhouse gases, the Earth would continue to heat up about two more degrees Fahrenheit by the turn of the century, according to a sophisticated new analysis published in Nature Climate Change. And if current emissions continue for 15 years, odds are good that the planet will see nearly three degrees (1.5 C) of warming by then.

"This 'committed warming' is critical to understand because it can tell us and policy makers how long we have, at current emission rates, before the planet will warm to certain thresholds," said co-author Robert Pincus, a scientist with CIRES at the University of Colorado Boulder and NOAA's Physical Sciences Division. "The window of opportunity on a 1.5-degree [C] target is closing."

During United Nations meetings in Paris last year, 195 countries including the United States signed an agreement to keep global temperature rise less than 3.5 degrees F (2 C) above pre-industrial levels, and pursue efforts that would limit it further, to less than 3 degrees Fahrenheit (1.5 C) by 2100.

The new assessment by Pincus and lead author Thorsten Mauritsen, from the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology is unique in that it does not rely on computer model simulations, but rather on observations of the climate system to calculate Earth's climate commitment. Their work accounts for the capacity of oceans to absorb carbon, detailed data on the planet's energy imbalance, the climate-relevant behavior of fine particles in the atmosphere, and other factors.

Among Pincus' and Mauritsen's findings:

    Even if all fossil fuel emissions stopped in 2017, warming by 2100 is very likely to reach about 2.3 F (range: 1.6-4.1) or 1.3 degrees C (range: 0.9-2.3).
    Oceans could reduce that figure a bit. Carbon naturally captured and stored in the deep ocean could cut committed warming by 0.4 degrees F (0.2 C).
    There is some risk that warming this century cannot be kept to 1.5 degrees C beyond pre-industrial temperatures. In fact, there is a 13 percent chance we are already committed to 1.5-C warming by 2100.

"Our estimates are based on things that have already happened, things we can observe, and they point to the part of future warming that is already committed to by past emissions," said Mauritsen. "Future carbon dioxide emissions will then add extra warming on top of that commitment."

The research was funded by the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, the U.S. Department of Energy and the National Science Foundation.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/07/170731114534.htm (https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/07/170731114534.htm)
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on August 03, 2017, 06:58:46 pm
The DOG DAYS on Global Warming Steroids are here.  :P

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on August 05, 2017, 09:23:41 pm
A View to a KILL; Arctic Sea Ice: A

Paul Beckwith

https://youtu.be/P4L41UtGH7c

Published on Aug 4, 2017

There is basically NO thick ice left on the Arctic Ocean surface. The thicker ice was mostly exported out to destruction via the Fram Strait & Canadian Archipelago last winter. Ice left is only a weak semblance of its former self, fractured and broken into small pieces & subject to whims of surface currents & winds.

I discuss relentless ice melt on the surface from warm air temperatures & rain, below from warm ocean water, & on the edges from waves, winds & export. Not a pretty picture.

A View to a KILL; Arctic Sea Ice: B


https://youtu.be/vLz0jcC_3hM

Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on August 06, 2017, 10:01:32 pm
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The climate has always changed. What do you conclude?

Filed under: Climate Science Communicating Climate Paleoclimate skeptics — stefan @ 20 July 2017

Probably everyone has heard this argument, presented as objection against the findings of climate scientists on global warming: “The climate has always changed!” And it is true: climate has changed even before humans began to burn fossil fuels. So what can we conclude from that?

A quick quiz

Do you conclude…

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(4) that we cannot stop global warming? (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Fminzdr.gif&hash=f5927d7395d8a28c69df2a0a3a98660932c6903f)(https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F290.gif&hash=38949e35cf58eaa4218b5a8176767c806d2f8537)(https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Fmog.gif&hash=08e6f04144781466148f6693be6dc3451a322669) (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-311013200859.png&hash=a7aaaa9f04c1e3e2c948723b5f8c13fe814dacd4)

The answer

Not one of these answers is correct. None of these conclusions would be logical. Why not?

(1) The opposite conclusion is correct: if the climate had hardly changed during the course of the Earth’s history (despite variable incoming solar radiation and changing amounts of CO2 in the atmosphere), then we would conclude that there are strong stabilizing feedbacks in the climate system. The drastic climate changes in the history of the Earth (ice ages, hot ice-free periods) show that the climate system is sensitive to changes in the radiation budget. The measure for this sensitivity is called climate sensitivity: how much global warming will result from a CO2 doubling in the air? For the first time it was estimated by the Nobel laureate Svante Arrhenius in 1896. According to our modern knowledge this climate sensitivity is around 3°C (uncertainty ± 1°C).

Paleoclimatologists determine the climate sensitivity from data from the Earth’s history. A recent review article in Nature on this method showed “a warming around 2.2 to 4.8 °C per doubling of atmospheric CO2, which agrees with IPCC estimates”. In short: the larger past natural climate changes have been, the more vulnerable is the climate system, and the more it will react to the greenhouse gases that humans are adding to the system.

(2) Imagine there has been a forest fire. The police have extensive evidence that it was arson. They know the place where the fire began. They found traces of fire accelerants. Witnesses observed a man whose car was parked nearby. In his trunk the police finds bottles with fire accelerants, and in his house they find even more of it. He  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Facigar.gif&hash=dc9dccf92c6c88c99611b06c86d92629d69f2978) has been convicted for arson several times before. Plus some further evidence. In court, he defends himself: forest fires have always occurred lit by lightning, even before there was any man on Earth. Therefore he must be innocent. Does the argument convince you?

The evidence for the human cause of global warming is overwhelming. This is why there has been a consensus among climate researchers for a long time, and almost every scientific academy on the planet has come to the same conclusion. The most important evidence: when it gets warmer, the energy has to come from somewhere (1st law of thermodynamics). It can only come through the radiation budget of our planet. (No, Rick Perry, the energy does not come out of the ocean. To the contrary, measurements show heat is going into the oceans). The changes in this energy balance are quite well known and are shown near the front of any IPCC report – see Fig. 1. The biggest factor is the increase in CO2 concentration as well as a few other greenhouse gases, also added by human activities. The incoming solar radiation has changed just a tiny bit in comparison – since 1950, by the way, it has even decreased and thus offset a small part of the human-caused warming – hence humans have probably caused more warming than is observed (best estimate is 110% of observed warming).

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Fig. 1 Radiative forcing is the cause of global temperature changes. Red bars show warming, blue bars cooling effects. I am showing the diagram from the fourth IPCC report of 2007, because it is easier to understand than the more recent from the 5th IPCC Report of 2013, which Gavin discussed here. The overall human-caused radiative forcing, which is given here as 1.6 watts per square meter, had already risen to 2.3 watts per square meter by the year 2011 according to the 5th IPCC report. Source: IPCC report 4 Fig. SPM.2.

Overall, humans have caused an additional heating (radiative forcing) of 2.3 watts per square meter of Earth surface – as of 2011. It has increased further since.

(3) Those who can’t deny that humans are causing warming often seek refuge in the hope that the consequences might not be so bad, so we might just adapt rather than having to stop further warming. The climatic changes in Earth’s history do not support this point of view. As a result of the global warming by around 5 ° C from the last ice age 15,000 years ago to the mid-Holocene, global sea levels rose by 120 meters until 5,000 years ago! At that time hardly a problem – but for today’s humankind even a rise of two meters would be a disaster, bringing devastation to coastal cities and small island states. We still have enough ice on Greenland and Antarctica to raise the sea level around the world by 65 meters. Both ice masses are losing ice more and more quickly. The West Antarctic has probably already crossed its tipping point and is unstable. Greenland could soon follow.

https://youtu.be/ZVWXC_j7Dqs
Fig. 2 Ice loss of Greenland measured by GRACE satellites. Source: NASA .

By the way: the just mentioned 5°C rise within ten thousand years at the end of the ice age are among the fastest global temperature rises documented in the Earth’s history. That is 0.05 degrees per century. In the last hundred years we have caused the twentyfold rise. This pace of change overtaxes the adaptability of many ecosystems and will lead to their collapse as the warming progresses. In coral reefs this is already in progress.

The pace of the completely man-made CO2 increase (by now the CO2 concentration is higher than at any time in the past three million years) leads to a rapid acidification of the world’s oceans, because it overcomes the buffer capacity of the oceans. The last major acidification event 250 million years ago has apparently led to a massive extinction of species in the world’s oceans.

(4) Often I hear that the aims of the Paris Climate Agreement are absurd, because humans cannot stabilize the global temperature – after all, our climate changes even without human intervention. This argument is also wrong. As already mentioned, without human interference there would have been no global warming since the middle of the 20th century. If anything there would have been a slight natural cooling. The fluctuations in the sun’s activity are causing variations of 0.1 or 0.2 °C in global temperature in the last thousand years (e.g. at the Maunder Minimum of solar activity in the years 1645 to 1715). In the longer term, the astronomical Milankovitch cycles of the Earth’s orbit and the Earth’s axis dominate the natural climate changes (hence the ice ages). The shortest of these cycles has a period of 23,000 years – for the next hundred years, it practically does not matter. However, our fortune would last much longer than that: the Milankovitch cycles can be calculated over millions of years with astronomical precision (and incidentally be used to predict the beginning of all the past ice ages), and according to that, the next major climate change would arrive only in about 50,000 years. Namely the next ice age.

So if we weren’t doing something really stupid, we could benefit from another 50,000 years with a stable climate. Nothing in our knowledge of paleoclimatology suggests that natural factors could prevent us from limiting global warming to below 2°C. Only our own dithering, our own inertia can do that. Or that we prefer to be lulled into fatal complacency by the reassuring fairy tales of the “climate skeptics” rather than confronting the danger.

Among the most ill-informed claims of those “skeptics” is the assertion that climate researchers do not know or consciously ignore the fact that the climate has always changed. Utter nonsense, of course. Almost all of the authors here at Realclimate have done substantial work in paleoclimate for decades, as you can see from our publication lists (including the textbook Paleoclimatology). A lot of other climate researchers do the same.

 This May, three of us were at a conference of almost one thousand paleoclimatologists in Zaragoza (see photo below). These researchers know more about the natural, past climate changes than anyone else. Nobody there expressed any doubts about the ongoing human-caused global warming. On the contrary, many paleoclimatologists are particularly concerned about anthropogenic warming, especially in view of our findings about Earth’s history. Already when I was working as lead author on the paleoclimate chapter of the 4th IPCC report more than a decade ago, some of the discussions within IPCC revolved around us paleoclimatologists regarding some risks as considerably more serious than the colleagues specializing in the modern climate, such as the risk of rapid sea level rise or instability of ocean currents and ice sheets.

Whoever tells you that the fact that “the climate has always changed” is somehow reassuring, does not know what he is talking about or he is trying to con you.

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http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2017/07/the-climate-has-always-changed-what-do-you-conclude

Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on August 07, 2017, 09:03:54 pm
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Demystifying Three Climate Lies - The Road to Decarbonisation | Thomas Stocker | TEDxBern

https://youtu.be/Ga9QQrszm0E

TEDx Talks

Published on Oct 13, 2016

Thomas Stocker starts by debunking three of the most popular climate change myths. He is one of the leading researchers in the field of climate and regularly advises the UN. At the end of the talk, he shows the way out of climate change: decarbonisation.

Thomas Stocker graduated from ETH Zürich in 1987 and held research positions in London, Montreal and New York. Since 1993 he is Professor of Climate and Environmental Physics at the University of Bern. This research group is leading in the reconstruction of greenhouse gas concentrations from polar ice cores and the simulation of past and future climate changes. From 2008 to 2015 he co-chaired Working Group I of the IPCC, the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on August 07, 2017, 09:51:56 pm
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S&WB Chief: No system could have handled that rain

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NEW ORLEANS – Flood weary and water-logged New Orleans residents were in no mood to be gracious when a second major flooding event in the past few weeks again made streets impassable and this time got into some homes and businesses and several cars.

What had New Orleanians concerned on social media was also what these two rain events showed about the city’s drainage system and what it might or might not be able to handle during a hurricane event.

Saturday’s rain event was by most measures twice as heavy as the one a few weeks ago.

Sewerage and Water Board Executive Director Cedric Grant vigorously defended the system in a couple of telephone interviews on Eyewitness News and later in a live press conference.

The system, he said, worked as well as it could at the now well-known capacity of one inch of rain in the first hour and a half inch every hour thereafter. All the pumps, he said, we working and no system could have handled what this city was dealt – 8-10 inches of rain in about three hours time.

“There is no drainage system in the world that can handle that immediately,” he said, while saying he was somewhat frustrated. “I continue to tell the people what this system can do. It's pretty amazing in that it can do one inch of rain in the first hour and a half an inch of rain every hour after that. We are dealing with 8 to 10 inches of rain in three hours. It is not going to be able to pump that in an hour.”

Grant said the recent rains are part of the climate change era.

“We have these kinds of rains every month and it’s not just us. It’s the rest of the country that’s experiencing the same weather patterns.”

Grant says he gets the frustrations of business and homeowners, but he says these types of rains have happened in the past and you should just ride it out. He contends the city of New Orleans has one of the most robust drainage systems in the world and that to double its capacity would cost billions of dollars the city doesn’t have.

“We have the largest drainage pumps anywhere. To double them would be billions of dollars... We have a fairly significant system, one of the most significant in the world, but we're in a situation now where we receive more rain than anybody could have imagined on a recurring basis. This system is doing everything it can to address that."

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http://www.wwltv.com/news/local/orleans/swb-chief-no-system-could-have-handled-that-rain
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on August 07, 2017, 09:58:25 pm
There's A Bad Moon On the Rise
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Bad Moon On the Rise: Hope You've Got Your Things Together: End is Coming Soon

https://youtu.be/5BmEGm-mraE

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on August 08, 2017, 01:43:25 pm
There’s a Wildfire Burning in West Greenland Right Now  :o

It’s not just the American West and British Columbia burning up. A fire has sparked in western Greenland, an odd occurrence for an island known more for ice than fire.

A series of blazes is burning roughly in the vicinity of Kangerlussuaq, a small town that serves as a basecamp for researchers in the summer to access Greenland’s ice sheet and western glaciers. The largest fire has burned roughly 3,000 acres and sent smoke spiraling a mile into the sky, prompting hunting and hiking closures in the area, according to local news reports.

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The Sentinel-2 satellite captured a wildfire burning in western Greenland.

There’s no denying that it’s weird to be talking about wildfires in Greenland because ice covers the majority of the island. Forests are basically nonexistent and this fire appears to be burning through grasses, willows and other low-slung vegetation on the tundra that makes up the majority of the land not covered by ice.

Data for Greenland fires is hard to come by, but there is some context for fires in other parts of the northern tier of the world. The boreal forest sprawls across Canada, Russia, Alaska and northern Europe, and provides a longer-term record for researchers to dig into. That record shows that the boreal forest is burning at a rate unprecedented in the past 10,000 years.

Stef Lhermitte, a remote sensing expert at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands, said there is evidence of fires burning in Greenland over the past 17 years of MODIS satellite records kept by NASA. But because of how NASA’s algorithms interpret the satellite data, there’s low confidence that every fire on the map actually occurred.

Jason Box, an ice sheet researcher with the Geologic Survey of Denmark and Greenland, said he observed a lightning-sparked fire in the late 1990s, but that otherwise, fires are rare. Looking at the MODIS record, he said one of the only other high confidence fires was actually a trash burn in 2013, though other satellites show evidence of others fires.

Box also noted that temperatures in the area rose in late July just before the fire was first observed, spiking to above 53°F (12°C) on July 27. While not exactly balmy, the temperature rise may have helped the blazes to spread.

According to La Croix, a French newspaper, there’s no precedent for a fire this size in the European Union’s forest fire system. Looking beyond the satellite record for context specific to Greenland is all but impossible as there are basically no records to refer to.

“There does not appear to be a reliable long-term record of observed wildfires in Greenland,” researchers with the Danish Meteorological Institute’s Greenland monitoring program tweeted.

Ultimately, it’s not the burning of Greenland’s tundra that’s the biggest climate change concern. It’s the island’s massive store of ice that if melted, would be enough to raise sea levels 20 feet.

The ice has been melting at a quickening pace since 2000, partly due to wildfires in other parts of the world. The uptick in boreal forest fires has kicked up more ash in the atmosphere where prevailing winds have steered it toward the ice sheet.

The dark ash traps more energy from the sun, which has warmed the ice sheet and caused more widespread melting. Soot from massive wildfires in Siberia caused 95 percent of the Greenland ice sheet surface to melt in 2012, a phenomenon that could become a yearly occurrence by 2100 as the planet warms and northern forest fires become more common.

http://www.climatecentral.org/news/wildfire-burning-greenland-21686
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on August 08, 2017, 03:00:16 pm
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on August 08, 2017, 08:12:46 pm
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Check out this article.
90 degree bath water off the coast of Malta.

http://www.thebigwobble.org/2017/08/at-astonishing-sea-temp-of-around-30.html (http://www.thebigwobble.org/2017/08/at-astonishing-sea-temp-of-around-30.html)

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I've been looking at the temperatures in the Gulf of Mexico next to Houston, near New Orleans (hot!) and the really hot ones in the Suez Canal and next to all that expensive real estate (Qatar, Dubai, etc.). They made those fancy palm shaped islands and the water there (virtually ALL of the Persian Gulf) is getting hotter than a pistol!

The ocean life is going to be toast in those areas. Lots of fish can handle cold temperatures but very few can handle consistently high temperatures. Jellyfish, however, seem to thrive on high temperatures.  :P They have been known to cluster next to nuclear power plants and give cooling problems to the nuke pukes.   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-311013201314.png&hash=0715eb72631014310634eb56176ff860c6d542f6)
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on August 09, 2017, 02:19:56 pm
Saturday, 5 August 2017

The latest killer heatwave in Europe is called 'Lucifer.' (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-311013200859.png&hash=a7aaaa9f04c1e3e2c948723b5f8c13fe814dacd4) Extreme weather 'could kill up to 150,000 a year' just in Europe this century!  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Fdesertsmile.gif&hash=293fbde1c87dec2d81c5907e3fbac7d8e5bba7a9)
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Map the weather channel

It's been a common theme throughout this summer in the Northern Hemisphere, killer heatwaves with temperatures humans should not have to endure and every summer recently appears to get worse, with this year especially oppressing from California to Japan.
In Italy, the latest heatwave, nick-named 'Lucifer' by locals, has caused a 15 per cent spike in admissions to hospital emergency units and forecasters see no respite coming before early next week.

It's brought wildfires to Spain, Italy, France, The Balkans and Romania, destroyed millions of Euro's of crops and killing thousands of cattle.
Flash foods and lightning strikes are also increasing at an unprecedented level.

But now The Lancet Planetary Health journal has written a new report claiming extreme weather could kill up to 152,000 people each year in Europe by 2100 if nothing is done to curb the effects of climate change, scientists say.

The bleak pictured they paint could see such deaths rise from 3,000 each year between 1981 and 2010 to 152,000 a year between 2071 and 2100 and that's just Europe, the south western US has endured temperatures around 50 deg C or 122 deg F this year and Asian countries especially, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka have lost thousands of people to heat and floods.

By 2100, weather-related disasters could affect two thirds of Europe's population per year, It comes amid a number of high profile heat waves which have hit the headlines recently, with tourists today warned to expect highs of 43°C in Croatia and Spain.

Whatever your stance on climate change it is undeniable the weather is becoming more extreme year on year.

http://www.thebigwobble.org/2017/08/the-latest-killer-heatwave-in-europe-is.html
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on August 09, 2017, 02:50:14 pm
Sea Surface Temperatures August 8, 2017
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http://www.ospo.noaa.gov/Products/ocean/sst/contour/

Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on August 10, 2017, 08:17:28 pm
09 AUGUST 2017

Underwater permafrost on the Arctic shelf melting faster than expected

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Russian and Swedish researchers have published a research survey showing that the underwater permafrost layer on the Eastern Siberian continental shelf is melting faster than expected, the press service of the Tomsk Polytechnic University told.

"In 1982-1983, the Permafrost Research Institute of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences drilled four wells, and based on this data we found that the rate of vertical underwater permafrost degradation in the area has gone up to 18 centimeters per year (14 centimeters on average) in the past 30 years, which is ten times faster than expected," the press service said.

It was believed that the permafrost layer on the sea shelf in the eastern Arctic was mostly solid, which would not allow the possibility of methane emissions from under the ice. It was assumed that the melting of the permafrost would not exceed several meters before the end of the 21st century, and that it would take from hundreds to thousands of years for it to melt through.

"Based on the new results obtained by comprehensive biogeochemical, geophysical and geological research made in 2011-2016, we can conclude that in some areas of the Eastern Siberian shelf the permafrost layer has thinned and reached the stability zone of hydrates, the destruction of which might lead to massive emissions of methane bubbles," Natalya Shakhova, professor at the university's Geology and Exploration Department, was quoted as saying.

According to the survey, the volume of methane emissions from the bottom sediment in eastern Arctic seas can vary from milligrams to dozens to hundreds of grams per a square meter per day, depending on the condition of the permafrost layer. This leads to a two to four times increase in atmospheric methane in the above-water layer.

Researchers also discovered another reason for the increase in methane emissions into the water and the air: in shallow waters, icebergs and large ice floes plow through the sea bottom making trenches 4-6 meters deep. They reach the gas layers and release methane. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-310714182509.png&hash=7a8191a3d5ff15c51ad36a342a0cd50a90b956bd)

http://arctic.ru/climate/20170809/655109.html]http://arctic.ru/climate/20170809/655109.html
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on August 10, 2017, 08:31:49 pm
The multi-year ice is gone.  :(

The ice extent is about the same as the year it was the lowest at this time (2012). HOWEVER, the thickness was much greater in 2012 (see below).

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Learn more:


WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 2, 2017

Arctic sea ice may well be gone by September 2017

http://arctic-news.blogspot.com/2017/

Agelbert NOTE:
When the ice is gone, the methane bomb will not be far behind.

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on August 12, 2017, 02:23:46 pm
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August 11, 2017

Federal Court Nixes Environmental Law Trump Actually Supports

William Snape III, of The Center for Biological Diversity, discusses US Court of Appeals overturning of EPA ban on hydrofluorocarbons, which are thousands of times more powerful greenhouse gases than carbon dioxide

https://youtu.be/hv3_ezVVtHw

http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=19751
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on August 12, 2017, 10:32:15 pm
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Saturday, 12 August 2017

Inhuman temperatures birds dropping from the sky as the mercury in Kuwait and Iraq soar above 50 deg C +122 deg F

Birds in Kuwait have reportedly been dropping from the sky as temperatures soar to 50C across the Middle East. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.desismileys.com%2Fsmileys%2Fdesismileys_2955.gif&hash=ddc12d8bdb1bc63b7998a6b086b79a71b7bda755)

The temperature in Kuwait has been consistently above 45C but the added humidity in the region is making it seem even hotter, creating extremely difficult living conditions for both humans and wildlife.

The Middle East has been hit with an 'ungodly' heatwave so extreme Iraq's government ordered all of its civil servants to go home on Thursday, when temperatures rose above 50C.

Temperatures are expected to stay above 45C for the next week, with the UK Met office predicting temperatures as high as 50C this weekend.

Meanwhile Kuwait will see highs of 47C and 44C in Riyadh.

It comes after temperatures above 48C every day this month in the Iraqi capital. Iraq's underfunded power network is struggling to cope with the increased demand from air conditioning and water coolers.

"It's really hard because of the lack of electricity, at home electricity is not good. We use 60 per cent of electricity from generators," said Baghdad resident Murtada Faisal. Mr Faisal said public showers offered by the Government as a means to battle the heat were "like a bandage".

"What we need is a long term solution like trees and water tunnels," he said. Mr Faisal said green spaces had been lost to new housing developments in and around Baghdad and there was not enough water to sustain the trees that the Government had planted.

The heatwave is also taking its toll on Iraq's military, who often spend long periods standing outside. Mr Faisal said he noticed increased friction between soldiers and civilians in the extreme weather. "It's really bad, it makes them angry.

When I go outside in Summer, I see more problems between people at the border," he said.

Another Baghdad resident, Mohanad, described the heat as "ungodly".
"The generator in my neighbourhood that provides electricity for about 300 houses has caught fire from the heat.

All it generates is smoke," he told the Guardian. "We don't know what to do. Men can go to the pool here but what do we do with our women, elderly and our babies?
Even the ACs in the car aren't working properly.
It's over 53 degrees today."

"It's disgusting. The government cannot do anything to help us even if they tried; the electricity generators were built in the 1960s and haven't been changed or modified since."

The heatwave in the Middle East comes after a heatwave dubbed 'Lucifer' fanned forest fires in Europe this week.

Both the Middle East and Europe have experienced extreme heatwaves this summer, which scientists warn is the result of global warming. In Iraq, temperatures in Baghdad have reached 50C, prompting the government to declare a mandatory holiday to allow state workers to stay at home.

Europe is battling a heatwave dubbed "Lucifer" which has seen temperatures climb above 40C across the continent.

The sweltering weather in Italy has caused wildfires and at least two people have died from the extreme heat in Romania and Poland. Italy, Spain, Greece, Poland, Hungary, Switzerland, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Serbia have been the worst hit, with people being warned to stay indoors, avoid long journeys and drink plenty of fluids.

http://www.thebigwobble.org/2017/08/inhuman-temperatures-birds-dropping.html

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on August 14, 2017, 07:39:51 pm
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https://youtu.be/Xm4ybJMv3NY
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on August 15, 2017, 09:40:25 pm
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GLOBAL IMPACTS: New findings show how climate change is influencing India’s farmer suicides (Climate Central), In Egypt, a rising sea — and growing worries about climate change's effects (NPR), Climate extremes, policy confuse crop choices for Malawi farmers (Reuters), fast-melting Arctic sign of bad global warming (AP)

POLL: Arizona overwhelmingly supports protecting land, air, climate (AZ Central)

ANTARCTICA: Scientists discover 91 volcanoes below Antarctic ice sheet (The Guardian)

PRISONS: Some of America’s prisons are literally hell during the summer (Mother Jones)

CENSORSHIP: Federal “State of the Climate” report buries human role in warming (Vice News)
 
AL GORE: Al Gore says Trump driving, not weakening, climate change momentum (Reuters), Al Gore thinks our political system can save the climate. His daughter isn’t so sure. (Vox)

OK, US government — see you in court (Boston Globe, James Hansen and Sophie Kivlehan op-ed $)

Trump is the past. Clean energy is the future for America and the planet (The Guardian, Rahwa Ghirmatzion and Mark Ruffalo op-ed)

New Orleanians need to accept climate change is a threat (The Times-Picayune, Bob Marshall column)

Local air districts must stand with impacted communities (East Bay Times, Miya Yoshitani op-ed)

What Republicans are getting wrong about climate change (Axios, Amy Harder column)

Trump won't stop Americans hitting the Paris climate targets. Here's how we do it (The Guardian, Michael Bloomberg op-ed)

Great climate science communication from Yale Climate Connections (The Guardian, John Abraham column)

State needs a clearer vision to deliver energy that will satisfy all parties (New Haven Register editorial)

About those climate denials: You’re wrong (Santa Fe New Mexican editorial)
State’s balking at new greenhouse gas cap threatens seafood industry (Central Maine, Richard Nelson column)

Md. governor must match environmental claims with actions (Baltimore Sun, Sara Via op-ed)

Global warming must be addressed before it's too late (Cleveland.com, James Armaline column)

Science, shmience, let’s emit some gas! (Miami Herald, Carl Hiaasen column)

After tons of drama with the California Coastal Commission, things are looking up (LA Times, Steve Lopez column $)

Radical millennials are a climate force to be reckoned with (The Guardian, Geoff Dembicki op-ed)

Strengthening Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative would be a win for Marylanders (Baltimore Post-Examiner, Tony Clifford op-ed)

Don’t let energy company short-circuit Illinois law (Chicago Sun-Times editorial)
The NY Times made a mistake in its big climate story, then things got really vicious (ThinkProgress, Joe Romm column)

Montana anglers need action on climate change (Billings Gazette, Alec Underwood op-ed)
What's next for energy in Virginia? (Richmond Times-Dispatch editorial)

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Although we usually use this space to call out bad actors, today we’re going to kick off this week with some praise for great pieces that illustrate that the deniers’ denial isn’t going very well.  ;D

Down at the Miami Herald, columnist Fred Grimm surveyed the overwhelming number of climate stories that broke last week. He opens his column by declaring that, “Denial begins to look like psychosis” and ends on a no less pithy note. After tearing through a terrifying list of maladies, Grimm points out that despite the melting glaciers, the rising seas, warming temperatures and drying droughts, political leaders and other deniersjust keep on denying.”  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Fgen152.gif&hash=d5b10968fe56c4cb95fae17cee3cb420a5f4e2da)
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/news-columns-blogs/fred-grimm/article166587642.html
 
This sentiment was echoed by the NY Times’s Paul Krugman, who outlined for readers The Axis of Climate Evil (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Fpirates5B15D_th.gif&hash=32438e1ed2c4d1823d4ed2a193286525c840a605). Krugman points to the fossil fuel-funded voices, the ideologically anti-regulation actors, and the attention-seeking contrarian academics as the three nodes of the denier axis. He also calls out something we’ve mentioned when he writes that he “can’t think of a single prominent climate skeptic (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-311013201314.png&hash=0715eb72631014310634eb56176ff860c6d542f6) who isn’t obviously arguing in bad faith.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/11/opinion/climate-science-denial.html
 
Nevertheless, scientists have persisted and resisted. Former EPA science advisor Robert Richardson (relieved of duty by the administration) writes in the Washington Post about how Trump’s attack on science isn’t going very well.    (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F4fvfcja.gif&hash=34a9a570347d39a0a892bc1f376c5e8b88add6b5)
Richardson, positively dripping in the sarcasm and contempt that we do so appreciate, notes that, “Academic integrity, it turns out, is really important to professionals in scientific agencies of the federal government.” (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F47b20s0.gif&hash=cc48c9af9d29b8836023c7db21103e52d1ed439e)


So despite the alt-facts ideology of the White House, scientists are as of yet still staying true to their dedication to real facts. Who woulda thought!? (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-280515145049.png&hash=84e87515e750391c1f1bca6d6ae06485972bfa81) (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-051113192052.png&hash=93c42ef9f18fc5d9da50fd91fc19f70009f95f85) Oh, everyone who isn’t a troll arguing in bad faith.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/trumps-attack-on-science-isnt-going-very-well/2017/08/10/096a0e1e-7d2c-11e7-a669-b400c5c7e1cc_story.html

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on August 24, 2017, 05:46:09 pm
Hurricane Harvey has PLENTY of "fuel" from the Gulf of Mexico.

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on August 25, 2017, 12:07:21 pm
It looks to me like the worst hurricane to hit Texas in many years, from the way it's shaping up. I hope I can fly home from Charlotte Amalie on Sunday.

I agree it looks very bad. Take care.

View Hurricane fueling Sea Surface Temperatures and Ocean currents at link:

https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/ocean/surface/currents/overlay=sea_surface_temp/orthographic=-99.25,26.77,818/loc=-96.056,27.543
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on August 28, 2017, 12:50:30 pm
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on August 28, 2017, 01:23:24 pm
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Exxon's PITTANCE offering of $500,000 to Hurricane Harvey victims won't even begin to dent the MASSIVE cost to insurance corporations taking the BRUNT of Climate Change costs Big Oil SHOULD BE PAYING, while biosphere polluting, democracy destroying, people poisoning corporations like Exxon keep getting welfare queened with direct AND INDIRECT MASSIVE subsidies.  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimages.zaazu.com%2Fimg%2FIncredible-Hulk-animated-animation-male-smiley-emoticon-000342-large.gif&hash=db736c8c06568f1aa878171ad53d1f0301cfdff2)

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on August 28, 2017, 01:46:49 pm
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"When we are swiftly shuttling ourselves down the path of irreversible climate cataclysm, the only unreasonable option is to double down on the status quo."

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"There is a nice legal concept called estoppel. If you argue that you didn't kill the Major in the library with the Ming vase because you were in bed with his wife, you are estopped from pleading self-defence. In the same way, polluters are estopped from arguing that they were only complying with public policy as laid down in the law, because they spent tens of millions shaping those policies and laws to their advantage." James Wimberley

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on August 28, 2017, 01:59:00 pm
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Hurricane Harvey Costs Seen at Catastrophic Levels With Many Uninsured

By Sonali Basak

August 27, 2017, 7:53 PM ADT August 28, 2017, 1:44 PM ADT

Damages may be $30 billion, according to one initial estimate ‘Historic event is currently unfolding,’ insurance broker says

News with video:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-08-27/harvey-s-cost-reaches-catastrophe-as-modelers-see-many-uninsured
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on August 28, 2017, 02:55:12 pm
Agelbert NOTE:For those who think that a massive collapse and die-off of humanity is going to stop global Warming any time soon, this report clearly states that you are 100% WRONG. 

The baked in lag of temperature increase from CO2 fossil fuel burning caused pollution is at least 30 years. That means a MINIMUM of TWICE that long for us to reach where we are NOW (i.e. 50 PPM of CO2 ABOVE where we NEED TO BE of 350PPM), even if 99% of the human species died in the next ten years.
 
You believe a carefuly crafted lie (by the fossil fuelers and/or climate change deniers) that the coming collapse of industrial civilization followed by the inevitable large human population die-off will make life fine and dandy for the remnant. You are a fool to believe that. But I understand why you might cling to that breathtakingly ignorant bit of wishful thinking despite overwhelming scientific evidence to the contrary.

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Also, for those who wish to pretend serious climate scientists did not anticipate or predict increasingly severe and devastating storms like Hurricane Harvey, please read this news from August 8, 2017. Those predictions have been clearly stated in scientific peer reviewed studies now for well over TWENTY YEARS. And long before that, the catastraphic consequences of climate change from CO2 pollution were predicted (over 40 YEARS AGO by Exxon scientists who have gone public with that information).

I placed in bold the parts I want you to see clearly.

National Assessment contains dire forecast

Government Report Finds Drastic Impact of Climate Change on U.S.

The New York Times, Aug. 8, 2017
 
WASHINGTON — The average temperature in the United States has risen rapidly and drastically since 1980, and recent decades have been the warmest of the past 1,500 years, according to a sweeping federal climate change report awaiting approval by the Trump administration.
 
The draft report by scientists from 13 federal agencies, which has not yet been made public, concludes that Americans are feeling the effects of climate change right now. It directly contradicts claims by President Trump and members of his cabinet who say that the human contribution to climate change is uncertain, and that the ability to predict the effects is limited.
 
“Evidence for a changing climate abounds, from the top of the atmosphere to the depths of the oceans,” a draft of the report states. A copy of it was obtained by The New York Times.
 
The authors note that thousands of studies, conducted by tens of thousands of scientists, have documented climate changes on land and in the air. “Many lines of evidence demonstrate that human activities, especially emissions of greenhouse (heat-trapping) gases, are primarily responsible for recent observed climate change,” they wrote.
 
The report was completed this year and is a special science section of the National Climate Assessment, which is congressionally mandated every four years. The National Academy of Sciences has signed off on the draft report, and the authors are awaiting permission from the Trump administration to release it.
 
One government scientist who worke on the report, Katharine Hayhoe, a professor of political science at Texas Tech University, called the conclusions among “the most comprehensive climate science reports” to be published. Another scientist involved in the process, who spoke to The New York Times on the condition of anonymity, said he and others were concerned that it would be suppressed.
 
The White House and the Environmental Protection Agency did not immediately return calls or respond to emails requesting comment on Monday night.
 
The report concludes that even if humans immediately stopped emitting greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, the world would still feel at least an additional 0.50 degrees Fahrenheit (0.30 degrees Celsius) of warming over this century compared with today. The projected actual rise, scientists say, will be as much as 2 degrees Celsius.
 
A small difference in global temperatures can make a big difference in the climate: The difference between a rise in global temperatures of 1.5 degrees Celsius and one of 2 degrees Celsius, for example, could mean longer heat waves, more intense rainstorms and the faster disintegration of coral reefs.
 
Among the more significant of the study’s findings is that it is possible to attribute some extreme weather to climate change. The field known as “attribution science” has advanced rapidly in response to increasing risks from climate change.
 
The E.P.A. is one of 13 agencies that must approve the report by Aug. 18. The agency’s administrator, Scott Pruitt, has said he does not believe that carbon dioxide is a primary contributor to global warming.
 
“It’s a fraught situation,” said  Michael Oppenheimer, a professor of geoscience and international affairs at Princeton University who was not involved in the study. “This is the first case in which an analysis of climate change of this scope has come up in the Trump administration, and scientists will be watching very carefully to see how they handle it.”
 
Scientists say they fear that the Trump administration could change or suppress the report. But those who challenge scientific data on human-caused climate change say they are equally worried that the draft report, as well as the larger National Climate Assessment, will be publicly released. One government scientist who worked on the report, Katharine Hayhoe, a professor of political science at Texas Tech University, called the conclusions among “the most comprehensive climate science reports” to be published. Another scientist involved in the process, who spoke to The New York Times on the condition of anonymity, said he and others were concerned that it would be suppressed.
 
The National Climate Assessment “seems to be on autopilot” because of a lack of political direction, said Myron Ebell, a senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute.
 
The report says significant advances have been made linking human influence to individual extreme weather events since the last National Climate Assessment was produced in 2014. Still, it notes, crucial uncertainties remain.
 
It cites the European heat wave of 2003 and the record heat in Australia in 2013 as specific episodes where “relatively strong evidence” showed that a man-made factor contributed to the extreme weather.
 
In the United States, the authors write, the heat wave that broiled Texas in 2011 was more complicated. That year was Texas’ driest on record, and one study cited in the report said local weather variability and La Niña were the primary causes, with a “relatively small” warming contribution. Another study had concluded that climate change made extreme events 20 times more likely in Texas.
 
Based on those and other conflicting studies, the federal draft concludes that there was a medium likelihood that climate change played a role in the Texas heat wave. But it avoids assessing other individual weather events for their link to climate change. Generally, the report described linking recent major droughts in the United States to human activity as “complicated,” saying that while many droughts have been long and severe, they have not been unprecedented in the earth’s hydrologic natural variation.
 
Worldwide, the draft report finds it “extremely likely” that more than half of the global mean temperature increase since 1951 can be linked to human influence.
 
In the United States, the report concludes with “very high” confidence that the number and severity of cool nights have decreased since the 1960s, while the frequency and severity of warm days have increased. Extreme cold waves, it says, are less common since the 1980s, while extreme heat waves are more common.
 
The study examines every corner of the United States and finds that all of it was touched by climate change. The average annual temperature in the United States will continue to rise, the authors write, making recent record-setting years “relatively common” in the near future. It projects increases of 5.0 to 7.5 degrees Fahrenheit (2.8 to 4.8 degrees Celsius) by the late century, depending on the level of future emissions.
 
It says the average annual rainfall across the country has increased by about 4 percent since the beginning of the 20th century. Parts of the West, Southwest and Southeast are drying up, while the Southern Plains and the Midwest are getting wetter.
 
With a medium degree of confidence, the authors linked the contribution of human-caused warming to rising temperatures over the Western and Northern United States. It found no direct link in the Southeast.
 
Additionally, the government scientists wrote that surface, air and ground temperatures in Alaska and the Arctic are rising at a frighteningly fast rate — twice as fast as the global average.
 
“It is very likely that the accelerated rate of Arctic warming will have a significant consequence for the United States due to accelerating land and sea ice melting that is driving changes in the ocean including sea level rise threatening our coastal communities,” the report says.
 
Human activity, the report goes on to say, is a primary culprit.
 
The study does not make policy recommendations, but it notes that stabilizing the global mean temperature increase to 2 degrees Celsius — what scientists have referred to as the guardrail beyond which changes become catastrophic — will require significant reductions in global levels of carbon dioxide.
 
Nearly 200 nations agreed as part of the Paris accords to limit or cut fossil fuel emissions. If countries make good on those promises, the federal report says, that will be a key step toward keeping global warming at manageable levels.
 
Mr. Trump announced this year that the United States would withdraw from the Paris agreement, saying the deal was bad for America.
 
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/07/climate/climate-change-drastic-warming-trump.html

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Post by: AGelbert on August 28, 2017, 05:37:30 pm
Agelbert NOTE: The Trump Fossil Fuel Tool just claimed that the Hurricane Harvey Damage in Texas is a "500 year event". View the video below or read the transcript to learn why the following meter reading is correct for Trump's verbal effluent.
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August 27, 2017

Sandy-Level Hurricanes May Occur Every Five Years Due to Climate Change


Leading climatologist Benjamin Horton talks about recent reports from NASA and NOAA showing increasingly higher global temperatures, and explains why the dangerous human-caused trend could spell disaster (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-070814193155.png&hash=144ce9330e49ee84060db8753a8db69c39a14913)

https://youtu.be/FZDPXQrUM5w

TRANSCRIPT:

Sandy-Level Hurricanes May Occur Every Five Years Due to Climate Change

Dimitri Lascaris:   This is Dimitri Lascaris for The Real News. It's official: according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, land temperatures this last July were the hottest on record Including ocean temperatures, the NOAA ranked July as the second hottest month ever recorded, trailing July 2016 by less than one tenth of 1°. Last week, an independent analysis from NASA found July 2017 to be tied with July and August of 2016 as the hottest month on record. These temperatures came after 2016 was determined to be the hottest year on record. With us to discuss this disturbing trend in global temperatures is Dr. Benjamin Horton. Dr. Horton is a professor in the Asian School of the Environment at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. Professor Horton's research concerns sea level change, and he aims to understand and integrate external and internal mechanisms that have determined sea level changes in the past, and which will shape such changes in the future. He joins us today from Singapore. Welcome to The Real News, Doctor Horton.

Benjamin Horton:   Good afternoon.

Dimitri Lascaris:   So first, please tell us if there is a significant discrepancy between the NASA and NOAA findings, with respect to temperatures in July 2017, and if so, what is the significance of that discrepancy?

Benjamin Horton:   Well, I think the most important conclusion of that is that two independent measurements of global atmosphere and ocean temperatures come out with the same conclusion: that the July temperatures in 2017 were anomalous. They were well above the long-term average of the twentieth century. So slight discrepancies between them being the warmest, or tied second warmest are irrelevant, really. I think the important thing for your listeners is that we've got two independent measurements, and they use similar data sets, but they use different statistical analysis. And they come out of the same conclusion, that July 2017 was approximately around 1.5°F greater than the twentieth century average, with the warmest July occurring in 2016.
And it's part of a trend. Nine of the ten warmest July's occurred in the 20 first century. The only exception is a very, very warm year in 1998. And then you can start to think even more, and these numbers are astounding, in July 2017 marked the 41st consecutive July temperature that was larger than the global average, and the 391st month with global temperatures above the twentieth century average. So we're just building a body of data that's irrefutable that our climate is changing.

Dimitri Lascaris:   And these results for the most recent July occurred in a non-El Niño year. Could you talk to us about the significance of that? Why should it concern us that we're seeing these temperatures in July in a non-El Niño year?

Benjamin Horton:   Well, this all concerns natural variability, so on top of the trend of increasing temperatures to do with greenhouse gas emissions, we have a natural variability in our Earth. And one of the controlling factors for global temperatures is called the El Niño Southern Oscillation, ENSO. And this concerns the Pacific Ocean. We are a blue planet, and the Pacific Ocean is the largest. And during El Niño years, the Pacific Ocean warms up and that amplifies the global warming effect, to do with anthropogenic emissions. In the opposite or neutral years, which we are in today, you have a dampening effect. So the importance of these temperatures occurring at record levels is where occurring at a time when it's just driven by anthropogenic effects, where natural variability is not enhancing the readings.

Dimitri Lascaris:   Now according to the NOAA's state of the climate report, several other record-breaking events occurred in 2016, among them greenhouse gases hit their highest recorded concentration in nearly 1 million years. In addition, 12% of the Earth endured severe drought, Alpine glaciers retreated for the 37th year in a row, and global sea levels hit a record high. I just want to focus on the concentration of greenhouse gases and current trends in greenhouse gas emissions. Given where we now stand, and given current trends in greenhouse gas emissions, is it realistic to expect, is there any significant hope of us ensuring that the global temperature increase remains within the aspirational goal of 1.5°C set forth in the Paris Climate Accord, or is that something, which realistically, is not achievable at this stage, in your opinion?

Benjamin Horton:   Well I think there are two points to emphasize here: First of all, regarding those carbon dioxide emissions, we've shown through scientific research going through the Paleo record that our global temperatures are very heavily linked to changes in CO2. When CO2 [inaudible 00:05:09] global temperatures go up, and we have a very detailed record of going back approximately around six or 700,000 years from icicles. And we find that during warm periods in our climate, we have carbon dioxide emissions at around 280 ppm by volume. Our current levels are 400 ppm by volume. And that indicates a huge increase that is a result of us burning fossil fuels.

The next question is: Can we control them? We have, as a scientific community, we always have hope regarding climate change, because we have a choice. We are still able to have a choice about high emission scenarios and low emissions scenarios going into the future. The low emission scenarios were agreed by all countries on the planet as part of the Paris Accord, and that was to keep the temperatures, the global mean temperatures below 1.5°C, above the preindustrial values. And that was very important, the scientific community concluded, because that was a level that, if we thought temperatures got above that, we'd get catastrophic changes to the Earth. And when we talk about catastrophic changes, we talk about the loss of the great barrier reef, the largest ecosystem on our planet; the collapse of ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica, causing multimeter rises in sea level.
So that value is not arbitrary. It was based upon scientific data that we must keep below that. And we still have that choice. So despite this current administration wishing to remove ourselves away from the Paris Agreement, what you can hope is that the rest of that the community starts to come together to start to fill in the gap that the U.S. may leave behind.

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Dimitri Lascaris:   Let's talk a little bit about what's going on in the U.S.. You're obviously referring to the Trump administration, which appears to have continued to suffer from a large dose of skepticism, with respect to climate science, despite all of the results that you've just discussed. In the United States, according to Forbes magazine, gasoline demand just hit an all-time high, with the greatest weekly U.S. gasoline consumption ever recorded in late July. How important are things such as developments within the United States, in terms of fossil fuel consumption and greenhouse gas emissions, and tn particular, gasoline consumption? How important is that to our ability to remain within the target set forth in the Paris Climate Accord?

B. Horton:   Well obviously increasing gasoline consumption by the U.S. would lead to increasing carbon dioxide levels. Gasoline consumption from personal cause contributes about one fifth of all U.S. emissions. So for every gallon of gas, through the extraction process for the petroleum industry, the all the way through to burning at the tailpipe, you're emitting around 24 pounds of carbon. And then if we look at the whole transport sector alone, so if we combine together cars, and trucks, and rail, and the airplane industry, it's about a third of the carbon dioxide emissions from the U.S., and it's indeed the largest contributing factor. So if the U.S. is going to combat climate change, it must reduce its emissions from gasoline.

But the interesting thing about that, when we think about solutions about climate change, regarding gasoline, we have those solutions. I mean, we can have more fuel-efficient cars. The previous administration, with the car manufacturers, came up with regulations to increase the efficiency of cars, something that this current administration wants to remove, which somehow, as a consumer I find rather nonsensical. Why wouldn't I want a car that was more efficient, and therefore I could get more bang for my bucks? We've also switch to biofuels; biofuels reduce carbon dioxide emissions from our transport sector by about 80%. And then finally, we also have our hybrid or electric cars. We've seen the success of Tesla, and then all our major manufacturers now have electric cars.

So regarding this, although there is this apparent trend, it can be quite easily solved. And if we go to some of our developing world counterparts, there are drastic changes. In the UK, they're going to ban all gasoline and diesel emissions within the next 15 or so years, within our urban areas of the United Kingdom. And there are other such moves within the European Union.

Dimitri Lascaris:   Lastly, I want to just touch on your particular expertise: sea level changes. Given current temperature trends, what level of sea level rise, and assuming that we continue with a business as usual scenario, what level of sea level rise can we anticipate by 2100? And just broadly speaking, what will the major economic impacts of that sea level rise be in the United States, in your view?

Benjamin Horton:   Well sea level rise is a very useful barometer of climate change, because it takes into ... So for the oceans to rise, it takes into account changes in ocean temperature, which cause our oceans to expound. And takes into account air temperature, which converts the water and ice in our ice caps, glaciers, and ice sheets to transfer into our ocean basin, so it's a very important barometer. And the sea level rise rates that we're experiencing now are faster than anything we've seen for the past two and a half thousand years. So we are, very clearly, in an anomalous period. We also know that it's attributable to human activities. Around 50% of the rise that we see, for example, along the U.S. Atlantic Coast is due to human activities, increasing atmospheric temperatures, raising the surface of our oceans.

Now sea level rise, even the smallest amounts has devastating effects. It could contaminate our drinking waters, it can inundate agricultural land, it can affect our ecosystems, and it can make storm surges much more powerful As we move through into the 21st century and beyond, one thing we are certain about is that sea levels will continue to rise, and that they also, the rate of the rise will accelerate. What alarms the climate community, regarding sea level rise, is that if we have a business as usual scenario over climate change, that we're gonna start to affect our sleeping giants, which the Greenland ice sheet and Antarctica. And they hold within them colossal amounts of water. Greenland holds within it about six meters of water. Is it was all to melt, sea levels would go up 6 meters. Antarctica has 65 meters of water within it, over 200 feet, and the warning signs are that these ice sheets are starting to degrade and collapse.

And if you have a business as usual scenario, the latest indications from the climate community is at sea level, by 2100, could rise, just from that ice sheet alone, over one meter. And for the U.S. Atlantic coast, it's very, very worrying. A rise of over one meter from Antarctica, the U.S. Atlantic coast will become a hotspot for that. And the rates of rise we're currently experiencing are around four millimeters per year. The rates of rise towards the end of the century, if we don't do anything about climate change, will be somewhere in the excess of 40 millimeters per year.

Now what are the profound impacts of that? Well if you want to highlight one recent event that devastated the mid-Atlantic shoreline, and that's Hurricane Sandy. Hurricane Sandy was an unusual event, it had an unusual track. It was a slow-moving, large storm, but it was on top of a baseline, and that baseline is sea level. So sea level has been rising on the U.S. Atlantic coast, and we, here in our research group, has been looking at how sea level rise affects how often hurricane Sandy occurred in the past, how often that type of event occurs at the present, and how often it would occur in the future. Prior to the Industrial Revolution, an event like hurricane Sandy occurred approximately one every 500 years. So an event that was very rare; it was six or seven lifetimes before an event of that magnitude.

Because sea level has risen, and it's risen about 30 centimeters since the Industrial Revolution, in and around New York City, that event occurs approximately every 25 years. If we don't do anything about climate change, by 2040, 2050, so within our lifetime, Hurricane Sandy may occur every five years - twice a decade. Hurricane Sandy caused $70 billion of damage to the U.S. Atlantic coast. It affected people's lives, people lost their lives, lost their homes, and that gives you the seriousness of climate change. [inaudible 00:14:23] have hope. So of you don't do anything about climate change, sea levels in and around New York City will rise around 1.3 meters by 2100.

If you do something about climate change, maybe those rises will be 60 or so centimeters. When they're at those rate to rise, we can adapt, and therefore we can continue to live, work, recreate along the coastlines. If you don't do anything about climate change, you're going to have societal change. We're not going to be able to protect our coastlines. People are going to have to migrate, and that, clearly, is the urgency about climate change. Yes, as a community we have hope, but we need our elected officials to act upon the scientific facts.

Dimitri Lascaris:   Well, clearly the costs of inaction are staggering, and hopefully other levels of government in the United States will fill the void under an administration that seems determined to do everything possible to exacerbate the climate crisis. This has been Dimitri Lascaris speaking to Dr. Benjamin Horton about current temperature trends. Thank you very much for joining us today, Dr. Horton.

Benjamin Horton:   Thank you very much, Dimitri.

Dimitri Lascaris:   And this is Dimitri Lascaris for The Real News.

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Post by: AGelbert on August 28, 2017, 05:45:19 pm
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August 28, 2017

Hurricane Harvey Devastates Houston as Scientists Warn of the Perils of Ignoring Climate Change

Millions face flooding as nation's 4th largest city faces another week of rain.

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https://youtu.be/NMT48KEgbN8

Trancript at link:

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Post by: AGelbert on August 28, 2017, 08:06:23 pm
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Hurricane Harvey August 25, 2017

How global warming likely made Harvey much worse, explained by a climatologist

Updated by German Lopez@germanrlopezgerman.lopez@vox.com  Aug 28, 2017, 10:30am EDT


Here’s what the science can tell us.

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https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2017/8/28/16214268/houston-floods-harvey-global-warming
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on August 29, 2017, 01:20:57 pm
August 29, 2017

Harvey just broke an all-time U.S. rainfall record

Tropical Storm Harvey broke the all-time record for the heaviest rainfall from a tropical storm or hurricane in the lower 48 states. That record had been 48 inches, set in Texas in 1978 during Tropical Storm Amelia. According to the National Weather Service in Houston, the new record stands at 49.2 inches, and was set at Mary's Creek, just southeast of Houston.

http://mashable.com/2017/08/25/hurricane-harvey-weather-geek-live-blog/#HBLiQtpLe8qI

Agelbert NOTE: Meanwhile, the Trump Fossil Fuel Tool is flying to Austin to do what he always does on behalf of the polluters that OWN him.

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on August 30, 2017, 12:06:50 pm
Methane Leaks Around North Sea Boreholes Possibly Much More Widespread Than Thought


August 30th, 2017 by James Ayre

SNIPPET:

Methane leaks around oil and gas well boreholes in the North Sea may be much more common than was previously thought, according to new research from the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel and the University of Basel.

Article with pictures:

https://cleantechnica.com/2017/08/30/methane-leaks-around-north-sea-boreholes-possibly-much-widespread-thought/

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on August 30, 2017, 02:52:53 pm
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https://youtu.be/z0-Os6jYtNo

https://youtu.be/iPZO1KtZewA

https://paulbeckwith.net/2017/08/27/epic-tutorial-on-horrific-hurricane-harvey/

Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on August 31, 2017, 01:49:23 pm
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August 31, 2017

Pope Francis, who has a strong belief in the science of climate change, called upon world leaders on Wednesday to "listen to the cry of the Earth and the cry of the poor, who suffer most because of the unbalanced ecology."

Francis and Patriarch Bartholomew I, the head of the Orthodox Christian Church, will issue a joint message to commemorate the annual "World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation" on Friday, the Associated Press reported.

In 2015, the Pope designated Sept. 1 as "a precious opportunity to renew our personal participation in this vocation as custodians of creation," framing the preservation of the environment as a moral responsibility.

Similarly, Bartholomew—who backed Francis' 2015 encyclical on the environment, Laudato Si—once said:

"There has never been so much turmoil on our planet, but there has never been greater opportunity for communication, cooperation and dialogue. Basic human rights such as access to water, clean air and sufficient food should be available to everyone without distinction or discrimination. We are convinced that we cannot separate our concern for human dignity, human rights or social justice from the concern for ecological preservation and sustainability."

Pope Francis has long pressed for strong climate action. In May, during their meeting at the Vatican, the pontiff gifted President Trump a copy of the climate encyclical right as POTUS considered whether the U.S. should exit from the Paris climate agreement. Trump, a notorious climate skeptic who does not agree with Francis about the global phenomenon, apparently didn't take the Pope's message to heart—he controversially withdrew the U.S. from the Paris accord just a month later.

https://www.ecowatch.com/pope-francis-climate-change-2479496671.html


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2 Explosions Reported at Houston-Area Chemical Plant Damaged by Harvey Floods

https://youtu.be/x9PbVnCVHiU

https://www.ecowatch.com/explosions-houston-harvey-2479875892.html


Dr. James Hansen: There Is a Clear Link Between Climate Change and Stronger Hurricanes

https://youtu.be/43s5Zlhuyjs

https://www.ecowatch.com/james-hansen-hurricanes-2479572165.html

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on August 31, 2017, 02:24:14 pm
Democracy Now!

August 31, 2017

Naomi Klein's Message to the Media Covering Houston: Now is the Time to Talk About Climate Change

https://youtu.be/NhDe2Gyqg6w

https://www.ecowatch.com/naomi-klein-hurricane-harvey-2479577825.html
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on August 31, 2017, 05:57:35 pm
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on August 31, 2017, 09:35:44 pm
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https://youtu.be/ZRXDrLnDVJY

Published on Aug 30, 2017

As storms hit the U.S. and South Asia, investigative journalist Christian Parenti says we have the laws and technology to protect humanity from climate disaster, but we need to rip away the veil of the "free market"
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 01, 2017, 12:44:55 pm
Hurricane Harvey Storm totals 8/27/17
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Hurricane Harvey Storm totals 8/28/17
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Before-and-after visuals  :o  of the massive flooding in Texas

Updated Aug. 31, 2017

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2017/national/harvey-photos-before-after/

Harvey may produce another 2 to 5 inches of rain in parts of Kentucky and the Ohio Valley through Friday night, which may trigger flash flooding in some spots, though of course, nothing as extreme as we saw in Texas the last several days.

Additional Rainfall Outlook

In addition to the flood threat, a few tornadoes could spin up into Friday in the Carolinas and the central Appalachians.

Harvey's Recap: A Truly Historic Hurricane

Below is a comprehensive look back at the history of Harvey, beginning with an overview of its journey, followed by recaps of its landfall impacts and catastrophic flooding.

Overview

Harvey roots can be traced back to a tropical wave that emerged from the African coast in early August.

That disturbance finally formed into Tropical Storm Harvey east of the Lesser Antilles on Aug. 17. Those islands experienced locally heavy rain and gusty winds as Harvey passed through.

A couple of days later, Harvey succumbed to dry air and unfavorable winds aloft in the eastern Caribbean, and the National Hurricane Center ceased advisories on Aug. 19. 


The remnants of Harvey continued to push northwest for several days and eventually crossed Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula. Once its remnants moved back over water in the southwest Gulf of Mexico, Harvey quickly reformed into a tropical depression on Aug. 23.

In just 56 hours, Harvey grew from a regenerated tropical depression over the Gulf of Mexico into a Category 4 hurricane as it made landfall near the Texas Gulf Coast late on Aug. 25.

(MORE: Why Harvey Rapidly Intensified)

Harvey's center of circulation stalled over south Texas on Aug. 26 and then meandered slowly east into the Gulf of Mexico before making a final landfall near Cameron, Louisiana, on Aug. 30.

Still a named storm 117 hours after landfall, Harvey was the longest a Texas landfalling hurricane remained a named storm after landfall on record, according to Colorado State University tropical scientist Dr. Phil Klotzbach.

It was the slow movement from Aug. 26-30 that led to the catastrophic flooding that was observed in southeast Texas.

Harvey's Category 4 Landfall

Harvey made landfall on the evening of Aug. 25 near Rockport, a town of less than 10,000 people and about 30 miles up the Texas coast from Corpus Christi. Maximum sustained winds in Harvey's eyewall were 130 mph at that time, making it a Category 4.

Harvey was the nation's first major (Category 3 or stronger) hurricane landfall since Hurricane Wilma struck South Florida in October 2005, an almost 12-year run.


Wind gusts from Harvey near its landfall point topped 100 mph in many locations, leading to widespread destruction of homes and buildings.

Top Wind Gust Reports

Port Aransas: 132 mph, sustained to 110 mph
Near Copano Village: 125 mph
Near Lamar: 110 mph
Rockport: 108 mph
Near Taft: 90 mph
Near Magnolia Beach: 79 mph
Palacios: 69 mph
Corpus Christi Int'l Airport: 63 mph
Austin Bergstrom Int'l Airport: 52 mph
Pounding waves on top of Harvey's storm surge also inundated parts of the Texas Coastal Bend, resulting in damage in some areas.

The maximum observed water level rise at Harvey's landfall point was 6.71 feet at Port Lavaca.

Harvey was the strongest landfall in this area, known as the Texas Coastal Bend, since Hurricane Carla, in September 1961.

The only other Category 4 landfall of record near the Texas Coastal Bend was the infamous Indianola hurricane of August 1886, which devastated the town of Indianola just 11 years after another Category 3 hurricane, eventually turning the former bustling port into a ghost town.

Catastrophic, Record Flooding in Southeast Texas

Harvey's extreme slow movement Aug. 26-30 kept a fire hose of moisture pointed into southeast Texas and Louisiana for days, resulting in catastrophic flooding.

Numerous flash flood emergencies were issued for the Houston and Beaumont, Texas, metropolitan areas, and for Bastrop County and nearby communities.

The areal coverage of locations picking up at least 20 inches of rain was greater than the state of West Virginia, while the 40-inch-plus zone was larger than Delaware.

The top rainfall total was a preliminary 51.88 inches near Highlands, Texas, at the Cedar Bayou rain gauge.

Pending final confirmation, this rainfall total would be the heaviest from any tropical cyclone in the continental U.S. in records dating to 1950, topping the 48-inch storm total in Medina, Texas, from Tropical Storm Amelia in 1978, according to research by NOAA/WPC meteorologist David Roth.

Top Rainfall Reports

51.88 inches on Cedar Bayou near Highlands, Texas (Preliminary Lower 48 tropical cyclone record)
49.40 inches on Clear Creek at Interstate 45 near League City, Texas (Preliminary Lower 48 tropical cyclone record)
49.32 inches on Mary's Creek near Friendswood (Preliminary Lower 48 tropical cyclone record)
49.23 inches near Dayton (Preliminary Lower 48 tropical cyclone record)
49.20 inches on Mary's Creek at Winding Road (Preliminary Lower 48 tropical cyclone record)
47.35 inches in Beaumont/Port Arthur, Texas
45.74 inches near Pasadena
44.91 inches near South Houston
43.38 inches at the NWS forecast office in Houston (League City)
37.01 inches at Houston Hobby Airport
31.26 inches at Houston Bush Intercontinental Airport
22.84 inches in Galveston
21.88 inches in Smithville
19.64 inches in College Station
15.60 inches near Victoria
15.41 inches near Lake Charles, Louisiana
12.33 inches near Hackberry, Louisiana
9.96 inches near Watson, Arkansas
8.27 inches near Gautier, Mississippi
7.95 inches at Pensacola Regional Airport, Florida
5.73 inches near Plano, Kentucky

Houston's Bush Intercontinental Airport crushed its record-wettest calendar day Sunday by over 5 inches, picking up 16.07 inches of rain, just under the five-day total of 16.48 inches from Tropical Storm Allison in 2001. Houston's Hobby Airport also crushed a two-day rainfall record by almost 8 inches, picking up 23.06 inches of rain Aug. 26-27.

Houston had two of its five heaviest calendar-day rainfalls from Harvey.

The average rainfall within the Harris County Emergency Management network exceeded that of Tropical Storm Allison (2001) in almost half of the time (2 to 3 days versus 5 days). The Harris County Flood Control District estimated one trillion gallons of water was dumped on the county alone in four days.

Harvey's flooding has caused one of the worst weather disasters in U.S. history, with a price tag that will amount to billions of dollars. The HCFCD estimated 70 percent of Harris County was flooded by at least 1.5 feet of water, with an estimated 136,000 flooded structures in the county alone, as of August 31.

Thousands of water rescues occurred in the Houston metro area as many homes and businesses were swamped by floodwaters.

Houston wasn't the only location to suffer disastrous flooding.

Jack Brooks Regional Airport near Port Arthur, Texas, picked up a staggering 26.03 inches of rain on Aug. 29 alone, more than doubling the previous calendar-day rainfall record in Beaumont-Port Arthur set over 94 years ago. Its storm total from Aug. 26-30 was an incredible 47.35 inches of rain, almost 25 inches greater than its previous record four-day rain record set in September 1980.

The resultant flooding swamped a storm shelter in Port Arthur, prompting evacuees to be moved to another shelter.

Interstate 10 between Beaumont and Winnie, Texas, was overtaken by the floodwaters, as well.

Serious flooding also occurred southwest of Houston along the Brazos, Colorado and Guadalupe Rivers.

In total, 19 National Weather Service river gauges had observed record flooding as of Aug. 31.



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Harvey has also spawned several brief tornadoes in southeast Texas and southern Louisiana.

In the southwest suburb of Missouri City, more than 50 homes were damaged in the Sienna Plantation neighborhood.

The Weather Company’s primary journalistic mission is to report on breaking weather news, the environment and the importance of science to our lives. This story does not necessarily represent the position of our parent company, IBM.

https://www.wunderground.com/news/tropical-storm-harvey-forecast-texas-louisiana-arkansas

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 01, 2017, 01:15:27 pm
Harvey's Last Day of Soaking Rain, Threat for Flash Flooding in the Ohio Valley

September 1, 2017

Harvey long-lived odyssey of rain is in its final chapter, spreading heavy rain into the Ohio Valley Friday, potentially triggering additional flash flooding.

Although rain has come to an end in flood-ravaged southeast Texas, rivers will remain high for days to come as recovery efforts continue.

https://www.wunderground.com/news/tropical-storm-harvey-forecast-texas-louisiana-arkansas
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 01, 2017, 01:56:14 pm
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Future Hurricanes Will Be Worse Than Harvey, Science Says

August 31, 2017 by Bloomberg

SNIPPET:

By Eric Roston (Bloomberg) — How powerful would Hurricane Harvey have been in 1880? How much stronger might it be in 2100?

A single Hurricane Harvey has been more than anyone can bear. But to better prepare cities for future storms, researchers are preparing to re-watch Harvey thousands of times. They’ve already been studying earlier storms, and their conclusions don’t bode well for the decades to come.

http://gcaptain.com/future-hurricanes-will-worse-harvey-science-says/
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 01, 2017, 02:17:01 pm
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Heat Wave Hits California

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A record-breaking heat wave has descended on California, threatening public health and increasing the risk of wildfire.

Heat warnings are in effect around the state as temperatures are projected to reach 110 degrees this weekend in Sacramento, an all-time high for the city, and exceed 110 degrees in other parts of the state.

http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/08/31/how-hot-is-it-out-here-in-the-america-west/

Power demand is surging as Californians run air conditioners to keep cool, and blackouts have left thousands in LA without power. Global warming  has amplified the intensity, duration and frequency of extreme heat events.

The high overnight lows and high humidity in many areas during this heat wave are particularly characteristic of climate change.

http://www.climatesignals.org/climate-signals/increased-extreme-heat-and-heat-waves

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 01, 2017, 07:23:00 pm
WATCH: Plane flies past 3 tornadoes (Black Sea area) :o

International Business Times 01 SEP 2017 AT 17:06 ET     

https://youtu.be/Tkc-1TgTq8w

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/09/watch-plane-flies-past-3-tornadoes-in-scary-video/

Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 02, 2017, 07:55:47 pm
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On Sept. 1  the VIIRS instrument aboard NASA-NOAA’s Suomi NPP satellite captured a night-time image of Hurricane Irma in the Atlantic Ocean that showed a tight circulation. Credit: Credits: NASA/NOAA/UWM-CIMSS, William Straka III


As the Gulf Coast continues to real from the mighty impacts of hurricane Harvey experts are bracing themselves as another tropical threat is gathering strength out in the Atlantic, namely hurricane Irma.

 Irma strengthened into a Category 3 hurricane Thursday afternoon, which has since weakened to a Category 2 hurricane, but restrengthening is expected.

"There is the potential for Irma to ramp up to an even more powerful hurricane this weekend," according to AccuWeather Hurricane Expert Dan Kottlowski.
Irma is expected to reach category 5 next week.

As the Gulf Coast continues to real from the mighty impacts of hurricane Harvey experts are bracing themselves as another tropical threat is gathering strength out in the Atlantic, namely hurricane Irma.

 Irma strengthened into a Category 3 hurricane Thursday afternoon, which has since weakened to a Category 2 hurricane, but restrengthening is expected.

"There is the potential for Irma to ramp up to an even more powerful hurricane this weekend," according to AccuWeather Hurricane Expert Dan Kottlowski.

Irma is expected to reach category 5 next week.

'The American models take it to the Carolinas by next Sunday (Sept. 10). 'The European models have it going to Cuba and possibly threatening South Florida. It's just too early to tell.'

 'The American models take it to the Carolinas by next Sunday (Sept. 10). 'The European models have it going to Cuba and possibly threatening South Florida. It's just too early to tell.'

http://www.thebigwobble.org/2017/09/as-gulf-coast-continues-to-real-from.html



Friday, 1 September 2017

At least 1,200 dead across India, Nepal, and Bangladesh as troops struggled to reach dozens of people trapped after a building collapsed in Mumbai

Emergency services struggled to reach dozens of people trapped after a condemned building collapsed in Mumbai on Thursday morning, killing at least 21 others.

In the days before the incident, torrential rainfall had pounded India's financial capital during an unusually strong monsoon season, which has left more than 1,200 dead across India, Nepal, and Bangladesh.

Despite the city declaring the building unsafe in 2011, 50 percent of residents - including several families - still lived in the 117-year-old five-story building in the Bhendi Bazar area of India's financial capital, local lawmaker Amin Patel told the Indian Express.  :(

While emergency services responded quickly to a call at 8.30 a.m. local time, the narrow streets and closely packed buildings - some of them also over a century old - are hampering rescue efforts, the Hindustan Times reports.

So far, firefighters have rescued 34 people from the rubble, but a number of other residents still remain unaccounted for.

Buildings often collapse during monsoon season in India, and five inches of rain had fallen in Mumbai on Tuesday, leaving streets in the area flooded and weakening the foundations of thousands of century-old buildings in the city.

Meanwhile the torrential monsoon rains paralyzed India's financial capital Mumbai for a third day Thursday as the streets turned into rivers and people waded through waist-deep waters.

By Thursday the city had received almost 300mm of torrential rain in the last four days, reported the Hindustan Times.

Public transport stopped and thousands of commuters were stranded in their offices overnight.

India's monsoon season runs from June through September.
Since its start this year devastating floods have killed more than 1,000 people across South Asia and affected close to 40 million in northern India, southern Nepal and northern Bangladesh.

The rains have led to wide-scale flooding in a broad arc stretching across the Himalayan foothills in the three countries, causing landslides, damaging roads and electric towers and washing away tens of thousands of homes and vast swathes of farmland, Associated Press reported.

The UK's Guardian reported that the storm reached Pakistan on Thursday, lashing the port city of Karachi.

Local TV footage showed streets were already submerged as the country's meteorological department forecast that the rains would continue for three days in various parts of Sindh province, where authorities closed schools as a precaution. Windstorms and rain are also expected in the south-western Baluchistan and eastern Punjab provinces.

The meteorological department said rains were also expected in the capital, Islamabad, and in Kashmir.

http://www.thebigwobble.org/2017/09/at-least-1200-dead-across-india-nepal.html
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 02, 2017, 11:39:19 pm
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Why was Harvey a Superstorm: expected $ losses greater than Katrina & Sandy combined?

https://youtu.be/Zus0ICUvd1c

September 1, 2017

I (Paul Beckwith) teach you about how the science of abrupt climate change is turbocharging storms.

Global warming has greatly increased ocean surface and deeper water temperatures, warmer air holds much more water vapour and latent heat, and storms are staying in place much longer due to broken jet streams.  Blame the Arctic.

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 03, 2017, 08:34:07 pm
Paul Beckwith exposes mendacious, as well as ridiculous, misconceptions about the cause of Global Warming

https://youtu.be/Bn9M-U1TcTY

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Sunlight warms Earth’s surface. Heat radiates up and is trapped by greenhouse gases (GHGs).  Human emissions increase GHGs increasing warming.  Right! (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-250817121649.png&hash=4554f7e59701d12857946aece16bceb973c997b3)

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 04, 2017, 02:52:39 pm
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As you can see below, the SST (Sea Surface Temperature) along ALL of Major Hurricane Irma's track (it has been over 100 YEARS since TWO major hurricanes hit the USA in one year - Irma will be the second after Harvey) is at or above the minimum temperature (80º F (26.7º C) needed to FUEL a hurricane. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fs15.rimg.info%2Fdcda0e08e538cb37431314e6bd49279b.gif&hash=4e8b4ba5ce94991ab2f42c4c663e9f6991bbf4f4)

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 At this link (https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/isobaric/250hPa/orthographic=-61.81,20.30,1504) you can see the 'Bermuda' High that has been blocking Irma from moving north (at the 250 hPa atmospheric level - Jet Stream level - see legend in graphic tutorial below.). (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F34y5mvr.gif&hash=835b3a3f26d5d1b7f0acc379ad8ebd3fe9eea488)(https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-080515182559.png&hash=d4dfa952fa0f817bf30a8059a4c88d6fb05ee1bf)

The 'Bermuda' High has been moving west right along with Hurricane Irma. This is NOT what a 'Bermuda' High normally does. So, once again, we see strange atmospheric behavior due to Global Warming's crazy Jet Stream meandering.     (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-300714025456.bmp&hash=f4e4a260bd60d3f34ca86fed93c47d5fb4117cfd) 

Also, use the "CONTROL" arrows to see the hurricane history and projected position and strength.

Be sure to check all the levels from the surface on up (1000 hPa up to 250 hPa) to understand the impact of climate change on hurricanes (click on the word, "EARTH" to open the menu). Ask me questions about the tutorial. I will be glad to answer.  8)

When looking at a hurricane or otherwise using the tool below, it is important to look at the different levels of the atmosphere from the surface up to the Jet Stream. WHY?  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.desismileys.com%2Fsmileys%2Fdesismileys_1730.gif&hash=cdaf50326d98ff7b051a9c49e83d51c7bb687407) (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.desismileys.com%2Fsmileys%2Fdesismileys_6656.gif&hash=2038f9b45636a93e5c0f4ee508ce29778fe9e9b4)

Because you can see how confused the Jet Stream has gotten as a result of GHG caused Global Warming! All those loops and oxbows in the Jet Stream were absent before. Now they cause persistent weather events with days of rains and stalled hurricanes (see: Harvey) and even stalled weather systems that give feet of snow in the  winter. All this is due DIRECTLY to the burning of fossil fuels. The fossil fuel industry is GUILTY of causing this catastrophic climate change. We must hold them accountable for their criminal profit over planet negligence.

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When Trump  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F2rzukw3.gif&hash=f0487b8f0d488ab1126ce5e031b11ea3d74b1cc2)  yammers about a "once in 500 year event" (with TWO CATASTROPHIC EVENTS occurring within a MONTH!), be sure to call him a Bought and Paid For Fossil Fuel Industry LIAR!

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Please pass this on. People need to know what is going on out there. We need to stop this insane planet polluting, like YESTERDAY!  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F301.gif&hash=0291ed4abf2d80e420d1aa00d4eb3c5dd6bbfb53)

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"When we are swiftly shuttling ourselves down the path of irreversible climate cataclysm, the only unreasonable option is to double down on the status quo."

"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored." -- Aldous Huxley

Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 05, 2017, 02:44:00 pm
Hurricanes Irma and Jose AND a HOT ocean in their path PLUS a HOT Gulf of Mexico ready to spawn more trouble  :o

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 05, 2017, 06:02:09 pm
 
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August 21, 2017

Arctic air temperatures and the Paris Climate Accord target

Our past reports, and many other sources, have noted that the Arctic region is warming faster than the rest of the globe.

This warming has accelerated in recent years, particularly since 2005. The ten warmest years on record for the Arctic are within the past twelve years, and 2016 was by far the warmest in the record since 1900. These observations are supported by both NOAA National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) reanalysis climate data, and by our colleagues at Berkeley Earth. Berkeley Earth is an independent climate fact- and analysis-checking group dedicated to an objective evaluation of the main claims and data sets used to support climate trends and forecasts.

Figure 5. The bar graph, top, shows the Berkeley Earth evaluation of the ten warmest years since 1979 in the Arctic north of 80°N; the plot, middle, shows Arctic average temperatures for the period 1900 to 2016, relative to a 1951 to 1980 reference period; bottom, a map of Arctic temperature differences, in degrees Celsius, for the 2012 to 2016 period (5 years) relative to a 1981 to 2010 reference period.
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Credit: National Snow and Ice Data Center

One of the major statements of the recent Paris Climate Accord, dealing with heat-trapping gas reductions, is a target to hold the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) above the pre-industrial average.

While this reference for the increase (pre-industrial average) is somewhat ambiguous, using reference average temperatures of either 1951 to 1980 or 1980 to 2010 for the Arctic shows that much of the area north of 80°N is already above this guideline over the past five years (2012 to 2016).

As the Arctic will likely continue to warm above 2 degrees Celsius, other areas will need to warm less than that if the threshold is not to be exceeded.

In general, land warms about 30 percent faster than oceans in the models, so in a global-average 2 degree Celsius warmer world, much of the global land area would have warmed more than 2 degrees Celsius.

The annual average air temperature for 2016 for the Arctic north of 80°N was more than 3.5 degrees Celsius (6.3 degrees Fahrenheit) above the 1951 to 1980 reference period, the warmest year yet, and most years during the past decade had annual average temperatures between 2 to  2.5 degrees Celsius (3.6 to 4.5 degrees Fahrenheit) above the reference period. Geographically, the NOAA NCEP reanalysis shows that recent warming is primarily located over the Arctic Ocean, and smaller warming trends are seen in the circum-Arctic land areas.

http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/

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“Subsidizing fossil fuel companies in the face of rapid climate change is like spraying jet fuel on a burning home. (http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/other_g7_leaders_plow_ahead_after_trump_stalls_on_climate_accord_20170527) To put out the fire, we must first stop making the problem worse,” Doukas continued. “Ignoring the problem just because fossil fuel industry mascots like Trump demand it is like agreeing to take the warning labels off of cigarettes because they offend Joe Camel. Our leaders must act now to stop burning our tax dollars and stop trashing the climate.”

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 05, 2017, 08:51:59 pm
Hurricane Irma is an absolute monster.
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 05, 2017, 09:51:44 pm
Atlantic Views

GOES-East (30 minute updates)

Atlantic Wide View  Visible  Image - HTML5 - Flash - Animated GIF


Hurricane Irma


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http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/satellite.php
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 06, 2017, 01:30:49 pm
Atlantic Views

GOES-East (30 minute updates)

Atlantic Wide View  Visible  Image - HTML5 - Flash - Animated GIF


Hurricane Irma


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http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/satellite.php

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 06, 2017, 02:05:27 pm
Hurricane Irma compilation taken during the eye in St Maarten Martin

https://youtu.be/nr8yPvOQwT8

September 6 2017

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Hurricane Irma was declared one of the strongest storms ever recorded in the Atlantic as it approached the Leeward Islands of the Caribbean, with winds of 185 miles an hour.

There have been storms with comparable winds in the Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico, where warm waters can fuel especially dangerous hurricanes.

The National Hurricane Center described the storm as “potentially catastrophic,” and said it expected the hurricane to bring “life-threatening wind, storm surge and rainfall hazards to portions of the northern Leeward Islands, including the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico” on Wednesday.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/06/world/americas/hurricane-irma-update.html
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 06, 2017, 05:29:27 pm
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 06, 2017, 10:12:19 pm
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Above: Radar image of Irma from the Puerto Rico radar at 9 pm EDT September 6, 2017.

Hurricane Irma an Extreme Storm Surge Threat to the U.S. and Bahamas

Dr. Jeff Masters  ·  September 6, 2017, 8:26 PM EDT

SNIPPET:

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Figure 7. South Florida is not at as great of a risk of a high storm surge, since there is deep water offshore, and the mound of water the hurricane piles up can flow downward into the deep ocean instead of getting piled up on land. The worst-case storm tide from a Category 4 hurricane for the coast from Miami Beach to West Palm Beach is 7 – 9 feet. However, that deep water allows much larger waves to build up, and Irma will create big waves that will pound the coast and cause heavy damage. There is a region of the coast from downtown Miami southwards, including Biscayne Bay, where the water is shallow, and the storm tide can be up to 15 feet in a Category 4 hurricane. The Great Miami Hurricane of 1926, a Category 4 storm, brought a 10 – 15’ storm surge to the coast of Miami along Biscayne Bay.

Shown here is the Maximum of the "Maximum Envelope of Waters" (MOM) storm tide image for a composite maximum surge for a large suite of possible mid-strength Category 4 hurricanes (sustained winds of 140 mph) hitting at high tide (a tide level of 2.0’) along the coast of South Florida. Not all sections of the coast will experience this surge level simultaneously.

Detailed article with many graphics:  8)

https://www.wunderground.com/cat6/hurricane-irma-extreme-storm-surge-threat-us-and-bahamas
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 07, 2017, 12:46:58 pm
Agelbert NOTE: That loopy Jet Stream pattern you see below is DIRECTLY CAUSED by Global Warming from the burning of fossil fuels (i.e. GHG build up).

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If the Jet Stream was not so loopy, neither the stalling of Hurricane Harvey, and all the damage it caused in Texas, OR the massive damage Hurricane Irma is about to cause in Florida would occur.  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-120716190938.png&hash=01feab1c7345a4e98764e0f9d24b2d69171b93c2)


The Fossil Fuel Industry and their bought and paid for Lying TOOLS like Trump are FULLY responsible for allowing this to happen, AND ensuring this will get WORSE, because they continue to protect the polluters from legal liability in these disasters.

Hurricanes Irma and Jose AND a HOT ocean in their path PLUS a HOT Gulf of Mexico producing Hurricane Katia  :o

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 07, 2017, 02:21:38 pm
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Tracing Who’s Responsible for Temperature Increase and Sea Level Rise (2017)

A new study quantifies the impacts of emissions traced to major fossil fuel producers on our changing climate.

SNIPPET:

Emissions traced to the largest 90 carbon producers contributed:

57% of the observed rise in atmospheric carbon dioxide since 1880.

Nearly 50% of the rise in global average temperature since 1880.

About 30% of global sea level rise relative to 1880 levels.


Emissions traced to 50 investor-owned carbon producers, including BP, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, ExxonMobil, Peabody, Shell and Total, were responsible for:

roughly 16 percent of the global average temperature increase from 1880 to 2010,
and around 11 percent of the global sea level rise during the same time frame.


Emissions traced to the same 50 companies from 1980 to 2010, a time when fossil fuel companies were aware their products were causing global warming, contributed:

approximately 10 percent of the global average temperature increase and about 4 percent sea level rise since 1880.

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http://www.ucsusa.org/global-warming/fight-misinformation/climate-responsibility#.WbF92ciGM2w

Agelbert NOTE: To the fossil fuelers who will fixate on the stats above to claim that we-the-people are more responsible than the fossil fuel corproations for global warming caused pollution, let me say that you are into magical thinking? (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.desismileys.com%2Fsmileys%2Fdesismileys_6869.gif&hash=f94938471d343a09155d1f60eefacdb2ceab2457)

WHY? Because the stats above ignore the fossil fuel funded corruption in government that routinely strangled Renewable Energy efforts for over a CENTURY!

Those attacks against clean energy date from the early wind turbines for electricity in the late 19th century (Cleveland) to outlawing ethanol as car fuel to solar panel development delaying in the 1950's, despite a Congressional study recommending it, to Reagan turning the lights off on Renewable Energy (Solar AND Wind) research in the 1980's to the present skullduggery of massively subsidizing the polluters while giving a pittance to Renewable Energy.

IOW, the Fossil Fuel Industry is overwhelmingly liable (90% PLUS!) for the massive degradation of the biosphere and human civilization due to Catastrophic Climate change.   
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“Subsidizing fossil fuel companies in the face of rapid climate change is like spraying jet fuel on a burning home. To put out the fire, we must first stop making the problem worse,” Doukas continued. “Ignoring the problem just because fossil fuel industry mascots like Trump demand it is like agreeing to take the warning labels off of cigarettes because they offend Joe Camel. Our leaders must act now to stop burning our tax dollars and stop trashing the climate.”

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The Fossil Fuelers DID THE Clean Energy  Inventions suppressing, Climate Trashing, human health depleting CRIME,   but since they have ALWAYS BEEN liars and conscience free crooks, they are trying to AVOID   DOING THE TIME or     PAYING THE FINE!     Don't let them get away with it! Pass it on!    (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F176.gif&hash=121533221905789c6b8d57a9603883266d349266)

Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 07, 2017, 05:04:50 pm
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"We've seen the future and it looks a lot like Houston."  Rhea Suh President, NRDC



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September 7, 2017

The nation is focused — as we should be — on recovery and rebuilding in the wake of Harvey, and all-important preparations for this new storm, Hurricane Irma, racing toward us.

But looming large over these storms is an issue that we ignore at our own peril: climate change.

No climate scientist would pin all the blame for any one hurricane or any one extreme weather event on climate change.

But we do know this: climate change almost certainly made Harvey more devastating. The Gulf of Mexico's waters are at record warmth. And warmer waters and air fuel more powerful and destructive storms.

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Only the willfully blind can ignore the larger pattern of extreme weather: Harvey is the third 500-year storm — or worse — to hit Houston in just three years. It is just the latest in a string of catastrophic floods and storm events to strike the nation. Across America and around the world heat waves and rainstorms are growing more intense — just as climate scientists have predicted for decades.

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That aversion to science is looking more and more like an invitation to a rolling planet-wide catastrophe. We've seen the future and it looks a lot like Houston. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-150715183719.png&hash=7b222546f30a032efc31223d85eea0535ed42a49)


So, please send our leaders a wake-up call: Hurricanes Harvey and Irma must be the turning point in America's willingness to tackle climate change and aggressively pursue a clean energy future. (https://act.nrdc.org/letter/hurricane-climate-170907)

Sincerely,

Rhea Suh
President, NRDC

Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 07, 2017, 05:38:15 pm
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Above: An aerial photograph taken and released by the Netherlands Ministry of Defence on September 6, 2017 shows the damage of Hurricane Irma in Philipsburg, on the Dutch Caribbean island of Sint Maarten. Image credit: Gerben Van Es/AFP/Getty Images.

Hurricane Watch for SE Florida Ahead of Powerhouse Irma

Bob Henson  ·  September 7, 2017, 1:16 PM EDT Dr. Jeff Masters (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.clipartbest.com%2Fcliparts%2Fxig%2Fojx%2Fxigojx6KT.png&hash=6706182c9f1427099a77e10d1758e61d9cadb701) co-wrote this post.

SNIPPET:

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Possible Irma Tracks


A hurricane watch and a storm surge watch are up for Florida, from the Florida Keys to Jupiter Inlet, as Category 5 Hurricane Irma heads steadily west-northwest at 16 mph.

Hurricane Irma delivered a devastating blow to the Lesser Antilles islands of Barbuda, Saint Barthelemy, Anguilla, and Saint Martin/Sint Maarten early Wednesday morning, then plowed directly though the British Virgin Islands on Wednesday afternoon, packing top winds of 185 mph during the entire rampage.

Ten deaths are being blamed on the storm—six on St. Martin, two on Saint Barthelemy, one on Barbuda, and one on Anguilla.

Damage photos from the islands show destruction characteristic of an EF4 tornado, and Irma’s 185 mph winds were indeed in the EF4 range of tornado wind speeds.

The first island Irma hit, Barbuda (population 2,000) was judged “practically uninhabitable” by the prime minister after 90% of the buildings were damaged and 60% of the population was left homeless.  :(

Full article with extensive information and graphics:

https://www.wunderground.com/cat6/hurricane-watch-se-florida-ahead-powerhouse-irma


WU meteorologist Bob Henson (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.clker.com%2Fcliparts%2Fc%2F8%2Ff%2F8%2F11949865511933397169thumbs_up_nathan_eady_01.svg.hi.png&hash=599691109af22b33f1d59dd61eb97448a9427020), co-editor of Category 6, is the author of "Meteorology Today" and "The Thinking Person's Guide to Climate Change." Before joining WU, he was a longtime writer and editor at the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, CO.

Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 07, 2017, 09:28:31 pm
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 08, 2017, 12:23:21 pm
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Sep 08, 2017

Irma Passes Eastern Cuba


GOES-16 captured this geocolor image of Hurricane Irma passing the eastern end of Cuba at about 8:00 am (eastern) on September 8, 2017.

According to the latest information from NOAA's National Hurricane Center, Irma is located about 270 miles east of Caibarien, Cuba, and moving toward the west-northwest near 14 miles per hour. Forecasters say the eye of Irma should move near the north coast of Cuba and the central Bahamas today and Saturday (9/9), and be near the Florida Keys and the southern Florida Peninsula Sunday (9/10) morning. Irma, now a category 4 storm, has maximum sustained winds near 150 mph with higher gusts. Some fluctuations in intensity are likely during the next day or two, but Irma is forecast to remain a powerful category 4 hurricane as it approaches Florida.

Created by our partners at the Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere, the experimental geocolor imagery enhancement shown here displays geostationary satellite data in different ways depending on whether it is day or night. This image, captured as daylight moves into the area, offers a blend of both, with nighttime features on the far left side of the image and daytime in the rest. In nighttime imagery, liquid water clouds appear in shades of blue, ice clouds are grayish-white, water looks black, and land appears gray. (The city lights are a static background created with VIIRS Day/Night Band imagery. It does not show any existing power outages.) In daytime imagery, land and shallow-water features appear as they do in true-color imagery.

    
Terms of Use:   Please credit NOAA
Keywords:   hurricane, Irma, GOES-16, 2017.09.08

https://www.nnvl.noaa.gov/MediaDetail2.php?MediaID=2097&MediaTypeID=1

Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 08, 2017, 01:10:15 pm
10 Ft.Storm Surge/South Florida/Full Update

BPEarthWatch

Published on Sep 7, 2017

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https://youtu.be/1_OvAhiDRys

Agelbert NOTE: As of September 8, 2017 (totday), the Turkey Point Nuclear Reactor has been shut down. This reactor, like the ones further up along the Florida Coast, have the SAME design as the Japan Fukishima reactors. And, yeah, shutting them down is a good idea, BUT, they need cooling for OVER A MONTH after they shut down to avoid a meltdown. So let us hope their auxiliary power systems do not fail.
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 08, 2017, 02:10:57 pm
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 08, 2017, 02:39:30 pm
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A GOES satellite image taken Sept. 7, 2017 at 8:45 a.m. EST shows Hurricane Irma, center, and Hurricane Jose, right, in the Atlantic Ocean, and Hurricane Katia in the Gulf of Mexico. U.S. Navy Photo

How Irma Became Irma: A Monster Storm Six Months in the Making

September 7, 2017 by Bloomberg

By Brian K. Sullivan (Bloomberg) — Irma has ripped a path of misery through the Caribbean and is aiming at Florida, but the first seed for its monster size and force was planted on the other side of the world more than six months ago.

It happened innocently enough, when a widely anticipated El Nino failed to materialize over the Pacific Ocean. In time, that cleared a path for a hurricane to form in the Atlantic that grew to the size of the state of New York with winds topping 185 miles per hour.

“The odds of getting an Irma in an El Nino year are really low,” said Phil Klotzbach, lead author of Colorado State University’s seasonal hurricane forecast. Peruvian fishermen back in the 1600s gave the recurring meteorological event its name, Little Boy or Christ Child in Spanish, when they noticed the tropical Pacific warming around Christmas in some years.

El Nino occurs when the Pacific heats up and flusters the atmosphere, setting off a chain reaction that causes wind shear across the Atlantic. Shear is wind blowing in different directions or speeds at various altitudes, and it can be Kryptonite for hurricanes. As powerful as they are, tropical cyclones have delicate structures. Shear can tear them apart. A budding storm can’t get started and an established storm can’t get strong.

Beasts like Irma churn out from one of the tropical waves that slide off the coast of Africa. These troughs of low pressure, sometimes just a ragged collection of thunderstorms, begin to roll off the continent in late spring. That’s a reason the Atlantic hurricane season runs from June 1 to November 30.

The waves are the seedlings, said Rick Knabb, hurricane expert at the Weather Channel in Atlanta and until last year director of the National Hurricane Center in Miami. “Hurricanes don’t just pop out of nowhere.”

Atmospheric Boost

They need warm water for fuel, which this summer has provided. The water in the tropical Atlantic, from the Leeward Islands to Cape Verde, has been about 2 degrees Fahrenheit (1 Celsius) higher than normal in the area where Irma is prowling, Klotzbach said.

Irma also got a boost from a deep, moist atmosphere. Earlier in the summer in the Northern Hemisphere, dry air usually blows off Africa’s Sahara Desert, sometimes carrying dust that can be seen from space and can give the Miami sky a hazy cast. That wraps into storms, sapping them of strength.

“Around Aug. 20, the dust tends to die down,” Klotzbach said. And then hurricane season begins, building to its Sept. 10 statistical peak, according to the National Hurricane Center.

All the ingredients combined to create one of the strongest storms ever to rise out of the Atlantic Ocean and the most powerful to form outside of the Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico.

For those keeping score, however, Irma still can’t be called the most intense ever recorded in the Atlantic. That honor is held by 1980’s Allen, which packed winds of 190 miles per hour.

But the season isn’t over. Normally, the 11th named storm doesn’t show up until Nov. 23, according to the hurricane center. Irma is No. 9, and 10 and 11, Jose and Katia, are already here.

© 2017 Bloomberg L.P

http://gcaptain.com/irma-became-irma-monster-storm-six-months-making/


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Pleasure craft lie crammed against the shore in Paraquita Bay as the eye of Hurricane Irma passed Tortola, British Virgin Islands September 6, 2017. Courtesy of Ron Gurney/Handout via REUTERS.

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 08, 2017, 03:11:29 pm
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The West Keeps Burning

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An intense and deadly fire season continued to exhaust Western firefighters this week as drought envelops the region. Officials reported Wednesday that more than 1 million acres total have burned during Montana's fire season.

Montana Governor Steve Bullock declared a state of emergency last week, calling this “one of the worst fire seasons” in the state's history. As the Guardian reports, fires and drought are stunting crop yields and endangering cattle in one of the country's most important agricultural areas.

Climate change is intensifying drought conditions in the West: an exceptionally warm spring and summer helped to dry out the landscape after a wet winter.

High temperatures and dry conditions increase the chance of a fire starting and can help an existing fire spread.
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/09/why-is-2017-so-bad-for-wildfires-climate-change/539130/

Agriculture: The Guardian. Climate change: The Atlantic, AP.
Background: Climate Signals backgrounder on increased drought risk, Climate Signals backgrounder on increased fire risk.

http://www.climatesignals.org/climate-signals/increased-drought-risk
http://www.climatesignals.org/climate-signals/increased-wildfire-risk

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The Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) instrument aboard the NOAA/NASA Suomi NPP satellite captured this visible imagery of northern California and southern Oregon on August 31, 2017. Excessive heat warnings and advisories, and air quality alerts are in place along the entire west coasts of California and Oregon, exacerbated by the multiple wildfires plaguing both states.    NOAA National Weather Service Credit NOAA/NASA

https://www.nnvl.noaa.gov/MediaDetail2.php?MediaID=2091&MediaTypeID=1

Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 09, 2017, 12:41:02 pm
Agelbert NOTE: Excellent article with video describes quite accurately what much of Florida is about to experience.

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By THE NEW YORK TIMES SEPT. 7, 2017

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Cars were tossed in the air. Roofs were ripped off houses as families sheltered inside. And at least 20people have died because of the storm: nine in the French Caribbean, four in the United States Virgin Islands, three in Puerto Rico, one on the Dutch side of St. Martin, one in Barbuda and one in Anguilla.

Here is what the destruction looked like on some of the islands directly in the storm’s path.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/07/world/americas/hurricane-irma-caribbean-destruction-video-photos.html

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 11, 2017, 01:22:56 pm
Miami Mayor: 'If This Isn't Climate Change, I Don't Know What Is'

Hurricane Irma churned over southwest Florida Sunday, leaving over half the state without power, causing at least five deaths and creating widespread flooding and destruction. While the storm has weakened since making landfall and avoided directly hitting Miami and Tampa, the National Hurricane Center still advises "life threatening" conditions along the Florida coastline.

Despite Florida Gov. Rick Scott's vociferous involvement in preparing the state for Irma and publicly urging evacuations, his past climate change denial and avoidance of climate-related preparations before Irma has drawn criticism. Other officials, including Miami mayor Tomás Pedro Regalado and French president Emmanuel Macron, have directly linked the storm to climate change.

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https://www.ecowatch.com/miami-hurricane-irma-2483959302.htm
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 12, 2017, 01:59:30 pm
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September 12, 2017

Dear Anthony,

WOW! I'm so impressed with the smart, insightful questions supporters like you sent in to ask our scientists.

We're so grateful to have so many people standing with The Nature Conservancy who share our passion for leveraging science to find real, actionable solutions to our planet's most pressing problems.

Here are your answers to just a few of the top questions we received:

What ways can an individual help decrease the carbon footprint besides recycling?
Michelle M., California

"The good news is that there are a lot of things you can do—from everyday choices you make to bigger investments. The most important thing you can do to reduce..."
See the full answer from Jon Fisher, Senior Conservation Scientist (https://support.nature.org/site/SPageNavigator/supporter/ask_scientist_jon_fisher.html)

Have you seen any evidence of plants or animals beginning to evolve to cope with the change in climate? I'm worried that they will become extinct rather than change.
-- Collen M.

"We share your concern. Unfortunately, current rates of extinction, due to climate change, habitat loss and other human activities, are estimated to be tens to hundreds of times higher..."
See the full answer from Nick Wolff, Climate Scientist (https://support.nature.org/site/SPageNavigator/supporter/ask_scientist_nick_wolff.html)

Is deforestation no longer a threat to our world's forests? What is driving deforestation today and what is being done to control it?
- Meg G., Virginia

"Deforestation continues to be a one of the biggest threats that forests face today. There are a variety of drivers of deforestation that vary from place to place. For example..."
See the full answer from Trisha Gopalakrishna, Geospatial Analyst (https://support.nature.org/site/SPageNavigator/supporter/ask_scientist_trisha_gopalakrishna.html)

Thank you again for your commitment to the Conservancy's science-based conservation solutions. The work of our 600 scientists around the globe, wouldn't be possible without support from friends like you. (https://support.nature.org/site/Donation2)

With gratitude,

Sarah Bradley
Online Community Manager
The Nature Conservancy

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 12, 2017, 02:21:44 pm
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Global warming will kill a third of the world’s parasites, and that’s not even a good thing

LAST UPDATED ON SEPTEMBER 11TH, 2017 AT 8:17 PM BY MIHAI ANDREI  E-mail author

SNIPPET:

The evil you know

The first concern is that as some parasites are killed off, their place will be taken by others, and this will almost certainly lead to invasions from the surviving ones. They also keep other creatures in check and fill in some very important links in the food chain. If they go away, other creatures which dine on these parasites will be left without their favorite food and this can propagate on the food chain, much like a domino effect.

In order to reach this conclusion, researchers across eight countries spent years pinpointing the habitats, needs, and current environmental situation of 457 parasite species. They also analyzed the collection of 20 million parasites held at the Smithsonian Institution’s Museum of National History in the US to map their distribution.

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http://www.zmescience.com/science/biology/global-warming-parasites-11092017/
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 12, 2017, 08:23:52 pm
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Agelbert NOTE: The following quote from a peer reviewed book is of extreme importance to all Americans:

Dilworth (2010-03-12). Too Smart for our Own Good (pp. 399-400). Cambridge University Press. Kindle Edition.

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"As suggested earlier, war, for example, which represents a cost for society, is a source of profit to capitalists. In this way we can partly understand e.g. the American military expenditures in the Persian Gulf area. Already before the first Gulf War, i.e. in 1985, the United States spent $47 billion projecting power into the region. If seen as being spent to obtain Gulf oil, It AMOUNTED TO $468 PER BARREL, or 18 TIMES the $27 or so that at that time was paid for the oil itself.

In fact, if Americans had spent as much to make buildings heat-tight as they spent in ONE YEAR at the end of the 1980s on the military forces meant to protect the Middle Eastern oil fields, THEY COULD HAVE ELIMINATED THE NEED TO IMPORT OIL from the Middle East.

So why have they not done so? Because, while the $468 per barrel may be seen as being a cost the American taxpayers had to bear, and a negative social effect those living in the Gulf area had to bear, it meant only profits for American capitalists. "

Note: I added the bold caps emphasis on the barrel of oil price, money spent in one year and the need to import oil from the Middle East.

This totally unjustified profit, never mind the needless lose of lives, then increases the power of the fossil fuel corporations to perpetuate a biosphere harming dirty fuel status quo. How? By "funding" politicians with rather large "donations" to keep renewable energy from competing with dirty energy.

If all this was just about power politics, I might not be that concerned. Humans, particularly the overly ambitious and aggressive ones, have always fought and schemed to control and fleece the population at large.

But now we know the future of our biosphere is at stake. Now we know the entire edifice of dirty energy is a knife in the back of the biosphere that will destroy our species and many others.

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The system, as defined by the fossil fuel fascist dystopia that currently runs most of the human affairs among the 1 billion population in the developed world that is saddling the other 6 billion, who are totally free of guilt for causing it, with this climate horror we are beginning to experience, IS quite stubborn and does not wish to change the status quo.

Mother nature will force it to do so.

Whether it is done within the next two decades or not (i.e. a switch to 100% PLUS bioremediation Renewable Energy steady state economy) will dictate the size of the consequent die off, not only of humans but thousands of other species as well.

We are now in a climate cake that has been baked for about 1,000 years according to atmospheric, objective, proven with experimental data, science.
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 12, 2017, 09:07:11 pm
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September 11, 2017

Is the Military Prepared for Climate Crisis?

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The effects of climate change will increase inequality and create conflicts across borders, while the U.S. military will to have to spend more money and resources on humanitarian assistance and disaster relief, says Col. Larry Wilkerson.

https://youtu.be/fLpJhaCWy-8

http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=19971
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 12, 2017, 09:49:53 pm
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September 11, 2017 by Editorial

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A GOES satellite image taken Sept. 8, 2017 at 9:45 a.m. EST shows Hurricane Irma, center, in the Caribbean Sea, Hurricane Jose, right, in the Atlantic Ocean, and Hurricane Katia in the Gulf of Mexico. U.S. Navy Photo

SNIPPET:

By The Editors (Bloomberg View) — Beyond inflicting epic destruction and suffering, Hurricanes Harvey and Irma have brought the U.S. face to face with the catastrophic flood dangers posed by climate change.

Fed by deeply warmed ocean waters, the storms turned violent — as climate-change models have predicted. Higher sea levels have intensified flooding.


Yet if history is a guide, no matter how great the losses, Harvey and Irma will not dampen Americans’ enthusiasm for living and working along coastlines vulnerable to hurricanes. The cycle of building, flooding, rebuilding — and then ignoring the problem — plays out repeatedly in every region that experiences big storms. And the costs just keep rising.

The U.S. needs to rethink the way it prepares for and responds to great storms. This will require measuring the risks better, pricing them more realistically, and getting states, local governments and property owners to bear their share.

Full article:

http://gcaptain.com/view-u-s-prepare-face-hurricanes/

Agelbert NOTE: Let us hope that, along the way to pricing the costs, they do not forget to assign the appropriate LIABILITY to the Fossil Fuel Industry for degrading the biosphere and destabilizing our climate.

Sep. 11, 2017 4:30 pm

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 13, 2017, 12:58:17 pm
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House in Houston during Hurricane Harvey

SEP 10, 2017 TD ORIGINALS

The Great Flood

SNIPPET:

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The damage suffered by Houston, Tampa and Miami is not an anomaly. It is the beginning of the end. Ask not for whom the bell tolls. It tolls for thee.

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"How many times will we rebuild Florida’s cities, Houston, coastal New Jersey, New Orleans and other population centers ravaged by storms lethally intensified by global warming? At what point, surveying the devastation and knowing more is inevitable, will we walk away, leaving behind vast coastal dead zones? Will we retreat even further into magical thinking to cope with the fury we have unleashed from the natural world? Or will we respond rationally and radically alter our relationship to this earth that gives us life?"

How many times will Hedges repeat his "sinners-in-the-hands-of-an-angry-god" pronouncements, ravaging readers with his storms of doom and gloom? At what point will he walk away from behind his lectern, leaving behind a verbosity that all too often leads to little more than the dead end of despair? Will he retreat even further into an intellectual career of magically thinking his mere verbiage makes a difference to people who, unlike him, struggle on the ground with issues of survival such that we don't have time to listen to, much less take seriously, his self-important rant? Or will he - and other like members of the professional class - radically alter their own paid positions in relation to a capitalist social system which turns the earth into trash while they live atop the heap, preaching to others beneath them on the errors of our ways?

How many times will we keep turning to hot air talking heads rather than getting to work with others, on the ground, to organize revolutionary movements to truly take on the hot air of the earth and all the polluted causes and effects of this sick social system? At what point will we turn our backs on the chattering class, who traffic in vain, self-serving commentary on what others live far more harshly than they, and walk away from their cultured dead zones to reclaim our own agency in challenging and changing the relations of power by which authorities speak to us and for us but never with us? Will we retreat even further into our assigned roles as mere spectators to our own demise, magically thinking others, presumably more knowledgeable and capable than us, mean what they say when they profess their outrage over social conditions which confer upon them the privilege of such professionalism? Or will we radically alter our subject status and assume our own words and deeds to still risk, even against the odds at this late hour, remaking this world in the earth's image, among all our relations, as an egalitarian ecology of life?

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Post by: AGelbert on September 13, 2017, 02:23:43 pm
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By Dr. Jason von Meding and Heidi Harmon

SNIPPET:

Naomi Klein, talking about climate change, argues that, "Talking honestly about what is fueling this era of serial disasters—even while they're playing out in real time—isn't disrespectful to the people on the front lines. In fact, it is the only way to truly honor their losses, and our last hope for preventing a future littered with countless more victims."

Honest discourse is urgently required. However, a narrow focus on climate change may actually obscure a deeper political malaise that keeps the most marginalized in society perpetually at risk.

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In 2016, Bernie Sanders threatened to turn the system on its head. The establishment colluded to make sure that this didn't happen. In recent weeks, he has been widely smeared for daring to run against Hillary Clinton in the primaries. This is how the establishment protects itself—Ralph Nader's character assassination is a prime example.

Full article:

https://www.ecowatch.com/systematic-injustice-2484443866.html

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Thank you for this wonderful article! See a brief summary of how we arrived at this situation - legally and politically. (http://www.legalreader.com/we-the-people-endangered-captured-and-dying/)

We the People: Endangered, Captured, and Dying (http://www.legalreader.com/we-the-people-endangered-captured-and-dying/)

Agelbert NOTE: The above article should be required reading for all Americans above the age of reason.  The inevitable consequences of our corrupt leaders continuing to support the present suicidial trajectory are clearly stated by Chris Hedges in the following quote:

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"The damage suffered by Houston, Tampa and Miami is not an anomaly. It is the beginning of the end. Ask not for whom the bell tolls. It tolls for thee. (https://www.truthdig.com/articles/the-great-flood/)" - Chris Hedges
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 13, 2017, 08:05:35 pm
Irma Makes Its Mark in Weather Records
Bob Henson  ·  September 12, 2017, 9:23 PM EDT

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Above: Eric Ward, the bartender at Key Largo's Snappers, inspects the damage from Hurricane Irma at the popular restaurant on Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2017, in Key Largo, Fla. Florida is cleaning up and embarking on rebuilding from Hurricane Irma, one of the most destructive hurricanes in its history. Image credit: Al Diaz/Miami Herald via AP.

SNIPPET:


Irma’s highest winds and heaviest rains

Here are peak wind gusts and top rainfall totals from Irma observed across the Southeast U.S., as reported by the NOAA/NWS Weather Prediction Center in its final statement on Irma as a post-tropical cyclone, issued at 5 pm EDT Monday. Many of these readings are unverified, so we’ll have to wait for more in-depth analysis to find out which of Irma’s peak rain and wind reports make it into the final record.

Heaviest total rainfall from Irma in each affected state

Florida:  15.91” (Ft. Pierce/St. Lucie County Intl. Airport)
Georgia:  10.12” (St. Marys River, 5 mi SSE of Kingsland)
South Carolina:  8.65” (5 mi WNW of Charleston)
North Carolina:  6.05” (Busick)
Alabama:  4.70” (West Point)
Mississippi:  1.21” (8.2 mi SE of Abbeville)

Strongest wind gust from Irma in each affected state

Florida:  142 mph (2 mi ENE of Naples)
South Carolina:  76 mph (6 mi E of Parris Island)
Georgia:  70 mph (Fort Pulaski)
Tennessee:  66 mph (Clingmans Dome Tower)
North Carolina:  56 mph (2 mi WNW of Highlands)
Alabama:  45 mph (Troy)

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https://www.wunderground.com/cat6/irma-makes-its-mark-weather-records

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 13, 2017, 10:18:14 pm
Excellent Video of Hurricane Irma

https://youtu.be/A3JLisAzstw

Article with several amazing graphics:

NOAA’s New Weather Satellite Captured Stunning Images of Hurricanes Harvey and Irma

September 12, 2017 by Mike Schuler

http://gcaptain.com/noaa-weather-satellite-goes-16-stunning-images-hurricanes-irma-harvey/
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 13, 2017, 10:25:55 pm
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https://youtu.be/tkXuO39EtAg


This happened on our Earth September 11-13, 2017

https://youtu.be/V_Uqc4WxhOY
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 15, 2017, 01:51:26 pm
Agelbert NOTE:  Considering what is in store for ocean wave activity due to Catastrophic Climate change, this is prudent behavior:

September 14, 2017 by gCaptain

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Transas survival craft simulator eliminates drill risks

Transas has introduced a new Survival Craft Simulator (SCS) to prepare crew for the multitude of possible scenarios that can occur during lifeboat drills, aiming to address one of the most notorious sources of accidents in shipping without exposing personnel to physical danger.

Effective survival craft training is essential to prepare crew for a disaster at sea but practical lifeboat drills have a troubling track record for causing fatalities. By shifting some elements of training to a simulated environment, the risks are minimized and the crew can focus on the procedures that will increase safety when operating the real lifeboat equipment in an emergency.

IMO expert investigations have focused mainly on the complex quick-release hooks that typically suspend enclosed lifeboats from their davits, which are designed to hold tons of mass securely for years at a time and then come free quickly when the lifeboat is lowered. The Maritime Safety Committee expects new guidelines to enter into force on 1 January 2020, addressing longstanding issues including the need for uniform and documented standards for hook servicing.

However, a failure to follow correct procedures and lack of proper training have also been cited as contributory factors in incidents. The Transas Survival Craft Simulator allows such training to be conducted either at a training centre or on-board in a benign environment, allowing trainees to learn essential procedures, such as the preparation of survival craft, its launch and boarding, but without the risk.

At the heart of the new simulator is a highly detailed virtual model of a totally enclosed davit-launched, self-righting lifeboat. It is supported by a functional model to simulate the hook-release gear, wire lashings and gripes, and for boat securing onto a davit. Instruction on using the release handle, a safety pin, and hydrostatic interlock level can be delivered either virtually or with a physical device connected to the simulator.

“No one doubts the importance of effective survival craft training,” said Frank Coles, Transas Chief Executive Officer. “Guidance issued by insurers reaffirms that crew should be capable of operating lifeboat systems and understanding the mechanics and procedures, but training itself cannot be the source of risk. The majority of the maritime industry stakeholders still have some way to go to fully embrace the use of simulation to enhance and improve competency in shipboard operations. This tool is further evidence of that competence can be raised safely and efficiently without endangering lives. The time for platitudes is over; resources and recurrent training save lives and enhance safety.”

Survival Craft Simulator was created to function under Transas Academy, the seafarer competency development component of THESIS. In the future, this oversight will enable data collected during exercises to feed into and inform other aspects of vessel and fleet operation.

http://gcaptain.com/transas-survival-craft-simulator-eliminates-drill-risks/

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 16, 2017, 02:03:27 pm
Dangerous PTC 15 headed for Eastern Caribbean; Hurricane Jose Headed Towards New England

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Above:  MODIS view of Potential Tropical Cyclone 15 on Saturday morning, September 16, 2017. Image credit: NASA.

Dr. Jeff Masters  ·  September 16, 2017, 11:46 AM EDT

SNIPPET:

A strong tropical wave located at 11 am EDT Saturday about 755 miles east of the Lesser Antilles Islands was headed west at about 22 mph, and was designated Potential Tropical Cyclone 15 (PTC 15, formerly 96L) by NHC. Tropical storm watches were hoisted for the islands of St. Lucia, Martinique, Guadeloupe, and Dominica, and PTC 15 has the potential to be a hurricane by the time it passes through the Lesser Antilles Islands on Tuesday morning. In their 8 am EDT Saturday Tropical Weather Outlook, NHC gave PTC 15 2-day and 5-day odds of development of 90%.

PTC 15 had very favorable conditions for development on Saturday morning. Wind shear was light, 5 - 10 knots, SSTs were a very warm 29 – 29.5°C (84 - 85°F), and relative humidity at mid-levels of the atmosphere (as analyzed by the 12Z Saturday run of the SHIPS model) was moderately moist--about 60%. Satellite loops showed that PTC 15 had a good deal of spin, and heavy thunderstorm activity was steadily increasing and growing more organized, with several curved low-level spiral bands forming. There was no obvious surface circulation center, but is likely to form by Saturday evening. The first hurricane hunter aircraft is scheduled to investigate PTC 15 on Sunday afternoon.

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Figure 3. GOES-16 view of Hurricane Jose at 11 am EDT September 16, 2017. Image credit: NOAA/RAMMB. GOES-16 data is considered preliminary and non-operational.

Hurricane Jose headed towards New England

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The Lord is known by the judgment which he executeth: the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. Higgaion. Selah.

The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God.

For the needy shall not always be forgotten: the expectation of the poor shall not perish for ever.

Arise, O Lord; let not man prevail: let the heathen be judged in thy sight.

Put them in fear, O Lord: that the nations may know themselves to be but men. Selah.

Psalm 9:16-20 King James Version (KJV)

Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 16, 2017, 06:50:06 pm
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Thursday, 14 September 2017

More very strange weather: Hurricane winds of nearly 100mph kills 3 in Germany as Storm Sebastian heads south!

At least three people have been killed in a large windstorm that swept across Germany. Hurricane-force winds downed trees and toppled scaffolding, with officials warning residents to stay at home. Windstorm Sebastian wreaked havoc across northern and northwestern Germany on Wednesday, killing three people and causing power outages.

Wind gusts of up to 150 kilometres (93 miles) per hour were recorded in the northern Harz mountain range, according to the German weather service (DWD).

The North Sea saw gusts of up to 140 kilometres per hour, as residents in northern Germany battled driving downpours.
Three people have been killed as a result of the storm.

A man in a wheelchair died after falling into the Elbe River in the northern city of Hamburg, local firefighters said.

Witnesses saw the man fall into the water where he later drowned despite a rescue effort that included a boat, divers and a helicopter.

Also in Hamburg, a pedestrian died after being hit by scaffolding that fell from the seventh floor of a building, police said.

The man later succumbed to his injuries after being taken to a hospital.
And in the western German spa town of Brilon, a 53-year-old man was killed after he was crushed by a falling tree.

A 20-meter (65-foot) spruce tree fell on the man while he was working in the forest, local police said. Falling trees also caused train delays in the western state of North Rhine-Westphalia, while the wind caused significant damage to cars and buildings.

The DWD expects the storm to continue battering eastern Germany into the night, with parts of southern Germany expecting hurricane-force winds as well.

https://youtu.be/GHg_HSP2X0M

Several regions have warned residents to stay at home while emergency services attempt to clear the roads of fallen branches and repair power outages.



Florida Hurricane Irma footage below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5YMHXV-IzA

http://www.thebigwobble.org/2017/09/more-very-strange-weather-hurricane.html
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 16, 2017, 09:46:10 pm
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Mind-bending Climate Strikes

Posted on September 13, 2017, by Radio Ecoshock
 
Inhuman heat predicted by new science from Europe. Lead author Simone Russo explains 55 degree C (131 F) heat for U.S., India & China. From Ottawa, climate scientist Paul Beckwith walks us through the forces behind record storms, fires, and floods. Radio Ecoshock 170913

Record-breaking Harvey, followed by the largest hurricane ever seen in the Atlantic, with Hurricane Jose right behind. Add the West engulfed in fire, millions flooded out in Asia – who can keep up in a destabilized climate? We’re going to try this week on Radio Ecoshock. We start with critical new science from Italy about the incredible heat to come. Then our regular guest scientist Paul Beckwith paints the big picture missing in the media. It’s radio that tries hard, in trying times.

Download or listen to this Radio Ecoshock show in CD Quality (57 MB) or Lo-Fi (14 MB)

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 17, 2017, 12:59:29 pm
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The Fossil Fuelers DID THE Clean Energy  Inventions suppressing, Climate Trashing, human health depleting CRIME,   but since they have ALWAYS BEEN liars and conscience free crooks, they are trying to AVOID   DOING THE TIME or     PAYING THE FINE!     Don't let them get away with it! Pass it on!    (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F176.gif&hash=121533221905789c6b8d57a9603883266d349266)
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 17, 2017, 02:14:44 pm
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Sep 15, 2017

This data visualization from NOAA's Visualization Laboratory shows the maximum wind gusts from Hurricane Irma from September 7 to September 10, 2017. Note how the strongest wind gusts are on the north side of the storm track (the faint dotted line). According to the NOAA's National Hurricane Center, Irma's maximum sustained winds ranged from 110 (on 9/10) to near 180 (on 9/7) miles per hour during this period.

This graphic was created with data from the RTMA, or Real-Time Mesoscale Analysis model, which uses surface observation data to create a highly accurate gridded analysis of past weather conditions. The data covers only the Continental United States and coastal areas, so areas of the storm further to the south and east, where Irma was at maximum intensity, are not visible. To see satellite imagery of Irma, visit our image gallery. For information about the 2017 Hurricane Season thus far, check out our Hurricane Tracker.
    
Referral:   National Hurricane Center's archive of Hurricane Irma advisories
Terms of Use:   Please credit NOAA
Keywords:   hurricane, Irma, RTMA, 2017.09.15

https://www.nnvl.noaa.gov/

Sand Disturbed by the Passing of Hurricane Irma

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Sep 13, 2017

Hurricane Irma didn't just impact land. As seen in these before-and-after true-color images captured by the VIIRS instrument on the NOAA/NASA Suomi NPP satellite September 7, 2017 (top) and September 11 (bottom), the storm altered the distribution of sand around the coast of Florida. The light blue color shows sediment suspended in the water, kicked up by the intensity of the storm. According to the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary, damage to natural resources in the region could be significant.

Although true-color images like this may appear to be photographs of Earth, they aren't. They are created by combining data from the three color channels on the VIIRS instrument sensitive to the red, green and blue (or RGB) wavelengths of light into one composite image. In addition, data from several other channels are often also included to cancel out or correct atmospheric interference that may blur parts of the image.

    
Referral:   Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary
Terms of Use:   Please credit NOAA/NASA
Keywords:   hurricane, Irma, turbidity, NPP, VIIRS, 2017.09.11

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 17, 2017, 03:00:21 pm
Time lapse global temperature increase by NOAA:
https://youtu.be/uVmpDk4rEI0

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Jan 17, 2017

2016 Officially Warmest Year on Record

2016 is officially the new warmest year on record, edging out previous record holder 2015 by 0.07°F, according to NOAA. It is the third year in a row that global average surface temperature set a new record, and the fifth time the record has been broken since the start of the twenty-first century.

This animation shows annual temperatures each year since 1880 compared to the twentieth-century average, ending with record-warm 2016. Because of global warming due to increasing greenhouse gases, the maps from the late 1800s and the early 1900s are dominated by shades of blue, indicating temperatures were up to 3°C (5.4°F) cooler than the twentieth-century average.

By the 1980s, the maps take on shades of yellow, with a few large cooler-than-average spots shifting around from year to year. By the 2000s, most of the planet is orange and red—up to 3°C (5.4°F) warmer than the long-term average, with only a few isolated cool spots from year to year.

Climate experts have long known that global warming due to increasing greenhouse gases won’t necessarily mean that each year on Earth will be warmer than the last. Even as the planet warms over the long-term, natural variability will continue to make some years warmer or cooler than their nearest neighbors. So the string of three record-breaking years in a row is unlikely to continue in 2017, especially because La Niña—the cool phase of the major natural climate pattern “ENSO”—developed in late 2016 and continued into early 2017.

For more stats and information on global climate in 2016, read the summary from the National Centers for Environmental Information.

About these maps

The official NOAA global surface temperature product does not interpolate over the Arctic, the Antarctic, or parts of Africa where there are no observations. In an interpolation, a computer algorithm estimates some missing values using statistical inferences. This animation is based on an interpolation of the official NOAA global temperature monitoring data set (the Merged Land and Ocean Surface Temperature data). In this case, we’ve interpolated across some of the missing data areas to minimize the visual distraction that results from the areas of missing data jumping around from map to map over time. The official maps are available from the NCEI website.
    
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Keywords:   global, surface, temperature, NCEI, 1880, 2016
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 17, 2017, 09:23:29 pm
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https://youtu.be/Z5CrUgBn3uM

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saanichreport

Published on Apr 28, 2017

Dr. Peter Carter and others are warning the planet and all of humanity is in peril due to the consequences of the industrial age.  Host Jack Etkin blames the media for not informing the public just how grave the danger has become.

This is the complete interview.  Edited versions were shown on ShawTV Victoria and Vancouver.  See more of our shows on

www.CanadianIndependentMedia.ca

Category Nonprofits & Activism

License Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed)

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 17, 2017, 10:54:26 pm
Agelbert NOTE: Published 7 years ago but more important than ever!

Global Warmimg: How HOT can it get?  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Fdesertsmile.gif&hash=293fbde1c87dec2d81c5907e3fbac7d8e5bba7a9)

https://youtu.be/wNvG68-3HMg

Global warming: how hot can it get?

Peter Carter

Published on Mar 29, 2010

The climate change damage to human human population health and survival will depend on the extreme of the heating (not the average), but this is virtually ignored.
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 18, 2017, 12:57:48 pm
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Above: GOES-16 view of Hurricane Jose, Tropical Storm Maria, and Tropical Depression Lee at 10:45 am EDT September 17, 2017. Image credit: NOAA/RAMMB. GOES-16 data is considered preliminary and non-operational.

Maria Threatens Leeward Islands; Jose's Surf Will Batter Northeast U.S. Beaches

Bob Henson  ·  September 17, 2017, 12:48 PM EDT

SNIPPET:

There is nothing obvious in Maria’s environment to prevent strengthening through Wednesday afternoon, when interaction with Puerto Rico and/or Hispaniola may disrupt the storm. Both the HWRF and COAMPS-TC models predicted in their Sunday morning runs that Maria would be a Category 4 hurricane on Wednesday afternoon, and Maria will most likely be at Category 3 or 4 strength when making its closest approach to Puerto Rico on Wednesday.

The Rapid Intensification Index from the 12Z Sunday SHIPS model run gave Maria a 42% chance of gaining 65 knots of intensity over the next three days, which would bring Maria to the threshold of Category 4 strength by Wednesday.
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full article:

https://www.wunderground.com/cat6/maria-threatens-leeward-islands-joses-surf-will-batter-northeast-beaches
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 18, 2017, 05:01:24 pm
Climate Change in the Arctic and Model Projections (2017)

https://youtu.be/aqxbU9zOKgE

13,290 views

Climate State

Published on May 22, 2017

This video with scope on permafrost melting, highlights some of the new developments of our understandings, of what happens in the Arctic due to global warming.

The Woods Hole Research Center (WHRC), at the University of Alaska Fairbanks May 11, 2017. Professor of Geophysics Vladimir Romanovsky discusses the impact of Arctic permafrost thaw.

Greenland Petermann Ice Shelf Melting at Unbelievable Rate

https://youtu.be/WQP93lgzt2o

Tom Messenger

Published on Jan 9, 2017

New scientific data convinces a once skeptical scientist to believe. This amazing documentary reveals the plight of Greenland's Ice Shelf in depth.




 
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 18, 2017, 08:22:43 pm
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Six Storms Bracket North America: 3 hurricanes, a tropical storm, depression & a disturbance

https://youtu.be/Wii-N_BfvmQ

Paul Beckwith

Published on Sep 17, 2017

At this moment we have three hurricanes (Jose, Maria, & Otis), a tropical storm (Norma), a tropical depression (Lee) and a tropical disturbance (yet unnamed) surrounding North America.

I discuss the latest projections, and teach you the tools to track these storms yourself. Hurricane Jose is expected to curve northward off the US coast, while Hurricane Maria is likely to rapidly strengthen and bring pain to many Caribbean Islands hurt severely by Hurricane Irma.

Please donate at http://paulbeckwith.net to support my videos, and suggest topics that you want me to cover in future videos:)

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 19, 2017, 02:41:54 pm
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Figure 2. Hurricane Hugo caused severe damage to Puerto Rico’s El Yunque rain forest on September 18, 1989. Image credit: NOAA Photo Library.


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Above: Infrared GOES-16 image of Hurricane Maria as of 10:51 am EDT Tuesday, September 19, 2017. Image credit: RAMMB / CIRA@CSU.

Maria Headed for Catastrophic Hit on Puerto Rico, St. Croix (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-150715183719.png&hash=7b222546f30a032efc31223d85eea0535ed42a49)

Bob Henson  ·  September 19, 2017, 11:41 AM EDT

SNIPPET:

After a direct hit on the small Lesser Antilles island of Dominica on Monday night, followed by a brief weakening, Hurricane Maria reintensified to Category 5 strength with winds of 160 mph on Tuesday morning. Maria will likely be a catastrophic Category 5 or high-end Category 4 storm when it hits the U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico on Wednesday morning. Preliminary reports out of Dominica indicate that Maria likely did catastrophic damage there. The northern eyewall of Maria also grazed the southwest corner of Guadaloupe Island on Monday night, and heavy damage was reported there. The core of the hurricane missed Montserrat, Saba, and St. Kitts and Nevis, but these islands have been experiencing sustained tropical storm-force winds and heavy rain squalls.

Maria’s encounter with Dominica bruised the storm slightly, with the top winds falling to 155 mph and the central pressure rising from 924 mb to 934 mb between 11 pm Monday and 5 am Tuesday. This took the storm briefly down to a Category 4 rating. However, an Air Force hurricane hunter aircraft on Tuesday morning found a falling pressure and rising winds. Maria’s central pressure was down to 927 mb, and the winds were back up to 160 mph as of 11 am EDT Tuesday. Maria passed just east of Buoy 42060 late Tuesday morning; the buoy reported a pressure of 956 mb and sustained winds of 74 mph, gusting to 94 mph, at 11:10 am EDT Tuesday.

Unfortunately for the islands in its path, Maria’s appearance on satellite imagery is truly spectacular, and the outer spiral bands of the hurricane are already lashing the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico, as seen on long- range radar and CatherineHope’s Webcam on St. Croix.

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Figure 1. GOES-16 visible image of Maria at 10:15 am Tuesday, September 19, 2017. At the time, Maria was a Category 5 storm with 160 mph winds, a central pressure of 927 mb, and a small "pinhole" eye with a diameter of 10 nautical miles. Image credit: NOAA/RAMMB. GOES-16 data is considered preliminary and non-operational.

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Maria developed a tiny “pinhole” eye during its rapid intensification burst on Monday, with a diameter of 8 nautical miles (nm). The hurricane has maintained a small eye so far on Tuesday, with the diameter fluctuating between 7 nm and 10 nm (10 nm = 11.5 miles). Hurricanes that develop pinhole eyes often intensify into some of the strongest storms we observe, since they concentrate their wind energy around a narrow ring surrounding the tiny eye. These small eyes tend to be unstable, resulting in an eyewall replacement cycle (ERC) shortly after the pinhole eye is observed. Some other examples of tropical cyclones with pinhole eyes with a diameter less than 10 nm (thanks go to Michael Cavaliere, Howard Diamond, and Boris Konon):

Hurricane Wilma - 2005 (175 MPH / 882 MB) - Western Caribbean - 1.5 nm
Hurricane Iris – 2001 (140 MPH / 950 MB) - Western Caribbean – 3 nm
Hurricane Beta - 2005 (115 MPH / 962 MB) - Nicaragua - 5 nm
Hurricane Dennis - 2005 (120 MPH / 930 MB) - Florida - 4 nm
Hurricane Charley - 2004 (150 MPH / 941 MB) - Florida - 2.5 nm
Hurricane Opal - 1995 (150 MPH / 919 MB) - Florida - 5 nm
Hurricane Andrew - 1992 (165 MPH / 921 MB) - Florida - 6 nm
Typhoon Forrest - 1983 (165 MPH / 883 MB) - Philippines - 4 nm
Cyclone Tracy - 1974 (125 MPH / 950 MB) - Australia - 7 nm

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https://www.wunderground.com/cat6/maria-headed-catastrophic-hit-puerto-rico-st-croix

Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 19, 2017, 07:25:12 pm
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Image by Andrea Booher / FEMA

Over $2 Billion In US Fire Suppression Costs From This Year’s Wildfire Season

September 19th, 2017 by James Ayre

SNIPPET:

That figure represents a substantial increase from the previous record year of 2015, which saw the agency spend $1.7 billion on fire suppression efforts.

To be clear here, these figures relate solely to US Forest Service costs and don’t include figures from federal, state, or local firefighting agencies.

Altogether, 2017 has been an unprecedented year in the US (and in many other parts of the world as well) with regard to forest fires. At this point, it should be clear that the predictions that wildfires will become increasingly common and severe over the course of the century as a result of anthropogenic climate change have something substantial to them.

Full article:

https://cleantechnica.com/2017/09/19/2-billion-suppression-costs-years-wildfire-season-us/

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 19, 2017, 08:45:44 pm
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Koch Brothers Fuel the GOP's War on Climate Science

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September 19, 2017

Investigative journalist Bruce Livesey explains that the Koch brothers have used their enormous wealth to force Republicans to toe the line on climate change denial

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 19, 2017, 11:04:16 pm
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Unprecedented by David Ray Griffin: the best on the CO2 emergency (long).

https://youtu.be/42Z3dV1SE3w

Peter Carter

Published on Feb 2, 2017

Short promo.Two climate books by David Ray Griffin. Unprecedented CO2 Crisis (2015) and Unprecedented Climate Mobilization (2016), co-author Elizabeth Woodworth.

Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 20, 2017, 01:46:24 pm
CLIMATE LAB BOOK

Are the models “running too hot”?   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.coh2.org%2Fimages%2FSmileys%2Fhuhsign.gif&hash=3732d0427be65896527fc3805c5be54a33cffd3b)

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September 20, 2017 GCMs, observations Ed Hawkins

Recent media headlines have again discussed the issue of whether climate models are overly sensitive to greenhouse gases. These headlines have misinterpreted a study by Millar et al. which was discussing carbon budgets to limit global temperature rise to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels.

A recent study by Medhaug et al. analysed the issue of how the models have performed against recent observations at length and largely reconciled the issue. An overly simplistic comparison of simulated global temperatures and observations might suggest that the models were warming too much, but this would be wrong for a number of reasons.

In the Medhaug et al. paper they show the range of models (blue shading in figure with median in light blue), compared with the HadCRUT4 observations and their estimated uncertainty (orange shading with light orange line). There are a number of well understood reasons why the light orange line might not follow the light blue line, namely: radiative forcings, variability, observational biases and choice of reference period.

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Figure 5 from Medhaug et al. showing CMIP5 simulations and observations (HadCRUT4) of global temperature.

Radiative forcings: The simulations were produced using observed information on sources of radiative forcing up to 2005, and made various assumptions for subsequent forcings. For example, the simulations assumed no volcanic eruptions after 2005, whereas the real world did have some eruptions. In addition, the sun dimmed slightly and this was not included. Retrospectively we can estimate the effects of these assumptions on the simulations, and this moves the light blue line to the mid-blue line. In other words, if the models had known about future forcings they would have been closer to the observations.

Variability: It is also understood that natural fluctuations in the climate (e.g. ENSO, PDO) can temporarily offset or enhance the warming during certain periods. These effects can also be accounted for, producing the dark blue line. In other words, if the models had produced the same phase of variability as the real world then, again, they would have been closer to the observations.

Observational biases: We also understand that our observations are not perfect. The HadCRUT4 dataset has relatively few observations over the Arctic and also uses sea-surface temperatures over the ocean, whereas the model analysis uses simulated air temperatures everywhere. Accounting for these issues moves the observations warmer, to the dark orange line. In other words, in an ‘apples-with-apples’ comparison, the observations and models are closer together.

When accounting for these three factors together, the dark blue and dark orange lines now show a very similar warming trend – the models and observations have been reconciled and there is no clear evidence from the recent period that the models are therefore ‘running too hot’. About 1/3 of the apparent discrepancies are due to each of these three factors.

Choice of baseline: One further subtlety is the choice of ‘baseline’. Medhaug et al used a 1961-90 reference period, whereas the IPCC AR5 chose 1986-2005. This difference can also slightly move the relative position of the observations within the model spread higher or lower. There is no perfect choice.


About Ed Hawkins
Climate scientist in the National Centre for Atmospheric Science (NCAS) at the University of Reading. IPCC AR5 Contributing Author. Can be found on twitter too: @ed_hawkins

http://www.climate-lab-book.ac.uk/2017/are-the-models-running-too-hot/

Agelbert NOTE: IOW, the "models may be running too hot" BALONEY is more disingenuous spurious propaganda cooked up by the fossil fuel industry crooks and liars to undermine the credibility of climate scientists.

If anything, the models are too conservative. This type of Orwellian pitch has been par for the course for the fossil fuel industry (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-311013200859.png&hash=a7aaaa9f04c1e3e2c948723b5f8c13fe814dacd4) for several decades.

If you doubt that, just consider the fact that they were the ones that came up with that CRAP about a "new ice age".

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 20, 2017, 05:27:38 pm
In Covering Hurricanes, Media Should Focus on (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.funny-emoticons.com%2Ffiles%2Ffunny-animals%2Fblue-bird-emoticons%2F801-listen-up%21.png&hash=f7fb2b5263a68b91c628fc597877983f813843e5) Poverty and Climate Change (http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/41876-neil-demause-on-hurricanes-and-poverty)
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 20, 2017, 11:10:06 pm
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Maria Back Over Water After Devastating Hit to Puerto Rico

Dr. Jeff Masters  ·  September 20, 2017, 5:53 PM EDT

SNIPPET 1:

After making landfall in southeast Puerto Rico near 6:15 am Wednesday as a top-end Category 4 storm with 155 mph winds, Hurricane Maria finished a devastating pummeling of the island near 1:30 pm, when its eye emerged over the ocean off the northwest coast. An Air Force hurricane hunter aircraft found that Maria’s 70-mile traverse of Puerto Rico had knocked the top winds of the storm down to 110 mph by 5 pm Wednesday, making it a high-end Category 2 hurricane. Satellite images show the hurricane is still well-organized, though, and the Hurricane Hunters found that Maria’s pressure was falling again late Wednesday afternoon: 957 mb at 5 pm, compared to a 961 mb reading at 2 pm. Maria will continue to bring dangerous torrential rains and powerful winds to Puerto Rico and the eastern Dominican Republic into Thursday.

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Rescue Workers in Puerto Rico during Hurricane Maria - Credit: NBC News

Maria brought extreme rainfall amounts to large portions of Puerto Rico that caused record or near-record flash flooding. Numerous stations in Puerto Rico recorded rainfall amounts in excess of ten inches. Rainfall amounts in excess of 47 inches in 24 hours were recorded at three stations on the southwest side of El Yunque, the high mountainous area in the northeast corner of Puerto Rico; these are so extreme as to be unbelievable, and the gauges may have been impacted by flash flooding, or by a callibration problem at extreme precipitaion rates:

96.65” at Quebrada Arenas, including 67.75” in one hour ending at 6 am.  :o
72.07” at Barrio Montones, including 34.04” in one hour ending at 8:45 am.  :o
47.25” at Rio Valenciano, including 19.66” in one hour ending at 7:11 am.
 

These rainfall amounts would break virtually every world record for precipitation, and are highly likely to be in error. Water levels at the Rio Gurabo at Gurabo, where the nearby Gurabo Abajo rain gauge recorded 23.64” of rain in less than 24 hours, jumped by 27 feet in less than 12 hours (see Figure 2), so that rainfall amount is believable.

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Figure 2. Water levels at Rio Gurabo at Gurabo, on the southwest side of El Yunque, shot up 27 feet in less than 12 hours. The river crested just 0.76’ below the record set during Hurricane Donna of 1960. Image credit: NOAA.


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An island-wide power outage in Puerto Rico

Not since the great Category 5 1928 San Felipe Segundo hurricane has Puerto Rico experienced a hurricane catastrophe as extreme as that wrought by Hurricane Maria. The storm’s powerful winds caused catastrophic damage to the island’s power grid, knocking out power to 100% of Puerto Rico’s 3.4 million residents. In the Virgin Islands, there was also heavy damage on St. Croix, and serious flooding has been reported on St. Thomas. Maria is almost assured to be the most expensive hurricane in Puerto Rico history, and may challenge Hurricane Hugo (1989) and Irma (2 weeks ago) as the most expensive hurricane on record for the U.S. Virgin Islands.

SNIPPET 2:

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Figure 5. The four rapid-intensifier hurricanes of 2017, compared with Hurricane Wilma of 2015. Shown are the last periods in which the hurricanes were at various levels (tropical depression, tropical storm, or Category 1 hurricane) along with the intervals from that point to the first point at which they achieved their top rating (either Cat 4 or 5).

This year is chock-full of rapidly intensifying hurricanes

If it seems like this year’s Category 4 and 5 storms made it to that level in a big hurry, you’re not imagining things. In the Washington Post, Chris Mooney spotlights a few of the leaps in strength that this year’s four major Atlantic hurricanes have taken, including:

Harvey:  Cat 1 to Cat 4 in 24 hours
Irma:  Cat 3 to Cat 5 in 24 hours
Jose:  Cat 1 to Cat 4 in 24 hours

Maria:  Cat 1 to Cat 4 in 12 hours, and Cat 1 to Cat 5 in 15 hours

Most of the rapid intensification records for major Atlantic hurricanes were set by 2005’s phenomenal Hurricane Wilma. However, Maria has tied Wilma for the fastest vault from tropical depression to Cat 5 hurricane (54 hours), as shown in Figure 5 above.

Bob Henson co-wrote this post.

Full article:

https://www.wunderground.com/cat6/maria-back-over-water-after-devastating-hit-puerto-rico

Agelbert NOTE: The radome that protects the radar I used many years as an air traffic controller, which is supposed to be able to withstand 200 mph plus winds, was heavily damaged, putting the radar out of service just as Hurricane Maria was making landfall.

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File Photo of Pico del Este Radar Station in Puerto Rico


The radome is located on a 4,300 ft. mountaiin peak about 18 miles north of the eye of Hurricane Maria in the graphic below:

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Last Radar Image Before Radar Dome was Severely Damaged and Radar Failed

That has NEVER happened since that radar dome was built several decades ago. This hurricane's winds near the peak where the radome is must have been OFF THE CHARTS! Welcome to Catastrophic Climate Change. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fs15.rimg.info%2Fdcda0e08e538cb37431314e6bd49279b.gif&hash=4e8b4ba5ce94991ab2f42c4c663e9f6991bbf4f4)

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Hurricane Maria Windfield at 11:00 AM September 20, 2017

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 21, 2017, 02:23:47 pm
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Maria’s Parting Shot: Flash Floods Hammer Puerto Rico

Dr. Jeff Masters  ·  September 21, 2017, 12:46 PM EDT

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Above: Rain and wind hit a parking lot at Roberto Clemente Coliseum in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on September 20, 2017, during the passage of Hurricane Maria. More than 500 people evacuated to the coliseum, where pieces of the roof began to give way and leak at the height of the storm early Wednesday. Lydia Gonzalez told the Los Angeles Times that she watched in horror as the roof stretched and strained "like bubble gum,” but the roof held. Image credit: Hector Retamal/AFP/Getty Images.

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A flash flood emergency was in effect for the entire main island of Puerto Rico at midday Thursday, as rainbands feeding into Hurricane Maria continued to stream north across the U.S. territory. Cat 3 Maria was centered more than 150 miles northwest of Puerto Rico at 11 am EDT. Intense rainbands extending well south of Maria’s center were lashing most of the Dominican Republic and parts of Puerto Rico. Power remains out across Puerto Rico on Thursday, and it may be weeks or months before widespread restoration of the island’s power grid, which was already reeling from Hurricane Irma even before Maria struck.

Widespread damage and flooding was also reported in the U.S. Virgin Islands, where a 24-hour curfew is in effect. At least 7 deaths have been confirmed in hard-hit Dominica, a toll expected to rise as rescuers work their way into remote parts of the island. Some 90% of the structures in Dominica are reported to be damaged or destroyed, and there has been massive loss of trees across the once-lush landscape. Two deaths in Guadelope and one death in Puerto Rico are also being attributed to Maria.


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Figure 1. Flooded streets are seen in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on September 21, 2017 after the passage of Hurricane Maria. Image credit: Hector Retamal/AFP/Getty Images.

Maria still drenching Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands

Satellite imagery on Thursday morning showed that Maria was well-organized, with a large area of very intense thunderstorms surrounding a huge 45-mile-diameter eye. The Hurricane Hunters have not detected much change in Maria’s intensity since 2 am, with the pressure holding nearly steady at 959 – 960 mb, and the surface winds maintaining a low-end Category 3 velocity, 115 mph, as of 11 am EDT. Maria’s spiral bands were still pounding Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands with heavy rains, and extreme flash flooding will continue to occur on those islands for the much of the day. The same is true of northern and eastern parts of the Dominican Republic, where 8 – 16” of total rainfall is predicted. Maria’s spiral bands were also beginning to affect the southeast Bahamas and Turks and Caicos Islands, where NHC is predicting rainfall amounts of 8 – 16” from Maria. These islands can expect heavy rains to increase through the day and peak on Friday, when Maria makes its closest approach. These islands will be on the weaker (left front) side of Maria, but the islands closest to Maria are likely to see sustained winds near hurricane force and a dangerous storm surge of up to 9 – 12’.

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Figure 2. Hurricane Maria as seen by the GOES-16 satellite at 10:45 am EDT September 21, 2017. Image credit: NOAA/RAMMB. GOES-16 data is considered preliminary and non-operational.

Full article with detailed Maria Forecast and video of Hurricane Eye:

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https://www.wunderground.com/cat6/marias-parting-shot-flash-floods-hammer-puerto-rico
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 21, 2017, 06:21:19 pm
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Hurricane Maria “destroys Puerto Rico” — 100% of the state left without power

LAST UPDATED ON SEPTEMBER 21ST, 2017 AT 11:02 AM BY MIHAI ANDREI

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This is an abnormally strong hurricane season.


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Maria, a Category 4 hurricane, left little in its wake as it charged through Puerto Rico head on, with sustained winds of 140 mph (220 km/h) and high-end winds of 155 mph (250 km/h). Abner Gomez Cortes, executive director of Puerto Rico’s office of emergency management and disaster administration agency said telecommunications throughout the island have “collapsed,” and even electricity has gone down.

People are now struggling with backup generators — at least those fortunate enough to have one. At least 12,000 people have been forced to retreat to shelters. It’s unclear how much material damage has been done, as the danger still hasn’t fully passed.

Maria is the strongest hurricane to hit the territory since the 1928 San Felipe hurricane, as well as the most intense hurricane to hit the territory in recorded history. The fact that it comes after Harvey, Irma, and Jose, makes it even harder to overcome.  :(

Full article with graphics:

http://www.zmescience.com/ecology/climate/hurricane-maria-puerto-rico-21092017/


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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 21, 2017, 06:49:57 pm
Agelbert NOTE: Excellent article with a powerful video connecting the Climate Change dots with this Horrible Hurricane Season:

EcoWatch

Thursday, September 21, 2017

Hurricane Maria Devastates Puerto Rico

https://www.ecowatch.com/hurricane-maria-puerto-rico-2487925359.html

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 22, 2017, 02:51:06 pm
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Above: Electricity poles and lines lay toppled in Humacao, in northeastern Puerto Rico, in the wake of Hurricane Maria on September 20, 2017. AP Photo/Carlos Giusti.

More Havoc as Category 3 Maria Plows Northward

Bob Henson  ·  September 22, 2017, 12:19 PM EDT

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https://www.wunderground.com/cat6/more-havoc-category-3-maria-plows-northward


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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 23, 2017, 04:07:48 pm
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A British Royal Fleet Auxiliary Mounts Bay rescue helicopter crew rescues an adult female and two children from the vessel Ferrel near Vieques, Puerto Rico, Sept. 21, 2017. U.S. Coast Guard

WATCH: Three Rescued from Overturned Vessel in Puerto Rico



September 22, 2017 by gCaptain

A helicopter crew with the British Royal Navy has rescued a woman and two children from their overturned vessel which had grounded near Vieques, Puerto Rico during Hurricane Maria.

A U.S. Coast Guard search plane located the capsized vessel, named Ferrel, with three people on top at approximately 11:30 a.m. on Thursday following a 24-hour search. A fourth person, an adult male, was reported deceased in the capsized vessel, which is inaccessible to search and rescue crews.

Coast Guard District Seven watchstanders received an EPIRB alert as well as distress call Wednesday from the Ferrel stating they were disabled and adrift in 20-foot seas and 100-knot winds caused by Hurricane Maria.

An urgent marine information broadcast was issued immediately after the distress call.

The search for the vessel involved assets from the U.S. Coast Guard, Navy, and British Royal Navy.

A video of the rescue was captured by a Coast Guard search plane:

https://youtu.be/GTimwmlsWz4

http://gcaptain.com/watch-three-rescued-from-overturned-vessel-in-puerto-rico/
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 23, 2017, 04:20:09 pm
Can Hurricanes Trigger Earthquakes? Part C

Paul Beckwith

https://youtu.be/92Bbl5mVztM

Published on Sep 22, 2017

On Sept. 8th, 2017 as Hurricane Irma chewed up the Caribbean a magnitude 8.1 earthquake rattled Mexico. On Sept. 19th it was Hurricane Maria's turn, with a 7.1 quake AND a volcano near Mexico City. In 2012 as Hurricane Sandy moved north off the east coast of the US a network of -400 seismic sensors lit up & there was a 7.8 quake off the west coast. Sandy turned left, sensors lit up again, & there was a 6.3 quake near the 1st one. As Sandy went ashore in NY sensors lit up again, & there was a 3rd quake of 6.2; connected or coincidental?

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 23, 2017, 10:02:56 pm
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Arctic Sea Ice Likely Reaches Minimum Extent for 2017

Sep 21, 2017

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Scientists at the National Snow and Ice Data Center say that Arctic sea ice likely reached its minimum extent for the year, at 4.64 million square kilometers (1.79 million square miles) on September 13, 2017. The 2017 minimum is the eighth lowest in the 38-year satellite record.

These maps show the Arctic mean sea ice concentration as measured by satellites for each month since April 2017, along with the minimum value recorded on September 13th. Areas with at least 15% ice cover appear in shades of gray-blue to white. Open ocean water (less than 15% ice cover) is navy blue. The yellow line shows the median (middle of the range) sea ice extent for 1981–2010.

For more information, see the Climate.gov.

Real-time sea ice data can be accessed in NOAA View.
    
Referral:   Sea ice data from the National Snow and Ice Data Center
Terms of Use:   Please credit NOAA
Keywords:   sea ice, NSIDC, 2017.09.21

https://www.nnvl.noaa.gov/MediaDetail2.php?MediaID=2110&MediaTypeID=1
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 24, 2017, 04:07:15 pm
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 24, 2017, 08:25:37 pm
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September 24th, 2017 by Steve Bakker

Future News — Dateline February 14th, 2030 … with anchor Jane Curtin III

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The last automobile powered by an internal combustion engine was sent to the salvage yard today. We will have film at 11:00pm showing a  1959 Cadillac Eldorado convertible being towed into Monster Joe’s Auto & Trucks Dismantlers in Los Angeles, California. The car had been hidden in the bunker of a decommissioned Air Force Base ever since President Trump signed into law a bill confiscating all gasoline-powered vehicles from citizens during his third term in office. It is rumored the owner of the Cadillac was still in the driver’s seat when the vehicle was crushed, as the driver’s cold dead hands could not be pried from the steering wheel.

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 25, 2017, 10:22:38 pm
Agelbert NOTE: If you are wondering why it's taking so long for the cooler weather to set in, just LOOK at how high the Carbon Dioxide levels are in, not just the East coast of the USA and parts of the West coast, but in SEVERAL large areas all over the world.(https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-250817134648.gif&hash=d24c66a26329a19150a175d576b631d10f631ee8)

CO2 457 PPM!
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 25, 2017, 10:37:34 pm
EcoWatch

September 25, 2017

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Puerto Rico Faces 'Apocalyptic' Conditions: Humanitarian Crisis Grows for 3.4 Million U.S. Citizens

Humanitarian Crisis Grows for 3.4 Million U.S. Citizens

Puerto Rico's humanitarian crisis continued to grow over the weekend, as officials described "apocalyptic" conditions across the island in the wake of Hurricane Maria.

Many of the 3.4 million American citizens living on the island are without power and disconnected from communications, and officials estimate some areas won't see power restored for months.

Isolated towns and low-income communities are facing increasing shortages of supplies and fuel. Officials estimate the storm also destroyed around 80 percent of the island's crop value, while a dam compromised by heavy rain is causing worries about flooding and accessibility of drinking water.

"The devastation in Puerto Rico has set us back nearly 20 to 30 years," Jenniffer Gonzalez, the island's nonvoting representative in Congress, told the AP.

"I have four children and the youngest is 6 months old. We are preparing for six months, maybe even a year without power," Nina Rodriguez, a human resources manager in San Juan, told the New York Times.

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"All the infrastructure has collapsed. Everything we had before the hurricane is beyond reach," she added.

https://youtu.be/d1KeP7MFikY

Read more:

https://www.ecowatch.com/puerto-rico-hurricane-maria-2489382674.html

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Puerto Rico at night before and after Hurricane Maria
Figure 3. Views of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands at night, before and after Hurricane Maria, from the day-night band of the VIIRS instrument on the Suomi satellite. Power restoration has a long way to go in the wake of the hurricane. Image credit: NASA.

Puerto Rico radar destroyed by Hurricane Maria

The U.S. territory of Puerto Rico continues to grapple with destruction, dislocation, and suffering in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria, with the power grid still decimated and water and cellphone service both scarce. “The devastation in Puerto Rico has set us back nearly 20 to 30 years,” said Puerto Rico’s nonvoting representative in Congress, Jenniffer Gonzalez. The damage assessment extends to the world of meteorology, as new photos on Sunday revealed. Both the radar dish and the surrounding radome were scoured clean from the pedestal of the National Weather Service’s TJUA radar. Winds of 145 mph were measured before the radar went down, according to weather.com’s Jonathan Belles.

Agelbert NOTE: The radome that protects the radar I used many years as an air traffic controller, which is supposed to be able to withstand 200 mph plus winds, was heavily damaged, putting the radar out of service just as Hurricane Maria was making landfall.

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 26, 2017, 03:53:59 pm
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Agelbert NOTE: There is NO WAY the winds from Hurricane Maria that did the above in Puerto Rico were below 185 to 200 mph. I know these installations. They are designed for those kinds of winds. Do not believe that winds of 145 mph did this. Those winds were much higher. This will get worse. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-150715183719.png&hash=7b222546f30a032efc31223d85eea0535ed42a49)

It isn't just radar installations that Catastrophic climate Change will Severely Damage

There are well over 50 high voltage transmission towers that Hurricane Maria knocked down in the mountains of Puerto Rico. These are identical to the ones used in the USA for long range transmission. Even the wind turbines were severely damaged (blades broken), even though they were in the feathered "hurricane" position (they don't rotate). The transmissions and generators and wind towers themselves were undamaged, so electric high voltage transmission towers will have to be rebuilt (all over the PLANET!) as strong as the wind turbine towers. That will cost a LOT of money.

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These towers are, like the radar installation above made to withstand tremendous wind forces. As you will learn from the following quote, the wind speed, even under normal conditions, is increased in mountainous areas where these towers are often located. So if you have a hurricane with sustained winds of 150 mph, you WILL HAVE SUSTAINED winds (never mind the GUSTS, which will be much higher, but sporadic) of 20 or 30 mph higher. THAT is why all those towers went down in Puerto Rico during Hurricane Maria.

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Wind speed and turbulence intensity are greatly affected by terrain and climate, Fig. 2 [25]. In mountainous areas, the terrain effect is manifested in the speed-up of local wind owing to the narrow path caused by the mutual relation of location of mountain ridge and wind direction.
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http://www.academia.edu/6514722/Wind_and_Environmental_Effect_on_the_Overhead_High_Voltage_Transmission_Lines (http://www.academia.edu/6514722/Wind_and_Environmental_Effect_on_the_Overhead_High_Voltage_Transmission_Lines)

Higher average wind speeds DIRECTLTY caused by Global Warming have been predicted by climate scientists for several decades. So ALL areas of the USA that have mountainous regions with high voltage transmission lines are in danger, thanks to the Fossil Fuel Industry's "Business Model".

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high voltage ac transmission towers in the USA during winter in the mountains

Dont expect them to pay for any of this damage. We-the-people will be handed the bill. This is still ANOTHER subsidy for the Fossil Fuel  Industry polluters. This particular  "susbsidy" will kill a lot of people and animals along with destroying radomes, cell phone towers and high voltage transmission lines.  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-120716190938.png&hash=01feab1c7345a4e98764e0f9d24b2d69171b93c2)

The Fossil Fuelers DID THE Clean Energy  Inventions suppressing, Climate Trashing, human health depleting CRIME,   but since they have ALWAYS BEEN liars and conscience free crooks, they are trying to AVOID   DOING THE TIME or     PAYING THE FINE!     Don't let them get away with it! Pass it on!    (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F176.gif&hash=121533221905789c6b8d57a9603883266d349266)
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 26, 2017, 06:40:31 pm
Global Warming is WITH us
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 26, 2017, 07:15:30 pm
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Above:  GOES-16 view of large Hurricane Maria (left) and small Hurricane Lee (right) at 10:30 am EDT Tuesday, September 26, 2017. Image credit: NOAA/RAMMB. GOES-16 imagery is considered preliminary and non-operational.


SNIPPET from article: A Brush From Maria: Winds and Storm Surge Rising in North Carolina

Dr. Jeff Masters  ·  September 26, 2017, 11:14 AM EDT

This September is the Atlantic’s most active month on record, by two measures


Unsurprisingly, the frenetic pace of hurricane activity across the North Atlantic over the past month has racked up at least two records in the NOAA tropical cyclone database that goes back to 1851:

—Unprecedented amount of accumulated cyclone energy (ACE). ACE is a measure that incorporates the top sustained wind speed of each tropical cyclone at each point in its lifespan. Phil Klotzbach (Colorado State University, or CSU) reported on Tuesday that the Atlantic’s ACE total for September thus far was 155.4.  This beats out September 2004 as the highest Atlantic ACE for any month on record. Notably, though 2005 was the busiest Atlantic year on record in a number of ways, no single month that year saw as much ACE as this past month has. Klotzbach notes that ACE was likely underestimated a bit in the pre-satellite era, before the mid-1960s.

—Largest number of hurricane days on record (the total of the number of days each storm has maintained hurricane strength). As of Tuesday, Klotzbach reported that September had notched 35 hurricane days, topping the 34.5 hurricane days reported all the way back in September 1926. As with ACE, hurricane days were likely underestimated somewhat in the pre-satellite era.

As of Tuesday, the Atlantic had seen a total of 13 named storms, 8 hurricanes, and 4 major hurricanes (which could jump to 5 if Lee makes the grade). The most recent batch of seasonal forecasts from NOAA, CSU, and TropicalStormRisk.com predicted that this year would produce anywhere from 14 to 19 named storms, 5 - 9 hurricanes, and 2 – 5 major hurricanes, so we are already near the top end of outlooks for the entire season when it comes to hurricanes and major hurricanes, with more than two months left to go in the official Atlantic season.

https://www.wunderground.com/cat6/winds-and-storm-surge-rising-north-carolina-marias-brush

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 26, 2017, 10:20:58 pm
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Another iceberg, quadruple the size of Manhattan, breaks free from Antarctica

By Tibi Puiu on Sep 26, 2017 12:12 pm

SNIPPET:

A huge, 100-square-mile iceberg just broke off the fastest melting glacier in the world, Antarctica’s Pine Island Glacier. The event was predictable given previous satellite observations but this doesn’t make the news any less worrying.

Antarctica’s ice drifting into pieces, one iceberg at a time

Breaking news from Pine Island Glacier, which lost 267km2 of icebergs today, after the internal crack resulted in a large calving event 1/n pic.twitter.com/sLwGTyNTfC

— Stef Lhermitte (@StefLhermitte) September 23, 2017


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http://www.zmescience.com/ecology/climate/iceberg-breaking-antarctica-043432/
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
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As the climate becomes more unstable, the media becomes more silent
How Broadcast Networks Covered Climate Change In 2016 
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Mediamatters.org, March 17, 2017

In 2016, evening newscasts and Sunday shows on ABC, CBS, and NBC, as well as Fox Broadcast Co.'s Fox News Sunday, collectively decreased their total coverage of climate change by 66 percent compared to 2015, even though there were a host of important climate-related stories, including the announcement of 2015 as the hottest year on record, the signing of the Paris climate agreement, and numerous climate-related extreme weather events. There were also two presidential candidates to cover, and they held diametrically opposed positions on the Clean Power Plan, the Paris climate agreement, and even on whether climate change is a real, human-caused phenomenon. Apart from PBS, the networks also failed to devote significant coverage to climate-related policies, but they still found the time to uncritically air climate denial -- the majority of which came from now-President Donald Trump and his team.

Total Climate Coverage On Broadcast Networks Cratered In 2016

Combined Climate Coverage On ABC, CBS, NBC, And Fox News Sunday Decreased Significantly From 2015 To 2016, Despite Ample Opportunity To Cover Climate Change. In 2016, ABC, CBS, NBC, and Fox Broadcasting Co.’s Fox News Sunday* aired a combined 50 minutes of climate coverage on their evening and Sunday news programs, which was 96 minutes less than in 2015 -- a drop of about 66 percent.

*Fox Broadcast Co. does not air a nightly news program

As was the case in 2015, ABC aired the least amount of climate coverage in 2016, covering the topic for just six minutes, about seven minutes less than in 2015. All the other major networks also significantly reduced their coverage from the previous year, with NBC showing the biggest decrease (from 50 minutes in 2015 to 10 minutes in 2016), followed by Fox (39 minutes in 2015 to seven minutes in 2016) and CBS (from 45 minutes in 2015 to 27 minutes in 2016).

Networks Had Ample Opportunity To Cover Climate Change In 2016. Despite the pronounced decline in climate coverage, the networks had ample opportunity to cover climate change in 2016. As The New York Times reported, in 2016, climate change took on “a prominence it has never before had in a presidential general election” given the stark contrast between the candidates’ views. Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump had a long track record of climate denial and differed with Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton on a range of important climate issues, including the Paris climate agreement, the Clean Power Plan, and the continued use of coal as an energy source, with Trump pledging that he would put coal miners “back to work” and Clinton proposing a plan that would help coal communities transition to clean energy. Additionally, there were also a host of non-election climate stories worthy of coverage in 2016, including extreme weather events tied to climate change, like Hurricane Matthew and the record-breaking rainfall and flooding in Louisiana (which the American Red Cross described as “the worst natural disaster to strike the United States since Superstorm Sandy”); the signing of the Paris climate agreement and the U.N. climate summit in Morocco; the official announcement from NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration that 2015 was the hottest year on record by far; and investigations by state attorneys general into whether ExxonMobil committed fraud by misleading the public on climate change. [The New York Times, 8/1/16; Media Matters, 5/26/16; The Huffington Post, 9/8/16; DonaldJTrump.com, 9/15/16; Media Matters, 3/15/16, 10/7/16, 8/17/16; The Huffington Post, 4/22/16; The Guardian, 4/22/16; InsideClimate News, 11/3/16; The New York Times, 1/20/16; InsideClimate News, 12/28/16]

ABC, CBS, NBC, And Fox Failed To Discuss Climate-Related Ramifications Of A Clinton Or Trump Presidency Until After The Election. ABC, CBS, NBC, and Fox News Sunday did not air a single segment informing viewers of what to expect on climate change and climate-related policies or issues under a Trump or Clinton administration. While these outlets did devote a significant amount of coverage to Trump’s presidency, airing 25 segments informing viewers about the ramifications or actions of a Trump administration as they relate to climate change, all of these segments aired after the election. Examples of post-election coverage include a PBS NewsHour segment about Trump’s selection of Scott Pruitt to head the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Pruitt’s history of climate denial and ties to the fossil fuel industry; a CBS Evening News segment about Trump appointing climate denier Myron Ebell to his EPA transition team; and an NBC Nightly News report on Trump’s promise to roll back President Barack Obama’s executive actions on climate change. [PBS NewsHour, 12/7/16; CBS Evening News, 11/15/16; NBC Nightly News, 11/9/16**]

**We included citations of specific shows when we described the content of a segment. We did not include show citations for general tallies. We linked to episodes that were available online but listed only the date for those that were not.

PBS NewsHour Was The Only Show To Discuss Climate Ramifications Of A Clinton Or Trump Presidency Prior To The Election. PBS NewsHour*** was the only show in our study that examined what impact a Trump or a Clinton presidency would have on climate-related issues and policies before the election. On the September 7 edition of PBS NewsHour, correspondent William Brangham discussed “what a Clinton or Trump administration might mean with regards to climate change” with The New York Times’ Coral Davenport and The Washington Post’s Chris Mooney. And a September 22 segment explored “what the early days of a Trump presidency might look like” and featured Judy Woodruff interviewing Evan Osnos of The New Yorker about whether Trump would renounce the Paris climate agreement. [PBS NewsHour, 9/22/16, 9/7/16]

***Unlike the nightly news shows on ABC, CBS, and NBC that air for a half hour seven days a week, PBS NewsHour airs five days a week and is a half hour longer.

Tyndall Report Found No Discussion Of Climate Change In Issues Coverage During Campaign. The Tyndall Report, which tracks the broadcast networks' weeknight newscasts, analyzed election-related issues coverage on the major networks’ weeknight newscasts and found no issues coverage devoted to climate change in 2016 up through October 25. The Tyndall Report defines election-related issues coverage as that which “takes a public policy, outlines the societal problem that needs to be addressed, describes the candidates' platform positions and proposed solutions, and evaluates their efficacy.” [The Intercept, 2/24/17; Media Matters, 10/26/16; Tyndall Report, 10/25/16]

Networks Aired A Disproportionate Amount Of Climate Coverage After Election Day. In the roughly 45 weeks before the November 8 election, the networks aired a total of 55 segments about climate change -- roughly one per week. After the election, the networks aired 32 climate-related segments over approximately seven weeks till the end of the year -- about five stories per week.

Networks Ignored Links Between Climate Change And National Security And Rarely Addressed Economic And Public Health Impacts, But Some Detailed Impacts On Extreme Weather And Plants And Wildlife.

Networks Did Not Air A Single Segment On Link To National Security. Numerous military and intelligence organizations have sounded the alarm on climate change’s connection to national security. A September 2016 report prepared by the National Intelligence Council and coordinated with the U.S. intelligence community stated, “Climate change and its resulting effects are likely to pose wide-ranging national security challenges for the United States and other countries over the next 20 years.” And following Trump’s election victory, “a bipartisan group of defense experts and former military leaders sent Trump’s transition team a briefing book urging the president-elect to consider climate change as a grave threat to national security,” E&E News reported. Yet the national security implications of climate change never came up in any of the networks’ climate coverage for 2016. [Media Matters, 1/13/17; Scientific American, 11/15/16]

PBS Was The Only Network To Address Economic Impacts Of Climate Change. PBS was the only network to report on the economic impacts of climate change. Two segments about Washington state’s carbon tax ballot initiative that aired on the April 21 and October 20 editions of PBS NewsHour featured the president of the Washington State Labor Council explaining that Washington’s shellfish industry “has left the state and gone to Hawaii because the acid levels in the ocean has risen so much.” And on the November 17 edition of PBS NewsHour, correspondent William Brangham reported that 365 American companies “have written to the president-elect imploring him to uphold the Paris accords and warning -- quote -- ‘Failure to build a low-carbon economy puts American prosperity at risk.’” [PBS NewsHour, 4/21/16, 10/20/16, 11/17/16]


Networks Rarely Addressed How Climate Change Impacts Public Health.

The World Health Organization, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the National Climate Assessment have all concluded that climate change has a significant influence on human health and disease. And as 2016 saw the first local spread of the Zika virus in the continental United States, Climate Signals found that “climate change creates new risks for human exposure to vector-borne diseases such as Zika, particularly in the United States where rising heat and humidity are increasing the number of days annually in which disease vectors thrive.” However, only two segments on NBC Nightly News dealt with the link between climate change and public health -- no other network covered the issue. In a January 18 report about the spread of Zika, correspondent Tom Costello noted, “Researchers are also studying whether climate change and El Nino are causing certain mosquitoes populations to grow.” And a July 4 report about a massive algae bloom creating a toxic emergency in Florida featured correspondent Gabe Gutierrez explaining, “The debate is raging over what`s to blame for this latest growth, but scientists say there are many factors including population growth and climate change.” [World Health Organization, accessed 3/21/17; CDC.gov, accessed 3/21/17; National Climate Assessment, accessed 3/21/17; Climate Signals, 8/23/16; NBC Nightly News, 1/18/16, 7/4/16]

CBS And ABC Rarely Covered Climate Link To Extreme Weather, While NBC And Fox Ignored It Completely. 2016 saw no shortages of extreme weather events influenced by climate change, with Hurricane Matthew making landfall on the East Coast; wildfires -- which have become a consistent threat thanks, in part, to climate change -- charring more than 100,000 acres in seven states in the Southeast; and record rainfall and flooding in Louisiana causing what the American Red Cross called “the worst natural disaster to strike the United States since Superstorm Sandy.” Yet NBC and Fox never addressed the link between climate change and extreme weather, while CBS did so in four segments and ABC did so in just one segment. By contrast, PBS NewsHour aired eight segments dealing with the link between climate change and extreme weather. [The Weather Channel, 10/9/16; Media Matters, 10/6/16; The New York Times, 11/29/16; Climate Central, 11/23/16; Media Matters, 8/17/16]


PBS Led The Networks In Stories Detailing Climate Impacts On Plants And Wildlife.

PBS provided the most coverage of climate impacts on plants and wildlife (six segments), followed by CBS and NBC (three segments each), and ABC (one segment). Examples of this reporting included a “Climate Diaries” segment on CBS Evening News about how climate change is “taking a toll on endangered mountain gorillas” in Central Africa by making their food supply less predictable and forcing human populations searching for water into their territory and an NBC Nightly News segment about how Yellowstone grizzlies are threatened because one of their food sources -- seeds from whitebark pine trees -- has been decimated by climate change. Another example was a PBS NewsHour segment reporting that “two-fifths of bees, butterflies, and related pollinating species are heading toward extinction” thanks to “a range of factors, ranging from pesticide use to climate change to habitat loss.” [CBS Evening News, 11/17/16; NBC Nightly News, 5/22/16; PBS NewsHour, 2/26/16]


Specific Climate-Related Policies Received Sparse Coverage Outside Of PBS


The Clean Power Plan Was Almost Completely Ignored On Sunday Shows And Received Sparse Coverage On Nightly News Shows. The broadcast networks provided scant coverage of the Clean Power Plan even though Trump had promised during the campaign to eliminate the policy. The Clean Power Plan establishes the first-ever federal limits on carbon pollution from power plants and serves as the linchpin of President Obama’s program to meet the nation’s emissions reduction obligation under the Paris agreement. Fox News Sunday was the only Sunday show to feature a climate-related segment on the Clean Power Plan, in which Washington Post editorial writer Charles Lane claimed that the Democrats’ focus on the plan is an example of how “environmentalism in a crucial way worked against the Democratic Party this year,” because Trump carried coal-dependent states in the election. But contrary to Lane’s claim, numerous polls conducted in the run-up to the election indicated that a majority of Americans consider climate change an important issue and favor government action to address it. On nightly news shows, ABC was the only network that did not air a climate-related segment on the plan, while PBS NewsHour covered the Clean Power Plan the most (seven segments), followed by CBS Evening News (three segments) and NBC Nightly News (two segments). [DonaldJTrump.com, 9/15/16; The White House, 8/3/15; The New York Times, 3/2/16; Fox News Sunday, 11/13/16; Media Matters, 11/29/16]

PBS Far Outpaced Networks In Coverage Of U.N. Climate Agreement And Summits. In 2016, world leaders met on Earth Day for the signing ceremony of the Paris climate agreement reached by 195 nations and later again in Morocco for talks about implementing the climate accord. In Trump’s first major speech on energy policy, in May, he vowed that he would “cancel” the Paris climate agreement. But after the election he told The New York Times, “I have an open mind to it.” Despite these developments, PBS was the only network to devote significant coverage to the U.N. climate agreement and U.N. climate-related summits, doing so in 21 segments, while CBS aired five segments, NBC and ABC aired just three, and Fox aired just two. [USA Today, 4/22/16; The New York Times, 12/12/15; InsideClimate News, 11/3/16; BBC.com, 5/27/16; DonaldJTrump.com, 5/26/16; The New York Times, 11/23/16]

CBS, NBC, And Fox Addressed The Climate Impacts Of The Keystone XL Pipeline Only Once, While ABC And PBS Failed To Do So At All. During the campaign, Clinton and Trump staked out opposing positions on whether to approve the Keystone XL pipeline, which would transport tar sands oil that is 17 percent dirtier than average and would “increase emissions of carbon dioxide and other gases linked to global warming” from Canada to the U.S. Gulf Coast. Yet there was a dearth of coverage on Keystone XL’s link to climate change, with CBS, NBC, and Fox each airing just one segment that connected Keystone XL to climate change and ABC and PBS ignoring the topic completely. The networks also ignored Keystone XL more broadly -- airing just four additional non-climate-related segments on the pipeline. [Business Insider, 9/25/16; Media Matters, 1/15/15]

Fox Was The Only Network To Cover The Dakota Access Pipeline In A Climate Context. The Standing Rock Sioux and other Native American tribes, as well as environmental activists, protested against the construction of the Dakota Access pipeline in 2016, citing, among other concerns, the impact a continued buildup of oil infrastructure would have on climate change. Yet Fox was the sole network to cover the Dakota Access pipeline in a climate context. On the December 11 edition of Fox News Sunday, host Chris Wallace previewed his upcoming interview with Trump by saying that he would “ask [Trump] to clear up exactly where he stands on climate change.” After returning from a commercial break, Wallace said to the Trump, “Let me ask you a couple specific questions. Will you still pull out of the Paris climate agreement, which has been signed by more than 100 countries to reduce carbon emissions? Will you restart the Dakota Access pipeline, which the Army just stopped?” To which Trump replied that he was “studying” the Paris climate agreement and would “have [Dakota Access] solved very quickly” when he takes office. ABC, CBS, NBC, and PBS did air multiple segments on the Dakota Access pipeline (airing eight, 10, four, and 10 segments, respectively), but none of these segments linked it to climate change. [MPR News, 12/7/16; Time, 12/1/16, 10/28/16; Fox News Sunday, 12/11/16]

Major Networks Completely Ignored The “Exxon Knew” Story. Reports from InsideClimate News and the Los Angeles Times revealed that Exxon’s own scientists had confirmed by the early 1980s that fossil fuel pollution was causing climate change, yet Exxon-funded organizations helped manufacture doubt about the causes of climate change for decades afterward in what became known as the “Exxon knew” scandal. The reports prompted the attorneys general in New York, California, and Massachusetts to each launch investigations of Exxon, as well as countersuits from Exxon and subpoenas from members of Congress in defense of Exxon. Yet none of the networks covered any of these developments over the course of 2016. [Media Matters, 9/1/16; InsideClimate News, 12/28/16]

CBS, Fox, And PBS Uncritically Aired Climate Science Denial In 2016 -- All Of Which Came From Trump Or Trump Officials (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-311013200859.png&hash=a7aaaa9f04c1e3e2c948723b5f8c13fe814dacd4)


CBS, Fox, And PBS Aired A Combined Five Segments That Included Unrebutted Climate Science Denial In 2016 -- All From Trump Or Trump Officials. In 2016, CBS Evening News, PBS NewsHour, and Fox News Sunday aired a combined five segments that misled audiences by featuring climate science denial. Half of Fox News Sunday’s climate-related segments included climate denial. In every instance, it was Trump or Trump officials promoting denial.

• On the September 27 edition of CBS Evening News, correspondent Julianna Goldman fact-checked a portion of the September 26 presidential debate in which Clinton stated, “Donald thinks that climate change is a hoax perpetrated by the Chinese. I think it’s real,” and Trump interjected, “I did not. I did not. … I do not say that.” Goldman noted that Trump had in fact tweeted that climate change is a hoax, but she did not fact-check the veracity of Trump’s statement that climate change was a hoax. [CBS Evening News, 9/27/16; Media Matters, 5/26/16]

• On the November 9 edition of PBS NewsHour, during a segment on world leaders’ reactions to Trump’s election victory, correspondent Margaret Warner reported, “Also in question is America’s participation in the Paris climate accord. Trump has called climate change a hoax, and while it would take four years to formally pull out of the agreement, there are no sanctions in place for ignoring it.” And in a report on the ways in which Trump would dismantle environmental policy on the November 17 edition of PBS NewsHour, correspondent William Brangham stated, “Trump has repeatedly expressed his own skepticism about climate change, like in this 2012 tweet, when he said: ‘The concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing noncompetitive.’ Two years later, he wrote: ‘Global warming is an expensive hoax.’" In neither instance did the correspondent note that Trump’s statements are at odds with the scientific consensus that climate change is real and human-caused. [PBS NewsHour, 11/9/16, 11/17/16]

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Other Nightly News Segments On PBS, CBS, And NBC Also Included Climate Science Denial, But Reporters Pushed Back On Those Claims, Noting That They Conflicted With Established Climate Science. Segments on PBS, CBS, and NBC nightly news shows also included climate denial, but reporters noted that that these statements were at odds with established climate science.

• In a segment about Trump selecting Scott Pruitt as his nominee to head the Environmental Protection Agency on the December 8 edition of PBS NewsHour, anchor Judy Woodruff reported, “Pruitt is in sync with President-elect Trump on a range of issues, including his skepticism about man-made global warming. Writing in the National Review this year, he said: ‘That debate is far from settled. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-311013200859.png&hash=a7aaaa9f04c1e3e2c948723b5f8c13fe814dacd4) Scientists continue to disagree about the degree and extent of global warming.’ In fact, the vast majority of scientists agree that human activity contributes to global warming, all of which underscores questions about whether a Trump administration will refuse to abide by the Paris accords on greenhouse gas emissions.” And on the December 14 edition of PBS NewsHour, Woodruff asked Sean Spicer, who was then communications director for the Republican National Committee, “Does the president-elect still believe, as he said on the campaign trail, that the science behind climate change is still not settled, in other words, something that most climate scientists say is absolutely correct?” Spicer replied by denying the consensus on human-caused climate change, stating that Trump “understands that there’s elements of man, mankind, that affect climate, but the exact impact of it and what has to be done to change that is something there is some dispute about within the community, not just science, but within the industry.” [PBS NewsHour, 12/8/16, 12/14/16]

• A November 15 CBS Evening News segment on the appointment of climate denier Myron Ebell to Trump’s EPA transition team featured footage of Trump calling climate change a “hoax,” followed by correspondent Chip Reid stating, “President-elect Donald Trump has left little doubt where he stands on the issue of climate change. He wants a dramatic increase in the production of coal and oil, which he says will create jobs. And his EPA transition team is being led by Myron Ebell, a leading climate change skeptic. Ebell, who is not a scientist, disagrees with the overwhelming majority of climate scientists who say the driving force behind the warming planet is the burning of fossil fuels.” [CBS Evening News, 11/15/16]

• The December 14 edition of ABC’s World News Tonight featured footage of Trump transition official Anthony Scaramucci denying climate change by arguing, “There was overwhelming science that the Earth was flat. ... We get a lot of things wrong in the scientific community.” Correspondent Brian Ross introduced Scaramucci’s comments as “a Trump transition official continu[ing] the public assault on established science.” [ABC’s World News Tonight, 11/14/16]

Because hosts or correspondents on these programs noted that the statements in question contradicted mainstream climate science, they were not counted as denial in our study.

Climate Scientists Were Completely Absent From ABC’s World News Tonight … Again

For The Second Consecutive Year, ABC’s World News Tonight Did Not Feature A Single Scientist In Its Climate Coverage. ABC’s World News Tonight did not feature a single scientist in its climate coverage for the second year in a row. By contrast, NBC Nightly News and CBS Evening News featured five and six scientists, respectively, and PBS NewsHour featured 18.

Sunday Shows Did Not Feature A Single Scientist In Climate-Related Coverage. After featuring just two scientists over a five-year period from 2009 to 2013, the Sunday shows featured seven scientists in 2014 alone, and then backslid in 2015, quoting or interviewing just two scientists (4 percent of all Sunday show guests). In 2016, that backslide continued, with the Sunday shows featuring no scientists in their climate-related coverage.

PBS And CBS Frequently Aired Coverage Related To Climate-Related Scientific Research, While NBC And ABC Did So Less Often. PBS and CBS far outpaced their counterparts in the number of segments focusing on climate-related scientific research that they aired on nightly news shows. PBS NewsHour aired 10 segments on climate-related scientific research, including a segment that featured scientists explaining climate change’s influence on wildfires in Southern California and flooding in Louisiana; CBS Evening News aired seven segments on climate-related research, including a segment featuring interviews with scientists who discovered unprecedented rates of sea ice melt in the Arctic Circle. Conversely, NBC Nightly News aired just three segments on climate-related research, and ABC’s World News Tonight aired just two. None of the Sunday shows featured any segments on climate-related scientific research. [PBS NewsHour, 8/17/16; CBS Evening News, 3/4/16]

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Sunday Shows’ Climate Coverage Dropped By 85 Percent

Every Network’s Sunday Show Significantly Decreased Its Climate Coverage. After dropping slightly from a high of 81 minutes of coverage in 2014 to 73 minutes in 2015, the Sunday shows’ climate coverage dropped 85 percent to just 11 minutes of coverage in 2016 -- the third-lowest amount in the eight-year time frame Media Matters has examined. Every network saw significant declines in Sunday show coverage, with Fox leading the way (down 32 minutes from the previous year), followed by NBC (down 17 minutes), CBS (down 10 minutes), and ABC (down four minutes).

Bernie Sanders Brought Up Climate Change Four Times As Much As Hosts Did On ABC, CBS, And NBC Sunday Shows. On every Sunday show except Fox News Sunday, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) brought up climate change significantly more often than the hosts themselves did. ABC’s This Week, CBS’ Face the Nation, and NBC’s Meet the Press aired a combined five segments in which the hosts brought up climate change, while Bernie Sanders brought up climate change 21 times during his appearances on those shows. Because our study counted only those segments where a media figure brought up or discussed climate change, those 21 segments were not counted in this study's overall network tallies.

Nightly News Shows On ABC, CBS, and NBC Aired Roughly Half As Much Climate Coverage As They Did In 2015

NBC Nightly News And CBS Evening News Significantly Decreased Climate Coverage, And ABC Once Again Lagged Behind Network Counterparts. The nightly news shows on ABC, CBS, and NBC collectively decreased their climate coverage from approximately 73 minutes in 2015 to just over 39 minutes in 2016 -- a drop of 46 percent. NBC Nightly News had the biggest drop in climate coverage, decreasing by about 22 minutes, followed by CBS Evening News, which had a drop of approximately nine minutes. ABC’s World News Tonight, which aired significantly less climate coverage than its competitors in 2014 and 2015, once again continued its downward trend, dropping even further from roughly seven minutes of climate coverage in 2015 to just four minutes in 2016.

For Second Year In A Row, PBS Aired More Climate Coverage Than All Other Nightly News Programs Combined. For the second consecutive year, PBS NewsHour aired more segments addressing climate change than the other nightly news shows combined. PBS NewsHour aired 46 climate-related segments, while ABC (five), CBS (19), and NBC (12) aired a combined 36 climate-related nightly news segments. However, PBS NewsHour’s climate coverage decreased from 2015, when the network aired 58 climate-related segments.

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In 2017 So Far, CBS Evening News Has Already Aired More Than Half The Amount Of Climate Coverage It Did In All Of 2016. In the first few months of 2017, CBS Evening News has already aired about 17 minutes of climate-related coverage, just eight minutes less than the show aired for all of 2016. In fact, CBS Evening News aired nearly half as much climate coverage as it did in all of 2016 in just one week of 2017; this coverage was during a series of climate-related reports from Antarctica for its “Climate Diaries” series. [Media Matters, 2/13/17]

In Early Months Of 2017, NBC Nightly News Has Already Aired Nearly Half As Much Climate Coverage As It Did In All Of 2016. In just over two months, NBC Nightly News has already aired about five minutes of climate-related coverage, roughly half as much as the show aired for all of 2016.


Methodology

This report analyzes coverage of "climate change" or "global warming" between January 1, 2016, and December 31, 2016, on four Sunday news shows (ABC's This Week, CBS' Face the Nation, NBC's Meet the Press, and Fox Broadcasting Co.'s Fox News Sunday) and four nightly news programs (ABC's World News Tonight, CBS Evening News, NBC Nightly News, and PBS NewsHour) based on Nexis transcripts. Fox Broadcasting Co. airs Fox News Sunday but does not air a nightly news equivalent; Fox News is a separate cable channel. PBS NewsHour is a half-hour longer than its network nightly news counterparts, but it airs five days a week, compared to seven days a week for the other nightly news shows (PBS NewsHour Weekend was not included in this analysis). In one instance, Nexis categorized a segment that did not mention "climate change" or "global warming" as being about climate change; because the segment provided other clear indications that it was indeed about climate change, it was included. To identify the number of segments networks aired on the Keystone XL and Dakota Access pipelines, we used the search terms Keystone w/20 pipe! And Dakota w/20 pipe!.

Our analysis includes any segment devoted to climate change, as well as any substantial mention (more than one paragraph of a news transcript or a definitive statement by a media figure) about climate change impacts or actions. The study did not include instances in which a non-media figure brought up climate change without being prompted to do so by a media figure unless the media figure subsequently addressed climate change. We defined media figures as hosts, anchors, correspondents, and recurring guest panelists. The study also does not include teasers if they were for segments that aired later on the same program. We acquired time stamps from iQ media and applied them generously for nightly news segments when the overall topic was related to climate change. For instance, if a nightly news segment about an extreme weather event mentioned climate change briefly, the entire segment was counted as climate coverage. However, if a significant portion of the segment was not related to climate change, such as a report on the pope giving a speech about climate change, immigration, religious freedom, and outreach to Cuba, only the portions of the segment that discussed climate change were counted. For the Sunday shows, which often feature wide-ranging discussions on multiple topics, we used only the relevant portion of such conversations. All coverage figures have been rounded to the nearest minute. Because PBS NewsHour is an hour-long show and the other networks’ nightly news programs are half-hour shows, our analysis compared PBS NewsHour's climate coverage to other nightly news programs' coverage in terms of topics covered and number of segments, but not in terms of number of minutes.

Research intern Katherine Hess and Sarah Wasko contributed to this study.

https://www.mediamatters.org/research/2017/03/23/how-broadcast-networks-covered-climate-change-2016/215718

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 27, 2017, 09:34:55 pm
 
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Crossing Climate Change's Event Horizon: The Point Of No Return For Humanity (Prof. Daniel Rothman)

https://youtu.be/bB4mR5XTDg0

Sep. 26, 2017 5:30 pm

Thom talks with Climate Scientist, Professor Daniel Rothman on the point of no return for climate change, at what point will we not be able to turn things around?

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 28, 2017, 05:01:18 pm
Massive Wildfires Burn for Weeks in Northern California

Sep 27, 2017

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This image shows the burn scar (bright/deep red colors) from the huge wildfires that have burned for weeks across areas of Northern California and just south of the Oregon border. The US Forest Service reported that in some areas, like the Eclipse Complex, over 78,000 acres have been affected by the fire. The Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) aboard the NOAA/NASA Suomi NPP satellite captured this color-enhanced infrared and visible channel image using bands 4, 2, and 1 on Sept. 26, 2017.

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Agelbert NOTE: This obviously contributed to the terrifically high CO2 levels (see below) in that area. This just accelerates global warming.  :(

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 28, 2017, 05:14:48 pm
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Hurricane Maria Windfield at 11:00 AM September 20, 2017


Trump is Destroying Puerto Rico | The Resistance with Keith Olbermann | GQ

https://youtu.be/0yoR2gCxsyk
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 28, 2017, 06:34:19 pm
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Robert Reich: The Resistance Report 9/11/17

https://youtu.be/Vf7_GVVdsxQ

Inequality Media Civic Action

Published on Sep 11, 2017

Join me on today’s Resistance Report, where we’re talking about how climate change exposes conservative hypocrisies surrounding regulations and social insurance.


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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 28, 2017, 08:45:43 pm
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 September 28, 2017

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Refusing to waive shipping restrictions and stressing Wall Street debt obligations, President Trump continues a colonial legacy that hampers Puerto Rico's recovery, says scholar Marisol LeBron

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Puerto Rico at night before and after Hurricane Maria
Figure 3. Views of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands at night, before and after Hurricane Maria, from the day-night band of the VIIRS instrument on the Suomi satellite. Power restoration has a long way to go in the wake of the hurricane. Image credit: NASA.


September 27, 2017

Wall Street Got a Bailout, Why Not Puerto Rico?

Puerto Rico was in dire economic straits before Hurricanes Irma and Maria hit, and ongoing US-imposed restrictions will make recovery impossible, says labor leader Hector Figueroa

https://youtu.be/jjxzpHgidlY
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 29, 2017, 04:27:09 pm
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The graph above is errroneous happy talk. I can prove it by focusing on one single data point. THAT is the "CH4 - Waste and Other". Notice that they show a decreased rate of increase to match the rather convenient "slow down" of the increase in human industrial and agricultural activity. This is blatantly false. WHY?

Simply because of the obvious increase in methane emmisions from the documented melting of vast areas of permafrost, never mind the increases in leaks (toxic VOCs plus methane) from abandoned (and active) fracked well sites, (the number of which increases every year) that have boosted methane output, even if the industrial processes from closed drill rigs in the ocean and on land may have reduced methane output from all the flaring they love to "externalize" onto we-the-people.

Then there is that "minor" detail that this "study" seems to have forgotten from Earth biology biosphere basics. Termites are the greatest natural producer of CH4 on the planet. This "study" would have us believe that we are killing off a large percentage of the termites, when anyone with the most basic knowledge of termite biomes knows that all species of termites THRIVE as temperatures increase. Yes friend, the termites are moving north and still doing quite well in the tropics. That means their biomass is increasing. That means the termites, which definitely qualify for the "waste and other" category in this "study", are increasing their CH4 output.

But many profit over planet fools will parade this "study" as "proof" that we are "making progress" towards "reducing" greenhouse gases. Nothing could be further from the truth.

QUOTE:
Methane Sources - Termites

Each termite produces, on average, about half a microgram of methane per day, a seemingly insignificant amount. However, when this is multiplied up by the world population of termites, global methane emission from this source is estimated to be about 20 million tonnes each year.

There are more than 2000 different species of termites and the amounts of methane produced varies considerably between species, with some producing no methane at all. Methane is produced in termite guts, by symbiotic bacteria and protozoa, during food digestion.

Human Impact

The primary impact of humans on termite methane is reduction of emissions through termite habitat destruction. Many of the most important methane producing termite species are found in tropical forest areas, huge swathes of which are destroyed each year for logging, agriculture and housing developments. Additionally, in North America and elsewhere colonies of termites are regularly exterminated due to the threat they pose to wooden structures.

UNQUOTE

http://www.ghgonline.org/methanetermite.htm

The human impact (termite habitat destruction) has been more than counterbalanced by the termite spread north due to global warming AND the methane coming from the melted permafrost. Termites polulation increases are ANOTHER feedback loop that is contributing to the acceleration of global warming.

The "study" in this article is happy talk, period.

I insist they are lowballing, not just the increase of greenhouse gases, but the RATE of increase. The rate of increase has NOT slowed down; it HAS increased.

This NASA satellite is not playing games with the temperature increase or the Carbon Dioxide (and other particulate pollutants and green house gases).

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE: (https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/chem/surface/level/overlay=co2sc/orthographic=-73.27,31.57,547)

SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE: (https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/ocean/primary/waves/overlay=sea_surface_temp/orthographic=-83.53,15.30,409/loc=-44.917,38.190)

CARBON DIOXIDE LEVEL (click on any area for read out): (https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/chem/surface/level/overlay=co2sc/orthographic=-1.33,48.84,1502/loc=9.408,51.036)

NOTICE that Hawaii,,where the CO2 measurement is taken to determine our "global" increase, is one of the LOWEST CO2 concentration areas of the planet.We are NOT getting the full picture!

CO2 457 PPM!
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The globe can be repositioned to see any part of the Earth.

TUTORIAL:

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 29, 2017, 06:00:57 pm
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Amos Batto • an hour ago

20 megatons of methane from termites equals 680 megatones of CO2-equivalent over a 100 year time frame or 1720 megatons over a 20 year time frame. Either way, termites aren't that big of a factor. Methane emissions from the permifrost and clathrates, however is much more significant. The changing albedo (reflectivity) of the planet as the ice melts is a much larger factor right now, equal to roughly a fourth of all human emissions

agelbert > Amos Batto • 25 minutes ago
The estimate of termite emissions I posted is just that. The termite species biomass versus that of cows argues that iermites must produce more methane than cows and other methane producing domestic animals like pigs.

It is a mistake to think termites are not a significant (i.e. gigatons per year of methane) CH4 source.

Granted, no scientific study wants to deal seriously with this YET. So, for now, you are free to pretend termite methane output is "not a concern".

I am convinced that termite population increases are one more feedback loop accelerating global warming. Cows are supposed to have a species biomass of 530 million tons and termites 445 million tons. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biomass_(ecology)

The total cow (2005) biomass estimate is nearly 10 years LATER than the last termite estimate published in 1996. During that time glaicers have been melting and termites have been spreading north. So it is reasonable to accept that termites have a greater biomass than cows as of 2017. And even if they have about the same biomass, remember that termites produce MUCH more methane per unit of body weight than cows.

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QUOTE from Termites - Greenhouse Gases - United States EPA:

Termite CH4 emissions estimates vary for several reasons. Researchers have taken different approaches to approximating the number of termites per area for different ecological regions (e.g., cultivated land, temperate grassland, tropical forest) and different species. In addition, the total area per ecological region is not universally agreed upon,. and not all of the area in an ecological region is necessarily capable of supporting termites. For example, cultivated land in Europe and Canada is located in a climatic zone where termites cannot survive. Some researchers have tried to estimate the percentage of each region capable of supporting termites while others have conservatively assumed that all of the area of a given ecological region can support termites. Finally, the contributions to atmospheric CH4 from many other related CH4 sources and sinks associated with termite populations (i. e., tropical soils) are not well understood.

14.2.2 Emissions3-4

The only pollutant of concern from termite activity is CH4. Emissions of CH4 from termites can be approximated by an emission factor derived from laboratory test data. Applying these data to field estimates of termite population to obtain a realistic, large-scale value for CH4 emissions is suspect, but an order-of-magnitude approximation of CH4 emissions can be made. Termite activity also results in the production of carbon dioxide (CO2). These CO2 emissions are part of the regular carbon cycle, and as such should not be included in a greenhouse gas emissions inventory.

Table 14.2-1 reports typical termite densities per ecological region, and Table 14.2-2 provides the CH4 emission factors for species typical to each ecological region.

A critical data gap currently exists in determining the activity rate for these emission factors (which are given in units of mass of CH4 per mass of termite). Estimates of termites per acre are given in Table 14.2-1, but converting the number of termites into a usable mass is difficult. If the species of termite is known or can be determined, then the number of termites or the number of termite nests can be converted into a mass of termites. If the species is not known for a particular area, then a typical value must be used that is representative of the appropriate ecological region. Reference 4 provided information on termite density for various North American species, with an average denisity of 4.86x10-6 lb/worker termite.
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https://www3.epa.gov/ttnchie1/ap42/ch14/final/c14s02.pdf

Methane is 86 times more potent as a greenhouse gas than CO2. All this is happening because we refuse to accept that we must stop absolutely ALL burning of fossil fuels within a decade or less, not within a feel good slow phase out over 50 years.

Do not assume that science wants to address the hard facts about termite methane production realistically. They would rather talk about cows (https://cleantechnica.com/2017/09/30/methane-emissions-cows-worse-thought-solutions/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+IM-cleantechnica+%28CleanTechnica%29), to the delight of the Fossil Fuel Industry.

That is part to of the present insanity.

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 29, 2017, 09:21:52 pm
GIFs That Show the Effects of Climate Change

Sometimes nothing's as good as just showing people the GIFs.

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Arctic ice receding over 15 years in National Geograhic atlases.


National Geographic’s 2014 atlas update had a big change: the tiny Arctic ice sheet. It was the biggest update the publication’s made to their maps since the end of the Soviet Union. Now shipping companies and oil drilling companies are eyeing the Arctic for new shipping routes and drilling opportunities.

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The Columbia Glacier in Alaska is one of the most dramatic examples of the effect of climate change on glaciers. The southern side of the glacier has receded 12 miles in 30 years, and the remaining parts of the glacier in the Chugach mountains are thinner.

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The Sierra Nevada mountains are looking a little barren these days.

The Yosemite Conservancy has a number of webcams set up around the national park, and these shots from their High Sierra camera, prominently featuring Half Dome, were all taken around the same time each year from 2011 to 2016. The dramatic change in snow cover shows just how bad California’s drought is, even in the mountains.

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Deforestation in the Amazon for agriculture and development is releasing a lot of CO2 into the atmosphere. In fact, deforestation worldwide is responsible for about 15 percent of CO2 emissions.

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 30, 2017, 02:32:59 pm
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 30, 2017, 08:14:18 pm
Puerto Ricans Hack Through a Maze of Debris to Move Relief Aid

September 29, 2017 by Bloomberg

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By Jonathan Levin, Jordyn Holman, Christopher Flavelle and Daniel Flatley (Bloomberg) — A sedan is buried in congealed mud on an impassible road where the Rio Caguitas overflowed in the mountainous community of Bairoa. A guard rail is missing, exposing a perilous drop to the riverbank.

On highways near San Juan, bowed street lights dip low enough to take roofs off trucks, and rain pools formed Thursday where debris blocked drains. A gantlet of parked motorists made mobile-phone calls in rare pockets of connectivity; others sat in half-mile long gas lines snaking around ramps.

With aid for the Hurricane Maria recovery passing through docks already heaped with about 10,000 containers, a major obstacle is restoring the U.S. commonwealth’s 600 miles of major roads, the circulatory system of a bankrupt economy and a battered body politic.

“We need loads of brigades to restore the power lines, to clean the roads,” said Matilda Cordoba of San Juan, who works for Crowley Maritime Corp.’s supply hub there. “To go across the island and go through the mountains? Impossible now.”

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Alejandro de la Campa, whom President Donald Trump designated last week as the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s coordinating official for the recovery, said priorities included delivering fuel and other commodities, restoring electricity and getting communications systems working.

Blazing Trails

More than 10,000 federal civilian and military personnel are on the island, Homeland Security Adviser Thomas Bossert said at the White House. The Army Corps of Engineers has taken over efforts to restore power, he said, including bringing fuel for generators and getting it where it’s needed.

John Rabin, FEMA’s acting regional administrator for the area, said personnel were “driving through the woods, cutting paths to get to municipalities.”

As of Thursday, eight of nine airports on the island had opened and five of six priority seaports were functioning, according to the U.S. Defense Department. The Northern Command, which is overseeing operations, said Thursday that it expected eight flights delivering food and water, generators, medical supplies and communications gear to land that day.

The triage of road repair is designed to keep those links open. Marines and sailors from the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit were clearing a path to a site where two towers control all flights coming in to San Juan.

“If those towers lose fuel to their generators, air operations going into San Juan will cease altogether,” said Second Lieutenant Samuel Stephenson, spokesman for the unit, which had 150 people on the ground in Puerto Rico and another 600 Marines waiting offshore.

Clogging Up

The civilian container yards that in normal times supply consumer goods are moving about only 5 percent of the typical daily volumes as a trickle of trucks begins to maneuver gingerly across the 3,515-square-mile island.

“FEMA cargo has been flowing, so that’s not the big issue,” said Cordoba. “The private clients are unable to pick up their cargo, either because they suffered damages at their buildings or personally, or the truckers haven’t been able to get to work because they have suffered damages.”

Governor Ricardo Rossello said Thursday that truckers don’t have to follow the 7 p.m. curfew. In fact, they’re encouraged to travel at night when the roads are free of traffic.

Truckers Saul Rivera and Carlos Diaz were leaning against the chain-link fence at the Port Authority in San Juan, waiting in an unmoving line to refill their vehicles.

The highways are fine except for low-hanging cables and the menacing poles, they said. But they had to be careful not to hit the top of their truck. Some expressways are down to two lanes. A truck can pass, though it’s a tight fit.

Harrowing Journey

Diaz drove to Ponce on Wednesday. The bridge was broken, so he had to take a bypass on a rural road. The detour that would usually take 10 minutes took an hour.

“I’ve never driven like this before,” Diaz said.

Jayuya and Aibonito, in the central mountains, are almost inaccessible.

“You have to be really brave,” Rivera said.

In Bairoa, Jorge Reto Guzman said if he and his neighbors pull through, they will have themselves to thank — not the federal government. The 42-year-old fireman was sitting on an intact section of the guardrail in the community about 30 kilometers south of San Juan.

Interviews with half a dozen neighbors on this 200-home stretch of rural, mountainous Puerto Rico — marked simply as the “Old Road” at the turnoff — showed no one had seen or heard from FEMA. Guzman said neighbors themselves used their hands, machetes and chainsaws to clear the road and hauled away trunks in vehicles including a minivan.

Neighbors get together in the afternoons and pool resources to make rice and beans with a protein and, when needed, they give each other lifts into town.

“I feel forgotten, because no one has even asked about us,” said Hector Manuel Gomez Marabe, 63. “Not even to see how we’re doing. Nothing, nothing, nothing.”

© 2017 Bloomberg L.P

http://gcaptain.com/puerto-ricans-hack-maze-debris-move-relief-aid/
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 30, 2017, 09:00:11 pm
Agelbert NOTE: To be viewed with a grain of salt. Crowley is a Jones Act shipper that stands to profit handsomely if they dominate the logistics recovery effort.  ;) Under the waiver from the Jones Act, freight is almost 50% CHEAPER for Puerto Rico.

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File photo of Crowley container ship going by El Morro Castle in San Juan, Puerto Rico

September 29, 2017 by gCaptain

Crowley Provides Update on Relief Effort in Puerto Rico

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Crowley is transporting 100 fuel distribution trucks with 275,000 gallons of diesel fuel and 75,000 gallons of gasoline to support relief efforts in Puerto Rico. Photo: Crowley Maritime Corp.



U.S. shipping company Crowley Maritime provided an update Friday on its on-going effort to get relief supplies to the people Puerto Rico in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria.

As of Friday, Crowley Puerto Rico Services said that nearly all Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) relief cargo that has arrived to date at its Isla Grande Terminal in Puerto Rico has been transported to FEMA receiving locations on the island by the company’s logistics group – the result of strong ongoing coordination with FEMA and other government agencies providing relief after Hurricane Maria.

Working closely with FEMA, Crowley’s liner and logistics groups have helped to coordinate the throughput of relief cargo at the terminal, prioritizing and trucking government loads on the island. While there are thousands of loads of commercial cargo on the terminal awaiting distribution, the FEMA loads are moving and thousands more are on the way.

Crowley is transporting 100 fuel distribution trucks with 275,000 gallons of diesel fuel and 75,000 gallons of gasoline to support relief efforts in Puerto Rico.

Crowley and other transportation companies continue to play a significant role helping FEMA relief efforts in Puerto Rico’s communities. As of Thursday, Sept. 28, Crowley has facilitated providing 1.3 million meals and 2.77 million liters of the meals and water that have arrived in San Juan. FEMA has provided food and water to over 60 municipalities with the logistics and transportation assistance of Crowley.

The joint effort began Saturday, Sept. 23, after the U.S. Coast Guard reopened the port at 8 a.m. and Crowley’s first barge was unloaded at 10 a.m. with 144 government relief loads. Crowley has moved more than 700 government relief loads with 3,100 loads booked and 1,000 loads ready to leave the Port of Jacksonville. In addition, Crowley is scheduled to move 272 emergency relief vehicles, including 140 fuel trucks, and 100 disaster recovery vehicles from Jacksonville to San Juan.

Crowley’s barge El Rey is already en route with an anticipated arrival on Monday, Oct. 2, with a shipment of 100 fuel distribution trucks with 275,000 gallons of diesel fuel and 75,000 gallons of gasoline.

By Friday, Crowley projects to have 4,100 commercial loads on its terminal ready for pickup containing a variety of needed products, including food, beverages, construction materials, clothing and much more.

 
Elsewhere, here are few more notes from the U.S. Department of Defense on the on-going relief effort in Puerto Rico as they relate to transportation and logistics:

The multipurpose amphibious assault ship USS Wasp is returning to support response operations in and around Puerto Rico

The hospital ship USNS Comfort will depart its home port of Norfolk, Virginia, today, bound for Puerto Rico
USS Kearsarge remains in the Caribbean in support on the relief efforts


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Finally, below is a statement from Anthony Chiarello’s, President and CEO of TOTE, another major U.S. shipping company serving Puerto Rico, which he delivered to the House Subcommittee on the Coast Guard and Marine Transportation on September 28, 2017.

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TOTE major U.S. shipping company serving Puerto Rico

“Good morning Chairman Hunter, Ranking Member Garamendi and Members of the Committee on the Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation. Thank you for the opportunity to be with you today. My name is Anthony Chiarello and I serve as the President and CEO of TOTE. I have been involved with the maritime industry for more than 38 years and have been with TOTE since 2010.

Before I share the details of our work in Puerto Rico – the reason you called me here today – I would like to express to you how personal this situation is for us at TOTE.  Our employees and customers have experienced the devastation first hand. Many of our employees in Puerto Rico have damage to their homes and families that are struggling following the hurricane but they have come to the terminal to support the offloading of containers and cargo which they know is critical for the larger Puerto Rican community. We are proud of the work our team is doing to get important cargoes to Puerto Rico and we will not rest in our efforts.

TOTE Maritime Puerto Rico has served the people of Puerto Rico for more than 32 years providing twice weekly service to the island sailing between Jacksonville, FL and San Juan. (By the way, our vessels are the most environmentally friendly ocean container vessels in the world as they are powered by LNG.) We strive for on-time and efficient operations that support daily life for our Puerto Rican families.

Since Hurricane Maria made landfall in Puerto Rico on September 19th, the people of Puerto Rico have been struggling to gain access to various goods and services necessary for daily life – goods that are sitting on our docks now that need support to be moved.

Even before Hurricane Maria made landfall, TOTE was working closely with customers and other parties such as the Red Cross to prepare for what was forecasted to be a devastating blow to the island. TOTE’s Isla Bella departed Jacksonville on September 20 – as Puerto Rico was still feeling the effects of Hurricane Maria – with more than 900 containers of cargo and relief goods for the island. The Isla Bella arrived at the Port of San Juan on September 24th following the opening of the Port on September 23 by the USCG. Immediately after the discharge of the Isla Bella, TOTE’s second ship, the Perla del Caribe arrived in San Juan with more than 1000 additional containers of relief goods. Our vessels will continue to transport relief aid including food and water to the island along with the daily needs such as clothing and house goods.

TOTE’s transit time from Jacksonville to San Juan is less than three days. This means that we are uniquely positioned to respond to emerging needs on the island, providing critical supplies to the people of Puerto Rico as the situation on the ground continues to evolve. TOTE will serve the people of Puerto Rico throughout this crisis and long after TV cameras have left.


Despite news and misinformation about the Jones Act, American companies like TOTE have ample capacity to ship supplies to Puerto Rico. The challenges are not with the maritime industry getting the goods to the island. Unfortunately the challenge is distributing the goods throughout the island communities. Infrastructure and roads have been compromised as a result of the storm making transport and delivery of goods challenging. We need to get the water and other life-saving supplies to those who need it.

Over the last few days, we have seen more and more containers leave our facility in San Juan but there are still many at the terminal. Of the more than 2700 containers at the terminal (and more keep coming with each full ship);

on Monday, 88 left

on Tuesday, 110 left

on Wednesday (yesterday), 180 left

Unfortunately, only about 400 containers have left our facility since September 19.


We are working with our customers to solve this bottleneck. In some cases, we are providing refrigerated containers as temporary storage for warehouses and stores that were damaged or destroyed.  We are working with the government and others to offload critical cargo at our terminal that can help relieve the bottleneck and service first responders.

I am grateful for the opportunity to testify today and discuss ways that TOTE can work in concert with the Government to help accelerate the recovery effort for the people of Puerto Rico and especially our employees and customers.  I look forward to answering your questions.”

Related gCaptain Article



http://gcaptain.com/crowley-provides-update-on-relief-effort-in-puerto-rico/
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on October 01, 2017, 02:50:58 pm
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http://www.stateofourclimate.com/

https://www.climatecommunication.org/

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on October 03, 2017, 02:37:09 pm
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The concerted effort by fossil-fuel funded propagandists to keep Americans in the dark about our role (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-070814193155.png&hash=144ce9330e49ee84060db8753a8db69c39a14913) in climate change has long targeted the consensus, which is why it’s so important to continually reinforce the fact that scientists are nearly unanimous about human activity driving climate change.

That’s the gist of an op-ed that ran on Monday in the Guardian  (https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2017/oct/02/why-the-97-climate-consensus-is-important?CMP=share_btn_tw). In the piece, a group of academics, in response to commentary over the summer criticizing consensus messaging, lay out the history of denial’s attacks on science and explained the damaging effects of the gap between what scientists know and what the public thinks they know. Ignoring the fake news about the consensus as opposed to countering it, they explain, further dulls political will to take action.

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Cliff Mass doing his thing for the Fossil Fuel Saviors of Humanity

In a piece about him in the Seattle PI that ran Thursday headlined   (http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17524032.2017.1333965)
“Climate change is real but…”,  (http://www.seattlepi.com/local/article/Cliff-Mass-Climate-change-is-real-but-12236265.php)Mass criticizes the linking of climate change and extreme events. While he acknowledges that warming amplifies many events, his statement that there’s “absolutely no reason to believe” an unusual ridge of high pressure off the west coast has anything to do with warming is simply false--there is (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4820386/). So besides his problematic borderline misogyny (http://www.thestranger.com/slog/2017/08/23/25368541/cliff-mass-belittles-woman-scientist-and-makes-seattles-climate-change-discussions-toxic), it’s clear Mass has missed out on some key facts.

It’s hard to say if the skepticism Mass expresses is motivated by ideological factors, like Ken Ham’s denial, or just scientifically misinformed, like those who watch too much Fox and Breitbart.

But you know who hasn’t been subjected to decades of misinformation and propaganda on climate? The Latino community. Yale polling last week  (http://climatecommunication.yale.edu/publications/climate-change-latino-mind-may-2017/) showed that Latinos are far more worried about climate change than non-Latinos. This is particularly true for non-English speaking Latinos, which could be a testament to the prevalence of English-language Murdoch media and its power to distort.

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And it makes sense they'd be concerned, given the stark difference between how the Trump Administration handled warming-amplified storms that struck Texas and Florida, and the one that hit Puerto Rico.

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Agelbert NOTE: And now that Hispanics/Latinos EVERYWHERE (along with most of the rest of the world) have finallly figured Trump (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-311013200859.png&hash=a7aaaa9f04c1e3e2c948723b5f8c13fe814dacd4)out, they won't "negotiate" either.

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on October 03, 2017, 05:50:48 pm
Climat Lab Book
Open climate Science

Is the 1.5°C target still reachable?

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Figure 2. Global mean temperature estimates of HadCRUT4 (left) and GISTEMP (right) against the CO2 concentration on a logarithmic scale with a linear fit. Pre-industrial CO2 concentrations are usually taken to be 280 ppm.

Conclusions

Reaching the 1.5 degree target agreed-upon in Paris as a desirable goal is going to be hard. Exactly how hard depends on a couple of crucial definitions and physical effects of the order of a tenth of a degree. Millar et al. have reduced these uncertainties by moving the starting point of modelling from pre-industrial to the present, taking the observed trend as given (and attributable to human influences, a point we have not discussed). However, they also use definitions of the global mean temperature rise that are not universally accepted and estimates of committed warming for zero emissions that are at odds with older (AR4) ideas that were based on constant atmospheric composition. To aid in the understanding of the results of Millar et al., we tried to highlight differences in definitions and cancellations in temperature trends after CO2 emissions would have ceased. Whatever the final way the 1.5 degree or indeed 2 degree target is defined, it will take a huge effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions fast enough to reach it.

Full detailed article with charts from peer reviewed scientific studies

http://www.climate-lab-book.ac.uk/2017/is-the-1-5c-target-still-reachable/
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on October 03, 2017, 09:04:00 pm
Donald Golfs and Puerto Rico Drowns

By Came In On Saturdays | October 03, 2017 at 03:02 PM EDT

Most people recall the saying that Emperor Nero “fiddled while Rome burned.” Nero is remembered as one of history’s cruelest leaders. However, this popular quote is not accurate. Yes, in 64 A.D., a great fire spread through Rome for six days, destroying 70% of the city and leaving half its population homeless. Although Nero quickly began relief measures, the people didn’t trust him. Some believed Nero had ordered the fire started, especially after he used land cleared by the blaze to build a palace. Nero blamed the then small Christian sect for the fire, and had many of its members arrested and executed. Nero could not have played a fiddle, since the fiddle was not developed until the 11th Century. Roman historian Tacitus wrote that Nero was rumored to have sung about the destruction of Troy while watching the Roman fire. Tacitus, however, stated that the reports of Nero singing were unconfirmed by eyewitness accounts (History.com staff, 11/20/12).

Flash forward to 2017. We have far more accurate accounts of Hurricane Maria. We also know what “leader” Donald did and did not do when Hurricane Maria, a Category 5 storm with sustained winds of 155 mph, hit and devastated Puerto Rico early on 9/20/2017 (huffingtonpost.com, Miller, 10/03/17). Puerto Rico, a Commonwealth of the United States since 1952, has a population of 3,474, 182 (115th Cong. At Your Fingertips, U.S. Senate, 109th Cong.).  Puerto Ricans have been American citizens since the passage of the Jones-Shafroth Act in 3/1917 that President Woodrow Wilson signed. Because Puerto Rico is not a state, it does not vote in presidential elections. However, it has a governor and sends one non-voting representative to Congress. Puerto Rico is permitted to participate in the presidential primaries and is granted delegates to the Democratic and Republican presidential conventions (115th Cong. At Your Fingertips, NY Times, Dropp & Nyhan, 9/26/17, Murse, thoughtco.com,vox.com, Resnick & Barclay, 9/29/17).

Hurricane Maria was an absolute catastrophe. During the current 2017 hurricane season, Puerto Rico was first clipped by Hurricane Irma on 9/06/2017. Irma left 1 million people without power on that island. When Maria hit, 60,000 people still did not have electricity. Many Puerto Ricans have, therefore, not had power for over 20 days (vox.com, Resnick & Barclay, 9/29/17). Hurricane Maria was a slightly smaller storm but far more devastating. Unlike Irma, Hurricane Maria charted a course directly over Puerto Rico, hit near its peak intensity, and passed around 25 miles away from San Juan, the capital, home to about 400,000 people (vox.com). It was “as if a 50-60-mile-wide tornado raged across Puerto Rico like a buzz saw,” according to meteorologist Jeff Weber with the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NOAA). Weber called Maria “almost as strong as a hurricane can get in a direct hit.” According to the records, Maria was the fifth-largest storm ever to hit the U.S. and the strongest storm to hit Puerto Rico in 80 years (see vox.com). 

The initial response to the storm from the U.S. government has been lackluster. During the one week after Maria hit, Demagogue Donald “responded” by creating his own “hurricane tweet storm.” In those bizarre, irrelevant rantings, Donald obsessed about Puerto Rico being an “island,” and criticized Puerto Rico for being in “massive debt (vox.com, 9/29/17, CNN, Cillizza, 10/01/17).” A typical Trump response to his own failure to act—blame the hapless victims, never “perfectly brilliant” Donald. On a CNN 9/29/2017 “New Day” interview, San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulin Cruz put a face on this festering humanitarian crisis. Mayor Cruz emotionally pleaded, “We are dying here, and I cannot fathom the thought that the greatest nation in the world cannot figure out logistics for a small island of 100 miles by 35 miles. Mayday! We are in trouble (huffingtonpost.com, Herreria, 9/30/17, CNN, Cillizza, 10/01/17).” Trump answered Mayor Cruz, the only way he knows how—viciously. Demagogue Donald tweeted, “The Mayor of San Juan, who was very complimentary only a few days ago, has now been told by the Democrats that you must be nasty to Trump. Such poor leadership ability by the Mayor of San Juan, and others in Puerto Rico, who are not able to get their workers help. They want everything to be done for them when it should be a community effort. 10,000 Federal workers now on Island doing a fantastic job (Cillizza, CNN, 10/01/17).” Translation: “They” = “lazy” dark-skinned Hispanic “moochers,” v. the mainly white Texans and Floridians. “Red” Texas and Florida, Trump’s real “all American base,” received immediate aid for Hurricanes Harvey and Irma with no such horrible criticisms. Trump is using more of the same racially coded “dog whistles,” actually bullhorn language, he has employed since he started running for the White House (See Cillizza, CNN). Trump also called Cruz “nasty,” the same term he used to describe another female, Hillary, in Campaign 2016.

IMHO, Trump is, with this and other tweets, additionally arguing that these Hispanic Puerto Ricans are “unpatriotic.” Why? Because they are attacking first responders who represent U.S. authority and are often in uniform. Whatever happened to the First Amendment’s guarantee of free speech? Donald also  tweeted, “Fake News CNN and NBC are going out of their way to disparage our great First Responders as a way to ‘get Trump.’ Not fair (huffingtonpost, Herreria, 9/30/17).”

Whom do you believe, these network correspondents on storm-stricken Puerto Rico, or golf -playing Donald on dry land spouting lies and paranoia? On the morning of 10/01/2017, at 5:22 A.M., Donald further poured out his venom on the news media and on the Puerto Ricans. In this tweet, he praised the “great job we have done with the almost impossible situation in Puerto Rico. Outside of the Fake News or politically motivated ingrates… (latimes.com, King, L., 10/01/17).”  “Politically motivated ingrates,” just another vicious description of “nasty lazy Hispanics.” These “lazy Latinos” somehow have the time and energy to get their “marching orders” from the mainland Democratic Party leadership. They don’t care about fighting for their lives and saving their homes. No, all they want to do is hurt Donald’s “reputation.” Unbelievable!

While Puerto Ricans were fighting to save themselves after being hit by a catastrophic storm, out-of-touch Demagogue Donald decided to go to the Presidents Cup golf tournament in New Jersey. At this 10/01/2017 golf tournament, Donald dedicated the trophy to the victims of the TX, FL, and Puerto Rican hurricanes (huffingtonpost.com, Terkel, 10/01/17). While Puerto Ricans drowned, Donald dedicated a trophy to them. Unless this trophy is “magical,” it won’t revive Puerto Rico. When Trump dedicated this trophy to Puerto Rico, only 5% of its electrical grid was up and running, and it could be months before residents get regular service back. More than half of Puerto Rico remained without drinking water. Lt. Gen. Jeffrey Buchanan stated that on 10/01/2017, just 16 out of 69 hospitals have had power restored. The others were running on generators. There was limited access to X-ray machines and few operating rooms were open (vox.com, Resnick & Barclay). Roughly 80% of the island’s crops have been wiped out (huffingtonpost.com, Miller). As of 10/02/2017, only 37% of the people had cellphone service (huffingtonpost.com Frej & Fang, 10/03/17). It was not necessary for Trump to attend this golfing event. In fact, he was the first sitting chief executive to give the trophy to the winning team (huffingtonpost.com, Terkel). Imagine if Hillary had won the election and had gone to this tournament under the same circumstances. We would never have heard the end of the banshee-like GOP cries condemning her.

Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) called Trump’s attack on Mayor Cruz “unspeakable (CNN, Watkins, 10/01/17).” On FOX News, former major league pitcher and reliable Donald supporter Curt Schilling described the Trump administration’s current efforts at helping Puerto Rico, “horrifying.” Schilling is in Puerto Rico helping with relief.  He said the situation is “bleak” and the death toll “is likely to rise into the thousands.” He added, “These (Puerto Ricans) are Americans.” He stated, “If this were Houston, Texas there’d be 55,000 soldiers on this island right now (shareblue.com, 10/01/17, Orr).” On 10/01/2017, GOP strategist Ana Navarro told CNN that “it’s quite brazen for Trump to whine about anyone else wanting ‘everything to be done for them,’ when he himself has so often shirked responsibility and work… This is a guy sitting in a fancy golf course while people in Puerto Rico are dying (shareblue.com, 10/01/17, Parker).” Retired Army General Russel Honore, hailed as a hero for bringing relief to 2005 Hurricane Katrina’s victims, was far blunter. In a 9/30/2017 CNN interview, Honore ripped Trump for attacking San Juan Mayor Cruz. In his words, “the mayor’s living on a cot, and I hope the president has a good day at golf.” In a previous 9/27/2017 CNN interview, Honore stated, “The president has shown again and again, you don’t give a damn about poor people, you don’t give a damn about people of color and the SOB that rides around in Air Force One is denying services needed by the people of Puerto Rico (cnn.com, 9/30/17, cnn.com/videos/us/2017/09/27).”

San Juan’s Mayor Cruz is not naïve. High school Puerto Rico honor student Cruz received her bachelor’s degree from Boston University and a Master’s from Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Mellon. She worked for 12 years on the U.S. mainland at Westinghouse, Colgate-Palmolive, Banco Popular, and the U.S. Treasury Department. In 1992, she returned to Puerto Rico. She advised the mayor of San Juan and the president of the Puerto Rico House of Representatives. In 2008, she won an at-large seat to the Puerto Rico House. Cruz has been San Juan’s mayor since 2012, after defeating the 12-year incumbent (abcnews.go, 10/01/17). Cruz refused to get into petty fights responding to Trump’s horrible tweets. In a 10/01/2017 ABC News interview with George Stephanopoulos, she aptly said, “Let us not talk about the debt, let us not talk about the cost of reconstruction. Let’s just talk about saving people’s lives right now. You put people above the debt. People’s lives and avoiding death above the debt. That’s how it’s done (abcnews.go., 10/01/17).” 

On 10/03/2017, Trump and wife Melania visited Puerto Rico. At his first stop, he appeared to joke about the cost of the damage, saying, “I hate to tell you Puerto Rico, but you’ve thrown our budget a little out of wack (huffingtonpost.com, Frej & Fang, 10/03/17).” Some joke! And frankly, Trump probably believes that Puerto Rico is a “budget killer,” not the other hurricane hit areas in TX and FL. According to his itinerary, Donald will spend just 5 hours on this horribly devastated island and meet with Puerto Rican victims for just 35 minutes (Daniel Dale @ddale8, pic twitter.com, Daniel Dale@ddale, 7:16 PM, 10/02/2017, annieli, Kos, 10/02/17). Donald visited TX twice after Hurricane Harvey and went to FL four days after Irma hit (huffingtonpost.com, 10/03/17).

In Puerto Rico, Trump limited his exposure to the public. The neighborhood he visited, Guaynabo, is home to some of the more affluent communities in Puerto Rico (NY Times, Landler, 10/03/17, CNN, Liptak, 10/03/17). Of course, Donald only feels comfortable with the rich. At a meeting with Puerto Rican officials, Trump again touted the “great” job his team had done, ignoring the awful facts on the ground. He also called Hurricane Katrina more of a “real catastrophe” because on W Bush’s watch “thousands died” in that storm, but just 16 people here (See NY Times, 10/03/17, Landler). Wow! Remember, many deaths from Maria have been uncounted and more bodies will probably be recovered. Trump is making body counts a ghoulish sporting event. He is, once more, showing his awful callousness and narcissism-- “hey, W, my hurricane outcome was better than yours.” Once again, “winner” Trump has demonstrated what a disaster he has been for the U.S. and for all its citizens.

http://cameinonsaturdays.com/ (http://cameinonsaturdays.com/)

https://youtu.be/29OjgaY1SK8
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on October 04, 2017, 09:56:36 pm
I believe we will see very very soon (within 2018) the exotic technologies come online to help rebuild these
affected areas of the planet.

Energy will be drawn from the planet in order to provide prosperous living for all lifeforms.

This talk of "You bad little humans, you've totally fu cked your planet over & now it's time to die because of your behavior" is more of the same rhetoric we've grown accustomed to.

Fu ck that sh it .....


AZ, humanity does not have, as you have realized, an energy problem. Humanity's problem is lack of respect for each other and the other life forms we are blessed by God to share this planet with. You don't even have to believe there IS a God, though I most certainly DO, to clearly understand that.

All the Renewable Energy or free energy in the universe is not going to help us if we do not learn that empathy deficit, me first, greed based behavior is not just evil, it's suicidally STUPID.

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on October 05, 2017, 04:44:48 pm
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Figure 3. Ocean Heat Content (OHC) for October 5, 2017. Forecast positions for Nate from the 11 am EDT Thursday NHC forecast are also shown. OHC values in excess of 80 kilojoules per square centimeter (yellow-green colors) are often associated with rapid intensification of hurricanes. Nate is expected to be passing near or over two areas of very high ocean heat content, with very warm waters that extend to great depth: in the Western Caribbean off the coast of Yucatan Peninsula, and again in the Gulf of Mexico, over the northern portion of the Loop Current, where a warm eddy appears to be attempting to break off. Image credit: University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science.

Short-term forecast for Nate (https://www.wunderground.com/cat6/tropical-storm-nate-may-hit-mexico-and-us-gulf-coast-strengthening-hurricane)
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on October 05, 2017, 05:22:36 pm
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“Our study shows how climate change affects environmental processes in the Arctic landscape. As a consequence of the warmer temperatures, more sediment is transported out to the coast. At the same time, the open-water period has been extended, and the material is therefore deposited in the deltas. And in this way, the deltas are growing,” says Associate Professor Aart Kroon, corresponding author.

Article with pictures:

Aerial photos show Greenland deltas growing due to climate change (https://www.zmescience.com/science/news-science/greenland-delta-climate-change-05102017/?utm_source=ZME+Science+Newsletter&utm_campaign=9f6e58bd5a-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_3b5aad2288-9f6e58bd5a-242735721&goal=0_3b5aad2288-9f6e58bd5a-242735721)
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on October 06, 2017, 08:54:12 pm
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https://youtu.be/Sz22sAHIizI

October 6th, 2017 by Guest Contributor

The widespread devastation caused by Hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria is still being assessed, as communities continue to endure health impacts in the wake of these massive storms. But one thing is crystal clear — climate change intensifies hurricanes.

Hunter Cutting, director of the Climate Signals project, explains how climate change has amplified the damage done by hurricanes by increasing both the reach of storm surge and the volume of rainfall and by lifting the power ceiling of storms.

https://cleantechnica.com/2017/10/06/climate-change-intensifies-hurricanes-video/

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on October 06, 2017, 09:15:34 pm
A Storm of Silence: Study Finds Media (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-311013200859.png&hash=a7aaaa9f04c1e3e2c948723b5f8c13fe814dacd4)Is Largely Ignoring (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Ffly.gif&hash=b0526635e8b47d751b0e429925d73d78f9d79fc6) Link Between Hurricanes and Climate Change

https://youtu.be/klhLj4RB6nQ

Democracy Now!

Published on Sep 12, 2017

https://democracynow.org - "A Storm of Silence." That’s the title of a new report by the watchdog group Public Citizen that looks at the media’s failure to discuss climate change in its wall-to-wall hurricane coverage. While all the television networks commented on the magnitude of Hurricane Harvey and "extreme weather," virtually none explained how warmer ocean temperatures lead to heavier winds, warmer air causes more precipitation, and higher sea levels exacerbate storm surges. The report examined 18 media sources’ coverage of Hurricane Harvey—looking at 10 major newspapers, three weekly news magazines and national programming from ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN and Fox News over the course of eight days’ worth of Hurricane Harvey coverage. The report concludes, "Many failed to discuss the issue [of climate change] much or failed to cover important aspects of it. ... Two of the three major broadcast networks, ABC and NBC, did not mention climate change at all in the context of Hurricane Harvey." We speak to David Arkush, managing director of Public Citizen’s Climate Program.

Democracy Now! is an independent global news hour that airs weekdays on nearly 1,400 TV and radio stations Monday through Friday. Watch our livestream 8-9AM ET: https://democracynow.org

Please consider supporting independent media by making a donation to Democracy Now! today: https://democracynow.org/donate

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on October 06, 2017, 10:59:03 pm
Arctic Sea Ice: Everything You Need to Know
https://youtu.be/opxcfYpC6LY

Paul Beckwith

Published on Oct 5, 2017

Every summer now, there are many people anxiously monitoring the seasonal melt-back of the Sea Ice that covers the Arctic Ocean. One of these summers, likely within the next 5 years we will end up with no sea ice left at the end of the summer. This "blue-ocean" event will change our climate & lives, in numerous ways.

I give you the knowledge & links to see for yourself what is happening to the Arctic Sea Ice over the 2017 melt season, and discuss what happens next.

Please support my work with a donation at http://paulbeckwith.net
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on October 08, 2017, 11:02:07 pm
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October 8th, 2017 by George Harvey

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I should start this off with a disclosure. I know Joseph Mangum personally. However, I am not profiting in any way from this message, aside from the feeling I get from being able to spread it here. I can say I believe that Joseph’s message is true, precisely as he presents it.

After publishing “A Call for Help for Puerto Rico” in CleanTechnica, I got this message from a local Brattleboro solar installer:

Message from Joseph Mangum of Sunnyside Solar of Brattleboro, VT:

https://www.gofundme.com/ngwbw-solar-generators-for-puerto-rico

Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico. My wife, Rosemary, is from the island and half of our family is there. With great patience and perseverance, they have struggled over the last two weeks. There is no power where they are at (6% of the island is re-powered) nor is there safe water to drink.

We were delayed in prompting this fund raiser until the logistics of getting supplies delivered were sorted. The infrastructure is in ruins and gasoline incredibly difficult to come by. We have successfully navigated both gas and vehicle problems so this project is ready to go.

We are building solar generators and delivering water pump purifiers for the hardest hit areas.

Solar generators have myriad uses. Medical needs such as refrigeration for insulin and power to phones for communication and information are two of the largest concerns.

This is a personal plea. If I had the funds I would already be there. I may not be Puerto Rican by blood, but a large part of my spirit is there. Rosemary’s whole family is there and she has been solidly strong through it all but not being able to help right away has been extremely emotional.

We humbly ask for your support in either donating, spreading this campaign far and wide or even better both.

No matter what you do, thank you for reading this.

Joseph Mangum

Here is an opportunity to help people stand up to a president who makes light of disaster by throwing out paper towels. That was a moment I believe is right up there with “Let them eat cake.” But we are all in this together, and together, we can make things better.

Please help Joseph, Rosemary, and their family.

Thanks,

George Harvey

https://cleantechnica.com/2017/10/08/response-call-help-puerto-rico/
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on October 09, 2017, 10:28:18 pm
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Above: Firefighters assess the scene as a house burns in the Napa wine region of California on October 9, 2017, as multiple wind-driven fires continue to ravage the area burning structures and causing widespread evacuations. Image credit: Josh Edelson/AFP/Getty Images.

California Firestorm: More than 1500 Structures Lost, Mass Evacuations from Napa to Anaheim

Bob Henson  ·  October 9, 2017, 6:03 PM EDT

SNIPPET:

Hot, dry winds across the length of California triggered one of the most destructive and widespread fire days in state history on Monday. At least one person was killed, at least 60 were injured, and at least 1500 homes and other structures were lost by midday in nine Northern California counties, reported SFGate.com. The destruction puts Monday’s fires into the top five most damaging wildfire events in in California history, according to Steve Bowen (Aon Benfield)

The fires kicked off Sunday night as strong easterly winds (called “diablo” winds in Northern California, after Mt. Diablo) pushed hot, dry air across the California wine country. On Monday, the easterlies began to weaken in the Bay Area, while they intensified southward into the LA-San Diego area, where they’re known as Santa Ana winds (after the Santa Ana mountain range). By Monday afternoon, some 1000 homes were threatened in the Anaheim Hills neighborhood of eastern Anaheim, the Los Angeles Times reported.

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https://www.wunderground.com/cat6/california-firestorm-more-1500-structures-lost-mass-evacuations-napa-anaheim
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on October 10, 2017, 07:04:19 pm
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on October 10, 2017, 07:07:43 pm
Electric cars win on energy efficiency vs hydrogen, gasoline, diesel: analysis  ;D

SNIPPET 1:

Oct 10, 2017

If you want to drive the absolute cleanest car possible – and if you’re reading this site, we’re willing to wager that you do – then you need to calculate the total well-to-wheels energy use of the car and everything you put into its tank or battery.

When it comes to comparing types of vehicles – hydrogen, standard gasoline and diesel, or battery electric – then a full accounting of the averages reveals that electric cars are the total efficiency winners.   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Fmuscular.gif&hash=1ebeafc0e4589b9d38ab66d37aa940d757e830e9)  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F19.gif&hash=3f9f2fc2285bc756137e21463bc2a4c420b15ac3)

At least, they are in a new study from the UK-based Transport & Environment.

The results are not even close.

Starting with all renewable energy for either charging or to process the gasoline or hydrogen, all-electric vehicles managing an overall efficiency rating of 73 percent, compared to 22 percent for hydrogen fuel cell vehicles, and just 13 percent for standard fossil fuel vehicles using gasoline made with the Fischer Tropsch process.

DON'T MISS: Two words the Trump Administration can't say: climate change

SNIPPET 2:

UK's Transport & Environment says that electric cars are the most efficient.


SNIPPET 3:

... when you look at the averages, you’re most likely going to be better off plugging in  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-080515182559.png&hash=d4dfa952fa0f817bf30a8059a4c88d6fb05ee1bf) than gassing up.    (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Fgen152.gif&hash=d5b10968fe56c4cb95fae17cee3cb420a5f4e2da) If anyone says otherwise, ask them (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.desismileys.com%2Fsmileys%2Fdesismileys_6869.gif&hash=f94938471d343a09155d1f60eefacdb2ceab2457) to show you the math. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Fcowboypistol.gif&hash=2dc97f743dffca22404e6e4e0822765e60b33f38)

Full article:

http://www.greencarreports.com/news/1113175_electric-cars-win-on-energy-efficiency-vs-hydrogen-gasoline-diesel-analysis


Agelbert NOTE: Fossil Fuel Industry reaction to the above study:

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Agelbert reaction to the above study:

The issue stopped being "energy efficiency" around 1970. That is around the time that human civilization GUARANTEED MORE than 1.5 degrees centigrade of baked in Global Warming. IOW, AFTER THAT, we entered the existential threat territory.

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This is a war for survival. No country, when they are in a WAR FOR SURVIVAL, says they must surrender to the enemy because the machines they need to build to SURVIVE are not efficient enough. Business as usual is a stupid, irrational and totally unnecessary surrender to the Climate Change enemy of the biosphere in general, and our species in particular.

Most fossil fuelers and/or doomers have made up all sorts of magical thinking fairy tales about "supply and demand", collapse from "peak this, that and the other" which will "make the environment hunky jake again" and other amazing bits of pretzel logic. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-200714183337.bmp&hash=fd5a6df63c32bd65dda7b6d93e788647ca3829df)

They are off their rockers. We transition out of polluting fuels or we will perish, PERIOD.  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Fdesertsmile.gif&hash=293fbde1c87dec2d81c5907e3fbac7d8e5bba7a9)

These videos briefly (VERY briefly) explain what fossil fuelers  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F126fs2277341.gif&hash=1a8375f11d76a653bcb48e30eaa7b652175f029d) and many doomers    (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Fgen152.gif&hash=d5b10968fe56c4cb95fae17cee3cb420a5f4e2da) are in brain dead denial of in regard to the irrefutable facts about WHAT CAUSES Climate Change and the consequent degradation of our biosphere:

How do Greehouse Gases REALLY work?
https://youtu.be/sTvqIijqvTg

A demonstration of carbon dioxide absorption of infrared radiation by Iain Stewart, Professor of Geoscience Communication at the University of Plymouth:
https://youtu.be/kGaV3PiobYk

The animation from Rasmus Benestad‘s article about his new paper at RealClimate: (http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2016/02/what-is-the-best-description-of-the-greenhouse-effect/)

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Agelbert NOTE: In the next video, Physics Professor Ray Pierrehumbert explains WHY the atmospheric expansion portrayed above (Adiabatic Lapse Rate - i.e. temperature decrease per kilometer of elevation is radically altered causing the surface average temperature to radically rise) in the gif is so great with a tiny amount in parts per million of Greenhouse gases.

An explanation of the greenhouse effect by  Ray Pierrehumbert, current Halley Professor of Physics at the University of Oxford, in both text:“Infrared radiation and planetary temperature”and video:


https://youtu.be/slPMD5i5Phg

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http://greatwhitecon.info/resources/greenhouse-effect-explanations/

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The San Francsico area TODAY (October 10, 2017) is even HIGHER than the above at 502 PPM CO2!
https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/chem/surface/level/overlay=co2sc/orthographic=-115.52,37.59,1092/loc=-122.660,38.427

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The Fossil Fuelers DID THE Clean Energy  Inventions suppressing, Climate Trashing, human health depleting CRIME,   but since they have ALWAYS BEEN liars and conscience free crooks, they are trying to AVOID   DOING THE TIME or     PAYING THE FINE!     Don't let them get away with it! Pass it on!    (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F176.gif&hash=121533221905789c6b8d57a9603883266d349266)

Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on October 11, 2017, 04:05:33 pm
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Aerial view of the Weddell polynya. Credit: Jan Lieser.

Gaping hole larger than the Netherlands opens up in icy sea off Antarctica (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-310714182509.png&hash=7a8191a3d5ff15c51ad36a342a0cd50a90b956bd)

LAST UPDATED ON OCTOBER 11TH, 2017 AT 8:14 PM BY TIBI PUIU  E-mail author

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An incredibly(https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.desismileys.com%2Fsmileys%2Fdesismileys_2932.gif&hash=0eaec4791a5825821998245e7fcd7744b56557fe) large area of ice has opened up in the Weddell Sea east of the Antarctic Peninsula, for the second time in 40 years. The phenomenon was previously observed in the same location in the 1970s when satellite imaging was barely making its first baby steps. It’s not clear ;) at this point(https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Fugly004.gif&hash=c56db4280057389afd154a1cb4057410151579c8) if the ice hole is influenced in any way ;) by climate change.

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Such ice-free areas are called ‘polynya’ (Russian) by polar scientists. These occur in the Arctic and Antarctica, typically around the coast. This gaping polynya, which measures an area equivalent to the Netherlands, opened right in the middle of a sea which would have otherwise been completely covered in thick ice.

It’s not that it’s not cold. Temperatures are in their usual frigid range for this time of year. Instead, the Weddel Polynya can be pinned to water stratification in the Southern Ocean (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-250817121649.png&hash=4554f7e59701d12857946aece16bceb973c997b3) , according to scientists at the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research who closely following its development.

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Satellite image of the polynya. Credit: MODIS-Aqua via NASA Worldview

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“The fact that now a large, ice-free area can be observed in the Weddell Sea confirms our theory and gives us another data point for further model studies,” said Dr. Torge Martin, meteorologist and climate modeler at GEOMAR.

“Global warming is not a linear process and happens on top of internal variability inherent to the climate system. The better we understand these natural processes, the better we can identify the anthropogenic impact on the climate system”, said Professor Latif.

full article:

https://www.zmescience.com/ecology/climate/antartica-polynya-043242/ (https://www.zmescience.com/ecology/climate/antartica-polynya-043242/)

Agelbert NOTE: WHERE in God's good Earth do these overly scared of their own government shadow scientists get the AMAZING idea that water stratification in the Southern Ocean is not a DIRECT EFFECT of Global Warming from Climate Change? ???

Just look at this graphic of today's SSTA (sea surface Temperature Anomaly) in the Southern Ocean:

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HELLO scientists(https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Fgen152.gif&hash=d5b10968fe56c4cb95fae17cee3cb420a5f4e2da) saying this amazingly UNscientific statement:

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It’s not clear ;) at this point(https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Fugly004.gif&hash=c56db4280057389afd154a1cb4057410151579c8) if the ice hole is influenced in any way ;) by climate change.
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HOW do these scientists think that the OCEAN SST GOT TO THESE levels in the early SPRING in Antarctica?

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Yes, of course, let's do more and more  research so we can be COMPLETELY CERTAIN that, uh, we are TOAST! Climate Change is uh, happening at a measured pace that we must monitor and do more research to determine what we should do about that by 2100, or, uh, maybe later, depending on the "needs" of the "economy". We must not 'rush to a judgement' that could undermine the fossil fuel energy producing "saviors of mankind"...
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"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored." -- Aldous Huxley

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"We can’t have a healthy business on a sick planet.”--  Ashley Orgain, manager of mission advocacy and outreach for Seventh Generation, Burlington, Vermont

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"We do not need a 'new' business model for energy because we never had one. What we need, if we wish to avoid extinction, is to plug the environmental and equity costs of energy production and use into our planning and thinking. " -- A.G. Gelbert (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F301.gif&hash=0291ed4abf2d80e420d1aa00d4eb3c5dd6bbfb53)

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"The rich executed a coup d’état that transformed the three branches of the U.S. government and nearly all institutions, including the mass media, into wholly owned subsidiaries of the corporate state." -- Chris Hedges

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on October 11, 2017, 08:38:41 pm
Susan Nugent: Puerto Rico is canary in coal mine for climate change


Damaged solar panels and destroyed vegetation are seen at a farm in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria in San Juan, Puerto Rico. [AP Photo/Gerald Herbert] (picture at article link)

Posted Oct 10, 2017 at 2:00 AM

Updated at 2:56 PM
     
How long do we need to know that more and more extreme weather events are occurring before we do something? In 2011, Kevin Trenberth of the U.S. National Center for Atmospheric Research pointed out, “Global warming is contributing to an increased incidence of extreme weather because the environment in which all storms form has changed from human activities.”

A systemic change is occurring. Our temperatures are warmer and moister than previously. Ocean waters further exacerbate the issue of increased heat. Such changes in temperatures result in storm changes.

Puerto Rico has long been dealing with the effects of climate change. Shorelines have eroded, second stories have been added to buildings to keep them livable, and sea levels have continued to rise. But we did nothing to help prepare them for the present disaster.

Puerto Rico has often been called the canary in the coal mine for climate change. Many references to its infrastructure being susceptible to flooding occurred prior to this past month’s catastrophe.

Danica Coto’s article for the Puerto Rico-based Pasquines news organization in August 2013 leads with, “Environmental officials and scientists warned ... that Puerto Rico is dangerously vulnerable to the effects of global climate change ...” In June 2017, Darmy Cortes alerted further, “Puerto Rico will be largely affected by climate change, the consequences being largely humanitarian and economic, and the government must take steps to ensure the safety of its citizens and the businesses in the archipelago.”

Puerto Rico didn’t need outsiders to realize its fragility. One of its efforts has been to increase renewable energy on the island, by encouraging both companies and individuals to install solar panels.

Puerto Ricans also see this as a time to move forward with sustainable energy.  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fcliparts.co%2Fcliparts%2FBig%2FEgq%2FBigEgqBMT.png&hash=e7eec62f009cdd686ce795fad0a53c6befe748e9) Politician Ramon Luis Nieves, formerly head of the island’s energy committee, sees now as the time to upgrade the grid to accommodate more renewable energy.

Tesla has just stepped forward with humanitarian efforts, sending both battery systems and solar panels to help restore power on parts of the island still without electricity. Bloomberg reports, “The company has employees on the ground to install them and is working with local organizations to identify locations.”

Other companies and nonprofits such as Green Industries are joining this effort to expand solar power in Puerto Rico. A renewable-friendly grid would replace the antiquated one, providing energy as quickly as possible and also pointing to a green future.

Power, though, is not the only climate change problem that Puerto Ricans will have to handle. Health issues already cause concern. No clean drinking water leaves people vulnerable. Plugged sewer systems lead to cholera, dysentery and E. coli.

Even when access to clean water returns, these U.S. citizens will have to fight the diseases mosquitoes carry. Last year’s Zika issue already has asserted itself in the Caribbean with pregnant cruise passengers cancelling trips. Although Puerto Rico had announced that the epidemic had ended, increased mosquito populations may increase chances of contact with this virus.

With their loss, how many of these 3.4 million U.S. residents will become part of the climate refugees, those seeking a new home in a less vulnerable place? Scientific American suggests that the storm could result in one of the largest mass migrations in recent years. That would change both what happens in the U.S. territory as well as here.

Massachusetts has started preparing for refugees. With 300,000 Puerto Ricans living in Massachusetts, the state is discussing ways to accommodate refugees in schools, work force and health services. Florida also can expect refugees from the island.

For those who decide to stay in Puerto Rico, the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s work there adds more costs to what our own state and Texas have already presented to U.S. taxpayers. One million meals delivered by FEMA won’t begin to feed the people there.

Puerto Rico faces so many climate-change problems that looking to the future only projects more questions. What we can determine is that we must face the challenge of climate change as a nation, realizing that all of us are potentially affected.

The Florida Keys are facing similar decisions. So are we in Gainesville. The problems for our nation don’t end in Puerto Rico.

Susan Nugent is a Climate Reality Project leader from Gainesville.

http://www.gainesville.com/opinion/20171010/susan-nugent-puerto-rico-is-canary-in-coal-mine-for-climate-change
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on October 11, 2017, 09:22:43 pm
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OCT 06, 2017

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Tesla’s Musk helped green nearly the entire energy supply of American Samoa, as well as much of Hawaii’s island of Kauai. Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands are far larger. But advanced collectors and battery storage systems, along with a new generation of wind turbines, are poised to quickly replace the islands’ rickety, obsolete energy supply system with a green network of storm-proof micro-grids—and a showcase for global change.

The Caribbean is also fertile ground for biofuels to power the region’s automobiles. Brazil runs a very large portion of its vehicular fleet by turning bagasse, a byproduct of growing sugar, into an alcohol-based fuel that’s far cheaper and more efficient than imported gasoline.

And the islands could use a massive influx of LED lights, along with other energy-efficient technologies to streamline demand.

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https://www.truthdig.com/articles/time-puerto-rico-virgin-islands-go-green/

Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on October 11, 2017, 10:56:48 pm
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https://youtu.be/tzVMV-Yj2qo

The Big Picture RT

Published on Sep 26, 2017

Professor Peter Wadhams ScD, Professor of Ocean Physics / Head of the Polar Ocean Physics Group-Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge, UK RE: A Farewell to Ice: A Report from the Arctic. We could be just eighteen years away from a climate apocalypse...

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on October 13, 2017, 02:09:28 pm
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“Wall Street’s business-as-usual approach to relief and recovery has led to land-grabs and riches off the misfortune of vulnerable communities. If we act with a clear vision for a Just Recovery, Puerto Rico can serve as a model for areas suffering the same climate injustice.”

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October 13th, 2017 by Carolyn Fortuna

The relief package must include debt relief, the repeal of the Jones Act, transparency in distribution of resources, an assessment of infrastructure, and additional provisions detailed in an online petition that will be delivered to US representatives the day of the mass actions. Angela Adrar, Executive Director of CJA, explains why action is needed now to help Puerto Rico develop a sustainable and pragmatic approach to recovery.

“Wall Street’s business-as-usual approach to relief and recovery has led to land-grabs and riches off the misfortune of vulnerable communities. If we act with a clear vision for a Just Recovery, Puerto Rico can serve as a model for areas suffering the same climate injustice.”

What are you doing today for the National Call to Action? In Washington D.C., Our Power Campaign will begin its Congressional Visit tour and drop petitions off to provide #JustRecovery for Puerto Rico and a lift to the Jones Act.  You can follow their progress on Twitter: @CJAOurPower.

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This map shows the devastation that Hurricane Maria wreaked upon Puerto Rico.

On September 20th, Hurricane Maria, a powerful Category 4 hurricane with 150 mph winds, struck Puerto Rico full force only days after the Irma storm. Two weeks later, Puerto Rico’s 3.4 million residents are suffering intensely in what has quickly become a major humanitarian and environmental justice disaster.

Hurricane Maria attacked Puerto Rico with devastating winds, drenched the island with destructive flooding, crippled communications, decimated buildings, and damaged a dam that placed  downstream residents at risk of catastrophe. But help has been slow to come to communities where the destruction is described as “apocalyptic,” officials and residents argue.

A systemic change in relief and response is needed, as well as an engineering vision for sustainable infrastructure that can withstand category 5+ storms, which are predicted by scientists to become more commonplace as a consequence of the changing climate.

Advocates for a Just Recovery in Puerto Rico

Many influential community advocates, writers, scientists, and climate activists have joined in to the call to gather together and attest that no longer will the US governments’ blase approach to Puerto Rico’s devastation be accepted.

Naomi Klein, international best-selling author and award-winning journalist.“Standard responses to disasters leave behind more pollution, more debt, less democracy, and a weaker infrastructure. In contrast, a Just Recovery would reduce pollution, reduce debt, challenge systemic racism, deepen democracy, and leave behind a sturdier, more resilient public sphere.”

Elizabeth Yeampierre, Executive Director of UPROSE and Steering Committee Co-Chair of Climate Justice Alliance: “Puerto Rico today is a living, breathing, suffering symbol of climate injustice. The devastation left in the wake of Hurricane Maria is the culmination of centuries of colonialism, extraction, and repression. As Puerto Rico rebuilds, it must revolutionize the society’s decaying systems of survival and confronting the dominant political and financial institutions that have profited from this decay.”

Cindy Wiesner, Executive Director of Grassroots Global Justice Alliance: “In my community in Miami, I witnessed first-hand what happens when people show up for each other during a climate crisis. Frontline communities across the Caribbean, the Gulf Coast and the US South are responding to each other’s needs and bearing the brunt of the recovery with little to no resources. It’s a crime against humanity how the government has chosen to respond. This government owes Puerto Ricans full debt relief and a long-term investment in their survival.”

Sarah Shanley Hope, Executive Director of Solutions Project: “The lives and livelihoods lost as a result of Hurricane Maria exacerbate injustices borne for centuries by frontline communities. We have an opportunity to respond in this time of human crisis with immediate relief and intentions for a long-term regenerative economic transformation. It’s imperative that frontline leadership determines the path for recovery that provides a just and sustainable future. We support the coordinated efforts of CJA as they center the needs of those most impacted and therefore with the greatest vision for what comes next.”

Anthony Rogers-Wright, US Coordinator, The Leap: “Climate exacerbated storms like Hurricane Maria further elucidate the cycle of colonization that is afflicting the island and people of Puerto Rico. Systemic racism, bigotry and economic injustice are only a sample of variables that contributed to this humanitarian crisis. The people cannot afford an anemic recovery effort superficial in nature. These efforts must be led by the people in a way that benefits those who were impacted first and worst by a crisis they had little to do with creating. The Leap is honored to stand with the Climate Justice Alliance, Uprose Brooklyn and other groups who are leading the efforts for a people-powered recovery in Puerto Rico.”

Jovanna Garcia Soto, Solidarity Program Officer for Latin America at Grassroots International: “We as Puerto Ricans and people of color in the USA need to stand up in solidarity and work side-by-side with the people of Puerto Rico towards a Just Recovery and a sustainable, resilient rebuild that prioritizes autonomy, food sovereignty, climate and social justice, respect to the Mother Earth, and the human rights of all people in the Island. We need to take the lead of the courageous Boricuas organizing a regenerative people’s project on the ground with the goal of decolonizing Puerto Rico.

Saulo Araujo, WhyHunger: “Thousands of families are still in desperate need of clothing, water, food, housing, and health care. Here from the US, communities are mobilizing to provide support and amplify the voices of our brothers and sisters in Puerto Rico. The solutions will come from them and it is imperative that we stand with the people of Puerto Rico to the rebuild their livelihoods and sovereignty.”

Mateo Nube, Movement Generation: “The people of Puerto Rico require our full support: there can be no sacrifice zones. The time to step up is now. Our children and grandchildren will look back at this pivotal moment in history and judge us by the choices we made. Climate change is real. Transition has become inevitable. Justice however, is not. It is upon all of us to bring about a Just Recovery for the people of Puerto Rico; to make this a Just Transition for all.”

Jacqui Patterson, Director, Environmental and Climate Justice Program, NAACP: “Citizens of the wealthiest nation in the world are living in squalor and lives are threatened and lost daily as the situation persists. Circumstances are deteriorating with untreated illnesses and simple infections become fatal. The US government is duty-bound to address this crisis but long-term redevelopment must be by the people of Puerto Rico with locally elected officials empowered to reject the interests of the mono-focused wealth building agenda the government and corporations that have caused the island to a pay the price of catastrophic climate change impacts.”

Jose Bravo, Executive Director, Just Transition Alliance: “A just recovery has to start by taking responsibility for the double standard and colonial mentality of the United States towards Puerto Rico. Secondly, a just recovery must put those in harm’s way and those that have disproportionate impact first. Lastly, a just recovery is possible only if the grassroots people of Puerto Rico are the ones leading and holding the efforts accountable. A just transition for the people, by the people, with local economies, and sustainable production is needed.”

Annie Leonard, Executive Director, Greenpeace USA: “There’s no doubt that extreme-weather hurricanes are enhanced by human-caused climate change. We humans need to work together to address global warming and rebuild devastated communities right. Greenpeace is honored to work with climate justice allies to support a #JustRecovery for Puerto Rico that includes renewable energy, regenerative agriculture, and community-led planning.”

Dawn Phillips, Executive Director, Right To The City Alliance: “In the wake of Hurricane Maria and decades of environmental, structural and colonial racism, neoliberal austerity, and land-grabs by private equity funds and Wall Street banks, we must all stand with the people of Puerto Rico to support and fight for a long-term just recovery. A Just Recovery calls on us all defend the right and leadership of the people of Puerto Rico to self-determination, and to democratic control and autonomy over the resources, land, water, and food in Puerto Rico. We must fight against the attempts by Wall Street and government to further privatize and colonize the island for profit and exploitation. We stand arm-in-arm with the people of Puerto Rico and the Puerto Rican Diaspora across the globe leading the efforts for just, sovereign and sustainable Puerto Rico.”

Join a group of individuals who will no longer take No for an answer to social and ecological injustice us as they take to the streets on October 11th, 2017 and speak out on behalf of Puerto Rico’s citizens. Frontline communities have been at the forefront of the solutions and are pushing for a Just Recovery for all communities hit by climate disasters, including Puerto Rico.

https://cleantechnica.com/2017/10/13/power-puerto-rico-just-recovery-resilient-rebuild/

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on October 15, 2017, 03:00:26 pm
When Irish Eyes Ain't Smilin' (see: Catastrophic Climate Change)

Ophelia Hits Category 3; Destructive Winds On Tap for Ireland

Bob Henson  ·  October 14, 2017, 2:43 PM EDT

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Above:  Terra/MODIS visible satellite image of Hurricane Ophelia from Saturday, October 14, 2017. The Azores are outlined at center top. Image credit: NASA/EOSDIS WorldView.

The 2017 Atlantic hurricane season continued to astound on Saturday morning with the unexpected ascent of Hurricane Ophelia to major-hurricane status. Based on a very impressive satellite signature, the NOAA/NWS National Hurricane Center brought Ophelia’s peak winds up to 115 mph at 11 am EDT, making it a low-end Category 3 storm. The wind estimate may be conservative, said NHC forecaster Lixion Avila in the NHC forecast discussion. Ophelia was located about 220 miles south of the Azores, moving northeast at 25 mph. Ophelia is expected to pass within 100 miles of the Azores’ southeasternmost island, Santa Maria. The island will be on the hurricane’s weaker left-hand side, but winds could reach tropical-storm force, and squally weather is likely. Much bigger impacts from Ophelia are expected in Ireland (see below).

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To call Ophelia unusual would be an understatement. For one thing, it became a major hurricane at longitude 26.6°W, further east than any other formation of a Category 3 in the Atlantic. The former record-holder was Frances (1980), which became a Category 3 at 12.8°N, 29.8°W. Ophelia’s achievement is even more impressive when you consider its latitude: 34.8°N. In data going back to 1851, no other major hurricane is known to have formed anywhere close to as far northeast as Ophelia. The runner-up at Ophelia’s latitude range, Michael (2012), developed some 900 miles further west (see Figure 2 below).

Ophelia also extends this year’s count of major Atlantic hurricanes to six, a tally last achieved in 2004. Only two years have notched seven major Atlantic hurricanes: 1961 and 2005.

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Figure 2. Formation locations of all major hurricanes (Category 3 or stronger) in the NOAA database from 1851 though 2016. Hurricane Michael (2012) was the previous record-holder for easternmost major hurricane formation in the 30°-40°N latitude range. Image credit: Sam Lillo (University of Oklahoma) and Philippe Papin (University at Albany, SUNY).


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By conventional standards, one wouldn’t even expect Ophelia to be a hurricane, much less a major one. Sea surface temperatures beneath Ophelia are around 25°C (77°F), which is roughly 1°C below the traditional benchmark of SST levels warm enough to support tropical development. However, these waters are about 2°C (3.6°F) above average for the location and the time of year, and upper-level temperatures near the top of Ophelia are several degrees C below average. The result is enough instability to support well-organized showers and thunderstorms (convection), even though the convection is less intense than it would be in a warmer environment. A 2015 study led by Ron McTaggart-Cowan (Environment Canada) showed that a better threshold for systems like Ophelia that are transitioning away from the tropics would be based on potential instability between lower and upper levels of the hurricane, rather than on SSTs alone. Ophelia meets this threshold, according to Philippe Papin (University at Albany, SUNY).

Other things are also working in Ophelia’s favor. A strong outflow jet at upper levels on Ophelia’s west side is helping to ventilate the hurricane, and the 12Z Saturday run of the SHIPS model showed that wind shear on Saturday was in the light to moderate range (about 10 – 15 knots). The shear will begin to increase rapidly by Saturday night, heralding a change to come in Ophelia’s structure.

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Figure 3.  Probability of tropical-storm-force winds (sustained at 39 mph or more) along Ophelia’s track. The probabilities exceed 50% over all of Ireland and Northern Ireland and are as high as 90%+ in southwest Ireland. Strong winds may sweep across Scotland as well. Image credit: NOAA/NWS/NHC.

Ireland braces for a major windstorm
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on Monday


With Ophelia strengthening even more than predicted, a destructive windstorm in Ireland on par with some of the most damaging in the nation’s history is becoming increasingly likely. This weekend, Ophelia will be picked up by an approaching upper-level trough and will accelerate east-northeast and then north-northeast. As it does so, the hurricane’s structure will take on more and more characteristics of a very powerful midlatitude winter-type storm, although it’s possible Ophelia will retain an eye-like feature as part of what’s called a warm seclusion. Models strongly suggest that the upper-level dynamics will be potent enough to bring Ophelia’s central pressure by Monday to an even lower value than the 960 mb reported in NHC’s 11 am EDT Saturday.

Regardless of whether it is still classified as a hurricane or not, Ophelia is predicted to approach Ireland on Monday with top winds somewhere near hurricane strength, plus an expanding field of gale-force winds. Our top track models are in close agreement that Ophelia’s center will sweep along or near Ireland’s west coast on Monday, putting most of the country on the storm’s more dangerous right-hand side. The GFS model has a particularly worrisome track, bringing Ophelia squarely across western Ireland and onward as a rapidly weakening storm through Northern Ireland and Scotland.

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Figure 4.  The 12Z Saturday run of the GFS model predicts that Ophelia will be at the southwest tip of Ireland at around 1 PM local time (12Z) on Monday, October 16, 2017. The central pressure of 958 mb would be even lower than its central pressure on Saturday morning, October 14. Winds shown are in knots; multiply by 1.15 for miles per hour. Image credit: tropicaltidbits.com.

As Ophelia reaches Ireland, we can expect winds of 50 – 70 mph to be slamming into Ireland’s southwest coast, and sustained winds of 40 – 50 mph will likely extend well inland. One concern for Ophelia’s impact on Ireland may be the potential for the ex-hurricane to develop a “sting jet.” This is a current of extra-strong jet stream winds that start out about 3 – 4 km above the surface, then descend over a 3 – 4 hour period. Rain falling into the jet evaporates and cools, causing the winds in the sting jet to accelerate as they reach the ground.

Ophelia is expected to complete the transition to an extratropical storm just off southwest Ireland on Monday morning. As this process unfolds, the wind field of Ophelia will expand, and Ophelia promises to be a damaging wind event for Ireland. Expect widespread tree damage and uprooted trees, damaged roofs, power blackouts, mobile phone coverage interruptions, and flying debris. Met Eireann, the Irish meteorology service, has a “status red” alert in effect for the southwestern counties of Galway, Mayo, Clare, Cork and Kerry, where sustained winds above 80 km/hr (50 mph) and gusts topping 130 kph (80 mph) are expected. Ireland’s National Emergency Coordination Group will meet on Sunday to discuss storm preparation, according to the Irish Times. The UK Met Office is warning of possible power loss and building damage across Northern Ireland.

There may be coastal flooding from Ophelia’s high surf and battering wave, and localized storm surge is possible, but Ophelia’s rapid motion will help limit the surge threat, according to storm-surge Dr. Hal Needham.

Ophelia could bring up to 2” of rain over higher terrain in Ireland. Heavy rains from a decaying Ophelia (perhaps 2” or more) may extend all the way to western Finland.

Hurricane history of the UK and Ireland

We don’t often talk about Europe when discussing hurricanes, and Ophelia is likely to be one of the top ten most notable Atlantic ex-hurricanes to affect Europe over the past 50 years. Hurricanes that transition to powerful extratropical storms hit the UK or Ireland several times per decade, on average. Some recent examples:

The extratropical version of Hurricane Katia skirted the northern coast of Scotland on September 12, 2011, two days after transitioning from a hurricane to an extratropical storm south of Newfoundland, Canada. According to Wikipedia, a maximum wind gust of 158 km/h (98 mph) was recorded on Cairn Gorm, Scotland as Katia impacted the region, with a peak gust of 130 km/h (81 mph) observed at a non-mountain station in Capel Curig, Wales;  these observations marked the strongest impact from a tropical cyclone since Hurricane Lili in 1996. Waves up to 15 meters (49 ft) battered the western coastline of Ireland, and fallen power lines temporarily disrupted DART services. Approximately 4,000 households were left without power across the country. A catering marquee was blown into the air on a set for the television series Game of Thrones, causing one injury. In County Durham, United Kingdom, a man was killed after a tree fell on the minivan he was driving. Damage estimates in the United Kingdom alone topped £100m ($157 million 2011 USD). The remnants of Katia produced damage as far east as Estonia and Russia. In St. Petersburg, wind gusts up to 45 mph (75 km/h) damaged buildings and left roughly 1,500 residents without power.

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Figure 5. Waves break over the sea wall along Portstewart harbour in Portstewart, Northern Ireland, as the remnants of Hurricane Katia hit the British shores, on September 12, 2011. Image credit: Peter Muhly/AFP/Getty Images.

Extratropical storm Bill of 2009, which hit Ireland on August 25 with sustained winds of 45 mph, had been a Category 4 hurricane northeast of the Lesser Antilles five days prior. Bill brought heavy rain and severe gales to the UK.

Extratropical Storm Alberto of 2006, which had been a strong tropical storm that hit the Florida Panhandle, hit northern Ireland and Scotland as an extratropical storm with 35 mph winds.

Extratropical Storm Gordon hit Ireland on September 21, 2006, with sustained winds of 65 mph. Gordon brought record warm temperatures as tropical air pushed north across the UK, and also strong winds that brought down power lines in Northern Ireland. Wind gusts to 60 mph (97 km/h) occurred in the Isles of Scilly off the southwest coast, and 81 mph (130 km/h) on the mainland.

Extratropical Storm Helene hit Northwestern Ireland on September 27, 2006, with sustained winds of 45 mph.

Extratropical Storm Lili moved across Britain on October 28 – 29, 1996. Ex-Hurricane Lili brought gusts in excess of 90 mph, and caused widespread impacts across the UK and significant disruption.

There is officially one fully tropical hurricane that has hit Europe: Hurricane Debbie of 1961, which tracked through the western Azores as a Category 1 hurricane, then arced northeast and brushed the west coast of Ireland on September 16, also as a Category 1 hurricane. However, there is evidence that Debbie transitioned from tropical to post-tropical (extratropical) cyclone before hitting Ireland (see also this discussion at Irish Weather Online.) Debbie passed close enough to Ireland to produce major destruction. Wind gusts reached 106 mph at Ballykelly and 104 mph at Tiree and Snaefill, and coastal radio stations reported the airwaves were jammed with calls for help from small ships and fishing craft. Eleven people were killed and 50 injured in the storm. The only other tropical cyclone recorded to have hit Europe since 1851 was Hurricane Vince of 2005, which hit southern Spain as a tropical depression on October 11, 2005. Historical documents also suggest a hurricane hit Spain on October 29, 1842.

Sunday, October 15, 2017 is the 30th anniversary of one the most talked-about weather events in UK history, the ‘Great Storm’ of 1987. See the UK Met Office article on this weather event, whose 100-mph winds gusts killed 22 people and caused around £1 billion worth of damage. It has gone down in history as one of the worst UK storms since 1703 and will obviously be remembered for Michael Fish’s now-legendary television broadcast.

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Figure 6. Infrared GOES-16 satellite image of 92L at 2:00 pm EDT Saturday, October 14, 2017. Image credit: NASA/MSFC Earth Science Branch. GOES-16 images are considered preliminary and non-operational.

92L near the northern Leeward Islands may affect Bermuda next week

A disturbance near the northern Leeward Islands on Saturday, dubbed 92L, could become the Atlantic’s next tropical cyclone next week, although the odds are mostly stacked against it. SSTs of 28-29°C (81-84°F) are more than warm enough for development, and the environment around 92L is sufficiently moist (mid-level relative humidity around 60-65%). Wind shear is strong, though—around 25 knots—and the shear is expected to remain in the 20 – 35 knot range throughout the next five days, according to the 12Z Saturday run of the SHIPS model. In their 0Z Saturday runs, none of the GFS ensemble members develop 92L, and only about 10-15% of the European ensemble members produce a tropical storm from it. If 92L does develop, it could track near Bermuda around Tuesday or Wednesday as a depression or weak tropical storm. Before then, 92L will bring scattered showers and thunderstorms to the hurricane-hammered northern Leeward Islands over the weekend and to Puerto Rico on Sunday and Monday.  :(  :P

California’s prolonged fire calamity

The death toll has risen to 35 from the ongoing week-long fire disaster in California, and fire weather continues to be problematic this weekend. See our Friday evening post for more details. We’ll be back with a new post by Sunday afternoon.

Dr. Jeff Masters contributed to this post.

https://www.wunderground.com/cat6/ophelia-hits-category-3-destructive-winds-tap-ireland (https://www.wunderground.com/cat6/ophelia-hits-category-3-destructive-winds-tap-ireland)

Agelbert Note: This news is slightly dated. Ophelia is moving so fast (38 mph!) that it is rapidly weakening. Nevertheless, this hurricane going all the way to Ireland is more evidence that Global Warming is with us and business as usual fossil fuel polluting piggery CANNOT continue if human civilization is to endure. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F301.gif&hash=0291ed4abf2d80e420d1aa00d4eb3c5dd6bbfb53) AT any rate, it will be instructive to read the heartfelt sympathetic comments for those impacted by Ophelia by those here who were mute during and after Puerto Rico was devastated by Maria. Both RE and Surly showed concern and empathy for those in Puerto Rico, Texas and Florida. I expect these good men to do the same for Ireland.

However, I will consider any concerns shown for Ireland by those who showed none for Puerto Rico to be bigoted and hypocritical. Have a nice day.
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on October 15, 2017, 05:18:12 pm
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Sunday, October 15, 2017

By William Rivers Pitt, Truthout | Op-Ed

SNIPPET:

This may only be a minor accent in the vast symphony of outrage we are confronted with on a daily basis, but it is worthy of note. You are aware, I'm sure, of the ongoing shouting match Donald Trump is having with the NFL over players standing for the national anthem. Well, Trump found himself last week at the Air National Guard Base in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, with Fox fiend Sean Hannity. By tradition, "Retreat" was bugled on the base as the flag was lowered for the day.

The same tradition requires all military personnel and civilian leadership to stand at attention out of respect for the flag. Neither Trump nor Hannity stood, flouting that tradition. Laughing as the bugle call filled the air, Trump asked Hannity, "Are they playing that for you or for me?" Referring to Hannity's show, Trump then addressed the crowd with, "They're playing that in honor of his ratings."

Remember when President Obama once saluted a member of his Marine guard with a coffee cup in his hand, and people like Sean Hannity reacted as if Obama had just offered the Sixth Fleet to Kim Jong-un as a birthday present? I do, and once upon a time, such brazen, televised hypocrisy would have captured my full attention. You're going on and on about the football players and the flag but just insulted your own armed forces, and on a base no less?

Once upon a time, yeah.

Those days are over. When the president of the United States of America tells all the residents of Puerto Rico he's basically sick of hearing about them being wet, hungry and in the dark all the time, when he threatens to cut them off completely despite the fact that the island was thoroughly scourged by a massive hurricane, and oh, by the way, they are also US citizens, it's hard to get worked up over "Retreat-gate" in the proper fashion.

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"Puerto Rico survived the Hurricanes, now a financial crisis looms largely of their own making." says Sharyl Attkisson. A total lack of accountability say the Governor. Electric and all infrastructure was disaster before hurricanes. Congress to decide how much to spend. We cannot keep FEMA, the Military & the First Responders, who have been amazing (under the most difficult circumstances) in P.R. forever!

Got that, everyone? The storm was Puerto Rico's fault. This US territory with no voting power in Congress seems to have quite the influence over earth, wind and fire these days, not to mention infrastructure and debt. The president sure thinks so, anyway.

This from the guy who was throwing rolls of paper towels at storm victims last week while lowballing the death toll as he talked about "a real disaster like Katrina." For the record, the current official number stands at 36, but the people running Puerto Rico's funeral homes know different. The people who buried their parents days after the storm passed because there was no power for their life support machines know different. The uncounted dead know different.

From the Guardian last Wednesday: "Officials at the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) say that the government and its partners are only providing 200,000 meals a day to meet the needs of more than 2 million people. That is a daily shortfall of between 1.8 million and 5.8 million meals. 'We are 1.8 million meals short,' said one senior FEMA official. 'That is why we need the urgency. And it's not going away. We're doing this much today, but it has to be sustained over several months.'"

Not if the president has his way about it. Sure, the US government enjoys Puerto Rico when the Navy needs to test its ship-to-shore firepower and showers Vieques with artillery, the remnants of which are likely to blame for the region having the highest disease rates in the Caribbean. What's a little depleted uranium, cardiovascular disease and cancer between fellow citizens, right?

full article:

http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/42268-why-the-25th-amendment-won-t-save-us
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on October 15, 2017, 10:41:18 pm
Eden Is Broken

Posted on October 11, 2017, by Radio Ecoshock

https://youtu.be/RTvYKAC4bi0


full Radio EcoShock added audio content:
https://www.ecoshock.org/2017/10/eden-is-broken.html
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on October 16, 2017, 07:35:56 pm
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DemocracyNOW!

CA Rep. Khanna: “We Can’t Control Environmental Catastrophes Caused by Extreme Climate Conditions”

OCTOBER 16, 2017

https://www.democracynow.org/2017/10/16/ca_rep_khanna_we_can_t
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on October 18, 2017, 02:24:11 pm
COLUMN: Greenhouse gases – what’s all the fuss? ???

Columnist Greg Utzig explains where the Kootenays’ carbon emissions come from

Tue Oct 17th, 2017 10:00am
 
This is the third in a series of columns addressing various issues surrounding climate disruption in the West Kootenay. Greg Utzig is a local Conservation Ecologist who has been working on climate change issues for two decades.

It’s a wonderful experience to walk into a greenhouse, especially in the winter. The moist warm air and the fragrant plant life it supports, like getting off a plane in Hawaii. So why are we so worried about greenhouse gases?

Greenhouse gases, or GHGs, are substances that allow solar radiation to penetrate our atmosphere, while simultaneously restricting the flow of other radiation back out. The result is a net gain of heat within the atmosphere. Winds and ocean currents distribute this heat across the surface of the earth and deep into oceans. The most significant GHG is carbon dioxide (CO2), but a few other gases act in a similar manner.

If you took high school chemistry, you may recall the biological carbon cycle in which plants take CO2 out of the atmosphere through photosynthesis, animals breath in oxygen and exhale CO2, and decomposition eventually releases more CO2 back to the atmosphere.

As well, carbon from plants is washed into the oceans, buried and eventually turns into coal, oil or natural gas (fossil fuels), while sea shells are turned into carbonaceous rocks. Through this geologic carbon cycle, carbon is removed from the active carbon that circulates in the atmosphere and the biological cycle.

Humans have been disrupting these cycles over the past 10,000 years. At first it was through the development of agriculture, clearing land and draining wetlands.

This created minor tweaks to the biological cycle. With the advent of the industrial age, we began to also impact the geologic cycle. By burning fossil fuels we began to take carbon that had been stored in geologic strata for millions of years and release it back to the atmosphere as CO2 emissions.

We also create concrete from carbonaceous rocks and release more CO2. Land clearing has greatly expanded, and places where forests used to uptake and store carbon are now occupied by cattle that emit methane, another GHG. Cow burps!

How can anyone know how much CO2 was in the atmosphere before we started messing with the cycles? Based on analysis of bubbles in ice sheets in Antarctica, over the past 800,000 years levels of CO2 in the atmosphere varied between about 200 and 300 parts per million (ppm). Our GHG emissions have already raised that number to over 400 ppm, and it continues to rise every year. So far this has already increased average global temperature by more than one degree Celsius.

So who’s responsible for all these emissions? Canada contributes less than two percent of global emissions, the US about 15 percent, and China about 30 percent.

However when you look at emissions per person, the numbers are quite different. Each Canadian is responsible for about 21 tonnes each year, Americans about 20 and the Chinese about 8.5.

Within the Canadian Columbia Basin, about three-quarters of our emissions come from industrial activities. Mining and smelting by Teck Resources accounts for the vast majority. Over half of community emissions result from burning gasoline and diesel for transport, while heating our homes and buildings with propane and natural gas makes up most of the rest. Our decomposing landfills also contribute substantial amounts.

One aspect that’s often ignored is the contribution of exports to global GHG emissions. When purchasers in other countries burn East Kootenay coal, on an annual basis it contributes about 50 times the total emissions produced in the Columbia Basin.

The inevitable conclusion is that if we want to meaningfully reduce Columbia Basin GHG emissions, locally and globally, we must start moving toward a new economic future. Digging up and exporting fossil fuels has no future in a world that wants to avoid catastrophic climate disruption. We need to reassess our transportation infrastructure and our household uses to reduce dependence on fossil fuels. Our abundance of hydroelectric power and sources of bio-energy certainly give us viable alternatives. Solar is also beginning to make a significant contribution.

The recent Paris Accord is often touted as evidence that we are making significant progress in solving the climate crisis. Although the commitments under the accord are politically impressive, they are not nearly enough to keep global temperature increases below two degrees Celsius. The general scientific consensus is that we need to be at zero emissions by 2050 if we are to have hope of avoiding a major catastrophe.

The argument is often made that since Canada is less than two percent of global emissions we are not that important, or that we shouldn’t act too soon as it might hurt our competitive advantage. An analogy that comes to mind is a group of people in a lifeboat. The lifeboat has a serious leak, and everyone has something for bailing, a bucket or a tea cup. No single bailer can stop the boat from sinking. What happens if everyone waits for someone else to start bailing?

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https://www.nelsonstar.com/opinion/greenhouse-gases-whats-all-the-fuss/
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on October 18, 2017, 05:53:55 pm
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By Jack O'Callaghan on September 25, 2017 in News Updates
 
Thursday night was a night that few who were in attendance will forget anytime soon. The atmosphere was electric as Vermonters from all over Bennington County shuffled into the amphitheater at the Burr and Burton Academy library, patiently waiting their turn to speak up before a packed crowd at the Governor’s Climate Action Committee public hearing. Five of the 21 commissioners sitting on Governor Scott’s Climate Action Commission were present to hear policy recommendations from the public.  The commission is tasked with reducing the state’s carbon emissions in a way that benefits the economy and doesn’t disproportionately affect any group or individual more than others. Thursday’s public hearing was the third stop in a statewide listening tour currently being put on by the Climate Action Commission.

Out of the 46 people to make public comments at the event, 35 Vermonters from of all walks of life stood tall behind the podium and offered the commission the same simple recommendation: fund the solutions with a price on carbon pollution. Among them were Green Mountain College President Bob Allen speaking at the behest of dozens of his students. Others who spoke included farmers, economists, students, retirees and other concerned citizens; a few of whom referred to carbon pricing as “low hanging fruit” at this moment in time. Manchester teacher Stephanie Moffett-Hynds points to her Eighth grade students, when faced with the same questions; they too, recommend waging a fee on pollution.

Vermont is not on the path to hitting its statutory goals of 75% reduction by 2036; in fact, carbon emissions have only risen since 1990 base levels. Attendees brought forth a sense of urgency, reminding the commission that we have no time for half-measures.(https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F301.gif&hash=0291ed4abf2d80e420d1aa00d4eb3c5dd6bbfb53)   Many speakers offered very personal stories, bringing back memories of the damage caused by Tropical Storm Irene in Vermont less than ten years ago. Some brought up much more recent events.

I still don’t know if my family is OK” said Sabrina Melendez, a student at Bennington College, of her relatives in Puerto Rico currently facing the aftermath of Hurricane Maria without cell phone service, power, or running water. Maria is just the latest in a string of the most intense consecutive super storms in known history to wreak havoc on the Caribbean, Southern U.S., and Mexico. As a young person, Sabrina suggests it’s the most vulnerable populations, along with future generations, who are disproportionately affected by climate change and thus should have more say in policies intended to mitigate its future effects. “One hundred percent renewable energy is realistic” and we need to “price carbon now” if we are going to get there, Sabrina demanded.

Vermonters like these are standing up and demanding action all around the state, now.

Have you spoken out for carbon pricing at a CAC hearing yet?

https://www.energyindependentvt.org/overwhelming-support-for-carbon-pricing-at-manchester-cac-hearing/

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on October 20, 2017, 05:49:36 pm
WATCH: Tanker Caught in Hurricane Ophelia Off Ireland

October 19, 2017 by gCaptain

https://youtu.be/GLo7JC9db4E

Check out this video showing a tanker battling the elements off Cork, Ireland as remnants of Hurricane Ophelia hit the island as one of the strongest storms in decades.

The Port of Cork was closed to all shipping operations on Monday due to the storm, but by Tuesday it was back up and running as normal. 

Ophelia became the 10th hurricane of the 2017 Atlantic hurricane season on October 11, and the storm took a rare path towards the United Kingdom from near the Azores.

Here’s another one presumably from the same ship:

https://youtu.be/6qR0v-kkHWM

http://gcaptain.com/watch-tanker-caught-in-hurricane-ophelia-off-ireland/
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on October 21, 2017, 03:50:52 pm
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Major Victories for Climate Movement, but Global Chaos Grows: Roundtable With Leaders on What's Next

Friday, October 20, 2017

By Amy Goodman, Democracy Now! | Video Interview

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http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/42334-major-victories-for-climate-movement-but-global-chaos-grows-roundtable-with-leaders-on-what-s-next

Agelbert NOTE: THIS will NOT work for much longer:

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What is happening in Germany is happening all over the globe:

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Two separate studies highlight a dramatic trend in Germany: the number of flying insects has declined by 76 percent over the past 27 years. There are 15 percent fewer birds than just twelve years ago.

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There is one thing on which everybody agrees: if the situation is bad for insects, birds and other animals will suffer, even reptiles. And it's no good for agriculture either, which is dependent on insects to pollinate plants.

Insect and bird populations declining dramatically in Germany (http://www.dw.com/en/insect-and-bird-populations-declining-dramatically-in-germany/a-41030897)
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on October 23, 2017, 07:18:52 pm
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‘Days were lost’: Why Puerto Rico is still suffering a month after Hurricane Maria

BY PATRICIA MAZZEI AND OMAYA SOSA PASCUAL
pmazzei@miamiherald.com

Center for Investigative Journalism

OCTOBER 19, 2017 2:17 PM

SNIPPET:

MAUNABO, PUERTO RICO

Before Hurricane Maria tore through the rest of this island, it came to Mayor Jorge Márquez’s home.

The storm ripped through improvised plastic shutters, shook the windows and sent his panicked family, including his grandchildren, scurrying to a bathroom to hide. For four hours, as the fiercest of Maria’s winds roared through his mountain town in southeast Puerto Rico, Márquez kept the wind from forcing itself in by pushing a dining table hard against the front door.

At the end, when the winds finally died down, he stepped outside to glimpse at the damage to the town he’s run for nearly two decades. Tattered roofs littered the ground. Snapped trees mangled power lines. The local hospital was lost. The town’s funeral home was gone.

Márquez wept.

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http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/nation-world/national/article179744081.html
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on October 25, 2017, 01:48:34 pm
 
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Record-Melting Fall Heat Wave Bakes Southern California

Bob Henson  ·  October 24, 2017, 4:29 PM EDT


 
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Above:  Many stations in southern California had already topped 100°F as of 1 pm PDT Tuesday, October 24, 2017, as shown in this WU WunderMap.

It’s not every October 23 or 24 that millions of Americans are swathed in temperatures above 100°F. This week has done just that, bringing some of the toastiest weather ever observed in the United States during late October, and more pre-Halloween heat is on the way. By far the most scorching weather has been in Southern California, although it’s also been exceptionally mild this month in settings as far-flung as Michigan, Florida, and New England.

A multi-day summer-like heat wave kicked into high gear on Monday and continued Tuesday along and well inland from the California coast, from Santa Barbara through Los Angeles to San Diego. Dozens of locations record highs for the date and all-time highs for this late in the year, and Santa Ana winds kept the temperatures amazingly warm throughout Monday night. In Orange County, the city of Fullerton soared to 107°F on Monday. According to WU weather historian Christopher Burt, this is likely the hottest single temperature recorded anywhere in the United States so late in the year. Even Death Valley has never recorded a temperature this high after October 16 in any year! For comparison, the national U.S. record high for November is 105°F, most recently at Tustin Irvine Ranch, California, in 1997.

Another impressive mark: downtown Los Angeles (the University of Southern California campus) hit 102°F. Prior to Monday, the downtown station had never topped 100°F after October 17, in records going all the way back to 1877. Incredibly, the USC downtown station got even hotter on Tuesday, reaching 103°F at 1 pm.

Here are some of the many records set on Monday, with the old daily record and year and the year that observations began. Asterisks denote that the high was an all-time record for so late in the year.

LOS ANGELES DOWNTOWN*     102        98 IN 1965   1877
LOS ANGELES INTL AP               101        97 IN 1965   1944
LONG BEACH AP*                        105        99 IN 1965   1958
BURBANK AP*                              102        98 IN 1965   1939
UCLA*                                            100        98 IN 1939   1933
SANDBERG (tie)                             84        84 IN 1959   1948
CAMARILLO AP*                          106        97 IN 2007   1923
OXNARD NWS*                            104        96 IN 2007   1923
SANTA MARIA AP*                       102        98 IN 1965   1948
RAMONA AP*                               101        97 IN 2003   1974
RIVERSIDE*                                 102      101 IN 1959   1893
PALM SPRINGS (tie)                    104      104 IN 2003   1893
SANTA ANA*                                102      101 IN 1939   1906
VISTA*                                          100        99 IN 1965   1957
ALPINE*                                          99        98 IN 1959   1951
EL CAJON*                                  104       100 IN 2003   1979
BIG BEAR (tie)                              74          74 IN 2003   1960


The heat wave and Santa Ana winds are being caused by a large, near-record-strength dome of high pressure that’s settled in over the Great Basin, a few hundred miles northeast of Los Angeles. The difference in pressure between this high-pressure system and lower pressure over Southern California has driven gusty northeast winds over Southern California. Since these originated over desert areas, they are hot and dry. As the air descends from the mountains to the coast, the air gets even hotter and drier due to adiabatic compression—the process whereby the pressure on a parcel of air increases as it descends, decreasing its volume, and thus increasing its temperature as work is done on it. These downslope winds are why the most impressive records on Monday occurred along and just inland from the coastline.

In locations where the winds kept up on Monday night, there was little relief from the heat. Overnight lows were as high as 90°F (Fillmore, in Ventura County) and 86°F (Van Nuys). Some locations stayed near 90°F all night except for just an hour or two when the winds slackened and the temperatures dropped to around 80°F. Even a weather station at 5655 feet, near the summit of Mt. Wilson, failed to dip below 65°F.

 
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Figure 1. A helicopter drops water over a fire in the Angeles National Forest near Mt. Wilson Observatory, northeast of Los Angeles, California, on Oct. 17, 2017, overlooking the San Gabriel Valley. As of Tuesday, Oct. 24, the fire covered 50 acres and was 70% contained. Image credit: Frederic J. Brown/AFP/Getty Images.

Fire weather remains critical through Wednesday

The heat and wind will continue through Wednesday across the coastal ranges of Southern California, keeping fire danger at critical levels on both Tuesday and Wednesday as designated by the NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center. The very warm night Monday night gave temperatures a running start toward highs on Tuesday that could match or even exceed Monday’s at some locations (as was the case in Los Angeles, as noted above). Adding to the fire risk, winds were already gusting above 60 mph at some locations by midday Tuesday, and relative humidity on Tuesday night may remain as low as 10-15%, dropping below 10% as the air heats up by day. Winds should begin to relax across the area by Wednesday afternoon.

Hot temperatures pushed further up the California coast on Tuesday. Big Sur topped 100°F before noon, as did several other coastal locations. In San Diego, public schools closed early on both Monday and Tuesday because of the heat; by 2019, all of the district’s school buildings are slated to have air conditioning.

 
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Figure 2. Finishing touches are put on the World Series logo on the field at Dodger Stadium on Monday, Oct. 23, 2017, prior to baseball's World Series between the Houston Astros and the Los Angeles Dodgers in Los Angeles. Image credit: David Crane/The Orange County Register via AP.

Hottest World Series game on record? It’s possible

Temperatures are likely to be in the upper 90s when the first pitch of the 2007 World Series is thrown at 5:09 pm PDT Tuesday at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles. That would mark the hottest beginning to any game in the century-plus history of the World Series, beating out the first-pitch reading of 94°F on Oct. 27, 2001 in Phoenix. In a weather.com overview last week, Jon Erdman noted: “While the Arizona Diamondbacks hosted the 2001 World Series in a retractable-roof stadium (then called Bank One Ballpark, now Chase Field), and would normally have closed the roof to shield fans from the desert heat, Major League Baseball wanted the roof open.”

Apart from the long-term warming of U.S. climate that’s resulting from human-produced greenhouse gases, there’s at least one other reason why we might expect World Series games to be warmer now than decades ago. Until the 1950s, all Major League Baseball teams were located in the Northeast, Midwest, and mid-Atlantic, prior to the major U.S. population shift toward the warmer Sunbelt. On the other hand, World Series games are being played later in October than they were during most of the 20th century, and all World Series games were played during the daytime until the 1970s. Both of these latter factors would tend to yield cooler rather than warmer first-pitch temperatures today as opposed to decades ago.

 
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Figure 3.  Departures from average temperature (in degrees F) for the period October 1-22, 2017. Image credit: NOAA/NWS Climate Prediction Center.

Parts of the Northeast are on track for warmest October on record

The first three weeks of October were remarkably mild for most of the United States east of the Rockies. Overnight lows across most of the Northeast on Monday night were in the 50-70°F range—warmer than the average highs for this time of year! Albany, NY, “dipped” to 68°F early Tuesday, compared to its average high and low for the date of 57°F and 37°F. If the temperature stays above 64°F through midnight, it’ll be Albany’s highest daily minimum ever recorded this late in the year, in data going back to 1874.

The Northeast’s unusually dry and unseasonably warm weather in both September and October has played havoc with the region’s world-famous fall foliage. In some areas, still-green leaves are sharing the same landscape with brilliant colors and leafless twigs. “This foliage season is very odd, to say the least,” reported the Foliage Network on October 16. “For most locations, there won't be a true peak in the color….there is great color to be seen, but complete landscapes of fall color will not be found this season.”

 
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Figure 4. A mishmash of color greeted leaf-peepers at Guilford, VT (near the VT/MA border) on October 18. In this area, foliage is typically peaking by mid-October. Image credit: Bob Henson.

A cool front pushing across the Northeast on Tuesday, followed by a stronger front early next week, should bring the region closer to seasonal norms, but the cooldowns may not be enough to avoid some all-time monthly warmth.  Below are several locations that could end up notching their warmest October on record, based on observations through Monday, October 23, combined with WU forecasts through October 31.

City                     Thru       Normal,         Record,         Records       Predicted avg for 10/1-10/31, 
                            10/23    10/1-10/23      10/1-10/31       begin           based on WU forecast

Caribou, ME        50.4        49.8             48.8 (1947)       1939            51.3
Burlington, VT     59.2        48.6             56.4 (1947)       1892            58.5
New York, NY
  (Central Park)    66.0        58.2             63.6 (2007)       1870            64.1

 

Keeping an eye on 93L

A disturbance dubbed Invest 93L continues to spawn widespread but disorganized showers and thunderstorms across the Western Caribbean, a notorious breeding ground for late-season hurricanes. In its tropical weather outlook issued at 8 pm EDT Tuesday, the NOAA/NWS National Hurricane Center gave 92L a 10% chance of developing into at least a tropical depression by Thursday and a 50% chance by Sunday. See our Tuesday morning post for more details on 93L.

Dr. Jeff Masters contributed to this post.

The Weather Company’s primary journalistic mission is to report on breaking weather news, the environment and the importance of science to our lives. This story does not necessarily represent the position of our parent company, IBM.

Bob Henson

WU meteorologist Bob Henson, co-editor of Category 6, is the author of "Meteorology Today" and "The Thinking Person's Guide to Climate Change." Before joining WU, he was a longtime writer and editor at the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, CO.


https://www.wunderground.com/cat6/record-melting-fall-heat-wave-bakes-southern-california
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on October 25, 2017, 04:26:43 pm
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O Say Can You CO2…
Filed under: Carbon cycle Climate modelling Climate Science El Nino — group @ 12 October 2017
Guest Commentary by Scott Denning

SNIPPET:

Carbon-Climate Feedback During the 2015-16 El Niño

As previously reported based on in-situ data, the rate of increase in atmospheric CO2 during the strong El Niño in 2015-16 was about 3 ppm/yr compared with ~2 ppm/yr in recent decades. This is the fastest increase in CO2 ever observed, and plausibly the fastest since the end of deglaciation 10,000 years ago. Yet this rapid increase in CO2 occurred during a period when fossil fuel emissions were nearly flat (though still massively more than the biosphere and ocean can quickly absorb[/color][/b]).

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Fig. Extreme heat and drought impacted the carbon cycle in tropical forests differently in different regions, leading to the fastest growth rate of CO2 in at least 10,000 years. (NASA/JPL-Caltech).

Full detailed article:
http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2017/10/o-say-can-you-co2/#comment-685499

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patrick says: 12 Oct 2017 at 4:17 PM

> This is the fastest increase in CO2 ever observed, and plausibly the fastest since the end of deglaciation 10,000 years ago. Yet this rapid increase in CO2 occurred during a period when fossil fuel emissions were nearly flat (though still massively more than the biosphere and ocean can quickly absorb). …Based on these results, further warming and drying of tropical forests is expected to result in less uptake and more release of carbon on land, unfortunately amplifying the effect of fossil fuel emissions warming the climate.

Thank you for this super-informative post. The explanations and significance given are very clear.


CO2 457 PPM!
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CO2 502 PPM!
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GHG and Climate change temperature increase EFFECT
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on October 26, 2017, 08:05:09 pm
Enormous 57.8 ft Significant Wave Heights Recorded in NW Pacific Ocean

October 25, 2017 by Mike Schuler

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Significant wave height values detected by the altimeter instrument flying aboard Jason-3. The pass detected a nearly 400 nm long swath of phenomenal seas greater than 45 feet, with highest embedded significant wave height values to 57.8 feet (17.6 meters)!

A hurricane-force low-pressure system in the northwestern Pacific Ocean is living up to the hype, generating massive heights measured at over 57 feet!

Following up on forecasts calling for 55 ft. (17 m) wave heights, the National Weather Service’s Ocean Predication Center reported Wednesday that satellite altimeter readings have shown actual significant wave heights of greater than 45 feet over an enormous 400 nm swath of ocean, with the highest wave height recorded at 57.87 feet (that’s 17.6 meters!).

Full article with more grphics:

http://gcaptain.com/57-8-ft-significant-wave-height-recorded-in-nw-pacific-ocean/

Agelbert NOTE: This is just the beginning. It will get catastrophically worse.

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on October 27, 2017, 06:06:31 pm
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Trees Stripped by Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico on September 20, 2017 Credit: Michael Jimanez / GoFundMe

I’m a Librarian in Puerto Rico, and This Is My Hurricane Maria Survival Story

October 27, 2017

By Evelyn Milagros Rodriguez, University of Puerto Rico—Humacao

SNIPPET:

I've always been fascinated by storms, particularly Puerto Rico's own history of them. I think it's because I was born in September 1960 during Hurricane Donna. In its wake, that storm left more than 100 dead in Humacao, the city where I am now a special collections librarian at the University of Puerto Rico.

In 1990, Israel Matos, the National Weather Service Forecast Officer in San Juan, told me that "the tropics are unpredictable." That comment only increased my interest in storms. Now, with the people of Puerto Rico still reeling from Hurricane Maria more than a month after it hit the island, his words seem prescient.

Today I have–if not the honor, then the duty–to describe, firsthand, what it is to live through the aftermath of the worst storm of this brutal hurricane season.

Full article telling it like it IS:

https://www.ecowatch.com/hurricane-maria-survival-story-2502303977.htm
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on October 27, 2017, 07:13:10 pm
Paul Beckwith Published on Oct 25, 2017

In many apocalyptic dystopian movies, we see scenes where civilization has collapsed, nobody is around, and there are cockroaches scurrying throughout derelict ruins of buildings. 

Thanks to incredible scientific advances on development and deployment of super-pesticides, these movies have it all wrong. There won’t be any cockroaches, or any other bugs around. In fact we are presently killing insects so efficiently now, their absence may in fact accelerate our collapse, and we will have to rewrite these dystopian movie scripts. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.desismileys.com%2Fsmileys%2Fdesismileys_2955.gif&hash=ddc12d8bdb1bc63b7998a6b086b79a71b7bda755)

DECLINE OF INSECTS: FOUR VIDEOS (A, B, C, D)

https://youtu.be/T3JdU5fBLfI

https://youtu.be/tZrWIVKtQH4

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https://youtu.be/ky9x0c_tJ0c

https://paulbeckwith.net/

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on October 27, 2017, 09:01:32 pm
Peter Ward Turbulence Podcast: Mass Extinction, Evolution, Climate Change

https://youtu.be/LR7cL4_fMYY

Climate State

Published on Sep 24, 2017

In this episode of Turbulence (Sep 15, 2017), Jake speaks with Peter Ward about the mass extinction events throughout Earth's history, the pressing issue of climate change, the future of evolution, the future of the human race, and other topics.

Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on October 28, 2017, 04:00:31 pm
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Than we Thought

https://youtu.be/L6kndSJiu8c

Paul Beckwith Published on Oct 27, 2017

The thickness, and thus volume of remaining Arctic sea-ice is much less than we think. In late winter, what we thought was 3 ft thick ice is actually only about 2.8 ft thick; 2 ft thick ice is really only about 1.5 ft thick. Ice volumes are lower by 11% to 25% depending on the overall thickness patterns. Terribly significant news, since sea-ice loss means broken persistent jet streams and many more, severe, longer duration extreme weather events.

Arctic on THIN(NER) Ice: Brainstorming

https://youtu.be/WxuQPpDxMpA

Paul Beckwith Published on Oct 27, 2017

In my previous video I explained that seasonal (first year) Arctic sea ice that we thought (last week) was about 3 feet (or 2 feet) thick is really only about 2.7 feet (or 1.5 feet) thick this week. This is huge, with enormous implications. In this video, I brainstorm on how this error affects volume, how it varies over the melt season, and how it affects ice regrowth in the fall. Bottom line: Complete loss of Arctic sea ice is even sooner than we thought.
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on October 30, 2017, 04:54:05 pm
NASA | The Coldest Place in the World

https://youtu.be/Hp6wMUVb23c

NASA Goddard

566,757 views

Published on Dec 9, 2013

What is the coldest place in the world?  It is a high ridge in Antarctica on the East Antarctic Plateau where temperatures in several hollows can dip below minus 133.6 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 92 degrees Celsius) on a clear winter night -- colder than the previous recorded low temperature.
Scientists at the National Snow and Ice Data Center made the discovery while analyzing the most detailed global surface temperature maps to date, developed with data from remote sensing satellites including the MODIS sensor on NASA's Aqua satellite, and the TIRS sensor on Landsat 8, a joint project of NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).

The researchers analyzed 32 years of data from several satellite instruments that have mapped Antarctica's surface temperature. Near a high ridge that runs from Dome Arugs to Dome Fuji, the scientists found clusters of pockets that have plummeted to record low temperatures dozens of times. The lowest temperature the satellites detected -- minus 136 F (minus 93.2 C), on Aug. 10, 2010. 

The new record is several degrees colder than the previous low of minus 128.6 F (minus 89.2 C), set in 1983 at the Russian Vostok Research Station in East Antarctica. The coldest permanently inhabited place on Earth is northeastern Siberia, where temperatures dropped to a bone-chilling 90 degrees below zero F (minus 67.8 C) in the towns of Verkhoyansk (in 1892) and Oimekon (in 1933).

Agelbert NOTE: Antarctica is not just losing a steady amount of ice each year; the ice loss is accelerating each and every year.


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2017: An enormous waterfall gushes off the Nansen Ice Shelf. Credit: Jonathan Kingslake

Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on October 31, 2017, 01:22:58 pm
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Hurricane Maria Damaged Houses in Puerto Rico


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NASA photo of Puerto Rico

On The Ground In Puerto Rico

October 31st, 2017 by George Harvey

About three weeks ago, readers of CleanTechnica were introduced to my friend, Joseph Mangum in the article, “A Response To “A Call For Help For Puerto Rico.” That article was about a Gofundme campaign he had set up, looking for donations to set up solar systems on the island.

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Interior of Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria. US Customs and Border Protection photo.

Three weeks later, Joseph has used the first $5,000 raised by the campaign to build five solar systems, each complete with inverter, battery, and charge controller. And he has taken those systems to Puerto Rico to set them up himself.

I got the first email from Joseph telling me of his plans to deliver the systems in an email on October 26. It read:

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I leave for Boston tomorrow, Friday (Oct 27) and for San Juan bright and early Saturday morning (Oct 28). We are bringing 5 solar generators with us, but also other things:

2 high volume water purifier pumps

150 life straws

20,000 seeds to replant agriculture

20 individual food bags that consist of 5 lbs of rice, 1 lb of dried beans, 1 lb of dried lentils, 4 packages of instant mashed potatoes, 2 cans of tuna, and a small bag of dried fruit.

I wish we could bring down so much more on this plane ride down.

The current itinerary is to get the generators delivered during the week. We are going into the mountains in the central of the island and the going will be tough. So we are quite prepared for on-the-fly decision making. [Absence of communication] outside of San Juan also makes everything more complicated as well.

We are supposed to be meeting with both the mayors of Comerio and Jayuya, but we’ll see. With [communications] down and no set date for our arrival in either town.

When he gave me a few details of the facts, I was amazed. These five systems, at a combined cost of $5,000, each had a capacity of one kilowatt. They had been put together at the unheard of price of $1 per watt, including inverter, charge controller, and battery backup.
 
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Of course I had to know how he could do that. “Well, I can tell you, ” Joseph said with a chuckle. “We aren’t making any money doing this.” I hope donors understand how effectively their contributions have been spent. (The Gofundme campaign is still going on. You can visit it at www.gofundme.com/solargens4pr.)

Joseph is a solar installer in Brattleboro, Vermont. He is going with a friend, Mark Lamoureux, also a solar installer, who works in Keene, New Hampshire. They are taking everything they can on a commercial flight to San Juan. This includes the food, seeds, water purification equipment, and components of the solar systems. What they cannot carry down, Joseph has already arranged to pick up in San Juan. My guess is the main thing they need to get in Puerto Rico is batteries, which cannot be carried on a commercial aircraft.

Joseph has a lot of connections in Puerto Rico, and they helped him find the best places to set up the solar systems. They are all going to communities in the interior of the island. Most of them are in the hills, and at least one is completely cut off, leaving Joseph unsure how he will get there. None have power now, and these systems will benefit a lot of people.

One of the systems will be installed in a building near the home of one of Joseph’s relatives. A local handyman is helping a lot of people who need repairs because of storm damage, but his work is restricted to doing what he can without power tools.

From there, Joseph is traveling to other communities to set up the other four systems. All four are in the mountains, without power or telephone connections. Some have no water. In each of these communities, Joseph will set up a system at an emergency shelter. The systems will each provide a small amount of ventilation at night in a room where a lot of people sleep. This can be a real life saver in a tropical environment.   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fcliparts.co%2Fcliparts%2FBig%2FEgq%2FBigEgqBMT.png&hash=e7eec62f009cdd686ce795fad0a53c6befe748e9)


During the daytime, each system will provide access for charging cell phones, four at a time. In addition, each will power a wifi system with a satellite connection. They will provide lifelines to a large number of people who have been cut off.  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F19.gif&hash=3f9f2fc2285bc756137e21463bc2a4c420b15ac3)

I have been amazed that he could put together these systems at such a low cost, even if he is not making any money. I asked him whether a deal could be made at the Gofundme site as an incentive, possibly offering a system set up in Puerto Rico and a second system to the donor, for a donation large enough to cover both. “These systems use panels designed for the tropics,” he said. “They are rated for temperatures of 60 to 100 degrees. They might not work well in Vermont.” He also told me that the panels are very inexpensively made. He believed that they might not be working in ten years. :(

The issue in Puerto Rico is very pressing right now. My feeling is that Joseph made some pretty good choices on the systems, addressing the short-term needs of a large number of people, rather than trying to address a long-term solution.

I made Joseph promise to send me emails whenever he can, so I can get the word out on what is going on in the outback areas of the island. I have received one so far from him in Puerto Rico, telling me that he was setting up to go on his journey. It is possible that I will not get another until he gets back, but I have hope things will go better than that. I will keep you posted.

https://cleantechnica.com/2017/10/31/ground-puerto-rico/

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Trees Stripped by Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico on September 20, 2017 Credit: Michael Jimanez / GoFundMe
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on October 31, 2017, 05:00:46 pm
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There hasn’t been this much CO2 in the air in 3 million years. We have to stop, UN warns

LAST UPDATED ON OCTOBER 31ST, 2017 AT 8:45 PM BY ALEXANDRU MICU


SNIPPET 1:

CO2

It doesn’t look pretty. Overall, the document reports, in 2016, atmospheric concentrations of CO2 hit 403.3 parts per million (ppm), up from 400ppm in 2015.

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“It is the largest increase we have ever seen in the 30 years we have had this network,” Dr Oksana Tarasova, chief of WMO’s global atmosphere watch programme, told BBC news.

“The largest increase was in the previous El Niño, in 1997-1998, and it was 2.7ppm; and now it is 3.3ppm. It is also 50% higher than the average of the last 10 years.”

SNIPPET 2:

Methane (CH4)

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full article:

https://www.zmescience.com/science/wmo-report-gas-bulletin/

Agelbert NOTE: Guess what tiny colony living insect, with a GIGANTIC total biomass on earth, which also just happens to THRIVE on HOT WEATHER (i.e. they live mostly in the tropics and subtropics which just happen to be getting a lot hotter because of Global Warming) produces a LOT of methane (MUCH more than cows, pound for pound) as part of their normal metabolic process?

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Termite Metabilism

But there is more to this story that is severely lacking in big picture analysis of cause and effect. The Fossil Fuel Industry is NOT off the hook, though the article on methane wants to make it look that way.

WHY is the Fossil Fuel Industry the main culprit here? Isotope analysis of methane means the type of carbon isotope in the methane, because the isotopes of hydrogen are the ones the nuclear bomb makers (see "heavy" water) and nuclear power plants (see tritium and deuterium) control rather effectively.

So, how do they "know" the carbon isotope in the CH4 is not from burning fossil fuels?

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12C & 13C:

These two stable isotopes of carbon are found naturally on Earth. Living matter (i.e., bacteria and plants) takes up carbon through CO2 in the atmosphere. This matter is often isotopically selective, generally preferring to break the weaker, light-isotope bonds. Fractionation is constrained to definable ranges for relatively stable environmental conditions. Measuring this fraction, 13C/12C or d13C, enables the research scientist to determine a variety of factors regarding a particular sample.
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Logically, the assumption the scientists quoted in the article must have made is that the extra CH4 in the tropics and subtropics is from living metabolic processes because it mostly contains the weaker, light-isotope bond carbon atoms.

But the Fossil Fuel Industry rampant burning of fossil fuels, which causes global warming, is the reason MORE metabolic activity from gut baccteria in the tropics and subtropics is occurring.

Also, I am flabbergasted by the article's silence on the massive increase in methane now occurring in the arctic due to thawing permafrost and thawing clathrates on the sea bed. I mean, they write an article making it rather clear that we are in a horribly dire runaway greenhouse and decide NOT to talk about the rapid increase in methane emissions in the arctic?  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-250817122018.gif&hash=74d86c1f35e2f61ea38c9bfa392f84a92631b96e)

And what about all those leaking, recently tapped out fracked wells. that produce methane? Are they trying to avoid discussing the increase in methane in the USA and Canada because, conveniently, the EPA REFUSES to measure it? It sure looks that way.  >:(

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Fracked wells emit 6 times more methane leaks: New Cornell study (http://commonsensecanadian.ca/fracked-wells-emit-6-times-methane-leaks-new-cornell-study/)

So, yeah, methane producing gut (and ground) bacteria are very happy with increased average global temperatures. And, yeah, methane in that ground is going to be mostly the light carbon isotope type. But the methane from fracked wells is proportionately increasing as more fracking is done. Anybody that has a shred of scientific objectivity must assume that there is MORE methane being released now that there are MORE fracked wells out there, both active and inactive, contributing to the methane problem. Methane is 86 times more powerful as a greenhouse gas than CO2. so you don't need a lot of it to goose global warming.

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But the article does provide a great tallking point to knock down one of the fossil fuel industry's favorite duplicitous claims. They claim that CH4 (i.e. methane) from fracked wells and also the refining of crude oil is "natural" gas. It is, CLEARLY, because of its carbon isotope content, NOT NATURAL (i.e. not from bacterial metabolism). Only methane from cows, pig poop, human poop, tundra thawing anaerobic processes, termites, etc. is NATURAL gas. Tell them that methane from fossil fuel industry activity is UNnatural gas. Tell them that carbon isotope ratios prove that. Tell them they are full of baloney when they claim their crap polluting product is "natural" gas. Tell them they should stop lying to people about that. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.desismileys.com%2Fsmileys%2Fdesismileys_6869.gif&hash=f94938471d343a09155d1f60eefacdb2ceab2457)

Then ignore the verbal effluent they spew out.

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The Fossil Fuelers DID THE Clean Energy  Inventions suppressing, Climate Trashing, human health depleting CRIME,   but since they have ALWAYS BEEN liars and conscience free crooks, they are trying to AVOID   DOING THE TIME or     PAYING THE FINE!     Don't let them get away with it! Pass it on!    (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F176.gif&hash=121533221905789c6b8d57a9603883266d349266)
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on October 31, 2017, 07:33:22 pm
Bulk Carrier Goes Aground During Deadly Storm in Germany

October 30, 2017 by Reuters

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The photo provided by Germany’s Central command for maritime emergencies shows the Panama-flagged bulk carrier Glory Amsterdam which ran aground off the shore of the German island of Langeoog on Sunday, Oct. 29, 2017. Germany was hit by a heavy storm on Sunday.

SNIPPET:

BERLIN, Oct 30 (Reuters) – Shallow waters off a North Sea island complicated efforts on Monday to dislodge a large freighter that ran aground as Germany began cleaning up after a storm that killed at least six people there and in Poland and Czech Republic.

Railway operator Deutsche Bahn continued to deal with “significant damage” from downed trees on some rail routes. Service will be limited in parts of northern Germany, DB said, after being suspended in large parts of the north and centre of the country on Sunday, stranding thousands of travellers.

The non-profit environmental group World Wildlife Fund said the oil on board continued to pose a significant risk to the Wadden Sea, a UNESCO World Heritage site, and renewed its call for a worldwide ban on heavy oil for use as ship fuel.  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.clker.com%2Fcliparts%2Fc%2F8%2Ff%2F8%2F11949865511933397169thumbs_up_nathan_eady_01.svg.hi.png&hash=599691109af22b33f1d59dd61eb97448a9427020)

The Wadden Sea is the largest unbroken system of intertidal sand and mud flats in the world. Including sand banks, salt marshes and dunes, it stretches from the Netherlands to neighbouring Germany and Denmark.

“Numerous wading birds, ducks and geese that are resting there at the moment would be endangered by the oil” if the ship broke up, Hans-Ulrich Rosenberg, a mud flat expert with WWE, said in a statement.
 
Elsewhere in Germany, Deutsche Bahn said rail traffic on a number of key routes – including the heavily travelled line from Hamburg to Berlin – would resume on Monday afternoon.

Thousands of travellers were stranded on Sunday, with some seeking shelter in special sleeping cars provided at stations. Trains that resumed service on Monday were crammed so full that some passengers had to disembark. (Reporting by Andrea Shalal; editing by Mark Heinrich)

Full article with link to more photos:

http://gcaptain.com/freighter-aground-deadly-storm/

Climate Change, Blue Water Cargo Shipping and Predicted Ocean Wave Activity: Part 3 of 3 parts (http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/climate-change/future-earth/msg7422/#msg7422)

Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on November 02, 2017, 04:01:59 pm
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https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-puertorico-power/house-questions-fema-over-puerto-rico-power-contracts-idUSKBN1D15WB
Title: Interesting article from weather underground
Post by: GWarnock on November 04, 2017, 02:01:46 pm
https://www.wunderground.com/cat6/blockbuster-assessment-humans-likely-responsible-virtually-all-global-warming-1950s
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on November 04, 2017, 02:50:54 pm
Agelbert NOTE: Whatever is in ice anywhere om Earth will soon be totally exposed because of Catastrophic Climate Change.  :(

Top 10 Mysterious Things Found Frozen In Ice

5,355,064 views

https://youtu.be/lhI4ET18rBs

Published on Oct 14, 2017

10 Strange, creepy and shocking things found on the ice:

Global warming opens the veil of secrecy over unique finds that have been buried in the ice for centuries and centuries.
Title: Re: Interesting article from weather underground
Post by: AGelbert on November 04, 2017, 03:07:28 pm
Blockbuster Assessment: Humans Likely Responsible For Virtually All Global Warming Since 1950s
Bob Henson  ·  November 3, 2017, 2:18 PM EDT
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https://www.wunderground.com/cat6/blockbuster-assessment-humans-likely-responsible-virtually-all-global-warming-1950s

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And polluter criminals mostly responsible for global warming are shown below in a pie chart:

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GWarnock, Thank you for a great post! Your contributions will bring others who need to learn the truth of how messed up our climate is.

NOTE: The image I posted above is sized. to see how I sized it, so you can size your own images in posts, just include this post in the reply (as I just did for your post) by hitting the "insert Quote" button. There you will see that I used "img width=800" with appropriate brackets framing.

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on November 04, 2017, 04:10:07 pm
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http://cci-reanalyzer.org/reanalysis/monthly_maps/index.php
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on November 04, 2017, 06:30:19 pm
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on November 04, 2017, 10:17:25 pm
Radio Ecoshock

November 1, 2017

THIS ISN’T NORMAL!  :o

“Normal” TV weather casting sucks so badly. We just had amazing record heat in California at the end of October. When it’s over 100 degrees day after day in California, it’s way too late to deny climate change is real. Then we have very strong storms (can you say “extreme weather event”) in New England. And of course the American press doesn’t even bother reporting even stronger storms in Germany and Eastern Europe. In the port of Hamburg the seas were more than a meter above normal, flooding the fish market. Millions lost power, with flooding all over. It’s NOT NORMAL!!

Thank you for listening this week, and my thanks to everyone who supports this show. Many of you did make donations, or signed up as subscribing listeners. Frankly, I got enough to cover the costs of producing and distributing the program, but not enough to actually pay me any kind of wage for doing this. Oh well, I love the opportunity you give me to talk with such brilliant people. Plus, I just can’t quit while a series of threats are so plainly developing. On with the show!

If you can still help, please find out how here.

Please tell your friends and your electronic friends about Radio Ecoshock. That helps get the word out too.

https://youtu.be/fqmTtgQ_gPA

https://www.ecoshock.org/2017/11/expect-a-sudden-sea-level-event.html
Title: Re: Interesting article from weather underground
Post by: AGelbert on November 05, 2017, 03:47:52 pm
Agelbert NOTE: Cleantechnica just got the word on the article GWarnock posted here a couple of days ago.

National Climate Report Finds Virtually ALL Global Temperature Rise Since 1950 Caused By Human Activity

November 5th, 2017 by Steve Hanley

SNIPPET:

Who will the Walton family sell their low-priced products to then? What good will fossil fuels be if there are no cars to drive, homes to heat, or factories to run? Will anyone even know we were here a million years from now when the waters recede and all records of our existence have been lost? Will genetic mutations make the next humans smart enough to work together rather than devising new and interesting ways of killing each other? Based on the history of humanity to date, the most likely answer is no.

full article:

https://cleantechnica.com/2017/11/05/national-climate-report-finds-virtually-global-temperature-rise-since-1950-caused-human-activity/
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on November 07, 2017, 11:33:51 pm
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on November 08, 2017, 01:23:14 pm
Agelbert NOTE: ANOTHER "gift", compliments of the Fossil Fuel Industry. The "gifts" will increase in frequency and duration. We, not the fossil Fuel Industry, will be billed for the damages. We are screwed. Have a nice day.

November 2017

Storm Herwart Sweeps Across Germany, Czech Republic, Poland

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History in ruins - In Oldenswort in Schleswig Holstein, a historic windmill fell victim to storm Herwart. Windmill Catharina was built in 1786 and was a huge draw among tourists, who could rent a room inside the historical structure.

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Under the water - The Elbe River breached its banks in Hamburg, flooding a nearby parking lot. Fire fighters in the city have received 500 calls to deal with emergency situations.

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Berlin: state of emergency - The Berlin fire brigade declared a state of emergency early Sunday as Herwart roared over the German capital. One person was seriously injured when scaffolding from a construction site fell on him.

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Flood of calls - The Berlin fire brigade said it had received 100 emergency phone calls between 4 a.m. (0300 GMT) and 7 a.m. It has requested all volunteer fire fighters to report for duty

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Trees uprooted - The storm has uprooted several trees in the affected regions. No casualties or injuries have been reported in Germany so far due to falling trees.

More info and graphics:

http://www.dw.com/en/top-stories/environment/s-11798]http://www.dw.com/en/top-stories/environment/s-11798
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on November 09, 2017, 11:09:03 pm
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EcoWatch

Moyers and McKibben: What to Do When Time Is Running Out for the Planet

By Bill Moyers

SNIPPET:

Moyers: For me the question now is how much time do we have? When it comes to global warming, all signs suggest we are running out of time.

McKibben: The question of time is the question that haunts me. I remain optimistic enough to think that in general human beings will figure out the right thing to do eventually, and Americans will somehow get back on course. Of course, there'll be a lot of damage done in the meantime. But with climate change in particular—the gravest of the problems we face—time is the one thing we don't have. It's the only problem we've ever had that came with a time limit. And if we don't solve it soon, we don't solve it. Our governments so far have not proven capable of dealing with this question. They simply haven't been able to shake off the self-interest and massive power of the fossil-fuel industry. It's going to take a lot of work and a lot of effort to get us onto renewable energy quickly and everywhere. It's doable technically; the question is whether it's doable politically or not. There I don't know.

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https://www.ecowatch.com/moyers-mckibben-interview-2508046318.html
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on November 10, 2017, 08:22:52 pm
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November 10, 2017
Empire Files: After Hurricane Harvey, Abandoned Community Takes Charge
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After a flurry of media attention, the devastation in Houston, Texas from Hurricane Harvey faded from public view. But after unprecedented floods and widespread destruction, the story is far from over. In Part 1 of her investigation, Abby Martin travels to Houston one month later

https://youtu.be/i_LmCOh-nm8

http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=20406%27%20style=%27color:#000;
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on November 11, 2017, 01:50:36 pm
MV Ever Smart Arrives in Los Angeles with Toppled Containers

November 10, 2017 by gCaptain

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MV Ever Smart alongside in Los Angeles on November 9, 2017.

The MV Ever Smart arrived at the port of Los Angeles on Wednesday showing clear evidence of the dozens of containers which were lost from the vessel during its voyage across the Pacific.

As gCaptain reported previously, the British-flagged Ever Smart lost 42 containers overboard approximately 700nm east of Japan on October 30, 2017. The UK MAIB has launched an investigation into the incident.

The incident occurred as the ship was underway from Taipei, Taiwan to the Port of Los Angeles.

Although the MAIB investigation will seek to determine the cause of the accident, on the day the containers were lost, meteorologists were tracking a powerful hurricane force low-pressure system over the northwestern Pacific.

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http://gcaptain.com/mv-ever-smart-arrives-in-los-angeles-with-toppled-containers/

Agelbert NOTE: Catastrophic Climate Change will eventually make blue water cargo shipping impossible (details below).

Climate Change, Blue Water Cargo Shipping and Predicted Ocean Wave Activity: Part 3 of 3 parts (http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/climate-change/future-earth/msg7422/#msg7422)
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on November 12, 2017, 07:22:53 pm
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VUW professor warns of “remarkable” increase in global warming

November 12, 2017

Wellington.Scoop

Professor James Renwick of the School of Geography, Environment and Earth Sciences at Victoria University of Wellington, said this week that the recent rate of change of warming globally has been really remarkable.

He was commenting on a statement from the World Meteorological Organisation which said 2017 is set to be in the top three hottest years on record, with record-breaking extreme weather.

“We now appear to be well and truly through the 1 degree of warming (compared to pre-industrial) barrier, heading for 2 degrees,” said Professor Renwick. “What’s really striking is that this year is coming in as probably the second warmest year on record, after the big El Niño-influenced 2016. The fact that we have such warmth this year without an El Niño, and in fact with a slightly cooling La Niña developing in the Tropical Pacific, tells me that the background warming trend (from greenhouse gas increase) is really becoming apparent.

“The main way we experience climate change is through extreme events, and this year has seen extraordinary extremes around the world. From record floods and fires in North America to record monsoon rains in Bangladesh and India, to heatwaves in many parts of the globe, 2017 has already been exceptional.

“Here in New Zealand, we have seen several major flood events, including Edgecumbe in April and the eastern South Island from Dunedin to Christchurch in July. While the analysis has yet to be done, it is very likely that these events have a climate change ‘fingerprint’, as a warmer atmosphere can hold more moisture, making heavy rain events more frequent. Sea levels continue to rise, and the latest science shows that we may see considerably more than 1 metre this century, with many more metres to come, unless we cap greenhouse gas emissions urgently.

“The Bonn ‘COP23’ meeting is on this week and now is the time for countries to demonstrate action on climate change. To stay below the 2 degree Paris limit, the world economy needs to be carbon-free within 50 years. A huge ask, but the costs of inaction or failure are almost incalculable. Rather than a burden, this is a real opportunity for government and business to lead the way into the green economy.”

http://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=104791
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on November 12, 2017, 08:28:55 pm
Flash Storm lasting "two intense minutes" devastates an Australian town without warning blowing washing machines and dryers down the street  :o

Tuesday, 7 November 2017

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Photo theherald.com.au

IT lasted barely two minutes but felt 'like a typhoon' when 100km/h winds tore through the Hunter Valley town of Kurri Kurri.

Dozens of buildings on the main street were badly damaged with the town library, pub and public school bearing the brunt as the ferocious storm hit at about 2pm.

Two women had to be rescued by police after becoming trapped when the roof of the library collapsed.

The pair was taken to Maitland Hospital with minor injuries.

A lightning strike ripped a hole in the roof of the Kurri Kurri Hotel and did it so rapidly that patrons didn't even have time to get off their stools.

"It happened really quickly, the chimney blew over.

It's a heritage building so it's going to be really hard to get it back to what it was," publican Jim
Sullivan said, describing the storm as a mini typhoon. Mark Roberts said he had "never seen anything like it".

"There were hailstones coming in. You could barely see out the window," Mr Roberts said.

Baker Cheryl Baker said the whole town was "devastated" by the "flash storm" which brought trees and power lines down.

"Washing machines and dryers from the second-hand shop got picked up and have been flying down the road with the storm," she said.

"There are trees down on cars and it is raining really heavy. The lightning struck the pub and there is now a hole in its roof. The library roof has also fallen onto the power lines over the Centrelink building. We've got no electricity at all."

The roof of the ambulance hall, which housed an after-school childminding service, was ripped off, while at Kurri Kurri Public School huge trees came down and the playground was covered in debris. Central Hunter Police Superintendent Craig Jackson described the storm as "two intense minutes" that struck the town without warning.

"The storm has taken roofs of various businesses in the town centre of Kurri, taken off awnings and we've had two women rescued from a partially collapsed building,"

Supt Jackson said. "It's one of the more powerful storms I've seen, there is quite a lot of damage. There was no warning for the intensity.

It has taken everyone by surprise. "Between the emergency services, it's going to be a busy night." At the height of the storm, there were almost 2300 homes without power in Kurri Kurri, Weston and Mulbring. State Emergency Service spokeswoman Sue Pritchard said the SES had close to 100 calls for help in the Kurri Kurri area.

"There are so many jobs but the worst has been roofs of houses, an office block affected, leaking roofs, fences down on driveways and generally quite a lot of damage," she said.

"We are expecting the winds to keep continuing and we are asking people to protect their properties because this is just the start of a few months of the storm season."

The SES responded 500 calls for assistance across NSW. Illawarra recorded up to 150mm of rain and Sydney had 70mm.

Hail the size of golf balls fell at Narrabri, and 10cm of snow was recorded at Perisher.

Posted by  Gary Walton  at  10:09 am

http://www.thebigwobble.org/2017/11/flash-storm-lasting-two-intense-minutes.html
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on November 13, 2017, 01:22:53 pm
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Animation: How temperature has changed in each country since 1900

https://youtu.be/K4Ra2HR27pQ

Carbon Brief

Published on Aug 2, 2017

How has temperature changed in each country over the last century? This data visualisation shows temperature anomaly – the departure from the long-term average – by country from 1900-2016. Visualisation by Antti Lipponen (@anttilip) of the Finnish Meteorological Institute based on GISTEMP data (CC BY 2.0).

http://carbonbrief.org

Music credit: Into Infinity artists Unrecognisable Now, Naohito Uchiyama, Languis (CC BY-NC 3.0 US).

Category News & Politics
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Fossil Fuel (Trump, Pruitt, Tillerson, Zinke, etc. et al) Government/Industry Reaction to the above Irrefutable Data:
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on November 13, 2017, 01:34:55 pm
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https://youtu.be/9GjrS8QbHmY

Two degrees is the target for limiting the global temperature increase. But even that limit will have a dramatic effect on the world's climate.
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on November 13, 2017, 01:51:48 pm
The Story of Climate Change

https://youtu.be/Nc0QiP4D5IA

Climate State

Published on Apr 20, 2017

Bill McKibben from http://350.org Jim Hansen, Katharine Hayhoe and others give us an update on the science and solutions to climate change.

Notice there is a typo, the chart at around 10:03 should read 1880 1900, not 1880 1990.

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on November 13, 2017, 02:03:05 pm
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https://youtu.be/xYIh8H4OhEo

Talltanic

Published on Apr 18, 2017

From storms hitting harder and more dangerous from warming temperatures, drought, to facts about climate changing rapidly.


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4 - Change in Seasons

Several of the effects of climate change have already begun to disrupt our cycles of seasons ranging from spring to fall especially. The increase in the carbon dioxide levels has led to spring arriving approximately 11 days earlier than it did back in 1960. And with winter as well, the frost season now seems to come progressively later inside the Northern hemisphere since 1840. Lakes and river average freezing 9 days later and ice cover begin melting 10 days sooner than it used to base on records from 150 years ago. A study from 2003 showed that these changes have led to earlier blooming of plants, breeding egg-laying and migration patterns in animals. On the East coast of the United States winters are getting noticeably shorter and on the Southern ends, summers are lasting longer, the rising temperatures are becoming more obvious as they are beginning to be felt by all no matter their location. 

3 - The Rise in Temperatures

Research groups for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, NASA, Britain's Hadley Center and Climatic Research Unit and Japan's Meteorological Agency have all agreed that global temperature trends are on the rise, and there has been a particularly rapid increase in the past few decades. According to all of their statistics, since 1901 the global average surface temperature for the planet have risen at an average rate of 0.13 degrees Fahrenheit per decade. However, the United States has warmed at nearly twice that global rate since the 1970s. Sea surface temperatures have also begun to rise higher than ever before, over the last 30 years these temperatures have risen at a rate of 0.21 Fahrenheit degrees per decade.

2 - Feeling the Heat

Forecasts in Earth's weather patterns are now saying that there will be an increase of approximately 10 degrees Fahrenheit over the next century, at least. In Texas for example, the July heat index is predicted to rise by 25 degrees Fahrenheit over this coming century. The United Kingdom is also feeling the heat, during the summer of 2002 a ravenous heat wave spread viciously through Europe and India, over 50,000 were hospitalized due to heat related illnesses and injuries, 20,000 people in Europe and 1,500 in India didn't make it through the devastating increase in temperatures. Urban areas are said to be are far greater risks for these kinds of heat related problems, all that black cement, asphalt and tar roofs effectively act as a giant conductors for the already extremely high temperatures. It's called a heat island effect and nearly every major city across the world is due to feel the effects as the temperatures continue to rise worldwide. The elderly and the young are said to be especially vulnerable to these raising patterns of heightened heat. The United Nations weather agency says that large cities can expect to suffer twice as many injuries, illnesses and deaths as a result from heat waves by the year 2020.

1 - Sea Levels Rising

Core samples, tide gauge readings and satellite measurements all have the same results, the Global Sea level is rising and fast! Over the past century, the Global sea level have risen by 4 to 8 inches, over the past 20 years, the annual rate has been 0.13 inches a year, which is roughly twice the average speed of the previous 80 years. When water heats up, it expands, warmer oceans occupy more space. Even a small increase can have devastating effects such as erosion, flooding, soil contamination, loss of habitats for fish, birds, plants and even people. Hundreds of millions of people live within areas which are vulnerable to flooding, these higher sea levels could force many to abandon their homes and lose their domiciles forever. Low-lying islands are theorised to possibly disappear completely within only a few years. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has stated that they expect the oceans to rise between 11 and 38 inches by 2100, enough to swamp entire cities lingering along the United States East Coast. The direst of estimates maintains that if the ice sheets continue to melt effectively making sea levels rise even faster, than the sea level could rise up to 23 feet, which is enough to submerge London.

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on November 13, 2017, 08:06:45 pm
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Humanity gets its second Warning: We’re crippling the planet

LAST UPDATED ON NOVEMBER 13TH, 2017 AT 7:59 PM BY ALEXANDRU MICU 

SNIPPET:

Over 15,000 scientists from 184 countries around the world have signed the second ‘Warning to Humanity,’ urging for decisive action to preserve the planet that keeps us alive.

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The amount of available freshwater per capita has gone down by 26%.

The number of ocean dead zones has increased by 75%, almost doubling over this time.

Almost 300 million acres of forest were lost in the same time window.

CO2 emissions have increased by 62%.

Global temperature has increased by 29%.

Vertebrate wildlife abundance has dropped by 29%.


Full article:

https://www.zmescience.com/science/second-warning-scientists-earth/

Agelbert NOTE: Another data point that may interest you (see below) is that over the past 25 PLUS years, Big Oil has LIED 24/7 about what they KNEW was coming, even as they used all their profit over planet money to finish destroying democracy in the USA.(https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Fpirates5B15D_th.gif&hash=32438e1ed2c4d1823d4ed2a193286525c840a605)  Have a nice day.

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The Fossil Fuelers DID THE Clean Energy  Inventions suppressing, Climate Trashing, human health depleting CRIME,   but since they have ALWAYS BEEN liars and conscience free crooks, they are trying to AVOID   DOING THE TIME or     PAYING THE FINE!     Don't let them get away with it! Pass it on!    (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F176.gif&hash=121533221905789c6b8d57a9603883266d349266)
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on November 13, 2017, 08:14:55 pm
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November 13, 2017
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Thanu Yakupitiyage of 350.org and Katia R. Aviles-Vazquez of It Takes Roots report from Bonn, Germany on the People's Climate Summit, and how grassroots groups are confronting the U.S.'s withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement

https://youtu.be/o7S6rwQd1b0
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on November 14, 2017, 09:27:07 pm
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Quote
It's not a slogan to say another world is possible. It's not a slogan. It's part of our imagination. We believe that it's possible. If it is indeed possible, if we continue to resist, we have not been defeated, but I still feel that this might be the last president of the United States, and I say that on two levels.

The first level is, and I think Larry Wilkerson said it as well at lunch, I'm not sure if this country's façade of democracy is going to last. I think the façade might disappear sooner than the planet is destroyed, and so this might very well be the last president under the façade of democracy, and I think we should think about that a little bit, not pessimistically, not hopelessly, not in fear, but in order to sharpen our sense of what we need to do.

This might be the last president because they might annul formal democracy. This might also be the last president because this president is not a Republican. He's not even necessarily an imperialist. This president is an annihilationist. He is an annihilationist.

Not only is this president, in other words, the last president, this last president, not only is he committed to fully destroy the planet through this carbon civilization that we live in ... I quite agree. There is no such thing called climate change. There is capitalist planetary destruction. We are facing capitalist planetary destruction, not climate change.

Climate change somehow suggests that the climate has decided to change, that somehow the winds in the Atlantic Ocean have decided, "Let's spin a little faster. Let's provide more dangerous hurricanes." God might be involved in this. Dispensationalism. The dispensation might be producing some sort of shift.


This is not climate change. This is engineered by the carbon civilization required by capitalism. This is capitalistically-produced planetary destruction. He wants to speed up capitalistically-engineered planetary destruction by increasing the carbon civilization.

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The Last U.S. President

November 8, 2017

Vijay Prashad: 'The Only Way to Confront a War Economy is to Confront a Culture of War'

The culture of war is a celebration of death (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-070814193155.png&hash=144ce9330e49ee84060db8753a8db69c39a14913) , which is what President Trump is promoting and which we must confront, argues Vijay Prashad at the Code Pink Summit

https://youtu.be/G3OuoQvHUvQ

http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=20321
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on November 15, 2017, 05:07:29 pm
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SNIPPET from Video:

Quote
It's not a slogan to say another world is possible. It's not a slogan. It's part of our imagination. We believe that it's possible. If it is indeed possible, if we continue to resist, we have not been defeated, but I still feel that this might be the last president of the United States, and I say that on two levels.

The first level is, and I think Larry Wilkerson said it as well at lunch, I'm not sure if this country's façade of democracy is going to last. I think the façade might disappear sooner than the planet is destroyed, and so this might very well be the last president under the façade of democracy, and I think we should think about that a little bit, not pessimistically, not hopelessly, not in fear, but in order to sharpen our sense of what we need to do.

This might be the last president because they might annul formal democracy. This might also be the last president because this president is not a Republican. He's not even necessarily an imperialist. This president is an annihilationist. He is an annihilationist.

Not only is this president, in other words, the last president, this last president, not only is he committed to fully destroy the planet through this carbon civilization that we live in ... I quite agree. There is no such thing called climate change. There is capitalist planetary destruction. We are facing capitalist planetary destruction, not climate change.

Climate change somehow suggests that the climate has decided to change, that somehow the winds in the Atlantic Ocean have decided, "Let's spin a little faster. Let's provide more dangerous hurricanes." God might be involved in this. Dispensationalism. The dispensation might be producing some sort of shift.


This is not climate change. This is engineered by the carbon civilization required by capitalism. This is capitalistically-produced planetary destruction. He wants to speed up capitalistically-engineered planetary destruction by increasing the carbon civilization.

(https://www.opednews.com/populum/uploadnic/1-jpg_12495_20141007-487.jpg)


The Last U.S. President

November 8, 2017

Vijay Prashad: 'The Only Way to Confront a War Economy is to Confront a Culture of War'

The culture of war is a celebration of death (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-070814193155.png&hash=144ce9330e49ee84060db8753a8db69c39a14913) , which is what President Trump is promoting and which we must confront, argues Vijay Prashad at the Code Pink Summit

https://youtu.be/G3OuoQvHUvQ

http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=20321 (http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=20321)


I will agree with you here. We are witnessing the last prez. of U.S.A. Inc.
We have yet to the witness the President of the Republic of the United States of America.
The swamp in D.C. most likely will turn into a cesspool with oceans rising for all intensive purposes.
Philly should be the new capital. However if Philly goes under, then I would think Denver will be the
new home of the Republic.


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All this has a source. All this has a root cause. You and I do not agree on the root cause.  ;)  ;D

But for the sake of non-argument, do you agree that the following is a BIG reason (somewhere down the chain af causation from the root cause) that we cannot get anything good and decent (i.e. No CFS* in the US gooberment) accomplished in this God Forsaken, Polluter OWNED country?  :P

Agelbert NOTE: The polluters AGAIN find a way to KEEP POLLUTING while they CONTINUE to shaft mostly the poor and people of color with greenwashing baloney cap and trade. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-200714183337.bmp&hash=fd5a6df63c32bd65dda7b6d93e788647ca3829df)

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November 15, 2017

Is Carbon Trading Just a License to Pollute?

Market-based pollution credit schemes undermine environmental laws and disproportionately affect lower-income neighborhoods and communities of color, says Food & Water Watch's Scott Edwards

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https://youtu.be/br1Ph6uyEL4

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on November 16, 2017, 12:46:15 pm
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Top Spots Of Climate Change Performance Index 2018 Remain Unoccupied With No Paris-Compatible Countries

November 16th, 2017 by Joshua S Hill

SNIPPET:

Unsurprisingly, the United States’ freefall to 56th position was due primarily to the Trump Administration’s (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-270117175421.png&hash=cf39e823dd9156833bfa885808a876bf518bd0d6) backwards policies, causing the country’s ranking in the policy section to fall to “very low.” Thankfully, “A ‘high’ ratedgrowth rate of renewables over the course of the past years led to a slightly more positive rating in the renewables category compared to the other index categories.”

Full article:

https://cleantechnica.com/2017/11/16/top-spots-climate-change-performance-index-2018-remain-unoccupied-no-paris-compatible-countries/
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on November 16, 2017, 02:34:43 pm
NASA releases atmospheric simulation of this year’s hurricane season

LAST UPDATED ON NOVEMBER 16TH, 2017 AT 8:04 PM BY ALEXANDRU MICU

https://youtu.be/h1eRp0EGOmE

Full article:

https://www.zmescience.com/other/shorties/nasa-atmosphere-sim/
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on November 18, 2017, 12:15:41 pm
October 2017: Earth's 4th Warmest October on Record
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Dr. Jeff Masters  ·  November 17, 2017, 11:17 AM EST

SNIPPET 1:

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Above: The deadliest disaster of October was Tropical Depression 23W, which made landfall over central Vietnam on October 10, triggering multiple days of torrential downpours. At least 98 people were dead or missing, with 18,000 homes damaged throughout the north of the country. Image credit: Nhan Sinh/Vietnam News Agency via AP.

SNIPPET 2:

Global ocean temperatures last month were the fourth warmest on record for any October, according to NOAA, and global land temperatures were the eleventh warmest on record.

Global satellite-measured temperatures for the lowest 8 km of the atmosphere were the warmest for any October in the 39-year record, according to the University of Alabama Huntsville (UAH) and Remote Sensing Systems (RSS).

SNIPPET 3:

Hurricane Harvey, U.S., 8/25 – 9/2, $90 billion, 84 killed
Hurricane Irma, Caribbean/Bahamas/SE U.S., 9/5 – 9/12, $60 billion, 124 killed
Hurricane Maria, Caribbean, 9/18 – 9/21, $20+ billion, 98 killed
Wildfire, U.S. (California), 10/8 – 10/30, $8+ billion, 43 killed
Flooding, China, 6/22 – 7/5, $7.5 billion, 141 killed
Flooding, China, 7/13 – 7/17, $4.5 billion, 20 killed
Typhoon Hato, Macau/Hong Kong/China, 8/23 – 8/24, $3.5 billion, 22 killed
Severe Weather, U.S. Rockies/Plains, 5/8 – 5/11, $3.25 billion, 0 killed
Flooding, Peru, 1/1 – 4/1, $3.1 billion, 120 killed
Severe Weather, U.S. Plains/Southeast/Midwest, 3/26 – 3/28, $2.75 billion, 0 killed
Drought, China, 5/1 – 8/31, $2.5 billion, 0 killed
Tropical Cyclone Debbie
, Australia, 3/27 – 4/5, $2.4 billion, 14 killed
Drought, Italy, 1/1 – 7/31, $2.3 billion, 0 killed
Severe Weather, U.S. Midwest/Plains/Southeast, 3/6 – 3/10, $2.1 billion, 0 killed
Severe Weather, U.S. Midwest, 6/11, $2.0 billion, 0 killed
Severe Weather, U.S. Midwest/Plains/Southeast/MS Valley, 4/28 – 5/01, $2.0 billion, 20 killed
Drought, Somalia, Ethiopia, Kenya, 1/1 – 3/31, $1.9 billion, hundreds killed
Severe Weather, U.S. South, 2/27 - 3/2, $1.9 billion, 4 killed
Severe Weather, U.S. South, 1/18 - 1/23, $1.3 billion, 21 killed
Typhoon Lan, Japan/Philippines, 10/18 – 10/23, $1.0 billion, 17 killed
Tropical Storm Nanmadoll Japan, 7/4 – 7/6, $1.0 billion, 37 killed
Severe Weather, U.S. Plains/Midwest/Northeast, 6/27 – 6/30, $1.0 billion, 0 killed
Winter Weather, U.S. Plains/Midwest/Southeast/Northeast, 3/13 – 3/15, $1.0 billion, 11 killed
Severe Weather, U.S. Plains/Rockies, 6/12 – 6/14, $1.0 billion, 0 killed

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 https://www.wunderground.com/cat6/october-2017-earths-4th-warmest-october-record
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on November 18, 2017, 02:59:10 pm
Departures from the 20th-century global average temperature for October, 1880-2017. The four warmest Octobers on record have all occurred in the last four years. Image credit; NOAA/NCEI.
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on November 20, 2017, 04:35:30 pm
A Conversation with Guy, Paul Beckwith, and Martin Halliwell

https://youtu.be/Z3l9wI1Gvds

Nature Bats Last

Published on Nov 13, 2017

www.guymcpherson.com
www.onlyloveremains.org
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on November 20, 2017, 05:36:24 pm
Agelbert NOTE: This is a nice video compilation evidencing the absolutely breathtakingly reality challenged ability of TPTB to justify doing absolutely NOTHING to change the profit over planet status quo that continues to exacerbate the Catastrophic Climate Change we are NOW experiencing. Some choice quotes spewed from the Criminal in Chief (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-270117175421.png&hash=cf39e823dd9156833bfa885808a876bf518bd0d6) provide additional perspective on how amazingly illogical the 'greed is good' crowd he represents is.   
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https://youtu.be/hIpALTYGQX4
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on November 22, 2017, 08:31:05 pm
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on November 23, 2017, 05:44:04 pm
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NASA records 20 years of changing seasons in new global map

LAST UPDATED ON NOVEMBER 23RD, 2017 AT 11:33 PM BY TIBI PUIU

SNIPPET:

Scientists constructed the visualization with data compiled from September 1997 to September 2017. These twenty years have been condensed in two-and-a-half minutes of mesmerizing imagery that shows how Earth’s surface ebbs and flows with the seasons.

In this dance of the seasons, you can witness how Earth’s vegetation changes. By monitoring the color of reflected light via satellite, scientists can determine how successfully plant life is photosynthesizing, which can be highly important when assessing biosphere health.

Polar ice caps and snow cover extends and retreats while oceans transition from shades of blue and green into hues of red and purple as marine life blooms or goes under. The algae bloom of 1997-1998 is particularly striking, having turned sizable areas of the Pacific into a bright green, spurred by a water-warming El Nino merged with a cooling La Nina.

https://youtu.be/81MxQzxve3c

Full article:

https://www.zmescience.com/ecology/climate/global-map-changing-seasons-423432/
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on November 24, 2017, 06:32:53 pm
Agelbert NOTE: The scientists have been warning us for YEARS. The fossil fuel corrupted governments have simply chosen not to listen. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-200714183337.bmp&hash=fd5a6df63c32bd65dda7b6d93e788647ca3829df)


https://youtu.be/dXYlfeajaYY

New Scientific Warning about 'Abrupt' Climate Change

Tim Weiskel

Published on Oct 9, 2017

This program, “New Scientific Warning about 'Abrupt' Climate Change,” was recorded on 15 December 2013.  It is is episode #138 of an ongoing series of educational videos from the Citizen-Science Online Learning Initiative  (CSOLI).  These educational videos focus on global climate change and its implications for the transitions we must make in our institutions and behavior in order to survive the coming decades.  See:  http://wp.me/P2iDSG-2

Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on November 24, 2017, 06:50:23 pm
Running Out of Time on Climate

Captioned for sharing with Chinese Speakers

https://youtu.be/4dSe1vCHUto


UPFSI .org


Published on Oct 14, 2017
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on November 24, 2017, 07:21:42 pm
Coming Soon to your community: WATCH this real video of DESTRUCTIVE wind shifts:

Hurricane Maria Damage Estimate of $102 Billion Surpassed Only by Katrina

Dr. Jeff Masters  ·  November 22, 2017, 12:57 PM EST

SNIPPET:

https://youtu.be/FAS6JC41Fwg

Video 1. This video taken at Yabucoa, Puerto Rico, near Hurricane Maria’s landfall point shows an extraordinary reversal of Maria’s eyewall winds multiple times. The first huge gust happens around 0:50, throwing cars around. The reversal of the winds multiple times could be due to tornado-scale mesovortices embedded in the eyewall, in combination with the funneling effect of the high rise building across the street. Interestingly, a video shot by storm chaser Josh Morgerman of iCyclone just a few miles away shows a flow that is smoother and steadier, without wild directional shifts. He writes: “This makes sense, because I was right at the coast, where the wind was coming off the open ocean with very little friction.” (The weird reversing wind video was shot a couple of miles inland, where there was lots of friction.) Maria made landfall in Yabucoa, Puerto Rico as a strong category 4 hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 155 mph.


Full article with several eye opening graphics and drone video:

https://www.wunderground.com/cat6/hurricane-maria-damages-102-billion-surpassed-only-katrina (https://www.wunderground.com/cat6/hurricane-maria-damages-102-billion-surpassed-only-katrina)

Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on November 24, 2017, 07:33:31 pm
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Kevin Anderson & Hugh Hunt - (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.funny-emoticons.com%2Ffiles%2Ffunny-animals%2Fblue-bird-emoticons%2F801-listen-up%21.png&hash=f7fb2b5263a68b91c628fc597877983f813843e5) Quit the loose talk on climate change and let's get serious!

https://youtu.be/skilmEHMsMc

UPFSI .org

Published on Nov 17, 2017

In this Climate Matters show live from COP-23 in Bonn, Kevin Anderson of Britain's Tyndall Center and Hugh Hunt of Cambridge University, go at it in a lively discussion of all the loose talk happening about climate change and the lack of meaningful action. A lively and light conversation for a very serious and weighty subject.

Category: Education

License: Standard YouTube License



Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on November 24, 2017, 07:53:07 pm
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Scientist Kevin Anderson: Our Socio-Economic Paradigm Is Incompatible With Climate Change Objectives

https://youtu.be/cBAcYkc6v6A

Democracy Now!

Published on Nov 16, 2017

https://democracynow.org - Broadcasting from the United Nations Climate Summit in Bonn, Germany, we continue our conversation with Kevin Anderson, one of the world’s leading climate scientists. Anderson is deputy director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research and professor of energy and climate change at the University of Manchester in Britain. The report is entitled “Can the Climate Afford Europe’s Gas Addiction?”

Democracy Now! is an independent global news hour that airs weekdays on nearly 1,400 TV and radio stations Monday through Friday. Watch our livestream 8-9AM ET: https://democracynow.org

Please consider supporting independent media by making a donation to Democracy Now! today: https://democracynow.org/donate
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on November 25, 2017, 06:29:46 pm
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Agelbert NOTE: Above is a screenshot from the video posted here. It's a long video, but Kevin Anderson makes it crystal clear that mitigating climate change is NOT about technofixes.
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Bottom Line: NO ETHICS taught in universities and reinforced with laws against unethical behavior in business, NO VIABLE BIOSPHERE for humanity's offspring.(https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F129fs238648.gif&hash=bbf8ad9cbaff9e7d3097c40c21a931e6649a237f)

https://youtu.be/v6fLarIV2AI

Are universities making the world worse? Education and research in an age of climate change

Centre for Environment and Development Studies in Uppsala, CEMUS

Published on Aug 10, 2017

From Almedalen 2017.

Kevin Anderson, Zennström Visiting Professor in Climate Change Leadership, Uppsala University

Josefin Wangel Weithz, Associate Professor in Sustainable Urban Development, KTH

Johanna van Schaik Dernfalk, Unit manager, Environmental and Agricultural Sciences, Formas

What is the role of universities in response to the great environmental and social challenges of our times? In an age of escalating climate change, ecological unravelling and societal instability and uncertainty, what is higher education and research really for? And for whom?

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on November 26, 2017, 07:58:44 pm
More Evidence of Runaway Greenhouse Gas Caused Catastrophic Climate Change

Agelbert NOTE: As Global Warming increases, storms form in places they did not form before. Have a nice day.

(https://www.nnvl.noaa.gov/images/low_resolution/2150v1_20171118-medstorm.png)

Nov 20, 2017

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NOAA/NASA's Suomi NPP captured this image of a rare tropical-like storm system in the Mediterranean Sea intensifying off of Italy's southern coast on November 18, 2017. The image shows a well-defined eyewall as the storm entered the Ionian Sea between Italy and Greece.

Named 'Numa' by the Free University of Berlin's Institute of Meteorology, the storm has caused heavy rainfall and deadly flooding in Greece and parts of the Balkans. Numa is considered a hybrid storm, with both tropical and subtropical characteristics. The Mediterranean Sea typically is not conducive to tropical cyclone development, due to its relatively shallow depth and the limited amount of open water uninterrupted by land areas.

Although true-color images like this may appear to be photographs of Earth, they aren't. They are created by combining data from the three color channels on the VIIRS instrument sensitive to the red, green and blue (or RGB) wavelengths of light into one composite image. In addition, data from several other channels are often also included to cancel out or correct atmospheric interference that may blur parts of the image.

    
Terms of Use:   Please credit NOAA/NASA

Keywords:   Mediterranean Sea, NPP, VIIRS, 2017.11.18


https://www.nnvl.noaa.gov/MediaDetail2.php?MediaID=2150&MediaTypeID=1
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on November 28, 2017, 05:55:28 pm
 
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November 28, 2017

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Dangerous Climate Change is Here and Worse to Come, Major Report Warns


Contributing author to the report for the US Congress, Columbia University climate scientist, Dr. Radley Horton says more extreme weather events will be more common if U.S. doesn't curb use of fossil fuel

https://youtu.be/UT-7mVz8HJU

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Agelbert NOTE: The NEW report discussed in the video states we are headed for a FIVE DEGREE C INCREASE! (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-250817132239.gif&hash=c555fae59d64f84fedf7c850401a5d9610527816)

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The Fossil Fuelers DID THE Clean Energy  Inventions suppressing, Climate Trashing, human health depleting CRIME,   but since they have ALWAYS BEEN liars and conscience free crooks, they are trying to AVOID   DOING THE TIME or     PAYING THE FINE!     Don't let them get away with it! Pass it on!    (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F176.gif&hash=121533221905789c6b8d57a9603883266d349266)
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on November 28, 2017, 08:55:49 pm
Is Puerto Rico Being Ethnically Cleansed for the Rich?

https://youtu.be/Fmdr761_pf0

Thom is joined by Harvey Wasserman to discuss how after the devastating hurricane, predatory capitalists have started ethnically cleansing Puerto Rico to make it a paradise for the rich.

Thom Hartmann Nov. 27, 2017 6:00 pm
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on November 30, 2017, 07:21:50 pm
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Copperband butterflyfish tolerate a narrow range of temperatures, and already live at the edge of their limits. Ocean warming could push them (and other tropical fish) over the edge.  :( Photo Credit: Credit: POPimage/Shutterstock

Coral reef fish have the most to lose from climate change

BY: Madeline Bodin Thursday November 2, 2017

SNIPPET:

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What’s at stake is more than the survival of the copperband butterflyfish. That’s because protecting coral reefs also protects the people that depend on them, McLeod said. “We have a moral obligation.”   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fcliparts.co%2Fcliparts%2FBig%2FEgq%2FBigEgqBMT.png&hash=e7eec62f009cdd686ce795fad0a53c6befe748e9) 

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Of all the fish in the sea, tropical species are the most vulnerable. In streams and lakes, the opposite is true: Cold water fish are most likely to lose. Credit: Lotus_studio/Shutterstock


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http://oceana.org/blog/coral-reef-fish-have-most-lose-climate-change
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on December 02, 2017, 01:09:21 pm
EcoWatch

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Global Warming Hiatus Isn’t Over: It Never Began

December 2, 2017

By Tim Radford

SNIPPET:

Just weeks after one group of scientists officially declared an end to the global warming pause, the so-called hiatus, another group has returned to the argument.

They argue that there never was a pause in global warming. There was instead a global misperception that warming slowed between 1998 and 2012, but only because of gaps in the data, in particular from the Arctic, the fastest-warming region of the planet.

"We recalculated the average global temperatures from 1998 to 2012 and found that the rate of global warming had continued to rise at 0.112°C per decade instead of slowing down to 0.05°C per decade as previously thought," said Xiangdong Zhang, of the International Arctic Research Centre at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks.

He and colleagues report in the journal Nature Climate Change that their new estimates suggest that the Arctic had warmed by more than six times the global average during the first dozen or so years of this century.

The argument about the apparent slowdown in the rate of increase in global warming—that warming slowed but never stopped—provides a case study of science in action.

Full article:

https://www.ecowatch.com/global-warming-hiatus-2513233956.html
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on December 03, 2017, 06:24:59 pm
http://www.cnn.com/2017/12/03/us/us-virgin-islands-maria-recovery-trnd/index.html

75 days after Maria, this is life in St. Croix

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By Cassandra Santiago, CNN

Updated 6:33 AM ET, Sun December 3, 2017

(CNN)The sound of rattling generators fill Tarik McMillan's ears when he wakes up.

The noise is all around him, a mix between a car engine and a really big blender.

On St. Croix, an island where many places still don't have power, the diesel generators in his neighborhood rumble through the night.
He walks to the kitchen and greets his grandpa, who's boiling water on a propane stove to make coffee. Without power, the coffeemaker is a museum piece.


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Tarik McMillan

It's been 75 days since Hurricane Maria hammered the US Virgin Islands, and although the buzz of daily life is returning, the storm's ghost hovers over everything.

Power remains out for more than 60% of the territory. On St. Croix, the largest of the islands, only about a fourth of residents -- known as Crucians -- have electricity. Many homes still have no roofs. Cell networks are spotty.

This is the new normal for McMillan and the islands' other residents as they negotiate their daily lives. There's a gigantic line on their calendar -- before Maria, and after. Almost nothing about the two is the same...


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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on December 06, 2017, 06:25:19 pm
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Dramatic Iceberg Breakup in Antarctica Has Scientists Even More Worried

December 6, 2017

Maddie Stone

SNIPPET:

“What’s both interesting and of concern is the lines along which the iceberg has broken follow the pattern of crevasses developed in the ice shelf that it calved from,” Larter continued. “This change of behavior might reflect the crevasses within the ice shelf having an increasing influence on the spacing and pattern of iceberg calving.”

Pine island is currently shedding about 45 billion tons of ice a year. Scientists are watching closely for signs that the glacier will retreat faster as temperatures rise (they’ve already risen more than two degrees Celsius at the nearby Byrd Station). And several recent calving events—a 252-square-mile glacier in 2013, a 225-square-miles glacier in 2015, and the 72-square-mile glacier earlier this year—have put the Antarctic science community on edge.

Full article:

https://earther.com/dramatic-iceberg-breakup-in-antarctica-has-scientists-e-1821018353
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on December 06, 2017, 06:52:38 pm
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California's Year of Hellfire Continues As a Huge Blaze Erupts Outside of Los Angeles

December 6, 2017

Brian Kahn

SNIPPET:

The National Weather Service fire forecast indicates that extreme or critical fire weather could affect 20 million Southern Californians today and tomorrow. Through next week, that number balloons to 36 million.

The National Weather Service’s San Diego office took to Twitter to beg for a pattern change later this month. Right now, the city is on track to have tie 1929 for its driest start to the water year on record.

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Parts of Southern California have been bone dry since the start of the water year on Oct. 1. Image: NOAA Western Regional Climate Center



Full article:


https://earther.com/californias-year-of-hellfire-continues-as-a-huge-blaze-1821012661

Agelbert NOTE: The level of CO and CO2 in the Los Angeles area right now is off the charts. :P  See for yourself:

https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/chem/surface/level/overlay=co2sc/orthographic=-122.90,34.98,3000
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I seem to remember reading about something else that happened in 1929...

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on December 07, 2017, 08:22:05 pm
 
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December 7, 2017

Wildfires are Leveling LA Neighborhoods, Is There More to Come?

TRNN's Climate Crisis Bureau speaks to leading experts to examine how climate change has contributed to the worst wildfire season ever recorded in California

https://youtu.be/GsWMOU153e0

http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=20664
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on December 08, 2017, 01:01:05 pm
Wildfires are Leveling LA Neighborhoods, Is There More to Come?

Yes.  Further high winds and dry conditions expected tomorrow, then all week next week.

One has to wonder how CA musters up the money to pay the overtime to all these firefighters?  ???   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-200714191404.bmp&hash=007a2c20b76f970316a559a6e27cfd70c11f5998)

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Many of the firefighters are prison labor paid one dollar per hour.  :P When slavery was abolished in the USA over a century ago, the Capitalists left an exception for prison labor. LEGAL Prison (SLAVE) labor is a growth industry in the United Fascist States of America.   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-311013201314.png&hash=0715eb72631014310634eb56176ff860c6d542f6)

 
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on December 08, 2017, 02:44:01 pm
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An enormous waterfall gushes off the Nansen Ice Shelf. Credit: Jonathan Kingslake


New Climate Study: Most Severe Warming Projections Are Now the Most Likely

December 8, 2017

By Tim Radford

SNIPPET:

Global warming, under the notorious "business-as-usual scenario" in which humans go on burning fossil fuels to power economic growth, could by 2100 be at least 15 percent warmer than the worst UN projections so far. And the spread of uncertainty in such gloomy forecasts has been narrowed as well.

Climate scientists had worked on the assumption that there was a 62 percent chance that the world would have warmed on average by more than 4°C if no action was taken to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

But a new study has not only raised the stakes, it has narrowed the uncertainty. There is now a 93 percent chance that global warming will—once again, under the business-as-usual scenario—exceed 4°C by 2100.

https://youtu.be/8PdM9_cDL5Y

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https://www.ecowatch.com/climate-change-study-2515859984.html

Agelbert NOTE: For over a decade many observant and objectively analytical scientists have been saying that business as usual is suicidal and must not continue if we are to survive and proper as a species.

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It is sad that only major repeated catastrophic climate change events will finally get the greedballs running our civilization to smell the extinction coffee. WHY? Because it is crystal clear that any and all actions, as of a few years ago, will not stop the destruction for over a century.

We are now commited to a 4º C temperature increase horror.

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Every YEAR, not every several years, that criminals like Trump(https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Fpirates5B15D_th.gif&hash=32438e1ed2c4d1823d4ed2a193286525c840a605) delay action means more widespread deaths, misery and multiple extinctiions in the biosphere humanity requires to survive. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Fdesertsmile.gif&hash=293fbde1c87dec2d81c5907e3fbac7d8e5bba7a9)

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For those of you who do not think that SIN is the problem here, please remember that SIN means to miss the mark. ANYBODY that thinks those running this profit over people and planet suicidal system are not MISSING THE MARK is in willful denial of reality.

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And for all those happy wishful thinking GROUP THINKER Buddhists, who are so reality challenged  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Fmeditationf.gif&hash=095a4870429be421cc11c93b7a968fcd5b99a150) that they think you "cannor sin" because there is no "right or wrong" behavior to define "missing the mark", I can only say that you are too far up that river in Egypt to be of any use whatsoever in combating the evil that afflicts our society. I am sure that the evil forces in this world are quite happy to see so many people pretending that evil does not exist. You must be the brunt of jokes in the top Capitalist Profit over People and planet Board Meetings all over the planet.   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Fmocantina.gif&hash=d013c741bcf9a78776eec19c2c3aac449c35d75c)  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-120716190938.png&hash=01feab1c7345a4e98764e0f9d24b2d69171b93c2)

And mind you, the horror of a 4º C increase (PLUS!) may NOT be as far away as this new study predicts. Bear in mind that for the last three decades, EVERY SINGLE PREDICTION of temperature increase and global ice melt has been incredibly off the rapidly increasing global warming measured reality. Look at this chart and realize that those in charge are NOT going to keep you and your family from dying in heat and misery unless they are replaced by people who CARE about DOING THE RIGHT THING FOR GOD IN THE BIOSPHERE, PERIOD!

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The Fossil Fuelers DID THE Clean Energy  Inventions suppressing, Climate Trashing, human health depleting CRIME,   but since they have ALWAYS BEEN liars and conscience free crooks, they are trying to AVOID   DOING THE TIME or     PAYING THE FINE!     Don't let them get away with it! Pass it on!    (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F176.gif&hash=121533221905789c6b8d57a9603883266d349266)
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on December 09, 2017, 03:35:53 pm
http://grist.org/briefly/inmates-are-risking-their-lives-to-fight-californias-raging-fires/ (http://grist.org/briefly/inmates-are-risking-their-lives-to-fight-californias-raging-fires/)

Briefly
Stuff that matters
risky business

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DAVID MCNEW / Stringer / Getty Images Inmates are risking their lives to fight California’s raging fires.
As wildfires tear through the greater Los Angeles area, destroying hundreds of homes, officials have warned nearly 200,000 people to evacuate.

Thousands of firefighters have arrived on the scene — many of them inmates, who make up about a third of the state’s wildfire-fighting force. Since the 1940s, California has relied on inmates to combat the flames by digging containment lines and clearing away brush. In return for this difficult and dangerous work — which has been compared to slave-era labor conditions — inmates get credit toward early parole and $2 per day in camp plus $1 per hour for their time on the fire line.

Roughly 250 women inmates serve on California’s firefighting force, risking their lives to get out of prison faster.

“I’ve seen women come back with broken ankles and broken arms, burns, or just suffering from exhaustion, you know, the psychological stress that people go through trying to just pass the requirements,” Romarilyn Ralston, a former firefighter trainer, told PBS.

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on December 09, 2017, 05:33:50 pm
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Here's the Teacher-Friendly Antidote to Heartland Institute's Anti-Science School Propaganda

Saturday, December 09, 2017

By Ashley Braun, DeSmogBlog | Report

SNIPPET:

Taking on Heartland Institute Myths

While they don't explicitly mention the Heartland teacher mailing in the FAQ, Duggan-Haas pointed out, "The first question of the FAQ chapter is 'Is there a consensus among climate scientists that global warming is occurring and that humans are the cause?'"

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"That's a pretty direct response to the theme of their publication," he said.

In keeping with best practices for science communication, Duggan-Haas said they didn't want to trigger the "backfire effect," a phenomenon that may occur when trying to correct misinformation.

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on December 09, 2017, 10:13:48 pm
Eddie, if a person comes to you with such severe problems in his teeth and gums that you, as an experienced dentist, KNOW he has a 93% chance of losing all his teeth, plus possible blood poisoning and God knows what else, you will, of course, tell him the bitter prognocis. But that does NOT mean that you would avoid learning WHAT HE DID to cause the diseased condition so he will not CONTINUE TO DO IT. That does not mean that, RIGHT NOW, you will not do your best to save some of his teeth.

Actually, what you do in this situation is avoid going to a Dentist who charges as much as Eddie does and fly down to Mexico to have the offending teeth yanked for 10 cents on the dollar by a Mexican Dentist.  Then you adjust to the new way of life by eating mostly soft foods.  My diet consists of stuff like Brie Cheese, Cottage Cheese, Bananas, Berries, Sashimi, Soups of various kinds, Raw Meat (either ground sirloin or thin sliced filet mignon if I feel like spending), rice & beans, etc.  When I do have enough of an appetite to actually eat, I have no problem fulfilling my nutritional requirements with the 6 teeth I have left at the top front of my mouth.

To extend the analogy, when your teeth are so far gone you can't fix them, don't waste your money getting expensive implants from an expensive Dentist.  Get rid of the fu ck ing teeth and adjust to the New Reality.

We need to adjust to the new reality here, not try to fix a terminally broken set of teeth.

RE

RE,
I understand what you did with your dentition and I'm glad it worked for you. But can you honestly say that you solved all your health problems with that decision? Can you honestly say that your diet did not contribute to PAD and other health woes you are now experiencing? If you want to push the analogy, I must say to you that you cannot simply cherry pick a symptoms solving therapy that solved the teeth issue but did not address the root causes in your overall health problems.

Reality IS. I ALWAYS deal with it. Sometimes I do not deal with it all that successfully (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Fgaah.gif&hash=e43fa6be4258ba495007b2bbb3e7dd2f60288fcd), but I will not pretend it ain't there.

I disagree strongly with you if you think that I am the one "not adjusting to reality". The costs here are not just measured in dollars and cents; they are measured in quality of life and longevity. You are experiencing the effects of everything you have eaten and all the toxins you have been exposed to throughout your life. A decade ago, when I was a year older than you are now, I had to have a pacemaker implanted. I did not just treat the symptoms; I changed my activites to prevent further problems. It has worked well. That's all I'm saying we should do. I know you long ago made some decisions that you KNEW would shorten your life (like refusing to stop smoking). You have accepted that the consequences of that decision are inescapable. Accepting that REALITY is worthy of respect. It shows that you, unlike Palloy, understand that there ARE CAUSES, ROOT CAUSES, to any health problems we have now.

As to the inescapable reality of the accelerating deterioration of our environment and our society, Palloy is the one who cannot handle it. This la la land view that global warming and catastrophic climate change is "all going to go away with collapse" is the ultimate in wishful thinking and straw grasping.
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RE, what part of the following do you not agree with?
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Even if carbon dioxide emissions came to a sudden halt, the carbon dioxide already in Earth’s atmosphere could continue to warm our planet for hundreds of years, according to Princeton University-led research (http://www.nature.com/articles/nclimate2060) published in the journal Nature Climate Change.

I refuse to engage in Palloy's magical thinking, PERIOD!


Eddie said:
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I think you make good points. I think the "silver lining" of collapse (if there is one) though, is that there is some truth to Palloy's thesis, which is that collapse will be what limits climate change.(https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2F1.bp.blogspot.com%2F-TzWpwHzCvCI%2FT_sBEnhCCpI%2FAAAAAAAAME8%2FIsLpuU8HYxc%2Fs1600%2Fnooo-way-smiley.gif&hash=b8545bd420b1e2f2c7b9f665d2093523e4ad2251)

I don't know whether immediate collapse tomorrow or next week would limit climate change ENOUGH to save humans or the higher animals, but I think it's possible. I'm not optimistic that it would, for the reason you stated. And I agree with you that reducing carbon emissions immediately is still a good idea.

As of now, it seems to still be getting worse instead of better, and those who should be leading us into a lower energy future are instead in complete denial, and doing all the wrong things.

It's seems more likely to me that collapse will do more to limit climate change than all the governments and al the elites and al the current lip service to change. that's a pessimistic view, I know, and I wish I had more reason not to be such a pessimist.


Eddie,

NO, Palloy's point is without any logical or rational foundation whatsover. A collapse WILL NOT stop global warming for several centuries. Until you can somehow prove that humans can routinely live under horrendous climate conditions for over 200 years, you do not have any basis whatsoever to assume that a collapse will "improve" the climate during those 200 years (2018-2218 at least!). Sure, after 1,000 years or so, the average global atmospheric temperature will start going down from ABOUT 10º C ABOVE Pre-Industrial! (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-250817134648.gif&hash=d24c66a26329a19150a175d576b631d10f631ee8)

It's wishful thinking that Palloy is engaging in. It's irrational to think otherwise.
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on December 11, 2017, 05:29:13 pm
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This compelling video, featuring Dr. Samantha Ahdoot, highlights some of the ways our changing climate is affecting human health. Some vulnerable populations are particularly at risk, such as our nation’s children.

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Dr. Samantha Ahdoot is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine, and a partner with Pediatric Associates of Alexandria.

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MS: The greatest concern is that, unless many more people connect the dots between climate change and the more and more blatant phenomena on the landscape, we may fail to act fast enough. The phenomena include excessive rain storms accompanied by flooding, larger more destructive wildfires, increased frequency of dangerously hot days, and the dramatic spread of ticks and mosquitos that carry illness.

It concerns me that people who are in excellent health may find it difficult to understand that not everyone is like them; in fact, other people are experiencing health harms because of climate change. But luckily, people tend to believe their doctors. Many physicians are very clear about what they are seeing. This explains is why we could get 18 medical societies, including all the largest ones, to come together as a group and send a clear message to the public and policymakers about the health harms of climate change and the health benefits of climate solutions. The Consortium represents well over half the doctors in the U.S. We are clear that climate change is harming health today—including mental health–and will be more harmful tomorrow if we don’t act.

Read more:

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on December 11, 2017, 06:05:48 pm
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on December 11, 2017, 06:44:04 pm
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The Still-Raging Thomas Fire Torches Its Way into California Wildfire History

Bob Henson  ·  December 11, 2017, 3:40 PM EST

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Above: The Multi Spectral Imager of the European Space Agency’s Sentinel-2 satellite captured this false-color image of the burn scar and active burn areas of the Thomas Fire in Southern California on Tuesday, December 5, during its first phase of rapid growth. The fire has since burned much further beyond the left and top of the image. Active fires appear orange; the burn scar is brown. Unburned vegetation is green; developed areas are gray. The Sentinel-2 image is based on observations of visible, shortwave infrared, and near infrared light. The city of Ventura is at far lower right. https://go.nasa.gov/2B6Drov

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ore than 6000 firefighters were engaged in a furious effort on Monday to contain the Thomas Fire, the largest of the multiple wildfires that have pummeled Southern California over the past week. The Thomas Fire made an enormous westward surge on Sunday, consuming tens of thousands of acres in Santa Barbara County and reducing the fire’s total containment level from 15% to 10%. Incredibly, the 57,000 acres burned between Sunday and Monday morning far exceeded the entire coverage of October’s catastrophic Tubbs Fire in the Santa Rosa area (36,807 acres).­

As of Monday morning, Cal Fire reported that the Thomas Fire had officially consumed 230,000 acres and at least 790 structures, making it the fifth largest and tenth most destructive wildfire in state history. Two of the top 20 most damaging fires occurred in November, but none of the previous top 20 fires in terms of acreage occurred any later than October—much less in December, well beyond the typical tail end of wildfire season. It’s entirely possible this fire will burn till Christmas and beyond, and not out of the question it will roll past the Cedar Fire of 2003 (273,246 acres) to become California’s largest fire on record.

On Monday morning, evacuation zones extended to the northern and eastern outskirts of the city of Santa Barbara and included coastal communities from Summerland to Carpinteria (see Figure 1). The University of California, Santa Barbara, postponed its final exams till early January.

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Figure 1. Evacuation zones in Santa Barbara County as of 8 am PST Monday, December 11, 2017. Mandatory evacuations (red) cover a huge swath of higher terrain. Voluntary evacuations (orange) extend even further west, while also including more than 10 miles of land along the coast from the eastern end of the city of Santa Barbara to east of Carpinteria. If you are in the region of the Thomas Fire, please consult local authorities for the latest evacuation guidance. Image credit: County of Santa Barbara, via Google My Maps.

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Figure 2. Christmas decorations illuminated a house in Carpinteria, Calif., on Sunday, December 10, 2017, as the growing Thomas Fire advanced toward seaside communities in Santa Barbara County. Image credit: David McNew/Getty Images.

Stubborn offshore flow, dry air will continue to hamper firefighting

Crews have gotten the upper hand on the other major fires that broke out last week. All of them were at least 75% contained as of late Sunday. However, the Thomas Fire is a beast unto itself. Control efforts have been complicated by the fire’s sheer scope, the ruggedness of the terrain, and the ample fuel present in the form of thick brush. Although major fires have occurred in the rugged land of Santa Barbara County every few decades, some tracts of land in this area reportedly haven’t seen a major fire for more than a century.

If nothing else, fire weather across coastal Southern California will be less extreme this week than last week. The highly amplified upper-level ridge has weakened and shifted north, and the pressure contrasts pushing air from the Great Basin toward and over the coastal ranges will be less intense overall. On the down side, however, surface winds will continue to blow in a downslope/offshore direction, allowing the air to warm as it descends. As a result, temperatures will remain well above average, especially during the daytime, and relative humidity will continue to dip into the 5-15% range. Weaker winds in general will be a major help in firefighting, though any periods of intensified wind could help the Thomas Fire take advantage of the very dry atmosphere.

In its Monday morning outlook, the NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center put coastal southern California in “elevated” fire risk for both Monday and Tuesday. The center noted the possibility of an upgrade to “critical” (the second highest level) if winds increase somewhat on Tuesday, as models suggest.

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on December 12, 2017, 06:51:15 pm
Dying Ecosystems

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Earth’s ecosystems support all life, though collapsed ecosystems would be like stepping outside of the international space station not wearing a space suit. Pop! Bam! Gone!

A recent academic study about signals of ecosystem collapse throughout history fits the space suit analogy. Terrifying truth is exposed: The all-important biosphere is sending out warning signals of impending crises… worldwide. It does not seem possible that ecosystems collapse and life dies off. That’s too hard to believe… but, what if it does collapse?

“The Earth’s biodiversity is under attack. We would need to travel back over 65 million years to find rates of species loss as high as we are witnessing today.” (James Dyke, The Ecosystem Canaries, Which Act as Warning Signs of Collapse, The Guardian, Aug. 19, 2016).

“Biodiversity increases resilience: more species means each individual species is better able to withstand impacts. Think of decreasing biodiversity as popping out rivets from an aircraft. A few missing rivets here or there will not cause too much harm. But continuing to remove them threatens a collapse in ecosystem functioning. Forests give way to desert. Coral reefs bleach and then die,” Ibid.

It’s already happening! Imagine flying in an aircraft while watching the rivets pop, one by one. At some point in time screaming overrides thinking. But, thank heavens; we’re not quite there yet.
Scientists from University College London and the University of Maryland studied 2,378 archeological sites and discovered that every society for thousands of years gave early clues to its own demise. Of course, demise happened precisely because those early warnings were ignored, while thinking: “it’s impossible, can’t happen.”

The determinate signal of upcoming demise is referred to as “flickering,” which is a change in society’s responses to perturbations resulting in a society caught in a socio-ecological trap that reinforces negative behavior that started the issue in the first instance, thus, preventing adaption. (Source: Sean S. Downey, et al, European Neolithic Societies Showed Early Warning Signals of Population Collapse, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 113, no. 35, March 2016.)

The formula: Every time a society flickers, losing rivets, it loses recovery time, thereby moving closer to collapse. In every case study, with nearly 100% accuracy, researchers found flickers precedent to eventual collapse All but 2 of 27 test cases showed statistically significant results. Every case experienced massive population growth as a result of the emergence of agriculture followed by technological advancements. Sound familiar?

Societal decline is empirically signaled by any number of drivers such as (1) changing climate, (2) declining environmental productivity, (3) disease, (4) warfare, or (5) combinations thereof. Today, we’ve got’em all.

Rivets are popping all across the globe, e.g., the Great Barrier Reef, the largest living structure in the world, is signaling its demise like there’s no tomorrow. “Many scientists are now saying it is almost too late to save it. Strong and immediate action is required to alleviate water pollution and stop the underlying cause: climate change.” (Source: Michael Slezak, The Great Barrier Reef: A Catastrophe Laid Bare, The Guardian, June 6, 2016.)

According to David Attenborough, the world’s most famous naturalist: “The Great Barrier Reef is in grave danger… The twin perils brought by climate change – an increase in the temperature of the ocean and in its acidity – threaten its very existence,” Ibid. In point of fact, Attenborough’s remarkable new film Blue Planet 2 details the damage wreaked in the seas by climate change, plastic pollution, and overfishing. This final episode of his series lays bare shocking damage.

Compared with what was happening before the 20th century, three-times as much sediment, twice as much fertilizer and 17,000 extra kilograms of herbicide wash over the reef each year. When the coral dies, the entire ecosystem gets hit. Fish that feed on the coral, use it as shelter, or nibble on the algae die or move away. The bigger fish that feed on those fish disappear. But the cascading effects don’t stop there. Birds that eat fish lose their energy source, and island plants that thrive on bird droppings are depleted. And, of course, people who rely on reefs for food, income or shelter from waves lose their vital resource, as the final rivets pop followed by high-pitched screaming.
The signal or flicker of the Great Coral Reef is not nature’s way. It is an anomaly. It is easy to read about it and dismiss it and go on with life, but, in large measure, that’s the problem haunting and overriding ecosystem disintegration. It’s easy to read but punishingly painful to fix. Unwavering commitment is simply not there but for a select few like David Attenborough or Sylvia Earle, the world famous marine biologist.

Alas, groundswell of public opinion is not extant for collapsing ecosystems. It’s just not there at all. Yet, one hundred million people will be glued to TVs watching Super Bowl LII on Sunday, February 4th 2018, whilst the fate of the world’s largest and most important ecosystem rest in the hands of Attenborough, Earle and a handful of dedicated naturalists/marine biologists. Singularly, as well as unfortunately, ecosystem collapse is warranted based upon mathematical calculations alone: One hundred million (100,000,000) watch football while a handful of scientists work at fixing the world’s seas. Football’s more immediate.

Ad interim, massive environmental degradation flickers around the world, including climate change-derived crop losses for which the Federal Crop Insurance Program pays out $17.3B.

Meanwhile, heavily sprayed agrichemical pesticides and fertilizers bring about the absolutely shocking discovery that parts of the ecosystem are dropping dead right before society’s eyes, seventy-five percent (75%) insect loss detected in a major 27-yr. German study. How in the world is it possible for a 75% insect die-off, if not for chemically infested environmental degradation?

As it happens, the list of collapsing/flickering ecosystems is a very long list indeed. Here’s only a smattering:

Oceans have lost 40% of plankton production over past 50 years, threatening loss of one of the major sources of oxygen for the planet. (Boris Worm, Dalhousie Univ.)

If the same amount of global heat that went into top 2000m of ocean from 1955-2010 went instead into atmosphere, temps would warm by 36 C and destroy all life (Grantham Institute).

“Ocean seasons are changing as a result of too much heat and CO2… The scale of ocean warming is truly staggering with numbers so large that it is difficult for most people to comprehend.” (D. Laffoley, IUCN Global Marine and Polar Programme).

The ocean’s acidification rate of growth is unprecedented in Earth’s known history. (Jane Lubchenco, NOAA).

Ocean acidification occurring at least 1oxs faster than 55 million years ago based upon paleoclimate record. (C.L. Dybas, Oxford)

Nearly all marine life that builds calcium carbonate show deterioration due to increasing levels of CO2 and acidification. (Richard Feely, NOAA).

A foreboding flicker haunts the Arctic Circle, as permafrost melts away as a result of anthropogenic (human-caused) global warming, awakening forgotten pathogens from the depths. A Russian team analyzed material from 125 feet below surface in permafrost. They found extremely abnormal viruses, e.g., Pithovirus Sibericum, which survived 30,000 years frozen in ice. All of which brings to mind John Carpenter’s spectacular film The Thing (1982), and likelihood that zombie pathogens are buried in super-charged-melting-like-crazy permafrost.

Seven thousand (7,000) pingos discovered in Siberia… new development in permafrost science, never reported before, there could be 100,000 explosive methane pingos extant. (Vladimir Romanovsky, geophysicist Univ. of Alaska)

The East Siberian Arctic Shelf has reached “thaw point,” the turning point from linear to exponential release of CH4 leading to runaway global warming. (Natalia Shakhova, Int’l Arctic Research Centre)

Methane emissions in East Siberian Ice Shelves are 100xs higher than normal. (Igor Semiletov, Int’l Arctic Research Centre)

Tibetan Plateau headwater glaciers for Lancang River (Danube of the East) down by 70%- similarly for Yellow River and Yangtze River- that flow into Mekong Delta, which feeds the entire SE Asia basin of countries. (Yang Yong- Senior Chinese Geologist)

According to YaleEnvironment360: “As Oceans Warm, the World’s Kelp Forests Begin to Disappear,” Nov. 20,2017: “Kelp forests – luxuriant coastal ecosystems that are home to a wide variety of marine biodiversity – are being wiped out from Tasmania to California, replaced by sea urchin barrens that are nearly devoid of life.” Tasmania’s kelp forests hit by a devastating loss of 95%. In northern California, magnificent bull kelp forests along hundreds of miles of coastline have collapsed into an ecological wasteland, ocean desert.

Venice, Italy risks going on the UN’s endangered heritage site list unless it bans humongous cruise ships from the city’s lagoon, which is rapidly deteriorating into a state of utter disrepair.

Greenland’s entire surface experienced melt for the first time in scientific history. (Jason Box – Geologic Survey of Denmark & Greenland)

Greenland 2012 melt of the entire island not expected by scientific models for decades ahead, but it hit in 2012. (Michael Mann)

The all-important Atlantic ocean conveyor belt circulation pattern, aka: Thermohaline, has already started to slow down way ahead of schedule as predicted by scientific models – a result of global warming. This has strong negative ramifications for Europe. Models claimed it wouldn’t start slowing until 22nd century. It’s already started slowing down and could be sudden, maybe within decades! (Michael Mann)

In 2017, the Gulf of Mexico’s Dead Zone, where oxygen is so weak that fish die, is the largest ever at 8,800 square miles. (NOAA)

Positive Climate Feedbacks just starting to influence the warming process, meaning the planet itself is now emitting one molecule of CO2 via positive feedback for every two molecules of CO2 emitted by human activity. (Scripps Institution of Oceanography)

The scientific journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has reported that the Earth is already in the stages of the sixth mass extinction, which will see the world’s wildlife and plants die out. The research found that species, including those, which are not endangered, had reduced in number due to habitation shrinkage, hunting, pollution and climate change.

The deadly trio, or fingerprints, of mass extinctions, including global warming, ocean acidification, and anoxia or lack of ocean oxygen at current rate of change are unprecedented in Earth’s known history. (Alex Rogers, Oxford, scientific director State of the Ocean)

According to YaleEnvironment360, d/d April 2017, a survey of 12,000 adults and children shows that people have lost a closeness or connection with nature. “It is increasingly normal to spend little time outside.”

In the face of people mindlessly staring at very small and/or super large screens, the planet’s ecosystems are flashing signals all the way from Patagonia to Burrow, Alaska with bells clanging, alarms blaring, sirens screeching, but not a word on Good Morning America. Ergo, people really do not know what’s going on, which in a strange, twisted macabre fashion may be a blessing in disguise, until the final rivets pop. Then, loud screaming will register all across the land: Off with their heads! But whose?

Postscript: For each of the past 5 mass extinctions the one common factor has been massive increase in CO2, but none of the mass extinctions in the past compare to the spike in CO2 today. (Jen Veron, Australian Institute of Marine Science)

https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/12/11/dying-ecosystems/

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on December 12, 2017, 08:14:56 pm
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December 12, 2017

Permafrost in the Arctic is thawing faster than ever, according to a new US government report that also found Arctic seawater is warming and sea ice is melting at the fastest pace in 1,500 years.

The annual report released on Tuesday by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration showed slightly less warming in many measurements than a record hot 2016. But scientists remain concerned because the far northern region is warming twice as fast as the rest of the globe and has reached a level of warming that’s unprecedented in modern times.

“2017 continued to show us we are on this deepening trend where the Arctic is a very different place than it was even a decade ago,” said Jeremy Mathis, head of NOAA’s Arctic research program and co-author of the 93-page report.

Findings were discussed at the American Geophysical Union meeting in New Orleans.

“What happens in the Arctic doesn’t stay in the Arctic; it affects the rest of the planet,” said acting NOAA chief Timothy Gallaudet. “The Arctic has huge influence on the world at large.”

Permafrost records show the frozen ground that many buildings, roads and pipelines are built on reached record warm temperatures last year nearing and sometimes exceeding the thawing point. That could make them vulnerable when the ground melts and shifts, the report said. Unlike other readings, permafrost data tend to lag a year.

Preliminary reports from the US and Canada in 2017 showed permafrost temperatures are “again the warmest for all sites” measured in North America, said study co-author Vladimir Romanovsky, a professor at the University of Alaska in Fairbanks.

Arctic sea ice usually shrinks in September and this year it was only the eighth lowest on record for the melting season. But scientists said they were most concerned about what happens in the winter – especially March – when sea ice is supposed to be building to its highest levels.

Arctic winter sea ice maximum levels in 2017 were the smallest they’ve ever been for the season when ice normally grows. It was the third straight year of record low winter sea ice recovery. Records go back to 1979.

About 79% of the Arctic sea ice is thin and only a year old. In 1985, 45% of the sea ice in the Arctic was thick, older ice, said NOAA Arctic scientist Emily Osborne.

New research looking into the Arctic’s past using ice cores, fossils, corals and shells as stand-ins for temperature measurements show that Arctic ocean temperatures are rising and sea ice levels are falling at rates not seen in the 1,500 years. And those dramatic changes coincide with the large increase in carbon dioxide levels in the air, the report said.

This isn’t just a concern for the few people who live north of the Arctic circle. Changes in the Arctic can alter fish supply. And more ice-free Arctic summers can lead to countries competing to exploit new areas for resources. Research also shows changes in Arctic sea ice and temperature can alter the jet stream, which is a major factor in US weather.

This is probably partly responsible for the current unusual weather in the United States that brought destructive wildfires to California and a sharp cold snap to the south and east, according to NOAA scientist James Overland and private meteorologist expert Judah Cohen.

“The Arctic has traditionally been the refrigerator to the planet, but the door of the refrigerator has been left open,” Mathis said.

Outside scientists praised the report card.

“Overall, the new data fit with the long-term trends, showing the clear evidence of warming causing major changes,” in the Arctic, said Pennsylvania State University ice scientist Richard Alley.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/dec/12/arctic-permafrost-sea-ice-thaw-climate-change-report

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on December 12, 2017, 08:29:04 pm
Earth's Melting Glaciers Captured in Stunning Before-and-After Images 1
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Earth's Melting Glaciers Captured in Stunning Before-and-After Images 2
Retreat of the Columbia Glacier, Alaska, USA, by ~6.5 km between 2009 and 2015. Credit: James Balog and the Extreme Ice Survey
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Earth's Melting Glaciers Captured in Stunning Before-and-After Images 3
Stein Glacier, Switzerland, retreat of ~550 m from 2006 to 2015. Credit: James Balog and the Extreme Ice Survey
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Solheimajokull, Iceland, retreat of ~625 m from 2007 to 2015. Credit: James Balog and the Extreme Ice Survey
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on December 13, 2017, 10:34:58 pm

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And you still owe me an apology for claiming I was wrong in stating that reality is even worse than the RCP 8.5 Global Warming scenario. RCP 8.5 is too conservative. Admit it!

No, far from being conservative, RCP-8.5 is much too high (extremist) and would require there to be a LOT more fossils fuels than exist, let alone would be profitable to extract and refine. I think RCP-2.6 is much too high too. I just listened to Guy McPherson talk where he bases his incorrect scenario on Sam Canara's writings, a trickster who knows how to fool people with biased statistics. Fooled Guy anyway, who is not strong on statistics.

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You are delusional.

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No, far from being conservative, RCP-8.5 is much too high (extremist) and would require there to be a LOT more fossils fuels than exist (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Fp8.gif&hash=34db9228a959b3b83fc65b38a1aa92a40d56f976), let alone would be profitable to extract and refine.  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-250817122018.gif&hash=74d86c1f35e2f61ea38c9bfa392f84a92631b96e)I think RCP-2.6 is much too high too.(https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2F1.bp.blogspot.com%2F-TzWpwHzCvCI%2FT_sBEnhCCpI%2FAAAAAAAAME8%2FIsLpuU8HYxc%2Fs1600%2Fnooo-way-smiley.gif&hash=b8545bd420b1e2f2c7b9f665d2093523e4ad2251)

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You are also a liar. I posted a video here that PROVED the EMPIRICAL Climate DATA has us tracking MORE EXTREME than the RCP 8.5 scenario!
Here it is again.
https://youtu.be/8PdM9_cDL5Y (https://youtu.be/8PdM9_cDL5Y)

Are you going to claim the scientist in the video doesn't "understand" statistics or math too? Are you going to claim the charted EMPIRICAL data is "incorrect"? How many BULLSHIT straws are you going to grasp at now?

You know, your detatchment from reality is getting rather severe. You can still read a graph, right? I do believe they show one in the video with the RCP 8.5 track and the DATA right next to it.  ;)

Yet you STILL keep wallowing in your denial of reality. But that's how irrationally you cling to your world view.

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on December 14, 2017, 01:21:55 pm
Agelbert OBSERVATION: I just want to point something out I noticed yesterday on Google Earth. In those hills just west and north of Ventura (where there is still a lot of fire) there are umpteen Fracking pads. Every single one of them (active or not) has several varieties of hydrocarbon gases leaking ALL THE TIME. Hydrocarbon gases are, of course, known to aid combustion...

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http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-thomas-fire-ledeall-20171214-story.html (http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-thomas-fire-ledeall-20171214-story.html)

LOCAL L.A. Now

'This fire is a beast': Massive inferno keeps growing despite all-out battle

Firefighters try to stop the forward march of the Thomas Fire

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Firefighter Chris Black with the Sacramento Fire Department douses flames Tuesday in Toro Canyon in Carpinteria. (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)

Joseph Serna, Javier Panzar and Matt HamiltonContact Reporters

More than a week after the Thomas fire ignited in Ventura County, destroying hundreds of homes and displacing thousands as it grew into a massive inferno, firefighters are now in a race to protect the pristine coastal communities of neighboring Santa Barbara County before a shift in powerful winds forecast for this weekend.

Across the mountain ridges above Santa Barbara, Summerland and Montecito, firefighters Wednesday were building containment lines, clearing brush, digging breaks and setting small backfires to burn fuel, all in an effort to create barriers to stop the forward march of the fire.

Conditions so far this week have been favorable, allowing firefighters to attack the flames on the southwestern flank of the blaze as it moves west toward the Santa Ynez Mountains.

But the National Weather Service was forecasting sundowner winds blowing southeast at up to 35 mph Friday night, followed by Santa Ana winds Saturday that, at up to 45 mph, could steer the fire toward the southwest.

“When the wind starts pushing it, we can throw everything we have at it and it’s not going to do any good,” Mark Brown, an operations section chief for the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, told Santa Barbara residents Wednesday night.

The stakes are high. If the fire moves into Santa Barbara and Montecito, nearly a quarter million residents and 62,000 structures worth $46 billion would be at risk.

Dozers build containment lines as fire approaches

A dozer from the Santa Barbara County Fire Department clears a fire break across a canyon from atop Camino Cielo down to Gibraltar to make a stand should the fire move in that direction. (Mike Eliason / Santa Barbara County Fire Department via AP) (at article link)

“When the wind starts pushing it, we can throw everything we have at it and it’s not going to do any good." — Mark Brown, Cal Fire operations section chief

As firefighters well know, sundowner winds are notoriously unpredictable. The winds occur when hot air from the Santa Ynez Valley rises and swiftly pours over the mountain passes toward the Pacific Ocean, as if a person pressed a thumb over the end of a hose.

“It creates very erratic wind conditions, which are very difficult to predict and very difficult to fight fire in,” said Capt. Brendan Ripley, a fire behavior analyst with the Ventura County Fire Department. “It moves fire in different directions. It changes throughout the day.”

If crews can’t finish the containment line across a roughly six-mile stretch in the mountains fast enough to stop the fire’s march west, firefighters may have to burn the fuel themselves — a risky proposition and a scary sight for residents.

“It’s a proactive approach to fight the fire on our terms instead of on Mother Nature’s terms,” Brown said. “It’s well-coordinated if we do it. We’ve had numerous subject-matter experts put the plan together. It’s been vetted at all levels. All the local authorities have looked at it and approved it.”

Fire officials stressed that this plan would be used only if the weekend wind events occur as predicted and if crews can’t make a stand and fight the fire directly. The controlled blaze would burn up to 4,000 acres and be started when winds are favorable for firefighters.
Massive Thomas Fire Threatens Santa Barbara County
The Thomas Fire, feeding on thick chaparral brush which hasn't burned in generations, approaches homes in Montecito. (David McNew / Getty Images)

Meanwhile, firefighters hoped to slow the blaze by building breaks into areas with less vegetation because those areas burned in the last decade, said Chris Childers, a battalion chief with the Santa Barbara County Fire Department.

About 600 fire engines are jammed into the narrow, winding roads in the Santa Barbara County foothills. Trucks are spraying retardant on grassy hillsides and firefighters are wrapping small, indefensible buildings in protective metallic sheeting that looks like tinfoil to reduce the chances they ignite.

As smoke cleared and visibility improved, a conga line of low-flying helicopters started arriving at a county park in Santa Barbara off Highway 154 to pick up fire retardant. Officials said 33 helicopters and eight airplanes were dropping water and retardant on the blaze.

As of Wednesday night, the Thomas fire had burned more than 238,000 acres and was 30% contained. It has destroyed more than 900 homes in Ventura and Santa Barbara counties since it began Dec. 4 near Thomas Aquinas College in Santa Paula. In its first day, the fire spread southwest, toward Ventura, and northwest, eventually hugging Ojai before pushing to the Central Coast.

With containment lines now protecting Ventura and Santa Paula, firefighters there have been on a “seek and destroy” mission for any lingering hot spots that could threaten avocado groves, fire officials said Wednesday.

“This fire is a beast and you’re gonna kill it,” Martin Johnson, Santa Barbara County fire division chief, told fire crews at a morning briefing. “I have no doubt."

Authorities said it will probably take months for fire officials to determine the cause of the Thomas fire.

Serna from reported from Ventura, Panzar from Santa Barbara and Hamilton from Los Angeles.

joseph.serna@latimes.com

javier.panzar@latimes.com

matt.hamilton@latimes.com


Track the key details on Southern California’s fires


Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on December 14, 2017, 06:13:43 pm
Agelbert NOTE: Here is the NTSB video of the El Faro's fatal last journey. What bothers me about this is that they do not say absolutely ANYTHING about the wave size or height. I continue to believe that at least one giant wave hit the El Faro, causing it to sink. The mangled bridge superstructure and the  broken in pieces lifeboat evidences this, yet the NTSB doesn't not want to talk about it. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-200714183337.bmp&hash=fd5a6df63c32bd65dda7b6d93e788647ca3829df)
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The lifeboats on El Faro were 65 feet above the water line. From the condition of the lifeboat that was recovered, the evidence indicates a giant wave sank the El Faro.
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Yes, the Captain screwed up. Yes, BVS weather service helped him screw up. Yes, the side holes in the El Faro made it less seaworthy in a hurricane. But, they could be secured in fairly bad weather. Only giant waves would be ferocious enough to break open the sealed hatches and overcome the ability of the bilge pumps to keep most of the sea out. I read the entire transcript (not shown in this abbreviated summary) and they were smacked massively several times in the last hour before the ship sunk. You can listen to the mayhem on the El Faro Bridge and hear the forceful catastrophic wave impacts at the link in the following quote:
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NTSB Releases El Faro VDR Bridge Audio Transcript; Opens Investigation Docket

December 13, 2016 by gCaptain

http://gcaptain.com/ntsb-...-bridge-audio-transcript/ (http://gcaptain.com/ntsb-...-bridge-audio-transcript/)


Agelbert post with the above article: (http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/climate-change/global-warming-is-with-us/msg6090/#msg6090)

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SS El Faro. Photo: MarineTraffic.com/

NTSB Determines Probable Cause of EL FARO Sinking

December 12, 2017 by gCaptain

SNIPPET:

NTSB investigators worked closely with the U.S. military and federal- and private-sector partners to locate the wreckage, photo- and video-document the ship and related debris field, and recover the El Faro’s voyage data recorder from more than 15,000 feet under the surface of the sea – which proved critical to the investigation.

https://youtu.be/AmqsKKtE4-I

https://youtu.be/MfwS8Owt3hU


Full article:

http://gcaptain.com/ntsb-determines-probable-cause-of-el-faro-sinking/ (http://gcaptain.com/ntsb-determines-probable-cause-of-el-faro-sinking/)




Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on December 15, 2017, 12:39:13 am
Why the RCP 2.6 scenario is wishful thinking

THIS is what the RCP 2.6 is all about:

QUOTE:

RCP2.6 was developed by the IMAGE modeling team of the PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency.

The emission pathway is representative of scenarios in the literature that lead to very low greenhouse gas concentration levels.  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2F2.bp.blogspot.com%2F_9HT4xZyDmh4%2FTOHhxzA0wLI%2FAAAAAAAAEUk%2FoeHDS2cfxWQ%2Fs200%2FSmiley_Angel_Wings_Halo.jpg&hash=13281f1944b60773bf12b29387b70be77cc1fe16)  ;) It  is a “peak-and-decline”  scenario; its radiative forcing level first reaches a value of around 3.1 W/m2  by mid-century, and returns to 2.6 W/m2  by 2100.

In order to reach such radiative forcing levels, greenhouse gas emissions (and indirectly emissions of air pollutants) are reduced substantially, over time (Van Vuuren et al. 2007a). (Characteristics quoted from van Vuuren et.al. 2011)

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https://www.skepticalscience.com/rcp.php?t=3

Agelbert Explanation: First of all the emissions have not shown ANY tendency to slow down yet. But let us say that wishful thinkers (or perhaps fossil fuel industry propgandist status quo defending liars and crooks   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-311013201314.png&hash=0715eb72631014310634eb56176ff860c6d542f6)) are counting on a collapse to get the radiative forcings down to the RCP 2.6 level, INSTEAD OF ABOVE THE RCP 8.5 scenario, as they are NOW tracking.

Let us say that on January 1, 2018, we stop all polluting emissions of fossil fuels. Yeah, I know, RIDICULOUS. But here is where you are missing the pitch that the defenders of RCP 2.6 heaven are using. As long as the EVENT when fossil fuels use SLOWS DOWN is somewhere in the future (i.e. 2050) the BASTARDS that push this BALONEY can contiue urging us to burn fossil fuels with the CON that the radiative forcings are going to go WAY DOWN in 2050 and make everything better. That is BULLSHIT.

WHY? Because the radiative forcings DO NOT GO DOWN, as projected in RCP 2.6, just because emissions slow down! How can that be? It IS because CO2 doesn't just "go away" when you stop pumping more of it in to the atmosphere. It STAYS there for CENTURIES.

The whole CON here is the incredibly mendacious claim that there is a DIRECT cause and effect climate warming relationship to emissions. The FACT is that there is about a 40 year LAG. But the defenders of the RCP 2.6 do not want to talk about that.

For those who still cannot wrap their "collapse solves the problem" head around this inconvenient 40 year lag reality, that means that in 2017 plus 40 years - 2057 (if we come to a dead STOP on January 1, 2018 - you know that ain't gonna happen!), the radiative forcings we have TODAY, which are ABOVE RCP 8.5 (the number is related to the W/m2 of radiative forcings) will THEN begin to descend.

Oh, but there is MORE that those fine "honest"  fellows like Palloy do not want to discuss. You see, The radiative forcing scenarios are IRRELEVANT when a runaway greenhouse (several self reinforcing warming loops absent ANY added emissions) is in progress. THAT is where we are already at.

Consequently, for the two reasons I just stated, there is not a snowball's chance in hell that we will EVER get to a radiaitve forcings level of between 3.1 and 2.6 W/m2 by 2100. Our radiative forcings NOW are ABOVE 8.5 W/m2 and they ARE NOT going to go below that for at least 40 years, no mattter what the Palloys of this world otherwise mendaciously claim.

So why to the bullshitters pushing the RCP 2.6 scenario persist? BECAUSE they IGNORE the CO2 already in the atmosphere AND the 40 year lag while they give ALL THEIR ATTENTION (and they want YOU to look NOWHERE ELSE) at the amount of ENERGY generated by fossil fuels each year. That is just plain BONKERS. The other two factors are even MORE important at this stage of the runaway greenhouse!

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Don't swallow the con. All these fossil fueler crooks and liars want is to keep you USING fossil fuels for profit over planet! Stop using them wherever you can. The only good Fossil fuel corporation is a BANKRUPT fossil fuel corporation.


Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on December 15, 2017, 10:35:27 pm
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Latin America, A New Leader in Renewable Energy

December 12, 2017

By Katherine Olalla

Katherine is a Masters candidate at New York University Center for Global Affairs, with a concentration in Energy Policy and Environment. She is interested in sustainable development and renewable energy investment projects.

Latin America’s progress in tackling climate change is excelling and showing that its ambition plans are positioning this region as a new leader in renewable energy. In response to the threats of climate change, Latin America is taking bold climate actions to invest in renewable energy projects and adopting new energy policies to mitigate climate change impacts. As one of the most vulnerable regions to the effects of climate change, many Latin American countries showed their desire for a greener world at the recent United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP23) developing strategic plans to increase the deployment of renewable energy and reduce greenhouse emissions.

First, investment in renewable energy is on the rise as a result of the frequency of natural disasters in the region. In 2017, Latin American countries experienced catastrophic floods, droughts, and storms. Hurricanes like Irma and Maria caused major impacts on the Caribbean islands like Cuba and the Dominican Republic. Hurricane Irma devastated Cuba, 158,554 were displaced from their homes, 980 health facilities were affected, and 95,000 hectares of agriculture land was damaged. Hurricane Maria hit the Dominican Republic dropping 20 inches of rain flooding hundreds of houses. In countries like Peru and Colombia, the number of fatalities caused by natural disasters linked to climate change was even higher than previous years. In Peru, more than 100 people have died as a result, of the magnitude of this year’s floods. In October 2017, Colombia faced the deadliest flood in South America where at least 254 people died in Mocoa town.

Second, many Latin American countries like Uruguay are increasing the deployment of solar and wind energy supporting the reduction of global emissions of carbon dioxide. Scientists predict that greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuels will rise by 2 percent by the end of this year. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-120716190938.png&hash=01feab1c7345a4e98764e0f9d24b2d69171b93c2) The rise in use of coal in China this year has been a contributor to this problem. According to National Geographic, there are positive trends showing that Mexico and other Latin American countries are decreasing their emissions. Costa Rica was the first Latin American country to run entirely on renewable energy for more than 250 days, leading by example as the greenest countries in the region.

Read: How Uruguay Became a Wind Power Powerhouse (http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/articles/2016/03/how-uruguay-became-a-wind-power-powerhouse.html)

Third,
Latin America demonstrated leadership at the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP23) in Bonn, Germany. Countries like Brazil, Mexico and Chile are heavily investing in solar and wind energy. Brazil invested 7.1 billion in renewables in 2015 demonstrating its high potential to transit to a low-carbon economy. While Chile is proudly leading solar energy with the implementation of the biggest photovoltaics plant (El Romero) in the region that has the capacity to produce energy for 240,000 Chilean homes. Chile is also promoting renewable energy at the commercial level as Google Chile gets 100 percent of its energy from this solar power plant. Argentina and Mexico showed their interest in being part of a meaningful change by setting renewable energy targets, adopting support policies and providing fiscal incentives. Mexico excelled by being the first developing country to submit a climate pledge to the Paris Climate Agreement in 2015 and the first one to address adaptation to climate change in its pledge. Mauricio Macri, President of Argentina expressed his support to renewable energy and issued a decree at the beginning of this year to make Argentina generate 8 percent of their electricity from renewable sources for the entire current year.

At the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP23), main Latin American cities such as Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires, Quito, Caracas, Mexico City, and Santiago de Chile participated in global alliances among 25 global cities, where they committed to work harder and implement projects to address climate change impacts before 2020. Colombia and Ecuador were awarded at COP23 for their thriving initiatives. Colombia won the Momentum for Change award for its work with young scientists from the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), and Ecuador received the Impulse for Change award for the initiative, Sustainable Agriculture with Inclusion and Participation of Gender.

Latin America’s actions are showing to the rest the world that it is a regional leader for scaling up the use of renewable energy. Latin America appears to be home for some of the most promising renewable energy projects. Brazil, Colombia, and Mexico are already taking advantage of green funds. As we see the world being impacted more frequently by natural disasters caused by climate change, we will see more pro-renewables actions from Latin America.

http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/ugc/articles/2017/12/01/latin-america-a-new-leader-in-renewable-energy.html

Agelbert NOTE: I'm happy for Latin America but what they are doing to transition will probably not be enough to avoid more frequent and more intensely deadly catastrophic climate change damage.

WHY?  Because the fossil fuel industry worldwide is in a production binge! Did you know hat there are massive LNG carrier ship traffic jams in the newly expanded Panama Canal? The Canal authority is not allowing more than one natural gas ship a week.

Just a few years ago there weren't ANY of those ships going through the Canal. Now they are backed up there because of all the putput from Frackers from the USA that are exporting all they can.  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Facigar.gif&hash=dc9dccf92c6c88c99611b06c86d92629d69f2978) (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.smilies.4-user.de%2Finclude%2FSpiele%2Fsmilie_game_017.gif&hash=e8548890f80af23241a1d43a1ab1ca8031301f20)

Yes, readers, instead of reducing the polluting, planet heating emissions, the fossil fuel industry worldwide has opened the production flood gates.(https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-200714183337.bmp&hash=fd5a6df63c32bd65dda7b6d93e788647ca3829df) Russia is producing more oil and gas than ever as it continues plans to extract all types of fossil fuels from the Arctic as the ice melts. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Fpirates5B15D_th.gif&hash=32438e1ed2c4d1823d4ed2a193286525c840a605)

Goldman Sachs is saying Big Oil in the USA and Europe had a fantastically profitable year! The pollution business is BOOMING! (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frealsociology.edublogs.org%2Ffiles%2F2010%2F08%2F460_0___30_0_0_0_0_0_shell_skull_colour.jpg&hash=a4c0baea5ec89328a16e21f3820975938465eadf)

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What this massive production spike of oil and gas means to the biosphere is that the radiative forcing level from the RCP 8.5 (Representative Concentration Pathway), considered  the "Business as Usual" scenario by he IPCC, is WELL BELOW the actual emissions in 2017. That's right, folks. BUSINESS AS USUAL is now producing MORE than 8.5 W/m2 of radiative forcings. IOW, they are going to have to come up with a NEW "Trump and Putin Business as Usual" Global Warming scenario called the RCP 9.0 (or greater). (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-250817134648.gif&hash=d24c66a26329a19150a175d576b631d10f631ee8) (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-070814193155.png&hash=144ce9330e49ee84060db8753a8db69c39a14913)

The graphic below was our new reality as of 2016. Now at the end of 2017, it has only gotten WORSE.

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on December 15, 2017, 11:29:07 pm
A number of outright mistakes in your history of RCP-2.6.  ::)

It WAS a peak-and-decline scenario when it was originally called RCP-3PD, but later it was converted to a "viable" scenario that achieved a temperature increase of less than 2°C.  This include a HUGE increase in renewable energy - enough to keep the total energy output increasing at 3% p.a.  The embedded energy in creating this much renewable energy infrastructure was NOT included, because that would have made the total energy fall.  (There is NO SOLUTION that allows total energy to keep increasing.)

The models were calibrated by running them using data up to 1984 and demonstrating that they predicted the same values as the REAL 1984-2014 data.  Therefore they DO contain all the factors that the models contain, including the CO2 lag effect. The lag isn't just 40 years, it depends on the assumptions and under RCP-2.6 it is 32 years. The following decline is very slow, but the peak temperature is +1.6°C.


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Van Vuuren doesn't exactly put it that way.  It is ME and other Peakists that says it's gonna run out real soon and then we will have kept temperature rise to below +1.6°C, BUT WE WILL HAVE AN EVEN WORSE PROBLEM ON OUR HANDS - COLLAPSE.

It is this bind that our leaders have to face, and there is NOTHING they can do about it, except plan to have us as weak (politically) as possible so that we won't be able to hang them from the nearest lamppost. So concentrate on the right problem, Collapse, not Climate Change.

RCP-2.6 says the quantity of natural gas being produced in 2070 will be three times the current level.  Do you believe that?  Imagine how much gas RCP-8.5 implies.


ALL the scenarios except the RCP 8.5 are "mitigation" scenarios. This "peak and decline" issue is contingent on technology for carbon sequestration THAT HASN'T BEEN INVENTED! The most advanced CO2 scrubbing technology is in nuclear submarines and they CANNOT get it below 5,000 PPM of CO2! They have to surface when it gets to 8,000 PPM (the scrubbing technology cannot keep up) after several months. The "mitigation" scenarios, including the RCP 2.6, ASS-U-ME carbon sequestration technology (the space aliens will give us, I guess  ::)) that NOBODY HAS INVENTED YET to get the radiative forcings down. Don't tell me you did not know that! Yeah, even the RCP 6.0 (QUOTE ... application of a range of technologies and strategies for reducing greenhouse gas emissions Fujino et al. 2006; Hijioka et al. 2008 UNQUOTE) ASS-U-MES that magical thinking!

Who said anything  about ENERGY INCREASING? YOU are the one that won't let that go. I am the one trying to get you to understand that the polluting particles in our atmosphere WILL PRODUCE the radiative forcings that will NEVER descend anywhere near 2.6 even with ZERO production of fossil fuels. You just cannot accept that. Yet, any climate scientist will be happy to explain it to you.

Putin and Trump sure as hell believe they will keep producing oil and gas willy nilly! But you still cannot wrap your head around the fact that radiative forcings will continue to INCREASE for 40 years (at least) even after production of fossil fuels decreases to zip. NO, the LAG is NOT properly accounted for. There are SEVERAL real world conditions ABSENT from ALL the models. You just cannot accept what a self reinforcing global warming feedback loop (i.e. "postive") is AND that there are well over THIRTY of them now in play the models DO NOT account for. And NO, that isn't just from Guy McPherson or Sam Carana, your favorite punching bags; eminent glaciologists have already made that clear.

Then there is the permafrost you don't realize will add one hell of lot more radiative forcings even after, to use your fascinating term, the lack "profitable" exploration for and extraction of fossil fuels makes them "too expensive" and they go the way of the dodo bird around the time your assumed collapse scenario happens

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Sorry Palloy, your scenario has more logical holes in it than a piece of swiss cheese.

Give it a rest Palloy. You simply do not know what you are talking about. The fact is that they are going to SOON have to label the "Business as Usual" scenario the RCP 9.0  (radiative forcing of 9.0 W/m2 OR MORE for at least 40 years!) or higher because of the LATEST radiative forcings in 2017. That's right, Einstein, global greenhouse gas emissions are INCREASING (see my note after the Latin America Renewable Energy post below). Your "collapse will solve the emissions and warming" magical thinking is irrational. Clinging to it is delusional. Stop it. Join the real world of biosphere math and stop wishing reality away with a convenient collapse.

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on December 18, 2017, 06:20:08 pm
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Trump will drop climate change from national security strategy

֍ President (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Fgen152.gif&hash=d5b10968fe56c4cb95fae17cee3cb420a5f4e2da) to outline new approach (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F2z6in9g.gif&hash=771b084a0f186d9cc14f31defd98a6c90b69b84f) in unprecedented White House speech

֍ Obama administration added climate to list of threats to US interests]

Julian Borger in Washington

Monday 18 December 2017 05.00 EST

SNIPPET:

The Federalist website, which first reported that Trump would drop climate change from the NSS, quoted the draft document as suggesting the Trump administration would actively oppose efforts to reduce the burning of oil, gas and coal for energy.
Full article:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/dec/18/trump-drop-climate-change-national-security-strategy

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on December 18, 2017, 08:59:49 pm

Let it go - the arctic will never be frozen again

Last week, at a New Orleans conference center that once doubled as a storm shelter for thousands during Hurricane Katrina, a group of polar scientists made a startling declaration: The Arctic as we once knew it is no more.

The region is now definitively trending toward an ice-free state, the scientists said, with wide-ranging ramifications for ecosystems, national security, and the stability of the global climate system. It was a fitting venue for an eye-opening reminder that, on its current path, civilization is engaged in an existential g a m b l e with the planet’s life-support system.

In an accompanying annual report on the Arctic’s health — titled “Arctic shows no sign of returning to reliably frozen region of recent past decades” — the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which oversees all official U.S. research in the region, coined a term: “New Arctic.”

Until roughly a decade or so ago, the region was holding up relatively well, despite warming at roughly twice the rate of the planet as a whole. But in recent years, it’s undergone an abrupt change, which now defines it. The Arctic is our glimpse of an Earth in flux, transforming into something that’s radically different from today.

At a press conference announcing the new assessment, acting NOAA Administrator Timothy Gallaudet emphasizes the “huge impact” these changes were having on everything from tourism to fisheries to worldwide weather patterns.

“What happens in the Arctic doesn’t stay in the Arctic — it affects the rest of the planet,” Gallaudet said.

 Zack Labe‏Verified account @ZLabe

Monthly #Arctic temperature ranks (1=warmest , 39=coldest ) over the satellite era - including November 2017

Available a http://sites.uci.edu/zlabe/arctic-temperatures/


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 8:04 AM - 4 Dec 2017

In an interview with NPR, marine scientist Jeremy Mathis, director of NOAA’s Arctic Program, went a step further. When it comes to the Arctic, Mathis said “there is no normal” anymore: “The environment is changing so quickly in such a short amount of time that we can’t quite get a handle on what this new state is going to look like.”

Using 1,500 years of natural records compiled from lake sediments, ice cores, and tree rings as context, the NOAA report says the Arctic is changing at a rate far beyond what’s occurred in the region for millennia.

“The rate of change is unprecedented in at least the last 1,500 years and probably going back even further than that,” Mathis said. “Not only are we seeing big changes, we’re seeing the pace of that change begin to increase.”

In the NOAA report, Arctic scientists lay out their best ideas of what this shift could mean for the world. Their depictions are sobering.

Take, for instance, the hypothesis of University of Alaska-Fairbanks permafrost scientist Vladimir Romanovsky: So far, 2017 has seen the highest permafrost temperatures in Alaska on record. If that warming continues at the current rate, widespread thawing could begin in as few as 10 years. The impact of such defrosting “will be very very severe,” Romanovsky says, and could include destruction of local infrastructure — like roads and buildings — throughout the Northern Hemisphere and the release of additional greenhouse gases that have been locked for generations in the ice.

The loss of sea ice is already having profound changes all the way down at the base of the Arctic food web. As more sunlight hits darkly-colored open water, more heat energy is retained, and temperatures are rising further. That’s kicking off what Mathis, of NOAA’s Arctic Program characterizes as “an almost runaway effect,” involving a lengthening of the growing season, a greening of the tundra, a surge in wildfires, and a boom in plankton growth. All that adds up to a wide-ranging disruption to patterns that Arctic natives have relied on for millennia.

The effects are being felt further afield, too. “We’re fairly confident now,” Mathis said, that the warming Arctic is “creating conditions where more extreme weather events are beginning to show up in North America.” For example, separate research published earlier this month found a robust link between dwindling Arctic sea ice and an expanding risk of California drought.

The report’s urgent language begs the question: What concrete actions will a science-denying White House take as a result of this new information?

Acting NOAA Administrator Gallaudet said he personally presented the report at the White House last month, adding that Trump administration officials are “addressing it and acknowledging it and factoring it into their agenda.”

That the Arctic is now a relic of a time gone by — the first major part of the planet on a countdown clock — should shock us. It’s one of those facts that those of us who closely follow climate change knew was coming. And with its arrival, it is devastating in its totality.

The loss of the Old Arctic is as close as humanity has come so far to irreversibly transforming its planet into something fundamentally different than what has given rise to civilization over the past 10,000 years. This is a terrifying transition, and one worth mourning. But it’s also a reminder that our path as individuals and as a society is not fixed.


If the Arctic can change this quickly, then so must we.

http://grist.org/article/let-it-go-the-arctic-will-never-be-frozen-again


How come it melted and froze again so many times before?  ???   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-200714191404.bmp&hash=007a2c20b76f970316a559a6e27cfd70c11f5998)

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Because the amount of Carbon Dioxide in the atmosphere would vary up and down (from volcanic activity or the lack of it), although the rates of increase and decrease and back were MUCH slower than the breakneck, planet ruining speed at which HOMO SAPS are stuffing the atmosphere with CO2.

The 6th Mass Extinction Event is here * Geologic History shows why CO2 caused Global Warming before (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-070814193155.png&hash=144ce9330e49ee84060db8753a8db69c39a14913)
Marc Haneburght

https://youtu.be/XY4mH6tokBE

Published on Jun 1, 2017

Runaway Climate Change is causing exponential major flooding (happening now) due to more heavy rainfall on Earth, and are taking too much nutrients by rivers into the oceans, creating anoxia events. A deadly purple sulfur bacteria. Too much is never a good thing. It's what made oil deposits happen in the past.

In the past the dinosaurs roamed the planet during the start of an extinction event, now it will be us. The next clever beings might learn in time what we did wrong, maybe not.

The planet might turn into Mars because of nobody being at the controls of nuclear power plants that will destroy the ozone with massive amounts of radiation.

Oceanic anoxic events or anoxic events (anoxia conditions) refer to intervals in the Earth's past where portions of oceans become depleted in oxygen (O2) at depths over a large geographic area. During some of these events, euxinia, waters that contained H2S hydrogen sulfide, developed. Although anoxic events have not happened for millions of years, the geological record shows that they happened many times in the past.

Anoxic events coincided with several mass extinctions and may have contributed to them. These mass extinctions include some that geobiologists use as time markers in biostratigraphic dating. Many geologists believe oceanic anoxic events are strongly linked to slowing of ocean circulation, climatic warming, and elevated levels of greenhouse gases.

Global warming. The biggest story ever. Too big for the general public.  >:(

Agelbert NOTE: MUST SEE video! (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F301.gif&hash=0291ed4abf2d80e420d1aa00d4eb3c5dd6bbfb53) To skip ancient history, begin at the 32 minute mark.

This video is tremendously educational and instructive because it demonstrates exactly how our scientists accurately determined CO2 levels in the distant past, as long ago as 200 million years, when today's oil deposits are believed to have been formed.

How did they do it? ??? They found 200 million year old fossils of a plant called a Ginko, that did NOT "evolve" AT ALL  ;D, all the way to the present (leaf structure is identical to modern Ginko leaves).

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Permian Ginko leaf fossil on left  - Modern Ginko Leaf on right

The Ginko has pores in the underside of the leaves. The number of pores it forms is a function, as has been determined by empirical evidence, of the available atmospheric CO2. IOW, the more  CO2, the more pores.

The fossilized Ginkos leaf pore totals, exactly as the leaf pore totals of modern Ginko test plants grown in increasingly higher CO2 containing atmospheres, evidence 4 times the CO2 level of pre-industrial human civilization. THAT was an ice free world.

HOWEVER, that was NOT a "tropical paradise", as the fossil fuel fascist propagandist crooks and liars want you to believe. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.coh2.org%2Fimages%2FSmileys%2Fhuhsign.gif&hash=3732d0427be65896527fc3805c5be54a33cffd3b)

Once the ice is GONE, some death dealing chemical processes begin until just about every macroscopic oxygen breathing life form is dead. It begins with the death of most of the species populating the Marine Trophic Pyramid. HOW? ???

When the ice is gone, the ocean currents that circulate oxygen throughout the oceanic depths in a 500 year cycle come to a HALT. This makes more and more parts of the ocean anoxic, so all the oxygen breathers die or flee closer to the still oxygenated shallows.

Meanwhile, the high CO2 levels acidify the oceans, killing off the Oxygen producing phytoplankton (can't make their Calcium Carbonate structure - like mollusks also can't - despite having more CO2 "food" available) that had become widespread with the early initial increase of CO2 levels (see massive algae blooms going on as we speak).

The dead Phytoplankton begin to sink through the shallows, triggering bacterial feeding frenzy activity of a type of purple bacteria that decomposes phytoplankton, hates oxygen, but needs sunlight (it uses the sun but excretes H2S - Hydrogen sulfide poisonous gas, not  oxygen).

So THEN the shallows become anoxic too. Then what is left of the oxygen breathers die. This not "just evolution", as the idiots who compare our fossil fuel based civilization's stupid and suicidal greedy activity to massive volcanic eruptions, as if  humans have as little free will as a volcano, ridiculously claim. But the imbeciles who wish to perpetuate the fossil fuel burning status quo frequently resort to this craven attempt to avoid responsibility for the harm being done. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-200714183337.bmp&hash=fd5a6df63c32bd65dda7b6d93e788647ca3829df)

Allowing the CO2 to get so high that it triggers the death of most marine life is Genocidal Criminal Negligence.


https://youtu.be/3D3JWiMDtds

What just happened in the death of the Great Barrier reef is just the beginning of the heating process resulting from too much CO2. There is still a lot of ice. There is still oceanic circulation and oxygenation.

But ALREADY, JUST THE HEAT is killing the most important marine life nurseries in the oceans. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-070814193155.png&hash=144ce9330e49ee84060db8753a8db69c39a14913)

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SO WHAT, you might ask. The dinosaurs were around for millions of years. Don't we have lots of time too?   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F126fs3187425.gif&hash=698371058827d6a11faaaa56c2531639421f9477)

WHY? ???

Because the RATE we are putting CO2 in the atmosphere is THOUSANDS of TIMES FASTER than when the massive volcanic eruptions caused CO2 triggered extinctions!

When the  ice is gone and that rotten egg  smell from ubiquitous  Hydrogen sulfide poisonous gas reaches your nostrils, expect a VERY brief growth industry in canned oxygen.  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-311013200859.png&hash=a7aaaa9f04c1e3e2c948723b5f8c13fe814dacd4) (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Fdesertsmile.gif&hash=293fbde1c87dec2d81c5907e3fbac7d8e5bba7a9) But don't expect the Fossil Fuel Fascist "industry"   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-140415130805.png&hash=23d2e6dc6311a26c399bf0cb60868bcff2781a58) to admit they destroyed the biosphere for short term profit.

Coming soon to your home: DOOM WEEK ON PLANET EARTH
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The Fossil Fuelers   DID THE Climate Trashing, human health depleting CRIME,   but since they have ALWAYS BEEN liars and conscience free crooks, they are trying to AVOID   DOING THE TIME or     PAYING THE FINE!     Don't let them get away with it! Pass it on!    (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F176.gif&hash=121533221905789c6b8d57a9603883266d349266)
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on December 18, 2017, 09:22:56 pm
Based on history, once we max out at +10C and all the sequestered CO2, CH4 & H2S is released, the process will reverse and temperatures will begin to drop again.  Won't happen overnight of course, it will take a few million years probably.

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You will get no argument from me on that future climate stabilization hypothesis.

But it will not do the idiots who triggered a multi-million year disaster in a mere two centuries any good at all.

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on December 19, 2017, 04:13:32 pm
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Dec 18 2017

Editor’s note: This commentary is by Bob Walker, of Thetford Center, who is a community organizer and energy consultant.

An Open Letter to Governor Phil Scott

Dear Gov. Scott,

It’s 3 a.m. and I should be sleeping, but all I can do is think about your comments that appeared in VTDigger from Thursday’s (Dec. 7) press conference, that you are “not sure that there’s a financial threat” to Vermont as a result of climate change.

Have you not seen the climate projections showing Vermont’s winter temperatures similar to those of Virginia or North Carolina and Vermont’s maple trees migrating north out of the state by the end of the century? You don’t think those will harm Vermont’s winter sports and maple syrup industries?

What about the $733 million in damage to Vermont from Hurricane Irene in 2011 and the tens of millions of dollars towns throughout the Upper Valley are currently spending to restore roads from flooding this July? How many more of these storms will it take before you see a financial threat to the state?

And you think Vermont might actually benefit from climate change by the hordes of destitute climate refugees driven here, fleeing wildfires, coastal flooding, hurricanes and severe drought. Wow! I appreciate your looking for a glimmer of hope in the face of this, but all I can think of is Brian Cohen and his fellow sufferers, in Monty Python’s “Life of Brian,” as they kick dance and break into singing, “Always Look on the Bright Side of Life” while being crucified.

Governor, please, climb down off of the cross and get serious about climate change. Stop promoting use of the VW settlement money for “clean diesel” – whatever that is – and direct it instead toward electric buses, trains and charging infrastructure. Support the expansion of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative to transportation. Work with folks promoting the ESSEX Plan to come up with a carbon tax that will make fossil fuels more expensive, while lowering electric costs for everyone and protecting the poor and then work to expand the program throughout the New England states. Support Neale Lunderville’s Warm Home Bonds  initiative to weatherize 10,000 low-income homes in the next three years and then expand that program to homes of middle-income Vermonters. Start supporting sensible wind development in Vermont.

If you’re looking for a financial advantage to the state from climate change, it will be in the thousands of green energy jobs created and billions of fossil fuel dollars no longer leaving the state each year from these changes.

https://vtdigger.org/2017/12/18/bob-walker-governor-get-serious-climate-change/

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on December 20, 2017, 05:31:37 pm
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December 20, 2017

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Human society is facing an existential threat. Why isn't it at the top of the political agenda? ???

https://youtu.be/YqNU7XkcXLo

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on December 26, 2017, 05:31:20 pm
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2017: Technology — 1, Civilization — 0

December 25th, 2017 by Steve Hanley

At CleanTechnica, we celebrate the wonders of science, engineering, and technology. We catalog in detail the advances made in renewable energy and transportation — advances that will make it possible to transition away from a world in which emissions from burning fossil fuels threaten the environment or make us sick.

Yet all the talk of new technology often obscures the larger purpose behind these advances. They amount to little more than invention for invention’s sake with no thought given to the ultimate goal — the improvement of the human condition. Sometimes we need to stop for a moment and take stock of where we are and where we want to go. Yogi Berra said it best: “If you don’t know where you’re going, you’ll end up someplace else.”

American Exceptionalism

People in the United States — after centuries of being steeped in the ethos of American Exceptionalism — tend to believe that America is the greatest civilization the world has ever seen, or ever will see. Yet a report from Philip Alston, a special envoy from the United Nations asked to examine poverty and human rights in America, finds that 40 million Americans live in extreme poverty, with little access to basic human rights. For them, the thought of “liberty and justice for all” is little more than a cruel hoax.

Alston, a professor at New York University School of Law, spent 10 days crisscrossing America from California to Alabama, Georgia, Puerto Rico, West Virginia, and Washington DC. He writes:

“My visit coincides with a dramatic change of direction in US policies relating to inequality and extreme poverty. The proposed tax reform package stakes out America’s bid to become the most unequal society in the world, and will greatly increase the already high levels of wealth and income inequality between the richest 1% and the poorest 50% of Americans. The dramatic cuts in welfare, foreshadowed by Donald Trump and speaker Ryan, and already beginning to be implemented by the administration, will essentially shred crucial dimensions of a safety net that is already full of holes. It is against this background that my report is presented.

“The United States is one of the world’s richest and most powerful and technologically innovative countries; but neither its wealth nor its power nor its technology is being harnessed to address the situation in which 40 million people continue to live in poverty.

“American exceptionalism was a constant theme in my conversations. But instead of realizing its founders’ admirable commitments, today’s United States has proved itself to be exceptional in far more problematic ways that are shockingly at odds with its immense wealth and its founding commitment to human rights. As a result, contrasts between private wealth and public squalor abound.”

Alston was asked by the UN to rank the United States compared to its peers according to standards promulgated by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development. Here is a list of his findings:

By most indicators, the US is one of the world’s wealthiest countries. It spends more on national defense than China, Saudi Arabia, Russia, the United Kingdom, India, France, and Japan combined.
US healthcare expenditures per capita are double the OECD average and much higher than in all other countries. But there are many fewer doctors and hospital beds per person than the OECD average.

֍ US infant mortality rates in 2013 were the highest in the developed world.
֍ Americans can expect to live shorter and sicker lives, compared to people living in any other rich democracies, and the “health gap” between the US and its peer countries continues to grow.
֍ US inequality levels are far higher than those in most European countries.
֍ Neglected tropical diseases, including Zika, are increasingly common in the USA. It has been estimated that 12 million Americans live with a neglected parasitic infection. A 2017 report documents the prevalence of hookworm in Lowndes County, Alabama.
֍ The US has the highest prevalence of obesity in the developed world.
֍ In terms of access to water and sanitation, the US ranks 36th in the world.
֍ America has the highest incarceration rate in the world, ahead of Turkmenistan, El Salvador, Cuba, Thailand, and the Russian Federation. Its rate is nearly 5 times the OECD average.
֍ The youth poverty rate in the United States is the highest across the OECD, with one quarter of youth living in poverty compared to less than 14% across the OECD.
֍ The Stanford Center on Inequality and Poverty ranks the most well-off countries in terms of labor markets, poverty, safety net, wealth inequality, and economic mobility. The US comes in last of the top 10 most well-off countries, and 18th amongst the top 21.
֍ In the OECD, the US ranks 35th out of 37 in terms of poverty and inequality.
֍ According to the World Income Inequality Database, the US has the highest Gini rate (measuring inequality) of all Western Countries
֍ The Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality characterizes the US as “a clear and constant outlier in the child poverty league.” US child poverty rates are the highest amongst the six richest countries — Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Sweden, and Norway.

An Indictment

The list is an indictment of all Americans. We are inundated by stories on the internet telling us the least among us are lazy, shiftless takers — shirkers who have been made into zombies by government programs, deprived of the innate ability to fend for themselves without handouts from “the nanny state.”

This cruel and insulting narrative is little changed from 1843, when Charles Dickens first published A Christmas Carol, a story of avarice among the wealthy and poverty among the working poor. The parallel to America today is abundantly clear. Salon this Christmas Day has published a featured story calling the recent tax reform legislation a Republican bah humbug sort of tax plan.

The perpetrators of this monumental injustice must have been channeling Ebenezer Scrooge when he said, “Every idiot who goes about with ‘Merry Christmas’ on his lips, should be boiled with his own pudding and buried with a stake of holly through his heart.”

Are There No Prisons?

In a country that locks up more people than any other nation, the words of Scrooge echo louder than ever. “Are there no prisons? Are there no workhouses?” he demands.

https://youtu.be/Kjqc2h43flE


Mankind Was My Business
Dickens had words of wisdom for those who place profits above people in their daily affairs. “Mankind was my business!” the ghost of Jacob Marley tells Scrooge on Christmas Eve.

https://youtu.be/_J5ik-ndW5Q

Millions of people have read Dickens’ book and seen either a play or a movie based upon it. All come away praising the author for his insight and saying they were improved by the experience.

But few ever alter their behavior as a result. Instead, they choose to believe charlatans who thump their chests and pound their Bibles while spouting the most hateful, bigoted, misogynistic myths about people — like how all immigrants are terrorists, only stupid people get sick, or burning more fossil fuels is actually good for the environment.

Many people were surprised the other day when the latest SpaceX launch from California created an amazing light show in the sky. Apparently, a significant number of people who saw it believed they were witnessing an alien invasion. Elon Musk seemed a bit surprised.

 
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Elon Musk
✔ @elonmusk

So strange that people often believe things inversely proportionate to the evidence. Given a set of possible explanations, why pick the extremely unlikely one!?

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Strange indeed, Elon. Unless technology can find a cure for this phenomenon, all the technological advances in the world will not save humanity from itself.

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on December 27, 2017, 04:44:03 pm
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To whom it may concern: My wife's Parents and Brother in Puerto Rico just got their electricty back on after 96 DAYS. They lost it when Irma came by and then lost their phone land line service with Maria.  :( The old folks still do not have land line phone service but my brother-in-law has cell phone service. That is how my wife learns of what is going on down there.

My brother-in-law is the surviving member of a two brother business that sold and repaired jet skis (i.e. personal water craft) and motorcyles (Edwin, younger than my wife but older than his brother Carmelo, died of colon cancer in 2013).

Carmelo is a shrewd businessman. He is also a fossil fueler. ;D But, one cannot pick one's in-laws. :D He has done quite well selling generators since the latest hurricanes. He is looking into the solar panel plus battery pack business but remains unconvinced that he can make as much money with that as selling diesel generators. Let us hope he gets with the Renewable Energy program soon.  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-221017161839.png&hash=7d34712243960aa20883775dad728bc2115ed6fe)


Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on December 28, 2017, 02:16:04 pm
The 2017 Pacific Typhoon Season Saves its Worst for Last: 240 Killed in the Philippines

Dr. Jeff Masters  ·  December 26, 2017, 10:29 AM EST

SNIPPET:

The relatively inactive 2017 Northwest Pacific typhoon season saved its worst for last, as the final storm of the year, Typhoon Tembin, was also the deadliest. Tembin hit the southern Philippines island of Mindanao as a tropical storm on December 22, dumping torrential rains that triggered devastating flash floods and mudslides. According to Philippines news source rappler.com, Tembin (called Vinta in the Philippines) killed 240 people and left 107 missing. This death toll surpasses the 114 killed by Typhoon Damrey in the Philippines and Vietnam in November as the deadliest tropical cyclone in the world in 2017 (though indirect deaths in the Caribbean from Hurricane Maria have been estimated to exceed 1,000.) Fortunately, Tembin weakened to a tropical depression before brushing Vietnam on Monday, causing no deaths or major damage there.

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Figure 1. Huge boulders and clay that ran over the village of Mindalano on December 25, 2017 in Salvador, Lanao del Norte, Philippines, due to flooding from Tropical Storm Tembin. Image credit: Jes Aznar/Getty Images.

Full article:
https://www.wunderground.com/cat6/2017-pacific-typhoon-season-saves-its-worst-last-240-killed-philippines

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on December 31, 2017, 05:27:07 pm
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Watching the planet’s ice sheets disappear—Professor Eric Rignot

https://youtu.be/WVEM1cgMc1s

Victoria University of Wellington

Published on May 4, 2017

Professor Eric Rignot leads a US research group that uses satellite data to monitor the world's ice sheets. He explains how measurements since the early 1990s show that Greenland and Antarctica are losing ice at an accelerating rate, which, if unchecked, will result in about one metre of sea level rise by the end of the century, and six to nine  metres in the next few hundred years.
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on January 02, 2018, 10:01:30 pm
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The Harsh Realities of Now (Replay)

Posted on December 27, 2017, by Radio Ecoshock
 
SUMMARY: David Wasdell, head of the Apollo-Gaia Project, returns to Radio Ecoshock with devastating revelations about how climate science has been manipulated or ignored by the IPCC, and by the leaders meeting in Paris. We are committed to far more than 2 degrees of warming. A vastly changed world awaits. Radio Ecoshock 151118.  This is the most downloaded Radio Ecoshock program ever!

Are you ready for the harsh reality of our future in a hotter world? Can any of us really handle the truth? If you feel strong enough, this may be the most devastating look into where we really stand. Perhaps you remember UK writer Mark Lynas stunning us with the awful changes on Earth if we warm by 5 degrees Centigrade. We may not survive six.

Many hope the climate talks in Paris can reach an agreement that will save a livable climate, keeping global warming below 2 degrees C. But what if the national leaders are just players on a stage of illusion? What if someone told you our current levels of greenhouse gases already commit us to more than 6 degrees of global warming, and over 12 meters, over 36 feet higher sea levels? And that may not be the worst of it.

I’m Alex Smith with a remarkable interview from London. This is Radio Ecoshock, radio you need to hear. Download or listen to this Radio Ecoshock show in CD Quality (56 MB) or Lo-Fi (14 MB)

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https://www.ecoshock.org/2017/12/the-harsh-realities-of-now-replay.html
 

This is a very intense program, with lots of science, clearly expressed for all of us.

David Wasdell

In order to help everyone, here is a “.pdf” rough transcript of this program, including all the science David lays out. Please feel free to dive in for yourself, add you comments to this blog, and forward both the program and the .pdf transcript as widely as possible. Just copy and paste this address in your browser.

http://www.ecoshock.net/downloads/Wasdell_Ecoshock_Transcript.pdf

Or download it to your computer.

David’s full presentation online is called: “Climate Dynamics: Facing the Harsh Realities of Now – Climate Sensitivity, Target Temperature & the Carbon Budget: Guidelines for Strategic Action”

It’s simple. Go to this page at apollo-gaia.org.

If you click on the headshot of David Wasdell, you will get a video, 1 hour 16 minutes long, as David explains where we are right now in the climate, and where we are going. It has graphs that make it seem simple, even though he deals with cutting-edge science. If this recorded video conference seems to stop and start, it’s likely you are trying in a period of heavy internet use. Try again at a time when fewer people are on the net.

Of course, one of the benefits of my full-length radio interview of David, is that anyone in the world can download or listen to it. People in countries with low-bandwidth, or poor access, should choose the “Lo-Fi” version, which is ten percent the size of the CD Quality broadcast. That’s also a good choice if you want to listen online.

If you prefer the print approach, click on the title slide to the right of David’s picture. That leads you to the .pdf text to accompany the video, with a full explanation.  Wasdell has gone to great lengths to make this deep science available to all of us. It’s a critical mission. We cannot allow ourselves, or our leaders, to continue using “convenient” science, instead of facing the harsh realities.

All I can tell you is that I’ve heard from over 100 previous scientists interviewed on Radio Ecoshock – the evidence that David Wasdell adds up for us in this talk. It’s sobering, depressing, and maybe yes, liberating. We can only go forward when we know where we are right now.

I’m your dedicated friend, Alex Smith. My thanks to all those who reached out to support Radio Ecoshock this week, who Tweet and Facebook further than I can.  You can find out how to help here.  Please don’t leave support for this program to “others”.

Thank you for being brave enough to listen, and let’s meet again next week with a new program, a new season, a new year.

 
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Post by: AGelbert on January 02, 2018, 10:39:03 pm
The Thing: Melting Siberian permafrost reveals terrifying creatures (PHOTOS)
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Elasmotherium sibiricum skull cast at the Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin.


The Siberian unicorn – long believed to have died out 350,000 years ago – was actually still alive as recently as 29,000 years ago, according to the analysis of a well-preserved skull found in the Pavlodar region of Kazakhstan.

Unicorn enthusiasts will be disappointed to learn that the extinct creature – also known as Elasmotherium sibiricum – had more in common with rhinos or woolly mammoths than fictional unicorns, however.

It is believed to have been up to 2 meters (6.6ft) tall, and 4.5 meters (14.7ft) in length. It weighed in at a whopping four tons, and was equipped with a large horn in the middle of its forehead.

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Fossil of Elasmotherium -- taken the photo at Natural History Museum, London

Researchers at Tomsk State University managed to date the furry beast to around 29,000 years ago, thanks to radiocarbon-dating techniques. They believe the specimen discovered in Kazakhstan was a male but have yet to determine the cause of its death.

"Most likely, the south of Western Siberia was a refugium, where this rhino persevered the longest in comparison with the rest of its range," said Andrey Shpanski, one of the researchers, as cited by Science Alert.

"There is another possibility that it could migrate and dwell for a while in the more southern areas."

 RT‏Verified account @RT_com

Plagues of Siberia: Russian Arctic river mysteriously turns blood-red http://on.rt.com/7oo1]http://on.rt.com/7oo1

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In addition to ancient giant viruses buried beneath the permafrost, the shaggy Siberian unicorn would have shared the taiga and tundra with a host of other strange characters.

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Mummy of the frozen baby mammoth Lyuba
The world's best-preserved woolly mammoth, Lyuba, 42,000-years old, was found near the Yuribey River in Russia's Ural mountains in 2007 and has toured museums around the world ever since.

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This creature was discovered in the world's third-deepest open-pit diamond mine, Udachnaya, near the town of Udachny in the Sakha Republic.

It has yet to be properly identified but speculation is rife that it may either be a dinosaur or the gnarled and mummified remains of a sable or marten. It is estimated to date back as long as 252 million years ago.

Sharp fangs indicate this monster, whatever it was, had a taste for flesh.

Siberian lions

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Siberia's permafrost also helped preserve these two extinct cave lions, which were found in the Sakha Republic in 2015. The Panthera spelaea roamed Earth during the Middle and Late Pleistocene, roughly 781,000 to 11,700 years ago.


Denisovans

Denisovans were ancient pre-humans, who differed genetically from the likes of Neanderthals, Cro-Magnons and Homo heidelbergensis. They escaped the bitter cold of Siberia by taking shelter in caves. Remains discovered in Russia's Altai region in 2010 are believed to date back as long 110,000 years ago.

 Paige Madison‏ @FossilHistory

Do these #fossils from China finally put a face on the elusive Denisovans?! An exciting possibility! http://bit.ly/2lEdgu1 (http://bit.ly/2lEdgu1)  #hominins

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Siberian Ice Maiden

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The 2,500-year-old remains of an extraordinarily well-preserved Siberian 'Princess of Ukok’ were discovered on the Ukok Plateau in the Altay Mountains in 1993. The woman's remains were replete with tattoos, and she was found buried with a troupe of horses and a small stash of cannabis.  ;D

https://www.rt.com/news/414770-siberian-permafrost-nightmare-creatures/
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on January 03, 2018, 12:46:20 pm
Climate Dynamics:

Facing the Harsh Realities of Now

Climate Sensitivity, Target Temperature & the Carbon Budget
Guidelines for Strategic Action

Apollo-Gaia Project

Director: David Wasdell

It is with the utmost concern that we draw your attention to the fundamental methodological flaw in the determination of the value of Climate Sensitivity that is embedded in the Summary for Policymakers of the Scientific Workgroup of the 5th Assessment Report of the IPCC. The error was replicated in the Reports of Workgroups 2 and 3 and carried forward into the Synthesis Report. It has been used as the given basis for every subsequent publication. Our radical analysis of Climate Dynamics has generated a new and robust value of "Earth System Sensitivity" which has profound implications for:

֍ The relationship between temperature change and cumulative carbon emissions.

֍ The calculation of "available carbon budget".

֍ The evaluation of the INDCs.

֍ The terms of reference of COP21 in Paris (30 November - 11 December 2015).

֍ The future global strategy for climate stabilisation.
 
Our analysis is published in dual media (triple-screen video and fully illustrated PDF). These can be used separately or in combination.


Video of the above and Table of Contents at link below.

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Don't be stupid. The fossil fuel industry murdering crooks and liars do not own you.

http://www.apollo-gaia.org/harsh-realities-of-now.html

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on January 03, 2018, 02:52:21 pm
Edward Teller Warned Oil Industry About Carbon Dioxide & Climate Change 6 Decades Ago

January 3rd, 2018 by Steve Hanley

SNIPPET:

The Guardian article referenced above was written by Benjamin Franta, who studies the history of climate change science and politics at Stanford. He has a PhD in applied physics from Harvard and is a former research fellow at Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. He summarizes his research into what ExxonMobil knew and when it knew it as follows:

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“This is a history of choices made, paths not taken, and the fall from grace of one of the greatest enterprises … ever to tread the earth. American oil’s awareness of global warming — and its conspiracy of silence, deceit, and obstruction — goes further than any one company. It extends beyond (though includes) ExxonMobil. The industry is implicated to its core by the history of its largest representative, the American Petroleum Institute.

It is now too late to stop a great deal of change to our planet’s climate and its global payload of disease, destruction, and death. But we can fight to halt climate change as quickly as possible, and we can uncover the history of how we got here. There are lessons to be learned, and there is justice to be served.”
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https://cleantechnica.com/2018/01/03/edward-teller-warned-oil-industry-carbon-dioxide-climate-change-6-decades-ago/

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on January 03, 2018, 07:46:55 pm
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January 3, 2018

What Is This 'Bomb Cyclone' Thing About to 'Blast' the East Coast?  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-300714025456.bmp&hash=f4e4a260bd60d3f34ca86fed93c47d5fb4117cfd)

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Bombs. They’re on the nation’s collective mind.

Earther can’t really give you any insights into our big button boy’s mindset on the nuclear front, but we’ve got you covered when it comes to this bomb cyclone thing that’s about to “blast the East Coast.”

Snow is falling in northern Florida thanks to moist air from the Gulf of Mexico intersecting with the frigid cold hanging over the eastern U.S. The impending storm will get really organized and march up toward the Mid-Atlantic this evening, where there are rare blizzard watches already in effect. By late tonight or early tomorrow, snow, storm surge, and powerful winds will smack the Northeast.

Along the way, this extratropical cyclone will undergo “explosive bombogenesis.” Or, in less nerdy terms, it will bomb out. And that has got people on edge.

You’ve probably seen the Washington Post tweet that sparked the whole bomb cyclone freakout (it is a Very Good Tweet):

 Washington Post‏Verified account @washingtonpost

A monster storm is headed for the East Coast, but don't worry, it's only expected to become a [squints at notes] "bomb cyclone"

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In some ways, the freakout is warranted. This is shaping up to be a massive, dangerous storm that could fell records and cause widespread power outages. Snow in Florida is really, deeply weird and wrong. The cold air rushing in after the storm passes could be deadly. But let’s step back for a sec and talk about what’s actually going on.

In simple terms, bombogenesis describes what happens when a storm’s central pressure drops 24 millibars in 24 hours. The lower the pressure, the more intense the storm.

Those types of rapid drops can happen in hurricanes, but only extratropical cyclones—storms that have cold air at their core—technically qualify as bomb cyclones. That means you generally only get weather bombs in winter, and often in coastal areas where cold land meets relatively warm ocean water. The bigger the difference between warm and cold air masses, the bigger the potential for bombogenesis.

“The contrast between the warm and cold air gives you an indication of the energy available to intensify an extratropical cyclone,” Andrea Lang, a meteorologist at the University of Albany, told Earther. “In this case, large contrasts in temperature between Arctic air currently over the Northeast and warm Atlantic waters suggest the potential for an intense cyclone.”

This week’s bomb storm could see pressure drop an unbelievable 45 millibars in 24 hours, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration model ensemble. It’s forecast to bottom out around 950 millibars, a central pressure typically associated with Category 3 hurricanes (though this storm will not bring Category 3 winds).

While this storm could be one for the record books, storms bombing out isn’t that rare. Jonathan Martin, a meteorology professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, told BuzzFeed that you can expect about 10 of these types of storms across the northern hemisphere in any given winter. In the Northeast, many storms that bomb out take the form of nor’easters, winter storms that have their strongest winds out of the northeast. In Europe, they’re usually wind storms. Elsewhere like the Bering Sea, they’re just really nasty storms.

Scientists have been throwing around some combination of the terms “bomb,” “bombogenesis,” “weather” ,and “climatological” since the 1940s. They somewhat entered the mainstream lexicon in 1980. That year, MIT professors Fred Sanders and John Gyakumpublished the amazingly-titled study “Synoptic-Dynamic Climatology of the ‘Bomb.’”

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It’s one of the first papers to deconstruct the process of bombogenesis. Sanders attributes the focus on rapidly dropping pressure in storms to Tor Bergeron, a Swedish meteorologist who also gave us our working theory of how precipitation forms in the 1930s.

Of course popular lexicon is relative. We’re talking about an academic journal after all. The term “weather bomb” was batted around here and there but really got traction in 1993 according to Google Books search results that Barbara Mayes Boustead, a National Weather Service meteorologist in the Omaha/Valley office and history buff, sent to Earther.

“[It] makes me think that maybe the March Superstorm led to some significant increase in usage of the phrase,” she said.

That 1993 storm was dubbed the “Storm of the Century,” though it’s since been eclipsed by other winter storms in terms of intensity, including a potent 1996 storm (which may also be why references to weather bombs increased throughout the 1990s, though it’s unclear what happened in the 2000s).

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So yeah, this whole cyclone bomb thing has been a known quantity for a while in the meteorological world.

That doesn’t mean this storm won’t be bad, or that you shouldn’t be prepared for power outages, especially considering the bone-rattling cold that will follow. But make sure to allocate your freakout between meteorological and existential threats accordingly.

https://earther.com/what-is-this-bomb-cyclone-thing-about-to-blast-the-east-1821736336
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on January 05, 2018, 02:21:37 pm
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January 5, 2018

2017's Weather Disasters Broke Insurance Records

Insurance claims due to natural disasters reached a record $135 billion in 2017, insurance firm Munich Re reported Thursday. The world's largest insurance firm said that the United States, which faced three major hurricanes and multiple wildfires, made up nearly 50 percent of global insured losses, compared to its average rate of 30 percent.

The 2017 hurricane season caused $215 billion in damage worldwide, making it the costliest on record. "Even though individual events cannot be directly traced to climate change, our experts expect such extreme weather to occur more often in future," Munich Re board member Torsten Jeworrek said in a statement.
https://thinkprogress.org/weather-disaster-record-cost-4948070d8e53/

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Pulling Back The Curtain On the Red Team, CPP and Pruitt’s Agenda for the EPA

As Rebecca Leber of Mother Jones pointed out this summer, Scott Pruitt and his closest cohorts at EPA are uniquely reluctant to engage with journalists outside the conservative echo chamber. The agency’s new approach to press has also been revealed to be rather stormy: see the press office’s bizarre interchanges with New York Times reporter Erik Lipton and attacks on the AP’s Michael Biesecker this fall.

Because getting past the wall of Heartland-and-Koch-ghostwritten talking points(https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-311013200859.png&hash=a7aaaa9f04c1e3e2c948723b5f8c13fe814dacd4) during an interview with an EPA official can be a bear, we like to highlight when a reporter’s pushed through. This month’s hat tip goes to Robin Bravender at E&E. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F19.gif&hash=3f9f2fc2285bc756137e21463bc2a4c420b15ac3)

In December, Bravender wrote on a meeting between EPA air chief Bill Wehrum and the White House, in which she reported that the White House put the Red Team attack “on hold.” Then yesterday, E&E published an interview between Bravender and Wehrum that offers up some intel into the EPA’s otherwise opaque thinking on the Clean Power Plan repeal process, the Red Team, and Pruitt’s priorities for 2018.

As Wehrum told Bravender, the Red Team project is still in the “talking and thinking about it” stage. While Wehrum indicated the agency has no “current plans” for a Red Team, Pruitt “would very much like to initiate a process to at least solicit additional input on the scientific basis for the endangerment finding.”

While we’ve assumed the end goal of the Red Team is overturning the endangerment finding, Wehrum’s statements confirm that this supposedly good faith examination of the science has a very specific policy goal (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-250817135149.gif&hash=b4a8748d7cf56a31dd0a6aae5828ed2c1ac2815c). The endangerment finding is the White Whale for deniers. Whether Pruitt is just placating these tireless Ahabs with this seemingly unending “talking and thinking about it” stage or whether he really charts a course to somehow sail around the mountain of scientific evidence underpinning the finding is yet to be seen. 

What we do know is that either way, he’ll be doing what he can to roll back climate protections. On the Clean Power Plan, Wehrum told Bravender that the EPA is “setting out a range of possible outcomes” for repealing and replacing. But when asked specifically about the inside-the-fence approach that we’ve discussed before, Wehrum indicated “that's pretty much what [the Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking is] all about.”

Beyond that, Wehrum tips the EPA’s hand on another new regulation agency leadership is targeting, saying a priority for 2018 is to “take a hard look at” the rule requiring oil and gas drilling companies to limit methane and ozone-causing emissions.

Going beyond merely tweaking the rule to make it more palatable for the fossil fuel industry (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F165fs373950.gif&hash=ad797fcc08a061d3ae50ee49ccd9f3d517fb7496) , Wehrum (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-311013201314.png&hash=0715eb72631014310634eb56176ff860c6d542f6) thinks they will “take a hard look at whether it really is appropriate to regulate methane under that rule.” (Quick catch up: an August ‘17 ruling of the D.C. Circuit court put the rule in effect (https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=0fa724ee-dc69-4bdc-a1be-ad055aa38647), at least until Pruitt successfully finalizes a replacement.)

A well-deserved kudos to Bravender (https://twitter.com/rbravender) for managing to get the EPA to tip its hand, even just so slightly, and letting us know what our public servants (https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/9adc777a0e08428257b76ece69d18ee52006bb5e39d60d966bb2440d29d17641.jpg) are planning to do in the coming year. Keep up the good work, along with all the other great reporters out there. When it comes to Pruitt’s wall of secrecy at the EPA, we trust the press to eventually Wehrum down.   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F3ztzsjm.gif&hash=8e015ba6a93bc1ec93ebde8fd6b2daa19e537306)
 



Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on January 05, 2018, 02:34:28 pm
Global Disasters Wreaked Havoc In 2017 - Total Economic Losses Top $300 Billion

January 2, 2018

According to a new reinsurance report issued by the Swiss Re Institute, total economic losses from natural and man-made disasters have soared 63 percent in 2017 to an estimated $306 billion, up from $188 billion in 2016.

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Globally, insurers lost $136 billion from natural and man-made disasters in 2017, up from $65 billion in 2016, the third highest on record. This is “well above the previous 10-year annual average, and the third highest on sigma records,” Swiss Re said in its report. Natural disasters accounted for $131 billion of 2017’s insured losses, and man-made disasters for the remaining $5 billion. The human loss totaled around 11,000 deaths, similar to 2016.

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Martin Bertogg, Head of Catastrophe Perils at Swiss Re said, “in recent years, annual insurance losses from disaster events have exceeded USD 100 billion a few times. The insurance industry has demonstrated that it can cope very well with such high losses.”

“However, significant protection gaps remain and if the industry is able to extend its reach, many more people and businesses can become better equipped to withstand the fallout from disaster events,” he added.

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According to Swiss Re, “extreme weather in the US in the second half of 2017” has been the primary driver for high insured losses:

    In August and September, three category 4+ hurricanes – Harvey, Irma, and Maria (HIM) – made landfall in the US. Destruction from the three hurricanes stretched from the Texas coast (Harvey) through West Florida to the Caribbean (Irma and Maria), together causing insured losses estimated to be almost USD 93 billion.

    Given the vast geographic footprint of the hurricanes, which affected multiple locations in quick succession and impacted multiple lines of business, a full assessment of the insured losses is still ongoing.

    Given the vast geographic footprint of the hurricanes, which affected multiple locations in quick succession and impacted multiple lines of business, a full assessment of the insured losses is still ongoing.

    The economic losses from the three events will be much higher given the significant flood damage – often uninsured – from hurricane Harvey in densely populated Houston, Texas, an extended power outage in Puerto Rico after hurricane Maria, and post-event loss amplification.

The United States was the hardest hit according to the report, which indicated hurricanes: Harvey, Irma, and Maria made 2017 the “second costliest hurricane season on sigma records after 2005.”

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Wildfires and thunderstorms in the US were also mentioned in the report:

    Also in the second half of 2017, hot and dry weather in California created favourable conditions for wildfires to ignite and spread to urban areas. There were three major fire events in October in Northern California: Tubbs, Atlas and Mendocino Lake. Both residential and commercial property (including vineyards) were impacted. According to preliminary estimates from Property Claims Services, the major fire events triggered combined insured property losses of USD 7.3 billion. Fires are still raging in Southern California in December, and the as-yet undetermined full-year losses from wildfires will likely be higher.

    Other extreme weather in the US led to a high number of severe convective storms (thunderstorms). Five separate severe thunderstorm events from February to June caused insured losses of more than USD 1 billion each. The most intense and costly event was a four-day long storm in May with heavy damage to property inflicted by hail in Colorado and strong winds in other parts of southern and central states. The economic losses of this storm alone were USD 2.8 billion, with insured losses of USD 2.5 billion.

Elsewhere, Swiss Re discussed extreme weather events of various forms around the world:

    In mid-September, two powerful earthquakes in Tehuantepec and Puebla, Mexico, led to numerous building collapses, claiming a large number of victims and resulting in insured losses of more than USD 2 billion. Earlier in the year, in late March, the category 4 tropical Cyclone Debbie hit the northeastern coast of Australia. Wind gusts of up to 263 km/h and widespread flooding in central and southeast Queensland and northeast New South Wales led to insured losses of USD 1.3 billion.

    And at the end of April, Europe suffered a cold snap, followed by a summer of heat waves and record temperatures in several locations, making 2017 a year of weather extremes. Further, severe floods in South East Asia caused large devastation and, sadly, a large number or victims.

Worldwide losses (USD bln) for man-made and natural catastrophes have absolutely exploded since 1990, according to a Swiss Re.

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While natural and man-made disasters wreaked havoc globally and in the United States for the 2017 time period. Will the S&P Insurers index break the neckline?

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https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-01-02/global-disasters-wreaked-havoc-2017-total-economic-losses-top-300-billion

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on January 05, 2018, 06:09:12 pm
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It's Colder in Florida Than Alaska: Climate Disruption Hits Home With a Chill

January 5, 2018 By Dahr Jamail, Truthout | Report

SNIPPET:

Dahr Jamail, Truthout: Unusually cold temperatures in unexpected places could become the winter norm, thanks to climate disruption. However, as a polar vortex leaked frigid temperatures down across much of the United States, President Trump (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Fgen152.gif&hash=d5b10968fe56c4cb95fae17cee3cb420a5f4e2da) once again played the tune of his fossil-fueled backers
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http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/43124-it-s-colder-in-florida-than-alaska-climate-disruption-hits-home-with-a-chill
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on January 05, 2018, 06:38:34 pm
Foss Ships Hundreds of Utility Trucks to Puerto Rico to Help Restore Power

January 4, 2018 by gCaptain

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At the Port of Virginia in Norfolk and the Port of Lake Charles in Louisiana, Seattle-based Foss Maritime is loading hundreds of utility trucks onto barges bound for Puerto Rico as part of the on-going effort to restore power to nearly half of the island’s population.

Last Friday, Ricardo Rosselló, governor of Puerto Rico, announced that 1.5 million Puerto Ricans are still without power 100 days after Hurricane Maria hit Sept. 20. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-200714183312.bmp&hash=02dafef2fe739676600fdc9bd56271f0f5ab3723)

As part of the on-going power restoration effort, Foss is working with a coalition of 19 U.S. electric companies to deliver between 500 and 600 utility trucks, including bucket trucks, line trucks, pickups, aerial lifts, CAT skid-steer loaders, digger derricks, and pull trailers. The electric companies include members of the Edison Electric Institute (EEI) that have pledged mutual assistance to support the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA) and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) to restore power throughout the island.

The voyage from the U.S. mainland to Port of Ponce in Puerto Rico will take roughly ten days, with the trucks scheduled to arrive between January 16 and January 18. Hundreds of line workers and other personnel from participating electric companies will fly to meet the trucks and work on restoring power.

“This movement of hundreds of utility trucks is part of a comprehensive mobilization effort to get needed equipment to the island so utility crews can begin restoring power for the people of Puerto Rico,” said Will Roberts, Foss Chief Commercial Officer. “Foss is proud to be part of those efforts and continues to be at the ready as needs arise.”

Foss has been helping support relief and rebuilding efforts in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands for the past several months since the hurricane hit.

Under contract with FEMA, Foss arrived at the island on October 19, 2017 with three accommodation vessels, an ocean-going tug and more than 100 personnel to provide warm meals and “floating hotels” for hundreds of first responders, including workers from the U.S. Department of Defense, FEMA and AmeriCorps. The company has also shipped a load of power equipment and three loads of water to the island.

Foss says its vessels will remain in the region to assist as needed through continuing recovery efforts.

http://gcaptain.com/foss-maritime-ships-hundreds-utility-trucks-help-restore-power-puerto-rico/
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on January 05, 2018, 08:31:27 pm
https://youtu.be/pEoVQWDxJzs

Thom Hartmann  Jan. 3, 2018 2:30 pm

Agelbert NOTE: To monitor the Jet Stream any time use this tutorial and go to the link below:

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on January 05, 2018, 11:18:56 pm
Fatal Heat Warning What you don’t know can kill you… how our bodies react in heatwaves.

November 22, 2017

New science from Camilo Mora, University of Hawaii. Second warning from 15,000 scientists: Dr. William Ripple, the man who started it. Adapting to extreme rains: “sponge cities” with futurist Chelsea Gohd.
Download or listen to this Radio Ecoshock show in CD Quality (57 MB) or Lo-Fi (14 MB)

https://www.ecoshock.net/downloads/ES_171122_Show.mp3


The Next Climate Domino – Tropical Forests

Posted on Oct, 18, 2017, by Radio Ecoshock

BAD CLIMATE NEWS FROM TROPICAL FORESTS – ALESSANDRO BACCINI

For a very long time, carbon has been taken out of the atmosphere by the plant world. We count on those services from the vast fabric of tropical rain forests. But all that has changed.

New science proves “Tropical forests are a net carbon source”. Our guest Alessandro Baccini is the lead author of that paper published September 28th in the journal Science. Dr. Baccini works at the Woods Hole Research Center. He specializes in analyzing Earth from space using satellites.

Dr. Alessandro Baccini

The title of the paper is “Tropical forests are a net carbon source based on above-ground measurements of gain and loss“.

Now we have a number for the amount of carbon lost from tropical forests to the atmosphere each year: 425 million metric tons. That is more carbon every year than all traffic in the U.S., according to these researchers. It’s a staggering amount of carbon, but so far less than the greenhouse gases emitted by countries like the United States or China.

https://www.ecoshock.org/2017/10/the-next-climate-domino-tropical-forests.html
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on January 06, 2018, 04:26:19 pm
Agelbert NOTE: The problem humanity has is NOT lack of hydrocarbons; it is the adamant and totally unreasonable refusal to accept the FACT that we have ALREADY exceeded the "carbon budget" for a FOUR DEGREE C rise in average global temperature, never mind a TWO DEGREE C "target". We are now on our way to 10 DEGREES C PLUS! The worse scenario the IPCC came up with (BAU RCP-8.5) is too conservative a projection of the heat increase (it is MUCH, MUCH WORSE! (http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/climate-change/global-warming-is-with-us/msg8731/#msg8731)).

Anyone telling you that fossil fuels are "running out" needs to read the published figures from the oil and gas producing nations of this planet. The emissions are INCREASING, NOT "leveling off or decreasing". PLUS, tropical rain forests AND permafrost melt are now ADDING to the carbon emissions! GHG is GHG. no matter where it is coming from! You are NOT going to turn this heat engine off easily. Several heat adding feedbacks we have triggered by burning too much fossil fuels are NOT in our control, PERIOD.

Where in God's good earth these fossil fueler wishful thinking FOOLS think that we are somehow going to get a handle on this massive heating NOW IN THE Global Warming radiative forcing INERTIA pipeline, even if we stopped all hydrocarbon burning today (rather than the present tragic reality of increased burning), is a mystery to me. They certainly DO NOT get this idea from empirical evidence or sound science. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-200714183337.bmp&hash=fd5a6df63c32bd65dda7b6d93e788647ca3829df)

This stubborn clinging to a happy talk myth about some "quick recovery from fossil fuel burning caused globle warming" is a testament to the extremes people in denial of an extinction threat reality will go to.  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Fgaah.gif&hash=e43fa6be4258ba495007b2bbb3e7dd2f60288fcd)

And for the propagandist liars that know the truth and push the happy talk for money, I can only say that they are greater fools than those naive folks that believe the fossil fuel fascist funded happy talk lies and distortions. These bought and paid for propagandists are behaving as STUPIDLY as any person possibly can. You STUPID, MONEY LOVING BASTARDS deserve the Darwin Evolutionary Dead End Award.

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on January 07, 2018, 01:20:02 pm
Agelbert NOTE: Here are the facts. If you cannot accept the reality of our Catastrophic Climate change situation and the needed action to mitigate the damage, then you are simply in denial of reality.

Climate Dynamics:

Facing the Harsh Realities of Now

Climate Sensitivity, Target Temperature & the Carbon Budget
Guidelines for Strategic Action


Apollo-Gaia Project

Director: David Wasdell

It is with the utmost concern that we draw your attention to the fundamental methodological flaw in the determination of the value of Climate Sensitivity that is embedded in the Summary for Policymakers of the Scientific Workgroup of the 5th Assessment Report of the IPCC. The error was replicated in the Reports of Workgroups 2 and 3 and carried forward into the Synthesis Report. It has been used as the given basis for every subsequent publication. Our radical analysis of Climate Dynamics has generated a new and robust value of "Earth System Sensitivity" which has profound implications for:

֍ The relationship between temperature change and cumulative carbon emissions.

֍ The calculation of "available carbon budget".

֍ The evaluation of the INDCs.

֍ The terms of reference of COP21 in Paris (30 November - 11 December 2015).

֍ The future global strategy for climate stabilisation.
 
Our analysis is published in dual media (triple-screen video and fully illustrated PDF). These can be used separately or in combination.

Video of the above and Table of Contents at link below.

If you care about humanity, you will watch it and pass it on to friends and family. If, because you have been paid or propagandized to think the continued burning of fossil fuels is "good for mankind", you either don't watch it, or do watch it so you can to claim "it is global warming hoax" propaganda (or if if are more "sophisticated", like certain pseudo-scientists (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.whydidyouwearthat.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2011%2F01%2Ftumblr_l7j9nik8Wf1qaxxwjo1_5001.jpeg&hash=1ddbeb4da161820b2cf932e6f5f740e80f5bada6) who mendaciously claim IPCC scenarios "have taken all the possible warming feedback loops into consideration in the models and we can keep burning fossil fuels for a few more decades"), you doom yourself and future generations (i.e. you are willfully stupid).

Don't be stupid. The fossil fuel industry murdering crooks and liars do not own you.

http://www.apollo-gaia.org/harsh-realities-of-now.html
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on January 11, 2018, 03:54:21 pm
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Resignation to a predetermined geocidal collapse is morally irresponsible and intellectually irrational.

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JAN 10, 2018TD ORIGINALS

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https://www.truthdig.com/articles/climate-denial-will-kill-us/
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on January 12, 2018, 06:44:10 pm
Trump Administration’s Offshore Drilling Plan Could Unlock 65 Billion Barrels – Rystad

January 11, 2018 by Reuters

SNIPPET:

Jan 10 (Reuters) – The Trump administration’s proposal to open up almost all of U.S. offshore waters to oil and gas drilling could unlock up to 65 billion barrels of oil equivalent (boe), attracting billions of dollars in investment, consultancy Rystad Energy said.

Last week, U.S. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke said a draft program would make over 90 percent of the outer continental shelf’s total acreage available for leasing to drillers, a national record.

“Looking purely at areas that are potentially going to come out of restriction, we are talking about something closer to 65 billion boe,” Sonia Passos, senior analyst at Rystad, a major independent consultancy tracking the sector, said in a note last week.

That figure excludes resource potential from western and central areas of the U.S. Gulf of Mexico, but includes the eastern region, she said.

full article:

http://gcaptain.com/trump-administrations-offshore-drilling-plan-could-unlock-65-billion-barrels-rystad/ (http://gcaptain.com/trump-administrations-offshore-drilling-plan-could-unlock-65-billion-barrels-rystad/)

Tomorrow is Yesterday...
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Sonia Passos enjoys her MAGA coffee.

 
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on January 14, 2018, 02:35:31 pm
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Monaco

Global Warming Is Going To Demolish Economies & Societies

January 14th, 2018 by Zachary Shahan

SNIPPET:

We had an article last week about the threat to the Florida real estate market that is coming our way from continued heating of the globe, rising sea levels, increased flooding, and stronger storms slamming the coast. Some comments under the article highlighted that such threats persist along vast US coastlines as well as coastlines across the world — it’s not just Florida. The fact of the matter is, humans have long settled close to seas, rivers, oceans, gulfs, and bays — and many of the world’s most populated and economically vital cities and regions will be physically harmed to one degree or another by the effects of climate change.

One commenter highlighted this threat for a rather rich country he’s a resident of, but noted, “I think we will cope but it will sure as hell be costly.”

I’m not sure how much we’ve actually thought about that. I think we tend to look at the potential damage and then our minds are eager to shut off before going further. We may also deeply realize how fragile our economies are and not want to even consider the catastrophic possibilities.

The thing about physical harm is that it reverberates and is amplified beyond the obvious damage from the initial strike. If real estate is flooded or destroyed by a storm, that could well pause an individual’s ability to contribute to the economy, it could take away resources a city was going to put into new infrastructure, and it could stifle socioeconomic or entrepreneurial progress that was being made at the location of the strike. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F301.gif&hash=0291ed4abf2d80e420d1aa00d4eb3c5dd6bbfb53)


When you consider that this could happen to one growing and bustling city — Tampa, for example — that’s concerning enough. When you consider that it could happen to large cities and major economic centers of the world essentially all at once (one disaster after another over the course of several years and decades), the future doesn’t just look challenging — it looks like a freakin’ nightmare that will degrade our economies, societies, and quality of life indefinitely. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-150715183719.png&hash=7b222546f30a032efc31223d85eea0535ed42a49)

Let’s take a quick look at some of the cities that are seriously threatened in one way or another by global heating, rising sea levels, more drought, and stronger coastal storms: Tokyo, New York, San Francisco, Osaka, Sao Paulo, Mumbai, Miami, Singapore, Surat, Jakarta, Manila, Bangkok, Abu Dhabi, Muscat, Lebanon, Athens, Barcelona, Malaga, Amsterdam, Naples, Venice, Monaco, Marseille, Rio de Janeiro, Caracas, Tampa, The Bahamas (I know, not a city), San Diego, Los Angeles, Charleston, Norfolk, Washington DC, Philadelphia, Boston, Casablanca, Cape Town, Perth, Melbourne, Adelaide, Sydney, Brisbane, Malmo, Copenhagen, Rotterdam, The Hague, St Petersburg, Gothenburg, Helsinki, Stockholm. …


Full article:

https://cleantechnica.com/2018/01/14/global-warming-going-demolish-economies-societies/

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on January 15, 2018, 05:35:03 pm
Wild Gyrations in Winter Temperatures. Why?

https://youtu.be/r1CtnZ8sug0

Paul Beckwith

Published on Jan 14, 2018

Winter temperatures seem to gyrate from extreme cold to extreme warmth, and back again, in an endless repeating cycle. When this gyration passes through the freezing point there is frost, snow, melt, rain cycling repeatedly, wreaking havoc on roads, rail lines, bridges, buildings, water pipes, animals and plants. Infrastructure and wildlife suffer greatly, and there are huge temperature contrasts greatly increasing the frequency, severity, and duration of extreme weather events. Why?

Please donate to support my videos and work at http://paulbeckwith.net

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on January 15, 2018, 07:01:29 pm
Global Warming and Extreme Cold: How One Leads to the Other

https://youtu.be/FaqeQ_IDg-Y

TheRealNews

Published on Jan 10, 2018

Research on the connection between extreme weather - such as the severe cold snap that hit the US Northeast - and global warming, shows that these are intimately connected, despite what climate deniers such as President Trump say.

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on January 16, 2018, 02:44:19 pm
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What MARIA Left Behind

SNIPPET 1:

By Scott Latta Staff writer

Across the heart of Puerto Rico runs the Cordillera Central, a staggering mountain range that bore the force of Hurricane Maria.

In small mountain towns like Las Marias and Maricao, many people rode out the storm with friends or relatives, and it took days to cut through fallen trees and dig through the mud to see what was left of their homes. There was no way to know what they would return home to: Some houses were missing a few roof panels; others were swallowed by eight feet of mud, strewn across the mountain, gone.

It is a tedious, twisting drive up these mountains, made longer by the bulldozers and army trucks struggling to clear the way. It has been months since Maria hit, long enough to answer the question that always follows devastation like this, which isn’t when life “will return to normal,” but instead what normal has become. Power and water will not return here for months, if not longer. In the meantime, many people are living with friends or relatives, drinking from streams, and struggling to repair the things Maria took.

But while it’s easy to be overwhelmed by what has been lost, the story of these communities is in what Maria left behind: the proud, determined people who are pulling together to rebuild their lives. Communities that are tighter. Families that are stronger. There are things in these mountains Maria could not take, and that’s why Mercy Corps is there—to help Puerto Rico’s people recover, and to build better, stronger lives.

SNIPPET 2:

Watch Carmen's story

https://youtu.be/a14UxmS8nVk

Full article with added graphics:

https://www.mercycorps.org/gallery/maria/what-maria-left-behind
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on January 16, 2018, 05:30:01 pm
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Australia offers money to scientists to save the Great Barrier Reef  ::)

LAST UPDATED ON JANUARY 16TH, 2018 AT 1:14 PM BY ELENA MOTIVANS 

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Coral bleaching in the Great Barrier Reef. Image credits: Acropora.

The Great Barrier Reef is the largest living organism in the world at 2,300 kilometers (1,400 miles) long. Coral reefs are important because they house about 25% of marine life. However, coral bleaching and other stressors, such as pollution and a very hungry starfish, have left the reef battered and at risk of dying completely. Consecutive bleaching events in the past two years haven’t given it any chance to recover.

Bleaching occurs when the water is too warm; the corals then expel their symbiotic algae, known as zooxanthellae. These algae supply the coral with food via photosynthesis and give them their color — so when they’re kicked out the coral turns white, or bleaches. The algae can return when the waters cool and the corals can then rebuild and recover in 15 to 25 years. Unfortunately, they haven’t had any chance to do so. The situation is so grim that the reefs and tourism associated with it could die by 2050.

The Australian government is trying a last-ditch effort to save its underwater monument. It is offering money to scientists with solutions. AUS$2.0 million (US$1.6 million) are on the table.

“The scale of the problem is big and big thinking is needed, but it’s important to remember that solutions can come from anywhere,” said Environment Minister Josh Frydenberg. “Solutions could focus on anything from reducing the exposure of corals to physical stressors, to boosting coral regeneration rates by cultivating reef-building coral larvae that attract other important marine species.”

Several proposals will be chosen for an initial testing round; it can last up to 6 months and use AUS$250,000. A further AUS$1 million will be made available to the best solutions, so applicants can develop and test their prototypes for up to 12 months.

Last year, researchers from Southern Cross University collected coral spawn and eggs. They grew them into larvae and then transplanted them into a damaged reef. Eight months later, the coral had survived and grown, suggesting that this approach could be viable in other reefs.

However, the truth of the matter is that global warming is the main problem that is threatening the reefs. There can perhaps be short-term solutions to bide time but the only long-term solution is to reduce  CO2 emissions and curb the global temperature increases.

https://www.zmescience.com/ecology/environmental-issues/australia-offers-money-scientists-save-great-barrier-reef/ (https://www.zmescience.com/ecology/environmental-issues/australia-offers-money-scientists-save-great-barrier-reef/)

Agelbert NOTE: I do not think there is enough money in the entire world to slow, never mind stop or reverse, the biosphere damage that is already baked in for about a century.

Only a Capitalist (i.e. a Mammon worshipping fool) would entertain the wishful thinking that money can save the Great Barrier Reef. It's over; the fossil fuel industry killed it. Capitalism helped A LOT!

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on January 20, 2018, 03:08:10 pm
A Year of Donald Trump in the White House (https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/a-year-of-donald-trump-in-the-white-house)

By Adam Gopnik

Liberal democracy is good. Authoritarian nationalism is bad. That's the premise of the country. It's the principle that a lot of people died for. Americans never need to apologize for the continuing absolutism of their belief in it.

True. But, IMHO, the main issue here is the willful lack of critical thinking in American society. The big picture involving the ideal this country was founded on is, and always has been, a target for those that see through the soaring rhetoric of the Founding Fathers to the oligarchic seeds they consciously and deliberately planted.

We no longer should admire pretty words unless they have action to back them up.

Our biosphere in general, and our species in particular, are both in a LOT of life threatening trouble. THAT is the main issue we must concentrate on and address because, anyone as evil and stupid as Trump, who deliberately attacks the reality of that threat by doing everything to increase the danger, must be stopped AND imprisoned if we are to have a snowball's chance in hell of getting out of this mess.

The people in power, and those benefiting economically from the Stock Market Bubble, which is a DIRECT consequence of the corruption of the people in power, do not have a clue what critical thinking is. 🐒

Successfully dealing with the titanic problem we have requires clear eyed critical thinking.

The products of sound critical thinking such as empathy, humility, introspection, remorse, recognition of wrong and a willingness to make restitution for the past and continued wrongs, basically have been erased from the minds of most Americans. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-200714183337.bmp&hash=fd5a6df63c32bd65dda7b6d93e788647ca3829df)

Americans do not like guilt. I don't know anybody that does. But pretending we have nothing to apologize for is not helping.

We need to stop normalizing immoral behavior. We need to stop the right wingers from demonizing moral behavior by calling it "immoral behavior". Liberals need to claim the MORAL HIGH GROUND the right wingers deviously stole from us. Liberals need to stop pretending everybody can just do whatever the hell they want.

Immoral behavior will exist as long as humans exist. But, NORMALIZING immoral behavior by calling it "moral", as the fascists do, is destroying human society, PERIOD.

If we do not stop being stupid, money worshipping idiots and instead start imprisoning the stupid, money worshipping idiots, we will perish.
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King James Bible Proverbs 21:11
When the scorner is punished, the simple is made wise: and when the wise is instructed, he receiveth knowledge.

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on January 21, 2018, 06:21:44 pm
America Is Getting Its First Climate Change Museum

Here’s Why That’s Such a Great Thing

Climate change can no longer be debated. Despite what skeptics still say, climate change is not a concept that is happening in the far-off arctic tundra or distant future. The effects of climate change are happening here and now.

Between drastic temperature fluxes, extreme drought, water scarcity, storms larger and more destructive than any others witnessed before, and even species extinction, climate change is wreaking havoc on the planet. 16 of the 17 warmest years on record have occurred since 2001, altering the start time of seasons and forcing species to change their ranges.

But for those of us who reside in big cities such as New York or another metropolis, seeing the impact of climate change in our everyday life can be difficult. How can environmentalists help others in dense communities see that climate change also impacts them? That’s exactly where The Climate Change museum comes in.

The Climate Museum is dedicated to bringing art, science and climate advocacy to the masses. As the first museum devoted solely to climate change in America, the museum was created by Miranda Massie, a former lawyer and now the Founder and Director of the progressive museum. A permanent home for the museum is still a few years away, but they recently launched their first pop-up exhibition in New York City that aims to bring art and science to the masses.

For the month of January, the Climate Museum will feature the Antarctic portrait by artist Zaria Forman. The portrait will be featured alongside a video of Forman drawing it by hand.

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“It’s so realistic but so human. “It connects our human experience with nature in a palpable way,” Amanda Nesci, who handles communications for the Climate Museum told Mind Body Green.

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The pop-up exhibition will also feature the work of environmental artist, Peggy Weil. Her digital installation will show 110,000 years of history to show how humans have affected the earth’s Greenland ice sheet.

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By using public events, panels, and celebrations in New York City, the Climate Museum aims to bring people together and move forward with solutions on climate change.

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Forman and Weil’s art urge us to make the connection between our everyday actions and their impact on the planet. With 850 million people visiting American museums per year (more than all major league sports arenas and the top 20 amusement parks combined), the impact of The Climate Museum shouldn’t go unnoticed. According to The Climate Museum’s website, the permanent exhibit will be able to accommodate one million visitors per year. But why is that such a big deal, exactly?

Climate change is not the only factor that threatens biodiversity on the planet – plastic pollution, deforestation, overfishing, and the illegal wildlife trade are all pulling us, inexorably, towards a sixth mass extinction. But changes in climate happen on a larger scale than the rest. The earth’s ecosystems are the product of billions of years of evolution and because of this, slight temperature changes over short periods of time can have catastrophic consequences for plants and animals.

Thanks to the awareness being raised by organizations such as The Climate Museum as well as dedicated environmentalists around the world, we have the power to reverse, or at least slow down climate change.
Ways You Can Help Starting Today

Cutting your personal carbon footprint is the surest way to minimize the amount of warming greenhouse gas emissions entering the atmosphere. While you can do many little things like shutting off lights when you leave your house, choosing to walk instead of drive and switching over to energy efficient appliances – there is one simple action that often goes overlooked that has the highest positive impact: choosing plant-based foods over meat and dairy.

Animal agriculture is responsible for more greenhouse gas emissions than the entire transportation sector combined. In addition, this industry occupies 45 percent of arable land, uses 23 percent of global freshwater resources, and is responsible for rampant deforestation, water, and air pollution. By shifting away from meat and dairy products and choosing plant-based alternatives instead, you can help lower this rate of destruction. In just one year of eating plant-based, you can halve your carbon footprint – that’s pretty powerful!

With the wealth of available plant-based options available, it has never been easier to eat with the planet in mind. If you’re ready to start doing this in your own life, check out One Green Planet’s #EatForThePlanet campaign.

https://www.onegreenplanet.org/environment/america-first-climate-change-museum/
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on January 22, 2018, 08:05:19 pm
Aerial Photos of Antarctica Reveal the Devastating Toll of Climate Change


🔥 The Great Crack-Up

By JEFFREY KLUGER

 Photographs by PAOLO PELLEGRIN—MAGNUM PHOTOS FOR TIME

It’s hard to wreck a continent you can barely get your hands on. Human beings typically do our worst environmental damage in the places we live and work—clear-cutting forests, strip-mining mountains. Antarctica, however, was more or less out of reach. No more.

Climate change has become our species’ great destructive equalizer, leaving no part of the planet safe from the harm we do. In March 2017, the sea ice around both poles reached a record low for that time of year. In July, a 1 trillion–ton iceberg, roughly the size of Delaware, calved off of the Larsen C ice shelf in western Antarctica. The damage to the ice is being done not just from above, as the planet’s air warms, but from below, as its oceans do too.

Full article with pictures and video:

http://time.com/antarctica-climate-change/
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on January 24, 2018, 03:07:57 pm
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Book review: ‘The Fate of Rome: Climate, Disease, and the End of an Empire’

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Every empire has an apex, it also has a breaking point from which it spirals-down into insignificance. 

LAST UPDATED ON JANUARY 24TH, 2018 AT 8:43 PM BY TIBI PUIU

From its founding in 625 BC to its fall in AD 476, the Roman Empire conquered and integrated dozens of cultures. Much has been said about what’s perhaps the most influential state in history. Modern countries owe their language, civil codes, laws, and heritage to the Romans. But although every empire has an apex, it also has a breaking point from which it spirals-down into insignificance.

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Animated map showing the rise and decline of the Roman Empire. Legend: red (Roman Republic), purple (Imperial Rome), green (Eastern Roman Empire), blue (Western Roman Empire). Credit: Roke, Wikimedia Commons.

Much has been written about the downfall of the Roman Empire. Many have argued that rampant corruption and too much pressure, due to its phenomenal expanse for an Iron Age state eventually destroyed Rome.

In an impressive scholarly work, Kyle Harper, a professor of classics and letters at the University of Oklahoma, offers a new and refreshing perspective on this topic of major importance. In The Fate of Rome: Climate, Disease, and the End of an Empire, Harper puts nature at the center of Rome’s undoing. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.clker.com%2Fcliparts%2Fc%2F8%2Ff%2F8%2F11949865511933397169thumbs_up_nathan_eady_01.svg.hi.png&hash=599691109af22b33f1d59dd61eb97448a9427020) (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.clker.com%2Fcliparts%2Fc%2F8%2Ff%2F8%2F11949865511933397169thumbs_up_nathan_eady_01.svg.hi.png&hash=599691109af22b33f1d59dd61eb97448a9427020) (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.clker.com%2Fcliparts%2Fc%2F8%2Ff%2F8%2F11949865511933397169thumbs_up_nathan_eady_01.svg.hi.png&hash=599691109af22b33f1d59dd61eb97448a9427020) (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-250817121649.png&hash=4554f7e59701d12857946aece16bceb973c997b3)


The author argues that the empire’s very strengths — travel, trade, migration — which raised it to such great height also accelerated its demise. All roads lead to Rome, as the saying goes, but along with merchants and provincials from all corners of the empire, they also brought tuberculosis, leprosy, smallpox, plague, and other diseases. Not just once was the empire crippled by pandemics like The Antonine Plague (165-180 AD) which decimated legions and up to 15 percent of the population.

Supported by modern studies which cleverly infer the ancient climate from proxies like sediment cores or tree rings, Harper also makes a solid case that a drier climate during the empire’s later period also contributed significantly to its downfall. Unlike the anomalously favorable climate during the Roman Climate Optimum — some 350 years of unusually warm and moist climate between around 200 BC and AD 150 which helped the empire rise to power — the following centuries came as a wakeup call.

In the third century AD, Rome was struck by drought in the southern Mediterranean, especially Rome’s breadbasket, Egypt. Political upheaval was inevitable, runaway inflation was rampant as coins were debased, and, yet again, plagues ran amok (perhaps even from Ebola, the author argues). For instance, the Justinian plague of AD 541 halved the Eastern Roman Empire’s population.

Pressured by an unkind environment and climate, Rome grew feeble and vulnerable in the face of invaders like Goths, Persians, and Franks, who seized the opportunity and overrun Rome’s weakened borders. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Fpirates5B15D_th.gif&hash=32438e1ed2c4d1823d4ed2a193286525c840a605)


Of course, Harper’s thesis isn’t that the climate and disease are what brought down Rome. The human 🦍 factor 🦖 played a role that was at the very least as important but this book offers a context for an incredibly complex system. In some instances, nature’s force was just enough to tip the scales either in Rome’s favor or to its disadvantage during its history.

And if all of this sounds strikingly familiar, it’s because we’re also living at crossroads. In only 150 years, the globe has warmed by nearly 1 degree Celsius, an unheard of rate in millions of years. If there’s anything we have to learn from Rome, it’s that we should never underestimate nature. But unlike the Romans who were largely ignorant, at the mercy of the gods if you will, we have science. It’s time to act before the downfall of Rome mirrors that of modern civilization. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F301.gif&hash=0291ed4abf2d80e420d1aa00d4eb3c5dd6bbfb53)

It has to be mentioned that Harper spared no expense, presenting his thesis in exhaustive detail. Some uninitiated readers might find this daunting but it is my impression that his extremely compelling writing, which is rather rare for a scholarly work, makes up for it. This is certainly not a book you can go through on a rainy afternoon but neither is it boring, to say the least.

https://www.zmescience.com/ecology/climate/book-review-fate-rome-043214231/


Tomorrow is Yesterday

 
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on January 26, 2018, 07:22:30 pm
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The 2017 Hurricane Season  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fs15.rimg.info%2Fdcda0e08e538cb37431314e6bd49279b.gif&hash=4e8b4ba5ce94991ab2f42c4c663e9f6991bbf4f4) Officially Rewrote the Record Books

Brian Kahn

January 26, 2018 2:24pm Filed to: 2018 HURRICANE SEASON 🌪 CANT BE THIS BAD RIGHT?  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-300714025456.bmp&hash=f4e4a260bd60d3f34ca86fed93c47d5fb4117cfd) 

Even before they made landfall, 2017's major hurricanes—Harvey, Maria and Irma—were already causing billions in damage. A new update from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) makes clear just how costly this trio of terrors will end up being, estimating that all three storms clock in among the top 5 most expensive hurricanes to ever hit the U.S.

According to the NOAA official list of billion-dollar hurricanes, Harvey tied with 2005's Hurricane Katrina for the most costly on record, coming in with an estimated $125 billion price tag. The damage was largely tied to the storm’s record-setting rains which swamped Houston, the fourth-most populous city in the U.S. Just over five feet of rain fell on the metro area over six days in August, turning the city into a Venetian-looking disaster.

More than 300,000 structures and 500,000 cars were drowned in the floodwaters. Scientists have shown that the rains, which were dubbed a 1-in-a-1,000 year event, were driven to such extremes in part by climate change.

When adjusted for inflation, Katrina edges Harvey as the most costly storm in U.S. history, but NOAA researchers are still wading through the data to pin down the exact damage total for the storm. The $125 billion number is the best estimate, but the range is anywhere from $90 to $160 billion. NOAA hurricane forecaster Eric Blake told Earther there’s a 10 percent chance Harvey could eventually claim the title of costliest storm with the next official data update coming in April.

Coming in at an estimated $90 billion, Maria is the third-most expensive storm in U.S. history, but it holds the dubious distinction of being the most expensive non-mainland storm. Prior to Maria, the most costly non-mainland hurricane was 1998's Georges, which cost a comparatively paltry $3.5 billion.

Both Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands are still struggling to recover from the storm under the weight of crushing debt, a slow and shady relief response, and struggles to get a firm, equitable plan for long-term recovery in place. Hundreds have already died, there are concerns about a murder surge and unsafe drinking water in some places.

Sandwiched between these two storms, it feels like Irma, which clobbered Florida, barely gets mentioned. In almost any other year, it would’ve been the blockbuster storm to remember but it’s almost become a footnote in 2017's terrifying hurricane season. The storm racked up a $50 billion price tag, making it the fifth-most costly storm.

The story of 2017 is that climate change coupled with a swelling coastal population a disastrous combination.

While hurricane landfall is a crapshoot, the threats associated with hurricanes are definitely changing in a warming world. Extreme rainfall like Harvey’s is becoming more common. Storm surges are getting a devastating lift from sea level rise. The intensity of hurricanes and frequency of the strongest ones like Maria has also increased since the 1980s, a trend expected to continue as the planet warms.

Despite the growing risks, people have flocked to the coasts. Nearly 40 percent of Americans lived in coastal counties according to the 2010 census. That number was expected to rise an additional 8 percent by the time 2020 rolls around.

The huge costs of these storms—and in the case of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, the overwhelmingly inadequate response—shows that we can barely cope with our currently climate, let alone the the future that awaits us. That means we need to more effectively manage stormwater, build resilient electric grid solutions and even consider the uncomfortable truth that we need to retreat from the coasts before we can no longer keep the ocean 🌊 at bay.

https://earther.com/the-2017-hurricane-season-officially-rewrote-the-record-1822455938

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on January 26, 2018, 08:55:38 pm
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United States of Climate Change ⚡🔥 💧🌊

January 2018

To engage in a debate about the reality of climate change is to deny that there is a remarkably wide — and sincere — consensus among those who study the subject most intently. The basic mechanism of climate change was described in 1896, and while the climate system is wickedly complicated, humans’ understanding of climate change and the factors which might alter or mitigate it has only grown over the past century.

This project will not debate the science of climate change. (For those who might like to detour into the science, there are some excellent resources
here (https://www.wunderground.com/cat6) and here (https://weather.com/news/climate).)

Instead, this project will focus on telling stories.

Americans are already feeling the impacts of climate change. We’re feeling it in raised temperatures and unusual weather patterns, true, but also in things like a shifting economic landscape and coastal regions that seem to be altering by the moment.

We’re going to tell a story for every state in the nation. We’re going to talk to people. We’re going to take pictures and shoot video and report. We’re going to investigate. We’re going to see how individuals, communities and businesses are responding to the changes that are already happening in America, and how they’re preparing for the changes that have yet to occur.

Join us as we examine how this country is experiencing, reacting to and preparing for climate change.

Kevin Hayes, Executive Editor
Patty Cox, Executive Editor
Greg Gilderman, Editor in Chief
Neil Katz, Head of Global Content and Engagement

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on January 28, 2018, 11:10:24 pm
Jet Stream Love Affair with Stratospheric Polar Vortex

https://youtu.be/dqQ-fxEcp3Y

Paul Beckwith

Published on Jan 24, 2018

Human experience with weather is all within the lower atmosphere (troposphere). Above this is the stratosphere, where the protective ozone layer resides. Near the borderline (tropopause) jet streams (aka Rossby Waves or Tropospheric Polar Vortices) circumvent the planet, dividing cold dry polar air from hot moist equatorial derived air, and guiding storms. Much less well known is the Stratospheric Polar Vortex that crucially interacts with the jet streams affecting surface weather, and vice versa.

Upper and Lower Atmospheric Polar Vortices: It takes TWO to TANGO

https://youtu.be/q84m8Qsf-f4

Published on Jan 25, 2018

As jet streams circle the Earth dictating weather patterns and becoming slower and wavier from climate change, they are more often thrust upwards by mountains and land/ocean temperature differences.  This causes Sudden Stratospheric Warming, and can split and/or displace the Stratospheric Polar Vortex. This in turn, feeds back to amplify/fracture/slow the Rossby Waves and increase the severity/frequency/duration and location of extreme weather events and overall climate mayhem.
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Please consider donating to support my work.  I put a lot of time and effort into researching, studying and producing my videos so that you can learn how quickly our world is changing.

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on January 29, 2018, 07:04:20 pm
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Posted by Sam Carana at 5:52 PM

MONDAY, JANUARY 22, 2018

2017 was hottest 💥 year on record

The year 2017 was the hottest year on record, as the image below illustrates.

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When determining which year was the hottest year, care should be taken to avoid bias due to temporary conditions such as the El Niño that was present in 2016 and the La Niña we're now experiencing now. Above image uses NASA land+ocean January 2012-December 2017 anomalies from 1951-1980, adjusted by 0.59°C to cater for the rise from preindustrial to 1951-1980, to calculate a linear trend that goes some way to smooth out variability due to El Niño/La Niña events. The trend shows that 2017 was significantly warmer than 2016.

The trend also shows that 1.5°C above preindustrial was crossed back in 2016. This 1.5°C (or 2.7°F) was set at the Paris Agreement as a guardrail that was not to be crossed. The trend further shows that we've meanwhile crossed 1.6°C above preindustrial and we look set to cross the 2°C guardrail within years.

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Global warming has crossed 1.5°C / 2.7°F above preindustrial and looks set to cross 2°C / 3.6°F soon. Due to accelerating warming in the Arctic, that could happen within one or two years time, i.e. much faster than the trendlines below may suggest.

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Indeed, warming in the Arctic is taking place much faster than elsewhere, and the difference is accelerating. There's a huge danger that accelerating warming in the Arctic will speed up feedbacks such as:

֍ • huge amounts of methane getting released from the seafloor of the Arctic Ocean;

֍ melting of sea ice and permafrost causing more sunlight to get absorbed in the Arctic, as less sunlight gets reflected back into space;

֍ changes to jet streams causing more extreme weather, in turn resulting in more emissions, such as due to wildfires;

֍ and more.

In conclusion, feedbacks could speed up global warming by much more than what may be suggested by above trends that look only at surface temperature of the atmosphere and that are based on previous data when such feedbacks had yet to become manifest.

Add up the impact of all warming elements and, as an earlier analysis shows, the rise in mean global temperatures from preindustrial could be more than 10°C in a matter of years, as illustrated by the image below, which shows a much steeper rise.

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Particularly devastating feedbacks could result from changes regarding heat and carbon dioxide taken up by oceans. Oceans now take up 93.4% of global warming, as illustrated by the image below.

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As said, when looking at surface temperatures of the atmosphere, there will be bias due to El Niño/La Niña events. One way to smooth out such bias is by calculating trendlines over many years. Another way to compensate for such bias is to also look at ocean heat. In terms of ocean heat, the year 2017 stands at the top, as the left panel of above image illustrates. In 2016, El Niño caused relatively more heat to be present in the atmosphere and less in oceans, whereas the opposite occurred in 2017, contributing to the fact that in 2017 a record amount of ocean heat was recorded. Occurrence of El Niño/La Niña events over the years is visualized by the image below.

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One danger is that, in future, there will be more impact by El Niño events and less by La Niña events. A recent study concludes that as temperatures rise due to emissions by people, the frequency, magnitude and duration of strong El Niño events will increase.

In addition to higher temperature peaks due to El Niño events, more heat could remain in the atmosphere as the rise in temperature in general causes greater ocean stratification, making that less heat gets absorbed by oceans, as discussed in several earlier posts. The image below depicts this feedback and further feedbacks mentioned above. Feedbacks are described in more detail at the feedbacks page.

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The situation is further illustrated by the danger assessment below.

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Meanwhile, the Global Carbon Project projects a growth of 2% for the 2017 global carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels and industry (including cement production), compared to 2016 levels, as illustrated by image below. 


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The situation is dire 🔥 and calls for comprehensive and effective action as described in the Climate Plan.

Links

֍ Climate Plan
https://arctic-news.blogspot.com/p/climateplan.html

֍ Warming is accelerating
https://arctic-news.blogspot.com/2017/11/warming-is-accelerating.html

֍ The Arctic is changing the Jet Stream - Why This Is Important
https://arctic-news.blogspot.com/2017/10/the-arctic-is-changing-the-jet-stream-why-this-is-important.html

֍ 10°C or 18°F warmer by 2021?
https://arctic-news.blogspot.com/2017/04/10c-or-18f-warmer-by-2021.html

֍ Abrupt Warming - How Much And How Fast?
https://arctic-news.blogspot.com/2017/05/abrupt-warming-how-much-and-how-fast.html

֍ Feedbacks
https://arctic-news.blogspot.com/p/feedbacks.html

֍ Extinction
https://arctic-news.blogspot.com/p/extinction.html

֍ Methane Erupting From Arctic Ocean Seafloor
https://arctic-news.blogspot.com/2017/03/methane-erupting-from-arctic-ocean-seafloor.html

֍ Warning of mass extinction of species, including humans, within one decade
https://arctic-news.blogspot.com/2017/02/warning-of-mass-extinction-of-species-including-humans-within-one-decade.html
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on January 31, 2018, 03:21:16 pm
We have an Entrenched Fascism problem in the USA. It will destroy this country and possibly irreparably damage a significant portion of the biosphere. It's too late to avoid a LOT of damage, but it may not be too late to avoid human extinction. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-221017161839.png&hash=7d34712243960aa20883775dad728bc2115ed6fe)


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The IMMORAL, mammon worshipping, predatory, profit over people and planet, empathy deficit disordered, criminally insane "business model" of the Fossil Fuel Industry is the KEY to the embrace of Fascism by the BASTARDS who used the money from polluting energy products to corrupt our government to the murdering horror it has now become.
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"The fossil fuel industry swallows up $5.3 trillion a year worldwide in hidden costs to keep burning fossil fuels, according to the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
 
This money, the IMF noted, is in addition to the $492 billion in direct subsidies offered by governments around the world through write-offs and write-downs and land-use loopholes.

In a sane world these subsidies would be invested to free us from the deadly effects of carbon emissions caused by fossil fuels, but we do not live in a sane world. "  -- Chris Hedges

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The Useful Idiocy of Donald Trump

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The relentless and suicidal drive to accumulate greater and greater wealth by destroying the systems that sustain life is idolatry. It ignores the biblical injunction that idols always begin by demanding human sacrifice and end by demanding self-sacrifice. The elites are not only building our funeral pyre, they are building their own.

JAN 28, 2018 TD ORIGINALS

By Chris Hedges Columnist

Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, New York Times best selling author, former professor at Princeton University, activist and ordained Presbyterian minister. He has written 11 books,…


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Trump, who has no inclination or ability to govern, has handed the machinery of government over to the bankers, corporate executives, right-wing think tanks, intelligence chiefs and generals. They are eradicating the few regulations and laws that inhibited a naked kleptocracy. They are dynamiting the institutions, including the State Department, that served interests other than corporate profit and are stacking the courts with right-wing, corporate-controlled ideologues. Trump provides the daily entertainment; the elites handle the business of looting, exploiting and destroying.

Once democratic institutions are hollowed out, a process begun before the election of Trump, despotism is inevitable. The press is shackled. Corruption and theft take place on a massive scale. The rights and needs of citizens are irrelevant. Dissent is criminalized. Militarized police monitor, seize and detain Americans without probable cause. The rituals of democracy become farce. This is the road we are traveling. It is a road that leads to internal collapse and tyranny, and we are very far down it.

The elites’ moral and intellectual vacuum produced Trump. They too are con artists. They are slicker than he at selling the lies and more adept at disguising their greed through absurd ideologies such as neoliberalism and globalization, but they belong to the same criminal class and share many of the pathologies that characterize Trump. The grotesque visage of Trump is the true face of politicians such as George W. Bush, Bill and Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. The Clintons and Obama, unlike Bush and Trump, are self-aware and therefore cynical, but all lack a moral compass. As Michael Wolff writes in “Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House,” the president has “no scruples.” He lives “outside the rules” and is “contemptuous of them.” And this makes him identical to those he has replaced, not different. “A close Trump friend who was also a good Bill Clinton friend found them eerily similar—except that Clinton had a respectable front and Trump did not,” Wolff writes.

Trump, backed by the most retrograde elements of corporate capitalism, including Robert and Rebekah Mercer, Sheldon Adelson and Carl Icahn, is the fool who prances at the front of our death march (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-070814193155.png&hash=144ce9330e49ee84060db8753a8db69c39a14913).

Full article:

https://www.truthdig.com/articles/useful-idiocy-donald-trump/ (https://www.truthdig.com/articles/useful-idiocy-donald-trump/)

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The Fossil Fuelers DID THE Clean Energy  Inventions suppressing, Climate Trashing, human health depleting CRIME,   but since they have ALWAYS BEEN liars and conscience free crooks, they are trying to AVOID   DOING THE TIME or     PAYING THE FINE!     Don't let them get away with it! Pass it on!    (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F176.gif&hash=121533221905789c6b8d57a9603883266d349266)





Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on January 31, 2018, 07:20:40 pm
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January 31, 2018

Trump's 🦀 Economic Nationalism: Who's (🐉🦕🦖)  It Good For?

Are big tax cuts and a soaring stock market good for working people? (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2F1.bp.blogspot.com%2F-TzWpwHzCvCI%2FT_sBEnhCCpI%2FAAAAAAAAME8%2FIsLpuU8HYxc%2Fs1600%2Fnooo-way-smiley.gif&hash=b8545bd420b1e2f2c7b9f665d2093523e4ad2251) Paul Jay hosts a discussion with Robert Pollin, Stephanie Kelton, and James Henry

https://youtu.be/rme1IjT50ow

http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=21022
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on February 02, 2018, 06:47:51 pm
Axios

Amy Harder Feb 1, 2018

Two ships colliding in the night: Fossil fuels 🦖  and climate change 🔥 💧🌊
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Two people arguing over a fiery planet Earth (graphic at article link)
Illustration: Rebecca Zisser / Axios

The far left corners of the Democratic party and environmental movement held an event Wednesday night to launch Fossil Free USA, a campaign urging America to transition entirely away from oil, natural gas and coal, with no regard to the reality that the global economy remains heavily dependent on fossil fuels.

That follows Tuesday’s State of the Union speech, where President Trump said America is forging ahead with its fossil-fuel dominance, with no regard to the serious problem of climate change.

My thought bubble: It’s like they’re two ships not passing, but colliding in the night. Trump’s backers say the far left and their alarmist messaging pushes them away from acknowledging climate change, while the far left is fed up with decades of delay and neglect of climate change.

There’s no public dialogue between the two extremes while a quieter middle tries to get something done, to little avail yet. Meanwhile, we keep burning fossil fuels unabated, climate change is getting worse and most people don’t care.

Washington usually operates in black and white political terms, but it’s times like these — rhetoric-rich, substance-poor State of the Union moments — where things crystallize. Energy and climate is one of the biggest policy areas where leaders of both parties have almost no common ground:

Democrats want to do something, but they can’t agree on what. Their response to Trump’s Tuesday address didn’t even mention climate change.

Conservatives are fighting with each other over whether to publicly acknowledge basic climate science. No elected congressional Republicans are advocating doing anything about it.

The upshot: Congress hasn’t passed a standalone energy bill in more than a decade, it’s never passed a climate bill and there isn’t any policy on the immediate horizon. A stubborn trend underlies this. Climate change ranks as the second-to-last priority among nearly 20 by respondents in this Pew Research poll released a couple weeks ago. It’s also the most polarized issue.

The bottom line: Extreme partisanship + very low voter priority = perfect recipe for deep political stalemate, which is what we have here.  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.desismileys.com%2Fsmileys%2Fdesismileys_2955.gif&hash=ddc12d8bdb1bc63b7998a6b086b79a71b7bda755) (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.desismileys.com%2Fsmileys%2Fdesismileys_2953.gif&hash=b84c0ae260f7ac760e54bcdc33d788c36faa07c1)


https://www.axios.com/two-ships-colliding-in-the-night-climate-change-52ed2375-3c58-4410-82a7-cc5b4fe99626.html
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on February 03, 2018, 09:07:55 pm
Hot Humid Wedge Slices Through Dark Frigid Arctic

https://youtu.be/gWFFJLZMGg4

3,358 views

Paul Beckwith

Published on Feb 2, 2018

A large mass of warm humid air from the North Atlantic is driving a wedge (ridge of the jet-stream) into the 24-hour darkness of the Arctic nearby the North Pole, in the dead-of-winter. Frigid Arctic temperatures are brought to above freezing, further stunting sea-ice growth. The low pressure “eyes” of these cyclones reach 951 mb; the same as the recent “weather bomb” of the east coast of the US. I show you the easy-to-use Earth Nullschool tool to track the jet-stream, polar vortex, temperatures, pressures, moisture and clouds.

Please donate a few bucks to feed this video channel work; http://paulbeckwith.net
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on February 03, 2018, 10:29:48 pm
We went off the climate rails in 1990 🔥.

https://youtu.be/qkXcIu1USDk

Rockström: The Earth System in 2050 - Carbon Law


Climate State

Published on Nov 16, 2017

Johan Rockström from the Stockholm Resilience Centre in Sweden speaks about sustainable development goals. This talk is part of the Impacts World 2017 conference,
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on February 04, 2018, 03:59:14 pm
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Modern Life On Planet Earth Is An Ecological Paradox

February 4th, 2018 by Guest Contributor

Originally published on Nexus Media. (https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/545693884664119297/mCDJfUgm.jpeg)

By Marlene Cimons

SNIPPET::

We’re living better, but at what cost?

People who live in developed nations are, by many measures, healthier than ever before. Yet the planet has borne an onslaught of environmental insults — climate change chief among them — unlike any in human history. This alone threatens everyone’s well-being, a conundrum that scientists call the “ecological paradox.” They believe humans 🦍 are forfeiting the health of future generations in order to reap economic gains now.

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https://cleantechnica.com/2018/02/04/modern-life-planet-earth-ecological-paradox/

 What it Means to be Responsible - Reflections on Our Responsibility for the Future by Theresa Morris, State University of New York at New Paltz (http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/climate-change/future-earth/msg7563/#msg7563)
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on February 05, 2018, 05:46:56 pm
Katie McChesney - 350.org <350@350.org> February 5, 2018 5:28 PM

It’s been five days since Fossil Free Fast, and I’m still getting chills thinking about how powerful it was. 💐 🌹 🌺 🌻 🌼 🌷 🌱 🌲 🌳 🌴 🌵 🌾 🌿 🍀 🍁 🍂 🍃 🍄 🌰   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F19.gif&hash=3f9f2fc2285bc756137e21463bc2a4c420b15ac3)

Tens of thousands of you watched from home or gathered at more than 300 watch parties across the country -- from Hilo, Hawaii to Mount Vernon, Iowa to Maryville, Tennessee. Inspiring movement leaders, many fighting on the frontlines of this crisis in places like Puerto Rico and the Gulf Coast, laid out the #ClimateResistance plan for 2018.

But, of course, Fossil Free Fast wasn’t just a powerful event -- it was the beginning of a new chapter for the grassroots movement for climate justice here in the U.S. The momentum we built together on Wednesday was just the beginning. Now, it’s time to get to work.

Watch this wrap-up video capturing some of the most inspiring highlights from Fossil Free Fast -- and share it widely to keep the momentum going as we get ready for what’s next.

https://youtu.be/wovzRGeaOR4

https://gofossilfree.org/usa/fossil-free-fast-wrap-up/

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on February 05, 2018, 05:56:42 pm
 
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While Trump 🦀 Denies, the World Burns 🔥: The State of the Climate in 2018

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As that is happening, ocean acidification continues apace. A recent study found that as acidification has accelerated, the shell structure of mussels has changed dramatically. Their shells are becoming much more unorganized and uneven as the crystals used to build them have shrunk and become "disoriented," according to the study.

Monday, February 05, 2018

By Dahr Jamail, Truthout | Report

SNIPPET:

Earth 🌍 🌎 🌏

A recently published survey by the World Economic Forum showed that for the second year running, dangers stemming from extreme weather events are even more threatening to human existence than weapons of mass destruction. This is primarily because extreme weather events are the likeliest to occur, according to the survey.

A study published in the journal Global Environmental Change found that depression and anxiety are linked to concerns over ACD and the fate of the planet. Symptoms include feelings of loneliness and lethargy, along with restless nights and insomnia. The study noted that the most hard-hit on this front are women and people with low incomes.

Increasingly destructive impacts from ACD could cause one million migrants every year to enter the European Union by 2100, according to a new study published in the journal Science. This means that the number of migrants trying to settle in Europe each year will triple by then -- and this is only based on climate trends, not including other geopolitical factors and economics. Wolfram Schlenker, professor at the school of international and public affairs at Columbia University in New York, and lead author of the study, told The Guardian: "Europe will see increasing numbers of desperate people fleeing their home countries."

A January heat wave in Australia was so intense that more than 400 bats from one colony alone boiled alive in southwest Sydney.

Around the same time that was happening in Australia, Florida's iguanas were freezing and falling out of trees amidst a record-breaking cold snap there.

In Switzerland, trees in the Alps are leafing out earlier than they used to, causing the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research to worry that the buds sprout too soon and have negative impacts on their development.

Other terrestrial changes are even more dramatic. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-310714182509.png&hash=7a8191a3d5ff15c51ad36a342a0cd50a90b956bd)

Full article:

http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/43418-while-trump-denies-the-world-burns-the-state-of-the-climate-in-2018
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on February 06, 2018, 06:14:40 pm
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Today’s human beings, and above all Big Oil executives like Rex Tillerson 🦖
 and their willing allies like Trump 🦀, are the equivalent of the Clover Comet in their impact 💥 on the earth.

FeB 05, 2018J UAN COLE

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SNIPPET:

It has long puzzled scientists that the gradual ending of the last glacial maximum or ice age beginning about 20,000 before present, extending into the 13,000s, was interrupted in the 12,000s by another short period, of 1,200 years, of ice age. When that one receded, the earth became and remained relatively warm, so that there were no ice sheets on e.g. Europe as there were during the glacial maximum (Britain was uninhabited for some 9,000 years, with 3 miles of ice on top of it, as though it were Antarctica.) The warming may have been caused by the release of CO2 from the Southern Ocean.

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https://www.truthdig.com/articles/rapid-climate-change-looks-like-younger-dryas-comet/
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on February 07, 2018, 05:13:46 pm
Scientist suddenly tells all about Climate Change in 2018

https://youtu.be/Lgh3Obf4LeA

Climate State

Published on Feb 6, 2018

Dr. Jim White from the University of Colorado, on climate change, January 2018. Human activities are summarized in this recent lecture.

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on February 08, 2018, 09:17:39 pm
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February 6, 2018

Exxon 🦖 Tells Investors Not to Worry About Climate Change, But Should They?

Exxon 🦀  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-311013200859.png&hash=a7aaaa9f04c1e3e2c948723b5f8c13fe814dacd4)released a climate impact analysis that says global policies to combat climate change pose "little risk"  to its investments (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Fugly004.gif&hash=c56db4280057389afd154a1cb4057410151579c8).  But the attitude of investors toward climate risk is rapidly changing as fossil fuels lose their monopoly over energy generation, say Carbon Tracker CEO Anthony Hobley (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F19.gif&hash=3f9f2fc2285bc756137e21463bc2a4c420b15ac3).

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 Agelbert NOTE: If you did not know that fully 78% of the electricity generated from coal power plants in the USA must be subsidized by we-the-people (NOT counting the socialized COST, hidden in plain sight, subsidy of lung damaging pollution and climate change) BECAUSE they CANNOT run at a profit, then you should watch this video interview. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F34y5mvr.gif&hash=835b3a3f26d5d1b7f0acc379ad8ebd3fe9eea488)


https://youtu.be/VZZcc4buwWE
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on February 09, 2018, 08:02:44 pm
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The Big Wobble 🌏 Headlines: Quick Read
https://youtu.be/HAhb9aHPey8

Extreme Weather
Jan 2018 Alaska highest temperature ever at 67 deg F Minnesota minus 40 deg F deemed colder than Mars NOAA January warmer than Average

Hurricanes and cyclones
Remnants of Tropical Cyclone Fehi batter New Zealand with 160 kmh winds turning wheelie bins into "missiles" with King tides causing flooding

Spaceweather

Our Sun awakes: Another monster brewing on our Sun! Sunspot AR2699 doubles its size to more than 100,000 km across: X-Class flare potential?

Volcano Activity
Only 29 "confirmed" eruptions were recorded in 2017 the lowest count this century mirroring the lowest major quake total! A little weird?

Earthquakes
M 6.4 - 21km NNE of Hualian is the 2nd major quake to hit Taiwan in 24 hours and the 13 major quake to hit the Pacific Ring Of Fire this year

Man-made-disasters
Asian markets join global stock plunge along with London Frankfurt and Paris all falling sharply after Dow plummeted by record points Monday

Climate Change
4 million people will be allowed just two-and-a-half buckets of water per person per day as Zero-Day looms and Cape Town's water runs dry

Disease
Just five days after falling off his bike, little eight-year-old Liam Flanagan dies from deadly Flesh-eating bacteria in Portland US

Environment
Social breakdown on paradise! Holidaymakers in Jamaica warned not to leave their resorts as state of emergency declared after murders

Environment
Social breakdown on paradise! Holidaymakers in Jamaica warned not to leave their resorts as state of emergency declared after murders

http://www.thebigwobble.org/p/front-page.html
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on February 10, 2018, 08:48:53 pm
Weather Bomb

Posted on February 7, 2018, by Radio Ecoshock
 
Following another record year of “natural” catastrophes, Canadian climate scientist and You tube activist Paul Beckwith works over our tenuous situation with host Alex Smith. Radio Ecoshock 180207

Has the weather gone off the rails? Are we falling off a climate cliff already? To find out what is going on, I’m calling up our regular scientist correspondent Paul Beckwith. He’s got a Masters Degree. He taught climate science at two Universities. Now Paul is educating the world with his many climate videos.

Listen to or download this Radio Ecoshock show in CD Quality (57 MB) or Lo-Fi (14 MB)

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https://www.ecoshock.org/2018/02/weather-bomb.html
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on February 11, 2018, 10:03:17 pm
From the looks of the Arctic ice cover, we will probably see the first ice free summer in 2018 (and a lot of starved to death polar bears  :( ).

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(https://nsidc.org/data/seaice_index/images/daily_images/N_iqr_timeseries.png)
Sea ice tracking low in both hemispheres (http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/)
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on February 12, 2018, 11:47:30 pm
(https://static.secure.website/wscfus/9167827/6061108/2017-noaa-ghg-index.png)

AND, we have Accelerating radiative forcing, not fixed radiative forcing.  :P

(https://static.secure.website/wscfus/9167827/4274276/accel-rad-gold-arrow.png)

The Representative Concentration Pathway (RCP) 8.5 or worse is what we are ON.

(https://static.secure.website/wscfus/9167827/6902359/gcp-2017-co2-emissions.png)


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(https://c1cleantechnicacom-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/files/2017/11/global-warming-Earth.jpg)

http://www.stateofourclimate.com/
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on February 13, 2018, 02:55:22 pm
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Sea level rise is accelerating, could lead to twice as much sea level rise by 2100 than previously expected

LAST UPDATED ON FEBRUARY 13TH, 2018 AT 5:13 PM BY MIHAI ANDREI

SNIPPET:

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A study using satellite data found that not only are sea levels rising — but the rate is accelerating.

Sea levels might be rising two times faster than we thought, a new study suggests.

Steve Nerem, a professor of aerospace engineering sciences at the University of Colorado-Boulder and lead author on the paper, analyzed 25 years of satellite data to calculate how fast sea levels are rising as a result of climate change. He found that sea levels are currently growing by 3 mm/year, but this isn’t a steady growth. The rate is accelerating by 0.08 mm/year every year. It might not seem like much, but it picks up year after year and in the long-term, it can end up making a big difference.

“This acceleration, driven mainly by accelerated melting in Greenland and Antarctica, has the potential to double the total sea level rise by 2100 as compared to projections that assume a constant rate–to more than 60 cm instead of about 30,” said Nerem.

He also says that his models are extremely conservative, as he didn’t consider any major events such as the collapse of important ice sheets or accelerating global warming. This means that in reality, we can probably expect sea levels to grow even more than his predictions.

Full article:

https://www.zmescience.com/science/news-science/sea-level-rise-accelerating-13022018/

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on February 13, 2018, 07:07:19 pm
Visualizing a Warmer World: 10 Maps of Climate Vulnerability

by Stefanie Tye Stefanie Tye, Emily Nilson and Lauretta Burke - February 07, 2018

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http://www.wri.org/blog/2018/02/visualizing-warmer-world-10-maps-climate-vulnerability
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on February 14, 2018, 08:49:07 pm
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Watch How Easily This Gas 🦖 Tanker >:( Just Crossed the Melting Arctic

Yessenia Funes February 13, 2018

https://youtu.be/JZkD9TFXrdU

article with video:

https://earther.com/watch-how-easily-this-gas-tanker-just-crossed-the-melti-1822973782
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on February 15, 2018, 02:53:32 pm
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Huge Antarctic iceberg exposes mysterious marine ecosystem hidden beneath the ice for 120,000 years

LAST UPDATED ON FEBRUARY 15TH, 2018 AT 2:36 PM BY TIBI PUIU

SNIPPET:

https://youtu.be/WAM0tZB0aIc

Last year, one of the largest icebergs in history broke off broke off from the Larsen C ice. The massive 2,200-square-mile iceberg called A-68 has exposed an ecosystem that has been hidden beneath the ice for thousands of years.

Now, a diverse team made up of scientists from nine research institutes around the world is urgently traveling to the area where the iceberg calved to probe the seabed before it’s too late.

A daring expedition and lifeforms removed from time

The researchers are supposed to leave from the Falkland Islands to the calving site on 21 February, where they will spend three weeks until March 2018 on board the research ship RRS James Clark Ross.

The A-68 iceberg is one of the largest ever observed on Earth. It’s about as big as the state of Delaware and holds four times more ice than what gets melted from Greenland’s ice sheet in a year. Scientists had been preparing for A-68’s split from Larsen C for months before the calving, ever since they witnessed a crack in the ice shelf extending over 100 miles in length.

Full article:

https://www.zmescience.com/science/news-science/hidden-antarctic-ecosystem-0432432/
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on February 16, 2018, 09:20:17 pm
February 15, 2018

Climate Change Costs Insurance Companies Billions, And Price is Rising

Insurance claims due to climate change-related disasters reached a record $135 billion in 2017. That should be a big wake-up call to the insurance industry, says Carbon Tracker CEO Anthony Hobley

https://youtu.be/6dE3UDwjEMU

http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=21071
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on February 19, 2018, 06:10:56 pm
Climate Lab Book

Trends in extremes

February 19, 2018 extremes, observations

Ed Hawkins

About Ed Hawkins - Climate scientist in the National Centre for Atmospheric Science (NCAS) at the University of Reading. IPCC AR5 Contributing Author. Can be found on twitter too: @ed_hawkins

SNIPPET:

Guest post by Geert Jan van Oldenborgh

The obvious first-order hypothesis is that warm extremes are getting warmer and cold extremes less cold. Severe precipitation tends to increase due to the higher moisture content of warmer air. Sea level rise simply heightens storms urges. Other extremes do not have as obvious first-order trends.

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Figure 1. Trend in the temperature of the warmest day of the year as a multiple of the global mean temperature rise. Source: NOAA/NCEI/GHCN-D stations with at least 50 years of data via the KNMI Climate Explorer.

Full article:

http://www.climate-lab-book.ac.uk/2018/trends-in-extremes/


Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on February 21, 2018, 01:22:33 pm
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It’s Bizarrely Warm at the Northernmost Land Weather Station

Brian Kahn

Yesterday 10:56am Filed to: THE ARCTIC IS SCREWED  :(

SNIPPET:

DMI scientists recorded temperatures crossing the freezing threshold at the world’s northernmost land-based weather station, located in Greenland. An initial analysis shows that temperatures there rose an astonishing 39 degrees Fahrenheit in four hours on Sunday night. They’ve stayed above freezing through Tuesday. This is hardly the only instance of a weather station going haywire due to the heat.

Sea ice in the Barents Sea, which sits to the east of Greenland, has also started to shrink at a time when ice is usually still climbing towards its maximum extent. The same process has played out on the Pacific side of the Arctic as well, where sea ice has been wiped out in the Bering Sea. InsideClimate News reported that the sea lost a third of its ice in just eight days.

Full article:

https://earther.com/it-s-bizarrely-warm-at-the-northernmost-land-weather-st-1823153892

Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on February 22, 2018, 06:08:13 pm
February 22, 2018

Beta Coronel - 350.org

Last month, we won a huge victory when New York City and State committed to divesting their pension funds from fossil fuels. Not only that, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio launched a lawsuit against the top fossil fuel companies for the damage climate change has caused the people of New York.

New York’s decision was a turning point in the fight against the fossil fuel industry--and it was a victory won through years of sustained local campaigning. This is what the power of the people looks like.

That’s why this year, we’re launching Fossil Free: a people-powered push to pass resolutions stopping new fossil fuel projects and demanding a fast and just transition to 100% renewable energy for all in cities and towns across the U.S.

https://youtu.be/uDccoq3UFVw

With your help, we can win more victories like the one in New York, and build the fossil free world we need.

Thank you,

Beta🕊

https://act.350.org/donate/fossilfreebeta/

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on February 24, 2018, 02:58:10 pm
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http://www.stateofourclimate.com/
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on February 24, 2018, 03:12:33 pm
Ozone Shield NOT Safe Scientists Say    (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.desismileys.com%2Fsmileys%2Fdesismileys_1593.gif&hash=628238f2fc26695937f6e97b91b050976065743b)

Posted on February 14, 2018, by Radio Ecoshock

https://www.ecoshock.org/2018/02/ozone-shield-not-safe-scientists-say.html
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on February 25, 2018, 07:11:51 pm
Bering Sea loses half its sea ice over two weeks
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Livable Planet

PRI's The World

February 22, 2018 · 5:15 PM EST

By Carolyn Beeler

SNIPPET:

The Bering Sea has lost roughly half its sea ice over the past two weeks and has more open water than ever measured at this time of year.

Full article:

https://www.pri.org/stories/2018-02-22/bering-sea-loses-half-its-sea-ice-over-two-weeks
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on February 25, 2018, 07:26:27 pm
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on February 25, 2018, 10:02:26 pm
I’m a climate scientist. And I’m not letting trickle-down ignorance 🦖 win.

How to fight ⚡ the Trump 🦀 administration's darkness (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-250817135149.gif&hash=b4a8748d7cf56a31dd0a6aae5828ed2c1ac2815c)(https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.desismileys.com%2Fsmileys%2Fdesismileys_6869.gif&hash=f94938471d343a09155d1f60eefacdb2ceab2457)


By Ben Santer July 5, 2017

Ben Santer is a climate scientist and a member of the National Academy of Sciences.

SNIPPET 1:

I’ve been a mountaineer for most of my life. Mountains are in my blood. In my early 20s, while climbing in France, I fell into a crevasse on the Milieu Glacier, at the start of the normal route on the Aiguille d’Argentiere. Remarkably, I was unhurt. From the grip of the banded ice, I saw a thin slit of blue sky 120 feet above me. The math was simple: Climb 120 feet. If I reached that slit of blue sky, I would live. If I didn’t, I’d freeze to death in the cold and dark.

Now, more than 40 years later, it feels like I’m in a different kind of darkness — the darkness of the Trump administration’s scientific ignorance. This is just as real as the darkness of the Milieu Glacier’s interior and just as life-threatening. This time, I’m not alone. The consequences of this ignorance affect every person on the planet.

Imagine, if you will, that you spend your entire professional life trying to do one thing to the best of your ability. In my case, that one thing is to study the nature and causes of climate change. You put in a long apprenticeship. You spend years learning about the climate system, computer models of climate and climate observations. You start filling a tool kit with the statistical and mathematical methods you’ll need for analyzing complex data sets. You are taught how electrical engineers detect signals embedded in noisy data. You apply those engineering insights to the detection of a human-caused warming signal buried in the natural “noise” of Earth’s climate. Eventually, you learn that human activities are warming Earth’s surface, and you publish this finding in peer-reviewed literature.


SNIPPET 2:

You encounter valid scientific criticism. You also encounter nonscientific criticism from powerful forces of unreason🦖, who harbor no personal animus toward you but don’t like what you’ve learned and published — it’s bad for their 🦖 business 🦀.


SNIPPET 3:

Over time, the evidence for a discernible human influence on global climate becomes overwhelming. The evidence is internally and physically consistent. It’s in climate measurements made from the ground, from weather balloons and from space — measurements of dozens of different climate variables made by hundreds of different research groups around the world. You write more papers, examine more uncertainties and participate in more scientific assessments. You tell others what you’ve done, what you’ve learned and what the climatic “shape of things to come” might look like if we do nothing to reduce emissions of heat-trapping greenhouse gases. You speak not only to your scientific peers but also to a wide variety of audiences, some of which are skeptical about you and everything you do. You enter the public arena and make yourself accountable.

After decades of seeking to advance scientific understanding, reality suddenly shifts, and you are back in the cold darkness of ignorance. The ignorance starts at the top, with President Trump 🦀. It starts with untruths and alternative facts. The untruth that climate change is a “hoax” engineered by the Chinese. The alternative fact that “nobody really knows” whether climate change is real. These untruths and alternative facts are repeated again and again. They serve as talking points for other members of the administration. From the Environmental Protection Agency administrator, who has spent his career fighting climate change science, we learn the alternative fact that satellite data shows “a leveling off of warming ” over the past two decades. The energy secretary tells us the fairy tale that climate change is primarily due to “ocean waters and this environment that we live in.” Ignorance trickles down from the president to members of his administration, eventually filtering into the public’s consciousness.

Getting out of this metaphorical darkness is going to be tough.

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/posteverything/wp/2017/07/05/im-a-climate-scientist-and-im-not-letting-trickle-down-ignorance-win/ (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/posteverything/wp/2017/07/05/im-a-climate-scientist-and-im-not-letting-trickle-down-ignorance-win/)
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on February 27, 2018, 07:31:08 pm
EcoWatch

Scientists Stunned by Off-the-Charts Arctic Temperatures, Record-Low Sea Ice    (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-300714025456.bmp&hash=f4e4a260bd60d3f34ca86fed93c47d5fb4117cfd) 

By  Lorraine Chow

Feb. 26, 2018 12:50PM EST

https://www.ecowatch.com/arctic-climate-change-2539897203.html
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on February 27, 2018, 07:46:44 pm
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Feb 26, 2018

Rising Temperatures Imperil Winter Sports Industry (VIDEO)

Declining snowfall threatens billions in lost revenue.

https://youtu.be/dXDcF2hvv8A

https://nexusmedianews.com/rising-temperatures-imperil-winter-sports-industry-2b23b35cdde6
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on March 03, 2018, 03:44:33 pm
Agelbert NOTE: Just for the Hell of it, HERE are some recent Fossil Fuel BOOM (AND WORLDWIDE ECONOMY BOOM) EVIDENCE articles Palloy, and all those who labor under the PATHETIC belief that a 'collapse of civilization from LACK of fossil fuels will save us from the horrendously deleterious existential threat of Catastrophic Climate Change' (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Fugly004.gif&hash=c56db4280057389afd154a1cb4057410151579c8), DON'T READ.  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-120716190938.png&hash=01feab1c7345a4e98764e0f9d24b2d69171b93c2)

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Supertankers Sailing from U.S. to Cut Time, Money and Traders

February 26, 2018 by Bloomberg

SNIPPET:

The first fully laden supertanker sailed from America earlier this month, leaving for China from LOOP’s deep-water facility — the only one in the U.S. capable of filling some of the industry’s biggest tankers. In the wake of an end to a four decade-ban on exports and as OPEC curbed output to clear a glut, a stream of shipments from the Gulf Coast headed east as major buyers such as India and South Korea looked farther for supplies.

Full article:

http://gcaptain.com/supertankers-sailing-from-u-s-to-cut-time-money-and-traders/ (http://gcaptain.com/supertankers-sailing-from-u-s-to-cut-time-money-and-traders/)

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How Shell Hid a ‘Whale’ Well Before Placing Mexican Oil Bet

March 2, 2018 by Reuters

SNIPPET for the brain impaired true believers  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Fgen152.gif&hash=d5b10968fe56c4cb95fae17cee3cb420a5f4e2da) in 'peak oil':

The company, like many of its peers, was forced to dramatically slash spending in recent years because of weak oil prices, with its exploration budgets hit particularly hard. Now that prices have recovered to a near three-year high of around $65 a barrel, firms feel more confident to once again invest in expensive offshore developments.

Shell owns a 60 percent stake in the Whale discovery with the remaining 40 percent held by Chevron, which is mainly shale-focused.

The reservoir is located in the Perdido area, which has become a heartland of Shell’s deepwater activities in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico.

Full article:

http://gcaptain.com/how-shell-hid-a-whale-well-before-placing-mexican-oil-bet/ (http://gcaptain.com/how-shell-hid-a-whale-well-before-placing-mexican-oil-bet/)

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Tanker Operator, Master Plead Guilty to Oil and Garbage Dumping Crimes in U.S.

February 27, 2018 by gCaptain

http://gcaptain.com/tanker-operator-master-plead-guilty-to-oil-and-garbage-dumping-crimes-in-u-s/ (http://gcaptain.com/tanker-operator-master-plead-guilty-to-oil-and-garbage-dumping-crimes-in-u-s/)


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DP World May Develop $1.2 Billion Port at Banana on Congo Coast

March 2, 2018 by Bloomberg

http://gcaptain.com/dp-world-may-develop-1-2-billion-port-at-banana-on-congo-coast/ (http://gcaptain.com/dp-world-may-develop-1-2-billion-port-at-banana-on-congo-coast/)

Trump Administration Sets March Date for Largest Oil and Gas Lease Auction in U.S. History

February 16, 2018 by Reuters

SNIPPET:

The Interior Department said it would offer 77.3 million acres (31.3 mln hectares) offshore Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida for oil and gas development, an auction that includes all available unleased areas in the Gulf of Mexico. The blocks are from 3 to 231 miles (5 to 372 km) offshore and in waters 9 to 11,115 feet (3 to 3,390 meters) deep.

full article:

http://gcaptain.com/trump-administration-sets-march-date-largest-oil-gas-lease-auction-us-history/ (http://gcaptain.com/trump-administration-sets-march-date-largest-oil-gas-lease-auction-us-history/)

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NGO Shipbreaking Platform: 80% of Tonnage Sold for Scrap in 2017 Ended Up on South Asia’s Beaches

February 22, 2018 by Mike Schuler

http://gcaptain.com/ngo-shipbreaking-platform-80-of-tonnage-sold-for-scrap-in-2017-ended-up-on-south-asias-beaches/ (http://gcaptain.com/ngo-shipbreaking-platform-80-of-tonnage-sold-for-scrap-in-2017-ended-up-on-south-asias-beaches/)

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U.S. drillers boost oil rig count to highest nearly three years: Baker Hughes

COMMODITIES FEBRUARY 9, 2018 / 1:23 PM

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-rigs-baker-hughes/u-s-drillers-boost-oil-rig-count-to-highest-nearly-three-years-baker-hughes-idUSKBN1FT2MC (https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-rigs-baker-hughes/u-s-drillers-boost-oil-rig-count-to-highest-nearly-three-years-baker-hughes-idUSKBN1FT2MC)

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PHOTOS: Teekay’s New Icebreaker LNG Carrier ‘Eduard Toll’

November 10, 2017 by Mike Schuler

SNIPPET for Palloy (and anyone else who shares his fantasy filled world view) who claims "you can't say Russia is outputting more FF because because, uh, Russia does not publish their Fossil Fuel production levels".  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2F2.bp.blogspot.com%2F_9HT4xZyDmh4%2FTOHhxzA0wLI%2FAAAAAAAAEUk%2FoeHDS2cfxWQ%2Fs200%2FSmiley_Angel_Wings_Halo.jpg&hash=13281f1944b60773bf12b29387b70be77cc1fe16) 

Construction of the Eduard Toll began in early 2016 at the DSME shipyard in South Korea.

The vessel is the first of Teekay LNG Partners’ six 172,000 cubic meter ARC7 LNG carrier newbuildings to be constructed for the Yamal LNG project in the Russian Arctic.

Yamal is expected to produce 16.5 million metric tons of LNG annually by 2019, which will require a total of 15 ARC7 icebreaker LNG carriers. The first shipment from the project is planned for this month, with the receiver rumored to be China.

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full article:

http://gcaptain.com/photos-teekays-new-icebreaker-lng-carrier-eduard-toll/ (http://gcaptain.com/photos-teekays-new-icebreaker-lng-carrier-eduard-toll/)

Gulf Coast Shipping Boom: U.S. Oil Exports Pour Into Worldwide Markets

February 8, 2018 by Reuters

SNIPPET for those poor wishful thinking fools who think less fossil fuels are being produced because, uh, we are 'running out' (any day now, yep, sure, right...):

Between 2010 and 2017, U.S. oil production rose from 5.5 million barrels a day to 10 million bpd – approaching a record set in 1970 – as shale fields in west Texas and North Dakota lured massive new drilling investments. That brings national production in line with Saudi Arabia and close to top-producer Russia’s 10.9 million barrels a day.

Saudi Arabia cut output last year as part of OPEC’s 2016 deal to reduce supply – after losing a price war with U.S. shale producers that created a global glut.

Most forecasts show U.S. crude output growing about 500,000 to 600,000 barrels per day through the end of 2018, said David Fyfe, chief economist at global commodity trading firm Gunvor Group in Geneva, Switzerland. The U.S. Energy Department is even more optimistic, now expecting growth to rise by 1.2 million bpd – hitting 11 million bpd by year-end.

full article:

http://gcaptain.com/gulf-coast-shipping-boom-us-oil-exports-pour-into-worldwide-markets/ (http://gcaptain.com/gulf-coast-shipping-boom-us-oil-exports-pour-into-worldwide-markets/)

Agelbert NOTE: What does all the above have to do with the claim I have made SEVERAL TIMES (Reality is WORSE than the WORSE CASE BAU RCP-8.5 IPCC scenario! (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F301.gif&hash=0291ed4abf2d80e420d1aa00d4eb3c5dd6bbfb53)) , that Palloy always tries to hair split his way around? 

It's all about Radiative Forcing, folks. That "8.5" number on the Representative Concentration Pathway (RCP) stands for approximately 8.5 watts per square meter.  We are NOW getting MORE THAN THAT. We will NOT get LESS than that for over TWO HUNDRED YEARS, even if we stopped burning fossil fuels TODAY.

Palloy cannot accept that scientifically predicted HARD REALITY. The reason he cannot accept that is because, if he did, he would realize that a civilizational collapse from 'lack of fossil fuels' (LOL!) is not going to do a God Damned THING to slow down the Sixth Great Extinction we are now in. So, he makes happy talk stuff up about the IPCC models that simply DO NOT NOW, and never have, accounted for in order to keep pushing his 'collapse will save us' happy talk. This Happy Talk is nothing but an unprincipled and heinous back door defense of the fossil fuel profit over planet polluting 🦖 status quo , PERIOD.


IPCC RCP 8.5 business as usual scenario is too conservative. ALL the climate models low ball global warming (see below).

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Agelbert NOTE: The problem humanity has is NOT lack of hydrocarbons; it is the adamant and totally unreasonable refusal to accept the FACT that we have ALREADY exceeded the "carbon budget" for a FOUR DEGREE C rise in average global temperature, never mind a TWO DEGREE C "target".

The worse case scenario the IPCC came up with (BAU RCP-8.5) is too conservative a projection of the heat increase (it is MUCH, MUCH WORSE! (http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/climate-change/global-warming-is-with-us/msg8731/#msg8731)).
Climate Dynamics:

Facing the Harsh Realities of Now

Climate Sensitivity, Target Temperature & the Carbon Budget
Guidelines for Strategic Action

Apollo-Gaia Project

Director: David Wasdell

It is with the utmost concern that we draw your attention to the fundamental methodological flaw in the determination of the value of Climate Sensitivity that is embedded in the Summary for Policymakers of the Scientific Workgroup of the 5th Assessment Report of the IPCC. The error was replicated in the Reports of Workgroups 2 and 3 and carried forward into the Synthesis Report. It has been used as the given basis for every subsequent publication. Our radical analysis of Climate Dynamics has generated a new and robust value of "Earth System Sensitivity" which has profound implications for:

֍ The relationship between temperature change and cumulative carbon emissions.

֍ The calculation of "available carbon budget".

֍ The evaluation of the INDCs.

֍ The terms of reference of COP21 in Paris (30 November - 11 December 2015).

֍ The future global strategy for climate stabilisation.
 
Our analysis is published in dual media (triple-screen video and fully illustrated PDF). These can be used separately or in combination.


Video of the above and Table of Contents at link below.

(https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-191017143841.jpeg&hash=21f142befe4ed82f10ef0bdba11c22bbd3051289) Agelbert NOTE: If you care about humanity, you will watch it and pass it on to friends and family. If, because you have been paid or propagandized to think the continued burning of fossil fuels is "good for mankind", you either don't watch it, or do watch it so you can to claim "it is global warming hoax" propaganda (or if if you are more "sophisticated", like certain pseudo-scientists (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.whydidyouwearthat.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2011%2F01%2Ftumblr_l7j9nik8Wf1qaxxwjo1_5001.jpeg&hash=1ddbeb4da161820b2cf932e6f5f740e80f5bada6) who claim IPCC scenarios "have taken all the possible warming feedback loops into consideration in the models and we can keep burning fossil fuels for a few more decades"), you doom yourself and future generations (i.e. you are willfully stupid).

Don't be stupid. The fossil fuel industry murdering crooks and liars do not own you.

http://www.apollo-gaia.org/harsh-realities-of-now.html (http://www.apollo-gaia.org/harsh-realities-of-now.html)

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Anyone telling you that fossil fuels are "running out" needs to read the published figures from the oil and gas producing nations of this planet. The emissions are INCREASING, NOT "leveling off or decreasing". PLUS, tropical rain forests AND permafrost melt are now ADDING to the carbon emissions! GHG is GHG. no matter where it is coming from! You are NOT going to turn this heat engine off easily. Several heat adding feedbacks we have triggered by burning too much fossil fuels are NOT in our control, PERIOD.

Where in God's good earth these fossil fueler wishful thinking FOOLS think that we are somehow going to get a handle on this massive heating NOW IN THE Global Warming radiative forcing INERTIA pipeline, even if we stopped all hydrocarbon burning today (rather than the present tragic reality of increased burning), is a mystery to me. They certainly DO NOT get this idea from empirical evidence or sound science. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-200714183337.bmp&hash=fd5a6df63c32bd65dda7b6d93e788647ca3829df)

This stubborn clinging to a happy talk myth about some "quick recovery from fossil fuel burning caused globle warming" is a testament to the extremes people in denial of an extinction threat reality will go to.  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Fgaah.gif&hash=e43fa6be4258ba495007b2bbb3e7dd2f60288fcd)

And for the propagandist liars that know the truth and push the happy talk for money, I can only say that they are greater fools than those naive folks that believe the fossil fuel fascist funded happy talk lies and distortions. These bought and paid for propagandists are behaving as STUPIDLY as any person possibly can. You STUPID, MONEY LOVING BASTARDS deserve the Darwin Evolutionary Dead End Award.

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ENJOY THE OIL AND GAS BOOM, SUCKERS (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-311013200859.png&hash=a7aaaa9f04c1e3e2c948723b5f8c13fe814dacd4)

The Fossil Fuelers 🦖  DID THE Clean Energy  Inventions suppressing, Climate Trashing, human health depleting CRIME,   but since they have ALWAYS BEEN liars and conscience free crooks 🦀, they are trying to AVOID   DOING THE TIME or     PAYING THE FINE!     Don't let them get away with it! Pass it on!    (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F176.gif&hash=121533221905789c6b8d57a9603883266d349266)



Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on March 03, 2018, 10:51:48 pm
Arctic Death Spiral and the Methane Time Bomb

https://youtu.be/1oyN1t58bbQ

EW | HD | Feb 01, 2018 | 436 views | by FFF

Many thanks to:
Peter Sinclair - Greenman Studios
David Suzuki - David Suzuki Foundation
Dr. Guy McPherson - Professor Emeritus University of Arizona.
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on March 04, 2018, 07:07:16 pm
Agelbert NOTE: This video is rather long for most people. So, let me direct you to the small section by the Eminent Russian Scientist Dr. Natalia Shakhova (International Arctic Research Center), who calmly explains that Global Warming will cause, NOT around 2100 or 2050, but within a DECADE or less, the release of shallow water methane hydrates in the arctic.

THOSE methane hydrates ARE NOT accounted for in ANY of the IPCC RCP models, including the BAU RCP-8.5 "worse case" scenario. But more importantly, those methane hydrates have absolutely nothing to do with the release of GHG pollutants from fossil fuel burning.

So, why should we care? Isn't "peak oil" going to "save us" from burning too much fossil fuels?  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2F2.bp.blogspot.com%2F_9HT4xZyDmh4%2FTOHhxzA0wLI%2FAAAAAAAAEUk%2FoeHDS2cfxWQ%2Fs200%2FSmiley_Angel_Wings_Halo.jpg&hash=13281f1944b60773bf12b29387b70be77cc1fe16) (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2F1.bp.blogspot.com%2F-TzWpwHzCvCI%2FT_sBEnhCCpI%2FAAAAAAAAME8%2FIsLpuU8HYxc%2Fs1600%2Fnooo-way-smiley.gif&hash=b8545bd420b1e2f2c7b9f665d2093523e4ad2251)

We can argue all day about that (and Palloy does!),  but let us assume, though I vigorously disagree, that, as Palloy claims with "irrefutable" statistical evidence, we will remain well below the RCP-8.5 BAU trajectory because we will "run out" of fossil fuels from some type of civilizational collapse.

Will we be "okay"? (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F126fs3187425.gif&hash=698371058827d6a11faaaa56c2531639421f9477)

Palloy and his "peak oil will save us" pals aren't just partly wrong; they are MASSIVELY wrong.

The Russian Scientist Dr. Natalia Shakhova explains why, and I'll get to that in a moment.

Back to the "Peak Oil will save us" crowd: You see, even if we severely reduce our fossil fuel use, as the "Peak Oil will save us" crowd religously (and erroneously) claim will happen (that will "keep us from suffering the RCP-8.5 BAU Catastrophic Climate Change scenario"), the overly conservative IPCC scenarios  DO NOT keep us from breaching the 2° C increase (from pre-industrial) LONG BEFORE the projected massive decrease in fossil fuel use from collapse takes effect (i.e. some time before 2050).

In fact, that "collapse from peak oil will save us" happy talk was debunked two and a half years ago by Ugo Bardi. He goes into the IPCC math and shows why stopping fossil fuel use won't prevent Catastrophic Climate Change. I will post it here on request to anybody who still thinks Palloy is pushing anything but a pseudo-scientific back door defense of the fossil fuel polluting status quo.

Ugo Bardi pointed out something that I did not know, but I suppose I should have. The "peak oil will save us" meme came DIRECTLY from the fossil fuel funded Climate Change g Denier Community(https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-250817135149.gif&hash=b4a8748d7cf56a31dd0a6aae5828ed2c1ac2815c).

It certainly makes sense that they would come up with that clever propaganda. WHY? Because, on the one hand it supports the Scarcity Meme of fossil fuels, giving the rubes a valid "supply and demand" reason to pay MORE for that "precious" fuel  ;) (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-311013201314.png&hash=0715eb72631014310634eb56176ff860c6d542f6), while on the other (Orwellian) hand it simultaneously achieves the pretzel logic message that "you've got nothing to worry about by consuming fossil fuels as long as that loyal servant fossil fuel industry works and slaves to provide fossil fuels for you because, uh, it will run out before climate change can hurt us". (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-250817121829.png&hash=035f25ddb6d065f1533ce03c1c07f5fddcbbc83c)

This pseudo-scientific claptrap from people like Roger Andrews (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-200714191329.bmp&hash=4764bfbe6bb0e11ca61102efa97a932a824f47e0) is accompanied by IPCC GHG math relating to fossil fuel  burning numbers. Ugo Bardi exposes the deliberately untruthful and misleading statements, albeit using real IPCC math as a base, used to claim "peak oil will save us" in his article.

All that said, let us say that Palloy is RIGHT, Ugo Bardi and I are WRONG, and Peak Oil really will trigger such a massive collapse that 90% or more of our fossil fuel consumption will vanish. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-040817183318.gif&hash=85dbde0ecc986da6385d09f4df76d45028b7062d)

I still do not need to bury my head in shame, write several mea culpas, and buy a hummer.     (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.coh2.org%2Fimages%2FSmileys%2Fhuhsign.gif&hash=3732d0427be65896527fc3805c5be54a33cffd3b)

How can that be? Didn't the Famed Doomer Mathematician Palloy from the mysterious boa filled jungle just take me to to the empirical evidence and critical thinking wood shed and beat me to a smather?

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Sorry for the kitty, Palloy. I know that bothers you but I just can't help myself.  ;D

Back to the Eminent Russian Scientist Dr. Natalia Shakhova International Arctic Research Center) in the video below: She clearly says that there are, at present, about 5 gigatons of methane in the atmosphere. Methane is between 50 and 86 TIMES more potent a GHG than Carbon Dioxide. Because of that, methane has a large impact on atmospheric heating.

SO?

The amount of shallow water methane hydrates in the arctic ocean is rather massive. HOW massive? She said (Begin at the 53:47 mark) it is THE largest source of hydrocarbons in the world. She said releasing less than 1% of that would DOUBLE the warming effect on our atmosphere. According to the scientist, there are several HUNDRED to a THOUSAND gigatons of methane that is subject to being released on the way to a 2° C average temperature rise.

What does that mean? ???

It means that ALL the GHG polutants from ALL the fossil fuels that have been burned for ALL the time we have had industrial civilization are PEANUTS compared to the MASSIVE ACCELERATED ATMOSPHERIC HEATING that the release of  even a small portion of those methane hydrates will trigger. The IPCC has NOT included the release of even a tiny fraction of those methane hydrates in ANY of their RCP scenarios, including the RCP-8.5. What the IPCC has accounted for is SOME methane release from the arctic tundra, which is dangerous in and of itself, but orders of magnitude less dangerous than the methane hydrates in the arctic ocean. 

(https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.funny-emoticons.com%2Ffiles%2Ffunny-animals%2Fblue-bird-emoticons%2F801-listen-up%21.png&hash=f7fb2b5263a68b91c628fc597877983f813843e5) Are you getting this?

The "peak oil will save us" claim is totally irrelevant. Even the overly conservative IPCC has already accepted that we will reach, and breach, the 2° C increase soon. So NOBODY can guarantee that the methane bomb will not go off. After that methane bomb goes off, all of us that don't have a bunker near the poles become crispy critters.

We needed to stop burning fossil fuels back in 1982, give or take a few years, in order to avoid the baked in 2° C.

What should we do as a civilization (besides telling the "peak oil will save us" crowd that they need a shrink or a prison cell (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.desismileys.com%2Fsmileys%2Fdesismileys_6869.gif&hash=f94938471d343a09155d1f60eefacdb2ceab2457))?

The best we can do is stop all buring of fossil fuels and begin a crash program to get our Carbon Didoxide PPM back to around 350 PPM or we are all dead soon. BAU (Business As Usual) can stop in its track tomorrow from a massive collapse and the 2° C increase is STILL BAKED IN. Peak oil will not save anybody or anything. Every day we delay will simply hasten our demise.

 
Arctic Death Spiral and the Methane Time Bomb

Let me direct you to the small section by the Eminent Russian Scientist Dr. Natalia Shakhova (International Arctic Research Center), who calmly explains that Global Warming will cause, NOT around 2100 or 2050, but within a DECADE or less, the release of shallow water methane hydrates in the arctic.  Begin at the 53:47 mark

https://youtu.be/1oyN1t58bbQ

EW | HD | Feb 01, 2018 | 436 views | by FFF

The Fossil Fuelers 🦖  DID THE Clean Energy  Inventions suppressing, Climate Trashing, human health depleting CRIME,   but since they have ALWAYS BEEN liars and conscience free crooks 🦀, they are trying to AVOID   DOING THE TIME or     PAYING THE FINE!     Don't let them get away with it! Pass it on!    (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F176.gif&hash=121533221905789c6b8d57a9603883266d349266)


 




Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on March 05, 2018, 03:07:49 pm
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/06/Extinction_intensity.svg)
Millions of years ago

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The Permian–Triassic extinction event (the Great Dying) may have been caused by release of methane from clathrates. An estimated 52% of marine genus became extinct, representing 96% of all marine species.

The Clathrate (methane hydrates) gun

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The release of methane from the Arctic is in itself a major contributor to global warming as a result of polar amplification. Recent observations in the Siberian arctic show increased rates of methane release from the Arctic seabed.[4] Land-based permafrost, also in the Siberian arctic, was estimated in 2013 to release 17 million tonnes of methane per year – a significant increase on the 3.8 million tons estimated in 2006, and estimates before then of just 0.5 million tonnes.[10][11][12] This compares to around 500 million tonnes released into the atmosphere annually from all sources.[10]

Shakhova et al. (2008) estimate that not less than 1,400 gigatonnes (Gt) of carbon is presently locked up as methane and methane hydrates under the Arctic submarine permafrost, and 5–10% of that area is subject to puncturing by open taliks. They conclude that "release of up to 50 Gt of predicted amount of hydrate storage [is] highly possible for abrupt release at any time". That would increase the methane content of the planet's atmosphere by a factor of twelve.[13]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arctic_methane_emissions
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on March 05, 2018, 07:55:38 pm
Arctic spring is starting 16 days earlier than a decade ago, study shows

Climate change is causing the season to start comparatively earlier the further north you go, say scientists

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A snowshoe hare stands near Thule air base in Pituffik, Greenland.

The Arctic spring is arriving 16 days earlier than it did a decade ago, according to a new study which shows climate change is shifting the season earlier more dramatically the further north you go.

The research, published on Friday in the journal Scientific Reports, comes amid growing concern about the warming of Greenland, Siberia, Alaska and other far northern regions, which have recently experienced unusually prolonged and frequent midwinter temperature spikes.

The authors from the University of California, Davis, based the study on temperature records and 743 previous phenological studies looking at timings of bird migrations, flowers blooming and amphibians calling. The results showed a curve, with spring events occurring earlier further north of the equator.

“Spring is arriving earlier, and the Arctic is experiencing greater advances of spring than lower latitudes,” said lead author Eric Post, a fellow of the John Muir Institute and polar ecologist at UC Davis.

Over the past 10 years, this means the end of winter will come about a day earlier in Los Angeles, but two weeks earlier in the Arctic. The authors say the northward increase in the rate of springtime advance is roughly three times greater than indicated by previous studies.

This underlines how pronounced climate change is in the Arctic, where temperatures are rising twice as fast as the global average and ice fields are rapidly shrinking.

The warming trend has been unusually apparent in recent weeks. Although the sun has not reached the high Arctic since October, temperatures has been above freezing for 61 hours – more than three times the previous record – at Greenland’s northernmost weather monitoring station.

Martin Stendel, lead scientist of the Polar Portal and a senior researcher at the Danish Meteorological Institute, said temperatures in the central Arctic have been 4C warmer than average this winter. In February, several regions were 10C above historic norms. Despite fluctuations, he expects this trend to continue.

“Think of waves on the beach. Some are high, some are low. That’s the weather. But in the background the tide is coming in. That’s climate change. Even though the waves haven’t changed their properties, they come closer and closer to your feet,” he says. The consequences would include increased melting of the ice sheet, less sea ice, thawing permafrost both on land and under the sea, less snow and more rain even in winter.

The weather has appeared out of joint seasonally and geographically. As much of northern Europe was hit by blizzards and chills, the Danish media joked that residents should visit the Arctic special forces base at Daneborg because it is warmer there.

The Information newspaper interviewed a member of the Sirius Dog Sled Patrol at the base – one of the most northern permanent outposts of humanity – who said the high temperature had turned slow into slush and made sledding heavy.

The handful of troops at the base are used to spending months in cold and darkness. “The first day the sun doesn’t come up you think ‘Wow’,” one member told Greenland Today in 2015. “The water and the rivers stop running because they freeze. The fjord freezes too, so there are no waves or swells that lap at the shore. The small birds fly south so there is no birdsong. Only the ravens overwinter. And then a thick layer of snow comes that muffles everything even more.”

On some patrols, they encounter blizzards that last for days and temperatures as low at -51C.

But there is increasingly frequent respite in the form of warm “foehn wind”. This abrupt warming and drying of moist winds as they pass over ice-masses or mountains is commonly seen in the Alps. Similar phenomenon are the Chinook or “snow eater” of the North American Rocky Mountains; the Zonda of the South American Andes; and the Helm wind of the English Pennines.

February has seen such warmth arrive with unprecedented frequency.

One member of the Arctic Patrol described the effect as surreal. “Outside, the dogs lie on their backs boiling and we dance around in our underwear enjoying it, until the cold returns.”

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/mar/02/arctic-spring-is-starting-16-days-earlier-than-a-decade-ago-study-shows

(https://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/webdata/ccgg/trends/ch4_trend_gl.png)
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https://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/ccgg/trends_ch4/


Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on March 05, 2018, 10:48:06 pm
So Mean Methane is rising at 0.52%/year.
In AR4, Methane represents 30% of Total Net Forcings, and the annual increase represents 0.15% of Total Net Forcing.

(https://doomsteaddiner.net/palloy/images/IPCC.AR4.radiative.forcing.gif)

You are the mathematician, so you are the last person that should talk about some smooth linear increase in the light of the findings of the following:

The Clathrate (methane hydrates) gun

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The release of methane from the Arctic is in itself a major contributor to global warming as a result of polar amplification. Recent observations in the Siberian arctic show increased rates of methane release from the Arctic seabed.[4] Land-based permafrost, also in the Siberian arctic, was estimated in 2013 to release 17 million tonnes of methane per year – a significant increase on the 3.8 million tons estimated in 2006, and estimates before then of just 0.5 million tonnes.[10][11][12] This compares to around 500 million tonnes released into the atmosphere annually from all sources.[10]

Shakhova et al. (2008) estimate that not less than 1,400 gigatonnes (Gt) of carbon is presently locked up as methane and methane hydrates under the Arctic submarine permafrost, and 5–10% of that area is subject to puncturing by open taliks. They conclude that "release of up to 50 Gt of predicted amount of hydrate storage [is] highly possible for abrupt release at any time". That would increase the methane content of the planet's atmosphere by a factor of twelve.[13]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arctic_methane_emissions (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arctic_methane_emissions)

Palloy, when that is triggered (all which does not have BEANS to do with the IPCC model CH4 increase predictions BECAUSE none of that massive amount of CH4 is from burning fossil fuels!), an increase by a factor of TWELVE (a MASSIVE AMOUNT GREATER than IPCC.AR4 projections) is not a pretty picture, now is it?

Watch this short video by David Wasdell. I know you think he is bonkers, which is necessary for you to cling to your "peak oil will save us" meme, but he is spot on about the TRUE climate sensitivity that you do not want to accept is a real and present existential threat to mankind NOW, not in 20 or 30 years. Your radiative forcing math is way too low, period.

 
David Wasdell: On Earth Sensitivity & Emissions

1,677 views

Nick Breeze

Published on Jan 17, 2014


https://youtu.be/-Fru6Df3Efk


The correct climate sensitivy math in charts:

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on March 05, 2018, 11:49:12 pm
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Palloy, when that is triggered (all which does not have BEANS to do with the IPCC model CH4 increase predictions BECAUSE none of that massive amount of CH4 is from burning fossil fuels!), an increase by a factor of TWELVE (a MASSIVE AMOUNT GREATER than IPCC.AR4 projections) is not a pretty picture, now is it?

That Methane is currently locked away in the permafrost layer in Canada and Russia and the clathrate layer on the Arctic sea floor.  In places the permafrost is only a metre deep, but in other places it is 3,000 m deep and is in no danger of melting in the 6 months of a summer and will refreeze the next winter.

The rate of release of Methane from the permafrost isn't well known, because nobody has bothered measuring it - the Russians took only six measurements in 2017.  If you ASSUME the release is going to be GIGANTIC, then it will presumably have a gigantic effect on temperatures.  But as far as I know, nobody assumes it is going to be gigantic. There's really no reason to assume there is any problem with the positive feedbacks this century, while Peak Crude Oil has already happened and Peak Fossils is happening around now.

Keep us informed about future programs to measure the rate of release.  And don't panic.

Your claim that the methane is "locked away" is a wishful thinking cruel joke. They can tell, by the way, the methane from fossil fuel burning from the permafrost and shallow water methane (C-13 in the fracked burned stuff).

The issue is NOT about the deep methane, but the shallow water methane.

As far as you know? So you you think Shakhova et al. (2008) is baloney? Did you not read what she wrote? did you not view what she said in the video I posted? Did you not understand that the shallow water methane clathrates she was talking about are the greatest concentration of fossil fuels in the world when she said it? It DOES NOT have to be GIGANTIC to trigger the twelve fold increase, as Dr. Shakova clearly stated when she said a mere 1% would DOUBLE the atmospheric heating impact. WHY, do you keep pretending you are blind, deaf and mathematically dumb when it suits you?

Panic is not my thing, pal. I've been in all sorts of tight spots as a pilot and can handle dangerous situatiuons on short notice. I'm being logical. If you do not want to see the danger because it is inconvenient to your world view, then you are the one who needs to get real about the threat and get behind the fact that we must STOP burnng fossil fuels, like YESTERDAY, AND start a crash program to get back to 350 PPM.

Maybe you don't care whether we all become crisppy critters, but I do.

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on March 06, 2018, 01:03:56 pm
Suit Against Fossil Fuel Companies To Proceed In Federal Court

March 5th, 2018 by Steve Hanley

Last year, the cities of San Francisco and Oakland sued five  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-311013201314.png&hash=0715eb72631014310634eb56176ff860c6d542f6) (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-311013201314.png&hash=0715eb72631014310634eb56176ff860c6d542f6) (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-311013201314.png&hash=0715eb72631014310634eb56176ff860c6d542f6) (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-311013201314.png&hash=0715eb72631014310634eb56176ff860c6d542f6) (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-311013201314.png&hash=0715eb72631014310634eb56176ff860c6d542f6) fossil fuel companies —  Chevron 🐉, ConocoPhillips🦕, ExxonMobil🦀, Shell🦖 , and BP🐲 — in California state court. Their lawsuit claims that not only are the five responsible for the costs of protecting the citizens of those cities from the higher tides and flooding that rising sea levels will cause but that they knew of the dangers their business activities cause for years, if not decades, and willfully failed to disclose that information.
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The companies, following the advice of their highly paid lawyers, sought to remove the case from state court and transfer it to federal court. The theory behind the move was that federal courts have traditionally refused to get involved in such litigation, preferring to let Congress or the presumed experts at the EPA deal with such matters. (Of course, the assumption that the EPA would do its job has been obliterated by the insurgency created by Scott Pruitt, whose life’s mission is to destroy the EPA.) The industry lawyers assumed by getting the case into federal court, that would be tantamount to a victory for their clients.

But they were wrong. Last week, federal court judge William Alsup denied a motion filed by the cities asking the case be sent back to state court in California. But Alsup’s ruling included a barb, one that won’t please the defendants at all. (You can read the entire court decision at this link, if you are the kind of person who enjoys reading impenetrable legalese.)

In his ruling, Alsup allowed the case to go forward in federal court, despite a US Supreme Court ruling in 2011 that only Congress and regulators have the power to deal with pollution, not the courts. But that case involved a public utility company. Whether the fact that the plaintiffs here are municipalities may lead to a different outcome — or not. Judge Alsup says that is an important distinction, but the USSC may disagree. The Supreme Court as currently constituted is uncommonly friendly to corporate interests and hostile to the rights of others, be they private individuals or political entities.

“[The oil companies] got what they wanted; but they may be sorry they did,” said Ken Adams, lawyer for the Center for Climate Integrity 🦋, according to a report by Grist. “We’ll see,” said the Zen master.

https://cleantechnica.com/2018/03/05/judge-allows-climate-change-suit-fossil-fuel-companies-proceed-federal-court/
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on March 06, 2018, 01:44:46 pm
No, I don't read/view everything you link to. You should learn how to EXPLAIN WHY something is interesting, then perhaps I would.  Half the time I can't make out what you are on about.

If 1% of something could double the heating impact of the atmosphere, then it is by definition GIGANTIC.

If you are not panicking about runaway climate change, then why is it you are the only person here who is going on about it all the time, and blaming everybody else for being paid by the FF companies?

The thing to panic about is Peak Oil because its impact is just about to crash the world economy and prevent any kind of industrial reboot.

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I may be the only one posting about this on this forum, but for you to ASS-U-ME that means Agelbert is in an "alarmist  panic" (a favorite phrase from your friends in denier land ;)), when thousands of Climate Scientists (which, unlike you, have scientific credibility) from Woods Hole to Russia all over the planet have been documenting the threat  of the methane bomb, further evidences your woeful lack of critical thinking skills (or your cynical attempt to undermine the message on behalf of the polluting fossil fuel status quo   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-311013201314.png&hash=0715eb72631014310634eb56176ff860c6d542f6)).

If you have trouble understanding what I wrote (reposted below) which EXPLAINS why the methane bomb is, not just "interesting", but an existential threat to humanity, then that is your problem, not mine.

Your repeated ad hominem attacks on my person, rather than concentrating on the subject at hand, exposes your desperate straw grasping attempt to downplay the importance of this empirically determined scientific information. MOVE from the tropics to some place cold, Palloy, or you will experience the horrible heating coming your way. I recommend Siberia. You can enjoy watching Putin harvest that bonanza in CH4 and pack it onto the SEVERAL LNG carrying ice breakers Russia is getting. You might just be lucky enough to die before the heat smacks Siberia too. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-221017161839.png&hash=7d34712243960aa20883775dad728bc2115ed6fe)

REPOST: Agelbert NOTE: RE and Eddie and anyone else here besides Palloy, please comment. Palloy thinks this is not intelligible, poorly written, does not explain the facts, and is Agelbert "panic baloney". What say ye? (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-301014182447.gif&hash=58fbc1dfd905f79b3d4bacde8e89a935c2b859ac)

Agelbert NOTE: This video is rather long for most people. So, let me direct you to the small section by the Eminent Russian Scientist Dr. Natalia Shakhova (International Arctic Research Center), who calmly explains that Global Warming will cause, NOT around 2100 or 2050, but within a DECADE or less, the release of shallow water methane hydrates in the arctic.

THOSE methane hydrates ARE NOT accounted for in ANY of the IPCC RCP models, including the BAU RCP-8.5 "worse case" scenario. But more importantly, those methane hydrates have absolutely nothing to do with the release of GHG pollutants from fossil fuel burning.

So, why should we care? Isn't "peak oil" going to "save us" from burning too much fossil fuels?  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2F2.bp.blogspot.com%2F_9HT4xZyDmh4%2FTOHhxzA0wLI%2FAAAAAAAAEUk%2FoeHDS2cfxWQ%2Fs200%2FSmiley_Angel_Wings_Halo.jpg&hash=13281f1944b60773bf12b29387b70be77cc1fe16) (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2F1.bp.blogspot.com%2F-TzWpwHzCvCI%2FT_sBEnhCCpI%2FAAAAAAAAME8%2FIsLpuU8HYxc%2Fs1600%2Fnooo-way-smiley.gif&hash=b8545bd420b1e2f2c7b9f665d2093523e4ad2251)

We can argue all day about that (and Palloy does!),  but let us assume, though I vigorously disagree, that, as Palloy claims with "irrefutable" statistical evidence, we will remain well below the RCP-8.5 BAU trajectory because we will "run out" of fossil fuels from some type of civilizational collapse.

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Palloy and his "peak oil will save us" pals aren't just partly wrong; they are MASSIVELY wrong.

The Russian Scientist Dr. Natalia Shakhova explains why, and I'll get to that in a moment.

Back to the "Peak Oil will save us" crowd: You see, even if we severely reduce our fossil fuel use, as the "Peak Oil will save us" crowd religously (and erroneously) claim will happen (that will "keep us from suffering the RCP-8.5 BAU Catastrophic Climate Change scenario"), the overly conservative IPCC scenarios  DO NOT keep us from breaching the 2° C increase (from pre-industrial) LONG BEFORE the projected massive decrease in fossil fuel use from collapse takes effect (i.e. some time before 2050).

In fact, that "collapse from peak oil will save us" happy talk was debunked two and a half years ago by Ugo Bardi. He goes into the IPCC math and shows why stopping fossil fuel use won't prevent Catastrophic Climate Change. I will post it here on request to anybody who still thinks Palloy is pushing anything but a pseudo-scientific back door defense of the fossil fuel polluting status quo.

Ugo Bardi pointed out something that I did not know, but I suppose I should have. The "peak oil will save us" meme came DIRECTLY from the fossil fuel funded Climate Change g Denier Community(https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-250817135149.gif&hash=b4a8748d7cf56a31dd0a6aae5828ed2c1ac2815c).

It certainly makes sense that they would come up with that clever propaganda. WHY? Because, on the one hand it supports the Scarcity Meme of fossil fuels, giving the rubes a valid "supply and demand" reason to pay MORE for that "precious" fuel  ;) (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-311013201314.png&hash=0715eb72631014310634eb56176ff860c6d542f6), while on the other (Orwellian) hand it simultaneously achieves the pretzel logic message that "you've got nothing to worry about by consuming fossil fuels as long as that loyal servant fossil fuel industry works and slaves to provide fossil fuels for you because, uh, it will run out before climate change can hurt us". (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-250817121829.png&hash=035f25ddb6d065f1533ce03c1c07f5fddcbbc83c)

This pseudo-scientific claptrap from people like Roger Andrews (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-200714191329.bmp&hash=4764bfbe6bb0e11ca61102efa97a932a824f47e0) is accompanied by IPCC GHG math relating to fossil fuel  burning numbers. Ugo Bardi exposes the deliberately untruthful and misleading statements, albeit using real IPCC math as a base, used to claim "peak oil will save us" in his article.

All that said, let us say that Palloy is RIGHT, Ugo Bardi and I are WRONG, and Peak Oil really will trigger such a massive collapse that 90% or more of our fossil fuel consumption will vanish. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-040817183318.gif&hash=85dbde0ecc986da6385d09f4df76d45028b7062d)

I still do not need to bury my head in shame, write several mea culpas, and buy a hummer.     (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.coh2.org%2Fimages%2FSmileys%2Fhuhsign.gif&hash=3732d0427be65896527fc3805c5be54a33cffd3b)

How can that be? Didn't the Famed Doomer Mathematician Palloy from the mysterious boa filled jungle just take me to to the empirical evidence and critical thinking wood shed and beat me to a smather?

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Sorry for the kitty, Palloy. I know that bothers you but I just can't help myself.  ;D

Back to the Eminent Russian Scientist Dr. Natalia Shakhova International Arctic Research Center) in the video below: She clearly says that there are, at present, about 5 gigatons of methane in the atmosphere. Methane is between 50 and 86 TIMES more potent a GHG than Carbon Dioxide. Because of that, methane has a large impact on atmospheric heating.

SO?

The amount of shallow water methane hydrates in the arctic ocean is rather massive. HOW massive? She said (Begin at the 53:47 mark) it is THE largest source of hydrocarbons in the world. She said releasing less than 1% of that would DOUBLE the warming effect on our atmosphere. According to the scientist, there are several HUNDRED to a THOUSAND gigatons of methane that is subject to being released on the way to a 2° C average temperature rise.

What does that mean? ???

It means that ALL the GHG polutants from ALL the fossil fuels that have been burned for ALL the time we have had industrial civilization are PEANUTS compared to the MASSIVE ACCELERATED ATMOSPHERIC HEATING that the release of  even a small portion of those methane hydrates will trigger. The IPCC has NOT included the release of even a tiny fraction of those methane hydrates in ANY of their RCP scenarios, including the RCP-8.5. What the IPCC has accounted for is SOME methane release from the arctic tundra, which is dangerous in and of itself, but orders of magnitude less dangerous than the methane hydrates in the arctic ocean. 

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The "peak oil will save us" claim is totally irrelevant. Even the overly conservative IPCC has already accepted that we will reach, and breach, the 2° C increase soon. So NOBODY can guarantee that the methane bomb will not go off. After that methane bomb goes off, all of us that don't have a bunker near the poles become crispy critters.

We needed to stop burning fossil fuels back in 1982, give or take a few years, in order to avoid the baked in 2° C.

What should we do as a civilization (besides telling the "peak oil will save us" crowd that they need a shrink or a prison cell (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.desismileys.com%2Fsmileys%2Fdesismileys_6869.gif&hash=f94938471d343a09155d1f60eefacdb2ceab2457))?

The best we can do is stop all buring of fossil fuels and begin a crash program to get our Carbon Didoxide PPM back to around 350 PPM or we are all dead soon. BAU (Business As Usual) can stop in its track tomorrow from a massive collapse and the 2° C increase is STILL BAKED IN. Peak oil will not save anybody or anything. Every day we delay will simply hasten our demise.

 
Arctic Death Spiral and the Methane Time Bomb

Let me direct you to the small section by the Eminent Russian Scientist Dr. Natalia Shakhova (International Arctic Research Center), who calmly explains that Global Warming will cause, NOT around 2100 or 2050, but within a DECADE or less, the release of shallow water methane hydrates in the arctic.  Begin at the 53:47 mark

https://youtu.be/1oyN1t58bbQ

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on March 06, 2018, 02:04:37 pm
Huge waves 🌊🌊🌊 slam into Puerto Rico, force evacuations

By Danica Coto | AP 

March 5 at 11:09 AM

SNIPPET:

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Waves nearly 30 feet (9 meters) high from a U.S. winter storm slammed into Puerto Rico on Monday, forcing authorities to evacuate dozens of families and close roads and schools across the U.S. territory.

Huge waves downed palm trees, knocked over cement benches and forced curious crowds to flee as saltwater flooded streets and homes along Puerto Rico’s northern and western coasts. More than a dozen streets remained closed, along with several beaches and two dozen schools in low-lying areas, a move that affected more than 6,000 students.

The swell is the largest to hit Puerto Rico in more than a decade, and it is generating waves bigger than those produced by Hurricane Maria when it hit nearly six months ago as a Category 4 storm, said Gabriel Lojero, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in San Juan.

Full article:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/travel/huge-waves-slam-into-puerto-rico-force-evacuations/2018/03/05/574c12a6-208a-11e8-946c-9420060cb7bd_story.html

Agelbert NOTE: These waves are from the very same storm that slammed the East coast and caused a contanership to lose 70 containers from huge waves. This is the beginning of the Global Warming caused giant ocean wave activity predicted by Hansen et al.

Learn more about this threat to our civilization from Global Warming:

Climate Change, Blue Water Cargo Shipping and Predicted Ocean Wave Activity: PART 1 of 3 (http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/climate-change/future-earth/msg7380/#msg7380)
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on March 06, 2018, 02:50:35 pm
The thing to panic about is Peak Oil because its impact is just about to crash the world economy and prevent any kind of industrial reboot.
You're right about the impact of Peak Oil, but Biosphere Disruption (aka Climate Change) can cause the extinction of most complex lifeforms on Earth, so it is a far bigger problem.(https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-250817121649.png&hash=4554f7e59701d12857946aece16bceb973c997b3)

Also, Peak Oil is completely unavoidable, all we can do it change the timing a little one way or the other, and brace ourselves for the impact.  While Biosphere Disruption has already begun, we still have at least in theory the ability to avoid the worst effects.

Really, though, it is a false dilemma.  The good solutions for Peak Oil also happen to be the good solutions for Biosphere Disruption.  They just are bad for continuing a BAU consumerist lifestyle.

Thank you for your serious and well reasoned comment. I understand that you see this as six of one and half a dozen of the other, but there is a key issue here that negates the "peak oil will save us" meme as an excuse to keep buring fossi lfuels until they are all used up.

I cede the floor to Ugo Bardi:


"Peak Oil will save us from Climate Change:" a meme that never went viral

Thursday, October 8, 2015

The idea that peak oil will save us from climate change has been occasionally popping up in the debate, but it never really gained traction for a number of good reasons. One is that, in many cases, the proponents were also climate science deniers and that made them scarcely credible. Indeed, if climate change does not exist (or if it is not caused by human activities), then how is it that you are telling us that peak oil will save us from it? Add to this that many hard line climate science deniers are also peak oil deniers (since, as well known, both concepts are part of the great conspiracy), then, it is no surprise that the meme of "peak oil will save us" never went viral.

That doesn't mean that we shouldn't ask the question of whether we have sufficient amounts of fossil fuel to generate a truly disastrous climate change. The debate on this point goes back to the early 2000s. At the beginning, the data were uncertain and it was correctly noted that some of the IPCC scenarios overestimated what we are likely to burn in the future. But, by now, I think the fog has cleared.  It is becoming increasingly clear that fossil fuel depletion is not enough, by far, to save us from climate change.

Nevertheless, some people still cling to the old "peak oil will save us" meme. In a recent post on "Energy Matters", Roger Andrews (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-311013201314.png&hash=0715eb72631014310634eb56176ff860c6d542f6) argues that:

All of the oil and gas reserves plus about 20% of the coal reserves could be consumed without exceeding the IPCC’s trillion-tonne carbon emissions limit.  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2F2.bp.blogspot.com%2F_9HT4xZyDmh4%2FTOHhxzA0wLI%2FAAAAAAAAEUk%2FoeHDS2cfxWQ%2Fs200%2FSmiley_Angel_Wings_Halo.jpg&hash=13281f1944b60773bf12b29387b70be77cc1fe16)
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Now, that sounds reassuring and surely many people would understand it in the sense that we shouldn't worry at all about burning oil and gas. Unfortunately, that's just not true and Andrews' statement is both overoptimistic and misleading.

One problem is that the "2 degrees limit" is a last ditch attempt to limit the damage created by climate change, but there is no certainty that staying beyond it will be enough to prevent disaster.

 
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Then, there is a problem with Andrew's use of the term "reserves," to be understood as "proven reserves". Proven reserves include only those resources that are known to exist and to be extractable at present; and that's surely much less than all what could be extracted in the future. The parameter that takes into account also probably existing resources is called "Ultimate Recoverable Resources" or URRs

So, let's consider a world fossil URR estimate that many people would consider as "pessimistic," the one by Jean Laherrere that I already discussed in a previous post. (http://cassandralegacy.blogspot.it/2015/04/climate-change-can-seneca-collapse-save.html)

It turns out that we have enough oil and gas that, together, they can produce enough CO2 to reach the 2 degrees limit; even though, maybe, not more. There follows that, if we really wanted to burn all the oil and gas known to be extractable, to stay withing the limit we would need to stop burning coal - zero burning, zilch -  starting from tomorrow! Not an easy thing to do, considering that coal produces more than 40% of the energy that powers the world's electrical grid and, in some countries, much more than that. It is true that coal is the dirtiest of the three fossil fuels and must be phased out faster than oil and gas, but the consumption of all three must go down together, otherwise it will be impossible to remain under the limit.

In the end, we have here one more of the many illusions that surround the climate issue; one that could be dangerous it were to spread. However, in addition to the other problems described here, Andrew's post falls into the same trap of many previous attempts: it uses the data produced by climate science to try to demonstrate its main thesis, but only after having defined climate science as "Vodoo Science." No way: this is not a meme that will go viral.

http://cassandralegacy.blogspot.it/2015/04/climate-change-can-seneca-collapse-save.html

JD, if you haven't perused this detailed study by David Wasdell, I recommend it. It clearly shows the climate sensitivity (radiative forcing) is much higher than the low balled IPCC scenario model math.


Here are the facts.

Climate Dynamics:

Facing the Harsh Realities of Now

Climate Sensitivity, Target Temperature & the Carbon Budget
Guidelines for Strategic Action


Apollo-Gaia Project

Director: David Wasdell

It is with the utmost concern that we draw your attention to the fundamental methodological flaw in the determination of the value of Climate Sensitivity that is embedded in the Summary for Policymakers of the Scientific Workgroup of the 5th Assessment Report of the IPCC. The error was replicated in the Reports of Workgroups 2 and 3 and carried forward into the Synthesis Report. It has been used as the given basis for every subsequent publication. Our radical analysis of Climate Dynamics has generated a new and robust value of "Earth System Sensitivity" which has profound implications for:

֍ The relationship between temperature change and cumulative carbon emissions.

֍ The calculation of "available carbon budget".

֍ The evaluation of the INDCs.

֍ The terms of reference of COP21 in Paris (30 November - 11 December 2015).

֍ The future global strategy for climate stabilisation.
 
Our analysis is published in dual media (triple-screen video and fully illustrated PDF). These can be used separately or in combination.

Video of the above and Table of Contents at link below.

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http://www.apollo-gaia.org/harsh-realities-of-now.html (http://www.apollo-gaia.org/harsh-realities-of-now.html)
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on March 06, 2018, 02:55:30 pm
Eddie said:

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I don't think you're wrong, AG. In fact you and Palloy are both right, and we're arguing about two very serious problems, both of which are potentially devastating.

I don't think anyone can call the exact"when" as to when credit fails and the economic system crashes, or exactly when the rising seas will topple the Statue of Liberty. Both these problems are very real, and the inevitable consequences of either one is rather a bad outcome.

Even if the credit system crashes next week, I'm not at all sure that Palloy is correct in his belief that the effects of that on climate will be in time to prevent the kind of warming you expect. I certainly hope he's right, and I give him points for making a cogent argument.

All of us are made more knowledgeable by your debates. I'd encourage each of you to give the other full respect.

Thank you, Eddie. If you ever get an hour or so, please watch the full presentation by David Wasdell. It is quite an eye opener and the methane bomb is not even part of his radiative forcing math!

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Climate Dynamics:

Facing the Harsh Realities of Now

Climate Sensitivity, Target Temperature & the Carbon Budget

Guidelines for Strategic Action

Apollo-Gaia Project

Director: David Wasdell

It is with the utmost concern that we draw your attention to the fundamental methodological flaw in the determination of the value of Climate Sensitivity that is embedded in the Summary for Policymakers of the Scientific Workgroup of the 5th Assessment Report of the IPCC. The error was replicated in the Reports of Workgroups 2 and 3 and carried forward into the Synthesis Report. It has been used as the given basis for every subsequent publication. Our radical analysis of Climate Dynamics has generated a new and robust value of "Earth System Sensitivity" which has profound implications for:

֍ The relationship between temperature change and cumulative carbon emissions.

֍ The calculation of "available carbon budget".

֍ The evaluation of the INDCs.

֍ The terms of reference of COP21 in Paris (30 November - 11 December 2015).

֍ The future global strategy for climate stabilisation.


http://www.apollo-gaia.org/harsh-realities-of-now.html (http://www.apollo-gaia.org/harsh-realities-of-now.html)

He has clear, explanatory charts, including the following two:


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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on March 07, 2018, 02:59:53 pm
Trump 🦀 and Fossil Fuel Fascist friends 🐉🦕🦖 are doing everything they can, whether they know it or not, to destroy all hope for future generations:

Trump touts report US is set to become world’s top oil producer

BY JOHN BOWDEN - 03/06/18 08:42 AM EST 
   
Trump touts report US is set to become world’s top oil producer

President Trump on Tuesday celebrated a report from the International Energy Agency which claims the U.S. will become the world's leading oil producer by 2023.
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full article:

http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/376898-trump-touts-report-us-is-set-to-become-worlds-top-oil-producer (http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/376898-trump-touts-report-us-is-set-to-become-worlds-top-oil-producer)


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Court denies Trump admin’s plea to stop kids’ climate lawsuit

BY TIMOTHY CAMA - 03/07/18 02:11 PM EST 
   
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A federal appeals court Wednesday rejected the Trump administration’s attempt to dismiss a lawsuit filed by a group of kids who want to force the government to do more to fight climate change.

full article:

http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/377219-court-denies-trump-admins-plea-to-stop-kids-climate-lawsuit (http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/377219-court-denies-trump-admins-plea-to-stop-kids-climate-lawsuit)


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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on March 07, 2018, 07:16:50 pm
Really, though, it is a false dilemma.  The good solutions for Peak Oil also happen to be the good solutions for Biosphere Disruption.  They just are bad for continuing a BAU consumerist lifestyle.

Thank you for your serious and well reasoned comment. I understand that you see this as six of one and half a dozen of the other, but there is a key issue here that negates the "peak oil will save us" meme as an excuse to keep buring fossi lfuels until they are all used up.

...

JD, if you haven't perused this detailed study by David Wasdell, I recommend it. It clearly shows the climate sensitivity (radiative forcing) is much higher than the low balled IPCC scenario model math.

...

http://www.apollo-gaia.org/harsh-realities-of-now.html (http://www.apollo-gaia.org/harsh-realities-of-now.html)
I see it more of a six-of-one, half-a-gross of the other situation... or in other words, a proper response to climate change will make peak oil irrelevant.  As David Wasdell puts it at the end of the above article,

"It is time to say NO to the dark and toxic energy of the underworld. It is time to say YES to the pure and sustainable energy of light. Photo-dynamics can out-power, out-pace and out-resource any amount of energy we can get from fossil sources. It is time to break free from our bondage to the past. It is time to embrace the freedom of the Sun. It is time to usher in the dawn of Solar Society.

The transition from fossil dependency to solar dependency is an extraordinary shift for our species. It can be compared to the introduction of photosynthesis in the evolution of plants, which could then take solar energy to transform basic chemicals into more complex molecules. Today we are able to take solar energy and transform it directly into electricity, power, heat, and light. That provides the basis for a metamorphosis. We are not caught in the death throes of civilisation, merely the demise of an inappropriate mode of civilisation. We are experiencing the birth pangs of a new form of humanity."



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Let us hope it is not too late. We don't have much time left (see global temperature 🌡️ anomaly maps for today below).

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on March 07, 2018, 11:08:03 pm
EcoWatch

'Crazy, Crazy Stuff': Arctic Winter Warmest on Record 👀

March 7, 2018

By Lorraine Chow

SNIPPET:

https://youtu.be/Z_9WbrPCMbc

The Arctic just experienced its warmest winter on record, scientists say. In the dead of winter, temperatures at the North Pole approached the melting point, the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) in Boulder, Colorado found.

"It's just crazy, crazy stuff," NSIDC director Mark Serreze told the Associated Press. "These heat waves—I've never seen anything like this."

Several areas in the Arctic have reported record-high heat. As the AP reported, Cape Morris Jesup, in the northernmost point of Greenland, saw temperatures normally seen in May. Not only that, 15 different Arctic weather stations clocked temperatures 10 degrees above normal .

Data from climatologist Brian Brettschneider of the International Arctic Research Center at the University of Alaska Fairbanks show that the Arctic Circle in Barrow, Alaska, was 18 degrees Fahrenheit warmer than normal in February, and the entire winter, which spans from December to February, averaged 14 degrees above normal.

NASA remarked that temperatures have soared in the Arctic for the fourth winter in a row: "The heat, accompanied by moist air, is entering the Arctic not only through the sector of the North Atlantic Ocean that lies between Greenland and Europe, as it has done in previous years, but is also coming from the North Pacific through the Bering Strait."

"We have seen winter warming events before, but they're becoming more frequent and more intense," noted Alek Petty, a sea ice researcher at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

The region also experienced record-low sea ice for this time of year, with open water areas expanding rapidly in the Bering Sea off Alaska's west coast.

Climate scientist Zack Labe, who frequently shares striking graphs of the region's anomalies, illustrated the Bering Sea's disappearing ice pack.

Full article with graphics:

https://www.ecowatch.com/arctic-winter-temperatures-2543954665.html

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on March 08, 2018, 03:01:58 pm
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In the 03/07/2018 edition:

U.S. Navy Releases Proposal Request for Coast Guard’s New Heavy Polar Icebreaker

Dominican Republic to Join Caribbean Energy Exploration Rush

Pemex 😈 Invites Partners Offshore

Does Galveston Need A $14 Billion Storm Barrier? Agelbert NOTE: I increased the font on this one because it is TYPICAL Fossil Fuel Fascist 🐉🦕🦖(https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Facigar.gif&hash=dc9dccf92c6c88c99611b06c86d92629d69f2978) socializing the costs  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F2z6in9g.gif&hash=771b084a0f186d9cc14f31defd98a6c90b69b84f) of Climate change while pocketing the heavily subsidized by we-the-people welfare queen profits 💵 from the very same crap that is causing those Climate change costs! (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-300115234833.gif&hash=20e82f36f361174e6f8f07e11c36330842502bab) The 14 billion dollar barrier they want we-the-people to PAY for is for the sole purpose of PROTECTING OIL REFINERIES!

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http://gcaptain.com/galveston-need-14-billion-storm-barrier/ (http://gcaptain.com/galveston-need-14-billion-storm-barrier/)

U.S. Navy Releases Proposal Request for Coast Guard’s New Heavy Polar Icebreaker

By gCaptain on Mar 06, 2018 07:08 pm

uscgc polar starThe U.S. Navy, in collaboration with the U.S. Coast Guard, has released a request for proposal for the advance procurement and detail design work for the USCG’s first new heavy polar icebreaker in more than 40 years. The RFP, which was issued March 2, also includes options for the detail design and construction (DD&C) of […]

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Read in browser » http://gcaptain.com/u-s-navy-releases-proposal-request-for-coast-guards-new-heavy-polar-icebreaker/ (http://gcaptain.com/u-s-navy-releases-proposal-request-for-coast-guards-new-heavy-polar-icebreaker/)


Dominican Republic to Join Caribbean Energy 🦖 Exploration Rush

By Bloomberg on Mar 06, 2018 04:11 pm

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SNIPPET:

By Ezra Fieser (Bloomberg) — The Dominican Republic expects to draw interest from energy titans BP Plc and Exxon Mobil Corp. when it opens the country to natural gas and oil exploration for the first time later this month, joining a push by governments across the Caribbean to develop energy production.

The government plans to open two land blocks for oil exploration and two offshore blocks for natural gas exploratory drilling by the end of March, said Energy and Mining Minister Isa Conde in an interview in Santo Domingo. An Exxon spokeswoman said in an email that the company does not comment on future business plans. BP did not respond to an email seeking comment.

“This is completely virgin territory for us,” Conde said. “But we would not be going forward if we had not received assurances from international companies 🦖 and investors 🦀 that there was substantial interest.’’

Full article:  :(

http://gcaptain.com/dominican-republic-join-caribbean-energy-exploration-rush/ (http://gcaptain.com/dominican-republic-join-caribbean-energy-exploration-rush/)

Pemex ☠️ Invites Partners 🦀 Offshore

March 6, 2018 by Reuters

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SNIPPET:

by Marianna Parraga (Reuters) – Mexico’s state-run Pemex [PEMX.UL] might bring partners into two heavy crude oilfields in the Gulf’s shallow waters, the company’s chief said on Tuesday, move that could help ease a lack of heavy barrels in the Atlantic basin.

After nine bidding rounds in just three years and a presidential election scheduled in July, Mexico’s oil regulator has started a campaign to convince Pemex and foreign investors that this is the moment to develop much needed extra-heavy oil reserves.

“We are looking to increase production, including heavy crude, so we might put on the table some farmouts mainly for those fields that need secondary recovery strategies,” Pemex’s CEO Carlos Trevino said during a news conference during the CERAWeek energy conference in Houston.

On Monday, Trevino said Pemex was looking for partners for its deepwater Nobilis-Maximino and Ayin-Batsil projects.

Full farticle: 🤬


http://gcaptain.com/pemex-invites-partners-offshore/ (http://gcaptain.com/pemex-invites-partners-offshore/)

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The Fossil Fuelers 🦖  DID THE Clean Energy  Inventions suppressing, Climate Trashing, human health depleting CRIME,   but since they have ALWAYS BEEN liars and conscience free crooks 🦀, they are trying to AVOID   DOING THE TIME or     PAYING THE FINE!     Don't let them get away with it! Pass it on!    (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F176.gif&hash=121533221905789c6b8d57a9603883266d349266)
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on March 09, 2018, 02:43:22 pm
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March 8, 2018

When Does Weather 🌥 🌦 🌧 🌨 🌩 Become Climate Change🌪?

As extreme weather intensifies around the word with record winds, rain storms, and flooding, is it time to build infrastructure to handle the coming storms?

https://youtu.be/oGAbRCxs7QU

http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=21310%27%20style=%27color:#000;

Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on March 11, 2018, 02:15:08 pm
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Arctic Has Warmest Winter 🚩 On Record 😟


March 10th, 2018 by Cynthia Shahan

The Arctic winter comes and goes — but ever so differently as warming trends prevail. Increasing temperatures and glacial caving continue as Mother Nature gets hotter — at the top of our world as elsewhere.

James Balog has an immense range of visuals on this subject. Once long ago a skeptic himself, he transformed and has been documenting the loss of our glaciers (see ICE: Portraits of Vanishing Glaciers). Balog has been patiently filming the cavings for years.

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A recent update from The Guardian notes that the increasing temperature from recent weather data is worrying the scientists who firmly watch the effects of climate change and know what they could mean for human wellbeing. The report passes along the message that the Arctic region just experienced its warmest winter on record.

“Sea ice hit record lows for the time of year, new US weather data revealed on Tuesday.” The situation reminds me of the old adage about Mother Nature. Mother Nature can’t be fooled, but some of us are foolish about our small planet’s challenges.

“It’s just crazy, crazy stuff,” said Mark Serreze, director of the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colorado, who has been studying the Arctic since 1982. “These heat waves – I’ve never seen anything like this.”

It is unquestionable that the truth is so frightening that some avoid the credible information altogether. Still, day by day, we who read CleanTechnica keep our eyes out for new information and act to turn the trend in a more positive direction. An earlier post (linked above) describes that, in the next 10 or so years, “13 large global cities are facing temperature rises that could exceed 2° degrees Celsius (3.6° Fahrenheit), according to a new report from the Urban Climate Change Research Network at Columbia University.”

The Guardian continues: “Experts say what’s happening is unprecedented, part of a global warming-driven cycle that probably played a role in the recent strong, icy storms in Europe and the north-eastern US.

“The land weather station closest to the North Pole, at the tip of Greenland, spent more than 60 hours above freezing in February. Before this year, scientists had seen the temperature there rise above freezing in February only twice before, and then extremely briefly. Last month’s record-high temperatures have been more like those typical of May, said Ruth Mottram, a climate scientist at the Danish Meteorological Institute.

“Of nearly three dozen different Arctic weather stations, 15 of them were at least 10F (5.6C) above normal for the winter. ‘The extended warmth really has staggered all of us,’ Mottram said.”

For those who have not watched the film Chasing Ice, take a look now.

https://youtu.be/hC3VTgIPoGU (https://youtu.be/hC3VTgIPoGU)

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Related Stories:

Temperature Rise 🌡️ Over 2° Celsius (3.6° Fahrenheit) Possible In 13 Global Cities 🚩 In 2020s, Study Finds (https://cleantechnica.com/2018/03/07/temperature-rise-2-celsius-3-6-fahrenheit-possible-13-global-cities-2020s-study-finds/)


As The Glaciers Of The Swiss Alps Melt 🚩, Hydroelectric Firms Look Toward Wind Power (https://cleantechnica.com/2018/03/09/glaciers-swiss-alps-melt-hydroelectric-firms-look-toward-wind-power/)


Arctic Permafrost Stores More Mercury Than The Rest Of The World’s Soils, The Oceans, & The Atmosphere Combined … Two Times Over (https://cleantechnica.com/2018/03/05/arctic-permafrost-stores-mercury-rest-worlds-soils-oceans-atmosphere-combined-two-times/)
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on March 13, 2018, 10:08:38 pm
EcoWatch

March 11, 2018

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20,000 Scientists 👨‍🔬 Have Now Signed 'Warning 🚩 to Humanity'

SNIPPET:

A chilling research paper warning about the fate of humanity has received 4,500 additional signatures and endorsements from scientists since it was first released last year.

The paper—"World Scientists' Warning to Humanity: A Second Notice"🔊—was published in November 2017 in the journal Bioscience and quickly received the largest-ever formal support by scientists for a journal article with roughly 15,000 signatories from 184 countries.

Today, the article has collected 20,000 expert endorsements and/or co-signatories, and more are encouraged to add their names.

The "Warning" became one of the most widely discussed research papers in the world. It currently ranks 6th out of 9 million papers on the Altmetric scale, which tracks attention to research.

Full article:

https://www.ecowatch.com/warning-to-humanity-scientists-2544973158.html

Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on March 14, 2018, 07:00:27 pm
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JAMIE MARGOLIN 🕊 🌟

MARCH 12, 2018, 12:30 PM

SNIPPET:

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Young people have had enough. Students dominating the news cycles right now have had enough of living with gun violence. We are tired of waiting for adults to take action on the problems that are threatening our lives: The end of gun violence, racism, and climate denial are far past due. So now the young people like me are stepping up to make sure adults stop wasting precious time and start actually working to resolve these persistent challenges.

Full EXCELLENT Essay:

https://www.refinery29.com/2018/03/193276/climate-change-zero-hour-jamie-margolin-essay

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on March 15, 2018, 04:29:25 pm
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The Arctic’s convection engine is grinding to a halt, flooded by meltwater

LAST UPDATED ON MARCH 15TH, 2018 AT 6:57 PM BY ALEXANDRU MICU  E-mail author

SNIPPET:

In the frozen reaches of the North Atlantic, researchers have uncovered evidence of climate change already impacting ocean circulation. The discovery of unusual freshwater bodies at the ocean’s surface, most likely coming from melting glaciers and sea ice in Greenland or the Arctic is a worrying harbinger of larger disruptions yet to come.

But isn’t the ocean already made of water?
When you mix salt and water, the salt doesn’t just ‘melt’ in the water. It doesn’t dissolve and then its intact molecules flow alongside water molecules. Salt is an ionic mixture of a metallic atom and a non-metallic atom; in the case of table salt, those are Na, or sodium, and Cl, chlorine.

It’s ‘ionic’ because chlorine is hungry for electrons (it needs one to fill its outer layer and become stable), while sodium is partial to giving electrons (it needs to give one to strip its outer layer and become stable). So what brings and binds these two together is an electromagnetic reaction, in which sodium’s electron orbits both, making everyone kinda happier.

However, water is also electromagnetically polarized — it has a negative pole, where the oxygen atom sits, and a positive pole, where the two hydrogen atoms lay. When you mix salt with water, the Na-Cl bond breaks, the atoms (now referred to as ‘ions’) spread out through water molecules, and then satisfy their electromagnetic needs by cozying up to the ol’ H2O. If you freeze or boil the water, it separates from the salt.

In other words, salt water isn’t water with salt mixed in — it’s water that is chemically tied to the constituents of salt. Meaning it’s much denser than freshwater, so it sinks under it.

That’s why the infusion of meltwater is causing a problem in the North Atlantic: all this incoming freshwater stays at the surface of the ocean for much longer than the denser, saltwater used to do. This, in turn, could affect the natural convection processes in the area. Northbound water (which is warm, as it comes from the Equator) starts to sink as it cools and becomes denser. This body of water is then pushed below and makes its way south, goaded on by the second part of the currents that brought it to the Arctic.

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Freshwater depth (blue, top right), potential water temperature (top, left), sea surface temperature (bottom, right), and sea surface temperature-salinity correlation (bottom, left) in the Irminger Sea.
Image credits Marilena Oltmanns, Johannes Karstensen & Jürgen Fischer / Nature

Full article:

https://www.zmescience.com/science/atlantic-arctic-meltwater/
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on March 15, 2018, 07:07:23 pm
This is a very real situation, but the article doesn't even mention the main feature. Excess meltwater from Greenland and melting icebergs in the Labrador Gulf can stop the Gulf Stream's natural circulation, and in theory at least, change the climate COLDER in UK and northeast Europe.  Since this is caused by global warming, it represents a negative feedback in the climate model, and is one of the reasons why climate change won't be as bad as AG proposes.  In fact there are probably other negative feedbacks in the climate system, since the planet has never suffered from runaway heating in 13 billion years.

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Boy does THAT take the cake as world class BULLSHIT! The COOLING EFFECT on Europe will be MUCH MORE THAN counterbalanced by the MASSIVE HEATING on the rest of the globe. Of course, you 😈 conveniently left that out.

And, of course, this all about what "AG incorrectly believes", not about what 97% of the scientific community has irrefutably established is happening. Your fallacious debating Ad Hominem technique continues to show, Mr. Palloy fossil fueler. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-280515145049.png&hash=84e87515e750391c1f1bca6d6ae06485972bfa81)  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-051113192052.png&hash=93c42ef9f18fc5d9da50fd91fc19f70009f95f85)

But, that wasn't the top egregiously incorrect falsehood that you spewed. Here's the one that takes the prize as the most ignorant, unscientific statement I have read in YEARS!

Palloy, that fellow that doesn't seem to know that the scientifc concensus IS that the CAUSE of the PETM and MOST of the FIVE Major extinctions was the runaway greenhouse effect, otherwise known as Runaway Heating said:
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"The planet has never suffered from runaway heating for 13 billion years."

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Go spread your poisonous mendacity somewhere else, Palloy. You do not understand BEANS about climate feedback loops, whether they be negative or positive. You are a walking bundle of Denier 🦖 talking points (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2Fwww_MyEmoticons_com__burp.gif&hash=8ff3ef6c016d8baf5f61ed5e8db58f069b64da00).

You are banned from this forum. Go entertain RE with your happy talk and fairy tales. I am tired of your serial lies and disingenuous baloney. Have a nice day.
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on March 16, 2018, 02:53:43 pm
EcoWatch

Lakes on Greenland Ice Sheet Drain in Chain Reaction, Destabilizing Sheet and Raising Sea Levels


by Olivia Rosane

Mar. 15, 2018 12:22PM EST

A study published Wednesday in Nature Communications signals bad news for the Greenland ice sheet.

A research team led by the University of Cambridge found that the lakes of meltwater that form on the ice sheet in the summer drain in a chain reaction that increases the flow of the ice sheet, destabilizing it and increasing sea level rise, the University of Cambridge reported in a press release.

It had long been known that these lakes could drain quickly on an individual basis. They can last months, then drain through more than one kilometer (approximately 0.621 miles) of ice within hours.

However, this study used a combination of observation and three-dimensional modeling to show that the lakes do not drain in isolation. Instead, the melting of one lake can trigger the melting of lakes up to 80 kilometers (approximately 49.71 miles) away.

The process begins when a lake drains and the water it contained ends up on the bottom of the ice sheet. This causes the sheet to flow faster, which destabilizes it and leads to the formation of more fractures. Other lakes then drain through these new fractures in a chain reaction that can speed the flow of the ice sheet by up to 400 percent.

Researchers observed 124 lakes drain within a span of five days, and found evidence for crevices opening 135 kilometers (approximately 83.9 miles) inland from the ice sheet's edge, which is farther than thought possible.

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"This growing network of melt lakes, which currently extends more than 100 kilometres inland and reaches elevations as high as 2,000 metres above sea level, poses a threat for the long-term stability of the Greenland ice sheet," the study's lead author and member of Cambridge's Scott Polar Research Institute Dr. Poul Christoffersen said in the press release.

This isn't the first study in recent years to suggest the Greenland ice sheet is in more trouble than previously believed. In 2016, scientists found the ice sheet was melting 7 percent faster than they had thought.

While the Polar Portal reported that the ice sheet actually gained a small amount of mass in 2017 due to heavy winter snows and a cool summer, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration calculated that the sheet could only regain the mass it has lost since 2002 after 80 years like this one.

According to Global Citizen, the ice sheet, which is seven times the size of the United Kingdom and two miles thick, is currently contributing to global sea level rise at a rate of one millimeter (approximately 0.04 inches) per year. If all the ice in the sheet were to melt, it would raise sea levels by more than 20 feet.

This is unlikely to happen any time soon, but that doesn't mean there's nothing to worry about.

"When we say the ice sheet is melting faster, no one saying it's all going to melt in next decade or the next 100 years or even the next 1,000 years but it doesn't all have to melt for more people to be in danger," Dr. Joe Cook, a glacial microbiologist at Sheffield University, told Global Citizen.

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🔊 "Only a small amount has to melt to threaten millions in coastal communities around world  🚩."

https://www.ecowatch.com/greenland-ice-sheet-destabilizing-2547956070.html
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on March 17, 2018, 03:05:58 pm
How A Handful Of Community Organizers Got NYC To Take On One Of The Most Powerful Industries 🦖 On Earth

March 17th, 2018 by Guest Contributor

Originally published on Nexus Media.

Some people start the new year by pledging to give up carbs or hit the gym. New York Mayor Bill de Blasio kicked off 2018 by declaring war (https://allthoughtsworkoutdoors.files.wordpress.com/2011/08/p9047017-030close-up.jpg)  on the oil industry. 🦖(https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.desismileys.com%2Fsmileys%2Fdesismileys_6869.gif&hash=f94938471d343a09155d1f60eefacdb2ceab2457)

In what author and activist Bill McKibben called one of the “most important moments” in the decades-long fight against climate change, the city has pledged to sell off around $5 billion in fossil fuel shares. It will also sue BP 🐉, Exxon Mobil 🦖, Chevron🦕, ConocoPhillips 🐲 and Shell(https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frealsociology.edublogs.org%2Ffiles%2F2010%2F08%2F460_0___30_0_0_0_0_0_shell_skull_colour.jpg&hash=a4c0baea5ec89328a16e21f3820975938465eadf) for damages — namely, the gradually rising seas laying siege to New York — noting these companies deliberately misled the public about climate change.

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But this isn’t a story about farsighted politicians drawing up battle plans in the basement of city hall. The call to arms didn’t come from the mayor’s office or from chambers of the City Council. It came from the streets, from the outer boroughs and from a modest network of community organizers spurred to action by one of the deadliest storms in New York history.

This is a story about people who had never had a voice sending a message that could be heard around the world.

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https://cleantechnica.com/2018/03/17/handful-community-organizers-got-nyc-take-one-powerful-industries-earth/ (https://cleantechnica.com/2018/03/17/handful-community-organizers-got-nyc-take-one-powerful-industries-earth/)
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on March 21, 2018, 08:20:01 pm
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By onEarth

Mar. 14, 2018 10:04AM EST

By Ingrid Abramovitch

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Carolina Caycedo's "Esto No Es Agua/This is Not Water" (still), 2015 Courtesy Carolina Caycedo

Organized by assistant curator Elisabeth Sherman and curatorial assistant Margaret Kross, the exhibition focuses on the precarious state of the environment. "The idea for the show came out of talking to artists and listening to their practices," said Sherman. "We started to notice several artists working on themes that connect environmental issues with civil rights and human life."

Caycedo, for example, has created several projects that refer to the construction of hydroelectric dams in South America and the consequences for local populations. Another artist, Lena Henke, contributed sculptures that tell the story of New York City neighborhoods that were gouged from the map in the 1930s by city planner Robert Moses to make way for expressways.

Full article with additional graphics:

https://www.ecowatch.com/whitney-museum-between-the-waters-2546923099.html
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on March 21, 2018, 10:18:47 pm
🔊 It Is Time To Wake Up

https://youtu.be/pdGnUfoYKhY

Related March 17, 2018 Article BY ANDREW FREEDMAN:

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on March 22, 2018, 09:38:12 pm
This is as close to religion as I get. My ancestors have been doing this springtime bucket dance for over a century. with wood spiles and wood buckets another century and first nations people for probably thousands of years before that. I only put out 20 taps this year on the woodlot I'm trying to buy. Its very early in the season and over the last three days only about 2 litres per tap has flowed the weather has not been cooperating. if you do not get freezing temperatures at night and a sunny 5 or 6 degrees celsius during the day you get no sap.  On a good day you will get 8 litres from a good tap. This year I've moved the boiler into the greenhouse. I'm trying to add humidity to the soil and increase nighttime temperatures. On a big boil day I can actually make it rain as the condensation drips down off the plastic disturbed by a breeze. Its very peaceful and highly addictive. To see the life essence of a tree in spring boiled down to something so special is magical.
Cheers


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I read about that Strategic Maple syrup reserve Canada has a few weeks ago. You folks DO take your Maple Syrup GOLD seriously.

Here in Vermont, Climate change is slowly destroying an important export. As you know, for the sap to run well, you need the pumping effect of above freezing temps in the day and below freezing at night. What is happening due to climate change is that the winter stays cold until it doesn't. So, we are increasingly experiencing low sap yields from lack of below freezing temperatures at night during March and April, normally the best time to harvest sap.

Enjoy your sap while you can. I don't think Canada will avoid the fate of Vermont.  :(
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on March 24, 2018, 08:54:22 pm
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Permafrost thaw might be even more potent than we thought

https://youtu.be/FCoo8MA4eI8

15,024 views

Climate State

Published on Mar 16, 2018

The trend from frozen tundra soils shifting to thermokarst erosion and thaw ponds, may in the future be exacerbated by increased rainfall and weather events. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10... and http://www.inrs.ca/english/actualites...

NASA map of soil degradation https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOT...

Photo, Tundra Fire, Kaminak Lake Area http://www.prairie.illinois.edu/shilt...

Horn Lake thermokarst
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVKsZ...

Icicle melting by Jeffrey Beach (Beachfront Productions) https://archive.org/details/IcicleMel...

Permafrost warming Svalbard graphic https://twitter.com/Ketil_Isaksen/sta...

Further reading
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As the climate warms, the carbon balance of arctic ecosystems will respond in two opposing ways:
Plants will grow faster, leading to a carbon sink, while thawing permafrost will lead to decomposition
 and loss of soil carbon.
https://www.amap.no/documents/doc/sno...

The results presented here—that large C losses are possible from the permafrost region, whose magnitude is strongly governed by the dynamics of deeper decomposition, and that large losses are unlikely to be compensated by N fertilization accompanying decomposition—underscore the importance of considering permafrost carbon dynamics in ESMs. Permafrost soils may produce a strong, albeit delayed, C response to global change,
and must therefore be included in assessments of long-term C cycle feedbacks to climate change.
http://www.pnas.org/content/112/12/3752

Methanotroph https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methano...

Heterotroph https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heterot...

Alaska Permafrost https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2...
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on March 25, 2018, 06:22:00 pm
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Permafrost thaw might be even more potent than we thought

https://youtu.be/FCoo8MA4eI8



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Permafrost thaw might be even more potent than we thought

Of this there can be little doubt. The release of methane hydrates from the ocean deeps is bad enough.
There is a full more ecological catastrophe going on in the Arctic, and we remain asleep.

The time lapse sequences in the video were particularly telling.


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Teekay LNG carrier 🦖 Eduard Toll in the North Sea Route accompanied by an icebreaker in January 2018. Photo: Teekay

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March 23, 2018 by Reuters

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The winter retreat means ever bigger areas are ice-free year round, especially in the Barents Sea north of Russia and Norway which is becoming more like the Atlantic Ocean, he said.

The vast Shtokman natural gas field, north of Russia, is in an area that is now ice-free even in the depths of winter – helping Gazprom if it ever develops the find. The region was ice-bound in winter until the early 1980s, Eldevik said.

Shipping company Teekay said a tanker loaded a first cargo of liquefied natural gas at a terminal in Arctic Russia and traveled to France in January 2018 – the first ship to make such a winter voyage without an icebreaker.

full article:


http://gcaptain.com/arctic-ocean-ice-near-record-low-winter-boost-shipping/ (http://gcaptain.com/arctic-ocean-ice-near-record-low-winter-boost-shipping/)

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on March 25, 2018, 09:22:28 pm
For morons (i.e. fossil fuelers) who do not understand sea ice decline in the arctic:

AVERAGE sea ice thickness used to be around 5 to 6 meters. That was multi-year ice. NOW the multi-year ice is almost gone.

NEW ice that forms in the winter is only a little over one meter thick. THAT type of ice is becoming prevalent. THAT type of ice will allow sturdy vessels, which are NOT ice breakers, to plow through IN THE WINTER. As the article associated with the picture below CLEARLY stated, one of the new LNG carrying pigs DID cross the arctic this winter WITHOUT an ice breaker escort. The ice breaker in the picture is there in case they run into some thick ice.

However, imbeciles and other assorted MORONS may see a picture of ships in the ice, as below, and come to the incredibly IGNORANT, as well as STUPID, conclusion that there is "no lack of ice problem in the arctic 😇  ;) ". 

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Teekay LNG carrier 🦖 Eduard Toll in the North Sea Route accompanied by an icebreaker in January 2018. Photo: Teekay

My God, how can people be so STUPID? ???

I'm glad you asked. 

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Agelbert NOTE: This article is over one year old. It seems some people do not keep up with Climate Change reality. I know why.

NATURE | NEWS Sharing

Incredibly thin Arctic sea ice shocks researchers

Rare winter expedition near northern Norway finds weak ice that is increasingly vulnerable to storms.

Richard Monastersky 14 December 2016

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Measurements made during summer expeditions have shown widespread thinning of Arctic sea ice, but researchers were not sure what the conditions were like in winter. “We saw a new Arctic where the ice is much thinner, only 3 to 4 feet thick,” says Granskog. “And this ice functions very differently than it did 10 years ago.”

That had ripple effects below the ice, says Amelie Meyer, an oceanographer at the Norwegian Polar Institute. “When storms came through, it moved the ice so fast that it actually stirred water under the ice. This helped bring warm water from below much closer to the surface and actually induced some melt of the ice from below.”

https://www.nature.com/news/incredibly-thin-arctic-sea-ice-shocks-researchers-1.21163

Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on March 25, 2018, 10:01:46 pm
For FAKE innocent lamb (Fossil Fueler) claiming to be "just wondering"

The reporter (Palloy 😇)has made the following comment:
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I was just wondering why AG used a photo of an ice-breaker and sea ice to illustrate an ice-free Arctic.


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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on March 27, 2018, 03:07:25 pm
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Unforgettable Sights of Our Changing World

Mar 23, 2018

The Trump 🦀 administration is pushing to eliminate NASA’s climate research programs.

These pictures show what a loss that would be.

SNIPPET:

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Alaska’s Columbia glacier has melted away, leaving a pool of water in its wake. Source: NASA

By Jeremy Deaton

President Trump’s proposed 2019 budget would slash funding for NASA’s Earth Science Division, and while his budget hasn’t gained traction in Congress, it is an important statement of the administration’s priorities. In a nod to his allies in the fossil fuel industry, Trump is calling for the elimination of vital programs that monitor carbon pollution and climate change.

Critics say NASA’s Earth Science Division is a waste of taxpayer dollars and a distraction from the agency’s core mission of space exploration. But NASA has a critical role to play in understanding human-caused climate change, by operating satellites that monitor the Earth’s forests, deserts, oceans and atmosphere.

NASA scientists are working to improve our understanding of natural disasters like wildfires, hurricanes and drought, while tracking long-term changes to the Earth’s climate. Researchers are also mapping out those changes so Americans can understand how heat-trapping carbon pollution is reshaping the world. Below is a collection of NASA maps, graphs and photos cataloging this profound transformation.

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A computer rendering of the Earth at night based on satellite images. Source: NASA

Causes of climate change

It’s part of NASA’s mission to understand the balance of energy on Earth — how much of the Sun’s energy is absorbed by the Earth and how much of it is reflected back out to space. Over the last century, the Earth has retained more and more of the Sun’s energy, causing the planet to warm around 1 degree C.

Warming is not explained by changes in solar activity or changes in the Earth’s orbit, nor is it explained by changes in volcanic activity. What about human factors? Changes in land use — converting forests to farms and pastures — have had a slight cooling effect, as dark green woodlands are replaced by tawny-colored fields of wheat and grass, which reflect more of the Sun’s light. Ground-level ozone pollution makes the Earth a little warmer, but not much. Aerosols, another form of pollution, actually cool the atmosphere.

The evidence shows that greenhouse gasses are responsible for the warming trend. Carbon pollution is trapping more of the Sun’s heat. That carbon pollution primarily comes from burning coal, oil and gas to generate energy. It also comes from raising livestock — mostly cows and sheep — that expel methane, a powerful heat-trapping gas, and from burning forests. While converting dark-colored forests to bright-colored farmland has a small cooling effect, lighting trees on fire also releases a tremendous amount of heat-trapping carbon pollution into the sky. Trees scrub carbon dioxide from the air. When set aflame, they dump that carbon back into the atmosphere.

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Human contributions to climate change, including land use changes, ozone emissions, aerosol emissions and greenhouse gas emissions. Greenhouse gas emissions are responsible for the warming trend. Source: NASA/Bloomberg

The line graph below shows how quickly carbon dioxide is gathering in the atmosphere, rising from 370 parts per million in 2000 to more than 400 parts per million today, as measured by the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii. The map shows the changing concentration of carbon dioxide in the Earth’s atmosphere, as measured by satellite, shifting from green to yellow to orange to red as the concentration increases. Cars, trucks, factories and power plants in the United States, Europe and China are responsible for most of the pollution.


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The line graph shows the atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide as measured at the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii, from 2000 to 2015. The map shows the distribution of added carbon dioxide over the same period, according to satellite data. Warmer colors indicate more carbon dioxide. Source: NASA

The world’s carbon output has grown in recent years, but there has also been a shift in where that carbon pollution is coming from. The United States, Europe and Japan have seen declining pollution thanks, in large part, to limits on pollution. In China, India in the Middle East, pollution has increased as those countries open more factories, fire up more power plants and put more cars on the road. In addition, numerous companies in the United States and Europe have moved manufacturing operations to China, effectively exporting the pollution associated with those operations.

The map below shows changes in emissions of nitrogen dioxide from 2005 to 2014. Nitrogen dioxide isn’t a heat-trapping gas like carbon dioxide, but it is a dangerous pollutant that can make it harder to breathe. Areas with little nitrogen dioxide pollution are colored in blue. Areas with more pollution are colored in yellow, while areas with the most pollution are colored in red.

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Nitrogen dioxide pollution from 2005 to 2014. Cooler colors indicate less pollution. Warmer colors indicate more. Pollution declined in the United States and Europe and increased in China. Source: NASA

The rapid growth of China looks even more dramatic when viewed up close. The satellite images below shows how Shanghai has changed between 1984 and 2016 as more companies set up factories and workers moved from rural areas to work in those factories. The population of the city roughly doubled in that time.

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Shanghai, China from 1984 to 2016. Source: NASA

Industrialization isn’t the only trend driving the rise in temperature. As mentioned above, there’s also deforestation. The map below shows declining forest cover in Rondônia in western Brazil between 2000 and 2010. Settlers build roads into remote parts of the Amazon rainforest, burning forests near those roads to clear land for crops and cattle.

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Rainforest loss in Rondônia, Brazil from 2000 to 2010. The area shown is roughly 100 miles across. Source: NASA

All together, these trends — industrialization, deforestation, growing consumption of meat — are producing dramatic changes in the Earth’s climate and, by extension, are fueling heat, drought and severe storms.

Symptoms of climate change 😓

The most obvious symptom of all that carbon pollution is a rise in the average surface temperature of the Earth. The map below is based on temperature from thousands of weather stations, ships, buoys and research outposts collected over more than a century. It shows the how much temperatures have differed from the mid-20th-century average. Blue areas are unusually cold. Orange areas are unusually hot. As the map progresses from 1880 to 2016, temperatures grow warmer across the globe.

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Global temperature anomaly from 1880 to 2016. Warm colors indicate temperatures above than the 1951–1980 average. Cool colors indicate temperatures below that average. Source: NASA

Full article with more great graphics:

https://nexusmedianews.com/unforgettable-sights-of-our-changing-world-2df468c71de





Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on March 28, 2018, 01:18:47 pm
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Warming Spring 🚩
 
Published: March 7th, 2018

By Climate Central

SNIPPET:

March 1 signals the beginning of meteorological spring. In spite of the wintry precipitation that has kicked off the month in parts of the country, springs across the U.S. are getting warmer with climate change. On average, spring has warmed a little more than 2°F in the U.S. since 1970.

The strongest warming, as examined by the NCEI climate divisions, is in the Southwest. Several cities have warmed more than 5°F, including El Paso, Las Vegas, Phoenix, and Tucson. Of the 244 stations across the country we analyzed, only nine (3.7 percent) showed no warming trend at all, and more than half have warmed at least 2°F.

Full article with more eye opening  👀 graphics:

http://www.climatecentral.org/gallery/maps/warming-spring
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on March 29, 2018, 08:48:45 pm
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March Madness: Time-Lapse Video Shows Four Back-to-Back Nor’Easters Hitting U.S. East Coast 👀

March 28, 2018 by gCaptain

https://youtu.be/YwDQF4rs3JY

Check out this a new time-lapse video released by NOAA showing the four back-to-back nor’easter winter storms that impacted the U.S. East Coast in March 2018. The video was captured by NOAA’s new GOES East (GOES 16) satellite. Video Credit: CIMSS

http://gcaptain.com/march-madness-time-lapse-video-shows-four-back-back-noreasters-hitting-u-s-east-coast/
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on April 01, 2018, 10:32:55 pm
Greenland is Cracking Apart-Erratic Shift in Jet Stream-African Rift Widens-Sunset Splits in Half ⁉️

79,857 views

https://youtu.be/37DWqPucVpg

Skywatch Media News

Published on Mar 29, 2018

The fury of the planet is on full display with no end in sight. 

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on April 01, 2018, 11:49:00 pm
Bering goes extreme

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Full article with several eye opening graphics: 😱

http://neven1.typepad.com/blog/2018/03/bering-goes-extreme.html#more
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on April 03, 2018, 06:37:47 pm
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Young Americans want to save you from climate change

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NEXUS MEDIA

APR 1, 2018, 10:08 AM

SNIPPET:

Young Americans don’t like fossil fuels, and that’s bad news ;D for the industry.

Young Americans are deeply skeptical of the oil and gas industry, teenagers in particular, according to a recent survey. Around half of Americans aged 16 to 18 believe the oil and gas industry 😈 doesn’t want what’s best for them. Most say that wind  ⚡  and solar  ⚡  are the fuel of their generation, while oil and gas are the fuel of their parents’ generation, and coal is the fuel of their grandparents’ generation.

Read more:

https://thinkprogress.org/young-americans-want-climate-action-1df8bcdc54fb/
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on April 04, 2018, 09:32:09 pm
EcoWatch

Stunning Documentary Examines Kiribati's Unrelenting Sea Level Rise

To some, climate change might feel like a distant problem that does not affect our everyday lives. Some even treat the global phenomenon with downright indifference or label it a "hoax."

Of course, climate change is not a faraway threat. The destructive effects of a warming world are very real and are felt today, especially in the low-lying Pacific island nation of Kiribati.

The island republic could become one of the first countries to disappear from sea level rise, as Director Matthieu Rytz shows in his feature documentary, Anote's Ark, a stunning film EcoWatch is honored to sponsor at the 42nd Cleveland International Film Festival.

Kiribati is made of 33 coral atolls with most of the land only a few feet above sea level. Recently, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration warned that global average sea level rise could reach up to 8.2 feet by 2100.

Scientists predict that Kiribati could be completely swallowed by rising seas and storm surges within decades. Its 100,000 residents have already felt the impacts of climate change, including high tides that inundate their homes, flood their crops and contaminate their drinking water supply.

https://youtu.be/UE2_maYEqF8

Rytz's documentary follows former President Anote Tong's mission to keep his country and 4,000 years of rich cultural history above water. Literally.

Tong, who served as president for three successive terms from 2003 to 2016, races to find options, from advocating in international climate negotiations to investigating the possibility of building underwater cities or even floating islands.

Tong has warned that islanders will inevitably have to start leaving Kiribati because of rising waters.

"Relocation, no matter how undesirable, must therefore be the brutal reality of the future of atoll island nations, and part of the solution," he said in 2016.

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Former Kiribati President Anote Tong.

Anote's Ark

The documentary also follows Sermary Tiare, a young mother of six, who must decide whether to leave her home and migrate to a new life in New Zealand.

Rytz spent four years traveling between his home in Montreal to Kiribati to make the feature-length film.

"I feel honored, and also entrusted with a great responsibility, to tell this small nation's story before it disappears," he said.

"I want this film to give a voice to the people of Kiribati. I want the world to see their commitment to caring for people, their respect for the natural world, and their dignity and grace as they face the loss of their entire country," he added.

"They are leading by example, and we must listen, and learn from them, before their fate becomes our own."

The Cleveland International Film Festival kicks off on April 4. Anote's Ark will be shown on April 10 and 11.

https://www.ecowatch.com/anotes-ark-2553715003.html
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Post by: AGelbert on April 05, 2018, 10:17:46 pm
How the solar industry is responding to the increasing intensity of natural disasters

By Kelly Pickerel | January 29, 2018

Weather patterns have always been considered when determining solar system lifetimes and performance. Safety is also considered when establishing installation guidelines and product standards. The recent intensity of natural disasters across the country—a direct result of climate change—brings the adequacy of safety and performance standards into question. Are solar installations prepared for the increased frequency and intensity of extreme weather events of the future?

For the most part, it seems like we’re faring OK. When bad weather hits, there are more solar success stories than major failures. Rooftop arrays are surviving multiple hurricane hits and panels barely feel hailstorms. But that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t be concerned as natural disasters get worse.

Global safety and testing organization UL is paying attention. A good baseline for product standards today may need to be adjusted in the future. UL factors the full lifespan of a project, including any potential climate changes in year 20 or 35, into how arrays should perform.

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Root causes of solar PV claims in North America between 2011 and 2015 (Source: GCube)

“We certainly look at safety margins and evaluate if they’re adequate for potential changes in weather events,” said Bruce Bailey, vice president of renewable energy for UL. “We don’t see any chinks in the armor or fatal flaws [right now], but there needs to be an industry awareness of these issues, and there’s clearly a willingness to respond to them.”

We’re seeing the greater impact of disastrous weather every day. Renewable insurance provider GCube found that 50% of solar claims (from 2011 to 2015) came from weather-related incidents, far outpacing the electrical failures we’ve come to expect most.

“Average solar claims severity in the last five years has increased by 87%, predominantly as a result of the greater impact of weather-related losses,” GCube said in its 2016 Cell, Interrupted report.

Clearly extreme weather is affecting the solar industry already. Here’s a look at how solar installations are coping with natural disasters today and how we’ll survive severe events of the future.

Wildfires 🔥

Huge sections of California felt the increased intensity of wildfires last year, and it feels unrealistic to expect a solar array to make it through the flames when entire homes are destroyed. But what is expected is that solar panels won’t contribute to a fire or be a danger to the surrounding area.

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UL technician Demetrius Preston tests a solar panel to UL 1703 standards. (Source: SPW)

When traveling in the San Francisco Bay area, Solar Power World editors heard stories of residential solar panels exploding into pieces after the wildfires across Northern California in October 2017. Suddenly solar panels installed in fire-prone areas seemed like a dangerous decision.

If those exploding solar panel stories were true, they were probably freak accidents and not a result of poor solar panel standards, said UL principal engineer Ken Boyce.

“Fire is a living thing—it eats, it consumes fuel, it breathes, it needs to consume oxygen and it doesn’t want to die. When you bring that to bear on any piece of electrical equipment or building material, you can have a different range of responses,” he said. “That experience [of exploding panels] may have to do more with the intensity of the wildfire than the response of the PV panels to a particular condition.”

UL testing has done a good job making sure panels and mounting systems won’t encourage the spread of flames. It’s difficult to even find statistics on solar panels involved with fires, let alone starting or spreading them. Still, major fire events aren’t downplayed when building a safe and reliable industry.

“It’s the type of thing that we monitor,” said Boyce, who participates in SEIA’s Codes & Standards Working Group. “We talk about these types of things all the time to make sure we’re bringing the right thought to the building and fire codes and the electrical codes and that we’re managing that interface with product standards.”



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While Puerto Rico and other islands saw unbelievable destruction from the 2017 hurricane season, one piece of good news shined through the devastation—a 645-kW array on a medical center roof in San Juan survived and was functioning at 100%. Florida-based contractor Valor Construction installed the system at the VA Caribbean Healthcare System in 2015 using Sollega ballasted mounting systems supported by Anchor Products attachments.

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This 645-kW system survived Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico because of roof attachments. (Source: Sollega)

The key to that installation’s success (and many others across the Caribbean) was its use of attachments, said Anchor Products president Joel Stanley.

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Racking manufacturers becoming more comfortable with attachments is a result of experience in the industry and a commitment to tested and verified systems. The trend toward better testing and engineering of systems will continue to improve system success rates in hazardous weather areas.

“It comes down to engineering and designing systems properly,” Stanley said. “If structural engineers can maintain control, we’ll be able to design systems that withstand the forces that Mother Nature is going to have. We’ve done a lot of individual testing with Sollega; they have understood the results and that’s what’s allowed them to design systems like they did in Puerto Rico and St. Maarten and those jobs that have withstood so well.”

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Not every system escaped Hurricane Maria unscathed. Damaged panels, frames and mounts are seen at the 24-MW Illumina solar plant in Puerto Rico. (Source: Maria Gallucci/IEEE Spectrum)

On the ground, solar arrays can still be at risk of wind damage. Trackers have gotten better at handling high-wind events because of improved designs and advanced sensors. Instead of depending on heavy steel to keep systems in place, control sensors can optimize stow angles in relation to wind strength to safely position tracking arrays during storms.

“It is always a challenge to face extreme climatic conditions,” said José Alfonso Teruel, R&D manager for tracker manufacturer Soltec. “Our R&D team has re-designed the control electronics, and a new high-speed motor design moves the tracker from the maximum tilt (60˚) to the horizontal position (0˚) in less than three minutes for rapid stowing.”

Residential solar installations in tornado zones are also surviving because of good product selection and common-sense engineering.

“We make a point to select quality equipment and install with good craftsmanship to resist the heavy weather we get in our area, but there will always be outlier events that cannot be planned for,” said Chris Rogge, director of solar services for Cromwell Solar in Lawrence, Kansas—an area known for its higher concentration of tornadoes. “We did have a system take a glancing blow from a tornado, and it stayed in place. A few panels were punctured by flying metal debris, but so was the metal roof of that building.”

Flying debris does seem to be the larger concern. Even when a solar mounting system does its job and keeps panels mounted to roofs and the ground, an airborne lawn chair or rock could be what pulls a system down. In those situations, homeowner’s insurance should take care of the damaged panels.

Hailstorms

It’s also difficult to hide from hail. An April 2016 hailstorm in Texas damaged 4,000 panels at a 4.4-MW site. Baseball-sized hail hit Alamo 2 solar farm near San Antonio, and some panels saw multiple points of impact. The tracking system stowed horizontally when high winds came through, but that left the panels more exposed to falling hail. It was ultimately decided to replace all 18,000 panels in case there were undetected microcracks.

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Just one PV panel out of more than 3,000 was damaged at NREL following a spring 2017 hailstorm. (Source: NREL)

Texas Green Energy was hired to replace the panels, and president Adam Burke said he wanted to prove to solar naysayers that damaged panels only have to be a slight inconvenience.

“I wanted to prove a point that these things happen and there are mechanisms in place to repair this just like anything else,” he said. “It’s minor downtime and the whole plant is renewed and restored.”

Freak accidents aside, hail damage is not a huge concern. NREL analyzed 50,000 solar systems installed between 2009 and 2012 and found the probability of damage from hail was below 0.05%. Solar panels are tested and certified to withstand 25-mm (1-in.) in diameter hailstones flying at 23 m/s (51 mph). And for the most part, hail doesn’t often fall larger or faster than that.

“We do get our fair share [of hail] around here. We’ve probably seen less than five panels with visible hail damage, though. We have seen great coverage from these customers by homeowner’s insurance,” said Cromwell Solar’s Rogge. “We had a good amount of hail this past spring, but it just led to a lot of removal and reinstallations for roof replacements. The arrays have been fine.”

Blizzards ❄  ☃   

Earlier this winter, Erie, Pennsylvania, received an astounding 65 in. of snow in 60 hours—34 in. came on Christmas Day alone. While communities in the Great Lakes’ snowbelt are used to heavy snow, this was still a record-breaking event. No one wants 5 ft of snow sitting on top of solar panels.

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Soltec trackers shed snow at a 150-MW installation in Minnesota. (Source: Soltec)

The weight of that snow will probably not harm a solar array, especially since tilted solar panels help to shed snow blankets (just watch your head below). Buffalo, New York’s CIR Electrical Construction always includes partial snow cover in customer solar production plans, and the installation company tells its customers to just let nature do its thing.

“We do not recommend our customers to clear snow off their panels,” said Ashley Regan, director of business development for CIR. “Using a shovel, brush or similar item could damage your panels and system. Your system warranties do not cover any c r a c k e d glass or disturbed electrical wiring that may result from a homeowner trying to remove snow, so it’s best to let them be.”

CIR installs solar year-round and can often be found shoveling snow off roofs and using leaf blowers to warm roofing shingles before beginning work. That’s where snow affects solar most: installation speed.

“Winter and other intensive weather conditions may slow down installation time due to additional steps and safety precautions,” Regan said. “If it’s too cold we don’t force our staff to stay out, especially on the roof. In severely bitter cold, we try to do inside work, including mounting the balance of system, mounting inverters, interior conduit runs and structural attic work if necessary.”

CIR uses power optimizers so each panel can produce independently, which helps with shading from snow coverage. The company also prefers elevated flashing to increase water mitigation from penetrations in case of heavy snowfall.

Snow is just as common as rain, and building codes and product tests account for that. While no one wants great amounts of snow to fall in a short period of time, the good news is that it’s not a permanent weight solar panels have to carry. Snow melts eventually.

Floods 💧🌊

Rising sea level maps show southern sections of Florida swallowed by the effects of global warming by as soon as 2100. New buildings in Miami are preparing for increased water and storm surge. The plaza level of the new Frost Museum of Science sits 21 ft, 8 in. above sea level, and the 66-kW solar system on its roof should never experience flood waters.

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A NEXTracker system in Virginia experienced flood waters after Hurricane Matthew in 2016, but appropriate flood clearance design ensured the system was unharmed. (Source: NEXTracker)

For those unplanned, temporary floods, solar developers are adapting. Mauricio Añón, brand ambassador at utility-scale contractor Inovateus Solar, said civil engineers will suggest raising array heights or redirecting flooding channels to allow for ground-mounts to work in floodplains, but it really comes down to costs.

“We get an audit when there is land with potential problems,” he said. “Sometimes [the solution] is just finding different land or a different place and moving the project. If the outcome is not promising, you don’t want to do all that work and not have the warranties [for system protection].”

Executives with Soltec claim that its SF7 tracker has the highest mounting height for the tracking motor and electronics in the industry at a minimum of 5.9 ft, which should keep equipment high enough even in floodplain applications. Soltec also uses torque tubes to protect wires from external threats. Flood-level sensors will activate a tracker to adjust to safe angles in case water levels start to rise.

“The standard height of the tracker, together with additional sensors and an improved tracker control algorithm, allow the tracker rotation to adjust to the flood stage and prevent the tracker from the harmful action of water runoffs while the plant keeps functioning,” said Soltec’s Teruel.

For residential installations, flood waters affect the inverter more than the panels.

“The flooding that we normally see is a few feet and typically will not reach the solar inverter that is wall-mounted on our homes,” said David Dixon, business development manager for Texas installer NATiVE. “Because homeowners are not typically building in flood plains, this has not been a major issue for us, yet.

“I do see this becoming more problematic with coastal installations and the more and more frequent occurrence of extreme weather that we see,” Dixon continued. “Because our equipment is up on walls and roofs, it is usually out of harm’s way. I am beginning to think about battery systems though, which are typically heavy and mounted on grade. They will be vulnerable to even minor flooding events.”

Richard Sherwood with Houston-based installer Adaptive Solar said the region’s four days of heavy rain (peak accumulations reached 60.58 in.) from Hurricane Harvey in late August 2017 really opened up the conversation of battery backup.

“I was bracing for the worst; I didn’t think anyone would be looking at solar for the next three months. [The hurricane] has piqued interest, and we’re seeing a lot more leads but almost exclusively with the battery backup right now,” he said.

Where to house these energy storage technologies may be the next big concern when considering disastrous weather.

As extreme weather events continue to plague the United States, solar installers will have to keep innovating to ensure systems last through hurricanes, hail and tornadoes. Perhaps an increase in solar panel installations will mean a decrease in climate change and wild weather, but only time will tell.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Kelly Pickerel is managing editor of Solar Power World.


https://www.solarpowerworldonline.com/2018/01/solar-industry-responding-increasing-intensity-natural-disasters/
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on April 05, 2018, 11:06:46 pm
Agelbert NOTE: Iceland is one of the few places on Earth that are seeing benefits from Climate Change. They may be destined to be one of the outposts of humanity in an increasingly overheated world.
Now they are planting evergreens 🌱 🌲 🎄.
But, if we do not reverse the overheating trend, they will eventually have to plant these: 🌴  :P

Vikings cleared the forests, now Iceland is bringing them back

Melissa Breyer

April 4, 2018

https://youtu.be/-hgAf8awLmQ

Read more:

https://www.treehugger.com/conservation/vikings-cleared-forests-now-iceland-finally-growing-new-ones.html
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on April 06, 2018, 09:07:14 pm
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Frankenstein Meets Climate Change: Prof Michael Wysession (March 2018)

https://youtu.be/dOcywQ2Ycg8

Agelbert NOTE: Excellent comparison of the scientist (the REAL monster) that created the Frankenstein creature in the novel by Mary Shelly with our civilization's reaction to the monster of Climate Change that we caused. The story of where Mary Shelly was when she decided to write the Frankenstein story, and why she wrote it in the first place, is fascinating as well. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-080515182559.png&hash=d4dfa952fa0f817bf30a8059a4c88d6fb05ee1bf)  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-080515182559.png&hash=d4dfa952fa0f817bf30a8059a4c88d6fb05ee1bf)  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-080515182559.png&hash=d4dfa952fa0f817bf30a8059a4c88d6fb05ee1bf)
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on April 06, 2018, 09:32:46 pm
Climate & Extreme Weather News #108 (April 3rd-6th 2018)

https://youtu.be/CYssXJ8OPEE

Understanding Climate Change

Published on Apr 6, 2018

00:15 Brazil: Goiania, Teresina & Juazeiro do Norte flash floods

07:45 Mexico: Tlalpan flash flood

11:32 Indonesia: Lampung Selatan & Bekasi floods

15:18 Canada: Ontario windstorm

16:37 Midwest storms, cold & snow & the Pineapple Express

19:37 C3S March Temp Data; April temp anomalies & anomaly forecasts


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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on April 06, 2018, 10:22:33 pm
This new Antarctic Discovery will affect You massively 🌊

https://youtu.be/8QDPFa802xw

1,400 views

Climate State

Published on Apr 6, 2018

Past studies of Antarctica's accelerated glacier retreat focused on regional trends, a new study now finds continental trends of over ten percent of marine terminating glaciers moving inland. Current peak retreat has been documented to be in the ballpark of 25 meters each single year, with some even in the three digits.

Read Chris Mooney's Washington Post article study summary goo.gl/HuxtxL

Press release University of Leeds, Antarctica is retreating across the sea floor http://www.leeds.ac.uk/news/article/4...
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on April 08, 2018, 10:19:50 pm
🌍 🌎 🌏

Earth101

https://youtu.be/ifqGZvSw5fg

Published on Feb 12, 2014

Guðni Elísson: "Earth101"


Stefan Rahmstorf: "The Climate Crisis"

Michael Mann: "The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars"

Kari Norgaard: "Living in Denial: Climate Change, Emotions and Everyday Life"

Peter Sinclair: "Communicating Climate Science in the Disinformation Era"

Recorded by Phil Coates and edited by Ryan Chapman.
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on April 09, 2018, 05:40:39 pm
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97% consensus on climate change? More like 99.94%, study finds👨‍🔬

LAST UPDATED ON APRIL 9TH, 2018 AT 2:23 PM BY MIHAI ANDREI  E-mail author

The general trend in the media seems to suggest that there’s a 97% agreement between scientists regarding the validity of climate change. However, that might not be accurate. Recent studies indicate an even stronger agreement.

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Scientific consensus on human-caused global warming as compared to the expertise of the surveyed sample. There’s a strong correlation between consensus and climate science expertise. Image Credits: John Cook.

A century ago, people thought smoking was pretty healthy — some even thought it was good for your lungs. But year after year, the evidence started piling up: smoking wasn’t good for you, it was bad. It causes cancer, heart diseases, and a myriad of other conditions. Of course, the tobacco industry was one of the first to learn about this, but they denied it. They hid the truth, they carried aggressive advertising and lobby campaigns against scientific facts, promoting laws and regulations that worked to their advantage, at the detriment of the general population. Even after the scientific evidence came in, it took decades before public opinion followed — and even more before healthy policies were set in place (in many parts of the world, there still aren’t any proper anti-smoking policies).

Something similar is happening today, except instead of smoking, we have man-made climate change.

There are thousands and thousands of studies documenting climate change and its effects and among scientists, there’s essentially a consensus regarding climate change. While the details and the exact specifics of how it is happening are still very much an area of active research, there’s not much denying that it is happening and that we are causing it.

To portray this, the media often uses the phrase “97% consensus” — likely originating from a 2014 study by Cook et al. was published entitled “Quantifying the consensus on anthropogenic global warming in the scientific literature“. In the study, Cook analyzed 11,944 peer-reviewed papers published between 1991-2011. Out of them, about a third (4013) expressed a position on man-made climate change, and 3894 (or 97%) supported the position that humans are causing climate change. The authors also found that more recent papers were increasingly attributing climate change to mankind, indicating an increasing acceptance level.

But in 2017, James Powell published an even larger meta-analysis of 54,195  peer-reviewed papers, finding a 99.94% consensus about human-caused climate change. Again, more recent papers seem to back the idea up even more overwhelmingly.

At the end of the day, a difference between 97% and 99.94% is probably not going to sway many people who aren’t already convinced. As with smoking, public opinion is slow to follow the science, and the insidious marketing and lobby machine 😈 is working at full gear.

Just like the tobacco companies knew about the damage that smoking can do, oil companies 😈 🐉🦕🦖 have been aware of climate change for decades, but continue to fund denier and pro-fossil fuel media.

The important takeaway is that regardless of whether we like it or not, the science is in: climate change is happening, and it’s happening because of us.

https://www.zmescience.com/science/news-science/climate-change-consensus-07042018/

Peter Sinclair: "Communicating Climate Science in the Disinformation 😈🦕🦖 Era"

https://youtu.be/2-nWsr3ZFdw

The Fossil Fuelers 😈 🦖  DID THE Clean Energy  Inventions suppressing, Climate Trashing, human health depleting CRIME,   but since they have ALWAYS BEEN liars and conscience free crooks 🦀, they are trying to AVOID   DOING THE TIME or     PAYING THE FINE!     Don't let them get away with it! Pass it on!   
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on April 09, 2018, 06:58:51 pm
The New Record Low Arctic Sea Ice and Our Weather

https://youtu.be/cDOg3xLj_VE


Climate State


Published on Mar 26, 2018

Arctic sea ice decline has long been projected to occur. 2018 and 2017 are the two lowest winter time Arctic sea ice records observed. Disappearing sea ice and moisture transport into the Arctic are believed to cause something called Arctic amplification, which in turn has been linked to two effects (weaker westerly winds, and intensified ridges), causing warm air to flow into the Arctic and colder air intrusion in lower latitudes, associated with slow moving weather systems.
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on April 09, 2018, 08:23:01 pm
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Agelbert NOTE: This presentation has poignant interactive video and irrefutable eye opening information. Please check this out.  👀

The last 🚩 generation (PBS Frontline interactive (http://apps.frontline.org/the-last-generation/))
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on April 09, 2018, 09:33:08 pm
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April 9, 2018

Under Trump 🦀, How Will US Military Prepare for Displacement Caused By Climate Change?

https://youtu.be/la3V_V6OfyI

A new report from the World Bank says that climate change could displace as many as 143 million people by 2050, generating geopolitical instability and posing new threats to national security. Can the Pentagon properly manage the threats with a climate denialist in the White House? We speak to Col. Larry Wilkerson

http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=21536

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on April 12, 2018, 02:14:53 pm
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New Zealand may have just killed its oil industry  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-141113185047.png&hash=384024358ff8d5e7133d19b6e6638da4584a8154)

by Jethro Mullen   @CNNMoney

April 12, 2018: 7:14 AM ET   

SNIPPET:

New Zealand has stunned the energy industry by slapping a new cap on drilling for oil and gas in its waters as part of efforts to combat climate change.

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced Thursday that the government will "no longer be granting any new offshore oil and gas exploration permits."

"This is another step on our transition away from fossil fuels and towards a carbon neutral economy," Ardern said in a speech. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-311017193926.png&hash=135a7bcd2093b679e425bbd2086adb8ddfd2e7b5)

The country's oil industry 🐉🦕🦖 quickly voiced its anger over the move.

Full article (with the expected whining and veiled threats from the fossil fuelers  ::)):

http://money.cnn.com/2018/04/12/news/companies/new-zealand-oil-gas-exploration/index.html

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The truth twisting, fossil fuel worshipping media 😈 is definitely into Orwellian discourse.  🤬

Here's just ONE graphic from the non-polluting segment of the ENERGY INDUSTRY that clearly explains why New Zealand is doing the correct economic AND biosphere math.   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fcliparts.co%2Fcliparts%2FBig%2FEgq%2FBigEgqBMT.png&hash=e7eec62f009cdd686ce795fad0a53c6befe748e9)


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https://www.nrdc.org/revolution-now
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on April 12, 2018, 09:18:23 pm
Studies Find Key Ocean Current Has Weakened 🚩
Two new studies in Nature report an important warm current in the Atlantic is closer to catastrophic collapse — which could cause rapid sea level rise on the East Coast — than it has been in the last 1,600 years.

The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) is the ocean’s conveyor belt, transporting warm water along the ocean surface to the Arctic, where it cools, sinks, and is transported southward again along the deep ocean. Human-caused global warming interferes with this process.

Both of the studies looked at a signature pattern of temperatures that is tied to the strength of the current, and one also looked at the current’s speed.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/apr/11/critical-gulf-stream-current-weakest-for-1600-years-research-finds


Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on April 13, 2018, 05:56:02 pm
Agelbert NOTE: The destruction of the arctic biome continues. The article describes the melting of the ice as an "opportunity for the shipping industry to expand", as if there isn't a brutal extinction cost 🚩 thousands of species will be forced to pay because of this profit over planet expansion. The effect of increased shipping in the arctic will be 💣 the accelerated degradation of the global biosphere. 😨🔫 So it goes. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.desismileys.com%2Fsmileys%2Fdesismileys_2955.gif&hash=ddc12d8bdb1bc63b7998a6b086b79a71b7bda755)

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Profit over planet greed guarantees that humans will follow shortly after the polar bears into extinction.

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Researchers Map Seven Years of Arctic Shipping 😈

April 12, 2018 by gCaptain

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The Arctic’s declining sea ice has meant more opportunities for the shipping industry to expand its use of the region that in decades past was unnavigable for the vast majority of the year.

The Northwest Passage through Canada and the Northern Sea Route, or Northeast Passage, north of Russia and Siberia, are both valued because they could significantly shorten ship transit times between Asia, Europe, and North America.

In August 2017, a newly designed LNG carrier with an ice-hardened hull became the first merchant ship to sail across the Arctic Ocean without the aid of an icebreaker. The vessel, the Christophe de Margerie, made the voyage in just 19 days, nearly a week faster than the traditional route through the Suez Canal.

In February, a similar tanker, the Eduard Atoll, completed its own unescorted trip through the region in the dead of winter, marking another historic first. During that voyage, the vessel sailed South Korea to Sabetta terminal in northern Russia, where it loaded LNG produced at a new $27 billion plant and transported it to France.

To illustrate this increase in ship activity in the Arctic, a team of scientists has banded together to analyze and map more than 120 million data points in order to track where ships are most using the region.

To make the map, the team, led by Paul Arthur Berkman, director of the science diplomacy center at Tufts University, and Greg Fiske, a geospatial analyst at the Woods Hole Research Center, used data compiled by SpaceQuest, a company designs microsatellites that can monitor the track Automatic Identification System (AIS) signals from ships.

Once the data was plotted, there were some interesting observations to be made.

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This map shows unique ship visits to Arctic waters  between September 1, 2009, and December 31, 2016. Credit: NASA Earth Observatory

Looking at the data, Berkman, Fiske, and their colleagues found that the mean center of shipping activity moved 300 kilometers north and east—closer to the North Pole—over the 7-year span.

Notably, they were particularly surprised to find more small ships, such as fishing boats, wading farther into Arctic waters. The team also plotted the AIS ship tracks against sea ice data from NSIDC and found that ships are encountering ice more often and doing so farther north each year.

Despite the seemingly growing opportunities for shipping, the increasing number of ships in the region has given rise to serious concerns about pollution, oil spills, and disturbances to marine life, among other possible impacts.

Berkman is the coordinator and lead investigator of Pan-Arctic Options, which provides objective information that can guide the placement of infrastructure and the management of activities such as search and rescue and pollution response.

Now whether or not open Arctic waters will be long-term boon for shipping remains to be seen, but scientists agree that the melting trend does not bode well for the Arctic environment as we have known it.

“Arctic sea ice cover continues to be in a decreasing trend, and this is connected to the ongoing warming of the Arctic,” said Claire Parkinson, a climate scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. “It’s a two-way street: the warming means less ice is going to form, and more ice is going to melt. But also, because there is less ice, less of the Sun’s radiation is reflected off of Earth, and this contributes to the warming.”

http://gcaptain.com/researchers-map-seven-years-of-arctic-shipping/

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on April 13, 2018, 06:37:46 pm
Mashable

Australia has been breaking records for heat 🔥 in April

BY JOHNNY LIEU

PRIL 13, 2018

Usually the sear of Australia's summer heat would've subsided by now, as winter approaches.

Instead, the country is experiencing an unseasonably warm April so far, prompting Australia's Bureau of Meteorology to explain the unusual event.

SEE ALSO: Researchers hit back at climate change deniers twisting polar bear science (https://mashable.com/2018/04/11/scientists-challenge-climate-denier-polar-bear-blogs/#92mX6Rl5NmqB)

The heat is "more characteristic of mid-summer than mid-autumn," according to its special climate statement, where the country has been experiencing higher than usual maximum temperatures in the first half of the month.

April 9 🔥 was the hottest April day on record in Australia, with a national average of 34.97 degrees Celsius (94.95 degrees Fahrenheit), eclipsing a record set in 2005.

We have published a Special Climate Statement exploring the highly unseasonal hot spell experienced by much of Australia at the start of April. More at https://t.co/jHCzg7hb3c pic.twitter.com/Yg2uQHeOqj

— Bureau of Meteorology, Australia (@BOM_au) April 13, 2018

The country's hotter-than-usual spell primarily affected the country's northwest. Before 2018, nowhere in Australia had a recorded temperature higher than 45 degrees Celsius (113 degrees Fahrenheit).

That number was broken four times, with Western Australia's Mardie Station and Roebourne recording the highest temperatures of 45.9 degrees Celsius in the last days of March.

The heat then moved southeast, with records set at Nullarbor, South Australia (42.2 degrees Celsius or 107.9 degrees Fahrenheit) on Apr. 9, and Pooncarie, New South Wales (40.5 degrees Celsius or 104.9 degrees Fahrenheit) on Apr. 10.

"The heat had been building up in north western Australia since monsoon rains ended in mid-March," Bureau of Meteorology climatologist Blair Trewin said in a statement online.

"North westerly winds then brought the hot air mass southeast at the start of this week, which is when we saw the impacts on South Australia, Victoria and New South Wales."

The heat has also persisted in some areas, with Sydney's 11 consecutive days of temperatures over 25 degrees Celsius (77 degrees Fahrenheit) breaking an April record.

It's a situation which has seen plants affected in the country's botanical gardens, reports the Sydney Morning Herald, confused by the late surge of heat.

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https://mashable.com/2018/04/13/australia-heat-records-bom/#Re5f_9pmkiqj
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on April 13, 2018, 06:44:49 pm
Global Citizen News Digest

Finland Plans to Ban Coal by 2029, One Year Ahead of Schedule ✨

April 13, 2018

SNIPPET:

The country still gets 10% of its power from coal.

Finland is known for having the world’s best education system. It’s also been called the “happiest country in the world” and the best country to be a mother.

Now, it wants to become one of the first countries in the world to completely phase out coal.

The Scandinavian powerhouse aims to completely eliminate coal dependency by 2029, one year ahead of its previous goal of 2030, environment minister Kimmo Tiilikainen said Tuesday. 

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“Greenhouse gas emissions must be reduced much sooner than initially planned to mitigate climate change,” Tiilikainen said in a statement.

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full article with graphics:

https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/finland-plans-to-ban-coal-2029/
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on April 13, 2018, 09:11:45 pm
E360 DIGEST

APRIL 11, 2018

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Climate change has moved the 100th meridian west climatic divide from its historical position (solid line) 140 miles eastward (dotted line) in recent decades. Modified from Seager et al. Earth Interactions, 2018

In the late 1800s, geologist and explorer John Wesley Powell first described a clear boundary running longitudinally through North America along the 100th meridian west that visibly separated the humid eastern part of the continent from the more arid western plains. Now, 140 years later, scientists have confirmed that such a sharp climatic boundary exists and that it is slowly shifting east due to climate change — a change that scientists say could have significant implications on farming in the region.

The new research, published in a pair of studies in the journal Earth Interactions late last month, found the divide is created by three factors: the Rocky Mountains stopping moisture from the Pacific Ocean reaching farther inland, Atlantic winter storms bringing moisture to the eastern half of the U.S., and moisture from the Gulf of Mexico moving north and curving eastward during the summer months. The only other clear, straight divide between humid and arid areas on the globe is the one separating the Sahara Desert from the rest of Africa, climate scientist Richard Seager of Columbia University, lead author of the new papers, said in a statement.

Seager and his colleagues wanted to study the boundary as an example of “psychogeography” — how environmental conditions affect human decisions. “Powell talked eloquently about the 100th meridian, and this concept of a boundary line has stayed with us down to the current day,” said Seager. “We wanted to ask whether there really is such a divide, and whether it’s influenced human settlement.”

The divide cuts through eastern Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, the Dakotas, and the Canadian province of Manitoba. West of the 100th meridian, population density declines and development is sparse, and farms are larger and primarily depend on arid-resistant crops like wheat. To the more humid east, more people and infrastructure exist. Farms are smaller and 70 percent of the harvested crop is moisture-loving corn. Studying rainfall and temperature data since 1980, Seager and his colleagues found this climatic boundary has already shifted east about 140 miles so that it now sits closer to the 98th meridian. And it will continue to move east as warming global temperatures increase evaporation from the soil and change precipitation patterns, they concluded.

According to a press release by Columbia University’s Earth Institute, “Seager predicts that as drying progresses, farms further and further east will have to consolidate and become larger in order to remain viable. Unless farmers turn to irrigation or otherwise adapt, they will have to turn from corn to wheat or some other more suitable crop. Large expanses of cropland may fail altogether, and have to be converted to western-style grazing range. Water supplies could become a problem for urban areas.”

https://e360.yale.edu/digest/a-north-american-climate-boundary-has-shifted-140-miles-east-due-to-global-warming

Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on April 15, 2018, 04:12:58 pm
Agelbert NOTE: This article, over a year old now, has valuable information about what will happen, IN OUR TIME, when, not if, the AMOC shuts down. The  East Coast of the USA would almost immediately experience a sea level rise of at least 80 centimeters (https://collapseofindustrialcivilization.com/tag/david-wasdell/) (i.e. 2 feet and 7.5 inches) :o. 🌊 Besides all the catastrophic flooding, it would cost billions of dollars just to raise the level of the port facilities alone.

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Topographic map of the Nordic Seas and subpolar basins with schematic circulation of surface currents (solid curves) and deep currents (dashed curves) that form a portion of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC). Colors of curves indicate approximate temperatures. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_meridional_overturning_circulation

The Atlantic Ocean and an Actual Debate in Climate Science

Scientists have recently begun to re-examine a scary question: Will a crucial ocean current shut down? ???


ROBINSON MEYER  JAN 7, 2017

SNIPPET:

But then she went on. From what we know right now, the possibility that AMOC will shut down remains a “potential impact of climate change with significant consequences.”

“Yet other impacts are much more certain” to result from climate change, she said, listing “increased surface temperatures, sea level rise, and ice melt.” While some harms, like those of a collapsing AMOC, are still up for debate, it is almost completely certain that climate change will bring serious consequences for us in our time. Rampant drought, drier rivers, and vanished 🌊 coasts are all ours to inherit.

Full article:

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/01/what-a-real-debate-looks-like-in-climate-science/512444/

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on April 15, 2018, 05:13:59 pm
AMOC Shutdown Potential and Implications

https://youtu.be/IQ8j6jFKSLQ

Climate State

Published on Sep 18, 2016

Climate scientists Mark Serreze, Michael Mann, and James Hansen commenting on the potential for a shutdown of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), in a historical perspective, based on observations, as well as on the implications.


Ocean Currents Disruption: Slower and Wavier

https://youtu.be/2SYCHtYidAo

Paul Beckwith

Published on Apr 14, 2018

Cutting edge science finds ocean currents slowing down. We all know the equator is warm and poles are cold. This temperature difference causes heat flow from the equator to poles.

As the Arctic warms like crazy, heat flow there slows, thus jet streams slow and are wavier; the same slowing and waviness increase happens with ocean currents.

If sluggish ocean currents (slowing of Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation - AMOC) halt or redistribute, we are in for a heap of chaotic climate change mayhem.

How close are we to shutdown? Stay tuned to my videos and donate to http://paulbeckwith

Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on April 18, 2018, 01:41:39 pm
Agelbert NOTE: This video continues from the Paul Beckwith video in the previous post on this topic board.  8)

What happens if the Atlantic Meridional Overturning (AMOC) slows down, or even stops?   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.desismileys.com%2Fsmileys%2Fdesismileys_1593.gif&hash=628238f2fc26695937f6e97b91b050976065743b)

https://youtu.be/9dC1iVCqmx0

Paul Beckwith

Published on Apr 17, 2018

What happens if the Atlantic Meridional Overturning (AMOC) slows down, or even stops? The former has happened, and if the latter occurs there will be global chaos. How close are we to reaching the threshold for a “rewriting” of global ocean circulation? If it occurs, will it be permanent, for at least hundreds of years? How much will already extreme weather change, and how much will global food supply be impacted?

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on April 18, 2018, 01:53:38 pm
Impact of a thermohaline circulation slowdown

https://youtu.be/QH_v4_fDiCw

ClimateEconomics

Published on Dec 11, 2015

Lecture on the economic impacts of a slowdown of the thermohaline circulation, Richard Tol, 9 December 2015, Falmer.
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on April 20, 2018, 02:57:48 pm
The Intercept

DENIAL BY A DIFFERENT NAME

It’s Time to Admit That Half-Measures Can’t Stop Climate Change

By Kate Aronoff

April 17 2018, 7:00 a.m.

SNIPPET 1:

Müller, at least, is honest about this denialism — even if he prefers the term “skeptic.”

Müller’s own scientific rationale may make no sense, but his conclusion is easy on the conscience: Relax, everything will be OK. Another version of that message is being marketed across COP23. As climate scientists call for a dramatic transformation of the world’s economy, a different set of deniers is starting to coalesce around something easier — plans to seemingly tackle climate change that may well still portend planetary catastrophe, even according to conservative climate projections. Unlike Müller, they’re at the center of the climate policymaking debate in Bonn. Like its predecessor events, exhibition halls at COP23 were dotted with stalls sponsored by fossil fuel companies proselytizing carbon capture and storage technology; international investment banks eager to discuss the central role of private finance in driving the new green revolution; industry-backed think tanks exploring the necessity of spraying particulates into the air to block out the sun. The solutions coming out of high-level talks don’t inspire much more confidence.

They peddle in a set of easy fixes: a market signal here, an industrial-grade aerosol there, and the crisis will be an artifact of history, with corporate shareholders better off for it.

If you believe that, then I have a clean coal plant to sell you.

SNIPPET 2:

The relevant question isn’t whether the Earth is heating up, but what we intend to do about it. That’s a radically different conversation about climate change than the one that’s been had in America to this point. Here, decades of propaganda from the fossil fuel industry and the denialist think tanks they support have forced the debate to orbit around whether there’s a problem at all, prying open the Overton window to accommodate conspiracy theorists and Nobel Prize winners alike. That the two co-habitated for years on the same cable news panels put the climate debate on deniers’ terms, taking any discussion of reasonable, large-scale solutions — stringent regulation, massive public investment, an economy planned around reducing emissions — virtually off the table (https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2018/4/3/17187606/fossil-fuel-supply). In its place has come a parade of utopian techno-fixes and market-based solutions, dreamed up by the likes of Milton Friedman and now embraced by left and right alike. The same disinformation campaigners that created a debate over the reality of climate change have hedged their bets and staked a claim to solving a problem that they had tried to convince the world didn’t exist.

In late March, Royal Dutch Shell (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frealsociology.edublogs.org%2Ffiles%2F2010%2F08%2F460_0___30_0_0_0_0_0_shell_skull_colour.jpg&hash=a4c0baea5ec89328a16e21f3820975938465eadf) — Europe’s biggest oil company — released a pathway to meeting the low-bar commitment laid out in the Paris Agreement to cap warming at 2 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels; the actual text calls to cap it at “well below” 2 degrees Celsius. Still, the company’s decarbonization plan — to reach net-zero emissions by 2070 — is hugely ambitious. As Vox’s David Roberts notes, it’s also premised on two big fantasies: that fossil fuel production and consumption can continue at roughly similar levels for the next several decades, and that at some point between now and then we’ll figure out how to suck massive amount of carbon out from the atmosphere with so-called negative emissions technologies, which remain unproven at scale.

The kinds of wishful thinking baked into Shell’s decarbonization plan, though, are also the ones plaguing the research compiled by the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, or IPCC, a clearinghouse for climate science from around the world where the “least-cost” pathways to decarbonization are also those anointed to keep warming below catastrophic levels. As climate modeler Glen Peters points out, the oil giant’s projections for fossil fuel consumption and negative emissions don’t differ wildly from those laid out in the IPCC’s model collection. Fittingly, then, the official account for UNFCCC tweeted a glowing review of the study.  😇 🤬

With multinationals like Shell prepared to play hardball, the debate over what to do about climate change is much harder to win than the one over whether it’s happening. Major polluters are prepared to do just that and are already coming to the table at international climate talks with ready-made plans. 😈 👹 💵 🎩 🍌 🏴‍☠️

Full article:

https://theintercept.com/2018/04/17/climate-change-denial-trump-germany/



Inside Climate News


Fossil Fuels on Trial: Where the Major Climate Change Lawsuits Stand Today

Some of the biggest oil and gas companies are embroiled in legal disputes with cities, states and children over the industry's role in global warming.

Aprill 11, 1018

BY DAVID HASEMYER

SNIPPET:

The storm of litigation could have a broad impact if it succeeds in holding fossil fuel companies accountable for the kinds of damages they foresaw decades ago, said Harold Koh, a professor of international law at Yale Law School who served as senior legal adviser to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

"The industry has profited from the manufacture of fossil fuels but has not had to absorb the economic costs of the consequences," Koh said. "The industry had the science 30 years ago and knew what was going to happen but made no warning so that preemptive steps could have beentaken." 

"The taxpayers have been bearing the cost for what they should have been warned of 30 years ago," Koh added. "The companies are now being called to account for their conduct and the damages from that conduct."

Full article:


https://insideclimatenews.org/news/04042018/climate-change-fossil-fuel-company-lawsuits-timeline-exxon-children-california-cities-attorney-general
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on April 20, 2018, 03:03:44 pm
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April 18, 2018

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Despite the panicked desperation of the industry’s PR groups claiming they're winning, the legal case against fossil fuels is gaining momentum. Juliana vs. US, in which a group of young people have sued the US for failing to take sufficient climate action, was recently assigned a court date to argue their case. And this week, another group organized by Our Children’s Trust, ages 10 to 20, filed a suit against Florida Gov. Rick Scott to compel him to take climate action.
 
Last week, a Massachusetts court ruled against Exxon, forcing them to hand over relevant documents so that the case against them could proceed. This comes on the heels of a similar ruling by a federal judge who called Exxon’s claims of a conspiracy against them “implausible” and “a wild stretch of logic”.
 
And Exxon’s worry should only be growing, as a group of local Colorado governments announced their own suit against Exxon and Suncor yesterday. While it is perhaps unsurprising for Boulder, with a reputation for being liberal, to fight fossil fuels, it is relatively shocking that one of their legal counselors is David Bookbinder of the libertarian Niskanen Center.
 
The participation by a decidedly not-lefty organization like Niskanen further undercuts Exxon’s conspiracy theory that this whole campaign is just a partisan liberal conspiracy. While the industry will point out that Niskanen is a grantee of the Rockefeller Brothers, the group’s involvement is nonetheless an important development.
 
Ideologically, while they’re far from denial, Niskanen still occupies a right-leaning position. They have spoken in cautious favor of Pruitt’s red team project, for example, and a post about climate lawsuits from September of last year was cited in a piece in the National Review (and subsequently ran in the Dallas News…). 
 
They also provide a new and unique ideological justification for the suits, in that libertarians have long held that courts, not the federal government, are best for enforcing pollution controls. The basic thinking is that someone suffering the ills of pollution can sue the polluter for damages. The court then listens to the arguments and, if necessary, determines how much the polluter should pay. This would eliminate the need for a strong centralized government to spend taxpayer money on determining acceptable levels of pollution, monitoring them, and then regulating industry to enforce compliance.
 
Realistically, the fact that polluters have tons of money and those impacted by the pollution have far less would mean the lopsided expenditures on legal teams would unfairly benefit polluters. So (like much of libertarianism) while it is a simple and elegant approach in theory, in practice it gives a clear advantage to those with resources, and disadvantage those with fewer resources at their disposal.
 
But in this case, by serving as counsel for Boulder and related municipalities, Niskanen is putting its proverbial money where its institutional mouth is, and providing pro bono legal expertise in opposition to Big Oil.
 
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on April 22, 2018, 09:33:13 pm
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April 19, 2018

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Puerto Rico Blackout and Fracked School Shows Need for Environmental Justice

The power outage in Puerto Rico is on track to become the second largest blackout in world history, surpassed only by the outage from Hurricane Haiyan. As climate change worsens and sea levels rise, we can expect more damage from hurricanes, as higher storm surge reaches much further inland. And climate change is already contributing to increased hurricane activity in the North Atlantic since the 1970s, according to the US National Climate Assessment.

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The Puerto Rico blackout is also a prime example of how, despite deniers’ fears of the cost to combat climate change, inaction is far more expensive than addressing it. The price tag to rebuild the PR grid is bigger than the alternative plan to include renewable energy, storage, and microgrids for resilience.
 
It’s also yet another example of environmental injustice. Because as Politico’s David Viknik exposed last month, the Trump administration’s response to Harvey in Texas and Irma in Florida was  much quicker and more robust than Maria in Puerto Rico. Among plenty of other concerning figures, just nine days after Harvey, FEMA had paid out over $140 million to Texans, whereas nine days after Maria they had distributed a paltry $6 million.
 
That report from not-even-a-month-ago isn’t even the latest example of how communities of color are treated vastly different than wealthy white communities. On Tuesday, Megan Jula of MotherJones reported that after an affluent white community resisted a fracking site near their school, the company decided to move its drill site. Its internal analysis, according to Jula, was that the proximity to the school meant the site was “not preferable.”  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-280515145049.png&hash=84e87515e750391c1f1bca6d6ae06485972bfa81) (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-051113192052.png&hash=93c42ef9f18fc5d9da50fd91fc19f70009f95f85)

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The location is technically legal- fracking operations are required to be 500 feet from homes, and 1,000 feet from schools. This site is 509 feet from a home and 1,360 feet from the school. Which is totally reasonable and not at all something that families should complain about. 😈

Fortunately the Sierra Club, NAACP and other environmental groups care more about these kids than the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission (COGCC) who approved the fracking application. They’ve filed a lawsuit, arguing that COGCC failed to address public concerns and that because the school’s playground and fields are within 1,000 feet of the fracking rig, it’s illegal.

These examples show how wrong deniers are when they claim hurricanes and climate change are no big deal and shouldn’t be talked about, or that fossil fuels are good for us and should be welcomed into our lives with open arms.

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But because these risks are felt more deeply by communities of color than the old affluent white demographic of denial, odds are slim they’ll care.'

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on April 23, 2018, 03:08:26 pm
Agelbert NOTE: The following two news items are related. The first one is an excellent example of certain people's consistent "pretty shocked" reaction to the OBVIOUS scientifically proven cause and effect relationship between Catastrophic Climate Change and Sea Level Rise.  ::)

The second story evidences that, despite all the efforts by the polluters to game the Florida energy market on behalf of fossil fuels and nuclear power, the OBVIOUS need to transition to energy sources that DO NOT cause the sea level to rise is being taken seriously.

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April 23, 2018

Miami Housing Market May Soon Be Under Water, Research Says

Rising sea levels are already beginning to reshape the real estate market in Miami, a new study shows, with potential implications for other property markets across the country. The research, published Friday in the journal Environmental Research Letters, shows that the prices of single-family homes at lower elevations are rising more slowly than those at higher elevations, suggesting that buyers and sellers are weighing the implications of short-term flooding and long-term coastal change. Evidence that low-level homes are falling behind homes at higher elevations "is pretty shocking," (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.desismileys.com%2Fsmileys%2Fdesismileys_2932.gif&hash=0eaec4791a5825821998245e7fcd7744b56557fe) paper author Jesse Keenan told the Wall Street Journal, "because you can infer that this is a pricing signal from climate change."

http://fortune.com/2018/04/21/climate-change-is-already-depressing-the-price-of-flood-prone-real-estate/

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Florida regulators issued a ruling Friday that would allow solar giant Sunrun to offer residential equipment leases in the state, potentially opening the door for more Floridians to choose solar. Florida state law stipulates that only registered utilities can sell electricity, but the Florida Public Service Commission on Friday ruled that Sunrun's request for 20-year solar equipment leases is not a retail sale of electricity and therefore within the bounds of the law.

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http://www.newsherald.com/news/20180421/psc-oks-companys-solar-equipment-leases
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on April 25, 2018, 08:51:58 pm
Ocean Circulation Slowdown Significance

4,559 views

https://youtu.be/-G2vSGofkAc

Paul Beckwith

Published on Apr 19, 2018

Like jet streams in the atmosphere, ocean currents like the Gulf Stream are vital for moving heat from the warm equator to the cold poles. As Arctic temperature abruptly increases, our delicate planetary heat balance is ripped apart, causing extreme weather and extreme ocean events.

The hot, slowing Gulf Stream water piles up on the US East coast causing rapid sea level rise, amplifying hurricanes, filling storms with water to dump as rain or snow on coastal cities, and increasing wave heights that batter and reconfigure coastlines. Weather Wilding and Whiplashing.

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
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Lindsay Meiman - 350.org


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https://youtu.be/iFmoMhVb6iw

April 25, 2018

While the federal government 🦀 recklessly fans the flames of climate catastrophe for profit, it’s up to all of us to fill this void of leadership by demanding sweeping climate action from our towns, cities, and states.

On May 14th, people around the country are rising together to demand real climate action with the Spring Forward to #FossilFree week of action. We will rally at our local City Halls and introduce our demands for a Fossil Free world. Are you ready to ramp up the fight in your community? Find a Spring Forward action in your hometown, or sign up to host one!

The impacts of Hurricanes Maria and Irma are still felt sharply by many, and the destruction from last year remains fresh in our minds. With the 2018 hurricane season fast approaching, our best shot at building healthy, resilient, and safe communities will come by fighting locally for our shared vision of a Fossil Free world.

Will you join me on May 14th to Spring Forward to #FossilFree?

Together in the fight,

Lindsay
https://gofossilfree.org/usa/cuomo-walk-the-talk-2/


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The Climate Mobilization: Catalyzing the Emergency Climate Movement

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The Fossil Fuelers 🦖  DID THE Clean Energy  Inventions suppressing, Climate Trashing, human health depleting CRIME,   but since they have ALWAYS BEEN liars and conscience free crooks 🦀, they are trying to AVOID   DOING THE TIME or     PAYING THE FINE!     Don't let them get away with it! Pass it on!   
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on April 30, 2018, 02:48:24 pm


Nebraska Dust Storm Causes Deadly Pileup, Closes Interstate 80

By  Alex Blumer

Published: April 30, 2018

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A large pileup is seen along Interstate 80 near Aurora, Nebraska, on Sunday, April 29, 2018.
(Nebraska State Patrol)

Blowing dust and high winds led to a deadly pileup Sunday evening that shut down Interstate 80 in southern Nebraska, according to local media reports.

The National Weather Service in Hastings reported that the westbound lanes were closed near mile marker 332 just before 6 p.m. local time. The Nebraska State Patrol then shut down I-80 in both directions between Aurora and York, according to KETV.com.

The NSP confirmed one person died and 15 others were injured in the crash, KHGI-TV reported. The victim's identity has not been released.

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Authorities urged drivers to avoid the area if possible, Nebraska.TV reported.

"Wind gusts frequently in excess of 40 mph ahead of this week's severe storm system and drier-than-average conditions over the last several weeks have and will continue to lead to areas of blowing dust on the Plains," said weather.com meteorologist Jonathan Belles.

https://www.wunderground.com/news/2018-04-29-nebraska-dust-storm-pileup-accident-interstate-80

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on April 30, 2018, 07:52:17 pm
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Arctic National Wildlife Refuge

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U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders <Senator@sanders.senate.gov>

April 30, 2018

Dear Mr. Gelbert:

Thank you for contacting me to express your opposition to drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. I share your views on protecting the area, and I was deeply disappointed, but not surprised, when my colleagues decided to hand this treasured public land over to the fossil fuel industry to pay for massive tax cuts for corporations and the wealthiest people in this country.   

Established by Congress in 1980 through the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act, the 19 million acre Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) is the largest National Wildlife Refuge in the country. This national treasure contains a remarkably diverse set of ecosystems that are home to hundreds of iconic species like caribou, polar bears, grizzly bears, musk ox, and wolves. ANWR is also home to the Cwich’in people, a Native American tribe that has relied on the region’s undeveloped lands and natural resources for thousands of years. 

In addition to its immense cultural and ecological value, this national treasure has long been of great interest to gas and oil companies who want to drill in its northern coastal plain region. For over 40 years, the fossil fuel industry has lobbied congress to open ANWR for drilling. On December 22nd, they finally succeeded when President Trump signed on the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, which opens up ANWR’s northern coastal plain for drilling and fossil fuel infrastructure development. To my mind, there are several reasons why opening up one of our nation’s most wild and iconic landscapes to oil and gas development is exactly the wrong thing to do. 

First, nearly forty years of conservation science and administrative policy have established that drilling would be devastating to ANWR’s delicate and unique ecosystems. In particular, development would severely disrupt the majestic Porcupine Caribou herd, which represents an essential subsistence and spiritual resource that the Gwich’in people have relied on for thousands of years. Protecting these caribou and the Gwich’in way of life is a matter of basic human rights.

Second, at a time when we are already seeing the disastrous effects of global climate chance, it does not make any sense drill for more of the dirty fossil fuels that are already destroying our planet. The United States already wastes tens of billions each year providing corporate welfare to the coal, oil, and gas companies that are destroying our planet. We should be working to keep fossil fuels in the ground, not destroying our precious natural resources so we can give more special favors to the fossil fuel industry.   

Finally, my colleagues opened up ANWR as a way to pay for tax cuts for corporations and the wealthiest people in this country. In fact, the most optimistic projections say that drilling will offset less than one percent of those tax cuts, and even then, my colleagues’ tax legislation will still increase the federal deficit by $1.5 trillion over the next decade. This comes at a time when the wealthiest Americans are already doing phenomenally well and ordinary, working class families are struggling just to get by. We should not be drilling at all, and we most certainly should not be drilling in order to finance tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires. 

Now is not the time to despair. We have got to continue the fight to cut greenhouse gas emissions and protect clean air and water for future generations. As a member of the Senate energy and environment committees, I will keep your thoughts in mind as I continue to speak out against the detrimental actions of this administration and fight to radically transform our energy system with or without the support of Donald Trump and the fossil fuel industry. 

Thank you again for contacting me, and please feel free to stay in touch about this or any other subject of interest to you.  For up-to-date information on what I am working on, please sign-up for my e-newsletter, the Bernie Buzz, at http://sanders.senate.gov/buzz/.

Sincerely,

BERNARD SANDERS
United States Senator
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on May 01, 2018, 08:57:17 pm
Methane Venting  Into Air Over Arctic Sea Ice.
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https://youtu.be/FntMMsyGXvU

Paul Beckwith

Published on Apr 27, 2018

Using European Satellite Data (Copernicus Atmospheric Monitoring Service; CAMS) I show that methane is now venting into the air at the surface in the Arctic in the Kara Sea off the Russian Island of Novaya Zemlya. It must be seeping from the ocean floor, bubbling up through the shallow water column and working its way through the sea ice cover. You may recall that many large “methane craters” have been discovered lately on the Yamal Peninsula which juts out into the Kara Sea in this region.

This is not good for humanity.

Please donate at my blog http://paulbeckwith.net to support further investigations and videos explanations.
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on May 01, 2018, 09:13:43 pm
Extreme Weather Wake-up Call with Dr. Peter Wadhams
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https://youtu.be/SIBoJWDAg00

UPFSI

Published on Apr 20, 2018

Part 2 of this conversation is at https://youtu.be/cqlRCQkXUic.  Both were recorded on April 5, 2018.

This year we are seeing extreme weather events in the EU like never before. Explore the ramifications of this ramping up of Anthropogenic Climate Disruption (ACD) with Dr. Peter Wadhams, Emeritus Cambridge Professor of Polar Ice Physics.

Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on May 01, 2018, 09:25:45 pm
Agelbert NOTE: Everything Dr. Wadhams wrote about is coming to pass. IOW, in the next year, we will experience a warming GREATER than what we have in the last TWO years. The subsequent year will be even worse. And so on... 😓 😨

A Farewell to Arctic Ice - Peter Wadhams

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https://youtu.be/PUsHfkAiWsY

UPFSI

Published on Dec 27, 2016

http://climateMatters.tv - Dr. Peter Wadhams discusses his book "A Farewell to Ice."  Peter is an 'expeditionary' scientist and Emeritus Professor of Ocean Physics from Cambridge.  His observations of the Arctic ice for over 4 decades makes him one of the worlds authorities on the subject.
 
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on May 02, 2018, 05:11:57 pm
Recent Storms Moved Giant Rocks Weighing Up to 620 tons:   Part 1 of 4
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5,525 views

https://youtu.be/iqE8VWzSb0s

Paul Beckwith

Published on Mar 7, 2018

It turns out that “Storms of our Grandchildren” are already here today. In fact these storms are already reconfiguring our coastlines. If you live in a coastal city you are likely aware that rising sea levels, large and intense storms with their associated storm surges, combined with king tides and perhaps even land subsidence are encroaching and damaging houses, streets, bridges, high-rises; in fact all infrastructure is threatened. The energy in recent storms is enormous, and has moved enormous boulders weighing as much as 620 tons in Ireland.

Please support my research and videos with a donation at http://paulbeckwith.net
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on May 02, 2018, 06:29:39 pm
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Pakistan May Have Just Set a World Heat Record 🚩 🌡️

May 1, 2018

Brian Kahn

SNIPPET:

There was also a major heat wave last April in Pakistan that saw temperatures get nearly as extreme. Nearby Larkana topped out at 50 degrees Celsius (122 degrees Fahrenheit), which is the old accepted April record for Pakistan. (There’s another single report of 51 degrees Celsius, but it’s hard to say how accurate that is.)

Either way, it’s hot AF right in Nawabshah right now. According to Dawn, a regional news outlet, the heat caused people to pass out and forced “business activities came to a halt” in the district of 1.1 million. The same city hit 45.5 degrees Celsius (113.9 degrees Fahrenheit) in March, setting an all-time March record for Pakistan according to Capital Weather Gang.

But Nawabshah is hardly the only sweltering locale. A vast area from Eastern Europe to South Asia is under a massive heat dome that’s been building since last week. Heat domes occur when an area of high pressure camps over a region, causing dry air to sink. As it sinks, that air gets compressed and releases heat, leading to sizzling temperatures. Burt also noted that Poltavka, Russia, located on the Kazakhstan border, recorded the warmest April temperature for the Asian portion of Russia when it topped out at 34.8 degrees Celsius (94.6 degrees Celsius) on April 29.

The heat dome may also have helped trigger wild weather in the Middle East last week, locking in low pressure that unleashed towering haboobs, huge hail, and deadly flash flooding in the region.

Full article with extreme weather video:  :o

https://earther.com/pakistan-may-have-just-set-a-world-heat-record-1825690035
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on May 03, 2018, 05:02:30 pm
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National Parks Conservation Association

BLOG POST Mark Wenzler  Apr 10, 2018

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Altering a climate report sets an unacceptable precedent for national park decision-making.

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Sunset over the Anhinga Trail at Everglades National Park, one of many sites around the country that could be severely affected by sea level rise due to climate change.    Photo © Justin A Lyden/Dreamstime.

Last week, The Center for Investigative Reporting revealed that it had obtained copies of an 87-page draft report by a University of Colorado scientist on how sea level rise is affecting 118 coastal national parks. In this unreleased report, which has been delayed for publication by at least 10 months, a National Park Service official had edited the copy to remove all references to the human role in altering the climate.

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But last week’s report contradicts that claim and casts additional doubt on his department’s integrity.

If true, this is the first known example of a Park Service report that has been edited to alter scientific information. This terrible precedent — the alteration of current, known scientific evidence — may have serious implications for how our national parks are managed.

Our coastal parks are literally on the front lines of climate change. Last year’s devastating hurricane season showed how much damage severe weather and flooding can do to treasured places like Virgin Islands, Everglades and Biscayne National Parks and the communities that surround and depend on them. Park managers need the best science available to understand how to protect these parks from sea-level rise. They cannot build ecological resilience and prevent future damage if the data they are using is manipulated and inaccurate or lacks evidence that may support future solutions.

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https://www.npca.org/articles/1805-we-cannot-stand-by-while-the-national-park-service-attacks-climate-science


National Parks Conservation Association

BLOG POST Mark Wenzler  Jan 5, 2018

Willfully Ignoring Climate Change Is a Disaster for  National Parks

Trump 🦀 administration 😈 repeals climate-smart management policies for national parks.

SNIPPET:

It’s no secret that the Trump administration is pursuing an aggressively pro-fossil fuels energy policy. Dating to the election campaign, he talked about rolling back federal efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, which Trump blamed for killing coal and oil jobs, and he has loudly followed through on that promise ever since.

What’s not as well-known is that the administration is not only refusing to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, it is willfully preventing federal land managers from taking steps to protect our national parks and other public lands from the disastrous effects of climate change.

Full article:
https://www.npca.org/articles/1724-willfully-ignoring-climate-change-is-a-disaster-for-national-parks

The Fossil Fuelers 🦖  DID THE Clean Energy  Inventions suppressing, Climate Trashing, human health depleting CRIME,   but since they have ALWAYS BEEN liars and conscience free crooks 🦀, they are trying to AVOID   DOING THE TIME or     PAYING THE FINE!     Don't let them get away with it! Pass it on!   
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on May 05, 2018, 12:01:19 pm
Agelbert NOTE: Please use the legend of CO2 concentration in the graphic below to properly visualize the CO2 levels throughout the globe during one year (2016) in the video after the graphic.

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one year time lapse of CO2 surface concentration: 2016
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https://youtu.be/Oc2JNZiB_Lo

nullschool

Published on Jan 4, 2017

This animation shows a full one year time lapse animation of CO2 surface concentration from Jan 1, 2016 until Jan 1, 2017. The data comes from NASA's GEOS-5 numerical weather model (https://gmao.gsfc.nasa.gov/GEOS/). Light colors represent higher amounts of CO2, whereas dark colors represent lower amounts.

A few things to notice:

1. Look for the daily "heartbeat" caused by plants changing their CO2 absorption rates between daytime and nighttime.

2. As summer turns into fall, notice how concentrations increase in the northern hemisphere as trees lose their leaves.

3. Look for urban areas where the high population density results in easily visible plumes of CO2 emissions.

Today's CO2 surface concentration (click on any place on the globe to get an exact reading):
https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/chem/surface/level/overlay=co2sc/winkel3=0.00,0.00,157/loc=-92.097,38.095

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on May 05, 2018, 01:54:13 pm
Agelbert NOTE: The red spot is where they measure CO2 on a mountain in Hawaii. As you will see, the CO2 level is FAR higher in the northern hemisphere than in the southern hemisphere. Consequently, it's going to get hotter a lot faster in the northern hemisphere 😓 than in the southern hemisphere. Please keep that 💣 in mind.

Carbon dioxide pumphandle 2017

https://youtu.be/pVYt9ZDDfBs

CarbonTracker

Published on Dec 12, 2017

History of atmospheric CO2 from 800,000 years ago until January 2017.  Visit http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/ccgg/trends for more information.

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on May 05, 2018, 09:28:25 pm
April 18, 2018

RADIO ECOSHOCK host Alex Smith:

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In the show I play a short clip from a film “Egypt: The End of the Age of Pyramids”, part of a “Twilight of Civilizations” series produced by Arte France. I found it uploaded to You tube. I went for the history, but heard it as a documentary of our future.

WHEN ANCIENT EGYPT CRASHED IN CLIMATE CHANGE

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It is eerie when a description of a past age seems to explain what we will be facing as the climate shifts this century. Around 4,270 years ago, the grasslands of Egypt disappeared, leaving a vast desert. Archaeologists claim to have discovered a regional climate shift during a time of written records and great buildings like their pyramids.

https://youtu.be/bLnpv5Bhcy8

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Thousands of our great buildings will not go underneath blowing sand, but under the rising seas and great storm surges. As in ancient times, animals and plants will also disappear, but this time it will happen not just in one region, but around the world. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-070814193155.png&hash=144ce9330e49ee84060db8753a8db69c39a14913)

Please tell others than climate change is a danger beyond imagination, but tracked by science. Become a climate activist, or a part-time activist, or at least a person brave enough to speak out.

My thanks to people who donated to the “More Radio Ecoshock” campaign. As we contact more radio stations, it looks like we have a couple coming onboard already. The whole idea is to get the message of saving our ecosystem out much further. It’s one way we can all help. Please donate if you can, or become a monthly donor.

I’m Alex Smith. Join me again as we wrestle with the dragon
🐉, on Radio Ecoshock.

https://www.ecoshock.org/2018/04/from-the-deep-green-resistance-derrick-jensen.html

Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on May 08, 2018, 06:06:48 pm
Climate apocalypse? 😱

25,618 views

https://youtu.be/tzVMV-Yj2qo

The Big Picture RT

Published on Sep 26, 2017

Professor Peter Wadhams ScD, Professor of Ocean Physics / Head of the Polar Ocean Physics Group-Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge, UK RE: A Farewell to Ice: A Report from the Arctic. We could be just eighteen years away from a climate apocalypse...

For more information on the stories we've covered visit our websites at thomhartmann.com - freespeech.org - and RT.com. You can also watch tonight's show on Hulu - at Hulu.com/THE BIG PICTURE and over at The Big Picture YouTube page. And - be sure to check us out on Facebook and Twitter!
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on May 08, 2018, 06:37:20 pm
On Contact: Climate Crisis with James Hansen

28,208 views

https://youtu.be/zt8EUMu6S7c

RT America

Published on Oct 22, 2017

Dr. James Hansen, former director of NASA's Goddard Institute and Adjunct Professor at Columbia University’s Earth Institute, discusses the urgent need to radically change our relationship with the planet. RT Correspondent Anya Parampil looks at the accelerating pace of climate change.

Find RT America in your area: http://rt.com/where-to-watch/
Or watch us online: http://rt.com/on-air/rt-america-air/

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on May 11, 2018, 06:06:19 pm
GLOBAL CITIZEN

May 11, 2018

New Report Shows How Badly Climate Change Is Hurting California

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“There is no time for political posturing and partisan debate.”

Sea levels are rising along California’s coast. Forest fires are scorching Northern California, while dust storms are blanketing Southern California.

And days and nights are getting hotter across the entire state.

In recent years, California’s reputation as a leader in the fight against climate change has never been clearer. But at the same time, its status as a victim of climate change has become undeniable.

Full article:

https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/california-climate-change-effects-report/
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on May 13, 2018, 05:28:22 pm
Zero Arctic Sea Ice Very Likely By 2020

7,777 views

https://youtu.be/ezdiqPEDXKE

Paul Beckwith

Published on Jun 30, 2017

There is a very high probability that the Arctic sea ice will essentially vanish by the end of summer melt in 2020 or earlier. The ice-free duration would likely be less than one-month in September for this first "blue-ocean" event.

I discuss the stories in the observations leading me to this conclusion. If the ice goes, it will affect every human, plant and animal living on our planet.

Please support my videos with a donation at http://paulbeckwith.net
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on May 13, 2018, 06:50:34 pm
Phys.org

Home Earth Earth Sciences

May 11, 2018

🌊Monster ocean wave sets southern hemisphere record: scientists

May 11, 2018


Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2018-05-monster-ocean-southern-hemisphere-scientists.html#jCp

Agelbert NOTE: This is a harbinger of what is coming. Catastrophic Climate Change will bring really crazy wave action:

Climate Change, Blue Water Cargo Shipping and Predicted Ocean Wave Activity: Three Part Article (http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/climate-change/global-warming-is-with-us/msg4045/#msg4045)
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on May 20, 2018, 10:02:03 pm
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http://cci-reanalyzer.org/wx/DailySummary/#sstanom
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on May 24, 2018, 07:31:36 pm
Can we get 100% of our energy from renewable sources? 

By Michelle Froese | May 18, 2018

This article comes from Science Daily, with materials provided by Lappeenranta University of Technology.


Scientists have demonstrated that there are no roadblocks on the way to a 100% renewable future.


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֍ What happens when the sun doesn’t shine and the wind doesn’t blow? 🤔

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In a review paper last year in the high-ranking journal Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Master of Science Benjamin Heard 🐉 and colleagues 🦕 🦖 presented their case  against 100% renewable electricity systems. They doubted the feasibility of many of the recent scenarios for high shares of renewable energy, questioning everything from whether renewables-based systems can survive extreme weather events with low sun and low wind, to the ability to keep the grid stable with so much variable generation.

Now scientists have hit back with their response to the points raised by Heard and colleagues. The researchers from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, the South African Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, Lappeenranta University of Technology, Delft University of Technology and Aalborg University have analysed hundreds of studies from across the scientific literature to answer each of the apparent issues.

They demonstrate that there are no roadblocks on the way to a 100% renewable future. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-250817121649.png&hash=4554f7e59701d12857946aece16bceb973c997b3)

“While several of the issues raised by the Heard paper are important, you have to realise that there are technical solutions to all the points they raised, using today’s technology,” says the lead author of the response, Dr. Tom Brown of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.

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“Furthermore, these solutions are absolutely affordable, especially given the sinking costs of wind and solar power,” adds Professor Christian Breyer of Lappeenranta University of Technology, who co-authored the response.

Brown cites the worst-case solution of hydrogen or synthetic gas produced with renewable electricity for times when imports, hydroelectricity, batteries, and other storage fail to bridge the gap during low wind and solar periods during the winter. For maintaining stability there is a series of technical solutions, from rotating grid stabilisers to newer electronics-based solutions.

The scientists have collected examples of best practice by grid operators from across the world, from Denmark to Tasmania.

Furthermore, these solutions are absolutely affordable, especially given the sinking costs of wind and solar power.

The response by the scientists (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-210614221847.gif&hash=54129e3b65760aaddc6f2d7f42b34a7d839d2f27)has now appeared in the same journal as the original article by Heard and colleagues.

There are some persistent myths that 100% renewable systems are not possible,” says Professor Brian Vad Mathiesen of Aalborg University, who is a co-author of the response. “Our contribution deals with these myths one-by-one, using all the latest research. Now let’s get back to the business of modeling low-cost scenarios to eliminate fossil fuels from our energy system, so we can tackle the climate and health challenges they pose.”   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fcliparts.co%2Fcliparts%2FBig%2FEgq%2FBigEgqBMT.png&hash=e7eec62f009cdd686ce795fad0a53c6befe748e9)


https://www.windpowerengineering.com/business-news-projects/can-we-get-100-of-our-energy-from-renewable-sources/ (https://www.windpowerengineering.com/business-news-projects/can-we-get-100-of-our-energy-from-renewable-sources/)

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📢 And of the rest planet needs that INDEPENDENCE too!
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on May 24, 2018, 07:43:04 pm
May 24, 2018

How Warmer Temps Will Impact World Food Staple (rice)

Climate change could make rice less nutritious, according to new research. A study (http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/4/5/eaaq1012) published Wednesday in the journal Science Advances finds that growing rice in high atmospheric levels of CO2--including levels expected by 2100 under some emissions scenarios--resulted in a decline of levels of various key vitamins and iron, zinc and protein.

 "About two billion people rely on rice as a primary food source and among those that are the poorest, often the consumption of rice in terms of their daily calories is over 50%," study coauthor and USDA scientist Lewis Ziska told The Guardian. "Anything that impacts rice in terms of its nutritional quality is going to have an impact."

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on May 25, 2018, 03:03:19 pm
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This Climate Visualization Belongs in a Damn Museum

Brian Kahn

May 25, 2018  8:40am Filed to: EARTHER IS AN ART BLOG NOW

1850-2017
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Our warming world in stripe form.Image: Ed Hawkins

There’s a new global warming illustration that’s fit for the Museum of Modern Art or the Getty. Seriously, just look at that stunner up there.

Ed Hawkins  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-080515182559.png&hash=d4dfa952fa0f817bf30a8059a4c88d6fb05ee1bf), the climate scientist who made the viral temperature spirals, is back at it again with another striking view of our warming planet. His latest visualization strips out all unnecessary information save color to communicate how we’re changing the temperature of the Earth.

Plot the global average temperature on a line graph and it goes up over time. Easy enough to read, sure, but not a format that really conveys how weirdly warm we’re making the planet.

In an effort to demonstrate that more clearly, Hawkins decided to represent each year of U.K. Met Office data from 1850-2017 as a bold stripes of color ranging from blue (cold) to red (hot). The resulting graphic leaves little doubt about what’s going on, with blue dropping out of the equation and the red hot nature of global warming emerging clearly by the time your gaze sweeps to the right of the image.

“I wanted to communicate temperature changes in a way that was simple and intuitive, removing all the distractions of standard climate graphics so that the long-term trends and variations in temperature are crystal clear,” Hawkins told Earther. “Our visual system will do the interpretation of the stripes without us even thinking about it.”

The illustration evokes a style of painting known as color field painting that rose to prominence in the middle of the 20th century. The theory underlying the movement was the same as Hawkins’ goal: to strip out all outside information and distractions and use color alone to immediately convey meaning. Barnett Newman, one of the artists who pioneered the field, explained his work this way (emphasis added):

“We are creating images whose reality is self-evident and which are devoid of the props and crutches that evoke associations with outmoded images, both sublime and beautiful...The image we produce is the self-evident one of revelation, real and concrete, that can be understood by anyone who will look at it without the nostalgic glasses of history.”

Hawkins’ work takes this ethos and applies it to the most pressing problem of our time. And if you can’t see what the hell is happening to the planet after looking at it, then I’m not sure what will convey it to you.

Check out more of Hawkins’ “warming stripes” for a view of local global warming in Toronto, the U.S. and central England.

https://earther.com/this-climate-visualization-belongs-in-a-damn-museum-1826307536
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on May 29, 2018, 11:59:43 am
Agelbert NOTE: This 2014 video is every bit as applicable, if not more so, today. This is Catastrophic Climate Change in action. California MUST HAVE about 43 million acre-feet of water, of which farms use about 40%. That amount of water is no longer available because of Climate Change. Idiots and other assorted deniers of the CAUSE of this crazy weather (i.e. BURNING FOSSIL FUELS), will always come up with some irrational  (it's just variable weather - nothing to see -move along (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-311013201314.png&hash=0715eb72631014310634eb56176ff860c6d542f6)) straw to grasp in defense of the unsustainable status quo. So it goes. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-200714183337.bmp&hash=fd5a6df63c32bd65dda7b6d93e788647ca3829df)

State of Thirst: CALIFORNIA drought = food decline

March 1, 2014

https://youtu.be/s_bqPVU0LWM
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on May 29, 2018, 12:27:59 pm

In terms of collapse and chronicling what is ongoing though, it's a issue fo FREQUENCY & SEVERITY.  How often are these events occuring and how bad are they where they occur?  How badly is this disrupting the lives of the people who live in the location?  I don't think anyone here would argue that the hurricanes of last year did not permanently damage the lives and the economy of Puerto Rico.  This event is somewhat smaller in scale, but no less disruptive to the lives of the people who actually live in that neighborhood and no less "worthy" of being labelled as a symbol of ongoing Collapse.

Overall, collapse on the Industrial Civilizatioin level is about the collapse of the INFRASTRUCTURE that this society depends on.  Floods, Earthquakes and Tornadoes all do damage to that infrastructure, and really folks, just how many times can you repair it all?  There is a limit here.

On the Diner as I see it, we can chronicle all of them, the BIG ones and the not so big ones.  The death of this civilization will come from a thousand cuts more likely than one big ass Nuke fired off by the MIC or the NKs.

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I have a friend, Sam, who was visiting his daughters who live close, but were managing to avoid direct impact. Ellicott City got whacked a couple of years ago, and had not yet quite finished reconstruction efforts.

One of the contributing problems, as I hear it, is that the area is criminally overdeveloped, and green space, which used to absorb a lot of water to mitigate the flooding in an admittedly disadvantageous space, is now developed, built up and paved over.
Former wetlands paved over and contributing to flooding. Wash, rinse, repeat.

This **** will end when greedhead developers can no longer get flood insurance. Not until.


Agreed. But until it does end, you will continue to be cursed with those who do not wish to accept the irrefutable truth that the CAUSE of all this crazy weather is the burning of fossil fuels.

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on May 29, 2018, 12:47:03 pm
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80% chance of MEGA-Drought due to GHG CAUSED Climate Change

The Great North American Megadrought

618,785 views

https://youtu.be/GyKFv-bEamU

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on May 29, 2018, 01:24:53 pm
The Snow Drought In California Is Fueling Wildfires 🔥, Floods 💧, & Mudslides

May 28th, 2018 by Nexus Media

Originally published on Nexus Media.  (https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/545693884664119297/mCDJfUgm.jpeg)

By Jeremy Deaton

California is likely facing another year of water woes. The Sierra Nevada snowpack, which supplies up to a third of California’s water, is exceptionally meager this year. Experts found around half as much snow on the mountains as they typically would in early April, when the snowpack is historically most voluminous.

Not only does the dwindling snowpack put California’s water supply at risk, it also portends more floods, wildfires and mudslides over the coming year. This is precisely what makes climate change so dangerous. Even small changes in weather can have cascading effects, multiplying the risk of natural disaster.

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Declining snowfall means less fresh water.

Climate change is depriving California of needed precipitation, and it is also causing more precipitation to come down as rain instead of snow. The result is that, over time, the Sierra Nevada see less and less snow, with consequences for the Golden State. Every spring and summer, that snow melts, feeding the streams and rivers that supply California’s reservoirs. Less snow means less water for farms and cities. Making matters worse, warmer temperatures mean that snow melts in late spring and early summer, leading to shortages later in the year.

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When more precipitation falls as rain instead of snow, it can lead to flash floods.

More abundant rainfall can lead to flash flooding, as large volumes of water runoff feeds into streams and rivers, causing them to overflow. In February, 2017, for example, heavy rainfall caused the San Joaquin River to spill over, leading hundreds of people to evacuate. The San Joaquin River originates in the high Sierra, which is seeing more precipitation come down as rain instead of snow in the winter months.

https://youtu.be/qAgw-dL2o2k

Diminished snowpack drives up the risk of wildfires.

The Sierra Nevada is harboring less snow, and that snow is melting faster, which is leaving the mountains without water during the warmer months. Hot weather and dry conditions up the risk of wildfire. The Sierra Nevadas have seen more and more wildfires in recent years. An October 2017 wildfire in the Sierra Nevada foothills, for example, killed four people and displaced thousands more.

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Wildfires lead to mudslides.

The roots of trees and shrubs hold soil in place. When wildfires burn up alpine vegetation, the roots needed to retain that soil shrivel up. Then, when rain returns in the winter, it will carry loose soil down the mountain in mudslides. A series of February 2017 rainstorms produced mudslides along the Sierra Nevada, closing highways and, in a few cases, carrying cars off the road.

Blame it on climate change.

The root cause of all this mayhem is climate change. Carbon pollution is trapping heat, which is cooking the planet. Warmer water temperatures in the Pacific Ocean are giving rise to atmospheric rivers that deliver rain — instead of snow — to the Sierra Nevada. Heavy rainfall threatens to melt what little snow gathers on the slopes. This has consequences for the entire state, as reduced snowpack fuels drought more broadly, yielding wildfires and mudslides in coastal areas as well as in the mountains.

In a recent op-ed for the Los Angeles Times, UCLA climate scientist Alex Hall and science communicator Katharine Davis Reich warned, “In simple terms: We’re going to lose a lot of snow to climate change. Equally worrisome, California’s water infrastructure is not resilient enough to make up for the loss.

https://cleantechnica.com/2018/05/28/the-snow-drought-in-california-is-fueling-wildfires-floods-mudslides/W
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on May 29, 2018, 01:56:22 pm
Climate & Extreme Weather News #122 (26th-28th May 2018)

Understanding Climate Change

Published on May 28, 2018

https://youtu.be/ONsi4Esl204

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Agelbert NOTE: The expected reaction to the above irrefutable evidence of Crazy Weather from idiots and other assorted straw grasping, fossil fuel loving, Climate change Deniers:

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on May 29, 2018, 02:30:15 pm
Antarctica is not just losing a steady amount of ice each year; the ice loss is accelerating each and every year.

(https://sites.google.com/site/arctischepinguin/home/giomas/grf/giomas-year-GLOBAL.png)
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Note: the grey area is the average sea ice extent for the day of year +/- two standard deviations (+/- 2σ). Average and standard deviation are computed from the 1981-2010 (WMO standard) data.

It might take centuries to melt ALL of it, but it WILL only take few decades to melt enough of it to cause trillions of dollars in damage to ports and sea side cities. The cretins who do not want to admit this threat needs to be addressed NOW by a ban on the burning of fossil fuels will always claim the melting of the ice is "not worth mentioning". (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-200714183337.bmp&hash=fd5a6df63c32bd65dda7b6d93e788647ca3829df)

We need fossil fuels like a dog needs ticks.

Global ICE retreat (https://sites.google.com/site/arctischepinguin/home/global-sea-ice)


Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on May 30, 2018, 02:40:55 pm
I bet it was more than that.

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https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/05/study-hurricane-maria-killed-4600-puerto-rico-180529144146777.html (https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/05/study-hurricane-maria-killed-4600-puerto-rico-180529144146777.html)

    Newz
    Puerto Rico

Study: Hurricane Maria killed more than 4,600 in Puerto Rico

A third of the storm-related deaths on the island was caused by issues over access to healthcare, researchers say.
15 hours ago


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Hurricane Maria was the strongest storm to hit Puerto Rico in 90 years [Alvin Baez/Reuters]

Hurricane Maria killed directly or indirectly more than 4,600 people in Puerto Rico, more than 70 times the toll recorded by officials, a new study has suggested.

In the 102 days since the hurricane hit the island, an estimated 4,645 people died, according to the study published on Tuesday by US-based The New England Journal of Medicine.

A third of the deaths were caused by delayed or interrupted access to healthcare, said the Mortality in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria study, which was compiled by Harvard University researchers.

The overall figure dwarfs the government count of 64 people.

It also follows earlier independent studies which placed the death toll at around 1,000 in the 40 days since the hurricane struck.
READ MORE
Puerto Rico crisis ongoing months after Hurricane Maria

Hurricane Maria, the strongest storm to hit the US territory of Puerto Rico in 90 years, made landfall on the island in September 2017.

It caused an estimated $90bn of damages, destroyed more than 70,000 homes and leaving many people with limited access to electricity, fuel, mobile phone coverage and basic supplies.

"On average, households went 84 days without electricity, 64 days without water, and 41 days without cellular telephone coverage after the hurricane," the study said.
Official toll under review

The latest estimate was based on interviews conducted with more than 3,000 randomly selected Puerto Rican households in January and February this year.

Experts alleged the disruption and widespread devastation hampered attempts to accurately record the number of people killed by the storm.

Puerto Rico officials have not shared any new data on hurricane-related deaths since December 2017, when Governor Ricardo Rossello ordered a review of the official toll.

The study, however, said mortality rates on the island increased 62 percent from September 20 - when Hurricane Maria made landfall - to December 31, compared with the same period in 2016.

WATCH
00:00

The Puerto Rican mayor who challenged Trump

The report used criteria from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to determine if a person's death could be blamed on the hurricane.

Deaths can be attributed to a cyclone if they are caused by forces directly related to the event or unsafe or unhealthy conditions resulting from it, according to CDC criteria.

Accurate recording of the deaths is vital, the study said, for "future risk reduction and preparedness planning".

At least one independent expert questioned the methods and the number in the new study.

"This estimate could be off by thousands. Easily," Donald Berry, a professor of biostatistics at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, told The Associated Press.

Hurricane Maria was the second Category 5 storm to affect Puerto Rico - home to 3.4 million people - within the space of two weeks last year, after Hurricane Irma killed three people earlier in September.
Puerto Rico: Shelter After the Storm

Fault Lines

Puerto Rico: Shelter After the Storm

SOURCE: Al Jazeera and news agencies

Very interesting collapse article on PR here that predicts they will lose more than half their population by mid century. This is without additional major hurricanes.[/size]

https://medium.com/migration-issues/how-low-will-puerto-ricos-population-go-c8d108ac8b3b (https://medium.com/migration-issues/how-low-will-puerto-ricos-population-go-c8d108ac8b3b)

Good article.  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-080515182559.png&hash=d4dfa952fa0f817bf30a8059a4c88d6fb05ee1bf)

There are a series of problems in Puerto Rico that too few people know about. Those environmental problems are more harmful to human health than the hurricane caused infrastructure destruction. Those problems were exacerbated by the hurricanes.

Here is a brief list of those problems:

1) SEVERE aquifer contamination by pharmaceutical plants for the last 40 years causing increased cancer, bith defects, IQ decrease and mental disease.

2) SEVERE air and aquifer contamination by Chemical plants for over 50 years.

3) SEVERE air pollution from fossil fuel power plants, some using coal and others using Venezuelan high sulfur crap to run the plants.

4) SEVERE chemical poisoning of the soil, which also leaches into the aquifers to add poison insult to injury, from routine massive use of pesticides and non-selective herbicides like Glyphoste for over 50 years. This too, contributes to cancer and birth defects.

5) Improper garbage disposal and no effective recycling campaign adds to air and ground pollution and disease near the dumps.

6) The south of Puerto Rico has been the wild west for Monsanto to test WHATEVER it wants for over 50 years on the "test" crops. If you think those efforts are innocuous, I have a bridge to sell you in Brooklyn.

7) ALL the birth control products now used all over the world were initially tested by American Doctors on Puerto Rican women in the 1940's. Birth defects and deaths frequently resulted from the drugs that didn't work as planned. If you think Puerto Rico does not continue to be a testing ground for drugs, I have a bridge to sell you in Brooklyn.

Of course Puerto Rico iwill be depopulated to a great extent. Puerto Rico is a textbook example of a Capitalist "deregulated" Paradise. They used to have some social programs to help the people get by. That's old hat now. Puerto Rico is going FULL Libertarian. The laws are written for the rich and the poor either live with this cruel capitalist slavery or leave.

The irony of all this for me is that Climate Change is going to give the same sucker punch, on steroids, to the USA as the Capitalists (a lot of them were, and are, bought and paid for Puerto Ricans) gave to Puerto Rico for over a century. What goes around really does come around.
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on May 30, 2018, 07:16:10 pm
I bet it was more than that.

RE


https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/05/study-hurricane-maria-killed-4600-puerto-rico-180529144146777.html (https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/05/study-hurricane-maria-killed-4600-puerto-rico-180529144146777.html)

    Newz
    Puerto Rico

Study: Hurricane Maria killed more than 4,600 in Puerto Rico

A third of the storm-related deaths on the island was caused by issues over access to healthcare, researchers say.
15 hours ago


(https://www.aljazeera.com/mritems/imagecache/mbdxxlarge/mritems/Images/2018/5/29/88e3b881b327417ca6713d062146b6c6_18.jpg)
Hurricane Maria was the strongest storm to hit Puerto Rico in 90 years [Alvin Baez/Reuters]

Hurricane Maria killed directly or indirectly more than 4,600 people in Puerto Rico, more than 70 times the toll recorded by officials, a new study has suggested.

In the 102 days since the hurricane hit the island, an estimated 4,645 people died, according to the study published on Tuesday by US-based The New England Journal of Medicine.

A third of the deaths were caused by delayed or interrupted access to healthcare, said the Mortality in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria study, which was compiled by Harvard University researchers.

The overall figure dwarfs the government count of 64 people.

It also follows earlier independent studies which placed the death toll at around 1,000 in the 40 days since the hurricane struck.
READ MORE
Puerto Rico crisis ongoing months after Hurricane Maria

Hurricane Maria, the strongest storm to hit the US territory of Puerto Rico in 90 years, made landfall on the island in September 2017.

It caused an estimated $90bn of damages, destroyed more than 70,000 homes and leaving many people with limited access to electricity, fuel, mobile phone coverage and basic supplies.

"On average, households went 84 days without electricity, 64 days without water, and 41 days without cellular telephone coverage after the hurricane," the study said.
Official toll under review

The latest estimate was based on interviews conducted with more than 3,000 randomly selected Puerto Rican households in January and February this year.

Experts alleged the disruption and widespread devastation hampered attempts to accurately record the number of people killed by the storm.

Puerto Rico officials have not shared any new data on hurricane-related deaths since December 2017, when Governor Ricardo Rossello ordered a review of the official toll.

The study, however, said mortality rates on the island increased 62 percent from September 20 - when Hurricane Maria made landfall - to December 31, compared with the same period in 2016.

WATCH
00:00

The Puerto Rican mayor who challenged Trump

The report used criteria from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to determine if a person's death could be blamed on the hurricane.

Deaths can be attributed to a cyclone if they are caused by forces directly related to the event or unsafe or unhealthy conditions resulting from it, according to CDC criteria.

Accurate recording of the deaths is vital, the study said, for "future risk reduction and preparedness planning".

At least one independent expert questioned the methods and the number in the new study.

"This estimate could be off by thousands. Easily," Donald Berry, a professor of biostatistics at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, told The Associated Press.

Hurricane Maria was the second Category 5 storm to affect Puerto Rico - home to 3.4 million people - within the space of two weeks last year, after Hurricane Irma killed three people earlier in September.
Puerto Rico: Shelter After the Storm

Fault Lines

Puerto Rico: Shelter After the Storm

SOURCE: Al Jazeera and news agencies

Very interesting collapse article on PR here that predicts they will lose more than half their population by mid century. This is without additional major hurricanes.[/size]

https://medium.com/migration-issues/how-low-will-puerto-ricos-population-go-c8d108ac8b3b (https://medium.com/migration-issues/how-low-will-puerto-ricos-population-go-c8d108ac8b3b)

Good article.  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-080515182559.png&hash=d4dfa952fa0f817bf30a8059a4c88d6fb05ee1bf)

There are a series of problems in Puerto Rico that too few people know about. Those environmental problems are more harmful to human health than the hurricane caused infrastructure destruction. Those problems were exacerbated by the hurricanes.

Here is a brief list of those problems:

1) SEVERE aquifer contamination by pharmaceutical plants for the last 40 years causing increased cancer, bith defects, IQ decrease and mental disease.

2) SEVERE air and aquifer contamination by Chemical plants for over 50 years.

3) SEVERE air pollution from fossil fuel power plants, some using coal and others using Venezuelan high sulfur crap to run the plants.

4) SEVERE chemical poisoning of the soil, which also leaches into the aquifers to add poison insult to injury, from routine massive use of pesticides and non-selective herbicides like Glyphoste for over 50 years. This too, contributes to cancer and birth defects.

5) Improper garbage disposal and no effective recycling campaign adds to air and ground pollution and disease near the dumps.

6) The south of Puerto Rico has been the wild west for Monsanto to test WHATEVER it wants for over 50 years on the "test" crops. If you think those efforts are innocuous, I have a bridge to sell you in Brooklyn.

7) ALL the birth control products now used all over the world were initially tested by American Doctors on Puerto Rican women in the 1940's. Birth defects and deaths frequently resulted from the drugs that didn't work as planned. If you think Puerto Rico does not continue to be a testing ground for drugs, I have a bridge to sell you in Brooklyn.

Of course Puerto Rico iwill be depopulated to a great extent. Puerto Rico is a textbook example of a Capitalist "deregulated" Paradise. They used to have some social programs to help the people get by. That's old hat now. Puerto Rico is going FULL Libertarian. The laws are written for the rich and the poor either live with this cruel capitalist slavery or leave.

The irony of all this for me is that Climate Change is going to give the same sucker punch, on steroids, to the USA as the Capitalists (a lot of them were, and are, bought and paid for Puerto Ricans) gave to Puerto Rico for over a century. What goes around really does come around.

Nothing like first hand knowledge. Thanks AG. When we flew out of San Juan last time in the Cessna twin, I was struck by the absolute astonishing beauty of the island. It's sad that it and the people of PR have been so badly treated.

I've been watching this Spanish language TV cop drama set in Cuba  (Cuatro Estacianos En la Habana --- Netflix). It's interesting to compare PR and Cuba. I'd sure like to spend some time in both places.


Yep. The thing about PR versus Cuba, that too few people know, is that a significant portion of the most brazen, greed infested, take no prisoners fascists that left Cuba around 1959 settled in Puerto Rico WITH FEDERAL GOVERNMENT LOANS to start their businesses. This immediately caused a lot of anger among Puerto Rican businessmen who could not get small business loans on easy terms. It's been festering ever since.

The (mostly light skinned) Cubans promptly took over most of the media and have been quite busy turning the TV shows into as vulgar displays of profanity, nudity and whatever else they could corrupt Puerto Ricans into "enjoying". Most of the Cubans that went to Miami were in about the same category.

Did you know that Cubans have a reputation among Latins as being the "Jews" of the Caribbean?  Since I am of Sephardic Jew stock, I know a thing or two about that. The negative stereotype of the hoarding, slave driver businesman that too many Jews have is well deserved among the upper crust Cubans that left Cuba.

IMHO, the best there was stayed in Cuba. Cubans "helped" Puerto Rico beome the mess it is now. Of course Puerto Ricans (the lighter skinned variety with DA MONEY that think they are better than the rest of them - my sociopath family is well represented there) "helped" too.

I can give you historical chapter and verse starting from 1825 on WHY Cubans and Puerto Ricans are so prone to KISS EMPIRE ASS. But that is a long, sad story starting with who the Spanish "Tories" were back when King Ferdinand was sweating losing all his stolen land to upstarts in South America who had the temerity to claim people should be treated with respect.

All the Spaniards loyal to the Spanish Crown rushed to the Caribbean. Thus the peoples of those beleagered islands set the spineless mold for colonized submission. All that said, the Cubans still had an independent streak, as the USA eventually found out.

My daddy, the US Army officer, told me to never trust a Puerto Rican. He said, and I confirmed it in the FAA, than when Puerto Ricans work under an American system, they jockey for position to see who can double cross their fellow Puerto Rican the most and thus gain favor with the Americans working with them. He said the Americans, despite seeing us as second class salt water ****, could be trusted to reward our labor more objectively. I was raised in Kansas. I never got along well with most Puerto Ricans, including my egomaniac dad, even when I was an atheist.

It seems obvious, at least to me, especially after the remorseless disdain and non compassion for its suffering colony, that the US will pay in spades one way or another for its astonishing cruelty. It's only a matter of time, and that time is shortening in the gathering whirl wind all around the world. And the US population in its apathy, self centeredness and ignorance and collusion deserves everything coming to it in return.

Karpatok, in her comment, shows some knowledge of what the colonized mentality is subjected to. As she surmises, it's no bed of roses.

I am ashamed of the colonized Puerto Rican culture. No I am not "blaming the victim". Most of the blame goes to the USA from Thomas Jefferson on down the line. But, Puerto Ricans have turned into crabs in an empire bucket!

Yes, the tropical rain forest and beaches are lovely, but it is very, very hard to live in peace down there. If you stop your car on a part of El Yunque Rain Forest, as my wife and I used to do, to enjoy the view of the citiy lights in the distance, it would not be long before some shifty characters would show up with their boom, boom ,boom music in their cars checking you out to see if they could rob you (and that's when all they want is money). 

As to the environment, there are lots of tiny concrete bridges all over the island, since the place is rather mountainous. You used to be able to stop near one of these bridges and look at some small brook or stream with all the pretty tropical foliage around. You could see beautiful multi-colored guppies in the clear waters. Back in 1996, just before leaving, all you saw was plastic bottles and old appliance junk, and whatever else people would throw out when no one was looking, trashing the small streams with cloudy waters.  :(

Do you know what the car thieves do routinely down there? They take whatever they can get from the vehicle they steal and then they BURN the car. :P

It's sad. I don't like to think about it. I'm just talking here because I wish to help folks here keep this Puerto Rican environmental tragedy in the proper context.

People are people, regardless of where they were born or their genetics. Most Americans think they are somehow "different" from other people. They aren't. They mostly are simply NOT prepared for what is already here and increasing in severity from morally degenerate fascist elitists to impovershed, criminalized crazed people to a polluted environment. They mostly DO NOT GET IT. They will. All of us will increasingly experience IT. God is NOT mocked.
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on May 30, 2018, 09:05:05 pm
Here's more info on the uncounted dead in Puerto Rico:

Puerto Rico’s Uncounted Dead: Study Says Hurricane Maria Toll Far Higher Than Official Count (Pt. 1/2)

May 29, 2018

A Harvard study has found that at least 4,645 people have died as a result of Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico, 70 times more than Puerto Rico officials claim. We speak to Omaya Sosa, co-founder of Puerto Rico’s Center for Investigative Journalism, who first reported  the government’s official death toll was underreported.

Story Transcript
AARON MATÉ: It’s The Real News, I’m Aaron Maté. When he visited Puerto Rico in October, President Trump lauded what he called, the “low death toll” from Hurricane Maria.

DONALD TRUMP: Every death is a horror. But if you look at a real catastrophe, like Katrina, and you look at the tremendous hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of people that died, and you look at what happened here with really a storm that was just totally overpowering, nobody’s ever seen anything like this. What is your death count as of this moment, seventeen? Sixteen people certified, sixteen people, versus in the thousands. You can be very proud of all of your people, all of our people working together. Sixteen versus literally thousands of people.

AARON MATÉ: But for months, Puerto Rico’s residents and experts have warned that the death toll has been vastly undercounted, and a new study confirms their fears. A team of researchers estimates that at least 4,645 people have died as a result of Hurricane Maria. About one third of the deaths were caused by delayed or inaccessible medical treatment. Omaya Sosa is co-founder of Puerto Rico’s Center for Investigative Journalism. In September, just days after Hurricane Maria hit, she broke the story that the government’s official death toll was far too low. Omaya, welcome. Talk to us about the reporting you’ve done from the days after Hurricane Maria, what you found, and how it tracks with what had just come out in this new study today?

OMAYA SOSA: Thanks For having me, Aaron. We started reporting on this story literally a couple of days after the hurricane. We heard what the government was putting out, and what we saw on the streets, and from regular people, policemen, rescuers, people at the hospitals, doctors, was very different from what the government was saying. So, already, from September 28, we published our first story, saying that we already knew it was dozens more than what the government was saying. And we have continued investigating since.

In Early December, we said that those first forty days, the death toll was around 1,000 in excess, compared to 2016, and that was based on official mortality data, only covering the month of October and the first ten days after the hurricane in September. So, this report basically confirms what we were already reporting in September, October and November, and finally in that first week of December, that the death toll was much higher, that many of the deaths happened after the hurricane because of the inadequate response and because of problems with the health care system in Puerto Rico. Which is really a pity, because when President Trump got here and made those unfortunate comments, a lot could have been done to prevent thousands of these deaths.

So, the data that Harvard put out today is consistent with what we have been reporting and with what we have been investigating. We are still in the middle of the second phase of our investigation, and we’re actually concentrating on the health care system and what happened there. And we are seeing that the deaths that were linked to problems with services, health care services, are probably even higher than what Harvard is saying today.

AARON MATÉ: So, when you say there that more could have been done to prevent these deaths, even after President Trump spoke. What are you referring to? Are you referring to the health facilities or particular?

OMAYA SOSA: There was no plan from our government and our health department to really get to know what was happening on the ground in the health care facilities, and when I say health care facilities, I refer to all the levels in health care, hospitals, elderly homes, maybe smaller doctors and specialists, offices and so forth. It was a disaster, it was a complete disaster, and all the patients that needed lifesaving services, or that were even stable but needed some kind of support- like for example, people that depend on oxygen, or people that need dialysis, those persons were really left stranded with no support system. And many of those people died.

The government could have put in a response plan, an emergency response plan in terms of public health to first know what was going on, and then tried to canalize these patients to where the best facilities were, or support certain facilities. But there was no organization of any kind. There was no information for patients to know where there were hospitals that were actually working. It was a complete mess.

AARON MATÉ: Sorry to interrupt, but you mentioned oxygen. If I have it right from your reporting, the lack of available oxygen is due, in large part, to the fact that delivery of oxygen is privatized. Do I have that right?

OMAYA SOSA: Yes, it’s privatized, and many roads were- you could not drive through them after the hurricane aftermath. The electricity was down everywhere, basically, so these companies were not working. There are not many of them, and they were not working. So, the whole system of delivery of oxygen and supplies and medicines- it wasn’t only oxygen, it was- all kinds of supplies was stopped. And there was no effective way for facilities to get these life-supporting services; medication, insulin for diabetics, for example. And the government didn’t do much to try and fix this.

AARON MATÉ: What do you think accounts for the vast discrepancy between the official death toll- we heard President Trump, back in October, say it was sixteen, and later on, the government of Puerto Rico increased that to just sixty-four. But now the study says it’s over 4,600. What accounts for the discrepancy?

OMAYA SOSA: I think there was a total lack of interest from our Puerto Rican government and from the federal government to really try and get to know what was going on. The resources were not assigned. From week number one, they already knew that people were dying at hospitals. I did a couple of interviews with the health secretary, our health secretary. Months after, I did an interview with the governor himself, and I told him we were seeing all these data, and what was going on. And there was no interest in really assigning researchers to know what was going on, on the ground. And that’s what- maybe they thought it would reflect badly on the image of how the response was coming along. I don’t know, you know, they never said.

AARON MATÉ: All right. We’ll pause there and come back in part two. My guest is Omaya Sosa, co-founder of Puerto Rico’s Center for Investigative Journalism.


Puerto Rico’s Uncounted Dead: Study Says Hurricane Maria Toll Far Higher Than Official Count (Pt. 2/2)

https://youtu.be/yDQVL_xYYPA

https://therealnews.com/stories/puerto-ricos-uncounted-dead-study-says-hurricane-maria-toll-far-higher-than-official-count (https://therealnews.com/stories/puerto-ricos-uncounted-dead-study-says-hurricane-maria-toll-far-higher-than-official-count)

Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on June 04, 2018, 02:29:28 pm
Agelbert NOTE: The wild swings in weather are part of increasingly Catastrophic Climate Change.

We lost a good percentage of plants last night. 3 days ago, we had record highs of 34c. Last night we hit below freezing. and that will continue to happen for the week.

No one here needs to hear my explanation of why the weather extremes.

MrsC5 woke me, in a bit of a manic mood, saying, she wanted part two of the house greenhouse built next year and that she wants to bring the storm proof schoolbus greenhouse into production next year. She then got on the phone to start ordering the next shipping container.

Sucks to be right all the time and waiting for others to catch up.

I'll use the cool weather to finish getting the firewood in.

Then I will move on to strengthening the main greenhouse because I know the big winds are coming as part of that weather chaos.... and I better start making a game plan as to how to anchor the shipping containers to the ground.

I better get some calories in me and another coffee and get onto the days labor ahead.

Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on June 05, 2018, 08:22:12 pm
CleanTechnica

Carbon Bubble About To Burst, Leaving Trillions In Stranded Assets Behind, Claims New Research

June 5th, 2018 by Steve Hanley

Figures lie and liars figure, but if the figures presented by researchers from Radboud University, the University of Cambridge/C-EENRG, Cambridge Econometrics, The Open University, and the University of Macau and published in the journal Nature Climate Change this week are correct, the transition from fossil fuels to renewables is now unstoppable whether nations adhere to their commitments under the Paris climate accords or not.

In the wake of such change, assets valued at trillions of dollars will become stranded as what the researchers call the “carbon bubble” collapses, leading to global economic instability similar to what the world experienced in 2007.

The researchers used advanced computer modeling techniques to arrive at their conclusions. Such techniques have come under fire from fossil fuel advocates, who accuse climate scientists of cooking their research to fit their preconceived notions. We here at CleanTechnica believe the opposite is true.

“If countries keep investing in equipment to search for, extract, process and transport fossil fuels, even though their demand declines, they will end up losing money on these investments on top of their losses due to limited exports,” explains lead author J F Mercure of Radboud University and C-EENRG.

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“Countries should instead carefully deflate the carbon bubble through investment in a variety of industries and steady divestment. The way in which this is done will determine the impact of the ongoing low-carbon transition on the financial sector.”

Hector Pollitt, study co-author from Cambridge Econometrics and C-EENRG, adds: “This new research clearly shows the mismatch between the reductions in fossil fuel consumption required to meet carbon targets and the behavior of investors. Governments have an important role to play in emphasizing commitments to meet the Paris Agreement to ensure that the significant detrimental economic and geopolitical consequences we have identified are avoided.”

Just this week, 288 of the world’s largest investors wrote a joint letter to world leaders attending the G7 conference in Toronto calling on them to close coal power generating stations, stop subsidizing fossil fuels, and ramp up their carbon reduction policies in accordance with their commitments to each other in Paris in 2015.

Examining the impacts of new low and zero emissions technology on multiple countries, the computer modeling suggests countries that continue to base their economies on fossil fuel exploration, use, and export will suffer the most economic harm when the carbon bubble bursts. “This means that by 2035, GDP growth is affected negatively in producer countries such as the US and Russia, while it is affected positively in importing countries such as the EU and China,” Dr. Mercure says.

The researchers say in their report, “New efficiency standards imply that we do more with the same amounts of energy, as older, less efficient technologies are gradually phased out. The transition is therefore irreversible; however its pace can vary according to whether and how new climate policies are implemented.”

The best way to avoid economic damage when the carbon bubble bursts is to start reducing carbon emissions early.

“Divestment is a prudential thing to do. We should be carefully looking at where we are investing our money. For instance, much like companies, pension funds and other institutions currently invest in fossil fuel assets. Following recommendations from central banks, commercial banks are increasingly looking at the financial risks of stranded fossil fuel assets, even though their possible impacts have not yet been fully determined.”

“Until now, observers mostly paid attention to the likely effectiveness of climate policies, but not to the ongoing and effectively irreversible technological transition. This level of ‘creative destruction’ appears inevitable now and must be carefully managed,” Mercure concludes.

It should be noted that the United States under Donald Trump is racing ahead with a plan to become the largest fossil fuel exporter in the world, which is one step in the process of making America great again, according to the wisdom of the polluter in chief. If the researchers are correct, that policy will ultimately bankrupt the United States and allow other nations to amplify their influence in the world as the sun slowly sets on the American Empire.


We may not find out which view of the future is correct for a decade or two, but the scientific evidence suggests the US has chosen the wrong road and is speeding headlong toward a financial cliff. “We’ll see,” said the Zen master.  :(

https://cleantechnica.com/2018/06/05/carbon-bubble-about-to-burst-leaving-trillions-in-stranded-assets-behind-claims-new-research/

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on June 07, 2018, 05:20:15 pm
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Hurricanes Getting Sluggish

Hurricanes are moving more slowly than they once did, allowing them to do more damage over a given area, according to new research. A study published Wednesday in the journal Nature finds that tropical cyclone speeds have slowed by 10 percent worldwide between 1949 and 2016.

While the study is based on past observations and does not directly address causation, lead author James Kossin of NOAA and other scientists told several outlets that the findings are consistent with what can be expected as the planet warms.

The research comes the same week as Houston officials release their final report on Hurricane Harvey, which finds that the combination of the🌧 1 trillion gallons dumped on the city and the spatial coverage of the storm "have never been experienced across the United States since reliable records have been kept."
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on June 07, 2018, 05:58:55 pm
Another from the Greatest Hits Collection.

The secretive Bilderberg elite are worried about the 'post-truth' world
(https://www.cnbc.com/2018/06/06/bilderberg-meeting-elite-focuses-on-politics.html)

The key topics for discussion at this year's meeting were published by its organizers Wednesday, giving an insight into what are deemed the most pressing issues in global affairs:

1. Populism in Europe

2. The inequality challenge

3. The future of work

4. Artificial intelligence

5. The U.S. before midterms

6. Free trade

7. U.S. world leadership

8. Russia

9. Quantum computing

10. Saudi Arabia and Iran

11. The "post-truth" world

12. Current events

Some issues like the rise of anti-establishment politics and populism in Europe, persistent inequality, the West's trick relationship with a resurgent Russia and Saudi Arabia and Iran's emnity have been around for a while. Others, like the rise of artificial intelligence and quantum computing, reflect uncertainty over mankind's relationship with technology.



They should be worried. They caused the problem and it will no doubt eventually bite them squarely on the ass. I can't wait.

Me, too.

Of all of the issues listed, the pone that has me perched on the top step of the dugout is AI. There is a reason the smartest guys in the room are worried about it. We have already fully demonstrated that our tech achievements have far outstripped our moral capacity. Doesn't take a whole lot of intellegence, artificial or no, to determine that a machine capable of learning from experience and refining its own algos could soon come to the conclusion that the solution to the problems of resource constraints on earth was to eliminate the resource consumers.

A couple of your ago, you may recall that someone made a computer that could master Go, which I understand is more complex than chess. In it, each player deploys pieces placed alternately on an initially empty board with victory going to the side that immobilizes their opponent by more effectively controlling territory.

The machine said, learned to master Go by training itself through practice, playing countless games against itself, learning from its mistakes and refining its algorithms accordingly. Over time it exceeded the skills of its human mentors. And in the fullness of time, an AI program named AlphaGo defeated the world’s greatest Go players.

Consider this as you reflect on the implications of self-learning machines—machines that acquired knowledge by processes particular to themselves, and apply that knowledge to ends unknown to us. Would such machines learn to communicate with one another? You read about the Facebook AI experiment with chatbots that the FB engineers had to shut down, because the bots were developing their own language.

Maybe I'm just superstitious, but every hackle in me raises at the prospect of a for all intents and purposes unsupervised technology which trains itself and keeps its own counsel. We might soon find ourselves like the Aztecs of Old Mexico, confronting armored Gods who are ten feet tall riding on massive animals, and who can point a stick and with a BOOM! end a life. Faced with a Spanish culture both awe-inspiring and incomprehensible, the natives were as children.

So may we be.


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However, considering what the Bilderbergers consider to be a 'Present-Truth' world, I think it is rather Orwellian of them to be concerned about a 'Post-Truth' world. Their concern (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-250817135149.gif&hash=b4a8748d7cf56a31dd0a6aae5828ed2c1ac2815c) has always been about making sure the TRUTH was NOT known about how elites have irresponsibly and mindlessly plundered the people and the environment for centuries. That has not changed, despite the headline.
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on June 08, 2018, 04:52:00 pm
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Judge Rules Pruitt🦖 Must Provide Evidence for his Climate Denial

Remember last March, when Pruitt’s scandal du jour wasn’t about trying to get himself a used mattress or his wife a fast food gig or wasting money on fancy pens or any of the other 10 scandals this month? Remember when all we were concerned about was how he said climate change wasn’t caused by human activity?

As it turns out, a federal judge hasn’t let herself be distracted by the increasingly outrageous revelations against Pruitt from that original concern. On Friday, US District Court judge Beryl Howell ordered the EPA to produce the evidence upon which Pruitt based his comments.

This could be a tall order, because, of course, there is no good evidence to suggest humans aren’t driving climate change. At least none solid enough to hold up in court.

But tobacco lobbyist-turned-fossil-fuel-defender-turned-shadow-EPA-admin Steve Milloy isn’t worried. He suggested on Twitter that Heartland’s climate report is all the proof Pruitt needs for the judge. 

Unfortunately for Milloy, a quick Google on that report brings up all sorts of reasons why it’s not going to pass any sort of courtroom scrutiny. Despite being named after the IPCC, Heartlands Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC) report clearly lacks the credibility of its namesake. And it doesn’t take a law degree and years on the judicial bench to smell the BS: the school teachers who received the report in a mass spamming last year quickly saw through the sham.

As well they should. Heartland has issued NIPCC reports for years now and the content of each report relies on already-debunked denier talking points. For example, RealClimate debunked the 2008 report by pointing to pre-existing rebuttals. The 2009 and 2011 reports were overrun with cherrypicks, the 2013 report was zombie science, 2014’s was a joke, and 2016 took a fruitless run at the consensus.

And let’s not forget that deniers have already tried, and failed, to prove their denial in court. Perhaps, then, the courtroom will house the Red Team attack on climate science Pruitt has long tried to get going. But instead of being used to attack regulations, Pruitt will be playing defense.

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
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Judge Rules Pruitt🦖 Must Provide Evidence for his Climate Denial

Remember last March, when Pruitt’s scandal du jour wasn’t about trying to get himself a used mattress or his wife a fast food gig or wasting money on fancy pens or any of the other 10 scandals this month? Remember when all we were concerned about was how he said climate change wasn’t caused by human activity?

As it turns out, a federal judge hasn’t let herself be distracted by the increasingly outrageous revelations against Pruitt from that original concern. On Friday, US District Court judge Beryl Howell ordered the EPA to produce the evidence upon which Pruitt based his comments.

This could be a tall order, because, of course, there is no good evidence to suggest humans aren’t driving climate change. At least none solid enough to hold up in court.

But tobacco lobbyist-turned-fossil-fuel-defender-turned-shadow-EPA-admin Steve Milloy isn’t worried. He suggested on Twitter that Heartland’s climate report is all the proof Pruitt needs for the judge. 

Unfortunately for Milloy, a quick Google on that report brings up all sorts of reasons why it’s not going to pass any sort of courtroom scrutiny. Despite being named after the IPCC, Heartlands Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC) report clearly lacks the credibility of its namesake. And it doesn’t take a law degree and years on the judicial bench to smell the BS: the school teachers who received the report in a mass spamming last year quickly saw through the sham.

As well they should. Heartland has issued NIPCC reports for years now and the content of each report relies on already-debunked denier talking points. For example, RealClimate debunked the 2008 report by pointing to pre-existing rebuttals. The 2009 and 2011 reports were overrun with cherrypicks, the 2013 report was zombie science, 2014’s was a joke, and 2016 took a fruitless run at the consensus.

And let’s not forget that deniers have already tried, and failed, to prove their denial in court. Perhaps, then, the courtroom will house the Red Team attack on climate science Pruitt has long tried to get going. But instead of being used to attack regulations, Pruitt will be playing defense.

Looks like Pruitt might get a chance to go to the mattresses after all. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-280515145049.png&hash=84e87515e750391c1f1bca6d6ae06485972bfa81)  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-051113192052.png&hash=93c42ef9f18fc5d9da50fd91fc19f70009f95f85)

https://www.eenews.net/climatewire/stories/1060083483 (https://www.eenews.net/climatewire/stories/1060083483)

I saw that about the judge. I have my doubt as to whether he'll be held to any kind of high standard, but it'll be interesting to see.

Maybe he'll quote 2nd Peter Chapter 3 verse 10 and say global warming is God's Will.

Which it might be.


Pruitt 🦀 is a pseudo-Christian, not a Christian. You have difficulties differentiating between the two. I get that. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-141113185701.png&hash=615e3c1aa9c374cb1eab5bfc1e9494f2cb05e9f7) I get that you are, perhaps  ;), just being sarcastic because I pulled on your Kratuhammer praise "chain". 

You sir, know quiite well that Judeo-Christian Scripture is not a valid proof of just about anything, except, perhaps some mens rea (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-311013201314.png&hash=0715eb72631014310634eb56176ff860c6d542f6), in a court of law, never mind  Climate Change Denial.

Pruitt 👹 is a Kochroach!
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That said, it is true that Lawyer Pruitt is an old hand at legaleze duplicity, routine perjury, double talk and evasive bullshit. So, he can probably avoid being forced to admit, for at least a year, that Climate Change is REAL and caused by Greenhouse Gas Emissions from the burning of fossil fuels.
 
I get that too. Have a nice day.
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on June 08, 2018, 06:20:08 pm
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June 8, 2018

Marine Heat Waves, Changing Ocean Currents and Capitalism’s Threat to Life

SNIPPET 1:

June 8 is World Oceans Day, a day to celebrate and honor the oceans. Today, the oceans are under increasing threat. They’re being degraded by human society, so on World Oceans Day and beyond, let us commit to preserving and protecting the oceans, the source and basis of planetary life.

It would have been unthinkable not many years ago to imagine the impending death of the Great Barrier Reef. The world’s largest living structure and a world heritage site unsurpassed for its tremendous beauty, the Great Barrier Reef has been one of the planet’s most important ecosystems. Now, after consecutive years of prolonged, extreme marine heat waves in 2016 and 2017, one-half of the reef is dead.

Yet the reef, which has gone through immense challenges over millions of years of changing climates, is not entirely gone yet. Leading coral reef scientist Terry Hughes recently told the Guardian that, “The Great Barrier Reef is certainly threatened by climate change, but it is not doomed if we deal very quickly with greenhouse gas emissions. Our study shows that coral reefs are already shifting radically in response to unprecedented heatwaves.”

Further work from other research teams documented in April that globally, marine heat waves have increased in frequency and are of longer duration. Scientists from the Australian Research Council’s Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes and the Institute of Marine and Antarctic Studies published a study finding that between 1925 and 2016, marine heat waves occurred 34 percent more often, and lasted 17 percent longer. The result has been a 54 percent increase in the number of marine heat wave days happening each year globally.

The study brought together a range of ocean temperature data over the time period studied. Controlling for climate variability, the authors were able to determine that the increase in marine heat waves was related to an increase in sea surface temperature. “With more than 90 percent of the heat from human-caused global warming going into our oceans, it is likely marine heat waves will continue to increase,” said study co-author Neil Holbrook from the University of Tasmania.

The paper cites the impact of recent marine heat waves in a number of the world’s oceans, concluding that, “These events resulted in substantial ecological and economic impacts, including sustained loss of kelp forests, coral bleaching, reduced surface chlorophyll levels due to increased surface layer stratification, mass mortality of marine invertebrates due to heat stress, rapid long-distance species’ range shifts and associated reshaping of community structure, fishery closures or quota changes, and even intensified economic tensions between nations.”

The news of increasing ocean heat waves and their devastating impact is truly alarming, especially in connection with the many other signs of accelerating climate change and general ecological crisis, including in just the past several months.

Arctic, Antarctic Melt and the Ocean Conveyor Belt

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An enormous waterfall gushes off the Nansen Ice Shelf. Credit: Jonathan Kingslake

SNIPPET 2:

The Problems of Trump🦀 and Capitalism (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-130418203402.gif&hash=b2691028ba683a0039a5811f5775c68d7ccae01c)

Faced with this situation of potential ecological catastrophe, Trump and his allies who wield power in the US, lie that global warming is a fabrication, a hoax, or impossible to confirm. They deny the overwhelming evidence and cover over clearly demonstrated science. But this isn’t just a denial of reality, as bad as that is.

This is, as The New York Times journalist Justin Gillis said of Scott Pruitt’s 🦀 denial of climate change, a “civilization-threatening lie.” This is a conscious act that sows confusion, denies people knowledge and prevents them from being able to respond to the existential danger climate change represents.

Trump, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Interior Department and other agencies are moving as fully and as quickly as they can to overturn or eliminate every rule, regulation and barrier that stands in the way of fossil fuel 🐉🦕🦖 development and use.

Their goal is to protect the “freedom” of giant corporations to plunder the natural world to maximize their profitability, and to enhance US “energy dominance,” no matter the destruction it brings.

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https://truthout.org/articles/marine-heatwaves-changing-ocean-currents-and-capitalisms-threat-to-life/

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on June 08, 2018, 06:36:29 pm
Pruitt is a tool. I hope they tear him a new ass in court. I just have my doubts.

I agree that he is a pseudo-Christian. A very dangerous pseudo-Christian. One of your "Christians". I get it better than you think I do.

I can tell good people from bad people without to much trouble, generally speaking. I just don't usurp the authority to pass judgment on whether other people are good or evil.

And I believe that almost everyone is perfectly capable of evil, given the right circumstances. 

Yeah, I was being sarcastic. It's a character flaw, I know. But it's a way I have learned to deal with certain kinds of frustration. I see irony almost everywhere.

Good day to you, too. Have a nice weekend.


I am not "passing judgement" on you, Krauthammer or Pruitt. You are a good man who calls em' like he sees em'. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-130418201112.png&hash=679f4583d6861313c256e8762c40929af1ac667e)

 So am I. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-130418201112.png&hash=679f4583d6861313c256e8762c40929af1ac667e) Good day to you too.

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June 8, 2018

Marine Heat Waves, Changing Ocean Currents and Capitalism’s Threat to Life

celebrate and honor the oceans. Today, the oceans are under increasing threat. They’re being degraded by human society, so on World Oceans Day and beyond, let us commit to preserving and protecting the oceans, the source and basis of planetary life.[/i][/color]

SNIPPET:

The Problems of Trump🦀 and Capitalism (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-130418203402.gif&hash=b2691028ba683a0039a5811f5775c68d7ccae01c)

Faced with this situation of potential ecological catastrophe, Trump and his allies who wield power in the US, lie that global warming is a fabrication, a hoax, or impossible to confirm. They deny the overwhelming evidence and cover over clearly demonstrated science. But this isn’t just a denial of reality, as bad as that is.

This is, as The New York Times journalist Justin Gillis said of Scott Pruitt’s 🦀 denial of climate change, a “civilization-threatening lie.” This is a conscious act that sows confusion, denies people knowledge and prevents them from being able to respond to the existential danger climate change represents.

Trump, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Interior Department and other agencies are moving as fully and as quickly as they can to overturn or eliminate every rule, regulation and barrier that stands in the way of fossil fuel 🐉🦕🦖 development and use.

Their goal is to protect the “freedom” of giant corporations to plunder the natural world to maximize their profitability, and to enhance US “energy dominance,” no matter the destruction it brings.

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https://truthout.org/articles/marine-heatwaves-changing-ocean-currents-and-capitalisms-threat-to-life/ (https://truthout.org/articles/marine-heatwaves-changing-ocean-currents-and-capitalisms-threat-to-life/)

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on June 09, 2018, 01:38:24 pm
EcoWatch

Common Dreams

Jun. 08, 2018 07:44AM EST

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By Jake Johnson

SNIPPET:

Surpassing a mark set during the peak of the Dust Bowl in 1934, the continental U.S. just had its hottest May on record thanks in large part to the human-caused climate crisis, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announced on Wednesday.

"For May, the average contiguous U.S. temperature was 65.4°F, 5.2°F above the 20th century average," NOAA observed in its breakdown of the new data. "The first five months of 2018 were marked by large month-to-month swings in temperature, but when averaged, the contiguous U.S. temperature was 45.0°F, 1.6°F above the 20th century average and was the 21st warmest January-May on record."

"The warmth was coast-to-coast," Jake Crouch, a climate scientist with NOAA's National Center for Environmental Information, said in an interview with USA Today.

While acknowledging that tropical storms—in addition to other "climate anomalies"—played a role in driving up May's average temperature, Crouch told USA Today that the man-made climate change contributed significantly to the record-breaking heat.

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on June 09, 2018, 06:35:05 pm
The Big Wobble

Friday, 1 June 2018


Mexico burning! Life-threatening temperatures hitting 50 C (122 F) just 3.9 Celsius short of the hottest temperature ever recorded on our planet


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Photo Servicio Meteorolico Mexico

A heat wave in Mexico that has increased temperatures to 50 C (122 F) in many areas has led authorities to declare a state of emergency, the country's National Weather Service (SMN) said Thursday.

According to the SMN, temperatures could rise to 50 C in the northern state of Sinaloa, the western state of Michoacan and the central state of Hidalgo, while temperatures in the rest of the country will exceed 30 C (113 F).

The SMN recommended residents to stay alert to announcements made by the National System of Civil Protection and by state and municipal authorities, as well as to take preventative measures such as staying hydrated and avoid excessive exposure to the sun.

Civil Protection declared a state of emergency in numerous municipalities throughout the country, allowing the use of federal funds to help states and local authorities assist residents during the heat wave.

The world's hottest ever temperature belongs to Death Valley at134.1 degrees (56.7 Celsius), set July 10, 1913, but Weather Underground does not believe it is a credible measurement:

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“The record has been scrutinized perhaps more than any other in the United States,” “we don’t have much more to add to the debate aside from our belief it is most likely not a valid reading when one looks at all the evidence.”

If you discard the Death Valley record from 1913, the 129.2-degree F (53.9 Celsius) reading from Mitribah June 2016 would tie the world’s highest known temperature, also observed in Death Valley on June 30, 2013, and in Tirat Tsvi, Israel, on June 22, 1942.

But Masters says the Israeli measurement is controversial.

Posted by Gary Walton at 8:14 am

http://www.thebigwobble.org/2018/06/mexico-burning-life-threatning.html
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on June 10, 2018, 12:17:49 pm
If Venezuela continues to lose production, and price reacts as expected, US shale producers are just going to make a killing. They figured out how to continue to increase oil production at $50/bbl, goodness only knows what happens if they begin getting $100 or $150.

I sincerely hope Oil prices go above $100 or $150/bbl, but given the current situation in the Gulf fo Mexico ((https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frealsociology.edublogs.org%2Ffiles%2F2010%2F08%2F460_0___30_0_0_0_0_0_shell_skull_colour.jpg&hash=a4c0baea5ec89328a16e21f3820975938465eadf) Shell just opened a well they claim they can get gas from at SUPER cheap cost), the rapidly expanding Russian and other areas (excluding Venezuela , which is cratering) of fossil fuel production AND the cheap power from Wind and solar, that ain't gonna happen. The competition is just too fierce.

Shell Starts Production at Kaikias at $30 Break-Even Price 👀

June 1, 2018 by gCaptain

SNIPPET:

Shell Offshore, a subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell, announced Thursday the early start of production at the first phase of Kaikias, which has an estimated peak production of 40,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day (boe/d), around one-year ahead of schedule.

Shell says it has reduced costs by around 30% at this deep-water project since taking the investment decision in early 2017, lowering the forward-looking, break-even price to less than $30 per barrel of oil.

“We believe Kaikias is the most competitive subsea development in the Gulf of Mexico and a prime example of the deep-water opportunities we’re able to advance with our technical expertise and capital discipline,” said Andy Brown, Upstream Director, Royal Dutch Shell. “In addition to accelerating production for Kaikias, we reduced costs with a simplified well design and the incorporation of existing subsea and processing equipment.”

Kaikias is located in the prolific Mars-Ursa basin around 130 miles (210 kilometres) from the Louisiana coast and is owned by Shell (80% working interest), as operator, and MOEX North America LLC (20% working interest), a wholly owned subsidiary of Mitsui Oil Exploration Co., Ltd.

full article:

http://gcaptain.com/shell-starts-production-at-kaikias-at-30-break-even-price/ (http://gcaptain.com/shell-starts-production-at-kaikias-at-30-break-even-price/)

Unfortunately for the environment, (SEE: GUARANTEED Catastrophic climate Change (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fcdn2.theinertia.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2017%2F03%2Fwarm.jpg&hash=ddb929d877c49358047aae0a93b2b584be1eca4a)), there's a LOT more gas where that came from:  :P

Shell Makes Large Deepwater Discovery in U.S. Gulf of Mexico

May 25, 2018 by gCaptain

SNIPPET:

“Shell’s major, deep-water hubs are well positioned for production expansion through near-field exploration and additional subsea tiebacks,” the company says. “The company expects its global, deep-water production to exceed 900,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day by 2020, from already discovered, established areas.”

The Appomattox host platform is owned by Shell (79%) and Nexen Petroleum Offshore USA Inc. (21%).

Full article:

http://gcaptain.com/shell-makes-large-deepwater-discovery-in-u-s-gulf-of-mexico/ (http://gcaptain.com/shell-makes-large-deepwater-discovery-in-u-s-gulf-of-mexico/)


Also, THIS threat (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-200714191258.bmp&hash=e4ed21caaca822f7445ccafd39f49a9f84be90ca) to all things fossil fuel is NOT going to go away, but will continue to effectively exert downward pressure on oil and gas prices.


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June 8, 2018 by Bloomberg

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By Jim Efstathiou Jr. (Bloomberg) — Massive offshore wind turbines keep getting bigger, and that’s helping make the power cheaper — to the point where developers say new projects in U.S. waters can compete with natural gas.

The price “is going to be a real eye-opener,” said Bryan Martin, chairman of Deepwater Wind LLC, which won an auction in May to build a 400-megawatt wind farm southeast of Rhode Island.

Deepwater built the only U.S. offshore wind farm, a 30-megawatt project that was completed south of Block Island in 2016. The company’s bid was selected by Rhode Island the same day that Massachusetts picked Vineyard Wind to build an 800-megawatt wind farm in the same area.

Bigger turbines that make more electricity have cut the cost per megawatt by about half, said Tom Harries, a wind analyst at Bloomberg New Energy Finance. That also reduces maintenance expenses and installation time. All of this is helping offshore wind vie with conventional power plants.

See Also: Massachusetts, Rhode Island Award Major Offshore Wind Contracts

“You could not build a thermal gas plant in New England for the price of the wind bids in Massachusetts and Rhode Island,” Martin said Friday at the U.S. Offshore Wind Conference in Boston. “It’s very cost-effective for consumers.” (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-250817121424.gif&hash=384c17a4d2be4831084933b91808f8a60f73f7f5)

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http://gcaptain.com/next-offshore-wind-in-u-s-can-compete-with-gas-developer-says/ (http://gcaptain.com/next-offshore-wind-in-u-s-can-compete-with-gas-developer-says/)
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on June 10, 2018, 03:00:36 pm
In the known Universe they're are 2 Rules.

1) Play Nice

2) Share your toys

Pretty basic .....


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"Is not he a true philospher who, though he be unrecognized, cherishes no resentment?

What you do not wish done to yourself, do not do to others.

I will not grieve that others do not know me. I will grieve that I do not know others.

Do not wish for quick results, nor look for small advantages.

With coarse food to eat, water to drink, and my bended arm for a pillow, I still have joy in the midst of these things.

Riches and honor acquired by unrightiousness mean no more to me than the floating clouds."

Confucious (Kung Fu-tzu or Kung the Master) 551 B.C. - 479 B.C.

"Technical knowledge of Carrying Capacity will not save us; only a massive increase in Caring Capacity will." -- A. G. Gelbert
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on June 10, 2018, 05:31:56 pm
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https://www.wftv.com/news/trending-now/puerto-ricos-empty-shoes-public-demands-transparency-in-hurricane-maria-death-toll/761497993 (https://www.wftv.com/news/trending-now/puerto-ricos-empty-shoes-public-demands-transparency-in-hurricane-maria-death-toll/761497993)

PUERTO RICO – Over 400 pairs of empty shoes appeared in San Juan, Puerto Rico, outside the capital building on Friday.

It is a growing memorial to the hundreds of people presumed dead during or in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria. This comes after a Harvard report published in the New England Journal of Medicineestimated that there were up to 4,600 more deaths than usual in the three months after Hurricane Maria.

Read: Study: Puerto Rico death toll ☠️ 4,600 higher post-Maria

Some independent experts questioned the methods and the number in that study.

Puerto Rico’s Institute of Statistics announced Friday that it has sued the U.S. territory’s health department and demographic registry, to obtain data on the number of deaths following Hurricane Maria, the AP reports.

Puerto Rico Governor Ricardo Rossello told CNN there would be “hell to pay” if officials do not release the death statistics.

The government released additional information Friday, saying an additional 1,397 overall deaths were reported in the aftermath of the storm, from September to December 2017, according to the Washington Post.

Officials have not released the cause of death in any of those cases.

A spokeswoman for the island’s health department, which oversees the demographic registry, did not respond to the AP’s request for comment.

Many officials and people in Puerto Rico believe the official death toll of 64 from Hurricane Maria is severely underestimated.

In February, Puerto Rico announced that a team of experts from George Washington University would lead an independent review of the official death count.

The group’s preliminary report was due before hurricane season began June 1, but the team has been granted more time. 
                                               

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on June 10, 2018, 08:50:08 pm
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https://www.wftv.com/news/trending-now/puerto-ricos-empty-shoes-public-demands-transparency-in-hurricane-maria-death-toll/761497993 (https://www.wftv.com/news/trending-now/puerto-ricos-empty-shoes-public-demands-transparency-in-hurricane-maria-death-toll/761497993)

PUERTO RICO – Over 400 pairs of empty shoes appeared in San Juan, Puerto Rico, outside the capital building on Friday.

It is a growing memorial to the hundreds of people presumed dead during or in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria. This comes after a Harvard report published in the New England Journal of Medicineestimated that there were up to 4,600 more deaths than usual in the three months after Hurricane Maria.

Read: Study: Puerto Rico death toll ☠️ 4,600 higher post-Maria

Some independent experts questioned the methods and the number in that study.

Puerto Rico’s Institute of Statistics announced Friday that it has sued the U.S. territory’s health department and demographic registry, to obtain data on the number of deaths following Hurricane Maria, the AP reports.

Puerto Rico Governor Ricardo Rossello told CNN there would be “hell to pay” if officials do not release the death statistics.

The government released additional information Friday, saying an additional 1,397 overall deaths were reported in the aftermath of the storm, from September to December 2017, according to the Washington Post.

Officials have not released the cause of death in any of those cases.

A spokeswoman for the island’s health department, which oversees the demographic registry, did not respond to the AP’s request for comment.

Many officials and people in Puerto Rico believe the official death toll of 64 from Hurricane Maria is severely underestimated.

In February, Puerto Rico announced that a team of experts from George Washington University would lead an independent review of the official death count.

The group’s preliminary report was due before hurricane season began June 1, but the team has been granted more time. 
                                               

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I could not agree more. This is a vowel away from genocide. The kindest thing that could be said is that the death toll is a direct consequence of intentional neglect.

I will never forget that they sent the hospital ship "Comfort," and anchored the Bi tch offshore, the better to let innocents die. Fuc king Racist ****...


You are exactly right. However, the mindset you described is not limited to the racists. 

The Nuevo Dia newspaper down there just posted a headline saying that, at last count, 68% of the those who died from Hurricane Maria were of "advanced age" (Edad Avanzada).

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El 68% de las muertes tras María fueron personas de edad avanzada | La boricua Alexandria Ocasio en carrera congresional por Nueva York

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I guess that is anyone over 65. The hurricane helped eliminate a lot of pensioners. I imagine those fine upstanding banksters 😈 down there are pleased as punch to have less "useless eater" Puerto Ricans to interfere with their austerity measures to "help the economy" (the banksters 😈 are running the place, thanks to a US Court decision during the Obama Adminstration). Never mind that the pensioners who perished were school teachers or firemen or cops or road crews that worked 30 years to get that pension. So it goes.  :(
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on June 11, 2018, 10:10:20 pm
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Livestock Industry Greatly Underestimates Carbon Emissions, Endangering Paris Climate Agreement 🚩

https://youtu.be/8SsGHHw-BjI

June 11, 2018

By greatly underestimating their greenhouse gas emissions, the livestock industry is placing the Paris Climate Agreement in jeopardy because we do not know just how big an impact this industry is having on climate change

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DIMITRI LASCARIS: This is Dimitri Lascaris, reporting for The Real News Network from Montreal, Canada.

According to a groundbreaking index launched last week, meat and fish companies may be putting the implementation of the Paris climate accord in jeopardy by failing to properly measure and disclose their greenhouse gas emissions. According to the new index, which is named the Coller FAIRR Protein Producer Index, nearly three quarters of the world’s biggest meat and fish companies have provided little or no evidence to show that they are measuring or reporting their emissions.

Now here to discuss this with us is Maria Lettini. Maria is the director of the FAIRR initiative, an institutional investor network whose members manage assets of over $6 trillion. Maria has been working with investors for over 20 years, and within the sustainability space for over 8 years. At FAIRR she’s focused on helping investors understand and incorporate material, environmental, and social risks into their assessment of global food companies. And she joins us today from London, in the United Kingdom. Thank you very much for joining us today, Maria.

MARIA LETTINI: Thanks, Dimitri. It’s a pleasure to be here.

DIMITRI LASCARIS: Maria, Why don’t you start by telling us about the FAIRR initiative. Who established this initiative, and what is its mandate?

MARIA LETTINI: So, the FAIRR initiative is an institutional investor network. It was founded by Jeremy Coller, who’s the CIO and founder of Coller Capital, which is a private equity secondaries firm based here in London. Jeremy founded the initiative two years ago, really with the aim of providing information and research to institutional investors so they could better assess the risks in the intensive industrialized animal agriculture sector, and really explore opportunities to meet the needs of a growing population in a way that mitigates risks with human health sector and the environment.

DIMITRI LASCARIS: In the battle against climate change, how important would you say it is to ensure full disclosure by the livestock industry of its greenhouse gas emissions, and of limiting those emissions, as well?

MARIA LETTINI: I would say it’s absolutely crucial. You know, 14.55 percent of all greenhouse gas emissions come from the animal agriculture sector, and that’s more than the entire global transport sector. And if you include the inputs into the sector, so broader agricultural commodities, it’s over one third of global greenhouse gas emissions. So that’s, that’s huge. I mean, it also pays a contribution in that it’s the number one cause of deforestation, globally. And so not only are we cutting down forests and our carbon sinks, but we are contributing on top of that by the emissions from the sector itself. So it’s the number one user of arable land today, and also the number one cause of Amazon deforestation.

So the animal agriculture sector, you know, is contributing, but it’s also being impacted by climate change. So rising temperatures and increasing drought also impact this sector, and the fact that this affects animal productivity, as well as costs associated with growing the animals.

DIMITRI LASCARIS: And in your view, what are the most important takeaways for investors and policymakers from the index you’ve just launched?

MARIA LETTINI: I’d say that companies just purely are not publicly disclosing how they’re managing these risks. We think that that’s absolutely crucial to be able to understand the, the magnitude of the sector. So from antibiotic use and the overuse in this sector in order to prop up the system, to water use and manure management issues, and back to the emissions that you mentioned just previously, we need to understand how companies are managing this risk, these risks, and in this industry as a whole how, what the plan is in order to mitigate the risks across this entire sector. It’s important to, to realise that most of the sector isn’t disclosing as they should.

DIMITRI LASCARIS: How do you think governments should respond to the apparent failure of so many livestock companies to measure and their report their greenhouse gas emissions adequately?

MARIA LETTINI: I think governments have a lot to think about, because business as usual is not going to get us to a 2 degree scenario. In our index we’ve assessed that over 73 percent of the companies had little or no disclosure around greenhouse gas emissions, and only 4 percent of the companies actually reported emissions that were really associated with the animal agriculture production business. So for example, enteric fermentation. And I think the governments are really going to understand, need to understand the magnitude of the problem here. And corporate reporting is certainly the first step, before thinking about the various solutions and the transition pathways.

So, you know, I assume governments will be thinking about efficiency improvements such as looking at improved feed for livestock, or even changing product mixes. And so at FAIRR we talk a lot about plant-based proteins, and the move away from animal, animal protein products. And so I think governments will begin looking at consumption patterns, and taking into account the negative implications to human health posed by antibiotic overuse in the sector, or overconsumption of meat, and the greater, the growing incidence of disease. As well as other environmental impacts, such as air pollution from these farms, and increasing incidence of lung, of lung ailments resulting from communities around these farms.

So I really think that animal agriculture sitting at the very core of many of the risks associated with the food sector, and it will be a real light bulb moment, perhaps for the entire capital market, the government. You know, we see this sector influencing commodities, as well as producers in this index, but right downstream to the processors, the retailers, the restaurant chains, and our supermarkets. So really, the animal protein sector really sits at the core of all the capital markets, and certainly makes up a significant portion of investor portfolios.

DIMITRI LASCARIS: Well, we’ve been speaking to Maria Lettini, the director of the FAIRR initiative about a new index relating to greenhouse gas emission disclosure by livestock companies. Thank you very much for joining us today, Maria.

MARIA LETTINI: Thank you.

DIMITRI LASCARIS: And this is Dimitri Lascaris, reporting for The Real News Network.

https://therealnews.com/stories/livestock-industry-greatly-underestimates-carbon-emissions-endangering-paris-climate-agreement (https://therealnews.com/stories/livestock-industry-greatly-underestimates-carbon-emissions-endangering-paris-climate-agreement)

Agelbert NOTE: The (not exceeding) 2º C target is also one of those wishful thinking scenarios that do not have a snowball's chance in hell of being adhered to. The meat industry is just one more polluter out there that is not doing ZIP to stop our headlong path to plus 4º C AND BEYOND before 2100, NOT AFTER.

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on June 14, 2018, 05:30:00 pm
Learn why climate Change, an existential threat, is not treated as an existential threat by most people plus the facts about several other important issues we all face.


Q & A: How & Why We Make Real News

Posted June 14, 2018

https://youtu.be/7aqdEQOw2rk

Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on June 15, 2018, 01:28:52 pm
When Did You Become Aware Of The Ongoing Collapse of Civilization?

I first became aware that Business as Usual (BAU) was a death sentence for human civilization by reading Counterpunch in the late 1990's.

I continue to be suspicous of the peak oil movement simply because it is a back door defense of massive price hikes in fossil fuels. The very idea that fossil fuels are "precious to civilization" is the height of Orwellian discourse. Yes, they boosted the standard of living for a period of time, but the COST of that boost has been, and increasingly is, degraded democracy, a SEVERELY degraded biosphere, strife, misery, slave wages, more wars, more pollution and eventual collapse. Fossil fuels were NEVER a "free lunch".

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I will ALWAYS refuse to accept the BULLSHIT that those massively polluting fossil fuels are "precious" AND "indispensable" to the survival of human civilization.

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I refuse to allow the peak oil meme to become a convenient "supply and demand" manufactured artificial scarcity excuse for the Profit over Planet BASTARDS 🐉🦕🦖 😈 👹, who got us into this mess in the first place, to profit even more.

 
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on June 17, 2018, 04:36:58 pm
The following sea level rise is baked in. Absolutely nothing that is done, no matter how gigantic the effort, will stop this from happening.

That does not mean we should not try, but any Climate Change mitigating  effort must be based on preserving the biosphere for future generations. It's too late to stop this and the next TWO generations from experiencing massive, worldwide Catastrophic Climate Change.

The timing of this sea level rise is still in question, but its inevitability, due to the PRESENT amount of CO2 in the atmosphere, is not. 👨‍🔬

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The Fossil Fuel Industry, and those who presently profit from using fossil fuels, do not care.

Tomorrow is Yesterday...
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Short term profit is ALL the Fossil Fuel Industry, and those who presently profit from using fossil fuels, care about, period.

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Full Fledged 5 Alarm Climate Emergency In Antarctica

June 16th, 2018 by Steve Hanley

Using the Earth as a community toilet is finally having the effects scientists have been warning us about for decades. But as the Earth burns, our leaders have fiddled, frittering away nearly every chance to rein in the destruction before it is too late. Now the point of no return may be upon us.

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The latest report — known as the “Ice Sheet Mass Balance Inter-Comparison Exercise” — was published in the journal Nature on June 13. It collects input from 84 climate scientists at 44 institutions around the world. The researchers used three different ways of measuring ice loss on the world’s southernmost continent.


Three Measurements, One Result

First, according to The Atlantic, they measured the gravity field of the Antarctic ice sheet. We rarely think of ice as having a gravitational effect but it does, just like the moon. Satellites like those used in the NASA’s GRACE program can measure that gravitational field from space.

Second, researchers aimed radar and lasers at the surface of Antarctica to detect its surface altitude, which they can then combine with knowledge of ice physics and topography to compute its balance. Third, by measuring the velocity of moving glaciers (often with GPS), researchers can calculate how much snow is being added to a glacier and how much is disappearing into the sea.

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Antarctica ice loss

“These are completely independent data sets,” Beata Csatho, a geophysics professor at the University of Buffalo, tells The Atlantic. “We didn’t know until a few weeks ago where our results would sit relative to each other. It was a very nice surprise to see our results sitting right where they should be.”

“This is the gold standard in terms of demonstrating that ice sheets are changing,” adds Robin Bell, a professor of geophysics at Columbia University, who was not involved in the paper. “You have three measurements, three approaches, from three different instruments, and they all show pretty much the same thing.

Rate Of Ice Loss Is Accelerating


What they show is that the rate of ice loss in Antarctica has tripled in the past 5 years. Rob DeConto, a professor of climatology at the University of Massachusetts, refers to a chart showing the amount of ice lost over time. “If you look at the figure — it’s not a straight line going down, it’s like a downward-bending banana,” he tells The Atlantic. “That’s acceleration. You don’t have to be a statistician to see the pace of mass loss is increasing.”

The pace of change in Antarctica is not uniform across the continent. The fastest losses are appearing in two glaciers in western Antarctica known as Thwaites and Pine Island. If the pace of melting continues unabated, a phenomenon known as marine ice cliff instability may occur, sending the ice in those areas tumbling into the sea. The result could be as much as a 4.5 foot rise in global sea levels by 2100, putting more than 150 million US homes underwater. That got Bill McKibben’s attention.

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 Truly truly distressing news from the Antarctic today, where a new study finds ice loss has tripled over the last decade.

That's a strong sign that things are coming unglued, and that we need to act very fast to go fossil-freehttps://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2018/06/13/antarctic-ice-loss-has-tripled-in-a-decade-if-that-continues-we-are-in-serious-trouble/?utm_term=.db5177bdfc52 …

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Antarctic ice loss has tripled in a decade. If that continues we are in serious trouble. washingtonpost.com
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The east coast of the United States is particularly vulnerable because of gravity. We don’t normally think of ice and gravity together, but the volume of ice in the Thwaites and Pine Island glaciers is so huge, it exerts a gravitational tug on the waters of the Atlantic Ocean, drawing some to that area just as the moon affects the tides. If those glaciers melt, the effect on the east coast will be amplified by 25%.

Rob DeConto, a professor of climatology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, tells The Atlantic, “This should get people’s attention, especially here in North America. This little hook where the ice is going into the ocean, it’s at the worst possible place in terms of its impacts on North America. For every centimeter [of sea-level rise] from West Antarctica, Boston feels one and a quarter centimeters. And that extends down the East Coast.”

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The most recent data shows that trend had ended and a decrease in ice thickness had begun. “East Antarctica has begun to contribute to sea-level rise,” DeConto. “It’s actually become a source now. That’s where most of the ice is — it’s vastly bigger than West Antarctica.”

If West Antarctica ice melt can add over 4 feet to global ocean levels, what will the effect be if melting occurs in a part of Antarctica that is “vastly bigger?” The answer to that question seems painfully obvious. The video below makes the consequences clear.

https://youtu.be/VbiRNT_gWUQ

Try to imagine what will happen when all the people who live in areas of the United States where rising sea levels will inundate their homes are forced to move. Will the people in the rest of the country welcome them with open arms? Will the United States even survive as a nation when large chunks of its territory sink below the waves?

Will this new study spark action to stop burning fossil fuels? It didn’t seem to have had much impact on the leaders of the G6 + 1 in Canada last week, who issued a weasel-worded statement about trying really, really hard to meet the goals of the Paris climate accords. And it certainly won’t have any effect on Charles and David Koch or the people who perseverate on Hillary’s emails.

If the history of humanity is any guide, the chances of the world coming to its senses to combat global warming any time soon are somewhere between slim and none. The only thing that will save us from ourselves is if combating climate change becomes profitable. Then and only then will the world as we know it have a chance of surviving.

https://cleantechnica.com/2018/06/16/full-fledged-5-alarm-climate-emergency-in-antarctica/
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on June 17, 2018, 06:35:56 pm
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Posted on June 6, 2018

SNIPPET 1:

Welcome to Radio Ecoshock. Later I’ll be talking with NASA scientist Matt Rodell about a new map of future Earth in a changed climate. Meanwhile, many European countries had the hottest May in over a hundred years or more. It’s hot and stormy, with hundreds of thousands of lightening strikes. But first this.

MICHAEL MIELKE: CLIMATE EMERGENCY, ECO-EMERGENCY

Are you already experiencing extreme climate change? We are. Around here, the new greatest record flood ever was just subsiding from homes and downtown streets – when the wildfires began. We had 90 degree heat in May (32 degrees C), in Canada. In the last few days mosquitoes have driven everyone inside. We don’t get mosquitoes here. Listeners in the American mid-West, the East Coast, and people around the world know what I’m talking about. We are getting worn down, and the real impacts of climate change are still ahead.

Why are world leaders still talking about 1.5 degrees C global warming as though that was still possible? Why is the American government calling it all a hoax? Why isn’t the media warning everyone, every day?

With too many questions I can’t answer, I called up a lifeline. Micheal Mielke calls himself a “Cultural Transformation Engineer”. He was the Executive Director for a movement that became the Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection and Restoration Act for Louisiana and the Gulf Coast, passed by Congress.

SNIPPET 2:

THE CORPORATE WORLD 💵 🎩  – SILENT PARTNERS 🙉 🙊 TO CLIMATE CATASTROPHE 🏴‍☠️

Disney Corporation and ABC shut down the Roseanne Barr show, due to her racist Tweets. It took them just a few hours to do it. But all the major media companies rake in billions of advertising dollars promoting gas-burning cars and trucks designed to emit greenhouse gases for at least another 20 years. What’s wrong with that picture?  >:(

We can understand why the Koch Brothers bribe politicians, or at least fund their elections, to keep their oil profits rolling in. But what about the other corporations? Their investors and CEO’s have kids who need a livable future. So do their customers. Why can’t corporate America, corporate Europe, or Japan, or business everywhere plan for salvation of the climate and the species?

DRAGON AND DELUSIONS

In May 2018 Michael and the Association for the Tree of Life released a new ebook titled “Climate and Ecological Delusions and Contradictions That Will Rapidly End Humanity 🏴‍☠️ …Unless…”It is free to anyone online. The MAHB site at Stanford immediately published a shorter summary piece, and Resilience.org picked it up too.

We Are All in the Clutches of the Delusion Dragon
 
It’s time to accept that we are not going to dislodge the entrenched interests holding back effective action on looming climate chaos by any means tried so far. Believing that 97% of credible scientists is consensus enough is 103% short for effective response.

KEVIN ANDERSON AND THE AMERICA CLIMATE EMERGENCY SUMMIT THAT NEVER WAS…

Many of my scientific guests, including Kevin Anderson, point to plenty of delusions and contradictions. But as Michael tells us, science alone cannot disable the suicide switch built into this civilization. The Chair of ATL met with Dr. Kevin Anderson at the Paris Climate Summit in 2015. Michael told me in an email:

“Following that, we were involved with a large effort, coordinated with Bernie Sanders during the campaign, (Bernie twice mentioned “mobilizing for climate” during the campaign), to have a “climate summit,” during the first 100 days of a Clinton Administration.

Russell Green was the key person, and he had over 20,000 people and organizations behind him (including our ATL), and with Clinton’s agreement and Sander’s causing it to happen, the Democratic Platform contained that Climate Summit. I asked Kevin to chair the Summit from the scientific perspective, and he agreed.”


Of course, when Donald Trump 🦀 was elected, the American emergency Climate Summit never happened, and the Donald withdrew the United States from the Paris Climate Accord. A world-changing opportunity was missed, with costs too big to calculate.

Full free podcast interview:

https://www.ecoshock.org/2018/06/calling-a-lifeline.html
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on June 19, 2018, 05:39:47 pm
Agelbert NOTE: This is a refreshingly objective analysis of Guy McPherson's prediction and the actual threats to civilization from Catastrophic Climate Change.

Global Glacier, Arctic and Antarctic Ice decline, CO2 pollution and global dimming are covered factually.

Denier myths like "a new ice age is coming because the sun is getting weaker" and "human civilzation (i.e. burning fossil fuels) caused GHG emissions are not warming the atmosphere" baloney exposed with facts.

This man is a prepper with all his scienctific facts ducks in a row. He backs what he says with scientifc data.

He agrees that civilization collapse is near but he does NOT agree that it will happen on Guy's timetable. 

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Huples Cat Emergency Preparedness Lifestyle

Published on Jun 11, 2018

Guy McPherson believes industrial global society will probably collapse this September (in three months!)
This will lead to an abrupt rise in global temperatures due to global dimming being turned off and the extinction of all humans by 2026 at the latest.

Super Climate Doomer or the only one who sees it as it is? You decide. Wide ranging talk here on this aspect of prepping.

If you decline to accept human caused climate change or if you embrace it this talk should offer you much food for thought.

I am intending to live and not doing much differently based on this news. Frankly I'll be shocked if it appears as predicted but if it does then it does.



Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
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Climate & Extreme 🔥 🌩 💧 🌪 Weather News #125 (5th-13th June 2018)

https://youtu.be/XYM8xtazBZ0

Understanding Climate Change

Published on Jun 13, 2018
00:27 Germany: Meiningen, Kaiserslautern & Dudeldorf flash floods
04:53 France: Bretuil, Chaponnay & Salies-de-Bearn flash floods
10:43 Bulgaria: Varna flash flood
11:02 Slovakia: Bratislava flash flood
11:29 Spain: Sitges flash flood
13:04 Italy: Bussoleno mudslide & Rosta hailstorm/flash flood
17:20 Slovenia: Crnomelj hailstorm
18:56 Austria: Neunkinchen flash flood
19:52 China: Typhoon Ewiniar & Guangdong floods
22:39 India: Northern storms
23:06 Bangladesh: Floods
24:10 Mexico: Guadalajara & Papantla flash floods
28:11 Panama: Panama City flash flood
29:01 The USA: The 416 Wildfire
30:28 New Zealand: North Island storm
30:59 Temp Data: inc. C3S May, June anomalies & anomaly forecasts
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on June 19, 2018, 09:08:43 pm
Time to Wake Up: Polar Distress: Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (June 2018)

https://youtu.be/4EO04xuXmso
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on June 22, 2018, 07:51:47 pm
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June 22, 2018

#Energiewende #Government #Industrial policy

Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung

Heavy industry employers’ association criticises (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-130418201903.png&hash=f7b1f3e1f363fe16e0e17f9c2d82b60fa83b8731) German government (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-130418201722.png&hash=5299cc10ee42beae76e4d3b7c79dbf5f4c0addac) for inaction in energy policy

The German government currently administers past achievements and fails to set new impulses in economic and energy policy to ensure that the current economic upswing can be sustained, Rainer Dulger, head of the heavy industry employers’ association Gesamtmetall, says in an interview with the Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung. “In many areas, they simply tick boxes of the coalition treaty.

If we criticise something, we only hear ‘What do you want? Things are working just fine’.” But apart from the economy, nothing is fine,” Dulger says. “The Energiewende is utter shambles,” he says, arguing that Germany shuns an inevitable public debate over changing its fundamental approach.

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on June 22, 2018, 08:21:48 pm
The Billionaire Class is Not Fit to Rule – Paul Jay
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June 21, 2018

The ruling elites are creating a world where the majority of people suffer the consequences of the climate crisis and massive unemployment while the super-rich use artificial intelligence to save themselves – a commentary by TRNN’s Senior Editor

https://youtu.be/Uzd1AMvL7JQ

Story Transcript

The urgency of the situation is startling. The more I look at it, the more it scares the hell out of me. But that’s sort of the point. We need to tell people the whole truth about the urgency of this historical moment. The existential threat of the current moment. Of course, it feels overwhelming, but it does not have to be paralyzing. People can say we are being alarmist, but it’s past time to be alarmed.

While the fight for health care for all, a higher minimum wage, unionization, against systemic racism, mass incarceration and other necessary reforms are just and critical to engaging people in struggle, we also need to tell people the whole truth about just how critical the big picture is.

While the Trump 🦀 presidency is a cabal of criminals, billionaires and far-right ideologues, it must first of all be seen in the context of the threats to our very existence, not merely reduced to the daily scandals and twitter storms. There is no need to treat working people as infants. The culture is aimed at the infantilization of our political discussion. We can believe that America is already great or that we should Make America Great Again, but it’s all the religion of Americanism, and it’s meant to make us willing children who will march into battle or just resign ourselves to things the way they are. We are not infants and we must, as best we can, tell people the whole truth.

As catastrophic and savage as capitalism was during the 20th century, continuous wars and genocides, deep economic crisis and the constant threat of nuclear annihilation, the system proved to be resilient, the global elites did find a kind of equilibrium. Capitalism did not come to an end and the attempts at socialism failed. While many societies around the world have been destroyed, millions slaughtered in war and many more living in deep poverty, the truth is the majority of the people in the advanced capitalist world are mostly doing ok. In the United States there are as many families earning more than $100,000 a year, as there are earning under $30,000. But as resilient as capitalism has proved to be, I don’t think this world order is sustainable. The elites are no longer capable or willing of dealing with grave systemic threats, even when it is in their own long-term interests to do so.

We’re in a different kind of moment than we’ve ever faced before. Of course, nuclear weapons posed an existential threat before, but at least the elites saw that ending human life on earth wasn’t in their interests. That is so far that’s true. Because as crazy as the prospect of nuclear war is, they have not given up their deteriorating hair triggered nuclear arsenals and they actually contemplate the use of localized nuclear weapons. As you know, first Obama planned for a new wave of nuclear weapons, and now Trump is spending billions expanding America’s nuclear capability. While it’s unlikely that the elites will deliberately launch a nuclear Armageddon, we are all living in denial if we think that an accidental triggering of such isn’t possible. The hair trigger policy means there is around ten minutes to decide if what looks like an attack is one or is a glitch in the software. It’s a cold war posture still in place in the United States and Russia, it’s Dr. Strange Love’s Doomsday machine. We can’t have faith in the political leadership of these elites, that is the current leadership of either the Republican or the Democratic Parties or the billionaires who bankroll them, to face up to this danger. One would think it’s in the interest of the elites themselves to deal with this. But the military-industrial complex has far too much invested in a narrative that depends on a major existential rival. They need war and almost war.  American capital will not give up it’s dominant global commercial position they believe depends on their military might. Oil and guns determines US foreign policy, not national security. On this point alone, one can argue this ruling class is not fit to rule. But of course, there is more.

Modern industrial capitalism has given rise to the climate change crisis, a clear and objective existential threat to human and all living things. I’m sure Real News viewers have heard the basic facts, and the process is speeding up. Leading climate scientists have modeled that we will cross the 2 degrees above pre-industrial temperature threshold by 2050, and that was based on all the countries that signed the Paris accords living up to their commitments. Of course with the election of a climate denier as president and the undoing of the far too modest measures that were passed under Obama, who knows what that means to the model. We could cross 2 degrees in less than twenty years? Once that threshold is crossed, apparently, it’s far more difficult to slow down and reverse the process. Dramatic action is needed now. But it’s far down the list of things that get discussed in corporate media. According Media Matters, in the 2016 elections, the four major broadcast channels gave climate change 96 minutes of coverage, and those numbers included Fox who promotes climate denial.

According to a Yale poll, only 13% of people know that more than 90% of scientists believe humans activity causes climate change. Of course, it’s more like 97% of scientists. When it comes to voting, its barely on anyones radar. Yet it is clearly the gravest threat humans have ever faced.

You would think that the elites would find it in their own interest to take action given the apocalyptic consequences of denial or feeble action. But effective policy requires taking on the fossil fuel industry and committing to a green and sustainable economy. Clearly it will require strengthening the role of the public sector and democratizing the political process. It requires changing how things are owned and who has power. Even modest reforms are almost impossible as most of the elites care more about lowering taxes than saving the planet. They are not fit to rule.

Artificial Intelligence is here and rapidly advancing. It will soon produce a world with millions less jobs. Truck and taxi drivers to doctors to you name the occupation, it won’t be long before the top twenty percent of the population, won’t need most of the 80%. If you are a capitalist, a world with massive unemployment might not seem to be so bad, workers trying to compete agains the cost of robots.

The digital revolution makes all this possible. It’s allowed the process of financialization and globalization to grow to a qualitatively greater scale. Imagine creating complex financial products with a pencil and paper. There’s no Amazon or Walmart without computers to create such a beautifully efficient global supply chain. And of course, to play cheap global labor off against American workers which has basically stalled wage increases and hollowed much of the industrial working class.

Why can’t the ruling elites deal with the systemic threats of climate change, financial crisis, global war, and AI? Threats to the future of their own system?  Because they are in the middle of an o r g y of profit making. They can’t believe their good fortune. If they had any doubts before the election, Wall St. now loves Trump. Even though most of finance knows that unregulated, it’s only a matter of time before the crisis of 07/08 repeats itself. But what the hell, no one will go to jail and the public will bail them out again.

Wall St. is euphoric as they swim in an ocean of super wealth. While the financial sector represents about 7 percent of our economy it takes around 25 percent of all corporate profit, with only 4 percent of all jobs. With such concentrated wealth goes a competitive culture that prizes daily returns on capital, above the future of humans on earth. These are the people that control American politics as they throw unlimited funds at political campaigns.

The threat of climate crisis? The elites believe, if they actually think beyond their private jets and yachts, that they will be ok. Their kids will be ok, even their grandkids. And then? Apres Moi le Deluge. After me comes the floods said Louis the XV. In Maryland we just saw much of a city washed away, and it’s surely the shape of things to come.

I think potential of Artificial Intelligence is why the elites who think about such things, are not more alarmed by climate change. Rather than take the necessary measures to transform the economy to one that’s green and sustainable, they are planning to literally head for the hills. They have escape plans. They imagine cities on the hill serviced by robots. It’s the stuff of science fiction, but it’s on the horizon. Their greatest fear is not the cataclysmic destruction of the rest of humanity, but that AI will take over from the humans. Frankly, in that world, I’m rooting for the robots. This ruling class is not fit to rule. We must tell people the whole truth.

Those individuals in the elites who do see what’s coming and are trying to sound the alarm, and there are more than a few, are marginalized.

Of course, corporate media plays a critical role in all of this. They are far too concerned about Russia Gate and Trump’s tweet storms than the critical issues that face us. For obvious ratings reasons, but one wonders how the producers and journalists that play this game live with themselves.

Everything comes down as always, to a simple question. If we have no faith in the ruling elites, and we shouldn’t, then we the people have to change who controls government and build the public sector to challenge the power of the oligarchy. Our job at The Real News is as best we can, tell people the whole truth. The lead up to the 2020 elections will be a critical time to tell this truth. The outcome of those elections can’t be overestimated.

As much as the digital revolution helped create a vile stratum of the ultra-rich, it’s also created the conditions for a more democratic economy and politics. The Sanders campaign has shown that the political structures that were built to look democratic because the power of billionaires would always win out, can be challenged with mass fundraising. Online organizing and social media has transformed political campaigning and made it less reliant on funds for TV ads. The internet allowed independent media to challenge the power of concentrated media ownership, it made The Real News possible. We are just seeing the early phase of what’s possible.

Most importantly, Artificial Intelligence makes a planned and rational economy possible. You can’t have a planned national economy with a pencil and paper, we’ve seen what bureaucracy that led to in the Soviet Union.  But AI gives us the promise of a planned, green and sustainable economy. In fact, massive planned economies already exist. Amazon or Walmart are superbly planned and rational, with an efficient global supply chain that interconnects production everywhere. Superbly planned, internally, as the economy and politics around them become increasingly insane. The problem is the tremendous promise of AI is being strangled by private ownership whose only objective is profit. Scientist Stephen Hawking said control of AI is in the end, the greatest fight we have before us. The fight to harness AI in the public interest can’t be separated from the fight to develop a rational climate policy or a more equitable society.

All over the country and the world people are organizing, fighting for such change. People are in action, at the ballot box and in the streets, to assert the people’s interests. At the Real News we want to strengthen our coverage of these movements, enrich our work on the search for effective solutions, and focus on reaching working people who rarely hear about the big picture in corporate news.

We will redouble our efforts to build our global Climate Crisis Bureau. We are building on our stellar coverage of global affairs, with a focus on US foreign and military policy. We are going hyper local in Baltimore, connecting the daily struggle for a safe and more equitable city with the systemic reasons for chronic poverty and unemployment. Soon we will go local in southern Pennsylvania, covering a congressional race where a progressive Democrat is taking on a Trump supporter. Here we will cover the issues of concern to people who voted for Trump and engage people in the search for real solutions.

And in whatever we do, we will do our best to tell people the whole truth. But we can’t do it without you. It’s critical that we have the funds to strengthen our content and our marketing reach. If you agree with what I’ve said so far, please hit the donate button now. Write a check. Make a phone call. In the US and Canada, the donation is tax deductible. If you are already a donor, thanks very much, and think about donation again. If you are not a monthly subscriber, during our matching grant campaign is the time to sign up. If you give monthly, our matching grant will match a year’s worth of donations. Help us tell people the whole truth. Help us Make Real News.

https://therealnews.com/stories/the-billionaire-class-is-not-fit-to-rule-paul-jay

 
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on June 24, 2018, 01:05:47 pm
If you have a few minutes to hear what the top scientists out there are saying to each other about our climate change situation, check this radio program out from Radio Echoshock. Basically, they are appealing to philanthropists because scientists are convinced that governments are living in "we'll think of something" happy talk la la land.

Posted on June 6, 2018

SNIPPET 1:

Welcome to Radio Ecoshock. Later I’ll be talking with NASA scientist Matt Rodell about a new map of future Earth in a changed climate. Meanwhile, many European countries had the hottest May in over a hundred years or more. It’s hot and stormy, with hundreds of thousands of lightening strikes. But first this.

MICHAEL MIELKE: CLIMATE EMERGENCY, ECO-EMERGENCY

Are you already experiencing extreme climate change? We are. Around here, the new greatest record flood ever was just subsiding from homes and downtown streets – when the wildfires began. We had 90 degree heat in May (32 degrees C), in Canada. In the last few days mosquitoes have driven everyone inside. We don’t get mosquitoes here. Listeners in the American mid-West, the East Coast, and people around the world know what I’m talking about. We are getting worn down, and the real impacts of climate change are still ahead.

Why are world leaders still talking about 1.5 degrees C global warming as though that was still possible? Why is the American government calling it all a hoax? Why isn’t the media warning everyone, every day?

With too many questions I can’t answer, I called up a lifeline. Micheal Mielke calls himself a “Cultural Transformation Engineer”. He was the Executive Director for a movement that became the Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection and Restoration Act for Louisiana and the Gulf Coast, passed by Congress.

SNIPPET 2:

DRAGON AND DELUSIONS

In May 2018 Michael and the Association for the Tree of Life released a new ebook titled “Climate and Ecological Delusions and Contradictions That Will Rapidly End Humanity 🏴‍☠️ …Unless…”It is free to anyone online. The MAHB site at Stanford immediately published a shorter summary piece, and Resilience.org picked it up too.

We Are All in the Clutches of the Delusion Dragon

It’s time to accept that we are not going to dislodge the entrenched interests holding back effective action on looming climate chaos by any means tried so far. Believing that 97% of credible scientists is consensus enough is 103% short for effective response.

KEVIN ANDERSON AND THE AMERICA CLIMATE EMERGENCY SUMMIT THAT NEVER WAS…

Many of my scientific guests, including Kevin Anderson, point to plenty of delusions and contradictions. But as Michael tells us, science alone cannot disable the suicide switch built into this civilization. The Chair of ATL met with Dr. Kevin Anderson at the Paris Climate Summit in 2015. Michael told me in an email:

“Following that, we were involved with a large effort, coordinated with Bernie Sanders during the campaign, (Bernie twice mentioned “mobilizing for climate” during the campaign), to have a “climate summit,” during the first 100 days of a Clinton Administration.

Russell Green was the key person, and he had over 20,000 people and organizations behind him (including our ATL), and with Clinton’s agreement and Sander’s causing it to happen, the Democratic Platform contained that Climate Summit. I asked Kevin to chair the Summit from the scientific perspective, and he agreed.”

Of course, when Donald Trump was elected, the American emergency Climate Summit never happened, and the Donald withdrew the United States from the Paris Climate Accord. A world-changing opportunity was missed, with costs too big to calculate.

Full free podcast 🔊interview:

https://www.ecoshock.org/2018/06/calling-a-lifeline.html

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Brent Jatko

It doesn't really matter. ExxonMobil's quarterly profits are apparently more important than the planet.

agelbert >Brent Jatko Bingo! They simply do not care. The following sea level rise is baked in. Absolutely nothing that is done, no matter how gigantic the effort, will stop this from happening.

That does not mean we should not try, but any Climate Change mitigating effort must be based on preserving the biosphere for future generations. It's too late to stop this and the next TWO generations from experiencing massive, worldwide Catastrophic Climate Change.

The timing of this sea level rise is still in question, but its inevitability, due to the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere, is not.

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Steve Hanley > agelbert

Super response. Thanks. Love the graphic. And yes, it is happening no matter what we do. So depressing. But, you know.....Hillary's e-mails!!!!
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
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How long before the world runs out of fossil fuels? ???

LAST UPDATED ON JUNE 8TH, 2018 AT 3:57 PM BY TIBI PUIU 

Fossil fuels are the main source of energy in the world, powering much of modern civilization as we know it, from transportation to industrial applications. But this paradigm can’t last forever.

Millions of years to make, only hundreds of years to spend

Fossil fuels have formed over an extensive period of time from the remains of plants and animal that lived hundreds of millions of years ago. Humans have been using them in ample amounts since the 19th century and with our current rate of consumption, fossil fuel resources are depleting much faster than their formation. Naturally, the question arises: how long before we run out?

In the 1950s, geologist M. King Hubbert predicted that the world will experience an economically damaging scarcity of fossil fuels. This idea has remained in the collective consciousness as the Peak Oil theory, according to which the production of oil, as a finite resource, will peak at some point and ultimately decline and deplete. According to some researchers, Hubbert included, Peak Oil is already behind us, and we are now living in a decline.

So, how long before we run out of fossil fuels? In order to project how much time we have left before the world runs out of oil, gas, and coal, one method is measuring the R/P ratios — that is the ratio of reserves to current rates of production. At the current rates of production, oil will run out in 53 years, natural gas in 54, and coal in 110. This is bearing in mind a 2015 World Energy Outlook study by the International Energy Agency, which predicted fossil fuels will constitute 59% of the total primary energy demand in 2040, even despite aggressive climate action policies.

Other researchers, organizations, and governments have different deadlines for fossil fuel exhaustion, depending on the data and assumptions that they make, as well as political affiliation and interests. The American Petroleum Institute estimated in 1999 the world’s oil supply would be depleted between 2062 and 2094, assuming total world oil reserves at between 1.4 and 2 trillion barrels. In 2006, however, the Cambridge Energy Research Associates (CERA) predicted that 3.74 trillion barrels of oil remained in the Earth — three times the number estimated by peak oil proponents. 👀


Is Peak Oil behind us? Not clear

While we know for sure that the exploitation of fossil fuels is limited, estimates can vary wildly because new deposits are sometimes found and new technology enables access to previously untapped oil or gas fields or allows more efficient extraction. So, the challenge in estimating a timescale for fossil fuel depletion lies in the fact that new resources are added fairly regularly. Therefore, we have to keep in mind that all of these estimates are based on R/P ratios and thereby only consider proven reserves, not probable or possible reserves of resources. For instance, in 1980, the R/P ratio suggested only 32 years of oil production from existing reserves. 

A 1977 report issued by the Energy Information Administration concluded that the United States could only access 32 billion barrels of oil reserves and 207 trillion cubic feet of natural gas reserves. But from then to 2010, the country extracted 84 billion barrels of oil (2.6 times more than the initial estimate) and 610 trillion cubic feet of gas (2.9 times the initial reserve estimate). What’s more, reserves are growing. Today, the U.S. has increased the size of its reserves by a third since 2011 thanks to horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracking which enable access to oil and gas trapped in underground rock formation. Previously, it wasn’t economically feasible to extract these resources.

As technology continues to improve, both governments and oil & gas companies will be able to access new reserves — some that can’t currently be exploited and others that are still unidentified.

Japan, for instance, is planning to one day extract methane from undersea hydrate deposits — these types of deposits may contain more than twice the amount of carbon as Earth’s fossil fuels. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-300714025456.bmp&hash=f4e4a260bd60d3f34ca86fed93c47d5fb4117cfd) 


Elsewhere, climate change is opening corridors in the Arctic — ironically facilitated by the burning of fossil fuels — that enable extraction of oil that was previously logistically impossible to undertake. It was Russian company Gazprom that brought home the first barrels of oil from the Arctic in 2014, and more have followed since.

Again Russia, this time in partnership with France’s Total and China’s CNPC, wants to start drilling the Arctic in 2019 for natural gas. The $27 billion plant is expected to extract 16.5 million tonnes of natural gas per year.


Keep the oil in the soil

Some might fear that we’ll run out of oil and coal before we get the chance to replace them with renewable energy, thereby triggering a planetary-wide collapse of human civilization.

But that’s an unlikely scenario. First of all, if we burn even 50% of the world’s reserves, we’re screwed ☠️. Forget about the prospect of not being able to turn the lights for a second, and think greater perils: runaway climate change.

Despite having used only a small fraction of fossil fuels, the planet’s atmosphere is already around one degree Celsius warmer on average than it was prior to the Industrial Revolution. A 2016 study published in Nature Climate Change assessed what would happen if we burned all the fossil fuels known to exist on Earth. Assuming a scenario where there are no efforts to curb global warming, by 2300 CO2 would stabilize at roughly 2,000 parts per million (ppm), five times higher than today’s level (~408ppm) — resulting in a total of 5tn tons of carbon dioxide finding its way into the atmosphere.

In this nightmare scenario, global average temperatures would be pushed by 8 degrees Celsius past Industrial levels, with the Arctic bearing the grunt of warming, experiencing temperatures rising by as much as 17 degrees Celsius.

As such, the limiting factor on humans’ fossil fuel use is not the depletion of recoverable fossil fuels, but the crossing of a dangerous threshold past which the planet is no longer able to withstand the byproducts of burning fossil fuels.

Knowing oil and gas won’t ever run out in your lifetime shouldn’t be an excuse to keep using them. Rather, knowing this, we should all take action to ensure that our children and grandchildren actually have a future.   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fcliparts.co%2Fcliparts%2FBig%2FEgq%2FBigEgqBMT.png&hash=e7eec62f009cdd686ce795fad0a53c6befe748e9)

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Agelbert NOTE: The part not mentioned in this well referenced article is that our species has NEVER lived in a world where an average 3º Celsius past Industrial levels exists, never mind 8º Celsius past Industrial levels. Anyone who thinks we can delay transitioning to 100% Renewable Energy until the end of this century is dreaming. With PRESENT CO2 levels, 4º Celsius past Industrial levels is guaranteed BEFORE 2100. That means massive sea level rise and severe ocean acification, along with all the other biosphere degrading Catastrophic Climate Change effects. Add to that the FACT that Fossil Fuel Inndustry methane leaks have been seriously underestimated, (https://insideclimatenews.org/news/21062018/methane-leaks-oil-gas-climate-change-risks-natural-gas-slcp-global-warming-pollution-science-edf-study) and you have to move up every negative effect (i.e. positive feedbacks that accelerate heating) closer to us in time, making the situation even more urgent than it already is.   

The problem is GHG caused Catastrophic Climate Change, not lack of hydrocarbons to burn.

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Unburnable fossil fuels to stay below 2º C limit
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In 2006, however, the Cambridge Energy Research Associates (CERA) predicted that 3.74 trillion barrels of oil remained in the Earth — three times the number estimated by peak oil proponents.

CERA is financed by the oil industry, to oppose the Peak Oil theory which will bankrupt them as soon as it is believed.

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While we know for sure that the exploitation of fossil fuels is limited, estimates can vary wildly because new deposits are sometimes found and new technology enables access to previously untapped oil or gas fields or allows more efficient extraction.

To get a proper sense of proportion, this is discoveries and production over time.  The shortfall on discoveries is gigantic, because they have looked everywhere and there are no big discoveries left to be made:

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Japan, for instance, is planning to one day extract methane from undersea hydrate deposits

The problem is they have no idea how to do it, and haven't even tried it yet on an experimental level.

The article is right as far as if we have the FFs, we will burn them and cause catastrophic climate change, but wrong in that oil WILL run out first.  Already they are producing shale oil with borrowed money and not making a profit, but can't stop because they have debts to repay.  Only the US has the ability to print fiat money and lend it to oil-frackers.  That's why the US is the only country doing it.

Renewables are energy-intensive to make, and when the current small levels are ramped up to greater levels, the FF energy just won't be there or affordable.

Down-shifting our energy lifestyles is vital, but no one wants to do it.  Gas-powered chainsaws to cut firewood, not the hand-axe.  And before RE chips in with all MY lifestyle faults, I only drive a 1500 cc Toyota Corolla, and never drive more than 32 Km round trip.  I would get a smaller car if there was one.  I NEVER fly.  I eat local produce wherever possible.  I NEVER buy frivolous stuff, or tickets to watch films, theatre, concerts, sporting matches, or coffee in cafes, or beer in pubs, or food in take-aways or restaurants.  With the carbon captured by my forest, I reckon I have a carbon neutral lifestyle.


Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on June 24, 2018, 03:39:07 pm

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That graph only goes through 2004.  What do the latest real data points look like? ???

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on June 24, 2018, 03:41:43 pm
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In 2006, however, the Cambridge Energy Research Associates (CERA) predicted that 3.74 trillion barrels of oil remained in the Earth — three times the number estimated by peak oil proponents.

CERA is financed by the oil industry, to oppose the Peak Oil theory which will bankrupt them as soon as it is believed.

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While we know for sure that the exploitation of fossil fuels is limited, estimates can vary wildly because new deposits are sometimes found and new technology enables access to previously untapped oil or gas fields or allows more efficient extraction.

To get a proper sense of proportion, this is discoveries and production over time.  The shortfall on discoveries is gigantic, because they have looked everywhere and there are no big discoveries left to be made:[/size]
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Japan, for instance, is planning to one day extract methane from undersea hydrate deposits

The problem is they have no idea how to do it, and haven't even tried it yet on an experimental level.

The article is right as far as if we have the FFs, we will burn them and cause catastrophic climate change, but wrong in that oil WILL run out first.  Already they are producing shale oil with borrowed money and not making a profit, but can't stop because they have debts to repay.  Only the US has the ability to print fiat money and lend it to oil-frackers.  That's why the US is the only country doing it.

Renewables are energy-intensive to make, and when the current small levels are ramped up to greater levels, the FF energy just won't be there or affordable.

Down-shifting our energy lifestyles is vital, but no one wants to do it.  Gas-powered chainsaws to cut firewood, not the hand-axe.  And before RE chips in with all MY lifestyle faults, I only drive a 1500 cc Toyota Corolla, and never drive more than 32 Km round trip.  I would get a smaller car if there was one.  I NEVER fly.  I eat local produce wherever possible.  I NEVER buy frivolous stuff, or tickets to watch films, theatre, concerts, sporting matches, or coffee in cafes, or beer in pubs, or food in take-aways or restaurants.  With the carbon captured by my forest, I reckon I have a carbon neutral lifestyle.

At the current level of resource depletion I believe the fuel for my chainsaw is worth it. I would never cut trees with an axe but move to a pull saw. Cold kills in this part of the world firewood is very important and worth the fuel. My land can produce all my wood for the year; for heating anyways. I drive too much, eat too much meat, don't produce enough food on my land, and have too much house for a sustainable world (approx 400 sq ft per person it was 300 per person with my wife). If I had more bodies in it I could perhaps justify using hand labour for the wood to stay alive in the winter. It's hard finding like minded crazies in this world though. I don't fly except under duress and generate over 50 percent of my electricity by solar;it used to be over 90 percent. Energy use in the house has ballooned since we had kids.  hopefully that will return to above 90 percent this fall with the new solar array. I believe people will only change their way once the poop hits the fan.Not this slow frog in a pot of water bad but really really bad.  I'm not sure if FF depletion or climate change gets us first I'll let you two fight it out.
Cheers,  David

Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on June 24, 2018, 03:42:40 pm
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RE: That graph only goes through 2004.  What do the latest real data points look like?

BP(2018) shows production in 2004 was 81.1 Mbpd and in 2017 was 92.6 mbpd - that's a 14% increase in 13 years. (1.01% / year, after 20 years of 1.6%).  That includes fracked oil , tar sands and Natural Gas Liquids.  The split between Crude and Condensate is unknown since nobody collects the data ( ! ) so we can't tell how much is fracked.  However we do know fracking only came on stream in 2006, just in time for the Peak in Crude Only in 2005.  Fracking has never made a profit and as soon as USG/Fed stops backing the losses, the whole lot will collapse in a heap overnight, causing a major financial shock, which will bring down the Dollar and Industrial Civilisation.
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on June 24, 2018, 03:44:03 pm
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RE: That graph only goes through 2004.  What do the latest real data points look like? ???

BP(2018) shows production in 2004 was 81.1 Mbpd and in 2017 was 92.6 mbpd - that's a 14% increase in 13 years. (1.01% / year, after 20 years of 1.6%).  That includes fracked oil , tar sands and Natural Gas Liquids.  The split between Crude and Condensate is unknown since nobody collects the data ( ! ) so we can't tell how much is fracked.  However we do know fracking only came on stream in 2006, just in time for the Peak in Crude Only in 2005.  Fracking has never made a profit and as soon as USG/Fed stops backing the losses, the whole lot will collapse in a heap overnight, causing a major financial shock, which will bring down the Dollar and Industrial Civilisation.

Amazon, Tesla, Facebook and numerous other Industrial Civilization ventures have never made a profit either, but that doesn't stop the  TBTF Banks from buying their corporate paper with money borrowed from Da Fed.  In fact, Steve's analysis shows no industrial enterprise from the railroads to carz to planes ever made a real profit, all these industries grew on credit and eventually went BK, to then be bailed out by Da Goobermint and the debt shifted (in theory) to the tapayer.  The taxpayer of course can't afford to retire this debt either, so the total debt keeps increasing as long as the enterprises are kept running.

Since as you say they must have an endless credit line to keep running, it's unlikely Da Fed will cut off that credit because then it means not just the end of Industrial Civilization but the end of their hegemony over the world, through the credit they issue to the MIC to buy planes, drones and bombs.  There will either have to be some sort of credit lockup or the resources become unavailable no matter how much credit you issue.  Another possibility is that the resource controllers who actually still have some oil left underground they can pump up stop taking the credit in payment, aka they abandon the Dollar.  However, since they hold so much of their reserves in Dollars. this amounts to cutting off your nose to spite your face.  It's why nobody has quit on the whole system yet.  It will of course inevitably occur, but the timeline on it still remains obscure.

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on June 24, 2018, 03:46:52 pm
Agelbert NOTE: K-Dog lives in Seattle, Washington.

Coal Trains have joined the oil trains going north for export.  I have seen 3 coal trains passing through Seattle in the last week.   I saw the first one only two weeks ago.  It had three engines pulling and was a mile long easy.

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I do not want to criticize or disrespect anybody here who cares about their carbon footprint but when I see megatons of coal and oil leaving the country to keep the fat cat gravy train going and nobody caring I wonder what is the point of it all. 

We import, so we export.  I get that.  I also know that our fracked oil is best blended with other stock because refineries just for fracked oil don't exist.  I get that.  Stop using the stuff tomorrow and we are all dead.  I get that.  It is not a black and white issue.  I get that.  Nobody cares about changing the equations so we survive.  I don't get that.

As too how much is left I'll make the observation that the conservative element of suit wearing forked tongued devils in American have digested peak oil dogma as well as we have here but from a completely different perspective.  The point of peak oil was only ever to show that the oil supply is finite.  The M. King Hubbert classic depletion curve is from a single field with a simple development and extraction profile.  All it was ever meant to do is tell everybody, see kiddies if you eat all your candy it will be all gone. 

The world was never going to follow that simple curve and even we advocates of understanding have been distracted by the 'theory' aspect of it all, as if the ragged edge of the real depletion curve disproved something.  The ragged edge reflects real world complexity.  Humans have wars and kill each other.  Economies crash.  People want to make America great again.  These things throw more variables in the picture than a single field has and the fact that the peak is ragged does not change what remains in the ground in any way.  Yet some are quick to say peak oil is dead and the theory wrong.

Ugo Bardi has pointed out that collapse can, most likely will, resemble Seneca's cliff.  In that scenario significant oil will be in the ground but it won't be easy to get to and it won't matter because we will be in a new stone age.  Fact is if we were not fracking now we would all be fu cked.  A minor detail it seems everybody has overlooked.  We found some more borrowed time.  That is all that has happened or America would already have crashed so hard that 2008 would be looking like a summer picnic right now.

That is what we have done again.  Technology which in modern times is mostly the hundreds of ways in which we use hydrocarbons has enabled us to innovate our way out of a corner to get more hydrocarbons to use up.  The can has been kicked down the road. But it can't last.  Our ditch awaits.


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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on June 24, 2018, 03:47:59 pm
I do not wan't to criticize or disrespect anybody here who cares about their carbon footprint but when I see megatons of coal and oil leaving the country to keep the fat cat gravy train going and nobody caring I wonder what is the point of it all.

A few people care, like us Diners.

The point is to try and wake up a few of the slightly lower wattage bulbs out there  who might just grasp the truth if you explain it carefully, and then have some time to Prep Up!

Remember the Motto of the Diner...


"SAVE AS MANY AS YOU CAN"

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on June 24, 2018, 03:49:27 pm
Interesting and informative comments. 🧐

I continue to believe that severe biosphere degradation will be the cause of the collapse of human civilization, not the lack of energy to run it.

Mankind is just too damned innovative in his ability to exploit nature. No matter how polluting, how destructive, how stupid and how short sighted, human technology refuses to trade short term comfort for long term preservation of the biosphere for the purpose of multi-species survival.

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on June 25, 2018, 10:58:14 pm
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Solar Prices Nosedive After China Pullback Floods Global Market

June 21, 2018

By Christopher Martin, Bloomberg
         
Solar panels were already getting cheaper this year, and then China pulled the plug this month on about 20 GW of domestic installations. The result was a glut of global inventories, and now prices are plunging even faster.

China, the world’s biggest solar market, on June 1 slammed the brakes on new projects that would have had as much capacity as about 20 nuclear power plants. With a global panel glut it’s a buyer’s market and developers in other countries are delaying purchases, holding out for even lower prices.

The average price for a polysilicon module slumped 4.79 percent since May 30, reaching a record low of 27.8 cents a watt Wednesday, according to PVInsights. That’s on track to be the biggest monthly decline since December 2016, the last time the industry was facing a global oversupply. China manufactures about 70 percent of the world’s solar components.

The decline will hurt the largest manufacturers like JinkoSolar Holding Co. and is a boon for developers like Sunrun Inc., which are expected to benefit from lower costs.

“Chinese and international project developers are putting their orders on hold as modules get cheaper,” Yali Jiang, an analyst at Bloomberg New Energy Finance, said in a research note Tuesday. By the end of the year, she expects module prices will slide to 24 cents a watt 👀, down 35 percent from 37 cents at the end of 2017.

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Agelbert NOTE: Why don't I think this news is actually good? Because, to anyone that reads between the lines, it means China is, rather than contiinuing the big push for total Renewable Energy, is finding it cheaper (when the pollution issue is ignored, of course -replacing coal with GAS cuts down on particulates, but does nothing to slow GHG pollution) to buy GAS for energy than to get it from Solar Panels. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-200714183337.bmp&hash=fd5a6df63c32bd65dda7b6d93e788647ca3829df)

They are probably suddenly getting GAS real cheap, some of which comes from the USA, not just the usual suspects like Russia and Iran. This "bridge fuel" means an INCREASE in global emissions in an already runaway GHG situation 🔥. China uses a LOT OF ENERGY!

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I think it is one more straw breaking the Biosphere Camel's Back. IOW, it's probably just about (see below) for Human civilization, even if it takes another two or three decades to feel the full brunt of Catastrophic climate Change.

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on June 26, 2018, 05:31:26 pm
I don't expect this to be resolved completely, but I appreciate you being willing to keep it a bit more friendly. I see your point on ethanol, which makes sense in the context you're describing.

I'm not sure what Palloy's background is, because he never shares much personal info, but my guess is that he's coming from a teaching background in addition to having been an IT professional. His POV is one I'd expect from an experienced and knowledgable teacher who taught exceptional high school students or college students.

Although he likes to say the word mathematics, he is equally schooled on physics and physical chemistry (and general chemistry, including solutions). His arguments do tend to place emphasis on calculated theoretical thermodynamic results and ignore the sort of real world deviations from that (like incomplete combustion) that would be of more of interest to an engineer or someone actually building real engines.

But it's really good to have someone smart and well educated on the Diner who can debunk obvious bullshit, which he is good at. There are a bunch of people who want to believe in magic, when it comes to understanding FF's. (And renewables, unfortunately).

It is my studied opinion that the advocates of a 100% Renewable Energy Transition are far more reality based than the fossil fuel funded happy talkers, endlessly reminding us, with a litany of half-truths, how much we "owe" the fossil fuel welfare queen Industry for destroying our democracy by buying our politiicans giving us such a high standard of living. Never mind the "irrelevant" MASSIVE, biosphere DESTROYNG pollution issue. Belief in magic solutions, (See: Trust us, we'll think of something) is what the Fossil Fuel Fascists specialize in.  😈🦕

One salient point that must never be left out of the discussion about readership in the Doomstead Diner is the fact that it is based on collapse being triggered by peak oil.

When what actually materializes is a global multi-government fascist pollution producing monstrocity that prefers to see the entire biopshere go **** up than to allow a collapse, the interest in this forum will fade. As RE says, this is part of Collapsenicksphere, or something like that.

I see galloping fascism. I see increased human depravity and ruthless high tech cruelty like has never been seen before. I see massive inceases in pollution. I see more and more species we depend on being so depleted, even before they go extinct, that TPTB start engineering a human population "useless eater" die-off so that they can enjoy their Libertarian Wet Dream for another century or so (until they end up as crispy critters while trying to move to Mars).

I do not see a collapse. I entertained that idea for a while back in 2012. After much study, research and reading, I am convinced that collapse talk is "high energy density" hot air that makes fossil fuels appear "precious", rather than the biosphere killing poisons that they actually are. That is profit over planet stupidity.

I sincerely wish Palloy is right and I am wrong.

But, unlike Palloy, I live in the real world of cause and effect. Tesla understood people like Palloy. So do I.

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on June 26, 2018, 07:38:28 pm
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Despite Denial, Thirty Years of Climate Projections Still Match Observations

Saturday was the 30th anniversary of the day Dr. James Hansen famously testified to Congress on the dangers of climate change. A variety of great pieces that ran this week, from the AP, Guardian and others have shown how Dr. Hansen’s predictions back in 1988 have largely--and unfortunately--come true.

Deniers, of course, trumpeted otherwise. They’re wrong, but that didn’t stop the Wall Street Journal ran an op-ed on Friday from Cato’s Pat Michaels and Ryan Maue that claims because the Earth is “only modestly warmer,”  the “rapid warming [Hansen] predicted isn’t happening.”

Maue and Michaels point, obliquely, to the pause as an excuse, claiming that aside from the 2015-16 El Nino, temperature hasn’t increased since 2000. Not sure what data they’re looking at, because it definitely has. There’s also the fact that 2015 would have been record hot even without that year’s El Nino, and 2016 would not have been record hot without climate change. 

Pat Michaels, who once said he figures about 40% of his funding comes from fossil fuels, and Ryan Maue, who pretends not to be a denier but writes crap like this, make all sorts of other claims in the piece, with not much hard evidence.

Here, then, we’ll provide some. If you only click one link today, make it this post by blogger Tamino, who provides a very simple set of graphs showing Hansen’s forecast and observations. No big surprise, Hansen was right. (If you’d like something more technical about Hansen’s predictions, Real Climate has what you’re looking for.)

The AP’s Seth Borenstein talked with Hansen for a piece last week (part of a great AP series of stories) about how Hansen wishes he wasn’t so right. Borenstein offers some details Michaels and Maue conveniently ignore, along with some real-world implications of warming.

If you’d like a more qualitative judgement on Hansen’s prediction, or a video to watch, Yale’s Climate Connections talked to a number of climate experts who aren’t biased by fossil fuel funding like Michaels. (Spoiler alert: hey were all impressed with how “remarkably prescient” Hansen was.)

And finally, because Michaels and Maue also mention the IPCC models, it’s worth looking at Zeke Hausfather’s analysis last year for Carbon Brief of how well various models projected warming.

Take a look at all these thoughtful analyses, and then wonder why the Journal chose to include two different pictures of Hansen along with the op-ed, and not a single graph, chart, or visual comparison comparing and contrasting his forecast with what’s happened.

It’s almost like the Journal’s opinion editor knew such a graph would totally debunk the entire thrust of the op-ed. No doubt that was just an accidental oversight and not a sign that they’re being deliberately deceptive. It’s not like the Journal :evil4: would allow denial on its opinion page, right?  ;)

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on June 26, 2018, 10:38:07 pm
EcoWatch

By Olivia Rosane

Jun. 25, 2018 11:53AM EST

2,500 Forced to Flee as California Wildfire Season Heats Up 🔥

In 2017, the effects of drought and climate change led California to suffer its most destructive wildfire season in history, which caused $10 billion in damage and left 44 dead, according to The New York Times.

As summer begins, 2018 isn't starting out any easier for the Golden State. On Monday, authorities ordered the evacuation of 2,500 residents of a rural community in Spring Valley, California, out of fear a raging fire would cut it off, Reuters reported.

Spring Valley, about 100 miles northwest of Sacramento, is in danger from the Pawnee Fire, which jumped the only road leading to the small community, Lake County Sheriff's Office Emergency Services Manager Dale Carnathan told Reuters.

The Pawnee fire started Saturday in Clearlake Oaks, California and has burned 12 buildings and put another 600 at risk, The Associated Press reported Monday. It has been fanned by strong winds and high temperatures, according to Reuters.

"What we're stressing is that people, when they get the evacuation order, they heed it immediately and get out and stay out until it is safe to return," the state Department of Forestry and Fire Protection Battalion Chief Jonathan Cox told The Associated Press. "This is one of four large fires burning in Northern California. It's a good reminder that fire season is upon us."

As of Sunday, the Pawnee fire had not been contained and covered 12 square miles.

Firefighters have made more progress on the other three fires burning in the region. The Stoll Fire in Tehama County destroyed "multiple residential and commercial buildings," Cal Fire told The Associated Press. But it only burned across three-quarters of a mile and was halfway contained as of reporting Monday.

The Lane Fire, also in Tehama County, covered 5.5 square miles but did not burn any buildings, though it threatened 200 and prompted some evacuations. It was 10 percent contained. Another fire in Shasta County, the Creek Fire, prompted evacuations but did not cause any property damage. It covered 1.6 square miles and was 20 percent contained.

The fires come as California braces for another devastating fire season. There are 129 million dead trees in the state due to drought and a bark-beetle infestation that could provide fuel for fires, in addition to dry brush and other potential fuels, CNBC reported Friday. Wildfires in Southern California already forced thousands to evacuate Laguna Beach and Alison Viejo earlier in June.

A month ago, Cal Fire Deputy Chief Scott McLean told The New York Times his department had already fought 1,200 fires that burned 8,000 acres, whereas by the same time in 2017, they had fought 1,049 fires that had burned 2,200 acres.

"The new normal is already here. We don't even use 'new' anymore," McLean told The New York Times. "It's the reality. The fire season is expanding. The weather has changed. We don't even consider it a fire season anymore. In Southern California especially, it's year-round."

https://www.ecowatch.com/california-wildfires-summer-2018-2581218464.html

Agelbert NOTE: Do not hold your breath waiting for the Hydrocarbon Industry to be held, even partially, PAY for this forest wildlife and human community destoying EFFECT that THEY CAUSED by profiting from the burning of hydrocarbons. That isn't part of their "high energy density" ERoEI calculations...

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on June 26, 2018, 10:42:58 pm
Truthout

June 25, 2018

Area of Global Dead Zones Doubling Every 10 Years 😟

Dahr Jamail, Truthout: Oceanic dead zones -- areas of low oxygen that are caused by warming waters, human pollution and runoff from fertilizers used in industrial agriculture -- number more than 400, and are growing rapidly. These dead zones not only impact marine life but also fishing industries.



SNIPPET:

Impacts on Marine Life

Scavia described how organisms unable to swim away from the dead zones — like worms and other animals that many fish feed on — will die.

“Fish that can swim will avoid the dead zone, but that often forces them into habitats that are less suitable for them, resulting in slower growth,” Scavia said. “Sometimes the fish (especially shrimp) are forced into more confined areas, making them more vulnerable to predators, including human fishing nets.”

Rabalais added that the ocean’s ability to recover from dead zones can take time. “Improvement of oxygen conditions following excess nutrient flux may take years to decades,” she said.

Rota pointed out how the commercial fishing industry in the Gulf of Mexico is impacted negatively by the dead zone. “This has impacts on some of the key prey species in the gulf, such as shrimp, crabs and Atlantic croaker,” he said, while adding that the only dead zone larger than that in the Gulf of Mexico is one in the Baltic Sea.

Scavia said we should be concerned that thousands of square miles of water on Earth have low oxygen levels. “These regions are basically ‘taken out of production,’ and if this amount of land was taken out of production, there would be significant concern,” he explained. “These dead zones also put some of our most important fisheries at risk.

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https://truthout.org/articles/area-of-global-dead-zones-doubling-every-10-years/ (https://truthout.org/articles/area-of-global-dead-zones-doubling-every-10-years/)

This really, really does suck. It really makes me want to see it while it's still around. Even more, I mean. Perhaps if I knew the ocean was gonna be fine, I wouldn't want so badly to spend time in and around it. It's not like I don't fear it too. I do. I've seen the evidence now.


We are environmentally screwed, Eddie. I've got a few positive nuggets lined up for tomorrow but the negative stuff is there too and I feel compelled to post that tomorrow as well. Hasta Mañana, Compadre.
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on June 27, 2018, 06:33:14 pm
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Without getting into the argument, because not enough of it is explained, I would just like to say that the above chart does NOT come from IPCC AR5 as the label on it suggests. It appears to have been photoshopped.  Why I don't know, but this is an article I wouldn't believe based on the photoshopping alone.

Standing by for the abuse.

The chart was not "photoshopped. That chart is a  screenshot I TOOK from the short 2 minutes plus 43 seconds video you failed to watch. ;D 

Here's the video. The discussion in the video is actually a short abstract from a recent paper by Brown and Caldeira. The scientist talking is Doctor Brown, but either one of them knows a bit more about the IPCC RCP pathways than you do, to put it mildly. Take it up with one of these esteemed scientists if you think they were "faking" that chart data you are so erroneously unable to accept as reality based. Shame on you. 👎

https://youtu.be/8PdM9_cDL5Y (https://youtu.be/8PdM9_cDL5Y)

Here's an interesting post by Doctor Brown.

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Patrick T. Brown, PhD
Global temperature: 2018 likely to be colder than 2017, record high possible in 2019
Posted on January 18, 2018 by ptbrown31

We are working on a new statistical method for predicting interannual variability in global mean surface air temperature (GMST). The method uses the preceding few years of globally gridded temperature anomalies and Partial Least Squares regression to predict the GMST of the following couple of years. See our recent Nature paper (http://) for information on applying Partial Least Squares regression in a different climate context.

The plot below shows our forecast for 2017 (using no data from 2017) compared to the just-released 2017 value for the NASA GISTEMP dataset. We also show our forecast for 2018 and 2019 with 68% confidence intervals. The method suggests that 2018 is likely to be colder than 2017 but record warmth is ‘more-likely-than-not’ in 2019.


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Brown_GMST_Forecast_2018_2019

We are still in the midsts of sensitivity tests, the method is unpublished and it has not undergone peer review. Thus, these results should be considered to be part of a ‘beta version’ of our method.

Another caveat is that the method cannot possibly predict events like large volcanic eruptions which would drastically alter any annual GMST anomaly and invalidate our forecast.
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Here's another post with a lengthy video (Stanford Presentation by Doctor Brown) that you can try to discredit at your peril. ;D  Doctor Brown is head and shoulders above you in scientific knowledge, education and experience in objectively comparing different IPCC RCP model scenarios with empirically measured climate data.

Here's a Screenshot I just made from the video included in his post. Don't you DARE claim it is a "Photoshopped" chart.

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Combining Physical and Statistical Models in Order to Narrow Uncertainty in Projected Global Warming

Posted on January 19, 2018 by ptbrown31

Below is a presentation I gave on our recent research published in Nature titled “Greater future global warming inferred from Earth’s recent energy budget”. This was for the Stanford University Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Systems Colloquium (EE380). Thus, it is intended for a very technically-savvy but non-climate scientist audience.


https://youtu.be/-k6P87mLGpM (https://youtu.be/-k6P87mLGpM)
https://patricktbrown.org/ (https://patricktbrown.org/)

I don't need to abuse you, because you are too good at embarrassing yourself, "Professor" Palloy.

Not trying to bust your chops or question your personal bona fides. Thanks for setting me straight.

I'm not convinced that you're completely right about alcohol as a fuel. I'm listening to the argument with interest.

I KNOW you're much more widely read on the subject than I am, but I'm of the opinion that the EROEI for alcohol (from corn) is quite poor (as in just over 1).  I have read that alcohol from sugar cane has a much higher EROEI, maybe 8.

I wasn't aware of Edison's work on alcohol fuel, but remember, he's the guy who held out for DC transmission lines, so he wasn't always right.


You are welcome. I told all that about my edumecation ;D to RE back in 2012. I actually had three iterations of college fun and games. The first was mostly 2 years of pre-engineering followed by one year of Aviation.

In the second iteration I took Accounting and Business Adminsitration all the way up to, and including, Managerial Accounting. I know how to read corporate financial reports because of that those two years of accounting and other businees stuff. I KNOW GAAP. I KNOW how they have been thoroughly corrupted by Wall Street BULLSHIT.

I have the equivalent of an associate degree in computer science as well, from FAA lengthy computer science courses.

I don't genrally toot my horn like this but I was the only one in my Automation Department that could code in assembler language from memory, and without a mnemonics reference card.

So, why ain't I upper middle class or rich? The REASON I am not rolling in the doe is not something I wish to discuss, but my intelligence is not the reason I am not upper middle class. They had a nickname for me in the Automation Department. They used to call me lazer brain. Very few people on this planet are my equal in the cursed intelligence that forces me to think, think, analyze, and think some more about how and why this society is so SCREWED UP. I can see though bullshit, especially the pseudo-erudite brand that "Professor" Palloy specializes in.

I will never toot my horn here again. If people do not think I am credible, **** THEM. How's that for good Christian neighborly behavior?

I'll dig up some data on the ethanol issue and post it on my channel when I get to it. This is not the place for that discussion.

I have to tell you AG that my heart is with the animals and the remaining indigenous tribes. But it's not possible for me now to go and live in the Amazon. I think that I have already expressed my extreme dislike of the actions of the deep state and their corporatists. Also my disgust at living any longer in the US with all its lack of morality, civility, traditional virtues, etc. I mostly could never stand American popular culture, it's vulgarity, it's ignorance of anything truly beautiful. 

I don't have a clue as to how I could reduce my carbon footprint further. I haven't owned a motor vehicle for at least eight years. I use only public transportation run on electricity and not that often. I walk a lot for shopping. I buy local which is not under the aegis of the damned Kochs. I boycott anything Israeli. I did fly once more than a year ago to get here. I use as little utilities as possible in a land with abundant water. I am moving towards being vegan. The medical profession is now confronted with having to acknowledge that a plant based diet produces the healthiest life for humans not to mention reducing methane in the atmosphere . Not to say that everything here is perfect by any means, but it sure beats the hell out of California on every level. And I'm certainly NOT talking about Mexicans, legal or illegal, some of the sweetest people I have ever known. So what to do? What can be done? You said to me many years(by now) ago, "We do what we can". So I am!


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As long as you continue to do what you can, anybody that says you are not "doing enough" is full of ****. And you can tell them that Christian Anthony said so.  ;D

Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on June 27, 2018, 08:17:25 pm
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The Nuts and Bolts of Arctic Methane 🚩

https://youtu.be/3IgHCza0UFw

Paul Beckwith

Published on Jun 27, 2018

In this first of a series of videos on Arctic Methane, I get down to the nitty-gritty. I discuss natural and human-caused sources of methane, and how humans are even changing these natural sources with abrupt climate change. 

I highly recommend that you google “AMAP Arctic Methane” and download the comprehensive report to follow along as you watch this video and the ones to follow.

The risk of huge burps of methane in the Arctic are ever increasing from Arctic Temperature Amplification and accelerating sea ice loss.

Please support my work with a donation at http://paulbeckwith.net


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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on June 27, 2018, 09:35:03 pm
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AG: That chart is a  screenshot I TOOK from the short 2 minutes plus 43 seconds video you failed to watch.

I DID watch the Brown video and saw the photoshopped chart in it, so I wasn't suggesting YOU photoshopped it, Brown presumably did, hence my reluctance to believe what he says. For the record, here is the chart from IPCC AR5:

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The part we should be interested in is the RCP-2.6 part, not the RCP-8.5 part. Note that the mean in 2100 is about +1.7 C (with 90% of modeled results being in the range +0.1 - +2.6), which may be bad, but is nowhere near as bad as for RCP-8.5. RCP-2.6 is way worse than a Peak Oil collapse scenario as it has to provide for a Total Energy Production that increases steadily to 2010:

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Brown appears to be saying that MOST of the models gives results greater than the averages, which is absurd, so I don't think everything has been explained properly.

Anyway, my point was that that was not the IPCC AR5 chart, even though it was labeled as such, which is very suspicious.
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You are insulting Doctor Brown, you grossly ignorant, sad excuse for an eductated person. You should be banned for disingenuous BULLSHIT!

Anyone reading this, please visit Doctor Brown's page and inform him of what Palloy is saying if possible.

This is an OUTRAGE by Palloy!

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It’s easy to construct a persuasive argument, it’s much more difficult to figure out the truth… Patrick T. Brown, PhD

https://patricktbrown.org/ (https://patricktbrown.org/)

Patrick T. Brown, PhD

Curriculum vitae

 CURRENT POSITION

Carnegie Institution for Science, Stanford University
Postdoctoral Research Scientist (under Ken Caldeira)
EDUCATION

Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
Doctor of Philosophy, Earth and Ocean Science, 2016
San Jose State University, San Jose, California
Master of Science, Meteorology and Climate Science, 2012
University of Wisconsin – Madison, Madison, Wisconsin
Bachelor of Science, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, 2008

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 Patrick T. Brown, PhD Retweeted

Max Roser

@MaxCRoser
Recently @BillGates asked me which statistics we should all know if we want to understand how the world is changing.

Just now he published my answer on his personal website:https://www.gatesnotes.com/Development/Max-Roser-three-facts-everyone-should-know …
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on June 27, 2018, 09:36:22 pm
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Greater future global warming (still) inferred from Earth’s recent energy budget

Posted on December 21, 2017 by ptbrown31

SNIPPET:

We recently published a paper in Nature  (https://www.nature.com/articles/nature24672)in which we leveraged observations of the Earth’s radiative energy budget to statistically constrain 21st-century climate model projections of global warming. We found that observations of the Earth’s energy budget allow us to infer generally greater central estimates of future global warming and smaller spreads about those central estimates than the raw model simulations indicate. More background on the paper can be obtained from our blog post on the research.

Last week, Nic Lewis published a critique of our work on several blogs titled A closer look shows global warming will not be greater than we thought. We welcome scientifically-grounded critiques of our work since this is the fundamental way in which science advances. In this spirit, we would like to thank Nic Lewis for his appraisal. However, we find Lewis’ central criticisms to be lacking merit. As we elaborate on below, his arguments do not undermine the findings of the study.

Full lengthy article:

https://patricktbrown.org/2017/12/21/greater-future-global-warming-still-inferred-from-earths-recent-energy-budget/ (https://patricktbrown.org/2017/12/21/greater-future-global-warming-still-inferred-from-earths-recent-energy-budget/)



Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on June 27, 2018, 10:15:22 pm
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Greater future global warming (still) inferred from Earth’s recent energy budget


Posted on December 21, 2017 by Patrick T. Brown, PhD (ptbrown31)

We recently published a paper in Nature  (https://www.nature.com/articles/nature24672)in which we leveraged observations of the Earth’s radiative energy budget to statistically constrain 21st-century climate model projections of global warming. We found that observations of the Earth’s energy budget allow us to infer generally greater central estimates of future global warming and smaller spreads about those central estimates than the raw model simulations indicate. More background on the paper can be obtained from our blog post on the research.

Last week, Nic Lewis published a critique of our work on several blogs titled A closer look shows global warming will not be greater than we thought. We welcome scientifically-grounded critiques of our work since this is the fundamental way in which science advances. In this spirit, we would like to thank Nic Lewis for his appraisal. However, we find Lewis’ central criticisms to be lacking merit. As we elaborate on below, his arguments do not undermine the findings of the study.

Brief background

Under the ‘emergent constraint’ paradigm, statistical relationships between model-simulated features of the current climate system (predictor variables), along with observations of those features, are used to constrain a predictand. In our work, the predictand is the magnitude of future global warming simulated by climate models.

We chose predictor variables that were as fundamental and comprehensive as possible while still offering the potential for a straight-forward physical connection to the magnitude of future warming. In particular, we chose the full global spatial distribution of fundamental components of Earth’s top-of-atmosphere energy budget—its outgoing (that is, reflected) shortwave radiation (OSR), outgoing longwave radiation (OLR) and net downward energy imbalance (N). We investigated three currently observable attributes of these variables—mean climatology, the magnitude of the seasonal cycle, and the magnitude of monthly variability. We chose these attributes because previous studies have indicated that behavior of the Earth’s radiative energy budget on each of these timescales can be used to infer information on fast feedbacks in the climate system. The combination of these three attributes and the three variables (OSR, OLR and N) result in a total of nine global “predictor fields”. See FAQ #3  (https://patricktbrown.org/2017/11/29/greater-future-global-warming-inferred-from-earths-recent-energy-budget/)of our previous blog post for more information on our choice of predictor variables.

We used Partial Least Squares Regression (PLSR) to relate our predictor fields to predictands of future global warming. In PLSR we can use each of the nine predictor fields individually, or we can use all nine predictor fields simultaneously (collectively). We quantified our main results with “Prediction Ratio” and “Spread Ratio” metrics. The Prediction Ratio is the ratio of our observationally-informed central estimate of warming to the previous raw model average and the Spread Ratio is the ratio of the magnitude of our constrained spread to the magnitude of the raw model spread. Prediction Ratios greater than 1 suggest greater future warming and Spread Ratios below 1 suggest a reduction in spread about the central estimate.

Lewis’ 🦖 criticism

Lewis’ post expresses general skepticism of climate models and the ‘emergent constraint’ paradigm. There is much to say about both of these topics but we won’t go into them here. Instead, we will focus on Lewis’ criticism that applies specifically to our study.

We showed results associated with each of our nine predictor fields individually but we chose to emphasize the results associated with the influence of all of the predictor fields simultaneously. Lewis suggests that rather than focusing on the simultaneous predictor field, we should have focused on the results associated with the single predictor field that showed the most skill: The magnitude of the seasonal cycle in OLR. Lewis goes further to suggest that it would be useful to adjust our spatial domain in an attempt to search for an even stronger statistical relationship. Thus, Lewis is arguing that we actually undersold the strength of the constraints that we reported, not that we oversold their strength.

This is an unusual criticism for this type of analysis. Typically, criticisms in this vein would run in the opposite direction. Specifically, studies are often criticized for highlighting the single statistical relationship that appears to be the strongest while ignoring or downplaying weaker relationships that could have been discussed. Studies are correctly criticized for this tactic because the more relationships that are screened, the more likely it is that a researcher will be able to find a strong statistical association by chance, even if there is no true underlying relationship. Thus, we do not agree that it would have been more appropriate for us to highlight the results associated with the predictor field with the strongest statistical relationship (smallest Spread Ratio), rather than the results associated with the simultaneous predictor field. However, even if we were to follow this suggestion, it would not change our general conclusions regarding the magnitude of future warming.

We can use our full results, summarized in the table below (all utilizing 7 PLSR components), to look at how different choices, regarding the selection of predictor fields, would affect our conclusions.

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Lewis’ 🦖 post makes much of the fact that highlighting the results associated with the ‘magnitude of the seasonal cycle in OLR’, rather than the simultaneous predictor field, would reduce (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-311013201314.png&hash=0715eb72631014310634eb56176ff860c6d542f6) our central estimate of future warming in RCP8.5 from +14% to +6%. This is true but it is only one, very specific example. Asking more general questions gives a better sense of the big picture:

1) What is the mean Prediction Ratio across the end-of-century RCP predictands, if we use the OLR seasonal cycle predictor field exclusively? It is 1.15, implying a 15% increase in the central estimate of warming.

2) What is the mean Prediction Ratio across the end-of-century RCP predictands, if we always use the individual predictor field that had the lowest Spread Ratio for that particular RCP (boxed values)? It is 1.13, implying a 13% increase in the central estimate of warming.

3) What is the mean Prediction Ratio across the end-of-century RCP predictands, if we just average together the results from all the individual predictor fields? It is 1.16, implying a 16% increase in the central estimate of warming.

4) What is the mean Prediction Ratio across the end-of-century RCP predictands, if we always use the simultaneous predictor field? It is 1.15, implying a 15% increase in the central estimate of warming.

One point that is worth making here is that we do not use cross-validation in the multi-model average case (the denominator of the Spread Ratio). Each model’s own value is included in the multi-model average which gives the multi-model average an inherent advantage over the cross-validated PLSR estimate. We made this choice to be extra conservative but it means that PLSR is able to provide meaningful Prediction Ratios even when the Spread Ratio is near or slightly above 1. We have shown that when we supply the PLSR procedure with random data, Spread Ratios tend to be in the range of 1.1 to 1.3 (see FAQ #7 of our previous blog post, and Extended Data Fig. 4c of the paper). Nevertheless, it may be useful to ask the following question:

5) What is the mean Prediction Ratio across the end-of-century RCP predictands, if we average together the results from only those individual predictor fields with spread ratios below 1? It is 1.15, implying a 15% increase in the central estimate of warming.

So, all five of these general methods produce about a 15% increase in the central estimate of future warming.

Lewis also suggests that our results may be sensitive to choices of standardization technique. We standardized the predictors at the level of the predictor field because we wanted to retain information on across-model differences in the spatial structure of the magnitude of predictor variables. However, we can rerun the results when everything is standardized at the grid-level and ask the same questions as above.

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1b) What is the mean Prediction Ratio across the end-of-century RCPs if we use the OLR seasonal cycle predictor field exclusively? It is 1.15, implying a 15% increase in the central estimate of warming.

2b) What is the mean Prediction Ratio across the end-of-century RCPs if we always use the single predictor field that had the lowest Spread Ratio (boxed values)? It is 1.12, implying a 12% increase in the central estimate of warming.

3b) What is the mean Prediction Ratio across the end-of-century RCPs if we just average together the results from all the predictor fields? It is 1.14, implying a 14% increase in the central estimate of warming.

4b) What is the mean Prediction Ratio across the end-of-century RCPs if we always use the simultaneous predictor field? It is 1.14, implying a 14% increase in the central estimate of warming.

5b) What is the mean Prediction Ratio across the end-of-century RCP predictands if we average together the results from only those individual predictor fields with Spread Ratios below 1? It is 1.14, implying a 14% increase in the central estimate of warming.

Conclusion

There are several reasonable ways to summarize our results and they all imply greater future global warming in line with the values we highlighted in the paper. The only way to argue otherwise is to search out specific examples that run counter to the general results.

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Despite the fact that our results are robust to various methodological choices, it is useful to expand upon why we used the simultaneous predictor instead of the particular predictor that happened to produce the lowest Spread Ratio on any given predictand. The general idea can be illustrated with an example using synthetic data in which the precise nature of the predictor-predictand relationships are defined ahead of time. For this purpose, I have created synthetic data with the same dimensions as the data discussed in our study and in Lewis’ blog post:

1) A synthetic predictand vector of 36 “future warming” values corresponding to imaginary output from 36 climate models. In this case, the “future warming” values are just 36 random numbers pulled from a Gaussian distribution.

2) A synthetic set of nine predictor fields (37 latitudes by 72 longitudes) associated with each of the 36 models. Each model’s nine synthetic predictor fields start with that model’s predictand value entered at every grid location. Thus, at this preliminary stage, every location in every predictor field is a perfect predictor of future warming. That is, the across-model correlation between the predictor and the “future warming” predictand is 1 and the regression slope is also 1.

The next step in creating the synthetic predictor fields is to add noise in order to obscure the predictor-predictand relationship somewhat. The first level of noise that is added is a spatially correlated field of weighing factors for each of the nine predictor maps. These weighing factor maps randomly enhance or damp the local magnitude of the map’s values (weighing factors can be positive or negative). After these weighing factors have been applied, every location for every predictor field still has a perfect across-model correlation (or perfect negative correlation) between the predictor and predictand but the regression slopes vary across space according to the magnitude of the weighing factors. The second level of noise that is added are spatially correlated fields of random numbers that are specific for each of the 9X36=324 predictor maps. At this point, everything is standardized to unit variance.

The synthetic data’s predictor-predictand relationship can be summarized in the plot below which shows the local across-model correlation coefficient (between predictor and predictand) for each of the nine predictor fields. These plots are similar to the type of thing that you would see using the real model data that we used in our study. Specifically, in both cases, there are swaths of relatively high correlations and anti-correlations with plenty of low-correlation area in between. All these predictor fields were produced the same way and the only differences arise from the two layers of random noise that were added. Thus, we know that any apparent differences between the predictor fields arose by random chance.

(https://patricktbrown.files.wordpress.com/2017/12/picture3.png?w=768)

Next, we can feed this synthetic data into the same PLSR procedure that we used in our study to see what it produces. The Spread Ratios are shown in the bar graphs below. Spread Ratios are shown for each of the nine predictor fields individually as well for the case where all nine predictor fields are used simultaneously. The top plot shows results without the use of cross-validation while the bottom plot shows results with the use of cross-validation.

(https://patricktbrown.files.wordpress.com/2017/12/picture4.png?w=768)

In the case without cross-validation, there is no guard against over-fitting. Thus, PLSR is able to utilize the many degrees of freedom in the predictor fields to create coefficients that fit predictors to the predictand exceptionally well. This is why the Spread Ratios are so small in the top bar plot. The mean Spread Ratio for the nine predictor fields in the top bar plot is 0.042, implying that the PLSR procedure was able to reduce the spread of the predictand by about 96%. Notably, using all the predictor fields simultaneously results in a three-orders-of-magnitude smaller Spread Ratio than using any of the predictor fields individually. This indicates that when there is no guard against over-fitting, much stronger relationships can be achieved by providing the PLSR procedure with more information.

However, PLSR is more than capable of over-fitting predictors to predictands and thus these small Spread Ratios are not to be taken seriously. In our work, we guard against over-fitting by using cross-validation (see FAQ #1 of our blog post). The Spread Ratios for the synthetic data using cross-validation are shown in the lower bar graph in the figure above. It is apparent that cross-validation makes a big difference. With cross-validation, the mean Spread Ratio across the nine individual predictor fields is 0.8, meaning that the average predictor field could help reduce the spread in the predictand by about 20%. Notably, a lower Spread Ratio of 0.54, is achieved when all nine predictor maps are used collectively (a 46% reduction in spread). Since there is much redundancy across the nine predictor fields, the simultaneous predictor field doesn’t increase skill very drastically but it is still better than the average of the individual predictor fields (this is a very consistent result when the entire exercise is re-run many times).

Importantly, we can even see that one particular predictor field (predictor field 2) achieved a lower Spread Ratio than the simultaneous predictor field. This brings us to the central question: Is predictor field 2 particularly special or inherently more useful as a predictor than the simultaneous predictor field? We created these nine synthetic predictor fields specifically so that they all contained roughly the same amount of information and any differences that arose, came about simply by random chance. There is an element of luck at play because the number of models (37) is small. Thus, cross-validation can produce appreciable Spread Ratio variability from predictor to predictor simply by chance. Combining the predictors reduces the Spread Ratio, but only marginally due to large redundancies in the predictors.

We apply this same logic to the results from our paper. As we stated above, our results showed that the simultaneous predictor field for the RCP 8.5 scenario shows a Spread Ratio of 0.67. Similar to the synthetic data case, eight of the nine individual predictor fields yielded Spread Ratios above this value but a single predictor field (the OLR seasonal cycle) yielded a smaller Spread Ratio. Lewis’ post argues that we should focus entirely on the OLR seasonal cycle because of this. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-220216203149.gif&hash=bd184b6edccce4045e246847a0c84e89bd5a18b6) However, just as in the synthetic data case, our interpretation is that the OLR seasonal cycle predictor may have just gotten lucky and we should not take its superior skill too seriously.  ;D

https://patricktbrown.org/2017/12/21/greater-future-global-warming-still-inferred-from-earths-recent-energy-budget/ (https://patricktbrown.org/2017/12/21/greater-future-global-warming-still-inferred-from-earths-recent-energy-budget/)

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on June 28, 2018, 12:36:40 pm
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AG: You are insulting Doctor Brown, you grossly ignorant, sad excuse for an eductated person. You should be banned for disingenuous BULLSHIT!

Anyone reading this, please visit Doctor Brown's page and inform him of what Palloy is saying if possible.

This is an OUTRAGE by Palloy!

Unfortunately you don't say WHY this is outrageous.

I have demonstrated that the image in the video is NOT from IPCC AR5, even though it is labeled as such.  You are now trying to drag me into an argument over whose models are "better" than others, when IPCC does that and presents them a
ll.

Two thoughts: @Palloy, as I recall, and unless I missed the post, you asserted that the graph in question was not from IPCC. Have you in fact demonstrated that? I recall finding that assertion interesting, but I don’t recall seeing any proof. If you have demonstrated it, please point me to the post, because I missed it.

@Agelbert: please argue the point not the man. No more ad hom.  Name calling makes the color look positively Trumpian.   I really enjoy the debate, although I don’t fully understand them, but can clearly do without the “your sister **** goats“ portion of the program.

👍 👍 👍

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Greater future global warming (still) inferred from Earth’s recent energy budget


Posted on December 21, 2017 by Patrick T. Brown, PhD (ptbrown31)

We recently published a paper in Nature  (https://www.nature.com/articles/nature24672)in which we leveraged observations of the Earth’s radiative energy budget to statistically constrain 21st-century climate model projections of global warming. We found that observations of the Earth’s energy budget allow us to infer generally greater central estimates of future global warming and smaller spreads about those central estimates than the raw model simulations indicate. More background on the paper can be obtained from our blog post on the research.

Last week, Nic Lewis published a critique of our work on several blogs titled A closer look shows global warming will not be greater than we thought. We welcome scientifically-grounded critiques of our work since this is the fundamental way in which science advances. In this spirit, we would like to thank Nic Lewis for his appraisal. However, we find Lewis’ central criticisms to be lacking merit. As we elaborate on below, his arguments do not undermine the findings of the study.

Brief background

Under the ‘emergent constraint’ paradigm, statistical relationships between model-simulated features of the current climate system (predictor variables), along with observations of those features, are used to constrain a predictand. In our work, the predictand is the magnitude of future global warming simulated by climate models.

We chose predictor variables that were as fundamental and comprehensive as possible while still offering the potential for a straight-forward physical connection to the magnitude of future warming. In particular, we chose the full global spatial distribution of fundamental components of Earth’s top-of-atmosphere energy budget—its outgoing (that is, reflected) shortwave radiation (OSR), outgoing longwave radiation (OLR) and net downward energy imbalance (N). We investigated three currently observable attributes of these variables—mean climatology, the magnitude of the seasonal cycle, and the magnitude of monthly variability. We chose these attributes because previous studies have indicated that behavior of the Earth’s radiative energy budget on each of these timescales can be used to infer information on fast feedbacks in the climate system. The combination of these three attributes and the three variables (OSR, OLR and N) result in a total of nine global “predictor fields”. See FAQ #3  (https://patricktbrown.org/2017/11/29/greater-future-global-warming-inferred-from-earths-recent-energy-budget/)of our previous blog post for more information on our choice of predictor variables.

We used Partial Least Squares Regression (PLSR) to relate our predictor fields to predictands of future global warming. In PLSR we can use each of the nine predictor fields individually, or we can use all nine predictor fields simultaneously (collectively). We quantified our main results with “Prediction Ratio” and “Spread Ratio” metrics. The Prediction Ratio is the ratio of our observationally-informed central estimate of warming to the previous raw model average and the Spread Ratio is the ratio of the magnitude of our constrained spread to the magnitude of the raw model spread. Prediction Ratios greater than 1 suggest greater future warming and Spread Ratios below 1 suggest a reduction in spread about the central estimate.

Lewis’ 🦖 criticism

Lewis’ post expresses general skepticism of climate models and the ‘emergent constraint’ paradigm. There is much to say about both of these topics but we won’t go into them here. Instead, we will focus on Lewis’ criticism that applies specifically to our study.

We showed results associated with each of our nine predictor fields individually but we chose to emphasize the results associated with the influence of all of the predictor fields simultaneously. Lewis suggests that rather than focusing on the simultaneous predictor field, we should have focused on the results associated with the single predictor field that showed the most skill: The magnitude of the seasonal cycle in OLR. Lewis goes further to suggest that it would be useful to adjust our spatial domain in an attempt to search for an even stronger statistical relationship. Thus, Lewis is arguing that we actually undersold the strength of the constraints that we reported, not that we oversold their strength.

This is an unusual criticism for this type of analysis. Typically, criticisms in this vein would run in the opposite direction. Specifically, studies are often criticized for highlighting the single statistical relationship that appears to be the strongest while ignoring or downplaying weaker relationships that could have been discussed. Studies are correctly criticized for this tactic because the more relationships that are screened, the more likely it is that a researcher will be able to find a strong statistical association by chance, even if there is no true underlying relationship. Thus, we do not agree that it would have been more appropriate for us to highlight the results associated with the predictor field with the strongest statistical relationship (smallest Spread Ratio), rather than the results associated with the simultaneous predictor field. However, even if we were to follow this suggestion, it would not change our general conclusions regarding the magnitude of future warming.

We can use our full results, summarized in the table below (all utilizing 7 PLSR components), to look at how different choices, regarding the selection of predictor fields, would affect our conclusions.

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Lewis’ 🦖 post makes much of the fact that highlighting the results associated with the ‘magnitude of the seasonal cycle in OLR’, rather than the simultaneous predictor field, would reduce (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-311013201314.png&hash=0715eb72631014310634eb56176ff860c6d542f6)
our central estimate of future warming in RCP8.5 from +14% to +6%.
This is true but it is only one, very specific example. Asking more general questions gives a better sense of the big picture:

1) What is the mean Prediction Ratio across the end-of-century RCP predictands, if we use the OLR seasonal cycle predictor field exclusively? It is 1.15, implying a 15% increase in the central estimate of warming.

2) What is the mean Prediction Ratio across the end-of-century RCP predictands, if we always use the individual predictor field that had the lowest Spread Ratio for that particular RCP (boxed values)? It is 1.13, implying a 13% increase in the central estimate of warming.

3) What is the mean Prediction Ratio across the end-of-century RCP predictands, if we just average together the results from all the individual predictor fields? It is 1.16, implying a 16% increase in the central estimate of warming.

4) What is the mean Prediction Ratio across the end-of-century RCP predictands, if we always use the simultaneous predictor field? It is 1.15, implying a 15% increase in the central estimate of warming.

One point that is worth making here is that we do not use cross-validation in the multi-model average case (the denominator of the Spread Ratio). Each model’s own value is included in the multi-model average which gives the multi-model average an inherent advantage over the cross-validated PLSR estimate. We made this choice to be extra conservative but it means that PLSR is able to provide meaningful Prediction Ratios even when the Spread Ratio is near or slightly above 1. We have shown that when we supply the PLSR procedure with random data, Spread Ratios tend to be in the range of 1.1 to 1.3 (see FAQ #7 of our previous blog post, and Extended Data Fig. 4c of the paper). Nevertheless, it may be useful to ask the following question:

5) What is the mean Prediction Ratio across the end-of-century RCP predictands, if we average together the results from only those individual predictor fields with spread ratios below 1? It is 1.15, implying a 15% increase in the central estimate of warming.

So, all five of these general methods produce about a 15% increase in the central estimate of future warming.

Lewis also suggests that our results may be sensitive to choices of standardization technique. We standardized the predictors at the level of the predictor field because we wanted to retain information on across-model differences in the spatial structure of the magnitude of predictor variables. However, we can rerun the results when everything is standardized at the grid-level and ask the same questions as above.

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1b) What is the mean Prediction Ratio across the end-of-century RCPs if we use the OLR seasonal cycle predictor field exclusively? It is 1.15, implying a 15% increase in the central estimate of warming.

2b) What is the mean Prediction Ratio across the end-of-century RCPs if we always use the single predictor field that had the lowest Spread Ratio (boxed values)? It is 1.12, implying a 12% increase in the central estimate of warming.

3b) What is the mean Prediction Ratio across the end-of-century RCPs if we just average together the results from all the predictor fields? It is 1.14, implying a 14% increase in the central estimate of warming.

4b) What is the mean Prediction Ratio across the end-of-century RCPs if we always use the simultaneous predictor field? It is 1.14, implying a 14% increase in the central estimate of warming.

5b) What is the mean Prediction Ratio across the end-of-century RCP predictands if we average together the results from only those individual predictor fields with Spread Ratios below 1? It is 1.14, implying a 14% increase in the central estimate of warming.

Conclusion

There are several reasonable ways to summarize our results and they all imply greater future global warming in line with the values we highlighted in the paper. The only way to argue otherwise is to search out specific examples that run counter to the general results.

Appendix: Example using synthetic data  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-080515182559.png&hash=d4dfa952fa0f817bf30a8059a4c88d6fb05ee1bf) (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-080515182559.png&hash=d4dfa952fa0f817bf30a8059a4c88d6fb05ee1bf) (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-080515182559.png&hash=d4dfa952fa0f817bf30a8059a4c88d6fb05ee1bf)

Despite the fact that our results are robust to various methodological choices, it is useful to expand upon why we used the simultaneous predictor instead of the particular predictor that happened to produce the lowest Spread Ratio on any given predictand. The general idea can be illustrated with an example using synthetic data in which the precise nature of the predictor-predictand relationships are defined ahead of time. For this purpose, I have created synthetic data with the same dimensions as the data discussed in our study and in Lewis’ blog post:

1) A synthetic predictand vector of 36 “future warming” values corresponding to imaginary output from 36 climate models. In this case, the “future warming” values are just 36 random numbers pulled from a Gaussian distribution.

2) A synthetic set of nine predictor fields (37 latitudes by 72 longitudes) associated with each of the 36 models. Each model’s nine synthetic predictor fields start with that model’s predictand value entered at every grid location. Thus, at this preliminary stage, every location in every predictor field is a perfect predictor of future warming. That is, the across-model correlation between the predictor and the “future warming” predictand is 1 and the regression slope is also 1.

The next step in creating the synthetic predictor fields is to add noise in order to obscure the predictor-predictand relationship somewhat. The first level of noise that is added is a spatially correlated field of weighing factors for each of the nine predictor maps. These weighing factor maps randomly enhance or damp the local magnitude of the map’s values (weighing factors can be positive or negative). After these weighing factors have been applied, every location for every predictor field still has a perfect across-model correlation (or perfect negative correlation) between the predictor and predictand but the regression slopes vary across space according to the magnitude of the weighing factors. The second level of noise that is added are spatially correlated fields of random numbers that are specific for each of the 9X36=324 predictor maps. At this point, everything is standardized to unit variance.

The synthetic data’s predictor-predictand relationship can be summarized in the plot below which shows the local across-model correlation coefficient (between predictor and predictand) for each of the nine predictor fields. These plots are similar to the type of thing that you would see using the real model data that we used in our study. Specifically, in both cases, there are swaths of relatively high correlations and anti-correlations with plenty of low-correlation area in between. All these predictor fields were produced the same way and the only differences arise from the two layers of random noise that were added. Thus, we know that any apparent differences between the predictor fields arose by random chance.

(https://patricktbrown.files.wordpress.com/2017/12/picture3.png?w=768)

Next, we can feed this synthetic data into the same PLSR procedure that we used in our study to see what it produces. The Spread Ratios are shown in the bar graphs below. Spread Ratios are shown for each of the nine predictor fields individually as well for the case where all nine predictor fields are used simultaneously. The top plot shows results without the use of cross-validation while the bottom plot shows results with the use of cross-validation.

(https://patricktbrown.files.wordpress.com/2017/12/picture4.png?w=768)

In the case without cross-validation, there is no guard against over-fitting. Thus, PLSR is able to utilize the many degrees of freedom in the predictor fields to create coefficients that fit predictors to the predictand exceptionally well. This is why the Spread Ratios are so small in the top bar plot. The mean Spread Ratio for the nine predictor fields in the top bar plot is 0.042, implying that the PLSR procedure was able to reduce the spread of the predictand by about 96%. Notably, using all the predictor fields simultaneously results in a three-orders-of-magnitude smaller Spread Ratio than using any of the predictor fields individually. This indicates that when there is no guard against over-fitting, much stronger relationships can be achieved by providing the PLSR procedure with more information.

However, PLSR is more than capable of over-fitting predictors to predictands and thus these small Spread Ratios are not to be taken seriously. In our work, we guard against over-fitting by using cross-validation (see FAQ #1 of our blog post). The Spread Ratios for the synthetic data using cross-validation are shown in the lower bar graph in the figure above. It is apparent that cross-validation makes a big difference. With cross-validation, the mean Spread Ratio across the nine individual predictor fields is 0.8, meaning that the average predictor field could help reduce the spread in the predictand by about 20%. Notably, a lower Spread Ratio of 0.54, is achieved when all nine predictor maps are used collectively (a 46% reduction in spread). Since there is much redundancy across the nine predictor fields, the simultaneous predictor field doesn’t increase skill very drastically but it is still better than the average of the individual predictor fields (this is a very consistent result when the entire exercise is re-run many times).

Importantly, we can even see that one particular predictor field (predictor field 2) achieved a lower Spread Ratio than the simultaneous predictor field. This brings us to the central question: Is predictor field 2 particularly special or inherently more useful as a predictor than the simultaneous predictor field? We created these nine synthetic predictor fields specifically so that they all contained roughly the same amount of information and any differences that arose, came about simply by random chance. There is an element of luck at play because the number of models (37) is small. Thus, cross-validation can produce appreciable Spread Ratio variability from predictor to predictor simply by chance. Combining the predictors reduces the Spread Ratio, but only marginally due to large redundancies in the predictors.

We apply this same logic to the results from our paper. As we stated above, our results showed that the simultaneous predictor field for the RCP 8.5 scenario shows a Spread Ratio of 0.67. Similar to the synthetic data case, eight of the nine individual predictor fields yielded Spread Ratios above this value but a single predictor field (the OLR seasonal cycle) yielded a smaller Spread Ratio. Lewis’ post argues that we should focus entirely on the OLR seasonal cycle because of this. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-220216203149.gif&hash=bd184b6edccce4045e246847a0c84e89bd5a18b6) However, just as in the synthetic data case, our interpretation is that the OLR seasonal cycle predictor may have just gotten lucky and we should not take its superior skill too seriously.  ;D

https://patricktbrown.org/2017/12/21/greater-future-global-warming-still-inferred-from-earths-recent-energy-budget/ (https://patricktbrown.org/2017/12/21/greater-future-global-warming-still-inferred-from-earths-recent-energy-budget/)

Smileys added by Agelbert. Don't blame Dr. Brown! ;D

Surly, it is ourageous and insulting, not to me, but to Dr. Brown, for Palloy to claim his analysis of the IPCC RCP various scenarios is "absurd".

As to cotinuing this quixotic debate with Confirmation Bias Palloy,  I'll think about, it, but I believe I have already made my points clear enough to those who are objective about which of the two threats is greater, "Collapse" from Peak Hydrocarbons or death dealing massive pollution from their continued profit over planet use.

I am done with "Professor" Palloy. I am sure he is not done with me, as his latest bit of mockery (He said he is going to use my old nickname, "lazer brain", IN QUOTES of course (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-311013201314.png&hash=0715eb72631014310634eb56176ff860c6d542f6)).  👎  👎  👎 
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on June 28, 2018, 12:39:44 pm
Patrick T. Brown, PhD

Curriculum vitae

 CURRENT POSITION

Carnegie Institution for Science, Stanford University
Postdoctoral Research Scientist (under Ken Caldeira)
EDUCATION

Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
Doctor of Philosophy, Earth and Ocean Science, 2016
San Jose State University, San Jose, California
Master of Science, Meteorology and Climate Science, 2012
University of Wisconsin – Madison, Madison, Wisconsin
Bachelor of Science, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, 2008

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Just now he published my answer on his personal website:https://www.gatesnotes.com/Development/Max-Roser-three-facts-everyone-should-know …

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Greater future global warming (still) inferred from Earth’s recent energy budget

Posted on December 21, 2017 by ptbrown31

SNIPPET:

We recently published a paper in Nature  (https://www.nature.com/articles/nature24672)in which we leveraged observations of the Earth’s radiative energy budget to statistically constrain 21st-century climate model projections of global warming. We found that observations of the Earth’s energy budget allow us to infer generally greater central estimates of future global warming and smaller spreads about those central estimates than the raw model simulations indicate. More background on the paper can be obtained from our blog post on the research.

Last week, Nic Lewis published a critique of our work on several blogs titled A closer look shows global warming will not be greater than we thought. We welcome scientifically-grounded critiques of our work since this is the fundamental way in which science advances. In this spirit, we would like to thank Nic Lewis for his appraisal. However, we find Lewis’ central criticisms to be lacking merit. As we elaborate on below, his arguments do not undermine the findings of the study.

Full lengthy article:

https://patricktbrown.org/2017/12/21/greater-future-global-warming-still-inferred-from-earths-recent-energy-budget/ (https://patricktbrown.org/2017/12/21/greater-future-global-warming-still-inferred-from-earths-recent-energy-budget/)


Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on June 28, 2018, 03:32:33 pm
CO2 traps heat by continually absorbing and releasing it until it finally gets to space.  The effect can be measured and a mathematical model could be built to show average warming to high accuracy.  On the earth other variables such as cloud cover will affect how warming manifests locally.  Anybody who would actually do the work would be a fool and likely assassinated so instead mountains of obfuscation hides a truth that could easily be modeled by a second order differential equation.

An analog computer from the fifties could do it.
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The physics behind the problem have been known for a 100 years.  All some mathematicians have to do is make a model of the atmosphere and 'illuminate' it with a stimulus which models solar radiation inputs.  In an analog computer that would modeled by a series of voltages.  Several voltages would account for different frequencies of solar radiation.  A fixed percentage of solar radiation from each band is turned into heat by a resistive divider.  The heat signals are summed together and passed up thorough the atmosphere simulation.

Heat is continually caught and released as it travels through the atmosphere but eventually finds its way into space.  The more it bounces around before it gets a clear shot off the planet determines how much the atmosphere warms.  The method described produces a graph of retained heat as a function of CO2 concentration.  This graph of values could then be used in weather predictors to see what happens. 

A Monte Carlo analysis of predictions could produce a series of stepwise approximations to determine a new steady state.   This would allow us to know how bad thermogeddon will be.

https://barringtonstewart.wordpress.com/thermogeddon-when-the-earth-gets-too-hot-for-humans/ (https://barringtonstewart.wordpress.com/thermogeddon-when-the-earth-gets-too-hot-for-humans/)

Parts of the Earth could start to become uninhabitable within a century. Surely it cannot be true?

Belong caught in trivia is the game 'they' want you to play because that cultivates doubt.  Yesterday's political production of fear has run its course.  Now a switch is being made to emphasize doubt until fear regains potency.  Doubt is divide and conquer so don't play! 

Or we can all pretend the problem is really complicated and have nothing to do with it on a personal level.  We can all talk **** about it if we all do that.  That being the easiest thing to do will be the way it rolls.

In my dreams I see a club of nerds and one of them has added a methane gas model to simulate the effect of arctic methane release.  He is going to release it into the model both slowly and all at once to see if there is a difference at Tuesdays meeting.  The final steady state being the same he won't see any once things settle down.  That will be true for the earth as well though for humans it makes a lot of difference it thermogeddon comes on quickly or slowly.

Doing such a simulation would be far too useful.  Consequently it must never be done!



Let's talk about what is applicable to this debate. I appreciate the fact that you are objective enough to not point out my frequent spelling errors. Anyone that does that, instead of arguing the issues, is deliberately creating an Ad Hominum distraction.

Since you (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-080515182559.png&hash=d4dfa952fa0f817bf30a8059a4c88d6fb05ee1bf) are not into disingenuos distractions, I will debate the CO2 issue with you briefly.

As you know, CO2 is a tri-atomic molecule. Tri-atomic molecules (e.g. H2O), due to their covalent bond nature (varying electronegativity in the molecular electron cloud topography) to absorb energy in some frequencies in the Infrared Band.

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CO2 and other molecules with a similar structure (e.g. O3, H2O) insulate the earth. This greenhouse effect keeps the earth’s surface temperature at a habitable level of about 14 °C (57°F) instead of the temperature -19 °C (-2.2 °F) which it would have without the atmosphere absorbing the radiated IR. Thus, the greenhouse accounts for approximately a
33°C (59°F) warming (Le Treut et al., 2007). By trapping energy, the greenhouse heats the earth and its atmosphere by raising the radiative equilibrium.

http://jvarekamp.web.wesleyan.edu/public_htmlA/public_htmlA/CO2/FP-1.pdf (http://jvarekamp.web.wesleyan.edu/public_htmlA/public_htmlA/CO2/FP-1.pdf)

Your statement, "CO2 traps heat by continually absorbing and releasing it until it finally gets to space." omits 
a very import frequency changing aspect of CO2 gas. It absorbs energy in higher bands and emits energy at a much lower IR frequency. That heat energy, due to being of such a low frequency, cannot ever get into space. That is why we have such a huge global Warming problem with GHG pollution from the burning of hydrocarbons.

At the end of this post I will provide additonal quotes about CO2 atmospheric chemistry.

Other atmospheric variables that decrease surface heat that you mentioned, such as cloud cover, don't actually come into play when the overall average temperature of the atmosphere is figured, though they do affect surface temperatures, as global dimming caused by particulates from hydrocarbon burning pollution also do now. That is because virtually all the higher energy coming in the atmosphere, except for the very highest levels, where O3 sends some heat energy back into space (O3 at the surface sends nada back into space), has already been converted into an IR frequency without the power to get back into space. It is here.

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Many people incorrectly assume that once we stop making greenhouse gas emissions, the CO2 will be drawn out of the air, the old equilibrium will be re-established and the climate of the planet will go back to the way it used to be; just like the way the acid rain problem was solved once scrubbers were put on smoke stacks, or the way lead pollution disappeared once we changed to unleaded gasoline. This misinterpretation can lead to complacency about the need to act now. In fact, global warming is, on human timescales, here forever. The truth is that the damage we have done—and continue to do—to the climate system cannot be undone.

And it is here for centuries, not a decade or so. The above quote and the following one, from a 2013 well referenced article, explains:

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Since the Industrial Revolution, CO2 from our burning of fossil fuels has been building up in the atmosphere. The concentration of CO2 is now approaching 400 parts per million (ppm), up from 280 ppm prior to 1800. If we were to stop all emissions immediately, the CO2 concentration would also start to decline immediately, with some of the gas continuing to be absorbed into the oceans and smaller amounts being taken up by carbon sinks on land.

According to the models of the carbon cycle, the level of CO2  (the red line in Figure 1A) would have dropped to about 340 ppm by 2300, approximately the same level as it was in 1980. In the next 300 years, therefore, nature will have recouped the last 30 years of our emissions.

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As dire as the above quotes sound, the article is actually overly optimistic. As of 2013, it was believed that, IF we stopped TOTALLY any and all human industrial hydrocarbon burning caused addition of CO2 to the atmoshere, the temperature would remain where it was, due to natural processes that absorb CO2.

As of 2017, scientists like Dr. Brown (and others) have made clear that the heat in the Global Warming pipeline has been grossly underestimated.

Also, even if the "Collapse from ZERO availability of cheap hydrocarbons to burn will save us" meme was true, no IPCC scenario addresses that. They ALL count on a certain amount of hydrocarbons to burn. The rosy scenarios count on technology for capturing and sequestering CO2 that, as the International Space Station evidences, cannot get the ppm of CO2 back to 280 ppm. The best they can do in nuclear submarines and space is about 4,000 ppm CO2. Astronauts have headache issues. Ya don't say? The Planet's Biosphere is starting to have them too, to put it mildly.

Even the RCP 8.5 "business as Usual" scenario is too conservative, though RCP 8.5 (that 8.5 means radiative forcing in W/m2) is, according to the Brown and Caldeira peer reviewed paper published in Nature, the one that best fits empirical observations.

There is no way in God's good Earth that this planet's increasingly over-heated atmosphere is going to recover for at least 300 years, even if we had stopped buring hydrocarbons as of 2013. It is now 2018. It is now a lot worse. Three hundred years is a long time, K-Dog.

More technical stuff on Carbon Dioxide Gas:

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Much attention has been given to the CO2 absorption band at 15 microns because this absorption peak has high absorptivity placed in the far-IR region, and the paramitization of its effects have been comparably easy to quantify (Fomichev et al., 1993; Fomichev & Turner, 1998; Kiehl & Briegleb, 1991).

Carbon dioxide, though, also absorbs radiation in near-IR (NIR) bands between 1.05-4.3 µm. When a CO2 molecule absorbs NIR radiation it is excited to the v3 (anti-symmetric) mode. Using the more realistic model of non-local thermodynamic equilibrium (non-LTE), the energy is redistributed by emission in the NIR bands, and converted into thermal energy by colliding with other molecules, or de-excited to the v2 (bending) mode. The v2 energy is either emitted as a photon of lower frequency or it is converted to thermal energy by colliding with other molecules (Figure 3).

In lower altitudes where pressure is higher, more energy is converted to thermal energy due to more frequent collisions with other molecules such as N2. (López-Puertas & López-Valverde, 1990; Fomichev et al., 2004;
Ogibalov & Fomichev, 2003)

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There are three general vibrations for a CO2 molecule:

a symmetric mode,
 
a bending mode,

and an asymmetric mode (Figure 1).

Each mode is able to absorb certain bands of wavelengths, with the bending mode absorbing longer wavelengths (667 cm-1) and the asymmetric absorbing shorter wavelengths, 2349 cm-1 (Figure 2). (Kverno)

Ultimately, the energy from the photon has two pathways.

It can either be converted into thermal energy by the conversion of the internal kinetic energy of the CO2 molecule to the kinetic energy of a different, inert molecule such as N2. Or the molecule can reemit a photon at a lower frequency.

CO2 and other molecules with a similar structure (e.g. O3, H2O) insulate the earth.

http://jvarekamp.web.wesleyan.edu/public_htmlA/public_htmlA/CO2/FP-1.pdf (http://jvarekamp.web.wesleyan.edu/public_htmlA/public_htmlA/CO2/FP-1.pdf)

Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on June 28, 2018, 03:39:08 pm
So, why ain't I upper middle class or rich? The REASON I am not rolling in the doe is not something I wish to discuss, but my intelligence is not the reason I am not upper middle class.

Anybody who's been around the block knows damn well that affluence is not a function of intelligence. Sometimes I think it's a major impediment. Not that affluence was ever your goal (I know it wasn't).

Affluenza is not my disease either, although some people seem to think so. Actually, my goal is simply to prosper in the coming hard times and hopefully help my kids and grandkids (hope springs eternal). I hope for the best and don't at all expect it. Like GO, I've been poor. I can do poor if I need to, and I'm not expecting that I won't need to, at some point.

I never expected anybody to help me in life. But several people did, and I give them a lot of thanks, even though most of them are long gone now. I've always been lucky.

Karma of Luck. Dharma of Hard Work. I don't think it's an accident that our little Diner group is here, watching the world end.

I don't believe in coincidences. Where some people see nothing but randomness, I see elegant patterns. I don't always understand them.

Thank you. I too do not believe in coincidences.

Eddie, I appeal to you, a person who survived the gruelling mess of 23 plus credit hours of college punishment, to carefully read what Dr. Brown has said. If you are unfamiliar with some term just please look it up.

That's what I did with some of the terms in the article until I figured out exactly where the clever scientist trying undermine Brown's paper was coming from.

The whole point, which I have tried to make for YEARS on this forum, to moslty deaf ears, is that the IPCC RCP 8.5 is the closest one to reality, even if it is too conservative. I held this view long before Dr. Brown did, but not have the credentials or the scientific tools to make my case, I would post items from those who did.

RCP 8.5 is ANATHEMA to the fossil fuel industry and the denier shills they fund BECAUSE it forces TPTB to DO something about Global Warming. So, I understand why all shills, like the scientist Lewis, go ballistic every time RCP 8.5 is presented, in a peer reviewed paper, as the best fit.
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on June 28, 2018, 03:42:25 pm
I fully expect that human created CO2 will kill our precious blue marble. I see no other reasonable expectation. I don't have to read Dr. Brown to get that. I can see that there is no chance for voluntarily powering down.

I do wonder if we will get a chance to see how Climate Change might be affected by a few years of Nuclear Winter. That's the only thing humans might actually do that would affect the outcome. Not much of a trade-off, I know.

I only wanted you to thoroughly absorb the nitty gritty from Dr. Brown so you can laugh in anybody's face that claims any other IPCC scenario besides RCP 8.5 is "more realistic".

As to what humans will do, that is an interesting question. We know what the elite plan to do. They plan to throw any life form, human or otherwise, under the profit over planet bus. The "creep, creep, creep" of Global Warming is not something they want to think about. Of course Global Warming will eat the elite's lunch AFTER most of us are long gone. I guess being the last group of **** standing is all the Darwinian Justification they need to continue their stupid profit over planet modus operandi.

You know MKING and I went round and round. ;D However, as you demontrated in your discussions with him, nobody can doubt that MKING is a knowledgable person in regard to the availability of hydrocarbon sources on this planet. He is, after, a Geochemist. He may lie about lots of stuff and psuh happy talk that ignores the pollution issue 24/7, but I always believed, and said so, that he was RIGHT about the fact that we aren't gonna run out of hydrocarbons any time soon.

Here is an old quote from him. He was trying to cheer me up, as strange as that sounds. Of course he was also taking his book, but I continue to believe that Fossil Fueler is right about how much hydrocarbons we can access to burn for well over 50 years.

MKing said,
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You are on the right track agelbert, don't give up yet. Obviously you look around and see everything you've written extensively on, while the power of fossil fuels might get you down occasionally, buck up! They can certainly duke it out for decades, maybe even a century or two, but at the end of the day it is a finite world, and there is only one choice. Gradually increasing scarcity will affect price, people reacting to this economic stimuli will drive substitution and conservation, and one day a few generations from now Johnny will laugh at old granddad for offering him a ride in that antique classic, a 2014 Corvette. Sorry Pops, he will say, but my carbon fiber 1200# with D/C motors in each wheel hub and fully charged just 20 minutes ago ride makes that heap of junk look like a Model T, fit only for senior citizens with poor reflexes or antique collectors. And jesus Pops, it SMELLS and makes all that NOISE.

Might not happen in your lifetime Agelbert, or mine, but the future is already here, oil is already obsolete, and the winds of change aren't just turning windmill blades in southern Colorado nowadays.

Well,  I agree on your last statement. It will definitely NOT happen within the next 50 years. I am a realist, as much as I understand the math and physics, I also understand the power politics. Big oil will transition ONLY when they are assured continued control of the centralized energy spigot

There is a way to do that with renewable energy. As a matter of fact, it dovetails EXACTLY with something big oil might be VERY interested in pushing simply because they will continue to have control through a centralized source of energy with such a gigantic concentration of energy in a small footprint that, get this, it has more energy than a nuclear power plant.

The ONLY energy corporations in a PERFECT position to tap this massive energy gold mine (lots of free minerals without open pit mining as well!) are the Oil corporations because you need a massive "former" (lol!) Sea going oil platform to position the equipment and tap the energy. Exxon Mobile, if it hogs the hydrothermal vent energy gold mine will be even richer than it already is. And that means more fascism, MKing. I wish it didn't.

But anyway, it doesn't look like energy is going to be lacking anytime soon, whether we go extinct from pollution along the way or not.

Enjoy this video. It's not pie in the sky; Big oil has the pipes and knowhow to lay them to collect this energy with the SAME steam turbines (400C to 600C) that they use in nuclear power plants to generate electricity and cable it to shore. Big oil has lots of rigs that float or are anchored to the sea bed. In short, THEY have the lead on this bonanza.

Listen to the stats. It's forking mind boggling. 20 MILLION households powered from ONE hydrothermal tap!

All that deep ocean drilling knowhow they have developed can now be put to use. Sure, the corrosive crap that comes up from these hydrothermal vents may have every heavy metal contaminant in the world BUT they might have rare earths and other mineral goodies too. It might be a double grand slam for big oil
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https://youtu.be/F6-_UTU_bJ0

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on June 28, 2018, 06:14:00 pm
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on June 29, 2018, 03:11:28 pm
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Denver Matches All-Time High of 105°F 🚩; Heat 🔥, Pollution Spread East This Weekend 😓

Bob Henson  ·  June 29, 2018, 11:06 AM EDT

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Above: This photo provided by the Department of Homeland Security Emergency Management shows a wildfire burning near Forbes Park in southern Colorado, Thursday, June 28, 2018. Hot, dry and windy weather has raised the fire danger across much of Colorado as well as Utah and parts of Arizona and Nevada. (DHSEM via AP).

June will segue into July this weekend with much of the central and eastern U.S. enduring a blistering, dangerous heat wave that could extend into the July 4 holiday in some areas. Excessive heat warnings were already in place Friday morning for parts of 11 states from Kansas to Michigan, and heat advisories for the upcoming onslaught extended all the way to Vermont.

Ample low-level moisture—perhaps boosted by “corn sweat”—will add to the misery of the high temperatures in many locations. The heat index, a measure of the combined effects of heat and humidity, was predicted to soar as high as 120°F on Friday and Saturday across parts of northern Illinois as dew point temperatures approach 80°F. The heat index could be in the 105-110°F range in the New York City area from Sunday into Tuesday.

All-time record highs 🚩 matched or toppled from Colorado to Scotland 😨

The dome of heat building into the Northeast U.S. gripped the Rockies on Thursday. Denver’s high of 105°F on Thursday matched its all-time high in data going back to 1872. The other dates that saw 105°F in Denver were June 25 and 26, 2012; July 20, 2005; and Aug. 8, 1878. Two other nearby cities set daily records that came within 1°F of their all-time highs: Colorado Springs, CO (100°F) and Cheyenne, WY (99°F). Amid the intense heat, a wildfire in the Sangre de Cristo range of southern Colorado surged to envelop more than 14,000 acres by Friday morning, closing a major travel route (U.S. Highway 160).

All-time heat records will be a bit less likely across the central and eastern U.S., but many daily record highs and record-warm minimums can be expected. Triple-digit highs aren’t out of the question by Sunday in upstate New York, where such readings are very uncommon. The last time Albany, NY, got up to 100°F was on Sept. 3, 1953.

Parts of Europe are also suffering through an intense early-summer heat wave, especially the United Kingdom. Thursday was the first day since 2013 that all four U.K. countries (England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland) saw a temperature of at least 30°C (86°F). The airport observing site at Scotland’s largest city, Glasgow, notched the city’s highest official temperature ever recorded Thursday: 31.9°C (89.4°F). It was so hot that a membrane on the roof of the Glasgow Science Centre—designed to be “weatherproof”—began to melt. The capital of Northern Ireland, Belfast, also broke its all-time high on Thursday at the airport observing site, with a high of 29.5°C (85.1°F) beating 29.4°C (84.9°F) from July 10, 1934. In western Ireland, Shannon set its all-time high with 32.0°C (89.6°F). According to weather records expert Maximiliano Herrera, the reading at Shannon is the hottest temperature recorded anywhere in Ireland since 1976.

Extremely dry conditions have paved the way for the heat across northwest Europe. The Netherlands are expecting their driest June on record, with the De Bilt weather station now at a record-low June rainfall total of 12.1 mm (0.48”). England’s “home counties” surrounding London are on track to tie June 1925 as their driest on record; they’ve averaged just 3.3 mm (0.13”) for the month so far—about 6% of normal. Near Manchester, an unprecedented burst of moorland fires is ravaging the normally moist peat-bog countryside.


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Moorland fire near Manchester, England, 6/28/2018

Figure 1. Firefighters tackle the wildfire on Saddleworth Moor, England that continued to spread on Thursday, June 28, 2018, after the blaze was declared a major incident by Greater Manchester Police. Image credit: Danny Lawson/PA Images via Getty Images.

Heat 🌡️ is one of the most dangerous 🚩 weather hazards ☠️

It’s estimated by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that 150 to 300 people are killed in the U.S. each year directly by heat, with heat contributing to hundreds more deaths in some years. The worst year of the 21st century for U.S. heat deaths was 2006, with 2012 a close runner-up. Air pollution during heat waves can be just as dangerous as the heat itself (see below).

For those without air conditioning, the most dangerous set-up is a multi-day stretch of hot afternoons combined with very high overnight lows that keep interior spaces (and people) from cooling off. Fortunately, the U.S. has made great strides in heat awareness and heat safety over the 20 years since the horrific 1996 heat wave in Chicago that led to more than 700 deaths. For example, neighborhood cooling centers are now common in larger Midwest and Northeast cities, and media are paying more attention to heat risks.


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AQI Forecast

Figure 2. Predicted air quality index (AQI) for Friday, June 29, 2018. Regions colored in orange are expected to see ozone levels in excess of the federal standard, reaching the “Unhealthy For Sensitive Groups” range. Image credit: U.S. EPA.
Dangerous ozone pollution event underway

This week’s heat wave is bringing the worst ozone air pollution thus far this year to much of the Midwest and Northeast United States. An Ozone Action Day was declared for 24 U.S. cities for Friday, including Cincinnati, Detroit, Dayton, Denver, Indianapolis, Louisville, Baltimore, Pittsburgh, St. Louis, and Salt Lake City. On Saturday, Ozone Action Days are up for 18 cities, mostly in New Jersey and Utah. Ground level ozone, which has been blamed for approximately 12,000 premature deaths per year in the U.S. between 2010 and 2016, is created from chemical reactions between volatile organic carbon (VOC) compounds and nitrogen oxides in the presence of sunlight. The chemical reactions that create ozone happen faster at high temperatures, and the current heat wave can be expected to cause one of the deadliest ozone pollution events of 2018. Expect to see many areas with ozone pollution topping out in the “Unhealthy For Sensitive Groups” (orange) range on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. At this level of pollution, people who are sensitive to air pollution can see negative heath effects, though the general public is not likely to be affected. If pollution levels hit the “Unhealthy” (red) range, people who are sensitive to air pollution are at increased risk of stroke, heart attack and breathing problems, and even healthy people may experience discomfort. On an Ozone Action Day, you are encouraged to:

• Conserve electricity and set your air conditioner at a higher temperature.

• Choose a cleaner commute—share a ride to work or use public transportation. Bicycle or walk to errands when possible.

• Refuel cars and trucks after dusk.

• Combine errands and reduce trips.

• Limit engine idling.

• Use household, workshop,and garden chemicals in ways that keep evaporation to a minimum, or try to delay using them when poor air quality is forecast.

https://www.wunderground.com/cat6/Denver-Matches-All-Time-High-105F-Heat-Spreads-East-Weekend (https://www.wunderground.com/cat6/Denver-Matches-All-Time-High-105F-Heat-Spreads-East-Weekend)

Agelbert NOTE: I will add a recommendation for those who live in latitudes like that of Vermont. The water is always relatively cold. If you are suffering from heat because of a power blackout, which often happens in northern country when the frozen chosen go nuts turning on their air conditioners, go to the shower and put your head under it for a minute or so every half hour. Lay on the floor and read a book or concentrate on ice cubes. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-141113185047.png&hash=384024358ff8d5e7133d19b6e6638da4584a8154) DO NOT open the refrigerator or freezer for ANY reason during daylight hours.

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on June 29, 2018, 09:07:23 pm
Can 'We' Save 'Us' from Our Own Greed and Stupidity?

https://youtu.be/mRB2rzgLF00

UPFSI

Published on Jun 10, 2018

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We are not as clever a species as we think we are. After all, how can we save ourselves if there's no profit in it? Simply mind-boggling discussion you may want to watch twice. 

Do share it around the world. And help us translate subtitles this and other videos for other languages.

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on June 30, 2018, 10:01:11 pm
Climate Change: Heading For Extinction - Robin Boardman

Fossil Free Bristol

Published on Jun 5, 2018

https://youtu.be/HxkUWyf_FPk

Agelbert NOTE: Learn how depraved humans can get when there isn't enough food. The historical example of extremely depraved German treatment of Russian soldier prisoners during WWII is discussed.  :(

Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on July 02, 2018, 09:43:03 pm
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https://youtu.be/va_MVxpboqg

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on July 03, 2018, 01:36:33 pm
Over 90% of the arctic is ABOVE freezing.  :(
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on July 03, 2018, 05:52:56 pm
TD ORIGINALS

JUL 02, 2018

New Atlas Traces the Scar Humans Have Inflicted on Earth

 Soil erosion at Péyiri, Burkina Faso. (Le Soleil dans la Main / Wikimedia Commons)
Earth’s human scar, the mark humankind has left upon the planet, is growing apace: three-fourths of the ice-free land areas of the globe have been in some way degraded, according to a new global survey.

And by 2050 this degradation could reach nine-tenths, unless the world’s nations take urgent action. But by that time an estimated 700 million people could have been displaced because of all the implications of this debasement of what was once rich natural landscape.

A new edition of the World Atlas of Desertification, just published by the European Commission, spells out the scale of the problem: an area almost half the size of the European Union is each year in some way damaged by erosion, overgrazing, salinisation, desiccation or human exploitation.

Although the continents most at hazard are Asia and Africa, even the temperate nations of the European Union are affected: around 8% of the land of the member states in southern, eastern and central Europe is affected by desertification.

The word itself is a catch-all term: the editors of the Atlas themselves call it a nebulous and all-encompassing concept that defies physical description. But they choose the term degradation and make their meaning clear: they are talking about soil erosion by wind and rain; they are talking about deterioration of the properties of the soil, and they are talking about the loss of natural vegetation.

In their definition, in a degraded landscape, natural ecosystems cannot supply the essential goods and services to which humans have become accustomed.

These include the supply of food, forage, fuel, building materials; fresh water for humans and their livestock, for irrigation and for sanitation; control of agricultural pests, nutrient recycling, the purification of air and water, the moderation of extreme weather, the protection of biodiversity and other benefits.

And, of course, all the challenges presented by the expansion of both human population and national economies are heightened by global warming and climate change as a consequence of the fossil fuel combustion that adds greenhouse gases to the atmosphere.

In principle, the researchers who have assembled the Atlas from prodigious quantities of satellite data have simply reinforced warnings issued earlier. Climate change has already begun to expand those arid zones defined by geographers as deserts, while drylands that now provide grazing and shelter for huge numbers are likely to become more arid as the global thermometer rises. As usual, the hardest hit will be the poorest nations.

Climate change is likely to affect rainfall patterns in ways that will affect global food production and worsen loss of natural forests, and the degradation of what would have been healthy natural grassland or wetland will in turn fuel further climate change.

Confident statement

What is new is the level of detail and confidence in the information in the new edition of the Atlas, along with extra focus on the human impact on the planet: an impact so marked that many earth scientists now use the term Anthropocene to describe the present geological epoch.

The European Commission has already charted population growth and the explosion of the cities with a new Atlas of the Human Planet.

The latest study calculates the economic cost of soil degradation and climate change as a threat to global food supplies: the two together could lead to a drop in global crop yields by about 10% by 2050.

Most of this will be in India, China and sub-Saharan Africa: in this last region, land degradation could actually halve agricultural output. And by 2050, another two billion people will have been added to the planetary population.

https://www.truthdig.com/articles/new-atlas-traces-the-scar-humans-have-inflicted-on-earth/

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on July 03, 2018, 06:17:02 pm
World Resources Institute

by Frances Seymou - June 26, 2018

Deforestation Is Accelerating, Despite Mounting Efforts to Protect Tropical Forests. What Are We Doing Wrong?

       
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The 2017 tree cover loss numbers are in, and they’re not looking good. Despite a decade of intensifying efforts to slow tropical deforestation, last year was the second-highest on record for tree cover loss, down just slightly from 2016. The tropics lost an area of forest the size of Vietnam in just the last two years.

In addition to harming biodiversity and infringing on the rights and livelihoods of local communities, forest destruction at this scale is a catastrophe for the global climate. New science shows that forests are even more important than we thought in curbing climate change. In addition to capturing and storing carbon, forests affect wind speed, rainfall patterns and atmospheric chemistry. In short, deforestation is making the world a hotter, drier place.

In light of these high stakes, those of us in “Forestry World” who dedicate our professional lives and personal passions to saving the rainforest need to pause and reflect:  If the indicators are going in the wrong direction, are we doing something wrong?

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Brick on the Accelerator, Feather on the Brake  >:(

There’s no mystery on the main reason why tropical forests are disappearing. Despite the commitments of hundreds of companies to get deforestation out of their supply chains by 2020, vast areas continue to be cleared for soy, beef, palm oil and other commodities. In the cases of soy and palm oil, global demand is artificially inflated by policies that incentivize using food as a feedstock for biofuels.  And irresponsible logging continues to set forests on a path that leads to conversion to other land uses by opening up road access and increasing vulnerability to fires.

A large portion of that logging and forest conversion is illegal, according to the laws and regulations of producer countries, yet illegality and corruption remain endemic in many forest-rich countries. And Indigenous Peoples—whose presence is associated with maintaining forest cover, yet whose land rights are often unrecognized—continue to be murdered when they attempt to protect their forests.

The situation reminds me of the many movies that feature a runaway train: The throttle of global demand for commodities has been engaged, and the brakes of law enforcement and indigenous stewardship have been disabled. The only way to prevent a disastrous train wreck is for the hero (or heroine) to get into the conductor’s seat, remove the brick on the accelerator, and hit the emergency brakes.

We actually know how to do this. We have a large body of evidence that shows what works. Brazil, for example, reduced large-scale deforestation in the Amazon by 80 percent from 2004-2012 by increasing law enforcement, expanding protected areas, recognizing indigenous territories, and applying a suite of carrots and sticks to reign in uncontrolled conversion to agriculture, even while increasing production of cattle and soy. The problem is that our current efforts to apply these tools amount to a feather on the brake compared to the brick on the accelerator.

Forests Are Collateral Damage in Major Economic and Political Events

To a certain extent, the bad news in the 2017 tree cover loss numbers reflects collateral damage from unrelated political and economic developments in forested countries. Colombia’s 46 percent increase in tree cover loss is likely linked to its recent conflict resolution, which opened up to development large areas of forest previously controlled by armed rebel forces. While the doubling of Brazil’s tree cover loss from 2015 to 2017 was in part due to unprecedented forest fires in the Amazon, the uptick is likely also attributable to a relaxation of law enforcement efforts in the midst of the country’s ongoing political turmoil and fiscal crisis. Indeed, it is striking how many of the world’s tropical forested countries have either experienced a recent change in government (Liberia, Peru), are currently in political crises (Brazil, Democratic Republic of Congo), are in the midst of elections (Colombia), or will face elections in the near future (Indonesia).

We Know the Solutions for Stopping Deforestation

This context hammers home what we already knew: No amount of international concern about tropical forests will make a difference unless it meaningfully connects to domestic constituencies in forested countries, and changes the incentives that drive deforestation.

One of the key strategies for aligning national priorities with anti-deforestation actions started a decade ago. Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation and enhancing forest carbon stocks, or REDD+, is a framework endorsed by the Paris Agreement on climate change that encourages rich countries to pay developing countries for limiting deforestation and forest degradation. Unfortunately, the volume of REDD+ funding on offer (about a billion dollars per year) remains trivial compared to the $777 billion provided since 2010 for financing agriculture and other land sector investments that put forests at risk.  This is surely one reason why domestic coalitions for change in countries participating in REDD+ have been unable to overcome competing coalitions for deforestation-as-usual.

While the prospects for immediate increases in REDD+ finance remain bleak, other strategies to strengthen domestic constituencies for reform show promise.

Brazil pioneered a system of monitoring deforestation by satellite. The public disclosure of that data was key to generating political will and the information necessary for fighting illegal clearing. Now, remote-sensing tools are helping communities and law enforcement officials around the world to detect and respond to illegal deforestation in near-real time. For example, Peru’s Ministry of Environment distributes weekly deforestation alerts to more than 800 government agencies, companies and civil society groups, which led to several prosecutions in 2017.

International cooperation on law enforcement can also create domestic incentives for forestry sector reform. In late 2016, Indonesia became the first country to receive a license to export to the European Union timber verified as legally harvested. By ensuring that its timber was harvested legally, Indonesia secured access for its forest products in a lucrative international market.

Indonesia has also witnessed the application of a new generation of transparency tools to fight deforestation. For example, in 2017, civil society groups used publicly available databases on corporate finance and governance to uncover monopolistic practices and non-compliance with plantation regulations among 15 companies in the palm oil sector. They then shared their findings with Indonesia’s Corruption Eradication Commission and other government authorities in a position to respond with policy or legal action.

Finally, there’s increased action at the sub-national level. Dozens of governors and district heads in forest-rich jurisdictions around the world have committed to low-emissions development. For example, the Brazilian State of Mato Grosso launched a “Produce, Conserve, and Include” strategy to end illegal deforestation while promoting sustainable agriculture. Some of the companies that have made anti-deforestation commitments are considering preferential sourcing of commodities from such jurisdictions as a way of both reducing risk and encouraging continued progress toward better land-use management.

Those of Us in “Forestry World” Can’t Do It Alone

There are clearly solutions out there, but they need to be scaled up and expanded to forests throughout the world. This week, more than 500 citizens of Forestry World are gathering at the Oslo Tropical Forests Forum to reflect on the last 10 years of efforts to protect forests, and chart a way forward. But we can’t do it alone.

Preliminary analysis suggests that a significant chunk of forest loss in 2017 was due to “natural” disasters of the sort expected to become more frequent and severe with climate change. Hurricane Maria flattened forests in the Caribbean, and fires burned large areas of Brazil and Indonesia over the last few years. While degradation of forests through logging and fragmentation by roads renders them less resilient to extreme weather events, there is a limit to which forest-specific interventions can be effective in the face of a changing climate. While stabilizing the global climate is contingent on saving the world’s forests, saving the forests is also contingent on stabilizing the global climate.

In addition to doubling down on the proven strategies for reducing deforestation (and allocating a fair share of climate finance toward those efforts), all countries need to up their game on climate action.

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on July 03, 2018, 08:29:25 pm
The Nuts and Bolts of Arctic Methane 🚩 1

https://youtu.be/3IgHCza0UFw

Paul Beckwith

Published on Jun 27, 2018

In this first of a series of videos on Arctic Methane, I get down to the nitty-gritty. I discuss natural and human-caused sources of methane, and how humans are even changing these natural sources with abrupt climate change. 

I highly recommend that you google “AMAP Arctic Methane” and download the comprehensive report to follow along as you watch this video and the ones to follow.

The risk of huge burps of methane in the Arctic are ever increasing from Arctic Temperature Amplification and accelerating sea ice loss.

Please support my work with a donation at http://paulbeckwith.net

The Nuts and Bolts of Arctic Methane 🚩 2

https://youtu.be/m2WM6kihoL8

Paul Beckwith

Published on Jun 30, 2018

What are the major sources and sinks for methane gas? Are they “natural” or human caused; does “natural” even exist in our world of abrupt climate change? How does methane concentration change hourly, daily, weekly, monthly, seasonally and yearly? How does it change with latitude, elevation, and even temperature? Why does any of this matter? Believe me; if, or rather when, it comes up big time from a burst it will affect us all. This info is very important.

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The Nuts and Bolts of Arctic Methane 🚩 3

https://youtu.be/ifU7LjCaosA

Paul Beckwith

Published on Jul 3, 2018

As climate change accelerates, it is crucial to understand risks from feedbacks like methane bursts from terrestrial permafrost (think Siberian blowholes) and marine sediment clathrates (think methane “gun”). To understand these things, this video continues the Arctic Methane story. Risks increase significantly as we near an Arctic “blue ocean” event (loss of all sea-ice), which will greatly accelerate Arctic warming, since ice keeps Arctic Ocean temperatures near zero Celsius.

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on July 04, 2018, 09:12:28 pm
 
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Agelbert NOTE: Dr. Canadell tells it like it is. That is, emissions are going unsustainably UP, as in, there is NO WAY we can stop warming at 2º C above pre-industrial UNLESS we have ZERO emissions as of 2040.

He explains the gravity of the climate situation with evidence. He points out that fires are occurring in wooded areas with no history of fires.

He explains that when most known coral bleaching occurs, the cause is that corals basically starve over several weeks, but the Australian Great Barrier Reef bleaching was caused by the corals overheating to death in about ONE WEEK!.

He explains that an even more alarming event, that has not been widely publicized, occurred. That is, mangrove regions experienced the largest die-off that has ever been observed. All this is a DIRECT result of Global Warming.

Finally, this serious scientist with world class credentials makes it crystal clear that if we do not replace ALL hydrocarbon burning with Renewable Energy Technology BEFORE 2050 , 4º C above pre-industrial and above is unavoidable. He goes further to state that, by 2040, ALL developed country economies most be fully decarbonized. He admits he sees no way that can occur unless massive carbon capture and sequestration technology efforts are undertaken.

He states that it would be incredibly stupid to continue burning hydrocarbons in the face of the threat to the biosphere of an overheated climate.

For anybody here (you know who you are) that attempts to discredit or ridicule what Dr. Canadell says in the interview, I suggest you read his bio before you insert your hydrocarbon loving foot in your mouth. Please do not make a fool of yourself by trying to undermine the validity of Dr. Canadell's information.

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Dr. Josep (Pep) Canadell

email pep.canadell@csiro.au

Ph.D. Biology (Terrestrial ecology)

1995 University Autonomous of Barcelona, Spain

Current Position: Executive Director Global Carbon Project and CSIRO Research Scientist

Education: B.S. Biology (Biology) 1984 University A. of Barcelona, Spain

M.S. Biology (Terrestrial ecology) 1988 University A. of Barcelona, Spain

Ph.D. Biology (Terrestrial ecology) 1995 University A. of Barcelona, Spain

Learn more about this respected scientist at the link below:

Awards top

Member of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (Fourth Assessment Report) awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007.

Professional Experience

Executive Director of the Global Carbon Project (GCP), the first joint project of the Earth System Partnership (ESSP) sponsored by: the Interntional Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP), the International Human Dimension Programme (IHDP), the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP), and Diversitas. For information on the GCP, please visit: www.globalcarbonproject.org (http://www.globalcarbonproject.org).

http://www.globalcarbonproject.org/who_is_who/pep_canadell.htm (http://www.globalcarbonproject.org/who_is_who/pep_canadell.htm)

Carbon Climate Showdown

Posted on June 20, 2018, by Radio Ecoshock
 
In this week’s show I have two top level scientists. Pep Canadell the Director of the Global Carbon Project reports a big increase in greenhouse gas emissions in 2018, mostly coming from China. We talk about whether even 2 degrees C of global warming is just a dream now.

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The first interview is with Pep Canadell from the Global Carbon Project. As examples, Pep told me three stories about Australia that made my hair stand up 😨 (well… the hair I have left). Two I heard of and covered, and yet his explanation carried fundamental facts about each that I did not know.

Also, he says, in the first 3 months of 2018, global carbon emissions took a serious step up, after pausing for a couple of years. (For a couple of years the increase paused, not the pollution). The reason for the new carbon spurt: growth in the Chinese economy. China emitted 27% of the globe’s greenhouse gases in the past year. The U.S. was responsible for 14%, and the EU 7%.

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Christensen continues: “While some claim the link between economic growth and greenhouse emissions has been broken – or ‘decoupled’ – it’s only been weakened. Carbon emissions have risen in the European Union over the past four years as economic growth has picked up, Peters points out. In 2017, EU emissions rose 1.8 per cent.”

Climate change is coming sooner and harder than expected. With alarming new research, I’ve been saying the dreaded 2 degrees C of warming is unlikely – even with geoengineering. So why are some officials still talking as though 1.5 degrees is the goal? Finally more realism is emerging – partly due to stunning new emission figures for China. Andy Pitman, director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes, told the Sydney Morning Herald newspaper “Most climate scientists think 2 degrees to be aspirational.”

While all industrial nations have failed to slash emissions, the story from China is worse. The latest emissions figures come from satellite data, with reporting from Greenpeace and the Global Carbon Project.

The Greenpeace report says:

“Now government data indicates China’s CO2 emissions went up 4.0% on the first quarter, after a 2% increase in 2017. Calculating demand from government data on production, trade, and industry data on inventories, coal demand increased 3.5%, oil demand 4.3%, gas demand 10% while cement output fell 4.5%. This has led researchers to warn that we could see a 5% increase in emissions from China this year, the largest since 2011.”

In Canberra Australia, I reached Dr. Josep Canadell, known as “Pep”. He is the long-time Executive Director of the Global Carbon Project, and a research scientist for the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) in Australia. Pep is an author in more than 150 peer-reviewed science papers and a member of the Nobel Prize-winning 2007 IPCC Fourth Assessment Report.

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Dr. Josep “Pep” Canadell, Global Carbon Project and CISRO

There was a lot of good news coming out of China over the past few years. Mass transit there is booming along with the world’s largest solar build-up. We heard the Chinese coal plant binge was ending. I thought big hydro electric plants, like Three Gorges, would help cut coal dependence. But actual emissions measurements tell us greenhouse gas emissions from China are much worse during the first 3 months of 2018.

Dr. Canadell was also a co-author of a 2016 paper on “Estimating cropland carbon mitigation potentials in China“. There are several ways China can modify its huge agricultural system to help the climate system, but they need time and a lot of investment in training millions of farmers. For example, rice-growers can reduce the time their fields are flooded, to reduce the dangerous greenhouse gas methane.

We also discuss whether the world can stop at 2 degrees of warming, or whether we are headed to a planet 3, 4 or more degrees C hotter. In July 2011, there was a conference at the University of Melbourne, titled “Four Degrees Or More? Australia in a Hot World”. The German climate scientist Dr. John Schellnhuber gave the keynote address, which we broadcast on Radio Ecoshock. The mood then was “what if”. Now four degrees seems much more possible.

A day before this interview, I drove through a flooded out neighborhood in southern British Columbia. Everything was dragged to the street in piles. Many houses had a red tag, condemned to be torn down. Hardly anyone could get insurance. Their lives are wrecked along with their homes. Local business may never return. We see emissions accelerating. So are the repeated hits to people and communities all over the world. Do you think climate change alone could bring down the economy into a new low state?

We began by talking about a worrying burst of carbon coming from China. I worry that pretty soon the worst of nationalist voices will blame China for the extreme weather. But of course, the extreme heat and weather we are experiencing now comes from emissions from North America and Europe. The real impact of Chinese emissions in 2018 will be experienced at least 20 years from now.

Tune in the big picture on carbon in the atmosphere at globalcarbonproject.org.

JIM KOSSIN – MORE DAMAGING STORMS

My second discussion is with Jim Kossin who just published a paper in Nature about slower moving cyclones since 1950. They are slowing (think Hurricane Harvey) and the peak is moving toward the Poles. Closer to the tropics a slight there may be a slight reprieve in the odds of extreme rainfall events; further north – welcome to a new and terrible experience!

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Dr. Jim Kossin, NOAA

From Texas to Taiwan slow-moving hurricanes have caused record damage. Has something changed in the way these big storms work? Four well-known climate scientists are asking “Does global warming make tropical cyclones stronger?”

Dr. Jim Kossin is an Atmospheric Research Scientist. He’s with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration or NOAA. Jim is currently a Lead Author on the U.S. Global Change Research Program, for their Fourth National Climate Assessment [NCA4]. He’s also working on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [IPCC] Sixth Assessment Report [AR6]. Jim has won awards and the key science he publishes is used by world climate researchers and meteorologists. He’s just published an important paper in the journal Nature.

Dr. Jim Kossin of NOAA leads climate reports for the U.S. Government and the IPCC. His specialty is big storms. Kossin’s latest paper says tropical cyclones (hurricanes) are slowing down and leaving a greater trail of destruction. This is your news before it’s news, on Radio Ecoshock.

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
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Radio Ecoshock

June 20, 2018

JIM KOSSIN – MORE DAMAGING STORMS 🌪

My second discussion is with Jim Kossin who just published a paper in Nature about slower moving cyclones since 1950. They are slowing (think Hurricane Harvey) and the peak is moving toward the Poles. Closer to the tropics a slight there may be a slight reprieve in the odds of extreme rainfall events; further north – welcome to a new and terrible experience!

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Dr. Jim Kossin, NOAA

From Texas to Taiwan slow-moving hurricanes have caused record damage. Has something changed in the way these big storms work? Four well-known climate scientists are asking “Does global warming make tropical cyclones stronger?”

Dr. Jim Kossin is an Atmospheric Research Scientist. He’s with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration or NOAA. Jim is currently a Lead Author on the U.S. Global Change Research Program, for their Fourth National Climate Assessment [NCA4]. He’s also working on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [IPCC] Sixth Assessment Report [AR6]. Jim has won awards and the key science he publishes is used by world climate researchers and meteorologists. He’s just published an important paper in the journal Nature.

Dr. Jim Kossin of NOAA leads climate reports for the U.S. Government and the IPCC. His specialty is big storms. Kossin’s latest paper says tropical cyclones (hurricanes) are slowing down and leaving a greater trail of destruction.

Kossin also helped co-ordinate the Special Report on Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters. He is a recognized world experts on big storms. Jim’s latest paper was published June 6th, 2018 in Nature. It is titled “A global slowdown of tropical-cyclone translation speed“.

Before we can talk about the most damaging storms in the world, we need to quickly clear up two terms. First, hurricanes and tropical cyclones are the same thing.

Second, storm scientists talk about “translation speed”. While newscasters report on the spinning speed within the hurricane (winds of 160 miles per hour, for example) – the translation speed is the progress of the storm over land or sea. If it is moving “forward” at 30 miles or kilometers per hour, that is the translation speed. This new paper is largely about a slowdown not in the winds of hurricanes (in general those are tending to increase) but in the movement of the big storms across the landscape.

That matters a lot. Hurricane Harvey stayed over Houston for a couple of days, dumping massive amounts of rain, and then doubled back for a second hit. It’s translation speed was quite low. In 2011, I covered Hurricane Irene which wasn’t all that strong by the time it hit New England. But it dumped incredible amounts of rain for several days, causing wide-spread flooding and damage. When we consider a warmer atmosphere puts more water into the sky, a slower translation speed means even more flooding.

Similarly, while scientists suspect that a slow-down in the movement of tropical cyclones/hurricanes is due to climate change, the exact mechanism has not yet been proven.

Another recent paper, published April 6th and led by Ethand Gutmann from The National Center for Atmospheric Research also suggested slower moving storms with faster winds. That study was published by the American Meteorological Society, and it backs up what our guest Jim Kossin found.

From Kossin’s paper, here are the regions most impacted by this tropical cyclone slowdown. “Of particular importance is the slowdown of 30 per cent and 20 per cent over land areas affected by western North Pacific and North Atlantic tropical cyclones, respectively, and the slowdown of 19 per cent over land areas in the Australian region.”

“THE STRONGEST FUTURE STORMS WILL EXCEED THE STRENGTH OF ANY IN THE PAST”

Jim Kossin, Kerry Emanuel, Stefan Rahmstorf and Michael Mann published a post in the RealClimate blog titled “Does global warming make tropical cyclones stronger?“.

This is your news before it’s news, on Radio Ecoshock.

My 31 minute interview with Jim Kossin (https://www.ecoshock.net/downloads/ES_Canadell_LoFi.mp3)

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on July 05, 2018, 04:38:15 pm
Agelbert NOTE: This is the final portion of a post where I address Surly, an Admin at the Doomstead Diner. I have basically had it with Surly's soft spot for the Palloy "Peak Oil caused collapse will save us" hydrocarbon worshiping propagandist BULLSHIT ARTIST.


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After the defamatory CRAP he pulled on Dr. Brown, all you could come up with is some lame request for "proof", which he DID NOT PROVIDE, by the way, and you left it right there, rather than ask me if that constituted "proof" (which it did NOT), after putting me in the exact same "don't Ad hom" scolded at position as the routinely defamatory Palloy PEDANT.

I will NO LONGER TOLERATE you coming after me for alleged AD Hominem towards Palloy. I told you loud and clear what a dangerous F U C K he is in PMs. He is pushing a meme that will kill ALL of us, and you, like Palloy, are too bound up in your belief that a lack of hydrocarbons caused collapse will come before environmental catastrophe caused collapse to see that. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-200714183337.bmp&hash=fd5a6df63c32bd65dda7b6d93e788647ca3829df)

Allowing an ASS HOLE like Palloy to keep parading his pseudo-erudite BULLSHIT continually is a testament to EVERYONE HERE's incredibly STUPID world view that is contributing to the AGE OF (hydrocarbon loving) STUPID that is DOOMING human civilization. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-200714183337.bmp&hash=fd5a6df63c32bd65dda7b6d93e788647ca3829df)

GET OFF your "hydrocarbons are needed for civilization" STUPID VIEW, Surly. It IS STUPID.


Here is PROOF that it is STUPID!

Conversation with a Buddhist.

Ka said
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I think it likely that the remaining hegemons will say -- time to withdraw to the Western Hemisphere (except maybe keep the sea lanes open to Nigerian and Angolan oil). If so, then I think the West has better long-term prospects than the East.

I hope you are right. But the MO of the goons (with a CONSISTENT historical track record) in charge that you are totally ignoring makes your wish look more like a prayer than a serious possibility.

THE MO of the neocon has a LONG history. As a scholar, you probably know it better than I do but you JUST DO NOT WANT TO GO THERE. It's time you did.

Let me refresh your memory on how this works:

Richard Nixon was the first (in our country - as far as I know) to espouse the policy of acting super belligerent and crazy as a foreign policy tactic. The purpose is to intimidate the other nation into acting "reasonable" and acceding to our predatory corporate demands RATHER THAN BEING DESTROYED. You need to convince the other nation that you will gladly go beyond the brink even if your economy will be hampered by it! This BULLY policy has gotten more polished but it's still the same basic MO.  Look up some quotes from the Republican speaker of the house (Gingrich). He said NEVER back down. When an opponent attempts to negotiate a settlement agreeable to both, DOUBLE DOWN on the threats. Never admit fault. Never go on the defensive. Always remain on the offensive. THAT is the MO that you want to pretend does not DOMINATE US foreign policy.

The problem with that type of MO is that it leads to WAR if the other party does not back down. It has worked BECAUSE it has been used on WEAK countries for the past few decades. If you think Russia is going to back down here, you just do not understand the situation.

Russia, by the way, STILL has complete underground cities and an extensive plan to survive (as well as possible under the circumstances - they KNOW how to grow food in sealed areas - they did a multiyear study to simulate a closed food system on mars) a full scale nuclear attack. Have you forgotten that?

The people doing this in our country have LOST IT. They aren't PRETENDING to be crazy. They have GONE CRAZY! It's called megalomania born of too many monstrous "successes" like Iraq and 9/11. 

It happened in Germany before WWII. We are there. Only some smart people that can counter them INSIDE our government will avoid WWIII. The neocons BELIEVE, like the crazies Reagan spoke about in the 1980s (you've got to be pretty crazy to be to the right of Reagan!) that "we" can win a nuclear war. They will NOT EVER accept a multi-polar world. That's the reality. We are all in danger as long as they are commanding our government sponsored terrorism.

All that said, I envy your ability to pretend all this is an illusion. That means your stress hormones are probably lower than mine and you will never have heart disease from stress. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-200714194256.bmp&hash=1c2795e25df0dc7d9be4879b7bba6f1632f715e1)

I wish it was an illusion. I don't think so. I remember how you claimed Fossil fuels had NOT gamed the playing field against renewable energy in the 1980s as if dirty energy actually WON the cost competition in those days. I gave you all sorts of circumstantial evidence but since it wasn't in the New York Times, I guess you remained unconvinced.

Watch this two minute tape. Accept EVERYTHING on it as true. If you don't, then watch the entire video the clip comes from and you WILL see the evidence for yourself. You were wrong to think fossil fueldom did not screw us back then and continues to screw us now. These people are not stupid; they are evil. But I agree that if this is all an illusion, it does not really matter...

Fossil Fuel Government 2 minute Video Clip FULL VIDEO, "The Age of Stupid": 


https://youtu.be/va_MVxpboqg

corruptio optimi pessima

THIS is not an illusion:

https://youtu.be/3zyizEz9XUs

Surly, if you are too enthralled with your concept of "freedom of speech" to see how SUICIDALLY STUPID it is to allow **** like Palloy to claim the greater problem for human civilization is the "lack of energy from the lack of hydrocarbons", then you, like Palloy, are part of the problem and I am in the wrong forum.
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on July 05, 2018, 10:51:53 pm
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July 5, 2018

Deadly ☠️ Heat Wave Continues 😓

Heat records were smashed across the globe this week as multiple countries in the Northern Hemisphere suffered intense heat waves. At least 17 deaths have been reported in Canada and three in the US since this weekend as temperatures hit nearly 110 degrees F in Montreal.

In the UK, below-normal rainfall and the second-hottest June on record are sparking concerns about limited water supply. In the US, data show that both hot days and hot nights--a classic signature of climate change, as the influence of global warming is particularly strong in elevating overnight temperatures--have been increasing in the US since 1985.

Global records: 🚩 Carbon Brief  (https://www.carbonbrief.org/daily-brief/heatwave-2018-think-its-hot-here-record-highs-leave-world-baking)

Deaths: ☠️ Reuters (https://www.cbsnews.com/news/heat-wave-blamed-for-three-deaths-in-northeast/).

Hot days & nights 🚩background: Climate Signals (http://www.climatesignals.org/resources/hot-days-and-hot-nights-increasing-united-states)

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on July 06, 2018, 01:24:26 pm
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Ghost Ships No More: Seismic Vessels (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-130418203402.gif&hash=b2691028ba683a0039a5811f5775c68d7ccae01c) Resume Oil and Gas Search as Prices Perk Up (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fdl8.glitter-graphics.net%2Fpub%2F1238%2F1238988d68zgywbnq.gif&hash=c662377c3c5c857bf12634da220486c6543941bd)🤬
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July 4, 2018 by Reuters

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reuters

SNIPPET:

By Florence Tan and Gavin Maguire SINGAPORE, July 5 (Reuters) – A growing fleet of ships is scanning oceans in search of new oil and gas fields as energy companies, now with more cash thanks to stronger crude prices, gradually resume spending on seismic services after a four-year downturn.

A doubling in the area contracted for seismic work in the first quarter this year from the last three months of 2017 has injected optimism into surveillance firms, with a global fleet of about 24 vessels, most of whom struggled to survive in the past years.

But they say the road to recovery remains bumpy with producers big and small not keen on drilling for new reserves unless oil prices, which have more than doubled from 2016 lows, stay high for at least a year.

Still, with crude prices stabilising well above $60 a barrel in the past six months, companies including mid- and small-sized independents such as Woodside Petroleum Ltd, Kosmos Energy Ltd and Tullow Oil PLC have helped boost demand for surveillance.

The total area tendered by upstream companies 🦖 for seismic work doubled to 40,000 square kilometres in the first quarter this year from October-December last year, said Duncan Eley, chief executive officer at Polarcus which owns a seismic fleet.

“That’s positive in isolation,” said Eley, keeping his optimism in check even as he pointed to a busy fourth quarter for geophysical work in Asia Pacific, particularly for gas with demand forecast to soar in coming decades.
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Gas projects 🦖 in Myanmar could take two to three vessels from the global fleet, while there are also potential activities in Malaysia, Australia, India and Papua New Guinea, where Exxon Mobil and Total plan to feed more gas into their existing liquefied natural gas infrastructure, Eley said.

That marks a stark change from the dark days of 2015 and 2016 when orders for geophysical survey work came to a grinding halt as oil prices plummeted from over $100 a barrel to less than $50.

Petroleum Geo Services (PGS)🦖, the world’s largest seismic operator, was also seeing better opportunities now than last year.

“The recent increases we’ve seen are primarily driven by Africa and Brazil when it comes to bidding for contract work,” said Bård Stenberg, PGS’ senior vice president for investor relations and communication.

Demand for geophysical data at producing oil and gas fields, also known as 4D seismic survey, has also increased as explorers sought to maximise output from these assets ☠️, the two executives 😈 👹 said.

PGS expects to secure between 20 and 25 4D seismic jobs this year, up from 16-17 in 2017, Stenberg said, with most of it located in the North Sea, West Africa and Brazil.

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The increased work should help improve the company’s earnings which remain well below pre-crisis levels.

Full FARTICLE:

http://gcaptain.com/ghost-ships-no-more-seismic-vessels-resume-oil-and-gas-search-as-prices-perk-up/

Agelbert NOTE: Corruptio Optimi Pessima (evidenced in the video below).

In the year 2050, most humans alive today..., WON'T BE ☠️.

The Age of Stupid
https://youtu.be/va_MVxpboqg
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https://youtu.be/8PdM9_cDL5Y

Dr. Brown is the guy in the video. His credentials are World Class.

Patrick T. Brown, PhD

Curriculum vitae

CURRENT POSITION

Carnegie Institution for Science, Stanford University
Postdoctoral Research Scientist (under Ken Caldeira)

EDUCATION

Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
Doctor of Philosophy, Earth and Ocean Science, 2016
San Jose State University, San Jose, California
Master of Science, Meteorology and Climate Science, 2012
University of Wisconsin – Madison, Madison, Wisconsin
Bachelor of Science, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, 2008

https://patricktbrown.org/


Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on July 06, 2018, 01:34:59 pm
Words cannot describe the horror that Catastrophic Climate Change, gifted to us by the Hydrocarbon Defending Criminals 😈 👹 💵 🎩 🍌, will bring, FAR above ☠️ and beyond  🚩 the misery and pollution the Hydrocarbon Greedballs 🐉🦕🦖 have already devastated the biosphere with.

https://youtu.be/3zyizEz9XUs

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The Hydrocarbon Huslters 🦖  DID THE Clean Energy  Inventions suppressing, Climate Trashing, human health depleting CRIME,   but since they have ALWAYS BEEN liars and conscience free crooks 🦀, they are trying to AVOID   DOING THE TIME or     PAYING THE FINE!     Don't let them get away with it! Pass it on!   
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on July 07, 2018, 01:19:35 pm
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https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/satellite.php

https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on July 09, 2018, 02:13:57 pm
July 9, 2018

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Why Did the Name 'Maria' Reappear? ???

The Hurricane Maria that caused catastrophic damage in Puerto Rico had its name retired earlier this year due to the amount and severity of damage and fatalities on the U.S. island territory.


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But that name was only retired in one part of the world – the Atlantic Ocean. There are 12 other basins in the world that can have the same names.

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Typhoon Maria a Danger to Japan's Southern Ryukyu Islands, Taiwan and China
(https://weather.com/storms/typhoon/news/2018-07-05-western-pacific-typhoon-maria)





Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on July 09, 2018, 07:57:25 pm
Fighting Climate Change Could Save the World $30 Trillion, Report Finds (https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/paris-climate-agreement-save-world-30-trillion/)

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on July 10, 2018, 11:15:15 pm
The PROBLEM is GREED by the RICH, NOT the SIZE of the human population. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-130418202709.png&hash=7503265ec59e4c28d735afb762bc39f4674bd838)
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Promotion of population reduction of the poorest among us is based on a FALSE EQUIVALENCE between two factors.

The carbon footprint of the the top 17% VASTLY outweighs the carbon footprint of the lower 83%. It is disingenuous, as well as mean spirited, to claim the two sources of emissions are "equally" damaging.

What those who push this false equivalence REALLY want to do is depopulate the earth of of the lower 83% so that they can continue their unsustainable hydrocarbon burning reliant standard of living. Not only is that murderous plan  empathy deficit disordered, but doomed to failure!

The biosphere math facts clearly state that less than 17% of the human population, MOSTLY concentrated in wealthy countries, is DOING over 80% of the damage by consuming over 80% of the resources. Only about half (or less) of the MILITARY budgets alone of the wealthy countries could pay for bio-remediating the most impacted areas, stop the exploitation and care for and educate the high population growth poor there so they become good stewards instead of biosphere destroyers.

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The fossil fuel industry 🐉🦕🦖, and almost half of the world’s 100 largest companies 😈 👹 💵 🎩, want that 'Fragmentation of Agency' pie chart to look like is as follows:

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How convenient!

We DO NOT NEED TO BURN HYDROCARBONS for energy to have a civilization that guarantees a viable biosphere for future generations. Amory Lovins has made that crystal clear since a peer reviewed study he published over a decade ago titled, "Reinventing Fire". Google it. We need hydrocarbons like a dog needs ticks, PERIOD.

Amory Lovins on Energy Efficency Breakthroughs (real world 90% plus waste reduction) that seem hard to believe:
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"Only puny secrets need protection; big discoveries are protected by public incredulity."

https://youtu.be/1zfO3HW6xCw

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"Capitalist ideology claims that the world is perfectly ordered and everybody is in their place (i..e. everybody gets what they deserve). This self legitmating aspect of Capitalism is Socially Catastrophic. This is the Victorian view of the world."Rob Urie - Author " Zen Economics"
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on July 11, 2018, 08:45:27 pm
July 11, 2018

Quebec's Deadly Heat Wave

The death toll in Quebec's heat wave last week may have reached as many as 70, officials said Tuesday, as temperatures reached over 100 degrees F.

Thirty-four of those deaths were in Montreal, where temperatures soared 20 degrees above normal and CBC reports that the morgue became so overcrowded it had to partner with a local funeral home for extra storage. Officials say most of the deaths were women and men over the age of 50 living alone in apartments with no air conditioning, and over 60 percent had an underlying medical condition.

The increasing frequency and intensity of heat waves is among the most obvious and well-documented effects of climate change.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/heat-wave-death-toll-1.4740031

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on July 11, 2018, 08:51:17 pm
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An Iceberg the Size of Lower Manhattan Just Broke off Greenland

Maddie Stone

July 10, 2018 10:50am Filed to: ICE ON THIN ICE

https://youtu.be/7tyfSlnMe8E

Read more:

https://earther.com/scientists-just-filmed-an-enormous-iceberg-breaking-off-1827455930
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on July 11, 2018, 09:42:44 pm
July 10, 2018

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Death Toll Rises After Torrential Rain in Japan

At least 155 are dead and dozens more missing in Japan after "historic" rainfall 🌩🌪🌧 this weekend triggered intense flooding and landslides, the government reported Tuesday. According to Japanese public broadcaster NHK, nearly 15 inches of rain, roughly equivalent to 1.5 times the average rainfall for all of July, fell in just two hours on Sunday morning.

Nearly 2 million people were still under evacuation order as of Monday, while thousands of homes have been damaged and phone lines are down across the country. Increased extreme rainfall, a signal of climate change that has been documented in Japan, can lead to flooding and landslides.

http://news.trust.org/item/20180710094043-1jit6/

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on July 12, 2018, 01:04:52 pm
6 Climate Change Movies You HAVE To See 👀  🧐

July 11th, 2018 by Guest Contributor

Originally published on The Climate Reality Project.

Six deeply engaging and thought-provoking films shine a light on the realities of the climate crisis today – and imagine what it means for our tomorrow.

Truly great films about the climate crisis are tough to come by. Allusions to environmental destruction are very familiar in the futuristic dystopias Hollywood churns out like clockwork, but they rarely get the science right – or they abandon it entirely in favor of skipping straight to some post-apocalyptic CGI extravaganza.

Those of us with a little knowledge of the climate crisis bristle at this kind of doom-and-gloom bombast – because we know better. But that doesn’t mean a few thoughtful films haven’t been able to cut through the noise.

Below are six of our favorites. We decided to spice it up by mixing narrative films with documentaries – and while our changing climate understandably casts a long, dark shadow over any future that wrestles with its impacts, we did our best to stay on the right side of the fine line between raucous, factually dubious calamity and thought-provoking “what if” explorations or science-centered spectacle.


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Interstellar

Director Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar is that rarest of Hollywood anomalies – a wildly complicated, lavishly expensive, wholly original mainstream blockbuster. It doesn’t exist in the Marvel or DC cinematic universes; instead, it occupies a not-so-distant-future version of our very own – and things aren’t exactly going great.

While the words “climate change” are never explicitly said in the film, the impacts of the crisis are writ large, driving a plot about an attempt to flee a near-future Earth reeling from drastically changing weather patterns and global food shortages for the safety of a new habitable planet.

Featuring one of the most stacked casts in recent memory, including Oscar winners Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Michael Caine, and Ellen Burstyn and nominees Jessica Chastain, Timothée Chalamet, and John Lithgow, Interstellar takes on a very real consequence of climate inaction, though it offers up an untenable solution.

After all, there’s still no Planet B.

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Beasts of the Southern Wild

Living in a Louisiana bayou community called “the Bathtub,” six-year-old Hush Puppy (youngest-ever Best Actress Oscar nominee Quvenzhané Wallis) can’t get the prehistoric aurochs her teacher tells her will be released from melting ice caps off her mind – even as the world in front of her crumbles and cowers, the victim of powerful storms, failing levees, and familial health problems.

While the film’s setting is technically fictional, it was inspired by several very real fishing villages in Southern Louisiana’s Terrebonne Parish. These small, isolated wetland communities are threatened by climate-driven erosion, extreme weather, and rising sea levels. Most notable among them is the rapidly disappearing Isle de Jean Charles, former home of “the first American climate refugees.”


Chasing Coral

The 2017 documentary Chasing Coral enjoys a rare accolade: It is one of a pretty short list of films to hold a 100 percent “fresh” rating on popular review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes.

https://youtu.be/b6fHA9R2cKI

That coral reefs are existentially threatened by the climate crisis is a truth near-universally acknowledged. But filmmaker Jeff Orlowski doesn’t simply telegraph a report on this impending ecological catastrophe.

Instead, Orlowski infuses his film with such empathy and ardor for our world’s oceans and their vibrant ecosystems – as well as those working hard to save what’s left – that it’s impossible to not walk away pumped up and ready to join the fight.


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Snowpiercer

Like we already mentioned, we try to avoid cynical, despondent hot takes on the climate crisis. But we’re fans of director Bong Joon Ho’s Snowpiercer for two big reasons: First, it’s a very, very good, wildly underseen film, and second, because it confronts head-on the dangers of a “we’ll deal with this later” approach to climate action.

The film is set in a future where a failed geoengineering experiment to counteract climate change plunges the planet into a new ice age, killing all life except for those lucky enough (a phrase we’re using loosely here) to have boarded the titular train. This train now circles the globe on a constant loop and a tyrannical class system has taken hold onboard.

It’s an important cautionary tale: While we should investigate any and all scientific developments to stop the climate crisis, dangerous gambles like geoengineering – or for that matter, fleeing our planet for an imagined oasis somewhere deep in the universe – could come with unintended consequences. So, why risk it when we know for sure that quickly transitioning from fossil fuels to renewables can and will work?

There’s even an important philosophical principle – one at work in another great, underappreciated sci-fi film, 1997’s Contact – to back this one up. Attributed to fourteenth century logician and Franciscan friar William of Ockham, Ockham’s Razor states… well, Jodie Foster’s Dr. Ellie Arroway put it best: “All things being equal, the simplest answer is usually the right one.”

(We agree, Dr. Arroway.)

Note: For all its incredible imagination, Snowpiercer definitely has some moments of real violence and isn’t one for younger audiences.


An Inconvenient Truth/An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power

Now, of course, the film that started a movement – and the follow-up that propelled it to new heights.

After seeing former US Vice President Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth, people worldwide finally understood the reality of the climate crisis devastating our planet. For many, it was the moment they knew they personally had to do something about it. The film’s impact continues to be felt more than a decade after it won the 2007 Academy Award for Best Documentary and took its place among the highest-grossing documentaries ever.

Last year’s follow-up, An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power, took that story further, showcasing both the amazing progress that’s been made as well as how much further we still have to go to solve the climate crisis.

Both documentaries present the science and stakes of the crisis and ask viewers if they’re ready to fight like our world depends on it (because it does).

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Just like you saw others do in An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power, you too can work with Vice President Gore himself along with a host of field-leading experts and activists to learn the facts of the climate crisis and how we can solve it together. Apply today to attend our Climate Reality Leadership Corps training in Los Angeles, California, from August 28-30, and join an incredible network of dedicated activists devoted to solving the greatest challenge of our time.

You know our climate is changing. You know renewable energy is the answer. And you want to make a difference. We’ll show you how. (https://www.climaterealityproject.org/training) (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-130418203111.png&hash=e8f61baab9b9d36eaf1c4087927f321bf883250c)

https://cleantechnica.com/2018/07/11/6-climate-change-movies-you-have-to-see/

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on July 13, 2018, 12:41:26 pm
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Americans Increasingly Aware of Climate Change, Media 😈 👹🐉🦕🦖 Clueless  ;)

By Paola Rosa-Aquino

YJuly 12, 2018 Filed to: CLIMATE CHANGE IS REAL

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https://earther.com/americans-increasingly-aware-of-climate-change-media-c-1827555165
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on July 14, 2018, 08:05:43 pm
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Weather Underground
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Above:  A sampling of all-time high temperatures reported around the world in 2018 thus far, rounded to the nearest degree Fahrenheit. Most of these were set in late June and early July (see details below). The reading of 51.3°C (124.3°F) at Ouargla, Algeria, is the highest reliably measured temperature on record for Africa. Background image credit: NASA Earth Observatory.


Christopher C. Burt  ·  July 13, 2018, 12:40 PM EDT

Heat Records 🌡️ Falling Around the World in 2018 🚩 (https://www.wunderground.com/cat6/Heat-Records-Falling-Around-World-2018?cm_ven=hp-slot-1)



Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on July 17, 2018, 03:03:26 pm
Massive Iceberg Threatens Greenland Village

July 16, 2018 by Reuters

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A storage tank is seen as an iceberg floats near the Innaarsuit settlement, Greenland July 12, 2018 in this image obtained from social media. Picture taken July 12, 2018. Lucia Ali Nielsen via REUTERS

Reuters(Reuters) – An iceberg the size of a hill has drifted close to a tiny village on the western coast of Greenland, causing fear that it could swamp the settlement with a tsunami if it calves.

The iceberg towers over houses on a promontory in the village of Innaarsuit but it is grounded and has not moved overnight, state broadcaster KNR reported.

A danger zone close to the coast has been evacuated and people have been moved further up a steep slope where the settlement lies, a Greenland police spokesman told Reuters.

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A giant iceberg is seen behind an Innaarsuit settlement, Greenland July 12, 2018. Picture taken July 12, 2018. Ritzau Scanpix/Magnus Kristensen/ via REUTERS
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http://gcaptain.com/massive-iceberg-threatens-greenland-village/

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on July 17, 2018, 05:24:32 pm
Agelbert NOTE: A warning from 2012 about what was coming now (and getting worse each year) that has been mostly ignored by TPTB.  :(

Why climate change is not an environmental problem

https://youtu.be/ELMXJts5qic

http://grist.org/climate-energy/why-climate-change-is-not-an-environmental-problem-the-video/? (http://grist.org/climate-energy/why-climate-change-is-not-an-environmental-problem-the-video/?)

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on July 17, 2018, 05:33:00 pm
Agelbert NOTE: Another reality based warning from over five years ago that has been deliberately downplayed by the profit over planet Powers That Be 🦕🦖😈 👹 💵 🎩 (TPTB) corrupted media.  :(


THIS is our Energy Reality

https://youtu.be/exXqrzhozRI

Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on July 17, 2018, 05:43:51 pm
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http://cleantechnica.com/2013/05/07/our-hourglass/ (http://cleantechnica.com/2013/05/07/our-hourglass/)

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on July 18, 2018, 01:02:40 pm
EcoWatch

By Olivia Rosane

Jul. 18, 2018 07:00AM EST

The Arctic Is Burning 🔥: Wildfires Rage from Sweden to Alaska

There are currently 11 wildfires 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 blazing in the Arctic circle, The Guardian reported Wednesday.


While fires are also raging in Russia, Norway and Finland, Sweden has seen the most extensive Arctic fires, which have forced four communities to evacuate, according to The Guardian.

Two Italian water-bombing planes that answered Sweden's call for help will begin operating Wednesday, but Sweden's Civil Contingencies Agency has requested even more planes and helicopters from the EU, The Local Sweden reported.

"This is definitely the worst year in recent times for forest fires. Whilst we get them every year, 2018 is shaping up to be excessive," university researcher and Uppsula resident Mike Peacock told The Guardian.

This year's fires in Sweden cover a much larger area 🔥 than fires in past years, The Guardian reported.

The fires come as a consequence of a heat wave that is bringing unusually hot, dry weather to much of Europe, conflagrations far outside of Europe's Mediterranean firezone, EU officials said, according to The Guardian.

The European Forest Fire Information System has warned that fire conditions will persist in central and northern Europe over the next few weeks.

Scientists say the increase in northern fires is another sign of climate change.

"What we're seeing with this global heatwave is that these areas of fire susceptibility are now broadening, with the moors in north-west England and now these Swedish fires a consequence of that," professor of global change ecology at the Open University Vincent Gauci told The Guardian.

"Both these areas are typically mild and wet which allows forests and peatlands to develop quite large carbon stores," he said. "When such carbon-dense ecosystems experience aridity and heat and there is a source of ignition—lightning or people—fires will happen."

The European Arctic isn't the only part of the far north seeing increased fire activity.

Two fires that started Tuesday brought the total number of fires in Alaska's Galena Zone up to 35, The Brookville Times reported. The fires have burned 44,000 acres to date.

The Alaskan fires and some of the Swedish fires were ignited by lightning strikes, which is in keeping with research published in 2017, which found that warmer temperatures were increasing thunderstorms over boreal forests and Arctic tundra, leading to more fires, Scientific American reported.

This year's fires come a year after Europe had its worst fire season in recorded history, though 2017's most devastating fires were in the more typical countries of Italy, Portugal and Spain, where they burned thousands of hectares of agricultural land and forests into November.

https://www.ecowatch.com/the-arctic-is-burning-2587826571.html
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on July 18, 2018, 01:43:40 pm
Agelbert NOTE: This is a great article packed with cartoons revealing the battle going in in Germany between Renewable Energy advocates and hydrocarbon addicts refusing to recognize the dangers in Greenhouse Gas fueled Catastrophic Climate Change:

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July 18, 2018

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Germany's coal mines seen from space, the talk on electric cars and Chinese-German battery production cooperation - CLEW's visiting cartoonist Mwelwa Musonko presents his view of the Energiewende and its many big and small peculiarities. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-130418200416.png&hash=15d789b29124aa5a1f1ea397ce630913734b20a4)

Elephants and aliens - a cartoonist's take on the Energiewende (https://www.cleanenergywire.org/news/elephants-and-aliens-cartoonists-take-energiewende)



Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on July 18, 2018, 05:00:51 pm
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July 18, 2018

Advocates Call on OSHA: Protect Workers From Heat 🌡️:


A broad coalition of worker advocacy, public health, and environmental groups yesterday called on the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration to create a workplace standard for heat stress.

Over 130 groups led by Farmworker Justice, United Farm Workers, and Public Citizen signed a petition sent to OSHA noting that two in every 1,000 American workers are now subject to heat stress, and calling on the agency to mandate that employers provide adequate hydration and shade, medical attention and rest breaks during high heat events.

The Obama administration denied a previous petition for a heat stress standard from the coalition in 2012. "I don’t want any more families to go through the pain that my family went through," Californian Raudel Felix García, whose brother died while working his job at a vineyard during triple-digit temperatures, told reporters on a press call.

https://insideclimatenews.org/news/17072018/heat-wave-workplace-safety-illness-stress-climate-change-construction-farm-workers-osha



Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on July 18, 2018, 05:07:39 pm
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Texas power demand breaking records during heat wave 😓: ERCOT

SNIPPET:

To keep air conditioners humming, Texas utilities bought electricity from all sources, boosting power prices to their highest since the winter heating season in January.

The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) said demand reached 70,587 megawatts on Monday, topping the 69,647 MW record for the month set on July 3. One megawatt can power about 1,000 U.S. homes.

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https://www.reuters.com/article/us-texas-power-demand/texas-power-demand-breaking-records-during-heat-wave-ercot-idUSKBN1K71KF

Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on July 20, 2018, 10:35:55 pm
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July 18, 2018

The global heat wave that's been killing ☠️ us

A heat wave is ravaging countries around the world. Although many celebrate sunny days, wildfires, wasted crops and health problems are some of the many disastrous consequences hot weather can have.

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https://www.dw.com/en/the-global-heat-wave-thats-been-killing-us/a-44699601
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on July 21, 2018, 03:14:42 pm
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Agelbert NOTE: The media 🙉 🙊 won't say it and the Republican Politician Climate Denier Crooks from Missouri  🦕 🦖, along with our POS President 🦀, only give empty condolences to the victims. 👎

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Death Toll from Duck Boat Accident Rises to Seventeen

July 20, 2018 by Reuters

SNIPPET:

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A duck boat is seen at Table Rock Lake in Branson, Missouri, U.S., July 19, 2018 in this picture grab obtained from social media video. Ron Folsom/via REUTERS

ReutersBy Brendan O’Brien and Andrew Hay – July 20 (Reuters) – Divers on Friday recovered the last of the bodies from the wreckage of a “duck boat” that sank on Thursday during a storm on a Missouri lake, counting among the 17 who died nine members of a single family.

The World War Two-style amphibious vehicle was carrying 31 passengers including children when a microburst storm hit Table Rock Lake outside Branson, raising waves that battered the vessel and ultimately caused it to capsize.

More than three dozen people have died in incidents involving duck boats on land and water in the United States over the past two decades.

Eleven members of one family, nine of whom died, were among the passengers on the duck boat that sank on Thursday, according to Missouri Governor Mike Parson who called it a “heart-breaking tragedy.”

“Emergency responders and civilian rescuers helped avert an even worse tragedy as people rushed to help in extremely dangerous conditions,” Parson said in a statement. He said seven of the 14 survivors had been injured, one seriously.

On Thursday at around 7 p.m. (0000 GMT) two duck boats were on the lake when thunderstorms rolled over it, churning the water. Both headed back to shore but only one made it. The driver of the other was among those killed, officials said.

https://youtu.be/gBL-ZLlmBR0

Stone County Sheriff Doug Rader told reporters that the boat’s captain survived.

“From what I understand there was life jackets in the duck,” Rader said, but he declined to say if passengers were wearing them.

The National Transportation Safety Board and U.S. Coast Guard were investigating, officials said.

The governor’s spokeswoman Kelli Jones said the 17 victims were from six different U.S. states.

Pat Cox, owner of a marina about a half mile from where the vessel went down, sent five boats and some 20 people to the rescue, most between the ages of 18 and 20.

“These people showed an amazing strength maybe that we don’t always give them credit for,” Cox said by telephone. “They had it and they took action. And they were good Samaritans.”

The first boat’s crew was able to pull two people from the waves, Cox said. “It was all hands on deck. We did everything we could.”

Branson is a family-friendly tourist destination with attractions like “Dolly Parton’s Stampede” dinner theater, the Amazing Acrobats of Shanghai and a Titanic museum with a model of the sunken vessel’s front half.

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‘NEVER SEEN IT LIKE THIS’


Rick Kettles, owner of the Lakeside Resort General Store and Restaurant, said he had never before seen such conditions on the lake, which is a 67-square-mile (174 sq km) reservoir on the White River.

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“I am 54 and I started coming here when I was 6 or 7 years old. I have been on my lake most of my life and I have never seen it like this 🌪⛈🌬💦 🌊,” Kettles said. “I am trying to figure out why the boats were out there. I don’t get it, having a captain’s license myself.”

A microburst is a severe, localized wind gust, blasting down from a thunderstorm, typically covering an area less than 2.5 miles (4 km) in diameter and lasting less than five minutes.

Read more:

http://gcaptain.com/death-toll-from-duck-boat-accident-rises-to-seventeen/
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on July 22, 2018, 05:03:52 pm
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3 Natural Gas & Climate Myths

July 21st, 2018 by Guest Contributor

Originally published on The Climate Reality Project.

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Flaring natural gas (imf.org)

Fossil fuels (all of them!) are the energy of the past. With new technologies like wind, solar, and advanced batteries in our hands, we can power today and tomorrow with clean, reliable energy that doesn’t harm our health and destroy our planet.

Natural gas is a growing energy source – one many are putting a lot of faith in.

Proponents like to portray the fuel as a cuddlier cousin to coal and oil when it comes to climate because it generates less carbon dioxide when burned. But its CO2 emissions are only one piece of a far more nuanced puzzle.

Many of the arguments in support of natural gas are based on outdated or incorrect information – sometimes going so far as to border on wishful thinking. That’s why we’re setting the record straight on some of the most common myths about natural gas and our climate.

Natural Gas Will Not Solve The Climate Crisis

When people make this argument, they’re (mostly) referring to one thing, in particular, that is indeed true of natural gas: a new, efficient natural gas power plant emits around 50 percent less carbon dioxide (CO2) during combustion when compared with a typical coal-based power plant, according to the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL).

To be sure, we should take seriously any source of energy that reduces our dependence on coal and oil, the primary sources of the carbon emissions that drive climate change. But let’s also engage in some real talk: 50 percent less CO2 also isn’t zero CO2, and CO2 isn’t the only harmful emission generated by natural gas development.

We’re still talking about a fossil fuel here, one that still contributes to climate change when burned. And achieving net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by the second half of this century is essential to the long-term health of our planet.

That number also doesn’t take into account all of the carbon emissions that happen across the full life cycle of natural gas, particularly during extraction, infrastructure construction, transport, and storage. But rather than dwell, let’s just get straight to the real climate Big Bad when it comes to natural gas – methane.

Methane is a very, very powerful greenhouse gas. In the atmosphere, compared to carbon, it’s fairly short-lived: only about 20 percent of the methane emitted today will still be in the atmosphere after 20 years. However, when it first enters the atmosphere, it’s around 120 times more powerful than CO2 at trapping heat and 86 times stronger over a 20 year period.

(Carbon dioxide hangs around for much longer: As much as 15 percent of today’s carbon dioxide will still be in the atmosphere in 10,000 years.)

And a lot of the methane that ends up in the atmosphere comes from natural gas production.

“The drilling and extraction of natural gas from wells and its transportation in pipelines result in the leakage of methane,” Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) notes. “Preliminary studies and field measurements show that these so-called ‘fugitive’ methane emissions range from 1 to 9 percent of total life cycle emissions.”

(When we talk about “total life-cycle emissions,” we’re talking all emissions from the source, including those leaked during its extraction, transportation, and more, and not just what is emitted when a fuel source is burned to create energy.)

If you’re thinking, “The difference between 1 and 9 percent is a pretty big deal,” you’re absolutely right. It’s also an exceptionally important metric when talking about the relative value of natural gas in the climate fight. For a natural gas power plant to have lower extraction of natural gas than a coal plant (as proponents keep claiming is the benefit), the entire system’s methane leakage must be kept below 3.2 percent.

Natural Gas Is Not Environmentally Friendly

We need to be very clear here: Natural gas is not a clean form of energy. Cleaner than coal? Sure – but that’s not saying a heck of a lot. Clean like solar or wind? Get out of here!

To start, the extraction process is rife with potential problems. Much of our natural gas comes through the process of hydraulic fracturing – aka “fracking.” In this process, companies drill boreholes deep into the earth and inject liquid into the subterranean rock at very high pressure. This forces open rock fissures and release gas from within the rock or reservoirs below.

In particular, fracking can contaminate groundwater supplies if it’s not done properly.

Fracked gas is typically found pretty deep in the earth – much further down than the water table. But the boreholes carrying the gas back up to the surface travel straight through the water-bearing rocks, called aquifers, from which many of us get our water. The injected fracking fluid often contains dangerous chemicals that no one would want to drink – and if the borehole is not properly cased, those chemicals can escape into groundwater.

And it’s important to remember that natural gas development is itself far from pollution-free.

“Some areas where drilling occurs have experienced increases in concentrations of hazardous air pollutants and two of the six criteria pollutants — particulate matter and ozone plus its precursors — regulated by the EPA because of their harmful effects on health and the environment,” the Union of Concerned Scientists reports. “Exposure to elevated levels of these air pollutants can lead to adverse health outcomes, including respiratory symptoms, cardiovascular disease, and cancer.”

Exposure to these pollutants can be particularly damaging to very young children.

“Given the profound sensitivity of the developing brain and the central nervous system, it is very reasonable to conclude that young children who experience frequent exposure to these pollutants are at particularly high risk for chronic neurological problems and disease,” the Center for Environmental Health’s Ellen Webb, a researcher on the neurological and neurodevelopmental effects of chemicals linked to unconventional oil and gas operations, told the Guardian last year.

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Natural Gas Is A Bridge To Nowhere

The conversation over natural gas’ value as a “bridge fuel” is a fraught one. Supporters claim that it’s a better alternative to coal that will carry us until renewables like wind and solar can fully power the grid. But let us ask you this: Would you take a bridge at all if there was no river, ravine, or other obstacle you had to cross?

That’s to say, we already have zero or near-zero carbon-emitting energy sources that are preferable to coal, oil, and natural gas. Residential and utility-scale wind, solar, and geothermal energy are up and running and getting better every day – and they’re increasingly cost-competitive with energy produced by fossil fuels. Right now.

Yale Climate Connections makes the stakes plain: “Although it might not be practical to replace all coal plants with renewables immediately, it’s definitely possible to do so in the next decade if renewables continue to fall in price.”

The article goes on to highlight the real danger of the bridge fuel fallacy: “If we replace coal with gas today, we’ve sunk costs into new gas infrastructure that we might be loath to replace a few years later with renewables. In this way, a gas bridge could delay the widespread adoption of renewables.”

If natural gas expansion comes at the expense of renewables, the greenhouse gas emissions threat to our climate continues. And there’s already plenty of evidence that overemphasizing gas really does siphon investment away from renewable energy sources that produce truly clean power.

The bottom line is that natural gas is still a fossil fuel, and simply shifting from coal to it won’t keep the US on track to meet its emissions reduction goals, even if methane leakages are reined in.

So rather than make an unnecessary, temporary wholesale switch to natural gas, the smarter tactic would be to phase out coal while moving straight to utility-scale renewable energy – something that is totally doable.

Listen, we get it: Fossil fuels helped power the Industrial Revolution and helped shape the past two centuries. But they’re just that – the energy of the past. With new technologies like wind, solar, and advanced batteries in our hands, we can power today and tomorrow with clean, reliable energy that doesn’t harm our health and destroy our planet.

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on July 23, 2018, 09:37:09 pm
Truthout

July 23, 2018

Ocean Acidification Could Amplify Climate Disruption

Dahr Jamail, Truthout: Climate disruption is causing Earth's oceans to become more acidic, threatening a wide range of marine organisms. Ocean acidification, which has the potential to compromise or change marine ecosystems on both large and small scales, was also a key component in previous mass extinction events.

Read the Article (https://truthout.org/articles/ocean-acidification-could-amplify-climate-disruption/)  (https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/304fa75d7ed32d56ae1ff3a796933cb65eac738511bb960bc4a77bb2f67c0af6.gif)

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on July 23, 2018, 10:55:38 pm
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Japan experiences its hottest temperature 🌡️ 😓  in recorded history

LAST UPDATED ON JULY 23RD, 2018 AT 6:51 PM BY MIHAI ANDREI

Temperatures reached 41.1 degrees Celsius (106 F), as scorching temperatures killed 77 people and sent more than 30,000 people to hospitals in the country of the rising sun.

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on July 24, 2018, 01:50:22 pm
Wildfires 🔥 kill at least 74 near Athens, families embrace as flames close in

Updated: 2018-07-24 22:44

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A man walks among burnt cars following a wildfire at the village of Mati, near Athens, Greece, July 24, 2018. [Photo/Agencies]

MATI, Greece - Wildfires sweeping through a Greek resort town have killed at least 74 people including families with children found clasped in a last embrace as they tried to flee the flames. 😟

The inferno was Greece's deadliest since fires devastated the southern Peloponnese peninsula in August 2007, killing dozens. Officials said it broke out in the town of Mati, 29 km (18 miles) east of Athens, late on Monday afternoon and was contained by Tuesday afternoon but the risk remained of it reigniting in scrubland parched by Greece's searing summer heat. 🚩

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"Greece is going through an unspeakable tragedy ☠️," Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said as he appeared on television to declare three days of national mourning. 🏴‍

Emergency crews found the bodies of 26 victims, some of them youngsters, lying close together near the top of a cliff overlooking a beach. They had ended up there after apparently searching for an escape route.

"Instinctively, seeing the end nearing, they embraced," the head of Greece's Red Cross, Nikos Economopoulos, told Skai TV.

Many hours after the blaze broke out, the strong smell of charred buildings and trees lingered in the air in parts of Mati on Tuesday. White smoke rose from smouldering fires.

Residents, their faces blackened by smoke, wandered the streets, some searching for their burned-out cars, others for their pets. The eerie silence was punctured by fire-fighting helicopters and the chatter of rescue crews.

A Reuters photographer saw at least four dead people on a narrow road clogged with cars heading to a beach.

Many in the area were unable to escape the fast pace of the blaze even though they were a few metres from the Aegean Sea or in their homes, the fire service said.

"We went into the sea because the flames were chasing us all the way to the water. It burned our backs and we dove into the water," said Kostas Laganos, a middle-aged survivor.

He compared the ordeal to the destruction of the city of Pompeii, where thousands were incinerated by the volcano of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD: "I said my God, we must run to save ourselves and nothing else."

Working through the night, coastguard vessels and other boats rescued almost 700 people who had managed to get to the shoreline and pulled another 19 survivors and six dead bodies from the sea, the coastguard said.

In total, at least 74 people had been killed, a fire brigade spokeswoman said, and the death toll was expected to rise. Poland said two of its citizens, a mother and her son, were among the victims.

It was not clear how many people remained unaccounted for as boats combed beaches for any remaining survivors, with military hospitals on full alert, the Greek government spokesman said.

One of the youngest victims was believed to be a six-month-old baby who died of smoke inhalation, officials said. At least 187 people were injured, among those 23 children.

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The Fossil Fuelers 🦖  DID THE Clean Energy  Inventions suppressing, Climate Trashing, human health depleting CRIME,   but since they have ALWAYS BEEN liars and conscience free crooks 🦀, they are trying to AVOID   DOING THE TIME or     PAYING THE FINE!     Don't let them get away with it! Pass it on!   
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on July 25, 2018, 06:44:14 pm
Agnotology: Part six of six parts

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Agnotology: Part one of six parts  (http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/who-can-you-trust/resisting-brainwashing-propaganda/msg10449/#msg10449)

Agnotology: Part two of six parts  (http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/who-can-you-trust/resisting-brainwashing-propaganda/msg10453/#msg10453)

Agnotology: Part three of six parts  (http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/who-can-you-trust/resisting-brainwashing-propaganda/msg10458/#msg10458)

Agnotology: Part four of six parts (http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/who-can-you-trust/resisting-brainwashing-propaganda/msg10465/#msg10465)

Agnotology: Part five of six parts (http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/who-can-you-trust/resisting-brainwashing-propaganda/msg10480/#msg10480)

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Fox 😈🦕🦖 news Climate change coverage

A truthful image from the UCS about Media propaganda.
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on July 26, 2018, 06:32:26 pm
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😈 Gen Z are Lazy, Entitled and Pollution Hating Jerkz  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F1%2F3-250718211017.gif&hash=1b5b289486b9429bdbdcb938b21ef1a2b66d30fc)

Not sure if you've heard, but there’s a new cult in town. It’s run by teenagers who want climate justice and a livable future. Sounds scary!

Zero Hour 🌎 (http://thisiszerohour.org/) is a climate group led by youth of color from different parts of America. Understanding that combating climate change requires urgent action, they recently released an ambitious platform of demands (http://thisiszerohour.org/platform/) that outlines what different levels of the government must do in order to safeguard their future. Last Saturday, they held marches across the country, which received overwhelming support from parents, scientists, celebrities, politicians and other climate groups.

But not, surprisingly from the shrinking tribe of climate deniers 🙉 🙊 🦕🦖 (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F1%2F3-250718205808.gif&hash=5c451456a306c150d3555c49e31a2f47d6f369a9). The planet's actually really cold, schooled a few anonymous experts. It’s a hoax, yelled others. What snowflakes, said some others who clearly like being original.

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Watts Up With That featured a guest post (or rather two lines followed by copy-pasted content) complaining that “climate indoctrination” (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F1%2F3-250718202127.gif&hash=acc63221521ebaf3f238088fd92d1ae3a08b6e48) begins at a very young age.

Ed Straker 🦕 from American Thinker (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F1%2F3-250718205137.gif&hash=7a79df8ecf1b29d8599c26fe550e664c6c5e24bd) wrote a blog post to share his belief that Zero Hour is a doomsday cult with a “militantly brainwashed doomsday leftist” leader. Apparently, Straker is very scared of 16-year-old founder Jamie Margolin 🦅 . Margolin, Straker writes,"may seem young, but never forget that many of the Red Guards in Mao's China who committed unspeakable atrocities were young, too.” Straker never gets around to really explaining how Zero Hour is a cult, but does complain that Margolin doesn’t smile enough. (Again, very original stuff.)

Fire up your tiny violins for Straker's next complaint: he notes that the group doesn’t appear to be led by men, especially white men. “Are boys not as easily brainwashed as girls?” he wonders. (We're...not going to touch that one.)

But easily the most prolific hater (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-250817135149.gif&hash=b4a8748d7cf56a31dd0a6aae5828ed2c1ac2815c) of the youth climate march was blogger Tom Nelson 😈, who repeatedly barraged the Zero Hour teen team with denier tweets, calling them brainwashed, a scam and BS, anti-science, and so much more. He 🦖 even gloated that there was low turnout as videos showed the youth resiliently rallying and marching in the pouring rain. We've got a sneaking hunch Nelson might have been a big old bully in high school the way he keeps attacking these teens.

Unfortunately, 2018 seems to be the year of militant attacks from the right 😈🦖 (http://www.latimes.com/opinion/la-ol-enter-the-fray-swatting-david-hogg-wasn-t-a-prank-1528224230-htmlstory.html) against young people doing their best to preserve their future. At least there are school kids like those in Zero Hour giving us hope. (https://www.geekwire.com/2018/vocal-students-wielding-internet-powerful-weapon-fight-gun-control-climate-protection/) (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F1%2F3-250718204530.gif&hash=2e7c5022efc700a555c2e328644b7448b6dda789)

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(https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F1%2F3-260718183407.png&hash=90c66eacce2242457b4868c0ba4242f0202557ef) The Zero Hour team prepared this platform after carefully reviewing the requirements in the Children’s Climate Lawsuit against the federal government. The demands of this landmark lawsuit form the basis of our platform because these requirements follow what scientists have told us is necessary to safeguard our future on this planet.

Our platform also specifies the need for climate justice, including equity, racial justice, and economic justice. For example, we include the necessity of protecting and supporting treaty rights because treaty rights are the only truly
rigorous laws already in place that protect the land, the water, the wildlife, and the people. Historically, treaty rights have not been enforced or respected due to racism and colonialism. This demands a change. Treaty rights are fundamental to achieving climate justice and climate justice benefits all people, including all races, classes, genders, sexual orientations, religious faiths, and all species. Zero Hour believes that no one should be left behind.

Our platform’s demands are mostly directed towards the federal government. However, we want all elected officials at state, county, city and other local levels to use this platform as their guide to take action in the capacities they can. A just transition requires action at local levels that we have outlined in our just transition document.

We have included strict deadlines in this platform because this is Zero Hour. We must take rapid action to protect our future. However, for a just transition to be truly just, it requires time to ensure that we include everyone and leave no one behind. That is why 2040 is our just transition deadline.

These demands are also directed towards the people, because Zero Hour believes that the people cannot wait for elected officials to take action. The people must act and Zero Hour shares this platform as a way for the public to
understand what is actually required to protect life and achieve justice on this planet.

https://www.ourchildrenstrust.org/pathway/

https://www.ourchildrenstrust.org/us/federal-lawsuit/


@ThisIsZeroHour
#ThisIsZeroHour
ThisIsZeroHour.org

http://thisiszerohour.org/files/FurtherInfo_ZH.pdf

PLATFORM DOCUMENTS (http://thisiszerohour.org/platform/)

People’s Platform (http://thisiszerohour.org/files/zh-peoples-platform-web.pdf)

Letter to Politicians (http://thisiszerohour.org/files/zh-platform-politicians-web.pdf)

Our Guiding Principles (http://thisiszerohour.org/files/zh-guiding-principles-web.pdf)

Just Transition (http://thisiszerohour.org/files/ZeroHour_JustTransition.pdf)

Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on July 26, 2018, 07:00:28 pm
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July 26, 2018

Agelbert NOTE: The Zero Hour movement is the last best hope for getting the governments of the world, particularly the U.S. Government (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fgrist.files.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F06%2Famerican-flag-oil-rig-lower_463x297.jpg&hash=fd535156b4396b499acb408a9057798d4a8c78c2), to tackle Climate Change. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F1%2F3-250718204530.gif&hash=2e7c5022efc700a555c2e328644b7448b6dda789) The demands of Zero Hour that are sine qua non for human survival as a species are listed below under the heading of Ending of the extractive based(https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-130418203402.gif&hash=b2691028ba683a0039a5811f5775c68d7ccae01c) economy and starting the rapid transition to a living economy that will create local jobs and local sustainable economies (i.e. a VIABLE BIOSPHERE). (https://lh6.ggpht.com/sw_iT7GZASdAYeiecsZEHJE-EgDhdK2rCWUzZOJS0OFiGpoi9qn8iMH2nuXHgWg2PA=h900) They demand that the transition be completed by 2040.

I don't know if we have that much time. I believe the 100% Renewable Energy Transition must be completed in a decade, at most, in order to avoid the worse effects of Catastrophic Climate Change. Regardless of how short the time we have is, I applaud these courageous, reality based young people for making these demands. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-130418202709.png&hash=7503265ec59e4c28d735afb762bc39f4674bd838)

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Just Transition

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A Just Transition protects workers as they transition away from the fossil fuel economy to a clean sustainable economy called the living economy. A Just Transition also ensures that communities of color, Indigenous communities, and frontline communities are not left behind in any way. A Just Transition should also protect the youth as they enter into an economy that is already fundamentally damaged by the fossil fuel corporations. A Just Transition means that all have an inalienable right to food, water, air, and land. Zero Hour believes that workers of all ages should be able to sustain their families, their health, their pensions, and their housing for now and future generations.

Therefore, we make these demands for a Just Transition:

Coal, Oil, Gas Corporations and Communities

 - Respect the contributions of the fossil fuel workers.

 - Donate to local impacted communities so that they may invest in local clean renewable energy, community based industries, and local living wage jobs for transitioning fossil fuel workers.

 - Donate into climate justice education for youth as reparations for the  damage caused to their health and future.

 - Donate to local communities so they may clean up the lands and  waters polluted and damaged by fossil fuel extraction/infrastructure/ shipping/export.

Industries

 - Switch to clean renewable energy and clean industrial processes.

 - Reskilling of their employees for new clean, local energy industries.

 - Provide fully paid quality healthcare for their workers and families who have been made unhealthy by working for extractive and toxic indus tries.

 - Provide full pensions for workers in extractive and toxic industries.

State and Local Governments

 - Respect and follow the Treaty Rights of the Indigenous Nations of that land and protect their food sovereignty and intellectual property.

 - State governments must pass a state constitutional amendment to include rights to healthy living wage jobs, clean and safe sustainable affordable housing, and affordable quality healthcare.

 - Invest in zero emissions mass transit that is affordable for low income people.

 - Invest in clean renewable energy as the way forward and make it accessible to low income people.

 - Divest pensions from fossil fuels and banks that support fossil fuels and shift to publicly owned state and local banks instead.

 - Invest in grassroots transformative justice to move away from the unjust prison system and the school-to-prison-pipeline.

 - Switch to 100% local clean renewable energy to power government owned buildings such as schools, community centers, City Halls, and etc.

 - Reskilling and redeployment of workers for locally based sustainable industries such as radically sustainable building, permaculture, reforestation, hemp production etc. with educational opportunities and training also provided to youth.

 - Legalize hemp production for local industry, medicine, and food.

- Refuse all new permits to extractive industries.

 - Implement climate justice education in schools according to recommendation from climate justice groups and frontline communities.

 - Invest in local permaculture food growth particularly in low income communities, and include this in climate justice education.

 - Plant indigenous trees and native species in local areas, and include this in climate justice education.

 - Support the state youth climate lawsuits and follow the climate recovery plan outlined in their lawsuit.

Federal Government

 - Respect and follow all treaties with First Nation communities and protect the food sovereignty and intellectual property of First Nations.

 - Respect Indigenous women, Indigenous queer and trans, women of color, and queer and trans people of color and protect them from assault, sexual violence, and trafficking caused by the fossil fuel industries.

 - Provide adequate funding to local communities for Just Transition.

 - Pass constitutional amendment to include rights to healthy living wage jobs, clean and safe sustainable affordable housing, affordable quality healthcare.

 - Outlaw private prisons and the forced labor of prison inmates.

 - Acknowledge the term “climate refugee” and welcome all climate refugees including; war refugees, communal/gang violence refugees, and natural disaster refugees.

 - Work together with other wealthy nations to be prepared to welcome climate refugees and provide safety and accommodation for them in international solidarity.

- End the extractive based economy and start the living economy that will create local jobs and local sustainable economies:

 - By stopping the extraction and pollution of all water bodies

 - By investing in water cleaning measures to restore ecosystems

 - By investing in innovation that enables clean renewable energy and local green economies

 - By supporting structural change at the national, state, and local level

 - By stopping the exploitation of labor including labor in prisons

 - By reskilling and redeployment of workers for local sustainable jobs

 - By providing sustainable job and business opportunities to youth with access to training and affordable education for those jobs

 - By providing quality affordable universal healthcare

 - By investing into research for natural healing methods and making these methods accessible and affordable for all

 - By providing affordable radically sustainable housing and making it accessible for all, particularly low income communities

 - By banning any extractive industries from operating in wilderness areas and nature sanctuaries

 - By taxing extractive industries and put that money into the Just Transition practices listed here.

Climate Justice Alliance tells us:

- A Just Transition moves us towards a livable future.

 - A Just Transition upholds Self Determination.

 - A Just Transition equitably redistributes Resources and Power.

 - A Just Transition creates Meaningful Work / Right Livelihood / Human Development.

 - A Just Transition requires Regenerative Ecological Economics.

 - A Just Transition retains Culture and Tradition.

 - A Just Transition embodies Local, Regional, National and International Solidarity.


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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on July 27, 2018, 12:08:23 pm
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Extreme Heat 🔥 & A Weird Jet Stream: A Climate Change Double Whammy

ICYMI: It’s hot. Like, really hot. Everywhere. 🚩 😓


Temperature records are shattering across the globe, and wildfires 🔥 are raging from Yosemite to the Arctic Circle. To slightly misquote the seminal climate change anthem All Star, “My world’s on fire, how bout yours? That is not the way I like it and I have paralyzing existential dread about the future of our planet.”

Climate change is playing two different roles in this string of astonishing record-breaking weather.

First off, the overall warming driven by carbon pollution is amplifying heatwaves. Studies show global warming is responsible for pushing temperatures past prior record levels in 82 percent of record-setting heat extreme events around the world in recent years. In this event, an unusual jet stream pattern is the engine driving the extreme heat, and global warming is likely providing the extra fuel that is driving the extreme heat past prior records.

Then there’s the jet stream. The engine driving many extreme weather events often is a major change in global atmospheric circulation, and the current global heat waves follows that pattern. And climate change is increasing the frequency of unusual jet stream configurations, such as the one driving the current extreme heat. The resulting heat is obliterating records, pushing temperature extremes way past historic levels.

Climate scientist Michael Mann explained: (https://twitter.com/ClimateSignals/status/1022283969092407296) “The extreme weather we're seeing around the Northern Hemisphere, such as heat waves, floods, droughts, and wildfires, is related to an unusual, undulating pattern in the jet stream. The other part of this that's atypical is that this undulating pattern doesn't usually hold longer than a few days. But this one isn't going anywhere. Our work shows that this sort of pattern, which has been associated with many of the most extreme, persistent weather events in recent years, including the 2003 European heat wave, 2010 Moscow wildfires, 2011 Texas and Oklahoma drought, and 2016 Alberta wildfires to name a few, is becoming more common because of human-caused climate change, and in particular, because of amplified Arctic warming.”

As is the case with many extreme weather events, coverage of these unnatural disasters in media has been mixed. Chris Hayes sparked a widespread discussion on Twitter when he tweeted that covering climate change in broadcast news is a “ratings killer”. (And a recent Media Matters analysis shows how infrequently broadcast covers climate change in relation to the heatwave: just one segment out of 127 mentioned climate change.)

A new analysis by Public Citizen’s Cover Climate project found that during the record-breaking June-July heatwave in the US, the top 50 papers published 204 heat-related articles, with just 23 mentioning climate change. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fgrist.files.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F06%2Famerican-flag-oil-rig-lower_463x297.jpg&hash=fd535156b4396b499acb408a9057798d4a8c78c2) (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-130418201722.png&hash=5299cc10ee42beae76e4d3b7c79dbf5f4c0addac)

One bright spot, the research shows, is that there were no climate denial pieces in response to the heatwave. That’s not the same worldwide, as Carbon Brief’s Leo Hickman points out. Both the Daily Mail 🙉 and The Sun 🙊 published opinion pieces denying the climate connection to the UK’s heatwave (tHaTs jUsT hOt AiR  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-311013201314.png&hash=0715eb72631014310634eb56176ff860c6d542f6)). 

But scientists and journalists are pushing back, calling for better, more thorough coverage. The New York Times updated a piece on Greece’s devastating wildfires to include the climate connection after they were called out on Twitter for the omission. (Greece, by the way, is in the middle of its hottest year ever recorded.) In response to Hayes’ tweet, journalists like Eric Holthaus and Emily Atkin who cover climate issues pointed out how successful climate-focused stories have been. David Wallace-Wells, whose story “The Uninhabitable Earth” was the most read piece in the New York Magazine’s history, wrote a follow-up yesterday posing a stark question: How did the end of the world become old news?
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Climate scientists know that these extremes will continue to become more extreme unless we limit global temperature rise and curb carbon pollution. So keep tweeting. Write letters to the editor. Support science. And when you need a five minute break from fighting the good fight, turn on some Smash Mouth and read this FT Diary of a sweaty climate skeptic.🦕 (https://www.ft.com/content/942eb4e8-8fee-11e8-b639-7680cedcc421) “I bet you anything this heat will be over by Christmas. We’ll be wearing jackets.” (https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/458746798270447616/U-eXuzjf.jpeg)


The Fossil Fuelers 🦖 DID THE Clean Energy  Inventions suppressing, Climate Trashing, human health depleting CRIME,   but since they have ALWAYS BEEN liars and conscience free crooks 🦀, they are trying to AVOID   DOING THE TIME or     PAYING THE FINE!     Don't let them get away with it! Pass it on!   
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on July 27, 2018, 01:58:34 pm
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Overnight tragedy in Redding

RL Miller  info@climatehawksvote.com

July 27, 2018 1:09 PM
 
Last night, a wildfire barrelled out of control toward the city of Redding in northern California. Firefighters gave up on trying to save structures and simply focused on evacuating the city. As I write, parts of the city of 90,000 are burning uncontrollably.

Perhaps you’ve seen some of the surreal news coverage. A local TV station’s crew evacuated on-air. An evacuation center was itself evacuated as the fire moved so quickly.

Two firefighters have died ☠️ so far. Dozens of homes have been destroyed. And right now it’s only 3 percent contained.

This is what the future looks like. And it will get even worse unless we elect more leaders willing to stand up to the fossil fuel industry and take bold action to protect the climate.


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The fire in Redding is the third major wildfire 🔥🔥🔥 burning in California this week -- the Ferguson fire has forced the closure of Yosemite Valley, and the Cranston fire is burning the mountains east of Los Angeles.

The world seems to be ablaze — fires in Sweden and Finland above the Arctic circle, fires in Greece killing dozens, deadly heat 🌡️ in Japan and Texas.

Of course, you and I know that climate change is fueling these disasters. The four hottest years ever recorded were the last four years, and 2018 will almost certainly be the fifth.

Yet, even amidst the real human misery climate change is already calling there are stories of heroism, communities pulling together, and leaders stepping forward to act on climate change.

But we need more such leaders. A lot more. We need a new Congress who’ll take climate change seriously and drive our economy as quickly as possible to 100% renewable.

Here at Climate Hawks Vote, we know our role: We have ambitious plans to mobilize and persuade more voters than ever before this fall via phone and digital communications — targeting infrequent voters for whom climate is a persuasive message.

Put simply, the more donors who sign on as recurring in the next couple of weeks, the more we can budget for our fall campaigns and the advocacy work that will follow.

Can you make a recurring donation to Climate Hawks Vote to fuel our critical electoral work?

Together, we can build a better future.

Your fellow climate hawk,

RL Miller

References

“Wall of Flames Leaves 2 Dead, Homes Destroyed as Massive Fire Sweeps into Redding,” Sacramento Bee
https://www.sacbee.com/latest-news/article215632950.html

“2018 Global Heat So Far,” Climate Central
http://www.climatecentral.org/gallery/graphics/2018-global-heat-so-far

“Climate change is supercharging a hot and dangerous summer,” Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/climate-change-is-supercharging-a-hot-and-dangerous-summer/2018/07/26/cf960ba8-905c-11e8-bcd5-9d911c784c38_story.html

 
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The Fossil Fuelers 🦖 DID THE Clean Energy  Inventions suppressing, Climate Trashing, human health depleting CRIME,   but since they have ALWAYS BEEN liars and conscience free crooks 🦀, they are trying to AVOID   DOING THE TIME or     PAYING THE FINE!     Don't let them get away with it! Pass it on!   
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on July 27, 2018, 02:59:02 pm
July 26, 2018

Crisis Unfolds in Laos Following Dam Collapse💦

At least 27 are dead, 131 missing and thousands homeless after a hydropower dam under construction in Southern Laos ruptured Monday evening and sent more than five billion cubic feet of water spilling into eight nearby villages.

Authorities have rescued more than 2,800 Laotians from the area but say more than 3,000 are still awaiting rescue, and Prime Minister Thongloun Sisoulit said Wednesday that the disaster is the worst the country has faced in decades.

The dam was one of 70 hydropower projects that have been built or are under construction in Laos, which is aiming to use the projects to become a major source of energy for the region. "Many dams in operation or planned are not designed to be able to cope with extreme weather events," ⛈ 🌩 🌪

International Rivers, a group that campaigns against the growth of hydropower in Laos, said in a statement. "Unpredictable and extreme weather events are becoming more frequent due to climate change, posing grave safety concerns to millions who live downstream of dams."

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-laos-accident-dam/laos-scrambles-for-food-medicines-coffins-after-dam-burst-idUSKBN1KG09K

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on July 27, 2018, 05:01:56 pm
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on July 29, 2018, 08:53:06 pm
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2018 Global 🌍 🌎 🌏  Heat 😓 So Far

Published: July 18th, 2018

By Climate Central

With the release of the monthly global temperature analysis from NOAA today, it is a good opportunity to compare temperatures so far this year to their historical levels. And as greenhouse gases continue to accumulate in the atmosphere, the heat goes on both globally and here in the U.S.

Globally, the past four years have been the hottest four years on record, and 2018 so far is coming in as the 4th hottest. All-time record heat has peppered the Northern Hemisphere this summer. Here a few stats compiled by Weather Underground:

Glasgow, Scotland had its hottest day on record, reaching 89°F on June 28.

Montreal, Canada set a new all-time high, reaching 98°F on June 29.

Ouargla, Algeria had the highest temperature on record in Africa, reaching 124°F on July 5. This is believed to be the hottest temperature reliably measured in Africa.

Tianxiang, Taiwan had the hottest temperature on record in Taiwan, reaching 105°F on July 10.

According to the WMO, 2018 has been the hottest La Niña year on record, with La Niña years today consistently warmer than El Niño years from 30 years ago. Consensus forecasts are trending toward a new El Niño before the end of the year, meaning 2018 will probably finish as one of the 10 hottest years on record globally.

To better reflect how much temperatures have warmed since the early industrial era, we combined the global NOAA and NASA monthly temperature analyses to determine how much warming has taken place relative to a 1881-1910 baseline.

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Methodology: U.S. and global temperature rankings referred to in the text above are calculated by NOAA/NCEI.  Monthly global temperature analyses are also independently calculated by NASA. Climate Central combines the NOAA and NASA information to re-baseline global temperatures using an earlier pre-industrial baseline of 1881-1910 in response to the Paris Climate Change Agreement.

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Basics, Causes, Trends, Climate, Extremes, Heat, International

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on July 29, 2018, 10:05:13 pm
Deserts in Asia – Destroyers of Civilization Pt. 1 | Full Documentary

110,807 views

https://youtu.be/pw6k0QBTYb4

hazards and catastrophes

Published on May 12, 2017

According to estimates of the United Nations, more than 2.6 billion people in 110 countries are directly affected by progressive desertification. Deserts now cover more than a third of the entire surface of the earth, thus 65% of arable lands. More than three billion cattle, sheep and goats chomp their way through pastures faster than they can be regenerated. This program shows how desertification is changing the balance of the earth and affecting two continents in particular: Asia and Europe.

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on July 30, 2018, 09:02:33 pm
Agelbert NOTE: In this video you will learn about the several Antarctic penguin species and how their populations are declining from Climate Change. :(

There are also some spectacular views of the ice formations as the wind swirls around them. ✨

New vegetation has been discovered, while excessive ultraviolet radiation coming down through the North America sized Giant ozone hole is causing blindness in seals.😨 Marine species are threatened by increased temperatures. 👎

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The Antarctica Challenge - A Global Warning | Full Documentary

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hazards and catastrophes

Published on May 27, 2017

This award-winning documentary reveals many startling new scientific revelations such as penguin suicide, new vegetation growing in the world’s largest desert, diminishing populations of land animals and marine life and the dangerously increasing melting of Antarctica’s land ice.

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on July 31, 2018, 12:33:15 pm
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July 31, 2018

Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
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German Farmers’ Association President Joachim Rukwied is calling for government assistance totalling one billion euros to be distributed to farmers, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reports. The aim of Rukwied’s proposal is to help farmers, whose harvests are more than 30 percent below the average of recent years, according to the association. Federal agriculture minister Julia Klöckner is expected to inform her cabinet colleagues on 1 August of the challenges facing farmers due to the extreme weather conditions, with a decision on the merits of further assistance not due to be made until after the end-August harvest balance, the article says.

http://www.faz.net/aktuell/wirtschaft/mehr-wirtschaft/duerre-bauern-wollen-eine-milliarde-hilfe-vom-staat-15714342.html


Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on July 31, 2018, 01:07:44 pm
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July 31, 2018

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Floods 🌪 🌧 💦 Ravage Myanmar

Flooding in Myanmar has killed at least 11 people and forced more than 100,000 to evacuate, government officials said Monday. The flooding, exacerbated by poor infrastructure, inadequate preparations and deforestation, is part of a series of heavy floods during this year's monsoon season in the region, including during last week's dam failure in Laos.

Evacuees say official warnings of this week's floods came as waters had already inundated some regions of the country. A 2017 WWF report on the impacts of climate change on Myanmar projects that the intensity of rainfall in the country will increase during monsoon season, while the country's minister of social welfare, relief and resettlement blamed climate change in part for the severe rains.

https://earther.gizmodo.com/in-myanmar-rains-displaced-119-000-in-earths-latest-cl-1827968149

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on July 31, 2018, 01:23:26 pm
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King Penguin

July 31, 2018

World's largest king penguin colony has declined by 90% 😨

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/07/world-largest-king-penguin-colony-declines-90-percent-180731135557250.html
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on July 31, 2018, 02:43:12 pm
EcoWatch

Climate  By Olivia Rosane

Jul. 30, 2018 01:41PM EST

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537 Dead in India Monsoon 😟

Flooding and heavy rains associated with India's monsoon season have killed 537 people so far, The Times of India reported Saturday.

The number of deaths was reported by the country's National Emergency Response Center, which recorded 139 deaths in Maharashtra, where Mumbai is located, 126 in the southwestern state of Kerala, 116 in West Bengal in the northeast, 70 in Uttar Pradesh, 52 in Gujarat and 34 in Assam.

The total number of deaths for the country are likely higher, since deaths in other states are yet to be tallied and some deaths, especially in rural areas, are not reported, according to Sky News.

At least 58 people died this weekend, as heavy rains Thursday and Friday in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh flooded land and caused houses to collapse, The Associated Press reported Saturday.

India's monsoon season started more than two weeks ahead of schedule on June 29, Reuters reported at the time.

The monsoon season typically lasts until October, according to The Associated Press.

So far, the 2018 season has also displaced hundreds of thousands of people.

In Kerala, 11,750 homes have been damaged and 143,000 people have sought shelter in 1,770 relief camps, The Times of India reported.

In West Bengal, 162,000 people have been impacted and 7,256 houses damaged, while, in Assam, 217,000 displaced people have sought shelter in 270 camps.

The National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) has deployed 43 teams to help regional emergency workers in the affected areas.

In the country's capital of Delhi, more than 3,000 people living in the Yamuna River's floodplain were evacuated after the river rose passed a danger mark, Sky News reported.

In once incident, flooding brought both water and fish into the intensive care unit of the Nalanda Medical College Hospital in the city of Patna in Bihar, The Times of India reported Sunday.

Heavy rains in Bihar began Friday and are expected to continue through August 1.

More than one hundred thousand people have died in floods in India between 1953 and 2017, Sky News reported, and the problem is only expected to get worse with climate change.

Last August, unusually heavy monsoon flooding in India, Bangladesh and Nepal killed at least 1,200 ☠️.

Despite the heavy rains, India is also suffering the worst water crisis in its history, partly because of pollution, waste and mismanagement, but partly also because of changing rainfall patterns linked to climate change.

The two, flooding and drought, are not as contradictory as they initially sound.

"This is the new, turbulent nature of our monsoon," journalist Raghu Karnad wrote for The Guardian after 2017's catastrophic floods, "that we are receiving more and more of our rainfall in extreme doses (which causes floods), and less in between the major deluges, which is when fields are fed and water tables recharged. For India, more flooding and more drought are not two possible futures. Both are here together, already."

https://www.ecowatch.com/537-dead-in-india-monsoon-2591222095.html

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on July 31, 2018, 06:24:59 pm
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While Puerto Rico’s People Still Suffer the Effects of Hurricane Maria, its Forests Are Faring Much Better

by Thailynn Munroe Thailynn Munroe, Nancy Harris and Tamara Heartsill Scalley - July 31, 2018

         
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While Puerto Rico continues to recover from Hurricane Maria, El Yunque National Forest has largely rebounded. Photo by Jami430/Wikimedia Commons

Puerto Rico is no stranger to extreme events. Throughout recorded history, the island has been in the eye path of more than 50 tropical storms. It’s still recovering from last year’s Hurricane Maria as the 2018 hurricane season brings mounting concerns for more storm-related damages.

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How Were Puerto Rico’s Forests Affected by Hurricane Maria?

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Hurricane Maria passing over Puerto Rico. El Yunque National Forest is highlighted in green.

Hurricane Maria made landfall in Puerto Rico on September 20, 2017 as a Category 4 hurricane, with sustained wind speeds just below 155 mph, gusts of 175-195 mph, and rainfall of up to 38 inches in some areas. The entire island suffered more than $90 billion in damages, the third-costliest hurricane in U.S. history.

The eye of the storm traveled southeast to northwest across the island, placing some of the strongest winds in the storm over Puerto Rico’s largest forest, El Yunque National Forest, also known as the Luquillo Experimental Forest. The forest sits atop a mountain, making it more vulnerable to high winds and landslides after torrential downpours. Data from Global Forest Watch show a 10 percent loss of tree cover in 2017, compared tree cover in 2000; more than 50,000 hectares were affected.

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Loss was especially pronounced over areas of higher elevation, as shown in the comparison below.

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Immediately after Hurricane Maria hit, El Yunque exhibited de-greening that can be seen clearly in the high-resolution composite satellite images below, collected by Planet. Satellite images also show how quickly the forests have since rebounded. A composite of images from April to June 2018 shows significant regrowth just seven months after the hurricane hit.

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satellite of images of El Yunque before (left) and after (right) Hurricane Maria. Satellite images via Planet.

How Do We Know Puerto Rico’s Forests Will Recover?

The United States Forest Service (USFS) recently completed a field survey of permanent plots, which they’ve been doing every five years since 1988. Preliminary results this year indicate that while Hurricane Maria blew off foliage and canopy (which registered as tree cover loss on Global Forest Watch), 87 percent of tree trunks are still standing. Though most of the leaves are stripped and many branches snapped, only a small proportion of trees were uprooted or completely felled.

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photo of El Yunque in 2016 (left), before Hurricane Maria, and 2017 (right), after Hurricane Maria. Photo credit: Sajyasingh/Wikimedia Commons and Mark Davis/US Fish and Wildlife Service

Tropical forests have shown their resilience to severe storms time and again in Puerto Rico and other areas of the world. The Luquillo Experimental Forest in El Yunque is the longest continuously measured tropical forest in the world, with up to 75 years of observations at some sites. Before Hurricane Maria, Hurricane Hugo in 1989 was the most intense storm to make landfall in Puerto Rico in 57 years, with wind speeds of 126 mph and a maximum rainfall of 17 inches. Within just five years of Hugo’s landfall, observations from USFS showed that vegetation health indicators, like aboveground biomass, were similar to readings before the storm. In 10 years, stem density values surpassed those observed before the hurricane.

When Hurricane Georges made landfall in 1998, the forest was still in recovery mode after Hurricane Hugo.  Even still, scientists were hard-pressed to find measurable effects of the storm on the forest structure, other than some branch loss and defoliation in the canopy.

Stripped leaves and fallen branches after a hurricane also create a new layer of rich, organic matter that encourages new tree growth. While the Global Forest Watch platform currently reports only annual tree cover loss, upcoming data on annual tree cover gain, scheduled for release in the coming year, will allow monitoring of regrowth and re-establishment of the tree canopy in El Yunque.

Healthy Trees 🌳 🌴: A Growing Trend in Puerto Rico

Healthy forests provide a multitude of ecosystem services to an island like Puerto Rico, including decreasing the intensity of floods, providing habitats for biodiversity, filtering water, and providing sites for eco-tourism attractions, raw materials and cultural importance. Over the past century, there has been a trend towards reforestation in Puerto Rico. Forests covered just 6 percent of the island in the late 1940s, as trees were cleared to make way for agriculture. But as people emigrated from rural to urban areas and to the U.S. mainland, forests began to flourish again. By 2010, trees covered nearly 50 percent of Puerto Rico. Although we might see short-term damage to trees from storms and other natural disturbances, increasing overall forest cover helps to lessen the severity of extreme events and decreases the amount of time it takes for trees—and people—to recover. (https://lh6.ggpht.com/sw_iT7GZASdAYeiecsZEHJE-EgDhdK2rCWUzZOJS0OFiGpoi9qn8iMH2nuXHgWg2PA=h900)

http://www.wri.org/blog/2018/07/while-puerto-ricos-people-still-suffer-effects-hurricane-maria-its-forests-are-faring-much-better
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on July 31, 2018, 06:43:45 pm
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With 1.2 Billion Members, the Catholic Church Can Lead on Climate Action. Here Are 3 Ways How.

by Kitty van der Heijden Kitty van der Heijden and Alberto Pallecchi - July 26, 2018

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If you walk the talk, you should also look at your footprint. The Catholic Church has many opportunities to reduce its carbon impact, considering the large amount of properties it manages, including about 223,000 parishes, 140,000 schools, 1,200 universities, and 1,000 healthcare facilities. Furthermore, it owns a considerable amount of land, estimated to be around 180 million acres 👀.

A clear, concrete commitment from the global Catholic Church itself during one of the upcoming climate action convenings, such as committing to a science-based greenhouse gas reduction target, would show how the Church itself translates Laudato Si ambitions into action, and could inspire its faith community, as well as other communities, to be equally ambitious. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-060518153110.png&hash=39d587c31b7f7e66b30d7e59bb560e2ad0662eee)


To effectively measure and mitigate emissions and enforce carbon-neutrality for the large, globally-scattered holdings of the Church won't be an easy task. It would require the establishment of a GHG emissions inventory, a roadmap for action and close monitoring through tools, reporting and analysis for climate action. But if there was ever a moment to showcase what can (and should) be done in practice to realize the vision and ambition of Laudato Si, it is now.

Full article:

http://www.wri.org/blog/2018/07/12-billion-members-catholic-church-can-lead-climate-action-here-are-3-ways-how
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on August 01, 2018, 09:30:09 pm
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Extreme Heat Could Make One Third of Planet Uninhabitable

August 1, 2018

Climate scientist Michael Mann says that, under a business-as-usual scenario, the mass displacement of vulnerable populations could trigger an unprecedented national security crisis

https://youtu.be/Q4DPREMWnBE

https://therealnews.com/stories/extreme-heat-could-make-one-third-of-planet-uninhabitable

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on August 04, 2018, 06:07:23 pm
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Hottest Rain on Record: Rain Falls at 119°F in Imperial, California



Dr. Jeff Masters  ·  August 2, 2018, 3:28 PM EDT

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Above: Summer rain showers fall over the desert region about 40 miles northeast of Imperial, California, as seen from Belle Mountain in Joshua Tree National Park, at 12:15 pm PDT July 19, 2017, when the temperature was 100°F (38°C). Image credit: National Park Service.



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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on August 04, 2018, 07:57:00 pm
Scientists said that the figures point to the threat of an Ecological Armageddon 😱

Entomologists have estimated that there are 200 million insects for every human being on Earth, but some recent research has suggested a dramatic and potentially catastrophic change of course for their population. Scientists studying nature reserves in Germany discovered that the number of flying insects there had plunged by 75 percent in just 25 years.

Extrapolating the results, the scientists said that the figures point to the threat of an "ecological Armageddon" that would have a profound impact on all life on the planet. While the reason for the sudden decline has not been determined (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F1%2F3-250718202127.gif&hash=acc63221521ebaf3f238088fd92d1ae3a08b6e48), possible factors include loss of wilderness, advancements in pesticides, and global warming.

Regardless of the cause, continuing to lose such large numbers of the little creatures would devastate human society and all of the animal kingdom, which relies on insects as pollinators, food sources, and agricultural catalysts.

Inside the insect world:

There are more than 300,000 species of beetles in the world, accounting for 40 percent of all insects.

Insects live on every continent, although only one -- a wingless midge -- manages to survive in Antarctica.

Approximately 15,000 new species of animals and plants are discovered every year, half of which are insects.


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The Fossil Fuelers 🦖 DID THE Clean Energy  Inventions suppressing, Climate Trashing, human health depleting CRIME,   but since they have ALWAYS BEEN liars and conscience free crooks 🦀, they are trying to AVOID   DOING THE TIME or     PAYING THE FINE!     Don't let them get away with it! Pass it on!   
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on August 04, 2018, 09:17:33 pm
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August 1, 2018


China to be Hit by Deadly Heat: China's most densely populated--and most agriculturally prosperous--region could see regular "unsurvivable" heat waves by the end of the century, according to new research. A study published Monday in the journal Nature Communications finds that heatwaves in the fertile and densely populated North China Plain region, which includes capital Beijing, could kill people in hours by 2070 if emissions continue at current rates. Many of the region's 400 million inhabitants are agricultural workers, with little alternative to working outside. "This spot is just going to be the hottest spot for deadly heat waves in the future, especially under climate change," MIT's Elfatih Eltahir, who led the study, said in a statement.

http://news.trust.org/item/20180731192925-14kbn/



Hoosier Agriculture in Trouble: Climate change will have a big impact on Indiana's $31 billion agriculture industry, according to new research. The fifth installment of the Purdue Climate Change Research Center's research, released Tuesday, ties each 1 degree F increase in average overnight temperature to a two percent drop in corn yields, leading to a decrease in yields of up to 20 percent over the next 30 years. Heat will also impact agricultural workers and animals, while increased diseases may mean more pesticide use. Indiana is one of the top five most productive US states for crops, and nearly 80 percent of its farmland is dedicated to the production of corn and soybeans--which will also take a hit by midcentury.

https://indianapublicmedia.org/news/report-highlights-climate-changes-impact-indiana-agriculture-153127/

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on August 07, 2018, 01:41:40 pm
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By Dana Nuccitelli

Mon 6 Aug 2018 06.00 EDT

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SNIPPET 1:

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SNIPPET2:

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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2018/aug/06/the-gop-and-big-oil-cant-escape-blame-for-climate-change-dana-nuccitelli

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The Fossil Fuelers 🦖 DID THE Clean Energy  Inventions suppressing, Climate Trashing, human health depleting CRIME,   but since they have ALWAYS BEEN liars and conscience free crooks 🦀, they are trying to AVOID   DOING THE TIME or     PAYING THE FINE!     Don't let them get away with it! Pass it on!   
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on August 08, 2018, 09:34:36 pm
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We can limit global warming to 1.5°C — but we need to change how we travel, heat homes, and use devices

LAST UPDATED ON AUGUST 8TH, 2018 AT 10:14 AM BY MIHAI ANDREI

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Overall, the 1.5°C scenario could be achieved if we reduce energy demand by 40%. By combining this reduction with the electrification of cars and a continuous expansion of renewable energy, the objective could be reached with existing technology.

Full article:

https://www.zmescience.com/ecology/global-warming-objective-04062018/


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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on August 08, 2018, 09:44:48 pm
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Geoengineering the Earth against climate change might do as much harm as good

LAST UPDATED ON AUGUST 8TH, 2018 AT 3:28 PM BY MIHAI ANDREI

Injecting aerosols into the atmosphere could mitigate some of the effects of climate change — but it would do just as much damage, a new study found

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on August 09, 2018, 01:38:34 pm
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Climate Change Is Forcing Earth Toward a 'Hothouse' Point of No Return 🚩 😓 ☠️


By Joe McCarthy

AUG. 7, 2018

SNIPPET:

Now a group of scientists is warning that the Paris climate agreement goal of keeping global temperatures from rising 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels is not aggressive enough to protect the planet from catastrophic consequences. The reason, according to the Guardian, is because even more powerful feedback loops will be triggered upon reaching this temperature threshold.

In a paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the authors map out a range of anticipated climate feedback loops.

For example, as the oceans continue to warm, coral reefs and all the environmental benefits they provide will continue to disappear, causing marine ecosystems to further deteriorate. As precipitation patterns shift, some regions are getting more rainfall, inundating forested areas to the point where they can no longer absorb as much greenhouse gas emissions. And as ice sheets melt, more sun is being absorbed by surrounding oceans, leading to warming waters and more ice melt.

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https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/climate-change-earth-hothouse-extreme-weather/

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on August 09, 2018, 09:21:27 pm
EcoWatch

Wednesday, 08 August 2018 07:37

By  Lorraine Chow

More Than 70,000 People Hospitalized 👀 😨 Amid Record-Breaking Heat in Japan 😓

An ongoing heatwave has sent a record 71,266 people to hospitals across Japan between April 30 and Aug. 5 with 138 people dying from heat-related illnesses, The Japan Times reported, citing the nation's Fire and Disaster Management Agency.

The busy capital of Tokyo saw the highest number of people taken to hospitals, at 5,994. Osaka followed with 5,272. About 40 percent of the total tally consists of elderly people.

The number of people hospitalized in just the past three months far exceeds the previous record of 58,729 recorded from June 1 to Sept. 30 in 2013.

Last month, the city of Kumagaya in the Saitama prefecture reached 41.1 degrees Celsius (106 degrees Fahrenheit), an all-time high for the country, prompting the national meteorological agency to declare the extreme heat a "natural disaster."

What's more, the heat is expected to continue. The Disaster Management Agency has urged the public to take caution and to drink enough water and use air conditioners.

Meanwhile, the scorching conditions has government officials considering whether to introduce daylight saving time for the Olympic Games in 2020, which will be hosted in Tokyo.

Yoshiro Mori, the head of the organizing committee for the summer games, said that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has ordered officials from his Liberal Democratic party to gather public opinion on whether clocks should jump ahead, Reuters reported.

The plan being considered would move clocks two hours forward. For instance, marathon runners would set off at 5 a.m. instead of 7 a.m. to avoid sweltering conditions during their races.

Advocating for the plan, Tokyo 2020 spokesman Masa Takaya said in a statement to Reuters that the move would "also help protect the environment and realize a low-carbon society in Japan."

However, people took to social media to complain that the change would be difficult to adjust to and they could risk losing sleep.

"It's way too easy to imagine that we'll start work two hours earlier and finish the same in the dark, meaning long days," a commenter said, according to Reuters.

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on August 09, 2018, 11:16:26 pm
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August 9, 2018

William Rivers Pitt, Truthout:

The Coming Thunder of the Climate Change Voter

There is a terrible desperation to the increasingly pathetic rationalizations from the climate denial camp, and a political price will be paid for these filthy paroxysms of deceit, perhaps much sooner than some might think.

A large majority of Americans believe climate change is real, and nearly half believe they have already experienced its effects.

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on August 10, 2018, 02:21:51 pm
"There is a terrible desperation to the increasingly pathetic rationalizations from the climate denial camp. This comes as no surprise if you take the long view; every single undone paradigm in history has died kicking and screaming, and our current petroleum paradigm 🐉🦕🦖 (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-250817135149.gif&hash=b4a8748d7cf56a31dd0a6aae5828ed2c1ac2815c) is no different. The trick here is trying to figure out how we all make it to the new ⚡ paradigm without dying ☠️ right along with the old one, kicking, screaming or otherwise." - William Rivers Pitt


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William Rivers Pitt  is a senior editor and lead columnist at Truthout . He is also a New York Times and internationally bestselling author of three books: War on Iraq: What Team Bush Doesn’t Want You to Know, The Greatest Sedition Is Silence and House of Ill Repute: Reflections on War, Lies, and America’s Ravaged Reputation. His fourth book, The Mass Destruction of Iraq: Why It Is Happening, and Who Is Responsible, co-written with Dahr Jamail , is available now on Amazon. He lives and works in New Hampshire.

https://truthout.org/authors/william-rivers-pitt/

Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on August 10, 2018, 04:44:56 pm
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Truthout

August 9, 2018

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In all those years, I have never, ever experienced as many pounding, vicious tropical downpours as I have this summer, and it’s barely August. I watched shingles getting blasted off my neighbor’s roof the other day by a microburst that came roaring out of the maelstrom during maybe the 25th thunderdump flood-bomb we’ve seen in the last few weeks alone. This past March, we got c r a c k e d with three howling Nor’easters in the span of 11 days, with a fourth that followed soon after. Again, unprecedented in my experience.

We’re not on fire here — these wildly uncharacteristic monsoon rains put that possibility snugly to bed — but there’s nothing at all normal about this. This isn’t the Amazon rainforest. It’s not even North Alabama. It’s not the North Pole, either. This is New England, and I have never seen the like. There is too much water in the atmosphere, and it is coming down hard. Tack on the extraordinary heat and saturating humidity, and these are strange days indeed.

I am not alone in my perceptions. Far from it, in fact.

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https://truthout.org/articles/the-coming-thunder-of-the-climate-change-voter/
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on August 14, 2018, 08:51:23 pm

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Global warming, also referred to as climate change, is the observed century-scale rise in the average temperature of the Earth's climate system and its related effects. Multiple lines of scientific evidence show that the climate system is warming. Wikipedia

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Thom Hartmann Program

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on August 15, 2018, 03:52:58 pm
GLOBAL CITIZEN


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By Joe McCarthy  and  Erica Sanchez

AUG. 13, 2018

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Why Global Citizens Should Care
Trees are critical in protecting the ecological health of the planet and counteracting climate change. The United Nations’ Global Goals calls on countries to promote forest growth. You can join us in taking action on this issue here (https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/take-action/).

Forty football fields worth of tropical forest are lost every minute, but it appears that the world actually gained trees between 1982 and 2016, according to a comprehensive study published in the science journal Nature.

After studying more than 30 years worth of satellite images, a team of researchers concluded that global tree cover had increased by 7%, or 864,868 square miles, approximately the combined size of Alaska and Texas.

The finding might seem to contradict other reports that show staggering levels of deforestation over the past century. For instance, the World Resources Institute recently came up with that startling football field statistic in an annual report on tropical forests.

But the two reports aren’t actually in conflict with each other. As the world loses unsustainable levels of tropical forests, tree growth is rising in previously inhospitable places like deserts, tundra areas, and in cities.

Some of that tree growth is simply due to humans planting seeds in soil. Pakistan, for instance, has been able to plant billions of trees in recent years. Another part of the growth comes from trees reclaiming land abandoned by humans.

The biggest driver of tree growth, according to the report, is climate change. As the world warms, landscapes are changing and trees are able to take root in new areas.

Trees are critical in the global fight against climate change, but they’re also highly vulnerable to the phenomenon.

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As a result, the new study isn’t entirely good news, especially because it shows how tree growth on its own can’t counteract the accumulation of greenhouse gas emissions in the atmosphere.

It also shows how rapidly the planet is changing.

In recent months, record-breaking forest fires have broke out in California and throughout parts of Europe. Glaciers throughout the Arctic, Greenland, and elsewhere, are disintegrating, destabilizing water networks around the world. And warming oceans are rearranging fish populations in ways that are undermining transnational treaties.

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 To reverse this ecological decline, there’s only one real solution — reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Through the Paris climate agreement, countries are asked to keep global temperatures from rising from more than 2 degrees Fahrenheit above pre-industrial levels, a goal that seems increasingly out of reach.

If we go beyond that number, then trees will continue appearing in places that once seemed impossible and vanishing from places that once seemed ideal.

https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/tree-growth-increasing-world-climate-change/
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on August 15, 2018, 07:36:20 pm
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Aerial Photos Reveal the True Horror of the Carr Fire 😱

Brian Kahn

August 10, 2018 Friday 12:00pm Filed to: CARR FIRE 🔥

SNIPPET:

The pictures from the ground of the Carr Fire showed devastation on a human scale. But new aerial imagery released by the city of Redding puts the massive wildfire in a landscape context, revealing the both the power and capriciousness of one the most destructive fires in California history.

Firefighters and sheriffs used drones to better assess the damage wrought by the fire and to piece together the history of what happened two weeks ago when it stormed Redding, a city of 90,000, overnight. The blaze has killed at least eight, burned 178,752 acres, and razed 1,599 structures. As of Friday, it was 49 percent contained.

The fire swept in from the west of the city where it burned largely in tracts of forest around Whiskeytown Lake. The images from there show charred trees and denuded hillsides.

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Whiskeytown Lake. Photo: City of Redding


Full article with several pictures:👀

https://earther.gizmodo.com/aerial-photos-reveal-the-true-horror-of-the-carr-fire-1828251981
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
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Glacier National Park Is on Fire 🔥

Brian Kahn

August 13, 2018 Monday 11:35amFiled to: WILDFIRE SEASON IS YEAR ROUND NOW 🚩 😓

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A night view of the Howe Ridge Fire on the shores of Lake McDonald. Photo: Glacier National Park

Weeks after Yosemite Valley closed due to wildfires for the first time in decades, parts of Glacier National Park in Montana have been evacuated thanks to an explosive fire.

The Howe Ridge Fire “grew significantly” on Sunday according to a Facebook post by the park, the same day Glacier hit 100 degrees Fahrenheit for the first time in recorded history. The blaze has led the park to close portions of the iconic Going-to-the-Sun Road from Apgar to Logan Pass, and to evacuate Lake McDonald Lodge and Avalanche Creek Campground around 9 p.m. local time on Sunday.

The park also evacuated private home inholdings and park ranger housing. According to the Missoulian, the park has requested a structure protection team to hold back the flames. There are at least two other fires currently burning in the park, all likely sparked by lightning.

So far, firefighting efforts have consisted of planes dumping water, smokejumpers parachuting in, and attempts to access the fires on foot, but the blazes continue largely uncontained for now. Earther has reached out to Glacier National Park for more information on the size of the fires, firefighting efforts, and how long evacuation orders will remain in place or if they’ll expand.

Smoke continues to obscure views and fill the sky with noxious fumes. As ash and other particulate matter falls from the sky, it could also add insult to injury for Glacier’s glaciers. Rising temperatures have caused the glaciers to recede and disappear over the course of the park’s history. The dark particles from wildfire smoke will absorb more sunlight, acting as a dark blanket that could cause the glaciers to melt even faster.

Not only has it been hot, it’s been dry. According to the National Weather Service, Missoula—located about 130 miles south of Glacier—has gone 40 days without a lick of measurable rain. If the streak continues for seven , it will set a record for the longest dry stretch. Records go back to 1893 and the current record was set in [checks notes] 2017. Well then.

“There are some places where if you dropped a match on the ground, it would catch on fire,” Nicky Ouellet, the Flathead Valley reporter for Montana Public Radio, told Earther. “It’s an accumulation of dried grass, dried twigs that would act as kindling.”

Western Montana is under a number of fire restrictions due to the hot, dry weather. Glacier is under a Stage I ban, which essentially means folks need to be more vigilant about campfires, smoking, fireworks, and off-roading. To the south of Glacier, a Stage II burn ban is in place, which means no fires, fireworks, smoking outdoors, or off-roading.

I feel like a broken record saying this, but it bears repeating that we are witnessing a new era of wildfires in the West. Rising temperatures have lengthened wildfire season by drying out fuels and melting out snowpack earlier. The increasing heat also ups the odds of explosive fires like what we’ve seen from California to Montana to British Columbia. And it’s going to get worse.

Update 3:00 p.m. ET: Glacier National Park is reporting that an unknown number of structures have burned on the north shore of Lake McDonald. In addition, a Stage II burn ban will go into place for the park starting at midnight tonight, which means no s’mores for a midnight snack.

Update 5:40 p.m. ET: The first estimates are in for the Howe Ridge Fire. It grew from 20 acres on Sunday to an estimated 1,500 acres by Monday.


https://earther.gizmodo.com/glacier-national-park-is-on-fire-1828300641

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on August 18, 2018, 06:47:08 pm
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Is Climate Change Killing More People Than George W Bush Ever Could?

https://youtu.be/zQ6GjVpbI1o

Thom Hartmann Program   
 
Published on Jul 31, 2018

Short answer yes, it already has, and partly because of his wars he started we still have to do something and the question is what?


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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on August 18, 2018, 07:17:50 pm
Global Temperature Projections Could Double As the World Burns (w/guest Dahr Jamail) 

https://youtu.be/FQPHhxLyV2I

Thom Hartmann Program   
 
Published on Jul 18, 2018

Should we be focusing on surviving? Is it too late to save world? Dahr Jamail

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on August 20, 2018, 01:29:57 pm
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Saying Goodbye to Planet Earth 🌍

AUG 19, 2018

By Chris Hedges —  Climate change is not simply an environmental problem—it is a planetary transition. We will survive only if we rapidly evolve to create new forms of civilization.

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https://www.truthdig.com/articles/saying-goodbye-to-planet-earth/

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It REALLY WAS a good ride, not for you and me, but for TPTB. So expect them to do WHATEVER to prolong their RIDE, against all scientific evidence that EXPLOITATION WITHOUT REFLECTION OF FELLOW EARTHLINGS OF ALL SPECIES (not just humans) AND THE BIOSPHERE FOR PROFIT OVER PLANET is deleterious (i.e. SUICIDAL/abysmally STUPID) to the Homo SAP species.

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on August 20, 2018, 06:16:35 pm
 
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Sixth Mass Extinction Ushers In Record-Breaking Wildfires 🔥 and Heat 🌡️  🚩

BY Dahr Jamail Truthout

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https://truthout.org/articles/sixth-mass-extinction-ushers-in-record-breaking-wildfires-and-heat/
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on August 20, 2018, 11:06:04 pm
EcoWatch

Common Dreams

Aug. 20, 2018 06:31AM EST

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Flames of the Simi Valley fire ravage a Southern California mountain side on Oct. 29, 2012. U.S. Air Force / Senior Master Sgt. Dennis W. Goff

'Hothouse Earth' Co-Author Says 'People Will Look Back on 2018 as the Year When Climate Reality Hit'

By Jessica Corbett

SNIPPET:

Amid a flurry of "breathless headlines" about warnings in a new study that outlines a possible "Hothouse Earth" scenario, one co-author optimistically expressed his belief that "people will look back on 2018 as the year when climate reality hit."

In an interview with the Guardian on this past Friday, Stockholm Resilience Center executive director Johan Rockström declared, "This is the moment when people start to realize that global warming is not a problem for future generations, but for us now." Rockström's study has received an "unprecedented" amount of global attention in the past week—270,000 downloads and counting.

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https://www.ecowatch.com/2018-climate-reality-hit-2597436430.html
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on August 21, 2018, 02:58:41 pm
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5 Graphs Show Just How Unusual This Year’s Wildfires Are

by Susan Minnemeyer Susan Minnemeyer - August 20, 2018

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California’s 2018 fire season started earlier and ramped up faster than previous years. Photo by Daria Devyatkina/Flickr

This time of year always brings wildfires. But what’s unusual this fires season is where and how the blazes are burning—and it could be a warning sign of what’s to come.

Hotter-than-normal temperatures and drought across much of northern Europe and North America in June and July have resulted in wildfires burning in what are typically wetter, cooler regions. England’s peatland moors, Ireland, Sweden, Scandinavia and even areas north of the Arctic Circle experienced significant fires over the past two months.

According to data displayed on Global Forest Watch Fires, Sweden, Finland and Latvia experienced more fires in 2018 than they have any other year since at least 2012, when the collection of such data began. 🕵️

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http://www.wri.org/blog/2018/08/5-graphs-show-just-how-unusual-years-wildfires-are
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on August 23, 2018, 08:11:05 pm
Record Low Water Levels on the Danube Hinders Shipping in Hungary

BUDAPEST, August 22, 2018 by Reuters

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FILE PHOTO: Alluvial wood lies on a gravel shoal in the middle of the Danube river during the period of low water level near Esztergom, Hungary, August 19, 2018. REUTERS/Bernadett Szabo/File Photo
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Water levels on the Danube dropped to record lows on three sections of the river in Hungary on Wednesday due to a recent drought, hindering passenger cruise ships and causing losses to freight shipping companies.

In Budapest the Danube receded to 0.61 metres, just above the record low of 0.51 meters recorded in 2003, the National Water Authority said in a statement.

Tourists and locals flocked to the bottom of the pillars of the historic Margaret bridge to capture a unique view of the Hungarian capital city from the riverbed, with Parliament and the Royal Castle facing each other on the two riverbanks.

But waterways shippers were desperately waiting for rainfall, forecast for the coming days in Austria and Germany, which they hope could help raise water levels in Hungary as well.

Full article:

http://gcaptain.com/record-low-water-levels-on-the-danube-hinders-shipping-in-hungary/

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on August 29, 2018, 11:20:56 am
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Republican congressman 😈 uses climate change as excuse for possible campaign violation

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By JOE ROMM

AUG 28, 2018, 1:08 PM

Call it “the climate change defense” or, maybe, “the climate science denier defense.”

Texas Rep. John Culberson (R) has come up with a novel argument against complaints that he has used more than $50,000 in campaign funds to buy collectibles such as Civil War memorabilia and even fossils.

The Houston Chronicle reported Monday that “Culberson’s aides explained the purchase as research material on paleo-climatology, a subject that would help him understand climate science,” which he supposedly needs to do since he’s on a committee that oversees funding for NOAA — the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. “They said the materials helped give him a better understanding of the changing levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.” (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F1%2F3-250718210558.gif&hash=9234ac544277d3924347404eb52489dfe64e3ca4)

This defense from Culberson, a long-time denier of climate science, is particularly laughable when you go to his campaign’s Federal Election Committee filing, which reveals the purchases come from the Black Hills Institute of South Dakota.

The Institute’s motto, “Always the finest in fossils, fossil replicas, and service,” along with its Tyrannosaurus rex 🦖 logo, suggest this may not be the best place for researching climate science. ;D

The Institute is “most famous for excavating and selling replicas of some of the most complete” T. rex specimans, as Wikipedia explains.

The Institute’s website features “STAN, the largest and most complete (65% real bone) T. rex available to science,” and explains, “Cast replicas of STAN’s magnificent skeleton, skull, teeth and claws are available for sale or rent from the Institute.”

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It seems even more unlikely that fossils — or potentially fossil replicas — would give the Congressman much insight into climate science.

That’s especially true because Culberson is a long-time climate science denier who  rejects the overwhelming scientific consensus that human emissions, primarily from burning fossil fuels, are the dominant cause of recent warming.

In 2015, he told the L.A. Times, “I’m confident humans have had some effect on the climate. We just don’t have enough data or accurate data to say with certainty what that effect has been.”

Climate change made every stage of Hurricane Harvey more horrific

He repeated that mantra to the Texas Tribune in its Tuesday story on how Hurricane Harvey has become a major point of contention in Culberson’s race with Democrat Lizzie Pannill Fletcher: “I’m confident humans are having an impact; my focus is on getting good, accurate, objective data to tell us what’s driving the changes in the climate.”

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This talking point has been so thoroughly debunked that when former Environmental Protection Agency administrator Scott Pruitt tried it on Fox News last summer, host Chris Wallace pounced. “Mr. Pruitt, all kinds of studies contradict you,” he said.

Even Fox News slams EPA chief’s climate denial: ‘All kinds of studies contradict you’

Given the Congressman’s rejection of the overwhelming conclusions of modern climate science, he probably won’t be using some fossils or fossil replicas for research into paleoclimatology.

It’s up to voters this fall whether they want to retire a Congressman who loves fossils but hates the science of fossil fuel-caused climate change.

https://thinkprogress.org/texas-4f067a76ef32/
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on August 29, 2018, 11:56:43 am
The Atlantic

The Global Rightward 🐉🦕🦖😈 👹 🏴‍ ☠️ 🚩 Shift on Climate Change

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By ROBINSON MEYER

AUG 28, 2018

SNIPPET:

At a basic level, this pattern holds up, well, everywhere. Every country except the United States supports the Paris Agreement on climate change. But no major developed country is on track to meet its Paris climate goals, according to the Climate Action Tracker, an independent analysis produced by three European research organizations. Even Germany, Japan, and the United Kingdom—where right-wing governments have made combatting climate change a national priority—seem likely to miss their goals.

Simply put: This kind of failure, writ large, would devastate Earth in the century to come. The world would blow its stated goal of limiting atmospheric temperature rise. Heatwaves 🌡️ might regularly last for six punishing weeks(https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F1%2F3-120818185038-1648302.gif&hash=46bf8a149f1786d9be67deeb16a50826c5945856), sea levels could soar by feet in a few short decades, and certain fragile ecosystems—like the delicate Arctic permafrost or the kaleidoscopic plenty of coral reefs—would disappear from the planet entirely.

Full article:

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/08/a-global-rightward-shift-on-climate-change/568684/

Agelbert NOTE: Excellent article. The Hydrocarbon Hellspawn 🐉🦕🦖😈👹 never stop corrupting governments all over the world.

One day somebody will ask (while they take one of these Big Oil Cretins to prison for life), "What part of the FACT that CO2 is a pollutant that can wreak havoc on the biosphere in mere Parts Per Million do you NOT understand?".



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Earth with and without GHG:
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The last time CO2 was this high:
   
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 01, 2018, 01:58:58 pm
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This Video of a Lab Simulated Rogue Wave Will Make Your Palms Sweat

August 30, 2018 by Mike Schuler


It’s a sailor’s worst nightmare. A monster wave that comes out of nowhere, two to three times bigger than the others. In certain cases, waves like this are capable of swallowing a ship whole. Yet to this day we still don’t know much about rogue waves or how they form. Actually, most of what we do know about these freak waves comes from actual experience. We know they’re out there, and many of you could probably share a sea story or two of your own.

But researchers at the Aalto University in Finland say they are now able to recreate the phenomenon in realistic oceanic conditions inside a laboratory, which is helping them learn more about how and why these mysterious and sometimes deadly waves form.

Check it out:

https://youtu.be/i9P2M94xSyc

Professor Amin Chabchoub from the Aalto University explains:

“Potentially extremely dangerous realistic rogue waves can now be controlled and generated at will in laboratory environments, in similar conditions as they appear in the ocean. This will help us not only to predict oceanic extreme events, but also in the design of safer ships and offshore rigs. In fact, newly designed vessels and rig model prototypes can be tested to encounter in a small scale, before they are built, realistic extreme ocean waves. Therefore, initial plans may change, if models are not resistant enough to face suddenly occurring freak waves.”

According to the researchers:


The birth of rogue waves can be physically explained through the modulation instability of water waves. In mathematical terms, this phenomenon can be described through exact solutions of the nonlinear Schrödinger equation, also referred to as “breathers”.

[These breathers describe the dynamics of unstable water waves that become rogue: the instability arise from a calm state. As a result, now we know how rogue waves may appear in realistic oceanic conditions.]

For a couple of years, the research team around Professor Chabchoub has already been able to create steered rogue waves in laboratory wave flumes. However, this has only succeeded in perfect regular wave conditions. In nature, this is rarely the case.

The results of their findings were published today in the Physical Review Letters 2016. Here are some more photos from the lab:

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Photos courtesy Aalto University

https://gcaptain.com/video-lab-simulated-rogue-wave-will-make-palms-sweat/

Agelbert NOTE: Here is a photo series from my article on Predicted Ocean Wave Activity showing what happens to a modern huge crude oil tanker when at least one of these giant waves (that are predicted to be increasingly more common from Catastrophic Climate Change) hits the ship:


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To give you a better idea of the huge threat a giant wave or three is to a large tanker or cargo vessel,  I took some screenshots from a video of a wave laboratory testing the effects of 72 ft. waves on a modern supertanker. I'm sure Big Oil is paying attention, regardless of what they say in public.  ;)

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3D simulation by Agelbert of tanker model is below the wave tank screenshot

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5: The above is catastrophic for a tanker. 6: Supertanker scale model in scale 72 ft. waves is rolled and sinks.

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The tanker completely capsized. In a real world situation, this is a death blow to the crew because it happens too fast to get survival gear on or reach the lifeboats, even if they are the emergency egress sealed type you saw earlier. That is why both tanker and cargo ships do everything they can to avoid being broadsided. In the real world, when the engines are lost in these types of seas, the only way to survive is to immediately abandon ship on a free fall enclosed life boat capsule.

If the above series of screen shots are not convincing enough to the reader of the threat shipping faces from giant waves, the following video series will leave no doubt in your mind that world shipping is incapable of handling the routine 30 to 35 meter waves that the Hansen et al June 2015 paper predicts for a ΔT = plus 2C (and beyond) world.

Climate Change, Blue Water Cargo Shipping and Predicted Ocean Wave Activity: Part 3 of 3 parts (http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/climate-change/future-earth/msg7422/#msg7422)

Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 03, 2018, 04:15:08 pm
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Global warming

Global warming, also referred to as climate change, is the observed century-scale rise in the average temperature of the Earth's climate system and its related effects. Multiple lines of scientific evidence show that the climate system is warming.
Wikipedia

Peter Wadhams - After 50 Trips to the Arctic and Antarctic. What are the Conclusions? - Offstage Int
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https://youtu.be/djHhTuw0uSo

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Published on Aug 29, 2018

The Arctic may be free of ice for the first time in 10,000 years. Wadhams shows how sea ice is the 'canary in the mine' of planetary climate change. He describes how it forms and the vital role it plays in reflecting solar heat back into space and providing an 'air conditioning' system for the planet.

Prof. Peter Wadhams is the UK’s most experienced sea ice scientist, with 48 years of research on sea ice and ocean processes in the Arctic and the Antarctic. This has focused on expeditions and measurements in the field, which has involved more than 50 expeditions to both polar regions, working from ice camps, icebreakers, aircraft, and, uniquely, Royal Navy submarines (6 submerged voyages to the North Pole ). His research group in Cambridge has been the only UK group with the capacity to carry out fieldwork on sea ice.

He is Emeritus Professor of Ocean Physics and is the author of numerous publications on dynamics and thermodynamics of sea ice, sea ice thickness, waves in ice, icebergs, ocean convection and kindred topics. The current main topics of research in the group are sea ice properties, dynamics, and distributions in thickness and concentration. He is also a pioneer in the use of AUVs (autonomous underwater vehicles) under sea ice, using multibeam sonar to map bottom features, work which he has also been done from UK nuclear submarines.

He began his research career at the Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge University, where he rose to become Director. He moved to DAMTP in 2001. He has also held visiting professorships in Tokyo (National Institute of Polar Research), Monterey (US Naval Postgraduate School), Seattle (University of Washington) and La Jolla (Green Scholar at Scripps Institution of Oceanography).

He was the coordinator of several European Union Arctic flagship projects (ESOP, GreenICE, CONVECTION, and others) and is currently on the Steering Committee of the EU ICE-ARC project as well as a major US Office of Naval Research initiative in the Arctic. He served eight years on the Scientific Committee of the European Environment Agency and had served on panels of the National Academy of Sciences (USA).

In 1990 he received the Italgas Prize for Environmental Sciences, and he has also been awarded the Polar Medal (UK) (1987) and the W.S. Bruce Prize of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. As well as being Professor at Cambridge he is an Associate Professor at the Laboratoire d’Océanographie de Villefranche, run by Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, and is a Professor at the Università Politecnica Delle Marche, Ancona. He is a Member of the Finnish Academy and is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.

His most recent book, “A Farewell to Ice”, documents the ways in which the retreat of sea ice in the Arctic generates feedbacks which impact the entire global climate system, accelerating the rate of warming, the rate of sea level rise, the emission of methane from the offshore, and the occurrence of weather extremes affecting food production. He contends that catastrophic consequences cannot be avoided without making an all-out effort to develop ways of directly capturing carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere.

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 03, 2018, 04:33:33 pm
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LAST UPDATED ON AUGUST 31ST, 2018 AT 4:08 PM BY MIHAI ANDREI

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When Nicolas Hulot, the French environment minister, went on a radio breakfast show, no one was expecting anything like this. As the interview went on, Hulot spoke more and more about the failures of his cabinet — lamenting that France has not done enough on any environmental front.

“Have we started to reduce our CO2 emissions? No. Have we started to reduce our use of pesticides? No. To prevent the erosion of our biodiversity? No,” Hulot explained.


As the discussion continued, it seemed that Hulot reached a striking moment of self-awareness. Saying that he felt “alone” in a cabinet which took “insufficient” action to tackle environmental challenges, he foreshadowed his resignation.

“I can’t lie to myself anymore,” he said. “I don’t want my presence in the government to give the illusion that we’re facing up to such stakes,” he said on public radio France Inter.


Neither President Emmanuel Macron nor any other ministers were made aware of this decision beforehand. In fact, when Marlène Schiappa, Macron’s secretary of state for equality heard the news while being live on another radio station, she asked the presenter if he was joking.

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 09, 2018, 01:15:52 pm
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Top News of the Day... view past news   Last update Sun, 9 Sep 2018 17:07:49 UTC 

NHC issuing advisories for the Atlantic on Hurricane Florence, TS Helene and TS Isaac
NHC issuing advisories for the Eastern Pacific on TS Paul
CPHC issuing advisories for the Central Pacific on Olivia


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Agelbert NOTE: Hmmm. This reminds me of last year around this time.

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 10, 2018, 10:27:05 pm
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Top News of the Day... view past news   Last update Tue, 11 Sep 2018 02:21:57 UTC

NHC issuing advisories for the Atlantic on Hurricane Florence, Hurricane Helene and Hurricane Isaac
NHC issuing advisories for the Eastern Pacific on TS Paul
CPHC issuing advisories for the Central Pacific on Olivia


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Agelbert NOTE: Yup. Just like last year around this time.

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 10, 2018, 10:47:13 pm
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September 10, 2018

Ahead of Governor Jerry Brown’s Global Climate Action Summit, protesters demand leaders prioritize frontline communities over profit

https://youtu.be/Fsil4TuR-jQ
Story Transcript

DHARNA NOOR: Tens of thousands of people took to the streets in San Francisco to demand an end to new fossil fuel projects, and demand investment in policies that immediately reduce fossil fuel emissions and create green jobs.

SPEAKER: To hurt the earth is to hurt who we are as a people.

SPEAKER: The climate crisis is making life more difficult for all people, including working people, and that the transition to community-owned renewable energy needs to be one that creates good union jobs; that allows people to support their families and their communities.

SPEAKER: We have got to stop fossil fuel production. We have got to stop digging. We’ve got to stop fracking. We’ve got to move on to renewable energy, because our planet is dying. And if we don’t do that, we’re all in big trouble.

SPEAKER: My name is [Ninawa Hunikui] and I’m from the state of Acre in the Brazilian Amazon. I’m here to unite with other indigenous peoples of the world to defend mother earth.

SPEAKER: All across the country communities are coming together and figuring out how to hold our elected officials accountable to address climate change.

DHARNA NOOR: Almost all scientists agree that climate change is human caused, and that if we don’t curb fossil fuel emissions now, we’ll usher in effects like deadly extreme weather and mass species die-off. Globally we’re already seeing effects like historic floods, heat waves, and melting ice caps. And Californians are seeing effects like forest fires that killed seven people this summer.

SPEAKER: California is burning. We still have several fires going on. And that’s a, that’s a result, right, of this climate catastrophe that we are seeing.

SPEAKER: We have firefighters who are out putting out the fires and some of them not coming home because of the effects of climate change.

SPEAKER: Here we are on a bay. We’re bordered on three sides by water. And a lot of the Bay Area will be flooded and unlivable in the decades in the future. And that would put a huge strain on San Francisco itself, like, the taxpayers would be paying for all utility damage that will be happening.

DHARNA NOOR: And since climate change is a global problem, people all over the world are rising up in places from France to Uganda.

SPEAKER: There are events in over 240 communities across the nation in almost every state. From town halls, to rallies, to trainings, tens of thousands of people are coming together today everywhere to work for climate, jobs, and justice.

SPEAKER: On September 12-14, California Governor Jerry Brown will convene civic leaders from around the world, who will gather at San Francisco’s Global Climate Action Summit. But some think the summit won’t do enough.

SPEAKER: Market-based solutions don’t work because they don’t center place-based solutions; solutions that come from communities that are highly impacted, and those that have been fighting on the frontline of the extractive economy.

DHARNA NOOR: So they’re rallying to say we need policy that prioritizes frontline communities.

SPEAKER: You keep saying it’s supply and demand. Well, listen to our demands. What we’re demanding. Let us have back our grassroots communities where we want to have community-scale gardening, where we want to have small-scale solar and wind that’s distributed. We don’t want this corporate control anymore.

SPEAKER: We really need to take a more cooperative approach towards our economy, and one that gives back to the earth, just as it’s been giving to us for many thousands of years. Under a green economy we need people to build green infrastructure, we need people to maintain the infrastructure, and we need people trained for this new economy. And so there’s a whole new sector that’s rising. It’s happening. And we really want to see it supported, financed, and accessible for all.

SPEAKER: Not providing permits for people, for oil industry to keep digging.

SPEAKER: There’s enough money in this city. We have more billionaires in this city than anywhere in the world in this city and elsewhere to make it a just transition for all of us.

DHARNA NOOR: Stay tuned for more Real News coverage from the Bay Area this week, where thousands are holding actions to demand decisive policy. With Will Arenas, this is Dharna Noor, San Francisco.

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 12, 2018, 02:37:06 pm
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Hurricane Florence pictured September 11, 2018. Photo: NOAA

Florence Destruction May Be Worse Because of Climate Change

September 11, 2018 by Bloomberg

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Florence Destruction May Be Worse Because of Climate Change
September 11, 2018 by Bloomberg


By Jim Efstathiou Jr. and Eric Roston (Bloomberg) — As Hurricane Florence barrels toward North Carolina, it’s being strengthened and guided by a one-two punch of climate factors scientists have been tracking for years.

Florence, which threatens to be the most severe storm to hit North Carolina in more than 60 years, is being steered by a high-pressure ridge associated with unusually warm ocean temperatures. That’s discouraging it from turning north or east, a shift that could spare coastal communities the storm’s worst. Meanwhile, a weakened jet stream means that Florence is more likely to linger, raising the specter of devastating flooding.

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https://gcaptain.com/florence-destruction-may-be-worse-because-of-climate-change/
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 12, 2018, 10:05:58 pm
Dramatic Views of Hurricane Florence From Space  :o

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
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Here's What We Know About All That Bottled Water Abandoned in Puerto Rico [Updated]

By Yessenia Funes

September 12, 2018

Filed to: WHAT A WASTE

The government’s mismanagement of the crisis Hurricane Maria wrought on Puerto Rico was once again thrust into the spotlight this week, when photos of a large number of bottled water pallets sitting derelict outside an airport in Ceiba went viral on social media.

But while the public outcry was swift after CBS News Correspondent David Begnaud broadcasted the photos of what he said looked like “millions” of bottles of water on his Twitter account Tuesday night, what really happened may be a bit more complex than a simple failure to deliver relief supplies.

The photographer who took these images, Abdiel Santana, works for the Puerto Rican Joint Forces of Rapid Action, a federal law enforcement agency. He told Begnaud he had noticed these loads of water in October or November of last year, according to CBS. After flying over the region again recently, Santana told Begnaud he noticed the bottles were still there and uploaded the images to Facebook Tuesday. Earther has reached out to Santana for comment and we will update if we hear back.

Puerto Rican General Services Administration (GSA) has a somewhat different account of the events. In a press release shared with Earther, the agency explained the Puerto Rican government was eager to receive some of the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s “excess water inventory” and claimed about 20,000 pallets in May 2018. But after delivering over 700 pallets, the agency received “several complaints” about their smell and taste. That’s why the rest of the bottles are still sitting unused, per the agency.

On Thursday, FEMA told CBS News it had moved the water outside in January to save money before transferring it over to the Puerto Rican government in April.

FEMA 👹 was initially quick to distance itself from the story. On Wednesday, the agency told Earther that the water was handed off to the GSA, and, from there, the water was its responsibility. Looks like the administration is clapping back at FEMA, however, with claims that the water wasn’t fit to drink by the time they got it. Now, the Puerto Rican government is coordinating water tests with FEMA and the Department of Health.

“I always had food and water to give the people, sometimes two cases of water for families.”
“The Municipality of Barceloneta and the Corporation for Public Dissemination expressed these complaints,” said GSA Administrator Ottmar Chávez, in the press release.

All of this is news to Ceiba Mayor Angelo Cruz Ramos, who told Earther he had no idea these pallets of water were sitting within his municipality. He found out about it Tuesday night like the rest of us. He doesn’t have access to the area where the water is, he said, because it’s run by FEMA.

However, Cruz Ramos said his municipality had enough water and food at the height of the crisis. Around 700 to 800 people would visit a local distribution center to pick up water and food every day in the aftermath of the storm, and the mayor would also hit the streets to give out further water. Once power returned to the region in March, he ended relief supply distribution efforts.

“I’m thankful to FEMA and the U.S. government,” he told Earther. “I always had food and water to give the people, sometimes two cases of water for families.”

The same can’t be said for other remote parts of the island where water distribution centers were something out of a fairy tale. Still, Cruz Ramos made a good point that once this water was left in the sun even for a day or two, it was no longer safe to drink. The Caribbean sun is no joke, and researchers caution against drinking bottled water that’s been left out in the garage or a car all day during the summer because of the chemicals that can leach from the plastic into the water. In Puerto Rico, summer never ends.

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Updated: 9/13/18, 2:30 p.m. ET: After a day of outrage, FEMA 👹 admitted to CBS News it had left the water bottles out since January as a cost-saving measure. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-251117175700.png&hash=00439d30db6e35817ea0d1fbcba614f1f971448e) It then went on to give the General Services Administration the water in April. The story has been updated to include this new information.

https://earther.gizmodo.com/heres-what-we-know-about-all-that-bottled-water-abandon-1829000210
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 15, 2018, 10:45:32 am
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Philippines Braces for Super Typhoon Mangkhut

September 14, 2018 by Reuters

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Super Typhoon Mangkhut, a Category 5, on track to hit the Philippines.


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Mangkhut might slightly weaken after landfall but could still be “very destructive,” said Rene Paciente, assistant chief at the weather bureau.

Crop damage in a worst-case scenario could reach about 157,000 tonnes of paddy rice and about 257,000 tonnes of corn, worth 13.5 billion pesos ($250 million), the agriculture ministry said.

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 16, 2018, 01:25:42 pm
Sep 15, 2018 | 24,984 views | by ABC News

https://youtu.be/w_zllgV46JM

Active search and rescue missions continue to be carried out in areas with severe flooding.


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Sep 16, 2018 | 19,104 views | by Guardian News

https://youtu.be/am-YM3P_CWg

Flooding and storm damage is seen in aerial footage shot on Saturday over New Bern and Nags Head in North Carolina.

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 The ONLY reason Florence is parked with hardly any movement, as Harvey did in Texas last year, is because of Catastrophic Climate Change, compliments of the Hydrocarbon Hellspawn (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-130418203402.gif&hash=b2691028ba683a0039a5811f5775c68d7ccae01c) Fossil Fuel Fascists. Don't expect those evil, lying bastards to own up to there TOTAL LIABILITY for this increasingly more deadly biosphere degradation. Like the Trump 🦀 TOOL they own, they will lie 24/7 to avoid paying the fine or doing the time for their Climate Trashing CRIME.

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The Fossil Fuelers 🦖 DID THE Clean Energy  Inventions suppressing, Climate Trashing, human health depleting CRIME,   but since they have ALWAYS BEEN liars and conscience free crooks 🦀, they are trying to AVOID   DOING THE TIME or   PAYING THE FINE!     Don't let them get away with it! Pass it on!   
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 16, 2018, 01:50:53 pm
Sep 16, 2018 | 200 views | by ABC11

https://youtu.be/-_DbhRQWmRo

Steve Stewart has the latest update on Tropical Depression Florence https://abc11.com/4229794/
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 16, 2018, 03:27:13 pm
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September 12, 2018 NASA photo of Hurricane Florence churning towards North Carolina


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September 16, 2018: Cross in cemetary in Grifton, North Carolina

Look What Florence Has Done to the Carolinas

556 😲 Images 👀 from the deadly storm on everyone's mind.


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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 16, 2018, 06:34:56 pm
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Video and transcript:

https://therealnews.com/stories/annie-leonard-governor-jerry-brown-doesnt-care-about-climate-justice
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 17, 2018, 12:15:33 pm
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Windows of a commercial building damaged by Typhoon Mangkhut on Sept. 16, 2018, in Hong Kong. City officials raised the storm alert to T10, its highest level, as Typhoon Mangkhut landed on Hong Kong. (Lam Yik Fei/Getty Images).

Typhoon Mangkhut Causes Heavy Damage in Hong Kong, China, and Macau


Dr. Jeff Masters  ·  September 16, 2018, 9:25 PM EDT

SNIPPET:

Mangkhut made landfall in China at the Guangdong city of Taishan at 5 pm Sunday local time (9Z or 5 am EDT). At the time of the 6Z advisory, three hours prior to landfall, the Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC) rated Mangkhut a Category 1 storm with 90 mph winds. Given the large amount of destruction Mangkhut caused during this landfall, the typhoon was likely stronger than that: the China Meteorological Agency (CMA) put Mangkhut’s maximum sustained 2-minute average winds at 6Z at 108 mph (48 m/s); this is equivalent to a borderline Category 2/Category 3 hurricane with 1-minute-average sustained winds of 110 – 115 mph. China’s Xinhua news service reported the storm had winds of 100 mph (162 kph) at landfall.

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https://www.wunderground.com/cat6/Typhoon-Mangkhut-Causes-Heavy-Damage-Hong-Kong-China-and-Macau


Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 18, 2018, 05:26:33 pm
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About Ed Hawkins 👨‍🔬 👍😎

Climate scientist in the National Centre for Atmospheric Science (NCAS) at the University of Reading. IPCC AR5 Contributing Author. Can be found on twitter too: @ed_hawkins
   

Climate Lab Book

Open climate science

Climate stripes for the UK

September 17, 2018 observations, visualisation Ed Hawkins

Following the ‘warming stripes‘ graphics for different locations around the world, this post focusses on the UK. The Met Office makes easily available long-running climate data from a small number of locations*. The visualisations below show the common changes in temperature and rainfall for the five longest climate monitoring stations in that set – Stornoway, Armagh, Durham, Sheffield & Oxford – which all have data for 1883-2017.

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For temperature, the trends and variations are remarkably similar. Warmer and cooler years line up in the data from these independent weather stations spread across the country. This image paints a clear picture of the long-term warming in the UK – the total change has been just more than 1°C.

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For rainfall, the overall trends are far smaller than for temperature and individual years can be very different across the UK. For example, 2012 was very wet for the three locations in England, but not for those in Scotland and Northern Ireland. Stornoway shows a multi-decadal wet-dry-wet pattern, presumably related to variations in the North Atlantic Oscillation. The other locations all show a relatively dry period before around 1910.

[*Note: there are far more locations where the climate has been monitored in the UK for long periods, but these are the most easily available.]

http://www.climate-lab-book.ac.uk/2018/climate-stripes-for-the-uk/
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 19, 2018, 01:40:11 pm
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Port of Wilmington, N.C. Still Shut Down Due to Florence’s Flooding

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Hurricane Florence made landfall near Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina at 7:15 a.m. ET on the morning of September 14, as a Category 1 storm. The GOES East satellite captured this geocolor image of the storm at 7:45 a.m. ET, shortly after it moved ashore. Image credit: NOAA

September 18, 2018 by Bloomberg

By Lydia Mulvany and Sheela Tobben (Bloomberg) — The Port of Wilmington in North Carolina remains shut in the aftermath of Hurricane Florence, freezing shipments of everything from fertilizer to textiles.

Florence dropped as much as 40 inches (102 centimeters) of rain in some places as it passed over Wilmington on its way through North and South Carolina. Several major surrounding highways were flooded, limiting access to the coastal city and the port. The port said Tuesday that it plans to start receiving vessels at the end of the week and resume truck operations on Sept. 24.

A 2014 study showed that goods moving through Wilmington contributed about $12.9 billion annually to North Carolina’s economy, while directly and indirectly supporting 73,000 jobs. In 2016, the Port received nearly 1,500 ships totaling 5.4 million short tons of cargo. The biggest products it handles include nitrogenous fertilizer, pulp and waste paper, textile products, wheat and gasoline, which account for about one-third of the total.

There are “a number of very large companies down there impacted,” said John Loyack, vice president of global business services for the Economic Development Partnership of North Carolina.

WOODEN PELLETS

Read more:

https://gcaptain.com/port-of-wilmington-n-c-still-shut-down-due-to-florences-flooding/
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 19, 2018, 02:23:24 pm
A groundbreaking Hurricane Florence study could change how we think about climate

By Kate Yoder   on Sep 18, 2018

SNIPPET:

Despite that mainstream media’s general neglect of the link between storms and climate change, extreme weather has become the No. 1 symbol of climate change (no offense, polar bears). Over the last decade, the number of people who name extreme weather as a knee-jerk association with climate change has quadrupled, according to research from Yale University and the University of Westminster.

“People think of climate change as something that’s either going to happen far in the future or far away,” Cutting says. “This kind of work [the Florence study] highlights that it’s something that affects everybody, whether you’re talking about wildfires in the West or coastal flooding in the East.”

Full article:

https://grist.org/article/a-groundbreaking-hurricane-florence-study-could-change-how-we-think-about-climate/

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 19, 2018, 04:50:53 pm
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September 19, 2018

Solar ⚡ power installations 💫weathered the storm and are mostly back online 🌞👍 after Hurricane Florence knocked out power for over one million people.

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 21, 2018, 10:24:07 pm
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Japan’s Typhoon Jebi Demonstrates the Vulnerability of Airports to Storm Surge

Dr. Jeff Masters  ·  September 21, 2018, 12:19 PM EDT

SNIPPET 1:

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Above: Kansai International Airport on September 4, 2018, after Typhoon Jebi's storm surge inundated one runway and flooded Terminal 1. Image credit: Kentaro Ikushima/Mainichi Newspaper via AP.

In a stunning demonstration of the destructive potential of typhoon storm surge—and the human propensity to under-engineer infrastructure designed to withstand the worst nature has to offer—Japan’s third busiest airport, Kansai International Airport in Osaka Bay, was inundated by Category 2 Typhoon Jebi’s storm surge on September 4, 2018. The surge flooded one runway, closing it for ten days, and damaged electrical facilities in one of the airport’s two terminals, forcing its closure for seventeen days. The airport was fully open today for the first time since the disaster. The last time a typhoon of similar size and strength hit Osaka Bay was in 1961: Typhoon Nancy, which made landfall as a Category 2 storm with 100 mph winds.

SNIPPET 2:

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Figure 4. According to the National Climate Assessment, 13 of the 47 largest airports in the U.S. have at least one runway with an elevation within 12 feet of current sea levels, and are vulnerable to flooding from a moderate to high storm surge.

Climate change will increase storm surge 🌊 inundation of airports

As sea level rises due to human-caused climate change in coming decades, there will be a notable increase in frequency of airports being flooded by storm surges—particularly if there is a sharp increase in the frequency and intensity of the strongest hurricanes and typhoons, as predicted by theory and computer modeling. The problem may be particularly acute for Japan, Korea, and northeastern China, since the latitude where western North Pacific typhoons reach their peak intensity has migrated poleward over the past 70 years.

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https://www.wunderground.com/cat6/Japans-Typhoon-Jebi-Demonstrates-Vulnerability-Airports-Storm-Surge
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 24, 2018, 02:04:37 pm
Agelbert NOTE:Please observe that the massive, deadly, pollution spreading flooding caused by Hurricane Florence rains is still wreaking havoc OVER A WEEK AFTER HURRICANE FLORENCE MOVED AWAY FROM the Carolinas. 👀 😟 Catastrophic Climate Change, compliments of the Hydrocarbon Hellspawn 🐉🦕🦖 Fossil Fuel Fascists (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-130418203402.gif&hash=b2691028ba683a0039a5811f5775c68d7ccae01c), IS HERE NOW! (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-130418202709.png&hash=7503265ec59e4c28d735afb762bc39f4674bd838)

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Flooding from Sutton Lake has washed away part of U.S. 421 in New Hanover County just south of the Pender County line in Wilmington, N.C., Friday, Sept. 21, 2018. (Matt Born /The Star-News via AP) (Associated Press)

'We Need Federal & State Help:'

The Carolinas are continuing to be battered by the aftereffects of Hurricane Florence more than a week after the storm made landfall, as deadly floodwaters pose serious threats in the region. At least 42 people have died as a result of the storm thus far, while thousands have been rescued and thousands more remain in shelters.

Still-rising rivers across the Carolinas are prompting warnings and evacuations early this week, and the National Weather Service reports that five river gauges in North Carolina were still at "major flood stage" over the weekend.

"It’s just a mess,” Lawson Batter, mayor of Nichols, SC, told the AP. "We will try everything we can to come back ... but we need to have federal and state help."


https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/when-will-it-end-florences-floodwaters-rising-in-carolinas/2018/09/21/7b896658-be02-11e8-8243-f3ae9c99658a_story.html

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-storm-florence/you-better-pray-more-flooding-in-carolinas-a-week-after-florence-idUSKCN1LX126


September 24, 2018

Duke's Growing Coal Ash Crisis

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A U.S. Army helicopter flies over homes and businesses flooded by heavy rains from Hurricane Florence. Photo: Joe Raedle/Getty Images

A new breach in a coal ash pit at a power plant near Wilmington, North Carolina could be causing ash to spill into the nearby Cape Fear River, plant owner Duke Energy said Friday. The incident is the second large breach at this plant caused by floodwaters from Hurricane Florence, after earlier damage to a coal ash pit caused 150 dump trucks' worth of ash to spill into a nearby lake, and Duke has shut down the power plant in response to the latest breach.

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https://www.reuters.com/article/us-storm-florence-duke-energy/duke-shuts-natgas-plant-due-to-florence-floods-coal-ash-leak-feared-idUSKCN1M126U

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
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9/18/18 11:45am Filed to: STEM (Science Technology Engineering Math 👨‍🔬  🔬) EDUCATION

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Scientists and members of the public criticize proposed changes to New Mexico’s science teaching standards at an October 2017 hearing. Photo: AP

Fossil fuel interest groups will continue debating the reality of human-caused climate change until the seas swallow us all, but among scientists the matter is settled. Last week, the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) put out a position statement affirming as much and telling the naysayers to **** off.

Published September 13, the new position statement opens by unequivocally acknowledging the “overwhelming scientific consensus” that Earth’s climate is changing due to human activity, while at the same time noting that widespread confusion exists among the American public. It recommends that science teachers and policy makers work to ensure basic science climate concepts are included in K-12 educational curricula—without the ginned up “controversy” pushed by climate denial groups.

“The science of climate change is firmly rooted in decades of peer-reviewed scientific literature,” the position statement reads. “Given the solid scientific foundation on which climate change science rests, any controversies regarding climate change and human-caused contributions to climate change that are based on social, economic, or political arguments—rather than scientific arguments—should not be part of a science curriculum.”

The NSTA—which calls itself “the largest organization of science teachers worldwide” with nearly 60,000 members—has issued position statements on topics ranging from laboratory safety to the metric system. Occasionally, the private professional association also weighs in on a scientific topic that’s become polarizing because of political ideologies or religion, like evolution.

David Evans, executive director of the NSTA, told Earther that the decision to develop a position statement on climate change came about a year ago, as high-profile battles over teaching the subject played out in state legislatures and school boards and garnered national media attention.

Last fall, controversy erupted in New Mexico over an attempt to replace climate change with “temperature fluctuation” in new science teaching standards. In the winter, a similar brouhaha occurred in Idaho, after state legislatures voted to remove most mentions of climate change from proposed K-12 science standards. Teachers have also faced pressure from outside interest groups, most notably fossil fuel propaganda machine The Heartland Institute, which recently mailed a misinformation-ridden report titled “Why Scientists Disagree About Global Warming” to hundreds of thousands of teachers nationwide.

Both the New Mexico and Idaho efforts to water down climate science were eventually defeated, but many teachers, especially in more conservative locales, are still reticent to bring the politically-charged subject into the classroom. Evans hopes the new statement gives those teachers a firmer foundation to stand on and helps them acquire additional resources. The position statement recommends school administrators provide science teachers with “professional learning opportunities” that address climate science.

“Most teachers in the classroom now never really had any formal classes in climate science—it just wasn’t taught 20 years ago,” Evans said. “Having a position statement helps teachers get that kind of support.”

Evans also hopes the statement gives science teachers some guidance on what they should leave out.

“Often times, there’s a confounding of climate science on the one hand, and ‘what should we do about this thing happening to the environment’ [on] the other hand,” he said. “And the two are really distinct.”

In his view, the basic science should be taught in chemistry, physics or Earth science, while discussion of specific policy actions or mitigation measures belongs in a social studies class.

“If I had my fantasy wish... that [social studies] class would have students well informed about the science of climate change,” Evans continued. “And that would be a place where they could debate the merits of how much fossil fuel we use and what we use it for. What we want are citizens—students—who are informed about the science and can use that information.”

Among American adults, there aren’t nearly as many of those informed citizens as one would hope. A Gallup poll released earlier this year found that only 35 percent of self-identified Republicans and 62 percent of independents believe global warming is caused by human activities.

“Teachers are in a really tough position teaching this topic in a lot of communities. They want and they deserve a lot of support for it.”

Those statistics can be turned around over time, but teaching climate science accurately is critical. A survey released by the nonprofit National Center for Science Education (NCSE) in 2016 found that while roughly 75 percent of public school science teachers devote some classroom time to the subjec, over a quarter “give equal time” to perspectives that doubt the scientific consensus.

The same survey found that most teachers are unaware of the overwhelming scientific consensus on climate change’s causes, and that only about two-thirds see human activity as the primary driver.

“You’ve got a situation where these campaigns to cast doubt on the science have had a lot of success,” NCSE executive director Ann Reid told Earther. “Even teachers who believe the science aren’t always sure about the certainty.”

In Reid’s view, the new position statement hits the mark by raising a lot of these issues and suggesting school districts provide teachers more support to strengthen their knowledge.

“Teachers are in a really tough position teaching this topic in a lot of communities,” she said. “They want and they deserve a lot of support for it.”

https://earther.gizmodo.com/group-of-58-000-science-teachers-issues-no-bullshit-pos-1829106435
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
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Thawing Arctic lakes are bubbling methane, greatly amplifying global warming

LAST UPDATED ON SEPTEMBER 26TH, 2018 AT 1:38 PM BY TIBI PUIU

A NASA study of certain bubbling lakes in the Arctic suggests that methane deposits are being released due to an understudied phenomenon called ‘abrupt thawing’. Methane — which is 30 times more potent at trapping heat than carbon dioxide — has been frozen for potentially thousands of years and its sudden release could significantly impact the climate by the end of the century.

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Methane bubbles up from the thawed permafrost at the bottom of the thermokarst lake through the ice at its surface. Credits: Katey Walter Anthony/ University of Alaska Fairbanks.Methane bubbles up from the thawed permafrost at the bottom of the thermokarst lake through the ice at its surface. Credits: Katey Walter Anthony/ University of Alaska Fairbanks.

Methane and carbon dioxide are both produced in thawing permafrost as animal and plant remains decompose. As long as this organic matter remains frozen, it will stay in the permafrost. However, if it thaws, it starts decaying, releasing carbon dioxide or methane into the atmosphere — which is why scientists are deeply concerned with the present development.

Right now, Earth’s atmosphere contains roughly 850 gigatons of carbon (a gigaton is about the weight of 100,000 school buses). Scientists estimate that there is about twice as much carbon frozen in permafrost than present in the atmosphere today.

That doesn’t mean that all of the carbon will end up in the atmosphere. The trick is to find out how much of the frozen carbon is going to decay, how fast, and where. The full picture seems to be even more complex than previously thought. In a new study, scientists have discovered a new source of methane that hasn’t been accounted for by climate models — methane emissions from ‘thermokarst‘ lakes.

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Such lakes form when permafrost taws at a faster rate and deeper levels than usually happens. This sudden thawing creates a depression which fills up with rainwater, ice, and snow melt. The water’s presence then leads to even more thawing at the shores of the lake, speeding up the rate of methane release into the atmosphere.

“The mechanism of abrupt thaw and thermokarst lake formation matters a lot for the permafrost-carbon feedback this century,” said first author Katey Walter Anthony at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks. “We don’t have to wait 200 or 300 years to get these large releases of permafrost carbon. Within my lifetime, my children’s lifetime, it should be ramping up. It’s already happening but it’s not happening at a really fast rate right now, but within a few decades, it should peak.”

Walter Anthony and colleagues used a combination of computer models and field measurements to reach the conclusion that abrupt thawing more than doubles previous estimates of permafrost-derived greenhouse warming.

“Within decades you can get very deep thaw-holes, meters to tens of meters of vertical thaw,” Walter Anthony said. “So you’re flash thawing the permafrost under these lakes. And we have very easily measured ancient greenhouse gases coming out.”

https://youtu.be/ujwfgKvSVPk

Current models estimate carbon emission from thawing permafrost as a gradual process. These new results suggest that in reality, the Arctic’s thawing feedback loops are more complex than we suspected. It’s all especially concerning considering that the IPCC — the leading international body for the assessment of climate change — did not incorporate any permafrost carbon emissions and the resulting amplification of climate change in its most recent climate projections.

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This means that it will be even more challenging to keep global temperatures below the 1.5- or 2- degrees Celsius target set by the international community under the Paris Agreement.
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Even so, methane emissions from thawing permafrost pale in comparison to the amount of human fossil fuel emissions. According to the researchers, permafrost methane emissions account for only 1% of the global methane budget. So the best thing we can do is to transition as fast as possible to a carbon-neutral society.

 “But by the middle to end of the century the permafrost-carbon feedback should be about equivalent to the second strongest anthropogenic source of greenhouse gases, which is land use change,” Walter Anthony said.

The findings were reported in the journal Nature Communications.

https://www.zmescience.com/ecology/climate/thawing-methane-bubbles-0424432/

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 27, 2018, 12:43:17 pm
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Thursday, September 29, 2018

PUERTO RICO MOVES FORWARD: INNOVATIVE SOLUTIONS AFTER HURRICANE MARIA

RMI has been supporting Puerto Rico in advancing microgrids for schools, including one being commissioned this week in Orocovis (see story above). RMI’s islands team also supports Puerto Rican civil society to chart an alternative vision for renewables and community participation through convening and advisory support for new legislation.

A recent video from PBS’s NOVA series shows how Puerto Ricans are innovating (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F1%2F3-250718210628.gif&hash=a297e44320f13fa5f3eae64809a46139f5e2395a) to find new energy solutions after Hurricane Maria revealed extreme weaknesses in the island’s electric grid. Watch now:

https://youtu.be/-1hPfmCbeGA

Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
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September 27, 2018

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Congressional Research Service Reports Now Available To Public: What Should Your Electeds Know?

The Congressional Research Service (CRS) is part of the Library of Congress. Founded in 1914, the service provides legislators with nonpartisan analysis and research relevant to policy making. Traditionally, these relatively concise reports were meant solely for Congress, and unless someone leaked one, were not for public consumption.

However, as part of the 2018 appropriations package, Congress decided to let the people see the research (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-301014182902.gif&hash=1dec33f3f6c520ffeac0082b58f46ffa3ed7cedb) our tax money funds.(https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-311017193926.png&hash=135a7bcd2093b679e425bbd2086adb8ddfd2e7b5)

Taxpayers can now search for topics  (https://climatenexus.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d1f5797e59060083034310930&id=df7350bb15&e=0fd17c5b57)and see what research is informing policymakers. These aren’t new cutting-edge research products, but instead summarize the state of science and/or regulatory affairs. They’re a combination of wonky policy jargon that references specific statutes and Federal Register filings with high-level overviews. 

Basically, if you’re a senator looking to figure out what some new issue is all about, you can turn to the CRS for explanation. But now, if you’re a reporter or a scientist trying to figure out what Trump’s latest regulatory rollback entails, the history behind it, the rules in place it’s replacing, and the tricks they’re using to justify it, CRS could be a great resource.

A search for “climate change,” (https://climatenexus.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d1f5797e59060083034310930&id=983e699095&e=0fd17c5b57) for example, yields 18 different reports so far this year. One is a 40-page FAQ on car mileage and greenhouse gas standards that explains not only the current standards  (https://climatenexus.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d1f5797e59060083034310930&id=0f4e0381b5&e=0fd17c5b57)and how manufacturers comply with them, but also how both NHTSA and EPA have authority over them, and how California’s special exemption works. A much longer 117 page report on Changes in the Arctic (https://climatenexus.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d1f5797e59060083034310930&id=68d0cfbd2d&e=0fd17c5b57), meanwhile, provides Congress with the region’s history, US policy around it, the Arctic Council governing it, how climate change is impacting it, oil and gas mining in it, and more.

If you’re confused about Glider Kits, there’s a report for that (https://climatenexus.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d1f5797e59060083034310930&id=ec9040a260&e=0fd17c5b57). Renewable fuel standards? There’s an overview on them (https://climatenexus.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d1f5797e59060083034310930&id=37b3557ad1&e=0fd17c5b57). How the Trump EPA 😈 changed the cost benefit analysis to justify (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F1%2F3-250718205808.gif&hash=5c451456a306c150d3555c49e31a2f47d6f369a9) repealing the Clean Power Plan? It’s all here! (https://climatenexus.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d1f5797e59060083034310930&id=37ed566d01&e=0fd17c5b57)

CRS reports even cover some of the very basics, like a report providing  (https://climatenexus.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d1f5797e59060083034310930&id=094357773d&e=0fd17c5b57)additional context for the 2017 federal climate science special report (https://climatenexus.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d1f5797e59060083034310930&id=fb3de2406e&e=0fd17c5b57), which traces the how the science of climate change has evolved over the past nearly 200 years.

While the content itself is not particularly groundbreaking, it’s interesting to know that when someone like Rep Lamar Smith 🦕 casts doubt on climate science by saying, as the report quotes, that he believes “significant questions remain as to the extent” of human causation, he’s not only denying hundreds of years of science, but also ignoring a report written specifically to educate him on this topic.

And since this report was written by Congress’s own special research service, which has operated as a bipartisan resource for both parties since 1914, with an agenda solely of informing policymakers to help them make decisions based on all possible information, there’s no credible way to allege bias. CRS works for both parties, and even the baseless claims that scientists are pro-warming because they’re chasing EPA grants falls flat, since CRS employes wouldn’t benefit from promoting alarmism.

Has Smith read this report, which cites his denial as the very first footnote? We’re not sure, but it sure would be interesting to know. If he’s read it, does he still deny that fossil fuels cause climate change? Given that the report couldn’t find any scientific institution that disputes the consensus, then on what evidence is his doubt based?

If he hasn’t read the couple-dozen-page summary, then why is he letting taxpayer-funded work go to waste?

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The Fossil Fuelers 🦖 DID THE Clean Energy  Inventions suppressing, Climate Trashing, human health depleting CRIME,   but since they have ALWAYS BEEN liars and conscience free crooks 🦀, they are trying to AVOID   DOING THE TIME or   PAYING THE FINE!     Don't let them get away with it! Pass it on!   
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
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October 1, 2018

Giant Mosquitos Swarm North Carolina

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“gallnipper” (Psorophora ciliata)

Flooding from Hurricane Florence has activated dormant “gallnipper” (Psorophora ciliata) eggs, among others, leading to the hatching of billions of unusually large mosquitoes. Gallnippers lay their eggs in moist, low-elevation areas, where heavy rains or flooding trigger eventual hatching.

In less than a week, larvae grow to adult size, which is about three times that of normal mosquitoes. The insects are so big that they’ve been mistaken for wasps (https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/north-carolina-mosquito-problem_us_5bb10a32e4b0343b3dc1352e) 😲 and jokingly called the new state bird. (https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/north-carolina-mosquito-problem_us_5bb10a32e4b0343b3dc1352e) :D

According to entomology professor Michael Reiskind of North Carolina State University, disease transmission isn’t a leading concern with gallnippers and other post-Florence mosquito species. Nevertheless, the outbreak is a public health issue as it drives people to stay indoors and slows the storm recovery process. Last Wednesday, Gov. Roy Cooper directed $4 million toward mosquito control efforts in 27 counties.

https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/north-carolina/articles/2018-09-30/after-florence-communities-work-to-keep-mosquitoes-at-bay

Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on October 03, 2018, 09:17:02 pm
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A Pair of Monster Cyclones Have Exploded to Life in the Pacific

Brian Kahn
Monday October 1, 2018  6:00pm Filed to: THE PACIFIC IS POPPING

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Angry planet. Hurricane Walaka is on the left and Super Typhoon Kong-rey is on the right. Image: CIMSS

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https://earther.gizmodo.com/a-pair-of-monster-cyclones-have-exploded-to-life-in-the-1829448413

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on October 04, 2018, 06:42:52 pm
The Big Wobble

Monday, 24 September 2018

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It is astonishing, jaw-dropping! THOUSANDS OF TONS (MILLIONS MAYBE BILLIONS) of Marine species dead along the entire Florida west coast since May

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It is astonishing, jaw-dropping even, it should be world news or at least national news but the fact is since May this year the entire west coast of Florida, from Navarre Beach in the north all the way down to Collier County in the south has witnessed the death of millions, maybe billions of marine species from birds to fish, manatees, dolphins and turtles due to a red tide algae bloom and it only made local news.

Below is a list of die-offs, (with links attached At article link  8)) along the entire west coast of Florida since May, the list is frightening.

It started off slowly...And then exploded.

Below is not a true figure as many more species will have died out at sea.

On May 4th A Navarre woman spotted nearly 100 dead birds within a one-mile radius on Navarre Beach Full story

On the 3rd of June, The Tampa Bay Times reported Freshwater turtles began turning up dead along the St. Johns River in January. Now about 100 dead or dying turtles have been found in water bodies in Orange, Seminole and Putnam counties. A few reports have come in from other locations, such as Trout Lake near Eustis in Lake County. Full story

On the 27th of June, a Florida beach was littered with 'hundreds' of dead fish, manatees and other marine life. Hundreds of dead fish, manatees, sea turtles, eels and other types of marine life were found washed ashore on Boca Grande beach. Full story


On the 1st of July, Fox4 reported, Red Tide caused large fish kills in Englewood. Manatees, turtles, and snook were popping up everywhere. The most recent Red Tide event to hit Southwest Florida has been devastating for the beaches and the people who make their living off of them. Full story


On July the 31st, Miami Herald reported dead fish, birds, manatees, even a whale shark washed up dead at Cape Coral as the toll from worst red tide in decades grows. Dead fish by the thousands have clogged inlets and canals. 10 dead Goliath grouper, the massive reef fish that can live four decades or more, have floated to the surface. At least 90 sea turtles have been found stranded as the tide stretches well into nesting season. Full story


On August the 1st News-Press announced Lee County had opened fish disposal sites as the Florida algae crisis continued. Dead sea turtle count at 400. A local fisherman claimed: "There’s lots of dead everything here," Wasno said. "I’m watching a sea trout die right at my feet. There’s mullet, snook, pinfish, sea snakes, small grouper, and there’s a lot of it." Full story

On August the 6th Fox13 announced tons of dead fish shovelled from beaches along Sarasota County. Dead fish are now washing ashore on Anna Maria Island after the red tide bloom drifted slightly north over the weekend. Meanwhile, crews in Sarasota County say they removed several tons of dead fish over the last two days alone. Full story


16th August - 3 MILLION lbs of dead fish washed up on beaches in Lee County, Florida: The latest numbers from Lee County officials on Thursday reveal that well over 3 million pounds of fish have been removed from local coastlines. The county reports that contractors removing fish from Lee County beaches have amassed more than 1,400 tons of fish, and that crews in Sanibel have collected an additional 309 tons. Among the dead fish found include one dead Whale Shark on Sanibel, and numerous large goliath grouper and tarpon. Full story


22nd August - 15 dead bottlenose dolphins wash up dead in Sarasota:  “I have never come across something like this ever,” Master Police Officer, Paul Joyce, with the Venice Police Marine Patrol Unit said. Full story


23rd August - Thousands of dead fish wash up again in Sarasota. A witnessed claimed she’s seen everything from pinfish to puffer fish to catfish float up in the marina. Red tide isn’t just stinking up Sarasota — over the last day or so most of Bradenton has been smelling like a pile of dead fish. The algae bloom sets off a distinguishable stench, one that readers told the Bradenton Herald they could smell from downtown. Full story


27th August-240 TONS of dead fish wash up, due to red tide in Manatee County, as of Monday, the county had already collected about 241 tons of red tide-related debris left on Manatee County beaches, parks and waterways, cleaning up the majority of fish kills, officials announced during a news conference. Full story


10th September - 33 TONS of dead fish wash up, due to red tide in Pinellas: Red tide is officially impacting Pinellas County. Crews have picked up a total of 33.48 tons of dead fish and hauled them off to the county dump. Tests conducted Monday show the highest levels of the toxic algae bloom near John's Pass and Madeira Beach. Low levels were also found near the Bellair Boat Ramp and Sand Key near Clearwater Pass.


17th September - Thousands of dead fish wash up due to red tide on Panama City:
Beachgoers in Panama City Beach were greeted by a grisly sight this weekend: Thousands of dead fish spanning the coastline. The killer? Red tide. Full story

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on October 05, 2018, 01:22:17 pm
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Video: Cargo Ship Sinks in Taiwan Strait

October 4, 2018 by gCaptain

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Photo: The 70-meter cargo ship Ying Hai with a starboard list in the Taiwan Strait.

The 70-meter cargo ship Ying Hai sank in the Taiwan Strait on Wednesday after it developing a heavy list on a voyage from Kaohsiung city to Busan Korea.

The Taiwanese-flagged ship notified Taiwan search and rescue authorities on Tuesday that the ship had developed a list after some containers on deck had shifted in heavy weather.

After attempts to tow the vessel failed, all 9 crew members eventually abandoned ship to SAR boats, leaving the vessel adrift.

Authorities tracking the ship said it sank Wednesday morning south of the Penghu archipelago.

Ships in the area are being warned to keep a lookout for possible floating containers in the water.

Some video from a local news report is below:

https://youtu.be/GgHwIcgcSDQ

https://gcaptain.com/video-cargo-ship-sinks-in-taiwan-strait/

Agelbert NOTE: It will get much, much worse as the number and intensity of hurricanes increases due to Catastrophic Climate Change, compliments of the Hydrocarbon Hellspawn Corporations. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-130418193910.gif&hash=633dd399cd6006279afd7efb5ef953673b96bd78)(https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-130418203402.gif&hash=b2691028ba683a0039a5811f5775c68d7ccae01c)  >:(

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It would be impossible for the non-mariner to understand phenomena such as sailing into a Hurricane. For reference, I quote a passage from The American Practical Navigator – “As the center of the storm comes closer, the ever stronger winds shriek through the rigging, and about the superstructure of the vessel. As the center approaches, rain falls in torrents. The wind fury increases. The seas become mountainous. The tops of huge waves are blown off to mingle with rain and fill the air with water. Visibility is near zero in blinding rain and spray. Even the largest and most seaworthy vessels become virtually unmanageable, and may sustain heavy damage. Less sturdy vessels may not survive. Navigation stops as safety of the vessel becomes the only consideration. The awesome fury of this condition can only be experienced. Words are inadequate to describe it.”
http://gcaptain.com/el-faro-open-letter-investigators/

Learn more about what the proximate future: 🕵️

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on October 07, 2018, 02:22:31 pm
Oil Change International Exposing the true costs of fossil fuels

GCAS wrap-up: Sparking a new conversation around “climate leadership”

David Turnbull, October 3, 2018

SNIPPET:

A couple weeks have passed since the end of the Global Climate Action Summit (GCAS), and the dust is settling. What’s emerging is a new conversation sparked not at the summit itself but on the streets and in outside events across the city. A new definition of climate leadership has emerged, and the public outcry is deafening, even if thus far world leaders represented at GCAS seemed to strain to avoid hearing it.

This definition is a simple and clear one: If you want to call yourself a climate leader, you have to stand up to the fossil fuel industry, protect communities, and keep fossil fuels in the ground. Anything less is not enough to meet what climate science and justice demand. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-130418202709.png&hash=7503265ec59e4c28d735afb762bc39f4674bd838)

In mid-September, business leaders, sub-national officials, civil society representatives, and celebrities converged for the Global Climate Action Summit hosted by Governor Jerry Brown, with conversations focused primarily on efforts to reduce emissions and lower the demand for fossil fuels. Outside the official summit proceedings, however, Oil Change International teamed up with numerous partners to mobilize pressure on Governor Brown and other political leaders to address a major gap in action: putting policies in place to wind down fossil fuel extraction.

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October 10, 2018

A new report from the world’s leading body on climate change says we could see catastrophic global warming by 2030, and climate scientist Michael Mann says their predictions are too conservative

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DHARNA NOOR: It’s The Real News. I’m Dharna Noor.

A new report from the world’s leading body on climate change warns that in just 12 years, rising global temperatures could cause irreversible damage like mass extinctions and severe droughts. Just 12 years. The report from the International Governmental Panel on Climate Change, or the IPCC, says if temperatures keep increasing at their current rate, global warming is likely to reach 1.5 degrees Celsius, or 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit, above pre-industrial levels between 2030 and 2052. To avoid a disaster, the IPCC says governments must take “rapid, far-reaching, and unprecedented changes in all aspects of society.”

Now joining us to talk about this is seminal climate scientist Michael Mann. Michael Mann is a distinguished professor and director of the Earth Science Systems Science Center at Penn State University. He’s the author of several books, perhaps most famously in 2012 The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars, and most recently The Tantrum that Saved the World, a children’s book on climate change which he coauthored with Megan Herbert. Thanks for joining us today.

MICHAEL MANN: Thank you. Good to be with you.

DHARNA NOOR: So, Michael, you’ve been raising the alarm about climate change for decades. Talk about the significance of this IPCC report. The Paris climate accord years ago actually set 1.5 degrees above pre-industrial levels as an aspirational target, but this report makes it seem like that target is nowhere near enough.

MICHAEL MANN: Yeah, and In fact, even this report is overly conservative, as these IPCC reports often are. It turns out that in some ways this latest report has actually understated the amount of warming that we’ve already experienced because of the burning of fossil fuels and the increase in the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. And so arguably we are actually closer to those 1.5 degrees Celsius and 2.0 Celsius thresholds, temperature thresholds, that are discussed in the report. We’re probably closer to them than the report implies. We probably have less carbon left to burn if we are to avoid crossing those thresholds.

DHARNA NOOR: But 1.5 degrees seems like such a tiny increase. Explain the history and significance of that figure, the 1.5 degree rise in temperature above pre-industrial levels, and how much worse would 2 degrees be than that?

MICHAEL MANN: Yeah, so 1.5 degrees Celsius warming over the time scale of a century is unprecedented. As far back as we can go, we have not seen rates of warming that large. And in fact, the level of warmth that we’ve now reached is unprecedented in tens of thousands of years. So even what might seem like a modest amount of warming can be profound from the impacts that that warming can have.

Just think about this. The warming that we’ve already experienced is more than halfway, it’s more than halfway from the warming between the last ice age and the modern pre-industrial climate. So we’ve already warmed the climate half as much as it warmed coming out of the last ice age. And that has implications for the melting of ice. We are inching ever closer to crossing key thresholds where we basically lock in the melting of large parts of the West Antarctic ice sheet, and potentially even the Greenland ice sheet, enough ice to give us not feet but metres of sea level rise in the centuries ahead. For every half a degree Celsius warming of the ocean surface, we increase the destructive potential of hurricanes by more than 10 per cent; closer to 15 percent. That’s a large enough signal that you can see it in the data. We can see it playing out. And when it comes to extreme weather in general, unprecedented floods and heat waves and wildfires and droughts like we have seen over the past few years, that is the face of climate change. It’s no longer subtle.

And that’s just 1.5 degrees Celsius. Every additional half a degree Celsius locks in more destructive, more extreme weather events, more melting of ice more sea level rise, and 2 degrees Celsius might be enough to basically destroy the world’s coral reefs. We’re inching ever closer to that threshold.

DHARNA NOOR: You mentioned that you thought that these IPCC scientists might have been too conservative in their estimates. And in coverage of this report of this IPCC report several outlets- the New York Times, Business Insider- are saying that we’re on track to reach 1.5 degrees by 2040, not 2030. So we’re seeing even more conservative estimates from the coverage of the report than is in the report itself. Can you talk about this a little bit?

MICHAEL MANN: Yeah. I think it’s sort of a bad game of telephone where, you know, parts of the report have been translated for the purpose of the summary for policymakers. And then there are press releases that have been sent out. And there’s been a lot of nuance that has been lost in translation, as it were. I also pointed out that the IPCC made a number of extremely conservative- I would argue overly conservative- decisions in how they measure the warming that has already happened. And by doing that they underestimate how close we are to these 1.5 degree Celsius and 2 degrees Celsius thresholds. And they overestimate how much carbon we have left to burn.

If you look, for example, at the Northern Hemisphere, which is where most of us live, and you ask the question when do we cross the 2 degree warming- 2 degree Celsius warming- threshold for the Northern Hemisphere if we continue with business as usual burning of fossil fuels? I showed in an article several years ago in Scientific American we crossed that threshold before 2040, in the late 2030s. So we are on the way, on our way to blowing past the 1.5 degree Celsius mark and crossing the 2 degrees Celsius threshold in a matter of, you know, depending on how you define it, it really doesn’t matter. Is it two decades, is it three decades, it hardly matters. In order to avoid crossing those thresholds we need to bring our emissions down dramatically. Arguably more dramatically than implied in this latest IPCC report.

DHARNA NOOR: Yeah. Another report from 2016, The Truth About Climate Change, which was authored by leading climate scientists, some of whom are actually on the IPCC, said that we’ll hit 2 degrees by 2050 even if every country fulfils the Paris climate agreement. That seems like a pretty significant difference, especially because that was before Trump was elected.

MICHAEL MANN: Yeah. Well, there’s a lot going on there. So first of all, the Paris agreement alone doesn’t stabilise warming below those dangerous levels of warming, below 2 degrees Celsius. There are credible estimates that have been done that if you tally up all of the commitments under the Paris accord- and keep in mind that many countries, including Europe and the U.S., are not quite meeting their targets at this point- but assuming every country meets its target, that only gets us halfway from where we would be headed, which would be towards 4 to 5 degrees Celsius warming of the planet; a catastrophic warming of the planet by the end of the century. The Paris agreement only gets us halfway down to the 2 degrees Celsius mark, and nowhere near that 1.5 degrees Celsius mark.

What that means is that Paris sort of gets us on the right path, that gets us on the right road. It helps us start to bend that curve of carbon emissions downward. But we’ll need to do a whole lot more work if we are going to stabilise warming below the dangerous 2 degrees Celsius, let alone 1.5 degrees Celsius warming limits.

DHARNA NOOR: To curb climate change, the report says that we must reduce global emissions by 45 per cent from 2010 levels by 2030, and altogether by 2050. It also says that by 2050 the use of coal as an electricity source would have to drop from nearly 40 percent, which it has today, to between 1 and 7 percent. About 67 percent of our energy must come from renewable sources like wind and solar. The IPCC report really puts the pressure on governments to act, especially the Trump administration. But Trump hasn’t even responded to it at all. Given our current political climate, you could say, is it even likely that we could do any of these things? Is it possible to take these sorts of policy actions?

MICHAEL MANN: Well you know, political will is renewable. And right now in less than 30 days, in less than a month, we have a critical midterm election here in the United States where the people can make their voices heard. If we are not satisfied with a president who not only won’t act on climate change, but denies it exists, and a Republican Congress that has enabled his denialism in his delay in dealing with this problem, we have an opportunity to shift the political winds in a direction that’s more favorable for climate action.

So that’s critical. People can impact the process. People can impact the problem by voting. That is one very important way that we can act to help avert catastrophic climate change. Well, even in the absence of national leadership- we have no national leadership on this issue right now. But we do have leadership at the state level. States like California, led by Jerry Brown. The other West Coast states, the New England states, many of the mid-Atlantic states have banded together to form consortia to put a price on carbon, to incentivize renewable energy. Many of our largest businesses, many of our largest companies and corporations here in the U.S., are acting to reduce their carbon emissions. And because of that we may meet our Paris obligations even without support from the president or the Republican Congress. But as I said before, we need to not only meet those obligations, we need to improve on them substantially if we’re going to- if we’re going to avert catastrophic warming of the planet. And that’s going to require leadership at the national level. One way to try to ensure that happens is to show up at the polls and to vote out politicians who refuse to act, who deny the problem, and vote in politicians who are willing to be part of the solution.

DHARNA NOOR: I don’t want to belabor this, but you know, you mentioned that the Trump administration was denying the existence of climate change. But last month the Washington Post reported that buried in this some hundreds, hundreds of pages-long National Highway Traffic Safety Administration statement is this prediction that the world will warm by 4 degrees Celsius by the end of the century. So essentially they said given that the world is going to warm catastrophically anyway, new policies- in this case a freezing of fuel efficiency standards- is just a drop in the bucket. So again, given this political climate when people are saying, you know, if the world is going to warm so drastically anyway, if the outcome requires such fatalism, is it worth acting in any case? How do you respond to people who say it’s too late to act?

MICHAEL MANN: Yes. So here you have two equal and opposite untruths. And It really speaks to the intellectual honesty or lack thereof when it comes to the Trump administration. They’re willing to use two completely inconsistent talking points. On the one hand climate change is a hoax, it doesn’t exist; on the other hand, oh, it’s going to be so large that there’s little we can do about it now. And what that tells you is that there is no good faith in their position on climate. They’re just looking for any argument, throwing as much mud on the wall as they can, to try to block progress to deal with this problem, because they’re basically furthering the agenda of the fossil fuel interests and the conservative donors who fund this administration and congressional Republicans today.

The reality is that there is still time to reduce our emissions by the amount necessary to avert the worst impacts of climate change, but not if we continue to vote in climate change deniers and fuel lobbyists like we have in the form of the current administration and the congressional Republicans who are enabling their agenda.

DHARNA NOOR: But what about some of the Democratic leaders who are leading the way on climate change? For instance, you mentioned Jerry Brown’s administration in California as being, you know, really precedent-setting in terms of climate change; really taking the lead on climate change. But critics would say that since he became governor he’s admitted some 20,000 new oil and gas permits. So do we also need to act on the supply side versus the demand side, versus things like supporting more wind, supporting more solar, and move to really stopping the production of fossil fuels in the first place?

MICHAEL MANN: Yeah. Well, you know, there’s a worthy debate to be had about the role of demand-side versus supply-side approaches to the problem. And I fear that when it comes to folks like Jerry Brown, who I consider a hero and a leader on this issue, there is the true danger of the perfect being the enemy of the good, or the very good, in this case. He has taken a leadership position at a time when we have a president and a Congress that wants to deny that there’s a problem, that wants to pull out of the Paris accord. He has taken a leadership position. He has set an example for other states to follow. He is moving ahead with an effort to put a price on carbon, to incentivize renewable energy.

So yeah, you know, there are no arguments that can be made that it would be great if we were to see maybe more action when it comes to policies on natural gas and pipelines. But you know, first we have to tackle this problem one piece at a time. And Jerry Brown has taken on a huge challenge in putting forward policies that have the potential to make the largest dent in this problem, putting a price on carbon so we level the energy playing field so renewable energy can compete compete fairly against fossil fuel energy in the marketplace. And if we do that, we know that we’re going to further accelerate this transition that is already underway away from the continued burning of these dirty fossil fuels towards a clean renewable energy future.

DHARNA NOOR: I want to ask you one more question about some specific policy implications. So it’s looking now like Jair Bolsonaro is likely to become Brazil’s next president, and Brazil is in the top 10 emitters globally. Many are predicting that he’ll lift all restrictions on logging in the Amazon. If he does that, what could the impact on climate be? How significant could that be?

MICHAEL MANN: Yeah, well, deforestation is a problem, and it contributes to our carbon emissions, as does agriculture and a whole lot of other human activities. Basically everything that we do contributes to our global carbon footprint. And we need to think carefully about our practices across the board when it comes to energy, transportation, food systems and distribution systems, buildings and infrastructure, city planning, forest management, et cetera. There’s no one magic bullet that solves this problem. But the lion’s share of our carbon emissions today comes from the burning of fossil fuels for energy and transportation. And if we can tackle that largest piece of the pie, we will make huge inroads in meeting our, you know, the Paris commitments, and getting- again, getting our carbon emissions on a path where we’re bending them downward towards zero, where they ultimately have to be in a matter of decades if we’re going to avert catastrophic warming of the planet.

We’re making some progress. We have to continue. We have to accelerate the policies that are helping out. And we have to think about all of the things that we can do in our everyday lives to try to help out. There is a role for voluntary actions, for personal responsibility in our food choices, in our energy usage, et cetera. We can all solve this problem through personal choices and by demanding accountability of our policy makers to enact policies that will accelerate this transition away from dirty fossil fuels towards renewable energy.

DHARNA NOOR: Given the need for individual action and also global action, what are you expecting from COP24 in Poland this December? Another big UN international conference on climate change.

MICHAEL MANN: It’s my hope that this latest interim report on the Paris targets, the latest IPCC report, will help frame the urgency of action. It will help frame sort of this problem that we’ve been talking about, that Paris is a good start. It gets us a foot in the door, but it doesn’t come close to solving this problem. We need to ratchet up all of those obligations that the various countries of the world made a few years ago in Paris. We need to make even more firm commitments. We need to make good on our current commitments, and that’s a challenge in itself. We have to make sure that countries are meeting their obligations under Paris, and that they’re willing to ratchet up those commitments in the next conference of the parties.

So it’s a, it’s a tall order, but it’s doable. To those people who say, who throw up their hands in defeat and say there’s just nothing we can do, that is not true. We’ve risen to the challenge before. We did it in World War II. We did it with the space program here in the U.S. We can do it here, as well.

DHARNA NOOR: All right. Well, we’ll be sure to keep in touch with you as we see what happens, and as we see what actions are taken. As always, such a pleasure to have you on. Thanks.

MICHAEL MANN: My pleasure. Thank you.

DHARNA NOOR: And thank you for joining us on The Real News Network.

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on October 11, 2018, 12:43:42 pm
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Michael Treks Through Southeast After Leaving Florida Beach Towns in Ruins, Kills 2; Flooding Swamps North Carolina Towns


October 11, 2018

By Sean Breslin less than an hour ago weather.com

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At a Glance

֍ Hurricane Michael carved swaths of devastation as it made landfall on the Florida Panhandle.

֍ Two deaths have been confirmed – one in Florida and one in Georgia.

֍ Flooding was reported Thursday morning in western North Carolina.

֍ More than 900,000 homes and businesses have lost power in the South.

In Florida, from Panama City through Mexico Beach — where the storm made landfall — and into Apalachicola, houses were swamped or blown apart, roofs were ripped off, boats sank and trees toppled in the high winds. Aerial images at Mexico Beach Thursday morning showed extreme damage, with homes swept completely off their foundations and destroyed and few properties left standing along the coast.

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Climate Crisis is Even More Dire Than the New IPCC Report Says 🚩 👀

October 12, 2018

The IPCC’s new report is groundbreaking, but it misses crucial points on climate tipping points and feedbacks that could make the crisis even more urgent, says Durwood Zaelke of the Institute for Governance & Sustainable Development

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The ‘Greatest Hoax’ Strikes Florida

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Denying climate change doesn’t stop its devastating effects.

By Nicholas Kristof

Opinion Columnist

Oct. 10, 2018

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“One of the most preposterous hoaxes in the history of the planet,” scoffed Rush Limbaugh of Palm Beach. Gov. Rick Scott’s administration went so far as to bar some agencies from even using the term “climate change,” according to the Florida Center for Investigative Reporting (Scott denied this).

Myopic Floridians have plenty of company. President Trump dismissed climate change as a hoax “created by and for the Chinese.” Senator James Inhofe (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-241013183046.jpeg&hash=51c9c4f17e747698c76c65c7c1814eff4f32c400), a Republican (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-100718164155-14511755.jpeg&hash=1c62dd0525852ffbbcbc7f2459189db15d6435c6) of Oklahoma, “disproved” climate change by taking a snowball onto the Senate floor and noting that it was chilly outside; using similarly rigorous scientific methods (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-280515145049.png&hash=84e87515e750391c1f1bca6d6ae06485972bfa81) (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-051113192052.png&hash=93c42ef9f18fc5d9da50fd91fc19f70009f95f85), he wrote a book about climate change called “The Greatest Hoax".

Alas, denying climate change doesn’t actually prevent it. North Carolina passed a law in 2012 prohibiting the use of climate science in certain state planning, yet that didn’t intimidate Hurricane Florence last month. And banning the words “climate change” isn’t helping Florida now.

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Prof. Michael E. Mann of Penn State told me that Hurricane Michael should be a wake-up call. “As should have Katrina, Irene, Sandy, Harvey, Irma, Florence,” he added wryly. “In each of these storms we can see the impact of climate change: Warmer seas means more energy to intensify these storms, more wind damage, bigger storm surge and more coastal flooding.”


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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on October 13, 2018, 08:27:55 pm
THE DAILY IMPACT

CHRONICLING THE CRASH OF THE INDUSTRIAL AGE

No Time for Optimism

By Tom Lewis | October 10, 2018 | Climate

There’s a dumb old joke about an optimist who falls off a 40-storey building and is heard saying, as he passes the 20th floor, “Well, nothing bad has happened yet.” We have met the optimist, and he is us.

The optimist is, for example, the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Policy, which this week issued a report to a world that has not yet begun to implement the agreed-upon changes needed to hold global warming to 2 degrees Celsius. Two years after that target was set by 195 nations, after years of negotiations, at the Paris climate agreement, the world’s carbon dioxide emissions, the primary drivers of climate change, are still rising. There is no hope of limiting climate change to two degrees. But it would be so much nicer, says the IPCC now, to hold the increase to 1.5 degrees Celsius.

In other words: I started trying to lose 40 pounds a year ago, I haven’t lost any weight at all, so now I’ve decided to try to lose 50 pounds. Continue reading → Or hear Podcast 🔊  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F1%2F3-210818163127-1680962.png&hash=405119a0c023346043f1dae6ab993a831a8cbb5d) (http://www.dailyimpact.net/2018/10/10/no-time-for-optimism/#more-4029)


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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on October 16, 2018, 08:54:15 pm
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Earth System Research Laboratory
Global Monitoring Division

History of atmospheric carbon dioxide from 800,000 years ago until January, 2016.

https://youtu.be/gH6fQh9eAQE
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https://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/ccgg/trends/history.html
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on October 16, 2018, 10:31:35 pm
Ep 1: Paul Beckwith, Nov 18, 2015 - Abrupt Climate Change and Relief Operations

ReliefAnalysis.com's full interview with Paul Beckwith on how abrupt climate change is about to transform the humanitarian community. 🔊 🚩

https://soundcloud.com/reliefanalysis/paul-beckwith-interview-abrupt-climate-change-and-relief-operations

https://paulbeckwith.net/
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on October 17, 2018, 12:34:33 pm
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A woman walks through a damaged store in the aftermath of Hurricane Michael in Springfield, Fla., Oct. 11, 2018. Image: David Goldman/AP

OCT. 12, 2018

How Climate Change Made Hurricane Michael More Destructive

By Joe McCarthy

https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/hurricane-michael-climate-change/
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on October 17, 2018, 01:06:49 pm
OCT. 15, 2018

By Joe McCarthy

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The president suggested that fighting climate change would be economically ruinous, costing “millions and millions of jobs,” (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-191017140758.jpeg&hash=8c0a35a928dcda3c1a8714ab03f4924a1a775851) a claim that has been repeatedly debunked. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F1%2F3-111018132421-16902.gif&hash=deba9f0f91ecd7d65bbdeb78786bef4a98cb1a7e)

In fact, the renewable energy sector hired Americans at 12 times the rate as the overall economy in 2017, and fighting climate change could add $26 trillion to the global economy through a mix of jobs, health care savings, energy efficiency, and resilient environments.

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Full article:

https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/trump-climate-change-60-minutes/

Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on October 17, 2018, 09:16:57 pm
Watch Hurricane Michael Destroy Panama City to Mexico Beach...

43,077 views


https://youtu.be/LqrR3SiJCvg

Weather Going WILD

Published on Oct 13, 2018

- Weather Going WILD documents Hurricane Michael and braves its destructive winds in Callaway, Florida on our way in to the eye of the storm!  This was one of the most intense storms I personally have ever chased in my 20 year career... #HurricaneMichael #PanamaCity #WeatherGoingWILD
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on October 19, 2018, 01:48:19 pm
EcoWatch

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By Lorraine Chow

Oct. 18, 2018 03:04PM EST

Japan's cherry blossoms are unexpectedly blooming this autumn.   :o

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on October 19, 2018, 01:58:32 pm
EcoWatch

Deadly Flooding 💧 in Texas Causes Dramatic 🌊 Bridge Collapse

By Olivia Rosane

Oct. 18, 2018 08:46AM EST

A rainfall graph showing the heavy rains that caused flooding in Central Texas. National Weather Service

Two people have died in flooding in Central Texas that caused a bridge to collapse, CNN reported Wednesday.

Heavy rains led to flooding where the Llano River and the Colorado River meet in Kingsland, Texas. Flood waters rushed over the 2900 bridge for hours before it collapsed.

A rainfall graph showing the heavy rains that caused flooding in Central Texas. (at article link) National Weather Service

Residents in the area were ordered to evacuate Tuesday, and Llano County Emergency Management Coordinator Ron Anderson warned them on Wednesday not to return to their homes too quickly.

Bridge Collapse VIDEO:

https://youtu.be/wr4W9YAyc6A

"Texas is taking immediate action to respond to the threat of recent severe weather and flooding across the state," Texas Gov. Greg Abbot said in a statement Tuesday as he issued a state disaster declaration for 18 impacted counties.

The Texas flooding in the latest in a year of extreme weather events.

"[First] wildfires during the summer, now flooding," Kingsland resident bentley_n_frostie wrote on an Instagram post showing a video of the flooding.

https://www.ecowatch.com/texas-floods-bridge-collapse-2613283367.html
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on October 19, 2018, 06:18:47 pm
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Climate Feelings: Solstagia and Do’ikayt, Grief and Anger

The IPCC’s 1.5 report seems to have ripped open the never-quite-healed psychic wound that comes from a daily reckoning with the end of the world. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-160614020132.gif&hash=e2e6ec1a7addef1d5adfa6eb1f4bcd01451695bd)(https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-160614020633.gif&hash=fdf5d23d2c843efabecbe3e36591f441e9e047bc)

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While Trump 🦀 seems content to rely on his “instinct for science,” doubling down on his  “feelings over facts” worldview, the climate community is currently dealing with the feelings the 1.5 report brings up.

Over at Grist this week, Eric Holthaus writes on climate grief- how he’s handling it and how others have wrestled with the psychological implications of knowing that millions of lives are quite literally on the line. Holthaus gives his standard advice to talk about your feelings with a friend--though admits that he has “no idea whether or not this is the right advice for everyone.”

In response, Rebecca Leber tweeted that instead of grief’s “acceptance of the status quo,” it’s “past time to get and stay angry. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-130418202709.png&hash=7503265ec59e4c28d735afb762bc39f4674bd838)   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-060518153110.png&hash=39d587c31b7f7e66b30d7e59bb560e2ad0662eee)

Anger is certainly justifiable, given the multi-million dollar campaign by fossil fuel companies to convince the public that there are very fine scientists on both sides of the debate and forestall regulations, even decades after their own scientists acknowledged the problem with their pollution. We don’t need new vocabulary to deal with profit-driven corruption, but we do need some new language for the feelings this destruction has wrought.

For example, Zoë Schlanger at Quartz wrote recently about how “in 2018, life can feel in need of a dirge for the whole world, with scarcely the language to write it.” As the climate changes, and our world changes, so must our language change to reflect these new challenges.

We know nostalgia, the homesick longing borne of time or distance between where you are and where you feel most like yourself. But what happens when you don’t leave home, but your home leaves you? When the steady seasons begin to shift and reliable rains dry up or turn to deluge? How do you capture the feeling of this new abnormal?

The answer may be “solastagia,” a term coined in 2005 by philosopher Glenn Albrecht. It’s a nod to nostalgia while combining the concepts of solace (comfort in the face of stress) as well as desolation, with the Greek root of -algia, for pain and suffering. When the constants in our environmental lives can no longer be relied on, it feels as if our homes change and leave us, even though they don’t go anywhere. It is, in Albrecht’s words, “the pain experienced when...the place where one resides and that one loves is under immediate assault (physical desolation)...the erosion of the sense of belonging (identity) to a particular place and a feeling of distress (psychological desolation) about its transformation.

“In short, solastalgia is a form of homesickness one gets when one is still at ‘home’.”

After defining the term, Albrecht discusses how it’s all-too applicable to indigenous peoples who have been sidelined as their ancestral homes are paved over. Sadly, they’re hardly the only group of marginalized people whose struggles may provide some inspiration or understanding for our collective grappling with solastagia.

For that, we turn to a lengthy New York Review of Books piece by Molly Crabapple about her “Great-Grandfather the Bundist.” The Bund, Crabapple explains for those of us not well-steeped in early 20th century Jewish history, was a “humane, socialist, secular and defiantly Jewish” political party that “celebrated Jews as a nation,” but were “irreconcilably opposed to the establishment of Israel as a separate Jewish homeland in Palestine.” Instead, they believed that “the diaspora was home,” and embraced a concept known as do’ikayt, or “hereness.”

Though Crabapple focuses on the history of the Bund through the lens of her own rebel-turned-artist great-grandfather Sam Rothbort, the idea of “hereness” is one that can perhaps provide, if not comfort, then solidarity, among the climate-concerned diaspora.

Crabapple questions what do’ikayt means “in our age of mass migration” and answers that it is a way “to find the self in exile, to square homeland with the freedom to leave.”

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This struggle is indelibly etched into the geologic record, but there is hope still, for the final score is not yet written in stone.
 
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The Fossil Fuelers 🦖 DID THE Clean Energy  Inventions suppressing, Climate Trashing, human health depleting CRIME,   but since they have ALWAYS BEEN liars and conscience free crooks 🦀, they are trying to AVOID   DOING THE TIME or   PAYING THE FINE!     Don't let them get away with it! Pass it on!   

 
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on October 22, 2018, 02:44:39 pm
...EYE OF POTENTIALLY CATASTROPHIC CATEGORY 5 HURRICANE WILLA MOVING NORTHWARD... ...EXPECTED TO PRODUCE LIFE-THREATENING STORM SURGE, WIND, AND RAINFALL OVER PORTIONS OF WEST-CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN MEXICO...


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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on October 22, 2018, 11:00:06 pm
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Protestors Call Out Hypocrisy At Equator Principles Meeting

October 22nd, 2018 by Carolyn Fortuna

SNIPPET:

In October, 2018, major global banks met to revise the Equator Principles, which are industry-led due diligence standards to prevent banks from endorsing environmentally and socially harmful projects. In what many see as a duplicitous move, however, several of the Equator Principles signatories also continue to support Enbridge, the Canadian company behind the Line 3 tar sands pipeline.

Protests took place during the October Equator Principles Association meeting, and activists called out the Enbridge-funding banks for complicity in violating Indigenous rights and promoting investments in dirty energy. The protestors made visible the needs for financial institutions to be held accountable for investments that are incompatible with the goals of the Paris Agreement on climate as well as to end Indigenous rights abuses and climate chaos.

Full article:

https://cleantechnica.com/2018/10/22/protestors-call-out-hypocrisy-at-equator-principles-meeting/
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on October 25, 2018, 03:05:45 pm
The Revelator

Teens (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-210614221847.gif&hash=54129e3b65760aaddc6f2d7f42b34a7d839d2f27) Rise Up for Action on Climate

The Ask

October 17, 2018 - by John R. Platt

We asked one of the teenage organizers of the recent Zero Hour Youth Climate March what they’ve learned and how others can follow in their footsteps.

SNIPPET:

What’s your biggest takeaway from these first events? Are politicians or the heads of corporations listening?

You can never really tell when politicians are listening because it’s their job to pretend like they’re listening. It’s their job to make you think that they’re considering everything that you tell them, that everything that you say is important to them. I hope that they have at least heard what we are saying. I know that after the lobby day at least their staff knows who we are, and saw our faces and heard our voices.

The other day I was talking to Senator Heinrich at a League of Conservation Voters event. He said that he knew us, that he’d heard of us. That meant the world to me and Jamie [Margolin, the founder of Zero Hour]. I don’t have words for it. I looked him in the eye and I knew that he had genuinely heard of us and that this wasn’t just a tactic. I was so grateful that we had recognized by someone with so much influence in our government.

Zero Hour advocates for common-sense climate legislation. What does that look like to you?

The term “common sense” is tough. Not everyone knows what you’re talking about. In the case of common-sense climate legislation, however, it really is what just about anyone might think it is. All we want is what makes sense. All we want is effective change. All we want for the people of this world is protection and safety. That’s all anyone wants. That’s what makes it common sense, because everyone at least wants a good life for themselves.


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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on October 26, 2018, 01:56:45 pm
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No End in Sight for Florida’s Algae Emergency as Red Tide Spreads up Atlantic Coast ☠️😨

Maddie Stone

Wednesday 12:22pmFiled to:RED TIDE

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on October 30, 2018, 06:11:00 pm
EcoWatch

Oct 30, 2018

70% of Venice Flooded by Highest Tide 🌊 in at Least a Decade (https://www.ecowatch.com/venice-flooding-sea-level-rise-2616467169.html)

SNIPPET:

The tide surpassed 5 feet, 3 inches, making it the highest recorded since 2008 and potentially the highest recorded since 1979, CNN reported.

Oct 30, 2018 | 2,187 views | by Global News

Venice faced the worst flooding in a decade as high tide and high winds swamped landmarks and streets in the northern Italian city on October 30. For more info ...

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on October 30, 2018, 10:54:13 pm
Freakishly Slow Sea Ice Regrowth: 1 of 2 // Oct 26, 2018

Arctic sea ice regrowth in October is freakishly slow. We are at record low ice extent for late October; even lower than the 2012 minimum. In this video, and the next, I chat about:
https://youtu.be/zKeB9vFozk4

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֍ Beaufort Gyre stalling and reversal,
֍ atmospheric and ocean circulation changes,
֍ sea-surface and water column temperatures,
֍ salinities,
֍ heat transport, and much more.
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Freakishly Slow Sea Ice Regrowth: 2 of 2 // Oct 26, 2018

https://youtu.be/PDDRo-N8SzA

Second video continues as before.  And since formation in 2015, there have been two permanent hot spots in the oceans off Svalbard, with water temperatures at 78 degrees latitude North of 18.5 degrees Celsius in late October.   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-300714025456.bmp&hash=f4e4a260bd60d3f34ca86fed93c47d5fb4117cfd) 


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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on November 01, 2018, 05:15:22 pm
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November 1, 2018

Big Oil-Funded Campaign🐉🦕🦖 Uses Pot of Money to Mislead Latino Voters

The fossil-fuel-funded campaign to defeat the carbon tax ballot measure in Washington State is attracting enormous sums of money as well as charges of dubious outreach efforts towards minority communities. A review of state data by Reuters shows that the oil industry has spent more than $30 billion dollars to fight the measure--double the amount of money spent by pro-initiative groups, and the most money ever spent to defeat a ballot measure in Washington. And as the Stranger reports, some of that staggering sum is going towards misleading campaigns directed at Spanish-speaking voters: several Latino business owners say that a mailer sent by the opposition campaign listing their businesses as opposed to the ballot is misleading and that they did not agree to appear on the mailer. "Most campaigns don’t even bother reaching out to Latino voters," Peter Bloch Garcia of the Latino Community Fund told the Stranger. "But because we’ve been organizing for years, front and center, and taking a strong position in support of 1631 they are explicitly targeting us. I have never in my life in Washington seen a targeted mailer like this that has exploited our community."

https://www.thestranger.com/slog/2018/10/30/34766340/big-oil-is-exploiting-latinos-in-washington-state-with-misleading-advertising



Oceans Boiling Up

The world's oceans may have absorbed much more heat in recent years than previously thought, a new study says, with worrying implications for how fast climate change may increase in the future. The study, published Wednesday in the journal Nature, finds that oceans may have warmed 60 percent more between 1991 and 2016 compared to current IPCC estimates. "We thought that we got away with not a lot of warming in both the ocean and the atmosphere for the amount of CO2 that we emitted," lead author Laure Resplandy told the Washington Post. "But we were wrong. The planet warmed more than we thought. It was hidden from us just because we didn’t sample it right. But it was there. It was in the ocean already."

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-46046067



Florida Farmworkers Face Fearsome Temps 🌡️🚩

Climate change is seriously threatening the health of outdoor workers in Florida's booming agriculture industry, new research shows. A report released this week from Public Citizen and the Farmworker Association of Florida and Emory University finds that farmworkers working outside in all of Florida's 67 counties faced dangerous levels of heat this summer. The report also analyzes data collected from 250 farmworkers during an Emory University study, which showed that four out of five workers exceeded a body temperature of 100.4°F on at least one day during the study. "You talk to farmworkers and they know it’s getting hotter. They feel it and they’re worried," the Farmworker Association of Florida's Jeannie Economos told reporters on a press call.

https://thinkprogress.org/florida-farmworkers-climate-change-report-2e04cf75fce3/


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Immigrants, Climate Change, Bombs and Conspiracy Theories

New research from Cornell, published in PNAS this week, finds that the public vastly underestimates how concerned minority and low-income Americans are about climate change, likely due to the widespread stereotype of environmental concerns being something for wealthy white people who don’t have more pressing problems.

But extreme events like Hurricanes Harvey and Maria have increasingly made it clear that those underserved communities are hit hardest by climate change, and their high level of concern reflects that reality. Importantly, the study found that when subjects were shown a mock-up photo of a diverse (hypothetical) green group, the perception gap between how much they thought people cared and how much people actually do care shrunk, offering yet more evidence that diversity is important to climate action.

Moving from the lab to field work, Alex Harris at the Miami Herald reported Tuesday on Public Citizen’s new report, coproduced with an Emory University researcher and the Farmworker Association of Florida, showing that rising temperatures are putting more and more of Florida’s farm workers in danger. They documented that outdoor workers regularly faced dangerously hot conditions this past summer, with those doing very heavy labor working in dangerous conditions 76% of the time.

Since heavy agriculture work in the US largely relies on undocumented immigrants, it’s likely that dangerous conditions and impacts go underreported. 

For those not in denial, the fact that the people working to feed us are doing so in dangerous conditions should be both upsetting and motivating. For those in denial, any connection of climate change and immigration issues is an unwelcome thought that must be rationalized away or flatly rejected.

For example, in response to a piece in the Guardian detailing how climate change is one of the drivers of the migrant caravan, Anthony Watts 🦖 goes full FoxNews 😈 Grandpa. He described the story, which documents how repeated (climate amplified) droughts that cause crop failures are sending farmers in search of a better way to feed their family, as “journalistic bullhockey.”

He then said the “‘climate driver’ idea is just as stupid as the idea that these people are making the trek of over 2000 miles on their own, walking the entire way, without assistance, timing the arrival to coincide with just before the U.S. elections, so they can be front page news, and used to elicit sympathy for one party while being used to attack the other.”

Yes, according to Watts, poor, starving immigrants have uprooted their entire lives and begun walking thousands of miles in order influence the US midterms. Because everything, everywhere, around the world, is always about how those pesky liberals are pulling the strings to make conservatives look bad. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-280515145049.png&hash=84e87515e750391c1f1bca6d6ae06485972bfa81)  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-051113192052.png&hash=93c42ef9f18fc5d9da50fd91fc19f70009f95f85)

This, to deniers 🦕, is a sensible sentiment. And even the relatively sane ones are apparently finding the climate connection hard to believe. “As best I can tell,” Ryan Maue tweeted, the caravan-climate angle is “completely made up” and “#FakeNews is everywhere especially in weather & climate.” (Yes, the “relatively” in “relatively sane” is doing a lot of work...)

But the climate-carvan-connection news is certainly not fake. As Alex Kaufman at HuffPo writes this week, how we respond to these immigration issues is going to matter a whole lot as the climate continues to change. Deniers clearly aren’t going to see that this obvious climate impact is causing what they consider to be a major problem (aka people who aren’t Norwegian White coming to America) and aren’t going to respond by addressing a root cause: fossil fuel emissions.

Instead, they’ll do what authoritarians (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fstyles%2Frenewablerevolution%2Ffiles%2F809_84688966.jpeg&hash=7f3e84eea23fef901b7df618784dc2005290f591) do, and send in the troops to use military force to enforce the (white) nationalist status quo.

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Sad as Watts’s and Maue’s mental contortions are, they’re hardly the only climate deniers with conspiratorial mindsets. As Scott Waldman at E&E reported on Tuesday, a raft of climate-change-denying conservative pundits have spent the last week as “bomb deniers,” casting doubt on the reality of and perpetrator behind the string of mail bomb terrorist attacks. They doubted whether the bombs were real at all, or whether they were actually sent by “some progressive psycho” in the words of Steve Milloy.

Whether you want to deny the reality of climate change, or how it can be a trigger or driver of immigration, or that your President’s constant attacks on the press and politicians found fertile ground in a fevered mind, the playbook is the same.

Call the problem a hoax and blame it on a shadowy elite using “fake news” to achieve their own nefarious goals at the expense of an unwitting public. Whether the cabal is communist climate scientists, progressives mailing themselves bombs or wealthy Jewish liberals supposedly funding migrant caravans, it doesn’t matter how crazy it sounds so long as it gives aggrieved and entitled white men a scapegoat to attack.

Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on November 01, 2018, 08:10:28 pm
EcoWatch

BY Lorraine Chow

Oct. 31, 2018 01:50PM EST

Iceberg 5x the Size of Manhattan Breaks Off Pine Island Glacier

SNIPPET:

The Pine Island Glacier, the fastest-retreating glacier in Antarctica, lost another massive chunk of ice earlier this week.

A 115-square-mile section calved off the ice shelf on Oct. 29. That's roughly the five times the size of Manhattan.

The piece was expected to take weeks or months to break off after the first cracks were observed about a month ago, according to Stef Lhermitte, an assistant professor in the Department of Geoscience and Remote Sensing at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands.

But "I was a bit surprised" it broke off that quickly, he told Live Science. "It turned out to be on the quick side."

Read more:

https://www.ecowatch.com/iceberg-glacier-antarctica-calving-2616839091.html (https://www.ecowatch.com/iceberg-glacier-antarctica-calving-2616839091.html)

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on November 02, 2018, 06:24:34 pm
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November 1, 2018

Big Oil-Funded Campaign🐉🦕🦖 Uses Pot of Money to Mislead Latino Voters

The fossil-fuel-funded campaign to defeat the carbon tax ballot measure in Washington State is attracting enormous sums of money as well as charges of dubious outreach efforts towards minority communities. A review of state data by Reuters shows that the oil industry has spent more than $30 billion dollars to fight the measure--double the amount of money spent by pro-initiative groups, and the most money ever spent to defeat a ballot measure in Washington. And as the Stranger reports, some of that staggering sum is going towards misleading campaigns directed at Spanish-speaking voters: several Latino business owners say that a mailer sent by the opposition campaign listing their businesses as opposed to the ballot is misleading and that they did not agree to appear on the mailer. "Most campaigns don’t even bother reaching out to Latino voters," Peter Bloch Garcia of the Latino Community Fund told the Stranger. "But because we’ve been organizing for years, front and center, and taking a strong position in support of 1631 they are explicitly targeting us. I have never in my life in Washington seen a targeted mailer like this that has exploited our community."

https://www.thestranger.com/slog/2018/10/30/34766340/big-oil-is-exploiting-latinos-in-washington-state-with-misleading-advertising



Oceans Boiling Up

The world's oceans may have absorbed much more heat in recent years than previously thought, a new study says, with worrying implications for how fast climate change may increase in the future. The study, published Wednesday in the journal Nature, finds that oceans may have warmed 60 percent more between 1991 and 2016 compared to current IPCC estimates. "We thought that we got away with not a lot of warming in both the ocean and the atmosphere for the amount of CO2 that we emitted," lead author Laure Resplandy told the Washington Post. "But we were wrong. The planet warmed more than we thought. It was hidden from us just because we didn’t sample it right. But it was there. It was in the ocean already."

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-46046067



Florida Farmworkers Face Fearsome Temps 🌡️🚩

Climate change is seriously threatening the health of outdoor workers in Florida's booming agriculture industry, new research shows. A report released this week from Public Citizen and the Farmworker Association of Florida and Emory University finds that farmworkers working outside in all of Florida's 67 counties faced dangerous levels of heat this summer. The report also analyzes data collected from 250 farmworkers during an Emory University study, which showed that four out of five workers exceeded a body temperature of 100.4°F on at least one day during the study. "You talk to farmworkers and they know it’s getting hotter. They feel it and they’re worried," the Farmworker Association of Florida's Jeannie Economos told reporters on a press call.

https://thinkprogress.org/florida-farmworkers-climate-change-report-2e04cf75fce3/


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Immigrants, Climate Change, Bombs and Conspiracy Theories

New research from Cornell, published in PNAS this week, finds that the public vastly underestimates how concerned minority and low-income Americans are about climate change, likely due to the widespread stereotype of environmental concerns being something for wealthy white people who don’t have more pressing problems.

But extreme events like Hurricanes Harvey and Maria have increasingly made it clear that those underserved communities are hit hardest by climate change, and their high level of concern reflects that reality. Importantly, the study found that when subjects were shown a mock-up photo of a diverse (hypothetical) green group, the perception gap between how much they thought people cared and how much people actually do care shrunk, offering yet more evidence that diversity is important to climate action.

Moving from the lab to field work, Alex Harris at the Miami Herald reported Tuesday on Public Citizen’s new report, coproduced with an Emory University researcher and the Farmworker Association of Florida, showing that rising temperatures are putting more and more of Florida’s farm workers in danger. They documented that outdoor workers regularly faced dangerously hot conditions this past summer, with those doing very heavy labor working in dangerous conditions 76% of the time.

Since heavy agriculture work in the US largely relies on undocumented immigrants, it’s likely that dangerous conditions and impacts go underreported. 

For those not in denial, the fact that the people working to feed us are doing so in dangerous conditions should be both upsetting and motivating. For those in denial, any connection of climate change and immigration issues is an unwelcome thought that must be rationalized away or flatly rejected.

For example, in response to a piece in the Guardian detailing how climate change is one of the drivers of the migrant caravan, Anthony Watts 🦖 goes full FoxNews 😈 Grandpa. He described the story, which documents how repeated (climate amplified) droughts that cause crop failures are sending farmers in search of a better way to feed their family, as “journalistic bullhockey.”

He then said the “‘climate driver’ idea is just as stupid as the idea that these people are making the trek of over 2000 miles on their own, walking the entire way, without assistance, timing the arrival to coincide with just before the U.S. elections, so they can be front page news, and used to elicit sympathy for one party while being used to attack the other.”

Yes, according to Watts, poor, starving immigrants have uprooted their entire lives and begun walking thousands of miles in order influence the US midterms. Because everything, everywhere, around the world, is always about how those pesky liberals are pulling the strings to make conservatives look bad. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-280515145049.png&hash=84e87515e750391c1f1bca6d6ae06485972bfa81)  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-051113192052.png&hash=93c42ef9f18fc5d9da50fd91fc19f70009f95f85)

This, to deniers 🦕, is a sensible sentiment. And even the relatively sane ones are apparently finding the climate connection hard to believe. “As best I can tell,” Ryan Maue tweeted, the caravan-climate angle is “completely made up” and “#FakeNews is everywhere especially in weather & climate.” (Yes, the “relatively” in “relatively sane” is doing a lot of work...)

But the climate-carvan-connection news is certainly not fake. As Alex Kaufman at HuffPo writes this week, how we respond to these immigration issues is going to matter a whole lot as the climate continues to change. Deniers clearly aren’t going to see that this obvious climate impact is causing what they consider to be a major problem (aka people who aren’t Norwegian White coming to America) and aren’t going to respond by addressing a root cause: fossil fuel emissions.

Instead, they’ll do what authoritarians (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fstyles%2Frenewablerevolution%2Ffiles%2F809_84688966.jpeg&hash=7f3e84eea23fef901b7df618784dc2005290f591) do, and send in the troops to use military force to enforce the (white) nationalist status quo.

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Sad as Watts’s and Maue’s mental contortions are, they’re hardly the only climate deniers with conspiratorial mindsets. As Scott Waldman at E&E reported on Tuesday, a raft of climate-change-denying conservative pundits have spent the last week as “bomb deniers,” casting doubt on the reality of and perpetrator behind the string of mail bomb terrorist attacks. They doubted whether the bombs were real at all, or whether they were actually sent by “some progressive psycho” in the words of Steve Milloy.

Whether you want to deny the reality of climate change, or how it can be a trigger or driver of immigration, or that your President’s constant attacks on the press and politicians found fertile ground in a fevered mind, the playbook is the same.

Call the problem a hoax and blame it on a shadowy elite using “fake news” to achieve their own nefarious goals at the expense of an unwitting public. Whether the cabal is communist climate scientists, progressives mailing themselves bombs or wealthy Jewish liberals supposedly funding migrant caravans, it doesn’t matter how crazy it sounds so long as it gives aggrieved and entitled white men a scapegoat to attack.

A fine enviro news summary, AG.

Thanks bro.
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on November 02, 2018, 07:04:49 pm
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https://youtu.be/t3W9f2pDjt0

Jun 20, 2018 by CGTN

Refugee crisis continues to deteriorate as regional conflicts and widespread violence cause people to flee their homes. Since 2001, the United Nations and ...


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https://youtu.be/JwkVk16xecw

Jan 15, 2014 | 60,781 views | by TEDx Talks

Refugees are often marginalised, their humanity ignored as their stories go untold. In this remarkable and emotional talk, however, author and former refugee ...


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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on November 06, 2018, 11:08:19 am
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I made my own list of radical steps last month, and concluded that "individual actions can add up to carbon savings, but there is one individual action that tops them all" –  vote the reactionary climate arsonists 🐉🦕🦀🦖😈👹💵🎩🍌🏴‍☠️🚩 out.(https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F1%2F3-111018132422-1693180.gif&hash=8bc43ce7ebff6fb3a70224434834524068d3583c)
Five radical steps we can take to fight climate change (https://www.treehugger.com/climate-change/five-radical-steps-we-can-take-fight-climate-change.html)

Agelbert NOTE: CHOICE, NOT CHANCE; Vote DEMOCRATIC for a VIABLE BIOSPHERE or vote REPUBLICAN for A NONviable one.

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Artist: Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, Zundert 1853–1890 Auvers-sur-Oise)
Date: 1888
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 18 x 21 3/4 in. (45.7 x 55.2 cm)
Classification: Paintings
Credit Line: Purchase, The Annenberg Foundation Gift, 1992
Accession Number: 1992.374

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/object-package?pkgids=415 (https://www.metmuseum.org/art/object-package?pkgids=415)
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on November 07, 2018, 01:15:44 pm
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Victory: A Climate Change Denier 🦕 Will No Longer Run the House Science Committee (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F1%2F3-111018132400-16842321.gif&hash=e2590f92501c5dd6149626bb0ab180ce9e1d5bd3)

However you feel about the outcome of last night’s election, if you care about evidence-based policymaking, there’s one thing to cheer: The House Committee on Space, Science, and Technology will, for the first time in nearly a decade, be led by someone who accepts the conclusions of mainstream climate science.

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By Maddie Stone

November 7, 2018 9:33am Filed to: BRAVE NEW WORLD

However you feel about the outcome of last night’s election, if you care about evidence-based policymaking, there’s one thing to cheer: The House Committee on Space, Science, and Technology will, for the first time in nearly a decade, be led by someone who accepts the conclusions of mainstream climate science.

With Democrats now in control of the House, leadership of the House Science Committee is likely to fall to Texas Democrat Eddie Bernice Johnson. Johnson, who became the committee’s first African American and first female ranking member in 2010, is a strong advocate for funding STEM education and expanding educational opportunities for minorities, in particular. She’s also a solidly pro-environment politician, according to her League of Conservation Voters scorecard.

It’s almost hard to imagine a world in which the House Science Committee is not a Frankenstinian mockery of its name, cobbled together from dead theories and misguided lines of inquiry. It has been that way for so, so very long. The committee’s death spiral began when Republicans assumed the control of the House in 2010, but it was when Texas Republican Lamar Smith became chair in 2013 that the ship really sailed off the flat earth’s edge.

Under the tenure of Smith, the committee has held hearing after hearing casting doubt on mainstream climate science, used its subpoena power to harass and intimidate climate scientists, entertained the conspiracy theory that sea level rise is caused by rocks falling into the ocean, and used its Twitter account to blast links to climate change-denying Breitbart articles. Smith, who is not a scientist, has used the veil of authority that chairmanship offers to pen articles imploring the public not to buy into the “hysteria over carbon dioxide” while railing against “climate alarmists” at pro-fossil fuel get-togethers. (He has also accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign contributions from the oil and gas industry.)

In short, the House Science Committee has been a dark place for rational discourse on climate change. Sitting on it has been a lonely and frustrating experience for Bill Foster, Congress’s lone scientist (until last night). To be fair, the Republican-led committee has been more supportive of space exploration and astronomy, even though it favors further privatization of the sector and has criticized the James Webb Space telescope for going massively over-budget. Smith is also a big fan of fusion energy research, which, cool. And in recent months, the committee has made a mission of going after science’s serial sexual harassers, even going to far as to recommend stripping them of federal funding in September.

But these bright spots do not negate the damage Smith and his ilk have done to public understanding of climate science. In a statement released last night, Congresswoman Johnson laid out her priorities for the committee, including “promoting effective STEM education,” “defending the scientific enterprise from political and ideological attacks,” and addressing climate change by “starting with acknowledging it is real.”

Last on Johnson’s to-do list? Restoring the credibility of the House Science Committee. It’s a tall order, but for the first time in years, I’m feeling hopeful about the possibility.

https://earther.gizmodo.com/victory-a-climate-change-denier-will-no-longer-run-the-1830276533
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on November 08, 2018, 02:16:59 pm
SNIPPET:

The Intercept

October 31, 2018

NYU Professor Ruth Ben-Ghiat and Yale Professor Jason Stanley on Trump’s Brand of Authoritarianism

Jeremy Scahill: I’m joined now by two scholars of fascism. Ruth Ben-Ghiat is a professor of history and Italian studies at New York University. She’s the author of several books, among them, “Fascist Modernities” and “Italian Fascism’s Empire Cinema.” Her forthcoming book is called “Strongmen: How The Rise, Why They Succeed, How They Fall.” She’s also a columnist for CNN.com.

And Jason Stanley is the Jacob Urowsky professor of philosophy at Yale University. Stanley is the author of “Know How,” “Language in Context,” “Knowledge and Practical Interests,” as well as “How Propaganda Works.” His latest book, which was released earlier this year, is “How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them.” Ruth, Jason, welcome both of you to Intercepted.

Jeremy Scahill: So, that was from the film “A Night at the Garden.” People can watch that at fieldofvision.org. Ruth, one other sort of historically important point I think that’s relevant to bring up is — we can say, oh, well, this isn’t something that is a direct analog to fascism right now, because we have a multiparty system, because we are having elections, because Trump has not declared himself president for life in an official way, although he does joke about it sometimes.

But couldn’t someone make an argument — yes, because we’re only two years into this, but the direction that we are heading in definitely has historical analogs in how Mussolini consolidated power and in how Hitler consolidated power, how General Franco consolidated power? Isn’t it a fair point to say, yes, you may be technically correct that we’re not living in that right now, but all of the warning signs from history are screaming out for us to recognize this for what it is?

Ruth Ben-Ghiat: Yes, and — you know, in the case of Mussolini there was a two-year period that’s very instructive where he was head of a coalition government — and Hitler had the same. It’s just that Hitler had already been trying to get to power for 10 years, and he wanted power immediately. You know, Mussolini used to joke about staying in power for 20 years. His personality profile, the way he treated and humiliated his allies in Parliament is very, very similar.

You know, one of the reasons he killed Giacomo Matteotti, who was the head of the Socialist Party —even I was taught in former years that it was just because he was anti-fascist. Well, turned out Matteotti was about to denounce Mussolini and his family and the National Fascist Party for corruption. And so, he was killed for a classic kleptocracy. Mussolini was put under investigation, and it was to escape investigation that he declared dictatorship.

So, these transition moments are very, very important, but they are transitions. When we — when things evolve, and — I believe that we are heading toward, you could say, a militarized authoritarian surveillance state. It will look different than the fascism of the 20th century looked. But we are heading toward that, but we are in the transition, and we still have time to do something about (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fstyles%2Frenewablerevolution%2Ffiles%2F809_84688966.jpeg&hash=7f3e84eea23fef901b7df618784dc2005290f591) it. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-221017161839.png&hash=7d34712243960aa20883775dad728bc2115ed6fe)

Jeremy Scahill:  What would be, Ruth, the sort of next steps that people should be aware of based on your understanding of history?

Ruth Ben-Ghiat: One of the issues is, when you have someone like this in power, there’s so much going on, and they hit you in so many directions — which is a strategy, by the way. This is a Bannon “blitzkrieg” strategy, that it’s hard to know what to do first. So, you have population management, the very significant move that they were trying to have the National Park Service not allow protest, and GOP legislators introduced several bills to criminalize protest.

One thing I find interesting, which recurs in the past, is Trump is this charismatic figure. And they come along every so often, you’ve mentioned some of them. And they seem to coalesce the kind of anxieties and frustrations of a given historical moment, but the conservative elites—in this case, GOP—back them and not other people, because they believe that they can use them as a vehicle to do the things they’ve been wanting to do for a long time—the racist, the voter suppression, all the things that the GOP has been trying to activate and was very frustrated it couldn’t do under Obama, right? This is a kind of mutual using of the authoritarian and his backers, right? And so, many of the repressive, authoritarian-minded things going on right now are being introduced by the GOP.

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Jeremy Scahill:: Well, and, Jason, you also write about the necessary mythology that comes with Trump’s whole spiel, that America was once great. What he’s really sort of telegraphing there is, there was a time when white people were in full control of this country until the immigrants, the blacks, the uppity women, the Jews, the globalists came to steal America’s greatness. And one of the stats in your book that you cite is 45 percent of Trump supporters believe that whites are the most discriminated-against racial group in America and that 54 percent of Trump supporters believe that Christians are the most persecuted religious group in America.

Jason Stanley: When the dominant group is made to feel like victims, that seems to be the culture that breeds the success of this kind of politics. [... reflective of this, that —]

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Jeremy Scahill: These are the words of the great Langston Hughes (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-080515182559.png&hash=d4dfa952fa0f817bf30a8059a4c88d6fb05ee1bf)(https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-080515182559.png&hash=d4dfa952fa0f817bf30a8059a4c88d6fb05ee1bf)(https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-080515182559.png&hash=d4dfa952fa0f817bf30a8059a4c88d6fb05ee1bf)  from his poem Let America Be America Again. The poem was performed here on Intercepted by Ty Jones, the producing artistic director at the Classical Theatre of Harlem.

Ty Jones Performs Langston Hughes’s Poem “Let America Be America Again”

Let America be America again.

Let it be the dream it used to be.

Let it be the pioneer on the plain

Seeking a home where he himself is free.

 

(America never was America to me.)

 

Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamed—

Let it be that great strong land of love

Where never kings connive nor tyrants scheme

That any man be crushed by one above.

 

(It never was America to me.)

 

O, let my land be a land where Liberty

Is crowned with no false patriotic wreath,

But opportunity is real, and life is free,

Equality is in the air we breathe.

 

(There’s never been equality for me,

Nor freedom in this “homeland of the free.”)


 

Say, who are you that mumbles in the dark?

And who are you that draws your veil across the stars?

 

I am the poor white, fooled and pushed apart,

I am the Negro bearing slavery’s scars.

I am the red man driven from the land,

I am the immigrant clutching the hope I seek—

And finding only the same old stupid plan

Of dog eat dog, of mighty crush the weak.

 

I am the young man, full of strength and hope,

Tangled in that ancient endless chain

Of profit, power, gain, of grab the land!

Of grab the gold! Of grab the ways of satisfying need!

Of work the men! Of take the pay!

Of owning everything for one’s own greed!

 

I am the farmer, bondsman to the soil.

I am the worker sold to the machine.

I am the Negro, servant to you all.

I am the people, humble, hungry, mean—

Hungry yet today despite the dream.

Beaten yet today—O, Pioneers!

I am the man who never got ahead,

The poorest worker bartered through the years.

 

Yet I’m the one who dreamt our basic dream

In the Old World while still a serf of kings,

Who dreamt a dream so strong, so brave, so true,

That even yet its mighty daring sings

In every brick and stone, in every furrow turned

That’s made America the land it has become.

O, I’m the man who sailed those early seas

In search of what I meant to be my home—

For I’m the one who left dark Ireland’s shore,

And Poland’s plain, and England’s grassy lea,

And torn from Black Africa’s strand I came

To build a “homeland of the free.”

 

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Who said the free? Not me?

Surely not me? The millions on relief today?

The millions shot down when we strike?

The millions who have nothing for our pay?

For all the dreams we’ve dreamed

And all the songs we’ve sung

And all the hopes we’ve held

And all the flags we’ve hung,

The millions who have nothing for our pay—

Except the dream that’s almost dead today.

 

O, let America be America again—

The land that never has been yet—

And yet must be—the land where every man is free.

The land that’s mine—the poor man’s, Indian’s, Negro’s, ME—

Who made America,

Whose sweat and blood, whose faith and pain,

Whose hand at the foundry, whose plow in the rain,

Must bring back our mighty dream again.

 

Sure, call me any ugly name you choose—

The steel of freedom does not stain.

From those who live like leeches on the people’s lives,

We must take back our land again,

America!

 

O, yes,

I say it plain,

America never was America to me,

And yet I swear this oath—

America will be!

 

Out of the rack and ruin of our gangster death,

The R A P E and rot of graft, and stealth, and lies,

We, the people, must redeem

The land, the mines, the plants, the rivers.

The mountains and the endless plain—

All, all the stretch of these great green states—

And make America again!

Listen to the entire podcast or read the lengthy interview:

DONALD TRUMP, FASCISM, AND THE DOCTRINE OF AMERICAN MYTHOLOGY (https://theintercept.com/2018/10/31/donald-trump-fascism-and-the-doctrine-of-american-mythology/)

Agelbert NOTE: As much as I admire the courage of those luminaries above and as much as I agree with their analysis of the present political threat to we-the-people (INCLUDING THE FOOLED TRUMP SUPPORTERS) that Trump's (Fascist) Brand of Authoritarianism represents, the entire discussion is made MOOT by the inability of the US Government (including BOTH the Democratic and Republican wings of the Profit over People and Planet Oligarchs 'R' US 😈🐉🦕🦖👹 💵 🎩 🍌🏴‍☠️ Party) to take steps to mitigate Catastrophic Climate Change by going on a War Economy footing to transition to 100% Renewable Energy within a decade or less. Neither Hitler nor Stalin nor Mussolini had to to face the fact that the human species is on the fast track to extinction, even though we were already well on the way in the time of those dictators. It REALLY IS DIFFERENT this time with the Trump Fascist Wrecking Crew et al.

The way things ARE now, the Hydrocarbon Hellspawn (i.e. the greedball oil loving, Fascist pie in the sky wishful thinkers of the Fossil Fuel 'Industry (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F1%2F3-250718205137.gif&hash=7a79df8ecf1b29d8599c26fe550e664c6c5e24bd)' ) are killing, 24/7, ANY hope for a viable biosphere.

IOW, no amount of fixing the Fascist Tyranny now sweeping the globe will stop the unavoidable mass extinction of most, if not all, of the mammalian vertebrate species on this planet (including humans, of course). ONLY a transition to a 100% Renewable Energy powered WORLD economy WITHIN A DECADE OR LESS can, hopefully (it may be too late even for that too, but that doesn't mean we should not try) guarantee a (barely) viable biosphere for future generations.

OTHERWISE, ....IT........ IS....

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
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How the Environment Fared in the Midterm Elections

Candidates promising action on climate change and public lands won many victories, but several important ballot initiatives were defeated.


News November 7, 2018 - by John R. Platt and Tara Lohan

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Ballot Initiatives

There was more bad news than good on the environmental front when it came to voting on ballot initiatives. :(

The biggest environmental win that happened through the ballot initiative process came from Florida. Voters there approved Amendment 9, which covered two unrelated issues, banning offshore oil and gas drilling in state waters and banning the use of electronic cigarettes in workplaces. The drilling ban was supported by environmental interests as well as the tourism industry, both of which would like to keep Florida’s waters and beaches clean.

In another win for the environment, Nevada voters passed Question 6, which seeks to increase the amount of energy the state’s utilities need to get from renewable sources such as wind, solar and geothermal. Question 6 increases the renewable portfolio standard to 50 percent by 2030.

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Photo: Tara Lohan

Arizona had an identical measure, Proposition 127, on the ballot, but it was soundly defeated after an outpouring of $30 million from its opponents, including the state’s biggest utility.

In what was likely the most-watched environmental ballot initiative race, Washington’s Initiative 1631 was defeated. If it had passed it would have been the first state-wide initiative to put a fee on carbon pollution. Environmental supporters hoped Washington would be a good proving ground to inspire more carbon pricing programs across the country, but voters didn’t go for it this time and have defeated similar measures in recent years.

While Colorado voted in clean-energy enthusiast Jared Polis as governor, voters defeated Proposition 112, which would have increased the buffer between oil and gas drilling operations and occupied homes and businesses.

Two other ballot measures sought to protect clean water. Montana’s Initiative 186, which would have set stricter standards for the mining industry, was defeated. And so was Alaska’s Measure 1, which would have protected salmon habitat.

Other Races

Congress and the Senate tend to get the most attention, but local candidates also deserve attention.

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https://therevelator.org/environment-midterms/

Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on November 09, 2018, 07:17:25 pm
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Truthdig

By Juan Cole

NOV 08, 2018

https://youtu.be/45xNK1jB6gw

House Progressives Will Have to Fight Like Hell Against the Establishment (https://www.truthdig.com/articles/house-progressives-get-ready-to-fight-like-hell-against-the-establishment/)
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on November 09, 2018, 10:03:15 pm
The 6th Mass Extinction 🏴‍ ☠️ | Dr Dominique Dodge-Wan | TEDxCurtinUSarawak
4,359 views

https://youtu.be/_gDeTLnmX5M

TEDx Talks

Published on Jul 25, 2017

In a landmark paper published in 1982, Jack Sepkoski and David M. Raup identified five mass extinctions. Could we be on the verge of the 6th?

Dominique Dodge-Wan, or Dr Dominique as she is known to her students, is Associate Professor in Applied Geology at Curtin University, Miri, where she has been teaching full time since 2010. She graduated in Geology and Mineralogy at Brussels University (ULB) and then completed a PhD in Hydrogeology.

She worked as a consultant hydrogeologist in Europe, Africa and the Middle East, for groundwater resource investigations, borehole test pumping and contamination studies. Dominique came to Sarawak to manage groundwater research for Malaysian Rural Water Supply Schemes for Antah Biwater/JKR. The work included identifying possible water sources for drought prone rural communities in the Kuching to Sibu coastal region.

Having been a keen caver, her on-going research interest are centered on limestones and their karstification. More recently, she has identified and researched rare biologically influenced cave formations in various caves in Malaysia. Dominique is also an active member of the Malaysian Nature Society and was involved in raising public awareness for Piasau Nature Reserve.

This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on November 11, 2018, 11:53:07 am
EcoWatch

By Olivia Rosane

Nov. 07, 2018 07:48AM EST

SNIPPET:

3. Rise of the Green New Deal:

https://youtu.be/zcQZtpbgVoY

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The Best and Worst Midterm Results for the Environment (https://www.ecowatch.com/midterm-results-environment-climate-change-2618493194.html)
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on November 11, 2018, 12:07:19 pm
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https://youtu.be/Z_j3eJXD09o

Published on Oct 31, 2018

Last summer, at the age of 15, Jamie Margolin started a climate group with some other teens. A year later, Zero Hour held its first march on Washington, D.C. Watch our short doc on how they did it and what they’re giving up to fight climate change.

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The Fossil Fuelers 🦖 DID THE Clean Energy  Inventions suppressing, Climate Trashing, human health depleting CRIME,   but since they have ALWAYS BEEN liars and conscience free crooks 🦀, they are trying to AVOID   DOING THE TIME or   PAYING THE FINE!     Don't let them get away with it! Pass it on!   
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on November 11, 2018, 12:28:06 pm
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Paul Beckwith

Published on Nov 8, 2018

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The Fossil Fuelers 🦖 DID THE Clean Energy  Inventions suppressing, Climate Trashing, human health depleting CRIME,   but since they have ALWAYS BEEN liars and conscience free crooks 🦀, they are trying to AVOID   DOING THE TIME or   PAYING THE FINE!     Don't let them get away with it! Pass it on!   
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on November 11, 2018, 07:52:46 pm
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Caravans From Hell

By Tom Lewis | October 29, 2018 | Climate

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A significant part of the population of the United States is alarmed about what it thinks is an enemy army approaching our southern border — a collection of rapists, MS-13 gang members, middle eastern terrorists and zombies intent on forcing their way into the country in order to destroy our society and culture. One of our citizens became so anxious about this invasion, which, he had it on good authority, was being financed by Jews, that on Saturday he went into a synagogue in Pittsburgh and killed 11 people.

The information about the content and intentions of this caravan, as it is being called, first came to public attention almost exclusively through fulminations on Fox News and subsequent tweets from the Tweeter in Chief of the United States. (Except the part about the zombies, I made that up. But there are still a few days until the midterm elections. Watch that space.) The entire FoxTrump Tango has been a pathetically transparent attempt to scare the bejesus out of American voters so they will gallop out and vote for the wall, or whatever.

But the debunkers of this fairy tale have not done their job. Yes, they have shown us — those of us who will look at contrary evidence, such as, you know, photographs — that this is no army, but a ragtag procession of families, many women and small children among them, stumbling 30 miles a day through blistering tropical heat in the hope of asylum in the United States — protection for which they are entitled to apply under the laws of this country.

But the bunkers and debunkers of this story all seem equally oblivious to the root cause of the migration, the reason so many parents have undertaken this arduous, thousand-mile trek toward uncertainty. Spoiler alert: It’s not, as the perpetrators of this fantasy would have you believe, because they are lazy and want to get on welfare; or because they are criminals in search of new victims; or terrorists who hate us because we’re free. Nor is it sufficient to assume, as the mainstream media do, that they are intent on moving away from crime-and-poverty, like so many yuppies who have read the Chamber of Commerce brochures and are making a career move.

I hold the view — a minority opinion, apparently — that understanding why people act as they do is a prerequisite for influencing what people do. But comprehending motivation requires empathy and intelligence, both of which seem to be in scant supply in our political life. A corollary notion is that understanding the forces acting on these people might prepare us for dealing with those forces when they get around to acting on us.

Here’s what no one wants to tell you, or hear: the thousands of people who have left their homes in Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador to risk their lives and their childrens’ lives in search of a better life are fleeing the longest and most vicious drought in the history of the region.

They are climate refugees, and they are only the vanguard.

For at least five years, drought in Central America’s Dry Corridor has been intensifying, causing ever worsening crop failures, food shortages, water insecurity, unemployment and migration. Guatemala ranks as one of the ten countries in the world most vulnerable to climate change. Last year the UN’s World Food Programme asked a sampling of migrants why they had left their homes in the Dry Corridor. By overwhelming majorities, they cited not crime-and-violence, but the drought and its many offspring. Nearly half cited hunger.

Our society and culture will be destroyed not by desperate families seeking a better life, but by our ignorance and greed and refusal to understand what is happening here, not just to unfortunate brown people from other countries, but to all of us on this planet.

There will be many more caravans, larger ones, from Central America, and then they will be trudging out of our own America — from uninhabitable zones in Arizona, Nevada, central California, and from the inundated coasts of Florida and the Carolinas.

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UPDATE: The Guardian of England, frequently the best source of American news, agrees: “The unseen driver behind the migrant caravan: climate change” (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/oct/30/migrant-caravan-causes-climate-change-central-america)

http://www.dailyimpact.net/2018/10/29/caravans-from-hell/#more-4056

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on November 11, 2018, 10:56:31 pm
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2018 Environment Report With Dr. Guy McPherson and Gary Null

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https://youtu.be/p-o8rXnnHks

The Progressive Radio Network

Published on Nov 1, 2018

Dr. Guy McPherson is a professor emeritus of Natural Resources, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Arizona.  He has specialized in forest resources, energy decline and climate change and its economic consequences. In the past he has also taught at Texas A&M and University of California at Berkeley. Having become disillusioned with the American university environment and academia, and after attempts by university officials to silence his outspokenness about the human causes of climate change, Guy abandoned his tenured position as a full professor for ethical reasons of conscience. He is the author of several books, the latest co-written with Carolyn Baker entitled “Extinction Dialogs: How to Live with Death in Mind.”  He is also the co-host of the radio program Nature Bats Last heard every Tuesday evening at 3 pm Eastern time on the Progressive Radio Network.  His website is  GuyMcpherson.com

An internationally renowned expert in the field of health and nutrition, Gary Null, Ph.D is the author of over 70 best-selling books on healthy living and the director of over 100 critically acclaimed full-feature documentary films on natural health, self-empowerment and the environment. He is the host of ‘The Progressive Commentary Hour” and “The Gary Null Show”, the country’s longest running nationally syndicated health radio talk show which can be heard daily on here on the Progressive Radio Network.

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on November 12, 2018, 02:48:10 pm
California declares state of emergency 🔥; entire city of Malibu 🔥 evacuated

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Published on Nov 10, 2018

The Woolsey fire 🔥 is not contained at all, and conditions are not expected to improve anytime soon.

 
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on November 12, 2018, 05:33:01 pm
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Posted on November 8, 2018, by Radio Ecoshock

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on November 12, 2018, 11:22:59 pm
November 12th, 2018 by Kyle Field

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— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 10, 2018


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Tesla 👍 Opens Up Free Supercharging For Customers In Areas Affected By California 🔥🔥🔥 Wildfires (https://cleantechnica.com/2018/11/12/tesla-opens-up-free-supercharging-for-customers-in-areas-affected-by-california-wildfires/)
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on November 13, 2018, 02:01:19 pm
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November 13, 2018

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Wildfires 🔥🔥🔥🔥 Latest Example Of How Burning Fossil Fuels Leads To Burning California

With dozens of lives lost and thousands of acres burned, the fires currently raging across California are an unpleasant reminder of what’s at stake in the climate fight.

Those who are opposed to the clean energy solutions that, while obviously wouldn’t put out  the flames but would at least quit fanning them, haven’t let this moment go without their own commentary.

For example, we heard that Dr. Jane Orient 🦕 of the American Association of Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS)  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2F2.bp.blogspot.com%2F_9HT4xZyDmh4%2FTOHhxzA0wLI%2FAAAAAAAAEUk%2FoeHDS2cfxWQ%2Fs200%2FSmiley_Angel_Wings_Halo.jpg&hash=13281f1944b60773bf12b29387b70be77cc1fe16) sent out a press release on Sunday with two broad claims. One was that since warming has paused and more acres were burned in the 1930s, CO2 emissions aren’t the cause of increased wildfires. Orient also says that if the US adopted “California-like renewable energy mandates” that fight climate change, it still wouldn’t prevent forest fires. The claims link to two year-old page on a Doctors for Disaster Preparedness (DDP) website, one on wildfires, the other California energy policy.

Now before one dives into the veracity of these claims, one should consider their source. One association of doctors linking to another group of doctors certainly sounds respectable... But are they? (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F1%2F3-210818163123-16662165.gif&hash=0c278af5ea445d20e48640c4f39f951df986eed6) (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F1%2F3-120818185040-16582181.gif&hash=0d99dd3e7a01101b8b7d5d1d810050efa1fc13df)

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As we’ve covered before, Dr. Jane Orient (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-311013201314.png&hash=0715eb72631014310634eb56176ff860c6d542f6) is the Breitbart-beloved anti-vaxxer who once compared a tobacco tax to “Third Reich measures” and more recently was the source of some of the conspiracy theories about Hillary Clinton’s health on the campaign trail. The AAPS🦕 (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-130418203402.gif&hash=b2691028ba683a0039a5811f5775c68d7ccae01c), which she 🦕 runs, along with DDP, considers Medicare and Medicaid “evil,” publishes pseudo-scientific claims with starkly conservative bents (like denying the existence of HIV and claiming abortions cause breast cancer) and once suggested President Obama was not actually “a brilliant orator,” but instead uses “neuro linguistic programing (NLP), a covert form of hypnosis.”

So while the organizations may appear legitimate at first glance, even a cursory search reveals their bald partisanship and outright insanity. Woe to the reporter who takes the press release seriously at face value.

However, since even a stopped clock is right twice a day, we’ll take a look at their actual claims.

On whether rising CO2 levels are making wildfires worse, Orient and the AAPS use a graph going back to 1926 to claim that since more acres were burnt then, it must be poor forest management causing fires now. They use the National Interagency Fire Center’s data to prove this point, despite the fact that the Center says explicitly that data prior to 1983 is unreliable, and “should not be compared to later data.” (Exactly why is complicated, but include the fact that pre-’83 fires may be double or triple-counted.)

Not only is Orient guilty of the classic logical fallacy of “people die naturally therefore murder’s a hoax,” but she’s also using unreliable data to do so.

In reality, the connections between fires and climate are varied and well-established. Temperatures were exceptionally high this season where the fires started, and have risen twice the global average in the west since 1970, while the wildfire season has grown from five to seven months, on average. This corresponds to a fourfold increase in large fires between 1980 and 2010. Further, warming has contributed to the drying-out of the west: one study shows that over half the increase in aridity (a key driver of fires) is because of climate change.

We can make similarly quick work of the second claim that a California-like renewable energy standard wouldn’t prevent forest fires. While obviously investing in renewables won’t completely stop wildfires, as the above links between warming and fires demonstrate, fossil fuel emissions make things warmer and dryer, which are the conditions necessary for fires like these.

By phrasing her question as though people are saying “Only YOU can prevent forest fires, by putting up solar panels,” Dr. Orient is just tossing a strawman onto the fires.

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on November 13, 2018, 04:24:27 pm
EcoWatch

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Ice Sheets in Greenland, Antarctica Could Reach Catastrophic 'Tipping Points' if We Don't Limit Warming

By Olivia Rosane

Nov. 13, 2018 07:41AM EST

SNIPPET:

Scientists just gave us another terrifying reason to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels: If temperatures push much beyond that point, both Greenland and Antarctica's ice sheets could reach a point where nothing can stop them from melting.

An international team of researchers published this chilling finding in Nature Climate Change Monday. The researchers set out to study how the ice sheets would fare in a warming world, and the results were urgent.

"A big take-away is that the ice sheets, like many components of the climate system, likely have tipping points. Once they reach a certain amount of warming (~1.5 - 2.0°C), positive feedbacks kick in and commit us to long-term ice sheet mass loss and sea level rise," study author and Rowan University School of Earth and Environment Assistant Professor Luke Trusel explained on Twitter.

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on November 13, 2018, 07:12:40 pm
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on November 13, 2018, 07:31:45 pm
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November 13, 2018
   
Dear Anthony,

Our efforts to pressure fossil fuel companies is really having an effect. Earlier this year, ExxonMobil and Chevron finally releasing climate risk disclosure reports and ConocoPhillips agreed to disclose its lobbying efforts. And now, a prominent corporate responsibility group is securing responses from major fossil fuel companies in response to our recent Climate Accountability Scorecard. Our work to hold these corporations accountable for years of deception and climate impacts is working—unfortunately, it’s not enough. Just last month, the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released their latest report showing that every fraction of a degree of warming we can avoid matters. The report calls for ‘rapid and far-reaching’ action. And we needn’t look farther than the fires currently rampaging through Californian communities to understand how urgent the situation is. We need to keep the pressure on fossil fuel corporations to make real change and take responsibility for the impacts of their business.  —Katy

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on November 13, 2018, 08:12:57 pm
 
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California 🔥🔥🔥 Wildfires Hit Grim Record ☠️Amid Trump's (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fstyles%2Frenewablerevolution%2Ffiles%2F809_84688966.jpeg&hash=7f3e84eea23fef901b7df618784dc2005290f591) Clueless Tweets

BY Andrea Germanos, Common Dreams

PUBLISHED November 13, 2018

The statewide death toll from the wildfires blazing in California hit 44 ☠️ as firefighters on Monday continued to battle the flames that have already destroyed thousands of structures and displaced thousands of humans and animals alike. The increased death toll comes as scientists rip President Trump's (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fstyles%2Frenewablerevolution%2Ffiles%2F780_9adc777a0e08428257b76ece69d18ee52006bb5e39d60d966bb2440d29d17641.jpeg&hash=4d8f2f9ea7b952c63ad0441a4619e9b370ddcb0a) recent tweet about the fires avoiding any climate crisis connection (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-250817121829.png&hash=035f25ddb6d065f1533ce03c1c07f5fddcbbc83c) to the destruction.

Read the article:

https://truthout.org/articles/california-wildfires-hit-grim-record-amid-trumps-clueless-tweets/
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on November 13, 2018, 08:24:30 pm
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BY John Feffer, TomDispatch

PUBLISHED November 13, 2018

Will This Climate Change Dystopia Have a Sequel❓ (https://truthout.org/articles/will-this-climate-change-dystopia-have-a-sequel/)
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on November 13, 2018, 09:02:24 pm
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📢 California Wildfires Are Part of a Climate-Driven Global Trend

Once again, record wildfires are ravaging California. But America’s Golden State isn’t the only place to suffer an unusually fiery year. Around the world, hotter, drier weather due to climate change is driving bigger and more destructive blazes 🔥.

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on November 14, 2018, 02:54:10 pm
The Speech That Saved The Planet

Haricot Blue  Community

Tuesday November 13, 2018 · 7:24 PM EST

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My Fellow Americans:

I stand before you tonight, not only as your President, but also as a father, and as a grandfather to nine beautiful grandchildren.  It is on their behalf, and on behalf of all the children and grandchildren of the world, that I ask for your attention, for it is their future that now hangs in the balance. 

One month ago, I received a report from the world’s leading climate scientists.  The report states that we have only twelve years to drastically curtail our emissions of greenhouse gasses or risk calamities ranging from drought and crop failures, wildfires, water shortages, the death of ocean ecosystems, and sea level rise that would inundate our coastal cities.  This nightmare will unfold, not in thousands or hundreds of years, but in the lifetime of our own children and grandchildren.  Some of it is happening now.  Indeed, it may already be too late to prevent this catastrophe.  But there may still be time.  My fellow Americans, we must take this last, best chance to preserve a habitable planet for children and theirs.  We must act boldly.  We must act selflessly.  But above all, we must act now.

There are those who continue to cynically or ignorantly deny this crisis.  For decades we have indulged their stubborn intransigence even as the evidence has become incontrovertible.  But the luxury of time is no longer ours.  The time for talk is over.  We must act.

There are those who still cling to the fantasy that technology will save us; that we can avoid personal sacrifice and rely on our scientists’ and engineers’ ingenuity to forestall catastrophe.  But the stark truth is that no such technology exists today.  Nor will it exist this year, or this decade.  And twelve years is all we have to prevent the worst effects of global warming from becoming our children’s reality.  We must act.

There are those nihilists among us who suggest that all is lost, that action is futile, that we may as well succumb to the inevitable.  But science tells us that we still have a fighting chance to save this planet, and if there is even a chance, I say we must seize it with all our might and all our determination and all our resources and fight until the bitter end.   We must act now.

Finally, there are those defeatists who say that America is too divided, too distracted, too apathetic and self-absorbed to mobilize for such a massive undertaking.  Yet throughout our history, America has shown time and again that we can rise to meet the occasion; that we do not shy from a fight when the cause is just – and what cause could be more just than the preservation of the very Earth that sustains us?  We must act now! 

What will it take?  Nothing less than a transformation of our energy, transportation, and agricultural infrastructure, which is to say our way of life.  As we did in World War II, we must mobilize every man, woman, and child; every factory and corporation; every school and place of worship – every resource in our possession – to achieve our ends. 

Sacrifice will be required from all our citizens.  Yet this transformation will also yield great benefits. Millions will be put to work across the country building and maintaining the new clean-energy economy and infrastructure.  Millions of lives will be saved and improved by the cleaner air we will breathe.  Millions will be spared the scourge of infectious disease now forecast to afflict us.  We may be able to save our great coastal cities from destruction by the sea; our fertile plains from destruction by drought; our forests from destruction by infestation and blight; and our coral reefs and ocean life from destruction by acidification and temperature rise.   Plants and animals now doomed to extinction may recover and thrive.  We may, indeed, be able to pass on to our progeny a world more healthy, clean, and beautiful than the one we inherited.

If we can do this – and I believe we can – then we must.  And so today, I say that we will.  Together, we will save this planet we share and love.  And when we do, we will take our rightful place among those generations before us who rose to meet the challenge of their time. 

In the coming weeks, I will lay out a comprehensive plan to achieve net zero carbon emissions by the year 2050 through a combination of greenhouse gas regulation, carbon pricing, energy-efficiency initiatives, and a “Manhattan Project” initiative to rapidly develop and deploy new clean energy and carbon capture technologies.  These plans will require Congressional action, which I hope will be swift, and judicial review, which I expect will be favorable.  Above all, they will require the united support of the American people, which I hope and pray will be overwhelming.  And to those who would resist our efforts, let me be clear:  I am sworn to protect and defend this nation against ALL threats.  No threat could be greater than that posed by climate change, and I intend to use all the power at my disposal to protect our country.

Of course, we cannot win this battle alone; we must immediately engage the world in intensive diplomacy to ensure that our efforts are matched by the other major polluting nations.  But America has a special obligation as both the world’s leading per capita emitter of greenhouse gas, and, more importantly, as leader of the free world.  It is up to us to set the example. 

For fifty years, we have watched this enemy approach, relentlessly and remorselessly, and we have done little to prepare or to defend ourselves.  Now, the enemy is at our shores.  Will we rise to the occasion, as we have so often before in our history?  Or will we succumb to denial and defeatism as the world burns?   I would like to say that we will be judged by the actions we take today, and should we succeed in this great endeavor, I believe this is true.  But the hard truth is that, should we fail, there may be none remaining to judge.  Therefore, for the sake of our children, our democracy, and our planet, let us do everything in our power to succeed – starting now.   

God bless you all, and God bless the United States of America.

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on November 14, 2018, 04:47:21 pm
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The protest, convened by the Sunrise Movement and Justice Democrats, was meant to put pressure on Pelosi and House Democrats to adopt radical climate action, and Ocasio-Cortez told protesters that should Pelosi become Speaker, "we’ve got her back in showing and pursuing the most progressive energy agenda that this country has ever seen."

Earlier this week, Ocasio-Cortez unveiled a resolution for a select committee to form a plan for a Green New Deal, and on Tuesday tweeted that Pelosi's proposed reinstated climate committee must not have members appointed who accept fossil fuel 🐉🦕🦖 contributions.

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"We need a Green New Deal and we need to get to 100 percent renewables because our lives depend on it," Ocasio-Cortez told reporters.
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on November 14, 2018, 05:28:01 pm
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In Not-So-Subtle Nod 👍 to Climate Change, South Park Shows a ManBearPig Denier Eaten by ManBearPig  ;D

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warned humanity, decades ago. Now it looks like the beast is awakening, and even former critics seem to be coming around to the idea that we should stop poking it.


This reversal is even showing up in what we watch after work. The libertarian-leaning sensibilities of South Park’s creators have been plainly evident on TV for years. Humor like South Park’s fuels the sort of nihilistic “both parties are the same” rhetoric that allows edgy young men to feel superior to both parties, without having to actually make a political choice.

Climate change has come up in the show multiple times, from skewering the over-the-top dramatics with a Day After Tomorrow parody to lampooning the smug self-satisfaction of Prius driving liberals. But the episode that has continued to resonate, particularly in the deniersphere, is the ManBearPig episode. This infamous 2006 bit mocked Al Gore’s pandering to the press and public while promoting his Inconvenient Truth movie.

To be fair, the episode was always more about Gore’s attention-seeking behavior and bitterness at losing the presidency. The titular mythical monster (half man, half bear, half pig) served a stand-in for his public concern for climate change. For deniers obsessed with Gore, though, “ManBearPig” became something of a meme. 

But in last Wednesday’s episode, twelve long years after Gore was mocked mercilessly for warning of ManBearPig’s existence, the cryptid made its first (real world) appearance in the show. And real news like NBC  and Vanity Fair--as well as conservative fake news like Newsbusters, the Washington Times and Fox--all wrote how this new episode could be considered an anthropocene apology to Al Gore. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-250817121424.gif&hash=384c17a4d2be4831084933b91808f8a60f73f7f5)

In the episode, the cartoon’s four young protagonists must seek out Gore after being blamed for the murders committed by ManBearPig (which police mistake for yet another school shooting). They’re determined to make amends so that they can clear their names and take down ManBearPig together. Lest you think the creators are now fans of the former VP, the cartoon Gore is less than gracious, requiring the kids apologize repeatedly and throw him a party at Olive Garden, where he bores them with a slideshow of his career. At the end, he gives them his Nobel prize and tells the kids it’s up to them now. (Presumably, this cliffhanger will be be picked up in tonight’s episode.)

But in one particularly climatic scene, captured by the right-wing “Media Research Center,” ManBearPig slaughters his way through a restaurant, while a glib denier explains that “You can't just go along with what people are saying, Susan, okay? There's no scientific proof, no real evidence of a ManBearPig… everyone wants to use the fear of a ManBearPig to get what they want. They throw around bad science, bad taxidermy… ”

When ManBearPig crashes through the wall behind the man, and begins a violent rampage he continues undaunted, saying “You can't just let people tell you that if you don't believe in ManBearPig, then you don't care about the world.”

When Susan points out that not only is ManBearPig real, but here, right now (and ripping the spine out of the guy behind him) the man shifts to the denier line that it’s too late now: “What can we do that everyone else will also do, Susan? Come on, use your brain. Even if we do something about it...  What about the Chinese? They’re just gonna keep right on--”

But ManBearPig picks him up and begins chomping down on the his skull, cutting off his denial mid-sentence.

While climate change was already plenty real twelve years ago, when ManBearPig was just a figment of Gore’s imagination, a decade of Sandys and Harveys and Marias and Florences, of wildfires and droughts and pests and heat waves, have made the risk of poking Dr. Broecker’s climate beast an obvious, if inconvenient, truth.

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on November 14, 2018, 05:39:00 pm
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Agelbert NOTE: You need to up the volume at times for the Ocasio clips and then down it to continue hearing what Jamarl Thomas 👍, a very bright and perceptive young man, is saying.

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on November 15, 2018, 02:06:25 pm
A voice of the future ... from 1970 👀

Change our thinking, change our world

https://youtu.be/_LXiSPpfM54

The wisdom of Alan Watts 🕊

Could it be a general mental structure that humans have imposed on themselves which leads to our species' constant self-ruin?

He starts with the fascinating story of some of the greatest minds of the 70s coming together in an organized effort to propose solutions, and reveals that even some of the greatest among us didn't seem to know what to do at the time.

Alan Watts has his own view of what's wrong with the world, and proposes a beautiful and simple way we can do something about it.
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on November 15, 2018, 02:31:35 pm
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You may be surprised to learn that Virginia has one of the fastest rates of relative sea-level rise in the country. The Hampton Roads region is experiencing both rising seas and sinking land, threatening tourist towns like Virginia Beach and the region's major military facilities with frequent flooding — a situation expected to worsen as the climate warms. This week, in the first of a series of stories on the topic, we write about how the state is beginning to get serious about tackling sea-level rise (https://therevelator.org/virginia-sea-level-rise/), which could make Virginia a leader in coastal adaptation and climate strategies.

When it comes to wildlife, we still have a lot to learn about the reintroduction of imperiled wild species. University of Texas-Austin researcher Kalli F. Doubleday explains why all eyes are on India's Sariska Tiger Reserve for important lessons on the reintroduction of big cats  (https://therevelator.org/vagabond-tigers/)and their coexistence with neighboring humans.

While tigers may be good at grabbing headlines, let's not forget about insects. Scientists are calling for more research to understand why many insect populations are declining (https://therevelator.org/insect-decline/)and what we can do about it.

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Wildfires are on top of our minds right now as California battles its most deadly and destructive wildfire in state history. Wildfire historian Stephen Pyne explains why we need to have different strategies for fighting different kinds of wildfires 🔥 (https://therevelator.org/wildfires-fight-same/), especially those at the intersection of wildlands and our developed communities.

Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on November 15, 2018, 09:47:57 pm
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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2018

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DAHR JAMAIL, TRUTHOUT

Humans have undoubtedly triggered Earth's sixth mass extinction event, and are living amid an existential crisis unlike anything we have experienced. Despite the odds, a group in the UK has channeled their horror about the climate emergency into a movement called the Extinction Rebellion -- and they intend for it to become global.

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on November 17, 2018, 01:41:37 pm
November 17th, 2018 by Nicolas Zart

An Aerial View Of The California Fire 🔥 Destruction & Pollution In The Air

SNIPPET:

The captain announced 2.5-mile visibility at San Jose. As soon as we reached 10,000 feet, the sad spectacle of the last fires in the Malibu canyon became obvious. You can see a few red trails lingering from the firefighter airplanes and helicopters dumping their fire-retardant liquid. The scenery stretched for miles of burnt, darkened landscape, as if someone had dumped fine powder over the mountains and ridges. I could barely make out the vegetation under the layer of dust.

Full article with videos:

https://cleantechnica.com/2018/11/17/an-aerial-view-of-the-california-fire-destruction-pollution-in-the-air/

Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on November 20, 2018, 07:34:25 pm
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The result of this holistic approach, which requires a VETO POWER DECISION PROCESS FILTER for human economic activity, where ALL the biosphere math addition and subtraction in regard to ALL planned human actions are studied and measured PRIOR to allowing ANY country or business to engage in them, or subsidize them in some other way, is a reasonable expectation of continued human existence.

For those stupid, arrogant, hidebound, greedy people reading this who claim that "incremental measures will solve all the problems of Profit Over People and Planet" that CAPITALISM has cursed our biosphere with, I suggest you keep believing the convenient fantasy that "you are just being pragmatic". Keep believing that Chris Hedges and people like myself (and many other people of good will on Earth) are "too idealistic and impractical". Keep clinging to your stock market investments and your comfortable smug assumption that "Socialism was tried and it failed".

There is not a snowball's chance in Hell of mankind surviving while continuing to break the laws of LIFE, SINE QUA NON for a Viable Biosphere. When this increasingly Catastrophic Climate Change destroys the last shred of your Capitalist "greed is good" manufactured reality, it will be less painful for you if you cannot accept that reality.

Already, millions of white workers who's "American Dream" has been exposed as the American Scream by Capitalist Cruelty, have turned to a Demagogue Con Artist (i.e. Trump) for more assurance that "their beliefs actually were well founded and the dream", which was never real, "is just around the Trump promised corner".

This amazingly tragic level of denial in the face a degraded environment and destroyed job prospects is what you people with fat wallets will soon also enter into, as Chris Hedges makes crystal clear in the video below, instead of accepting that you were propagandized to embrace an environmentally suicidal economic system from the time you were knee high to a grasshopper.

Maybe you'll go nuts and embrace mass suicide like a nuclear war in order to avoid accepting the FACT that you embraced a morally bankrupt world view that is destroying our species, and thousands of other high order mammalian vertebrate species. Arrogant pride can, unfortunately, really lock people into doubling down on destructive behavior.

For the smug egotist, going out in a "blaze of glory" is, too often, preferable to admitting error. I hope you realize, before it is too late, that humble pie about our responsibility for all the harm we have collectively AND INDIVIDUALLY caused is not optional if we wish to survive.

Whatever you do, our species has NO FUTURE as long as Business as Usual with token feel good small incremental steps to "fix" our grotesque economic system and mitigate climate change continue.

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Chris Hedges, "American Anomie"
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https://youtu.be/HV0cS1TGve4

mediasanctuary

Published on Nov 6, 2018

Chris Hedges spoke at The Sanctuary for Independent Media in Troy NY on November 3, 2018.  He is a Truthdig columnist, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, a New York Times best-selling author, a professor in the college degree program offered to New Jersey state prisoners by Rutgers University, and an ordained Presbyterian minister. He has written 12 books, including the New York Times best-seller “Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt” (2012), which he co-authored with the cartoonist Joe Sacco. His other books include "Wages of Rebellion: The Moral Imperative of Revolt," (2015) “Death of the Liberal Class” (2010), “Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle” (2009), “I Don’t Believe in Atheists” (2008) and the best-selling “American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America” (2008). His latest book is "America: The Farewell Tour" (2018). His book “War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning” (2003) was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction and has sold over 400,000 copies. He writes a weekly column for the website Truthdig and hosts a show, "On Contact," on RT America.

A SanctuaryTV Production: Director/Switcher-Branda Miller; Cameras- Dave Publow, Jay Wilcox; Sound- Troy Pohl; Editor- Michael Siarkowsi; Executive Producer-Steve Pierce; Special Thanks- Meghan Marohn.
www.mediasanctuary.org

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on November 20, 2018, 08:53:15 pm
Part 1 of 2 - Challenging Extinction with Guy McPherson 🤔

8,910 views

https://youtu.be/RQJi2s0kefM

UPFSI

Published on Nov 15, 2018

Part 1 of my conversation with Guy McPherson, challenging his message of 'near term human extinction.'

Part 2, entitled 'Wanna Bet?' will be released on Thursday November the 22nd.  Watch both 👀 (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F1%2F3-120818180835-1624479.gif&hash=92c92575625c10582f9c1c6f9db969ad24bf62a8) and decide for yourself.  🕵️
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on November 20, 2018, 09:44:57 pm
Climatologist Wallace Broecker: "The Deniers Are Going to Go Apeshit. They're Going to Have a Riot"

https://youtu.be/8sJaFl6Plvg
9,560 views

Collapse Chronicles 💣

Published on Nov 4, 2018

In this week's edition of my Collapse Chronicles interview, I have the pleasure and honor of speaking with climatologist Wallace Broecker.
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on November 23, 2018, 03:05:06 pm
TD ORIGINALS

November 22, 2018

Will Democrats Back a ‘Green New Deal’?

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Rep.-elects Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Joe Neguse exit a Democratic Caucus meeting at the Capitol. (J. Scott Applewhite / AP)

News related to climate change is rarely good. More often than not, it engenders a sense of doom and helplessness among the public. But lately there has been a glimmer of hope on the horizon for climate justice, and it bears the name Sunrise Movement.

Even before the midterm elections took place, activists in the youth-based climate justice organization had planned a sit-in at the Washington, D.C., offices of California representative and longtime Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi. A week after the election, the approximately 200 people that crowded into Pelosi’s office were visited by newly elected New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Addressing the climate activists, Ocasio-Cortez said, “My journey here started at Standing Rock,” referring to the powerful indigenous-led rebellion to stop the Dakota Access pipeline project in 2017. Immediately afterward, Ocasio-Cortez pledged to introduce legislation to create a “Select Committee on a Green New Deal,” as one of her first actions in Congress.

William Lawrence, a co-founder of the Sunrise Movement, explained to me in an interview that the movement is motivated by the existential threat of the climate crisis. “We have hundreds of millions of lives worldwide that are at stake because of the threat of runaway climate change,” he said. The solutions out of this crisis are known and achievable: “We need to overhaul our energy system, our food system and our transit system,” Lawrence explained. In his opinion, “The only way to do that in time is for the government to take an active role in the economy to shape and guide the transition. That’s exactly how we got ourselves out of the Great Depression.”

But lawmakers are still undecided on a plan of action. Pelosi, feeling the pressure from grassroots activists and new colleagues like Ocasio-Cortez, made the call for reviving a defunct committee called the Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming, which was established the last time Democrats controlled the House.

While that committee’s mandate would not go nearly as far as the one Ocasio-Cortez has proposed, other Democrats, like New Jersey Rep. Frank Pallone, the ranking Democrat on the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, dismissed Pelosi’s position, saying a select committee was “not necessary.” His opposition highlights a strongly regressive streak within the Democratic Party that feels compelled to maintain the status quo in the face of the climate devastation that is already happening all around us.

Establishment Democrats now have two powerful forces working to push them in the right direction on climate: a strong grassroots movement intent on holding politicians’ feet to the fire, and a bold new crop of aggressive young Democratic Socialists like Ocasio-Cortez, who have been elected to office. It is the perfect storm of forces needed now more than ever to push a strong climate agenda.

Coming off a violent hurricane season on the U.S. East Coast, this fall brought record-breaking fires to the nation’s West Coast, underscoring the urgency of climate catastrophe. The death toll from the worst fire in California’s recorded history—the Camp Fire in Butte County—has now reached 83, with more than 600 still missing. Meanwhile, rain is expected this week in the northern part of the state, which could bring relief to the dry areas but could also trigger dangerous mudslides and flash flooding in areas stripped bare of brush and vegetation. Scientists are in clear agreement that climate change is behind this unprecedented fire season.

But President Trump barely acknowledged climate change during his weekend visit to the impacted areas. In addition to (embarrassingly) forgetting the name of the devastated town of Paradise—he referred to it as “Pleasure” before being corrected—Trump lectured state officials about the importance of raking and cleaning forest vegetation. His interior secretary, Ryan Zinke, went even further, saying in an interview with the extremist right-wing outlet Breitbart that the fires were the fault of “environmental radicals.”

Rather than confront Republicans like Trump and Zinke (Lawrence dismissed the GOP as “An organized alliance between fossil-fuel billionaires and white supremacists”), the Northern California chapter of the Sunrise Movement showed up outside the offices of Democratic Rep. Barbara Lee, a strong progressive figure and veteran lawmaker. They wore masks to protect their lungs from the toxic air that blanketed the areas surrounding the Camp Fire, and they called upon Lee to support the resolution that Ocasio-Cortez plans to introduce. So far, Lee has not responded.

Lawrence said the activists were sending a message to Lee, saying, “We love you, we respect you, you have been a progressive champion for many years on so many issues, but that doesn’t mean you get a pass on this.”

What activists with the Sunrise Movement are cleverly doing is demanding that their elected representatives, including Pelosi, Pallone and Lee, answer the question: “What Is Your Plan?” “Not only do they not have a plan,” said Lawrence, “but they don’t have a plan to make a plan.”

Angry about Pallone’s recent stance that no action is needed to establish any sort of select committee to address climate change, Sunrise Movement activists paid him a visit, too. According to Lawrence, Pallone attempted to cast himself as their ally, citing his statements in support of climate action and his 2009 vote for a “cap and trade program.” But Lawrence pointed out that Pallone “has taken hundreds of thousands of dollars from fossil fuel companies.”

Lawrence and his fellow activists are demanding that Democrats back a “Green New Deal”—a proposal whose very name invokes the important government jobs program that President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed into law to help end the Great Depression. The idea is one whose time has come. Rampant poverty and climate change are arguably the two most important challenges facing the U.S. today. A Green New Deal would address both crises together. At this moment, Congress has no plan to solve either income inequality or global warming. Indeed, Trump and the GOP’s deregulatory agenda is exacerbating these problems through actions like last year’s tax-reform bonanza for the wealthy and ending the Paris Agreement. Our elected officials are literally erasing our children’s future.

This is not a pie-in-the-sky movement. Lawrence said he is realistic: “We know that we are not going to pass anything until 2021 when we have Trump out of office, and hopefully we have a more favorable breakdown in the Senate.” With regard to recent developments, he insisted, “But now that the Democrats hold the House, it is absolutely imperative that they make a plan that will be ready to go in 2021. The climate—and our species—depend on it.

Agelbert COMMENTS:

Ocasio's version of a "Green New Deal" is not as thorough as the Green New Deal put forth by the Green Party. The Green Party platform is the only hope this country, and any other country on Earth, HAS for a Viable Biosphere.

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That said, Ocasio has made it CRYSTAL CLEAR that part of her version REQUIRES THAT NO DEMOCRAT WHO TAKES "contributions" (BRIBES) FROM THE FOSSIL FUEL INDUSTRY be allowed on the committee to address Climate Change with a Green New Deal.

Also, the Sunrise movement that accompanied Ocasio supports the Zero Hour platform, which is even more comprehensive than the Green Party's Green New Deal.

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Zero Hour Platform and attacks on them by the Hydrocarbon Hellspawn 🦕🦖 (http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/climate-change/global-warming-is-with-us/msg10488/#msg10488)
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Marian Griffth 

The system is too damaged and corrupted to be repaired. It does need to be replaced with a system that is socialist, or otherwise with one that puts the needs and interests of the people at the top rather than the accumulation of imaginary numbers on a computer.

The question remains /how?/
The political parties responsible for this mess are not going to cooperate and have to be forced out.

Which is why I called the notion to reform the democratic party from within an act of desperation.

Agelber > Marian Griffth

To say that Fossil Fuel Industry 🦕🦖 😈 disinformation isn’t the whole story is to knock down a straw man: the fact remains that it is a major--and perhaps the most important--part of the story. (http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/hydrocarbon-industry-skullduggery/hydrocarbon-crooks-evil-actions/msg10560/#msg10560)

I am not concerned any more about the foot dragging by the hydrocarbon hellspawn 🦕🦖 bought and paid fors 🐵 🐒 🦍 🙉 🙊 that curse most of the governments on this planet in general, and the USA in particular.

Catastrophic Climate Change is NOW in the driver's seat, no matter how much the Fossil Fuel Fascist 😈 👹 controlled Media and Politicians try to spin it.

Yeah, it might be too late for many species, including ours. 🤬

However, there is the distinct, nearly 100% probability that the violence of all the deadly environmental mayhem will bankrupt the Bastards 👹 💵 🎩 🍌 that now drive Capitalist Profit Over People and Planet INSANE 🏴‍ ☠️ 🚩 poliicies.

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At that, extremely close at hand point, a worldwide effort will concentrate on mitigating Climate Change.

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The following wise quote explains the knife edge that the human species finds itself now:

"There is a terrible desperation to the increasingly pathetic rationalizations from the climate denial camp. This comes as no surprise if you take the long view; every single undone paradigm in history has died kicking and screaming, and our current petroleum paradigm is no different. The trick here is trying to figure out how we all make it to the new paradigm without dying right along with the old one, kicking, screaming or otherwise." - William Rivers Pitt


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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on November 23, 2018, 07:56:03 pm
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DONALD TRUMP'S 🦀 CLIMATE CHANGE TWEET LAMBASTED BY SCIENTISTS: 'HE'S A DANGEROUS CLOWN'

BY KASHMIRA GANDER ON 11/22/18 AT 6:38 AM

SNIPPET:

Mann told Newsweek: "It is disturbing to see the titular head of our nation misinforming the public about the greatest threat we face—the threat of catastrophic climate change impacts. Not only has Trump sought to dismantle the environmental protections put in place by previous administrations, he has also sought to lower the level of discourse by making nonsensical public comments that are untruthful factually, and deliberately conflate normal day-to-day weather fluctuations with climate change.

"It is shameful, irresponsible and most unbecoming of someone who would call himself President of the United States."

This is not the first time Trump has seized a cold snap as an opportunity to question whether climate change is real.

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https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trumps-climate-change-tweet-lambasted-scientists-hes-dangerous-clown-1227310

Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on November 23, 2018, 08:22:50 pm
AXIOS


November 23, 2018

Andrew Freedman

New climate report warns of increasingly dire risks to U.S.

 
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An American flag hangs at a burned out mobile home park in Paradise, California on Nov. 18. Photo: Josh Edelson/AFP/Getty Images

The Trump administration released a major new climate science report on Black Friday, warning of "hundreds of billions of dollars" in annual losses to some economic sectors without scaled up actions to adapt to current changes and slash emissions to avoid future warming.

Why it matters: The report by scientists from 13 federal agencies constitutes the second volume of the Fourth National Climate Assessment, which is a congressionally mandated report. Its conclusion: Lives and property are already at risk in the U.S. due to climate change.

The release date, on the Friday after Thanksgiving, which is traditionally the busiest shopping day of the year, is likely to bury the news coverage of its findings. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F1%2F3-120818180835-16271224.gif&hash=c2a9bfbff23e2414975829eb4b3655af12eb02cc)

On a call with reporters this afternoon, David Reidmiller, the director of the assessment, said the timing was determined in order to have the report come out in advance of the next round of U.N. climate talks beginning in Poland on Dec. 2 as well as a large scientific meeting in Washington in mid-December.

“We wanted to get this out sufficiently in advance of those meetings so that folks have a chance to review it," Reidmiller said.

Monica Allen, a spokesperson for NOAA, said the decision to release the report on Black Friday was "made in the last week or so."

The details: The contents of the new report, which consists of 29 chapters that were extensively peer reviewed, are bleak. The report points out that the era of climate consequences for the U.S. is well underway, and only actions taken in the next few years can be effective in addressing the scope and severity of the problem.

The authors warn that neither climate adaptation or the pace of emissions cuts are keeping up with the severity and swiftness of the challenge.

The report release comes as the death toll from historic California wildfires continue to rise, and it finds that climate change is expected to bring more frequent wildfires and poor air quality.

The report finds that under a worst-case climate change scenario, in which emissions continue to climb at current rates, extreme heat would cause labor-related losses of an estimated $155 billion per year by 2090. At the same time, coastal property damage in the U.S. from sea level rise and storm surge flooding could reach nearly $120 billion per year.

The backstory: The new report builds off of findings from the first volume of the National Climate Assessment, which was released by the Trump administration in November 2017.

The second volume contains more information specific to vital U.S. economic sectors, regions and national interests. It includes a region-by-region breakdown of how global warming is altering life and economic productivity, as well as what opportunities there are to adapt to it.

The first report was a sweeping overview of climate science findings, which decisively concluded that there is no credible explanation for modern-day global warming other than the burning of fossil fuels for energy.

The report was written and published under the auspices of the U.S. Global Change Research Program, which brings together the 13 federal agencies that work on climate change issues, from the Energy Department to NOAA.

"This report dives into details concerning the US in a way that has not been done before," Michael Wehner, a climate researcher at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, told Axios.

Between the lines: The Trump administration has allowed the National Climate Assessment process to move forward without interference, while at the same time expressing doubt about the causes and extent of the threat of human-caused climate change when it comes to forming its energy policies.

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https://www.axios.com/major-new-climate-report-warns-billions-losses-climate-change-159ba78c-41bd-462b-aa60-578f64878a85.html
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on November 25, 2018, 11:52:10 am
CleanTechnica
Support CleanTechnica’s work via donations on Patreon or PayPal!

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November 25th, 2018 by Jake Richardson

SNIPPET:

9. Does Colorado have a “Cash for Clunkers” program to get the most polluting vehicles off the roads?

All Federal funds have been allocated for the Cash for Clunkers program. The Clear the Air Foundation accepts donations of old “gross emitter” vehicles, sells them to parts yards, and donates the proceeds to various charities.

10. Will having an LEV standard reduce smog in cities?

It could definitely help, but vehicle tailpipe emissions are not the only contributors to ground level ozone (i.e., “urban smog”). Fossil-fueled power plants, construction, oil & gas development, industrial activities, wildfires, paint, etc. also contribute, and Colorado is addressing each of these through other programs.

11. How much might having an LEV standard improve over all air quality?

Our answer to #10 can also apply here, as “overall air quality” varies widely based on different combinations of all those contributing sources. As for climate change, however, we predict that CLEAR will help reduce over 30 million tons of GHGs in the years 2022-2031.

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on November 26, 2018, 07:02:00 pm
Part 2 of 2 - Wanna Bet? with Guy McPherson

5,701 views

https://youtu.be/_mwuNq1Mb8k

UPFSI

Published on Nov 22, 2018

If you are fluent in another language and can help us translate our videos, tell us at mailto:Translation@ScientistsWarning.TV

Here is Part 2 of my July conversation with Guy McPherson, in which I challenge him on his messaging about the certainty of 'near term human extinction by the end of 2025'.

 
Watch Part 1 first at

https://youtu.be/RQJi2s0kefM

 then Part 2.  Watch both and decide for yourself
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on November 27, 2018, 11:25:46 am
November 22, 2018

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The concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere hit a new high in 2017 with no signs of an upcoming reversal, according to a new report from the UN. The annual Greenhouse Gas Bulletin, released last week by the World Meteorological Organization, finds that carbon dioxide concentrations hit 405 parts per million last year--50 percent higher than preindustrial levels--while methane concentrations have also spiked to 2.5 times higher than their preindustrial levels. "The last time the Earth experienced a comparable concentration of CO2 was 3-5m years ago, when the temperature was 2-3C warmer and sea level was 10-20 metres higher than now,"

WMO secretary general Petteri Taalas told The Guardian. "The science is clear. Without rapid cuts in CO2 and other greenhouse gases, climate change will have increasingly destructive and irreversible impacts on life on Earth. The window of opportunity for action is almost closed."

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/nov/22/climate-heating-greenhouse-gases-at-record-levels-says-un

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The Fossil Fuelers 🦖 DID THE Clean Energy  Inventions suppressing, Climate Trashing, human health depleting CRIME,   but since they have ALWAYS BEEN liars and conscience free crooks 🦀, they are trying to AVOID   DOING THE TIME or   PAYING THE FINE!     Don't let them get away with it! Pass it on!   


Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on November 27, 2018, 06:47:08 pm
#ExtinctionRebellion Launches Civil Disobedience Campaign Over Climate Change

https://youtu.be/AEdIEf-5ulI

November 26, 2018

A day after a new US Government report warned of imminent climate catastrophe, TRNN spoke to some of the protesters who marched and shutdown traffic in Manchester, England, to urge action over the climate crisis
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PROTESTER: We are Extinction Rebellion. We’re here to protest the government’s inaction on climate change. They’ve failed us with inadequate policy over the last thirty years. We demand the government declares a climate emergency, that they communicate this to the general public, that they set up a national assembly of citizens to help decide on policy and that they’re committed to carbon neutrality by 2025.

JAISAL NOOR: I’m Jaisal Noor in Manchester, England. As you can see behind me, dozens of people have sat down in the center of the street to protest climate change as part of extinction rebellion. Hundreds of people marched today in Manchester, perhaps thousands more in London. Last week, 70 people were arrested in London as they shut down five bridges, key arteries. And the point of the protests is to draw attention to the catastrophic impacts of climate change and to demand immediate action.

ANNA: I’m Anna. I’m here because we’re talking about, in 10 years, mass starvation, we’re talking about hundreds of millions of climate refugees, we’re talking about more flooding in my hometown of Lancaster, we’re talking about more wildfires like we’ve seen in California. And we’re here to say that we are willing to interrupt, our normal lives, give up our normal lives. Some of us are willing to be arrested, some of us are willing to go to prison and give up our liberty because this is an extinction we’re talking about, and we want to stop that from happening, we want to save the living planet. It’s a simple and apparent desire.

JAISAL NOOR: This march comes just a day after a U.S. government report detailed the catastrophic impacts of climate change already underway and the future impacts that could happen, including hundreds of billions of dollars in economic damage across the United States and the world.

SPEAKER: The ecological crisis impacting upon this nation, and indeed this planet, its wildlife, can no longer be ignored, denied, nor go unanswered.

MINA: Our goal is basically that the government acknowledges that we are facing an emergency, and it demands that we implement the necessary procedures to declare a crime emergency and cut carbon emissions. I think XR has a better chance than anything I’ve ever met of working, because it doesn’t tell people what to do, it allows people to mobilize themselves, it gives people the freedom to choose and tells them that they have that power to do it themselves.

JOSH REDNER: Because we’re facing the greatest crisis in the history of humanity on current trajectory as we’re headed towards sort of major, major disruption by climate change within the next few decades, within my lifetime. I’ve got friends with small children; their lives are quite likely to be destroyed by this if things don’t change soon.

JAISAL NOOR: Current U.S. President Donald Trump has said global warming is a hoax.

JOSH REDNER: Well, that’s actually interesting because Trump’s widely thought of as sort of the archetypal climate denier due to his public statements. But if you look at what he’s actually doing in his private life, his company has actually recently applied to the Irish Government for planning permission to build flood defenses around his golf course due to the expected sea level rise and increase in frequency and intensity of storms that are basically putting his property at risk. So even if he doesn’t believe in climate change, the people who are running the show behind the scenes, they know exactly what’s going on. They’ve known exactly what’s going on for decades and their response has been pumping funding into groups that try and basically try and cloud the judgment of the public, essentially.

Look at the recent midterms, look at the level of funding from fossil fuel interests for climate denying candidates, basically trying to block any attempt to get any kind of effective legislation through to limit CO2 emissions. These people know what’s going on and they’re basically acting to try and prevent action on it. This is due to the system, the companies that are tied up in fossil fuels and the financial institutions that are actually increasing investment in things like fracking, tar sands. These are the worst things that we could be investing in, and the people in power are basically behaving as if they’re trying to make things as bad as possible as fast as possible. And the only people who can actually stop that is the mass of the population.

Extinction Rebellion is a sort of grassroots organization. We’re trying to organize this in a democratic way to try and join the people together. We’re taking inspiration from movements from through history like the suffragettes, like the civil rights movement in America, the fight against apartheid, all these movements of ordinary people who through history have actually joined together and won things from power, they’ve won rights, they’ve won the vote, they’ve made strides towards greater equality. We’re trying to take inspiration from them to sort of force the issue.

Climate justice, to me, means that it’s sort of the opposite of what we have now, essentially. So the projections for climate change now, and this actually goes somewhere into explaining why there’s been such a lack of action, is because the impacts will disproportionately affect the most vulnerable people in societies around the world. So the people who are likely to be feeling the brunt of the force the earliest and the hardest are people who are already suffering. The UN released a report just a couple of years ago that found that already, displacement around the world due to war and things like that is already higher than it was during World War II. These are the people who are going to feel the brunt of climate change through drought, the impacts on food security, extreme flooding, extreme weather events. These things are going to impact the poorest people the hardest.

The Lancet released a report a couple of years ago that said that climate change is the single greatest threat to human health in the 21st century and the people who are going to be feeling those health impacts are, again, the most vulnerable people in the world. So that, for me, is complete climate injustice because the people who have contributed to climate change the most are the richest, the rich countries, Britain, the U.S., the industrialized nations who have burned all the fossil fuels, extracted all these resources for their own economic development to build these rich countries that we live in at the expense of the Third World and the poor people around the world. And now, they are the people who are going to be feeling the brunt of it.

So climate justice, for me, is an attempt to try and reverse these relations between the people of the world and sort of make a fair and equitable plan for how we’re going to cope with it. We know what we need to do, it’s time to do it. And the only way that we can force it is if enough people join together and get out in the streets and demand it.

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on November 28, 2018, 01:26:06 pm
November 28, 2018

Rising insurance costs may convince Americans that climate change risks are real

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One of the great challenges of tackling climate change is making it real for people without a scientific background. That’s because the threat it poses can be so hard to see or feel.

In the wake of Hurricanes Florence and Michael, for example, one may be compelled to ask, “Was that climate change?” Many politicians and activists have indeed claimed that recent powerful storms are a result of climate change, yet it’s a tough sell.

What those who want to communicate climate risks need to do is rephrase the question around probabilities, not direct cause and effect. And for that, insurance is the proverbial “canary in the coal mine,” sensitive to the trends of climate change impacts and the costly risks they impose.

In other words, where scientists and educators have had limited success in convincing the public and politicians of the urgency of climate change, insurance companies may step into the breach.

Steroids and climate change

Dr. Jane Lubchenco 👍, an environmental scientist who oversaw the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration from 2009 to 2013, offers a clever analogy to convince people of the connection between the destruction wrought by a single hurricane and climate change. It involves steroids and baseball.

Her analogy goes like this. If a baseball player takes steroids, it’s hard to connect one particular home run to his drug use. But if his total number of home runs and batting averages increase dramatically, the connection becomes apparent.

“In similar fashion, what we are seeing on Earth today is weather on steroids,” Lubchenco explains. “We are seeing more, longer lasting heat waves, more intense storms, more droughts and more floods. Those patterns are what we expect with climate change.”

And those weather patterns come with a cost.

Someone has to pay for these damages

In 2017, for example, Hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria and other natural disasters like Mexican earthquakes and California wildfires caused economic losses of US$330 billion, almost double the inflation-adjusted annual average of $170 billion over the prior 10 years.

Estimated costs from Hurricane Florence, which struck the Carolinas in September, range as high as $170 billion, which would make Florence the costliest storm ever to hit the U.S.

More broadly, total economic losses from wildfires in the U.S. in 2017 – the third-hottest year on record, behind 2016 and 2015 – were four times higher than the average of the preceding 16 years and losses from other severe storms were 60 percent higher.

This led me and others to realize that we should be more focused on insurance companies, society’s first line of defense in absorbing these costs, making their industry arguably the one most directly affected by climate change.

For example, the insurance industry paid out a record $135 billion from natural catastrophes in 2017, almost three times higher than the annual average of $49 billion. That’s not to mention the uninsured losses that were also incurred – uninsured losses from 2012’s Hurricane Sandy were 50 percent of the total $65 billion in losses, a staggering tab picked up by individual citizens and the taxpayer.

Insurers will eventually adjust to this emerging reality. And with it will come changes in our economy, including higher costs that will affect everyone’s pocketbook.

A whole new ballgame

The International Association of Insurance Supervisors, a respected international standard-setting body for the insurance sector, recently published a report calling climate risk a strategic threat for the insurance sector. It cautioned against relying on annual adjustments to manage climate risks as physical risks can change suddenly and in “non-linear ways.”

Recognizing this threat, many insurers are throwing out decades of outdated weather actuarial data and hiring teams of in-house climatologists, computer scientists and statisticians to redesign their risk models.

In response, insurances premiums will increase and coverage will decrease.

The take-away? It’s going to become increasingly hard for people living in disaster-prone areas to insure their stuff. And this trend might not be gradual. Note the term “non-linear” a couple of paragraphs above. This refers to the tendency of markets in times of stress to suddenly jump to dramatically higher or lower price ranges. For homeowners insurance, that could mean Floridians or Californians paying two or three times more than just a few years earlier – at a time when property taxes are also rising due to clean-up costs of past disasters.

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on November 30, 2018, 06:55:19 pm
The Extinction Domino Effect That Could Annihilate Life on Earth Has Already Started 💣 😟

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on December 04, 2018, 08:54:20 pm
In the Face of Extinction, We Have a Moral Obligation

BY Dahr Jamail, Truthout

PUBLISHED December 3, 2018

With a president unashamed to declare that he does not believe scientific reports on climate change and an administration that denies climate change is human-caused, a dystopian climate future seems inevitable. Humans have already set in motion processes that could bring about our own extinction; now it's up to each of us to consider how to use our time and energies most wisely and carefully, as we face down our species' most monumental test.

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https://truthout.org/articles/in-the-face-of-extinction-we-have-a-moral-obligation/
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on December 07, 2018, 08:44:30 am
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The first continuous, multi-century study of surface melt from the Greenland ice sheet was published in Nature Wednesday, and the results are clear: the ice sheet is now melting at rates unseen within at least the last 350 years.

EcoWatch

Greenland Melting Is ‘Off the Charts’

By Olivia Rosane

Dec. 06, 2018 09:30AM EST

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Article with above video:

https://www.ecowatch.com/greenland-melting-overdrive-2622570930.html

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on December 07, 2018, 02:38:34 pm
Re: Watson comes out in favor of the Mass Murder of Billions of People 


If that can be scientifically proven, then I may be in favor of the power down. But it can't be, because we are talking about extremely complex systems. Who knows, a power down may not even be enough to stop the warming at this point, which means we would be adding more suffering and death for nothing.

It can't be scientifically proven there would be millions of deaths either if we power down, but you are willing to buy that one.  That is hypocritical.

RE


Probably true. Which is why I would hold to this general maxim - don't tinker with complex systems until we more fully understand them, because we're much more likely to make things worse than better. Related to that but also distinct - there is a big price to pay from ceding such power to the government (mandated power down) and we better be damn sure it is necessary to pay before forking it over.

The best scientific evidence to date shows that if we don't significantly reduce carbon emmissions inside the next 10 years, thousands of cities along the coasts will be inundated and billions of people will DIE, along with a significant portion of the animal kingdom as well.  What we are doing now is not decreasing carbon emissions, but rather increasing them.  The only way to reduce these emissions significantly is to remove the source of them, primarily things like automobiles and planes and the factories that produce them.  This is not geoengineering, it's just putting a stop to what is quite obviously killing the planet.  If you are not in favor of putting a stop to this, you are in favor of mass murdering Billions of people, far more than I ever dreamed of doing.  That is what the scientific evidence says.

RE


Can you link specific studies which predict this? And which show that power down is likely to have enough impact to stop it?

The information is endless and produced by numerous scientists and agencies, from the IPCC to NASA and many more.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/energy-environment/2018/10/08/world-has-only-years-get-climate-change-under-control-un-scientists-say/?utm_term=.56983a77a98d (https://www.washingtonpost.com/energy-environment/2018/10/08/world-has-only-years-get-climate-change-under-control-un-scientists-say/?utm_term=.56983a77a98d)

Research it yourself.

RE

👍 😎

Don't hold your breath waiting for Watson to research Climate Change. The old "can you reference dis, dat and de udder" apparantly innocent, but thoroughly disingenuos, request for info (data request wild goose chase fallacious debating technique) is something he has pulled repeatedly for the past five years here (at least) every time the ENVIRONMENTAL DAMAGE (which of course includes millions of unnecessary deaths of humans and many other life forms which he won't admit to until he reads it in Forbes or the Wall Street Journal) caused by burning fossil fuels is brought up. Watson has his pitch and his story, and he is gonna stick to it as long as his status quo loving ass can benefit from the present unsustainable, biosphere destroying, CAPITALIST status quo.

Watson does not want you and me, or anybody else, to "Tinker with a complex  (i.e. CAPITALIST PROFIT OVER PEOPLE AND PLANET) system" because said system has "proven" to be the best, super duper, good economic system benevolently feeding the hungry and poor masses of the world, compared with all those "failed, miserable, snobish, murderous, nonsensical SOCIALST systems, that have been "unsuccessfully" tried over and over and over (according to Watson 😇, a self declared authority on the definition of Socialism and it's history). Watson however, can never seem to link CAPITALISM with CLIMATE CHANGE because, uh, he doesn't feel "confident" enough on the matter to TINKER (i.e. criticize CAPITALIST PROFIT OVER PEOPLE AND PLANET IDEOLOGY) with the present, very, very "complex system" the is such a benefit to the poor of this world.

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on December 07, 2018, 02:42:37 pm

Don't hold your breath waiting for Watson to research Climate Change. The old "can you reference dis, dat and de udder" apparantly innocent, but thoroughly disingenuos, request for info (data request wild goose chase fallacious debating technique) is something he has pulled repeatedly for the past five years here (at least) every time the ENVIRONMENTAL DAMAGE (which of course includes millions of unnecessary deaths of humans and many other life forms which he won't admit to until he reads it in Forbes or the Wall Street Journal) caused by burning fossil fuels is brought up. Watson has his pitch and his story, and he is gonna stick to it as long as his status quo loving ass can benefit from the present unsustainable, biosphere destroying, CAPITALIST status quo.

Watson does not want you and me, or anybody else, to "Tinker with a complex  (i.e. CAPITALIST PROFIT OVER PEOPLE AND PLANET) system" because said system has "proven" to be the best, super duper, good economic system benevolently feeding the hungry and poor masses of the world, compared with all those "failed, miserable, snobish, murderous, nonsensical SOCIALST systems, that have been "unsuccessfully" tried over and over and over (according to Watson 😇, a self declared authority on the definition of Socialism and it's history). Watson however, can never seem to link CAPITALISM with CLIMATE CHANGE because, uh, he doesn't feel "confident" enough on the matter to TINKER (i.e. criticize CAPITALIST PROFIT OVER PEOPLE AND PLANET IDEOLOGY) with the present, very, very "complex system" the is such a benefit to the poor of this world.

 
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https://youtu.be/E4FaI9CxtaM

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on December 07, 2018, 02:45:22 pm
Powering down is not something that will be done voluntarily on a large scale. And there is no political will to legislate it. So  it will happen by default when the wheels fall off. A decision to power down your own life is noble, and maybe sensible from a prepping standpoint, but don't look for it to catch on.

Quite true, because the system is run by Capitalists.  There's no PROFIT in powering down.  So if you want to power down, you have to eliminate the Capitalist.  That is very straightforward logic.

Once you do that, you are correct most people wouldn't voluntarily do it, so you tax it out of existence.  Make it so expensive nobody can afford to buy the stuff.

As it is, the power down will occur anyhow, but it will be chaotic and billions more people will needlessly die because of that.  It's murder, plain and simple.  All to keep the profits flowing from Happy Motoring.

RE

Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on December 07, 2018, 02:47:20 pm

So then he sez,
" It's unsurprising that AG and Surly have now decided to pretend like I am making bold assertions about AGW and asking for research dissertations. That's resentment speaking. It's all very tarantula-like."



The best scientific evidence to date shows that if we don't significantly reduce carbon emissions inside the next 10 years, thousands of cities along the coasts will be inundated and billions of people will DIE, along with a significant portion of the animal kingdom as well.  What we are doing now is not decreasing carbon emissions, but rather increasing them.  The only way to reduce these emissions significantly is to remove the source of them, primarily things like automobiles and planes and the factories that produce them.  This is not geoengineering, it's just putting a stop to what is quite obviously killing the planet.  If you are not in favor of putting a stop to this, you are in favor of mass murdering Billions of people, far more than I ever dreamed of doing.  That is what the scientific evidence says.

RE

Can you link specific studies which predict this? And which show that power down is likely to have enough impact to stop it?

Not pretending anything, sophist. Just serving up your words back to you.

Note how the resident Prince of Lies accuses others of doing the very things he accuses them of. Very Trumpian in that regard..

Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on December 07, 2018, 02:48:33 pm

If that can be scientifically proven, then I may be in favor of the power down. But it can't be, because we are talking about extremely complex systems. Who knows, a power down may not even be enough to stop the warming at this point, which means we would be adding more suffering and death for nothing.

It can't be scientifically proven there would be millions of deaths either if we power down, but you are willing to buy that one.  That is hypocritical.

RE

Probably true. Which is why I would hold to this general maxim - don't tinker with complex systems until we more fully understand them, because we're much more likely to make things worse than better. Related to that but also distinct - there is a big price to pay from ceding such power to the government (mandated power down) and we better be damn sure it is necessary to pay before forking it over.

The best scientific evidence to date shows that if we don't significantly reduce carbon emmissions inside the next 10 years, thousands of cities along the coasts will be inundated and billions of people will DIE, along with a significant portion of the animal kingdom as well.  What we are doing now is not decreasing carbon emissions, but rather increasing them.  The only way to reduce these emissions significantly is to remove the source of them, primarily things like automobiles and planes and the factories that produce them.  This is not geoengineering, it's just putting a stop to what is quite obviously killing the planet.  If you are not in favor of putting a stop to this, you are in favor of mass murdering Billions of people, far more than I ever dreamed of doing.  That is what the scientific evidence says.

RE

Can you link specific studies which predict this? And which show that power down is likely to have enough impact to stop it?

The information is endless and produced by numerous scientists and agencies, from the IPCC to NASA and many more.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/energy-environment/2018/10/08/world-has-only-years-get-climate-change-under-control-un-scientists-say/?utm_term=.56983a77a98d (https://www.washingtonpost.com/energy-environment/2018/10/08/world-has-only-years-get-climate-change-under-control-un-scientists-say/?utm_term=.56983a77a98d)

Research it yourself.

RE

If the studies are accurate, then I would say the best thing we can do go about our lives like it isn't happening. At least that way we have some peace and happiness before everything turns to ****. The likelihood we come close to implementing anything resembling a "power down" is zero, and therefore there is no way to reverse the warming. Of course AG would have us believe differently, but then again he predicted apocalyptic changes in 2012 and the full disclosure of ET presence and zero point energy, both of which I criticized. I believe this is a big reason why he is so resentful.

Anyway, I stated at the outset that I don't know anything about the climate science. The only reason I responded to you initially was that you asked a question and told me it was a violation of the CoC not to answer it. It's unsurprising that AG and Surly have now decided to pretend like I am making bold assertions about AGW and asking for research dissertations. That's resentment speaking. It's all very tarantula-like.

Again, Watson defends the status quo. Here is the "rationale" that Watson uses to not DO Climate Change:

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You, Watson, are lying when you state that, " AG ... ... predicted apocalyptic changes in 2012 and the full disclosure of ET presence and zero point energy, both of which I criticized. I believe this is a big reason why he is so resentful." (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-250817122018.gif&hash=74d86c1f35e2f61ea38c9bfa392f84a92631b96e)

Nice try at pounding the table, Counselor (CoC be damned, right?).  ;)

That's defamatory as well as being a deliberate attempt at distorting both the content and subject matter of my posts over the last 6 years, along with those of Surly.

Surly said it best when he addressed your language twisting, morally challenged, sophistry early in this thread, so it is appropriate for me to repost it now with regard to the bold faced lies you just posted about me, in still ANOTHER attempt to derail this thread, where RE has successfully exposed your refusal to face facts about the dire threat to humanity that Catastrophic Climate Change represents:

The problems with socialism are many. Orwell recognized very quickly that the socialists of his day were motivated by intellectual snobbery and resentment rather than compassion for the poor working class. 60 years later and nothing has changed...

Socialist ideology ignores human nature and treats everyone as "blank slates" who can be molded by the totalitarian state to achieve equality of socioeconomic outcomes. They set up re-education and re-training camps which are doomed to failure. This flies in the face of decades of psychological and sociological research.

Postmodern ideology tries to sneak in thoroughly debunked socialist ideology by pointing out the corrupt aspects of capitalist institutions, and then pretending that there is no other conclusion to reach other than ALL capitalist hierarchies are corrupted by power. And as long as we are playing this game, why not advocate for the socialist power hierarchies instead of the capitalist ones?

Among the numerous facts they ignore is that intelligence and trait conscientiousness account for some 25-40% of long-term life outcomes in capitalist society. This does not fit in with their ideological critiques, because it suggests that competence actually plays a role. But everyone knows competence plays a large role, and that makes them even more resentful and envious of the successful. To the point where they are willing to advocate for bloody revolutions and extermination campaigns as a justified means of "leveling the playing field".

What a pile of crap, false assertions, straw men and charged language. You certainly know how to wield language as a weapon, but you're not selling anything here.

And for the record, no on here is "playing a game" but you.

How well I remember the stories told by my father and uncles about the gulags and re-education camps they suffered under FDR.

Be sure to post the URL of your new blog, celebrating this, the best of all possible worlds.

Also, Ashvin, your claim to "know nothing of climate science" is, and has been, for the last 5 years or so, another lie. Yeah, you aren't a Climate Scientist. So? You aren't illiterate. You have always "known enough" to consistently doubt the validity of drastic national action to mitigate the cause of Climate Change. An objective observer who is honestly and genuinely, and innocently, ignorant of what science has clearly stated about greenhouse gasses would have to be living under a rock for the past 30 years with no radio, newspapers, television, internet or human neighbors. That does not apply to you.

You, Ashvin, a person who frequents financial web sites, could never have avoided real science based warnings in the literature among all the Fossil Fuel funded Denier CRAP you have read.

You formed an opinion based on what you have read. It is disingenuous to claim you are "without an opinion" or "don't know enough about it to form an opinion" on the causes of climate change. The fact that you vigorously defend a status quo that has been proven by science to be the overwhelming cause of climate change evidences that.

I recall how you supported the, "it's mostly meat production, not fossil fuels",  baloney and would not let go of it even when I posted well referenced charts to try to explain to you that fossil fuels are far and away the main contributor to Global Warming. I made it clear that, even though it would help (slow it a bit) somewhat, the problem of increasing global average temperature would not be stopped by everyone going vegan. At which point you retreated into your "not knowing enough about the science to form an opinion". (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F1%2F3-250718202127.gif&hash=acc63221521ebaf3f238088fd92d1ae3a08b6e48)

One thing that is consistent about your sophistry laden "debating technique" is the despicable attempt to frame the opponent as "hysterical, irrational, nonsensical, etc.".

As Surly said earlier about what you typically post, you're not selling anything here.

For those reading this, the following chart, or one with similar emperical data, is something Ashvin may claim he has "never seen". I doubt that.

(https://19january2017snapshot.epa.gov/sites/production/files/2016-09/cs_global_temperature_time_series_v5_2.png)

Here's another one that Ashvin may claim he, "knows nothing about". I don't think so.

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on December 07, 2018, 02:55:01 pm
Cold-blooded as f u c k, but different only in degree from the plan to deny access to health care to millions as part of a "Great Culling" of "useless eaters."

A Wet Dream for Mass Murderer Watson.  He'll make Hitler, Stalin, Mao & Pol Pot together look like Saints.

RE


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If the studies are accurate, then I would say the best thing we can do go about our lives like it isn't happening.

Very defeatist attitude.  No, it can't be reversed and there are feedback loops that will keep it accelerating even if we power down.  But a power down presents the best opportunity we have to Save As Many As You Can.


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RE

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on December 07, 2018, 05:13:41 pm
Climate Crisis Critical Issue in 2020 Elections – Jane Sanders

December 7, 2018

Jane Sanders tells Paul Jay that voters shouldn’t support candidates who claim to be progressive, but don’t prioritize the fight against fossil fuel interests

https://youtu.be/fSQjRZPl0Ak

Story Transcript

PAUL JAY: Welcome to The Real News Network. I’m Paul Jay.

The Gathering, a meeting of 200 or so progressive thought leaders invited to Burlington, Vermont, was a meeting to talk about what comes next in the coming 2020 elections to help create a vision, a policy framework, for what candidates might run on, what people might fight for. It comes at a rather momentous time in human history, as I said in one of the other interviews; 2020 is maybe the most important election anyplace, ever, given what’s at stake. The Gathering was called by Jane O’Meara Sanders, who’s co-founder of the Sanders Institute; now serves as a fellow. Jane served as a political consultant, has held appointed and elected office, and Jane was the driving force behind the Gathering. And she now joins us here in our studio at the Gathering. Thanks for joining us.


JANE SANDERS: Thanks, Paul.

PAUL JAY: Your hopes going in—and I heard this a little bit in the email back and forth—is we don’t want to spend all this time trashing Trump. We really want to talk policy and what a different world might look like. How do you feel that was achieved?

JANE SANDERS: I was astounded. I mean, we had 49 speakers in 48 hours. And actually, I think a few added on during the weekend. It was thought provoking, inspiring, much better than I had ever envisioned. I had pretty high thoughts for this weekend. We came—you mentioned thought leaders. And what I realized by the end is they’re not just progressive thought leaders. They are bringing the heart to the, their hearts to the causes, to the issues that we talked about. They’re leading from values and principles, and then their intellect informs the rest. But the first layer is the values and the principles that we espouse, for democracy and for human dignity.

PAUL JAY: The times we live in are, as I said, this may be—the coming election may be the most important ever, to a large extent because of climate change. If a climate denier is elected again, or if a corporate Democrat is elected who pays lip service to the climate crisis and doesn’t take effective action, we’re kind of screwed. We’re already close to 1.5 or 2 degrees above—in terms of warming, above pre-industrial averages. The tipping point is really within sight. In terms of the messaging of the extent of the crisis and what to do about it, do you think that was addressed here?

JANE SANDERS: I think it was. I think that people walked away with the concept that, and with the realization, that time is running out. And what we need to do is not just ask people what to do or inform people about the issue.

One of the things that we need to do, and the reason for the Gathering, was to amplify each other’s voices, resonate on the issues. We need leadership that actually says, I’m sorry, this is a crisis. We need to address it now. Not next year, not the year after. It’s leadership at the local, the statewide, the national, the international level. Not just people who are elected, but people who want to make a difference in the world.

At the end of the climate crisis panel, Bill McKibben said that we need to have healthcare, Medicare for All, a $15 minimum wage, and 100% renewable. Those are not the only things. But the 100% renewable and the focus on the climate crisis has to be at the outset of anybody running for office. Where do you stand? Where do you stand? Not [crosstalk]

PAUL JAY: Absolutely. But I’m not hearing it. Even with progressive candidates it’s like, I have to say even to some extent Bernie, although he’s certainly better than any of the others that actually have a mainstream role. But the extent of the threat is not like—it’s got to be front and center. We’re often, it’s like a shopping list, healthcare, Medicare for all, $15, climate. Well, climate is, it doesn’t matter if you get $15 an hour if we ain’t here. There seems to be a feeling both amongst people that work on this issue in the climate sector, people involved in political campaigns, that if you talk about the extent of the crisis you’re just going to scare people. Well, shouldn’t we be scaring people?

JANE SANDERS: I think so. I think you’re absolutely right. And we have to start—I believe a lot of people have conferences, and that’s the end game. Let’s have a conference. This was a jumping off point. We want to have the conference inform future action. What I heard from the questions from the attendees, the hallway conversations was that we have to hold people accountable. It’s not from a perception of you have to vote for this or vote for that. What do you understand about the climate crisis? Where do you stand on it, what are you willing to do, and what are you not willing to do? Don’t talk to me about in sound bites, don’t talk to me to say climate crisis is really bad, but no, I’m not going to fight the pipelines in the states. I’m not going to not take fossil fuel industry money. I think with the climate crisis, I think more than anything else we have to draw a very clear line and say these are the expectations. If you don’t do this, I don’t care how progressive you are, supposedly, it’s not—we’re not interested.

PAUL JAY: It’s got to be a criteria people use on who they vote for. But to do that we’ve got to get into those sections amongst working people who right now, climate is barely on the top 20 of their list. We did some work in southern Pennsylvania, we’ve done work around Baltimore where we’re based. And without doubt, the day-to-day suffering is such that people, they want that addressed. This thing has to be framed in a way that it is today. It’s not some great future prospect. And it’s your kids at stake, your grandkids at stake. The messaging is not getting through much to ordinary people.

JANE SANDERS: Well, when you look at the floods and the torrential rains and the fires, there is no analysis of that on the news. They cover it like voyeurs to say, oh, look at this terrible thing that’s happening. These people are helping, this is good news. The community is coming together, great. But they don’t ever ask why. Why is this occurring? Cover the science. And that is not happening. They need to cover the science.

PAUL JAY: Every day.

JANE SANDERS: Yeah, every day. But they’re not, and we need to insist they do.

PAUL JAY: We’re going to be, we are. and we’re going to be every day doing science. Because what’s missing from the whole discourse for ordinary people, people coming in on the issue, is the sense of urgency. People that understand what’s going on, we feel a sense of urgency, but there’s still this feeling that you can’t tell people that because it’s going to overwhelm them. It’s like treating people like kids.

JANE SANDERS: Partly. But I also think that people don’t want to have—want to just focus on a problem without a solution. Many of the people that are speaking about it or looking for votes don’t want to deal with the solutions. I do think that we have an opportunity at this point in time to say, to lay out what this administration has been doing in terms of rolling back air and water and all this, and all these regulations, and to recognize the support they’re giving to the fossil fuel industry with our tax dollars and not to renewables, which would help us. But to be able to say there is an answer.

The House just turned, and we should be making it very clear to the Democrats that are in control of the House, are you going to do something? If you’re not going to do something, thank you very much, we’re not going to be supporting you. If we say to the people, this is what you can do, and this is what we expect of you as leaders in your community or as elected leaders, we need your voice out there, then we can make a change. I think people need to not just focus only on the climate crisis, because as you say, that’s what everybody is saying. Everybody is going to be very nervous about it and very concerned. They should be, but we have to give them a path forward. We have to say how are you going to be able to make this-

PAUL JAY: Well, one of the things that came out of the conference was the discussion of a new green deal, a Green New Deal, I should say, which seems to make a lot of sense. It makes a lot of sense when you already understand why we need a new green deal—Green New Deal. Most people don’t even get the urgency of that.

JANE SANDERS: I think the bully pulpit really matters. The people in that room, and hopefully the people that watched on livestream, and the people that watch the things we’ll be putting out in the future at the Sanders Institute, will understand more. And Real News. You’ve been talking to people this entire time to have the Real News be covering the science, covering the facts, and having people who are in a position to lead their communities to solution. That helps. Now, the problem is that so many of the solutions, or so many of the approaches, seem to be protesting only. That’s not what we—I mean, protests are very important. That’s not enough. What we need to do is demand accountability, demand that they don’t take money from pipeline, they don’t support banks that fund pipelines. We need to say to our representatives and to the media, we expect you to ask and answer serious questions that are complex and not just give us sound bites.

PAUL JAY: I got a suggestion for the Sanders Institute.

JANE SANDERS: Okay.

PAUL JAY: One of the things I learned over the weekend was how Barcelona has created a publicly owned energy company. It seems to me more of that kind of program, like here’s what, if you actually took over a city, major city in this country, here’s what a city can do, here’s what a state could do. Also in terms of Congress, I think there’s going to be a real fight over whether real hearings are going to be held over what to do about climate change or trash Trump. I have no problem with trashing Trump. But if the focus is on that it’s just more of the same rhetorical battle.

JANE SANDERS: I agree. I think, unfortunately, the Democrats have a great opportunity, and unfortunately I’m concerned that they are going to blow it and focus on investigations, investigations, investigations. People want them to pay attention to the real issues facing their lives. And what’s happening now, I know, I really want Medicare for All, I really want $15 minimum wage, we want a lot of things. And a lot of new ideas and replicable policies came out of this conference. In terms of the climate crisis, what we need to do is focus on it, and if they don’t deliver to the voters that put them in, I think that it’s over. I think it’s over for that party. I don’t, I think-

PAUL JAY: It’s over for us humans.


JANE SANDERS: Well, but no. Because I think if they don’t focus on real change, on effecting real change, especially in this area, I think that we will be able to lead from below.

PAUL JAY: The logic—I mean, other than the fact that a whole section of the Democratic Party is very tied up with finance and fossil fuel, but set that aside for a second. They accept the dictatorship of corporate media. What I mean by that is the corporate news media is making a fortune out of this partisan battle. Not only does it drive ratings, because it’s like watching a football game, then the parties spend a billion, over a billion dollars, billions on advertising and campaigns. The partisan war, the news media loves. The logic goes if we have a hearing on climate change they won’t cover it.

JANE SANDERS: That’s what they said, actually. They have said that to us, that the ratings on climate change don’t matter. Then, at the same time, the ratings on fires and floods, they cover ad nauseum. Now, how hard would it be to cover them in a way that said these are the facts, this is climate change at work. This is why it’s happening. And this is what you can expect to happen later. These parts of the world are going to be underwater, and there’s going to be mass migration, and there’s going to be food shortages. They don’t have to cover it all at once. But when you look at things and you see the same footage for three days of terrible personal pain that people are experiencing, the loss of their homes and of their communities and even their cities, instead of saying, okay, we don’t have to put that on again, we can keep informing the people. That’s my, one of my concerns, is I think the fourth estate has been letting us down. A democracy requires an informed electorate. The media, the fourth estate, is supposed to inform the public. They’re not doing that. They’re selling ratings. But they’re not even thinking deeply about it. Because if they covered the fires and explained them, they’d get the same ratings.

PAUL JAY: I agree with you. But I have no expectation that corporate news media is going to change. This Democratic-controlled House, if they’re serious about climate change, they can create hearings with as much drama as the Kavanaugh hearings. You know, subpoena the head of Exxon, create a real dramatic presentation.

JANE SANDERS: Like they did with tobacco years ago, under Henry Waxman.

PAUL JAY: Exactly. But they have to want to do it. And that’s going to be a fight.

JANE SANDERS: It is going to be a fight, because people don’t want to take on the banks. They don’t want to take on the fossil fuel industry. They don’t want to take on the large donors and the big corporations. My hope is there will be—and I know there will be a group of people that will in the new Congress. And the Progressive Caucus in the Congress is pretty good. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-221017161839.png&hash=7d34712243960aa20883775dad728bc2115ed6fe)

PAUL JAY: There is a group now pushing for hearings on a Green New Deal.

JANE SANDERS: I think we’ll see some, for once, moving in the right direction. And I think the fact that under the Trump administration so many things have been so difficult for not just climate crisis, but everything, that I think people are beginning to realize we can’t take six more years of this. We can’t possibly survive that well. I guess that’s dramatic but-

PAUL JAY: A lot of people won’t survive.

JANE SANDERS: Yeah, a lot of people won’t. I think people are getting that. I have more faith in the American people. I think that they’re going to pay attention if they can be informed. That’s why places like The Real News and the Sanders Institute and all the people that were here from different organizations are so important, because—you started it with I don’t think they know. That education is extremely important.

PAUL JAY: Great, thanks very much.

JANE SANDERS: Thank you.

PAUL JAY: Thank you for joining us on The Real News Network.

https://therealnews.com/stories/climate-crisis-critical-issue-in-2020-elections-jane-sanders
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on December 08, 2018, 03:02:42 pm
CO2 emissions to hit historic highs in 2018 (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-200714183337.bmp&hash=fd5a6df63c32bd65dda7b6d93e788647ca3829df)

Date 05.12.2018

Author Elizabeth Schumacher


A study released at the COP24 climate conference blamed rampant use of coal and oil for the increase beyond the limits set by the Paris agreement.

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https://www.dw.com/en/co2-emissions-to-hit-historic-highs-in-2018/a-46606292
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on December 08, 2018, 08:40:27 pm
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Urge the EU to stand with people, not Trump (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fstyles%2Frenewablerevolution%2Ffiles%2F780_9adc777a0e08428257b76ece69d18ee52006bb5e39d60d966bb2440d29d17641.jpeg&hash=4d8f2f9ea7b952c63ad0441a4619e9b370ddcb0a) and Big Polluters 🦕🦖 (http://act.corporateaccountability.org/p/dia/action4/common/public/?action_KEY=23359)
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on December 12, 2018, 06:39:34 pm
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Fact checking the Trump 🦀 administration’s 🐉🦕🦖 climate change falsehoods (http://blogs.edf.org/climate411/files/2018/12/Climate-Change-Falsehoods.pdf)

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on December 12, 2018, 07:46:33 pm
Agelbert NOTE: Max Boot, a former Climate Change Denier, and a rather evil neocon warmonger too, has learned to add and subtract in biosphere math. 👍 (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-141113185047.png&hash=384024358ff8d5e7133d19b6e6638da4584a8154) I applaud his critical thinking skills and his honesty in admitting that he was wrong. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-080515182559.png&hash=d4dfa952fa0f817bf30a8059a4c88d6fb05ee1bf) I also applaud the fact that he makes it crystal clear WHY so many "conservatives" (i.e. bought and paid for reactionaries who have ZERO interest in conserving anything but their fat wallets) continue to insist (i.e. pretend) that Catastrophic Climate Change "ain't happening", WHILE ferociously defending welfare queen subsidies for the Hydrocarbon Hellspawn and the use of fossil fuels for energy. All you need to do is follow the ethically BANKRUPT money. >:( Yeah, they will all eventually come around to ADMITTING REALITY, even though I am certain that, right now, all those "conservatives" (they are evil, but they are not stupid) know full well how Greenhouse Gasses (i.e. Carbon Dioxide, Methane and excess water vapor) are devastating our biosphere. They just want to keep the bribes contributions gravy train (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fs3.amazonaws.com%2Frapgenius%2F1375371542_tumblr_m7jevgcaFm1qzqdem.gif&hash=1a2fe8d9567770e89661ad82a4e03b115e0f5358) from the polluters (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-130418203402.gif&hash=b2691028ba683a0039a5811f5775c68d7ccae01c) coming in as long as possible. It ain't poisonal; it's jes' bidness. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-311013200859.png&hash=a7aaaa9f04c1e3e2c948723b5f8c13fe814dacd4)

The question is, will enough of them come around soon enough to stop this insane profit over planet before it is too late?   ???

I don't know. What I do know is that we are running out of time.

 
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I was wrong on climate change. Why can’t other conservatives admit it, too? (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F1%2F3-210818163123-16662165.gif&hash=0c278af5ea445d20e48640c4f39f951df986eed6)

By Max Boot Columnist

November 26, 2018

I admit it. I used to be a climate-change skeptic. I was one of those conservatives who thought that the science was inconclusive, that fears of global warming were as overblown as fears of a new ice age in the 1970s, that climate change was natural and cyclical, and that there was no need to incur any economic costs to deal with this speculative threat. I no longer think any of that, because the scientific consensus is so clear and convincing.

The Fourth National Climate Assessment, released Friday by the U.S. government, puts it starkly: “Observations collected around the world provide significant, clear, and compelling evidence that global average temperature is much higher, and is rising more rapidly, than anything modern civilization has experienced, with widespread and growing impacts.” The report notes that “annual average temperatures have increased by 1.8°F across the contiguous United States since the beginning of the 20th century” and that “annual median sea level along the U.S. coast . . . has increased by about 9 inches since the early 20th century as oceans have warmed and land ice has melted.”

The report attributes these changes to man-made greenhouse gases and warns: “High temperature extremes, heavy precipitation events, high tide flooding events along the U.S. coastline, ocean acidification and warming, and forest fires in the western United States and Alaska are all projected to continue to increase, while land and sea ice cover, snowpack, and surface soil moisture are expected to continue to decline in the coming decades.”

The U.S. government warnings echo the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. In October, it released a report that represented the work of 91 scientists from 60 countries. It describes, in the words of the New York Times, “a world of worsening food shortages and wildfires, and a mass die-off of coral reefs as soon as 2040.”

The wildfires are already here. The Camp Fire blaze this month is the most destructive in California history, charring 153,000 acres, destroying nearly 19,000 structures, and killing at least 85 people. The second-most destructive fire in California history was the one last year in Napa and Sonoma counties. The Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies notes that climate change has contributed to these conflagrations by shortening the rainy season, drying out vegetation and whipping up Santa Ana winds. Massive hurricanes are increasing along with wildfires — and they too are influenced by climate change.

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Opinion | Climate change is political — when you deny it's happening (video at Washington Post Web site)
More powerful hurricanes are one of many signs of climate change, and those who deny it are complicit in the destruction, meteorologist Eric Holthaus says. (Gillian Brockell, Kate Woodsome, Adriana Usero/The Washington Post)

Imagine if these figures reflected a rise in terrorism — or illegal immigration. Republicans would be freaking out. Yet they are oddly blasé about this climate code red. President Trump, whose minions buried the climate-change report on the day after Thanksgiving, told Axios: “Is there climate change? Yeah. Will it go back like this, I mean will it change back? Probably.” And, amid a recent cold snap, he tweeted: “Brutal and Extended Cold Blast could shatter ALL RECORDS - Whatever happened to Global Warming?”

By this point, no one should be surprised that the president can’t tell the difference between short-term weather fluctuations and long-term climate trends. At least he didn’t repeat his crazy suggestion that climate change is a Chinese hoax. Yet his denialism is echoed by other Republicans who should know better. Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) told CNN on Sunday: “Our climate always changes and we see those ebb and flows through time. . . . We need to always consider the impact to American industry and jobs.” (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-251117175700.png&hash=00439d30db6e35817ea0d1fbcba614f1f971448e)

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Agelbert FACT CHECK:: Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) is a LIAR (and an Orwellian too!) when he claims to be "considering the impact to American industry and jobs". That's a Denier mendacious talking point his Hydrocarbon Hellspawn OWNERS have been pushing for decades. Look at IOWA in the following chart. Clean energy jobs are FAR more important than the Dirty energy fossil fuel jobs for the economy of Iowa. But, this Republican (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fstyles%2Frenewablerevolution%2Ffiles%2F780_9adc777a0e08428257b76ece69d18ee52006bb5e39d60d966bb2440d29d17641.jpeg&hash=4d8f2f9ea7b952c63ad0441a4619e9b370ddcb0a) Senator Ernst ONLY cares about fossil fuel jobs, NOT the economy of Iowa. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-200714183404.bmp&hash=dc40a133c761f80036b08ef0f6c0427aaa7e9f4b)

Don't tell me he hasn't seen that chart! He could care less about jobs for Iowans! All he cares about is pleasing the fossil fuel fascists that OWN him! Sen. Joni Ernst 😈 (R-Iowa) (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-130418201722.png&hash=5299cc10ee42beae76e4d3b7c79dbf5f4c0addac)is actually HURTING the jobs picture in Iowa by refusing to increase clean energy jobs. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F1%2F3-120818185039-1650578.gif&hash=f338daee4cd9cad66dc5bc5437615c9725fbc67d)


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We do need to consider the impact on U.S. jobs — but that’s an argument for action rather than, as Ernst suggests, inaction. The National Climate Assessment warns that global warming could cause a 10 percent decline in gross domestic product and that the “potential for losses in some sectors could reach hundreds of billions of dollars per year by the end of this century.” Iowa and other farm states will be particularly hard hit as crops wilt and livestock die.

Compared with the crushing costs of climate change, the action needed to curb greenhouse-gas emissions is modest and manageable — if we act now. Jerry Taylor, president of the libertarian Niskanen Center, estimates that a carbon tax would increase average electricity rates from 17 cents to 18 cents per kilowatt-hour. The average household, he writes, would see spending on energy rise “only about $35 per month.” That’s not nothing — but it’s better than allowing climate change to continue unabated.

I’ve owned up to the danger. Why haven’t other conservatives? They are captives, first and foremost, of the fossil fuel industry 🐉🦕🦖 , which outspent green groups 10 to 1 in lobbying on climate change from 2000 to 2016. But they are also captives of their own rigid ideology. It is a tragedy for the entire planet that the United States’ governing party (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2Fthumb_3-070115205550.bmp&hash=954ecd048188876741ab48a48f4eee644baa39ec)is impervious to science and reason. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-310714182509.png&hash=7a8191a3d5ff15c51ad36a342a0cd50a90b956bd)

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The Fossil Fuelers 🦖 DID THE Clean Energy  Inventions suppressing, Climate Trashing, human health depleting CRIME,   but since they have ALWAYS BEEN liars and conscience free crooks 🦀, they are trying to AVOID   DOING THE TIME or   PAYING THE FINE!     Don't let them get away with it! Pass it on!   
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on December 13, 2018, 04:58:03 pm
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Published on Apr 12, 2017 56,861 views

Noam Chomsky Climate Change Speech 2017

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on December 13, 2018, 07:43:53 pm
December 13, 2018

A plan to topple fossil fuels with people power

May Boeve - 350.org

I won’t sugar coat this, the last couple of weeks have been tough for our movement.

Each day seems to bring a new attack, from slashing regulations on coal plants to stalling climate agreements. But I'm writing you now because even as the fossil fuel industry is digging in its heels, I remain positive that we can do this. Our resistance is growing in strength, and we urgently need your support to keep that momentum going.

In the coming months, we're working to scale up our movement. I've recorded this short video to share how we're planning to do it but we need your help. Will you watch and make a gift right now to help us take on the fossil fuel industry in 2019?

https://youtu.be/T9bS9QZn--M

With just ten years to avoid the worst impacts of climate change, this is our moment to bolster the youth movements that are rising up around the globe, to support the Indigenous movements that are taking down pipelines, and to mobilize even more people like you to delay and defeat fossil fuel projects.

Please, make a gift of $10 right now to start 2019 strong.

There is so much work to be done, but I couldn’t be prouder to be in this fight together with you.

Thank you, and happy holidays,

May

https://act.350.org/donate/may-video-2018/
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on December 14, 2018, 04:28:21 pm
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What it Means to be Responsible - Reflections on Our Responsibility for the Future by Theresa Morris, State University of New York at New Paltz (http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/climate-change/global-warming-is-with-us/msg5598/#msg5598)
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on December 14, 2018, 07:57:43 pm
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🔊Don't commit climate suicide, UN Chief warns (https://mailchi.mp/climatenexus/dont-commit-climate-suicide-un-chief-warns)
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on December 14, 2018, 08:14:46 pm
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Small island nations (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-210614221847.gif&hash=54129e3b65760aaddc6f2d7f42b34a7d839d2f27) 'not prepared to die,' (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F1%2F3-111018132422-1693180.gif&hash=8bc43ce7ebff6fb3a70224434834524068d3583c)Tesla workers pushing to unionize, & more (https://mailchi.mp/climatenexus/small-island-nations-not-prepared-to-die-tesla-workers-pushing-to-unionize-more)
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on December 14, 2018, 08:36:16 pm
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Thu 13 Dec 2018 06.48 EST

By Jonathan Watts

SNIPPET:

Prof Richard Betts, who leads the climate research arm of Britain’s meteorological monitoring organisation, made the comments amid growing evidence that rising temperatures have passed the comfort zone and are now bringing increased threats to humanity.

“Global heating is technically more correct because we are talking about changes in the energy balance of the planet,” the scientist said at the UN climate summit in Katowice, Poland. “We should be talking about risk rather than uncertainty.”

Full article: 🧐

Global warming should be called global heating, says key scientist (https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/dec/13/global-heating-more-accurate-to-describe-risks-to-planet-says-key-scientist)
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on December 14, 2018, 09:37:29 pm
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New Study Could Make It Harder for Trump’s 🦀 EPA 🦕 to Ignore the Dangers of Greenhouse Gases

By Yessenia Funes

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“It’s not always obvious that those health impacts are related to climate change,” Duffy said. “It’s not always obvious that an extreme weather event is made more likely by climate change. It’s not always obvious that an economic cost is exacerbated by climate change, but if you look at the scientific data, it’s clear that all those things are happening
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The team cited more than 250 studies, but the paper could’ve easily included more, Duffy told Earther. While the endangerment finding groups information into seven sections (air quality; food production and agriculture; forestry; water resources; sea level rise and coastal areas; ecosystems and wildlife; and energy, infrastructure, and settlements), this study went further and also looked at ocean acidification, national security, violence and social instability, and economic wellbeing.

Read more:

https://earther.gizmodo.com/new-study-could-make-it-harder-for-trump-s-epa-to-ignor-1831077278
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on December 16, 2018, 07:36:46 pm
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Until We Confront Capitalism, We Will Not Solve the Climate Crisis

BY Anton Woronczuk, Truthout

PUBLISHED December 16, 2018

SNIPPET:

International climate negotiations have failed to curb runaway greenhouse gas emissions. Consumer-focused solutions to climate change won't be enough to address the systemic nature of the crisis. So what do we do to halt global warming? Simon Pirani, author of Burning Up: A Global History of Fossil Fuel Consumption (https://socialistproject.ca/2018/10/challenging-market-with-collective-solutions/), discusses the prospects for transitioning to a post-fossil fuel world.

Full article:

https://truthout.org/articles/until-we-confront-capitalism-we-will-not-solve-the-climate-crisis/

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on December 19, 2018, 02:12:06 pm
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December 19, 2018

Bill McKibben - 350.org

Delayed gratification is not easy for me — I want to win the climate fight right now, instead of watching sadly as forests burn and houses flood.

But watching my wife, Sue, teach our dog Birke this new trick (you have to watch the video) reminded me that patience is a virtue. Not too much — the climate crisis is a timed test — but enough not to walk away in frustration at political inaction or the slowness of social change.

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Because despite the year’s manifold frustrations, there are some good signs. In fact, it feels to me like we’re finally having a moment on climate change: the terrible California fires, coinciding with massive reports from the UN and the federal government on our climate peril, seem to have reached more people.

It’s true that Donald Trump is a dangerous climate denier — but that actually seems to be convincing most Americans that the climate crisis is very real and very risky.

So now’s the time to press forward hard and fast. We need your active participation in the climate movement — that’s by far the most important thing, as the young people flooding Capitol Hill for a Green New Deal are showing daily.

One way you can participate is by helping to fund this important work. We need some resources as we scale up our collective efforts to address the magnitude of the problem.

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With thanks,

Bill McKibben

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on December 19, 2018, 09:49:51 pm
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Published on Dec 19, 2018

Tina Oh of the Canadian Youth Delegation says COP24 failed to respect the rights of her own and subsequent generations

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
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December 17, 2018

By  Brian Kahn

The Green New Deal is popping. New polling released on Friday by the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication shows that 81 percent of respondents across the political spectrum support the progressive plan to combat climate change by rapidly weaning the U.S. off fossil fuels.

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The Fossil Fuelers 🦖 DID THE Clean Energy  Inventions suppressing, Climate Trashing, human health depleting CRIME,   but since they have ALWAYS BEEN liars and conscience free crooks 🦀, they are trying to AVOID   DOING THE TIME or   PAYING THE FINE!     Don't let them get away with it! Pass it on!   
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on December 21, 2018, 11:27:10 pm
Noam Chomsky - Political Betrayal, Mobilizing Action
2,550 views

https://youtu.be/S4KU5YQeWtQ

UPFSI

Published on Dec 18, 2018

http://ScientistsWarning.TV - We interviewed Noam Chomsky shortly before COP-24, the UN climate negotiations which took place in Katowice, Poland the first two weeks of December.  The COP itself ended as expected, with little progress and yet another kick of the can down the road. Noam's allusion to Nero in this video is quite apt.
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on December 22, 2018, 09:00:39 pm
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Kevin Anderson & Hugh Hunt - A Rule Book for the Climate Casino
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UPFSI

Published on Dec 12, 2018

http://ScientistsWarning.TV/ - Kevin and Hugh are back with us discussing the new 'climate glitterati' that come annually to the World Economic Forum in Davos to feign concern about the climate change, while they discuss techno-fixes that might allow them (in their minds at least) to continue their excessive lifestyle that is leading to runaway climate change and civilization's collapse.

Category Education


Peter Wadhams - IPCC Underestimates & Political Cowards
7,886 views

https://youtu.be/AEM2NhPw--U

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Global warming

Global warming is a long-term rise in the average temperature of the Earth's climate system, an aspect of climate change shown by temperature measurements and by multiple effects of the warming. - Wikipedia

UPFSI

Published on Dec 11, 2018

http://ScientistsWarning.TV/ - Dr. Peter Wadhams nails the problem squarely on the head. The IPCC continues to famously underestimate the problem, even in its most recent 'urgent' report, and the politicians remain cowards, self-serving & and 'corrupt,' serving first the 'fictitious persons' (corporations) on a daily basis and once every few years going through the 'democracy' charade, when in fact we live in a Monetocracy. We are in a sorry state, and the climate negotiations are disingenuous and unfortunately doomed to fail from a terminal case of 'kicking the can down the road'.  False promises are the hallmark of politicians.  But the IPCC can do better than to have continually underestimated the climate problem for the past quarter century.

Caption author (Dutch) Louis Dietvorst

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on December 29, 2018, 08:52:50 pm
Common Dreams

Published on Wednesday, December 19, 2018

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Kristine Mattis holds a Ph.D. in Environment and Resources. She is no relation to the mad-dog general. ;D  Email: k_mattis@outlook.com

SNIPPET:

We can keep deluding ourselves that economic growth and technological innovation will save our planetary ecosystem from utter annihilation, but that presumption is not based on sound knowledge of history or science.

Economic growth hasn’t even created the more equitable economic prosperity that it supposedly should (though we should know by now that assertion was simply a lie).

Just because we have been programmed to think the economy is the most important system on earth, this erroneous notion will not stop the rapidly deteriorating ecological conditions on the planet.

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on December 29, 2018, 09:15:42 pm
Biologist Kristine Mattis: "Our Way of Life Is Incompatible With the Continuance of Life"

https://youtu.be/RINKOrkPsDg


Collapse Chronicles

Published on Nov 2, 2018

In today's Chronicle of the Collapse of the planet, we hear from environmental scientist, Dr. Kristine Mattis. Here is a link  (https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/10/26/eco-crises-doom-gloom-truth-consequences)to her excellent essay from Common Dreams.

Category News & Politics

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on December 30, 2018, 05:40:21 pm
The Cause of Ice Ages and Global Warming on Planet Earth

February 2018

SNIPPET:

The long collective trudge through the intricacies of field data and models gradually increased understanding of all the interacting forces that drive climate cycles. By around 2013 computer models had finally advanced to the point where modelers could get convincing glacial cycles. They ran a climate model to take account of variations in sunlight and the rise and fall of CO2, then took snapshots from this model and fed them into a model for ice-sheet behavior and fed the result back into their climate model. They found that the approximate 100,000-year cycle might be explained by the slow settling of rock under the colossal weight of the North American ice sheet. After several 23,000-year cycles the Earth's crust sagged so far that the ice's surface was at a low enough altitude to melt in summer — but only when orbital conditions brought increased sunlight in northern latitudes.(57a) This was a good start, but it was only one of several ideas about how a huge ice sheet might become unstable. More work would be needed before the entire pattern of interactions among bedrock, ice sheets, oceans, and climate could be well understood.


The invaluable fruit of a century of ice ages research was the recognition of how complex and powerful the feedbacks could be. An intriguing clue came from some especially good Antarctic ice core records that timed precisely the changes in the levels of CO2 and methane. The levels apparently rose or fell a few centuries after a rise or fall in temperature. Later and even more precise work reversed this, finding that the CO2 rise came first. Still later work concluded that if there was a lag either way, it was too small to be seen amid the noise. All this drove home that it scarcely mattered which came first, for the chief effect of the Milankovitch-cycle orbital changes was to initiate a powerful feedback loop.

(https://www.universetoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/620px-milankovitchcycles.jpg)

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=>CO2 greenhouse

Our current situation was altogether different. The warming was not started by a small shift of sunlight, as in previous epochs. Our addition of gases to the atmosphere was initiating the process, with the temperature rise 🌡️ lagging a few decades behind the rise of gas levels. Emissions were surging far more swiftly than anything in the Pleistocene record. Already by the 1980s the levels of greenhouse gases had climbed far higher than anything seen for many millions of years. Even if we stopped our emissions, would feedbacks drive things higher on their own? There were disturbing signs that feedbacks were indeed kicking in. Drying forests and warmer seawater were getting less efficient at taking CO2 out of the air, and methane was seen bubbling up from Arctic wetlands.
   

<=CO2 greenhouse

By the start of the 21st century, it was clear that the connection between global temperature and greenhouse gas levels was a major geological force. All through the Pleistocene, the greenhouse gas feedback had turned the planet's orbital cycles from minor climate variations to grand transformations that affected all life on the planet. The geological record gave a striking verification, with wholly independent methods and data, of the processes that computer models were predicting would bring a rapid and severe global warming — a disruption of climate exceeding anything seen since the emergence of the human species.

Read more: The Discovery of Global Warming (https://history.aip.org/climate/cycles.htm)  (https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/304fa75d7ed32d56ae1ff3a796933cb65eac738511bb960bc4a77bb2f67c0af6.gif)

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on January 01, 2019, 04:44:47 pm
DeDec 15, 2018 | 185,518 views | by Connect4Climate

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"My name is Greta Thunberg. I am 15 years old. I am from Sweden".

https://youtu.be/VFkQSGyeCWg

Learn more:

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Climate Rebellion & Deep Adaptation

Posted on December 13, 2018, by Radio Ecoshock

GRETA THUNBERG – STIRRING YOUTH CLIMATE ACTIVIST IN POLAND

Every time world experts meet to hash out a climate deal, Stuart Scott appears in the NGO Press Room to interview all the voices left out or shut out by authority. Stuart makes You tube videos, now posted at scientistswarning.org. I interviewed Stuart Scott in October. This time has a special guest. Greta Thunberg, a Swedish school girl with excellent English, learned about the climate threat at an early age. Seeing nothing happening to stop it, she left class to protest outside with a simple sign. She then sat outside Parliament, until they made her move. Now a whole generation has been inspired by her. Stuart Scott brought Greta to the Conference of the Parties 24 in Poland – the first big climate meeting since Paris in 2015.

Greta Thunberg, Sweden

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on January 01, 2019, 05:20:01 pm
RADIO ECOSHOCK
91 Radio Stations and Growing!

December 13, 2018

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You, or anyone, can download this program in either CD Quality (57 MB) or Lo-Fi (lower quality audio 14 MB, faster download) using these permanent links:

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on January 02, 2019, 12:42:01 pm
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By Catie Keck

12/16/18 1:45pm Filed to: GREEN NEW DEAL

SNIPPET:

As the Green New Deal pioneered by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez continues to gain momentum, the plan to wean the U.S. off of fossil fuels has now found support in more than 300 local and state government officials who called for the initiative in an open letter on Friday.

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on January 03, 2019, 05:49:46 pm
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By ALISON ROSE LEVY, TRUTHOUT

PUBLISHED January 3, 2019

In 2020, the year of the next US presidential election, we will likely begin what the recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report defines as our final decade of opportunity to forestall or mitigate climate disruption. In 2019, we must assure that our elected leaders and presidential hopefuls seize this moment to act on climate change.

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Agelbert NOTE: Something like the following technofix scenario will probably be attempted if the CAPITALIST Profit Over People and Planet CORRUPT Status Quo continues to stifle Global Scale Action to eliminate the burnng of fossil fuels for energy and transition to a 100% Renewable Energy powered, pollution free economy where NO industry is allowed to pollute, be they chemical, phamaceutical, textile, construction or whatever.

The Plutocratic Parasites do not want to do that. They cannot accept the reality that their failed ideology is dooming a huge chunk of the biosphere, including humans. Facing reality is not their thing; it never has been.

So, when all the world's economies are crashing because of Catastrophic Climate Change, they will try a technofix for the purpose of maintaining their "profitable" multi-species extinction causing, pollution spewing, industrial status quo. 

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on January 04, 2019, 05:46:39 pm
The Big Wobble

Sunday, 30 December 2018

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Deadly temperatures so high petrol pumps seize up! The mercury hit's 49.3 Celsius (120.74 F) in parts of Australia hottest 🚩 in 20 years

Seven people have drowned as a heatwave grips Australia, sending big crowds to the beach to cool down, while a tropical depression in the far north threatens to turn into a cyclone by New Year's Day. Five of the deaths were in the southeastern state of Victoria between Christmas Eve and Saturday.

A South Korean drowned on Christmas Day while snorkelling in a lake in the eastern state of New South Wales while another man died in the surf on the Sunshine Coast in the eastern state of Queensland.

Temperatures have soared to well over 40 degrees Celsius (104 F) from Western Australia down through the sparsely populated central desert into the populous eastern seaboard states for seven days, with the weather bureau predicting the heat to continue after a brief New Year's Eve respite.

"Over the coming days the heat will contract inland but will build again from mid-week on Wednesday," said Jonathan How, a forecaster at the Bureau of Meteorology.

The bureau's "extreme heatwave" warning included Australia's most populous city, Sydney, but sea-side cities including Hobart, Adelaide and Melbourne were cooled by sea breezes.

For the four-fifths of Australia's 25 million people who live on the coast, summer's heat typically sends them out to laze on the beach.

But for those who live in the arid centre, there is little respite.

At the Kulgera Road House, near the centre of Australia where the nearest town has a population of just 15, the temperature was so high the petrol pumps seized up.

"It's so hot the fuel doesn't flow," said Shelley Safran, the acting manager, by telephone.

The recent hot spell broke records on Thursday at Marble Bar in Western Australia's mineral-rich Pilbara region, where the mercury hit 49.3 Celsius (120.74 F), the highest recorded since the weather station opened in 1999.

December is the beginning of the Southern Hemisphere summer and the season brings cyclonic rains to the country's far north.

A tropical low has formed off the coast of far north Queensland which the weather bureau says has a moderate chance of developing into a cyclone over the next few days.

The bureau issued a storm warning on Sunday for damaging winds and flooding rains over the Cape York Peninsula on the far northern tip of Australia, including the bauxite mining town of Weipa.

http://www.thebigwobble.org/2018/12/deadly-temperatures-so-high-petrol.html

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on January 05, 2019, 02:00:55 pm
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on January 05, 2019, 04:13:03 pm
 
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Watching the World Burn 🔥: Truthout Readers Share Their 😓 Climate Stories

PUBLISHED January 4, 2019

BY Dahr Jamail, Truthout

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From record-setting wildfires in California to years-long drought in mainland Australia and flooding in Tasmania to devastating tree-infestations along the Mediterranean, the impacts of runaway climate change are becoming increasingly severe. Truthout readers from around the world share their first-hand observations of climate change as it has manifested itself in recent years.

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January 7, 2019

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Blue Bottle Jellyfish: Adaptations, Facts & Habitat (https://study.com/academy/lesson/blue-bottle-jellyfish-adaptations-facts-habitat.html)

Listen to The Jellyfish

Climate change may be partly to blame for an epidemic of recent jellyfish stings in Australia, scientists say. Australian authorities report that more than 5,000 people were stung by bluebottle jellyfish over this weekend in Queensland alone, while 22,282 people sought treatment for a bluebottle sting in southeast Australia between December 1 and January 7—compared to just 6,831 during the same period last year.

Strong winds have blown jellyfish colonies towards the beaches in recent weeks, experts say, but warming oceans may be playing a part in boosting jellyfish populations by reducing predators and competitors. "Unlike other species, jellyfish are stimulated by just about any change to the ecosystem," Lisa Gershwin, a marine researcher at Australia's natural science agency, told the Washington Post. "So, it’s reasonable to say that the jellyfish might potentially be responding to the warmer-than-usual weather...Jellyfish are demanding our attention right now and we should be giving it to them. Those stings are an indication that something is wrong with our oceans—and we’re silly that we’re not listening."

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on January 07, 2019, 02:20:37 pm
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January 4, 2019

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The amount of sea ice around Antarctica has melted to a record low for January, scientists announced this week.

As of Jan. 1, there was 2.11 million square miles of sea ice around the continent, the smallest January area since records began in 1978, according to the National Snow and Ice Data Center.

Sea ice is frozen ocean water that melts each summer, then refreezes each winter. Antarctic sea ice is typically at its smallest in late February or early March, toward the end of summer in the Southern Hemisphere.

“Antarctic sea ice extent is astonishingly low this year, not just near the Ross Ice Shelf, but around most of the continent,” Cecilia Bitz, a polar scientist at the University of Washington, told Grist magazine on Thursday.

Specifically, the area of sea ice around Antarctica on Jan. 1 was 11,600 square miles below the previous record low for that date, set in 2017. It was 726,000 square miles below average – an area roughly twice the size of the state of Texas.

With six to eight weeks remaining in the melt season, the ice center said it remains to be seen whether the Antarctic sea ice will set its all-time record-low minimum.

More: Ancient Antarctic ice sheet collapse could happen again, triggering a new global flood

More: Greenland's ice sheet melt has 'gone into overdrive' and is now 'off the charts'

Sea ice loss – especially in the Arctic and less so in the Antarctic – is one of the clearest signals of global warming, the National Climate Assessment reported last year.

In addition to human-caused warming of the Earth's atmosphere and oceans, multiple factors – including the geography of Antarctica, the region's winds, as well as air and ocean temperatures – affect the ice around Antarctica.

"Although it is too soon for us to isolate what caused the rapid December decline and recent record low extents, it is likely that unusual atmospheric conditions and high sea surface temperatures – important factors in the 2016-2017 record lows – are playing a role," according to a statement from the National Snow and Ice Data Center.

The center added that even though sea ice occurs primarily in the polar regions, it influences our global climate and weather patterns around the world.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2019/01/04/antarctic-sea-ice-melts-record-low-january-scientists/2481706002/

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Post by: AGelbert on January 07, 2019, 04:46:34 pm
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Katharine Hayhoe 👍👍👍 Talks About Why Climate Change Is Real & Why She Still Has Hope

January 7th, 2019 by Steve Hanley

Katharine Hayhoe is an enigma to some. She is an evangelical Christian who is also an atmospheric scientist. Since 2005, Hayhoe has been a professor of political science at Texas Tech University. She has served as a reviewer for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and a lead author for the US National Climate Assessments.

Hayhoe may be best known for her book A Climate for Change: Global Warming Facts for Faith-Based Decisions (http://climateforchangethebook.com/). Her primary mission is bridging the divide between atmospheric scientists, conservative politicians, and the evangelical community. On her blog, she says, “I write about the things I’m interested in: the fascinating nuances of climate science, why a changing climate matters to real people, how we’re going to solve it, and what faith has to do with fixing this global challenge.”


A Thermometer Is Not Liberal Or Conservative

Recently she sat down with Guardian contributor Jonathan Watts to talk about climate science, politics, and why she continues to be hopeful for the future of civilization. The following is excerpted from that article. Asked about the importance of the IPCC 6 climate report and the US government climate assessment, both of which were published in late 2018, Hayhoe said, “Assessments like these provide us with a vision of the future if we continue on our current pathway, and by doing so they address the most widespread and dangerous myth that the largest number of us have bought into: not that the science isn’t real, but rather that climate change doesn’t matter to me personally.”

The role of the media got her attention next. “Climate change shouldn’t be fodder for commentators who represent the interests of the fossil fuel industry by muddying the science. As a human and a scientist, this focus on controversy is frustrating. A thermometer is not liberal or conservative.”


Three Keys To Climate Action

Hayhoe says she can see a difference between attitudes toward climate change ten years ago and today. “Today, most people can point to a specific way climate affects their daily lives. This is important because the three key steps to action are accepting that climate change is real, recognizing it affects us, and being motivated to do something to fix it. Opinion polls in the US show 70% of people agree the climate is changing, but a majority still say it won’t affect them.”

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After the latest climate assessment from the US government was published, the alleged president of the United States brushed it off. “I don’t believe it,” he said dismissively. Hayhoe commented on the politics behind that statement.

“It’s a vicious cycle. The more doom-filled reports the scientists release, the stronger the push back from politicians whose power, ideology and funding depends on maintaining the status quo, and who are supported by those who fear the solutions to climate change more than they fear its impacts.

“Opposition to climate change is a symptom of a society that is politically polarized between those who cling to the past and those who recognize the need for a better future. Fossil fuels have brought us many benefits — and I’m grateful for their contribution to my life — but the solution to our current crisis is to stop using them. That change can be scary, especially for those with most to lose financially from this shift. If you feel threatened, the instinctive reaction is to push back.”


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Tom Toles "What's a tipping point?" cartoon (The Madhouse Effect)

Will average global temperatures rise 1.5º C, 2.5º C, or more? Hayhoe says she isn’t sure, but believes they will rise until the people of the world come to a common consensus that climate change is clear and present danger to humanity.

“I’d put my money on a gradual bend away from a higher scenario, which is where we are now, until accumulating and worsening climate disasters eventually lead to a collective “oh (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fstyles%2Frenewablerevolution%2Ffiles%2F3104_shit%2520bitmap.png&hash=13c3368bd73680b8cbcbaaa8e306e42cb17d4d41)!” moment, when people finally realize climate impacts do pose a far greater threat than the solutions.

“At that point, I would hope the world would suddenly ramp up its carbon reduction to the scale of a Manhattan Project or a moon race and we would finally be able to make serious progress. The multitrillion-dollar question is simply when that tipping point in opinion will come, and whether it will be too late for civilizsation as we know it. I hope with all my heart that we stay under 1.5C, but my cynical brain says 3C. Perhaps the reality will be somewhere between my head and my heart at 2C.”

We should pause for a moment here to point out that a 2 degree rise in average global temperatures will bring with it cataclysmic changes that will threaten the existence of millions of species currently living on the Earth — including humans. It will bring rising sea levels, powerful storms, and catastrophic droughts. Hundreds of millions if not billions of people will migrate in search of food and water. If you think how paranoid people are by a few thousand refugees at America’s southern border, image the fear and loathing when their numbers rise a thousand fold or more!


Finding Reasons For Hope

Against the backdrop of impending climate havoc, are there any reasons to have hope for the Earth? Hayhoe believes there are, but shrugs off the likelihood that massive geoengineering projects will be the solution. “I believe it is important to discuss and study these technologies very thoroughly, because implementing some of them, like solar radiation management is extremely risky. It would be like giving an experimental drug to every human on the planet before it had been tested.”

“I’m more hopeful about smaller scale, less risky geoengineering projects that suck carbon dioxide out of the air, such as those being trialed by Climeworks to turn carbon into stone or fuel or even massive tree-planting efforts, as in Bhutan.”

The divestment movement is also becoming a powerful force for change. “When money talks the world listens,” she says. The rapid advances in solar and wind energy also provide a basis for hope. “There’s the encouraging news such as solar being the fastest growing power source around the world, clean energy jobs growing from India to the US, and new technology being developed every year that drops the price and increases the accessibility of fossil fuel alternatives,” she says, then buttresses her argument by referring to changes happening even in deeply conservative states as demonstrated by the “take-up of renewables even in conservative states like Texas, which now gets 20% of its energy from wind and solar power.”


Eyes On The Prize

“Scientists are not just disembodied brains floating in a glass jar,” Hayhoe says.

“We are humans who want the same thing every other human wants — a safe place to live on this planet we call home. So while our work must continue to be unbiased and objective, increasingly we are raising our voices, adding to the clear message that climate change is real and humans are responsible, the impacts are serious and we must act now, if we want to avoid the worst of them.”

“The most important thing is to accelerate the realization that we have to act. This means connecting the dots to show that the impacts are not distant any more. They are here and they affect our lives. It means weaning ourselves off fossil fuels, which is challenged by the fact that the majority of the world’s richest companies have made their money from the fossil fuel economy, so the majority of the wealth and power remains in their hands.”

Climate Change Is Relentless

Summing up, Hayhoe says, “Climate change is a long term trend superimposed over natural variability. There will be good and bad years, just like there are for a patient with a long term illness, but it isn’t going away. To stabilize climate change, we have to eliminate our carbon emissions. And we’re still a long way away from that.”

The bottom line? Stop burning fossil fuels. Right now, this very minute. Is that realistic? Of course not, but it is the only way humanity is going to survive the coming climate emergency. If we adjust our thinking to make the elimination of fossil fuels as soon as possible our primary goal, the time when such a thing is possible gets nearer. The best way to accomplish that goal is to put a price on fossil fuels that accurately reflects their social costs. Sure such an idea is unpalatable, but so is extinction.

https://cleantechnica.com/2019/01/07/katharine-hayhoe-talks-about-why-climate-change-is-real-why-she-still-has-hope/


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💐 Thank you Scientist Katherine Hayhoe. You are one of the great truth tellers of our time.
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January 9, 2019

US racking up disaster bills, Brazil's position on Paris could cause 'climate hell', & more (https://mailchi.mp/climatenexus/us-racking-up-disaster-bills-brazils-position-on-paris-could-cause-climate-hell-more)

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Post by: AGelbert on January 09, 2019, 09:43:07 pm
Agelbert NOTE: Yes, this belongs here. The REAL emergency is compared with the contrived one.

January 9, 2019

Trump’s 🦀 State of Emergency? – with Paul Jay & Gerald Horne

If Donald Trump follows through on his threat to declare a state of emergency, it puts the American state further into deep crisis – with historian Dr. Gerald Horn and host Paul Jay

https://youtu.be/ejnAVzYTT1Y

https://therealnews.com/stories/trumps-state-of-emergency-with-paul-jay-gerald-horne
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Post by: AGelbert on January 11, 2019, 01:16:39 pm
Flat Earth Cruise Proves Why Humans Will Absolutely, Positively Destroy The Earth

January 10th, 2019 by Steve Hanley

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https://cleantechnica.com/2019/01/10/flat-earth-cruise-proves-why-humans-will-absolutely-positively-destroy-the-earth/

https://youtu.be/ktnAMTmgOX0
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Post by: AGelbert on January 11, 2019, 01:45:45 pm
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Post by: AGelbert on January 11, 2019, 07:04:43 pm
Over 600 Groups Call for a Green New Deal

January 10, 2019

Tom Goldtooth of Indigenous Environmental Network says that a Green New Deal must reject corporate takeover and center indigenous and frontline communities

https://youtu.be/BhKHea4_pfI

Story Transcript

DHARNA NOOR: It’s The Real News, I’m Dharna Noor.

The Green New Deal continues to capture headlines. Popularized by Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez from New York and the Sunrise Movement, the broad policy umbrella is still being shaped and the umbrella seems to be getting bigger.

Over six hundred environmental and climate justice organizations signed onto an open letter to the House of Representatives calling for a Green New Deal. The letter, released Thursday and endorsed by groups from 350.org to the Labor Network for Sustainability to the Indigenous Environmental Network, calls for “visionary measures,” like an end to all fossil fuel leasing and the transition to one hundred percent renewables by 2035, the decarbonization of transportation and massive investment in public transit, the aggressive enforcement of the Clean Air Act, a just transition led by frontline communities, and a commitment to upholding Indigenous rights.

With me to discuss this and the shaping of the Green New Deal is Tom Goldtooth. Tom is the Executive Director of the Indigenous Environmental Network and he’s on the steering committee of Climate Justice Alliance. Both IEN and CJA Signed on to the letter. Thanks so much for coming on today, Tom.

TOM GOLDTOOTH: Thank you for the invite.

DHARNA NOOR: So you’re joining us today from DC, where you’ve been meeting with legislators on the Hill. Talk about what the response has been to this letter so far and what the conversation about this big splashy Green New Deal has been on the Hill.

TOM GOLDTOOTH: Well, it was a bit surprising to us on the interest that some of the legislators are having around an ambitious economic stimulus, you could say package, linked to climate issues. And that’s pretty much what some of the new freshmen on the Hill, Representative Cortez from New York, for an example, has taken a lead on working with this new youth movement, Sunrise Group. And we do recognize that they actually pushed this out there, the Green New Deal that created a reaction from a lot of the legislators.

And we went on to the Hill today to meet with some of the legislators. Some are familiar with Green New Deal, and many are not familiar with the letter that went out today. But it is consistent with this new buzz on the Hill of this very progressive movement that’s emerging that’s recognizing our frontline communities, including our frontline communities in Indian Country, that we’re there, we’re ready to have a strong part in this new initiative. And so, that’s what we talked about today.

DHARNA NOOR: And to go back to the letter itself, some 626 groups in all signed onto it, but the groups are pretty varied. So talk about how this particular set of demands came to be.

TOM GOLDTOOTH: Well, right. And our network, Indigenous Environmental Network, became involved as we worked with some of these groups. And we’ve been working as IEN and also our allies within Climate Justice Alliance on building alignment and building equity with a lot of the green groups. So we’re familiar with some of the main groups that have been behind the initial drafting of this letter. Of course, we really had to assert ourselves on different issues that are very dear to us on seeking real solutions to mitigate climate change. So there was a lot of input back and forth, but one of the things that we definitely have strong positions in standing together in solidarity is on the need to reduce our greenhouse gases, our carbon dioxide, our emissions sooner than 2050.

So that’s why we signed onto this, to support a hundred percent transition to a new economy that’s not reliant on fossil fuels, and also looking at the different mechanisms on how do we fund this, how do we fund it with public monies for an example, and not allowing corporate takeover. These are very critical issues that we put on the table from our communities because we’ve seen a lot of contradictions around climate legislation over the decades that we’ve been active. One of the areas that we’ve been pushing for is our rejection of a carbon market system as a solution. That includes cap and trade, carbon offsets and even carbon tax.

DHARNA NOOR: Yeah, and that’s something that CJA has been very critical of, is the inclusion of those sort of market-based solutions in climate policy. And I was really interested to see that the letter doesn’t call for carbon capture and storage or a carbon tax. Talk a little bit more about why those kinds of market-based solutions don’t have a place in a platform like this.

TOM GOLDTOOTH: Well, the platform did not go as far as rejecting a carbon tax. We did reach consensus that there was an opposition to carbon markets related specifically to carbon trading and carbon offsets. There are still some green groups who are signatory to this that are still keeping the door open to carbon tax, carbon dividends, carbon fees. But we stand united on the opposition, for an example, California has a very aggressive cap and trade program, carbon offset program that they’re operating domestically here in the U.S. and internationally. And one thing about carbon markets, it’s not about reducing emissions at source, and we try to stress that. We have released a report called Carbon Pricing: A Critical Perspective, released by IEN and Climate Justice Alliance, that has been very, very useful to a lot of the Green Movement, who tell us, “Hey, we did not understand it, but by reading the report, we stand with you.”

The techno fixes are very critical as well. In our analysis, it’s part of the false solutions. Carbon capture and storage, for an example, the technology is still being tested out there, concerns around leakage, and a lot of the private sector, the polluters, will benefit now, only to find out that there’s complications, and really justifying the offset regimes that happen in this scenario to where carbon capture and storage just isn’t working. Carbon capture use and storage and these other areas are very critical concerns with us. We have formed solidarity with other entities that have been addressing this issue as well. And so, we’re very thankful to all the other green groups, the six hundred and twenty some signatures, that they stand with us in looking for real solutions.

DHARNA NOOR: But what’s your response to some people who might say, “Oh, well market-based solutions are the only way that we can usher in change, because right now in a capitalist system, the markets have the power and that’s the only way that we can really usher in an end to climate change or a fight against climate change.” What do you say to people who are critical of the idea that we need such bold and radical action?

TOM GOLDTOOTH: Well, one thing, I’ve talked to a lot of those folks. I’ve been in many debates, not only here in the United States, but also globally within the UN climate negotiations. Many of them do not know the structure of the market system that we’re talking about, because even saying it has nothing to do about the reduction of emissions at source. they don’t know that the money that’s involved with offset and trading to fund these offset programs to put into the conservation of trees in the Global South, where carbon credits are very cheap, that money comes from the polluters of the North.

Chevron, for an example, in Richmond California can continue to pollute, and communities address it and say, “How come you’re not cutting back on your emissions?” And they say, “Well, you don’t understand, we’re offsetting our pollution.” “And how are you doing that?” They say, “We’re buying carbon credits in the Amazon to protect the trees.” And it’s a trading mechanism that really, in our eyes and our analysis, could really end up being a Ponzi scam. It’s part of climate disaster capitalism. So it really makes us address these issues around new forms of economics, for an example, energy policy, climate policy. We have to really look seriously at this issue from a different lens that’s community based.

And as Native American, as Indigenous peoples, we have been putting forward this new perspective of a new legal paradigm that’s needed that sees Mother Earth not from a resource, like capitalism looks at Mother Earth, as a living entity that recognizes the territorial integrity of Mother Earth, the Earth Jurisprudence, that the Earth and even the air and the water have rights. So these are certain things that, as Indigenous peoples, we’re bringing to the table, is a special relationship that humanity has to the sacredness of Mother Earth. So these are different concepts that we have been lifting up and that are very much needed as Americans, as humanity throughout the world, are looking for real answers to address this climate crisis.

DHARNA NOOR: You also mentioned the need to address funding. And of course, there’s many things in this plan, massive investment in public transit, the transition to one hundred percent renewables, that will take a lot of money. And some people, like members of Code Pink who are also signed on to the letter, have called for the Green New Deal to fight militarism and to defund the military, because the Pentagon is the world’s number one polluter, number one consumer of fossil fuels. Is that how you fund the Green New Deal? How do we get the money for this, if not from other parts of the government?

TOM GOLDTOOTH: It’s an important question, and it’s something that–we’re ready to have that discussion and that debate within our allies within the green groups. How are we going to propose initiatives that will create funding for this transition that has to be just? And it goes deeper than hooking up our communities with caulking guns for weatherization. It’s deeper than that. And we do advocate for weatherization programs, energy efficiency initiatives, not only in our urban and rural areas and People of Color communities, but also with our federally recognized tribes, very important that our tribes are a part of this.

Funding is a very important discussion, and that’s why we’re looking at how do we create public funding mechanisms with banks and co-ops and really preventing this corporate takeover that we’ve seen too many times. And it’s also looking at different initiatives. One example, all the tax loopholes that currently exist with oil and gas industry. If we cut that off, that’s about two point one, two point two billion dollars that we have available for just transition in this initiative. If we look at taxing the polluters outside of a market system, outside of a trading system, if we look at taxing the wealth and the people with money, there’s different mechanisms, different ways that we can look at creating money, cutting back the subsidies that the United States provides for fossil fuel development.

So that’s what we’re willing to look at. And as part of Climate Justice Alliance, we are developing just transition initiatives involving our own co-ops, our own regenerative loan programs around reinvestment within our power. So we’re doing that along with our Indigenous Environmental Network and many of our partners in this Just Transition initiative.

DHARNA NOOR: And lastly, I guess, this all comes after Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, with the support of the Sunrise Movement, called for the creation of a Select Committee on the Green New Deal. But instead, of course, House Speaker Pelosi created the Select Committee on Climate Change that doesn’t have subpoena power, doesn’t exclude representatives who take fossil fuel money. How much of a challenge has that posed to the legislative aspect of this Green New Deal to the House’s ability to actually act on any this?

TOM GOLDTOOTH: It’s a good question that we have to really look at the experience of our folks that have been here on the Hill and to help our freshmen legislators. And we must not underestimate this power that has been created with our youth, with the Sunrise Movement, and that’s growing. We are meeting with them as Climate Justice Alliance, as IEN. The strategy around the mechanisms for creating these committees is very critical, and we will be there and involved with helping to be part of those decisions and standing behind the legislators that are open and listening to our perspectives.

DHARNA NOOR: All right. Well, Tom, I know that you have a happy hour to get to with CJA in DC, so thank you so much. And as this Green New Deal continues to broaden and take shape and shift, we’d love to talk to you again. So please come back, and thank you.

TOM GOLDTOOTH: Yes, thank you.

DHARNA NOOR: And thank you for joining us on The Real News Network.

https://therealnews.com/stories/over-600-groups-call-for-a-green-new-deal
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on January 11, 2019, 07:16:41 pm
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Among effects, extra warmth can reduce oxygen in the oceans and damages coral reefs that are nurseries for fish, the scientists said. Warmer seas release more moisture that can stoke more powerful storms. 🌊

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Oceans Warming Faster Than Predicted, Scientists Say

By Reuters on Jan 10, 2019 05:49 pm

nuclear icebreaker convoyBy Alister Doyle, Environment Correspondent OSLO, Jan 10 (Reuters) – The oceans are warming faster than previously estimated, setting a new temperature record in 2018 in a trend that is damaging marine life, scientists said on Thursday. New measurements, aided by an international network of 3,900 floats deployed in the oceans since 2000, showed more […] 

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on January 14, 2019, 07:25:42 pm
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on January 15, 2019, 08:51:55 pm
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BY Anton Woronczuk, Truthout

PUBLISHED January 15, 2019

SNIPPET:

To give you an idea of how much heat the oceans have absorbed: if that heat had instead gone into the atmosphere, the global temperature would be 97 degrees Fahrenheit hotter than it is today. For those who think that there are still 12 years left to change things, the question posed by a sea level rise expert in my book seems painfully apt: How do we remove all the heat that’s already been absorbed by the oceans?

Read more:

https://truthout.org/articles/a-farewell-to-glaciers-coral-reefs-and-rainforests/

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on January 24, 2019, 10:10:04 pm
Jetstream Wind Speed
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Status Report on our Abruptly Changing Climate: 1 of 2 // Jan 18, 2019

https://youtu.be/ygNuDYxquoc

Here is an overdue chat on our abruptly changing climate. After a hiatus for chess study and competition and to recharge my internal batteries, I am refreshed and chomping at the bit, like the proverbial Energizer Bunny:)

I join-the-dots on extreme events like Australia’s heat waves (50 C; 122 F), eastern North America and European deep freezes, torrential rains in Europe and California, accelerating ice melt from Greenland and Antarctica releasing methane, and huge insect kills in near-equator rainforests.
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Status Report on our Abruptly Changing Climate: 2 of 2 // Jan 18, 2019

https://youtu.be/AkQqkrZ6_Dg

Second video, same introductory text.
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on January 25, 2019, 01:48:51 pm
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Sarah Huckabee Sanders (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-311013201314.png&hash=0715eb72631014310634eb56176ff860c6d542f6) gets schooled by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-210614221847.gif&hash=54129e3b65760aaddc6f2d7f42b34a7d839d2f27)

Bill Palmer | 4:35 pm EST January 24, 2019

Palmer Report » Analysis

Republican politicians and pundits just keep lining up to dishonestly attack new Democratic Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and it just keeps working out poorly for them. The latest member of the GOP to take on AOC in a battle of wits is the eternally witless Sarah Huckabee Sanders, and well, you can already figure out who won and who didn’t.

Sarah Huckabee Sanders went on Fox News and slammed Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s climate change plan, saying “I don’t think that we are going to listen to her on much of anything, particularly anything that we will leave into the hands of a much, much higher authority.” This is far from the first time in which Sanders has severely twisted Christianity to fit her distinctly un-Christ-like political view, but rarely has it gone quite this poorly for her.

Ocasio-Cortez promptly fired back on Twitter with three Bible verses that spell out how God would actually want us to deal with climate change and the planet:

Genesis 1: God looked on the world & called it good not once, not twice, but seven times.

Genesis 2: God commands all people to “serve and protect” creation.

Leviticus: God mandates that not only the people, but the land that sustains them, shall be respected.


Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez then added “You shouldn’t need a Bible to tell you to protect our planet, but it does anyway.” Not surprisingly, Sarah Huckabee Sanders has had nothing to say in response. It’s still not quite clear why so many prominent figures in the the Republican Party and the Trump regime keep taking on the same freshman Congresswoman. But it is clear that they keep losing whenever they try it.

https://www.palmerreport.com/analysis/sarah-huckabee-sanders-schooled-alexandria-ocasio-cortez/15484/
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on January 26, 2019, 09:12:27 pm
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Published on Aug 1, 2018

The Uninhabitable Earth is a New York magazine article by American journalist David Wallace-Wells published on July 9, 2017. The long-form article depicts a worst-case scenario of what might happen in the future due to global warming.

https://youtu.be/z9RlqNKmP-A
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on January 27, 2019, 09:15:14 pm
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Greta Thunberg  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-080515182559.png&hash=d4dfa952fa0f817bf30a8059a4c88d6fb05ee1bf) (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-210614221847.gif&hash=54129e3b65760aaddc6f2d7f42b34a7d839d2f27)"Our House is on Fire" (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F1%2F3-111018132401-16881856.gif&hash=ef5bd30cec7a50a81f3507f9bd328189dead7aa2)  2019 World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos

https://youtu.be/zrF1THd4bUM

UPFSI

Published on Jan 25, 2019

Subscribe to http://ScientistsWarning.TV - Greta has done it again. You go girl!  Here Greta makes a historic statement to the world's glitterati, political, business, banking and entertainment celebrities all at once, point out that most of the ARE the problem! When it comes to climate in particular, and destruction of the biosphere in general, those she spoke to at Davos ARE the source of the problem.  Let's see it this young lady's 'truth to power' shakes things up a little.  It took a brilliant, focused child to say that these emperors and empresses have no clothes on. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-130418202709.png&hash=7503265ec59e4c28d735afb762bc39f4674bd838)

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on January 28, 2019, 05:29:14 pm
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A scientist returning to the Puerto Rican rainforest recently found that 98 percent of all the ground insects had disappeared since he was there 35 years ago. 😨

PUBLISHED January 28, 2019

By DAHR JAMAIL, TRUTHOUT

SNIPPET:

There's little doubt now that we are destroying the life support systems necessary to allow us and our cohabitants on this planet to sustain our existence, despite all the denials from the Trump White House. Researching and collating information for the monthly climate dispatch has become an exercise in watching the slow death of a loved one. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-041115022304.png&hash=cd8cb8e28ab8f7fc78c1ea00d30a661bd937aed5)

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We Are Destroying Our Life Support System (https://truthout.org/articles/we-are-destroying-our-life-support-system/)

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on January 28, 2019, 06:16:34 pm
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In Mount Everest Region, World's Highest Glaciers Are Melting, Receding


https://youtu.be/RTnxJKo97DI

In this photo essay, the editor of the Nepali Times describes the dramatic changes underway in the ice and snow of the Himalayan Mountains.

BY KUNDA DIXIT, NEPALI TIMES

NOV 26, 2018

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https://insideclimatenews.org/news/26112018/mount-everest-photos-world-highest-glacier-climate-change-khombu-icefall-climbing-route

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on January 30, 2019, 05:57:44 pm
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The dominance of psychopaths in the West results from the total control of society by the Right, a euphemism for psychopaths, which derives from the total victory of capitalism, and the destruction of socialism and collectivism of any kind.

(https://revisesociology.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/crimogenic-capitalism.jpg)

Capitalism operates like cancer to destroy everything it comes across, people or natural resources, and turns them into the dead stuff of capital, which must accumulate forever, if only to pay off debt.

Once it stops growing it rapidly implodes, like a hypernova into a black-hole, a fact of gravity that the psychopathic Masters of the Universe are attempting to avert until it disappears over the event horizon of their own deaths, by producing ever more debt, and by increasing and deepening the exploitation of humanity and the living Earth.

Russia and China must not be [allowed to become] independent, because then they cannot be looted by the 'Atlanticist' elite. Capitalism is psychopathy in action, created by psychopaths and ever empowering them. --  Justin Case

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Agelbert RANT:

Trump 🦀 is just the latest TOOL of the Profit Over People and Planet Fossil Fuel Psychopaths 🐉🦕🦖.


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True, Trump 🦀 is not as polished as some of the other POTUS polluter welfare queen tools, being merely a street smart low grade con artist. Without that silver spoon that was stuck in his mouth when he was born, he would have never gotten past high school before landing in a prison cell for larceny or r a p e.  But, he nevertheless has been, so far, quite successful at propping up the polluter ☠️ welfare queens 😈, to the severe, species killing detriment of the biosphere. 😟 🤬


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We get rid of the polluter corporations 🐉🦕🦖 AND asset strip AND imprison their CEOs 🎩 AND fine 💵 their stock holders 👹 (i.e. ANYBODY that has held polluter stock during the last 50 years or so) or we all go extinct.

The mealy mouthed bleating advocacy of "incremental" clean energy measures, based on the wishful thinking that these half measures will "gradually convince the polluters to stop polluting and become part of the clean energy solution" (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F1%2F3-250718202127.gif&hash=acc63221521ebaf3f238088fd92d1ae3a08b6e48), is NOT NOW, OR EVER, GOING TO WORK (see below).

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This is not hard to understand.

There are only two paths here. We ARE on the wrong path.

If you think we can somehow muddle along to a Renewable Energy powered world though incremental measures instead of a World War Scale Criminalization of Polluters and ALL who profit from pollution, you are not part of the reality based community.

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Message of the Utmost Importance for Intelligent, Caring Humans. (http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/climate-change/future-earth/msg7563/#msg7563)

Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on January 31, 2019, 11:28:24 pm
Global Warming and Extreme Cold: How One Leads to the Other

https://youtu.be/AV_FVs8RYxw

The Real News Network

Published on Jan 31, 2019

TRNN Replay: Research on the connection between extreme weather – such as the severe cold snap that hit the US Northeast – and global warming, shows that these are intimately connected, despite what climate deniers such as President Trump say

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on January 31, 2019, 11:42:15 pm
Americans’ Concern About Climate Change Surging to Record Levels

January 30, 2019

Dr. John Kotcher of George Mason University discusses a new poll about climate change and says improvements in media coverage have helped spur the public’s concern about the issue

https://youtu.be/A9uDcL1q2ZA

https://therealnews.com/stories/americans-concern-about-climate-change-surging-to-record-levels
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on February 01, 2019, 09:48:05 pm
JANUARY 31, 2019 / 9:11 PM

Australia had hottest month on record in January, heatwave to continue: weather bureau

SNIPPET:

MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Australia endured its hottest month on record in January, with sweltering conditions expected to persist through April 😓, the country’s weather bureau said on Friday.

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https://www.reuters.com/article/us-australia-weather/australia-had-hottest-month-on-record-in-january-weather-bureau-idUSKCN1PQ3FI

Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on February 04, 2019, 11:55:54 am
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EcoWatch

In Response to Lies and Hate, Let Me Make Some Things Clear About My Climate Strike

Common Dreams Feb. 04, 2019 09:07AM EST

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"We children shouldn't have to do this. But since almost no one is doing anything, and our very future is at risk, we feel like we have to continue." Photo: @GretaThunberg
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By Greta Thunberg

If everyone listened to the scientists and the facts that I constantly refer to—then no one would have to listen to me or any of the other hundreds of thousands of school children on strike for the climate across the world. Then we could all go back to school.

Recently I've seen many rumors circulating about me and enormous amounts of hate. This is no surprise to me. I know that since most people are not aware of the full meaning of the climate crisis (which is understandable since it has never been treated as a crisis) a school strike for the climate would seem very strange to people in general.

So let me make some things clear about my school strike.

In May 2018 I was one of the winners in a writing competition about the environment held by Svenska Dagbladet, a Swedish newspaper. I got my article published and some people contacted me, among others was Bo Thorén from Fossil Free Dalsland. He had some kind of group with people, especially youth, who wanted to do something about the climate crisis.

I had a few phone meetings with other activists. The purpose was to come up with ideas of new projects that would bring attention to the climate crisis. Bo had a few ideas of things we could do. Everything from marches to a loose idea of some kind of a school strike (that school children would do something on the schoolyards or in the classrooms). That idea was inspired by the Parkland Students, who had refused to go to school after the school shootings.

I liked the idea of a school strike. So I developed that idea and tried to get the other young people to join me, but no one was really interested. They thought that a Swedish version of the Zero Hour march was going to have a bigger impact. So I went on planning the school strike all by myself and after that I didn't participate in any more meetings.

When I told my parents about my plans they weren't very fond of it. They did not support the idea of school striking and they said that if I were to do this I would have to do it completely by myself and with no support from them.

On August 20, 2018 I sat down outside the Swedish Parliament. I handed out fliers with a long list of facts about the climate crisis and explanations on why I was striking. The first thing I did was to post on Twitter and Instagram what I was doing and it soon went viral. Then journalists and newspapers started to come. A Swedish entrepreneur and business man active in the climate movement, Ingmar Rentzhog, was among the first to arrive. He spoke with me and took pictures that he posted on Facebook. That was the first time I had ever met or spoken with him. I had not communicated or encountered with him ever before.

Many people love to spread rumors saying that I have people "behind me" or that I'm being "paid" or "used" to do what I'm doing. But there is no one "behind" me except for myself. My parents were as far from climate activists as possible before I made them aware of the situation.

I am not part of any organization. I sometimes support and cooperate with several NGOs that work with the climate and environment. But I am absolutely independent and I only represent myself. And I do what I do completely for free, I have not received any money or any promise of future payments in any form at all. And nor has anyone linked to me or my family done so.

And of course it will stay this way. I have not met one single climate activist who is fighting for the climate for money. That idea is completely absurd.

Furthermore, I only travel with permission from my school and my parents pay for tickets and accommodations.

My family has written a book together about our family and how I and my sister Beata have influenced my parents' way of thinking and seeing the world, especially when it comes to the climate. And about our diagnoses. That book was due to be released in May. But since there was a major disagreement with the book company, we ended up changing to a new publisher and so the book was released in August instead.

Before the book was released my parents made it clear that their possible profits from the book, Scener ur hjärtat, will be going to eight different charities working with environment, children with diagnoses and animal rights.

And yes, I write my own speeches. But since I know that what I say is going to reach many, many people I often ask for input. I also have a few scientists that I frequently ask for help on how to express certain complicated matters. I want everything to be absolutely correct so that I don't spread incorrect facts, or things that can be misunderstood.

Some people mock me for my diagnosis. But Asperger is not a disease, it's a gift. People also say that since I have Asperger I couldn't possibly have put myself in this position. But that's exactly why I did this. Because if I would have been "normal" and social I would have organized myself in an organization, or started an organization by myself. But since I am not that good at socializing I did this instead. I was so frustrated that nothing was being done about the climate crisis and I felt like I had to do something, anything. And sometimes NOT doing things—like just sitting down outside the parliament—speaks much louder than doing things. Just like a whisper sometimes is louder than shouting.

Also, there is one complaint that I "sound and write like an adult." And to that I can only say; don't you think that a 16-year-old can speak for herself? There's also some people who say that I oversimplify things. For example when I say that "the climate crisis is a black and white issue"; "we need to stop the emissions of greenhouse gases"; and "I want you to panic." But that I only say because it's true. Yes, the climate crisis is the most complex issue that we have ever faced and it's going to take everything from our part to "stop it." But the solution is black and white; we need to stop the emissions of greenhouse gases.

Because either we limit the warming to 1.5°C over pre-industrial levels, or we don't. Either we reach a tipping point where we start a chain reaction with events way beyond human control, or we don't. Either we go on as a civilization, or we don't. There are no gray areas when it comes to survival.

And when I say that I want you to panic I mean that we need to treat the crisis as a crisis. When your house is on fire you don't sit down and talk about how nice you can rebuild it once you put out the fire.

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If your house is on fire you run outside and make sure that everyone is out while you call the fire department. That requires some level of panic.

There is one other argument that I can't do anything about. And that is the fact that I'm "just a child and we shouldn't be listening to children." But that is easily fixed—just start to listen to the rock solid science instead. Because if everyone listened to the scientists and the facts that I constantly refer to—then no one would have to listen to me or any of the other hundreds of thousands of school children on strike for the climate across the world. Then we could all go back to school.

I am just a messenger, and yet I get all this hate. I am not saying anything new, I am just saying what scientists have repeatedly said for decades. And I agree with you, I'm too young to do this. We children shouldn't have to do this. But since almost no one is doing anything, and our very future is at risk, we feel like we have to continue.

And if you have any other concern or doubt about me, then you can listen to my TED talk here (or below), in which I talk about how my interest for the climate and environment began.

And thank you everyone for your kind support!

It brings me hope.

Watch Greta Thunberg's full TED Talk:

https://youtu.be/EAmmUIEsN9A

https://www.ecowatch.com/greta-thunberg-climate-strike-2627956100.html

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on February 06, 2019, 12:22:46 pm
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This is all the water on Earth if it was in the same place. (http://www.treehugger.com/clean-water/if-you-put-all-water-earth-one-place-itd-look-like-this.html)

On the scale of the planet, the oceans aren't that deep, so it doesn't take that much of a change to affect coastlines.

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"Facing these climatic changes will be like getting into a fight with Mike Tyson, Schwarzenegger, Stallone, Jackie Chan—all at the same time," lead author Camillo Mora told CBS. "I think we are way above our heads." (https://www.cbsnews.com/news/climate-change-multiple-disasters-at-once-study-warns/)

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Consider Pareto’s 80-20 rule, which states that 80 per cent of something relates to 20 per cent of those involved – a surprisingly useful and robust rule of thumb. Applied to climate change this would mean that 80 per cent of emissions derive from roughly 20% per cent of the population. This relationship holds fairly well within different nations as well as globally. What if we then look at the 20 per cent group and apply Pareto to them – and then repeat the process again? What we find is that about 50 per cent of the world’s emissions come from about 1 per cent of the world population. (https://makewealthhistory.org/2015/04/10/climate-change-has-a-1-too/)

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"he United States has far greater domestic energy resources than Iceland or Sweden. We sit atop the second-largest geothermal resources in the world. The American Midwest is the Saudi Arabia of wind. Solar installations across just 19 percent of the most barren desert land in the Southwest could supply nearly all of our nation’s electricity needs even if every American owned an electric car." --  Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

What it Means to be Responsible - Reflections on Our Responsibility for the Future by Theresa Morris, State University of New York at New Paltz (http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/climate-change/future-earth/msg7563/#msg7563)
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on February 06, 2019, 12:31:34 pm
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The Annihilation of Nature : Human Extinction of Birds and Mammals

By (author)  Gerardo Ceballos , By (author)  Anne H. Ehrlich , By (author)  Paul R. Ehrlich
 
Gerardo Ceballos, Anne H. Ehrlich, and Paul R. Ehrlich serve as witnesses in this trial of human neglect, where the charge is the massive and escalating assault on living things. Nature is being annihilated, not only because of the human population explosion, but also as a result of massive commercial endeavors and public apathy.

Despite the well-intentioned work of conservation organizations and governments, the authors warn us that not enough is being done and time is short for the most vulnerable of the world's wild birds and mammals. Thousands of populations have already disappeared, other populations are dwindling daily, and soon our descendants may live in a world containing but a minuscule fraction of the birds and mammals we know today.

The Annihilation of Nature is a clarion call for engagement and action. These outspoken scientists urge everyone who cares about nature to become personally connected to the victims of our inadequate conservation efforts and demand that restoration replace destruction. Only then will we have any hope of preventing the worst-case scenario of the sixth mass extinction.

https://www.bookdepository.com/Annihilation-Nature-Gerardo-Ceballos/9781421417189
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on February 06, 2019, 10:56:26 pm
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Published: February 6th, 2019

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2018’s Billion-Dollar Disasters Show Weather & Climate Impacts Across the U.S. (https://www.climatecentral.org/gallery/maps/billion-dollar-disasters-2018)
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on February 07, 2019, 01:30:34 pm
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Guillemot is the common name for several species of seabird in the Alcidae or auk family (part of the order Charadriiformes). In British use, the term comprises two genera: Uria and Cepphus. In North America the Uria species are called "murres" and only the Cepphus species are called "guillemots". The common guillemot is one of the most abundant seabirds in temperate and colder parts of the northern hemisphere (http://www.npolar.no/en/species/common-guillemot.html), with very large populations in the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans, and adjacent areas of the Arctic Ocean. In the northeast Atlantic its range extends from Portugal in the south to Svalbard and Novaya Zemlya in the north and includes the Baltic. The common guillemot has a more southerly breeding distribution than the Brünnich's guillemot, but the two species do overlap in some places.

EcoWatch

Lorraine Chow Feb. 06, 2019 10:16AM EST

20,000 Seabirds Mysteriously Wash Up Dead on Dutch Coastline 😟 (https://www.ecowatch.com/seabirds-dead-netherlands-2628155422.html)
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on February 07, 2019, 02:39:59 pm
February 7, 2018

Green New Deal Resolution (https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/5729033/Green-New-Deal-FINAL.pdf) (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-141113185701.png&hash=615e3c1aa9c374cb1eab5bfc1e9494f2cb05e9f7)
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on February 07, 2019, 05:08:09 pm
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February 7, 2018,

Today’s resolution presents a plan to transition America to 100% clean and renewable energy. It offers a just transition for all communities and workers who have been impacted by climate change, and a job guarantee with a family-sustaining wage for everyone in our society.

The Green New Deal has made it to the halls of Congress because of grassroots support in every corner of the country. We still have a long road ahead to pass the bold policies we’ve been fighting for, and I can’t wait to see what we will do together.

Click here to demand that your elected official support the Green New Deal. (https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/tell-congress-support-sen-markey-rep-ocasio-cortezs-resolution-for-a-green-new-deal)
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on February 07, 2019, 09:39:53 pm
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Published on Feb 4, 2019

Total melt of west Antarctic glaciers would raise global sea levels about 5 meters; Greenland glacier melt would add 7 meters; east Antarctic plus mountain glacier melt would add 60 meters (total about 72 meters = 238 feet). I discuss how melt rates of Antarctica glaciers are rapidly increasing due to warm salty ocean water incursions under the ice; in fact under Thwaites Glacier in west Antarctica an enormous hole (about 4 km wide x 10 km long by 300 meters high) has appeared in only a few years.

Please support my independent climate system science research and videos by donating to my website http://paulbeckwith.net

Huge Cavity Melted Out in Antarctic Glacier: Part 1 of 2

https://youtu.be/JTZpGrlihTA

Huge Cavity Melted Out in Antarctic Glacier: Part 2 of 2

https://youtu.be/VpAQi7emaDQ
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on February 08, 2019, 12:14:43 am
Life on a Shrinking Planet

Premiered Jan 2, 2019

6,652 views

https://youtu.be/Db6C0wKn440

Going South

Copyright Disclaimer: Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favour of fair use. These images and video clips are widely drawn from the internet to illustrate these points and to educate the public.

"How Extreme Weather Is Shrinking the Planet" is based on an article written by Bill McKibben (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F1%2F3-120818185038-16442135.gif&hash=52927992b43007fa5c5eb6ffcb453ae29948c356) which was published in the New Yorker for the issue for November 26, 2018.

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How Extreme Weather Is Shrinking the Planet (https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/11/26/how-extreme-weather-is-shrinking-the-planet)

"How Extreme Weather Is Shrinking the Planet" is a co-production and created by eco-information activist, Jennifer Hynes and WIGO Voices of Dissent Host / mover and shaker, Dougie The Abolitionist. Jennifer Hynes is known worldwide for her Methane Monster videos, as well as a commentator and sought-after guest about abrupt climate change and its dire consequences to humanity. Dougie The Abolitionist is the host of Voices of Dissent,
voicesofdissent.org, which is hosted each Saturday afternoon on WIGO AM 1570 in Atlanta, Georgia.

This production was narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini from the podcast "How Extreme Weather Is Shrinking the Planet" created by Audm at https://www.audm.com/

Category Science & Technology

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on February 09, 2019, 03:36:06 pm
RADIO ECOSHOCK
91 Radio Stations and Growing!

Global Heat Alert?   ???

Posted on January 24, 2019, by Radio Ecoshock

SNIPPET 1:

While Washington spins, here is the real alert. We may be in a rapid shift of warming on Earth. Interviews with top ice scientist Eric Rignot on Antarctic ice rush; Yangyang Xu – fast heat from air cleanup; and Julio Herrera Estrada on super drought science.

It’s very serious. Australia has been hit with yet another summer from Hell. The government warns citizens to stay inside, as temperatures went over 45 degree C, 113 Fahrenheit in parts of New South Wales, South Australia, and Victoria. As reported in thebigwobble blog “In the South Australian town of Port Augusta, temperatures hit 48.5C on Tuesday, the highest since records began in 1962… According to the country’s meteorological bureau, the past four days are among Australia’s top ten warmest days on records.”

Bats and birds are dropping dead ☠️ out of the sky from the heat 🌡️. Millions of fish died. Crops are damaged, and more humans will die ☠️ from heat 🚩.

Here in the Pacific Northwest, December was 3 degrees C, over 5 degrees Fahrenheit warmer than normal, day and night. The U.S. South and East have been battered by storm after storm, as has California. The Polar vortex split, spattering bitter cold into pockets around the world for short periods, including the U.S. Northeast and Canada where temperatures went up and down as much as 27 degrees in a single day. London was set for “Thunder Snow”. We are in climate disarray.

I am on the phone with scientists trying to find out why things are jumping instead of ramping up more slowly. Last week I covered new science titled “Global warming will happen faster than we think.” Grab that if you missed it. This week I talk with the lead author of that paper, Yangyang Xu. We zero in on the way a cleanup of air pollution, particularly in China, may be revealing hidden heat built up over decades of fossil fuel emissions. Later we will explore the way warming makes big droughts worse, with scientist Julio Herrera Estrada.

But first, we get a briefing from Eric Rignot, Senior Research Scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab, and one of the top ice experts in the world. Eric has more staggering news, this time from Antarctica.

ANTARCTICA MELTING 6 TIMES FASTER! – ERIC RIGNOT

Here is the latest shocking headline in this age of climate change: “Antarctica losing six times more ice mass annually now, than 40 years ago”. To explain the breaking science we are joined by Dr. Eric Rignot, Chair of Earth System Science at University of California, Irvine, and Senior Research Scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena.

SNIPPET 2:

Look for my follow-up interview with Antarctic specialist Dr. Richard Levy from New Zealand in an upcoming Radio Ecoshock show. There is more amazing (but frightening) new science to come.

It really worthwhile to follow Eric Rignot on Twitter (@erignot)

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on February 09, 2019, 05:28:14 pm
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An enormous waterfall gushes off the Nansen Ice Shelf. Credit: Jonathan Kingslake

RADIO ECOSHOCK
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When it comes to sea level rising by feet or meters, the biggest fear is melting mountains of ice piled up on Antarctica. Recently NASA scientist Eric Rignot told us those glaciers are melting six times faster now than in the 1950’s. In another just-published paper, scientists discovered the marriage of two forces making that happen. This could determine the future map of the world, as disastrous sea flooding invades farmlands, cities, and whole nations.

The science is challenging. It involves a 34 million year history of Antarctic ice, tiny single-celled animals, carbon dioxide, and the astronomical place of Earth in space. All of that. Fortunately we have the lead author Dr. Richard Levy here to help. Dr. Levy is a Paleoclimate Scientist and Programme Leader at New Zealand’s GNS Science, a government Crown Corporation. Levy is a veteran of scientific expeditions to Antarctica, with many papers about the coldest continent on Earth. He is the co-author of the paper “Antarctic ice-sheet sensitivity to obliquity forcing enhanced through ocean connections” as published in Nature Geoscience 2019.

Audio: 🔊

https://www.ecoshock.org/2019/01/big-trouble-at-the-poles.html

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on February 09, 2019, 09:24:28 pm
The Big Wobble

Thursday, 7 February 2019

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Dead cattle in Argentina

A glimpse of our future? Heatwaves in the southern hemisphere is killing wildlife ‘on a biblical scale’ from record-breaking heat (https://www.thebigwobble.org/2019/02/a-glimpse-of-our-future-heatwaves-in.html)
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Global Warming and the Colorado River

Len Rosen 👨‍🔬 👍 4 Feb 5th, 2019

February 5, 2019 – The United States Bureau of Land Reclamation reported this week that the Colorado River has reached a climate tipping point as global warming continues to dry up areas of the Western U.S.

The river is slowly dying because the sources that feed it are receiving less precipitation, and because of agricultural, urban and industrial water being drawn from it. Seven U.S. states compete for water rights along the Colorado, as do Indigenous American tribes, and Mexico. The jurisdictions from south to north are Mexico, California, Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico, Colorado, Wyoming, and Utah.

Since 2000 the Southwestern United States has experienced temperatures above normal causing excessive evaporation in the Colorado River basin from the snowpack sources, tributary streams, and the two artificial lakes created behind the Hoover and Glen Canyon Dams. Both Lake Mead and Lake Powell have seen dramatic drops in water levels over this period of time. A recent study calculates the drop in flow by as much as 19% below pre-2000 levels.
 
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With current global mean temperatures having risen 1 Celsius (1.8 Fahrenheit), that translates to a 10% decline from norms in the mountain snowpack. And each additional degree will see that decline grow even further, something climatologists believe will happen well before 2070 even if global greenhouse gas emissions are reduced from current levels. The latency of accumulated greenhouse gases in the atmosphere will put the entire Colorado River basin at risk with significant river flow declines.

Scientists no longer call what is happening in the U.S. West as drought or megadrought. A new term, aridification, they believe is a better descriptor. That’s because the U.S. West in the age of climate change is overall becoming drier and that means the mountain snowpack is migrating to higher elevations and declining in size.

States Doug Kenney, Director of the Western Water Policy Program, University of Colorado – Boulder, the Southwest will have to learn to live with less water. The threats to Lake Powell and Mead aren’t just about the water. They are also about the power generation that comes from the hydroelectric facilities that rely on the head, the vertical drop in elevation created by the reservoir that creates the forces to drive the turbines to generate electricity. If the water levels in these dams drop below a critical level, it will expose the water intake and leave the penstocks, the pipes that channel the water, high and dry.

On January 24,  the Salt Lake Tribune reported that Lake Powell may be doomed. One proposal has farmers selling their water rights back to the federal government and giving up farming to ensure there is enough water in the reservoir behind the Glen Canyon Dam so that the hydroelectric facility can remain online.

A drought contingency plan for Lake Mead includes mandatory cutbacks to water use from the farms, communities, and cities that rely on the river basin. That includes Las Vegas, Phoenix, and Los Angeles. The future of this part of the United States and its prosperity is tied to the Colorado. Without reductions in water usage from the seven states that share the basin along with Mexico, this part of America may produce climate change migrants who will be moving north and east to find a sustainable future.


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Water levels in Lake Mead illustrate the current state of aridification in the Colorado River basin. The structures seen in the foreground would normally be three-quarters submerged.

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
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Dutch Government Receives Petition from 2.9 Million Citizens to Reduce Country’s Ecological Footprint

lenrosen4 Feb 4th, 2019

February 4, 2019 – A delegation of 31 organizations within The Netherlands petitioned the government on January 22nd this year to drastically reduce the country’s ecological footprint within the next 10 years. The average person in The Netherlands today, based on lifestyle, is supported by the output of 5.9 hectares (over 14.5 acres) of land, more than three times the size of what is considered sustainable for the planet. That number has been calculated at 1.7 hectares (4.2 acres).

The petition was inspired by a government report acknowledging that the country’s “wealth and ecological footprint are attained at the expense of people elsewhere on Earth and seriously threaten the welfare of our children and future generations.”

The petitioners stressed that fighting greenhouse gas emissions was not enough. That the country needed to look at tackling the overuse of biological resources and of pollution in the environment.

Our average human ecological footprint, the amount of land and water needed to sustain each and every one of us, today is measured at 1.7 hectares which totals 12 billion hectares when you take into consideration the total population of the planet. But in 2012 our ecological footprint was already 2.84 hectares (7 acres) per person. That meant we were consuming 1.75 Earths to sustain us, and for the Dutch, based on 5.9 hectares per person, nearly 3.5 Earth equivalents.

In the petition it states the following:

“The ‘Broad Prosperity Monitor’ of the Dutch Central Statistics Bureau (CBS) makes clear that we have a global and ecological footprint. Because of this, we are violating many human rights. Fortunately, the government is planning to reduce our CO2 emissions considerably, because climate disruption is already a threat to the world and every year. change – for example, a dramatic decline in the biodiversity, quality, and productivity of agricultural and fishing grounds, our disproportionate claim on those grounds, and the pollution of the environment that is happening everywhere. Continuing to strive for even more unqualified economic growth is irresponsible. Effective and just measures are needed in a coherent way. That is why we urge the policy to drastically reduce our ecological footprint within 10 years.”

The “Broad Prosperity Monitor” referred to above, is a 124-page report published in 2018 in which is recorded the discussions of the Dutch Parliament about the country’s prosperity including current and future quality of life. The Parliament concluded that The Netherlands is unjustly using a larger part of the global ecospace than what is deemed sustainable. The report further noted that as long as the planet appeared to have enough space, there was no problem. But around 1970, humanity shot through what is described in the report as the sustainability barrier where the planet became too small for us.

The report further states that despite several serious warnings from organizations like the Club of Rome in 1972, the United Nations in 1987, and the most recent warning by 21,000 scientists from 184 countries in 2017, humanity continues to not take our ecological footprint seriously.

Stated Eric Wiebes, the Minister of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy, “It is no secret that the Netherlands has a large footprint. We also have the obligation to clean up our own mess.”

The petition goes on to describe the sacrifice Dutch society needs to make for the planet to be safer in the future, and that by reducing the country’s global footprint it ensures the survival of the future generations of all humanity.

Stated Ingrid Robeyns, of Utrecht University, “What we need is national unanimity as if we were in a war.” (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-130418202709.png&hash=7503265ec59e4c28d735afb762bc39f4674bd838)

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Source: the Living Planet Report 2018

The graph on the left shows a dotted line that indicates sustainable eco-capacity. Around 1970, based on the categories of land use and carbon output you can see how we exceeded the planet’s capacity to sustain us over the long term.

https://www.21stcentech.com/dutch-government-receives-petition-2-9-million-citizens-reduce-countrys-ecological-footprint/

"Technical knowledge of Carrying Capacity will not save us; only a massive increase in Caring Capacity will." -- A. G. Gelbert
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
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Europe’s Most Noted Rivers Are in Danger of Drying Up

lenrosen4 Jan 20th, 2019

January 20, 2019 – In 2015 my wife and I booked a river cruise that had us commuting from Prague to Nuremberg and then departing from there on the Rhine before transferring by canal to the Danube. We had chosen to travel in September because the heat of the summer was supposedly nearing an end, and the river levels at that time of year were considered stable. Neither of these two facts was borne out. A persistent heat wave had temperatures in the mid to high 30s Celsius (well over 90 Fahrenheit) every day. And with no rain because of prolonged drought, river levels were lower than normal.

So we never embarked in Nuremberg and in fact were bussed to Passau on the Danube where the river was deep enough for our boat’s passage. Our river cruise became a mixed bag of bus trips to the cities and towns we couldn’t access because of low water. And then when we headed downstream to Vienna and beyond to Budapest, our boat struck bottom about 75 kilometers upstream from Hungary’s capital and once more we were on buses.

Was this a normal occurrence? We were assured not, but it appears to becoming the new normal for Europe’s two major tributaries, the Rhine and the Danube. These two are to Europe what the Mississippi-Missouri-Ohio River system is to the United States or the St. Lawrence-Great Lakes to Canada. They are critical transportation arteries filled with barge traffic moving raw resources, manufactured goods, and people. And when there is low water, or high water the transportation network they represent grinds to a halt.

This last summer has proven to be the exception that is becoming the rule. A prolonged summer drought shut down river traffic for nearly a month. A car ferry operator on the Rhine named Kevin Kilps is quoted in a Bloomberg article stating, “You can see the water levels are lower each year…It’s scary to watch the climate changing.”

 
 
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The graph displayed above shows changes in water level on the Rhine River near Kaub, the place where Kevin Kilps operates his car ferry. The red line shows the mean trend downward during from June to November.
 
Low water levels on the Rhine impact Germany’s industrial sector in significant ways. Companies like Daimler, Robert Bosch, Bayer, BASF, ThyssenKrupp, and Volkswagen are dependent on the river as a transportation artery. BASF’s CEO, Martin Brudermueller, blamed the low water in the Rhine for nearly 250 million Euros ($280 million USD) in increased operational costs. With water depths at a 12-year low, much of the river traffic consisting mainly of barges was unable to navigate the full length of the river, almost 1,300 kilometers. Instead, barges which can carry much larger loads than trucks or trains could no longer be used to transport raw materials and finished goods.

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Barges like the one seen here on the Rhine River represent Germany’s most economical method for transporting raw materials and finished goods from the interior to the North Sea.

So what is happening to Europe’s two great rivers? Both headwaters, the Rhine and Danube, originate in the Alps. They are glacier and snow-fed. And the alpine glaciers of Europe are receding because warming temperatures are melting the ice faster than the snow can replenish them. In twenty years what the Rhine and Danube have been recently experiencing will become the norm as the reliable cycle of ice-fed rivers is disrupted as alpine glaciers disappear.

This problem isn’t limited to the Rhine-Danube. Asia’s great rivers from the Indus in Pakistan, to the Yellow in northern China, have their sources in the Himalaya’s fed by glaciers that are similarly receding. The cause: atmospheric warming.

https://www.21stcentech.com/europes-noted-rivers-danger-drying/

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on February 11, 2019, 10:11:01 pm
What Would Happen If All Ice On Earth Melted?

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Many people have wondered what would happen if all the glacial ice on the planet melted. Some believe that it would be a water world with no land in sight, while others think that could never happen. But the Earth is changing in more ways than you might think on its own. Many might wonder how much of the Earth’s current global warming trend is affected by humans. Regardless of who is to blame, whether the planet is just going through a natural phase in its evolution, or if we are responsible, the evidence shows that the planet is getting warmer and warmer every year. But just how much of the planet could end up covered in water if all the glacial ice melted?

The Arctic isn’t the same as it was today as it was, say… 100 years ago. Temperatures there have been rising at twice the normal rate which has been sparking some very alarming changes unlike anything seen in recorded history. 87% OF Antarctica Peninsula Glaciers have melted since 1945. Now the regions sea ice is declining by 13% percent each decade. Scientific predictions that foresaw an ice-free Arctic Ocean during the summer between 2040 and 2050 may come to pass even sooner than we thought.

A lot of people will think ‘well that’s no big deal… just get everyone to move to higher ground’. Sounds like a simple solution. However, aside from the fact that billions of people would be displaced, there would be more to worry about now that all the Arctic ice has melted. What is not commonly known is that the Earths’ poles not only get less direct sunlight than lower latitudes, but the sea ice is white, and therefore reflects most of the sunlight that hits it back out into space. That reflectivity called ‘albedo’ helps keep the poles cold and limits the heat absorption from the Sun.

But that’s not all. Scientists have known for a long time that the Arctic tundra and marine sediments contain large frozen deposits of methane gas which, if released into the atmosphere, will increase greenhouse gases. So as the Arctic Sea ice melts, this source of methane will increase. Think runaway greenhouse effect which likely helped destroy the atmosphere on Mars along with the solar winds that stripped the planet of its atmosphere.

But that’s not all. During this time there could be massive Earthquakes if the ice melted fast enough. One of the more uncommonly known things is that all that ice has some serious weight and suppression to it, and it has been holding down the Earth, and global warming has already bled the frigid continent of about 2.7 trillion tons of ice with over half those losses occurring in the last 5 years.

Most climate scientists agree the main cause of the current global warming trend is human expansion of the greenhouse effect… warming that results when the atmosphere traps heat radiating from Earth toward space.

Some of the things you can do are to buy anything reusable and be conscious of garbage and waste and try to recycle everything. Saving gas by walking more or taking the bus can help, as well as planting trees. But it takes more than just a handful of people to make a change, it takes everyone to make an impact. Perhaps humanity will embrace this global threat on our planet and governments will act fast enough to possibly reverse the damage.
And for those people who procrastinate, the time for action is now…because we just may have an ally in our own Sun…

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on February 12, 2019, 04:48:24 pm
February 12, 2019

SNIPPET:

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One thing that becomes obvious when reading the text of this section is that goals are frequently described as “reduce or eliminate,” and the phrase “as much as technically possible” is freely applied. This is an important document that sets high goals, but it is also a document that deliberately works within the realm of the possible.  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-060518153110.png&hash=39d587c31b7f7e66b30d7e59bb560e2ad0662eee)  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-250817121424.gif&hash=384c17a4d2be4831084933b91808f8a60f73f7f5)(https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-250817121649.png&hash=4554f7e59701d12857946aece16bceb973c997b3) (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F1%2F3-111018132421-16902.gif&hash=deba9f0f91ecd7d65bbdeb78786bef4a98cb1a7e)

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I hope I am wrong about that, But if I am right, it's pretty much over for this country, and possibly the world. Have a nice day.   

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Scientists have known for a long time that the Arctic tundra and marine sediments contain large frozen deposits of methane gas which, if released into the atmosphere, will increase greenhouse gases. So as the Arctic Sea ice melts, this source of methane will increase. Think runaway greenhouse effect which likely helped destroy the atmosphere on Mars along with the solar winds that stripped the planet of its atmosphere.

But that’s not all. During this time there could be massive Earthquakes if the ice melted fast enough. One of the more uncommonly known things is that all that ice has some serious weight and suppression to it, and it has been holding down the Earth, and global warming has already bled the frigid continent of about 2.7 trillion tons of ice with over half those losses occurring in the last 5 years.


Associated Video:

https://youtu.be/-0QwdJ37Y38

The Dutch, unlike too many Americans, are not reality challenged. I sincerelly hope more people in this world, including the USA follow the example of the Ducth people who filed the following petition recently:

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Dutch Government Receives Petition from 2.9 Million Citizens to Reduce Country’s Ecological Footprint

lenrosen4 Feb 4th, 2019

February 4, 2019 – A delegation of 31 organizations within The Netherlands petitioned the government on January 22nd this year to drastically reduce the country’s ecological footprint within the next 10 years. The average person in The Netherlands today, based on lifestyle, is supported by the output of 5.9 hectares (over 14.5 acres) of land, more than three times the size of what is considered sustainable for the planet. That number has been calculated at 1.7 hectares (4.2 acres).

The petition was inspired by a government report acknowledging that the country’s “wealth and ecological footprint are attained at the expense of people elsewhere on Earth and seriously threaten the welfare of our children and future generations.”

The petitioners stressed that fighting greenhouse gas emissions was not enough. That the country needed to look at tackling the overuse of biological resources and of pollution in the environment.

Our average human ecological footprint, the amount of land and water needed to sustain each and every one of us, today is measured at 1.7 hectares which totals 12 billion hectares when you take into consideration the total population of the planet. But in 2012 our ecological footprint was already 2.84 hectares (7 acres) per person. That meant we were consuming 1.75 Earths to sustain us, and for the Dutch, based on 5.9 hectares per person, nearly 3.5 Earth equivalents.

In the petition it states the following:

“The ‘Broad Prosperity Monitor’ of the Dutch Central Statistics Bureau (CBS) makes clear that we have a global and ecological footprint. Because of this, we are violating many human rights. Fortunately, the government is planning to reduce our CO2 emissions considerably, because climate disruption is already a threat to the world and every year. change – for example, a dramatic decline in the biodiversity, quality, and productivity of agricultural and fishing grounds, our disproportionate claim on those grounds, and the pollution of the environment that is happening everywhere. Continuing to strive for even more unqualified economic growth is irresponsible. Effective and just measures are needed in a coherent way. That is why we urge the policy to drastically reduce our ecological footprint within 10 years.”

The “Broad Prosperity Monitor” referred to above, is a 124-page report published in 2018 in which is recorded the discussions of the Dutch Parliament about the country’s prosperity including current and future quality of life. The Parliament concluded that The Netherlands is unjustly using a larger part of the global ecospace than what is deemed sustainable. The report further noted that as long as the planet appeared to have enough space, there was no problem. But around 1970, humanity shot through what is described in the report as the sustainability barrier where the planet became too small for us.

The report further states that despite several serious warnings from organizations like the Club of Rome in 1972, the United Nations in 1987, and the most recent warning by 21,000 scientists from 184 countries in 2017, humanity continues to not take our ecological footprint seriously.

Stated Eric Wiebes, the Minister of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy, “It is no secret that the Netherlands has a large footprint. We also have the obligation to clean up our own mess.”

The petition goes on to describe the sacrifice Dutch society needs to make for the planet to be safer in the future, and that by reducing the country’s global footprint it ensures the survival of the future generations of all humanity.

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Source: the Living Planet Report 2018

The graph on the left shows a dotted line that indicates sustainable eco-capacity. Around 1970, based on the categories of land use and carbon output you can see how we exceeded the planet’s capacity to sustain us over the long term.

https://www.21stcentech.com/dutch-government-receives-petition-2-9-million-citizens-reduce-countrys-ecological-footprint/

"Technical knowledge of Carrying Capacity will not save us; only a massive increase in Caring Capacity will." -- A. G. Gelbert

Life on a Shrinking Planet

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on February 15, 2019, 01:43:48 pm
 
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on February 18, 2019, 11:43:10 pm
Deep Adaptation - Jem Bendell & Toni Spencer

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https://youtu.be/daRrbSl1yvY

UPFSI

Published on Feb 14, 2019

Subscribe to http://ScientistsWarning.TV - Professor Jem Bendell is author of Deep Adaptation, which summarizes climate science and trends to suggest that humanity faces inevitable societal collapse, probably within 10 years.

Please watch the video all the way through as the mental, emotional and psychological support comes after the 'bad news' is presented and discussed.

The presentation, to 300 people in Bristol, UK, was his first recorded lecture on the Deep Adaptation. Using a more informal format than a University lecture, the Professor of Sustainability Leadership at the University of Cumbria, invites the audience to explore forms of action additional to cutting and drawing down carbon from the atmosphere - actions associated with personal and collective preparedness for coming disruption. Accompanying him was Toni Spencer, a facilitator who works on Deep Adaptation and Transition.

After Jem's talk, Toni led the audience in a reflective process to explore feelings and ideas emerging. She also offered some poems and reflections during the process. Members of the Climate Psychology Alliance spoke from the floor, explaining their new initiative to provide therapeutic support to people working on or affected by this agenda. The event was organized by the local Constituency Labour Party and Momentum group, but made open to anyone with any political interest or none.

To engage on this topic see http://www.deepadaptation.info

We thank Emilio Mula for filming and editing, and Seeding Our Future (futurescanning.org) for support to make it possible.

Professor Bendell is co-leading a retreat on Deep Adaptation in the UK in September 2019.  For details... https://bit.ly/2N3YfQq

You would do well to consider the prospects of Deep Adaptation, and what its implications are for you, your family, your work and your life.

Category Education
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on February 19, 2019, 04:35:48 pm
The disturbing hypothesis for the sudden uptick in chronic kidney disease

Our kidneys might be vulnerable to the more frequent extreme heat brought on by global warming.

By Julia Belluz@juliaoftorontojulia.belluz@voxmedia.com  Feb 15, 2019, 7:10am EST

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https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/2/15/18213988/chronic-kidney-disease-climate-change

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on February 19, 2019, 07:03:30 pm
I go by a coal train almost every day. 

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It goes North to BC.

Canada's stupidity aside for a moment, coal power STILL sources way too much of the electric grid's power in the USA.  👎

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/national/power-plants/

Coal power is inefficent.

Inefficiency of fossil fuel powered grid energy system according to Amory Lovins
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It'll take a while, but coal power will replaced, along with all the other STUPID fossil fuel based power sources, by Renewable Energy through High Voltage Transmission lines from wind (https://cleantechnica.com/2019/02/18/giant-wind-power-transmission-project-could-spark-new-wind-rush-in-wind-belt/), solar AND geothermal sources.

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Hopefully we will not all die in our polluted atmosphere waiting for the 'greed is good' 😈 Profit over People and Planet humans 🦍 to get their STUPID fossil fuel loving heads out of their asses.


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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on February 20, 2019, 04:59:47 pm
February 20, 2019

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on February 20, 2019, 07:24:18 pm
The End of Ice & the Destruction of our Planet (w/ Dahl Jamail)

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Published on Jan 21, 2019

Our Conversations with Great Minds series re-launches with a fascinating discussion with author Dahl Jamail, author of "The End of Ice".

The world is melting; oceans are rising, yet most ignore the perils ahead. Thom and Dahl's conversation covers the state of the Great Barrier Reef in Australia, melting glaciers which could drown the planet and whether it is too late to reverse climate change. Has humanity destroyed itself?

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on February 20, 2019, 07:51:51 pm
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5,844 views

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Published on Feb 19, 2019

How close are we to wrecking the planet and have we reached the point of no return? Could civilization end soon? The reports Thom highlights, seem to think so.

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on February 21, 2019, 01:16:31 pm
CleanTechnica
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After Florida, Arizona’s Real Estate Market Will Be Hit Next By Global Warming (https://cleantechnica.com/2019/02/20/after-florida-arizonas-real-estate-market-will-be-hit-next-by-global-warming/)

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on February 21, 2019, 05:34:50 pm
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After Florida, Arizona’s Real Estate Market Will Be Hit Next By Global Warming (https://cleantechnica.com/2019/02/20/after-florida-arizonas-real-estate-market-will-be-hit-next-by-global-warming/)

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We have a foot of snow on the front stoop as I type.

No drought today, tonight or tamale.......

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🤔 🔥 Arid-zona under Catastrophic Climate Change

"We have a foot of snow on the front stoop as I type.", as in ALL of Arizona or even 20% of Arizona?

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As to DROUGHT, if you really, honestly, think that Arizona, AND THE ENTIRE SOUTHWEST AS A WHOLE, has not been in a DROUGHT for several YEARS, you 🐟 must be living at the bottom of one of Arizona's lakes. Spare me the personal denialist anecdotes, please.

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Global Warming Is Fueling Arizona’s Monstrous Monsoons

SNIPPET:

As the climate changes, Arizona’s monsoon rainfall is becoming more intense even as daily average rainfall in parts of the state has decreased, according to a new study. Increasingly, extreme storms threaten the region with more severe floods and giant dust storms called haboobs.

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Arizona haboob

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https://www.climatecentral.org/news/warming-fueling-arizonas-monstrous-monsoons-21679#southwest-drier-climate-change-19990 (https://www.climatecentral.org/news/warming-fueling-arizonas-monstrous-monsoons-21679#southwest-drier-climate-change-19990)

This is the REALITY, Az: (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F1%2F3-111018132401-16881856.gif&hash=ef5bd30cec7a50a81f3507f9bd328189dead7aa2) 

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In reality, climate change’s risks have more in common with an overturned bookcase than with a tidy library. The various effects of global warming can and increasingly do materialize in particular places almost simultaneously, in messy jumbles. Last year, for instance, Florida experienced severe drought, record high temperatures, wildfires, and the strongest hurricane ever recorded in the Panhandle. California, meanwhile, saw record-setting wildfires and extreme heat waves. As such hazards accumulate and intensify, each can become harder to manage, as our ability to respond becomes more strained.

Recent research makes it possible to understand how the risks of climate change may compound in the years ahead. A group of researchers, led by Camilo Mora of the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, has assessed how a broad set of major climate hazards — from heat waves and floods to storms and wildfires — will pile up around the world over the coming decades, with profound consequences for human society. Their findings, published in late 2018 in Nature Climate Change, provide insights into the increasing risks communities face today and reveal the extent of the danger that locations across the country can expect to confront in the years ahead.

Based on those findings, Climate Central has assessed how climate-change hazards are projected to pile up at 244 locations across the United States. The results show that unabated emissions could put parts of the country at risk of nearly three major climate hazards by 2050.


What Warming Has Wrought

Many Americans associate global warming with a handful of changes: higher temperatures, rising seas, and erratic weather. In fact, climate change will deliver a far broader range of threats.

Just how broad? To answer that question, there is a partial guide: the recent past. Since the beginning of the industrial era in the late nineteenth century, global average temperatures have risen by more than 1°C, or 1.8°F. The scientific literature documents this warming’s many effects, in areas from agricultural productivity and disease transmission to infrastructure damage and economic loss.

Climate change damages human society when natural hazards linked to greenhouse gas emissions, such as sea level rise, affect human systems, such as coastal-area infrastructure. An enormous number of such interactions is possible. Climate-linked changes in precipitation, for instance, can have a broad variety of impacts, including on agricultural productivity, water quality, and tourism revenues.

Mora and his colleagues found evidence of 467 distinct climate impacts. They did so by creating a table: ten climate-linked hazards served as columns, and six aspects of human life, divided into 89 subcategories, served as rows. The result was 890 possible climate impacts, or intersections between climate hazards and human systems. A review of nearly 3,300 scientific papers showed that 467 of those impacts have already occured. (A list of those impacts and the supporting evidence appear at
impactsofclimatechange.info (http://impactsofclimatechange.info/).)

Read more:
https://www.climatecentral.org/news/report-climate-pile-up-global-warmings-compounding-dangers (https://www.climatecentral.org/news/report-climate-pile-up-global-warmings-compounding-dangers)
 
Weather ain't CLIMATE, bro.  8) Your time in that river in Egypt will eventually expire. Reality has a way of destroying predatory denial. 
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on February 25, 2019, 07:44:11 pm
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Scientists cite burning fossil fuels as the cause of more severe floods, droughts, heat waves and rising sea levels.

Evidence that humans have caused global warming has reached the "gold standard" level of certainty, scientists said Monday.

A study published Monday in the journal "Nature Climate Change" stated that "humanity cannot afford to ignore" the rising temperatures over the past four decades. According to Reuters, the authors wrote that the confidence level that human activities are causing temperatures to rise reached a five-sigma level. Sigma levels are statistical measurements that gauge how certain results are. Level five indicates that the researchers' conclusions are more than 99.7 percent accurate. It's known as the "gold standard."

Lead author of the study Benjamin Santer said he hopes the conclusions will change the minds of skeptics and urge people to take action, Reuters reported. He said that, despite a misconception that scientists don't know a certain cause of climate change, "we do." Scientists cite burning fossil fuels as the cause of more severe floods, droughts, heat waves and rising sea levels.

Researchers said that two of three sets of data used by scientists as evidence for global warming reached the five sigma level in 2005 and the third was reached in 2016.

According to Reuters, the last four years have been the hottest since records began in the 19th century.

Despite evidence that human activities are contributing to climate change, President Donald Trump has repeatedly cast doubt on the conclusions and announced he was withdrawing the U.S. from the Paris climate agreement. The agreement, signed by 195 nations, seeks "to combat climate change and to accelerate and intensify the actions and investments needed for a sustainable low carbon future."

Most recently, the administration announced it was creating a panel of scientists to assess the government's analysis of climate science. Possible panelists include scientists who have spoken publicly about their doubts about man-made climate change.


https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2019-02-25/study-evidence-humans-are-causing-global-warming-reaches-gold-standard (https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2019-02-25/study-evidence-humans-are-causing-global-warming-reaches-gold-standard)

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on February 26, 2019, 02:08:33 pm
Originally published on the Doomstead Diner on February 26, 2019

Surly1 is an administrator and contributing author to Doomstead Diner. He is the author of numerous rants, screeds and spittle-flecked invective here and elsewhere. He lives a quiet domestic existence in Southeastern Virginia with his wife Contrary. Descended from a long line of people to whom one could never tell anything, all opinions are his and his alone, because he paid full retail for everything he has managed to learn.

Last week was really a week for doom-related news! (http://www.doomsteaddiner.net/forum/index.php/topic,12186.msg170493.html#msg170493)

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As to El Trumpo and his yammering about "needing global warming", it will be interesting to listen to the sound of Trump silence when the outside air temperature at Mar-a-Crooko exceeds 120 degrees F this summer.

A new El Niño just spun up. The Kochroach Trump forgot to mention that the CAUSE of that brutal cold air coming down into the USA during winter is the slowing down of the jetstream, a DIRECT RESULT of global warming.

That slowed jetstream results also in hellish temperatures in summer, which will be BOOSTED even more this summer by El Niño.

Finally, though this is like the roof for Trump (it's definitely over his head), the REASON that our planetary atmosphere produces El Niño type air circulation events is to GET RID OF EXCESS OCEAN HEAT. Now, considering how much hotter the oceans are getting, thanks to all that Carbon Dioxide "EXTERNALIZED" on behalf of Hydrocarbon Hellspawn profits, El Niños will become more frequent and MORE BRUTAL. Mar-a-Crooko AND all golf courses south of the Mason-Dixon line (and several miles north!) are in the BRUTAL HEAT 🌡️ toast 🔥 cross hairs this summer.

Golfing inside an air conditioned space suit is not going to happen any time soon, even if the Koch Brothers 🦕🦖 buy Trump said space suit. Expect Trumpy to do more golfing in Scotland this summer. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-311013201314.png&hash=0715eb72631014310634eb56176ff860c6d542f6)
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on February 26, 2019, 07:29:35 pm
SNIPPET 1:

If clouds vanish, so would life on Earth, which could warm by a staggering 8 degrees Celsius (46°F).

SNIPPET 2:

“Schneider and co-authors have cra cked open Pandora’s box of potential climate surprises,” Matt Huber, a paleoclimate modeler at Purdue University told Quanta Magazine of the study.

Huber added that, “all of a sudden this enormous sensitivity that is apparent from past climates isn’t something that’s just in the past. It becomes a vision of the future.” The tipping point of the loss of clouds, and the instability it causes, is significant: It helps to explain the volatility in Earth’s paleoclimate records.

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If Emissions Aren’t Curbed, Clouds May Disappear (https://truthout.org/articles/if-emissions-arent-curbed-clouds-may-disappear/)
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on February 28, 2019, 02:31:14 pm
Feb 24, 2019

by Chris Hedges

SNIPPET:

There is one desperate chance left to thwart the impending ecocide and extinction of the human species. We must, in wave after wave, carry out nonviolent acts of civil disobedience to shut down the capitals of the major industrial countries, crippling commerce and transportation, until the ruling elites are forced to publicly state the truth about climate catastrophe, implement radical measures to halt carbon emissions by 2025 and empower an independent citizens committee to oversee the termination of our 150-year binge on fossil fuels. If we do not do this, we will face mass death ☠️.

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Extinction Rebellion (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F2%2F3-190119153601.gif&hash=336ba78f7f18ff5829ef3722f89b4258d2315284) (https://www.truthdig.com/articles/extinction-rebellion/)

Nonviolent protest at scale brought down the British empire and the Soviet empire. Remains to be seen how it will work here, with most people mesmerized by their pholnes.

What brought down the Soviets was manipulation of the Oil price, and the non-violent protest in India was preceeded by decades of violence that weakened the British position.  Besides the fact the Brits were way over-extended which is why they lost all their other colonies also.

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What is bringing mankind down is Oligarchic 💵🎩🍌😈👹 Profit Over Planet 🐉🦕🦖 Rampant, abysmally stupid, Greed 🏴‍☠️.

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“I don’t understand why when we destroy something created by man we call it vandalism, but when we destroy something by nature we call it progress.” -Ed Begley Jr.

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"We do not need a 'new' business model for energy because we never had one. What we need, if we wish to avoid extinction, is to plug the environmental and equity costs of energy production and use into our planning and thinking. " -- A.G. Gelbert

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"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored." -- Aldous Huxley
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"We can’t have a healthy business on a sick planet."-- Ashley Orgain, manager of mission advocacy and outreach for Seventh Generation, Burlington, Vermont

"Technical knowledge of Carrying Capacity will not save us; only a massive increase in Caring Capacity will." -- A. G. Gelbert
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on February 28, 2019, 06:02:20 pm
Earth's fish 🐬🐟🐠🐡🦈 are disappearing because of climate change, study says

Climate change is endangering fish worldwide, shrinking populations by up to 35% in coastal regions near China and Japan, scientists say.

Ocean warming has led to a 4% global decline in sustainable catches, the greatest amount of fish that can be caught without depleting stocks long-term, according to a study published Thursday in the journal Science.

Using global data on fisheries and ocean temperature maps, scientists from Rutgers University in New Jersey analyzed changes in sustainable catches triggered by temperature rises between 1930 and 2010.

The scientists said they were "stunned" to discover that global warming has significantly affected fish stocks worldwide and warned that the decline could threaten the livelihoods and food supplies of millions of people.

More than 56 million people worldwide work in the fishing industry, and seafood provides up to half of all animal protein eaten in developing countries, the scientists said.

The most drastic decline was recorded in Asia's coastal regions, including the East China Sea and Japan's Kuroshio Current, where stocks plummeted by 15% to 35% over the past 80 years.

"Ecosystems in East Asia have seen enormous declines in productivity. These areas have particularly rapid warming [and] also have historically high levels of overfishing," said lead researcher Chris Free, a quantitative ecologist at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Shrinking fish stocks in East Asia are concerning, as these regions "support the world's fastest-growing populations and have really large demands for seafood," Free added.
As stocks continue to decline, East Asian countries could start importing fish from other parts of the world, driving up prices, he added.

Overfishing is intensifying the impacts of climate change, according to Free. Removing the largest fish diminishes a population's reproductive capacity and makes it more vulnerable to global warming in the long term.

However, not all fish suffered from ocean warming; some species benefited from a rise in temperatures, the study noted.

For example, the black sea bass population off the US East Coast has surged as ocean warming has killed other species and increased its territory, Free said.

But "climate winners cannot be winners forever," he warned. If temperatures continue to rise, the productivity of these populations is also likely to decline.

Governments should eliminate overfishing and establish trade agreements to share stocks between regions benefiting from and hurt by ocean warming, according to Free.

Eva Plaganyi of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation Oceans and Atmosphere unit in Canberra, Australia, wrote in an article published alongside the study, that it represented an "important advance" on earlier analyses, as it provided projections to drive forward planning and adaptation strategies.

However, Plaganyi noted that the study did not account for other environmental impacts triggered by climate change, such as ocean acidification.

Another study published this week said that a failure to achieve the goals of the 2015 Paris climate agreement, which calls on countries to reduce carbon output and halt global warming below 2 degrees Celsius by the end of the century, could threaten the livelihoods and food source of millions of people worldwide.

"The largest gains will occur in developing country waters, such as Kiribati, the Maldives and Indonesia, which are at greatest risks due to warming temperatures and rely the most on fish for food security, incomes and employment," said lead researcher Rashid Sumaila, director of the University of British Columbia's Fisheries Economics Research Unit.


https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/28/world/climate-change-fishing-oceans-global-warming-intl/?no-st=1551386847 (https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/28/world/climate-change-fishing-oceans-global-warming-intl/?no-st=1551386847)

It's actually a LOT WORSE than CNN or the study authors will admit. :( As you can see in the graphic below, it is wishful thinking to believe we can keep below the 2 degrees Celsius limit. We've got AT LEAST 4 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial baked in NOW even if we stopped all industrial activity within a decade due to a massive collapse of civilization. We are (baked in) TOAST. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-300714025456.bmp&hash=f4e4a260bd60d3f34ca86fed93c47d5fb4117cfd) 

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on March 02, 2019, 04:44:00 pm
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BD Holly | 10:30 am EST March 2, 2019

Palmer Report » Analysis

To our detriment, and more broadly to the detriment of all living things on Earth, the GOP (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fstyles%2Frenewablerevolution%2Ffiles%2F780_9adc777a0e08428257b76ece69d18ee52006bb5e39d60d966bb2440d29d17641.jpeg&hash=4d8f2f9ea7b952c63ad0441a4619e9b370ddcb0a) has rubber-stamped laws, projects, and regurgitated whatever rhetoric the fossil fuel lobbyists have fed them for decades now. Yes, I know it’s hard to remember this far back, but even before Trump (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fstyles%2Frenewablerevolution%2Ffiles%2F809_84688966.jpeg&hash=7f3e84eea23fef901b7df618784dc2005290f591), the Republican Party (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-130418203402.gif&hash=b2691028ba683a0039a5811f5775c68d7ccae01c) had been stalwart in its transparently greed-driven denial of climate change, which in a way created the fetid political petri dish upon which Trump was cultured.

The denial of manmade global warming is something people do for one of two reasons:

1) They don’t know any better and have possibly bought in to the GOP party line, or

2) They’re getting their pockets lined by fossil fuel lobbyists 🦕😈🦖👹🐉.


It takes a suspension of common sense to opine against virtually the entire professional scientific community dedicated to parsing the truth from the evidence they’ve gathered, and the fact that Republicans have managed to successfully dupe many Americans into believing that these professionals are wrong by employing artifice in the form of logical fallacies and lies is not only irresponsible, it is in no uncertain terms giving us a healthy shove as we run towards the cliff edge.

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One of their main concerns is how to pay for security once the world economy collapses and money becomes worthless. No, seriously. Apparently fleeting wealth is better than donating your fortune to research and infrastructure that would allow for the posterity of life on Earth. 🤬 Knowing this, Republicans still promulgate climate denial. Who needs foreign adversaries to threaten your future when you have the GOP?  >:(

The Republican Party, maybe in just its policy of climate denial, has been cultivating someone like Trump for years. Someone unscrupulous, someone to whom the truth is at best tertiary, someone who is a slash-and-burn monster baby of the kind of thinking that gave rise to trickle-down and drill-baby-drill. And, for now, we’re stuck with that. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-120716190938.png&hash=01feab1c7345a4e98764e0f9d24b2d69171b93c2)

But people are starting to get it, and even better, young people have already got it. Just look at Juliana v. U.S., a youth-led movement leading the charge of atmospheric trust litigation. This is our time for every one of us to shine. Go recycle, don’t buy as much plastic, bike to work twice a week, don’t eat meat on Mondays and Wednesdays, drive instead of flying, get solar panels, and vote for environmentally-aware candidates. Do anything that reduces your carbon footprint. For the first time, we have a presidential candidate whose major focus is saving the environment in Washington Governor Jay Inslee. Times are changing. You can’t let the Republicans and billionaires win this, and you sure as hell can’t let our climate-denying president (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-301216165623.jpeg&hash=1ccfee6aaf9d939cca294a849774cff11e462e59) win this. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F1%2F3-111018132422-1693180.gif&hash=8bc43ce7ebff6fb3a70224434834524068d3583c)

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on March 05, 2019, 10:52:50 pm
EcoWatch

By Olivia Rosane Mar. 05, 2019 07:41AM EST

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Thousands Flee as 19 Wildfires 🔥 Burn in Southeast Australia (https://www.ecowatch.com/australia-wildfires-climate-change-2630704877.html)
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on March 12, 2019, 01:21:23 pm
(https://www.universetoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/Beaufort-Scale.png)
Beaufort scale 💨

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Watch: Strong Winds Topple Containers at Port of Antwerp 👀
March 11, 2019 by Mike Schuler

https://youtu.be/oUNsdZPvSQI

Check out this video filmed Sunday at the Port of Antwerp as strong winds pummeled the area.

According to the uploader, the port experienced hurricane-force winds gusts or more than 64 knots – a 12 on the Beaufort scale(https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fs15.rimg.info%2Fdcda0e08e538cb37431314e6bd49279b.gif&hash=4e8b4ba5ce94991ab2f42c4c663e9f6991bbf4f4)

As you can see, the winds were so strong that they knocked over multiple stacks of containers on the dock, even blowing one 40-foot ONE container into the harbor.

https://gcaptain.com/watch-strong-winds-topple-containers-at-port-of-antwerp/
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on March 12, 2019, 02:06:46 pm
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Beaufort scale 💨

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Watch: Strong Winds Topple Containers at Port of Antwerp 👀
March 11, 2019 by Mike Schuler

https://youtu.be/oUNsdZPvSQI

Check out this video filmed Sunday at the Port of Antwerp as strong winds pummeled the area.

According to the uploader, the port experienced hurricane-force winds gusts or more than 64 knots – a 12 on the Beaufort scale(https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fs15.rimg.info%2Fdcda0e08e538cb37431314e6bd49279b.gif&hash=4e8b4ba5ce94991ab2f42c4c663e9f6991bbf4f4)

As you can see, the winds were so strong that they knocked over multiple stacks of containers on the dock, even blowing one 40-foot ONE container into the harbor.

https://gcaptain.com/watch-strong-winds-topple-containers-at-port-of-antwerp/ (https://gcaptain.com/watch-strong-winds-topple-containers-at-port-of-antwerp/)

Agelbert NOTE: This is just the leading edge of what Catastrophic Climate Change will bring. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-130418202709.png&hash=7503265ec59e4c28d735afb762bc39f4674bd838)

Climate Change, Blue Water Cargo Shipping and Predicted Ocean Wave Activity: PART 1 of 3 (http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/climate-change/future-earth/msg7380/#msg7380)

I thought those containers lock into place when stacked. Pins must have popped open.

When the jet stream lowers to the surface due to magnetosphere compression this is what happens.

Loads more energy in the atmosphere now a days.


I didn't know that about the locking pins. Thank you for sharing that info. 👍

Yes, a considerably greater amount of energy is in the atmosphere (and the oceans) with predictable results (see unattended soup pot cooking on a stove top).

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on March 12, 2019, 08:53:03 pm
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BY Dahr Jamail, Truthout

PUBLISHED March 12, 2019

Ireland’s president, Michael Higgins: “If we were coal miners we’d be up to our waists in dead canaries.” (https://truthout.org/articles/were-living-in-the-warmest-decade-since-record-keeping-began/)
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on March 13, 2019, 05:17:46 pm


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Students in Brussels strike from school to protest a lack of climate awareness on January 31, 2019.

Young people around the world are not interested in excuses when it comes to dealing with climate change.
Every year of their lives has been one of the warmest recorded. Extreme weather events, including floods, wildfires and heat waves, are becoming the new norm. Many believe that, if nothing is done to stop global warming, their generation will be left to deal with catastrophic consequences.

That's why, on March 15, tens of thousands of students worldwide will be cutting class and taking to the streets to demand that elected officials act.

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The global climate strike on March 15 is an offshoot of the #FridaysForFuture movement, which has been active around the world for months.

It began with Greta Thunberg, the 16-year-old environmental activist, who in August 2018 started skipping school on Fridays to protest outside Sweden's parliament.

You might remember how she roasted the global elite at the World Economic Forum by telling them they were to blame for the climate crisis. Before that, she delivered a damning speech at the United Nations' climate conference COP24, telling climate negotiators they weren't "mature enough to tell it like it is."
Thunberg has said she won't stop her sit-ins until Sweden is in line with the Paris Agreement, an accord that aims to limit a global temperature rise this century to 1.5 degrees Celsius.

Her protests have inspired thousands of young people around the world. Students in countries including Australia, Thailand, Uganda and the United Kingdom have already skipped school to demand that their governments act against climate change.

Students in more than 90 countries and more than 1,200 cities around the world plan to join the strike in what could be one of the largest environmental protests in history.

Why they're striking

The question many student protesters have for officials who might scold them for cutting class is: What's the point in going to school if climate change might destroy all hope of a future?

Right now, they say, they've got bigger things to worry about.

That's because world leaders only have 11 more years to avoid disastrous levels of global warming, according to a 2018 report from the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

If human-generated greenhouse gas emissions continue at the current rate, the planet will reach 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels as soon as 2030. That threshold is critical.

Global warming at that temperature would put the planet at a greater risk of events like extreme drought, wildfires, floods and food shortages for hundreds of millions of people, according to the IPCC report.

According to the report, curbing global warming would require "rapid and far-reaching" changes in land use, energy sources, infrastructure and industrial systems. The students who are protesting don't think enough is being done.

In an open letter published in The Guardian newspaper, a group of youth-led climate activists called climate change "the biggest threat in human history" and said young people will no longer accept the inaction of world leaders. They're taking matters into their own hands, "whether you like it or not."

"We have the right to live our dreams and hopes," the letter reads. "Climate change is already happening. People did die, are dying and will die because of it, but we can and will stop this madness."
Young climate activists are hoping to spark a widespread dialogue about climate change, following in the footsteps of their peers in Parkland, Florida, who led a national conversation about gun control after a mass shooting at their school.

What they want

The demands of students vary from country to country, but one common thread among them is that countries cut greenhouse gas emissions.

Strikers in Australia are fighting against a controversial coal mine project and are demanding a full transition to renewable energy by 2030. Among the demands of the UK protesters is lowering the voting age to 16.

Kids in the US want a radical transformation of the economy. Here's what that agenda includes, according to the Youth Climate Strike website:

֍  a national embrace of the Green New Deal
֍  an end to fossil fuel infrastructure projects
֍  a national emergency declaration on climate change
֍  mandatory education on climate change and its effects from K-8
֍  a clean water supply
֍  preservation of public lands and wildlife
֍  all government decisions to be tied to scientific research


Who's on their side

The kids leading the March 15 strike don't yet have high school diplomas. But a whole bunch of grown-up scientists say these kids know what they're talking about.

A group of more than 100 US-based climate scientists released a letter last week in support of the US strike, saying that students' demands for immediate action on climate change are consistent with the latest science.
"They need our support, but more than that, they need all of us to act. Their future depends on it; and so does ours," the letter said.

Scientists in other countries have released similar letters of support for past strikes.

Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar has also expressed support, saying she will attend the national strike in Washington, D.C. Omar's 16-year-old daughter, Isra Hirsi, is one of the national organizers of the strike, along with 12-year-old Haven Coleman and 13-year-old Alexandria Villaseñor.

But not everyone has been on board.

A spokesperson for UK Prime Minister Theresa May criticized student protests in February, saying that striking "increases teachers' workloads and wastes lesson time," adding that kids should be in school training to be scientists and engineers so that they can tackle the problem. That same month, an Australian education minister warned students and teachers that they would be punished if they went on strike during school hours.

How to get involved

There are strikes happening in more than 90 countries. For information about upcoming strikes around the world, check out this map on the Fridays for Future website.

In the US, a national strike is planned in Washington, D.C., along with strikes in nearly 50 states. To find one in your area, check out this map on US Youth Climate Strike's website.

If you're thinking about joining a strike but are worried about the consequences you might face from your school, the American Civil Liberties Union has a guide to student rights during walkouts and protests.


https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/13/world/school-climate-strike-walkup-trnd/index.html (https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/13/world/school-climate-strike-walkup-trnd/index.html)

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The Fossil Fuelers 🦖 DID THE Clean Energy  Inventions suppressing, Climate Trashing, human health depleting CRIME,   but since they have ALWAYS BEEN liars and conscience free crooks 🦀, they are trying to AVOID   DOING THE TIME or   PAYING THE FINE!     Don't let them get away with it! Pass it on!   
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on March 14, 2019, 09:06:20 pm
Midwest Bomb Cyclone Set Low Pressure Records, Bringing Widespread Extreme Weather

Dr. Jeff Masters  ·  March 14, 2019, 12:34 PM EDT

 
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Above: Wednesday’s bomb cyclone brought wind gusts as high as 104 mph to New Mexico, where high winds derailed 26 cars from this train, 40 miles north of I-40 and Tucumcari. No one was hurt in the incident. Image credit: New Mexico State Police.

A “bomb” cyclone that set all-time low-pressure records over portions of the central U.S. on Wednesday has brought a damaging smorgasbord of extreme weather to a huge section of the nation.

The storm rapidly deepened by over 24 mb in a 24-hour period on Wednesday, qualifying it as a “bomb” cyclone. The low bottomed out at 969 mb over western Kansas on Wednesday afternoon--one of the lowest pressures ever recorded in that portion of the country. Pueblo, Colorado, set its preliminary, unofficial all-time record-low pressure early Wednesday morning (975.1 mb), according to the National Weather Service (NWS). Colorado state climatologist Russ Schumacher tweeted it was the lowest pressure on record there since at least 1950. Six stations on the Oklahoma Mesonet set all-time low-pressure records on Wednesday. Dodge City, KS, had pressure of 974.7 mb, its lowest since 971.6 mb was measured way back on April 8, 1878.

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WATCH: Winds from the 'bomb cyclone' on Wednesday topple a tractor trailer in Texas. (NBC News Channel / B. Brown)

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on March 15, 2019, 12:57:55 pm
     
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The ENVIRONMENTAL ROTTON FRUIT of CAPITALISM ☠️ is NOW IN OUR FACES

‘Devastating’ Arctic warming of 9-16°F now ‘locked in,’ UN research warns

"A sleeping giant awakes" as carbon-rich permafrost starts to thaw.


Rapid and “devastating” Arctic warming is now almost unstoppable, United Nations researchers warn in a major new report.

Unless humanity makes very rapid and deep pollution cuts, Arctic winter temperatures will rise 5.4° to 9.0°F (3° to 5°C) by 2050 — and will reach an astounding 9° to 16°F (5° to 8.8°C) by 2080 — according to a report by the U.N. Environment Program released Wednesday.

Even worse, the report, “Global Linkages: A graphic look at the changing Arctic,” warns that warming will in turn awaken a “sleeping giant” in the form of vast quantities of permafrost carbon. This carbon has been frozen in the permafrost for up to thousands of years, but as the atmosphere warms, the permafrost will thaw. This will release the trapped carbon, and trigger more planet-wide warming in a dangerous feedback loop.

As the report explains, warming in the Arctic is occurring at least twice as fast as warming across the planet as a whole, thanks to Arctic amplification. One reason for this amplification is that  when highly reflective snow and ice melts due to higher temperatures, it is replaced by the dark blue sea or darker land, both of which absorb more solar energy than they reflect, leading to more melting.


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“Arctic amplification is most pronounced in winter and strongest in areas with large losses of sea ice during the summer,” researchers explain, so winter warming in the region is projected to rise three times faster than the world as a whole.

But as this feedback loop plays out, it also triggers another one: the thawing of the Arctic permafrost and the release of the carbon that it contains.

Thawing permafrost is an especially dangerous amplifying feedback loop because the global permafrost contains twice as much carbon as the atmosphere does today . The permafrost, or tundra, is soil that stays below freezing (32°F or 0°C) for at least two years. It acts like a freezer for carbon, but now humanity has decided to leave the freezer door open.

The thawing releases not only carbon dioxide but also methane — a far more potent greenhouse gas — thereby further warming the planet. And as the planet continues to warm, more permafrost will melt, releasing even more greenhouse gases in a continuous feedback loop.

“New evidence suggests that permafrost is thawing much faster than previously thought,” the report warns. Indeed, a recent study found that Siberian permafrost at depths of up to 30 feet warmed a remarkable 1.6°F (0.9°C) from 2007 to 2016.

The U.N. report quotes the saying: “What happens in the Arctic does not stay in the Arctic.”

For instance, the Arctic’s rapid warming is weakening the jet stream, which leads weather patterns to stall, and that drives more extreme weather in this country, such as heavy precipitation on the East Coast and extreme drought on the West Coast.

And the quicker the Arctic heats up, the quicker the land-based Greenland ice sheet melts and the quicker sea levels rise. One 2017 study concluded that Greenland ice mass loss has tripled in just two decades.

But the authors of the U.N. report explain that simply meeting the initial emissions reduction targets in the 2015 Paris Climate Accord will not be enough to stop “devastating” warming and the loss of nearly half the permafrost this century. Those initial targets would not limit total warming to 2°C (3.6°F), which is why the agreement calls for ratcheting down those targets over time in order to keep warming “well below 2°C.”

So, to avoid accelerated warming, massive permafrost loss, ever-worsening extreme weather, and multi-feet sea level rise, the nations of the world must not only make deep cuts in CO2 emissions over the next decade, but also they must then keep ratcheting down global emissions to near zero around mid-century.

Yet, President Donald Trump is taking the country in the dangerously wrong direction by starting the process of withdrawing from the Paris agreement and rolling back domestic climate efforts.

What humanity needs to avert catastrophe are the kind of rapid emissions reductions envisioned in the Green New Deal, which aims for a carbon-free power sector by 2030 and the decarbonization of all other sectors as fast as technically possible.   


https://thinkprogress.org/devastating-arctic-warming-locked-in-warns-un-48e55348514b/ (https://thinkprogress.org/devastating-arctic-warming-locked-in-warns-un-48e55348514b/)

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Agelbert NOTE: IOW, CAPITALISM is DESTROYING the Viability of the Biosphere for the high order mammalian vertebrate species we humans are included in, PLUS thousands of other species.

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TUESDAY, MARCH 12, 2019

Accelerating Rise In Greenhouse Gas Levels 😱 (http://arctic-news.blogspot.com/2019/03/accelerating-rise-in-greenhouse-gas-levels.html)

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on March 15, 2019, 05:54:04 pm
 
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March 15, 2019 

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Perhaps the most misleading part of Easterbrook’s 😈 thesis, though, is that the now-viral graphs mislabels the x-axis. The graph claims to show temperatures up until the present time, when really the data ends in 1855. None of the current warming we’ve seen in the last century is represented, despite what the graph insinuates.

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on March 15, 2019, 06:28:19 pm
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Published on March 11, 2019

Urgent message from the youth of today: Climate change is a global emergency!🚩
https://youtu.be/vTxn2XtqBCw

Listen to the youngest members of our global alliance share their worries, as well as their smart (and hilarious) ideas for potential solutions. These kids are stubborn climate optimists who inspire us to work as hard as we can to advance the people-centered natural climate solutions that are the heart of our mission. If these are tomorrow’s leaders, we have hope in our future

https://www.rainforest-alliance.org/videos/youth-sound-the-climate-alarm

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on March 16, 2019, 02:53:45 pm
Thousands of Youth Worldwide (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-130418203111.png&hash=e8f61baab9b9d36eaf1c4087927f321bf883250c) Take Part in Climate Strike (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F1%2F3-120818185039-1655102.gif&hash=1a13ffad2c8451cba6f45b04a1249447d50c3e73)

Bob Henson  ·  March 15, 2019, 1:36 PM EDT

 
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Above: Young people hold banners during a demonstration against political inaction on climate change on Friday, March 15, 2019, in Nantes, western France. Image credit: Sebastien Salom-Gomis/APF/Getty images.
The biggest one-day protest by schoolchildren in memory—and the largest day of climate action in history—cascaded across the globe on Friday. According to 350.org, a total of more than 1.4 million students in more than 300 cities and 100-plus nations took part in Friday’s #climatestrike protest. Many thousands of U.S. students walked out of classrooms for 11 minutes, starting at 11 am at each time zone. In many locations around the world, the protests were massive and more prolonged. More than 10,000 young people gathered in Copenhagen on Friday (see embedded tweet below), and tens of thousands took to the streets of Montreal.


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Den Grønne Studenterbevægelse
@GrGelse
 10.000+ børn og unge til klimastrejke i København. De vil have en tryg og grøn fremtid. #klimastrejke #dengrønnestudenterbevægelse #FridaysForFuture @GretaThunberg

9:07 AM - Mar 15, 2019

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“This wouldn’t be the first time that a single act of civil disobedience helps launch a broad and sweeping social movement,” noted Per Adman and Katrin Uba in the Washington Post. “Although facing threats of a completely different magnitude, Rosa Parks is one such iconic example. Her risky decision not to move to the back of an Alabama bus in 1955 helped launch the Montgomery bus boycott, an important catalyst in the U.S. civil rights movement.” Schoolchildren as young as seven played a key role in lunch-counter sit-in protests to integrate Southern restaurants in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

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Greta Thunberg

@GretaThunberg
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12:55 PM - Sep 16, 2018

What does social justice have to do with greenhouse gases?

Many of the organizers and participants from #ClimateStrikeFriday stressed the interwoven nature of climate change and social justice. For one thing, the impacts of greenhouse gas emissions propagate far and wide from those who produce and consume the most fossil fuel. The small island nations whose very survival is at stake contributed very little to the atmosphere's greenhouse burden.

It’s widely recognized that marginalized and vulnerable populations tend to take an outsized hit from climate change, as they have fewer resources and less political power. Reducing greenhouse emissions will help alleviate this injustice—but it’s also possible that even some well-meaning actions to address climate change could themselves create or exacerbate inequities (such as forcing low-income people to move out of flood-prone coastal neighborhoods without taking their needs and community ties into account). That’s why the Green New Deal and other high-profile proposals are stressing the need to keep equity in the forefront while tackling this massive global problem.

 
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Figure 1. Students gather with signs at a #climatestrike rally on the campus of Columbia University on Friday, March 15, 2019, in New York. From the South Pacific to the edge of the Arctic Circle, students mobilized by word of mouth and social media skipped class to protest what they see as the failures by their governments to take tough action against global warming. Image credit: AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews.

Thoughts on Friday’s climate strike

“Young people make up more than half of the global population. Our generation grew up with the climate crisis and we will have to deal with it for the rest of our lives. Despite that fact, most of us are not included in the local and global decision-making process. We are the voiceless future of humanity. We will no longer accept this injustice. We demand justice for all past, current and future victims of the climate crisis, and so we are rising up.” —Open letter from the global coordination group of the youth-led climate strike (Guardian)

“By taking to the streets today to make their voices heard, young people are educating us about how important tackling climate change is to their generation. They are right to be worried about what kind of planet they will inherit and right to demand far-reaching action. Governments cannot sit back, leaving major decisions to market forces. It hasn’t worked and it never will.” —Jeremy Corbyn, UK Labour Party Leader (Guardian)

 
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Figure 2. Thousands demonstrate for climate action in front of the La Moneda presidential palace in Santiago, Chile, on March 15, 2019. Image credit: Martin Bernetti/AFP/Getty Images.

“A school strike…recalls some of the most pivotal moments in American history. In 1963, for instance, the Rev. Martin Luther King found that he had run out of adult volunteers to stand up to Bull Connor at the height of the civil rights battle in Birmingham. So, after much soul-searching, King asked the city’s schoolchildren to leave class and face the police dogs and firehoses. ‘Don’t worry about your children,’ he told their frantic parents. ‘They’re gonna be all right. Don’t hold them back if they want to go to jail. For they are doing a job not only for themselves but for all of America and for all mankind.’” —Haven Coleman, a Denver student, and Bill McKibben, cofounder of 350.org (Los Angeles Times)

“The students who are striking in cities, towns and villages around the world are uniting behind the science. We are only asking that our leaders to do the same. If those in power today don’t act, it will be our generation who will live through their failure.” —Greta Thunberg, Anna Taylor, and others (Guardian)

“I’m here because I think we should have done something 10 or 20 years ago. But luckily the world is waking up. The more people here, the better the impact.” — Anamaria Vaga, a 19-year-old student in Brussels (New York Times)

Commentary by Jeff Masters

Simply extraordinary. A million children world-wide have taken to the streets to tell the “adults in the room” that the very future of humanity is at stake. Wake up, adults!! We must take strong action now against climate change to preserve a livable world for our children.

The views of the author are his/her own and do not necessarily represent the position of The Weather Company or its parent, IBM.


Bob Henson

WU meteorologist Bob Henson, co-editor of Category 6, is the author of "Meteorology Today" and "The Thinking Person's Guide to Climate Change." Before joining WU, he was a longtime writer and editor at the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, CO.

bob.henson@weather.com

@bhensonweather




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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on March 16, 2019, 05:45:03 pm
Kids Around the World Cut Class for Climate Justice

March 16, 2019

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https://youtu.be/0xzTmzaiQ5I

https://therealnews.com/stories/kids-around-the-world-cut-class-for-climate-justice

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Great Thunberg understands that Fossil Fuel POLLUTER ENABLERS must LEAVE GOVERNMENT NOW if humanity is to survive.
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NOTHING can change the SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME!
https://youtu.be/pEqWCH_4srU

 
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on March 16, 2019, 06:52:03 pm
MAR 13, 2019| TD ORIGINALS

It’s the Green New Deal or Else ☠️

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In a piece titled “The Green New Deal is a Pipe Dream,” (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-250817121829.png&hash=035f25ddb6d065f1533ce03c1c07f5fddcbbc83c) Ohanian drowned climate activists’ overheated dreams of ecological salvation in the icy waters of bourgeois reality, arguing that the proposed legislation’s advocates are, in fact, nefarious, big-government “command-and-control” zealots—eco-Stalinists—who want “to impose their social and economic preferences on others at an extravagantly high economic cost.”
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Ohanian described the Green New Deal’s goal of net-zero U.S. carbon emissions in 10 years as an “infeasible” aim that demonstrates a failure “to understand basic cost-benefit analysis.” (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F1%2F3-250718211017.gif&hash=1b5b289486b9429bdbdcb938b21ef1a2b66d30fc)

If that weren’t enough, the Hoover fellow noted that “the GND would be extremely expensive” (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F1%2F3-250718211017.gif&hash=1b5b289486b9429bdbdcb938b21ef1a2b66d30fc) and that America lacks “the technological know-how” to reach zero carbon emissions.  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F1%2F3-210818163125-16722324.gif&hash=fd301340fefe90d81ed8826dfa0568be12a1c0d8) Ohanian 😈 further pleased the Hoover Institution’s big-business 🐉🦕🦖 sponsors by adding his judgment that the Green New Deal’s promise of a living wage will make workers lazy and unproductive. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-250817122018.gif&hash=74d86c1f35e2f61ea38c9bfa392f84a92631b96e) No such promise can be fulfilled today, “when jobs can be easily offshored, outsourced, and automated,” (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-191017140758.jpeg&hash=8c0a35a928dcda3c1a8714ab03f4924a1a775851) he pronounced.

Now that we understand these economic (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-200714191329.bmp&hash=4764bfbe6bb0e11ca61102efa97a932a824f47e0) realities, we can prepare—without rebellion, with calm acceptance and within the limits of our stagnant incomes—for our coming extinction. Onward with the coming macroeconomic ecocide. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F1%2F3-111018132421-16911675.gif&hash=b337cdc73ae0e451ca134d064ea3363d3de56665)


(https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F1%2F3-210818163123-16652282.gif&hash=3e78c6c5447f417c0b376d2ae21803e908a959d0)(https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F1%2F3-240718213433-14592370.png&hash=303e851c5feb196224d3a901ee609fed6437375d) (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-130418202829.png&hash=a4ec201b97ad269ff59a6a1c0f1c19a04b57803a) Except, wait. Hold on. Maybe Ohanian is full of petroligarchic crap. Maybe there’s still hope for the species after all.

He is, and there is. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F1%2F3-250718210628.gif&hash=a297e44320f13fa5f3eae64809a46139f5e2395a)   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-141113185047.png&hash=384024358ff8d5e7133d19b6e6638da4584a8154)

It’s simply not true that we lack the technological expertise to achieve zero carbon emissions. Writing for Scientific American, Stanford engineering professor Mark Jacobson and University of California at Davis research scientist Mark Delucchi have shown repeatedly over the last decade that humanity could convert to a completely renewable energy-based system by 2030 if nations employ technologies vetted by scientists rather than those championed by private industry.

In their state-level analysis, which focuses on New York and California, Jacobson and Delucchi conclude that wind turbines, water machines, solar installations and other green technologies are affordable and available for rapid utilization. “The main obstacles are political and social—getting politicians onboard,” Jacobson told a leading science reporter six years ago. “There are always naysayers who think it’s pie in the sky, that we’ll never get there. And there are people who are tied into a certain industry who push back the most.”

The Green New Deal would cost a lot of money, Ohanian insists. What, like the giant tax breaks that Donald Trump and Congress gave the richest 10th of the 1 percent and their corporate allies, adding $2.2 trillion to the national debt (equal to $17,500 per household)? Like our subsidies for the military-industrial complex, which costs taxpayers $700 billion today and is projected to cost $972 billion by 2024, despite having the largest carbon footprint of any single institution on earth? Like the $204 billion spent on advertising in the U.S. last year to push a maddening surfeit of consumer products, many, if not most, designed in accord with the ecocidal principle of built-in obsolescence?

From 2014 through 2018, the global capitalist system spent $2.72 trillion on advertising alone. Imagine where we’d be on the path to slowing climate change if all that money had been spent on wind turbines, water machines, solar installations, sustainable agriculture, reforestation and green retrofitting, infrastructure and regional planning. There’s more than enough money to fund training to close the skilled heating, ventilation and air-conditioning-worker gap.

Meanwhile, Ohanian’s classist notion that workers will become indolent and inefficient if they are guaranteed a living wage is a Dickensian old wives’ tale. Productivity positively—not negatively—correlates with a living wage. And how does Ohanian think workers are supposed to lead dignified lives without one? Are millions of young adults supposed to live with their parents indefinitely or rely on food pantries and homeless shelters to get by while working full-time jobs?

Outsourcing, offshoring and automation are not without solutions, such as government and union restrictions; capital controls; green government jobs programs to absorb technically displaced workers; international efforts to raise wages and labor standards abroad; and guaranteed national incomes. Much of this is addressed in economist Robert Pollin’s important book, “Greening the Global Economy,” which advances “just transition” polices that include “solid pension protections, re-employment guarantees, as well as retraining and relocation support for individual workers, and community-support initiatives” for communities negatively affected by the suspension of fossil fuel extraction and burning.

Here’s a true pipe dream (maybe we should call it a “pipeline 🦕 dream”): the continuation of a decent human existence even for rich nations comparatively sheltered from the worst consequences of climate change. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-130418202709.png&hash=7503265ec59e4c28d735afb762bc39f4674bd838) (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F1%2F3-111018132421-16902.gif&hash=deba9f0f91ecd7d65bbdeb78786bef4a98cb1a7e)

In 2008, James Hansen, then head of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, and seven other leading climate scientists reported that we would see “practically irreversible ice sheet and species loss” if the planet’s average temperature rose above 1 degree Celsius (1.8 F), thanks to carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere reaching 450 parts per million (ppm).

When the report was published, CO2 levels were at 385—“already in the dangerous zone” according to Hansen and his team. They warned that deadly, self-reinforcing “feedbacks” could be triggered at that level. The dire prospects they warned of included “ice sheet disintegration, vegetation migration, and [greenhouse gas] release from soils, tundra, or ocean sediments.”

The only way to assure a livable climate, Hansen and his colleagues warned, was to cut CO2 to at least 350 ppm.

Here we are, 11 years later, having blown past Hansen’s 1 degree Celsius red line since 2015. We currently stand at 410 ppm, the highest level of CO2 saturation in 800,000 years. The latest climate report of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reflects the consensus opinion of the world’s leading climate scientists. It tells us that we are headed to a temperature increase of 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 F) in the next 12 years. Failure to dramatically slash emissions between now and 2030 is certain to set off catastrophic developments for hundreds of millions of people, the report warns.

The IPCC finds that at our current pace, we are headed for a 3- to 4-degree Celsius (5.4 F to 7.2 F) temperature increase by the end of century. That will mean a planet that is mostly unlivable.

It gets worse. Numerous climate scientists have indicated that the IPCC’s findings are excessively conservative. That’s because the institute deletes and downplays research demonstrating the likelihood that irreversible climatological tipping points could arrive sooner than expected. Among the reports pointing to these conclusions is a recent NASA-funded study warning that the unexpectedly abrupt thawing of permafrost could release massive volumes of CO2  and methane within a few decades.

Earth, biological and social scientists are increasingly raising the specter of climate-driven human extinction in the not-so-distant future. In vast swaths of the world, across much of sub-Saharan Africa, India, the Middle East, Latin America and Southeast Asia, climate catastrophe is already underway.

Conservative though it may be, the U.N. report is no whitewash. It gives us 12 years to drastically slash greenhouse gas emissions or face catastrophic consequences. It also calls for “unprecedented changes in all aspects of society” to drop global CO2  emissions 45 percent below 2010 levels and 60 percent below 2015 levels by 2030. We need to hit zero by the midcentury point, the IPCC says, and we cannot do that without radically and rapidly reducing our energy consumption.

Cost-benefit analysis? The Green New Deal is, if anything, insufficiently radical. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-250817121649.png&hash=4554f7e59701d12857946aece16bceb973c997b3) It does not go to the full class-rule (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-130418203402.gif&hash=b2691028ba683a0039a5811f5775c68d7ccae01c)taproot of the many deadly ecological rifts (the climate crisis is only the most urgent) opened by capitalism’s relentless, totalitarian drive to commodify everything on earth. Progressive-Democrat Green New Deal advocates have yet to join serious ecosocialists in calling for green investments to be garnered from massive reductions in the U.S. military budget, which eats up more than half of federal discretionary spending and sustains a global military empire that is the world’s single largest institutional carbon emitter. The Green New Deal’s sponsors have yet to call (as they will have to if they are serious about environmental reconversion) for their program to be funded and protected from capital flight by the nationalization of the United States’ leading financial institutions.

Still, at least Green New Dealers are talking seriously about the benefit of a livable earth. It seems like society might want to be ready to absorb significant costs to achieve the continuation of the species. Professor Ohanian should write the environmentalists’ maxim 500 times on a UCLA chalkboard: “There are no jobs on a dead planet. There is no economy on a dead planet.”

Zero carbon emissions by 2030 (or even 2040) is a grandiose goal. But guess what? Now is precisely the time to aim sky high on ecology and way low on carbon release. How much are we willing to pay for human survival? Do environmental calamity and the real risk of extinction count as “extravagantly high costs”? When might we be willing to achieve the not-so-fringe benefit of continued existence by confronting the totalitarian “command and control” imposed on all of us by big carbon capital’s social and economic preference for short-term private accumulation and profit over the longer-term common good—over any kind of decent future for human beings and other living things?

https://www.truthdig.com/articles/its-the-green-new-deal-or-else/

 
The Fossil Fuelers 🦖 DID THE Clean Energy  Inventions suppressing, Climate Trashing, human health depleting CRIME,   but since they have ALWAYS BEEN liars and conscience free crooks 🦀, they are trying to AVOID   DOING THE TIME or   PAYING THE FINE!     Don't let them get away with it! Pass it on!   
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on March 17, 2019, 09:09:24 pm
MAR 13, 2019| TD ORIGINALS

It’s the Green New Deal or Else ☠️

I suppose we all owe UCLA economist and Hoover Institution senior fellow Lee Ohanian 🦕 a debt of gratitude for telling us how it is (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F1%2F3-250718202127.gif&hash=acc63221521ebaf3f238088fd92d1ae3a08b6e48).  The “free market” (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-311013200859.png&hash=a7aaaa9f04c1e3e2c948723b5f8c13fe814dacd4) propagandist recently took to the pages of The Hill, a Washington, D.C., journal for political insiders, to explain that the holy laws of economics (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-311013201314.png&hash=0715eb72631014310634eb56176ff860c6d542f6) dictate that humanity must consent to its own extermination (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F1%2F3-120818180835-16181943.gif&hash=0b93e71ee5e24bbe02555e0d648a1283e0e9651d).

In a piece titled “The Green New Deal is a Pipe Dream,” (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-250817121829.png&hash=035f25ddb6d065f1533ce03c1c07f5fddcbbc83c) Ohanian drowned climate activists’ overheated dreams of ecological salvation in the icy waters of bourgeois reality, arguing that the proposed legislation’s advocates are, in fact, nefarious, big-government “command-and-control” zealots—eco-Stalinists—who want “to impose their social and economic preferences on others at an extravagantly high economic cost.”
(https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fmemecrunch.com%2Fmeme%2F5L3XX%2Fspiderman-bullshit-detector%2Fimage.jpg%3Fw%3D544%26amp%3Bc%3D1&hash=4825835b92337d62f61a3d37d282105e97ac3ee3)

Ohanian described the Green New Deal’s goal of net-zero U.S. carbon emissions in 10 years as an “infeasible” aim that demonstrates a failure “to understand basic cost-benefit analysis.” (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F1%2F3-250718211017.gif&hash=1b5b289486b9429bdbdcb938b21ef1a2b66d30fc)

If that weren’t enough, the Hoover fellow noted that “the GND would be extremely expensive” (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F1%2F3-250718211017.gif&hash=1b5b289486b9429bdbdcb938b21ef1a2b66d30fc) and that America lacks “the technological know-how” to reach zero carbon emissions.  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F1%2F3-210818163125-16722324.gif&hash=fd301340fefe90d81ed8826dfa0568be12a1c0d8) Ohanian 😈 further pleased the Hoover Institution’s big-business 🐉🦕🦖 sponsors by adding his judgment that the Green New Deal’s promise of a living wage will make workers lazy and unproductive. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-250817122018.gif&hash=74d86c1f35e2f61ea38c9bfa392f84a92631b96e) No such promise can be fulfilled today, “when jobs can be easily offshored, outsourced, and automated,” (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-191017140758.jpeg&hash=8c0a35a928dcda3c1a8714ab03f4924a1a775851) he pronounced.

Now that we understand these economic (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-200714191329.bmp&hash=4764bfbe6bb0e11ca61102efa97a932a824f47e0) realities, we can prepare—without rebellion, with calm acceptance and within the limits of our stagnant incomes—for our coming extinction. Onward with the coming macroeconomic ecocide. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F1%2F3-111018132421-16911675.gif&hash=b337cdc73ae0e451ca134d064ea3363d3de56665)


(https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F1%2F3-210818163123-16652282.gif&hash=3e78c6c5447f417c0b376d2ae21803e908a959d0)(https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F1%2F3-240718213433-14592370.png&hash=303e851c5feb196224d3a901ee609fed6437375d) (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-130418202829.png&hash=a4ec201b97ad269ff59a6a1c0f1c19a04b57803a) Except, wait. Hold on. Maybe Ohanian is full of petroligarchic crap. Maybe there’s still hope for the species after all.

He is, and there is. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F1%2F3-250718210628.gif&hash=a297e44320f13fa5f3eae64809a46139f5e2395a)   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-141113185047.png&hash=384024358ff8d5e7133d19b6e6638da4584a8154)

It’s simply not true that we lack the technological expertise to achieve zero carbon emissions. Writing for Scientific American, Stanford engineering professor Mark Jacobson and University of California at Davis research scientist Mark Delucchi have shown repeatedly over the last decade that humanity could convert to a completely renewable energy-based system by 2030 if nations employ technologies vetted by scientists rather than those championed by private industry.

In their state-level analysis, which focuses on New York and California, Jacobson and Delucchi conclude that wind turbines, water machines, solar installations and other green technologies are affordable and available for rapid utilization. “The main obstacles are political and social—getting politicians onboard,” Jacobson told a leading science reporter six years ago. “There are always naysayers who think it’s pie in the sky, that we’ll never get there. And there are people who are tied into a certain industry who push back the most.”

The Green New Deal would cost a lot of money, Ohanian insists. What, like the giant tax breaks that Donald Trump and Congress gave the richest 10th of the 1 percent and their corporate allies, adding $2.2 trillion to the national debt (equal to $17,500 per household)? Like our subsidies for the military-industrial complex, which costs taxpayers $700 billion today and is projected to cost $972 billion by 2024, despite having the largest carbon footprint of any single institution on earth? Like the $204 billion spent on advertising in the U.S. last year to push a maddening surfeit of consumer products, many, if not most, designed in accord with the ecocidal principle of built-in obsolescence?

From 2014 through 2018, the global capitalist system spent $2.72 trillion on advertising alone. Imagine where we’d be on the path to slowing climate change if all that money had been spent on wind turbines, water machines, solar installations, sustainable agriculture, reforestation and green retrofitting, infrastructure and regional planning. There’s more than enough money to fund training to close the skilled heating, ventilation and air-conditioning-worker gap.

Meanwhile, Ohanian’s classist notion that workers will become indolent and inefficient if they are guaranteed a living wage is a Dickensian old wives’ tale. Productivity positively—not negatively—correlates with a living wage. And how does Ohanian think workers are supposed to lead dignified lives without one? Are millions of young adults supposed to live with their parents indefinitely or rely on food pantries and homeless shelters to get by while working full-time jobs?

Outsourcing, offshoring and automation are not without solutions, such as government and union restrictions; capital controls; green government jobs programs to absorb technically displaced workers; international efforts to raise wages and labor standards abroad; and guaranteed national incomes. Much of this is addressed in economist Robert Pollin’s important book, “Greening the Global Economy,” which advances “just transition” polices that include “solid pension protections, re-employment guarantees, as well as retraining and relocation support for individual workers, and community-support initiatives” for communities negatively affected by the suspension of fossil fuel extraction and burning.

Here’s a true pipe dream (maybe we should call it a “pipeline 🦕 dream”): the continuation of a decent human existence even for rich nations comparatively sheltered from the worst consequences of climate change. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-130418202709.png&hash=7503265ec59e4c28d735afb762bc39f4674bd838) (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F1%2F3-111018132421-16902.gif&hash=deba9f0f91ecd7d65bbdeb78786bef4a98cb1a7e)

In 2008, James Hansen, then head of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, and seven other leading climate scientists reported that we would see “practically irreversible ice sheet and species loss” if the planet’s average temperature rose above 1 degree Celsius (1.8 F), thanks to carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere reaching 450 parts per million (ppm).

When the report was published, CO2 levels were at 385—“already in the dangerous zone” according to Hansen and his team. They warned that deadly, self-reinforcing “feedbacks” could be triggered at that level. The dire prospects they warned of included “ice sheet disintegration, vegetation migration, and [greenhouse gas] release from soils, tundra, or ocean sediments.”

The only way to assure a livable climate, Hansen and his colleagues warned, was to cut CO2 to at least 350 ppm.

Here we are, 11 years later, having blown past Hansen’s 1 degree Celsius red line since 2015. We currently stand at 410 ppm, the highest level of CO2 saturation in 800,000 years. The latest climate report of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reflects the consensus opinion of the world’s leading climate scientists. It tells us that we are headed to a temperature increase of 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 F) in the next 12 years. Failure to dramatically slash emissions between now and 2030 is certain to set off catastrophic developments for hundreds of millions of people, the report warns.

The IPCC finds that at our current pace, we are headed for a 3- to 4-degree Celsius (5.4 F to 7.2 F) temperature increase by the end of century. That will mean a planet that is mostly unlivable.

It gets worse. Numerous climate scientists have indicated that the IPCC’s findings are excessively conservative. That’s because the institute deletes and downplays research demonstrating the likelihood that irreversible climatological tipping points could arrive sooner than expected. Among the reports pointing to these conclusions is a recent NASA-funded study warning that the unexpectedly abrupt thawing of permafrost could release massive volumes of CO2  and methane within a few decades.

Earth, biological and social scientists are increasingly raising the specter of climate-driven human extinction in the not-so-distant future. In vast swaths of the world, across much of sub-Saharan Africa, India, the Middle East, Latin America and Southeast Asia, climate catastrophe is already underway.

Conservative though it may be, the U.N. report is no whitewash. It gives us 12 years to drastically slash greenhouse gas emissions or face catastrophic consequences. It also calls for “unprecedented changes in all aspects of society” to drop global CO2  emissions 45 percent below 2010 levels and 60 percent below 2015 levels by 2030. We need to hit zero by the midcentury point, the IPCC says, and we cannot do that without radically and rapidly reducing our energy consumption.

Cost-benefit analysis? The Green New Deal is, if anything, insufficiently radical. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-250817121649.png&hash=4554f7e59701d12857946aece16bceb973c997b3) It does not go to the full class-rule (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-130418203402.gif&hash=b2691028ba683a0039a5811f5775c68d7ccae01c)taproot of the many deadly ecological rifts (the climate crisis is only the most urgent) opened by capitalism’s relentless, totalitarian drive to commodify everything on earth. Progressive-Democrat Green New Deal advocates have yet to join serious ecosocialists in calling for green investments to be garnered from massive reductions in the U.S. military budget, which eats up more than half of federal discretionary spending and sustains a global military empire that is the world’s single largest institutional carbon emitter. The Green New Deal’s sponsors have yet to call (as they will have to if they are serious about environmental reconversion) for their program to be funded and protected from capital flight by the nationalization of the United States’ leading financial institutions.

Still, at least Green New Dealers are talking seriously about the benefit of a livable earth. It seems like society might want to be ready to absorb significant costs to achieve the continuation of the species. Professor Ohanian should write the environmentalists’ maxim 500 times on a UCLA chalkboard: “There are no jobs on a dead planet. There is no economy on a dead planet.”

Zero carbon emissions by 2030 (or even 2040) is a grandiose goal. But guess what? Now is precisely the time to aim sky high on ecology and way low on carbon release. How much are we willing to pay for human survival? Do environmental calamity and the real risk of extinction count as “extravagantly high costs”? When might we be willing to achieve the not-so-fringe benefit of continued existence by confronting the totalitarian “command and control” imposed on all of us by big carbon capital’s social and economic preference for short-term private accumulation and profit over the longer-term common good—over any kind of decent future for human beings and other living things?

https://www.truthdig.com/articles/its-the-green-new-deal-or-else/ (https://www.truthdig.com/articles/its-the-green-new-deal-or-else/)


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Green New Deal’s goal of net-zero U.S. carbon emissions in 10 years as an “infeasible” aim that demonstrates a failure “to understand basic cost-benefit analysis.” 

It's more than anything else a failure to understand basic thermodynamics principles...

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It’s simply not true that we lack the technological expertise to achieve zero carbon emissions. Writing for Scientific American, Stanford engineering professor Mark Jacobson and University of California at Davis research scientist Mark Delucchi have shown repeatedly over the last decade that humanity could convert to a completely renewable energy-based system by 2030 if nations employ technologies vetted by scientists rather than those championed by private industry.

https://youtu.be/V2KNqluP8M0

I give you this pointer... but there are others...

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Outsourcing, offshoring and automation are not without solutions, such as government and union restrictions; capital controls; green government jobs programs to absorb technically displaced workers; international efforts to raise wages and labor standards abroad; and guaranteed national incomes. Much of this is addressed in economist Robert Pollin’s important book, “Greening the Global Economy,” which advances “just transition” polices that include “solid pension protections, re-employment guarantees, as well as retraining and relocation support for individual workers, and community-support initiatives” for communities negatively affected by the suspension of fossil fuel extraction and burning.

Robert Pollin is the epitome of the **** clueless moronic silo thinker peddling the 'Green Growth' delusion.

https://youtu.be/AIE9klWvA4g

If you look carefully at the comment section, I merrily and thoroughly DEBUNKED his shitty excuse of a premise.

Blinded by ideology and opining on matters he knows JACKSHIT about... that's your average economist for ya...


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The article is well researched and the proposed Green New Deal certainly DOES NOT violate the laws of thermodynamics in its premise, logic, function and application. As to the comments section, they are irrelevant.

Furthermore, Green "growth" (an OXYMORON when it applies to Renewable Energy) is a straw man ridiculous argument that fine fellows like you just love to bring up. Any fool knows that the TOTAL carbon footprint of humanity MUST be reduced if we are to survive.

The FACT that the current incredibly STUPID energy status quo GUARANTEES an INCREASE in the human carbon footprint IS THE ISSUE HERE, Einstein.

THAT is the the REASON we MUST HAVE a GREEN NEW DEAL, that in addition to the one presented, is FAR more ambitious in scale and in scope.

However, that, IN NO WAY, advocates for GROWTH of the HUMAN CARBON FOOTPRINT. The REDUCTION of the HUMAN CARBON FOOTPRINT is SINE QUA NON to the Green New Deal.

You just cannot seem to grasp that. Too bad. 👎 If you want to spin the Green New Deal as some greenwashing exercise that INCREASES the human carbon footprint by building a bunch of industrial gadgets that, allegedly, cause a population increase that, allegedly, increases the carbon footprint of humanity, I will consistently challenge you on that erroneous biosphere math challenged scare mongering.

The Green New Deal is NOT a technofix, so spare me that argument as well. Technofixes will NOT save us, as I have been saying for several years in the following quote:

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"Technical knowledge of Carrying Capacity will not save us; only a massive increase in Caring Capacity will."-- A. G. Gelbert

THIS is what needs to be fixed about the current extinction producing carbon footprint:

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The issue is NOT limited to energy and the human carbon footprint destroying the viability of the biosphere. The issue is SOCIAL JUSTICE too. I guess you think the Laws of Thermodynamics make that a "pipe dream" as well. ::) If that is where your nihilist heart is at, I feel sorry for you. Greta Thunberg and AOC may be dreamers, but their dream is NOT a "pipe dream". Their dream must become a reality or we are TOAST.

UBL, It's time for you to sing this song or GET OUT OF THE WAY of the massive increase in CARING CAPACITY.


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On the show I play the new song “We Don’t Have Time” written by Ingemar Beattone Aberg, CJ Palmer and Adam Baptiste, with a little Gret Thunberg in the track. On Earth Day, this April 22nd, you can visit the new social network “for saving the climate and truly making a difference.” Get a sneak preview at wedonthavetime.org. 
https://www.ecoshock.org/2019/03/the-rules-of-extinction.html

https://youtu.be/CRZy8yImNWc

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on March 18, 2019, 02:13:45 pm
THE POLITICS OF THE GREEN NEW DEAL: PART 2 ON CAPITAL

March 16, 2019/62 Comments/in Green New Deal /by Ed Walker 👍

Posts in this series Part 1 on Labor (https://www.emptywheel.net/2019/03/10/the-politics-of-the-green-new-deal-part-1/)

In Part 1 I discuss some of the ways the working class will be affected by disruptions brought on by climate change, and some of the ways the Green New Deal proposes to ease those burdens. Climate change will also hurt capital and capitalists. It’s not possible to outline all the potential damage and disruption so I’ll just lay out some of the obvious problems.

Real estate investments are in danger. Some of that impact will be borne by small landholders, owners of vacation homes on Galveston Bay or condos on the beach in Naples FL, for example. But much of it will be borne by larger holders, such as owners of apartment complexes near the coasts, marinas, and commercial property near the coast, and the owner of Mar-a-Lago. Rising sea levels will also affect the infrastructure of cities on the coast, such as Miami, which is already planning to spend $100M on flood protection.

The coasts aren’t the only areas facing weather problems. Wind storms are becoming more serious; recently extraordinary winds blew the roof off a warehouse near Dallas. Here’s a Wikipedia page documenting tornadoes in the US in 2019. It shows we have already had 3 intense tornadoes, including the two that struck Alabama recently. We can expect more.

Wildfires are a terrifying danger in drought-stricken areas. PG&E, the California utility giant, filed bankruptcy January 29, 2019 to deal with its liability for damage from wildfires it caused. The Los Angeles Times wrote:

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PG&E said a Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing, which allows the company to continue operating while it comes up with a plan to pay its debts, was the only way to deal with billions of dollars in potential liabilities from a series of deadly wildfires, many of which were sparked by the company’s power grid infrastructure.

Financial pressure has been mounting on PG&E since October 2017, when a series of wildfires ravaged Northern California, killing 44 people. State investigators determined that PG&E’s equipment sparked or contributed to more than a dozen of those fires, which killed 22 people. The company’s crisis only grew with the November 2018 Camp fire, which killed 86 people and destroyed most of the town of Paradise.

PG&E said a Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing, which allows the company to continue operating while it comes up with a plan to pay its debts, was the only way to deal with billions of dollars in potential liabilities from a series of deadly wildfires, many of which were sparked by the company’s power grid infrastructure.

Financial pressure has been mounting on PG&E since October 2017, when a series of wildfires ravaged Northern California, killing 44 people. State investigators determined that PG&E’s equipment sparked or contributed to more than a dozen of those fires, which killed 22 people. The company’s crisis only grew with the November 2018 Camp fire, which killed 86 people and destroyed most of the town of Paradise.

PG&E arranged a $5.5bn interim loan from a consortium of banks but creditors objected and then the Bankruptcy Judge stated serious concerns. According to the Wall Street Journal, the Judge noted that PG&E was under criminal probation after a criminal conviction on six counts arising from the deadly San Bruno fire. The federal District Court in that case imposed a public safety regime on PG&E, and the later fires might be deemed to be the result of violations of parole, in which case the supervising court could replace management. That would be a breach of the financing loan. The Bankruptcy Judge also noted the strong possibility of more wildfires in 2019, saying that more damages could tip PG&E into default. Either default would give the bank lenders control of the company in Chapter 11 and the creditors objected to that possibility. The costs of this bankruptcy are horrendous, and will be borne at least in part by people forced to be customers of PG&E because it’s a monopoly. Some shareholders have suffered losses in stock value, and more may be lost. The stock is down $50 since September 2017 to about $20. It’s an ugly story and it’s going to be repeated.

Climate change will also damage the 🐉🦕🦖 oil and gas industry 👍😀. A number of huge petrochemical plants and refineries are located in hurricane territory. Here’s a detailed map; see for yourself (https://www.eia.gov/state/maps.php). Last year refineries on the gulf coast of Texas were hit by Hurricane Harvey. Harvey weakened to a Category 3 hurricane before making landfall, and the damage was mostly from flooding. The loss of capacity caused spikes in gasoline prices for consumers. Some of the losses to refineries will be covered by insurance. But insurance companies are just for spreading risk, not eating it, and that implies a rise in the cost of insurance. Here’s an excellent article by Bradley Hope and Nicole Friedman in the Wall Street Journal from October 2018, focused on the impact on reinsurance companies. Here’s a taste related to studies predicting increased likelihood of hurricanes in the Persian Gulf:

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“Climate change makes the historical record of extreme weather an unreliable indicator of the current risk,” says Stephen Pacala, a board member at Hamilton Insurance Group Ltd. and a Princeton professor, who wasn’t involved in the study. “So, what’s the insurance industry to do? No hurricane has ever threatened the massive unarmored oil and gas infrastructure in the Persian Gulf.”

So what dose the Green New Deal offer to capital?

Section 2.1 (I think; whoever made up this numbering system is a traitor to clarity) calls for

… building resiliency against climate change-related disasters, such as extreme weather, including by leveraging funding and providing investments for community-defined projects and strategies …

The emphasis on community planning is notable. Section 2.2 calls for rebuilding infrastructure. Section 2.4 calls for upgrading the power grid. Section 2.5 calls for rebuilding existing buildings to improve durability among other things. Section 4.1 requires insuring sufficient capital for entities, including businesses, working on the goals of the Green New Deal. Section 4.4 calls for educating workers so they can handle the new work that will need to be done. Section 4.11 calls “… enacting and enforcing trade rules, procurement standards, and border adjustments with strong labor and environmental protections ….” Section 4.14 calls for strict enforcement of anti-trust and other laws to encourage competition and discourage monopoly.

I’d say that’s a fairly strong plan for decent businesses under the Green New Deal. True, it doesn’t give capital a free hand to make the overarching decisions, and it doesn’t give capital all the money, and it has other provisions that hem in capital, but it sure doesn’t sound like the socialist dystopia the 🐉🦕🦖 Republicans are shrieking about. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-250817121649.png&hash=4554f7e59701d12857946aece16bceb973c997b3)

https://www.emptywheel.net/2019/03/16/the-politics-of-the-green-new-deal-part-2-on-capital/ (https://www.emptywheel.net/2019/03/16/the-politics-of-the-green-new-deal-part-2-on-capital/)

Agelbert NOTE: The above series of, (two, so far) articles makes crystal clear that the Green New Deal is NOT some "irrational pie in the sky" energy and social justice reform proposition. Nevertheless, CAPITALISTS in general, and Fossil Fuelers in particular, still alternate between mocking dismissal and wailing, moaning and shrieking about the "violation" of the Laws of Thermodynamics while, of course 😉, remaining silent as death about the ENERGY WELFARE QUEEN POLLUTER GOVERNMENT HAND OUTS, that are the ONLY REASON those energy "industry" (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-130418203402.gif&hash=b2691028ba683a0039a5811f5775c68d7ccae01c) crooks and liars continue to be "profitable".

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The fossil fueler propaganda baloney about the "violation" of the Laws of Thermodynamics that a 100% Renewable Energy powered economy represents, and is therefore "impossible", has been debunked over and over again by scientists who actually understand Thermodynamics and are NOT being paid by the polluter energy "industries" to bad mouth Renewable Energy infrastructure.

Amory Lovins is physicist. He has been a scientist for the Rocky Mountain Institute for over 30 years. He forced the math on fluid mechanics formulas in engineering courses to be corrected when he proved they were wrong with instruments he invented and used. This was decades ago. He is an EXPERT in maximizing the efficiency of energy using devices.

Since then he has been on the forefront of patiently explaining to all who would listen objectively that the status quo energy system is so ruinously wasteful that we could reduce our energy use by 80% by switching to 100% Renewable Energy, that is mostly NOT CENTRALIZED, as is now the case for Fossil Fuel and Nuclear powered DIRTY energy, but harvested and distributed near the point of use. Amory Lovins has, with peer reviewed studies and published papers, made the case that human civilization can operate, at the standard of living we know have (which is nothing to brag about outside of first world countries, but he 👨‍🔬 has proposed solutions there as well. ;D), with 20% of the energy we NOW USE.

Below you can see a graphic from Amory Lovins clearly displaying the ruinously wasteful, and therefore stupidly biosphere damaging, electrical grid energy system based on coal fired power plants:

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As you can see, the Laws of Thermodynamics do NOT need to be "violated" to massively reduce the energy use in our civilization, even without ANY reduction in the amount of electricity we use in the home. THe Fossil Fuelers KNOW THIS. They also KNOW that, if the inefficiencies are taken out of the present system, as Amory Lovins is not just proposing, but actually making it happen in many places all over the world as I write this (go to the Rocky Mountain Institute web site if you do not believe me!), the CONSUMPTION, along with the DEMAND (see: DEMAND DESTRUCTION (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F2%2F3-231218145827.png&hash=8d3bbb761cf17fcddac83f24088d26e316b65e33))for the fossil fuel polluting PRODUCT will plummet. They do not want taht. They want us all to believe the BULLSHIT that the system we have is "efficient" and the "best there is" and "we are alla gonna die" if we get rid of fossil fuels, nuclear power (and subsides for those profit over planet "loyal servants").

It is, I admit, a clever pitch. Most people are unaware that the level of waste in our energy system is BY DESIGN. More WASTE means more USE OF THE PRODUCT, get it? If you don't, you do not understand the Fossil Fuel Ideology. Any Fossil Fueler=CAPITALIST understands that the more product you sell at a (guaranteed by corrupted Government Welfare Queen subsidies (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-311013200859.png&hash=a7aaaa9f04c1e3e2c948723b5f8c13fe814dacd4)) profit, the more money you have to further corrupt the government to strangle Renewable Energy competitors in a Fascist Utopia Captive Market Pipeline Dream.

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You are being lied to. The current system is a biosphere destroying system. We need it like a dog needs ticks. We CAN MASSIVELY lower our carbon footprint, bankrupt the polluters and make great strides towards improved SOCIAL JUSTICE. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-060518153110.png&hash=39d587c31b7f7e66b30d7e59bb560e2ad0662eee)

Finally, please look at this graphic I prepared some years ago. After that, look at the map referenced in the article. we CAN switch to FAR MORE that 100% Renewable Energy.

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I only clicked on the Geothermal power plants but on the map linked in the article (https://www.eia.gov/state/maps.php), you can unclick everything but coal and you can see that far too much of our grid electricity still comes from coal. This is stupid and unnecessary.

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WE can go to 150% EASILY. We can use that extra energy to start sucking that excess CO2 out of the atmosphere. NO, we don't need to build a lot of gadgets to do that! All we need to do is grow Azolla and/or Lemna minor (duckweed) in vast desert areas on the earth. It could take 50 years or more to get back to 350 PPM of CO2, depending on how fast we scaled the building (with Renewable Energy powered equipment) of 3' deep huge ponds tended with Renewable Energy water pumps and fertilized with pig feces (there are a lot more pigs than there are people on this planet!). Planting trees will help but it is too slow compared with the aquatic plants I just referenced in the ability to exctract CO2 from the atmosphere. For energy we need to go 150% Renewable. For CO2 removal we need millions of acres of fast growing fresh water aquatic plant growing ponds all over the planet, NOT Carbon Sequestering SCAMS like this one shown below:

Carbon Capture Technofix Scam by Big Oil
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REAL WORLD solutions EXIST. The Green New Deal is just the first step. The Zero Hour platform is the framework of ACTION on Energy, Climate Change and SOCIAL JUSTICE that must be followed if we are to survive. THERE IS NO ALTERNATIVE, no matter what the nutball fossil fuelers and nuke pukes claim.

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on March 18, 2019, 09:18:25 pm
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The FACT that the current incredibly STUPID energy status quo GUARANTEES an INCREASE in the human carbon footprint IS THE ISSUE HERE, Einstein.

THAT is the the REASON we MUST HAVE a GREEN NEW DEAL, that in addition to the one presented, is FAR more ambitious in scale and in scope.

This might shock you, but believe it or not, I'm not against a Green New Deal.
 I'm against:
#1. Political opportunist with Grand Designs schemes that CLEARLY haven't been THOUGHT OUT CAREFULLY.
#2. Political opportunist who want to convince every citizens they can lead the country because they read a 3$ book on climate change they bought at the library 6 months ago.

What would need to be done to have a REMOTE chance of just MITIGATING the worst outcome would require to have the CONSENT of NOT ONLY the US population, but eventually that of all countries. It would require the PLANNED end of CAPITALISM by CONSENSUS.

That's not going to happen. 100% renewables ain't going to happen in my lifetime.
What's going to happen is going to happen; the best we can do is spread the knowledge that explains WHY we got into that [S ]ituation ; it's the best way, actually, the only way to achieve maximum cooperation when things get a little dicey...

Maybe you should have a glass of wine while listening to George Carlin's "Saving the Planet" skits ...

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Man can do what he will, but he cannot will what he wills.
~A. Schopenhauer

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Man can do what he will, AND he can, SOMETIMES, but not ALWAYS, will what he wills.
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Nothing you say shocks me because you constantly, and smugly, engage in serial pejorative hyperbole with the express purpose of disdaining any possibility of success for a GND program that is based on sine qua non human survival requirements. The REALLY OPPORTUNISTIC BASTARDS are in the fossil fuel and nuclear power industries, though you can't seem to bring yourself to recognize that FACT of corrupted government life. Then again, maybe you do recognize it and could care less.

True, you can claim that BECAUSE our government is so corrupted, we do not have a prayer of getting a massive Green New Deal on steroids going for the forseable future. I strongly disagree. Those pollution profiting corrupters of good government are having their profits eaten alive by Demand Destruction CAUSED by more and more Renewables coming on line. They are LOSING political power they must have to corrupt our government much faster than folks like you realize.

NO, we do NOT need 100% of the people to be on board. ALREADY, over 70% of the American public IS on board. Your "nobody wants to spend more than $3 a month on climate change" is laughable, despite some baloney poll just published. We spend a LOT MORE than THAT on subsidies NOW.

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ALL WE NEED is for the government to to DECIDE TO DO the 100% RENEWABLE ENERGY THING OUT OF SIMPLE NATIONAL SELF INTEREST.

You believe that ain't gonna happen (here, or anywhere else on the planet - I guess Costa Rica at 98% Renewable Energy, the Netherlands and Norway, doing quite well too, do not exist. I guess Germany getting 60% of there juice from wind so far in March is "irrelevant". I guess The U.K. getting 35% of their juice from wind so far this year is also "irrelevant".) The efforts of all those countries I just named (plus Portugal and Spain, also China is no sluggard on Renewable Energy either) evidence that you are wrong.

Sing all the Carlin nihilist songs you want, pal. The move to deep six all this stupid, corrupt, inefficient polluting energy crap you think is "impossible" to change is much further advanced than the media will let on (thanks to fossil fuel propagnada money).

Did you even LOOK at the map I linked? did you SEE the MASSIVE amount of wind (on shore AND offshore) resources and solar resources and geothermal resources? OF COURSE NOT!

Did you LOOK at the geothermal power plants and all the Solar and Wind and Battery and Renewable Energy Harvesting facilities in operation? OF COURSE NOT!

Your inability to question your nihilist ideology is the hallmark of ideological bigotry. Your posturing and insufferably arrogant attitude is tiresome, as well as self defeating.

If you wish to convince people of your views, I suggest you try to be respectful. That works a lot better than using too clever by a half sophistry to try to position yourself as the "teacher" of "wisdom and truth" to the student, sonny boy.

Humility isn't your thing. I get that. People who lack humility have great difficulty learning from people they do not consider an "authority". You have obviously classified me as one beneath you in knowledge of Climate Science, Renewable Energy technology and planetary biosphere ecology. Consequently, you will, despite the energy use and abuse facts in my posts, irrationally reject just about every bit of graphic and/or statistical evidence I present to you that undermines your "there is no hope" world view. 👎
 
Seven years of posts here by yours truly speak for themselves. You are free to reject everything I say, as you have mostly done to date, of course.

You, and people that share your "it can't be done" views, are part of the problem, not part of the solution.

I KNOW what CAN be done and what CAN'T be done. 

I am convinced by your puffery that you do not. If you begin repeating your tired nihilistic arguments, your posts will be deleted as soon as I read them. I will not allow polluter propaganda demonizing Renewable Energy and Social Justice solutions to our climate Crisis on this forum. Have a nice day.
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on March 20, 2019, 01:43:03 pm
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By Brian Kahn

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Here's What New York's Climate Strike Looked Like (https://earther.gizmodo.com/heres-what-new-yorks-climate-strike-looked-like-1833320316)
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on March 20, 2019, 06:52:17 pm
 
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MAR 19, 2019 OPINION | TD ORIGINALS

The Secret to Funding a Green New Deal

By Ellen Brown —  Public banks, including a central bank operated as a public utility, could generate billions without raising taxes or driving up the debt.    (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-060518153110.png&hash=39d587c31b7f7e66b30d7e59bb560e2ad0662eee)

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on March 21, 2019, 01:10:48 pm
THE POLITICS OF THE GREEN NEW DEAL: THE OPPOSITION OF THE 👹💵🎩 RICH

March 20, 2019/14 Comments/in Green New Deal /by Ed Walker

Posts in this series:

The Green New Deal Challenges The Domination Of Capital Part 1 on Labor (https://www.emptywheel.net/2019/03/10/the-politics-of-the-green-new-deal-part-1/)

The Green New Deal: Part 2 On Capital (http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/climate-change/global-warming-is-with-us/msg11823/#msg11823)

Every discussion of the Green New Deal begins with the assertion that it can’t pass. In the US this means one thing: the donor class (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-130418203402.gif&hash=b2691028ba683a0039a5811f5775c68d7ccae01c) doesn’t like it. We need to confront this fact.

If the richest people in the US strongly supported the Green New Deal, it would be on its way to passage with the support of enough Republican legislators. As evidence, let’s look at a widely read study by Martin Gilens of Princeton and Benjamin Page of Northwestern of legislative actions and voter preferences. Here’s a short description. In this rebuttal of their critics, a group of researchers including Gilens and Page say this:

When only the affluent strongly support a proposed policy change, that policy is adopted 46 percent of the time; when only the middle-class strongly support a policy, that policy is adopted only 24 percent of the time.

The affluent are, not surprisingly, better at blocking policies they dislike than achieving policy change they desire. When a policy is strongly opposed by the affluent (less than 25 percent support) but not strongly opposed by the middle-class, that policy is adopted only 4 percent of the time. But when a policy is strongly opposed by the middle-class but not by the affluent, the policy is adopted 40 percent of the time.

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Page and Jeffrey Winters published an article in December 2009 titled Oligarchy in the United States?. Here’s a less academic version. They think that oligarchs, meaning the very richest among capitalists, share three goals which I summarize as:

1. Protecting and preserving wealth
2. Insuring the unrestricted use of wealth
3. Acquiring more wealth.

I think most capitalists  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-040718162655-14231561.gif&hash=98b427175ee380f6d3c313520cc8668c10f2172a)(https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-190318152544.png&hash=f9c3636b6ca81d8a7b9c7b8182c3367edbb8a377) share those goals, and the richer they are, the more they agree.

In the past when confronted with economic disaster capital used its political and ideological power and of course its money to get the government to bail it out of economic difficulty, to direct the efforts of the government to deal with the problem (not necessarily solving it), and to enable capital to profit from dealing with the problem. We don’t have to look back but a decade to see this.

The Green New Deal is a direct threat to that approach. Capitalists. and their political allies are angry and outraged at the very idea that something should be done. It must be infuriating to hear politicians say that government should protect the working class and local communities from climate change and its consequences. It especially terrible because that protection will sometimes come at the expense of the three goals of the capitalists.

For example, Section 4.4 calls for increased research and development of new and renewable energy technologies and industries. Section 4.1 establishes a goal of:

providing and leveraging, in a way that ensures that the public receives appropriate ownership stakes and returns on investment, adequate capital (including through community grants, public banks, and other public financing), technical expertise, supporting policies, and other forms of assistance to communities, organizations, Federal, State, and local government agencies, and businesses working on the Green New Deal mobilization ….

In the past, the government has created valuable knowledge and technical expertise, and turned it over to the private sector to exploit at no or very little cost. Not only that, but there were no price controls to protect the consumers who are, of course, working class, not capitalists. This source of profit dries up under the Green New Deal. Capital is not permitted to impose excessive prices as it routinely has, for example in the drug business.

Section 4.5 adds this:

directing investments to spur economic development, deepen and diversify industry in local and regional economies, and build wealth and community ownership, while prioritizing high-quality job creation and economic, social, and environmental benefits in frontline and vulnerable communities that may otherwise struggle with the transition away from greenhouse gas intensive industries;

In the past, capital has invested where it chose for its own reasons. Capitalists 🦍 use that power to extract tax preferences from state and local governments. Or they choose to locate in places with compliant, meaning non-union, workers, who are much easier to exploit. Section 4.5 seeks to change that. Section 4.7 calls for better jobs with higher pay. Section 4.6 insists on deep involvement of the community in planning for reaching the goals of the Green New Deal.

Taken together, these provisions should lead to a more resilient economy by spreading work and production across the nation. It’s true that the Green New Deal will reduce the freedom of capital to invest for its own benefit without regard to the costs it imposes on workers and society,and perhaps lower returns. Politically, making the economy work for everyone should be seen by the vast majority as a more important goal.

Until now, wealthier people, not all capitalists, have acted (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-250817135149.gif&hash=b4a8748d7cf56a31dd0a6aae5828ed2c1ac2815c) to ensure that factories, refineries, and other heavy polluters are kept in poor communities (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-040718162656-14241872.gif&hash=6c39a3206e2b2a3d652adee626b5eee8ab5b15bf). >:( The Green New Deal calls for moving to cleaner energy and production, and offers a path to that future. It also calls for cleaning up the mess the capitalists have imposed on society. It requires industry to go green as well, reducing pollution and damage to the people nearby. Thanks to the requirement for heavy community involvement, the balance of power related to the location of work should shift towards the working class. This, we can hope, will lead to a healthier and happier population.

It will also affect the profitability of some businesses because it forces capital to eat costs it has imposed on people and on the environment for decades. But the cost of improvements will be partly offset by government contributions of technology, financial assistance, and technical support under Section 4.1. And following Econ 101 logic, forcing capital to internalize all of its costs improves market outcomes by making the costs of production obvious.

The good things offered by the Green New Deal are not enough for the capitalists. They (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-311013201314.png&hash=0715eb72631014310634eb56176ff860c6d542f6) have always had their way, and they won’t give up without a fight. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F1%2F3-250718204530.gif&hash=2e7c5022efc700a555c2e328644b7448b6dda789) They’ve (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-311013200859.png&hash=a7aaaa9f04c1e3e2c948723b5f8c13fe814dacd4) already started operating their most trusted tool: Shrieking About Socialism. I’ll look at that next.

https://www.emptywheel.net/2019/03/20/the-politics-of-the-green-new-deal-the-opposition-of-the-rich/

 
The Fossil Fuelers 🦖 DID THE Clean Energy  Inventions suppressing, Climate Trashing, human health depleting CRIME,   but since they have ALWAYS BEEN liars and conscience free crooks 🦀, they are trying to AVOID   DOING THE TIME or   PAYING THE FINE!     Don't let them get away with it! Pass it on!   
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on March 22, 2019, 05:35:01 pm
AXIOS

By Rashaan Ayesh Mar 20, 2019


This is big. Judge halts Trump’s drilling plan, saying Interior Department must consider climate change. (https://www.axios.com/judge-blocks-trump-oil-gas-drilling-climate-change-d972fe31-0d61-4b1a-a5a3-28ac869a0b15.html)
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on March 22, 2019, 10:58:26 pm
 
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'Unprecedented' flooding on the way, how Big Oil 🦕🦖 spends 😈 its money, & more (https://mailchi.mp/climatenexus/unprecedented-flooding-on-the-way-how-big-oil-spends-its-money-more)
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on March 24, 2019, 12:59:13 pm
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Africa’s Hurricane Katrina: Tropical Cyclone Idai Causes an Extreme Catastrophe

Dr. Jeff Masters  ·  March 20, 2019, 2:22 PM EDT

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Above: Residents stand on rooftops in a flooded area of Buzi (population 200,000), in central Mozambique, on March 20, 2019, after the passage of cyclone Idai. Image credit: ADRIEN BARBIER/AFP/Getty Images.

SNIPPET:

Over 400 are dead and countless more are at grave risk, huddled on rooftops or clinging to trees, in the horrifying aftermath of Tropical Cyclone Idai in Mozambique. In scenes reminiscent of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans in 2005, aerial survey teams photographed thousands of marooned people in the “inland ocean” up to 30 miles wide :o that heavy rains from Idai have created in central Mozambique.

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Tropical Cyclone Idai made landfall on Thursday evening as a Category 2 storm with 110 mph winds (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fs15.rimg.info%2Fdcda0e08e538cb37431314e6bd49279b.gif&hash=4e8b4ba5ce94991ab2f42c4c663e9f6991bbf4f4) just north of Beira, Mozambique (population 530,000) near the time of high tide, driving a devastating storm surge into the city. The cyclone also caused enormous wind damage, ripping off hundreds of roofs in Mozambique’s fourth largest city. Since the cyclone was large and moving slowly at landfall, near 6 mph, it was a prodigious rainmaker, with satellite-estimated rainfall amounts in excess of 2 feet in much of central Mozambique.

Idai stalled and died over the high terrain along the Zimbabwe-Mozambique border on Saturday, but Idai’s remains hovered over the region through Tuesday, bringing additional heavy 💧 rains--over a foot in eastern Zimbabwe. Runoff from these rains 💧 have submerged huge portions of central Mozambique. Damage to improverished Mozambique, whose GDP is just $12 billion, will be many billions of dollars and take more than five years to recover from. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F2%2F3-310119164317.gif&hash=870c66e6ad21133a740ba1583280577f05ccb4ac)

Full article with several eye opening 👀 graphics:

https://www.wunderground.com/cat6/Africas-Hurricane-Katrina-Tropical-Cyclone-Idai-Causes-Extreme-Catastrophe

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https://youtu.be/CRZy8yImNWc
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on March 26, 2019, 11:00:17 pm
 
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Green New Deal or 'Real Deal'?, Navajo Nation stops pursuing coal-fired plant purchase, & more (https://mailchi.mp/climatenexus/green-new-deal-or-real-deal-navajo-nation-stops-pursuing-coal-fired-plant-purchase-more)
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on March 27, 2019, 09:25:36 pm
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Republicans (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fstyles%2Frenewablerevolution%2Ffiles%2F780_9adc777a0e08428257b76ece69d18ee52006bb5e39d60d966bb2440d29d17641.jpeg&hash=4d8f2f9ea7b952c63ad0441a4619e9b370ddcb0a) claimed a Green New Deal is "elitist." (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-250817122018.gif&hash=74d86c1f35e2f61ea38c9bfa392f84a92631b96e) They didn't expect what came (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-210614221847.gi%5B%2Fsize%5Df&hash=2d4f8f3813852db0dc5e9a06b02d97d0ba9ae57e) next.

Watch this video of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's scathing rebuke of (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-130418201903.png&hash=f7b1f3e1f363fe16e0e17f9c2d82b60fa83b8731)Republicans (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-130418201722.png&hash=5299cc10ee42beae76e4d3b7c79dbf5f4c0addac) after they called a Green New Deal "elitist."

https://youtu.be/FNOKsJbC5zU
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on March 28, 2019, 02:45:24 pm
https://youtu.be/FNOKsJbC5zU

I LOVE this young woman. Future US President, if she can avoid taking the "Wellstone exit."

I have often thought the same thing. Then again, she is from New York. On top of the New Yorker thick skin, she is of Puerto Rican stock. We Puerto Ricans are old hands at playing dodge ball with TPTB, being a colonized folk for over a century (after hundreds of years of Spain's Imperialism!). 

I'll let you in on this. That type of person is NOT emotional AT ALL. AOC knows exactly when to let loose some vitriol and when not to. She also is clearly aware of the danger she faces from TPTB. Here's who is going to come after her BIG TIME, long before the FBI gets into the Wellstone AND JFK jr. aircraft "accident" skullduggery. It's OBAMA (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-250817135149.gif&hash=b4a8748d7cf56a31dd0a6aae5828ed2c1ac2815c)! Wall Street Lackey Obama and Pelosi and Corporate Dumocrat pals are going to make her life as miserable as those SICK FU-CKS can. She KNOWS it and has plans, in place, ready to be used, modified and honed daily, on how to deal with it.

Sure, they (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-130418203402.gif&hash=b2691028ba683a0039a5811f5775c68d7ccae01c) may find some way to compromise her and shut her up. They will certainly try to tarnish her position and run her out with a trumped up claim that she "took a bribe" or something like that.

It might work against AOC, but it will not work against the tidal wave of ANGER against a system of STUPID, GREEDY exploitation of people and planet that is dooming our species and thousands of others that we depend on to survive. AOC is just the leading edge of a TSUNAMI that will destroy the polluter power structure. All those loyal FU-CKS like Mueller and Obama (and so on) will become irrelevant BECAUSE the loyal FU-CKS at the street level have kids EVERY DAY telling them that people like Greta Thunberg, AOC, Kevin Anderson, etc. are THE ONLY HOPE THEY HAVE. As Chris Hedges has correctly stated, Revolutions are successful when the "palace guards" refuse to be stupidly exploitative and cruel to fellow citizens. As soon as that happens, the Nomenclatura ASS-HOLES like Obama (and all the corporate Dumocrats) immediately change their tune, right along with all the Hydrocarbon Hellspawn funded Republicans, who will then claim a massive transition to Social Justice based Equality and Clean Energy is something they were "always in favor of" (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2F2.bp.blogspot.com%2F_9HT4xZyDmh4%2FTOHhxzA0wLI%2FAAAAAAAAEUk%2FoeHDS2cfxWQ%2Fs200%2FSmiley_Angel_Wings_Halo.jpg&hash=13281f1944b60773bf12b29387b70be77cc1fe16).

AOC may get taken out, though they will need to bring a sandwich if they think she is a pushover, but what she stands for will not.

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The Fossil Fuelers 🦖 DID THE Clean Energy  Inventions suppressing, Climate Trashing, human health depleting CRIME,   but since they have ALWAYS BEEN liars and conscience free crooks 🦀, they are trying to AVOID   DOING THE TIME or   PAYING THE FINE!     Don't let them get away with it! Pass it on!   

 
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on March 28, 2019, 07:04:03 pm
 
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This week’s Green New Deal debate has certainly generated its fair share of fireworks, highlighting the growing rift between deniers who are insane (like Utah Senator Mike “Climate change? Fu-ck it!” Lee) and those who are pretending to be sane (like Matt “Holocaust denial’s fine but climate denial isn’t” Gaetz).

But if proposed solutions involve dumping piles of money on the fossil fuel industry to develop carbon capture technology or improve fracking as part of an “all of the above” energy portfolio, then they’re just delay tactics. As Kate Aronoff put it on Twitter, any climate policy the fossil fuel industry supports is probably not going to be effective at solving the problem fossil fuel use caused in the first place.

It’s no surprise the GOP is apparently incapable of offering a plan to kick our fossil fuel addiction, given that the industry funds their campaigns. Oil Change US found this week that the fossil fuel industry gave more than $55 million to politicians who voted “no” on the Green New Deal, while “no” voters received 11 times more fossil fuel money than the “present” voters over the course of their careers.

However, some people are apparently willing to say super dumb stuff on climate change without the benefit of a campaign contribution. Take, for example, everyone’s favorite WSJ-turned-NYTimes columnist and hatemonger Bret Stephens. Stephens went on MeetThePress daily this week to talk about the GND. His take would have been perfectly intelligent...if it were 10 years ago.

Back then, we hadn’t yet concretely connected the dots between extreme weather and climate change. We knew the shape of it, that warmer air can mean stronger rains and more flooding, and that hotter temperatures can mean more drought and wildfires, but it was still largely an issue for the future tense. It was still a risk we needed to address with an insurance policy.

And that’s Stephens’ current approach. He said on air that climate policy is “something like a question of there could be a fire in your house” and so “we have to take out fire insurance. That is a sensible thing to say.”

That would be a sensible thing to say before one’s house is aflame. But it’s not too apt an analogy now that our house is on fire, literally and metaphorically. Floods are drowning military installations, farmlands and coastal communities. Pests are mowing down forests, drought is drying out crops, heat waves are killing us, and the smoke from Paradise burning down was inhaled all the way in Boston.

And when your house is on fire, that’s not the time to think about insurance. That’s the time, as Stephens’ fellow panelist Heather McGhee suggested, to “fight the fire.”

For some reason, Stephens simply ignored the correct answer from the woman of color on the panel, instead soldiering on with his decree that “what you can’t say is we’re going to bankrupt ourselves in the process of insuring ourselves against the potential risk.”

But as anyone who isn’t a fossil fuel stooge or has done even a cursory amount of due diligence knows, climate action pays for itself in reducing damages from impacts and saving people’s lives. And more importantly, when the house is on fire, the risk is no longer potential. It’s real, it’s here, it’s our fault, and it’s time to fight it..

Obviously, though, that isn't a viable position for the fossil-fuel funded denial machine, which will do whatever it takes to keep pumping profits out of the ground by pumping pollution into the air. So while it’s incredible that the Green New Deal’s sudden popularity has forced the GOP out of denial and to the table with proposals, those proposals have to recognize that it’s not insurance that we need at this point, but a whole fleet of firetrucks.

And if that sounds too expensive, consider whether you’d rather be broke and unburnt or lavishly entombed.

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► Beto O'Rourke, and every other presidential candidate, must say no to fossil fuels (The Hill, Annie Leonard op-ed)
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► EPA pretends climate change and water quality are separate issues — they're not (The Hill, Bob Wendelgass op-ed)
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► Sen. Schatz: Democrats are right on climate change (MSNBC, Brian Schatz interview)
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on March 30, 2019, 07:00:08 pm
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on April 01, 2019, 06:56:45 pm
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Children Are Demanding Dramatic Climate Action. Listen to Them.

PUBLISHED April 1, 2019

DAHR JAMAIL, TRUTHOUT

Earth's support systems are so stretched already that widespread species extinctions are now practically inevitable. As scientists and activists continue to sound the reality alarm, broadcast TV networks' coverage of climate disruption has fallen to a dismal new low. Children now have taken it upon themselves be the responsible actors in addressing the unraveling of the biosphere.

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on April 02, 2019, 01:30:16 pm
APR 01, 2019 TD ORIGINALS

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The brutality of our corporate executioners grows by the day. They will stop at nothing, including wholesale murder, to consolidate power and amass greater profits. Blinded by hubris, driven by greed, disdainful of democracy, foolishly believing their wealth will protect them, they will herd us over the cliff unless they are overthrown.

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on April 02, 2019, 07:39:25 pm
State of the Climate: NOT Good at All

https://youtu.be/a9PWOkYNdKU

Paul Beckwith

Published on Apr 2, 2019

Every spring, for the past 25 years, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) releases their State of the Climate report. This years edition clearly shows how dire our climate situation is becoming. Just when you think it can’t get worse, it does. In this, and the next few videos, I chat on highlights and key points that are in the report, which I highly recommend you read as well. Consequences to us and all other species on our planet are profound.

Please check out my blog http://paulbeckwith.net to get up-to-date analysis as I connect the dots on abrupt climate change and the enormously grave planetary implications. Please consider donating to support my educational efforts. Sincerely, Paul

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on April 05, 2019, 11:56:46 am
THE POLITICS OF THE GREEN NEW DEAL: WE CAN’T PAY FOR THAT

April 1, 2019/99 Comments/in Green New Deal /by Ed Walker

Posts in this series:

The Green New Deal Challenges The Domination of Capital

Part 1 on Labor

The Politics of the Green New Deal: Part 2 on Capital

The Politics of The Green New Deal: The Opposition Of The Rich

The Green New Deal: OMG It’s Socialism!


Seriously. How on earth will we pay for the damage done by climate change? Water rising along the coasts and flooding huge parts of our oil and gas refining infrastructure? Resettling millions away from new floodplains in Nebraska and Florida? Food shortages? Dirty water? Hurricane and tornado damage? Storm costs already are running over $240 billion per year at least. The costs of three hurricanes and 76 wildfires last year alone ran to something like $300 billion. The National Climate Assessment identifies several areas of enormous concern: extreme heat, lost labor, infectious diseases, droughts and floods, decreased food production, and failing water and sewage systems.

We have a good current example in the recent floods in Nebraska. Flood water is running into the Missouri, where it overwhelmed the sewage treatment system in Omaha, dumping an estimated 65 million gallons of raw sewage. That fetid stream of filth is expected to continue for two to three months. Cities downstream will have to treat their water against unnamed pollutants, presumably e. coli among others.

Even without Omaha’s sewage, the floodwaters would not be safe because of human waste from septic tanks, animal waste and chemicals from farm fields, along with chemicals from urban and suburban parking lots and industrial sites, experts say.

That sewage and the related flood water is headed to the Mississippi through New Orleans. and the delta, washing out more of Louisiana on its way, and into the Gulf where the Red Tide from last year finally disappeared in February after a sixteen month bloom.

The floods are also causing serious problems for farmers. This story in the New York Times quotes farmers who are unable to get to their fields which are drowned by recent floods. The Kearney Hub of Kearney Nebraska says planting will be delayed; and adds fascinating details on how farmers should cope with wet fields. Eventually they may be driven off their farms. We can guess that capitalists will buy up the farms at foreclosure or otherwise. This will gradually concentrate food production in fewer and fewer hands, which leads to higher prices for food consumers.

But we never talk about how to pay for climate catastrophe. The financing talk is always about how to pay for efforts to cope with it. That’s apparently going to be a big part of Republican strategy, along with their other scare tactics. You have to admire the chutzpah of Republicans complaining about the cost of the Green New Deal after handing trillions in unfunded tax cuts to their donors. They are joined by plenty of moderate Democrats, and cost is one of the reasons.

It’s astonishing that no defenders of the Green New Deal ask their opponents how they plan to pay for climate disaster. Instead, they struggle to answer their detractors. Many advocates of the Green New Deal have turned to MMT because it makes it clear that we can do everything in the Green New Deal and more, subject to resource constraints such as adequate and trained labor, natural resources, technical knowledge and entrepreneurial skills. Here’s a good discussion from the excellent Stephanie Kelton.

I’ve read Randy Wray’s book, Modern Money Theory: A Primer on Macroeconomics for Sovereign Monetary Systems. I’ve also read some mainstream economics, some of which I discussed here at Emptywheel. For me, MMT is superior. Mainstream economics has a number of normative ideals at its heart, as we saw in my discussion of the theory of marginal utility of William Stanley Jevons (for example, here). As I see it, mainstream economics privileges the concerns of the individual over the well-being of the society in which the individual lives and works. On the other hand MMT gives a descriptive account of the economy, with no obvious normative implications. As Wray says in §7.10:

On one level, the MMT approach is descriptive: it explains how a sovereign currency works. When we talk about government spending by keystrokes and argue that the issuer of a sovereign currency cannot run out of them, that is descriptive. When we say that sovereign governments do not borrow their own currency, that is descriptive. Our classification of bond sales as part of monetary policy, to help the central bank hit its interest rate target, is also descriptive. And finally, when we argue that a floating exchange rate provides the most domestic policy space, that is also descriptive.

Functional finance then provides a framework for prescriptive policy.*

I don’t think mainstream economics will ever be merely descriptive in this sense. It isn’t even capable of getting rid of obviously bad ideas, like austerity or the Philips Curve, both of which are suffused with normative implications. There are still politicians who think we should have a constitutional balanced budget amendment. Stephen Moore, Trump’s nominee to the Fed, has argued for a return to the gold standard.

But you don’t have to accept MMT to see that the Green New Deal is affordable. Here’s a well-written paper by J.W. Mason of the Roosevelt Institute. (http://rooseveltinstitute.org/how-to-pay-for-the-public-sector/) I think Mason considers himself to be a heterodox economist, as opposed to a mainstream economist. He justifies financing important public projects like the Green New Deal in mainstream Keynesian terms.

In the end, someone is going to pay. We either pay to ameliorate the problem, or we pay to cope with the horrifying costs of surviving.

https://www.emptywheel.net/2019/04/01/the-politics-of-the-green-new-deal-we-cant-pay-for-that/

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on April 05, 2019, 06:38:43 pm
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on April 06, 2019, 03:46:57 pm
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“Burning Up: A Global History of Fossil Fuel Consumption ”A book by Simon Pirani

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The Madness Driving Climate Catastrophe (https://www.truthdig.com/articles/the-madness-driving-climate-catastrophe/)
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on April 06, 2019, 04:31:25 pm
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Chat on Persistent Cold Blob over North America
3,061 views

https://youtu.be/mEMwrjxsE0Q

Paul Beckwith

Published on Apr 5, 2019

Our destabilizing climate has many unpleasant surprises over our entire planet. The Arctic is warmer than normal by 5.7C; Antarctica is 2.4C colder than normal. A long-term, stuck Rossby wave trough of the jet stream gave North America a cold blob; basically a “global warming hole”while the rest of the planet baked. As the Arctic “center of cold” shifts from the North Pole to central Greenland (83 degrees N latitude) this cold blob could become a frequent feature as we near a Blue Ocean Event in the Arctic.

Please support my educational videos by donating at http://paulbeckwith.net as I join the dots on abrupt climate system change, analyzing the science of climate in the past, present, and future.

Category News & Politics
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on April 08, 2019, 09:15:20 pm
Co2 Levels Hit Three Million Year High - What Does It Mean? (w/ Dr. Michael Mann)
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https://youtu.be/wLO8EZLH2pQ

Thom Hartmann Program

Published on Apr 4, 2019

Carbon Dioxide Levels (sometimes written Co2 ) have reached a three million year high and scientists are starting to worry. 

What effects will passing this historic carbon dioxide level mean for efforts to fight global climate change?

A friend of the show, Dr. Michael Mann, joins us to discuss how Co2 levels will change the planet.


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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on April 09, 2019, 01:06:08 pm
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Russia Eyes Greater 🦖 Energy Dominance as (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-130418203402.gif&hash=b2691028ba683a0039a5811f5775c68d7ccae01c)Novatek Taps Arctic
April 8, 2019 by Bloomberg

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The icebreaking LNG carrier Christophe de Margerie loads gas at the Port of Sabetta. Photo: SCF Group

By Olga Tanas, Dina Khrennikova and Anna Shiryaevskaya (Bloomberg) — Almost 1,500 miles from Moscow, the tiny port of Sabetta nestles in a desolate Russian Arctic peninsula. A former outpost for Soviet geologists, it’s now the site of Russia’s most ambitious liquefied natural gas project, operated by a company that only entered the market just over a year ago.

Several times a week, a giant tanker leaves this remote place carrying the super-chilled fuel to buyers in Europe and Asia. It’s not the only LNG plant beyond the Arctic Circle, but it’s by far tdhe largest.

Novatek PJSC, the main shareholder of the Yamal LNG plant, says plans for further projects will transform Russia into one of the biggest exporters of the fuel within a decade. Already the world’s top exporter of pipeline gas and second-biggest shipper of crude oil, exports from Sabetta are giving President Vladimir Putin’s Russia another conduit into the world economy for the country’s unrivaled energy resources.

“Russia can be in the top four main LNG exporters,” Novatek’s Chief Financial Officer Mark Gyetvay said in an interview in London.

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Showcasing The Potential

Novatek has demonstrated that it’s possible to produce and liquefy the fuel in such harsh conditions at competitive prices and ship it to markets thousands of miles away in Europe and Asia. That’s helped by receding Arctic ice which is allowing a specially built fleet of strengthened tankers to ship fuel along Russia’s northern coast.

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This week, Putin will tout the potential for development of Russia’s hydrocarbons at the International Arctic Forum in St. Petersburg. Russia’s leader has been a long-standing supporter of developing oil and gas resources locked under the region’s permafrost. When opening the first production train of the Yamal LNG project in late 2017, Putin said the region gives Russia the opportunity to take up the fuel’s “niche it deserves.”

“We can boldly say that in this century and the next, Russia will expand thanks to the Arctic,” he said at that time.
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Novatek 🦖, whose biggest shareholders include Russian billionaires Leonid Mikhelson and Gennady Timchenko, as well as French energy giant Total SA, became Russia’s top LNG producer after starting up its plant in the Yamal peninsula almost two years ago. The facility reached its full capacity at the end of 2018, ahead of schedule, doubling Russia’s share of the global LNG market to 8 percent.

The gas producer has aggressive plans to command a 10th of the global market by 2030, Gyetvay said, and position Russia as one of the world’s largest exporters alongside the U.S., Qatar and Australia.

All three of Yamal LNG’s production units, with a combined actual capacity of 17.5 million tons a year, are now online. Novatek is attracting partners for a second plant, the so-called Arctic LNG 2 project, which is expected to come online in 2022.

The company is also considering commissioning a third facility and may increase its LNG production target for 2030 by about 20 percent, to as much as 70 million tons a year.

Novatek’s resource base at two Arctic peninsulas — Yamal and Gydan — allows the company to raise production volumes to as much as 140 million tons a year in future, according to its chief executive officer Mikhelson.

Russia, the world’s largest gas exporter, has been slow to join the global LNG boom as it has focused investment on pipeline supplies to Europe. Until recently, the country had just one liquefaction project in operation, the Gazprom PJSC-led Sakhalin 2 project near Japan with an annual capacity of about 10 million tons.

The country has now taken an interest in the market for tanker-borne fuel amid growing global LNG demand and more difficult relations with its customers in the European Union.

Vast Reserves

Russia’s Energy Ministry pegs total gas in place within the region at about 210 trillion cubic meters, or over 70 percent of the nation’s total. Novatek’s Arctic gas reserves are “conservatively” estimated at about 3.3 trillion cubic meters[/size], Gyetvay said.

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The resources are located more than 5,000 kilometers (about 3,100 miles) away from key markets in Asia and are almost 4,000 kilometers from the European trading hub at the port of Rotterdam. That requires extensive shipping capability.

The freezing environment also means Novatek has to produce natural gas at temperatures as low as minus 56 degrees Celsius (about minus 69 Fahrenheit), according to regional government data. This requires special techniques for construction in permafrost areas, including installing pylons in ice, and for ships to navigate frozen routes.

Furthermore, not only does Novatek manage in the harsh environment but it sees the Arctic’s location as a competitive advantage, Gyetvay said, because the lower temperatures actually make production costs cheaper because less energy is needed to chill the gas.

The cost of producing Yamal feedstock gas is only around $0.1 per million British thermal unit, whereas U.S. producers typically buy their gas on a market such as the Henry Hub, where prices are currently about $2.60.

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Novatek’s potential has attracted investment from global players from Total to China National Petroleum Corp., a rare bright spot for Russia’s energy segment hit by U.S. and European sanctions. While Novatek is on the American sanctions list, and the U.S. Congress is considering restricting investment in Russia’s LNG facilities outside the country, it won’t impact the start-up of Arctic LNG 2 or the company’s longer-term expansion plans.

Total, a shareholder in Novatek’s first LNG project, last month signed a deal to buy a 10 percent stake in the second plant. The French major’s commitment could prompt a rush of other potential partners to take stakes in the project, Gyetvay said.

Whether other companies buy stakes in Arctic LNG 2 or not, Novatek will move forward with it regardless. The company is already doing pre-marketing for the future cargoes, discussing potential off-takers and volumes, Gyetvay said.

Last week, Novatek signed 15-year agreements with Vitol SA and Repsol SA to supply each with 1 million tons of LNG a year from the Arctic LNG 2 and other projects.

“We’re basically at that point in time when the train has started to move and it’s time to jump on or miss it,” Gyetvay said.
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on April 10, 2019, 12:25:57 pm
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Global Warming Effects Presenting a ‘Major Challenge’ to Carrier Schedules in Asia

April 9, 2019 by The Loadstar

By Sam Whelan in Singapore (The Loadstar) – Typhoons and other adverse weather events are playing havoc with carrier schedules, presenting a “major challenge” to the industry as it aims to recover from the record low levels of schedule reliability.

According to Jeremy Nixon, chief executive of Ocean Network Express (ONE), global warming has triggered more adverse and variable weather across key shipping lanes: a “remarkable increase” since 2016 when there were just nine major typhoons in Asia, compared with 13 in 2017 and 17 last year.

“Unfortunately, typhoons go straight through the middle of our key shipping lanes,” [/size]he told the TOC Asia Container Supply Chain conference in Singapore today.

“And they track at a relatively slow pace, so they create disruption to vessels within Asia; but critically, it’s also impacting the ports, particularly those in China, Korea and Japan.”

So much so, Mr Nixon noted, that the port of Shanghai was closed for eight days last August, compared with just one in the same month of 2017. There were 28 days of terminal closures between April-August 2018, he added.

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“This is major disruption and, previously when there were low terminal utilisation levels, you could catch up relatively quickly in terms of operations. But because now the terminals are working at a much higher occupancy, particularly in mainland China, the ability to recover is slow, and that has an additional impact.”

Elsewhere, recent heavy weather in North America has had a big impact on rail operations, according to Mr Nixon, while Europe has suffered from flooding and strong weather systems in the Bay of Biscay and in the Atlantic.

Sea-Intelligence Consulting chief executive Alan Murphy said carrier schedule reliability had fallen to record low levels in 2018 – the worst since the analyst began recording reliability data seven years ago.

“Service levels have been very bad, especially on the transpacific trade where two out of three vessels arriving are more than a day late,” Mr Murphy said.

Comparing reliability between the three major carrier alliances, he said in the past THE Alliance had struggled, but now “we’re seeing it close that gap because unfortunately the other alliances are going down, rather than THE Alliance going up..”

ONE is part of THE Alliance, alongside Hapag-Lloyd and Yang Ming. Mr Nixon said the group planned to rejig schedules to help mitigate the impact of increased adverse weather and high port utilisation levels in Asia.

“What we’re doing now as THE Alliance, as we bring our new product to market in April/May, is to make some changes to the network to build in more buffer time,” he explained.

This includes reducing the number of port calls in China on a single loop, since vessels calling at both Shanghai and Ningbo end up queuing for a berth twice when operations at the two major ports are disrupted by typhoons.

To achieve this reduction, Mr Nixon said THE Alliance would split its Ningbo and Shanghai calls, with some loops calling at fewer ports and others having additional vessels in rotation for “more buffer and recovery”.

He added: “But to get back to the days of 90% schedule reliability for the whole industry is really a major challenge, in light of where we are with the terminal occupancy and with the weather these days.”

The Loadstar is fast becoming known at the highest levels of logistics and supply chain management as one of the best sources of influential analysis and commentary.

Check them out at TheLoadstar.co.uk, or find them on Facebook and Twitter.


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Agelbert NOTE: This is just the beginning of what is now inescapably baked in (read article below).

Climate Change, Blue Water Cargo Shipping and Predicted Ocean Wave Activity: PART 1 of 3 (http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/climate-change/future-earth/msg7380/#msg7380)
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on April 10, 2019, 12:51:20 pm
Blue Ocean Event : Game Over?
34,323 views

https://youtu.be/qo3cznpfIpA

Just Have a Think

Published on Apr 7, 2019

A Blue Ocean Event, or Ice-Free Arctic, is the source of almost fever pitch speculation in the climate science world. The consequences of the disappearance of sea ice from the arctic ocean, however briefly, at the end of a summer melt season some time in the not too distant future, are potentially very ominous for the way we organise our human socio-economic structures today. This week, we consider what those consequences may look like.
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on April 10, 2019, 05:23:32 pm
Earth at 2° hotter will be horrific. Now here’s what 4° will look like. | David Wallace-Wells
161,160 views

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Big Think

Published on Mar 14, 2019

This is what the world will be like if we do not act on climate change.

- The best-case scenario of climate change is that world gets just 2°C hotter, which scientists call the "threshold of catastrophe".

- Why is that the good news? Because if humans don't change course now, the planet is on a trajectory to reach 4°C at the end of this century, which would bring $600 trillion in global climate damages, double the warfare, and a refugee crisis 100x worse than the Syrian exodus.

- David Wallace-Wells explains what would happen at an 8°C and even 13°C increase. These predictions are horrifying, but should not scare us into complacency. "It should make us focus on them more intently," he says.

David Wallace-Wells is a national fellow at the New America foundation and a columnist and deputy editor at New York magazine. He was previously the deputy editor of The Paris Review. He lives in New York City. His latest book is The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming (https://goo.gl/ih35YX)

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on April 10, 2019, 05:38:17 pm
David Wallace-Wells: ‘Why climate change is gravely worse than feared' | ITV News
53,620 views

https://youtu.be/yK4pMWZZh2I

ITV News

Published on Feb 19, 2019

According to American author David Wallace-Wells, there is a jarring gap between academic research and how climate change is represented in the media.

His new book, worryingly titled, ‘The Uninhabitable Earth’ is a warning that simply more can and must be done.

In a wide-ranging interview with ITV News Science Editor Tom Clarke, Wallace-Wells describes how he became a “quasi-activist” during his research; how an alarmist approach can be effective; the damning failure of the Paris Agreement and how China could play a key role in reducing global warming.

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on April 11, 2019, 09:11:39 pm
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Rhine River Could Run Too Low Again for Shipping in Germany

By Bloomberg on Apr 10, 2019 11:35 am

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By William Wilkes (Bloomberg) — Go inside the global economy with Stephanie Flanders in her new podcast, Stephanomics. Subscribe via Pocket Cast or iTunes. Germany’s Rhine River could be impassable to ships again this summer if Europe has another drought, a once-rare weather phenomenon that’s becoming more likely with an increase in the temperature. That’s the opinion […] 


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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on April 12, 2019, 02:49:56 pm
SNIPPET:

PAUL JAY: Eugene, what do you think?

EUGENE PURYEAR: Well, I have to say, this is one of the areas I’m most critical of Bernie. I mean, I think that he’s defining as socialism is really just a New Deal, Great Society liberalism, which certainly is good as far as it goes, it’s certainly much better than the unrealized dreams of those eras. It’s certainly a much better state of affairs than what we have now. But I think he was unable to really hit the core of the difference between capitalism and socialism and the idea that capitalism is a system where everything is produced for profit to be a commodity, and socialism is a system where the basic goods that people need to live, survive, and thrive are also not commodities. And certainly, he mentions healthcare, education, and things of that nature, but what about clothing, what about food, what about shelter?

And I think above and beyond anything else, I think also it’s to me a little bit of a naive presentation from the point of view of sort of the U.S. political structure which enshrines, in and of itself, and this is certainly the contravention of what Trump was saying, of course, property above all other interests. Certainly, that was rooted in the slave system, and the control of land that resulted in slavery and the genocide of Native Americans, that ultimately, what do you do in this kind of context in the United States when say the Fifth Amendment, for instance, comes up against the desire to be able to decarbonize the economy? I mean, it says that you can’t take property without paying people for it. Well, if the health of the planet is at stake and the cost is too high, well what are you going to do? Are you going to take over and shut down all the oil companies and save the planet or are you going to go with the U.S. Constitution?

So I think the reality is is perhaps what Bernie is portraying is as much as you can do within the U.S. system, but I think it’s not actually socialism. And I think that that is in and of itself an important distinction that I think has to be made here, that socialism is a system where profit is never going to be able to succeed over the needs of people. And I think that goes beyond what he was willing to say, despite the fact that certainly, all the things he’s saying I think, would be good and should be instituted right away. And there’s actually really almost no reason why all of them couldn’t be instituted tomorrow except for a lack of political will.

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March 8, 2019

Sanders says that medicare for all, a living wage, and other reforms is the socialism that’s possible, but is he too reserved on strengthening public ownership? - with Jacqueline Luqman, Eugene Puryear, Norman Solomon and host Paul Jay

https://youtu.be/sTd049NLrOs

https://therealnews.com/stories/is-sanders-democratic-socialism-socialism
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on April 13, 2019, 07:20:48 pm
RADIO ECOSHOCK
91 Radio Stations and Growing!

Posted on April 3, 2019, by Radio Ecoshock
 
At cloud doomsday Earth’s temperature soars 8 degrees C, 14 degrees Fahrenheit. We hope that will never come, but if we go there, that is the end. New science from the lead author, Tapio Schneider at NASA. Then from the Post Carbon Institute, Jason Bradford predicts the tide of humans into cities will reverse. The future is food, and local – and we can prepare now for the end of fossil fuels and continuing climate threats.

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on April 15, 2019, 05:10:48 pm
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April 15, 2019

By Ron Brackett and Pam Wright agoweather.com

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Full article with several eye opening videos, including REVERSE 👀 Lightning:

Storms Leave Damage in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Delaware After Tornadoes Roar Across the South (https://weather.com/news/news/2019-04-13-severe-impacts-tornado-texas-louisiana-mississippi-alabama?cm_ven=wu_videos?cm_ven=hp-slot-1)



Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on April 17, 2019, 09:11:53 pm
EcoWatch

EXTINCTION REBELLION

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on April 17, 2019, 09:23:13 pm
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Saying Goodbye to Planet Earth

By Chris Hedges —  Climate change is no mere "problem." We are in a planetary transition and will survive only if we rapidly create new forms of civilization. 


Read more (https://www.truthdig.com/articles/saying-goodbye-to-planet-earth-2/)
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on April 17, 2019, 09:34:14 pm
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The changes needed to avert environmental catastrophe are incompatible with capitalism.

We Can’t Beat Climate Change Under Capitalism. Socialism Is the Only Way. 
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on April 18, 2019, 01:35:52 pm
April 18th, 2019 by Steve Hanley

SNIPPET:

A Message Of Hope

If you haven’t seen the Ocasio-Cortez video yet, take 7 minutes out of your busy life to watch it now. It’s not a polemic, it’s a vision, one that we in America can choose to embrace. If we do, we can rightfully claim to be a nation of leaders. If not, we are risking all for the sake of a few. It’s our choice and it begins with electing leaders who believe in the common good, not those (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F1%2F3-120818184306-16302042.png&hash=b32964f6121cd80269354273700cf61fabc97dae)😈👹💵🎩🏴‍☠️ who profit from promoting special interests.

The Green New Deal is consistent with the ideals America was founded upon. To attack it is to deny the very essence of our American heritage.

https://youtu.be/d9uTH0iprVQ

full article: 👍👍👍

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on April 18, 2019, 05:11:02 pm
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April 18, 2019

Sunrise is hitting the road today to take the Green New Deal to every corner of the country — at 8 massive tour stops and over 100 town halls across the U.S.

The Leap is so proud to be a partner on this tour. We can’t wait for thousands of people to hear about how the Green New Deal can change the conversation around climate policy, ensure a safe future for our children and grandchildren, and make life better for everyone right now.

Sound exciting to you? Well, we definitely think so.


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At each event, there’ll be stories about how the crises of climate change and inequality are transforming the places we call home. We’ll hear about how the Green New Deal will protect those places, and transform the economy without leaving anyone behind. And you’ll have a chance to get in on the plan to grow this movement and keep building support for the Green New Deal in the lead-up to the 2020 election.

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We’ve been so inspired by the stories, resolve, and leadership of young people — from climate striking students, to the leaders of the Sunrise Movement — and we’re honoured to be part of this tour.

See you out there!

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on April 18, 2019, 07:39:12 pm
 
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Rick Perry tapdances towards the door, Texas town takes Kinder 🦕 Morgan to court, & more (https://mailchi.mp/climatenexus/rick-perry-tapdances-towards-the-door-texas-town-takes-kinder-morgan-to-court-more)
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on April 19, 2019, 06:21:44 pm
PUBLISHED April 19, 2019

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HOWIE HAWKINS, POPULAR RESISTANCE

Tax policy has favored the wealthy under both parties, but the Trump administration has brought this tax corruption to new levels. We need to transform tax policy to build the working class base of the economy, shrink the wealth divide and confront the climate crisis. More progressive and ecological taxation is essential to fund the ecosocialist Green New Deal.


 Read the Article → (https://truthout.org/articles/its-time-to-transform-the-tax-code-and-implement-a-green-new-deal/)
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on April 19, 2019, 06:26:16 pm
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This week, Sanders made a rather stunning proposal on behalf of himself and his supporters: “We say to Donald Trump and the fossil fuel industry that climate change is not a hoax but is an existential threat to our country and the entire planet — and we intend to transform our energy system away from fossil fuel and into energy efficiency and sustainable energy and, in the process, create millions of good paying jobs. All of us have a moral responsibility to make certain that the planet we leave to our children and grandchildren is healthy and habitable.”

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on April 20, 2019, 06:16:54 pm
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Chevron’s Fig Leaf Part 4: Carbon Engineering’s Only Market Is Pumping More Oil  >:(

April 19th, 2019 by Michael Barnard

SNIPPET:

Carbon Engineering recently garnered $68 million in investment in its air-carbon capture technology from three fossil fuel majors. This is part 4 of the 5 article series assessing the technology and the value of the investment.

The first piece summarized the technology and the challenges, and did a bottoms-up assessment to give context for what Carbon Engineering is actually doing. The second piece stepped through Carbon Engineering’s actual solution in detail. The third piece returned to the insurmountable problem of scale and deals with the sheer volume of air that must be moved and the scale of machinery they have designed for the purpose. This fourth article will look at the market for air carbon capture CO2 and assess why three fossil fuel majors might be interested. The final article will address the key person behind this technology and the expert opinions of third parties.

There is zero net removal of CO2 from the atmosphere if air carbon capture is used for enhanced oil recovery.

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https://cleantechnica.com/2019/04/19/chevrons-fig-leaf-part-4-carbon-engineerings-only-market-is-pumping-more-oil/

Agelbert COMMENT: This is a well thought out, thoroughly researched and accurately presented series of articles. Thank you, Michael Barnard 💐, for telling it exactly how it is.

I've thought about the Carbon Dioxide issue for several years. I have always questioned the motives behind the hydrocarbon industry cheerleading CO2 capture and sequestration.

IMHO, after looking at this from several reality based angles (unlike the unreality based happy talk pushing MO of the 🦕😈🦖 fossil fuelers), the fact that the best present day technology to keep the CO2 concentration down (which is used in Nuclear Submarines, which are forced to surface every six months because they cannot keep CO2 below 8,000 PPM after that time period) cannot get CO2 levels anywhere near 5,000 PPM, never mind the 350 PPM we desperately need to get back to in order to avoid the worse effects of the Sixth Mass Extinction now in progress from excessive GHG emissions, EVIDENCES THAT the proposed CO2 reduction technology, euphemistically called "capture and sequestration" technology, is a fraud. 👎

IOW, all the technofixes out their refuse to admit that the GOAL here is NOT to keep the Hydrocarbon Industry profitable. The GOAL is 350 PPM, period. Anything else is simply wishful thinking.

So, IMHO, we have to resort to biological solutions involving rapid photosynthesis.

I researched this thoroughly. There is no plant life that can beat algea at rapid photosynthesis, which is the sine qua non requirement for reaching the 350 PPM goal, but algae is so hydrophylic (water loving) that too much energy is required to dry it for storage. 👎 No, passive solar energy will not work to dry algae. That has been tried unsuccessfully. Also, algea can grow rapidly only in a very narrow range of the biosphere.👎 Algea is not the answer.

🤔👨‍🔬

But, there is a floating plant, the tiniest angiosperm (flowering plant) known to science, that can do the job of rapid photosynthesis that we need on a planetary scale. 🌍🌎🌏🌞

► It is extremely hardy.

► It grows in nearly all areas of the planet, with a longer growing season that any other plant life form except phytoplankton.

 ► It doubles it's mass every 48 hours or so, depending on the availability of Sunlight, Carbon Dioxide and cheap fertilizer like pig feces.

► It is tiny, but not microscopic. It can easily be harvested without heavy machinery.

► Unlike microscopic algae, Drying these tiny plants with passive sunlight is also easily done.

► It is easily stored.

► It can even be used as animal feed AND supplemental nutrition for humans too.

► It has been used to clean ponds and lakes of toxic heavy metals. When used for this pupose, it becomes poisonous and must be treated as hazardous waste.

The common name is Duckweed, of which there are a number of species of floating plants. My favorite is Lemna minor ✨🌞

The science based case for a planet scale Lemna minor project has actually been made by evidence of a floating plant when the Arctic had shallow freshwater seas (millions of years ago). Scientists now believe a rapid cooling that took place at that time, even though the CO2 level was even higher then than it is today, was directly caused by the proliferation of Azolla floating plants in that sea. They rapidly lowered the CO2 levels, sinking when they died and being replaced by others, until ice formed over them. They cooled ALL of Earth's atmosphere from a CO2 PPM concentration that was higher than the one we are saddled with now.

"This freshwater surface layer allowed Azolla to repeatedly spread across the ocean surface forming mats of vegetation during a succession of episodes called the ‘the Arctic Azolla Event‘. The event lasted for almost a million years from about 50 to 49 million years ago."

Arctic Azolla Event - You can watch a Powerpoint presentation about the Arctic Azolla Event on this page. - One of the most remarkable discoveries about Azolla came in 2004. A scientific expedition to the North Pole showed that this remarkable plant had a massive effect on the Earth’s climate 50 million years ago. (http://theazollafoundation.org/azolla/the-arctic-azolla-event-2/)

It happened before. We can make it happen again. 💫

True, we do not ⌛ 🌡️ have a  million years or so to do the job, but we don't need more than a few decades to scale this biological CO2 sequestering program to all desert areas of the planet on gigantic shallow (a little more than one meter of depth is all you need) artificial lakes.

True, the fact remains that this aquatic family of plants, like Azolla, requires plenty of water, a resource that is mostly not available in desert areas. THAT, however, is a problem that human engineering CAN solve, unlike trying to get CO2 down to 350 PPM with technology that cannot even keep it below 5,000 PPM!
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If Azolla in the Arctic freshwater sea 50 million years ago, a tiny portion of the planetary surface, could cool down an overheated atmosphere with a much higher CO2 PPM concentration than we have now, there is no rational excuse for not duplicating that event with a crash program to grow Duckweed in all the non-arable land areas of the planet. 👍👍👍

The Hydrocarbon Hellspawn have NOTHING to offer. They CANNOT DELIVER an atmospheric CO2 PPM reduction to 350 PPM. All they can do is bill us for technofixes that allow them to profit over planet while the CO2 concentration continues to rise!
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Duckweed, the plant that may save mankind by enabling our species to live symbiotically, instead of parasitically, with the biosphere. Part 1 (http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/renewables/ethanol/msg217/#msg217)

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Proof of concept graphic (obviously the ponds will have to be at least a million times bigger than those shown and made from natural materials with Renewable energy powered machinery):

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This video pushes Duckweed as a biofuel source. I post it so you can see how fast it grows. I still believe we certainly can use Duckweed for biofuels, but the most vitally important use we need to make of this fast growing plant is the reduction of CO2 from our atmosphere 🔊 NOW, before the biosphere we depend on is cooked! ☠️ 😱

https://youtu.be/_i_2h2CoQII

 
The Fossil Fuelers 🦖 DID THE Clean Energy  Inventions suppressing, Climate Trashing, human health depleting CRIME,   but since they have ALWAYS BEEN liars and conscience free crooks 🦀, they are trying to AVOID   DOING THE TIME or   PAYING THE FINE!     Don't let them get away with it! Pass it on!   
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on April 20, 2019, 07:51:07 pm
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Storms Spawn at Least 35 Tornadoes 👀, Cause Significant Damage Across Several States and Kill At Least 5

April 20, 2019

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on April 21, 2019, 05:35:57 pm
Agelbert NOTE: There is a lot of important information in this post quoted from Radio Ecoshock. It may be too much for the average reader to handle in one sitting. I recommend you just listen to the hour long podcast, then return here (or directly to Radio Ecoshock) when you have some spare time to watch the posted videos.

This forum post, like all posts here at the Renewable Revolution forum, has a link. Just copy it so you can return to it without a search through this topic thread.

Also, there are many videos on this topic thread (i.e. "Global Warming is WITH US") that irrefutably reveal the existential threat to humanity of Catastrophic climate change.

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The Burning Question

Posted on April 17, 2019, by Radio Ecoshock
 
As the second largest land mass on the planet, Canada is warming at twice the global average. The vast Canadian Arctic is heating three times average. The impacts spread around the world. Leading scientist Dr. Nathan Gillett explains a new climate change report from the Government of Canada. Then Canadian climate scientist Paul Beckwith joins me to thrash through scary new science: the limits before extinction, ocean drivers of our lives, and why weather has gone rogue.

I’m Alex Smith. This is Radio Ecoshock.

🔊 Listen to or download this Radio Ecoshock show in CD Quality (57 MB) or Lo-Fi (14 MB) (https://www.ecoshock.org/2019/04/the-burning-question.html)


CANADA CLIMATE SCIENCE

Radio Ecoshock has listeners all over the world, so I try to keep a global perspective. But now we need to talk about the second largest country in the world: Canada. After 10 years of being shut out from talking with federal government scientists, during the Harper regime, today I talked with climate scientist Nathan Gillett from Environment and Climate Change Canada. He told us the rate of warming in Canada was double the world average.

You may think global warming would be good for colder places like Canada. A new report from the Government of Canada warns against that myth. The country has already warmed about twice the world average, and will continue to heat up faster than the rest of the planet during this century and beyond. Scientists project more flooding, more wildfires, extreme heat events, strange winters, and damage to the seas surrounding Canada’s vast coastline.

Here to explain is one of Canada’s top climate scientists. Dr. Nathan Gillett received his PhD in Atmospheric Physics from the University of Oxford. He is a Coordinating Lead Author of the chapter on human influence on climate, in the upcoming IPCC Sixth Assessment Report. Nathan leads research into climate impacts for the Canadian government.

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Dr. Nathan Gillett

With my next guest Paul Beckwith in mind, I asked Dr. Gillett when the sea ice might be gone in summer, the so-called “Blue Ocean Event“. He suggested that might come around the year 2050. As you will hear, Paul Beckwith ✨ thinks the Blue Ocean Event will come much sooner, possibly in the next decade.

The rest of the world tends to think about “Canada” and “cold winter” in the same sentence. But winter here has already changed. In fact, most of the new warming from climate change has come in the winter. That means earlier snow melt, different conditions for spring rivers and flooding, possibly a longer growing season, and difficult changes for both animals and plants. Although the Canadian Arctic is warming at three times the global mean average temperature, southern Canada is warming at twice the rate.

Even so, the new report “Canada in a Changing Climate: Advancing our Knowledge for Action” warns parts of the country could experience shortages of freshwater. As an old Canadian growing up with so many lakes and rivers, that seems hard to believe. How could some Canadians face water shortages, despite annual precipitation going up?

I always remember our Canadian fire expert Mike Flannigan telling us on Radio Ecoshock that thin soils in Canada’s north can dry out to a tinder state in just three days. You could have rain, then three days of heat, and then poof! forest fires. We are already doing emergency fire planning here in the West.

You can watch a video of Nathan Gillett explaining his work here.


https://youtu.be/OzkfjXTzIiU

 
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A FLOOD OF DANGEROUS NEW SCIENCE – PAUL BECKWITH

In the month of March 2019, the Arctic was 20 degrees hotter than it should be. Under that massive heat, sea ice is at a record low. Unprecedented Arctic warming is distorting weather in the Northern Hemisphere where the majority of humans live. Extreme weather has brought unhappiness, vast damage, and death. In this new climate age, the idea of progress has been replaced by constant efforts to recover.

https://youtu.be/0Tpzwqlj-d4


In the past 3 months, I brought you the science of climate change direct from specialists publishing top papers. To draw it together, we need a generalist with climate expertise. We need Paul Beckwith. Paul has two Masters degrees. He often teaches climate science at the University of Ottawa. But his tireless effort to teach extends to the Internet. On You tube, Paul Beckwith is by far the biggest teacher of climate science to the world via You tube.

KEY INDICATORS OF ARCTIC CLIMATE CHANGE


We have a new paper, published April 8th by scientists in Alaska and Denmark. The title is “Key Indicators of Arctic Climate Change: 1971–2017”. Lead author Jason Box said “The Arctic system is trending away from its 20th century state and into an unprecedented state, with implications not only within but beyond the Arctic.” (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F2%2F3-310119164115.gif&hash=1f6e8c58bc6dac8dbce60f7d9ba64fb0f0f62cca)

Those scientists seemed surprised that temperature was the “smoking gun” for all the changes in the Arctic. (That seems obvious to me, what about you?) On the other hand, the fastest moving ice body on Greenland, The Jakobshavn glacier, has not only slowed down but is gaining ice mass. Paul says that is a temporary phenomenon, and who knows – maybe the glacier as it moved got snagged on some land way down below.

THE LINGERING COLD BLOB IN EASTERN NORTH AMERICA

Could that slowdown in part of Greenland be connected to the long-lasting cold and snow in the North East, including in Paul’s hometown in Ottawa? Paul says he had “a glacier” of ice remaining in his front yard, and we talk about the cold blob of air hovering over eastern North America, punctuated by storms. Here’s his video on that.

https://youtu.be/mEMwrjxsE0Q

The public is so focused on global warming, it is pretty hard to convince people that a depressing cold winter could also be influenced by climate change. Nobody wants to go protest in the cold, but when it’s hot, they want to go outside and enjoy themselves. So far, there doesn’t seem to be a good time to protest. Were there climate school strikes in Ottawa or in Quebec?

Some people think Paul is a radical climate scientist. But really the whole upper echelon of climate research institutes are now radical about climate change. They are practically screaming out warnings of disaster, and we talk about some of those in this interview. But despite Paul’s efforts and mine, the public still isn’t engaged. People fly all over the place, and dream about their next pickup truck with a big gas engine. It is an addictive dream. Do you expect a rapid awakening, or more years of deadly greenhouse gas emissions?

We just had another freak April storm where the temperature was expected to drop 60 degrees in Denver, going from 70 or 80 Fahrenheit to blizzards. Yet another very heavy snow storm hit Montana and Nebraska in April. They are calling it a “bomb cyclone“.

Then we had flooding in the mid-west of the U.S., right in key food production areas. I think that was a major event with long-lasting consequences. Mainstream the media forgot that story already. Of course, Paul Beckwith has a new video about that.

https://youtu.be/EDJUVc1-om8

Why is weather in the Northern Hemisphere so weird? (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F1%2F3-210818163125-16731933.gif&hash=22dedd3548e66d624c4c7ff9b16a5c134768da77)

SIMULTANEOUS 🔥🔥 HEAT 🌡️ WAVES – NEW INTERVIEW COMING UP!

I want to tell listeners about brand new science, still awaiting publication. It announces a new phenomenon in the world: simultaneous heat waves across the planet. Martha Vogel, a climate researcher from ETH Zurich, just presented the findings at a European Geosciences Union press conference in Vienna in the first week of April. Studying heat waves from 1958 to 2018, they discovered that only since 2010 has modern planet Earth experienced multiple extreme heat waves at the same time. For example extreme heat in the Mediterranean might also strike in the Arctic and Russia or North America at the same time. Transcontinental heat: that has terrible implications for food production and a lot more.

My interview with scientist Martha Vogel should be next week on Radio Ecoshock

THE NEW 2018 CLIMATE REPORT FROM THE WORLD METEOROLOGICAL ORGANIZATION (WMO)
Paul discusses this report in two videos, starting with this one.

https://youtu.be/a9PWOkYNdKU

You can read that full report “WMO Statement on the State of the Global Climate in 2018” as a .pdf online here (https://library.wmo.int/doc_num.php?explnum_id=5789).

According to the WMO, in 2018 the heat content of the upper levels of the ocean were the highest ever recorded.
That is so dangerous! 😨

People get confused about the difference between ocean HEAT absorption (which is 93%) to greenhouse gas absorption by the sea, (which is 25%). Since 93% of our excess heat goes into the ocean, that means only 7% is causing the disruption we are feeling now!

If the ocean takes less carbon dioxide, as scientists predict, then not only will there be more greenhouse gases, but those gases will remain longer, and become a larger share of our actual emissions in the atmosphere.

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In a BBC article about the World Meteorological Report for 2018, Australian climate scientist and Professor Samantha Hepburn said:

“We know that if the current trajectory for greenhouse gas concentrations continues, temperatures may increase by 3 – 5 degrees C compared to pre-industrial levels by the end of the century and we have already reached 1 degree.”

Three to five degrees C of warming is utter disaster! 😱

SEA ICE AT BOTH POLES DECLINING

Paul Beckwith says Sea ice may be in that critical slowing down of phase-state before a collapse of sea ice. And for our southern listeners, there has been a huge fall in Antarctic sea ice. Just a few years ago it was still expanding.

LEAVING A BUFFER FOR NATURAL EMISSIONS

Apparently it is complicated to predict what level of C02 in the atmosphere would result in 5 degrees C warming. Many factors and feedbacks come into play, and there are some things we just don’t know.

After a recent paper, and my recent interview with lead author Tapio Schneider from NASA, we now know that somewhere starting around 1200 ppm, stratocumulus clouds cannot form to shade the Earth, adding ANOTHER 8 to 14 degrees C of warming. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F1%2F3-120818185038-1647640.gif&hash=2ef54cdc4f328b2b5315f424b6c41978252e8e49)

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Regarding that idea of needing to leave room for natural emissions, we have this from another Radio Ecoshock guest, Australian super-scientist Will Steffen, quote:

“Human emissions of greenhouse gas are not the sole determinant of temperature on Earth… Our study suggests that human-induced global warming of 2 degrees Celsius may trigger other Earth system processes, often called ‘feedbacks,’ that can drive further warming — even if we stop emitting greenhouse gases“.

That was from the blockbuster study published in PNAS August 14, 2018, titled “Trajectories of the Earth System in the Anthropocene”. I interviewed Will Steffen, and Paul blogged about it and did a You tube video on that.


Earth Climate System: Terrible Trajectories to Hothouse

https://youtu.be/-dpEHWY0mRw


THE PARIS CLIMATE ACCORD WILL NOT SAVE US

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Again, that Trajectories study expected the average global temperature to settle between 4 and 5 degrees C hotter than pre-industrial, even if the Paris Climate Accords were carried out, which is not happening. Sea levels would go up 10 to 60 meters, which is 33 to 197 feet. That means even our best climate plan takes us to disaster not just for this civilization, but mass extinction. That’s our plan! We can do better.

In his You tube text for his video “Earth Climate System: Terrible Trajectories to Hothouse”, Paul wrote:

Quote
“I fear that we have already gone over that cliff, and I declare a global climate change emergency to claw back up the rock face to attempt to regain system stability, or face an untenable calamity of biblical proportions.

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Paul gets a lot of views for his blog at paulbeckwith.net. On You tube Paul currently has over 15,000 subscribers and 538 videos. As of April 11, his channel had 3,257,000 views. Beckwith tells how he became an electronic climate science teacher to the world. Perhaps Shackleton the cat 👍 is drawing extra views as well  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-250817121424.gif&hash=384c17a4d2be4831084933b91808f8a60f73f7f5) ;D. Be sure and support Paul Beckwith’s work.   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-060518153110.png&hash=39d587c31b7f7e66b30d7e59bb560e2ad0662eee)


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Thank you for listening. Let’s meet again next week.

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Post by: AGelbert on April 21, 2019, 09:09:24 pm
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Paul Beckwith, Climate System Scientist

Arctic Feedbacks Stopping Winter Sea-Ice Refreezing: Part 1 of 2 // Apr 18, 2019

https://youtu.be/mOjT6ekEBFM

I discuss the very latest cutting edge scientific understanding on a powerful Arctic feedback that keeps regions of open, ice-free Arctic from refreezing during the dead of winter–December 1st to February 28th:

► Albedo feedbacks are NOT happening at this time since the Arctic is in total 24/7 darkness.

► What IS happening: turbulent heat flux (sensible + latent) plus increased upwelling long-wave radiation brings heat from the ocean up into the lowest 1.5 km of the atmosphere;

► More downwelling long-wave radiation prevents sea-ice formation.

This feedback increased 8.9% per year from 1979 to 2016.

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https://paulbeckwith.net/



Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on April 21, 2019, 09:33:31 pm
Paul Beckwith, Climate System Scientist

Arctic Feedbacks Stopping Sea-Ice Refreezing: Part 2 of 2 // Apr 18, 2019

https://youtu.be/0DD6nGSxDm4

Second video, of two.  Continues where first video, left off.
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https://paulbeckwith.net/
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on April 21, 2019, 10:33:03 pm
Oops 😲. Arctic Emissions of Nitrous Oxide GHG a Dozen Times Worse Than Expected. Duh. Part 1 And 2

https://youtu.be/fLopWeZVTg8

https://youtu.be/-PolsVbyzvY

Paul Beckwith Climate Scientist

Published on Apr 20, 2019

Surprise... Nitrous oxide emissions from our rapidly warming north are up to 12-times higher than we previously thought, since thawing Arctic permafrost is a huge source.

The problem is:

1)the top 3 meters of permafrost contains 73 billion tons of nitrogen;

2)as it thaws microbial action releases bucket loads of N2O; and

3)N2O is a very powerful Greenhouse Gas, with a Global Warming Potential about 300 times that of CO2 (lifetime in atmosphere of 114 years). In my last video I chatted about what this all means; here I show the science in plots and images from the paper.

Please donate at http://paulbeckwith.net to support these educational videos dissecting cutting edge science of abrupt climate system change.

Category News & Politics

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on April 22, 2019, 11:18:39 pm
Idiotic, Inane Climate Policies by Canadian Politicians of all Ilks (excepting Green’s)
6,530 views

https://youtu.be/q6414tdTTcA

Paul Beckwith Climate Scientist

Published on Apr 19, 2019

There is nothing like a family Easter trip to Toronto to get my creative rant juices flowing. I let loose about monsoon-like rainfall with spring snowmelt about to cause massive Quebec/Ontario flooding, the pathetic state of Canadian politicians of all ilks (Alberta NDP cheerleading tar sands/pipelines, recently replaced by climate denying morons of the newly elected United Conservative Party under Jason Kenney; Turdeau’s federal Liberal lunacy plan of buying pipelines to fund climate action, Doug Ford’s Ontario Conservative Party propaganda with gas station stickers, and Andrew Scheer’s federal Conservative climate nuttiness.

God help us with these Neanderthals at the helm. Abrupt climate change mayhem is exceeded only by even more abrupt political stupidity.
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on April 23, 2019, 02:00:16 pm
Alex from Sustainability Illustrated
sustainabilityillustrated@gmail.com

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Human power is best! Who needs tools powered by gasoline to do jobs that are very well done by a human body powered by biofuel.

Find all our sustainability cartoons here (https://sustainabilityillustrated.com/en/sustainability-cartoons/).
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on April 23, 2019, 07:20:37 pm
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Apr 22, 2019, 7:56 AM

 
A cold day for coal, the rebellion continues & more (https://mailchi.mp/climatenexus/a-cold-day-for-coal-the-rebellion-continues-more)
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on April 23, 2019, 09:46:07 pm
Nuclear Power Plants Not Prepared for Climate Change (w/ Paul Gunter) (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F2%2F3-310119164115.gif&hash=1f6e8c58bc6dac8dbce60f7d9ba64fb0f0f62cca)

https://youtu.be/eL2MhbnGW0o

Thom Hartmann Program
Published on Apr 23, 2019

Nuclear Power Plants are not prepared for the effects of climate change.

Beyond Nuclear's Paul Gunter discussed the dangers of flooding, earthquakes and climate change on America's nuclear power infrastructure.

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on April 24, 2019, 12:57:49 pm
April 24th, 2019 by Steve Hanley

 
Study Sets Economic Impact Of Melting Arctic Permafrost At $70 TRILLION! (https://cleantechnica.com/2019/04/24/study-sets-economic-impact-of-melting-arctic-permafrost-at-70-trillion/)

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on April 24, 2019, 04:50:12 pm
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on April 24, 2019, 06:03:17 pm
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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17, 2019

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The March 2019 temperature is in line with an earlier analysis that 2019 could be 1.85°C warmer than preindustrial and that a rapid temperature rise could take place soon, as illustrated by the image below.

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A catastrophe of unimaginable proportions is unfolding. Life is disappearing from Earth and all life could be gone within a decade. At 5°C of warming, most life on Earth will have disappeared. When looking at near-term human extinction, 3°C will likely suffice. Study after study is showing the size of the threat, yet many people seem out to hide what we're facing.

Above image asks 'How long do we have?' The image is created with NASA LOTI data, adjusted 0.78°C to reflect a 1750 baseline, ocean air temperature and higher polar anomaly. Trends are added based on 1880-2019 (purple) and 2000-2019 data (red). The long-term purple trend points at 2025 as the year when 3°C rise from preindustrial could be crossed, while the red trend that focuses on short-term events shows how a 3°C rise from preindustrial could be reached as early as in 2020.

The chart below shows elements contributing to the warming, adding up to a rise of as much as 18°C by 2026.

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The situation is dire and calls for comprehensive and effective action, as described at the Climate Plan (https://arctic-news.blogspot.com/p/climateplan.html).

If we accept that crimes against humanity include climate crimes, then politicians who inadequately act on the unfolding climate catastrophe are committing crimes against humanity and they should be brought before the International Criminal Court in The Hague, the Netherlands.

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http://arctic-news.blogspot.com/2019/

Agelbert NOTE: Sam Carana is right. We are in a staggering amount of extinction threatening trouble. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F2%2F3-310119164317.gif&hash=870c66e6ad21133a740ba1583280577f05ccb4ac)

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The Fossil Fuelers 🦖 DID THE Clean Energy  Inventions suppressing, Climate Trashing, human health depleting CRIME,   but since they have ALWAYS BEEN liars and conscience free crooks 🦀, they are trying to AVOID   DOING THE TIME or   PAYING THE FINE!     Don't let them get away with it! Pass it on!   
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on April 24, 2019, 09:02:34 pm
 
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April 24, 2019

 
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on April 26, 2019, 01:58:05 pm
 
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April 26, 2019

 
DOI 🦖 shelves 👍 offshore drilling plans, pipeline giant tries to take on the Internet, Another Cyclone in Mozambique & more (https://mailchi.mp/climatenexus/doi-shelves-offshore-drilling-plans-pipeline-giant-tries-to-take-on-the-internet-more?e=0fd17c5b57)
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on April 26, 2019, 11:38:46 pm
Ocean Surface Winds 💨 and Waves 🌊 are Growing: Part 1 of 2
1,552 views

https://youtu.be/HfiF4kqWJRc

Paul Beckwith Climate Scientist

Published on Apr 26, 2019

Often discussed is the fact that over 93% of global warming heat goes into oceans. Not discussed are profound changes ongoing in ocean dynamics, like increased wave heights, wave periods, and wave power. Over the last 3 to 4 decades, winds at the ocean surface have increased by up to 1.5 meters/second (about 8% of 20 m/s). Wave heights have increased by up to 30 cm (about 5% of 6 meters). Increases are largest in southern oceans just north of Antarctica; also at high northern latitudes. Wave Power (Energy per unit time) has increased globally; discussed in scientific paper that I discuss in detail.

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Ocean Surface Winds 💨 and Waves 🌊 are Growing: Part 2 of 2

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Climate Change, Blue Water Cargo Shipping and Predicted Ocean Wave Activity: PART 1 of 3 (http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/climate-change/future-earth/msg7380/#msg7380)



Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on April 27, 2019, 12:47:32 pm
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What if everything grew indefinitely like the economy? (cartoon #24)

There is a good reason why nature makes things start small 🌱, grow and stop growing when they have reached 🌳 maturity. Growing something indefinitely like we are doing with the economy cannot be sustained! It is bound to create a 🏴‍ ☠️ disaster at some point.

https://sustainabilityillustrated.com/en/2019/03/26/economy-growth-indefinitely-cartoon/

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on April 27, 2019, 04:32:50 pm
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on April 27, 2019, 06:40:39 pm
APOCALYPSE NOWTHIS  S1 • E2

Will the World End Because of Climate Change? 🤔 | Apocalypse NowThis
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NowThis News

Published on Nov 21, 2017
Rising ocean waters, scorching temperatures, food scarcity, and disease – here's how humans could ultimately be responsible for the end of the world.
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Agelbert NOTE: The following alarming, but still too conservative, MIT study EXCLUDES the ABRUPT climate change positive feedback loop effects we are now beginning to experience.

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on April 27, 2019, 07:04:53 pm
Greta Thunberg full speech to UK 🐉🦕🦖(https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-130418203402.gif&hash=b2691028ba683a0039a5811f5775c68d7ccae01c) Parliament | Climate strikes
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WWF UK
Published on Apr 24, 2019
Greta Thunberg started striking from school, starting the Fridays for Future movement and calling out our global leaders on their climate inaction. Here she delivers a compelling speech to UK MPs.

Sign the petition urging UK government to declare a climate emergency: http://ow.ly/3Qy430ow1Kb

Category Nonprofits & Activism

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on April 27, 2019, 07:33:12 pm
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You can watch her speech via this link:

https://youtu.be/CWQPDsHJ0gc

Immediately after the event, Greta Thunberg was invited to a press conference. This video has her statements at the press conference.

https://youtu.be/IzH1OuqvaAg

ProductiehuisEU
Published on Feb 21, 2019
This morning, Swedish young climate activist Greta Thunberg, 16, has once again given a rousing speech on the climate crisis to defend schoolchildren who went on strike last week.

The teenager opened a European Commission event in front of President Jean-Claude Juncker where she told politicians to stop ‘sweeping their mess under the carpet for our generation to clean up’.

Greta, from Sweden, defended the hundreds of thousands of children who took part in global school strikes saying: ‘If you say we are wasting valuable lesson time, let me remind you, our political leaders have wasted decades through denial and inaction and since our time is running out we have started to take action.’

#GretaThunberg
#Youth4Climate

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on April 27, 2019, 08:58:27 pm
Written by Dr. Joseph Mercola 👍 Fact Checked

April 27, 2019

STORY AT-A-GLANCE

► New book “Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming” warns climate change could cost $600 trillion — twice the world’s total wealth — in damages by the end of the century

► In the history of mankind, 50% of all carbon released into the atmosphere occurred in the last 30 years 
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► The burning of fossil fuels and chemical-intensive industrial agriculture are the main drivers of climate change

► The good news is that humans have the power to stop, and potentially reverse, climate change, but the solution is not fancy new carbon-capturing technology

►The best solution to climate change is to harness the power of Mother Nature in the form of organic regenerative agriculture and the restoration of forests, peatlands, mangroves and other ecosystem habitats capable of drawing down and storing excess atmospheric carbon (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-221017161839.png&hash=7d34712243960aa20883775dad728bc2115ed6fe)

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The Fate of Planet Earth Lies in the Hands of Just Two Generations, Warns Climate Columnist David Wallace-Wells (https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2019/04/27/the-uninhabitable-earth.aspx?utm_source=dnl&utm_medium=email&utm_content=art1&utm_campaign=20190427Z1_UCM&et_cid=DM283039&et_rid=601681176)
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on April 29, 2019, 05:33:52 pm
RADIO ECOSHOCK
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Faint Hope Amid Rising Despair

Posted on April 25, 2019, by Radio Ecoshock
 
NASA scientist Peter Kalmus explains how he slashed 90% of his personal emissions. Senior South American reporter Sue Branford warns the Amazon rainforest, the lungs of the planet, is not just dying. It is being murdered. Then we hear 16-year-old Greta Thunberg‘s speech to the European Parliament.

We live in times of faint hope amid darkening despair. Last week an ancient cathedral burned, a criminal politician got away with it, a climate lawyer super-glued herself to Shell headquarters. Last week we pumped millions of tons of global warming carbon into the air, more species staggered toward extinction, and a 16 year old girl tried to wake Europe and the world. I’m Alex Smith. This is Radio Ecoshock.

► PETER KALMUS – PERSONAL ACTION IS POSSIBLE

► A FEW OF MY NOTES FROM PETER’S BOOK “BEING THE CHANGE”

► MOST CLIMATE SCIENTISTS HAVE GRIEVED ABOUT GLOBAL WARMING…
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“I used to see the future as more, I now see it as less.”

► WE SUFFER FROM THE DISEASE OF WANTING

► SUE BRANFORD REPORTS ON THE MURDER OF THE AMAZON

► GRETA THUNBERG KEEPS TELLING US LIKE IT IS

https://youtu.be/dKd1V2NgAi4

► MY SMALL CONFESSION

Lately I am discouraged. After 13 years of helping to communicate climate danger directly from the world’s great scientists, we are still drifting toward the black hole of a super-heated world where most species perish. Climate programs are still a niche on the fringe. I’m chronically broke, chronically sore, and wonder why I carry on.

Of course, we are not alone. This story from ClimateHomeNews says a lot: Farhana Yamin, quote: “is a legal expert who has advised various developing countries in climate negotiations… On Tuesday, she told Climate Home News that the Paris Agreement, which she helped negotiate in 2015, was “not delivering”.

“I thought that was my story,” she said. “I thought that the law and science and speaking truth to power worked. That we would be able to act with kindness and in time and on the basis of the precautionary principle and all these lovely ideas that we enshrined in law in the early 80s and 90s.

“And we haven’t done that and that’s because these guys [Shell] knew and have stopped it. It’s not some random delay, this delay has been planned in the system, it’s been financed, it’s been lobbied for. So that’s why today, I feel totally comfortable and I wish I’d done it sooner, had woken up to the power dynamics and not been so naive.”

That is also how I feel about the failure of American Democracy to defend itself against a takeover by big money and foreign governments. I thought there might still be some justice left. Now I feel naive, again.

But remember, while mainstream media carries us on through each country’s passion play of politics and corruption, we humans fill the skies with millions of fuel-laden airplanes, we operate billions of oil and gas engines. We suck up the wild spaces and fill every living belly with plastic.

That is the real cathedral burning down daily, the cathedral of life.

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We go out with a bit from Eliza Gilkyson’s fine song, “The Great Correction”. It fits so well.

“People ’round here don’t know what it means to suffer at the hands or our American dream
turn their backs on the grisly scene, chasing frivolous stunts

They got their God, they got their guns, got their armies and the Chosen Ones,
But we’ll all be burnin’ in the same big sun, when the Great Correction comes.”


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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on April 29, 2019, 07:29:07 pm
EcoWatch

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: Surly1 on April 30, 2019, 07:59:45 am
The Last Time There Was This Much CO2, Trees Grew at the South Pole
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It is palpable now. Even the most ardent deniers of human-caused climate disruption can feel the convulsions wracking the planet.

I truly believe this, given that, essentially, we are all of and from the Earth. Deep down inside all of us is the “fight or flight” instinct. Like any other animal, our very core knows when we are in danger, as the converging crises descend ever closer to home, wherever we may find ourselves on the globe.

This anxiety that increases by the day, this curious dread of what our climate-disrupted future will bring, is difficult to bear. Even those who have not already lost homes or loved ones to climate disruption-fueled extreme weather events have to live with the burden of this daily tension.

The signs of our overheated planet abound, and another collection of recent reports and studies shows things are only continuing to accelerate as human-caused climate disruption progresses.

A recently published study showed that Earth’s glaciers are now melting five times more rapidly than they were in the 1960s.

“The glaciers shrinking fastest are in central Europe, the Caucasus region, western Canada, the U.S. Lower 48 states, New Zealand and near the tropics,” lead author Michael Zemp, director of the World Glacier Monitoring Service at the University of Zurich told Time Magazine. Glaciers in those places are losing an average of more than 1 percent of their mass each year, according to the study. “In these regions, at the current glacier loss rate, the glaciers will not survive the century,” added Zemp.

Meanwhile, the World Meteorological Organization announced that extreme weather events impacted 62 million people across the world last year. In 2018, 35 million people were struck by flooding, and Hurricanes Florence and Michael were just two of 14 “billion-dollar disasters” in 2018 in the U.S. More than 1,600 deaths were linked to heat waves and wildfires in Europe, Japan and the U.S. The report also noted the last four years were the warmest on record.

As an example of this last statistic, another report revealed that Canada is warming at twice the global rate. “We are already seeing the effects of widespread warming in Canada,” Elizabeth Bush, a climate science adviser at Environment Canada, told TheGuardian. “It’s clear, the science supports the fact that adapting to climate change is an imperative.”

Another recent report showed that the last time there was this much CO2 in the atmosphere (412 ppm), in the Pliocene Epoch 5.3 to 2.6 million years ago, sea levels were 20 meters higher than they are right now, trees were growing at the South Pole, and average global temperatures were 3 to 4 degrees Centigrade (3°-4° C) warmer, and even 10°C warmer in some areas. NASA echoed the report’s findings.

And if business as usual continues, emissions will only accelerate. The International Energy Agency announced that global carbon emissions set a record in 2018, rising 1.7 percent to a record 33.1 billion tons.

Earth

The impact of runaway emissions is already upon us. Several cities in the northern U.S., such as Buffalo, Cincinnati and Duluth, are already preparing to receive migrants from states like Florida, where residents are beset with increasing flooding, brutal heat waves, more severe and frequent hurricanes, sea level rise, and a worse allergy season. City planners in the aforementioned cities are already preparing by trying to figure out how to create jobs and housing for an influx of new residents.

Indications of the climate disruption refugee crisis are even more glaring in some other countries.

Large numbers of Guatemalan farmers already have to leave their landdue to drought, flooding, and increasingly severe extreme weather events.

In low-lying Bangladesh, hundreds of thousands of people are already in the process of being displaced from coastal homes, and are moving into poverty-stricken areas of cities that are already unprepared to receive the influx of people. Given that 80 percent of the population of the country already lives in a flood plain, the crisis can only escalate with time as sea level rise continues to accelerate.

Meanwhile, diseases spread by mosquitoes are also set to worsen in our increasingly warm world. A recently published study on the issue shows that over the next three decades, half a billion more people could be at risk of mosquito-delivered diseases.

Other migrations are occurring as well. In Canada’s Yukon, Indigenous elders told the CBC that caribou and moose are moving further north than ever before in order to escape the impacts of climate disruption like warmer summers, lakes and rivers that don’t freeze, and adjusting their migrations to find more food. This has deep impacts on the survival and culture of the area’s Indigenous residents.

In economic news, a researcher for the Federal Reserve Bank recently penned a letter urging central banks to note the financial risks, and possibly an impending financial crisis, brought about by climate disruption. “Without substantial and sustained global mitigation and regional adaptation efforts,” read the letter, “climate change is expected to cause growing losses to American infrastructure and property and impede the rate of economic growth over this century.”

Another report showed that climate disruption is already negatively impacting fruit breeders, and consumers will soon feel the pain of higher prices. “We are seeing industries that may not survive if we don’t find a solution, and we are only just seeing the consequences of climate change,” Thomas Gradziel, of the University of California at Davis, told The Washington Post.

Underscoring all of this, the Global Seed Vault in Svalbard, Norway, known as the “Doomsday Vault,” has already been altered by climate disruption impacts. The primary impacts thus far have been floodingaround the vault, given how warm temperatures have become across the Arctic. The Doomsday Vault holds nearly one million seeds from around the globe, and functions as a backup in case climate disruption, war, famine, or disease wipes out certain crops. In other words, it’s a backup plan to backup plans. A recent report showed that climate change’s impacts on the seed vault could get worse as snow season shortens, heavier and more frequent rainfalls escalate, and avalanches and mudslides near the vault become more common.

Lastly in this section, researchers recently warned that the Arctic has now entered an “unprecedented state” that is literally threatening the stability of the entire global climate system. Their paper, “Key Indicators of Arctic Climate Change: 1971–2017,” with both American and European climate scientists contributing, warned starkly that changes in the Arctic will continue to have massive and negative impacts around the globe.

“Because the Arctic atmosphere is warming faster than the rest of the world, weather patterns across Europe, North America, and Asia are becoming more persistent, leading to extreme weather conditions,” Jason Box, the lead author of the paper said.

Water

As usual, there continue to be ample examples of the impacts of climate disruption in the watery realms of the planet.

In oceans, most of the sea turtles now being born are female; a crisis in sea turtle sex that is borne from climate disruption. This is due to the dramatically warmer sand temperatures where the eggs are buried. At a current ratio of 116/1 female/male, clearly this trend cannot continue indefinitely if sea turtles are to survive.

An alarming study showed recently that the number of new corals on the Great Barrier Reef has crashed by 89 percent after the mass bleaching events of 2016 and 2017. With coral bleaching events happening nearly annually now across many of the world’s reefs, such as the Great Barrier, we must remember that it takes an average of a decade for them to recover from a bleaching event. This is why some scientists in Australia believe the Great Barrier Reef to be in its “terminal stage.”

The UN recently sounded the alarm that urgent action is needed if Arab states are to avoid a water emergency. Water scarcity and desertification are afflicting the Middle East and North Africa more than any other region on Earth, hence the need for countries there to improve water management. However, the per capita share of fresh water availability there is already just 10 percent of the global average, with agriculture consuming 85 percent of it.

Another recent study has linked shrinking Arctic sea ice to less rain in Central America, adding to the water woes in that region as well.

In Alaska, warming continues apace. The Nenana Ice Classic, a competition where people guess when a tripod atop the frozen Nenana River breaks through the ice each spring, has resulted in a record this year of the earliest river ice breakup. It broke the previous record by nearly one full week.

Meanwhile, the pace of warming and the ensuing change across the Bering Sea is startling scientists there. Phenomena like floods during the winter and record low sea ice are generating great concern among scientists as well as Indigenous populations living there. “The projections were saying we would’ve hit situations similar to what we saw last year, but not for another 40 or 50 years,” Seth Danielson, a physical oceanographer at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, told The Associated Press of the diminishing sea ice.

In fact, people in the northernmost community of the Canadian Yukon, the village of Old Crow, are declaring a climate disruption State of Emergency. The chief of the Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation in the Yukon, Chief Dana Tizya-Tramm, has stated that his community’s traditional way of life is at stake, including thawing permafrost and rivers and lakes that no longer freeze deeply enough to walk across in the winter, making hunting and fishing difficult and dangerous. He said that declaring the climate emergency is his community’s responsibility to the rest of the planet.

Other signs of the dramatic warming across the Arctic abound. On Denali, North America’s highest mountain (20,310 feet), more than 66 tons of frozen feces left by climbers on the mountain are expected to begin thawing out of the glaciers there as early as this coming summer.

Another study found that tall ice cliffs around Greenland and the Antarctic are beginning to “slump,” behaving like soil and rock in sediment do before they break apart from the land and slide down a slope. Scientists believe the slumping ice cliffs may well be an ominous sign that could lead to more acceleration in global sea level rise, as far more ice is now poised to melt into the seas than previously believed.

In New Zealand, following the third hottest summer on record there, glaciers have been described by scientists as “sad and dirty,” with many of them having disappeared forever. Snow on a glacier protects the ice underneath it from melting, so this is another way scientists measure how rapidly a glacier can melt — if the snow is gone and the blue ice underneath it is directly exposed to the sun, it’s highly prone to melting. “Last year, the vast majority of glaciers had snowlines that were off the top of the mountain, and this year, we had some where we could see snowlines on, but they were very high,” NIWA Environmental Science Institute climate scientist Drew Lorrey told the New Zealand Herald. “On the first day of our survey, we observed 28 of them, and only about six of them had what I would call a snowline.”

Lastly in this section, another study warned that if emissions continue to increase at their current rate, ice will have all but vanished from European Alpine valleys by 2100. The study showed that half of the ice in the Alps’ 4,000 glaciers will be gone by 2050 with only the warming that is already baked into the system from past emissions. The study warned that even if we ceased all emissions at this moment, two-thirds of the ice will still have melted by 2100.

Fire

Washington State, in the traditionally damp and moist Pacific Northwest, has already had 50 wildfires this year. The state normally doesn’t see this number until the end of summer from late August through October, which is normally the peak of wildfire season.

Meanwhile, a deadly wildfire in South Korea has been declared a national emergency.

Air

Record-high temperatures continue to be set globally, especially in the Arctic.

High temperatures in March across the state of Alaska obliterated records. The statewide temperature for the entire month smashed the previous record by a whopping 4°F. Most rivers are melting out early, the town of Deadhorse in northern Alaska was 23 degrees above normal for the entire month of March, and for many days that month the industrial settlement near the Prudhoe Bay oil fields was 30 to 40 degrees above normal. Anchorage saw seven days with a record-high temperature for March, Juneau saw 10, Utquiagvik (formerly Barrow) saw six, as did Yakutat. Warmer temperature anomalies there have now become the norm.

Distressingly, another study revealed that melting permafrost across the Arctic could now be releasing 12 times as much nitrous oxide as previously thought. Nitrous oxide is an extremely powerful greenhouse gas, 300 times more potent than carbon dioxide, and can remain in the atmosphere for 114 years.

Recent research shows that Canada’s Arctic is now the warmest it has been in 10,000 years, and the temperatures are continuing to climb. Duane Froese, a professor at the University of Alberta and a co-author of the recent study on the topic, told the CBC,

“I would guess we’re getting back over 100,000 years since we’ve seen temperatures at least this warm.”

Another study has warned that climate disruption is set to raise Pittsburgh temperatures to the level of those of the southern U.S. states by 2080 … meaning the city of Pennsylvania will feel more like Jonesboro, Arkansas. That means Pittsburgh will be 10°F warmer, with summers 18 percent drier, and winters 45 percent wetter.

Scientists have warned that extreme hemispheric heat waves like that which occurred during 2018 are becoming more common due to climate disruption. They warn that these massive heatwaves will cover wider areas, and with just 2°C of warming (we are currently at 1.1°C) most summers will look like that of 2018. “From May to July, the heat waves affected 22 percent of the agricultural land and populated areas in the mid-latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere, from Canada and the United States to Russia, Japan and South Korea, killing hundreds of people, devastating crops and curtailing power production,” Inside Climate Newswrote of the study. “On an average day during those heat waves, 5.2 million square kilometers (about 2 million square miles) were affected by extreme heat, [Martha Vogel, an extreme-temperature researcher with ETH Zürich Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science] said. At its peak extent in July, the affected area was twice as big.”

Another report has warned that warming temperatures across the globe could release into the atmosphere long-frozen radiation — from atomic bombs, Chernobyl and Fukushima. Radioactive particles are very light, and therefore, were transported very long distances across the atmosphere after nuclear detonations or radiological accidents. When the radioactive particles fall as snow, they can be stored in ice fields and glaciers for decades. If climate disruption melts the ice, the radiation is washed downstream and spreads throughout ecosystems.

Caroline Clason, a lecturer in physical geography at the University of Plymouth affiliated with the study, said an example of how this is already playing out came from Sweden, when wild boar there were found to have 10 times the levels of normal radiation in 2017. The radiation is likely to have come from Chernobyl, although radiation from all of these nuclear accidents is capable of spreading globally.

Denial and Reality

While this certainly comes as no surprise, yet another report came out highlighting how oil and gas giants are spending millions of dollars in their ongoing effort to lobby their paid politicians to block policies aimed at addressing climate disruption. The giant fossil fuel companies are spending an average of $200 million annually to weaken and/or oppose legislation aimed at addressing climate disruption. BP led the way in spending with $53 million, followed by Shell ($49 million), ExxonMobil ($41 million), Chevron and Total ($29 million each).

Meanwhile, as per usual, President Donald Trump has signed executive orders to speed up oil and gas pipeline projects, making it harder for states to block construction projects due to environmental concerns.

Yet, as the White House is actively denying climate disruption and working as hard as it can to promote fossil fuel use, the U.S. military is planning and preparing for dealing with the vast impacts of ongoing climate disruption. “People are acting on climate not for political reasons, but [because] it really affects their mission,” Jon Powers, an Iraq War veteran who served as the federal chief sustainability officer who is now president and chief executive of the investment firm CleanCapital, told The Washington Post. “With the military, it’s now ingrained in the culture and mission there, which I think is the biggest change over the last 10 years.”

Meanwhile, a federal climate disruption study panel and advisory group that was disbanded by the Trump administration due to it not having enough members “from industry,” recently released a report warning that the muddled political response to very clear climate science is putting Americans at risk.

“We were concerned that the federal government is missing an opportunity to get better information into the hands of those who prepare for what we have already unleashed,” Richard Moss, a visiting scientist at Columbia University, who previously chaired the federal panel and is a member of the group who released the report, told The Guardian. “We’re only just starting to see the effects of climate change, it’s only going to get much worse. But we haven’t yet rearranged our daily affairs to adapt to science we have.”

With each passing month, the impacts of runaway climate disruption continue to intensify. And as they do, so must our awareness of what is happening across the planet, and our resolve to take action to address it – especially since most governments around the world are failing to meet these challenges.

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Study: As Climate Crisis Has Worsened, So Has Global Economic Inequality
April 29, 2019

In a new study out by Stanford researchers reviewing half a century of data, researchers found that as rich countries get richer, they also have more temperate climates and face less of the brunt of climate impacts

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DIMITRI LASCARIS This is Dimitri Lascaris reporting for The Real News Network from Toronto, Canada. The rich get richer and the poor— well, they get climate change impacts. That in a nutshell is the conclusion of a new study by researchers at Stanford University. Entitled Global Warming has Increased Global Economic Inequality, it points to half a century of country-by-country global temperature data, overlaid with G.D.P. data for those same countries. The countries with the highest G.D.P., the study concludes, have more temperate climates and have in turn experienced less severe climate impacts, while consuming the bulk of the world’s fossil fuel resources. The opposite is true of countries with lower G.D.P. It’s increasingly understood that climate change will impact working class people of color around the world, first and foremost. That, even though they did the least to cause the climate crisis. But the new study enshrines the notion and backs it up with decades of fresh data. Here to discuss that data is none other than the report’s lead author, Noah Diffenbaugh (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-080515182559.png&hash=d4dfa952fa0f817bf30a8059a4c88d6fb05ee1bf). He is the Kara J. Foundation Professor and Kimmelman Family Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment at Stanford University. His research focuses on how climate change could impact agriculture, water resources, and human health. Among other accolades, he has served as a lead author for the Working Group II of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and he joins us today from Stanford, California. Thank you for coming on to The Real News, Professor Diffenbaugh.

DR. NOAH DIFFENBAUGH My pleasure.

DIMITRI LASCARIS So your article, Professor, was co-written with Stanford Professor Marshall Burke. In simple terms, what did you two determine to be the big picture takeaways from the research you did? What does it add to the body of knowledge on these interwoven topics of global climate change impacts?

DR. NOAH DIFFENBAUGH Well what we found is that global warming has already happened, historically. That’s about one degree Celsius of global warming to date. But that global warming has overall, reduced the per capita G.D.P. in a large swath of countries in the tropics and subtropics. These countries are warm or hot and that’s the primary reason that they’ve experienced these negative impacts from global warming. But they also, in many cases, have low per capita G.D.P., in many cases have large populations, and in most cases have contributed relatively little to the historical greenhouse gas emissions that have cause global warming. So overall, the net effect is that we find robust results to indicate that global warming has already reduced incomes in many poor countries and that even though inequality between the richest and poorest countries has decreased overall over the last half-century or so, global warming has slowed the rate of that progress.

DIMITRI LASCARIS Now in your study you talk about the parabola effect taking place in terms of temperatures in countries around the world and their G.D.P. For those who have not taken a geometry class for a while, what do you mean in this context by the parabola effect?

DR. NOAH DIFFENBAUGH Well so my co-author, Marshall Burke, has led work over the last several years to understand and isolate how temperature fluctuations in different countries around the world affect their growth in G.D.P., their economic growth year-by-year. And so controlling for other factors, looking country-by-country, what they find is that overall colder countries, such as Norway, have experienced a bit faster economic growth in years that are warmer than normal for Norway. And on the other end of the temperature range, hot countries like India have experienced a bit slower economic growth in the years that are warmer than normal for India. And so overall, there is a hill-shaped function where cooler countries have tended to benefit historically in warm years. Warmer countries have tended to have a drag on their economic growth in warm years. And then in the middle, there’s a mathematical optimum in this relationship. The largest economies in the world— the U.S., China, and Japan— are right near that temperature optimum.

DIMITRI LASCARIS In the short-lived sci-fi show, Incorporated, a dystopian society which chronicled the combination of corporate power and climate impacts from the vantage point of the year 2074, a huge chunk of the world’s population flocks to Milwaukee, Wisconsin as climate refugees. Your paper does not get into the refugee discussion, but do you think the data drawn out within your research explains an impetus for why a nice, cold place like Milwaukee could prove an attractive destination a few generations from now? You specifically mentioned the case of Norway in your prior answer, and I know that you deal with Norway is a key case study in your paper. What do you envision is going to happen in terms of these colder climate countries becoming more attractive to increasingly desperate climate refugees?

DR. NOAH DIFFENBAUGH Well so there is empirical research using a similar framework to what we’ve used by other researchers asking that question about migration, this work by Wolfram Schlenker, a Professor at Columbia University. In that work, they’ve analyzed historical records of asylum claims in Europe and have linked back where the asylum claims at the destination country were, which country those migrants were leaving, and then what were the climate conditions in those countries that the migrants left. And they have found a robust increase in that migration during hot years in the country of departure, controlling for other factors. So they’ve used a very similar econometric framework, as what we’ve used in this paper, but specifically asked the question that you’re asking in terms of whether or not there is a contribution of climate shocks, climate conditions, to migration. Their results suggest that there has been historically, at least for European asylum claims.

DIMITRI LASCARIS Lastly, what do you hope your study achieves in the broader discourse about climate change solutions, in areas like the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change? Why did you choose to release the paper on an open source basis?

DR. NOAH DIFFENBAUGH So those are two questions. In terms of the policy relevance, there are a couple of results that are relevant for ongoing policy discussions. As you mentioned earlier, it has been discussed for many, many years by many, many people— researchers, policymakers, treaty negotiators within the U.N. climate treaty framework. It’s been observed for a long time that the populations in countries that are most vulnerable to climate change, in general, have contributed relatively little to the total global greenhouse gas emissions that are causing global warming. What’s new about our paper is that we provide country-by-country estimates of the impact of that historical global warming on the economic outcomes at the aggregate level for each country. So I think that prior to our paper, if someone was making that statement about the asymmetry between vulnerability to climate change and responsibility for the greenhouse gas emissions, they would’ve been hard pressed to provide quantitative figures, quantitative numbers of what the magnitude of that disparity has been, and our paper provides that quantification.

DIMITRI LASCARIS And I realize I did ask two questions. The latter being, why did you choose to release the paper on an open source basis?

DR. NOAH DIFFENBAUGH Our research is relevant for the scientific community. It’s relevant for policymakers. Overall, my research program has been funded. I’ve been a principal investigator for more than 15 years, both at a public university, Purdue University, and now at Stanford at a private university. At both of those universities as principal investigator, I have received federal funding to support my research program. I certainly consider my responsibility to make the results of my research program accessible to the public. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F1%2F3-120818185037-16412296.gif&hash=c8a4038d309a0f49ca4a7a464f30f9a340049cac)


DIMITRI LASCARIS Well we’ve been speaking to Professor Noah Diffenbaugh from Stanford University about a new study regarding the relationship between global inequality and climate change impacts. Thank you very much for joining us today, Professor.

DR. NOAH DIFFENBAUGH It’s been my pleasure. Thank you.

DIMITRI LASCARIS And this is Dimitri Lascaris reporting for The Real News Network.

https://therealnews.com/stories/study-as-climate-crisis-has-worsened-so-has-global-economic-inequality
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Post by: AGelbert on May 03, 2019, 07:24:16 pm
RADIO ECOSHOCK
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DAVID KEELLINGS: CLIMATE-ENHANCED HURRICANE MARIA

On September 20th, 2017 record-smashing Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico. Thousands died because of it. New science confirms the devastating rains and floods during Maria were far more likely due to climate change.

According to recent data from the US Census Bureau, after the storm about 4% of the population of the island fled for the United States mainland. They are among the new American climate refugees, joining those from Hurricanes Harvey and Katrina.

The new paper is titled “Extreme Rainfall Associated With Hurricane Maria Over Puerto Rico and Its Connections to Climate Variability and Change.” We have reached the lead author, Dr. David J. Keellings, Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Alabama.

From Tuscaloosa, we welcome David Keellings to Radio Ecoshock.

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on May 03, 2019, 08:18:33 pm
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GRETA SAYS IT BETTER THAN I CAN…

Greta Thunberg speaking to members of UK Parliament and others,

There is so much I can say, but despite my decades learning and working on climate change, I cannot say it better than 16 year-old Greta Thunberg. I’m going to read a few words from her speech to the UK Parliament on April 23rd, 2019. In the radio show, I only dare to speak in her voice because the audio was poor, interrupted by the flash of press cameras and sounds from the crowd. She said:

“In the year 2030 I will be 26 years old. My little sister Beata will be 23. Just like many of your own children or grandchildren. That is a great age, we have been told. When you have all of your life ahead of you. But I am not so sure it will be that great for us.

I was fortunate to be born in a time and place where everyone told us to dream big; I could become whatever I wanted to. I could live wherever I wanted to. People like me had everything we needed and more. Things our grandparents could not even dream of. We had everything we could ever wish for and yet now we may have nothing.

Now we probably don’t even have a future any more.

Because that future was sold so that a small number of people could make unimaginable amounts of money. It was stolen from us every time you said that the sky was the limit, and that you only live once.

You lied to us. You gave us false hope. You told us that the future was something to look forward to. And the saddest thing is that most children are not even aware of the fate that awaits us. We will not understand it until it’s too late. And yet we are the lucky ones. Those who will be affected the hardest are already suffering the consequences. But their voices are not heard.

Is my microphone on? Can you hear me? Because I’m beginning to wonder…

Around the year 2030, 10 years 252 days and 10 hours away from now, we will be in a position where we set off an irreversible chain reaction beyond human control, that will most likely lead to the end of our civilization as we know it. That is unless in that time, permanent and unprecedented changes in all aspects of society have taken place, including a reduction of CO2 emissions by at least 50%.”

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Climate Change: "If we lose the Arctic, we lose the whole world” (w/ Guy McPherson)
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Post by: AGelbert on May 04, 2019, 11:39:42 am
Upper Mississippi River Breaks 1993 Flood Record

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The high water forced the U.S. Coast Guard to close a portion of the Mississippi River to all vessel traffic near St. Louis, Missouri.  By Brian K. Sullivan (Bloomberg) — The Mississippi River broke a quarter-century flooding record at Rock Island, Illinois. For now, it’s seen as a fairly isolated event — as long as rain […] 

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Post by: AGelbert on May 04, 2019, 03:02:53 pm
Guy McPherson (Short Version) - Chico Presentation
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Apr 28, 2019 - Center for Spiritual Living Chico

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Post by: AGelbert on May 05, 2019, 11:14:50 pm
Mozambique Cyclone Kenneth Leaves Devastation in its Wake
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Cyclone Kenneth tore over the island of Ibo in northern Mozambique with a fury that left little standing in its wake. DW's Adrian Kriesch accompanied an aid flight to the island and found suffering and desperation with no clear path forward.

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Post by: AGelbert on May 07, 2019, 07:44:24 pm
Global Climate Change, Standing Rock & Donald Trump: Daniel Sheehan 2019 Class #1

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Published on Apr 3, 2019

Welcome to Daniel Sheehan's 5th UCSC course, The Trajectory of Justice in America, in the spring quarter of 2019. The intro lecture looks at the interrelation of the three components of the course.

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The tip of the iceberg
Daniel Cotter | 3:00 pm EDT May 7, 2019
Palmer Report » Analysis

Every time we believe that we have hit bottom with this Trump administration, we realize that the depths of the stupidity, corruption and malfeasance is beyond comprehension. We just get glimpses of the tip of the iceberg from this gaggle of knaves.

The latest is from Mike Pompeo, Secretary of State, who gave comments about the Arctic and rapidly melting sea ice levels.

One must look to make sure it is not April Fools’ Day or perhaps The Onion spoofing reality, but alas, no such luck. Pompeo appeared to find great economic opportunity in the melting ice, stating in Finland: “The Arctic is at the forefront of opportunity and abundance. It houses 13 percent of the world’s undiscovered oil, 30 percent of its undiscovered gas, an abundance of uranium, rare earth minerals, gold, diamonds, and millions of square miles of untapped resources, fisheries galore. Steady reductions in sea ice are opening new passageways and new opportunities for trade. This could potentially slash the time it takes to travel between Asia and the West by as much as 20 days.

“Arctic sea lanes could become the 21st century Suez and Panama Canals.”

Not once did the words “climate change” leave his lips. Perhaps 🦕 Pompeo and others who shrug off the Earth’s troubled state have a secret for how their descendants will live in a significantly uninhabitable environment. Rather than look at the risks inherent in melting ice caps, Pompeo and his environmentally backward patrons, the 🦕🦖 Koch brothers, look at the immediate profits.

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Daniel Cotter

Daniel is a lawyer writing and teaching about SCOTUS, and is the author of the book “The Chief Justices” about the SCOTUS as seen through the center seat.
https://www.palmerreport.com/analysis/tip-of-the-iceburg/17820/


Patricia Marinich
Idiocy. Madness. And by the way, it's a Russian talking point, as are many utterances from Trump and minions. https://www.cbc.ca/.../russia-putin-climate-change...
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Melinda Sharpe 👍👍👍
It is not a small profit. Isn't it something like 30 trillion just for the oil? They want climate change to continue so they can get at the oil, and other valuables. Anybody watching the new Daniel Sheehan series, the class he is teaching on Trump and the trajectory of Justice? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUfOPwUUeas... I think it is the 3rd class on this youtube series that outlines climate change.
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Tarena Dettweiler
I'm sick to death of this nightmare. I'm going to end up in a mental institution before all is said and done.
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Nicole Damén
Great article!

Finnish analysis:

Trump's foreign policy thundered in Rovaniemi

United States brought world politics to the Arctic Summit of 8 countries, but was left standing alone against the other countries

Mike Pompeo held a speech, intented to warn Russia and China, who both drool after the Arctic areas. His speech was considered bizarre, leaving no room for negotiations.…See More
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Joe Davis
He listen to a BBC broadcast about how China was getting interested in the Artic adn we were being left behind. He's trying to counter Chinese interest. Russia may want to use Chinese capital to open up the artic. With the sanctions Russia is turning elsewhere for capital for their projects. It is a problem
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F Braun McAsh
Forgot to mention that by the time this happens, the coastal ports for all this trade will be under water.
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Ed Graf
Food resources rarely co-exist with mining/drilling operations. The guy is an idiot.
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Sarah Francois
Trump such a mutha fucka **** omg aughhhh ... not a hateful person but he is making me hate someone omg???
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Michael Bean
"Perhaps Pompeo and others who shrug off the Earth’s troubled state have a secret for how their descendants will live in a significantly uninhabitable environment."

Um, no...THEY DON'T CARE!! It isn't going to directly affect them, so as far as they are concerned, it's irrelevent.
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Steven MacQuarrie
The minerals in the Arctic and Antarctic are not going to do us much good if 80% of our cities are flooded deeply. What an abject fool Pompeo is.
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Louise Charlebois
I can not imagine that this guy was director of the CIA? It's not a light!Destroy, destroy and destroy an area still few men have exploited! 😪
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on May 10, 2019, 08:12:06 pm
 
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May 9, 2019

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This week, Koch Congressman turned Secretary of State Mike Pompeo did his job and denied the reality of the impacts of climate change. In reference to the melting Arctic, Pompeo recognized that old fashioned “nu uh!” denial wasn’t going to cut it. Instead, he suggested that the melt would be beneficial because it would open up new trade routes and cut down on shipping times.

Given that this happened concurrently with a new UN report warning that human activity puts a million species at risk of extinction, the comments were an easy target for late night comedy. Seth Meyers, for example, spent a few minutes ridiculing Pompeo’s position, saying it’s like “being excited your house burned down, because now you can see your pool from the driveway” and that making money off of a disaster is literally the plot of The Producers. (“It’s spring time, for everyone, all of the time!”)

Jimmy Kimmel, meanwhile, went a little more risque, using the extinction report and Pompeo’s comments to set up a mock-PSA featuring George Clooney fundraising for a new organization: United to Defeat Untruthful Misinformation and Support Science, or, UDUMASS. Showing clips of Trump’s “windmills cause cancer” nonsense and James Inhofe’s snowball stunt, Clooney warns of how “rampant dumbfuckery now threatens our health, our security, and our planet.”

In the Twittersphere, Dr. Michael Mann pointed out that Pompeo’s suggestion that maybe there’s an upside to climate change is just one of the many permutations of denial. And it’s hardly unique to climate change.

A paper on denial back in 1993 lays out a sort of spectrum of denial. Though focused on cancer patients who refuse to accept their diagnosis, the parallels are straightforward. There’s complete denial, where a patient simply refuses to accept the cancer diagnosis, akin to deniers who refuse to accept that scientists have diagnosed the cause of climate change as human activity. Then there’s the denial of the implications of the diagnosis, where they accept that they have cancer but reject the idea that it’s serious and life-threatening. We see this in arguments that admit the climate is changing, but reject calls to reduce fossil fuel use.

The next step, one closer to reality, is denial of the effects, where patients “minimize the extent to which they are distressed” by the knowledge of their diagnosis. Patients in this stage of denial mostly avoid the issue, and are “focused on suppressing anxieties.” In other words, this is representative of folks who recognize that climate change is a problem, but consider it too daunting to deal with. Finally, there’s acceptance, when patients finally reckon with the reality, and “might see cancer as a problem that has to be dealt with.”

For decades, fossil fuel defenders have been able to stay in the “complete denial” phase because symptoms of climate change were hard to see. But now, with the Arctic actively melting, denial is becoming untenable.

Obviously, the 🦕🦖 Kochs aren’t going to just up and allow their network to embrace calls to transition off of fossil fuels. Deniers are instead turning to arguments like Pompeo’s, embracing a term Naomi Klein popularized: “disaster capitalism.”

This is really where the comparison between psychological denial, like in cancer patients, and professional denial, like Pompeo’s, ends. While cancer patients’ denial is an emotional defense, those who rely on the 😈 fossil ☠️ fuel industry are motivated by money, and therefore are capable of accepting that fossil fuels cause climate change without also accepting the implication that we should eliminate fossil fuel use. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F2%2F3-190419232147.png&hash=b9d818543137cfd7ac4b712c1c25fe3b94b6d174)

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on May 11, 2019, 04:38:53 pm
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SATURDAY, MAY 11, 2019

As Capitalism Fails, We Need a Roadmap to Survive Climate Change

C.J. POLYCHRONIOU, TRUTHOUT

In the wake of capitalism's colossal failure, how should the world economy change in order to tackle the interlinked challenges of catastrophic climate change and rapidly rising inequality? Finnish biophysical economist Paavo Järvensivu, discusses a new framework his interdisciplinary research team of scientists has outlined in a forthcoming report for the transformation of our political, economic and cultural systems toward mitigating and adapting to climate change.

Read the Interview → (https://truthout.org/articles/as-capitalism-fails-we-need-a-roadmap-to-survive-climate-change/)
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on May 13, 2019, 09:32:45 pm
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MONDAY, MAY 13, 2019

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CO2 Levels Hit 415 Parts Per Million for First Time in Over 3 Million Years

JON QUEALLY, COMMON DREAMS

The measurement taken at the Mauno Loa Observatory in Hawaii by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography shows the continuing upward trend of atmospheric carbon concentration that lies at the heart of the global warming and climate crisis. While scientists have stated that much of the future warming is already "locked in," humanity's main focus must be to reverse the emissions trend.

Read the Article → (https://truthout.org/articles/co2-levels-hit-415-parts-per-million-for-first-time-in-over-3-million-years/)

Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on May 13, 2019, 11:45:49 pm
Antarctica is losing ice at an accelerating rate. How much will sea levels rise?  ???
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PBS NewsHour
Published on Apr 10, 2019


The frozen continent of Antarctica contains the vast majority of all freshwater on Earth. Now that ice is melting at an accelerating rate, in part because of climate change. What does this transformation mean for coastal communities across the globe? William Brangham reports from Antarctica on the troubling trend of ice loss and how glaciers can serve as a climate record from the past.

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on May 15, 2019, 04:16:26 pm
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Do you know how many endangered species there are?

Friday, May 17, is Endangered Species Day. Now more than ever, plants and animals are threatened by a combination of habitat loss and climate change. Below are a few quick facts about endangered species in the United States and around the world.

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on May 15, 2019, 04:51:22 pm
Monday May 13, 2019

By Bill McKibben 👍👍👍

We've run out of elections to waste – this is the last chance to make a difference on climate change (https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/may/14/weve-run-out-of-elections-to-waste-this-is-the-last-chance-to-make-a-difference-on-climate-change)

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: Surly1 on May 16, 2019, 07:39:36 am
‘Extraordinary thinning’ of ice sheets revealed deep inside Antarctica (https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/may/16/thinning-of-antarctic-ice-sheets-spreading-inland-rapidly-study)
New research shows affected areas are losing ice five times faster than in the 1990s, with more than 100m of thickness gone in some places


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The Antarctic’s Thwaites glacier. More than 50% of the Pine Island and Thwaites glacier basins have been affected by thinning in the past 25 years. Photograph: PA

Ice losses are rapidly spreading deep into the interior of the Antarctic, new analysis of satellite data shows.

The warming of the Southern Ocean is resulting in glaciers sliding into the sea increasingly rapidly, with ice now being lost five times faster than in the 1990s. The West Antarctic ice sheet was stable in 1992 but up to a quarter of its expanse is now thinning. More than 100 metres of ice thickness has been lost in the worst-hit places.

A complete loss of the West Antarctic ice sheet would drive global sea levels up by about five metres, drowning coastal cities around the world. The current losses are doubling every decade, the scientists said, and sea level rise are now running at the extreme end of projections made just a few years ago.

The research, published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, compared 800m satellite measurements of ice sheet height from 1992 to 2017 with weather information. This distinguished short-term changes owing to varying snowfall from long-term changes owing to climate.

“From a standing start in the 1990s, thinning has spread inland progressively over the past 25 years – that is rapid in glaciological terms,” said Prof Andy Shepherd, of Leeds University in the UK, who led the study. “The speed of drawing down ice from an ice sheet used to be spoken of in geological timescales, but that has now been replaced by people’s lifetimes.”

He said the thinning of some ice streams had extended 300 miles inland along their 600-mile length. “More than 50% of the Pine Island and Thwaites glacier basins have been affected by thinning in the past 25 years. We are past halfway and that is a worry.”

Researchers already knew that ice was being lost from West Antarctica, but the new work pinpoints where it is happening and how rapidly. This will enable more accurate projections to be made of sea level rises and may aid preparations for these rises.

In the recent past, snow falling on to Antarctica’s glaciers balanced the ice lost as icebergs calved off into the ocean. But now the glaciers are flowing faster than snow can replenish them.

“Along a 3,000km [1,850-mile] stretch of West Antarctica, the water in front of the glaciers is too hot,” he said. This causes melting of the underside of the glaciers where they grind against the seabed. The melting lessens the friction and allows the glaciers then to slide more quickly into the ocean and therefore become thinner.

“In parts of Antarctica, the ice sheet has thinned by extraordinary amounts,” Shepherd said.

Separate research published in January found that ice loss from the entire Antarctic continent had increased six-fold since the 1980s, with the biggest losses in the west. The new study indicates West Antarctica has caused 5mm of sea level rise since 1992, consistent with the January study’s findings.

The expansion of the oceans as they warm and the vast melting in Greenland are the main current causes of the rising oceans, but Antarctica is the biggest store of ice. The East Antarctic ice sheet contains enough ice to raise sea levels by about 60 metres. It had been considered stable, but research in December found even this stronghold was showing signs of melting.

Without rapid cuts in the carbon emissions driving global warming, the melting and rising sea level will continue for thousands of years.

“Before we had useful satellite measurements from space, most glaciologists thought the polar ice sheets were pretty isolated from climate change and didn’t change rapidly at all,” Shepherd said. “Now we know that is not true.”

Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on May 21, 2019, 02:33:15 pm
SNIPPETS from Doomstead Diner Daily 5/21 HEADLINES: (http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/general-discussion/doomstead-diner-daily/msg12427/#msg12427)

Judge rules against Trump in fight over president’s financial records

Cohen told lawmakers Trump attorney Jay Sekulow encouraged him to falsely claim Moscow project ended in January 2016

Trump stops ex-White House counsel Don McGahn testifying to Congress

Trump melted down today as questions about his shady financial history intensify

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It ain't workin' because way too many people are onto this false flag SCAM the US Government has used WAY TOO OFTEN (i.e. sinking the battleship Maine, Gulf of Tonkin, Bush fooling Saddam into invading Kuwait in 1991, 9/11, Shrub Iraq "WMD" lie, etc. SEE: 😈 One EVIL Trick Pony (http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/climate-change/u-s-history-politics-climate-change-trump-impeachment-standing-rock-context/msg12423/#msg12423)).

This comment I read today says it all:
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DEDA CVETKO

Why should Iran talk to the US government? It was the Trump administration - at the behest and request of the Israelis and their Saudi brethren - that broke the Iran nuclear deal, not the other way around. And the wide consensus of the entire civilized world is that Iran did act honorably and did uphold its share of the deal. No doubt about this. None whatsoever.  Donald Trump's foreign policy is scalp-deep in warmongering guilt, and sinking lower with each passing day. The only excuse Donald Trump has is that Hillary Clinton's administration would have done exactly the same, which is no excuse at all.

You know, your signature on a piece of binding international treaty - even when the signature is that of the preceding president - is not merely an autograph memorabilia. It is a serious, legally binding commitment which ties the entire nation into a very serious, meaningful set of interlocking, mutually reciprocal obligations with the contractual counterparty. An international contract actually obligates the signatory to act in a good-faith manner and to prevent deliberate sabotaging of the contract.  If the word of honor of the great nations were as easily self-violated as the word of honor of dishonest individuals, this planet would be an uninhabitable horror. Which, essentially, is what it is now rapidly becoming.

A horrendous, irreparable damage - and extraordinarily dangerous one - has been done by Donald Trump's wanton and entirely unjustified retreat from the diplomatic deal with Iran. I think I speak for many people worldwide when I say that this may go down as the single worst diplomatic cataclysm in the entire American history replete with blunders, false flags and war provocations of all kinds -  if not the history of the world. After all, from this moment on, the good faith and credit (and the word of honor) of American government ain't worth a pitcher of warm spit.

The only thing that makes Mother Earth habitable is the trust among humans. Even when the trust is involuntary, even when it runs counter to emotions and all reason, even when it is imposed between (presumably honorable) enemies, some trust must persist for our species to survive. Donald Trump just smashed that trust to smithereens.

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I have no recommendations for the sitting American government. What, precisely, do you suggest to someone who just declared the war on the entire humanity? (https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-05-21/no-talks-only-resistance-irans-rouhani-slams-door-trumps-call-me-overture?commentId=f9ce017d-a603-4bce-9caa-b5b10781a7a7)

Indeed. My only quibble with this fellow, who is probably an intelligent and perceptive Iranian, and obviously a caring, responsible human being, is the timing of when, precisely, the US Government declared war on ALL humanity.

I think it's been a while.

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As long as 🦕 Iran, and all the other 🐉🦕🦖 countries that export oil and gas, keep doing that ☠️ instead of transitioning to 100% Renewable energy, they are on the wrong side of that war against ALL humanity.

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on May 22, 2019, 12:00:01 pm
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May 21, 2019

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https://climatereanalyzer.org/wx/DailySummary/#t2

This Month in Climate Science: Warming-Driven Economic Inequality, Disappearing Alps, & Plummeting Penguin Populations (https://cleantechnica.com/2019/05/21/this-month-in-climate-science-warming-driven-economic-inequality-disappearing-alps-plummeting-penguin-populations/) (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-041115022304.png&hash=cd8cb8e28ab8f7fc78c1ea00d30a661bd937aed5)


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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on May 23, 2019, 11:59:08 am
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Written by Neil Katz and Joe McCarthy

SNIPPET:

“Unless you have more aggressive policymaking,” says Bloomberg’s Zindler. “You don’t actually cut CO2 emissions sufficiently from the power sector and from the economy overall to basically have the U.S. make its contributions to reducing CO2 emissions.”

“In the absence of some kind of national program or policy,” agrees energy analyst Van Atten. “We shouldn’t expect to see some dramatic decline in emissions.”

https://youtu.be/KM7KF9slq4k

Full article:

Power Companies Have a Plan to Save the Earth. It Probably Won’t Work. (https://features.weather.com/collateral/power-companies-reduce-carbon-emissions-nuclear-energy-climate-change/)
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: Surly1 on May 24, 2019, 09:54:50 am
Previously thought stable permafrost terrain high in Arctic is melting due to increased summer temperatures (https://m.phys.org/news/2019-05-widespread-permafrost-degradation-high-arctic.html)

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Due to record summer temperatures in recent years, high Arctic polar terrain is changing. Credit: Melissa Ward Jones

Rapid changes in terrain are taking place in Canada's high Arctic polar deserts due to increases in summer air temperatures.

A McGill-led study published recently in Environmental Research Letters presents close to 30 years of aerial surveys and extensive ground mapping of the Eureka Sound Lowlands area of Ellesmere and Axel Heiberg Islands located at approximately 80 °N. The research focuses on a particular landform (known as a retrogressive thaw slump) that develops as the ice within the melts and the land slips down in a horseshoe-shaped feature. The presence of these landforms is well documented in the low Arctic. But due to the extremely in high Arctic polar deserts (where average annual ground and air temperatures are -16.5 °C/2.3 °F, and -19.7 °C /-3.46 °F, respectively), and the fact that the permafrost is over 500 metres (or about 1/3 of a mile) thick, it had been assumed this landscape was stable. But the McGill-led research team found that this has not been the case.

"Our study suggests that the warming climate in the high Arctic, and more specifically the increases in summer air temperatures that we have seen in recent years, are initiating widespread changes in the landscape," says Melissa Ward Jones, the study's lead author and a Ph.D. candidate in McGill's Department of Geography.

Widespread permafrost degradation seen in high Arctic terrain

The research team noted that:

In recent years, high summer temperatures have started melting the ice in the permafrost. As a result, land forms are changing unexpectedly. Credit: McGill University

"Despite the cold polar conditions that characterize much of the high Arctic, this research clearly demonstrates the complex nature of ice-rich permafrost systems and climate-permafrost interaction," adds Wayne Pollard, a professor in McGill's Department of Geography and co-author on the study. "Furthermore, it raises concerns about the over simplification of some studies that generalize about the links between global warming and permafrost degradation."

More information: Melissa K Ward Jones et al, Rapid initialization of retrogressive thaw slumps in the Canadian high Arctic and their response to climate and terrain factors, Environmental Research Letters (2019). DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/ab12fd

Journal information:Environmental Research Letters

Provided byMcGill University

Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on May 25, 2019, 06:18:21 pm
Previously thought stable permafrost terrain high in Arctic is melting due to increased summer temperatures (https://m.phys.org/news/2019-05-widespread-permafrost-degradation-high-arctic.html)

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Due to record summer temperatures in recent years, high Arctic polar terrain is changing. Credit: Melissa Ward Jones

Yep. This is only the beginning of devastating sorrows to come...

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on June 01, 2019, 07:03:54 pm
May 31, 2019

SNIPPETS:

► Only 58 percent of the US corn crop had been planted as of May 28, the USDA reported Wednesday, compared to the five-year average of 90 percent by the same date, one of the slowest rates since USDA began collecting data.

Puffin Die-Off Shows Ocean is 'Screaming': Climate change played a key role in a recent massive die-off of thousands of tufted puffins in the Bering Sea, new research shows. A study published this week in the journal PLOS ONE examines a mass mortality event for the birds between October 2016 and January 2017, when hundreds of emaciated puffin carcasses washed ashore on St. Paul Island in Alaska. The study, which estimates that between 3,000 and 8,000 birds ultimately died in this period, suggests that warmer sea surface temperatures made zooplankton in the Bering Sea scarce, causing the fish that form the puffins' main diet staple to also disappear. "There's no way to avoid that something is going on here," study author Julia Parrish told InsideClimate News. "The ocean is screaming."

► There's a war on clean air and our children will suffer the consequences

► New Study Puts a Price Tag on Climate Inaction

Read more:


The latest: Farmers struggle with Midwest flooding (https://mailchi.mp/climatenexus/the-midwests-endless-flooding-a-mass-puffin-die-off-more?e=0fd17c5b57)
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on June 01, 2019, 07:15:16 pm
May 30, 2019

SNIPPETS:

Pruitt's Present to Foxconn: Trump administration officials, including Scott Pruitt, overruled career EPA scientists to exempt a county building one of President Trump's favored manufacturing plants from air pollution standards, newly-released documents show.

Oil Giant Enlists Retirees in Anti-EV Push: A Chevron lobbyist is pushing retirees of the company living in Arizona to participate in a letter-writing campaign against new electric vehicle policies, the Arizona Republic reports.

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“Freedom Gas” (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F1%2F3-250718210558.gif&hash=9234ac544277d3924347404eb52489dfe64e3ca4): Trump DOE (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F2%2F3-080419191019.png&hash=a449294ee6fe2dfdea44c1c501f4439b9ac69c26) Promotes Nat Gas On Par With Defeating Nazis (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F2%2F3-190419232147.png&hash=b9d818543137cfd7ac4b712c1c25fe3b94b6d174)


Read more:


Pruitt's gift to Foxconn, Chevron pushing retirees in anti-EV campaign, & more (https://mailchi.mp/climatenexus/pruitts-gift-to-foxconn-chevron-pushing-retirees-in-anti-ev-campaign-more?e=0fd17c5b57)
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on June 03, 2019, 04:14:17 pm
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on June 03, 2019, 04:20:53 pm
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MONDAY, JUNE 3, 2019

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Arctic Is Thawing So Fast Scientists Are Losing Their Measuring Tools

DAHR JAMAIL, TRUTHOUT

The poles are melting, species are dying all around us, massive cities are relocating in order to stay above sea level, states of emergency are being declared across the globe -- and the industrial growth society rumbles on. In order to learn what constitutes the right actions for us to take during these times, we must first fully understand and accept the gravity of our crisis.

Read the Article → (https://truthout.org/articles/arctic-is-thawing-so-fast-scientists-are-losing-their-measuring-tools/)

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on June 03, 2019, 05:39:00 pm
MONDAY, JUNE 3, 2019

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Sanders Says With Future of Planet at Stake, There's #NoMiddleGround

JAKE JOHNSON, COMMON DREAMS

Inspired by Sen. Bernie Sanders's speech at the California Democratic Convention in California, progressives made the Twitter hashtag #NoMiddleGround go viral on Sunday in an effort to make clear that there can be no compromises when it comes to confronting the global climate crisis, providing health care to all as a right and battling inequality.


Read the Article → (https://truthout.org/articles/sanders-says-with-future-of-planet-at-stake-theres-nomiddleground/)

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on June 06, 2019, 11:54:23 am
Climate Change will make the WWII DEATH COUNT look like a weak preamble.

https://youtu.be/7cgRwDkP6vk
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on June 07, 2019, 03:17:17 pm
EcoWatch

Common Dreams Jun. 06, 2019 09:15AM EST

SNIPPET:

"The measurement is the highest seasonal peak recorded in 61 years of observations on top of Hawaii's largest volcano and the seventh consecutive year of steep global increases in concentrations of carbon dioxide (CO2)," NOAA said in a statement on Tuesday. "The 2019 peak value was 3.5 PPM higher than the 411.2 PPM peak in May 2018 and marks the second-highest annual jump on record."

full article:

'Single Most Important Stat on the Planet': Alarm as Atmospheric CO2 Soars to 'Legit Scary' Record High (https://www.ecowatch.com/noaa-carbon-dioxide-levels-2638714201.html)


RECORDS AS OF JUNE 1, 2019
MAUNA LOA OBSERVATORY, HAWAII
All-Time Record Highs for CO2 Daily Averages
 
415.70 ppm on May 15, 2019 (Scripps)
415.64 ppm on May 15, 2019 (NOAA-ESRL)
415.50 ppm on May 13, 2019 (Scripps)
415.40 ppm on May 13, 2019 (NOAA-ESRL)
415.39 ppm on May 12, 2019 (Scripps)
415.27 ppm on May 12, 2019 (NOAA-ESRL)
415.26 ppm on May 11, 2019 (Scripps)
414.94 ppm on May 1, 2019 (Scripps)
414.88 ppm on May 1, 2019 (NOAA-ESRL)
414.84 ppm on March 18, 2019 (NOAA-ESRL) & May 2, 2019 (Scripps)
https://www.co2.earth/daily-co2

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on June 09, 2019, 10:42:50 am
RADIO ECOSHOCK
91 Radio Stations and Growing!

Posted on May, 22, 2019, by Radio Ecoshock

At the Edge of the Great Dying

At least a million forms of life are hovering at the edge of extinction, as humans take over the world. Lead author Sandra Diaz on the shocking new U.N. report. Then Columbia/NASA scientist Kate Marvel explains “hyroclimate” as rains and droughts go extreme.

🔊Podcast and more: (https://www.ecoshock.org/2019/05/at-the-edge-of-the-great-dying.html)

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on June 10, 2019, 06:36:46 pm
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If humanity is to survive, ALL human civilization must stop burning hydrocarbons for energy.

https://youtu.be/1CZL3JZGLKY
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on June 10, 2019, 08:37:39 pm
Economist Paavo Jarvensivu: "We Are Living In the Ruins of the Fossil 🦕🦖 Fuel Economy"

https://youtu.be/hALt_IufmtI

Collapse Chronicles

Published on Jun 9, 2019

In this week's Collapse Chronicles Interview, I have the pleasure of speaking with economist Paavo Jarvensivu.
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on June 11, 2019, 05:52:05 pm
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Eco-Philosopher Rupert Read: "This Civilization Is Finished"

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Collapse Chronicles

Published on Jan 6, 2019

In this week's edition of the Collapse Chronicles interview, I have the pleasure and honor of speaking with eco-philosopher (my term) Rupert Read. Here is a link to Rupert's excellent website:
https://rupertread.net/
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on June 11, 2019, 06:38:24 pm
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Shed A Light: Rupert Read – This civilisation is finished: so what is to be done?
74,420 views

https://youtu.be/uzCxFPzdO0Y

Churchill College, University of Cambridge

Published on Nov 9, 2018

Rupert Read, Environmental Philosopher and Chair of Green House Think Tank.
(https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F1%2F3-120818185037-16401634.png&hash=64d3e1b1de88caf3dd27821752a0500439778c05) The Paris Agreement explicitly commits us to use non-existent, utterly reckless, unaffordable and ineffective 'Negative Emissions Technologies' which will almost certainly fail to be realised. Barring a multifaceted miracle, within a generation, we will be facing an exponentially rising tide of climate disasters that will bring this civilization down. We, therefore, need to engage with climate realism. This means an epic struggle to mitigate and adapt, an epic struggle to take on the climate-criminals and, notably, to start planning seriously for civilizational collapse.

Dr Rupert Read is a Reader in Philosophy at the University of East Anglia. Rupert is a specialist in Wittgenstein, environmental philosophy, critiques of Rawlsian liberalism, and philosophy of film. His research in environmental ethics and economics has included publications on problems of ‘natural capital’ valuations of nature, as well as pioneering work on the Precautionary Principle. Recently, his work was cited by the Supreme Court of the Philippines in their landmark decision to ban the cultivation of GM aubergine. Rupert is also chair of the UK-based post-growth think tank, Green House, and is a former Green Party of England & Wales councillor, spokesperson, European parliamentary candidate and national parliamentary candidate. He stood as the Green Party MP-candidate for Cambridge in 2015.

About the series

Shed A Light is a series of talks that seek to present alternative framings of future human-nature interactions and the pragmatic solution pathways that we could take to get there.

By recognising the interlinkages between struggles for ecological, social and economic justice in addition to the desperate need for immediate societal transformation, Shed A Light aims to engage everyone with the green agenda and prompt broad-based discussions on sustainability issues.

Filmed at Churchill College, 7 November 2018.

Category Education

 
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on June 11, 2019, 09:03:35 pm
Agelbert NOTE: Listen to Rupert Read call out pro-fracking Rees-Mogg on his lies and distortions even as Rees-Mogg attacked him with baseless allegations for the purpose of defaming, besmirching and ridiculing Rupert Read, the Green Party and the Extinction Rebellion movement. Considering what a bought and paid for fascist crook Rees-Mogg is, the attack was Orwellian. Rees-Mogg would be quite comfortable in Trump's Hydrocarbon Hellspawn wrecking crew.

Rupert Read (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-210614221847.gif&hash=54129e3b65760aaddc6f2d7f42b34a7d839d2f27) goes head-to-head with🦖 Jacob Rees-Mogg
19th April 2019

I went head-to-head with 🦖 Jacob Rees-Mogg on his show on LBC about the Extinction Rebellion protests in London, and it went, well, how you might expect it to have gone... Rees-Mogg's verbosity can't obfuscate the existential threat that we face. We need drastic action on the climate and ecological crises, and we need politicians with the courage to call for that action. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-060518153110.png&hash=39d587c31b7f7e66b30d7e59bb560e2ad0662eee)

https://youtu.be/4qD4AS7bpDk

https://rupertread.net/media-appearances
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on June 12, 2019, 05:14:03 pm
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CleanTechnica
Support CleanTechnica’s work via donations on Patreon or PayPal!

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Confessions Of A Climate Activist: Don’t Blame Yourself, Go After The 🐉🦕🦖 Criminals Who Sold Out Humanity For Profit (https://cleantechnica.com/2019/06/12/confessions-of-a-climate-activist-dont-blame-yourself-go-after-the-criminals-who-sold-out-humanity-for-profit/)

Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on June 13, 2019, 05:31:13 pm
Climate Change Concentration Camps (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-300115234833.gif&hash=20e82f36f361174e6f8f07e11c36330842502bab)

https://youtu.be/NYK9ALnEZHM

Thom Hartmann Program
Published on Jun 12, 2019

Family separation is one of the most controversial actions the Trump administration has taken and now the victims of climate change may be the next locked in cages.

Climate Change refugees are on their way and the Trump administration is preparing for them by housing migrants where Japanese Americans were interred during WWII.

Is Donald Trump creating Climate Change Concentration Camps?

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on June 16, 2019, 01:45:59 pm
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on June 16, 2019, 09:23:31 pm
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on June 17, 2019, 02:22:44 pm
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Here’s Blum’s list of over 50 foreign leaders whom the United States 🦍 has attempted to assassinate: (https://williamblum.org/essays/read/overthrowing-other-peoples-governments-the-master-list)

1949 – Kim Koo, Korean opposition leader
1950s – CIA/Neo-Nazi hit list of more than 200 political figures in West Germany to be “put out of the way” in the event of a Soviet invasion
1950s – Chou En-lai, Prime minister of China, several attempts on his life
1950s, 1962 – Sukarno, President of Indonesia
1951 – Kim Il Sung, Premier of North Korea
1953 – Mohammed Mossadegh, Prime Minister of Iran
1950s (mid) – Claro M. Recto, Philippines opposition leader
1955 – Jawaharlal Nehru, Prime Minister of India
1957 – Gamal Abdul Nasser, President of Egypt
1959, 1963, 1969 – Norodom Sihanouk, leader of Cambodia
1960 – Brig. Gen. Abdul Karim Kassem, leader of Iraq
1950s-70s – José Figueres, President of Costa Rica, two attempts on his life
1961 – Francois “Papa Doc” Duvalier, leader of Haiti
1961 – Patrice Lumumba, Prime Minister of the Congo (Zaire)
1961 – Gen. Rafael Trujillo, leader of Dominican Republic
1963 – Ngo Dinh Diem, President of South Vietnam
1960s-70s – Fidel Castro, President of Cuba, many attempts on his life
1960s – Raúl Castro, high official in government of Cuba
1965 – Francisco Caamaño, Dominican Republic opposition leader
1965-6 – Charles de Gaulle, President of France
1967 – Che Guevara, Cuban leader
1970 – Salvador Allende, President of Chile
1970 – Gen. Rene Schneider, Commander-in-Chief of Army, Chile
1970s, 1981 – General Omar Torrijos, leader of Panama
1972 – General Manuel Noriega, Chief of Panama Intelligence
1975 – Mobutu Sese Seko, President of Zaire
1976 – Michael Manley, Prime Minister of Jamaica
1980-1986 – Muammar Qaddafi, leader of Libya, several plots and attempts upon his life
1982 – Ayatollah Khomeini, leader of Iran
1983 – Gen. Ahmed Dlimi, Moroccan Army commander
1983 – Miguel d’Escoto, Foreign Minister of Nicaragua
1984 – The nine comandantes of the Sandinista National Directorate
1985 – Sheikh Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah, Lebanese Shiite leader (80 people killed in the attempt)
1991 – Saddam Hussein, leader of Iraq
1993 – Mohamed Farah Aideed, prominent clan leader of Somalia
1998, 2001-2 – Osama bin Laden, leading Islamic militant
1999 – Slobodan Milosevic, President of Yugoslavia
2002 – Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, Afghan Islamic leader and warlord
2003 – Saddam Hussein and his two sons
2011 – Muammar Qaddafi, leader of Libya

Here is Blum’s list of U.S. attempts to overthrow governments (* indicates success):

China 1949 to early 1960s
Albania 1949-53
East Germany 1950s
Iran 1953 *
Guatemala 1954 *
Costa Rica mid-1950s
Syria 1956-7
Egypt 1957
Indonesia 1957-8
British Guiana 1953-64 *
Iraq 1963 *
North Vietnam 1945-73
Cambodia 1955-70 *
Laos 1958 *, 1959 *, 1960 *
Ecuador 1960-63 *
Congo 1960 *
France 1965
Brazil 1962-64 *
Dominican Republic 1963 *
Cuba 1959 to present
Bolivia 1964 *
Indonesia 1965 *
Ghana 1966 *
Chile 1964-73 *
Greece 1967 *
Costa Rica 1970-71
Bolivia 1971 *
Australia 1973-75 *
Angola 1975, 1980s
Zaire 1975
Portugal 1974-76 *
Jamaica 1976-80 *
Seychelles 1979-81
Chad 1981-82 *
Grenada 1983 *
South Yemen 1982-84
Suriname 1982-84
Fiji 1987 *
Libya 1980s
Nicaragua 1981-90 *
Panama 1989 *
Bulgaria 1990 *
Albania 1991 *
Iraq 1991
Afghanistan 1980s *
Somalia 1993
Yugoslavia 1999-2000 *
Ecuador 2000 *
Afghanistan 2001 *
Venezuela 2002 *
Iraq 2003 *
Haiti 2004 *
Somalia 2007 to present
Honduras 2009
Libya 2011 *
Syria 2012
Ukraine 2014 *
[arguably, Syria 1949 needs to be added to this list. –DS]

Here is Blum’s list of nations bombed by the United States:

Korea and China 1950-53 (Korean War)
Guatemala 1954
Indonesia 1958
Cuba 1959-1961
Guatemala 1960
Congo 1964
Laos 1964-73
Vietnam 1961-73
Cambodia 1969-70
Guatemala 1967-69
Grenada 1983
Lebanon 1983, 1984 (both Lebanese and Syrian targets)
Libya 1986
El Salvador 1980s
Nicaragua 1980s
Iran 1987
Panama 1989
Iraq 1991 (Persian Gulf War)
Kuwait 1991
Somalia 1993
Bosnia 1994, 1995
Sudan 1998
Afghanistan 1998
Yugoslavia 1999
Yemen 2002
Iraq 1991-2003 (US/UK on regular basis)
Iraq 2003-2015
Afghanistan 2001-2015
Pakistan 2007-2015
Somalia 2007-8, 2011
Yemen 2009, 2011
Libya 2011, 2015
Syria 2014-2016

[Drone strikes in the Philippines should be added to this list. As perhaps should be all the islands and territories destroyed by test bombings. –DS]

Blum adds these further bombings:

Iran, April 2003 – hit by US missiles during bombing of Iraq, killing at least one person

Pakistan, 2002-03 – bombed by US planes several times as part of combat against the Taliban and other opponents of the US occupation of Afghanistan

China, 1999 – its heavily bombed embassy in Belgrade is legally Chinese territory, and it appears rather certain that the bombing was no accident (see chapter 25 of Rogue State)

France, 1986 – After the French government refused the use of its air space to US warplanes headed for a bombing raid on Libya, the planes were forced to take another, longer route; when they reached Libya they bombed so close to the French embassy that the building was damaged and all communication links knocked out.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, May 13, 1985 – A bomb dropped by a police helicopter burned down an entire block, some 60 homes destroyed, 11 dead, including several small children. The police, the mayor’s office, and the FBI were all involved in this effort to evict a black organization called MOVE from the house they lived in.

If we add in other missing instances and go back to and prior to WWII the list starts to look like this:

Dominican Republic 1915 – 1935
Haiti 1915 – 1934
Logan County, West Virginia 1921
Tulsa, Oklahoma 1921
Honduras 1924, 1925
Nicaragua 1927 – 1933
Algeria, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, China, Crete, Czechoslovakia, France, Germany, Greece, Guam, Hungary, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Libya, Luxembourg, Morocco, Myanmar (Burma), Netherlands, New Guinea and the Solomon Islands, Okinawa, Philippines, Poland, Romania, Saipan, Taiwan (Formosa), Thailand, Tinian, Tunisia, Vietnam (French Indochina), Yugoslavia 1941 – 1945
Marshall Islands, Republic of Kiribati, Alaska, Nevada, Colorado, Mississippi, New Mexico nuclear testing 1945 – 1962
Korea and China 1950 – 1953
Guatemala 1954
Indonesia 1958
Cuba 1959 – 1961
Guatemala 1960
Congo 1964
Laos 1964 – 1973
Vietnam 1961 – 1973
Cambodia 1969 – 1970
Guatemala 1967 – 1969
El Salvador 1980s
Nicaragua 1980s
Grenada 1983
Lebanon 1983, 1984
Libya 1986
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1985
Iran 1987
Panama 1989
Kuwait 1991
Iraq 1991 – 2017
Somalia 1993
Bosnia 1994, 1995
Sudan 1998
Afghanistan 1998
Yugoslavia 1999
Afghanistan 2001 – 2017
Yemen 2002
Pakistan 2002 – 2003
Iran 2003
Pakistan 2007 – 2017
Somalia 2007 – 2008, 2011
Yemen 2009, 2011, 2016-2017
Libya 2011, 2015 – 2017
Philippines 2012
Syria 2014 – 2017

Then there’s Blum’s list of instances of the United States attempting to suppress a populist or nationalist movement ( indicates success):

China – 1945-49
France – 1947 *
Italy – 1947-1970s *
Greece – 1947-49 *
Philippines – 1945-53 *
Korea – 1945-53 *
Haiti – 1959 *
Laos – 1957-73
Vietnam – 1961-73
Thailand – 1965-73 *
Peru – 1965 *
Dominican Republic – 1965 *
Uruguay – 1969-72 *
South Africa – 1960s-1980s
East Timor – 1975-1999 *
Philippines – 1970s-1990s *
El Salvador – 1980-92 *
Colombia – 1990s to early 2000s *
Peru – 1997 *
Iraq – 2003 to present *
https://williamblum.org/essays/read/overthrowing-other-peoples-governments-the-master-list

 
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on June 18, 2019, 06:20:39 pm
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The Coast is Toast (Uninhabitable) when Sea-Surface-Temperatures of 35 C or 95 F: Physical Limits
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https://youtu.be/3-xAoku9mbA

Paul Beckwith

Published on Jun 16, 2019

When, and where will people start dropping like flies as wetbulb temperature (defined as temp. when relative humidity is 100%) is 35 C (95F) or higher. We know where. Outside, on coastlines of the Red Sea, Persian Gulf, etc. when Sea-Surface Temperature (SST) reaches 35 C; we’ve hit 33 C in previous years, perhaps higher in shallow water, with little upwelling, or even in small inlets or near hot rivers or lakes. Two degrees C summer SST is the difference between life and death, death within 6-8 hours. Inside apartments, in big cities due to Urban Heat-Island effects...

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on June 19, 2019, 04:16:01 pm
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June 19, 2019

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Humankind cannot continue living and economising the way it has, as the earth is reaching its limits, writes Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, head of the governing Christian Democratic Union (CDU), in a guest commentary in German weekly Die Zeit. To ensure intergenerational fairness, the costs of today’s way of life “must be paid today and become part of a sustainable model for the economy and society,” she writes.

SNIPPET 2:
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Full article:

Head of governing conservatives says environmental protection must "get the priority it deserves" (https://www.cleanenergywire.org/news/head-governing-conservatives-says-environmental-protection-must-get-priority-it-deserves)

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on June 19, 2019, 09:34:29 pm
💵 🎩 Capitalism = ☠️ Extinction?

June 19, 2019

In her Jacobin article 'Socialism or Extinction,' TRNN's climate bureau producer Dharna Noor boils down the UN's IPBES report to help us see what could lie ahead and how it is related to our economic system

https://youtu.be/a83WUEIXxcw

https://therealnews.com/stories/capitalism-extinction

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on June 20, 2019, 06:50:52 pm
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Sunny Miami, Florida 🐟 🐠 🐡 👀

June 20th, 2019 by Steve Hanley

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Retreat & Abandonment — The $400 Billion Problem Confronting US Coastal Communities (https://cleantechnica.com/2019/06/20/retreat-abandonment-the-400-billion-problem-confronting-us-coastal-communities/)

Agelbert COMMENT: Florida ocean encroachment Flooding, VERY far inland, cannot be avoided. Some may claim that will spur a bull market in houseboats. I don't think so.

Florida is not Denmark. Houseboats do not do well in hurricanes.

Also, there is that pesky (energy intensive) problem of having to desalinate water for drinking and bathing and cleaning and so on.

Then there is that other pesky problem of no floating supermarkets nearby and the even more pesky problem of all those swamp critters like alligators and snakes that have excellent access to your houseboat...

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The battle of the carnival barking real estate holders in Florida with reality is a quixotic and futile one.

However, there is a silver lining to this irrefutably dark and wet cloud; within less than 10 years there will be very few climate deniers in Florida. 😀
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: Surly1 on June 22, 2019, 07:59:28 am
The Dangerous Methane Mystery (https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/06/20/the-dangerous-methane-mystery/)


The Dangerous Methane Mystery

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The East Siberian Arctic Shelf (“ESAS”) is the epicenter of a methane-rich zone that could turn the world upside down.

Still, the ESAS is not on the radar of mainstream science, and not included in calculations by the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change), and generally not well understood. It is one of the biggest mysteries of the world’s climate puzzle, and it is highly controversial, which creates an enhanced level of uncertainty and casts shadows of doubt.

The ESAS is the most extensive continental shelf in the world, inclusive of the Laptev Sea, the East Siberian Sea, and the Russian portion of the Chukchi Sea, all-in equivalent to the combined landmasses of Germany, France, Great Britain, Italy and Japan.

The region hosts massive quantities of methane (“CH4”) in frozen subsea permafrost in extremely shallow waters, enough CH4 to transform the “global warming” cycle into a “life-ending” cycle. As absurd as it sounds, it is not inconceivable.

Ongoing research to unravel the ESAS mystery is found in very few studies, almost none, except by Natalia Shakhova (International Arctic Research Center, University of Alaska/Fairbanks) a leading authority, for example: “It has been suggested that destabilization of shelf Arctic hydrates could lead to large-scale enhancement of aqueous CH4, but this process was hypothesized to be negligible on a decadal–century time scale. Consequently, the continental shelf of the Arctic Ocean (AO) has not been considered as a possible source of CH4 to the atmosphere until very recently.” (Source: Natalia Shakhova, et al, Understanding the Permafrost–Hydrate System and Associated Methane Releases in the East Siberian Arctic Shelf, Geosciences, 2019)

Shakhova’s “until very recently” comment explains, in part, why the IPCC does not include ESAS methane destabilization in its calculations. Meanwhile, Shakhova’s research has unearthed a monster in hiding, but thankfully, mostly in repose… for the moment. Still, early-stage warning signals are clearly noticeable; ESAS is rumbling, increasingly emitting more and more CH4, possibly in anticipation of a “Big Burp,” which could put the world’s lights out, hopefully in another century, or beyond, but based upon a reading of her latest report in Geosciences, don’t count on it taking so long.

Shakhova’s research is highlighted in a recent article in Arctic News: “When Will We Die?” d/d June 10, 2019, which states: “Imagine a burst of methane erupting from the seafloor of the Arctic Ocean that would add an amount of methane to the atmosphere equal to twice the methane that is already there.”

Horror of horrors, the resulting equation is disturbing, to say the least, to wit: Twice the amount of CH4 that is already in the atmosphere equals a CO2e (carbon dioxide equivalent) of 560 ppm, assuming CH4 is 150xs the potency of CO2 in its initial years. And, adding that new number to current CH4/CO2e of 280 ppm to current CO2 levels of 415.7 ppm, according to readings at Mauna Loa, Hawaii, equals total atmospheric CO2 of 1256 ppm.

In other words, if ESAS springs a big fat leak, the Big Burp, which would only be <5% of the existing frozen methane deposit; it is possible that atmospheric CO2e would zoom up go as high as 1256 ppm.

What happens next?

A recent third-party study, also referenced in the aforementioned Arctic News article d/d June 10th, concluded that at 1200 ppm atmospheric CO2 global heating cranks up by 8°C, or 14.4°F, within a decade. (Source: Arctic News d/d June 10, 2019). Truth be known, that scenario is not problematic, it’s catastrophic and too far along to be classified as a problem. After all, problems can be fixed; catastrophes are fatal.

According to Shakhova’s research, as referenced in Geosciences/ 2019: “Releases could potentially increase by 3–5 orders of magnitude, considering the sheer amount of CH4 preserved within the shallow ESAS seabed deposits and the documented thawing rates of subsea permafrost reported recently. The purpose of this paper is to introduce the ESAS permafrost–hydrates system, which is largely unfamiliar to scientists,” Ibid. (Side note: 3 orders of magnitude is equivalent to 1,000, i.e., a large methane release.)

More from Shakhova: “Here we present results of the first comprehensive scientific re-drilling to show that subsea permafrost in the near-shore zone of the ESAS has a downward movement of the ice-bonded permafrost table of ~14 cm (6 inches) year over the past 31–32 years… However, recent studies show that in some areas very recently submerged permafrost is close to or has already reached the thaw point,” Ibid.

Shakhova’s studies are based upon marine expeditions, including drill campaigns that investigate the thermal regime, geomorphology, lithology, and geocryology of sediment cores extracted from boreholes drilled from marine vessels and not based solely upon climate models calculated on desktop computers.

In conclusion, as the world community continues to accept the reality of climate change as an existential threat, which fact is emphatically spotlighted by the likes of the Children’s Crusade, originating out of Sweden, and the Extinction Rebellion, originating out of the UK, it is important to emphasize the timing factor. Nobody knows 100% for certain how the climate crisis will turn out, but there is pretty solid evidence that the issue, meaning several ecosystems which are starting to collapse in unison, is accelerating, by a lot. So, there is not much time left to do something constructive, assuming it’s not already too late. Speaking of which, a small faction of climate scientists has already “tossed in the towel.”

After all, it’s not that hard to understand their point of view as many ecosystems have already hit tipping points, which means no turning back, no fixes possible, but still, (and, here’s the great hope) nobody really knows 100% for sure how all of this will play out.

Nevertheless, in a perfect world that really/truly “follows the science” a Worldwide All-In Coordinated Marshall Plan to do “whatever it takes” would already be in a full-blastoff mode.

But… It’s not!

Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on June 22, 2019, 04:12:08 pm
The Dangerous Methane Mystery (https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/06/20/the-dangerous-methane-mystery/)

Yep. There is a mind boggling amount of methane under the ice cap, locked and loaded to burst out from the sea floor when, NOT IF, that ice cap melts due to rising ocean water temperatures, thanks to the 🦕🦖 Hydrocarbon (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-311013200859.png&hash=a7aaaa9f04c1e3e2c948723b5f8c13fe814dacd4)Hellspawn of this world.

SNIPPET:
Imagine a burst of methane erupting from the seafloor of the Arctic Ocean that would add an amount of methane to the atmosphere equal to twice the methane that is already there. Twice the 1.867 ppm of methane is 3.734 ppm, which at 150 times the potency of carbon dioxide translates into a CO₂e of 560.1 ppm.

Adding this to the current levels of carbon dioxide and methane results in a level of 1255.85 ppm CO₂e, well exceeding the 1,200 ppm CO₂e tipping point and thus triggering the extra 8°C rise. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-150715183719.png&hash=7b222546f30a032efc31223d85eea0535ed42a49)

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Above image was created with content from a recent paper by Natalia Shakhova et al. It shows that the outlook is much more grim than many people realize.


Full June 10, 2019 article (http://arctic-news.blogspot.com/2019/06/when-will-we-die.html)

 
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on June 22, 2019, 07:37:16 pm
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Monday, 17 June 2019

Temperatures touching 51 deg C (124 deg F) a historic drought causing millions of people to abandon their homes in search of water and causing mass suicides in India

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Highs of 50.8C, making it the hottest place on the planet.

Village after village lies deserted leaving the sick and elderly to fend for themselves. The drought, which officials say is worse than the 1972 famine that affected 25 million. Droughts have led to almost 5,000 farmer suicides in the last five years, including 947 last year. About 20,000 villages in the state of Maharashtra are grappling with a severe drinking water crisis, with no water left in 35 major dams.

Hundreds of Indian villages have been evacuated as historic drought forces families to abandon their homes in search of water. The country has seen extremely high temperatures in recent weeks.

On Monday the capital, Delhi, saw its highest ever June temperature of 48C. In Rajasthan, the city of Churu recently experienced highs of 50.8C, making it the hottest place on the planet.

Further south, less than 250 miles from the country's commercial capital, Mumbai, village after village lies deserted. Estimates suggest up to 90% of the area's population has fled, leaving the sick and elderly to fend for themselves in the face of a water crisis that shows no sign of abating.

The village of Hatkarwadi, about 20 miles from Beed in Maharashtra state, is almost completely deserted. Wells and handpumps have run dry in the 45C heatwave. The drought, which officials say is worse than the 1972 famine that affected 25 million people across the state, began early in December. By the end of May, Hatkarwadi had been deserted with only 10-15 families remaining out of a population of more than 2,000. With 80% of districts in neighbouring Karnataka and 72% in Maharashtra hit by drought and crop failure, the 8 million farmers in these two states are struggling to survive.

More than 6,000 tankers supply water to villages and hamlets in Maharashtra daily, as conflict brews between the two states over common water resources. The acute water shortage has devastated villagers' agriculture-based livelihood. Crops have withered and died, leaving livestock starving and with little to drink. Major crops, including maize, soya, cotton, sweet lime, pulses, and groundnuts - drivers of the local economy - have suffered.

Around the world, stronger El Nino weather patterns and the ongoing climate breakdown are bringing harsher and more frequent droughts - and already-dry India has been particularly hard hit.

Scientists predict that as temperatures continue to rise with global heating and populations grow, the region will experience harsher water shortages - and will need to find clever solutions to ensure there is enough water for all. In Marathwada, by many estimates, the Indian region most affected by drought, increasingly frequent droughts have led to more than 4,700 farmer suicides in the last five years, including 947 last year. That crisis has deepened. In the city of Beed, clean drinking water has run out and households do not have enough water to wash clothes, clean dishes or flush the toilet.

Hospitals are filling up with people suffering from dehydration - and gastrointestinal disease from drinking contaminated water. Residents who can afford it pay private water tankers the equivalent of L3 for 1,000 litres of water. Many end up in hospital as a result - even cows refuse to drink the muddy and salty liquid that has been dredged from the bottom of exhausted dams and lakes in the region. "Over the last one-and-half months, there has been a 50% rise in the number of patients suffering from diarrhea, gastritis, etc," said Sandeep Deshmukh, a doctor at the Beed Civil hospital. He blamed contamination for the rise in water-borne diseases.

"We have appealed to the people to boil drinking water," Deshmukh said. For many of the district's population of 2.2 million, of which 240,000 live in Beed itself, their day starts by searching for water from borewells. Others have to plead with their neighbours for water.

Usha Jadhav who lives in nearby Shivajinagar said her family does not use the toilet any more as it has become an unaffordable luxury, and that women wait for the darkness of night to defecate in the open. "We cannot use 5-10 litres of water for flushing as we have to purchase water," she said.

By the end of May, 43% of India was experiencing drought, with failed monsoon rains seen as the primary reason. The country has seen widespread drought every year since 2015, with the exception of 2017.

About 20,000 villages in the state of Maharashtra are grappling with a severe drinking water crisis, with no water left in 35 major dams.

In 1,000 smaller dams, water levels are below 8%. The rivers that feed the dams have been transformed into barren, cra cked earth. Groundwater, the source of 40% of India's water needs, is depleting at an unsustainable rate, Niti Aayog, a governmental think tank, said in a 2018 report.

Twenty-one Indian cities - including Delhi, Bengaluru, Chennai, and Hyderabad - are expected to run out of groundwater by 2020, and 40% of India's population will have no access to drinking water by 2030, the report said.

This year's south-west monsoon, responsible for 80% of the country's rainfall, is projected to be delayed and smaller than normal, meaning there is no respite in sight for the parched state of Maharashtra.

http://www.thebigwobble.org/2019/06/temperatures-touching-51-deg-c-124-deg.html

 
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on June 24, 2019, 12:09:49 am
BLACK BEAR NEWS 6.23.19 We Have Five Years To Save Ourselves From Climate Change, Harvard Scientist

https://youtu.be/yyNZKflfyxY

Black Bear News

Published on Jun 23, 2019

We Have Five Years To Save Ourselves From Climate Change, Harvard Scientist Says
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffmcmahon/2018/01/15/carbon-pollution-has-shoved-the-climate-backward-at-least-12-million-years-harvard-scientist-says/#71fa95b7963e

Video: Starving polar bear wanders into Russian city of Norilsk, hundreds of miles from home
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on June 25, 2019, 02:18:09 pm
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Hazel
There's a really nice drone medical supply delivery system in Rwanda, using fixed wing drones for their much higher speed. It's been running for a couple of years with great results. Real Engineering has a really nice review of the design considerations, technology, and economics:

https://youtu.be/jEbRVNxL44c
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Related Article:

How Do You Get Medical Supplies Delivered To Remote African Communities? Two Words: Women & Drones (https://disqus.com/home/discussion/im-cleantechnica/how_do_you_get_medical_supplies_delivered_to_remote_african_communities_two_words_women_drones/#edit-4515672142)

Agelbert NOTE: As usual when when the welfare of people in Africa is defended, an alleged defender of the biosphere rants about overpopulation there killing off the fauna and flora. As usual when I spot these biosphere math challenged cretins, I weigh in with some facts:


Damien
Ok I think we got humans covered, over 9 billion of them left should be enough,., but what about all the species going extinct with no habitat and no water? To they not deserve to live? Why do we attach more value to human life? Surely this planet belongs to animals just as much as humans...

Lorenz Hansen >  Damien
Every species cares mostly about their own, a lot just about them self. Same with most humans. Otherwise we would never eat meat, have pets or milk slaves. Caring about humans isn't wrong. Saving everybody born is the best way we know to reduce birth rates, and with it population. Developed countries have a unsustainable birthrate (below 2 kids per woman). Have a look at japan. Population is already decreasing. Same will happen all over the western world. Just Asia and Africa are still growing.

Damien > Lorenz Hansen
That’s such an uneducated view, clearly you don’t understand eco systems and linkages. with that logic let’s just wipe the whole planet of all non-human species? Population is out of control, we’ve taken other species habitat, everything has consequences and it’s already hitting humans hard. No one talks about those communities’ horrible habit of having 15 kids instead of 2. Everything is connected, we destroy the eco system or kill one species it’ll destabilize everything and affect us as well.

Plus you’re talking about countries that are not the issue here. Undeveloped countries are the problem with uncontrolled populations and no jobs to give them.

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What you are ERRONEOUSLY doing is ASSUMING the SAME AGENCY (i.e. biosphere damaging ability) to each and every human that is alive. That is TYPICAL broad brush fragmentation of agency (i.e. share of responsibility for the damage) that absolves the major polluters of the massive pollution they are responsible for.    (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-200714183337.bmp&hash=fd5a6df63c32bd65dda7b6d93e788647ca3829df)

The biosphere math facts clearly state that less than 17% of the human population, MOSTLY concentrated in wealthy countries, is DOING over 80% of the damage by consuming over 80% of the resources. Only about half (or less) of the MILITARY budgets alone of the wealthy countries could pay for bio-remediating the most impacted areas, stop the exploitation and care for and educate the high population growth poor there so they become good stewards instead of biosphere destroyers.

Since, according to the U.N., the richest 20% of the world's population uses 80% of the resources, the 'Fragmentation of Agency' pie chart for the damage done to the biosphere should look like this:
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The fossil fuel industry, and almost half of the world’s 100 largest companies, want that 'Fragmentation of Agency' pie chart to look like this:
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The REAL bottom line is that less than 17% of the human population is an existential threat to the ALL of the human population AND a large part of macroscopic species in the biosphere.
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"Capitalist ideology claims that the world is perfectly ordered and everybody is in their place (i..e. everybody gets what they deserve). This self legitmating aspect of Capitalism is Socially Catastrophic. This is the Victorian view of the world." Rob Urie - Author " Zen Economics"

Damien > agelbert
What does your theory that rests on shaky grounds (assumes people in developing countries don’t have TVs, fridges, bikes, phones etc.) help resolve? So every should pollute as much as the 1%? Let’s have +15 degrees temperature increase and see what happens... how stupid and short sighted.
 
agelbert > Damien
It's not a theory. For a fellow who is quite ready to scold polite educated people like Lorenz Hansen for their "uneducated" view of pollution cause and effect, you appear amazingly uninformed.

Here is the key senence in what I wrote. Please ponder it.

Only about half (or less) of the MILITARY budgets alone of the wealthy countries could pay for bio-remediating the most impacted areas, stop the exploitation and care for and educate the high population growth poor there so they become good stewards instead of biosphere destroyers.

Damien, I agree with you that the biosphere is being destroyed by the stupidity and greed of the human species.

However, your purported solution will not work. WHY IS THAT? Well, if every high population growth country's population all disappeared within a decade from a plague (or something similar, whether accidental or intentioned), that 17% of we PLANETARY PARASITES would still be there doing 80% of the BIOSPHERE DESTRUCTION.

To believe otherwise is wishful thinking. We need to get our house in order and get OFF of hydrocarbons, stop polluting mining, energy, manufacturing, wars, pesticide use, etc. and start a massive emergency campaign to get back to 350 PPM of CO2.

If we don't, we only have "DEVELOPED" countries to blame, NOT the "underdeveloped" countries.

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on June 25, 2019, 07:25:45 pm
Methane 🚩: The Arctic's hidden climate threat : Natalia Shakhova's latest paper.
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https://youtu.be/osmzTSYRJJE

Just Have a Think

Published on Jun 23, 2019

A methane burst from the East Siberian Arctic Shelf could happen at any time and needs only a trigger. That's the conclusion of the world's leading research scientist in that region - Natalia Shakhova. On 5th June Shakhova and her team released their latest findings and conclusions in a paper published by Geosciences. This week we take a look.

Research links -

https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3263/9/6/251/htm

https://medium.com/@cecilepineda/eyewash-b

https://ourworldindata.org/search?q=co2+em
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on June 26, 2019, 06:22:16 pm
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Sunrise Sits In at DNC Headquarters, Demanding Climate Debate

June 25, 2019

The day before the first Democratic debate in Miami, dozens gathered at the DNC to demand a climate debate. They say they plan to stay until the DNC meets their demands

https://youtu.be/LfmTRWPXYo8

Story Transcript

JAISAL NOOR: Some 150 activists with the youth-led climate organization Sunrise Movement held a sit-in outside the Democratic National Committee’s headquarters on Tuesday to demand they reverse their decision not to hold a debate focused on climate change.

STEPHEN O’HANLON: We asked to go up and have a meeting with members of the DNC, and they refused. They locked the doors on us. And you know, I bet when–you can bet when the oil and gas lobbyists come here they don’t have the doors locked on them.

JAISAL NOOR: They have vowed to stay until the DNC meets their demands.

RO KHANNA: How many people plan to stay here all night? So I think the least members of Congress can do is show up and support your generation, your passion for the climate debate.

JAISAL NOOR: It was the day before the first Democratic presidential debate of 2019 in Miami, Florida. Just miles away, an Everglades brushfire is threatening thousands of acres of land.

ZINA PRECHT-RODRIGUEZ: Miami is one of the most threatened large cities in the United States for sea level rise. They out of anyone, that city is in an emergency. So this is a matter of life and death.

JAISAL NOOR: DNC Chair Tom Perez rejected the demand earlier this month in response to a letter from Democratic candidate and Washington governor Jay Inslee.

STEPHEN O’HANLON: This issue has been really left out of the political conversation for our entire lives. In 2016 only 1.5 percent of all of the questions in the Democratic primary debates referenced climate change. In the general election there wasn’t a single question about climate change. This issue has not been discussed, and the American people and voters have not gotten a chance to hear where the candidates stand and what kinds of policies will protect our generation and generations to come.

JAISAL NOOR: Perez said the DNC doesn’t do single issue debates. But Sunrise doesn’t believe that the climate crisis is a single issue.

BENJAMIN FINEGAN: This issue has a foot in racial justice and economic justice. It is a broad issue.

JAISAL NOOR: Fifteen candidates have called for a climate debate, as have more than 50 DNC members across the country. And a new poll commissioned by Data for Progress showed that 64 percent of Democratic voters also support the demand.

STEPHEN O’HANLON: It makes no sense. The DNC is not following the wishes of the party, of the presidential candidates, and of young people who it needs energize if we’re going to defeat Trump.

JAISAL NOOR: But activists say not just any climate debate will do. It must be one that fully grapples with the climate crisis.

ZINA PRECHT-RODRIGUEZ: The climate debate needs to start with the assumption in the room that climate change is real, and that’s not what we’re debating. We’re not debating the extent of damage that climate change has the potential to cause. What we’re debating is essentially about solutions.

JAISAL NOOR: Sunrise is also pushing each candidate to refuse fossil fuel contributions and to prioritize the Green New Deal, a plan to phase out fossil fuels within a decade and create millions of jobs in the process.

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https://therealnews.com/stories/sunrise-sits-in-at-dnc-headquarters-demanding-climate-debate
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: Surly1 on June 28, 2019, 01:09:51 pm
We Have Less Than a Millisecond Left- (https://www.truthdig.com/articles/we-have-less-than-a-millisecond-left/)
 None of us should be thinking or talking about anything other than climate change.


We Have Less Than a Millisecond Left

LEE CAMP
We Have Less Than a Millisecond Left
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We have less than a millisecond left.

You see, the planet we call home has existed for roughly 4.55 billion years. But numbers that large mean almost nothing to me, nor to most people, so I choose to break it down. If we lay the age of the Earth out over a calendar year, that would amount to 518,264 years per hour or 144 years per second. So if we have 10 or 11 years until the point of no return, as climate scientists have repeatedly told us, that means we have a millisecond left before midnight in which to change our society completely to avoid turning the Earth into a piping hot fajita. (If you want to be more generous and instead look at how long modern homosapiens have been walking around, it’s 315,000 years. So if you lay that over a calendar year, we have roughly 15 minutes before the stroke of midnight to combat climate change. Not sure that makes me feel much better.)

None of us should be thinking about anything other than climate change. We all kind of know it even if we think we don’t know it. Even people who deny climate change exists probably secretly know it. They’re just confusing what they want to be true with what they subconsciously know to be true. I did the same thing when I was a child and tennis legend Jimmy Connors lost in the semifinals of the 1991 U.S. Open after his monumental run at the ancient age of 39. (For an 11-year-old, 39 sounds pretty close to mummified.) I was certain Jimmy would be playing in the finals. I knew deep within my bones that Jimbo would dazzle us with diving volleys and mid-court passing shots in the championship match because how could the powers that be allow the only character America genuinely cared about to bow out before the finals? In my mind it was akin to killing off Iron Man halfway through the movie “Iron Man.”

Jimmy Connors did not show up to the finals. Climate change is the only thing we should be thinking about.

I don’t just mean there should be a report every couple hours about climate change by our bloviating bullhorns of mainstream news. I don’t mean once a day you should mention to a friend that Al Gore seems vaguely douchey but probably has a point. I mean climate change should be ALL we’re thinking about. It should be a major factor in every conversation, every job, every TV show, every humor column, every tweet, every clever T-shirt slogan and every fortune cookie message. Climate change should be everything.

Plastic action figures for kids should have one arm melted off to symbolize the effects of climate change. Your server at a nice restaurant should sprinkle sand in your soup du jour to remind you of the disappearance of fresh water. Ice cream should be exclusively served melted to symbolize rising temperatures. Hamburgers should cost $200 to compensate for the global emissions of factory farming. And every time you go ice skating someone should punch you in the face and yell, “Enjoy it while it lasts!”

We have less than a millisecond left.

Simply put, humans have no business going about our day-to-day actions as if we aren’t on the event horizon. It’s equivalent to working on your model train set while your kitchen is burning down, your spouse is in the bathroom battling an alligator that took up residence in the bathtub, and your 12-year-old daughter is in the living room having just been offered heroin for the first time. … Right now, humanity is still focused on the model train.

The International Governmental Panel on Climate Change says the point of no return is the year 2030. This obviously doesn’t mean everything spontaneously combusts at the stroke of midnight 2030 (although that would be fascinating to watch). It means that after that point—if we aren’t living vastly different lives—no effort will change the fact that the planet inevitably will become uninhabitable and we humans inevitably will go extinct and there inevitably will be no more skiing (both due to a lack of snow and due to a lack of fleshy beings to ride on skis). The year 2030 is the point of no return. It is the date of our impending, prolonged suicide.

Let’s assume the world’s greatest climate scientists are way off. Let’s assume these people who do nothing other than study climatic models using computer programs so sophisticated I wouldn’t be qualified to turn them on—let’s assume they have their swollen heads up their highly-educated asses. Let’s assume that they were so wrong that it’s not 10 years but instead 20 years until the point of no return, so the amount of time we have left is double what they thought. That still means we should be thinking about nothing other than climate change. It still means our very survival as a species, or lack thereof, will be decided in the next couple decades. It still means we have only a millisecond.

Maybe we’re right to die off. Maybe our hubris and egos the size and shape of SUVs have doomed us, and we should just give up and enjoy our final few years. But if that’s the case, I would like an announcement. I would honestly prefer a national address by some of our so-called leaders stating clearly, “Look folks, in order to continue civilized society of the human species, we would need to change everything. Every single one of us would have to labor toward a massive shift to a sustainable culture that works in harmony with nature, rather than abusing nature like it’s a servant who gave us an ugly look. We would have to focus on achieving this new society rather than spending a third of all our free time watching superhero movies. But we have no intention of doing that because it sounds kinda hard, not to mention corporate profits would suffer in the short term. So instead, we’re declaring here and now that we’ll all just keep functioning as is until such time as the oceans turn to acid, the ever-growing storms consume us, and California feels like the inside of a kiln. According to our best minds, that will be 10 to 20 years from now, so don’t worry about starting that retirement fund. Don’t buy the extended warranty on that vacuum. And whatever you do, at no point, and under no circumstances, quit smoking and drinking. …”Thank you, and good night.”

If that’s the choice we’ve decided to make, then I want an announcement along these lines. On the other hand, if we decide to do the opposite and save ourselves, someone should probably let everyone know it’s an all-hands-on-deck scenario.

Let’s make the call. We have less than a millisecond left.

Lee Camp is an American stand-up comedian, writer, actor and activist. Camp is the host of the weekly comedy news TV show “Redacted Tonight With Lee Camp” on RT America. He is a former comedy writer for the Onion and the Huffington Post and has been a touring stand-up comic for 20 years.

Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on June 28, 2019, 03:25:50 pm
We Have Less Than a Millisecond Left- (https://www.truthdig.com/articles/we-have-less-than-a-millisecond-left/)
None of us should be thinking or talking about anything other than climate change.

SNIPPET 1:
Maybe our hubris and egos the size and shape of SUVs have doomed us, and we should just give up and enjoy our final few years. But if that’s the case, I would like an announcement. I would honestly prefer a national address by some of our so-called leaders stating clearly, “Look folks, in order to continue civilized society of the human species, we would need to change everything. ...

SNIPPET 2:
... , if we decide to ... ... save ourselves, someone should probably let everyone know it’s an all-hands-on-deck scenario.

Let’s make the call. We have less than a millisecond left.


Yep, we are basically out of time. I will not hold my breath waiting for any politician(s) to tell the truth, simply because said polititian(s) would have to include in their "State of the Biosphere" Speech a laundry list of proposed punitive measures on those most responsible for doing the polluting. If they did that, they would be deposed or dead within a week or so.

The article is basically preaching to the choir. We-the-choir know the score.

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"The fossil fuel industry swallows up $5.3 trillion a year worldwide in hidden costs to keep burning fossil fuels, according to the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
 
This money, the IMF noted, is in addition to the $492 billion in direct subsidies offered by governments around the world through write-offs and write-downs and land-use loopholes.

In a sane world these subsidies would be invested to free us from the deadly effects of carbon emissions caused by fossil fuels, but we do not live in a sane world. "  -- Chris Hedges

The elite mega-rich ones doing the lion's share of the damage understand perfectly well how their profit over people and planet practices are destroying most of the habitat for mammalian vertebrate species on planet Earth.

They do not care.

They mistakenly believe that they will benefit from the massive depopulation ☠️ of our species. They firmly believe (even more mistakenly), that with their seed banks and animal DNA science, they can repopulate the Earth with the species that go extinct during this Sixth Mass Extinction.

They are deluded by their boundless ambition and greed. It is these planet killers that are guilty of hubris, not the rest of us. We may be guilty of hope (if said hope is false hope), but that is not hubris.

We may perish as a species, but it will be from the hubris of the profit over people and planet, selfish elite leadership, not because of the carbon footprint of the masses.
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on June 28, 2019, 05:42:34 pm
Agelbert NOTE: Hat tip to Surly ✨ for alerting me to this and other pertinent news: (http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/general-discussion/doomstead-diner-daily/msg12747/?topicseen#new)

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Europe heatwave 😓: record high of 45C 🌡️ expected in France

Temperature records expected to be broken as minister warns heatwaves could become norm


Full article:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jun/25/highs-of-45c-expected-in-france-as-heatwave-scorches-europe


Extreme heat 🚩triggers huge Spain 🔥 wildfire

SNIPPET:

Hundreds of firefighters are battling wildfires in Spain's Catalonia region, as temperatures soared to 40C (104F) and above across parts of Europe.

Officials say the fires are the worst in the region for 20 years and may spread rapidly.

Much of Europe is experiencing extreme heat. Germany, France, Poland and the Czech Republic have all recorded their highest ever June temperatures.

Meteorologists say hot air drawn in from northern Africa is responsible.

Full article:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-48790242

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on June 29, 2019, 07:04:08 pm
The situation just gets worse, not better. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F1%2F3-120818180835-16271224.gif&hash=c2a9bfbff23e2414975829eb4b3655af12eb02cc)

China just came up with the following planet killing 🦖 VLCC MONSTROCITY, named (in typical hydrocarbon hellspawn Orwellian fashion),  "New Journey".

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June 28, 2019 by Mike Schuler

China Delivers First ‘Smart’ VLCC (https://gcaptain.com/china-delivers-first-smart-vlcc/)

https://youtu.be/V5VQi3w-1do

This isn't a new journey; it's a continuation of TPTB's hydrocarbon worshipping JOURNEY TO CLIMATE HELL!

Listen to the Creedence Clearwater Revival Sing a Prophecy Now Coming True Near me and YOU:

https://youtu.be/w6iRNVwslM4

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on June 29, 2019, 07:30:00 pm
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Climate Change Has Come

Posted on June 26, 2019, by Radio Ecoshock
 
This is it. Ice melt in the Himalayas has doubled just since the year 2000. We get the latest from Dr. Summer Rupper. While Europe swelters in unnatural heat, in the Arctic Greenland is melting a stunning 80% over previous estimates. It is all part of the biggest single impact of climate change on civilization: rising seas. Oceanographer and rising seas expert John Englander will be our feature interview.

Listen to or download this Radio Ecoshock show (https://www.ecoshock.org/2019/06/climate-change-has-come.html) in CD Quality (57 MB) or Lo-Fi (14 MB)

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on July 02, 2019, 04:52:10 pm
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An enormous waterfall gushes off the Nansen Ice Shelf. Credit: Jonathan Kingslake

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Sea ice in Antarctica is experiencing a rapid and puzzling decline after years of gradual growth, scientists say. A NASA study of satellite data shows that ice levels hit a record low just three years after hitting a record high in 2014, bringing the amount of ice lost in Antarctica in this period equivalent to the amount of ice the Arctic has lost over 34 years.

Global weather patterns have formerly encouraged gradual sea ice growth on the continent, and some researchers worry that the mysterious ice decrease could mean overall warming has caught up with the South Pole. "The rapid decline has caught us by surprise and changes the picture completely," scientist Andrew Shepherd told the Guardian. "Now sea ice is retreating in both hemispheres and that presents a challenge because it could mean further warming."

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Bad news on locked-in fossil fuel infrastructure, a down day for coal, & more (https://mailchi.mp/a81c5b8642e9/bad-news-on-locked-in-fossil-fuel-infrastructure-a-down-day-for-coal-more?e=0fd17c5b57)
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on July 02, 2019, 08:37:30 pm
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Bob Henson  ·  July 2, 2019, 12:21 PM EDT (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-130418200416.png&hash=15d789b29124aa5a1f1ea397ce630913734b20a4)

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Above: Enhanced infrared image of Hurricane Barbara at 1430Z (10:30 am EDT) Monday, July 2, 2019. Image credit: CIMSS/SSEC/UW-Madison.

Barbara Leaps to Category 4 Strength in Eastern Pacific (https://www.wunderground.com/cat6/Barbara-Leaps-Category-4-Strength-Eastern-Pacific?cm_ven=cat6-widget)

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on July 06, 2019, 12:21:54 am
BLACK BEAR NEWS 7.4.19 Fourth of July fireworks canceled as Anchorage looks to hit 90 degrees
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https://youtu.be/_-QQ4uEuGv0

Black Bear News
Published on Jul 4, 2019

Fourth of July fireworks canceled as Anchorage looks to hit 90 degrees for the first time
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/fourth-of-july-fireworks-canceled-as-anchorage-looks-to-hit-90-degrees-for-the-first-time

Hurricane Barbara continues to roar in Eastern Pacific, peaked close to Category 5 strength
https://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/tropical-storm-barbara-forms-does-the-brewing-hurricane-pose-any-dangers-to-hawaii/70008693.

Freak hailstorm dumps up to 6 feet of ice on Guadalajara, Mexico
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mexico-hail-storm-up-to-6-feet-of-ice-dropped-guadalajara-north-mexico-city-in-summertime-freak-hail-storm-sunday/

Heavy rains in Japan force more than a million residents to evacuate
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-48850111.

It’s so hot in Spain that manure self-ignited, sparking a 10,000-acre wildfire
https://q13fox.com/2019/06/27/its-so-hot-in-spain-that-manure-self-ignited-sparking-a-10000-acre-wildfire/.

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on July 06, 2019, 03:13:16 pm
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July 6, 2019 by Reuters

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Teekay’s M/V Eduard Toll is the fourth of 15 Arctic LNG carriers being built for the Yamal LNG project and Teekay’s first of six LNG Carrier Newbuildings. Photo via Teekay

by Sabina Zawadzki (Reuters) – A liquefied natural gas (LNG) tanker carrying a cargo from the Yamal LNG plant has spent this week making its way through Arctic waters north of Russia towards Asia, marking the first voyage of the 2019 summer season across the Northern Sea Route. The Vladimir Rusanov, an Arc7-classed LNG tanker that can plough through semi-cleared waters, left the Sabetta port on June 29 and is in the Chukchi Sea close to the Bering Strait.

Read full 🦕☠️🦖 story (https://gcaptain.com/arctic-sea-route-yamal-lng/)

https://youtu.be/w6iRNVwslM4
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on July 07, 2019, 12:10:41 am
Jul 05, 2019 | 1,664 views | by Black Bear News

https://youtu.be/MC38aZSHA1s

It's official: The DNC is considering a climate debate https://www.livescience.tech/2019/07/02/its-official-the-dnc-is-considering-a-climate-debate/ Burned ...
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on July 07, 2019, 04:29:56 pm
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July 7th, 2019 by The Beam

By Michelle Soto for LatinClima  —  Read the original article in Spanish.

SNIPPET 1:

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Central American tapirs (Tapirus bairdii)

We do not have elephants in the Neotropics, but we do have tapirs. Weighing 300 kilograms, tapirs are the largest mammals found between central Mexico to northern Colombia and Equator.

The Central American tapir (Tapirus bairdii) is capable of eating up to 30 daily kilograms of tree bark, seeds, and foliage. In fact, tapirs are quite crude when it comes to feeding and can even swallow whole seeds, up to six centimeters in size.

This peculiarity found in tapirs, becomes more significant when linking it to maintaining the rainforests. Tapirs are thought of as landscape architects and even engineers, as a result of their contributions (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-080515182559.png&hash=d4dfa952fa0f817bf30a8059a4c88d6fb05ee1bf)to the ecosystem. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F1%2F3-111018132400-1685431.gif&hash=770de9d7a4fd6b31ea7d9b45e544cc00777d8029) 


SNIPPET 2:

Tapir populations are quickly declining. According to the Tapir Specialist Group, there has been a 50% decrease in population during the last forty years, which coincides with the destruction of 70% of their habitat.

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Costa Rica: The Paris Agreement Is Unviable Without Tapirs (https://cleantechnica.com/2019/07/07/costa-rica-the-paris-agreement-is-unviable-without-tapirs/)
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on July 07, 2019, 05:59:37 pm
Agelbert NOTE: The following is a screenshot from the video posted here. Nikita Zimov is absolutely right. Forget what is going to happen by 2100, as the beginning of the video mentions with some overly conservative graphics. ALL the severe consequences of Catastrophic 🚩 ☠️  Climate Change predicted for 2100 will be here within, at most, a decade.

I learned her of the 120 day "Farmed Soil Rule". That is, if land that is farmed does not remain moist from rain or water table source for at least 120 consevutive days per year, the soil will dry out and no crops will grow there. If the soil was used for grazing instead of crops, the ruminants will all die.

Prolonged inland dry spells, devastating formerly arable and grazing land areas of the world, are just one of the the habitat destroying effects of Catastrophic Climate Change, now increasing in duration and frequency.
Towards the end of the video they display expected desperate human migration patterns. Take a look at them to see exactly where the (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-130418203402.gif&hash=b2691028ba683a0039a5811f5775c68d7ccae01c) Fascist governments cursing human civilization will send troops to engage in ruthless genocide. You can bet your bottom dollar that said murderous brutality will be "justified" by those evil Orwellian bastards among us who believe Caring Capacity is a function of Carrying Capacity. Those are the "situational" ethics types who discard any semblance of humane behavior when they think their profit over people and planet "way of life" is threatened.

Unless the Fascist Hydrocarbon Hellspawn are stopped, what happens after 2029 will be much worse (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F2%2F3-231218145827.png&hash=8d3bbb761cf17fcddac83f24088d26e316b65e33) than the climate refugee migrations predicted in this video. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F1%2F3-120818180836-16292310.gif&hash=65d34088a49b58007544c1988ff312eee541bee9)

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Fleeing climate change - the real environmental disaster | DW Documentary
179,611 views

https://youtu.be/cl4Uv9_7KJE

DW Documentary
Published on May 1, 2019

How many millions of people will be forced to leave their homes by 2050? This documentary looks at the so-called hotspots of climate change in the Sahel zone, Indonesia and the Russian Tundra.

Lake Chad in the Sahel zone has already shrunk by 90 percent since the 1960s due to the increasing heat. About 40 million people will be forced to migrate to places where there is enough rainfall. Migration has always existed as a strategy to adapt to a changing environment. But the number of those forced to migrate solely because of climate change has increased dramatically since the 1990s.

It is a double injustice: after becoming rich at the expense of the rest of the world, the (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-130418193910.gif&hash=633dd399cd6006279afd7efb5ef953673b96bd78) industrialized countries are now   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F2%2F3-200419205214.png&hash=4c5b9ca97c84607da003becdf6282716bcdf1800) polluting the atmosphere with their emissions and bringing a second misfortune to the inhabitants (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-040718162656-14241872.gif&hash=6c39a3206e2b2a3d652adee626b5eee8ab5b15bf) of the poorer regions. One of them is Mohammed Ibrahim: as Lake Chad got hotter and drier, he decided to go where the temperatures were less extreme and there was still a little water, trekking with his wife, children and 70 camels from Niger to Chad and then further south. The journey lasted several years and many members of his herd died of thirst. Now he and his family are living in a refugee camp: they only have seven camels left. Mohammed is one of many who have left their homelands in the Sahel - not because of conflict and crises, but because of the high temperatures. He's a real climate refugee.
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The 🦕🦖 Hydrocarbon 👹 Hellspawn Fossil Fuelers DID THE Clean Energy  Inventions suppressing, Climate Trashing, human health depleting CRIME, but since they have ALWAYS BEEN liars and conscience free crooks 🦀, they are trying to AVOID   DOING THE TIME or   PAYING THE FINE! Don't let them get away with it! Pass it on!   
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on July 08, 2019, 04:22:56 pm
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July 8th, 2019 by Joshua S Hill

SNIPPET:
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Image courtesy Medact

“The Royal College of Emergency Medicine is proud to mark London Divestment Day by joining the institutions taking action against climate change by divesting of its holdings in fossil fuel companies,” said Gordon Miles, Chief Executive of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine. “We call on all asset owners to consider carefully selling their fossil fuel shares and including sustainable companies or indexes into their long-term investment strategies.

Full article:

 
British Royal Institutions Announce Fossil Fuel Divestment (https://cleantechnica.com/2019/07/08/british-royal-institutions-announce-fossil-fuel-divestment/)

Agelbert COMMENT: 👍 Better late than never. Now if they would just go from divestment to support for punitive action against polluting industries, that would be solid progress.




Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on July 08, 2019, 09:48:38 pm
Game of RISK in Real Life: Abrupt Climate Casino Disruption
7,844 views

https://youtu.be/wYY0o9XhkAM
https://youtu.be/vdkp6hNFdOA

Paul Beckwith
Published on Jul 7, 2019

Going to Hades in a Handbasket?? No wall could stop Mexican Hail, over 3 feet deep clogging streets of Guadalajara. European Heatwave broke; new report details climate change root cause. Massive flooding inundated far northern Irkutsk (remember this “Game of Risk” country!); unprecedented numbers/sizes of wildfires scorched many places within Arctic Circle; Baked Alaska had record heatwave; species at risk are migrating; seaweed blooms 5,000 miles long appeared, running from west Africa all the way to Mexico. Eco-anxiety is a public crisis; nice to have company. Mussels cooked in their shells. Sea ice collapsing; I am fighting off shingles. Please, no sympathy but donations at http://paulbeckwith.net are gratefully encouraged. Live long and prosper:)!!

Category Science & Technology

Tiny Blip in Jet Stream Submerges 💧💧💧 Large Parts of Washington, DC
3,618 views

https://youtu.be/iks8i0k-YEU

Paul Beckwith
Published on Jul 8, 2019

Only a few days ago, America celebrated its July 4th Independence Day, and the government whipped out tanks for Washington, DC festivities. I hope the military hardware was moved, or it may have been submerged today by raging torrents of water from flash floods due to over a months rainfall dropping in a few hours. Perhaps next party, more appropriate military equipment will be amphibians, or boats; heck, maybe even submarines!!

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Category Science & Technology
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on July 09, 2019, 02:29:38 pm
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July 9, 2019

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Deforestation in the Congo Basin Threatens Africa’s Food and Water Security

What happens in the Congo Basin doesn’t stay in the Congo Basin. Research shows that deforestation in world’s second-largest rainforest affects weather patterns throughout Africa. Read more (https://www.wri.org/blog/2019/07/congo-basin-deforestation-threatens-food-and-water-supplies-throughout-africa).

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A livestock market in Kenya, where herders are turning to climate-resilient camels over cattle. Photo by Kandukuru Nagarjun/Flickr.

Kenyan Herders Switch from Cows to Camels, Thanks to Climate Change

Kenya’s Boran and Gabra people have been raising cattle for generations. Rising temperatures and unpredictable rainfall are changing their time-honored tradition.

Camels require less water, eat a wider variety of vegetation and produce up to six times more milk than indigenous cattle species. In the 1990s, livestock markets expanded in the area, and by the mid-2000s, the region had demand and a good price for camels and camel milk. From 1999 to 2009, the camel population in Kenya rose from 800,000 to 3 million. Read more (https://www.wri.org/blog/2019/07/kenyan-herders-are-switching-cattle-camels-adapt-climate-change).

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🔊 PODCAST 👍: How Chennai’s Water Got to Day Zero

Raj Bhagat Palanichamy explains how a flood-prone city almost ran out of water—and why Chennai’s troubles should concern all of India. Read more (https://www.wri.org/blog/2019/07/podcast-how-chennais-water-got-day-zero).
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on July 09, 2019, 04:09:25 pm
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BOOKS: From Greta Thunberg to Sally Morgan: 10 books to help kids come to grips with climate crisis (The Guardian) (https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/jul/09/from-greta-thunberg-to-sally-morgan-10-books-to-help-kids-come-to-grips-with-climate-crisis)

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on July 09, 2019, 08:24:18 pm
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David Wallace-Wells, "The Uninhabitable Earth"
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https://youtu.be/N82_b_n4HCQ

Politics and Prose
Published on Mar 19, 2019
David Wallace-Wells discusses his book, "The Uninhabitable Earth", at Politics and Prose on 3/12/19.

Expanding on his July 2017 New York magazine article—called “the Silent Spring of our time” and the most-read piece in the magazine’s history—Wallace-Wells’s new book is an unsparing look at the realities of climate change and the consequences of our continuing failure to face them.

Pointing to the increase in storms of unprecedented magnitude, the now year-round wildfires, and the rising oceans, Wallace-Wells argues that climate change is well under way, and that its impact will be more severe than even our worst-case scenarios indicate.

Writing with passion and urgency, Wallace-Wells, a national fellow at the New America foundation and a columnist and deputy editor at New York, goes beyond the science of climate change to show that it’s an existential crisis so severe that it will reshape every aspect of human life.

https://www.politics-prose.com/book/9...

David Wallace-Wells is a national fellow at the New America foundation and a columnist and deputy editor at New York magazine. He was previously the deputy editor of The Paris Review. He lives in New York City.

Founded by Carla Cohen and Barbara Meade in 1984, Politics and Prose Bookstore is Washington, D.C.'s premier independent bookstore and cultural hub, a gathering place for people interested in reading and discussing books. Politics and Prose offers superior service, unusual book choices, and a haven for book lovers in the store and online. Visit them on the web at http://www.politics-prose.com/

Produced by Tom Warren

Category News & Politics

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on July 10, 2019, 05:37:05 pm
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MONDAY, JULY 8, 2019

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Fires 🔥🔥🔥 are raging over Alaska. The satellite image below shows the situation on July 8, 2019.

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As the image below shows, carbon monoxide levels were as high as 43,443 ppb over Alaska on July 8, 2019.

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As the image below shows, carbon dioxide levels were as high as 561 ppm over that same spot in Alaska on July 8, 2019.

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The situation looks set to further deteriorate as high temperatures 🌡️ 😓 are forecast for Alaska. The image below shows a forecast for July 10, 2019, of temperatures as high as 35.5°C or 95.8°F.

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What drives up temperatures?

The image below shows very high sea surface temperature anomalies around Alaska on July 8, 2019.

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Furthermore, changes to the jet stream are caused by the rapid heating of the Arctic. As the Arctic heats up faster than the rest of the world, the jet stream becomes more wavy.

These high temperatures in Alaska are also warming up the water of rivers, causing warm water to flow into the seas around Alaska. Furthermore, fires are causing soot to be deposited on mountains and sea ice, further speeding up the demise of the snow and ice cover in the Arctic. The image below shows a deformed jet stream (forecast for July 9, 2019).

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The situation is dire and calls for comprehensive and effective action, as described in the Climate Plan (https://arctic-news.blogspot.com/p/climateplan.html).

Links

► Extreme weather
https://arctic-news.blogspot.com/p/extreme-weather.html

► Feedbacks in the Arctic
https://arctic-news.blogspot.com/p/feedbacks.html

► Climate Plan
https://arctic-news.blogspot.com/p/climateplan.html


http://arctic-news.blogspot.com/2019/07/alaska-on-fire.html

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on July 11, 2019, 12:44:49 pm
Agelbert NOTE: THe Mississippi water level you sea below on the Carrollton Gage is about 4 FEET ABOVE where it normally is when a Hurricane hits New Orleans. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F1%2F3-120818180835-16181943.gif&hash=0b93e71ee5e24bbe02555e0d648a1283e0e9651d) You see, hurricanes normally hit later in the year (late August to September) when the Mississippi is not flooding. When river flooding meets a hurricane or tropical storm, as it is about to do NOW (thanks to Catastrophic Climate Change), the levees may breach and, once again, New Orleans will flood massively.

The (https://images.dailykos.com/images/604450/story_image/NO45-1024x1024.jpg?1540657700) Army so-called "Corps of Engineers" (a military + corporate = fascist organization from the word go) will NEVER properly address Catastrophic Climate Change. Don't count on their multi-billion dollar "anti-flood" infrastructure boondoggles (that we-the-people, instead of the 🦖 Hydrocarbon Hellspawn polluters causing this climate mayhem, are ALWAYS forced to pay for) to stop the destruction. They just see  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fs3.amazonaws.com%2Frapgenius%2F1375371542_tumblr_m7jevgcaFm1qzqdem.gif&hash=1a2fe8d9567770e89661ad82a4e03b115e0f5358) "business (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-130418193910.gif&hash=633dd399cd6006279afd7efb5ef953673b96bd78)opportunities" (http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/hydrocarbon-industry-skullduggery/hydrocarbon-crooks-evil-actions/msg12839/#msg12839) in climate disasters.

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New Orleans’ Achilles Heel: A Hurricane Storm Surge During a Mississippi River Flood?

Dr. Jeff Masters  ·  July 10, 2019, 5:28 PM EDT

SNIPPET:

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Figure 5. Water level at the Carrollton gage on the Mississippi River at New Orleans during the passage of Hurricane Isaac in August 2012. Prior to Isaac's arrival the river was running just two feet above its record low. Isaac drove a storm surge of ten feet to New Orleans. Levees on the Mississippi protect New Orleans to a stage height of 20 feet above sea level, so Isaac's storm surge was nine feet below the tops of the levees. Image credit: NOAA Tides and Currents.

Armoring the levees

I've been reviewing the vulnerability of New Orleans in the wake of the $14.6 billion upgrade to the levee system since Katrina. One interesting feature is the "armoring" of the levees that has occurred--fabric mats that grass can grow through have been installed along the inside of key stretches of the levee system, which should greatly reduce or eliminate the chances of overtopping causing a levee breach. The Army Corps states that the armoring will mean that the city will just flood to a depth of 5' in an overtopping situation, greatly reducing damages. That’s much lower than the 15 to 20 feet of inundation in the lowest locations in the New Orleans from the multiple levee breaches and floodwall failures that occurred during Hurricane Katrina.

Unfortunately, this armoring project is not yet complete, and the inside portions of the levees along the Mississippi River protecting New Orleans have not received armoring. This means that if the storm surge from a hurricane moves up the Mississippi River and overtops the levees, there is the potential that water flowing over them could scour their base and undermine the structure, causing a breach--a serious situation that could lead to life-threatening inundations like Hurricane Katrina wrought.

Full article:

https://www.wunderground.com/cat6/New-Orleans-Achilles-Heel-Hurricane-Storm-Surge-During-Mississippi-River-Flood

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on July 11, 2019, 02:39:32 pm
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Melt season shifts into high gear

July 2, 2019

After a period of slow ice loss in the middle of June, Arctic sea ice loss ramped up, and extent at the end of the month fell below 2012, the year which ended up with the lowest September ice extent in the satellite record. A pattern of atmospheric circulation favored ice loss this June, which was also characterized by above average temperatures over most of the Arctic Ocean, and especially in the Laptev and East Siberian Seas.

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Learn more:

http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/2019/07/melt-season-shifts-into-high-gear/
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on July 11, 2019, 03:02:16 pm
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A record melt event in mid-June

July 1, 2019

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Between June 11 and 20, an extensive area of the Greenland ice sheet surface melted. At its peak on June 12, thawing climbed from the western and eastern coasts to elevations above 3,000 meters (9,800 feet). High air pressure and clockwise circulation around the island brought warm air from the south and sunny conditions. While several recent years have had similar early widespread melt events, the event of June 11 to 20 reached a peak of just over 700,000 square kilometers (270,000 square miles), setting a record for this early in the melt season. Models estimate the amount of melted ice at approximately 80 billion tons for that period. 👀


Rapid drop in albedo along the western flank
The recent extensive melt event exacerbated early melting in the ablation area, where bare ice becomes exposed by early warming. The bottom photograph shows dark exposed ice, melt ponds, and residual winter snow on June 12 near the upper edge of the bare ice region on the Greenland ice sheet.
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Learn more:

http://nsidc.org/greenland-today/2019/07/a-record-melt-event-in-mid-june/
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on July 11, 2019, 04:25:06 pm
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Visualizing A 2º C Increase In Temperature In Major World Cities & Melting Of Thwaites Glacier In Antarctica. If This Is A Hoax ;), It’s A Damn Good One. (https://cleantechnica.com/2019/07/11/visualizing-a-2o-c-increase-in-temperature-in-major-world-cities-melting-of-thwaites-glacier-in-antarctica-if-this-is-a-hoax-its-a-damn-good-one/)

Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on July 11, 2019, 04:35:03 pm
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on July 11, 2019, 04:50:26 pm
I just watched this short video. It's a great video (years ago I watched the excellent video this is a sequel of) and I recommend you view it and pass it on to others. It brought tears to my eyes because, though everything the people in this Sci-Fi Story did is so obviously necessary to preserve a viable biosphere, so logical, so reasonable, so possible, so realistic, so right and so beautiful, I have lost all hope that our God rejecting, self-worshipping, narcissistic, profit over people and planet dominated society will do that.

May God help us because TPTB never will. I will continue to do all I can to keep my carbon footprint tiny until I take my last breath. It's the right thing to do, even if it's a quixotic, insignificant drop in the bucket compared with the 24/7 worldwide 'business as usual' biosphere destroying pollution assault. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F2%2F3-310119164317.gif&hash=870c66e6ad21133a740ba1583280577f05ccb4ac)

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The Age of Stupid (10th Anniversary Mini-Sequel)
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https://youtu.be/DcluMvn8ZAI

UPFSI

Published on Jul 3, 2019

"Why didn't we save ourselves when we had the chance?" is The Archivist's question.  He is one of the last few humans alive the a post-climate change,
devastated world of 2055

And this is the direction we are headed folks.

If you did not see The Age of Stupid when it came out (2010) then you are really missing the best movie on climate change we've seen. It's available on YouTube at no cost, and on several other movie streaming platforms.  See it.  This tongue-in-cheek 'mini-sequel' will make much more sense.  Granted that this one is shorter.  So if you watch it first, perhaps it will whet your appetite for the 'real deal' (which was more 'kick in the pants' than 'tongue in cheek').

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A quick, low-res copy is here...

https://youtu.be/IsWwigSxZq4

But I'd strongly recommend you pay the nominal amount to view it on one of the video services.  I don't think the investors ever even got their money back on this gem.

Category Education

https://www.youtube.com/c/UPFSI

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on July 12, 2019, 12:08:05 pm
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...HURRICANE HUNTERS REPORT BARRY IS STRENGTHENING... ...DANGEROUS STORM SURGE, HEAVY RAINS, AND WIND CONDITIONS EXPECTED ACROSS THE NORTH-CENTRAL GULF COAST..

(https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/storm_graphics/AT02/refresh/AL022019_5day_cone_no_line_and_wind+png/144954_5day_cone_no_line_and_wind.png)
https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/refresh/graphics_at2+shtml/144954.shtml?cone#contents

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Agelbert NOTE: Check out the Latest Satellite Imagery (https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/satellite.php), which can be set up to a 96 hour loop. The IR and Water Vapor loops are particularly informative in regard to Storm Barry, which show it growing like gangbusters! 👀

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on July 12, 2019, 04:06:10 pm
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"Arctic in Free Fall" As Sea Ice Extent Reaches New Record Low for July

https://youtu.be/MNBJ5msHBeE

Collapse Chronicles

Published on Jul 12, 2019

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on July 12, 2019, 04:15:41 pm
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The Uninhabitable ☠️ Earth - Narrated 🕵️
10,031 views

https://youtu.be/HunlJesQuak

The Poetry of Predicament

Published on Aug 25, 2018

This Audm.com production is an audio version of David Wallace-Wells' 2017 article in New York Magazine.
This article broke important new ground in the uphill battle to educate the public on the true state of affairs with our Earth.

http://www.LivingResilience.net

Category People & Blogs

Agelbert NOTE: There is NO ESCAPING THIS, no matter how rich you are:
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on July 12, 2019, 09:33:28 pm
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How 2030 is the new 2100: Global Food Yields Already Dropping from Abrupt Climate Change
3,048 views

https://youtu.be/SModhHUpcj0

Paul Beckwith
Published on Jul 12, 2019

2030 is the new 2100. Climate change is ALREADY reducing global food yields TODAY, with an average 1% annual reduction in the worlds top ten global crops, providing 83% of food calories to humanity: top ten food crops: barley, cassava, maize (corn), oil palm, rapeseed (canola), rice, sorghum, soybean, sugarcane, wheat. Most reduced: oil palm (-13.4%); increased: soybeans (+3.5%). Negatively affected regions are Europe, South Africa, and Australia; +ve is Latin America; mixed is Asia, North and Central America. Growing season temperatures over all harvested areas is up 0.5 to 1.2 C since the early 1970s.

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Category Science & Technology
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on July 13, 2019, 12:17:08 pm
...BARRY BECOMES A HURRICANE AS IT IS MOVING ONTO THE LOUISIANA COAST... ...DANGEROUS STORM SURGE, HEAVY RAINS, AND WIND CONDITIONS OCCURRING ACROSS THE NORTH-CENTRAL GULF COAST...

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https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/refresh/graphics_at2+shtml/145608.shtml?cone#contents

Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
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2100 Projections (https://www.co2.earth/2100-projections)

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Blue Man Group: Sending Out a Message
https://youtu.be/QM-mfEMssy8

Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on July 15, 2019, 10:41:43 pm
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A World Without Ice
8,939 views

https://youtu.be/uiV-46FUOeI

The Real News Network

Published on Jul 8, 2019

Dahr Jamail on his book "The End Of Ice" and the significance of the many studies showing glaciers and sea ice around the world are melting at an unprecedented speed.

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on July 16, 2019, 07:59:54 pm
 
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Deadly ☠️ flooding hits Asia, the toxic ☠️ aftermath of disasters, & more (https://mailchi.mp/f65588a90319/deadly-flooding-hits-asia-the-toxic-aftermath-of-disasters-more?e=0fd17c5b57)
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
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Climate change is making California burn 🔥, Georgia makes big moves on solar, & more (https://mailchi.mp/ce1318038af9/climate-change-is-making-california-burn-georgia-makes-big-moves-on-solar-more)
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on July 17, 2019, 06:11:42 pm
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June 26, 2019

SNIPPET:

Why does the 🦕🦖🐍 Fox News crowd hate the Green New Deal?

It’s a head scratcher. Imagine you said, “Hey, we’ve got a plan to create hundreds of thousands of jobs. And many of them will be in poorer and rural areas struggling to find a direction in the twenty-first century. Oh, and it’ll mean healthier communities for families across the country. Plus, it’ll help solve the climate crisis.”

You’d think the same voices that claim to be speaking up for working families and rural communities would be all for it, right?

But instead, we keep hearing all kinds of cynical criticism of the Green New Deal. Much of it predicated on outright denial of the climate crisis – or at least the scale of the threat, even after the role it played in flooding farms across the US Midwest earlier this year.

It’ll be too expensive. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2F1.bp.blogspot.com%2F-TzWpwHzCvCI%2FT_sBEnhCCpI%2FAAAAAAAAME8%2FIsLpuU8HYxc%2Fs1600%2Fnooo-way-smiley.gif&hash=b8545bd420b1e2f2c7b9f665d2093523e4ad2251) (Compared to unmitigated climate change? Get out of here.)

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Why not make a just transition to clean energy and put hundreds of thousands of Americans to work along the way? Why not give fossil fuel workers in dying industries new careers with a future? Why not tackle the existential threat staring us right in the face while we still have time?

Full article:

 
THE GREEN NEW DEAL COULD CREATE LOTS OF GREAT JOBS – SO WHY ALL THE HATE? (https://www.climaterealityproject.org/blog/green-new-deal-could-create-lots-great-jobs-so-why-all-hate?)

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on July 21, 2019, 04:20:37 pm
Global Growth in Air Conditioning Demand is Warming the World: 1 of 2
763 views

https://youtu.be/ERsDPQV6m_c

Paul Beckwith
Published on Jul 21, 2019

Heatwaves around the planet are happening much more often, at much higher temperatures and humidities, with much longer durations, and they are occurring in regions that did not have them before. Thus, demand for air conditioning is skyrocketing. Globally, the 1.6 billion AC units in 2018 are projected to grow to 5.6 billion units by 2050, and by 2050 they will use as much electricity as China does today for all activities. Greenhouse gas emissions from electricity generation to power these ACs will nearly double, and waste heat from ACs that is vented outside can heat cities by a few degrees.

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Category Science & Technology
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on July 21, 2019, 05:16:53 pm
#ShowYourStripes

July 21, 2019 temperature, visualisation Ed Hawkins

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: Surly1 on July 25, 2019, 10:57:04 am
Europe is burning just as new research offers a chilling truth about the volatility of climate change (https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/europe-heatwave-climate-change-europe-global-warming-science-a9018426.html)
Cooler years mask the underlying behaviour of the system. As natural variations move in the other direction, they can unleash a period of supercharged heating


It’s not the fall that will kill you, but the suddenness of the stopping. Just as it is with a plane crash, so it is with global heating. Changes in the climate don’t in themselves represent a significant risk – the Earth’s climate has been changing for billions of years after all – but it is the abrupt changes that could spell disaster for us. 

New research suggests that climate models which predict greater global warming in the future also have more volatile warming trends. If that is the case, and the climate is as sensitive to our carbon dioxide emissions as many of the latest models suggest, this will seriously threaten our ability to adapt. And it is that which will put a significant fraction of humanity in jeopardy.  

Many scientists focus on how much warmer the Earth’s climate will become because of the extra carbon dioxide humans have put into the atmosphere. The technical term for this is Equilibrium Climate Sensitivity(ECS). Equilibrium because it takes years, decades or centuries for the climate system to respond to extra heating.

Think how much energy it takes to heat a bathtub full of water and how long it can stay warm for. The amount of energy required to heat the trillions of litres of the Earth’s oceans is enormous. 

Consider that bath of water again. Imagine the tap is dripping because it’s not entirely closed, so the water level in the bath is increasing, but only very slowly. Trying to track changes in water level just by eye would be as difficult as seeing the march of time in the hour hand of a watch. Now picture someone is in the bath. Unless the person stays absolutely still, they will have an impact on the water level as their movements will make waves. Depending on how much they move, these waves can be plain to see and would easily mask the very slow water level increase. 

ECS tells us where the climate system will end up – what the final water level will be. But it may not tell us a great deal about how we will get there. Will we have a smooth increase or a much bumpier ride? How much will the climate fluctuate as it responds to being heated up? How big will the “waves” in temperatures be? These are the answers that this recent research has addressed and why on reading it my first response was “Oh no. This isn’t good”.

Because what the team lead by University of Exeter PhD researcherFemke Nijsse found, is that more sensitive climates have higher fluctuations. Using extensive climate simulations, they discovered that if a climate system reacts strongly to increased greenhouse gases, then it is also more likely to have decades when temperatures are much higher or sometimes much lower than the longer-term average. In fact, more sensitive climates may have a run of years that are cooler than less sensitive climates.

But these cooler years are masking the underlying behaviour of the system. As natural variations move in the other direction, they can conspire with the sensitive climate to unleash a period of supercharged heating. OK, but why should we be worried about that?

Because the warming trend of the Earth’s real climate between 2002-2012 was a bit less than what it should have been given how much we have been increasing greenhouse gases. Some people leapt at that as being evidence that the climate is less sensitive than was initially feared. They argued we shouldn’t decarbonise too rapidly, or even at all, because there is no urgency to do so.

But this period of depressed warming is consistent with the Earth’s climate having higher fluctuations. What this means is that at some point in the future we may see temperatures swing across to much faster warming trends. This period of hyper-warming could swamp whatever adaptation measures we are currently putting in place. 

When in the future? Perhaps now, as witnessed by the near continual breaking of temperature records around the world and much faster rates of glacier retreat than expected. Rather than a brief anomaly, this may be the beginning of an acceleration of global heating; an acceleration of a trend that is already greater than any warming trend for the past 2000 years.

Exploring the relationship between sensitivity and fluctuations is very complex, and no single study can be considered to provide the last word on the matter. But this new research has kicked away another support against the collapse into despair about how we are affecting the climate. 

Because, remember, it’s not the fall, but the sudden stop. And the mess our civilisation will make if climate change sends us plummeting hard and fast to the floor will not be pretty.

James Dyke is a senior lecturer in global systems at Exeter University

Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on July 25, 2019, 02:41:58 pm
Quote
Because, remember, it’s not the fall, but the sudden stop. And the mess our civilisation will make if climate change sends us plummeting hard and fast to the floor will not be pretty

Agreed.
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on July 25, 2019, 09:25:59 pm
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Above: A dry part of the bed of the River Loire at Montjean-sur-Loire, France, on July 24, 2019, as drought conditions prevail over much of western Europe. Image credit: Loic Venance/AFP/Getty Images.

BLACK BEAR NEWS 7.25.19 All Time Heat 🌡️ Records Melt in Europe; 108°F in Paris 😓

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Published on Jul 25, 2019

All-Time Heat Records Melt in Europe; 108°F in Paris
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At least 5 killed, hundreds evacuated as flash floods hit northwest Turkey
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More than 60 killed, hundreds of thousands displaced by flooding in Bangladesh
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on July 25, 2019, 09:59:58 pm
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https://climatereanalyzer.org/wx/DailySummary/#t2max
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: Surly1 on July 26, 2019, 07:08:37 am
Europe heatwave: Paris latest to break record with 42.6C
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-49108847

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Paris saw a record high temperature of 42.6C (108.7F) on Thursday, amid a heatwave that broke records across Western Europe.
A red alert - the highest level - was issued in northern France.

Meanwhile Belgium, Germany, Luxembourg and the Netherlands also reached new record highs, of 41.8C, 41.5C, 40.8C and 40.7C respectively.
The UK recorded a record temperature for July of 38.1C, with trains told to run more slowly to stop rails buckling.

"Climate change has increased the likelihood and severity of heatwave episodes across Europe," the UK's national weather service said.
What temperatures was Europe expecting?

French authorities launched a red alert in the Paris region and 19 other districts and said temperatures were expected to reach 42C-43C in parts of the country.

Belgium's Royal Meteorological Institute issued "code red" warnings across most of the country - urging people to take extra precautions during "extremely high temperatures".

What has been the impact?
In France, officials warned people to avoid travelling to work from home if possible. Some nurseries have been closed.

The chief architect responsible for restoring Notre-Dame warned that the extreme heat could lead to the cathedral's roof collapsing if the joints and masonry holding up the roof dried out.

French reports suggested five deaths may have resulted from the high temperatures.

Comparisons were drawn to a heatwave in August 2003 which contributed to almost 15,000 deaths in the country.

In parts of north Germany, rivers and lakes have dried up - with warnings that fish and mussels could be "severely threatened".
In the Netherlands, hundreds of pigs died earlier this week after a ventilator at a farm failed.
On Wednesday, a Eurostar train from Belgium to London broke down, trapping passengers.

Hasn't the summer already been hot?
Yes, an intense heatwave swept through areas of Europe last month, making it the hottest June on record.

France set an all-time high-temperature record of 46C, according to the WMO, and new June highs were set in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Austria, Andorra, Luxembourg, Poland and Germany.

Is climate change to blame?

While extreme weather events like heatwaves occur naturally, "research shows that with climate change they are likely to become more common, perhaps occurring as regularly as every other year", the UK's Met Office says.

Dr Peter Stott from the Met Office told BBC 5Live the latest heatwave is the result of both "weather and climate acting in concert.

"What we have at the moment is this very warm stream of air, coming up from northern Africa, bringing with it unusually warm weather," he said. "But without climate change we wouldn't have hit the peaks that we're hitting right now."

The Met Office conducted a study last year that found that the UK was now 30 times more likely to experience heatwaves compared to the year 1750, because of "the higher concentration of carbon dioxide (a greenhouse gas) in the atmosphere".

Records going back to the late 19th Century show that the average temperature of the Earth's surface has increased by about one degree since industrialisation.

A climatology institute in Potsdam, Germany, said Europe's five hottest summers since 1500 were all recorded in the 21st Century.
Scientists have expressed concern that rapid warming linked to use of fossil fuels has serious implications for the stability of the planet's climate.
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on July 26, 2019, 03:27:30 pm
Europe heatwave: Paris latest to break record with 42.6C
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-49108847

(https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/624/cpsprodpb/134BE/production/_107983097_eu_temps_25_07_v1_640-nc.png)

Paris saw a record high temperature of 42.6C (108.7F) on Thursday, amid a heatwave that broke records across Western Europe.
A red alert - the highest level - was issued in northern France.

Meanwhile Belgium, Germany, Luxembourg and the Netherlands also reached new record highs, of 41.8C, 41.5C, 40.8C and 40.7C respectively.
The UK recorded a record temperature for July of 38.1C, with trains told to run more slowly to stop rails buckling.

"Climate change has increased the likelihood and severity of heatwave episodes across Europe," the UK's national weather service said.
What temperatures was Europe expecting?

French authorities launched a red alert in the Paris region and 19 other districts and said temperatures were expected to reach 42C-43C in parts of the country.

Belgium's Royal Meteorological Institute issued "code red" warnings across most of the country - urging people to take extra precautions during "extremely high temperatures".

What has been the impact?
In France, officials warned people to avoid travelling to work from home if possible. Some nurseries have been closed.

The chief architect responsible for restoring Notre-Dame warned that the extreme heat could lead to the cathedral's roof collapsing if the joints and masonry holding up the roof dried out.

French reports suggested five deaths may have resulted from the high temperatures.

Comparisons were drawn to a heatwave in August 2003 which contributed to almost 15,000 deaths in the country.

In parts of north Germany, rivers and lakes have dried up - with warnings that fish and mussels could be "severely threatened".
In the Netherlands, hundreds of pigs died earlier this week after a ventilator at a farm failed.
On Wednesday, a Eurostar train from Belgium to London broke down, trapping passengers.

Hasn't the summer already been hot?
Yes, an intense heatwave swept through areas of Europe last month, making it the hottest June on record.

France set an all-time high-temperature record of 46C, according to the WMO, and new June highs were set in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Austria, Andorra, Luxembourg, Poland and Germany.

Is climate change to blame?
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While extreme weather events like heatwaves occur naturally, "research shows that with climate change they are likely to become more common, perhaps occurring as regularly as every other year", the UK's Met Office says.

Dr Peter Stott from the Met Office told BBC 5Live the latest heatwave is the result of both "weather and climate acting in concert.

"What we have at the moment is this very warm stream of air, coming up from northern Africa, bringing with it unusually warm weather," he said. "But without climate change we wouldn't have hit the peaks that we're hitting right now."

The Met Office conducted a study last year that found that the UK was now 30 times more likely to experience heatwaves compared to the year 1750, because of "the higher concentration of carbon dioxide (a greenhouse gas) in the atmosphere".

Records going back to the late 19th Century show that the average temperature of the Earth's surface has increased by about one degree since industrialisation.

A climatology institute in Potsdam, Germany, said Europe's five hottest summers since 1500 were all recorded in the 21st Century.
Scientists have expressed concern that rapid warming linked to use of fossil fuels has serious implications for the stability of the planet's climate.

Yep. Europe is getting to be like Kansas, but with a massive drought on top of the deadly heat, thanks to Catastrophic Climate Change. When I was a kid in Kansas, the saying went that it got so hot there that the trees ran after the dogs. It was funny then. It is not funny now. Trees cannot run, dogs die off from prolonged drought + high heat and so do we. 😓 ☠️

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July 26, 2019

New Study Predicts Millions of Americans May Become Exposed to “Off the Charts” Heat

Climate scientist Michael Mann discusses the increasing frequency and severity of heat waves, just as the US, Europe, and India are experiencing this Summer

https://youtu.be/6tni_3N3vcU

https://therealnews.com/stories/new-study-predicts-millions-of-americans-may-become-exposed-to-off-the-charts-heat

 
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on July 26, 2019, 04:23:38 pm
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Huge swathes of the Arctic on fire 🔥, ‘unprecedented’ satellite images show

Earth’s boreal forests now burning at rate unseen in ‘at least 10,000 years’, scientists 🔊 warn (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-130418200416.png&hash=15d789b29124aa5a1f1ea397ce630913734b20a4)

https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/arctic-circle-wildfires-climate-change-greenland-alaska-siberia-photographs-a9015851.html

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THURSDAY, JULY 25, 2019 Smoke Covers Much Of Siberia (http://arctic-news.blogspot.com/2019/07/smoke-covers-much-of-siberia.html)

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Siberia's 🔥 wildfires seen from 1 million miles away: even the tundra is burning (https://siberiantimes.com/ecology/casestudy/news/n0682-siberias-wildfires-seen-from-1-million-miles-away-even-the-tundra-is-burning/)

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on July 26, 2019, 10:30:46 pm
COOL GREEN SCIENCE

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JULY 1, 2019 

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My Day at the Reality of Climate Change Hackathon (https://blog.nature.org/science/2019/07/01/using-virtual-reality-and-augmented-reality-to-communicate-climate-change/?src=e.cgs.eg.x.lg)

Associated video:

We have TEN YEARS to set a NEW COURSE
https://youtu.be/7UTYNDb5MRs

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on July 27, 2019, 06:03:55 pm
Climate Change 2019

https://youtu.be/2S6JTLRmQdU
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: Surly1 on July 28, 2019, 06:43:55 am
All true. But don't discount the profit motive, as George Monbiot gets it right.

From Trump to Johnson, nationalists are on the rise – backed by billionaire oligarchs

The ultra-rich are benefitting from disaster capitalism as institutions, rules and democratic oversight implode

Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro at the White House with Donald Trump.
Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro at the White House with Donald Trump. ‘A host of ludicrous strongmen dominate nations that would once have laughed them off stage.’ Photograph: Kevin Lamarque/Reuters

Seven years ago the impressionist Rory Bremner complained that politicians had become so boring that few of them were worth mimicking: “They’re quite homogenous and dull these days … It’s as if character is seen as a liability.” Today his profession has the opposite problem: however extreme satire becomes, it struggles to keep pace with reality. The political sphere, so dull and grey a few years ago, is now populated by preposterous exhibitionists.

This trend is not confined to the UK – everywhere the killer clowns are taking over. Boris Johnson, Nigel Farage, Donald Trump, Narendra Modi, Jair Bolsonaro, Scott Morrison, Rodrigo Duterte, Matteo Salvini, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Viktor Orbán and a host of other ludicrous strongmen – or weakmen, as they so often turn out to be – dominate nations that would once have laughed them off stage. The question is why? Why are the technocrats who held sway almost everywhere a few years ago giving way to extravagant buffoons?

Social media, an incubator of absurdity, is certainly part of the story. But while there has been plenty of good work investigating the means, there has been surprisingly little thinking about the ends. Why are the ultra-rich, who until recently used their money and newspapers to promote charisma-free politicians, now funding this circus? Why would capital wish to be represented by middle managers one moment and jesters the next?

The reason, I believe, is that the nature of capitalism has changed. The dominant force of the 1990s and early 2000s – corporate power – demanded technocratic government. It wanted people who could simultaneously run a competent, secure state and protect profits from democratic change. In 2012, when Bremner made his complaint, power was already shifting to a different place, but politics had not caught up.

The policies that were supposed to promote enterprise – slashing taxes for the rich, ripping down public protections, destroying trade unions – instead stimulated a powerful spiral of patrimonial wealth accumulation. The largest fortunes are now made not through entrepreneurial brilliance but through inheritance, monopoly and rent-seeking: securing exclusive control of crucial assets such as land and buildings privatised utilities and intellectual property, and assembling service monopolies such as trading hubs, software and social media platforms, then charging user fees far higher than the costs of production and delivery. In Russia, people who enrich themselves this way are called oligarchs. But this is a global phenomenon. Today corporate power is overlain by – and mutating into – oligarchic power.

'Deliver Brexit and unite the country': Boris Johnson's first speech as Tory leader – video

What the oligarchs want is not the same as what the old corporations wanted. In the words of their favoured theorist, Steve Bannon, they seek the “deconstruction of the administrative state”. Chaos is the profit multiplier for the disaster capitalism on which the new billionaires thrive. Every rupture is used to seize more of the assets on which our lives depend. The chaos of an undeliverable Brexit, the repeated meltdowns and shutdowns of government under Trump: these are the kind of deconstructions Bannon foresaw. As institutions, rules and democratic oversight implode, the oligarchs extend their wealth and power at our expense.

The killer clowns offer the oligarchs something else too: distraction and deflection. While the kleptocrats fleece us, we are urged to look elsewhere. We are mesmerised by buffoons who encourage us to channel the anger that should be reserved for billionaires towards immigrants, women, Jews, Muslims, people of colour and other imaginary enemies and customary scapegoats. Just as it was in the 1930s, the new demagoguery is a con, a revolt against the impacts of capital, financed by capitalists.

The oligarch’s interests always lie offshore: in tax havens and secrecy regimes. Paradoxically, these interests are best promoted by nationalists and nativists. The politicians who most loudly proclaim their patriotism and defence of sovereignty are always the first to sell their nations down the river. It is no coincidence that most of the newspapers promoting the nativist agenda, whipping up hatred against immigrants and thundering about sovereignty, are owned by billionaire tax exiles, living offshore.

As economic life has been offshored, so has political life. The political rules that are supposed to prevent foreign money from funding domestic politics have collapsed. The main beneficiaries are the self-proclaimed defenders of sovereignty who rise to power with the help of social media ads bought by persons unknown, and thinktanks and lobbyists that refuse to reveal their funders. A recent essay by the academics Reijer Hendrikse and Rodrigo Fernandez argues that offshore finance involves “the rampant unbundling and commercialisation of state sovereignty” and the shifting of power into a secretive, extraterritorial legal space, beyond the control of any state. In this offshore world, they contend, “financialised and hypermobile global capital effectively is the state”.

Today’s billionaires are the real citizens of nowhere. They fantasise, like the plutocrats in Ayn Rand’s terrible novel Atlas Shrugged, about further escape. Look at the “seasteading” venture funded by PayPal’s founder, Peter Thiel, that sought to build artificial islands in the middle of the ocean, whose citizens could enact a libertarian fantasy of escape from the state, its laws, regulations and taxes, and from organised labour. Scarcely a month goes by without a billionaire raising the prospect of leaving the Earth altogether, and colonising space pods or other planets.

Those whose identity is offshore seek only to travel farther offshore. To them, the nation state is both facilitator and encumbrance, source of wealth and imposer of tax, pool of cheap labour and seething mass of ungrateful plebs, from whom they must flee, leaving the wretched earthlings to their well-deserved fate.

Defending ourselves from oligarchy means taxing it to oblivion. It’s easy to get hooked up on discussions about what tax level maximises the generation of revenue. There are endless arguments about the Laffer curve, which purports to show where this level lies. But these discussions overlook something crucial: raising revenue is only one of the purposes of tax. Another is breaking the spiral of patrimonial wealth accumulation.

Breaking this spiral is a democratic necessity: otherwise the oligarchs, as we have seen, come to dominate national and international life. The spiral does not stop by itself: only government action can do it. This is one of the reasons why, during the 1940s, the top rate of income tax in the US rose to 94%, and in the UK to 98%. A fair society requires periodic corrections on this scale. But these days the steepest taxes would be better aimed at accumulated unearned wealth.

Of course, the offshore world the billionaires have created makes such bold policies extremely difficult: this, after all, is one of its purposes. But at least we know what the aim should be, and can begin to see the scale of the challenge. To fight something, first we need to understand it.

Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: Surly1 on July 28, 2019, 06:44:37 am
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on July 28, 2019, 01:35:08 pm
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BLACK BEAR NEWS 7 27 19 Take an ice cold sip of Rebellion
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Black Bear News
Published on Jul 27, 2019

Newsletter 26: Take an ice-cold sip of Rebellion
https://rebellion.earth/2019/07/25/newsletter-26-ice-cold-sip-of-rebellion/

The Difference Between Being a Liberal and Being a Progressive 👍👍👍
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on July 28, 2019, 10:25:17 pm
BLACK BEAR NEWS 7.28.19 Hailstorm blasts Tour de France course, forces rare stage stoppage
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Black Bear News
Published on Jul 28, 2019

Hailstorm blasts Tour de France course, forces rare stage stoppage
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/sports/hailstorm-blasts-tour-de-france-course-forces-rare-stage-stoppage-n1035076

After Scorching Europe, Heat Wave Is Poised to Melt Greenland
https://www.livescience.com/66041-heatwave-europe-greenland.html

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Mueller (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F2%2F3-080419191019.png&hash=a449294ee6fe2dfdea44c1c501f4439b9ac69c26) Caught Lying About “Exoneration” Of (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-311013201314.png&hash=0715eb72631014310634eb56176ff860c6d542f6) Trump
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Category People & Blogs
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on July 30, 2019, 05:37:46 pm
 
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on July 30, 2019, 07:00:17 pm
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By Chris Hedges

SNIPPET:

We will react like most patients with a terminal disease as they struggle to confront their imminent mortality. The gradual diminishing of space, perception and strength will weaken our capacity to absorb reality. The end will be too horrible to contemplate. The tangible signs of our demise will be obvious, but this will only accelerate our retreat into delusional thinking. We will believe ever more fervently that the secular gods of science and technology will save us.

Full article: 👀
 
The Great Flood (https://www.truthdig.com/articles/the-great-flood-2/)

Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on July 31, 2019, 08:57:06 pm
Arctic Wildfires 🔥 and Peat Fires 🔥 Darken Arctic and Emit more Carbon than MANY Countries (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-150715183719.png&hash=7b222546f30a032efc31223d85eea0535ed42a49)
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Paul Beckwith

Published on Jul 30, 2019

Another HUGE feedback darkening the Arctic and releasing literally tons of Greenhouse Gases are the crazy number of intense, hot, long-burning wildfires in the Arctic that have been decimating boreal forests, and even worse, igniting peat fires. Peat is normally very wet (95% water content), acting as a block to wildfires. However unprecedented Arctic warming this June/July has desiccated (dried out) many peat regions; the resulting compressed spaghnum high in carbon is igniting from wildfires and lightning strikes. Peat fires are bad news; able to burn deep into the ground, and last for weeks, months, and even years.

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
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August 1, 2019

SNIPPET:

Serious Melt in Greenland: Greenland is suffering through a massive heat wave that could have devastating impacts on the region's crucial ice sheet.

The heat wave that blanketed Europe last week has moved up to Greenland, causing what scientists say is one of the most severe melting events ever observed.

This summer could see potentially greater impacts on the ice sheet than 2012, when the ice sheet lost 450 million metric tons--more than 14,000 tons per second. Surface melting and low snow levels on the ice sheet may combine to ensure "this is the year Greenland is contributing most to sea level rise," Columbia University's Marco Tedesco told the Washington Post.

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Second night of climate debate, serious melt in Greenland, & more (https://mailchi.mp/b012df095f8a/second-night-of-climate-debate-serious-melt-in-greenland-more?e=0fd17c5b57)


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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on August 01, 2019, 06:15:52 pm
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on August 03, 2019, 06:45:51 pm
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Paul Beckwith Climate Systems Scientist

Aug 1, 2019

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https://youtu.be/34A-bsXDYII

Abrupt Climate System Disruption is clearly accelerating; we are in a global climate EMERGENCY, not yet widely acknowledged by the powers that run our society. This will change very soon, as geopolitics pivots to a fight for our very existence on this planet.

The HUGE Achilles Heel of our climate system is the Arctic, and the Blue Ocean Event that is coming at us like a freight train.

It will hit us hard, but how hard?

I don’t have anywhere near all the answers but I go through the very latest science and my thoughts on what we can expect in a few short years when Arctic sea-ice vanishes from the top of our planet.

Ref:  ‘Earth-Sun Relationships and Insolation‘: ‘In the previous topic, we learned that the Earth’s seasons are controlled by changes in the duration and intensity of solar radiation or insolation. Both of these factors are in turn governed by the annual change in the position of the Earth’s axis relative to the Sun‘.

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Paul Beckwith Climate Systems Scientist

Published on Aug 3, 2019

Arctic Blue Ocean Event (BOE) Key Points to Know (continued)

https://youtu.be/A6jhrIRp6Hs

complete loss of Arctic Sea-Ice has global equivalent heating 0.71 W/m2 relative to 1979 if cloud fraction unchanged (by 2016, we’d already had 0.21 W/m2)

if cloud fraction changed to 0% (clear sky) global equivalent heating is 3 times higher; if cloud coverage changed to 100% (complete coverage) global equivalent heating is 2 times lower

since Arctic region is about 1/30 of globe surface area, 0.71 W/m2 globally is actually 21.3 W/m2 of heating concentrated in Arctic

0.71 W/m2 global heating equivalent would correspond to 1 Trillion tons of CO2 emissions (25 years :o of present day emissions) or 56.7 ppm

I expect BOE by 2022 or so; risk higher each year

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: Surly1 on August 06, 2019, 05:28:43 pm
Global Ocean Circulation Appears To Be Collapsing Due To A Warming Planet (https://www.forbes.com/sites/trevornace/2017/08/03/global-ocean-circulation-appears-to-be-collapsing-due-to-a-warming-planet/?fbclid=IwAR3yHcaC0arDQXthCckaV_mQQjGPV4HJm61q6qWGfWaYBUcRtwumb8rWhKQ#3cb57d51f6f4)
Arctic ice loss is potentially negatively impacting the planet's largest ocean circulation system. While scientists do have some analogs as to how this may impact the world, we will be largely in uncharted territory.


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Global ocean circulation appears to be slowing NASA

Scientists have long known about the anomalous "warming hole" in the North Atlantic Ocean, an area immune to warming of Earth's oceans. This cool zone in the North Atlantic Ocean appears to be associated with a slowdown in the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), one of the key drivers in global ocean circulation.

A recent study published in Nature outlines research by a team of Yale University and University of Southhampton scientists. The team found evidence that Arctic ice loss is potentially negatively impacting the planet's largest ocean circulation system. While scientists do have some analogs as to how this may impact the world, we will be largely in uncharted territory.

AMOC is one of the largest current systems in the Atlantic Ocean and the world. Generally speaking, it transports warm and salty water northward from the tropics to South and East of Greenland. This warm water cools to ambient water temperature then sinks as it is saltier and thus denser than the relatively more fresh surrounding water. The dense mass of water sinks to the base of the North Atlantic Ocean and is pushed south along the abyss of the Atlantic Ocean.

Schematic of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation

Schematic of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation

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This process whereby water is transported into the Northern Atlantic Ocean acts to distribute ocean water globally. What's more important, and the basis for concern of many scientists is this mechanism is one of the most efficient ways Earth transports heat from the tropics to the northern latitudes. The warm water transported from the tropics to the North Atlantic releases heat to the atmosphere, playing a key role in warming of western Europe. You likely have heard of one of the more popular components of the AMOC, the Gulf Stream which brings warm tropical water to the western coasts of Europe.

Evidence is growing that the comparatively cold zone within the Northern Atlantic could be due to a slowdown of this global ocean water circulation. Hence, a slowdown in the planet's ability to transfer heat from the tropics to the northern latitudes. The cold zone could be due to melting of ice in the Arctic and Greenland. This would cause a cold fresh water cap over the North Atlantic, inhibiting sinking of salty tropical waters. This would in effect slow down the global circulation and hinder the transport of warm tropical waters north.

Measured trend in temperature variations from 1900 to 2012.

Measured trend in temperature variations from 1900 to 2012.

NOAA

Melting of the Arctic sea ice has rapidly increased in the recent decades. Satellite image records indicate that September Arctic sea ice is 30% less today than it was in 1979. This trend of increased sea ice melting during summer months does not appear to be slowing. Hence, indications are that we will see a continued weakening of the global ocean circulation system.

This scenario of a collapse in AMOC and global ocean circulation is the premise for the movie "The Day After Tomorrow." As a disclaimer, the plot line in which much of New England and Western Europe gets plunged into an ice age is significantly over exaggerated and unrealistic on human time scales.

While geologists have studied events in the past similar to what appears to be happening today, scientists are largely unsure of what lies ahead.

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Trevor Nace
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I am a geologist passionate about sharing Earth's intricacies with you. I received my PhD from Duke University where I studied the geology and climate of the Amazon. 

Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: Surly1 on August 06, 2019, 08:00:12 pm
Alaska's Sea Ice Has Completely Melted Away-
The most rapidly changing state in the U.S. has no sea ice within some 150 miles of its shores. The big picture is clear: After an Arctic summer with well above-average temperatures, warmer seas, and a historic July heat wave, sea ice has vanished in Alaskan waters.

https://in.mashable.com/science/5508/alaskas-sea-ice-has-completely-melted-away

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Alaska's exceptional summer continues.

The most rapidly changing state in the U.S. has no sea ice within some 150 miles of its shores, according to high-resolution sea ice analysis from the National Weather Service. The big picture is clear: After an Arctic summer with well above-average temperatures, warmer seas, and a historic July heat wave, sea ice has vanished in Alaskan waters.

"Alaska waters are ice free," said Rick Thoman, a climate specialist at the Alaska Center for Climate Assessment and Policy.

"This is definitely an extreme year — even by more recent standards in a changed Arctic," noted Walt Walt Meier, a senior research scientist at the National Snow and Ice Data Center.

In the continually warming Arctic, sea ice has completely melted around the Alaskan coast before, notably during 2017's melt season, but never this early. "It's cleared earlier than it has in any other year," said Thoman. (Sea ice starts regrowing again in the fall, when temperatures drop.)

Arctic sea ice has been either been at record lows or flirting with record lows throughout much of the summer. "I’m losing the ability to communicate the magnitude [of change]," Jeremy Mathis, a longtime Arctic researcher and current board director at the National Academies of Sciences, told Mashable in June, when sea ice levels were at their lowest point in the satellite record for that period. "I’m running out of adjectives to describe the scope of change we’re seeing."

Even during the winter, historically ice-clad seas were nearly free of ice. The Bering Sea, in early March, was open ocean. That's not normal for winter. "It's normally pretty much covered completely with ice," said Meier.

A fundamental problem is that most of the sea ice around Alaska, and in the greater Arctic, is young. Over the past few decades, the older, thicker, multiyear sea ice has been melted away by warmer ocean and air temperatures. (And this July, the seas around much of Alaska, the Beaufort and Chukchi seas, were some 9 or 10 degrees Fahrenheit above average, noted Meier.) Only the thin, more vulnerable sea ice remains.

"The loss of the multiyear ice is really a big driver here," emphasized Thoman. "First-year ice is much more susceptible to the vagaries of weather."

The weather, swayed by climate, is often warmer than it was last century. The resulting, relentless ice loss is one of the most conspicuous results of a rapidly heating climate. Just like glaciers.

"This is due to the long-term warming of the Arctic," Zack Labe, a climate scientist and PhD candidate at the University of California, Irvine, explained in June. "Air temperatures are now rising at more than twice the rate of the global mean temperature — a phenomenon known as 'Arctic Amplification'."

The Arctic's warming is especially amplified by the ocean. When reflective, white sea ice vanishes, the darker ocean absorbs solar energy, rather than reflecting it back into space. To boot, this warmth then mixes around with other waters, warming them too, explained Thoman.

It's a vicious cycle. And the consequences are ramping up.

"Things are not necessarily gradual," said Thoman, referencing the big changes occurring in and around Alaska "When thresholds get crossed, changes occur in a hurry."
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on August 06, 2019, 09:46:07 pm
Global Ocean Circulation Collapsing and Alaska Ice Completely Melted Away
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Post by: AGelbert on August 07, 2019, 02:10:51 pm
 
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on August 09, 2019, 02:09:56 pm
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August 8, 2019

Greenpeace's Diana Ruiz discusses the new IPCC Climate report, "Climate Change and Land," which issues a dire warning about how climate change and destructive land use reinforce each other, leading to serious threats for human survival

https://youtu.be/rVaq9otmrDE

Story Transcript

MARC STEINER: Welcome to The Real News Network. I’m Marc Steiner. Good to have you all with.

The IPCC, which is the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, released a new report. The last report showed us the dangers of a 1.5 Celsius degree rise in temperatures, and what that could do to us, what it is doing to us. This new report, called “Climate Change and the Land,” shows the disastrous results of how two very complicated issues intersect to endanger our future. It focuses on how our use of the land contributes to climate change, and how climate change affects the land. As climate change makes farming more difficult, our methods of farming also devastate the wetlands, forests, rainforests, which exacerbates and increases the intensity of climate change itself. The end of the report offered some solutions, but we’ll explore what all that means in this conversation with our guest, Diana Ruiz.

Diana Ruiz is the Senior Palm Oil Campaigner for Greenpeace USA. She’s based in DC, and she’s leading the work to make zero deforestation in Indonesia a reality. No easy task. She has worked to make change and hold United States corporations accountable in countries including Indonesia, India, Peru and Ecuador. And Diana focuses on the range of issues that draw from industrial chemicals systems to pesticide regulations, climate mitigation and adaptation, which means that she’s a very busy woman and took time to talk to us today. And Diana Ruiz, welcome. Good to have you with us.

DIANA RUIZ: Yeah. Thank you for having me.

MARC STEINER: So let me begin by showing this clip that actually from the IPCC report itself, when they offered the report, and this is one of the co-chair’s report, giving her overview of what the report is.

VALERIE MASSON-DELMOTE, IPCC CO-CHAIR: The way we produce food and what we eat contributes to the loss of natural ecosystems and declining biodiversity. When land is degraded, it reduces the soil’s ability to take up carbon, and this exacerbates climate change. In turn, climate change exacerbates land degradation in many different ways. Today, 500 million people live in areas that’s experienced desertification. People living in already degraded or desertified areas are increasingly negatively affected by climate change.

MARC STEINER: So that was the Co-chair of the IPCC. And so let’s talk a bit about what she was saying. This was the overarching look at the report because it does something that I think that has been very hard to do. I understand the report had over 170 people in the 7,000 research projects they put together to come up with this report. But showing the interaction between the earth itself and climate change and how they interact is something that most people have not yet really considered in terms of looking at what we face for the future.

DIANA RUIZ: Yes. The, the IPCC land report really exposes the reality facing the world’s forests, and how we use our land for key agricultural commodities that are used in everything we consume and also in beauty products. For example, palm oil is one of those key drivers of deforestation that is putting a lot of stress on lands, especially in Southeast Asia. And soy is another key agricultural commodity along with the production of meat and dairy.

MARC STEINER: One of the things—What you just said to me is one of the glaring pieces. On the one hand you have this report talking about palm oil production, and production that has nothing to do with eating or the food that we consume, but is completely corporate-driven in terms of what they’re trying to sell to the world like palm oil, devastating rain forests to build these giant plantations.

But even here in the United States, the report shows that, I think they said we had 591 million acres in cropland, but only one fifth of that land is used to grow crops that feed human beings. The rest are soy and corn for industrial use to feed livestock like pigs and cattle. So it really, in many ways, we can talk about the desperation of people and what they’re trying to farm around the world, but in many ways, this problem is being driven, it seems to me, by corporations, the need for profit, what to sell us.

DIANA RUIZ: Well, you bring up a good point when you look at the United States. What we’re seeing now is more of an increase and it’s not just the United States. You’re seeing it in Brazil. You’re seeing it in other parts of the world. But the intensity and the increase of, for example, soy and palm oil that is being produced to feed cattle or poultry as part feed, and it’s that part of that sick system of the way agricultural production for these types of commodities is aggressively converting land. We’re at a critical point where we face a limited amount of land. That is having huge implications on the security of the future of the production of food.

MARC STEINER: I mean, so not only does the deforestation of our planet to create these plantations create greater pollution because of the methane and everything else that it releases. And when you destroy wetlands, I was surprised to see how much more in gigatons that it releases in the atmosphere, on top of what’s happening with our fossil fuels to get us from place to place. That’s something else that I think don’t really put their hands around yet – is the extent to which how we farm and what we farm actually does contribute to the pollution that we’re facing.

DIANA RUIZ: Yeah, absolutely. Agriculture is one of the… It is the leading driver of deforestation together with forestry and other land use. It represents 23% of human greenhouse gas emissions.

MARC STEINER: So the question is—Well, let’s take a look. This is an interesting clip. This has to do with soil devastation, and that came out this report. This is a British scientist and we’ll watch what she has to say.

KAREN JOHNSON, DURHAM UNIVERSITY: Life is at risk ultimately and that’s because all the things that we take for granted, resources that are more at the top of people’s minds like water and air, healthy air, et cetera, are related to healthy soils. Unfortunately, because we’ve not been looking after soils, we’ve been taking out more than we’ve been putting in. But if we year on year don’t return 30% of all organic matter that we take out of the soil, we don’t return it to the soil, then we see soil degradation because that organic matter is the glue that holds the little bits of rock, the minerals together.

MARC STEINER: So, and that was Sarah Johnson—Karen Johnson, excuse me, who’s professor of environmental engineering. But so what she describes here has a couple of – really attacks things in a couple of ways. I want you to comment on this. One has to do with what they’re doing to the soil itself, and what that’s releasing into the atmosphere, but also destroying the soil so we can’t grow things. But B, one of the things that side bars all this, and a major one, it forces migration because people aren’t going to sit around and just starve to death. They’re going to go somewhere to find food. So it hits the earth and our countries in more than one way.

DIANA RUIZ: Yeah. It increases the conversion of more land for agricultural use. And the issue raised around soils, it just underscores the importance that forests play in regulating our climate, as forests are a safety net for humans and for all living beings. Forests breathe in carbon. They’re able to absorb carbon. They end up regulating our atmosphere. And there’s some forests that are very carbon-rich; for example, peatland forest. And peatland forests are an ecosystem that is being threatened by palm oil plantations.

And you see the similar situation in Brazil with the savanna grasslands, known as the Cerrado, that also has rich, carbon rich soils that is also being cleared for cattle grazing. That’s part of the story of how we’re getting to desertification of these lands. Because essentially with forest areas that are very carbon-rich like peatlands, you’re essentially detonating a carbon bomb when you drain those peatlands, and then you clear that land for agricultural production.

MARC STEINER: What was also shocking on top of that and part of that is to raise cattle and to raise other livestock, that what I think I read in the report was that it was equivalent to releasing as much methane in the air as 600 million cars released in the air. Not methane, but—So that to me, those are shocking numbers. So the question becomes, the end of the report, they really tried to wrestle with what to do and how to mitigate this and how to change this.

But I must say that having read the last part of the report, it didn’t leave me in a really good mood, nor very sanguine about what the future might hold because what it will take to stop this is a major change in our culture and not just the corporate world, but our culture, the way we eat, the way we think what we need, that corporations keep pushing on us about what they think we need. This is real. And I think it’s something that we don’t understand, I think, the depth of danger we’re facing.

DIANA RUIZ: Yes. No, we agree completely. I think what the report underlines is the consequences and the urgency. I think everyone has a role to play. I think as consumers, we have a role not just in terms of shifting our consumption pattern, but we also have a role of putting pressure on these companies. Because as long as you are a company that is making multi-billion dollars off of snack foods where the key ingredient is palm oil, then you need to change course. And what changing course means is you need to change your business model so that you’re operating under environmental boundaries, that you’re taking the needs of the planet into consideration now because time is running out. It’s about stopping deforestation, but it’s also about forest restoration.

MARC STEINER: Right. I think it also clearly shows that there has to be some fairly radical measures on this planet if we’re going to save ourselves and the earth that we live on. And I think that’s part of what we’re going to be facing in all those elections taking place here in the United States, across the globe. And it’s increasingly a really serious matter. I deeply appreciate the work you do, by the way, at a Greenpeace, Diana Ruiz. Thank you so much for taking your time with us today. I look forward to talking to you a great deal more as we explore this report in greater depth.

DIANA RUIZ: All right. Thank you so much.

MARC STEINER: Thank you so much. And I’m Marc Steiner here for The Real News Network. Good to have you with us. Please let us know what you think. Give us some of your ideas. Take care.

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on August 09, 2019, 04:16:26 pm
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on August 10, 2019, 09:55:42 pm
Massive 🔥 wildlife tragedy as bears and foxes flee taiga, while smaller animals suffocate in smoke

By Svetlana Skarbo01 August 2019

Predators seek food in villages all around Siberia as climate expert warns of worse fires each year due to soaring rise in temperatures, 10C above average.

Wild animals are turning to humans as they escape gas-chamber-like woods, with wildfires continuing to rage across almost 3 million hectares.

Even the Arctic is on fire, with smoke blanketing an area larger than the European Union, and a state of emergency declared in several large areas of Siberia.

And a dire warning has been sounded about a major change in climate in Siberia.


Wildfire 🔥 raging in Boguchany district, Krasnoyarsk region.
https://youtu.be/9_ioUbt_LF8

Maksim Yakovenko, head of the Russian Federal Service on Hydrometeorology and Environmental Monitoring said: ‘The key issue was forest firefighting, so I would like to say that the situation will be worsening each year because (of) climate change.

Temperatures in some Siberian regions had already exceeded average levels by 8 to 10 degrees Centigrade, he said.

‘It means that in the future we will be facing lasting heatwaves, drying soils, and so the temperatures will be rising, not exponentially, but at a significant pace, higher than on average across the world.

‘That is why, the climatic situation will deteriorate (in Siberia).’


Fox and bears that came to people to seek help. But the one, who came to the village of Zamzor, Irkutsk region (bottom), turned to be agressive and was shot.

Fox
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Bear cub in Ust-Kut
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Bear cub in Ust-Kut
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Aggressive bear in Zamzor village
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While President Putin ordered Ministry of Defence to get army involved in extinguishing wildfires, there is no system in place to help wild animals.

All they can do is to flee and seek food elsewhere, with local residents trying to do all they can to help.

But they can also pose a threat to humans.

‘A small brown bear walked out of woods last night.

‘It was all skin and bones, with visible traces of burns and so exhausted that it wasn’t scared of people’, said resident of Angarsk Maya Fleishter.

‘My husband who is now in the Ust-Kut taiga gave the bear cookies and water.’

‘The bear growled at first, but then gulped water and took cookies, making all the watching - and who themselves spent last week suffocating from fumes - cry.’

Bear cub spotted neat the town of Ust-Kut.
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https://youtu.be/90PfpSs26UU

Read more and see more pictures of fires in various places in Siberia: 👀

https://siberiantimes.com/ecology/others/news/massive-wildlife-tragedy-as-bears-and-foxes-flee-taiga-while-smaller-animals-suffocate-in-smoke/

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on August 14, 2019, 08:41:50 pm
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The Sixth Extinction 🚩 😨
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on August 18, 2019, 07:00:42 pm
 
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The hottest month ever, West Virginia's mini-Trump, & more (https://mailchi.mp/e9a3723cadf3/the-hottest-month-ever-west-virginias-mini-trump-more?e=0fd17c5b57)

 
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on August 18, 2019, 10:32:48 pm
Dr Andrew Glikson
Earth and climate scientist
Australian National University
Canberra, Australian Territory, Australia
geospec@iinet.net.au


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Added below is a video with an August 6, 2019, interview of Andrew Glikson by Guy McPherson and Kevin Hester, as edited by Tim Bob.

https://youtu.be/0UONiD5GdTY

http://arctic-news.blogspot.com/2019/08/the-changing-face-of-planet-earth.html
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
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Why Evangelicals Should Care About Climate Change
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
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August 21, 2019

The Amazon is 🔥 burning, coal country still loves 🦀 Trump, & more (https://mailchi.mp/4c65db988fa8/the-amazon-is-burning-coal-country-still-loves-trump-more?e=0fd17c5b57)
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on August 21, 2019, 06:31:21 pm
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Extinction Rebellion
Published on Aug 13, 2019

Roger Hallam giving a talk in Penzance, Cornwall, speaking about Extinction Rebellion, the climate emergency and the ecological crisis all around the world. Let's stop pretending and ACT NOW.

If you believe we need to do something about the climate crisis join us in October for the international Rebellion.

In October 2018, we declared The Rebellion.
In April 2019, we declared The Emergency.
In October 2019, we will declare The Truth.

Starting on Monday 7 October, we are joining together as global family in an International Rebellion as we grieve the suffering and destruction of our beautiful homeworld.

We will gather with our communities across cities, countries, and continents, to rise up and rebel for our deep love of life and the need to protect it.

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1. #TellTheTruth
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3. #BeyondPolitics
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Category Nonprofits & Activism
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on August 21, 2019, 09:03:13 pm
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Dr Rupert Read - The Uncertain Situation We Are In | Extinction Rebellion
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Extinction Rebellion
Published on Jul 14, 2019

Dr Rupert Read visited Cornwall to hold an open conversation at the invitation of Manda Brookman from Cafe Disruptif https://www.facebook.com/CafeDisruptif/ on June 20th 2019.

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on August 22, 2019, 10:35:09 pm
Channel NewsAsia

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Port of Singapore

August 23, 2018 👀

Global warming doesn't only just lead to higher sea levels, it also changes which places see a disproportionate rise in sea levels, says Earth Observatory of Singapore's Benjamin Horton.

Commentary: As ice caps melt, Singapore a hot spot for 🌊 sea-level rise (https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/commentary/rising-sea-levels-singapore-impact-equator-water-drawn-11830652)
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: Surly1 on August 24, 2019, 07:28:56 am
Amazon deforestation is close to tipping point (https://phys.org/news/2018-03-amazon-deforestation.html)

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Uncontacted indigenous tribe in the brazilian state of Acre. Credit: Gleilson Miranda

Deforestation of the Amazon is about to reach a threshold beyond which the region's tropical rainforest may undergo irreversible changes that transform the landscape into degraded savanna with sparse, shrubby plant cover and low biodiversity. This warning derives from an editorial published in the journal Science Advances co-authored by Thomas Lovejoy, a professor at George Mason University in the United States, and Carlos Nobre, chair of Brazil's National Institute of Science & Technology (INCT) for Climate Change.

"The Amazon system is close to a tipping point," Lovejoy said. According to the authors, since the 1970s, when studies conducted by Professor Eneas Salati demonstrated that the Amazon generates approximately half of its own rainfall, the question has been raised of how much would be required to degrade the region's hydrological cycle to the point at which it would be unable to support rainforest ecosystems. The first models developed to answer this question showed that the tipping point would be reached if approximately 40 percent of the region were deforested. In this case, central, southern and eastern Amazonia would experience diminished rainfall and a lengthier . Moreover, the vegetation in the southern and eastern parts of the region would become similar to savanna.

In recent decades, new factors in addition to deforestation have affected the hydrological cycle. These factors include and indiscriminate use of fire by agriculturists during the dry season to eliminate felled trees and clear areas for crops or pasture. The combination of these three factors indicates a shift to non-forest ecosystems in the eastern, southern and central portions of the Amazon region at between 20 percent and 25 percent deforestation, according to the authors.

The calculation derives from a study published in 2016 in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and conducted by Nobre and other researchers at the INPE, the National Space Research Institute (from which Nobre is a retired researcher), the Natural Disaster Surveillance & Early Warning Center (CEMADEN) and the University of Brasília (UnB). "Although we don't know the exact tipping point, we estimate that the Amazon is very close to this irreversible limit," Nobre said. "Deforestation of the Amazon has already reached 20 percent, equivalent to 1 million square kilometers, although 15 percent [150,000 km²] is recovering."

According to the researchers, the mega-droughts of 2005, 2010 and 2015-16 could well represent the first signs that this tipping point is about to be reached. These events, together with major floods in 2009, 2012 and 2014, suggest the entire Amazon system is oscillating. "Human action intensifies the disturbances to the region's hydrological cycle," Nobre said.

"If there were no human activity in the Amazon, a megadrought would cause the loss of a certain number of trees, but they would grow back in a year with abundant rainfall, restoring the forest to equilibrium. When you have a megadrought combined with widespread use of fire, the forest's capacity for regeneration diminishes."

To keep the Amazon tipping point at bay, the researchers advocate not just strict control to prevent further deforestation but also the construction of a safety margin by reducing the deforested area to less than 20 percent. For the coordinator of the FAPESP-funded institute, besides halting deforestation completely in the Amazon, Brazil must fulfill its 2015 Paris Accord undertaking to reforest 12 million hectares nationwide by 2030, with the Amazon accounting for 5 million hectares.

"If deforestation is brought to a full stop in the Amazon and Brazil fulfills its reforestation commitment, totally deforested areas will account for approximately 16 percent-17 percent of the Amazon by 2030," Nobre said.

"We'd be very close to the threshold but with a safety margin so that deforestation alone doesn't take the biome beyond the tipping point."

Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: Surly1 on August 24, 2019, 07:36:49 am
Good to remember the sometimes the perpetrators have names, addresses, families...

The world has the power to make Brazil’s Bolsonaro pay for his destruction of the Amazon (https://www.newstatesman.com/world/south-america/2019/08/world-has-power-make-brazil-s-bolsonaro-pay-his-destruction-amazon)
The best weapon against the far-right president is to hurt the Brazilian economy.


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A firefighter works during a wildfire near Robore, Santa Cruz region, eastern Bolivia on August 22, 2019.

These have been horror-filled days for those who care about life on Earth. The devastating, record fires that the Amazon rainforest has suffered have pushed the forest ever closer to an irreversible tipping point. 

Even among the invariably grim news about the climate crisis, there was something more profound about the devastation we witnessed. We have despaired and panicked, deprived of breath as though the black smoke could find us in our living rooms, choking us as it would soon choke our future. We have watched as our future burned, and we knew the name of the arsonist: Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro.

Brazil has never seen itself as a villain on the world stage. On the contrary, there was a general bonhomie around the Brazilian image abroad. This hid a certain permanent darkness in country’s soul. Despite consistently paying lip service to collective action against climate change, Brazil has never had a perfect track record on environmental preservation. Even at its best, the country sought to maintain a dangerous balancing act between the interests of the powerful agribusiness lobby and green concerns. The election of the far-right Bolsonaro in 2018 exposed the dismissive attitude of the majority of Brazilians towards the Amazon and its indigenous people: this is a man who has never disguised his contempt for green activists, and takes an almost sadistic pleasure in mocking the concerns of scientists and celebrities. 

This is the first essential truth when confronting the tragedy before us: Bolsonaro does not care about our anxieties. The only thing Bolsonaro cares about are those whom he sees as extensions of himself — that is to say, his family and his foot soldiers. That is the extent of his empathy; this is a man who scoffed at the brutal torture of a pregnant teenager. The only language Bolsonaro understands is power. Look at the photos of the fire engulfing the largest carbon sink in the world; look at what they represent. This is a threat to our right to exist. Start asking, then, how to fight back.

Fighting a foreign government thousands of miles away might appear an impossible task, but punching back is not only possible, it is actually much easier for the average person in a developed country such as the UK or the US. Brazilians are under Bolsonaro’s power and at risk of losing their jobs or being attacked by the president’s supporters. Donating to NGOs, which monitor the destruction of the Amazon and defend indigenous rights, is a start but that is merely a defensive ploy. We must strike back.

Bolsonaro believes that destroying the Amazon is profitable. Every Brazilian president is politically fragile before an opportunistic Congress, and Bolsonaro, in particular, has frequent scuffles with it. He is kept in power by the extravagantly wealthy: the people who believe his excesses are tolerable in return for pension reform and employment deregulation. Neither Congress nor the Brazilian elite, have any loyalty to Bolsonaro’s ideology; instead, like parasites, they simply use him as a vehicle to pass legislation and will discard him should he become too inconvenient. 

The best weapon against a Bolsonaro administration is to hurt the Brazilian economy. Countries such as Norway have tried the gentler approach of financial incentives, which were rejected. It is now time to be aggressive. Boycott Brazilian products. Make association with Brazil an ugly stain for international companies, and demand they pull their business. Push your government to take an extremely hard line on Bolsonaro. If it is necessary to discuss the possibility of sanctions, so be it. The mere notion will shake people in important places to their core, and what they lack in morals, they exceed in cowardice when it comes to losing money. 

If we believe in the immensity of the harm caused by climate change, if we believe that the images from Brazil are harbingers of doom, if we believe that the Brazilian government will kill not just us, but generations still unborn, then we would also do well to remember that we are not being murdered by a criminal mastermind, or by an unstoppable force.

The dark future we fear is not a certainty or a punishment from God. If this administration is anything, it is a low-level thug. Its president is a cowardly simulation of a man, who talks of torture and **** when dealing with those weaker than him, but who mutters and acquiesces the moment he meets any resistance. Bolsonaro has no human kindness or empathy, but he does have weaknesses: press those wounds and they will bleed. The time for our horror is long gone; now is the time for fury.

Julia Blunck is a Brazilian writer who has contributed to the Guardian and Prospect

Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on August 24, 2019, 05:28:25 pm
Good to remember the sometimes the perpetrators have names, addresses, families...

The world has the power to make Brazil’s Bolsonaro pay for his destruction of the Amazon (https://www.newstatesman.com/world/south-america/2019/08/world-has-power-make-brazil-s-bolsonaro-pay-his-destruction-amazon)

The best weapon against the 🦕 far-right president is to hurt the Brazilian economy.

(https://www.newstatesman.com/sites/default/files/styles/cropped_article_image/public/blogs_2019/08/gettyimages-1163245900_0.jpg?itok=KjBLeLMW)
A firefighter works during a wildfire near Robore, Santa Cruz region, eastern Bolivia on August 22, 2019.

Julia Blunck 👍 is a Brazilian writer who has contributed to the Guardian and Prospect
http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/climate-change/global-warming-is-with-us/msg13363/#msg13363

The world is going to continue to pay for what the 🐉😈 🦕👹🦖 Bolsonaro Trumptard Hydrocarbon Hellspawn of this world DO, whether it wants to or not. These Trumptard bastards know what they are doing. They corrupted the courts in most industrialized countries several decades ago for the express purpose of cover under the color of law for their "subsidy" Corporate Welfare Queen THEFT AND a license to use the air, water and land as an "externalized" OPEN SEWER. So, I'm a bit cynical about justice being done.   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F1%2F3-240718213435-14601598.gif&hash=d55f80ee79b668f6fafd534ef6d94b3c0d8992f6) 

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on August 24, 2019, 10:00:00 pm
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TruthDig

AUG 22, 2019 | TD ORIGINALS

Noam Chomsky: Democrats Are Failing the Test of Our Time

By Ilana Novick —  The linguist and activist calls Donald 🦀 Trump’s climate 🦕🦖 policy “a ☠️ death knell for the species,” and says there’s no effective opposition. 😨 😟

Read more:
https://www.truthdig.com/articles/noam-chomsky-democrats-are-failing-the-test-of-our-time/
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on August 26, 2019, 09:25:46 pm
BLACK BEAR NEWS 8.24.19 Scientists keep taking the batteries out of the fire alarm  >:(
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Black Bear News
Published on Aug 24, 2019

Scientists Have Been Underestimating the Pace of Climate Change (https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/scientists-have-been-underestimating-the-pace-of-climate-change/)
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on August 27, 2019, 05:44:23 pm
Agelbert NOTE: Plant stomata are tiny pores on the underside of leaves that capture Carbon Dioxide (CO2). The bigger the pores, the more CO2 they can capture. When the pores shrink due to environmental conditions, plants reduce their CO2 intake, which slows plant growth, regardless of how much CO2 is available in the atmosphere. This is what is happening over most areas of the globe NOW. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-041115022304.png&hash=cd8cb8e28ab8f7fc78c1ea00d30a661bd937aed5)

Paul Beckwith, Climate System Scientist

Aug 23, 2019

Browning of the Earth: Land Plant Growth Decline Since 1998: Part 1 of 2

https://youtu.be/A_JDdpFPv2c

Earth stopped getting greener 20 years ago 😲. A new research study used satellite images to determine that plant growth on land increased in the 1980s and 1990s, but reached a turning point in 1998, and has since been decreasing.

The decrease is mostly attributed to decreasing moisture in the air, as measured by a Vapour Pressure Deficit (VPD) parameter; which is the difference between the actual amount of moisture in the air versus the maximum amount of moisture possible in the air (saturation) at the given temperature.

Browning of the Earth: Land Plant Growth Decline Since 1998: Part 2 of 2

https://youtu.be/K2h2gvYU_WI

It is well known that global vegetation decline is worsening from:


► land-use forest clearing,
► wildfires,
► desertification,
► drought,
► soil degradation …


But some regions like the Arctic are greening. We also know that the maximum amount of moisture air can hold at saturation goes up by 7% per degree C temperature rise.

If this increase is under 7%, a Vapour Pressure Deficit occurs, plant stomata shrink, and vegetation growth slows reducing global primary productivity.

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on August 27, 2019, 08:43:43 pm
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The Gates of Hell Have Opened in the Amazon Rainforest as the Collapse Gains Speed
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Collapse Chronicles
Published on Aug 21, 2019

In today's Chronicle of the Collapse, we survey the mainstream and alternative media for more evidence of how this planet is entering the final stages of Collapse in the Amazon Rainforest.
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: Surly1 on August 28, 2019, 08:20:15 am
MASSIVE GLACIER COLLAPSE Caught on Camera! (Ilulissat, Greenland)

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Icebergs breaking from the Ilulissat Glacier are often up to 3,000 feet in height (1 km) and thus too tall to float down the fjord and lie stuck on the bottom of its shallower areas, sometimes for years, until they are broken up by the force of the glacier and icebergs further up the fjord.
Ilulissat Icefjord drains 6.5% of the Greenland ice sheet and produces around 10% of all Greenland icebergs. Some 35 billion tonnes of icebergs calve off and pass out of the fjord every year. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jakobsh... (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jakobsh...))

Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: Surly1 on August 28, 2019, 08:39:19 am
Trump’s Trade War Linked To Amazon Rainforest Destruction (https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-trade-war-china-brazil-amazon-rainforest-fires_n_5d649783e4b008b1fd1fcf09?fbclid=IwAR2LsbVSzkjB8U1oQH1xg-_hTuTSdr1n5z5lk7qcLTVl4amxESY9hPV-XYk)
As U.S. soybeans sit in silos, Brazilian farmers push to break new ground to satisfy the Chinese market.


As unsold U.S. soybeans are stored in silos across the farm belt, Brazilian farmers and corporations scramble to satisfy the voracious Chinese market. The push to break new ground amid President Donald Trump’s trade war with China is putting increasing pressure on the Amazon rainforest and is likely linked to the region’s devastating fires, according to experts.

“There is concern that market pressures related to the disruptions in global trade contributed to the fires in the Amazon,” a spokesman for the industry group the U.S. Soybean Export Council said in an email to HuffPost. 

Brazil is America’s biggest soybean competitor and has stepped up its production now that China has slashed its purchases of U.S. crops in retaliation for Trump’s tariffs on Chinese imports. Soy shipments from Brazil jumped 27% from 2017 to 2018. Chinese imports from Brazil in the 12 months through April amounted to 71 million tons — nearly as much as China imported from the entire world in 2014, according to Bloomberg. 

Amid increasing demands for farm products from China, Brazil’s far-right president, Jair Bolsonaro, has pledged to open up the 2 million-square-mile Amazon forest — including inside protected indigenous areas — to more farming and mining. He has jokingly referred to himself as “Captain Chainsaw.” Many suspect that raging fires in the region, which were largely unchecked for weeks, are part of a strategy to speed up that policy. The Amazon Environmental Research Institute has concluded that the recent increase in the number of fires in the Amazon is directly related to deliberate deforestation, the BBC reported.

“Citizens around the world should be concerned by the global environmental and individual health impact of the devastating fires in Brazil, potentially started to clear land for crops and cattle,” Jim Sutter, CEO of the Soybean Export Council, said in a statement to HuffPost. “Meanwhile, U.S. crops remain unsold.”

Not only do American farmers have soybeans to sell, but also the crops are generally grown under far more stringent environmental standards than in Brazil, Sutter noted.

“It’s such a waste,” Gary Wertish, president of the Minnesota Farmers Union, told HuffPost. “We have plenty of soybeans to sell, while you worry that more and more land is being put into production in Brazil to satisfy the market. And the rainforest is so crucially important to the world.” 

The consequences are devastating not only for Brazil but also for the world. The Amazon basin — the globe’s biggest rainforest and home to 3 million species of plants and animals — is crucial to regulating global warming. Its forests absorb millions of tons of carbon emissions each year.

The Group of Seven agreed at its summit in France last week to provide $22 million and other support to Brazil to help with firefighting, which it appears Bolsonaro will likely reject.

Trump skipped the G-7 meeting on climate change on Monday. The president claimed he had other meetings with the leaders of Germany and India. But both German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi were in the climate change meeting. 

Trump later claimed that he knows “more than most people about the environment.” He noted: “I’m an environmentalist. A lot of people don’t understand that.”

Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on August 28, 2019, 06:40:22 pm
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Post by: Surly1 on August 29, 2019, 06:41:13 am
A Northwest Passage Journey Finds Little Ice and Big Changes (https://e360.yale.edu/features/a-northwest-passage-journey-finds-little-ice-and-big-changes)
After decades of travel in the Far North, E360’s Arctic correspondent joins a voyage through the Northwest Passage and witnesses a world being transformed, with ice disappearing, balmy temperatures becoming common, and alien invaders – from plastic waste to new diseases – on the rise.


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The icebreaker Oden sails through first-year ice in Lancaster Sound in the Canadian Arctic last month. COURTESY OF TOMER KETTER

BY ED STRUZIKAUGUST 27, 2019

Elwin Bay is carved into a steep, flat-topped mountain range along the northeast coast of Somerset Island in Canada’s High Arctic. For as long as anyone can remember, hundreds of beluga whales show up every year on an annual migration from Greenland through Canada’s Northwest Passage. Their fidelity to this site is remarkable given that 19th-century whalers killed more than 10,000 of them there – 840 during one notably gruesome, 17-day stretch – between 1874 and 1898.

Helicoptering over the bay earlier this month with members of a U.S. National Science Foundation-sponsored research expedition, we saw too many belugas to count accurately in waters riddled with rapidly disintegrating sea ice. Five hundred? Eight hundred? None of us could estimate with certainty. All we knew was that there were likely equal numbers of whales congregating in similar bays and estuaries, such as Cunningham Inlet, which we sailed past a few days earlier.

Polar bears were there as well — a female and cub in this case, homing in on a dead beluga that had presumably swum too far up the shallow estuary before the tide turned and trapped it.

I had joined the Northwest Passage Project on its 18-day, 2,000-nautical-mile icebreaker journey from Greenland through the high Canadian Arctic. Scientists and students aboard the ship were conducting oceanographic experiments to better understand the profound changes occurring in the Arctic Ocean as summer sea ice disappears and as alien invaders — from microscopic plankton and exotic fish species to large quantities of marine plastic — pour into this once-frozen region.

A film crew from the Oden explores Cunningham Inlet, which historically would have been blocked by sea ice in July.

A film crew from the Oden explores Cunningham Inlet, which historically would have been blocked by sea ice in July. COURTESY OF TOMER KETTER

For me, having spent 40 years traveling extensively in the Arctic, the voyage was another unsettling reminder that the region has gone well beyond a climate change tipping point and is now “transforming into a new state,” as a Queen’s University geographer put it. This upheaval was evident from the record warmth and melting we saw in Greenland, to the widespread lack of sea ice along much of our route, to the stories of ecological disruption recounted by the Inuit who joined us aboard the Swedish icebreaker, Oden. I repeatedly found myself thinking about numerous prior explorations of the Northwest Passage in which expedition after expedition was blocked by sea ice — an obstacle that is fast disappearing.

As the hundreds of beluga in Elwin Bay showed, the Arctic is still a region teeming with marine mammals and abundant birdlife. It was thrilling to see other whale species such as tusked narwhal diving and giant bowheads blowing water 20 feet into the air. Watching long-tailed jaegers ceaselessly bullying kittiwakes to force them to disgorge a meal of fish was spellbinding.

That I didn’t see nearly as many polar bears as I had observed on similar expeditions in the past was not surprising given the paucity of ice. It may be only a matter of time before the fat, healthy bears we saw on this trip suffer the same fate as those in the southern Beaufort Sea, where numbers declined as much as 40 percent from 2001 to 2010. In a recent study, scientists at the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) found that as sea ice declines, the bears are traveling farther and finding it harder to find seals.

The influx of contaminants such as mercury and plastics, which this expedition found in multi-year sea ice, is further testing the resilience of these and other animals at a time when unprecedented warming is not only melting sea ice but also thawing permafrost and providing southern animals — even grizzly bears — with opportunities to expand their range northward. Scientists are concerned that the arrival of new species may usher in alien diseases such as marine phocine distemper, which many Arctic marine mammals have no immunity to.

CLICK MAP TO ENLARGE. The route traveled by the Northwest Passage Project in July and August, from Greenland through the Canadian Arctic.

CLICK MAP TO ENLARGE. The route traveled by the Northwest Passage Project in July and August, from Greenland through the Canadian Arctic.YALE ENVIRONMENT 360

“Surveys such as this one are few and far between in the Arctic,” said Donglai Gong, an oceanographer from the Virginia Institute of Marine Science. “The Arctic is currently experiencing the fastest warming on Earth and dramatic changes in water chemistry. Ocean acidification puts the entire Arctic food web at risk. The rate of change challenges even the most adaptable of organisms.”

That climate upheaval was evident when we arrived at Thule Air Base. July temperatures in Greenland soared up to 18 degrees Fahrenheit above normal. (As it turned out, this July proved to be the hottest month ever recorded on the planet.) Nearly 200 billion tons of ice on the Greenland icecap melted that month. A record 55 billion tons disappeared from July 30 to August 3 — two days before the expedition ended. Wildfires, which until just a few years ago were virtually unheard of in Greenland, were burning the tundra both there and across the Arctic at a record rate. Just before the Oden departed for Canada, hikers on Greenland’s Arctic Circle Trail were being told to avoid a portion of the 100-mile route linking Sisimiut and Kangerlussuaq after two Americans had to be evacuated when they become disoriented in thick smoke.

By the time the Oden set sail, more than 100 “intense and long-lived wildfires” had already burned above the Arctic Circle this summer, according to the European-based Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service. In June alone, these fires emitted as much as 50 megatons of carbon dioxide, equal to what all of Sweden emits in a year. Soot from these fires was falling on and darkening the icecaps and glaciers we steamed past, absorbing more heat from the sun.

As the Oden sailed from the Thule base, located at 76 degrees north, into the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, the fact that sea ice loss was on track to break the record set in 2012 became increasingly obvious. There was no ice for the Oden to break through as it crossed Baffin Bay, nor was there any appreciable ice in Lancaster Sound, north of Baffin Island — all of which meant that polar bears and walruses in the area were being deprived of a crucial platform on which to hunt and rest.

A polar bear in the Barrow Strait. As summer sea ice disappears in the High Arctic, polar bears are losing crucial platforms on which to hunt and rest.

A polar bear in the Barrow Strait. As summer sea ice disappears in the High Arctic, polar bears are losing crucial platforms on which to hunt and rest.ED STRUZIK/YALE E360

On this oceanographic expedition, the scientists and students on the Oden weren’t as focused on seeing wildlife or seabirds, as they were in tracking the changes in sea ice, ocean temperature, and seawater chemistry that are driving ecosystem shifts in the region. Significant changes in one or more of these areas, said Gong, could trigger major transformations in the ecosystem. Scientists are already seeing this in Hudson Bay, where capelin have overtaken Arctic cod as the chief source of prey for seabirds such as thick-billed murres. In the central and eastern Arctic, where we were sailing, Inuit fishermen have even caught Pacific salmon, far from their home range.

Gibson Porter, a young Inuit man from Gjoa Haven, shared similar observations one morning when we were on the bridge of the Oden. Porter’s village was named in honor of the ship, the Gjoa, which was commanded by polar explorer Roald Amundsen, whose 1903-1906 expedition was the first to traverse the Northwest Passage. On that voyage, Amundsen spent nearly two years trapped in ice in a harbor near Gjoa Haven.

As Porter flipped through a book on birds, he began telling me about the changes he and other Inuit were witnessing in his village and on surrounding King William Island. At least four grizzly bears have taken up residence on the island, an unprecedented event in Inuit memory. Indeed, grizzly bears are extending their reach hundreds of miles from the mainland of the western Arctic, sometimes even mating with polar bears.

“We’re seeing all kinds of birds and animals that we have never seen before — gray jays, mallards, and Bank’s swallow, which is almost never found north of the Hudson Bay lowlands,” said Porter.

An abandoned Hudson's Bay trading post on Somerset Island that was shut down in 1948 because supply ships could not get through the thick sea ice.

An abandoned Hudson's Bay trading post on Somerset Island that was shut down in 1948 because supply ships could not get through the thick sea ice.COURTESY OF TOMER KETTER

Not long after our conversation, the Oden anchored at the southern end of Prince Regent Sound near Bellot Strait so that a few of us could be helicoptered to Fort Ross, site of an abandoned Hudson’s Bay Company trading post on the southern end of Somerset Island. The post was shut down in 1948 because supply ships could not find a way through thick ice. Standing on a rock-strewn rise, we could see two polar bears on a platform of sea ice searching for seals. The quintessential Arctic scene stood in sharp contrast to a new one that presents itself here each summer. Now, as many as eleven cruise ships sail through Bellot Strait so that tourists from around the world can disembark.

Another Inuit member of our expedition, educator Mia Otokiak, said that on her native Cambridge Island, thawing permafrost is creating giant sinkholes that have swallowed up snowmobiles and all-terrain vehicles. Thousands of muskox on Victoria Island, where she lives, have fallen ill, some fatally, as a result a novel form of lungworm; researchers believe that warmer Arctic temperatures are enabling the worm’s larvae to flourish. The Dolphin and Union caribou herd, which spends the summer on Victoria Island and the winter on the mainland, has been reduced to 15,000, half of their number in the 1990s. Warming temperatures have resulted in animals breaking through melting sea ice as they move to and from the mainland.

“It used to be that we didn’t have to go far to hunt caribou and muskox,” she added. “But that’s not the case anymore. There are some people who still deny that is because of climate change, but that is getting harder to do.”

During our voyage through Barrow Strait, scientists drilled cores into the melting sea ice. Initially, scientist Alessandra D’Angelo, a post-doctoral student at the University of Rhode Island’s School of Oceanography, wasn’t sure what to make of the red beads and colored threads that dominated the ice core samples she saw under the microscope. But a second look by colleague Jacob Strock confirmed what they both suspected: The rainbow of colors represented microscopic plastic particles.

Scientist Jacob Strock examines microscopic particles of plastic trapped in sea ice.
Scientists found microscopic particles of plastic trapped in sea ice.

Project scientist Jacob Strock examines microscopic particles of plastic trapped in sea ice [right]. ED STRUZIK/YALE E360

“It’s both an exciting and depressing discovery,” said University of Rhode Island oceanographer Brice Loose. “You’d assume that the Arctic is pristine and unaffected by the pollution that is occurring in other parts of the world. But that is clearly not the case.”

Given the difficulty and expense of conducting research in the Arctic, scientists say they are struggling to monitor the region’s transformation. The need for more research was driven home when we reached Prince Leopold Island, the second-to-last last stop on our journey back to Greenland. Rising to a height of 870 feet in the middle of Barrow Strait, this barren island is dominated by a flat-topped mountain bluntly cropped on all sides by scree slopes that descend at angles of nearly 90 degrees. As lifeless and uninviting as it looks from a distance, Prince Leopold is the most important bird sanctuary in the Canadian Arctic. Hundreds of thousands of birds, representing 47 species, breed on the island.

Unfortunately, bird research on Prince Leopold Island largely ended in 2012 due to a lack of funding. After the research was shut down, Canadian Wildlife Service seabird expert Tony Gaston wrote a paper outlining the dramatic changes he and others had documented on Prince Leopold over a 37-year period. Rain, Gaston pointed out, never fell heavily on the island until the turn of this century, when it occurred 13 times in 12 years. Ivory gulls, once a common visitor, have not been seen since 2003. Peregrine falcons, which were never seen in the 1970s, have been observed frequently since 2000. Gaston’s list of changes is long, and he and others say ongoing monitoring is needed to keep track of these shifts. One result of the paucity of research and planning is that only 5 to 7 percent of the biological hotspots in the Canadian Arctic — places like Prince Leopold Island — are protected in some way, according to a recent paper.

Lancaster Sound, south of Devon Island, was largely ice-free during the voyage, unusual for this time of year.

Lancaster Sound, south of Devon Island, was largely ice-free during the voyage, unusual for this time of year.COURTESY OF TOMER KETTER

By the time our 18-day expedition ended, researchers had collected more than 1,500 chlorophyll samples, which identify what kind of phytoplankton and bacteria are present at various depths in the open ocean and beneath the ice. The nature of these species tends to differ with temperature, water pressure, and chemistry. It will be some time before this and other oceanographic data are fully analyzed. But no one doubts that these snapshots of what is happening in the Arctic Ocean will reaffirm that a new Arctic is unfolding. “The question that remains to be answered,” said Gong, “is how and in what ways.”

When we returned to Thule, we were again greeted by exceptionally balmy weather, with temperatures nearing 70 degrees F. As we waited for a C-17 to fly us back to New York, many of us sunned ourselves in shirtsleeves on the outdoor patio of the community center. There was not cloud in the sky, nor any sea ice in the ocean. The only reminder that we were in northern Greenland were the icebergs drifting by that had calved off the island’s rapidly melting glaciers.

Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on August 29, 2019, 01:50:58 pm
We Need to Plant Many New Amazon Equivalents, Not Destroy Our Existing One
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https://youtu.be/PZS4kE1xv_E

Paul Beckwith
Published on Aug 27, 2019

If the entire Amazon burned down, a release of 90 Pg of carbon to the atmosphere, equivalent to a 40 ppm rise in atmospheric CO2, was mentioned in the previous video description based on Yadvinder Malhi blog. By the same token, if people on Earth got their act together and planted a new Amazon (about 390 billion trees, estimated from Amazon Wikipedia) this would drawdown about 40 ppm (90 Pg) or 10% of atmospheric concentration. At present, atmospheric CO2 rises 2-3 ppm/year, so 40 ppm is only between13-20 years worth of global emissions.

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Vital Significance of Amazon Rainforest as Carbon Sink
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https://youtu.be/raQdEwJIMaM

Paul Beckwith
Published on Aug 27, 2019

How significant, on a global scale, is the Amazon Rainforest? Best I can tell, correct annual numbers are: Tropical rainforests account for 34% of land-based global photosynthesis; Amazon Rainforest is almost half that, namely 16%.

Total oxygen produced by land-based photosynthesis is 330 Pg, thus Amazon is 54 Pg. Ocean phytoplankton oxygen production is 240 Pg. Total global photosynthesis is 330 + 240 = 570 Pg of oxygen (58% land, 42% ocean).

Amazon produces 54/570=9.5% of total global oxygen; with carbon sink being 9.5% of global plant total sink.


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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: Surly1 on August 29, 2019, 03:55:59 pm
Massive Siberian forest fire could melt permafrost, freeing massive methane stores (https://www.salon.com/2019/08/27/massive-siberian-forest-fire-could-melt-permafrost-freeing-massive-methane-stores/?fbclid=IwAR28_M3ZuMP5KtHupg2MSQjouQMDp9rxo8R61j518qwk2s_qEZhUB6gMtls)
Not 'could', but WILL melt the permafrost. Why create doubt when none is needed?
It's not just the Amazon: If the Siberian fires lead to permafrost melt, Earth may suffer a massive methane spike.
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NICOLE KARLIS
AUGUST 27, 2019 10:45PM (UTC)

It is not just the Amazon rainforest that is burning. More than 21,000 square miles of forest caught on fire in Siberia this month. That means that Russia is on track for its worst year on record for wildfires.

Since July, wildfires have been spreading in northern Krasnoyarsk Krai, the Sakha Republic, and in Zabaykalsky Krai, where the fires began. At the end of the month, the Siberian forest fire stretched across 6.4 million acres.

According to the Russian News Agency TASS, the Krasnoyarsk Forest Fire Center said that the causes of these forest fires were natural, originating in a combination of high temperatures, strong gusts of wind, and dry thunderstorms with lightning strikes. The average temperature for that region is typically between 58 and 65 degrees Fahrenheit in the summer; lately, temperatures have been recorded in the high 80s.

Russia has the largest forested area in the world, and the northern forests cover about 45 percent of the country. Scientists estimate that Russia's forests constitute 19 percent of all world forests in terms of area. Likewise, Scientific American reports that boreal forests like those in Siberia sequester 300 to 600 million tons of carbon dioxide every year. That is a huge chunk of the 1.5 billion tons of carbon sequestered overall by Earth's boreal forests.

A majority of the fires are in inaccessible areas. Russian president Vladimir Putin and officials have reportedly said they will only extinguish them if the cost of destruction is more than the price to put them out, which is not yet the case. This fire-righting strategy is based on a law from 2015.

Yet critics say that is not the right strategy, partly because the smoke from the wildfires has traveled and lingers in the nearby cities of Novosibirsk and Krasnoyars. These cities are hundreds of miles from the epicenter of the wildfires, yet are homes to millions of people, posing serious health threats.

“When the law was drafted in 2015, it never occurred to anyone that the wind would be able to bring smoke from the fires so far,” Andrey Sirin, director of the Institute of Forest Science at the Russian Academy of Sciences, was quoted as saying in the Los Angeles Times. “Often the damage to people’s health is much worse than the damage to the economy.”

However, similar to the fire in the Amazon rainforest, there could be a huge price to pay for letting these fires rage on their own. Like the Amazonian fires, the Siberian fires have the potential to accelerate global warming.

“These fires should have been put out at the very beginning, but were ignored due to weak policies. Now it has grown into a climate catastrophe that can not be stopped by human means,” Greenpeace Russia wildland fire expert and volunteer firefighter Anton Beneslavskiy said in a statement. “Russia should increase efforts in forest protection and provide sufficient funding for firefighting and fire prevention. The problem of wildfires should be addressed at the international level in the global climate agreements to keep global warming below 1.5°C.”

Since the wildfires are up north, their ash and soot, which releases black carbon, pose a massive threat to the Arctic region’s ice sheets. They could accelerate melting, which will increase the amount of carbon released into the atmosphere. With less nearby forest to absorb it, this carbon will contribute to global warming at an unprecedented rate. Likewise, melting of the ice sheets might free previously-trapped permafrost methane, a greenhouse gas more potent than carbon dioxide and which is not absorbed in photosynthesis.

“We think we have a handle on the trajectory of warming, but if we have this unexpectedly large release of methane from permafrost, then we’re going to have to change our assumptions about how fast warming is going to occur, and that change would be faster,” Brian Brettschneider, a climatologist and post doctoral fellow at the International Arctic Research Center at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, told Time magazine.

As the Arctic faces extreme weather, that could increase temperatures across the world.

“Cold air has to come from somewhere, cold air doesn’t just magically appear, and that somewhere has to be accounted for in the entire energy balance of the Earth. Right now the whole Earth has just warmed up,” Brettschneider said.

Some scientists aren’t surprised by the erratic temperature in the Arctic. Philip Higuera, a fire ecologist at the University of Montana, told BBC: “I’m not surprised – these are all the things we have been predicting for decades.

Despite Russia’s lack of effort to put the fires out, some experts say what is really needed is a massive rainfall.

“You need a huge amount of precipitation to fall to put these out – but if you get just a moderate amount of rain, that often comes with lightning, which can just blow things up thanks to the methane in the peat, and just make it worse,” biologist Merritt Turetsky of the University of Guelph, in Ontario, Canada, told the BBC.

NICOLE KARLIS

Nicole Karlis is a news writer at Salon. She covers health, science, tech and gender politics. Tweet her @nicolekarlis.

Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on August 29, 2019, 04:54:28 pm
Massive Siberian forest fire could WILL melt permafrost, freeing massive methane stores (http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/climate-change/global-warming-is-with-us/msg13447/#msg13447)

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“You need a huge amount of precipitation to fall to put these out – but if you get just a moderate amount of rain, that often comes with lightning, which can just blow things up thanks to the methane in the peat, and just make it worse,” biologist Merritt Turetsky of the University of Guelph, in Ontario, Canada, told the BBC.

And there is the Russian Rub, so to speak. Massive fires in the Taiga reduce tree cover. Less trees means less transpiration. Less transpiration, a process by which trees everywhere, like in the Amazon (before all the fires), inject humidity into the atmosphere that produces rain, means less rain. There is a drying momentum going on in Russia (and several other places with large forests on Earth, including the amazon). Up until around 1997, the Earth was still getting somewhat greener. AFTER the year 2000, an overwhelming amount of the Earth has been browning (see below).
 
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Earth stopped getting greener 20 YEARS ago. 😲  (http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/climate-change/global-warming-is-with-us/msg13410/#msg13410)

And then there is the melting permafrost ...

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: Surly1 on August 30, 2019, 06:50:44 am
NASA Images Capture Worst Siberian Wildfires in 10,000 Years (https://www.sciencealert.com/nasa-images-capture-worst-siberian-wildfires-in-10-000-years)

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CARLY CASSELLA 30 JUN 2017
Every year, Siberia is struck by wildfires that destroy great swathes of boreal forest.  But climate change has caused wildfire activity in Siberia to increase radically over the past few decades.

The boreal forests in Siberia are burning at extraordinary rates, unheard of in at least 10,000 years, and climate change projections predict even more wildfires to come.

The current wildfires, which started in late June, have already burned roughly 538 square kilometres (133,000 acres) of forest in southern Siberia.

Climate change has been increasing temperatures across the globe, but northernmost regions, like Siberia, are experiencing temperature inclines at twice the rate.  Since November, temperatures in southern Siberia have been up 4°C (7.2°F) from the average.  And as the weather turns drier and warmer, the forests in the region become more and more prone to wildfires.

These wildfires are a direct threat to the role of Siberian forests in absorbing carbon emissions.

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Credit: NASA Earth Observatory

Each year, the Russian forests absorb a net 500 million tonnes of carbon from the atmosphere.

Last Friday, two NASA satellites captured the destructive and widespread impact of these wildfires on the region.

The images from the Aqua satellite reveal a series of wildfires and towers of smoke, riddled across southern Siberia.

The second satellite, Suomi NPP, measured the air quality in the region and found the aerosol index reached over 19, indicating very dense smoke at high altitudes.

According to NASA Earth Observatory, scientists are also currently investigating three possible pyrocumulus cloud formations in the area, which can alter local climates by lofting ash and particles high into the atmosphere.

But the most devastating impact of these wildfires cannot be seen from a satellite.

Siberian boreal forests play a crucial role in the carbon cycle, making up nearly 10 percent of the planet's land surface and housing more than 30 percent of the carbon on Earth.

That means that when these forests burn, they are releasing vast quantities of carbon into the atmosphere. The loss of carbon absorption in combination with the release of carbon, creates a vicious cycle that leads to more global warming and, as a result, more wildfires.

Not to mention, these wildfires can also hasten the melting of Arctic ice, which is already disappearing at alarming rates. This occurs when the fires produce hordes of soot that fall on snow and ice, darkening their surface and causing them to absorb more sunlight.

And it's not just Siberia, either.

Over the past decade, global warming has caused a series of destructive wildfires in Canada and Alaska, too. Last year, a wildfire in Fort McMurray, Alberta became the costliest natural disaster in Canadian history.

And, according to Climate Central research, wildfire season in Alaska is 40 percent longer and large fires twice as common as they were 75 years ago.

Finding a way to stop these wildfires from occurring or from burning out of control will be pivotal in our fight against climate change.

Scientists have their work cut out for them.
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on August 30, 2019, 02:51:06 pm
Yep. IOW, it will get worse, no matter what the techno-fix wishful thinkers come up with.

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No ethics = no solution, PERIOD.

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on August 31, 2019, 09:03:53 pm
Climatologist J. Mach: "The Story of Retreat as a Climate Response is Just Beginning"
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In today's Chronicle of the Collapse, I read an article from Science Daily titled, "The Case For Retreat In the Battle Against Climate Change." Here is a link to the rest of the article:
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on August 31, 2019, 09:28:11 pm
"We Are Living In the Most Dramatic Era of Road and Infrastructure Expansion in Human History" (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F1%2F3-120818185039-1650578.gif&hash=f338daee4cd9cad66dc5bc5437615c9725fbc67d)
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 01, 2019, 04:24:04 pm
John Doyle - Climate reality check for UN humanitarian agencies
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Published on Sep 1, 2019

John Doyle is a long time staff member of the EU in Brussels with over 2 decades of responsibility in the environmental area.  He is about as frustrated and disillusioned with what he has experienced as one can get, after all that time and effort he's spent trying to strengthen environmental laws and practices in the EU and among its trading partners, only to see the weak, lack of, and/or counter-productive responses. 

Stuart Scott was asked to make a 'reality check' presentation in May 2019 in Geneva Switzerland, to UN agencies with responsibility for humanitarian impacts of climate change.  With a new cancer diagnosis, Stuart was unable to travel and John provided a highly qualified alternative speaker.  In thanks for his effort, and the strong presentation he made, we are offering it here.

The presentation was said to have shaken up UN HQ in New York when screened there for senior staff.  Diplomacy is the art and science of posturing, distortions and fabrications about underlying false mental positions about reality.  We are operating under a global political network of self-delusional agencies and individuals who seem to believe that if they just keep repeating a false narrative about reality it will become true and real.

Parties to the climate talks need to stop talking so much and start acting.  But for this to happen, the world's citizens need to take them to account.  The Student Strikes and other civil disobedience are what's needed, but much more of it.  One day a week of student striking is an inadequate response for a future being stolen for a full seven-days a week forever.

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 02, 2019, 09:06:54 pm
Grand Bahama is being destroyed by :(.
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: Surly1 on September 03, 2019, 07:33:38 am
The hellish future of Las Vegas in the climate crisis: 'a place where we never go outside' (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/sep/02/las-vegas-climate-crisis-extreme-heat-hellish-future)

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The Clark county death investigator Jill Roberts vividly recalls the sunny 115F (46C) afternoon last summer when she entered a Las Vegas home with no functional air conditioning. The indoor heat felt even worse than the broiling temperature outside. She climbed up the stairs, through thick, stifling air, landing in a third-story bedroom where the resident had died in sweltering conditions. The room had no fan and the door was shut. It felt as if it couldn’t get any hotter.

“Our elements are unforgiving. Especially on those 115F days, it doesn’t take a lot,” Roberts told the Guardian. “In that situation I’ll go stand in the sun in the 115F heat to do my paperwork as opposed to staying in the house because it’s that hot.”

The coroner’s office in Clark county, which encompasses Las Vegas, often records heat as a contributing factor to accidental deaths. There are hikers succumbing to lethal temperatures in the surrounding desert and heat-related deaths in cars and homes when occupants forgo cooling. Roberts has seen homeless people with post-mortem burns from collapsing on hot streets.

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. And it will get worse. Las Vegas is the fastest warming city in the United States, its temperatures having risen 5.76F since 1970. A June study of coroner data by the Las Vegas-based Desert Research Institute found a correlation between heat waves and heat-related deaths in southern Nevada, both of which, they say, are on the rise. And a recent Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) report warns that without global action to reduce carbon emissions, the city will likely experience 96 days of heat above 100F by the end of the century, including 60 days over 105F, and 7 “off the chart” days that would break the current heat index.

Every city has its own challenges in adapting to climate change, even those that are supposedly accustomed to severe heat. In Las Vegas, a laissez-faire attitude toward growth has allowed high temperatures to become even more deadly, and the scorching heat now threatens the city’s basic functionality.

Like the tourist guzzling alcohol by the resort pool, smiling and flirting until he faints from dehydration, southern Nevada has welcomed unfettered development since the 1930s – the advent of the home cooling era – when its population began to double in size nearly every decade despite limited water resources and increased drought. The resorts have long been the economic driver. Over a third of the area’s workforce is supported by the 40 million visitors a year who descend on their gargantuan hotel towers, bustling casinos and massive convention halls. And as tourism grows, so does the population.

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During the boom years before the 2008 housing crisis, hundreds of miles of desert landscape were paved over with heat-absorbing asphalt and concrete, worsening a “heat island” effect in the cauldron-like valley. Outward growth also led to vehicles motoring further across the sprawling metropolis, increasing heat-trapping carbon emissions.

Now, with growth having continued each year since 2011, and new home developments returning to boom-era levels, Sin City is reckoning with a future that looks downright hellish.

“The thing about Vegas is, we always do feast and famine,” said Tick Segerblom, a former state senator who now sits on the Clark county commission, which governs the Las Vegas Valley. “We never bother to say, ‘Where are going? What are we doing?’”

During summer months, when Las Vegas city buses break down notoriously often, many pedestrians carry umbrellas to protect their skin, and those without cover often “shadow walk”, following the shade of palm trees, signs and buildings to avoid direct exposure to a sunshine that can cause humans to overheat.

The city’s poorest residents are most at risk. Fans and cooling systems can save lives, said Jill Roberts, the coroner office investigator, “but some people just don’t have the funds to fix their air conditioning or have working equipment.”

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Hundreds of homeless people living in the city choose to camp in storm drains rather than sleep above ground – another dystopian irony to the city’s reputation for glitz and glamor. Those who dislike the tunnels often have to work hard to stay cool. Marcy Averett, 49, and her husband spend 15 hours a day collecting recyclables. But each day before they set off, they buy ice.

“I have to have cold water. I don’t know how people do it with hot water,” she told the Guardian on an August afternoon as she dragged a shopping cart filled with aluminum cans out of the blistering sun, into the shade of a highway overpass. An orange cooler hung from the side of her cart. Averett had a spray bottle to mist her face and neck, and applied lip balm as we spoke. “I put medicated moisturizer on my lips constantly, all day every day, and my lips are still ****. It’s this heat.”

Like many other rapidly warming cities across the United States, Vegas has only recently begun to reckon with its future.

“The real question is, do we want a place where we just go from our houses to our cars to our offices, and never go outside because it’s too hot?” Segerblom, the former state senator, asked. “How many months of the year is that tenable?”

Rachel Licker of the Union of Concerned Scientists warned that southern Nevada’s productivity and essential services will become increasingly stressed as temperatures rise – construction projects will slow or stop more frequently to ensure worker safety; police and postal workers may be impacted; and since studies show school children perform worse as temperatures rise, teachers may need to adjust testing schedules and standards for days if not months at a time.

Meanwhile, power surges may become more common if increased demand overwhelms electrical grids, leaving the people most sensitive to heat illness such as children and the elderly without a cooling system when it’s needed most.

“Even though people in Las Vegas might be used to high levels of heat, it’s going to get even hotter, and we don’t know how much they’re going to be able to withstand,” Licker said.

As Las Vegas Valley reaches its limits, many in the community believe now is an opportune time to contemplate the future of the city. “What do we want to be when we grow up?” said Segerblom. “Is there a way to manage this valley that’s good for the quality of life of the citizens of Nevada, not just for the tourists and hotels?”

He noted that while state and federal policies get the most media attention, municipal governments can impact the environment just as well. Planting more native trees and shrubs, enforcing energy-efficient building standards, zoning to promote upward rather than outward growth, and developing alternatives to blacktop roads and concrete sidewalks are all policies that could have a major impact.

To lessen its own carbon footprint, the city of Las Vegas already began powering all government buildings and streetlights with renewable energy in 2016. The state’s largest energy consumers, the multi-thousand room hotels and casinos on the strip, have also made environmental sustainability a priority in recent years. MGM Resorts has over 20 acres of solar panels atop the Mandalay Bay convention center, and much of the electricity flowing through properties like the Bellagio, Luxor and New York, New York comes from a solar array in the Mojave Desert.

“We do feel it’s our responsibility to find innovative ways to use less energy and procure clean energy for our resorts,” said Mark Campbell, MGM Resorts’ executive director of sustainability. The company also donates unserved banquet food to a local food bank and uses smart thermostats to avoid cooling vacant rooms.

For their part, Nevada voters passed a ballot initiative requiring state utilities to get 50% of their electricity from renewable sources by 2030. As a constitutional amendment, the proposal needs to pass a second time to take effect. But state lawmakers made that vote moot by adopting the standards on their own, on Earth Day 2019, through a legislative bill that received unanimous support. Nevada is rare state now in which reducing carbon emissions has become a bipartisan concern.

In seeking more access to clean energy sources, the state hopes to get ahead of the dilemma posed by longer and more intensive air conditioning seasons that amount to more greenhouse gas emissions spewed into the air.

“Heat is currently the top killer for weather-related hazards in the United States,” said Licker. “Those kinds of numbers would just get worse if we’re headed toward really significant climate change.”
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 03, 2019, 12:47:17 pm
Agelbert NOTE: Thank God Dorian is now moving away from Grand Bahama. Hurricane Dorian Finally Moving Again; Hurricane Watch Extended into North Carolina (https://weather.com/storms/hurricane/news/2019-09-03-hurricane-dorian-florida-georgia-carolinas-forecast-tuesday?cm_ven=wu_videos?cm_ven=hp-slot-1)

"Life-Threatening Inundation" - Hurricane Dorian Set To Hammer The East Coast All Week Long
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Update (1100ET): Some relative good news - AP reports that Hurricane Dorian has been downgraded to a Category 2 storm.

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This is the worst natural disaster that the Bahamas have ever seen.

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A scene of devastation in Abaco #hurricanedorian

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For hour after hour, Hurricane Dorian has remained almost stationary over the islands, and the devastation is immense.  Power poles are being snapped like twigs, vehicles are being tossed about like toys, and thousands upon thousands of homes have already been destroyed.

However, as End of The American Dream's Michael Snyder notes, while the good news is that Dorian is now just a Category 4 storm, the bad news is that it will continue to move at a “glacial pace” for the rest of this week.

Bands of heavy rain are already pummeling Florida, and the storm is going to slowly crawl up the east coast in the coming days.  In fact, according to the latest projection the storm will still be south of Washington D.C. on Friday afternoon.

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And remember, this is just a forecast.  If the track of the storm deviates to the left just a little bit, Hurricane Dorian will actually make landfall somewhere along the east coast.  The following is an excerpt from the update that the National Hurricane Center just released…

Dorian remains nearly stationary just north of Grand Bahama Island. A slow west-northwestward motion is expected to resume overnight and continue into early Tuesday. A turn toward the northwest is forecast by late Tuesday, with a northeastward motion forecast to begin by Wednesday night. On this track, the core of extremely dangerous Hurricane Dorian will continue to pound Grand Bahama Island into Tuesday morning. The hurricane will then move dangerously close to the Florida east coast late Tuesday through Wednesday evening and then move dangerously close to the Georgia and South Carolina coasts on Wednesday night and Thursday.


But even if the eye never makes landfall, this storm will still have a tremendous impact on communities all along the east coast over the course of this upcoming week.

In fact, evacuation orders were just issued for a million more people…

The governors of South Carolina and Georgia ordered at least 1 million people to evacuate their coasts beginning Monday after Hurricane Dorian left devastation in the northwest Bahamas and headed for the U.S. East Coast.

South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster and Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp both announced mandatory evacuation orders to take effect at noon Monday in advance of the slow-moving, Category 5 hurricane.

In addition, it is being reported that more than 1,200 flights were canceled on Monday alone…

Airlines have canceled about 1,275 Monday flights within, into, or out of the United States because of Hurricane Dorian as of 4:30 p.m. Eastern, according to flight tracker FlightAware.

Florida airports account for the bulk of the cancellations, with Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport topping the list after the airportannounced plans to close at noon Monday. According to FlightAware, there are 548 flight cancellations to and from Fort Lauderdale, home to big operations for Southwest, Spirit and JetBlue.

Even though wind speeds have diminished a bit, Dorian remains an extremely dangerous Category 4 hurricane, and everyone should be taking it very seriously.

Just look at what is happening in the Bahamas right now.  According to the Daily Mail, the main airport is currently “under five feet of water”…

In the Bahamas, Dorian brought gusts of 225mph and up to 30 inches of rainfall on Sunday, wrecked 13,000 homes, tore down power lines and left Grand Bahama International Airport in Freeport under five feet of water by Monday morning. Experts have also warned of a possible storm surge that could send destructive waves crashing into the coast.

Dorian is the second-strongest Atlantic storm on record, and the joint-strongest ever to make landfall, after it barreled into the Bahamas with wind speeds of 185mph on Sunday.

Of course the Bahamas have seen many hurricanes before, but in all this time there has never been a storm quite like this…

Before Dorian, its worst storm was the 1932 Bahamas hurricane, which passed by with 160 mph winds as a Category 5. Hurricane Andrew in 1992 also passed just south of Dorian’s Bahamian landfall zone but wasn’t nearly as strong as Dorian.

Thousands of homes have literally been swallowed by rising water, and even residences that are 20 to 25 feet above sea level were in danger of being engulfed.

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Minister of Agriculture and Marco City MP Michael Pintard, who lives on Grand Bahama, showing some utterly frightening footage of his home during the passage of Hurricane Dorian.

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Many local residents were not able to escape the flooding, and that included an 8-year-old boy that was the very first reported fatality from the storm.

In the end, the total death toll is likely to be quite high, but that isn’t stopping some idiots from going out in the middle of the storm and trying to perfrom ridiculous stunts for social media…

Several videos posted on social media have shown people in the Bahamas braving the dangerous conditions during the Category 5 hurricane.

One man shared a clip of himself battling strong winds and being soaked by rain, saying he was 80 miles away from the eye and yet still dealing with awful weather.

While footage thought to have been filmed in Marsh Harbour, Nassau, the Bahamas, showed a man trying to navigate a small boat in the choppy waters.

The east coast is the next target for Dorian, and meteorologists are telling us that it will be pummeling the coastline all week long.

And this could potentially just be the beginning, because at this point the National Hurricane Center is tracking four more storms…


As Hurricane Dorian approaches Florida, the National Hurricane Center is keeping track of four potential tropical systems that could become the next tropical depression and possibly Tropical Storm Fernand.

As of 8 a.m. Monday, the most likely candidate is a tropical wave that formed off Africa that was first investigated on Friday is now located 300 miles west of the Cape Verde Islands. It’s moving northwest across the eastern tropical Atlantic Ocean, the hurricane center said.

So if you live in the Southeast, continue to get prepared, because it looks like this could definitely be “a September to remember”.

We live at a time when hurricanes are getting bigger and more powerful than ever before, and scientists tell us that it is just a matter of time before a disaster even worse than Hurricane Katrina happens.

Let us pray that such a disaster is put off for as long as possible, and let us also be in prayer for those in the Bahamas that are suffering so much right now.

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-09-03/life-threatening-inundation-hurricane-dorian-set-hammer-east-coast-all-week-long

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 03, 2019, 03:55:49 pm
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This screenshot is quite good. We have known everything we needed to know for some years, and have just not cared. Somewhere in my reading today I came across the assertion that in order to make a difference, people in the developed world will have to live on one sixth of their current income/standard of living.

If you listen carefully, you can hear the collective "fat chance" from the wealthy, and
"You first" from the rest of us.


True that about the sentient termites (i.e. the ethically bankrupt = wealthy).

Please do not include me in the rest of us. I have publicly advocated for living with the power cut off from my house for 12 hours a day (not "you first", but all of us, including businesses, at once) in summer (AND winter) for well over a decade, for the purpose of reducing polluting energy use. Yeah, I have not actually hit the main power panel switch 12 hours a day (see: ALL of us together). I haven't turned it off at all. Still, my use is WAY BELOW what the average American wastrel considers "necessary". On top of that. Green Mountain Power is moving fast to 100% renewable energy. 

I have been frugal to a fault for at least 20 years. Though my "life style" may be considered too far above that of a slave in Africa to be "sustainable" by the hairsplitters (and hydrocarbon hellspawn out there, of course), I am 100% certain that if everyone on this planet had not bought any clothing, including shoes, for the last 12 years, gone without a water heater for the last four years (4 gallon "showers" - once a week or less frequent, period ;D), gone without a microwave oven for the last two years, driven less than 2000 miles a year for the last 13 years, despite saving 30% of my small pension a year, stayed OUT of the stock market in general (and hydrocarbon corporation stocks in particular), the biosphere would have a fighting chance AND the mammon worshippers would be a lot less popular and planet killing "prosperous" than they are now. I am not part of the Age of Stupid.

I learned of a bit of good news today. We take what we can. Reality is slowly (perhaps too slowly, but it's better than nothing), overcoming 🐵 Wall Street (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-040718162655-14231561.gif&hash=98b427175ee380f6d3c313520cc8668c10f2172a) Hydrocarbon Hellspawn worship.

🦖 👹 Exxon Mobil Corp (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F2%2F3-190419235756.png&hash=ddd7a71acf6ff0420a63e797c27fdcad27734e3e) is poised to drop out of the S&P 500 Index’s 10 biggest companies for the first time since the index’s inception some 90 years ago.   (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-141113185047.png&hash=384024358ff8d5e7133d19b6e6638da4584a8154)  (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-08-30/exxon-poised-to-drop-from-s-p-500-s-top-10-for-first-time-ever)


The article has some "supply and demand" BULLSHIT happy talk about "the abundance of fossil fuels out there now," as if this was a temporary thing. It's NOT. For proof of that, just look at a hydrocarbon stock I warned the fossil fueler MKing to drop about four years ago. I told him it was going to tank  (http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/renewables/profiting-from-renewable-energy-place-your-mock-or-real-porfolios-here/msg2539/#msg2539)and WHY it was going to tank (http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/fossil-fuel-folly/fossil-fuel-profits-getting-eaten-alive-by-renewable-energy!/msg2398/#msg2398).

He laughed it off. I hope he kept lots of SLB (Schlumberger) stock in his portfolio. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F2%2F3-010519192158-2201430.jpeg&hash=e912e1f5bdc041c35e217478b14ba3f7960e2037)

SLB was around $86 a share when I issued the warning. It's been all downhill since then. This year the hill turned into a cliff.

 
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 03, 2019, 04:52:12 pm
September 3, 2019

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Alaska's Sea Ice Completely Melted for First Time in Recorded History

DAHR JAMAIL, TRUTHOUT

During one of the hottest Julys on record, all of the sea ice within 150 miles of Alaska's shore melted for the first time in recorded histroy. In Iceland, the Okjökull glacier, which once covered 16 square kilometers, is no more, and in Greenland, the ice sheet lost an unprecedented 12.5 billion tons of water in a single day in August. As the planet melts before our eyes, we are witnessing the death of a world we have known and the beginning of another that portends drought, wildfires, famine, disease and war.

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 04, 2019, 04:12:40 am
CNN Is Giving 2020 Democrats 7 Hours To Talk About Climate Change 👍👍👍

Last edited Wed Sep 4, 2019

Source: Vox

The 🦕🙊 DNC voted down holding an official presidential climate debate. TV networks have stepped up. 👍

CNN will host a seven-hour marathon of interviews with 10 presidential candidates about climate change on Wednesday beginning at 5 pm Eastern as part of its climate crisis town hall. A live stream of the town hall will air on CNN.com. You can also stream it via CNN apps on iOS, Android, Apple TV, Roku, Amazon Fire, Chromecast, and Android TV. The forum will also be broadcast on SiriusXM Channels 116, 454, 795, and the Westwood One Radio Network.

Here is the format:
•Former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julián Castro will be interviewed by CNN’s Wolf Blitzer at 5 pm ET
•Entrepreneur Andrew Yang will be interviewed by Blitzer at 5:40 pm
•California Sen. Kamala Harris will be interviewed by Erin Burnett at 6:20 pm
•Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar will be interviewed by Burnett at 7 pm
•Former Vice President Joe Biden will be interviewed by Anderson Cooper at 8 pm
•Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders will interviewed by Cooper at 8:40 pm
•Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren will be interviewed by Chris Cuomo at 9:20 pm
•South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg will be interviewed by Cuomo at 10 pm
•Former Rep. Beto O’Rourke will be interviewed Don Lemon at 10:40 pm
•New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker will be interviewed by Lemon at 11:20 pm

The audience will be composed of selected Democrats, independents, and stakeholders. No public tickets will be issued.

That a major television network would devote so much time to a single issue is a sign of how important climate change has become for Democrats and how successful activists have been in elevating the issue.

Climate change has rocketed up the list of concerns for primary voters, with some polls showing climate change as the number one issue and other indicating that strong majorities want robust climate action from the White House. Activists groups like the Sunrise Movement have refused to let the Democratic National Committee ignore the issue, holding sit-ins outside their headquarters to demand a climate debate. - MORE...


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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 04, 2019, 09:32:47 pm
Bahamian Environmental Advocate Calls for Global Climate Action

September 4, 2019

Hurricane Dorian has destroyed entire communities in Abaco and Grand Bahama. ReEarth's Sam Duncombe says if the US—and Bahamian—governments don't take climate action, storms will get even deadlier

https://youtu.be/hgcIE0Daw5I

https://therealnews.com/stories/bahamian-environmental-advocate-calls-for-global-climate-action

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 05, 2019, 12:18:42 pm
Hurricane Dorian Ravages the Bahamas

September 4, 2019

The climate crisis has increased the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events like Hurricane Dorian. Storms like this one are why we must raise our political expectations, says Greenpeace's Jack Shapiro

https://youtu.be/m2WRMbfpCjU

https://therealnews.com/stories/hurricane-dorian-ravages-the-bahamas
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 05, 2019, 08:24:20 pm
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And then there was 🦕 Biden. Picture in your mind a plane crash on top of a train wreck in the middle of an earthquake after an attack by Godzilla, and you’ll still fall short of fully encompassing what the former vice president did to himself on Wednesday night. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F1%2F3-210818163124-1669950.gif&hash=3136c3f2021d13cacae8b9488d005fe8231d2df6)

BY William Rivers Pitt, Truthout

PUBLISHED September 5, 2019

For the first time, the climate crisis was discussed in detail by presidential candidates on live television. During CNN's seven-hour climate town hall, Elizabeth Warren and Cory Booker's handle on policy details, along with their enthusiasm in imparting them, set them apart from the crowd. But this was Bernie Sanders's home turf, and it showed. Joe Biden, by contrast, had perhaps the worst night of his campaign.
 
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Sanders ✨ Shines and 🦕 Biden Crumbles During Epic Town Hall on Climate Crisis (https://truthout.org/articles/sanders-shines-and-biden-crumbles-during-epic-town-hall-on-climate-crisis/)

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 06, 2019, 04:03:42 pm
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Total insured and uninsured losses in the Bahamas amounted to $7 billion, including buildings and business interruptions, according to a preliminary estimate by Karen Clark & Co, a consultancy that provides catastrophic modeling and risk management services.

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International Effort to Aid Bahamas Underway in Dorian’s Wake

By Reuters on Sep 05, 2019 12:20 pm

By Nick Brown NASSAU, Bahamas, Sept 5 (Reuters) – An international relief effort to bring humanitarian aid to stunned residents of the Bahamas gathered pace on Thursday as Hurricane Dorian churned northward off the coast of South Carolina, threatening storm surges and flooding. Aerial video of the worst-hit Abaco Islands in the northern Bahamas showed widespread […] 

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 06, 2019, 04:22:45 pm
EcoWatch

Friday, September 6, 2019

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 06, 2019, 04:41:50 pm
EcoWatch

Friday, September 6, 2019

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Business as usual is what's doing us in.

We live on a planet that finds itself rather suddenly in the midst of an enormous physical crisis. Because we burn so much coal and gas and oil, the atmosphere of our world is changing rapidly, and that atmospheric change is producing record heat. July was the hottest month we've ever recorded. Scientists predict with confidence that we stand on the edge of the sixth great extinction event of the last billion years. People are dying in large numbers and being left homeless; millions are already on the move because they have no choice.

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That's why it's such good news that the climate movement has a new tactic. Pioneered last August by Greta Thunberg of Sweden, it involves disrupting business as usual. It began, of course, in schools: Within months, millions of young people around the world were striking for days at a time from their classes. Their logic was impeccable: If the institutions of our planet can't be bothered to prepare for a world we can live in, why must we spend years preparing ourselves? If you break the social contract, why are we bound by it?
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 06, 2019, 05:48:04 pm
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https://youtu.be/_XQAdyS_oSY

Thom Hartmann Program
Published on Sep 5, 2019
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 06, 2019, 05:52:39 pm
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Fast Company, 09-04-2019

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 06, 2019, 06:25:56 pm
September 5, 2019

Earther: What do you hope voters took away from the town hall?

Larkin: The old frameworks for what is reasonable, they don’t apply anymore. That’s due to the scientific reality of climate change. Moderate, incremental policy is incompatible with a livable planet in the future. But also because the neoliberal project has been so delegitimized, people are looking for an alternative to that. And their eyes are going to find it in a sea of white nationalism and retrenching fascism or they’re going to find it in a vision of a better world, a more just world where everyone takes care of each other. So we should all organize and fight for that better world.

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The Story Behind the Most Heated Moment of CNN's Climate Crisis Town Hall (https://earther.gizmodo.com/the-story-behind-the-most-heated-moment-of-cnns-climate-1837897639?utm_source=earther_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2019-09-06)
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 06, 2019, 10:19:13 pm
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Seemorerocks97
Published on Aug 30, 2019

This is a case of data being used to HIDE reality rather than shine a light on it.

Whereas the world media has had quite a lot to say about the record melting in Greenland there has been silence about the disastrous melt of the Arctic sea ice.

As in previous years, after a fierce melting during July once again we are seeing a reversal of the trend in August.

Or according to the National Snow and Ice Data Center in any case.

LINKS

The Arctic melt has slowed down – REALLY?

http://robinwestenra.blogspot.com/201...

National Snow and Ice Data Center

http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/

NASA Worldview

https://worldview.earthdata.nasa.gov/...

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 09, 2019, 02:12:07 pm
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Conditions ‘Rapidly Deteriorating’ in Bahamas After Dorian -Aid Group 😟

By Reuters on Sep 07, 2019 07:31 pm

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A soldier leads people onto a plane during an evacuation operation after Hurricane Dorian hit the Abaco Islands in Treasure Cay, Bahamas, September 7, 2019. REUTERS/Marco Bello

By Nick Brown and Zachary Fagenson NASSAU, Bahamas, Sept 7 (Reuters) – Thousands of displaced people are living in “rapidly deteriorating” conditions in the worst-hit parts of the Bahamas six days after Hurricane Dorian made landfall, the United Nations World Food Programme warned on Saturday. The warning came as aid groups rushed emergency help to […]  Read full story... (https://gcaptain.com/conditions-rapidly-deteriorating-in-bahamas-after-dorian-aid-group/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Gcaptain+%28gCaptain.com%29&goal=0_f50174ef03-69f8b0908d-169600093&mc_cid=69f8b0908d&mc_eid=1855a0727e)
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 09, 2019, 02:29:26 pm
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Four Missing as Car Carrier Capsizes at Port of Brunswick, Georgia
September 8, 2019 by Mike Schuler

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Golden Bay capsized at port of brunswick - U.S. Coast Guard Photo

Update (Monday, Sept. 9, 2019): Contact Made with Missing Crew Members -Breaking

(Sunday, Sept. 8, 2019): The U.S. Coast Guard and multiple agencies are responding after car carrier became disabled and capsized with a fire on board Sunday morning in St. Simons Sound, Brunswick, Georgia.

A search is underway for four missing people.

The U.S. Coast Guard said it was notified at approximately 2 a.m. on Sunday that the 656-foot vehicle carrier Golden Ray was disabled and listing heavily with a fire on board in the St. Simons Sound. The ship had a total of 24 people on board, including 23 crew members and 1 pilot.

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The Coast Guard reported on Twitter that it and other agencies had multiple rescue assets on scene and were in process of evacuating crew members from the vessel.

Currently, 20 people have been safely removed and four people remain unaccounted for.

#Update Evacuations of the Golden Ray’s crew continue. All vessel traffic in the Port of Brunswick is currently suspended unless approved by the @USCG Captain of the Port. #HappeningNow pic.twitter.com/F7JbdGCShU
— USCGSoutheast (@USCGSoutheast) September 8, 2019

The vessel’s master and chief engineer are assisting authorities and salvage teams to develop plans to stabilize the vessel and continue rescue efforts, the Coast Guard reported.

Coast Guard units involved in the response include:

Two Coast Guard Station Brunswick Response Boat crews
Two Coast Guard Air Station Savannah MH-65 Dolphin helicopter crews
Coast Guard Cutter Heron launched to assist
Coast Guard Sector Charleston
Marine Safety Unit Savannah
Coast Guard Salvage Engineering Response Team (SERT) launched to assist

https://youtu.be/Xdqe4rmbYAo

The Port of Brunswick Captain of the Port (COTP) has established an emergency safety zone in St. Simons Sound. Vessels are not authorized within .5 miles of the overturned ship.

The Port of Brunswick is the second busiest roll-on/roll-off port in the United States and the number one for new auto imports. Port of Brunswick is comprised of three deepwater terminals owned by Georgia Ports Authority, including two directly operated by the GPA.

AIS ship tracking data shows the Marshall Islands-flagged Golden Ray was outbound from the port when it became disabled. The ship has a destination of Baltimore.

The cause of the incident is under investigation.

Also assisting in the response are the Georgia Department of Natural Resources, Moran Towing, SeaTow, Brunswick Bar Pilots Association, and the Glynn County Fire Department.

https://gcaptain.com/four-missing-as-car-carrier-capsizes-at-port-of-brunswick-georgia/

Agelbert NOTE: Global warming is bringing rougher seas. It will get worse.

Climate Change, Blue Water Cargo Shipping and Predicted Ocean Wave Activity: PART 1 of 3 (http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/climate-change/future-earth/msg7380/#msg7380)
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 09, 2019, 04:29:43 pm
Updated June 20, 2022

Agelbert NOTE: I am reposting this article due to the fact that the graphics in the original have been so thoroughly hacked by the 🦖 Hydrocarbon Hellspawn, that anyone trying to read it would be discouraged from the missing graphics. I laboriously recovered the graphics, so the first part is, once again ;D, legible and instructive for those who care about the future of our biosphere and want to know where, EXACTLY, to assign the blame for the continued profit over people and planet multiple extinctions causing rampant degradation. Remember, somebody (i.e. 🦕😈🦖) out there hacked the crude oil tanker picture, the RCP scenario graphics, the scientists 2 degree C rise danger warning pictures and ALL the ECM graphics because they did not want YOU to know the Global Warming facts. All the graphics unrelated to climate change and hydrocarbon fuels were not hacked. The hacking is VERY targeted. For that reason alone, I encourage you to read it and pass it on. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-210614221847.gif&hash=54129e3b65760aaddc6f2d7f42b34a7d839d2f27) (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-141113185047.png&hash=384024358ff8d5e7133d19b6e6638da4584a8154) (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-130418200416.png&hash=15d789b29124aa5a1f1ea397ce630913734b20a4)

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Climate Change, Blue Water Cargo Shipping and Predicted Ocean Wave Activity

PART ONE OF THREE PARTS

In this three part article I explain what the scientific community defines as the "Business as Usual" scenario in regard to atmospheric pollutants fueling Global Warming. A brief review of the existential threat to marine life that this scenario represents will follow.

Subsequently, I discuss global shipping. I provide a summary of the tremendous importance of blue water (deep ocean) cargo shipping to global civilization. You will be surprised at how vital to global civilization blue water cargo shipping is. All the military vessels, all the pleasure yachts and even all the fishing fleets are insignificant in tonnage compared to that of ocean going cargo and tanker vessels.

I then leave the subject of shipping and the types of cargo vessels, which I return to at the end, to provide the reader with a graphic climate history of the Northern Hemisphere, from the last Glacial Maximum to the present, followed by the, scientifically based, predicted sea level and land vegetation changes in the "Business as Usual" scenario within the next 85 years.

The discussion then returns to cargo ships and their behavior in rough seas. I provide graphics to explain what has been learned about ocean waves in the last 40 years that shocked the scientific community and caused them to go back to the drawing board on the science and math formulas of hydrodynamics in regard to maximum wave heights. Some tragic cargo vessel losses from "rogue" waves (that turned out not to be as "rogue" as science had thought) are presented as evidence that the oceans are becoming increasingly dangerous to shipping.

Finally, the Hansen et al paper, published in June of 2015, is referenced as evidence of a coming abrupt sea state change that will make modern blue water surface cargo shipping either too costly or impossible. The reason for this will be explained in detail with graphics showing ocean wave action and modern shipping design limitations.

Included in the last section that ties all the others together is a reference to another scientific paper published in July of this year (2015) that provides evidence that the worst case scenario ("Business as Usual") modeled by the scientific community severely understates the amount of sea level rise in the next 85 years.

I conclude with recommendations on what the governments of the industrialized countries of the world need to do within the next decade in order to prevent a collapse of civilization (or worse) within the next 25 years.

Let us begin with these nuggets of climate science from NASA:

Carbon Dioxide Controls Earth's Temperature

Water vapor and clouds are the major contributors to Earth's greenhouse effect, but a new atmosphere-ocean climate modeling study shows that the planet's temperature ultimately depends on the atmospheric level of carbon dioxide.

Without non-condensing greenhouse gases, water vapor and clouds would be unable to provide the feedback mechanisms that amplify the greenhouse effect.

The study ties in to the geologic record in which carbon dioxide levels have oscillated between approximately 180 parts per million during ice ages, and about 280 parts per million during warmer interglacial periods. To provide perspective to the nearly 1 C (1.8 F) increase in global temperature over the past century, it is estimated that the global mean temperature difference between the extremes of the ice age and interglacial periods is only about 5 C (9 F).

"When carbon dioxide increases, more water vapor returns to the atmosphere. This is what helped to melt the glaciers that once covered New York City," said co-author David Rind, of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies. "Today we are in uncharted territory as carbon dioxide approaches 390 parts per million in what has been referred to as the 'superinterglacial'."

"The bottom line is that atmospheric carbon dioxide acts as a thermostat in regulating the temperature of Earth," Lacis said.
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"The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has fully documented the fact that industrial activity is responsible for the rapidly increasing levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases.

It is not surprising then that global warming can be linked directly to the observed increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide and to human industrial activity in general
."

http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/co2-temperature.html

So, if you read some happy talk from the fossil fuel industry that it's the "water vapor" that is causing global warming, be sure and reference the above study (and the companion study also mentioned at the link) just before you call them on their ignorance, or worse, their duplicity.


You just read about the huge difference a mere 5 degrees C (Centigrade) can make.
Here's a graphic to give you an idea about how effective our greenhouse gas (GHG) shell is at keeping us from turning into a ball of ice.

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Greenhouse gases are vital to regulating Earth's temperature. But there is a goldilocks band of these gases that must be adhered to in order to provide a viable biosphere.

In addition, GHG changes in concentration within that band must proceed, down or up, at or slower than a certain rate in order to allow the organisms that live in that biosphere to adapt to the changes or they will go extinct.

Industrial civilization has BOTH exceeded the upper margin of the GHG band by a huge margin AND has done it at a rate far above the ability of most complex non-microscopic organisms to adapt to these violent changes. Mammalian vertebrates, among the complex organisms on Earth, are the least able to adapt to rapid GHG concentration changes.

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There is no precedent in the geological record for the increase in CO2 caused by the burning of fossil fuels over the last century. And the rate those fossil fuels are being burned is increasing, not slowing down or ceasing.

Non-self aware mammalian vertebrates, unlike us, cannot use technology to adapt. This is the part the CEO of ExxonMobil (Rex Tillerson) forgot accidentally on purpose when he said, "We will adapt to that". Mr. Tillerson is an idiot or a liar (possibly both). Those "qualities" seem to be a job requirement for those that work in the fossil fuel industry.

Mr. Tillerson's optimistic happy talk is not based on climate science or the geological record.

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"Mass extinctions due to rapidly escalating levels of CO2 are recorded since as long as 580 million years ago."

http://theconversation.com/another-link-between-co2-and-mass-extinctions-of-species-12906

Whether we humans want to admit it or not, we need the 75% of all of Earth's species in danger of extinction from climate change. I know it is really hard for the fossil fuel industry predators 'R' US crowd to wrap their greedy heads around this, but it's hard to live on a diet of hydrocarbons. And if we don't stop burning them, both our plant and animal food supply, along with thousands of other species of other earthlings that make this planet viable, will go extinct.

This is not hyperbole. Mass extinctions are part of the geological record. In all but one of those mass extinctions, the rapid rise in GHG was the cause of the extinctions. Furthermore, in all the former mass extinctions, the RATE of rise in GHG was much slower than today.
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"As our anthropogenic global emissions of CO2 are rising  at a rate for which no precedence is known from the geological record with the exception of asteroid impacts, another wave of extinctions is unfolding."

http://theconversation.com/another-link-between-co2-and-mass-extinctions-of-species-12906


According to the latest scientific studies on Global Warming, "Business as Usual", touted as the basis for the continued health of global civilization, is actually the greatest threat to global civilization and our species that we have ever faced.

Before we get to what exactly is meant by, "Business as Usual", let us first review the human caused pollution effects on ocean physical chemistry and temperature and marine species biochemistry.

The following review references an analysis of oceans that totally omits a growing problem for worldwide shipping. Although the review is mostly very bad news, it may turn out to be, in terms of what deals the collapse triggering blow to human civilization as we know it, the "good" news.

The World Ocean Review

The ocean may be buffering the most severe consequences of climate change for now. But in the long run we can only hope to avoid these if we strictly curb GHG emissions today.

Experts are concerned that hundreds of thousands of tonnes of methane hydrate could break down due to the warming of seawater – gas masses that are lying inertly in solid, frozen form in the sea floor sediments today. A portion of the methane, which is a powerful greenhouse gas, could then rise into the atmosphere and further accelerate the process of climate change – a vicious circle.

The oceans absorb many millions of tonnes of carbon dioxide annually. They are the largest “sink” for anthropogenic CO2 emissions. The excess carbon dioxide, however, upsets the chemical equilibrium of the ocean. It leads to acidification of the oceans, the consequences of which are unpredictable. Acidic water disrupts the sense of smell in fish larvae, carbonate formation by snails, and the growth rates of starfish. The phytoplankton, tiny algae in the ocean and vital nutrient basis for higher organisms, are also affected by acidification.

The coastal environment is still being damaged by effluent and toxic discharges, and especially by nutrients conveyed to the ocean by rivers. Thousands of tonnes of nitrogen and phosphorus compounds flow into the ocean around the world, causing an explosion in algal reproduction. In many coastal regions the catastrophe begins with the death of the algae. Bacteria feed on the algal remains and consume oxygen in the water. In these oxygen-depleted zones all higher life forms die off. Efforts to reduce nutrient levels have been successful in Western Europe.

Worldwide, however, the input of nutrients is becoming increasingly problematical. People are, without a doubt, abusing the oceans in many respects, and this is increasing the stress on marine organisms. Through over-fertilization and acidification of the water, rapid changes in water temperature or salinity, biological diversity in the ocean could drop worldwide at increasing rates. With the combination of all these factors, the disruption of habitats is so severe that species will continue to disappear.

Clearly the oceans continue to be the “last stop” for the dregs of our civilization, not only for the persistent chemicals, but also our everyday garbage. Six million tonnes of rubbish end up in the ocean worldwide every year. The trash is a fatal trap for dolphins, turtles and birds. Plastic is especially long-lived and, driven by ocean currents, it collects in the central oceans in gyres of garbage covering hundreds of square kilometres. A new problem has been identified in the microscopically small breakdown products of plastics, which are concentrated in the bodies of marine organisms.

http://worldoceanreview.com/en/wor-1/wor-1-in-short/

That World Ocean Review I just quoted from, after laying out the hard facts, incredibly goes on to happily discuss ocean mining opportunities and methane hydrate harvesting plans for "energy products" for "energy independence". The only caveat they supply is more of an epitaph for human willful denial of facts than a precautionary warning. Please file the following in the WTF!? category.

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Energy from burning ice

In addition to abundant minerals, there are large amounts of methane hydrate beneath the sea floor. Some countries hope to become independent of energy imports by exploiting marine gas hydrate deposits near their own coasts. The technology for production, however, is not yet available. Furthermore, the risks to climate stability and hazards to marine habitats associated with extraction of the methane hydrates
must first be clarified.
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Yes, it seems the DANGER of extracting methane hydrates has not been "CLARIFIED" enough. Neither the Permian Extinction geological record nor the PETM (Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum) geological record has "clarified" the methane issue enough.

Hello? Is this, a more recent pre-human epoch, CLARIFICATION enough for you fellows providing your business friendly "World Ocean Review ", claiming, among other wonders of optimistic prose, that the sea level is only going to rise about 180 cm by century's end?

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The following alarming, but still too conservative, MIT study EXCLUDES the ABRUPT climate change positive feedback loop effects we are now beginning to experience.

Do they think this MIT study needs "clarification"?
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And the DANGER of an acidified ocean to most marine species, which will clearly be exacerbated by the methane bomb, has not been clarified? Didn't Professor Gerardo Ceballos, lead author of a study published in June of 2015 on the Sixth Mass Extinction we are now entering, with particular emphasis on marine mammal extinction threats, get the word?

I think he and his fellow scientists CLARIFIED the methane issue AND the CO2 pollution issue rather well. For those that do not get it, the CO2 pollution, now baked in, is already threatening marine mammals with extinction. When methane hydrates are added to the mix from a warmed ocean, acidification will accelerate and trigger anoxic conditions throughout the ocean water column, thereby destroying the food chain. That is a death sentence for most non-microscopic marine life and a large portion of the microscopic oxygen producing microscopic phytoplankton as well.

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These scientifically challenged, insultingly naive, business friendly, bland statements sold as "sober advice" are precisely the kind of double talk that has placed humanity in the polluted situation it finds itself.

Some have blamed the scientific community.

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They forget that scientists are mostly employees. They forget that businesses gag their reports or keep their published, peer reviewed papers from the public on a regular basis. So the criminally negligent here are business leaders, not scientists.

My experience with reading these big picture reviews of our terribly polluted situation is that they seem to feel obligated to give some peppy, optimistic, happy talk at the end.

Do these people understand what "business as usual" means? It appears that either they don't or willfully avoid doing so.

The IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) has a scientific name for Business as Usual. They have modeled it. They have a number for it. It's called the RCP-8.5. RCP stands for Representative Concentration Pathway.

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Business as usual is a death sentence for over 75% (or more) of life on Earth.

The people that defend business as usual are deluded. There is evidence, which I will present, that even the RCP-8.5 scenario is too conservative. And yet the methane issue needs "clarification"?

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Dr. Scott Goetz (Deputy Director and Senior Scientist of the Woods Hole Research Center) has that thousand yard stare for a reason.

CHANGES IN THE ARCTIC AND THEIR CLIMATE FEEDBACK IMPLICATIONS: Interview with Scott Goetz
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDxw0PcRgE0


Friends, there is a crime being committed. But the guiltiest parties do not want to pay for their share of the damage. And that is why these reviews lack the urgency that they need to have in order to successfully convince government policy makers to alter our destructive trajectory.

But I have discussed that in my recent article, Dianoia is sine qua non to a viable biosphere (http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/climate-change/future-earth/msg3867/#msg3867).  So, I will move on to other matters of concern to humanity.

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Global shipping

Human civilization has come to rely on the relatively inexpensive movement of millions of tons of cargo over the oceans.

It is difficult or impossible to avoid a collapse without the use of the oceans.

To underline the importance of cargo shipping as the lifeblood of civilization, you need to look at the massive amount of tonnage these ships move globally on a daily basis.

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Tankers, bulk carriers and container ships are the most important means of transportation of our time. Each year they carry billions of tonnes of goods along a few principal trade routes. Containerization has revolutionized global cargo shipping, bringing vast improvements in efficiency.

Throughout history the oceans have been important to people around the world as a means of transportation. Unlike a few decades ago, however, ships are now carrying goods rather than people.

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Deadweight tonnage (abbreviated to dwt) or tons deadweight (TDW) is a measure of how much mass a ship is carrying or can safely carry; it does not include the weight of the ship.

Agelbert NOTE: Please take note of the caveat, "safely carry".  More on what that means later.

In terms of carrying capacity in dwt,

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tankers account for 35 per cent,

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bulk carriers account for 35 per cent,

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container ships 14 per cent,

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general cargo ships 9 per cent

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and passenger liners less than 1 per cent.
In all, the global merchant fleet has a capacity of just under 1192 million dwt.

The growth of the global merchant fleet according to type of vessel (as at 1 January [sic]) 2009.
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http://worldoceanreview.com/en/wor-1/transport/global-shipping/

There is a LOT of shipping out there and a LOT of ships. If the above graphics have not brought home to you how much shipping is going on 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, take a look at this:

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In summary, this is what is out there going hither and yon across the oceans on a regular basis:

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Most of those affordable products in our homes are a direct result of a the uninterrupted global lifeblood of efficient blue ocean shipping. If that shipping was no longer possible, global civilization would be impossible because it would be unaffordable. It is, therefore, extremely important to ensure that human civilization can use those oceans for routine cargo transportation. 

The oceans, as was pointed out earlier in this article, are a giant heat sink. The more CO2 we pump into the air, the hotter the oceans get. When the oceans get hotter, they become more active. This means trouble for shipping.

Insurance companies do not like that. They analyze the risks of blue water shipping and track any trends that might increase those risks. They have actuaries that pay a lot of attention to losses of insured ships.

All commercial shipping is insured. You and I are billed for insuring, not just the merchant fleets, but the military ships too! That's what the "defense budgets" lobbied for by all those welfare queen corporations, constantly whining about that "dangerous world out there", are all about.

Well, it looks like all shipping is going to find out how DANGEROUS the oceans, not some invented threat about bellicose humans, can be. The insurance actuaries already know that the "terrorist" or piracy threat on the high seas is insignificant compared to the threat of sinking from rough seas.

Of course you haven't read that in the papers. But you will read it here. And I will provide evidence for it.

But I'm getting ahead of myself. To understand what is happening in the oceans today, we need to go back in time about 20,000 years. We need to go back to the Last Glacial Maximum.

WHY? Because the sea state, as well as the sea level, is a function of the average global temperature. In addition, the vegetation changes that accompany changes in the average global temperature can have deleterious effects on the sea state, totally separate from the dire extinction threat these temperature changes represent to marine organisms.

The Environmental Change Model (ECM)

The following series of graphics deals with accurately modeled representations of the climate in a large part of the Northern Hemisphere centered on the Arctic. A link to the science and the source is provided. The average global temperature and pertinent data on the ice cover and types of vegetation is provided. Of particular importance to the reader are the different types of Tundra coverage. The legend has color codes for the graphical representations.

NOTE: The Greek letter "DELTA" ="Δ". It is used in science to mean, "Change in". The referenced average global temperature is what we have today (about 15 degrees Centigrade = T).

So, ΔT = - 6C is a change in average temperature of minus 6 degrees centigrade from today. THAT was when there was a two mile high glacier sheet edge near what is now New York City. That was also when the oceans were 120 meters = 394 feet lower than they are today.

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http://cci-reanalyzer.org/ECM/

Notice how much dry and moist Tundra there was.
Notice the range and size of the types of forests and the polar desert coverage too. At a glance you can see that this was a very dry world in comparison to our world.

Fast forward to ΔT = - 0.5C.
This was the Little Ice Age of 1850. That was just before the industrial pollution revolution had gotten up to full biosphere trashing speed.

Sea level is close to the present level. Notice how the forest cover has changed. Notice how the Tundra moved north as the ice retreated. Notice how the forests and the forest Tundra transition changed.

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Tundra responds in one of two ways when it goes above freezing. It has to do with the available oxygen. If there isn't enough in the soil, the microbes resort to anaerobic metabolism and make lots of methane. This is NOT methane locked in the Tundra. This is NEW methane. This is unrelated to the methane hydrates frozen on the ocean bottom, but it is still an additional feedback mechanism that increases the RATE of atmospheric heating. So these mechanisms are, by definition, not linear. They can become self reinforcing. That means they can go exponential.

Below, please find, the world we all grew up in (ΔT = 0C.). I have labeled some areas for clarity. The Tundra continues to shrink, as does the ice coverage. The forest transition area creeps north and the forests grow along with the prairie grass covered areas. There is less ice.

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Which brings us the IPCC RCP-8.5 scenario labeled "Business as Usual".

This scenario is considered "worst case". It does not expect us to hit  ΔT = plus 2C until 2050. The boundless optimism of the IPCC sounds a lot like those fellows doing the "World Ocean Review" that mentioned the methane "issue" needed "clarification" right after they admitted that the PRESENT conditions were causing the extinction of most marine animals. 

Please look at this graph:

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The line with the number "1" is the  IPCC RCP-8.5 scenario. The temperature increases in lines 2 and 3 ARE NOT in the IPCC RCP-8.5 scenario.

ΔT = plus 2C is considered extremely dangerous.
 
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The IPCC projects a mere 0.5 meters sea level increase by 2050. But the July 2015 study (http://www.sciencemag.org/content/349/6244/aaa4019.abstract) that I reference in the graphic claims a sea level rise greater or equal to 6 meters (over 19 feet!) is evidenced in the geologic record for this type of temperature rise.

The IPCC projected sea ice decline to 2010 will give you more context to understand why it is unrealistic to believe that we will not hit the  ΔT = plus 2C until 2050.

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But nevertheless, the IPCC RCP-8.5 scenario for ΔT = plus 2C is instructive because the Tundra is disappearing. You know what that means for increased methane release, don't you?

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A note about the word, "Equilibrium" on the graphic: The word "Equilibrium" means that the full effects of the temperature change are being felt throughout the planet. Glaciologists had previously thought that "equilibrium" effects on ice sheets took centuries or millennia.

Now, because of empirical observations on the Greenland ice sheet, Antarctica and various glaciers in the world, they have come to accept that equilibrium is reached in decades or in years, depending on the temperature anomaly increase. As you know, or should know, the polar regions have warmed over 3C MORE than the rest of the planet in the last 50 years. 

The huge differential was not plugged in to the IPCC models so they are too conservative on ice retreat and sea level rise. So, if somebody tells you that all this is a long way off, they are uninformed or working for the fossil fuel industry.

I will return to the dangers of the ΔT = plus 2C (and beyond) world in a moment.

For now, I wish to show you the rest of the IPCC RCP-8.5 scenario projections. Please remember that they are conservative projections and the effects portrayed will most likely arrive 25 years or more earlier than predicted. Also please remember that the actual sea level increase (see graphic below),

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Science 10 July 2015: Vol. 349 no. 6244 DOI: 10.1126/science.aaa4019
Sea-level rise due to polar ice-sheet mass loss during past warm periods

 according to the July 2015 paper referenced previously, will be several METERS, not feet, above the predictions. (http://www.sciencemag.org/content/349/6244/aaa4019.abstract)

ΔT = plus 3C
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Sometime after the loss of the ice cap, all the Tundra will have thawed. ALL the trapped gases, be they CO2 or CH4, will be released. Added grasses absorbing CO2 will not be enough to counteract the warming acceleration.

There are those who expect a negative feedback from the stopping of the thermohaline oceanic current circulation (stopped by all the cold fresh water melted off the Greenland ice cap into the oceans). Perhaps that will help slow the heating (north of about 45 degrees latitude - below that they will roast even more!) for a decade or so. But it will do nothing to calm the ocean surface.

ΔT = plus 4C

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The worst effect is that Arctic ocean bottom frozen clathrates will thaw and the methane will be released. The planet will continue warming increasingly faster past  ΔT = plus 4C.

 That will exacerbate ocean conditions 🌊even more. With more and more heat energy present, the ocean surface will get increasingly more turbulent. And we will already be well past the ΔT = plus 2C mark.

As evidenced by the two referenced scientific studies, both published in 2015, and the woefully conservative IPCC predictions on the rate of the North Polar Ice Cap retreat, Antarctic and Greenland ice cap melt rates, and temperature rise rate, sea level will most likely rise a minimum of 6 meters within 10 years, not 35 years. We are talking about 2025, not 2050, for a ΔT = plus 2C world. We are not preparing adequately for that.

For those who will point to the increase in size of the floating ice around Antarctica as evidence that the Earth is not really warming, I beg to differ.

The fact that the Antarctic land mass IS losing ice has been measured with satellites. It is losing ice because of global warming. It is true that the floating ice around Antarctica has increased and will continue to increase as long as the Antarctic land mass is shedding melt water.

This is because of two factors. The first one is that there are very high winds around Antarctica, unimpeded by any land mass. The second factor is that fresh water freezes more rapidly on the ocean surface than salty water.

That's why salt is spread on roads in winter. On the ocean, the water molecules must rid themselves of the sodium and chloride ions dissolved in them before they can freeze. All the ice floating on the oceans is water ice. It has no salt in it.

And as long as that floating ice is the product of melt water from the Antarctic land mass, it will ADD to sea level.

And when the sea level goes up just 6 feet, never mind the 19 feet or more increase expected with CURRENT CO2 levels, all shipping port facilities (and most coastal airport facilities too!) in the world are no longer usable without gargantuan and heroic efforts requiring trillions of dollars in costs for every foot the land and port infrastructure must be raised.

It seems that the countries (see every industrialized country on the planet) dragging their feet on CO2 reduction actions do not understand this. There are, as of this writing, over 140 countries investing trillions of dollars in port facilities.

No, they aren't raising the level of the port facilities to prepare for rapidly rising sea levels. They are trying to cash in on container shipping by building more container shipping infrastructure. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F2%2F3-190419232147.png&hash=b9d818543137cfd7ac4b712c1c25fe3b94b6d174) 

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Don't these governments listen to their climate scientists?


End of PART ONE.

Climate Change, Blue Water Cargo Shipping and Predicted Ocean Wave Activity: PART TWO (http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/climate-change/future-earth/msg7390/#msg7390)


Thank you for reading this article. Have a nice day.
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 12, 2019, 05:04:27 pm
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Climate Lab Book
Open Climate Science

September 12, 2019 By Ed Hawkins  e.hawkins@reading.ac.uk

Atmospheric temperature trends

The lower atmosphere is warming 🚩 while the upper atmosphere is cooling – a clear fingerprint of the enhanced greenhouse effect from human emissions of carbon dioxide.

The simple explanation is that some of the infrared radiation emitted by the surface, which would have normally reached the upper atmosphere, is absorbed by greenhouse gases in the lower atmosphere. The upper atmosphere therefore receives less energy than before, and so cools. The very warm years (intense reds) in the upper atmosphere are the 1982-83 El Chichón and 1991-92 Pinatubo eruptions respectively.

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Changes in global atmospheric temperature at different levels in the atmosphere from 1979 to 2018: surface, TLT, TTT, TMT, TLS. Data from Cowtan & Way, and RSSv4. The colour scale goes from -0.75K to +0.75K, relative to the average of 1981-2010 for each layer separately.

http://blogs.reading.ac.uk/climate-lab-book/2019/atmospheric-temperature-trends/

Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 12, 2019, 10:07:22 pm
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How Greenland's massive ice melt will totally transform the world
55,476 views•Published on Sep 11, 2019

https://youtu.be/wxerKKdeU_M

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Remember that heatwave back in August? Well, the Arctic remembers it too. Record rates of ice melt have been recorded on the great ice-shelf of Greenland. It's critical for all of us because of its potential effect on global sea levels. In the first of a series of special reports from Greenland, we examine the threat to the giant glaciers and to those whose lives depend upon the sea ice.

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 13, 2019, 04:31:44 pm
2°C: BEYOND THE LIMIT

By Chris Mooney and John Muyskens | Photos and videos by Carolyn Van Houten

SEPT. 11, 2019

(https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/national/climate-environment/climate-change-world/img/world-frame-end.png)

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 16, 2019, 03:43:30 pm
EcoWatch

By Olivia RosaneSep. 16, 2019 06:37AM EST

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6 Dead in Worst Storm to Drench Eastern Spain in 140 Years (https://www.ecowatch.com/spain-record-flooding-2640375329.html?utm_source=EcoWatch+List&utm_campaign=2847efa101-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_49c7d43dc9-2847efa101-86021645)

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 17, 2019, 01:15:10 pm
Doomstead Diner's "RE": "I Cannot See How This Monetary System Can Survive More Than Ten Years" (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-221017161839.png&hash=7d34712243960aa20883775dad728bc2115ed6fe)
https://youtu.be/pCMv3DMUjms

Agelbert OBSERVATION: Surly, in this interview with Sam, RE tells the story of the Doomstead Diner, completely leaving my contributions to that forum and blog for nearly five years, out. :( Considering that I am the one who first brought the Collapse Chronicles dude videos to the attention of the Doomstead Diner, and considering that many views were generated there by my posts, it's rather disappointing. I remember when RE was ready to close up shop in the summer of 2013 from lack of visitors and new members and I helped cheer him up and keep going. I guess he forgot.

BUT, there is more. It seems that RE is unaware that you post here, because when he mentioned the Admins posting there, he specificially said that, though K-Dog posts additionally in his own blog, "Surly ONLY posts at the Doomstead Diner". It seems that RE has written me out of his history.

Most of the rest of the interview is devoted to RE's views on economics, always leaving Renewable Energy and ethics TOTALLY out of the picture, while harping on the "importance" of hydrocarbons. That is, the "lack" of hydrocarbons is what RE continues to, erroneously, IMHO, believe will cause the "collapse" (that never seems to come). I'm surprised he didn't launch into the old "high energy density" happy talk so favored by all hydrocarbon based energy WORSHIPPERS.

Although I am quite familiar with RE's arguments, listening to this interview I confirmed much about RE's world view that I had previously only suspected. I know RE is your friend, Surly, so I will not share with you what I think of RE's, "without oil, civilization will collapse and most of us are all gonna die" pitch, never mind his selective memory.

Of course RE is spot on about Trump. 👍

Finally, I will always be grateful to RE for setting up this forum and suggesting the "Renewable Revolution" name for it. 👍

That said, the interview cleared up any lingering doubts about the wisdom of my decision to stop posting at the Doomstead Diner.
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The best way to court heartbreak is to expect gratitude from others. In his best days, RE has always been about himself, first, last, always, regardless of the pious pronouncements. And these are far from his best days. As his health deteriorates, his attitudes and awareness of others has as well. Don't sweat it. I run the DD Facebook page, which reaches more people in a week than the Diner forum , and he has no idea about that either.

Expect ingratitude, and you'll never be disappointed. Especially with him.


Agreed. What bothers me far more than my disappointment with RE's self centered selective memory is his irrational clinging to a theory about "collapse" based on a lack of availability of hydrocarbons. His fantasy about small tribes of humans survivng after "peak oil" causes a "collapse" has no scientific basis whatsoever.

The amount of hydrocarbons being produced for fuel worldwide is actually increasing, NOT "decreasing from peak oil".

On top of studiously ignoring that hydrocarbon hellspawn 'peddle to the metal' production reality, RE dismisses the 30 year lag time MASSIVE DEATH CAUSING INERTIA in Global Warming that puts us into the hothouse earth human species shitstorm as if that is a "survivable" situation. In the interview he admits the average global temperature may increase 10 degrees C but refuses to accept the FACT that anything above 2 degrees C is a funeral dirge for Homo sap. RE's pitch on the climate is that the Earth's biomass is "just too big" for GHG caused Catstrophic Climate Change to "threaten the human species with extinction".  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F2%2F3-200419205434.png&hash=f935da2cb5d2746b1d817ec9a4feb3a04f3f8075)  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Ffc06.deviantart.net%2Ffs71%2Ff%2F2009%2F347%2F2%2F6%2FWTF_Smiley_face_by_IveWasHere.jpg&hash=8ca673f8cf785d9dac626f9fd91e37a1a318c7ac)

RE is worse than a climate change denier; he is a hydrocarbon fuels loving, Catastrophic Climate Change EXISTENTIAL THREAT DENIER. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F2%2F3-190419235756.png&hash=ddd7a71acf6ff0420a63e797c27fdcad27734e3e)

IOW, RE is stuck in his, "peak oil will save us" pretzel logic ideology. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F2%2F3-190419232147.png&hash=b9d818543137cfd7ac4b712c1c25fe3b94b6d174)

Catastrophic Climate Change Science FACTS pass over him like water off a duck. I pity anyone that is convinced by his dangerously flawed arguments. He is actually dooming (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-070814193155.png&hash=144ce9330e49ee84060db8753a8db69c39a14913) people that are convinced by his pitch, not "saving" them.

But then, what can one expect from somebody who has publicly stated he is a great friend of 🦕 Gail Tverberg, the "energy expert" who is a card carrying member (see: "this finite world" hydrocarbon "scarcity" means the price has gotta go UP! 😈) of the 🦖 hydrocarbon hellspawn "industry"?

RE's claim in the interview that world shipping is showing signs of "collapse" evidences his delusional stance about the "coming collapse". Sam pointed out some facts about world shipping activity and RE responded with his famous "I'll cut up anybody's argument claiming world shipping is thriving like a thanksgiving turkey".(https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-040817140651.png&hash=c43dc47dbb4ef892fb7c5680dba982b56fdad700)

Apparantly RE, in his confirmation bias zeal to see only what he wants to see, never visits the World Marine Traffic website.

(https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/gallery/renewablerevolution/2/3-170919122152.png)

None so blind as those who refuse to see.
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 17, 2019, 06:02:21 pm
Australia launches emergency relocation of fish as largest river system faces collapse
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/sep/09/plan-to-relocate-fish-as-australias-largest-river-system-faces-ecological-collapse

Australian towns could run out of water by Christmas as drought drags on
https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/australianz/australian-towns-could-run-out-of-water-by-christmas-as-drought-drags-on

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 18, 2019, 04:36:39 pm
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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

| Nine days left to raise $50,000. Can we do it? |

By C.J. POLYCHRONIOU, TRUTHOUT

Noam Chomsky and Robert Pollin: If We Want a Future, Green New Deal Is Key
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Yet, just at the time when all must act together, with dedication, to confront humanity’s “ultimate challenge,” the leaders of the most powerful state in human history, in full awareness of what they are doing, are dedicating themselves with passion to destroying the prospects for organized human life.

While the planetary future looks grim, there is a realistic global climate stabilization project that is economically and technically feasible -- if we can find the political will to implement it, say Noam Chomsky and Robert Pollin, co-authors of a forthcoming book on climate change and the Green New Deal. This month's climate strikes are a way to bring some urgency to the matter and raise public awareness.

Read the Interview → (https://truthout.org/articles/noam-chomsky-and-robert-pollin-if-we-want-a-future-green-new-deal-is-key/?eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=dad40e05-03ec-497b-bc43-1b0ed0621259)

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 18, 2019, 07:34:01 pm
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"Earth Warming More Quickly Thank Previously Thought" ( ::) What a Surprise)
575 views•Published on Sep 18, 2019

https://youtu.be/ZBFQzFBSLm0

Collapse Chronicles
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In today's Chronicle of the Collapse, I read an article from Phys.org titled "Earth Warming More Quickly Than Thought." Here is a link to the rest of the article:
https://phys.org/news/2019-09-earth-q...
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: Surly1 on September 19, 2019, 06:57:16 am
'Dead tree after dead tree.' The case of Washington's dying foliage (https://kuow.org/stories/dead-tree-after-dead-tree-the-case-of-the-dying-hemlocks-and-cedars-and-maples)

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Trees are shown through fog on Friday, April 5, 2019, in the Hoh Rainforest on the Olympic Peninsula.
CREDIT: KUOW PHOTO/MEGAN FARMER
When Jim and Judy Davis moved to their property in Granite Falls two and a half years ago, the trees in their 25-acre forest were healthy.

Then the hemlocks started to turn brown.

Now, “if we were to walk this path completely -- it’s about a quarter of a mile -- this is what you would see,” Jim Davis said, “just dead tree after dead tree.

“It’s just a feeling of sadness and helplessness."

News outlets around the country are providing special coverage this week of climate change. KUOW will have stories and interviews on the crisis and what to do about it. #ClimateCoverageNow

So the Davises called in Kevin Zobrist.

“I feel like I'm always coming out to a crime scene, you know: another dead tree, another one lost, coming out to investigate,” Zobrist said.

Zobrist is a forestry professor at Washington State University. He said this isn’t just a problem on the Davis’ property.

“When I drive up and down the highways around western Washington, I just see dead and dying hemlocks all up and down the roads,” Zobrist said. “We first noticed it right around 2016, and now I just see it everywhere.”

And it’s not just hemlocks. Western red cedars and big-leaf maples are struggling as well. All three species are native to western Washington.

Zobrist isn’t the only one seeing this: KUOW’s listeners have been writing in to ask about why they’re seeing so many dead trees.

Zobrist thinks the answer lies in climate change.

“At this point in time, my top suspect is drought — drought stress from climate change,” he said. “We've seen records being set for heat and drought in a number of years in a row now, starting with 2012.”

“This summer was a little bit better,” he said. “But that cumulative drought stress is really taking its toll.”

Thirst can weaken trees’ immune systems, and then something else, like an insect or fungus, can kill them.

It's not just happening in places we can see it, like gardens, parks and roadways. It’s happening deep in the forest as well.

Glenn Kohler, a forest entomologist for the Washington Department of Natural Resources, visits a forest near Bellingham where he spotted dead trees during an annual forest health survey.
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Glenn Kohler, a forest entomologist for the Washington Department of Natural Resources, visits a forest near Bellingham where he spotted dead trees during an annual forest health survey.
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Glenn Kohler, a forest entomologist for Washington’s Department of Natural Resources, and his colleagues fly over every forested acre of the state every year and measure how many trees have died.

“So the individual trees or a patch of dead trees are going to have the same kind of red color that's easy to see from an airplane,” Kohler said. “That's what we're mapping.”

“The amount of that is increasing right now,” he said.

In 2018, Kohler and his colleagues found that nearly 500,000 acres of Washington’s forests had some level of damage. That’s an area bigger than all of Kitsap County.

In short, western Washington’s forests are changing, Zobrist said. Some trees may be lost in places where they used to be able to survive.

“This is, I think, the first really visible impact of climate change in our area,” Zobrist said. “And it's kind of a warning of things to come.”

Jim and Judy Davis say, now that the initial shock of the dying hemlocks has worn off, they’ve come up with a plan. They’re going to take out some of the dead trees and limbs to reduce fire risk around their house, and they’ve started to plant new trees, choosing drought-tolerant native species.

Zobrist said other homeowners can do the same thing.

Also, he said, take a look around the tree, at what else might be competing for water.

“Grass is the worst,” he said. “I see lots of situations where there's a lawn or tall grass all the way up to the edge of the tree and that grass layer robs all the water, so get the grass out of there. Replace that with a good three to four inches of mulch.”

The Davises hope measures like these will help their forest survive for decades to come, for their kids and seven grandkids.

This story is part of Covering Climate Now, a global collaboration of more than 220 news outlets to strengthen coverage of the climate story.

Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: Surly1 on September 19, 2019, 07:05:58 am
Sea Level Rise Maps (https://www.artstation.com/artwork/1zJX8)
Speculative maps showing the changes to our world from an 80m sea level rise. Effectively all ice on earth having melted. Created with a variety of climate science reference, digital elevation models, and Photoshop.
(https://cdna.artstation.com/p/assets/images/images/011/036/722/large/christopher-bretz-north-pole-7000-01smsm.jpg?1527540240)
Vancouver Sea Level Rise
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Bay Area Sea Level Rise
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Toronto Sea Level Rise
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Europe Sea Level Rise
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North America Sea Level Rise
(https://cdnb.artstation.com/p/assets/images/images/011/050/415/large/christopher-bretz-noram-80m-sea-level-rise-sm.jpg?1527607873)
Asia Sea Level Rise
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 19, 2019, 02:49:42 pm
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 22, 2019, 08:37:21 pm
September 16, 2019 by Jennifer Hermes

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More than 200 investors are calling on America’s biggest publicly traded companies to align themselves with the Paris Climate Accords approach to climate change, rather than the Trump administration’s denial, by raising concerns of significant economic damage. And they are making a pretty strong argument, through their $6.5 trillion value in assets. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-130418201112.png&hash=679f4583d6861313c256e8762c40929af1ac667e)

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 22, 2019, 08:47:40 pm
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 23, 2019, 02:22:12 pm
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This is all wrong. I shouldn’t be standing here. I should be back in school on the other side of the ocean. Yet you all come to me for hope? How dare you! You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words. And yet I’m one of the lucky ones. People are suffering. People are dying. Entire ecosystems are collapsing. We are in the beginning of a mass extinction. And all you can talk about is money and fairytales of eternal economic growth. How dare you!

For more than 30 years the science has been crystal clear. How dare you continue to look away, and come here saying that you are doing enough, when the politics and solutions needed are still nowhere in sight.

You say you “hear” us and that you understand the urgency. But no matter how sad and angry I am, I don’t want to believe that. Because if you fully understood the situation and still kept on failing to act, then you would be evil. And I refuse to believe that.

The popular idea of cutting our emissions in half in 10 years only gives us a 50% chance of staying below 1.5C degrees, and the risk of setting off irreversible chain reactions beyond human control.

Maybe 50% is acceptable to you. But those numbers don’t include tipping points, most feedback loops, additional warming hidden by toxic air pollution or the aspects of justice and equity. They also rely on my and my children’s generation sucking hundreds of billions of tonnes of your CO2 out of the air with technologies that barely exist. So a 50% risk is simply not acceptable to us – we who have to live with the consequences.

To have a 67% chance of staying below a 1.5C global temperature rise – the best odds given by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change – the world had 420 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide left to emit back on 1 January 2018. Today that figure is already down to less than 350 gigatonnes. How dare you pretend that this can be solved with business-as-usual and some technical solutions. With today’s emissions levels, that remaining CO2 budget will be entirely gone in less than eight and a half years.

There will not be any solutions or plans presented in line with these figures today. Because these numbers are too uncomfortable. And you are still not mature enough to tell it like it is.

You are failing us. But the young people are starting to understand your betrayal. The eyes of all future generations are upon you. And if you choose to fail us I say we will never forgive you. We will not let you get away with this. Right here, right now is where we draw the line. The world is waking up. And change is coming, whether you like it or not.

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The 🦕🦖 Hydrocarbon 👹 Hellspawn Fossil Fuelers DID THE Clean Energy  Inventions suppressing, Climate Trashing, human health depleting CRIME, but since they have ALWAYS BEEN liars and conscience free crooks 🦀, they are trying to AVOID   DOING THE TIME or   PAYING THE FINE! Don't let them get away with it! Pass it on!   

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 23, 2019, 03:45:47 pm
SEP 23, 2019OPINION|TD ORIGINALS

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Friday’s climate strike by students across the globe will have no more impact than the mass mobilizations by women following the election of Donald Trump or the hundreds of thousands of protesters who took to the streets to denounce the Iraq War. This does not mean these protests should not have taken place. They should have. But such demonstrations need to be grounded in the bitter reality that in the corridors of power we do not count. If we lived in a democracy, which we do not, our aspirations, rights and demands, especially the demand that we confront the climate emergency, would have an impact. We would be able to vote representatives into power in government to carry out change. We would be able to demand environmental justice from the courts. We would be able to divert resources to the elimination of carbon emissions.

Voting, lobbying, petitioning and protesting to induce the ruling elites to respond rationally to the climate catastrophe have proved no more effective than scrofula victims’ appeals to Henry VIII to cure them with a royal touch. The familiar tactics employed over the past few decades by environmentalists have been spectacular failures. In 1900 the burning of fossil fuel—mostly coal—produced about 2 billion tons of carbon dioxide a year. That number had risen threefold by 1950. Today the level is 20 times higher than the 1900 figure. During the last decade the increase in CO2 was 100 to 200 times faster than what the earth experienced during the transition from the last ice age. On May 11 the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii recorded 415.26 parts per million of CO2 in the air. It’s believed to be the highest concentration since humans evolved. We will embrace a new paradigm for resistance or die.

The ruling elites and the corporations they serve are the principal obstacles to change. They cannot be reformed. And this means revolution, which is what Extinction Rebellion seeks in calling for an “international rebellion” on Oct. 7, when it will attempt to shut down city centers around the globe in acts of sustained, mass civil disobedience. Power has to be transferred into our hands. And since the elites won’t give up power willingly, we will have to take it through nonviolent action.

Protests can be the beginning of political consciousness. But they can also be empty political theater. They can be used to celebrate our moral probity—advertisements, especially in the age of social media, for ourselves. They can be a boutique activism in which protesters allow themselves to be funneled through police barricades and arrests are politely choreographed, resulting in a few hours in jail and the credentialing of the demonstrators as radicals. They can be used to distance ourselves from a repugnant political figure such as Donald Trump, while leaving us silent and complicit when the same policies are carried out by a supposed progressive such as Barack Obama. This is a game the state has learned to play to its advantage. As long as we do not disrupt the machine, as long as we protest according to their rules, the elites will let us march through the streets of Washington in **** hats or walk out of school for a day.

When power is threatened, as it was in the sustained protests during the Occupy encampments and at Standing Rock, the ruling elites react very differently. They employ the full weight of the surveillance state to demonize the protesters, arrest and detain the leadership and infiltrate agents provocateurs to carry out violent assaults to justify the use of the police and security forces to shut the protests down.

Preemptive efforts by the security forces to harass and thwart Extinction Rebellion’s planned October occupation of city centers, an action designed to negatively affect commerce and bring parts of major cities to a standstill, have already begun. Roger Hallam, the co-founder of Extinction Rebellion, was arrested Sept. 14 and charged with attempting to cause a disruption at Heathrow Airport by using a drone. Hallam has called Heathrow—which climate activists say emits 18 million tons of carbon dioxide a year, more than the total emissions of 118 countries—“a crime against humanity.” He and other activists have vowed to halt the airport’s plans to build a third runway. Hallam’s case will be heard at the Isleworth Crown Court on Oct. 14, meaning he will not be released until after the Oct. 7 protests. In addition, other Extinction Rebellion organizers, including Andrew Medhurst, have been arrested in England, and police have seized their phones and computers.

It does not matter who is the public face of the corporate state. This is not about political personalities. It was Obama, after all, who oversaw a coordinated national effort to eradicate the Occupy encampments and place the water protectors at Standing Rock under siege. Obama’s environmental policies, despite his lip service to curbing global warming and his support of the nonbinding Paris climate accord—which the climate scientist James Hansen called a fraud—were appalling. U.S. oil production rose every year he was in office, an increase of 88%. It was the largest domestic increase in oil production in American history. Obama opened offshore drilling to American oil companies as if he were Sarah Palin. “American energy production, you wouldn’t always know it, but it went up every year I was president,” Obama told an audience at Rice University last year. “And you know that … suddenly America’s like the biggest oil producer … that was me, people.”

Democrats, like Republicans, serve corporate power. They will not end government subsidies for the fossil fuel industry and the extraction industries. They will not impose carbon taxes to keep fossil fuels in the ground. They will not limit overconsumption. The technologies they invest in—fracking, hybrid cars, genetically modified food—are designed to maintain or expand consumption levels, not reduce them. They will not redirect the trillions of dollars and scientific and technical expertise from the military and corporations toward saving us from environmental catastrophe. The rhetoric and gimmicks they use to placate the public, from carbon credits to wind turbines and solar panels, are, as the scientist James Lovelock says, the equivalent of 18th-century doctors attempting to cure serious diseases with leeches and mercury.

The creation of ever more complex bureaucratic and technocratic systems in an age of diminishing resources is a characteristic of dying civilizations. Civilizations in their final phase frantically search for new methods of exploitation rather than adapt to a changing environment. They repress and exploit the lower classes with greater and greater ruthlessness to maintain the insatiable appetites among the elites for power, luxury and hedonism. The worse things get, the more the elites retreat into their private enclaves. The more out of touch the elites become, the more catastrophe is assured. This self-defeating process degrades the ecosystem until catastrophic systems collapse.

The ruling elites, trained in business schools and managerial programs, are not equipped to confront the existential problems caused by climate catastrophe. They are trained to maintain, no matter the cost, the systems of global capitalism. They are systems managers. They lack the intellectual capacity and imagination to search for solutions outside the narrow parameters of global capitalism.

Those living in the global south are already suffering and dying from the effects of global warming, for which the wealthy industrialized nations of the global north bear most of the responsibility. The richest 0.54%, or 42 million people across the world, are responsible for more emissions than the poorest half of the global population, or 3.8 billion people. These elites are sacrificing the poorest on the planet first as they work up the social and economic hierarchy to extinguish us all.

We have to let go of our relentless positivism, our absurd mania for hope, our naive belief that with grit and determination we can solve all problems. We have to face the bleakness before us. We live in a world already heavily damaged by global warming, which will inevitably get worse. Refusal to participate in the further destruction of the planet means a rupture with traditional politics. It means noncooperation with authority. It means defying in every nonviolent way possible consumer capitalism, militarism and imperialism. It means adjusting our lifestyle, including becoming vegans, to thwart the forces bent upon our annihilation. And it means waves of sustained civil disobedience until the machine is broken.

The biosphere, including the Amazon rainforest, the oceans and the polar ice caps, is visibly deteriorating. Heat waves are crippling Europe, Australia and the American Southwest. Floods devastate the Midwest. Last week, southeast Texas suffered heavy flooding and deaths when it was hit by the seventh-wettest tropical cyclone in U.S. history, with some areas receiving more than 40 inches of rainfall within three days. Monster hurricanes ravage the Caribbean and the shores of the United States. Wildfires consume the forests of the West Coast. But despite the tangible signs of a climate emergency, the elites continue to assure us we can live as we have always lived.

The mathematical models for the future of the planet have three devastating trajectories: a massive die-off of perhaps 70 percent of the human population and then an uneasy stabilization; extinction of humans and most other species; an immediate and radical reconfiguration of human society to protect the biosphere and make it more diverse and productive. This third scenario, which most scientists admit is unlikely, is dependent on a halt to the production and consumption of fossil fuels, converting to a plant-based diet to destroy the animal agriculture industry—almost as large a contributor to greenhouse gases as the fossil fuel industry—and greening the deserts and restoring rainforests. We know what we have to do if our children are to have a future. The only question left is how do we empower leaders who will save us.

Climate scientists warn that we will soon reach a tipping point when the biosphere becomes so degraded no effort to save the ecosystem will halt runaway climate change. We may already be there. The tipping point, many believe, is a further increase in global temperatures of 2 degrees Celsius. At that point “feedback loops” will see environmental catastrophes exacerbate each other.

We must embrace a new radicalism. We must carry out sustained civil disobedience to disrupt the machinery of exploitation, even as we prepare for the inevitable dislocations and catastrophes ahead. We must alter our lifestyles and consumption to cut our personal carbon footprints. And we must organize to replace existing structures of power with ones capable of coping with the crisis before us.

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"There is a terrible desperation to the increasingly pathetic rationalizations from the climate denial camp. This comes as no surprise if you take the long view; every single undone paradigm in history has died kicking and screaming, and our current petroleum paradigm 🐉🦕🦖 is no different. The trick here is trying to figure out how we all make it tothe new ⚡ paradigm without dying ☠️ right along with the old one, kicking, screaming or otherwise." - William Rivers Pitt
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 24, 2019, 01:28:41 pm
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 24, 2019, 02:16:30 pm
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By The Conversation Sep. 21, 2019 07:00AM EST

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I’m a Psychotherapist – Here’s What I’ve Learned From Listening to Children Talk About Climate Change

By Caroline Hickman

Eco-anxiety is likely to affect more and more people as the climate destabilizes. Already, studies have found that 45 percent of children suffer lasting depression after surviving extreme weather and natural disasters. Some of that emotional turmoil must stem from confusion — why aren't adults doing more to stop climate change?

Talking with children gives a fresh perspective on the absurdity of doing so little about climate change, but it also exposes a troubling disconnect between what we say and what we do.

Adults are often guilty of cognitive dissonance when it comes to climate change. The UK parliament declares a climate emergency after voting to expand an airport. Scientists conclude that the Amazon rainforest is one of the world's best assets for storing climate-warming gases while large swathes of it are burnt deliberately to make room for methane-belching cattle. A vast coal mine is approved near Australia's Great Barrier Reef while its condition is downgraded from "poor" to "very poor."

Perhaps young people are simply less cynical and more capable of seeing clearly how irrational these decisions are. When I interviewed teenagers in the Maldives, one said:

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We saw online that people in Iceland held a funeral for a glacier today, but who is going to do that for us? Don't they see that we will be underwater soon and our country will be gone? No one cares. How can you grieve for ice and ignore us?

Because of sea level rise, people in the low-lying Maldives have more to fear from climate change than most. The sense of injustice that young people felt here was palpable.

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Climate change is like Thanos, wiping out half the world so the rest can survive … we are being sacrificed.

There's moral clarity in the things young people say about climate change, but even at their age, there's a weariness. After all, young people use social media and are bombarded with bad environmental news as much as adults. Some may begin to normalise the mass extinctions they read about. A 10-year-old in the UK told me:

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It's normal for us now to grow up in a world where there will be no polar bears, that's just how it is for us now, it's different than it was for you.

My dilemma was in trying talk to children about climate change without upsetting them even more. But I also wanted to know how they really felt, subconsciously. Rather than hearing them repeat what they're told in school or hear from adults, I wanted to hear what this generation — people who have never known a world without the looming threat of climate catastrophe — thought about what's happening to the planet and their futures.

Healing the Generational Rift

I asked the children to personify climate change — to see it as an animal and give it a voice. If climate change could talk, what would it say? I hoped that by externalizing that voice, they could talk more honestly than they otherwise would. Even so, I wasn't fully prepared for their responses.

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What was also uncovered in these conversations was an enduring empathy for the creatures they share the world with. These children could recognize their own vulnerability in the face of climate change, but it didn't eclipse their concern for the natural world. Instead, they expressed solidarity and empathy with other species. One said:

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Climate change is like the bug spray of nature, and people are the bugs.

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This story originally appeared in The Conversation. It is republished here as part of EcoWatch's partnership with Covering Climate Now, a global collaboration of more than 250 news outlets to strengthen coverage of the climate story.

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 25, 2019, 01:09:58 pm
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By Brian Kahn

September 24, 2019 5:05pm Filed to: US VS. THEM

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 26, 2019, 08:56:46 pm
Naomi Klein's Burning Case For A Green New Deal!
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Our house is on fire. Our forests are on fire. Our politics are on fire.

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The climate strikes in September 2019, especially with youth and the speech from Greta Thunberg focus on climate change.

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 27, 2019, 06:04:51 pm
 
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High-level oil and gas executives have concluded that "the ship has sailed" on manipulating the public with climate denial, the Washington Post reports. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-141113185047.png&hash=384024358ff8d5e7133d19b6e6638da4584a8154)

In a recording of a closed-door June meeting of the Independent Petroleum Association of America obtained by the Post, Mark Barron, a chief energy litigator at Baker Hostetler, told gathered executives that everyone under the age of 40 thinks climate change is "an existential crisis that we need to address...

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 28, 2019, 03:40:55 pm
September 28th, 2019 by Ritesh Pandey

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Farmers in Ambedkar Nagar burn the remnants of the wheat harvest in April to prepare their fields for the rice crop; this crop-burning sometimes spreads to neighboring villages by gusts of blistering winds called loo, causing damage to property and wildlife – Photo Sonali Chauhan

India’s Agriculture Sector Faces A Looming Existential Threat From Climate Change (https://cleantechnica.com/2019/09/28/indias-agriculture-sector-faces-a-looming-existential-threat-from-climate-change/)
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: Surly1 on September 29, 2019, 10:51:06 am

W. Antarctica's crumbling ice sheet to redraw global coastline

by Marlowe Hood

In Antarctica, 99 percent of all ice loss occurs when ice slides into the ocean

The fate of the world's coastal regions and the hundreds of millions of people who inhabit them depend on a block of ice atop West Antarctica on track to lift global oceans by at least three metres.

It is not, according to available science, a matter of "if" but "when".

Anders Levermann, a professor at the Potsdam Institute of Climate Impact Research in Germany and a top expert on Antarctica, spoke to AFP -– days before the release in Monaco of a major UN report on oceans and Earth's frozen zones -– about how is impacting the world's coldest region.

Q. Does global warming affect Greenland and Antarctica the same way?

No. In Antarctica, 99 percent of all ice loss occurs when ice slides into the ocean. There is practically no ice melt on the surface –- it is simply too cold.

In Greenland, half of the ice loss is due to melt water that runs into the ocean.

When ice in Antarctica or Greenland slides into the ocean and becomes an ice shelf, it comes into contact with surface water. Even a tenth of a degree increase in the temperature of the water can lead to a significant imbalance.

Greenland's ice sheet is much smaller than Antarctica's –- seven metres of sea level equivalent vs. 55 -– but sheds even more mass. That is because Antarctica, even if its topography has fewer barriers, is so much colder.

West Antarctica's ice sheet has shed about 150 billion tonnes of mass every year since 2005

Q. What do we know about Antarctica that we didn't know a decade ago?

Ten years ago the modelling of Antarctica showed no significant ice loss within this century. Indeed, there was some debate as to whether the continent might add ice mass.

Today, all the ice sheet models lose ice at a significant rate. The continent's ice sheet has shed about 150 billion tonnes of mass every year since 2005, virtually all of it in West Antarctica. Ice loss in both Greenland and Antarctica is accelerating.

There is no longer any ambiguity. The studies we have in hand tell us that West Antarctica has passed a tipping point. It has become unstable and will discharge all its most vulnerable ice into the ocean. Period.

Q. How much will Antarctica add to sea level rise by 2100?

A study I did with numerous colleagues in 2014 estimated that we could get 50 centimetres of sea level from Antarctica by 2100 –- which is huge. The last assessment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) said 16 cm was the upward limit.

In 2016 an important study published in Nature –- introducing new physical processes –- proposed an even higher contribution, of up to more than a metre. That study has been much criticised, and the findings may be revised.

Q. What will happen after 2100?

In 2100, nothing stops.

If we keep to the Paris Agreement, sea level rise will at best slow down. If we don't, it will still be accelerating at the end of the century.

The most vulnerable part of the West Antarctic ice sheet -– equivalent to 3.5 metres of sea level rise -– sits in depressions below sea level, where ocean water infiltrates and erodes the ice sheet from underneath.

Q. How long will it take for the ice sheet to disappear?

I think we are underestimating the speed. That said, for all of the W. Antarctic ice sheet to discharge, it will take centuries. But it won't stop.

Q. How worried should we be?

Nobody should fear for their life because of rising seas. But if New York winds up five metres below sea level behind dikes and levees, I don't know if people will want to live there.

The most vulnerable part of the West Antarctic ice sheet -– equivalent to 3.5 metres of sea level rise -– sits in depressions be

The real impact is what we will lose. Hong Kong is currently a beacon of democracy in China. New Orleans is a bastion of culture, and New York of culture and business. Hamburg, Calcutta and Shanghai -– we are going to lose them all to if we do not stop emitting carbon into the atmosphere.

Q. Why is Antarctica harder to figure out than Greenland?

Unlike the Greenland ice sheet, ice loss in Antarctica is not due to melting, but to a discharge of icebergs into the ocean. Getting it right is difficult -– at first, we were unable to model and observe this process.

The first satellite images for West Antarctica are from 1992. So when we began to see there a decade ago, we had less than 20 years of data. That's not long enough to detect long-term trends.

Ice sheets change over a long time scale, so observations can be very misleading.

Antarctica is shielded from the rest of the world by the strongest current on the planet, and the situation is similar for the atmosphere. That is also hard to factor in.

Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: Surly1 on September 29, 2019, 10:57:26 am
When the Vampire Squid says it's bad, perhaps even the elites will listen. They won't listen to Greta, but when the Squid speaks...

Goldman Sachs released a 34-page analysis of the impact of climate change. And the results are terrifying. (https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/goldman-sachs-climate-change-threatens-new-york-tokyo-lagos-cities-2019-9-1028552494)

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  • A Goldman Sachs report on the impact of climate change on cities across the world makes for grim reading. 
  • Rising temperatures would lead to changing disease patterns, more intense and longer-lasting heatwaves, more destructive weather events, and pressure on the availability and quality of water for drinking and agriculture.
  • Major cities were also highlighted at risk of flooding with parts of New York, Tokyo, and Lagos all at risk of being partially submerged. 
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Goldman Sachs released a report on the effect of climate change on cities around the world and the results made for grim reading. 

The bank's Global Markets Institute, led by Amanda Hindlian, warned of "significant" potential risks to the world's largest cities, which are especially vulnerable to more frequent storms, higher temperatures, rising sea levels, and storm surges.  

Cities generate about 80% of global GDP and are home to more than half of the world's population, a share that Goldman says, citing the United Nations, is projected to reach two-thirds by 2050. About 40% of the global population lives within 100 kilometers of a coast, it says, and 1 in 10 live in areas less than 10 meters above sea level.

Goldman highlighted three cities which would be subject to those storm surges and in the future could face harmful flooding — New York, Tokyo, and Lagos. Miami, Alexandria, Dhaka, and Shanghai face major flood risks due to being less than 11 meters above sea level. 

New yorkGoldman Sachs

Goldman's researchers said that when starting the study they took a broad consensus that human activity, namely emission of greenhouse gasses "is causing the earth to warm in ways that are affecting the climate."

Natural ecosystems would be damaged, and risks to human health would rise, as well as pressures on food and drinking water. 

Agriculture would also be massively affected: "Warmer temperatures and shifting precipitation patterns could reduce yields and nutritional quality as well change growing seasons and agricultural zones around the world."

Goldman gave some fairly stark warnings about potential outcomes:

  • More frequent, more intense, and longer-lasting heatwaves.The consequences will affect human health, productivity, economic activity, and agriculture. "Higher surface temperatures could exacerbate the warming process by causing permafrost to melt, releasing further methane and CO2 into the atmosphere."
  • Destructive weather events, including storms, winds, flooding and fires. It's not just New York, Tokyo and Lagos. "Other major low-lying coastal or already flood-prone cities include Shanghai, Dhaka, Mumbai and Karachi – each of which has a population of 15 million people or more."
  • Changing disease patterns. "Warmer temperatures could cause disease vectors to migrate from the tropics to regions where people have less immunity; this is true not only for viruses like malaria and dengue fever but also for water-borne and food-borne diseases."
  • Shifting agricultural patterns and food shortages. "Livestock could be affected by higher temperatures and reduced water supplies. Ocean acidification is likely to put stress on aquatic populations and affect current fishing patterns. Some of these changes are already underway. Some climate scientists, for example, estimate that coral reefs will be all but extinct over the course of the century due to ocean acidification."
  • Water. "Half of the world's population will live in water-stressed areas as soon as 2025," Goldman notes, citing the World Health Orgnization. "Even in non-stressed areas, the quality of surface water could deteriorate as more rain and storms drive erosion and the release of toxins. These dynamics could affect everything from the availability of drinking water for people to a shortage of water for livestock and crops (with negative effects for the food supply) to decreases in hydroelectric power generation."

Lagos and TokyoGoldman Sachs

The bank said that all those factors would "affect economic activity, damage infrastructure – from buildings to transportation to water and waste-management systems – and disproportionately harm vulnerable residents."

"Despite the uncertainty around the timing and scale of the impact, it may be prudent for some cities to start investing in adaptation now," Goldman says. "Urban adaptation could drive one of the largest infrastructure build-outs in history. Given the scale of the task, urban adaptation will likely need to draw on innovative sources of financing."

Global populationsGoldman Sachs

Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 30, 2019, 12:54:54 am
SNIPPET:

Throughout history, society’s elite have shown the same arrogance and hubris in the face of impending calamity. For example, the Fall of the Roman Empire:

If you read the chronicles of the early 5th century AD, you get the impression of total mayhem, with barbarian armies crisscrossing Europe and few, if any, Roman nobles and commanders trying to defend the Empire. Most of them seemed to be maneuvering to find a safe place where they could find safety for themselves. We don’t know what was the final destiny of Rutilius Namatianus but, since he had the time to finish his poem, we may imagine that he could build himself a castle in Southern France and his descendants may have become feudal lords. But not everyone made it. For instance, Paulinus of Pella, another rich Roman, contemporary of Namatianus, desperately tried to hold on his possessions in Europe, eventually considering himself happy just for having been able of surviving to old age.

We see a pattern here: when the rich Romans saw that things were going really out of control, they scrambled to save themselves while, at the same time, denying that things were so bad as they looked. We can see that clearly in Namatianus’ poem: he never ever hints that Rome was doomed. At most, he says, it was a temporary setback and soon Rome will be great again.

Thunberg’s speech alluded to such behavior by the polluting nations:

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For more than 30 years, the science has been crystal clear. How dare you continue to look away and come here saying that you’re doing enough, when the politics and solutions needed are still nowhere in sight. You say you hear us and that you understand the urgency. But no matter how sad and angry I am, I do not want to believe that. Because if you really understood the situation and still kept on failing to act, then you would be evil. And that I refuse to believe.

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Yes Greta, they are evil; they have access to every expert on the seriousness of the crisis and they are building walls and saving their own skin while continuing business-as-usual. Lest we forget, the fossil fuel industry’s own scientists accurately predicted the life-threatening effects of its product decades ago and not only did they do nothing to stop it, they funded and orchestrated a vast network of climate denial propaganda which continues to this day and have raced to exploit even more fossil fuels from the melting Arctic. When you consider that billions of people are going to die as a result, their actions become by far the greatest crimes against humanity ever committed. Make no mistake, our society is trading a livable planet for an unsustainable way of life that is irreparably depleting finite resources and altering the earth for eons, making it uninhabitable for organized human societies. Each day of business-as-usual further degrades the planet’s biodiversity.

Full article:

Greta Thunberg Speaks the Horrific Truth of Humanity’s Fate (https://collapseofindustrialcivilization.com/2019/09/28/greta-thunberg-speaks-the-horrific-truth-of-humanitys-fate/)

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on October 01, 2019, 01:48:32 pm
BLACK BEAR NEWS 9.30.19 Climate solutions among rising weather extremes?
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on October 02, 2019, 02:11:05 pm
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SNIPPET:

According to scientists, the only way to keep the planet’s temperature from increasing 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit is to immediately phase out all fossil fuel infrastructure and devices. As soon as existing coal, oil, or gas plants reach their engineered lifespans, instead of refurbishing we must shut them down. If we don’t, the estimates for increasing temperatures start going up. At 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit, positive feedback loops of evaporating Arctic methane could kick in. Methane is 21 times better at warming the atmosphere than CO2. The warmer temps evaporate the methane. The methane makes the atmosphere warmer. It evaporates more methane …. you get the (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/gallery/renewablerevolution/2/3-300919160020-2275981.png) picture.

I don’t want to be a Donny Downer or a Cassandra but how likely do you think shutting down the fossil fuel industry is?

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The 🦕🦖 Hydrocarbon 👹 Hellspawn Fossil Fuelers DID THE Clean Energy  Inventions suppressing, Climate Trashing, human health depleting CRIME, but since they have ALWAYS BEEN liars and conscience free crooks 🦀, they are trying to AVOID   DOING THE TIME or   PAYING THE FINE! Don't let them get away with it! Pass it on!   
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on October 03, 2019, 06:09:13 pm
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Gigantic Iceberg Breaks Off from Antarctica

By Mike Schuler on Oct 02, 2019 12:11 pm

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loose tooth icebergA gigantic iceberg roughly half the size of Rhode Island has calved from an ice shelf in East Antarctica, scientists with the Australian Antarctic Division said this week.  The calving event took place last week, with the iceberg eventually separating from the ice shelf on September 26th.  Scientists have been watching the section nearly two […]  Read full story... (https://gcaptain.com/gigantic-iceberg-breaks-off-from-antarctica/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Gcaptain+%28gCaptain.com%29&goal=0_f50174ef03-c214cecfb8-169600093&mc_cid=c214cecfb8&mc_eid=1855a0727e)
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on October 04, 2019, 08:55:49 pm
"What we want to do is save humanity from extinction", Prof. Jeffery, Behavioural Neuroscience | XR
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''Heading for Extinction(and what to do about it)'' : The 'Why? The What? and The 'How?' of Extinction Rebellion's 3 Demands

This seminal XR Talk is written and presented by Prof Kate Jeffery, a Behavioural Neuroscientist at UCL. The lecture encapsulates Extinction Rebellion's raison d'être: the questions of 'Why? the movement has evolved, based upon compelling scientific evidence that global warming and ecological degradation are advancing, unabated: it is the truth being told of the unfolding trauma of the sixth mass extinction and ecocide as a direct consequence of human activity.
Prof Kate Jeffery explains what needs to be done to avert complete and irreversible ecological and societal collapse; Kate touches on the awe, shock and grief of when we, ourselves, are faced with the prospect of our own extinction through the line of future generations. Finally, we are presented with Extinction Rebellion's 3rd demand: on 'How?' this climate and ecological emergency has to be addressed through the collective, fully informed -when the truth -be-told- will of the UK citizenry, in the form of a national citizens' assembly.

The Rebellion will take place across the globe from 7th October. Sign up for London here https://Rebellion.earth/international...  Worldwide actions are planned in other major cities. See if your city is listed https://Rebellion.earth/international... or, if your city is not listed, then please visit our global site https://Rebellion.Global/ to get in touch with your local group.
 
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on October 05, 2019, 09:29:26 pm
BLACK BEAR NEWS 10.5.19 On climate pessimism
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on October 06, 2019, 09:15:10 pm
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Post by: AGelbert on October 08, 2019, 12:02:14 am
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Burning 🔥 at the End of the World
Posted on October 2, 2019, by Radio Ecoshock
 
 
Catastrophic level fire conditions and drought in Australia as climate change bites down-under. Fire expert Greg Mullins. Plus new science: A cleanup to save your health could quicken Arctic ice changes and heating around the world, with guest Ran Feng.

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PARTS OF AUSTRALIA AT “CATASTROPHIC” FIRE DANGER – GREG MULLINS

Massive wild fires have appeared on every Continent except Antarctica. Now it is hitting Australia even at the end of winter there. With temperatures about 10 degrees C – over 20 degrees Fahrenheit above normal – over 130 bush fires were crackling over Australia in early September. A veteran Australian fire expert warns climate change makes the risk much worse, and it may break down the country’s fire defense system. And now strangely, a change high above Antarctica makes this year’s fire season even more ominous.

We have reached Greg Mullins, former commissioner of Fire and Rescue for New South Wales for 13 years until his retirement in 2017. Greg has represented Australia for groups of Asian Fire Chiefs and the United Nations. He currently sits on the Climate Council, the publicly-funded climate watchdog.

Australia has a history of fires going back to aboriginal times. I’m thinking of the Ash Wednesday fires in February 1983 that killed 47, and the Black Saturday Bushfires that killed 173 people in Victoria in 2008. What is changing now? Every year has become super dangerous for wildfires. Climate has changed the game.

Fire expert Greg Mullins, Australia

Greg also warns that Australia’s method of sharing fire-fighters and equipment could break down. There used to be a succession of fire seasons across that large continent, so each state could share equipment and fire fighters. Now there can be concurrent fires, meaning there is less to share.

I see that danger becoming international. We had firefighters from Australia and New Zealand come here to British Columbia to help fight our massive wildfires. It was out of season for Australian men and women who battle these beasts. But now places like California say “fire season” is all year long. Maybe as the season extends even in Australia, the international sharing will end too and everybody will be on their own?

Greg says that is already happening. Australia has very few large fire fighting aircraft, like 737 size planes. They were always able to get more from California during winter in the Northern Hemisphere. But now fire season can last all year in California, those planes are no longer always available. Australia just bought a 737 to fight fires, but still doesn’t have enough if a super fire season erupts in several parts of the country.

THE “BIG DRY” IN AUSTRALIA

There are so many climate factors involved. Australia is in yet another drought. Some dams in new South Wales have almost run dry this year. Winter rainfall was dismally low. Towns may run out of water. Mullins tells us water is in such short supply, in some areas fire fighters have to stand by and let a home burn because that town cannot spare that much water, and still have drinking water.

I recall when the Murray Darling river system was hit with low water. It became a question of either water for the City of Adelaide, or farmers upstream. Some farmers quit. The change in rainfall, which keeps popping up year after year now, is likely due to changes over Antarctica. In the last decade or so, the Polar Vortex winds have tightened around Antarctica, meaning less rain for Australia.

SUDDEN STRATOSPHERIC WARMING OVER ANTARCTICA HEATS UP FIRE SEASON IN AUSTRALIA

Also, and this is a weird one, a “sudden stratospheric warming” just popped up over Antarctica. Although I am not a scientist, my basic understanding is this means the very cold stratosphere rapidly warms up a few degrees. That happens now and then over the North Pole, but rarely over the South Pole. The only other instance scientists can confirm happened over Antarctica in 2002. The Australian Bureau of Meteorology is predicting this will be the strongest warming of Antarctica on record. Greg discusses the impact that change in the polar stratosphere can have over Australian weather.

You can learn more about the recent sudden warming of the stratosphere from this You tube video by Radio Ecoshock guest Paul Beckwith.

https://youtu.be/m82Qk2b0dgU

In fact, a “triple-whammy” is hurting Australia right now. Added to changes in Polar winds, and the stratosphere, there is another cycle over the Indian Ocean that is also in a phase which tends to reduce rain-bearing winds over Australia. So it all adds up to a very dry bush ready to burn big time.

IGNITION

But as we learned recent Radio Ecoshock guest Mark Parrington, even ideal burning conditions don’t necessarily add up to a catastrophic fire year. An ignition source is needed. Yes there are cases of arson in Australia torching the bush, as there are in Canada and most countries. But farmers are also to blame, being slow to adapt to a changed climate. Where it was fine for their forefathers to burn off fields or scrub bush at certain times of year, that is no longer safe because the fire season has extended. Some agricultural fires get away into the bush with terrible results.

Greg Mullins also tells us that the amount of lightning has increased as well. That is what set ancient rainforests in the Australian island of Tasmania ablaze in recent years. Those forests had not burned for more than thousand years. Those trees are not adapted to fire as some forests are in other parts of Australia. When they burn they are gone for a long time. Even fire-adapted tree species can be wiped out if the fires keep coming back too soon – as they are!

I was moved by Greg Mullins. His father was a fire-fighter before him, and Greg has fought fires personally since 1978. He then directed fire fighting in New South Wales, the most populous state in Australia. Greg has literally seen the climate change during his life-time. He is worried about the new fire dangers, as are many, many Australians. Having gone through two years of fire emergencies here in British Columbia, hunkering down inside from the smoke, housing fire victims in our home, I sympathize with Australians as the new age of super fires emerges.

Hundreds of millions of years ago when trees first developed on Earth, they expanded rapidly into a forest empire. Trees were so successful at storing carbon in their trunks and roots – they lowered the amount of carbon in the atmosphere and brought on an ice age. I wonder: are we at the start of another great atmospheric event, when so many forests burn, releasing all their carbon – that forest fires alone may trigger a much greater warming that we expected!

I don’t think we are any where near a global decarbonization of the forests event yet. But I fear it could happen. Our recent French Senior Scientist guest Olivier Boucher told us 7 degrees C of warming by 2100 is the worst possible case – but possible. Global forests could start burning and not coming back if we reach high levels of warming.

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RAN FENG BRINGS NEW LIGHT TO GLOBAL DIMMING

Last week I asked French scientist Olivier Boucher about the climate impacts of aerosols, the smog particles we launch into the atmosphere as we burn fossil fuels. He said that is hard to model. But new science finds another way by comparing the atmosphere now to a period around 3 million years ago when the continents were the same – and so were the CO2 levels. The results are astounding. This is hard science. If you listen to the Ran Feng interview, I promise climate news you have not heard before, and another kick to get us all going into rapid climate action.

The Arctic has become incredibly hot. In 2019, Alaska roasted. Wildfires were rampant in Siberia, and Greenland shed vast amounts of meltwater. Of course our carbon burning is the driving force. But scientists are studying another surprising source behind Arctic warming: our need for cleaner air to breathe. All this leads to a key question about our common future: how much heating has been masked, hidden and delayed by smog shading out incoming sunlight? What happens if pollution is reduced as politicians promise? Are we in for a rude surprise warming?

Underlying that are more questions, like what is “clean air” really? and why did the Arctic Sea become ice-free in an earlier age, even when conditions are like ours now? Is a Blue Ocean event in the Arctic possible as air pollution regulations kick in?

Ran Feng is an assistant professor with the University of Connecticut. Her new paper studies a period about 3 million years ago – when a climate shift created the savannas where our first ancestors evolved. That climate past may be our future.

Dr. Ran Feng, University of Connecticut

Aerosol pollution is not caused by climate change, but as your hear in this interview pollution and climate change influence each other, especially through the role of cloud formation.

DID EUROPE’S AIR CLEANUP ADD TO ARCTIC WARMING? ???

In 2016 and 2017, scientists at Stockholm University – led by Juan C. Acosta Navarro – showed that a significant fraction of Arctic warming has developed since sulfur emissions peaked back in the 1980’s. I ask Ran Feng to explain the relationship between smog reduction in the Northern Hemisphere and a hotter Arctic. See the Navarro-led paper “Amplification of Arctic warming by past air pollution reductions in Europe“, published in March 2016. In the Abstract, the authors say:

“Here we present simulations with an Earth system model with comprehensive aerosol physics and chemistry that show that the sulfate aerosol reductions in Europe since 1980 can potentially explain a significant fraction of Arctic warming over that period.”

Navarro and his team also showed global mean temperature would go up if current promises to reduce air pollution are kept. Slashing air pollution could raise Earth’s mean temperature anywhere from 1/3 of a degree to almost 1 degree C, they say. That suggests Earth would already be much hotter without smog shielding out some of the sun.

Talking about new science, Ran Feng says (while acknowledging this is still controversial) “it seems like in the intermediate scenario, the radiative cooling effect due to the effect on clouds could be around -.5 or a little bit more than -.5 watts per meter squared which is something around 30 ppm CO2 equivalent“. And if that is the “intermediate scenario” is there a worse case scenario than that?

According to her team’s research into the climate around 3 million years ago, not with models but with biochemical proxies and other data, it looks like increased clouds from modern aerosols could be masking more than half the heating we have really created with our greenhouse gases! If true, clearing up the air (to end the premature death of millions of humans) could lead to an unexpected climate catastrophe.

In addition, I know of a paper in progress which makes the case that a reduction in Asian pollution (due mainly to government action against smog) – may be a direct cause of the recent burst of heating in the last three years, including this year with the hottest July ever. Other scientists disagree with that estimate, so we will see.

Feng’s latest paper, accepted for publication in Geophysical Research Letters, investigates a time around 3 million years ago. It is called – and this will be a new word for many of our listeners – “the mid-Piacenzian period“. A co-author is Radio Ecoshock guest Yangyang Xu. The titled of their paper is: “Contributions of aerosol-cloud interactions to mid-Piacenzian seasonally sea ice-free Arctic“.

So the Swedish team led by Navarro found that Europe’s reduction of air pollution may have warmed the Arctic by half a degree. That is because, as Ran Feng’s research shows, we were looking at pollution the wrong way. It is true smog, especially sulfates from burning coal, oil and gas, bounces a fraction of solar radiation back into space, cooling the planet perhaps half a degree, although the exact amount is uncertain. But the real cooling arrives because aerosol particles trigger more clouds that cool the Earth even more. The masking effect of global dimming is much greater than we thought, hiding perhaps half of the true warming that will be revealed as various countries clean up the air to save millions of people from premature deaths. That is the awful position we are in.

I hope some people will download Ran Feng’s interview from my web site at ecoshock.org and listen again. We need climate watchers to take this apart and communicate key points to a wider public. Help get new climate science out there.

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My special thanks to listeners who donated last week to help Radio Ecoshock keep broadcasting. You help me get the voices of cutting-edge scientists, authors and activists out to the broader world. We help crowds of people starting to call for real action on climate change. I know some journalists and bloggers also draw from this show. Scientists have told me they listen. Plenty of college students tune in to hear experts from all over the world. Radio Ecoshock is broadcast by many college community radio stations. I cheer on the students – as we pass on a damaged world – but I believe a salvageable future for us and for all the species that evolved into this climate before us.

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Thank you for listening this week, and caring about our world.
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on October 08, 2019, 02:43:13 pm
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October 7th, 2019 by Steve Hanley

Extinction Rebellion Tests The Limits Of Public Protest

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֍ We have a shared vision of change — creating a world that is fit for generations to come.
֍ We set our mission on what is necessary — mobilizing 3.5% of the population to achieve system change — using ideas such as “momentum-driven organizing” to achieve this.
֍ We need a regenerative culture — creating a culture which is healthy, resilient and adaptable.
֍ We openly challenge ourselves and this toxic system — leaving our comfort zones to take action for change.
֍ We value reflecting and learning — following a cycle of action, reflection, learning, and planning for more action.
֍ Learning from other movements and contexts as well as our own experiences.
֍ We welcome everyone and every part of everyone — working actively to create safer and more accessible spacesWe actively mitigate for power — breaking down hierarchies of power for more equitable participation.
֍ We avoid blaming and shaming — we live in a toxic system, but no one individual is to blame.
֍ We are a non-violent network — using non-violent strategy and tactics as the most effective way to bring about change.
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egriff5514
Well we see how this works out... climate change is now up there as a regular, standard item in all the news and current affairs programmes in the UK now...

but there is an orchestrated campaign in the tabloid press to label XR extremeists, hippies, unemployed, snowflakes... plays into standard UK narratives about who are the 'bad guys' with an election surely coming soon

Dan  > egriff5514
"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win” Gandhi

If XR has advanced the marker from being ignored to a smear campaign they have jumped step 2 and reached step 3 in a 4 step process. Not bad for an organization so young.

egriff5514 > Dan
True.

(if quoting Gandhi, there's an alternate history story by Harry turtledove, 'the last article' in which Gandhi faces off against the 3rd Reich you should read)

Agelbert > egriff5514
👍 Thank you for bringing this up. I looked it up and am posting the salient points below.

Though picturing a grim outcome, it is quite applicable to the XR struggle to save humanity from the 🦕😈🦖 Hydrocarbon Hellspawn crazies, who have no moral compass whatsoever.

"The Last Article" (1988), is an alternate history short story by Harry Turtledove. The story describes a Nazi invasion of India and the reaction of the Germans to the nonviolent resistance and pacifism of Mohandas Gandhi and his followers.

Gandhi assumes a moral equivalence between the Nazi and British imperialists, naively dismissing reports otherwise; the story makes clear that this is a lethal mistake stemming from Gandhi's reluctance to entertain the idea that his moral and ethical assumptions are not shared in common among all  human groups. Loyalty is explored as a powerful but amoral force.

Read more:
The Last Article (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Article)

It is my view that XR's non-violent resistance can be successful IF, and only IF, the movement succeeds in bankrupting the Hydrocarbon Hellspawn. The profits the polluters make are used to retain tyrannical power through the purchase of politicians. If there is no money to purchase politicians, a viable biosphere centered approach to governing is possible. 🎍

Otherwise, the polluters will cling to their power and resort to soul crushing ☠️ murder and 🏴‍ mayhem, even as the biosphere degrades further.

When people are dying in large numbers from Catastrophic Climate Change and 🦕😈🦖 Polluter backed Government tyranny, only a miracle can prevent the masses from rising up violently.

When you are challenging a power structure that eschews ALL ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS, the only non-violent action that works is to hit them in the wallet.

If the polluters do not see the wisdom of saying goodbye to their profit over planet modus operandi, the following is inevitable:

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The 🦕🦖 Hydrocarbon 👹 Hellspawn Fossil Fuelers DID THE Clean Energy  Inventions suppressing, Climate Trashing, human health depleting CRIME, but since they have ALWAYS BEEN liars and conscience free crooks 🦀, they are trying to AVOID   DOING THE TIME or   PAYING THE FINE! Don't let them get away with it! Pass it on!   
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on October 08, 2019, 10:00:48 pm
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on October 09, 2019, 04:34:53 pm
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Research Icebreaker Parks on Arctic Ice Floe for Year-Long Drift Around the North Pole
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on October 09, 2019, 04:47:23 pm
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Captain George Livingston: Four Years Since El Faro

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SS El Faro

Editorial on Oct 08, 2019 03:27 pm

As I write on the 4th anniversary of the El Faro sinking (Oct. 1, 2015), I am reminded that those who lost their lives weren’t strangers, many shared the very same backgrounds, the same hometowns, schools, etc. as the rest of us and so we remember. Professional mariners understand the dangers professional mariners face, but it is none less jolting to hear of these things.

In late September, the French tugboat Bourbon Rhode with 14 crew members sunk in the Atlantic during Hurricane Lorenzo. Only three out of the fourteen crew members survived. In early September, the car and truck carrying ship, Golden Ray, experienced a bizarre, almost unheard of, capsizing while on a routine transit out of Port of Brunswick in Georgia. The ship lay completely on her side with some crew stuck in a dark, sideways world in whatever space they happened to have been in prior to the event. There they waited, for days, unable to escape, awaiting with great anxiety for rescue crews to finally cut holes in the side of the ship.

If a mariner has spent any time at sea, they will have experienced or known of any number of sea disasters. Having spent almost my entire seagoing career on the west coast of North America, I cannot forget my shock in 1985 when told the tug Willamette Pilot III had sunk with the loss of six local San Francisco based crew members. The Willamette Pilot III had been sent out to relive the Canadian ocean-going tug, Pacific Challenge that had a barge loaded with newsprint from Canada.

The older I get, the less I seem to know but one thing I do know, our profession is not understood today. For thousands of years ships have plied the ocean trades; legends, myths, monsters, and stories have followed. One hundred years ago, I would venture that few coastal communities around the world, and even individual countries, didn’t understand that their connection to the world beyond was reliant on ships and the people who sailed them. Why a child on the street in London, Rome, Melbourne, New York knew what a ship was, that it sailed to faraway lands in different places and foreign spaces. So what happened? What disconnected? When did we move from respect to mistrust? I have few ready answers these days, so I ask more questions.

And I would ask two things of my fellow professional mariners, first never forget those who have lost their lives at sea and two, honor their memory. Honor it by not taking for granted all the efforts of those who came before us. Honor it by understanding and acknowledging the expectations of the public and the communities that we serve in the 21st Century. That what we do (ship pilots, captains, professional mariners) is greater than self-interest and, in fact, embraces The Public Trust. We are responsible for more than manning and moving vessels, we must look after the waterways we serve, work on and around. Let us honor the memory of all those who have gone to the deep doing business on great waters by attempting to become better professionals. Not just for the communities we serve but for our fellow mariners that might very well have their lives in our hands. If you’re like me, well good luck, keep up the good fight. Just one step and then another.

To the El Faro, Bourbon Rhode, Double Eagle, Willamette Pilot III and countless others in our collective memories. Lest we forget-

We toil alone
One thousand miles from shore
Gale blowing near storm
Green water ripping by the house
The constant hammer blow of the sea
She seems to want to stop
To rest and recover
Well, stop we might
But rest? No
Just teeth clenching, bone jarring
Reverence for the new day

-Capt. George Livingstone


“No group or individuals did more for establishing our country than the American Merchant Seamen and Privateers. Their Record speaks eloquently of their devotion and sacrifices” -President John Adams

Captain George Livingstone is a San Francisco Bar Pilot, co-author of ‘Tug Use Offshore’, contributing author of ‘IMPA On Pilotage’ and a regular contributor to gCaptain.

https://gcaptain.com/captain-george-livingston-four-years-since-el-faro/

Agelbert Note: I discuss the giant wave producing 🌊 (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/gallery/renewablerevolution/2/3-300919160022-22802205.png) Hurricane conditions that caused the El Faro to sink in the post linked below:

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Climate Change, Blue Water Cargo Shipping and Predicted Ocean Wave Activity: Part 3 of 3 parts (http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/climate-change/future-earth/msg7422/#msg7422)
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on October 09, 2019, 06:45:02 pm
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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

The IPCC has issued another special report: The Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate.

SNIPPET:

The IPCC report projects permafrost near the surface (top 3–4 m) to decrease in area by up to 89% by 2100 under a high emissions scenario (RCP8.5), leading to cumulative release of tens to hundreds of billions of tons of carbon in the form of carbon dioxide and methane to the atmosphere by 2100.

The report fails to warn that, as the Arctic Ocean keeps heating up, huge seafloor methane eruptions could be triggered, and that this could happen within years, as discussed at the extinction page. Abrupt release of 10 Gt of methane would triple the amount of methane in the atmosphere, resulting in huge heating, while it would also trigger the clouds feedback tipping point to be crossed that in itself could push global temperatures up by 8°C within a few years, as earlier discussed in this post and this post.

Sea ice

The report notes that between 1979 and 2018, the areal proportion of multi-year Arctic sea ice at least five years old has declined by approximately 90%. The report refers to a study by Pistone that concludes that the additional heating due to complete Arctic sea ice loss would hasten global warming by an estimated 25 years. Below is a NASA video showing the melting away of the multi-year sea ice over the years.

https://youtu.be/xlPVUB8svuI

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IPCC Report Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate (http://arctic-news.blogspot.com/2019/09/ipcc-report-ocean-and-cryosphere-in-a-changing-climate.html)
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on October 11, 2019, 12:58:24 pm
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on October 11, 2019, 04:03:08 pm
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Post by: AGelbert on October 12, 2019, 09:31:18 pm
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Saturday October 12, 2019, 02:22 AM

One killed in Japan as typhoon approaches, over a million 👀 advised to evacuate
Source: Reuters

OCTOBER 11, 2019 / 9:19 PM / UPDATED 2 HOURS AGO

TOKYO (Reuters) - One man died and more than a million in Japan were advised to evacuate as a powerful typhoon was set to make landfall late on Saturday, bringing with it the heaviest rain and winds in 60 years.

A man in his forties was killed in an overturned car early on Saturday in Chiba prefecture east of Tokyo, where high winds were reported, according to public broadcaster NHK. Four people were injured, also in Chiba, as winds blew roofs off several houses.

A number of municipal governments issued evacuation advisories to areas particularly at risk of floods and landslides, including some in the most populous greater Tokyo region, NHK said.

Typhoon Hagibis, which means “speed” in the Philippine language Tagalog, is due to make landfall on Japan’s main island of Honshu late on Saturday, a month after one of the strongest typhoons to hit the country in recent years destroyed or damaged 30,000 houses and caused extensive power outages.

More:
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-asia-storm-japan/one-killed-in-japan-as-typhoon-approaches-over-a-million-advised-to-evacuate-idUSKBN1WR02A

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Japan’s skies turn deep shade of purple as strongest typhoon since 1958 approaches
Hope everyone's safe.

Nyi Nyi Thet | October 12, 12:32 am

Residents of central and eastern Japan are preparing themselves for possibly the most destructive storm in over 60 years.

The South China Morning Post reported that Hagibis, which is the Philippine word for “speed”, is expected to hit near Nagoya in central Japan on Oct. 12.

Flights have been cancelled as the country braces for potential impact.

The organisers of Japan’s F1 Grand Prix have cancelled all practice and qualifying sessions scheduled for Oct. 12, due to the approach of the super typhoon.

More:
https://mothership.sg/2019/10/japan-typhoon-hagibis-skies/
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on October 13, 2019, 04:51:21 pm
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As Rainforests Fall and 🔥 Burn, More Environmental Activists ☠️ Murdered: Is There a 🦕🦖 Pattern?
557 views•Oct 11, 2019


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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on October 15, 2019, 12:33:56 pm
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on October 16, 2019, 01:39:07 pm
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October 16, 2018
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An algae bloom in Lake Erie off the shore of Ohio in 2014. Photo: AP

Toxic ☠️ Algae Blooms Really Have Become More Intense, Study Finds

A new study out Monday seems to confirm an unpleasant reality: Potentially toxic algae blooms in the world’s freshwater lakes have become more intense over the last 30 years. And while climate change may not be the only reason why blooms have gotten worse, rising temperatures are likely making it... (https://earther.gizmodo.com/toxic-algae-blooms-really-have-become-more-intense-stu-1839039124?utm_source=earther_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2019-10-16)

Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on October 16, 2019, 09:09:00 pm
BLACK BEAR NEWS 10.15.19 XR Shutdown  😠 - Climate Change is Bad for 🦖 Business - Record Snowfall in NA
902 views•Oct 16, 2019

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Police ban Extinction Rebellion protests from whole of London
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Reserve Bank warns climate change posing increasing risk to financial stability
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Post by: AGelbert on October 17, 2019, 08:15:55 pm
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Bridge Collapse in Taiwan - Oil 🦖 Companies 😈 Ramping Up Production - Sander's
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Sanders Wants to Give Workers Corporate Board Seats and Reverse Trump Tax Cuts
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U.S. Imposes Penalties on Turkey, Aiming to Stop Incursion Into Syria
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on October 18, 2019, 12:22:20 pm
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“Just as we had long taken for granted the stability of the planet, we have likewise taken for granted the stability of the human species.” -- Bill McKibben


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Post by: AGelbert on October 22, 2019, 07:42:51 pm
October 22, 2019

Another 2020 Climate Change Special:

The Weather Channel announced on Monday that it will air a special climate change segment next month featuring interviews with nine 2020 presidential candidates. The network decided against a town hall style event like the ones CNN and MSNBC have hosted, opting instead to pre-tape interviews in locations recently impacted by climate change. “We didn’t want to have a food fight about whose plan is better,” said Nora Zimmett, the networks’ senior vice president for content and programming.

The interviews will be conducted by Weather Channel meteorologists and Climate Desk reporters, and questions will focus on how climate change intersects with other issues, like the economy and national security. Democratic frontrunners Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Bernie Sanders (I-VT) will participate 👍, while Former Vice President Joe 🦕 Biden will not. 👎

President 🦖 Trump declined an invitation to participate, but three 🐘 Republican challengers, former congressman Joe Walsh (R-IL), former governor Bill Weld (R-MA), and former congressman Mark Sanford (R-SC), will be included.

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October 23, 2019

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October 24, 2019

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Post by: AGelbert on October 26, 2019, 06:25:51 pm
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A Rare Occurrence: Simultaneous Late-October Tropical Storms, Olga and Pablo, Form in the Atlantic

Dr. Jeff Masters  ·  October 25, 2019, 5:14 PM EDT

SNIPPET:

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Above: GOES-16 visible image of Tropical Storm Olga at 5:10 pm EDT October 25, 2019. Image credit: NOAA/RAMMB.

In an exceptionally rare occurrence for late October, two new tropical storms formed simultaneously on Friday afternoon in the Atlantic—Olga in the Gulf of Mexico and Pablo in the northeast Atlantic near the Azores Islands. The formation of Olga and Pablo brings this year’s tally of Atlantic tropical cyclone activity to 16 named storms, 5 hurricanes, 3 intense hurricanes, and an ACE index of 120. The 1981 – 2010 averages for these quantities by October 25 were 10.8 named storms, 5.6 hurricane, 2.5 intense hurricanes, and an ACE index of 95.5, according to Dr. Phil Klotzbach, so 2019 is well above average in most metrics.

Olga forms in the Gulf of Mexico

Satellite wind measurements and data from a Friday afternoon hurricane hunter flight found 40 mph surface winds in Tropical Depression 17 in the Gulf of Mexico, prompting NHC to upgrade it to Tropical Storm Olga. The most recent named storm to form this late in the calendar year in the Gulf of Mexico is Juan, which became a tropical storm on October 26, 1985.

Olga will be very short-lived, however. The Hurricane Hunters found that Olga was about to be overtaken by a cold front with even stronger winds near 45 mph behind it. Olga is expected to make landfall in Louisiana late Friday night after merging with the cold front and becoming a very rainy non-tropical low pressure system. Heavy rains from Olga will penetrate into southern Lower Michigan and southern Ontario by Saturday night. Update (11 pm EDT Friday): Olga was declared a post-tropical cyclone by NHC just six hours after it was named, with the cold front having absorbed it. The presence of the front boosted Olga's top winds to 50 mph, though, and the rainfall forecast remains on track.

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Figure 1. Predicted 7-day precipitation amounts ending at 8 pm EDT Friday, November 1, 2019. Heavy rains from Olga will penetrate into southern Lower Michigan by Saturday night, treating Dr. Masters to a rare late-October tropical weather experience. This map also incorporates moisture predicted for later next week from a subsequent storm system. Image credit: NOAA.

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on October 28, 2019, 03:48:09 pm
BLACK BEAR NEWS: Who's 🔥 Fire Is This?
932 views•Oct 27, 2019

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on October 28, 2019, 04:28:01 pm
BLACK BEAR NEWS: 🚩 Hawaiian Blob Returns 😨
Oct 27, 2019
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The Return of the 'Blob': Hawaii's Reefs Threatened by Marine Heat Wave
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on October 28, 2019, 04:42:06 pm
Malibu 🔥 Fire (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/gallery/renewablerevolution/2/3-300919160021-22781459.png)
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: Surly1 on October 29, 2019, 09:18:16 am
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If you haven't been in the blackout zones, where I spent much of my weekend (climate benefit aside), it's like this: no traffic lights. No gas stations. No stores. No schools. No internet. Not a lot of options for recharging what wasn't charged. It is shut down. People can't work or go to school or run their businesses. The stars were beautiful last night in the darkness but I am sure people are feeling isolated and distressed and concerned about what's next in the short term and the long. The billions lost by people whose lives were put on freeze because of an antiquated evil corporation and its outdated, unmaintained grid and a growing climate catastrophe hasn't been estimated, but it's huge, to reduce what is productive and creative and socially beneficial work to dollars.

I was fine at a house with headlights and solar lights and a gas stove, but the no communications but my phone losing its charge wasn't fun. I'm back in the city, but getting up this morning to the brown horizon, the smell o smoke, and the two helicoptors near overhead: I thought, this is a war, and then I thought, nature finally pushed back. Most of the north bay and a lot of east bay is shut down and there was a traffic jam of people pouring into the city at midmorning. To San Francisco where everything works, since we don't have wildfires (because we barely have anything wild). The winds are due to start up again tomorrow. photo h/t Mary Diaz, who is an evacuee (and who did fantastic work in 2017 with fire evacuees). Many people who were severely traumatized in 2017 and who in some cases were still rebuilding or had recently rebuilt are among the evacuees.

It's so clear we're not adequately prepared for this. I don't even know where the 180,000 (official figure) Sonoma County evacuees went and mass evacuations by car, Southern California reminded us, leads to traffic jams, which when gas is hard to come by is also a mess. I heard someone on the radio (in my car, coming back to SF) saying they're getting emergency alerts that are just links that, without a smart phone you can't follow up on and also some cell towers are out, and not a lot of people (except me and your grandma) still have land lines.

We are the seventh largest economy in the world. We are also a disaster zone. This is climate chaos. This can't be the new normal. This is why I did a benefit for climate action and data last night. This is why I'll keep working on it.

--Rebecca Solnit

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
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Title: Chile Won't Host COP25, LA Fires, Planting Trees China, Koalas Dead in Fire & MORE
Post by: AGelbert on October 31, 2019, 06:43:39 pm
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Strong Winds Spark More Than a Dozen LA-Area (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/gallery/renewablerevolution/2/3-300919160021-22781459.png) Wildfires 😨 (https://ecowatch.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=214ab5fbb3f6015d74ffab4ec&id=95da4352db&e=5488e583b4)
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Title: 📢 US Military Collapse In 20 Years Due To Climate Change
Post by: AGelbert on October 31, 2019, 09:48:20 pm
BLACK BEAR NEWS: 📢 US Military Collapse In 20 Years Due To Climate Change
766 views•Oct 30, 2019

https://youtu.be/J-kTZJ8xLHc
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U.S. Military Could Collapse Within 20 Years Due to Climate Change, Report Commissioned By Pentagon Says
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Title: uppets gone wild 👍 about a simple step you can take to reduce pollution and help with climate change
Post by: AGelbert on November 02, 2019, 10:36:57 am
Puppets gone wild 👍 about a simple step you can take to reduce pollution and help with climate change
Nov 1, 2019

https://youtu.be/rU-x-yziDYs

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Vox Terra, episode 27, Idling your engine, checking your phone, burning gas, polluting the air, and wasting money: a simple step almost anyone can take to cause less pollution and slow the pace of climate change! Great citations, consider “puppets with funny voices” a free bonus!

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There is a simple step anyone who owns a vehicle that runs on fossil fuels can take: do not sit in your vehicle, idling your engine while you check your phone. Turn off your engine. Wait to turn it on until you are ready to drive. Common sense will tell you that breathing in Auto Exhaust is not good for you. According to the Union of Concerned Scientists: long-term exposure to auto, bus and truck exhaust is linked to heart, cardiovascular diseases, including heart attacks, lung cancer; and in children, it’s been linked to slowed lung-function growth, asthma, and other negative health impacts. According to the EPA the transportation sector generates the largest share of greenhouse gas emissions. Reducing auto exhaust is a good idea.  Vox Terra citations below:

Updated primary, “Vox Terra” citation:
https://blog.ucsusa.org/dave-reichmut...

Secondary ““Vox Terra” citation:
https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/sour...
Category News & Politics
Title: 🦀 Trump Still Has Dumb Fire Ideas:
Post by: AGelbert on November 04, 2019, 05:43:54 pm
 
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Title: Halting Climate Change For $300 Billion?
Post by: AGelbert on November 06, 2019, 06:03:30 pm
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584 views•Nov 4, 2019

https://youtu.be/QH_pOp9vpaI

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These U.N. Climate Scientists Think They Can Halt Global Warming for $300 Billion. Here's How
https://time.com/5709100/halt-climate...

Revolutionary New Lithium Ion Battery Technology - Zero to 200 miles in 5 minutes?
https://youtu.be/u57pBJG2C7E

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Title: 👹💵🎩 Funding The 🦕🦖 Climate Breakdown : How can it be stopped?
Post by: AGelbert on November 06, 2019, 07:12:06 pm
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Just Have a Think
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We all know the impact that fossil fuels, backed by huge government tax subsidies are having on the climate of our planet. What's less well publicised, and arguably even disguised by the top banks, are the mind boggling levels of investment that they have also been pouring into OIl, Coal and Gas, even since the Paris Accord of 2015. But you and I can change that. This week we take a look.

Here's a list of web addresses, alphabetically by country, of all the members of The Global Alliance for Banking on Values -

Afghanistan
http://fmfb.com.af/

Australia
https://www.tmbank.com.au/accounts/ev...
https://www.bankaust.com.au/

Bangladesh
http://www.brac.net/

Bolivia
https://www.bancofie.com.bo/#/
https://www.bancosol.ao/

Canada
https://clearwatercreditunion.org/che...
http://www.gabv.org/members/caisse-de...
https://www.kindredcu.com/
https://www.vancity.com/

Colombia
https://www.bmm.com.co/
https://www.bancompartir.co/#!inicio

Denmark
https://www.esafbank.com/
https://merkur.dk/privat/


Dominican Republic
https://bancoademi.com.do/
https://banfondesa.com.do/

El Salvador
https://www.integral.com.sv/

Equador
http://www.banco-solidario.com/

France
http://www.gabv.org/members/credit-co...

Germany
https://www.gls.de/privatkunden/
https://www.umweltbank.de/

Greece
https://bankofkarditsa.com/site/

Honuras
https://bancopopular.hn/

Hungary
http://www.gabv.org/members/magnet-hu...

India
https://www.esafbank.com/

Italy
https://www.bancaetica.it/

Japan
http://www.daiichikanshin.com/

Malaysia
https://www.muamalat.com.my/

Mongolia
https://www.xacbank.mn/

Nepal
https://www.nmbbanknepal.com/

Netherlands
https://www.triodos.com/

Nigeria
https://www.lapo-nigeria.org/

Norway
https://www.cultura.no/

Palestinian Territory
https://www.bankofpalestine.com/ar

Paraguay
https://www.visionbanco.com/

Peru
https://www.cajaarequipa.pe/
https://www.abaco.com.pe/

Russia
https://www.centrinvest.ru/en/

Serbia
http://www.obs.rs/en

Sweden
https://www.ekobanken.se/

Switzerland

https://www.abs.ch/
https://www.gemeinschaftsbank.ch/home

Tajikistan
https://fmfb.tj/en/

Uganda
https://www.centenarybank.co.ug/

UK
https://www.triodos.co.uk/change-your...
https://charitybank.org/
https://www.ecology.co.uk/


USA

https://www.amalgamatedbank.com/onlin...
https://www.cityfirstbank.com/
https://www.ncb.coop/
https://www.amalgamatedbank.com/newre...
https://banksouthern.com/
https://sunrisebanks.com/
https://www.veritycu.com/
https://www.vsecu.com/

This week's other video research sites -


https://www.desmogblog.com/2016/04/26...

https://www.desmogblog.com/sites/beta...

http://www.oilandgastechnology.net/ne...

https://carbonaccountingfinancials.co...

https://www.nvb.nl/english/50-financi...

http://www.gabv.org/news/global-banki...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_co...

https://www.banktrack.org/article/ban...

https://www.campaigncc.org/timetoswitch

https://www.theguardian.com/sustainab...

https://www.amalgamatedbank.com/news/...

http://www.gabv.org/the-community/fin...

https://www.theguardian.com/environme...

https://www.theguardian.com/environme...

#climatebreakdown  #actnow  #gabv
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Title: BLACK BEAR NEWS: Fossil Fuels Must Be Cut (Duh)
Post by: AGelbert on November 07, 2019, 06:40:04 pm
BLACK BEAR NEWS: Fossil Fuels Must Be Cut (Duh)
542 views•Nov 5, 2019

https://youtu.be/tMR-_D_HuIM

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Oil giants must cut output by a third to meet climate target – study
https://www.theguardian.com/business/...

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Title: Permafrost Releases More Co2 Than Previously Thought 😨
Post by: AGelbert on November 07, 2019, 07:26:55 pm
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Permafrost emits more carbon in winter than plants absorb in summer: study
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Title: 🐍 Snakes And 🐀 Rats PERISHING! 😟
Post by: AGelbert on November 07, 2019, 09:02:04 pm
BLACK BEAR NEWS Snakes And Rats
714 views•Nov 6, 2019

https://youtu.be/nkjWHbFElO0

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Snake population near death as floods drown rats
https://www.weatherzone.com.au/news/s...

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Title: 👨‍🔬 11,000 Climate scientists to 🦕 3
Post by: AGelbert on November 07, 2019, 09:18:56 pm
Black Bear News Live Stream - 11.7.19 (no sound until 3 minute mark)

https://youtu.be/RiCwT_yK0ls

📢 11,000 Climate scientists to 3 (bought and paid for "scientists" like 🦕 Tony Heller) say we are in a DIRE CLIMATE EMERGENCY!

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ValhalaFiveSix 👍

Potholer tore Tony Heller a new Ass hole with a sort back and forth video responses. The problem is both can be lengthy is response in a responding in videos, it would be much more compelling if they were both in the same vid and then it would be apparent to all that Tony Heller has no evidence, the so called denier would be exposed with no clothes.

I think you are right that Heller is paid off by think tanks. This is what I put at the top of the climate criminals. Certain types of speech is not protected by the 1st amendment, child po rn is one, yelling fire in a crowded theater is not protected speech. Tony Heller is deliberately misleading folks into climate obstruction which will result in biological death of most of the biosphere. In other words he is the Joseph Goebbels the Nazi propagandist of our time.

Title: Aussie Wildfires 🔥 - XR ✨ Wins Court Ruling
Post by: AGelbert on November 08, 2019, 11:49:50 pm
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BLACK BEAR NEWS: Aussie Wildfires 🔥 - XR ✨ Wins Court Ruling
64 views•Nov 8, 2019

https://youtu.be/ceQaaQ8tjOE


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#FridayGasStrike #ExtinctionRebellion #ClimateStrike
#GretaThunberg #ClimateChange #CompassionateDegrowth

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'Unprecedented' bushfires rip through Australia's New South Wales
https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/08/austra...

Extinction Rebellion: High Court rules London protest ban unlawful
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Title: UK Biblical Floods 💧🌊 - Cyclone Bulbul
Post by: AGelbert on November 09, 2019, 06:05:10 pm
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BLACK BEAR NEWS: UK Biblical Floods 💧🌊 - (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/gallery/renewablerevolution/2/3-300919160022-22802205.png) Cyclone Bulbul
167 views•Nov 9, 2019

https://youtu.be/nd3cMRZWN98

Black Bear News
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#FridayGasStrike #ExtinctionRebellion #ClimateStrike
#GretaThunberg #ClimateChange #CompassionateDegrowth
#BlackBearNews

Cyclone Bulbul (Matmo) Nearing Landfall in Eastern India; Flooding Rain, Storm Surge, Winds to Extend Into Bangladesh
https://weather.com/storms/hurricane/...

UK weather: Snow hits amid 'danger to life' warnings after 'biblical' flooding
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...

#FridayGasStrike #ExtinctionRebellion #ClimateStrike
#GretaThunberg #ClimateChange #CompassionateDegrowth

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Title: Venice, San Francisco, Climate-wrecking
Post by: AGelbert on November 09, 2019, 10:12:51 pm
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Posted on October 30, 2019

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Think of the great cities about to be lost as seas rise on a warming planet. That is Venice, and our guests Gray Brechin and Luca Muscara take us there, to the battleground between human history and climate change. But we go further into the killing role of great cities and lessons for our future from the New Deal. I’m Alex Smith. Let’s explore time and place on Radio Ecoshock.

🔊 Podcast: (https://www.ecoshock.org/2019/10/venice-san-francisco-climate-wrecking.html)

SNIPPET:

THE U.S. ARMY KNOWS CLIMATE CHANGE IS REAL AND REALLY BIG

There have been rumors and suppositions the American military knows climate change is an existential threat to their operations, and to all of us. This summer, the U.S. Army released a counter-point to President Trump’s climate denial. It’s called “Implications of Climate Change for the U.S. Army“, published by the United States Army War College and instigated from the top, by Trump’s appointed chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Mark Milley.

I found the conclusions of this Army report remarkable and really useful not only to climate, but to those who try to be prepared for an unstable future. The elite army authors write:

“It is useful to remind ourselves regularly of the capacity of human beings to persist in stupid beliefs in the face of significant, contradictory evidence.”

My friend Jim – and unlike some people, my friend Jim in Texas is not imaginary – Jim writes of this Army paper:

“The Army seems to be a master of understatement. It seems to be surprisingly self-aware.

These are my favorite quotes from the paper:

‘The Army has thrived despite a culture of environmental oblivion that exists within the force….‘

‘The Army is not an environmentally friendly organization….’

‘In short, the Army is an environmental disaster…‘ No kidding! says Jim.

But this is not just the American army, but all armies of all countries in the world. We waste money on weapons to kill one another, blowing huge clouds of pointless carbon into the sky from ships, tanks, rockets and planes, while the climate emergency marches in to kill us all. We need to turn that around quickly.

Here is a link to that Army paper (https://climateandsecurity.files.wordpress.com/2019/07/implications-of-climate-change-for-us-army_army-war-college_2019.pdf), and a good article about it by Nafeez Ahmed (https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/mbmkz8/us-military-could-collapse-within-20-years-due-to-climate-change-report-commissioned-by-pentagon-says) published by Vice on October 24, 2019.

https://www.ecoshock.org/2019/10/venice-san-francisco-climate-wrecking.html
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
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Title: Victoria Falls ARE DRY! 😱
Post by: AGelbert on November 12, 2019, 10:35:17 pm
BLACK BEAR NEWS: XR Protester Glues Himself To Plane - Zimbabwe Drought

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Title: 😈 You-Tube Trying to Herd Black Bear News content- Chukchi Sea Ice and more
Post by: AGelbert on November 13, 2019, 07:46:10 pm
BLACK BEAR NEWS: Viewer Comments - Chukchi Sea Ice RECORD LOW for this time of year - Tulsi Update
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Tulsi Demands Info On Saudi Involvement In 911 Attacks
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Title: Welcome to the Pyrocene, The Age of Fire 🔥
Post by: AGelbert on November 13, 2019, 08:00:12 pm
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Welcome to the Pyrocene, The Age of Fire 🔥
1,188 views•Nov 12, 2019

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In today's Chronicle of the Collapse, I read an article from Quartz Magazine by Stephen Pyne titled "The Earth Could Be Entering a Planetary Fire Age." Here is a link to the rest of the article:
https://qz.com/1742990/climate-change...

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Title: Tropical Rainforests Flip From Carbon Sink to Carbon Source as Deforestation Escalates Across Globe
Post by: AGelbert on November 14, 2019, 08:27:37 pm
Tropical Rainforests Flip From Carbon Sink to Carbon Source as Deforestation Escalates Across Globe
1,029 views•Nov 8, 2019

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In today's Chronicle of the Collapse, I return to Mongabay.com for their weekly list of assaults against the planet.
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Title: 📢 CLIMATE CHANGED! 🌊 Flood, 🔥 fire, brutal cold, plague ☠️ and disease: 😨
Post by: AGelbert on November 14, 2019, 10:08:57 pm
The Big Wobble

Thursday, 14 November 2019

📢 CLIMATE CHANGED! 🌊 Flood, 🔥 fire, brutal cold, plague ☠️ and disease:  Climate change blamed for recent disasters around the world 😨

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Millions of pigs have been destroyed in Asia due to disease. Picture RT

Extreme flooding in the UK, U.S., and Europe, fires in Australia and even an outbreak of plague in China have all been attributed to climate change this week, while researchers have warned that global warming could saddle future generations with a life-long illness, according to Reuters.

Last week a global group of around 11,000 scientists endorsed a study that says the world is facing a climate emergency. The study, based on 40 years of data on a range of measures, says governments are failing to address the crisis.  Without deep and lasting changes, the world is facing "untold human suffering". Full story here (https://www.thebigwobble.org/2019/11/a-group-of-11000-scientists-call-for.html)

The bushfires of the future are already here. They burn earlier in the season, and more ferociously, and can interact with extreme weather and even create their own thunderstorm events which create fires we don't know how to fight. They don't only burn earlier in the season but much later also. Many of the wildfires witnessed this year have been country size, the Siberian fire earlier this summer was as big as Denmark, the Amazon fires were just as big. Australia's worse wildfire year in history is this year and the summer hasn't even officially started. Fires blazed across California: Large and lethal wildfires scorched parts of Northern and Southern California during October and some remained active at the beginning of November.

Many parts of the U.S. has had its wettest year to date on record. Above- to much-above-average precipitation dominated much of the country with record-wet conditions occurring in South Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois and Michigan. And with the coldest beginning on record to the month of November, the deadly Arctic blast is breaking records set more than 100 years ago and it's not even officially winter yet. Officials are using the word 'disaster' to describe the widespread crop failures happening all over America. Another report on the Weather Channel claims big, destructive hurricanes are striking the U.S. more often. Climate scientists have shown that global warming is creating more extreme weather and storms.

In Ontario Canada, record cold has arrived breaking some records which go all the way go back to 1873.

Parts of England today are expecting more than two weeks rainfall, with many parts of the country already underwater. The deluge started at the end of September, more rain is forecast in the coming days.  Sheffield has received two years of rainfall in just one week. In Ireland, Dublin had its entire November average rainfall in the first week of this month.

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Green and pleasant land, flooding in the UK credit BBC

Venice declared a state of emergency on Wednesday after “apocalyptic” floods swept through the lagoon city, flooding its historic basilica and inundating squares and centuries-old buildings. “This is the result of climate change,” city mayor Luigi Brugnaro said on Twitter. Meanwhile, torrential rain caused serious flooding in the south of the country.

In India's capital, New Delhi the ongoing smog problem reached a new level, the air quality index on Thursday was at a staggering 472 on a scale of 500, indicating possible serious respiratory risks for the general public, according to SAFAR, a government pollution monitor.

Meanwhile, the Guardian has reported two people in China have been diagnosed with plague, the latest cases of a disease more commonly associated with historical catastrophe. Plague is caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis and can arise in three forms – a lung infection, known as the pneumonic plague; a blood infection, known as the septicemic plague; and a form that affects the lymph nodes, called bubonic plague. The latter form is perhaps the most famous and was behind several pandemics including the Black Death of the late middle ages, which is estimated to have killed up to 60% of the European population. In Asia pork prices this year have almost doubled after a quarter of the pig population has been slaughtered due to swine fever. The CDC released its second Antibiotic Resistance Threats in the United States (AR Threats Report). The report provides new national estimates of deaths and infections caused by antibiotic-resistant germs and categorizes the top resistant germs based on the level of concern to human health. More people in the United States are dying from antibiotic-resistant infections than previously estimated.

The World Food Program says nearly a million of South Sudan's 11 million people have been affected by devastating floods and are in urgent need of life-saving assistance after a years rain fell in a couple of weeks.

Around 40,000 people have been displaced by flooding along the Ubangi River in northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)

Two million people were evacuated when deadly Cyclone Bulbul smashed into the Bay Of Bengal killing 12 with many missing, meanwhile, while Vietnam succumbed to Tropical Storm Nakri when it made landfall killing 3.

http://www.thebigwobble.org/2019/11/climate-changed-flood-fire-brutal-cold.html
Title: "We Have Already Stepped Out Into the Void; All That Remains Is the Fall"
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In today's Chronicle of the Collapse, I read a passage from novelist James Bradley's spot-on long essay from Meanjin.com titled simply, "Unearthed." Here is a link to the rest of the long essay:
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Title: 🤬 Twenty Four Climate COPs and Diddly Squat
Post by: AGelbert on November 15, 2019, 07:58:09 pm
Nov 8, 2019

🤬 Twenty Four Climate COPs and Diddly Squat. Can COP25 in Madrid be Different?

https://youtu.be/6zpiaeETu2g

Twenty-four COPs and diddly squat. What can humanity possibly achieve at COP25? Many of us had high hopes for strong, concerted action on climate change after COP21’s Paris Agreement, only to have our hopes crushed like bugs.

Soon I am going to Madrid for COP25 and I will do everything in my power to educate policymakers in all governments about how our climate emergency is rapidly spiralling out of control. Wish me luck, and please see my ask below.

Preparations for Madrid COP25 Climate Conference: A Plethora of Catastrophes to Present // Nov 9, 2019

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Cop Out? Diddly Squat on COP25
Posted on November 10, 2019by paulbeckwith


Twenty Four Climate COPs and Diddly Squat. Can COP25 in Madrid be Different? // Nov 8, 2019


Twenty-four COPs and diddly squat. What can humanity possibly achieve at COP25? Many of us had high hopes for strong, concerted action on climate change after COP21’s Paris Agreement, only to have our hopes crushed like bugs.

Soon I am going to Madrid for COP25 and I will do everything in my power to educate policymakers in all governments about how our climate emergency is rapidly spiralling out of control. Wish me luck, and please see my ask below.
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Preparations for Madrid COP25 Climate Conference: A Plethora of Catastrophes to Present // Nov 9, 2019


As abrupt climate change accelerates and detrimental consequences to humanity notch upward, there is never a lack of material to present. I focus on:

► what is happening,

► why, and what we can expect in the next 5 years, 10 years, etc.

► As I prepare for presentations at Madrid’s COP25,

I have a huge number of colourful infographics, gifs, and papers to draw on. I discuss some here; if you come across something exceptional then please alert me in a comment with a link.

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Title: A 25-year drought has endangered this system, prompting seven states and Mexico to accelerate conser
Post by: AGelbert on November 15, 2019, 10:22:11 pm
25-Year Drought Forces States to Rescue Colorado River System
November 15, 2019

The Colorado River system provides water for around 40 million people. A 25-year drought has endangered this system, prompting seven states and Mexico to accelerate conservation efforts.

https://youtu.be/XcTswC2u8Ao

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Title: Big Questions About Your Future
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Big Questions About Your Future

Posted on November 7, 2019, by Radio Ecoshock

This week we catch up with extreme heat coming to American cities – it will be literally “off-the-charts”. Dr. Kristina Dahl from the Union of Concerned Scientists reports. Then we check in with Canadian climate scientist Simon Donner on a wide range of big questions about your future.

My thoughts go out to the millions of people in California worried or on the run as hurricane winds drove super fires across the landscape. A weakened jet stream allowed a polar blast to sweep over North America. Some of those winds flowed back over the desert toward the Pacific Coast to become a rare hurricane-level Santa Anna. Images from the fire-fight look like Hell to me. Stay safe friends.

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Title: Climate is Superfund Kryptonite
Post by: AGelbert on November 18, 2019, 05:15:43 pm
 
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November 18, 2019

SNIPPET:

Climate is Superfund Kryptonite

Climate change will put at least 60 percent of the country's Superfund sites at risk from flooding and other climate impacts, according to a report from the Government Accountability Office obtained by the AP. The report, released today, calls on EPA chief Andrew Wheeler to directly address how the agency will deal with climate change as part of its responsibility to protect Superfund sites. Of the 1,571 sites the GAO examined, 945 are at risk: 783 are at risk from flooding, 234 vulnerable to increased wildfires and 187 at risk from storm surge from intense hurricanes.  "By refusing to address the worsening impacts of climate change – from flooding to wildfires to more frequent extreme weather events – at our nation’s Superfund sites, this EPA is putting public health at risk," Sen. Tom Carper (D-DE) said. (AP)

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Title: 😲 2020 El Nino could start 18 degree 🚩 temperature rise
Post by: AGelbert on November 18, 2019, 09:18:31 pm
BLACK BEAR NEWS: 2020 El Nino could start 18 degree temperature 🚩 rise 😲
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Title: Roger Hallam’s “Common Sense for the 21st Century: Only Nonviolent Rebellion Can Now Stop Climate Br
Post by: AGelbert on November 20, 2019, 02:06:05 pm
NOV 18, 2019 OPINION | TD ORIGINALS

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“The corrupt system is going to kill us all unless we rise up,” Hallam, a co-founder of Extinction Rebellion, bluntly warns.
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How to Save the Planet and Ourselves (https://www.truthdig.com/articles/how-to-save-the-planet-and-ourselves/)
Title: Sea Level Rise 🌊: Here Comes Hell and High Water (w/ Dr. Ben Strauss)
Post by: AGelbert on November 20, 2019, 04:48:19 pm
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3,107 views•Nov 18, 2019

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
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Title: This is the autumn of Miami’s 🌊 discontent.
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Above: An aerial view from a drone shows a car as it drives through a street flooded with ocean water on October 22, 2019 in Key Largo, Florida. King-tide level waters combined with earlier storms and other factors has forced water onto the streets in parts of the Florida Keys, which will likely see increased flooding as sea levels continue to rise. Image credit: Joe Raedle/Getty Images.

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Title: “Terrifying” Climate Impacts 626% Worse Than Expected for Intact Forest Loss
Post by: Surly1 on November 26, 2019, 05:57:46 am
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Forest Wilderness

‘Losing Earth’s remaining wilderness is devastating by itself, but climate impacts 626 percent greater than expected is terrifying,’ Professor Watson said. Credit: The University of Queensland

The impact of losing intact tropical forests is more devastating on the climate than previously thought, according to University of Queensland-led research.

The international study has revealed between 2000 and 2013 the clearance of intact tropical forests resulted in a much higher level of carbon being emitted to the atmosphere than first believed – resulting in a 626 percent increase in the calculated impact on climate.

UQ conservation scientist Dr Sean Maxwell said this difference equated to two years of global land-use change emissions, and was previously unaccounted for due to a lack of full carbon accounting.

“Usually only ‘pulse’ emissions are considered – these are emissions released the instant intact forest is destroyed,” Dr. Maxwell said. “Our analysis considers all impacts such as the effects of selective logging, forgone carbon sequestration, expanding effects on the edges of forests, and species extinction.

“We were shocked to see that when considering all of the available factors, the net carbon impact was more than six times worse for the climate.”

The researchers analyzed maps of intact forest clearing across the tropics between 2000 and 2013, then calculated the areas’ pulse emissions and simulated the impact of previously unrecorded factors.

“We could see where selective logging was occurring based on where new roads have been built, the extent of new forest edges based on where deforestation had recently occurred, and the loss of large seed-dispersing animals due to them becoming more susceptible to hunting,” Dr. Maxwell said.

“The team then estimated the amount of carbon that these processes will release into the atmosphere between 2013 and 2050, labeling it ‘committed emissions’. “By comparing ‘pulse’ and ‘committed emissions’ with what these forests could have removed from the atmosphere if they’d remained intact until 2050, we determined the real impacts of deforestation.”

UQ and Wildlife Conservation Society’s Professor James Watson said the study’s approach better captured the true carbon impact of intact forest loss.

“Losing Earth’s remaining wilderness is devastating by itself, but climate impacts 626 percent greater than expected is terrifying,” Professor Watson said. “Humanity needs to better fund the conservation of intact forests, especially now we’ve shown their larger-than-realized role in stabilizing the climate. Our study will hopefully mobilize more funding from the climate finance sector, improving and expanding efforts to retain intact forests across the tropics.”

Dr. Maxwell said that Indigenous peoples and local communities will increasingly play a central role in efforts to improve and expand forest conservation.

“Intact forests are often critical to the material and spiritual aspects of traditional cultures,” he said. “Strengthening the land tenure of Indigenous and traditional peoples is a powerful way to protect intact forests.”

The research has been published in Science Advances.

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Reference: “Degradation and forgone removals increase the carbon impact of intact forest loss by 626%” by Sean L. Maxwell, Tom Evans, James E. M. Watson, Alexandra Morel, Hedley Grantham, Adam Duncan, Nancy Harris, Peter Potapov, Rebecca K. Runting, Oscar Venter, Stephanie Wang and Yadvinder Malhi, 30 October 2019, Science Advances.
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aax2546

Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on November 26, 2019, 03:55:26 pm
“Terrifying” Climate Impacts 626% Worse Than Expected for Intact Forest Loss (https://scitechdaily.com/terrifying-climate-impacts-626-worse-than-expected-for-intact-forest-loss/?fbclid=IwAR04vIgXfnd3Uc2l7nXy1bHlH4NYXxCOs5cVvKM_J0NuLg5fC_rCh0-6Cgk)

Forest Wilderness

‘Losing Earth’s remaining wilderness is devastating by itself, but climate impacts 626 percent greater than expected is terrifying,’ Professor Watson said. Credit: The University of Queensland

The impact of losing intact tropical forests is more devastating on the climate than previously thought, according to University of Queensland-led research.

The international study has revealed between 2000 and 2013 the clearance of intact tropical forests resulted in a much higher level of carbon being emitted to the atmosphere than first believed – resulting in a 626 percent increase in the calculated impact on climate.

UQ conservation scientist Dr Sean Maxwell said this difference equated to two years of global land-use change emissions, and was previously unaccounted for due to a lack of full carbon accounting.

“Usually only ‘pulse’ emissions are considered – these are emissions released the instant intact forest is destroyed,” Dr. Maxwell said. “Our analysis considers all impacts such as the effects of selective logging, forgone carbon sequestration, expanding effects on the edges of forests, and species extinction.

“We were shocked to see that when considering all of the available factors, the net carbon impact was more than six times worse for the climate.”

The researchers analyzed maps of intact forest clearing across the tropics between 2000 and 2013, then calculated the areas’ pulse emissions and simulated the impact of previously unrecorded factors.

“We could see where selective logging was occurring based on where new roads have been built, the extent of new forest edges based on where deforestation had recently occurred, and the loss of large seed-dispersing animals due to them becoming more susceptible to hunting,” Dr. Maxwell said.

“The team then estimated the amount of carbon that these processes will release into the atmosphere between 2013 and 2050, labeling it ‘committed emissions’. “By comparing ‘pulse’ and ‘committed emissions’ with what these forests could have removed from the atmosphere if they’d remained intact until 2050, we determined the real impacts of deforestation.”

UQ and Wildlife Conservation Society’s Professor James Watson said the study’s approach better captured the true carbon impact of intact forest loss.

“Losing Earth’s remaining wilderness is devastating by itself, but climate impacts 626 percent greater than expected is terrifying,” Professor Watson said. “Humanity needs to better fund the conservation of intact forests, especially now we’ve shown their larger-than-realized role in stabilizing the climate. Our study will hopefully mobilize more funding from the climate finance sector, improving and expanding efforts to retain intact forests across the tropics.”

Dr. Maxwell said that Indigenous peoples and local communities will increasingly play a central role in efforts to improve and expand forest conservation.

“Intact forests are often critical to the material and spiritual aspects of traditional cultures,” he said. “Strengthening the land tenure of Indigenous and traditional peoples is a powerful way to protect intact forests.”

The research has been published in Science Advances.

###

Reference: “Degradation and forgone removals increase the carbon impact of intact forest loss by 626%” by Sean L. Maxwell, Tom Evans, James E. M. Watson, Alexandra Morel, Hedley Grantham, Adam Duncan, Nancy Harris, Peter Potapov, Rebecca K. Runting, Oscar Venter, Stephanie Wang and Yadvinder Malhi, 30 October 2019, Science Advances.
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aax2546


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Title: 🚩 IMMEDIATE ACTION action required to hold to the goals of the Paris Agreement. 😨
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Title: Thanksgiving is an Environmentally Damaging Holiday Based on a Profound Distortion of History
Post by: AGelbert on November 28, 2019, 02:56:32 pm
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For today's Thanksgiving edition of Collapse Chronicles, I read an essay by Journalism professor Robert Jensen titled, "Thanksgiving Is For Sociopaths." Here is a link to the article:
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Title: Media 🙊 Silent as Bolivia’s New 👹 Right-Wing Gov’t Massacres ☠️ Indigenous Protesters 😱
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Title: Photos 🚩 of Australia’s ‘Catastrophic’ 🔥 Bushfires
Post by: AGelbert on November 29, 2019, 06:26:45 pm
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13. The sun is blocked by smoke rising from the Gospers Mountain bushfire on November 15, 2019, in St Albans, Australia. # Sam Mooy / Getty

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15. A bushfire burns outside a property near Taree on November 12, 2019. # Peter Parks / AFP / Getty


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16. NSW Rural Fire Service crews fight a fire as it burns close to a property on Wheelbarrow Ridge Road at Colo Heights, northwest of Sydney, Australia, on November 19, 2019. # Dan Himbrechts / AAP Image via Reuters


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Title: "Everything Is Dying" 😟: Brazilian Indigenous Leader Allesandra Mukuru
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In today's Black Friday Chronicle of the Collapse, I return once again to Mongabay.com for the latest laundry list of assaults against this planet while we have been busy stuffing our fat faces with turkey.

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Title: Nature: "The Stability and Resiliency of Our Planet Is In Peril"
Post by: AGelbert on November 30, 2019, 06:35:28 pm
Nature: "The Stability and Resiliency of Our Planet Is In Peril"
725 views•Nov 30, 2019

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In today's Chronicle of the Collapse, I read an article in the science journal Nature titled ""Climate Tipping Points -- Too Risky to Bet Against." Here is a link to the article:
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Biodiversity hot spots of 80% of biosphere's species endangered by Global Warming Pollution
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Title: Excellent Graphics in this very educational Climate Change video
Post by: AGelbert on December 01, 2019, 11:09:15 pm
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3,283 views•Dec 1, 2019

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The big freeze that hit the United States this October was the coldest for 10 years with sub zero temperatures as far south as the Grand Canyon, and some northern regions enduring minus 45 Farenheit. These record weather events are becoming a regular feature of our changing seasons and when they arrive they seem to be sticking around for longer. New research from Rice University this month has revealed a surprising link between these extreme cold events and global warming.

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Category People & Blogs
Title: Matthew Slater: "How Do We Live, Not Knowing How Long We've Got?"
Post by: AGelbert on December 01, 2019, 11:30:36 pm
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1,314 views•Nov 30, 2019

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In this week's Collapse Chronicles Conversation, I have the pleasure of speaking with community currency engineer Matthew Slater. Here is a link to Matt's website:
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Title: "Do we really want to be remembered as the generation that buried its head in the sand, that fiddle
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"Do we really want to be remembered as the generation that buried its head in the sand, that fiddled while the planet burned?" UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres asked.

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Title: BLACK BEAR NEWS: UN emissions report - World on course for more than 3 degree spike.
Post by: AGelbert on December 03, 2019, 07:35:58 pm
BLACK BEAR NEWS: UN emissions report - World on course for more than 3 degree spike.
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Title: How dare our governments give money to the fossil fuel industry when people are suffering?
Post by: AGelbert on December 04, 2019, 02:19:42 pm
December 4, 2019  11:51 AM

Monica Davies - 350.org

Hi Anthony,

COP25 kicked off this week, and at this year’s UN climate talks, we’re demanding that our governments stop giving our money to the fossil fuel industry and fund climate solutions instead.

While people around the world struggle with unemployment, poverty, and the ever increasing impacts of the climate crisis, some of our governments have recently pumped more than USD $63.9 billion per year into the fossil fuel industry.

How dare they jeopardize our future?

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Many governments are attending COP25 to discuss and agree measures to deal with climate change - making it the perfect time for us to put pressure on them to stop funding fossil fuel projects.

Fossil fuel companies have polluted our planet, our communities and our democracies. To free ourselves from inequality, corruption, and a runaway climate crisis, we need to transform our society, and fund a just transition to 100% renewable energy for all.

The money that is currently going into the pockets of fossil fuel CEOs and their shareholders at the expense of local communities needs to support investments to ensure rights and social protection for people whose incomes will be affected, and to provide pathways to transition to low-carbon jobs.

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For a just transition,

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Title: Sanders's Climate Ambitions Thrill Supporters. Experts Aren't Impressed.
Post by: AGelbert on December 04, 2019, 08:58:07 pm
BLACK BEAR NEWS: Sanders's Climate Ambitions Thrill Supporters. Experts Aren't Impressed. :P
704 views•Dec 3, 2019

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Title: Greenland Ice Sheet Melt Creates Huge Waterfalls 👀, Increasing Concerns About Sea Level Rise
Post by: AGelbert on December 04, 2019, 09:04:18 pm
EcoWatch

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Meltwater forms on the Greenland ice sheet near Sermeq Avangnardleq glacier on Aug. 4, 2019 near Ilulissat, Greenland. Sean Gallup / Getty Images

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Greenland Ice Sheet Melt Creates Huge Waterfalls 👀, Increasing Concerns About Sea Level Rise (https://www.ecowatch.com/greenland-ice-sheet-melt-waterfalls-2641505430.html)
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on December 06, 2019, 07:12:53 pm
 
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December 6, 2019

California shields homeowners, Buffalo's big climate refuge future, & more (https://mailchi.mp/6f66850dd7b7/california-shields-homeowners-buffalos-big-climate-refuge-future-more?e=0fd17c5b57)
Title: 📢 The decidedly LAST CHANCE 🎍 🌎 we HAVE!
Post by: AGelbert on December 07, 2019, 05:23:41 pm

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Mega blaze near Sydney 'too 🔥 big to put out' (https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-50690633)
bbc.com - A "mega blaze" raging across a 60km (37 mile) front north-west of Sydney cannot currently be put out, Australian fire officials have warned. The fire across almost 300,000 hectares (1,150 sq m) is ju…

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Oceans losing oxygen at unprecedented rate, experts warn (https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/dec/07/oceans-losing-oxygen-at-unprecedented-rate-experts-warn)
theguardian.com - Oxygen in the oceans is being lost at an unprecedented rate, with “dead zones” proliferating and hundreds more areas showing oxygen dangerously depleted, as a result of the climate emergency and inte…

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Epstein Was A Mossad Agent Used To Blackmail American Politicians, Former Israeli Spy Claims (https://www.zerohedge.com/political/epstein-was-mossad-agent-used-blackmail-american-politicians-says-former-israeli-spy)
zerohedge.com - Jeffrey Epstein was a Mossad asset who was used by Israeli intelligence to blackmail American politicians, according to a former Israeli spy. Ari Ben-Menashe, a former Israeli spy and alleged “handle…

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Sidney (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/gallery/renewablerevolution/2/3-300919160021-22781459.png) is toast. I did a Google flyover north of Sidney where the 8 fires joined to make the MEGA Fire. There are mansions all over the place bordering the forest areas. If this doesn't make the Australians smell the Catastrophic Climate Change coffee, I do not know what will.

As far back as 40 years ago, Jacques Cousteau warned us that the oceans were dying. TPTB did not listen to the biosphere degradation facts, as usual. >:(

The Epstein Israeli Honey Trap MO facts of life has been a sort of open secret to those of us that studied the matter ever since Mr. Epstein was first exposed. If you look at the members of the Law Firm that defended him over the past decade or so, and how "amazingly" ;) successful they have been in the courts of New York (weekend passes for a sexual predator, "conjugal" ;) visits in jail, by different women, etc.), you see other Israel firsters like Dershowitz (a "Constitutional Scholar" who makes up (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fstyles%2Frenewablerevolution%2Ffiles%2F3104_shit%2520bitmap.png&hash=13c3368bd73680b8cbcbaaa8e306e42cb17d4d41) continuously to defend 🦀 Trump (http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/who-can-you-trust/127775-impeachment-score-127776/msg14661/#msg14661)) doing what they despicably do to cover the real purpose of Mossad activity in the USA.

Anyone with critical thinking skills can see that the standing ovation Mr. Netanyahu got in our U.S. Congress some years ago evidences the pernicious effect the Israel "Lobby" has had for several decades (at least!) on the career of U.S. politicians that dare to criticize Israeli fascist murder and mayem, from the 1967 attack on the Liberty to the ruthless land theft mixed with targeted killings and bombings of the Palestinians. This is NOT about American Jews writing op-eds that damage politician futures; this is evidence of a BLACKMAIL MODUS OPERANDI to keep that U.S. money flowing to Israel.

Anyone that thinks Epstein is the only perverted tool the Mossad has in the USA is in La La Land. Anyone that thinks that the power of the Israel "Lobby" in the USA is based mainly on pro-Israel K Street think tank activities involving political campaign hit pieces against those they want out of politics is also in la la land. That's just the excuse they use to crow about their political power. Without the honey trap MO, they would NEVER have gotten away with coercing our politicians to keep voting to approve multi-billion dollar handouts to Israel annually, while studiously looking the other way when Israeli fascists commit still another in a LONG series of war crimes against the Palestinians.

All that said, while the corrupting influence on the U.S. Government of the Mossad with their Honey Traps is significant; it is a relatively small subset of the Profit Over People and Planet Capitalist Ideology that is destroying absolutely everything of material and spiritual value in our country and our leadership.

Senator Bernie Sanders is Jewish. Yet this man, who represents the decidedly LAST CHANCE we (and probably our entire species) HAVE to act, as responsible stewards of God's creation (a tenet intrinsic to JEWISH LAW), with COMMON F'N SENSE, will be mercilessly attacked by the Israel 'Lobby". Yet, no one will dare admit that these attacks on Bernie Sanders by the (fascist atheist) Israel firsters are, by Torah defintion, as ANTI-SEMITIC as you can get. >:(

Senator Sanders, whether he believes in God or not, wants to do what God has always commanded that we all do for each other and the biospshere around us. Those bastards who oppose Bernie Sanders for POTUS, who hypocritically label themselves as "Jews" or "Christians", do not. The remaining Capitalist 1% ELITE SCUM OF THE EARTH are, of course, consistent enemies of God's Will. They are THE overwhelming reason things are FUBAR today. 

 
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If the Profit Over People and Planet Capitalists succeed in preventing Bernie Sanders from becoming President of the United States, IT IS OVER. Have a nice day.

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on December 07, 2019, 11:02:48 pm
Impeachment Should Include Every Trump Crime!
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Title: "We May Have Already Lost Control of the Earth's Climate" 🚩
Post by: AGelbert on December 09, 2019, 02:39:55 pm
"We May Have Already Lost Control of the (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/gallery/renewablerevolution/2/3-091219143350.png) Earth's Climate"🚩: Will Steffen and Aled Jones
322 views•Dec 9, 2019

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In today's Chronicle of the Collapse, I read an article from the Conversation by Will Steffen and Aled Jones titled, "It's Time to Talk About Near-Term Collapse." Here is a link to the article:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/climate-re...
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Title: Nexus 🕵️ Hot News
Post by: AGelbert on December 09, 2019, 08:02:45 pm
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PG&E reaches settlement, protesters gather (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F2%2F3-190119153601.gif&hash=336ba78f7f18ff5829ef3722f89b4258d2315284) in Madrid, & more (https://mailchi.mp/d70ac2659fad/pge-reaches-settlement-protesters-gather-in-madrid-more?e=0fd17c5b57)
Title: Climate Change Fuels 🔥 Hellfire in the City of Angels
Post by: AGelbert on December 09, 2019, 08:41:14 pm
Climate Change Fuels (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/gallery/renewablerevolution/2/3-300919160021-22781459.png) Hellfire in the City of Angels

December 9, 2019

California’s fire season isn't over yet, but megafire events have already taken a major toll on the state and its inhabitants, forcing the evacuation of tens of thousands of people. Warm, dry climate change conditions have made housing in LA's "Wildland-Urban Interface" dangerous.

https://youtu.be/6o_T53PW8uw

https://therealnews.com/stories/climate-change-fuels-hellfire-in-los-angeles
Title: Arctic Is Undergoing Changes Scientists 'Never Expected Would Happen This Soon'
Post by: Surly1 on December 11, 2019, 06:34:59 am
The Arctic Is Undergoing Changes Scientists 'Never Expected Would Happen This Soon' (https://earther.gizmodo.com/the-arctic-is-undergoing-changes-scientists-never-expec-1840344312)

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Surprise, surprise: The Arctic didn’t do too well this past year. You can thank global warming for that.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration released its annual Arctic Report Card Tuesday, and the findings show a region in the midst of a rapid transformation. Wildlife populations are decreasing, sea ice is melting, and the Arctic is warming the **** up. Even more ominously, the frozen soil that rings the region is now unleashing more carbon than it takes up speeding up climate change.

This year, however, the report card highlights some new points, including the impact of shifting wind patterns and how indigenous people in the Arctic are particularly vulnerable.

The clearest sign of Arctic change are rising temperatures. The average temperature over the past 12 months ranked as the second-highest value since 1900 coming in at 1.9 degrees Celsius (3.4 degrees Fahrenheit) above normal. That’s helping melt Arctic sea ice cover, which has seen rapid declines in thickness and extent. The fragile state of ice leaves it vulnerable to random weather happenings, such as when the jetstream sends warm southerly winds north. That’s exactly what happened this past year, particularly in Alaska when unusual southwestern warm winds in fall 2018 kept sea ice from freezing in along the coastal Bering Sea. This happened again in winter 2019 and continued into the spring.

“In the past when that happened, it hasn’t had a big impact because the ice is already there and very thick,” James Overland, an oceanographer at NOAA who worked on this report, told Earther. “This year, you started with thin ice, so when winds shifted around to coming from the south and bringing more warm temperatures, the ice could never form, and that was a huge change that we never expected would happen this soon
.”

As a result of all this warm air—which was related to the wild ass heatwaves Europe saw this year—the Greenland ice sheet a massive meltdown over the summer. The only year worse was 2012. This presents a long-term concern for sea level rise worldwide, but the loss of sea ice throughout the Arctic threatens the culture and livelihoods of the people who live there. And, for the first time ever, the Arctic Report Card pays special attention to the impacts indigenous people face. It even includes a whole section featuring voices from the frontlines. Overland said that was intentional.

“Most of us are looking at the Arctic from satellite pictures from way above and the big picture,” he said. “Particularly with emphasis on the Bering Sea, loss of ice and these changes in the ecosystem are erratically impacting these coastal communities from the timing from when they hunt for whales and seals and so forth.
”

Sea ice loss really damages the way of life for these communities because they depend on the ice’s stability to travel and reach the waters they depend on to hunt. But the shifts in the Arctic aren’t just a concern for the people who live there. They could have a profound impact on the climate.

This year’s report also contains a major warning siren about permafrost, icy soil that stores roughly 10 times more carbon than the Amazon. Rising temperatures are causing it to thaw. That means many indigenous families are also losing access to their traditional means of storing food in ice cellars.

But for the rest of us, the impacts are also extremely worrisome. This year’s report card shows that melting permafrost is releasing carbon back into the atmosphere at a faster rate than the region’s plants are taking up. Estimates for how much carbon the Arctic is emitting range from 300 up to 600 million tons. Those emissions mean the Arctic isn’t just being impacted by the climate crisis. It’s now contributing to it.

About the author

Yessenia Funes
I mostly write about how environmental policy and climate change intersect with race and class though I occasionally write about animals, science, and art, too. We all need an escape, right?
Title: 📢 Wildlife populations are decreasing, sea ice is melting, and the Arctic is warming the 🤬 up. 😨
Post by: AGelbert on December 11, 2019, 12:21:42 pm
The Arctic Is Undergoing Changes Scientists 'Never Expected Would Happen This Soon' (https://earther.gizmodo.com/the-arctic-is-undergoing-changes-scientists-never-expec-1840344312)

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Surprise, surprise: The Arctic didn’t do too well this past year. You can thank global warming for that.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration released its annual Arctic Report Card Tuesday, and the findings show a region in the midst of a rapid transformation. Wildlife populations are decreasing, sea ice is melting, and the Arctic is warming the f u c k up. Even more ominously, the frozen soil that rings the region is now unleashing more carbon than it takes up speeding up climate change.

This year, however, the report card highlights some new points, including the impact of shifting wind patterns and how indigenous people in the Arctic are particularly vulnerable.

The clearest sign of Arctic change are rising temperatures. The average temperature over the past 12 months ranked as the second-highest value since 1900 coming in at 1.9 degrees Celsius (3.4 degrees Fahrenheit) above normal. That’s helping melt Arctic sea ice cover, which has seen rapid declines in thickness and extent. The fragile state of ice leaves it vulnerable to random weather happenings, such as when the jetstream sends warm southerly winds north. That’s exactly what happened this past year, particularly in Alaska when unusual southwestern warm winds in fall 2018 kept sea ice from freezing in along the coastal Bering Sea. This happened again in winter 2019 and continued into the spring.

“In the past when that happened, it hasn’t had a big impact because the ice is already there and very thick,” James Overland, an oceanographer at NOAA who worked on this report, told Earther. “This year, you started with thin ice, so when winds shifted around to coming from the south and bringing more warm temperatures, the ice could never form, and that was a huge change that we never expected would happen this soon
.”

As a result of all this warm air—which was related to the wild ass heatwaves Europe saw this year—the Greenland ice sheet a massive meltdown over the summer. The only year worse was 2012. This presents a long-term concern for sea level rise worldwide, but the loss of sea ice throughout the Arctic threatens the culture and livelihoods of the people who live there. And, for the first time ever, the Arctic Report Card pays special attention to the impacts indigenous people face. It even includes a whole section featuring voices from the frontlines. Overland said that was intentional.

“Most of us are looking at the Arctic from satellite pictures from way above and the big picture,” he said. “Particularly with emphasis on the Bering Sea, loss of ice and these changes in the ecosystem are erratically impacting these coastal communities from the timing from when they hunt for whales and seals and so forth.
”

Sea ice loss really damages the way of life for these communities because they depend on the ice’s stability to travel and reach the waters they depend on to hunt. But the shifts in the Arctic aren’t just a concern for the people who live there. They could have a profound impact on the climate.

This year’s report also contains a major warning siren about permafrost, icy soil that stores roughly 10 times more carbon than the Amazon. Rising temperatures are causing it to thaw. That means many indigenous families are also losing access to their traditional means of storing food in ice cellars.

But for the rest of us, the impacts are also extremely worrisome. This year’s report card shows that melting permafrost is releasing carbon back into the atmosphere at a faster rate than the region’s plants are taking up. Estimates for how much carbon the Arctic is emitting range from 300 up to 600 million tons. Those emissions mean the Arctic isn’t just being impacted by the climate crisis. It’s now contributing to it.

About the author

Yessenia Funes
I mostly write about how environmental policy and climate change intersect with race and class though I occasionally write about animals, science, and art, too. We all need an escape, right?


Yes, I've noticed the amount of floating Arctic ice at present is way too low for this time low.

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The ice free summer is closer than most scientists think. I am certain the thawing permafrost is accelerating Catastrophic Climate Change by adding to the already massive 24/7 insult to the biosphere by the 🦕 🦖 hydrocarbon hellspawn.

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Title: Greenland’s ice melt is accelerating, aligning with ‘worst case’ projections
Post by: Surly1 on December 12, 2019, 06:52:21 am
It gets worse.

NASA: Greenland’s ice melt is accelerating, aligning with ‘worst case’ projections (https://www.clickondetroit.com/weather/2019/12/11/nasa-greenlands-ice-melt-is-accelerating-aligning-with-worst-case-projections/)

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Mass Balance of the Greenland Ice Sheet From 1992 to 2018 (NASA)

Paul Gross, Meteorologist

The Greenland Ice Sheet is rapidly melting, having lost 3.8 trillion tons of ice between 1992 and 2018, a new study from NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) finds.

The study combined twenty-six independent satellite datasets to track global warming’s effect on Greenland, one of the largest ice sheets on Earth, and the ice sheet melt’s impact on rising sea levels.

The findings, which forecast an approximate three-to-five inches of global sea level rise by 2100, are in alignment with previous worst-case projections if the average rate of Greenland’s ice loss continues.

Changes to the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets are of considerable societal importance, as they directly impact global sea levels, which are a result of climate change. As glaciers and ice sheets melt, they add more water to the ocean. Increasing rates of global warming have accelerated Greenland's ice mass loss from 25 billion tons per year in the 1990s to a current average of 234 billion tons per year. This means that Greenland's ice is melting on average seven times faster today than it was at the beginning of the study period. The Greenland Ice Sheet holds enough water to raise the sea level by twenty-four feet.

The paper, published December 10th in Nature, is the result of an international collaboration between eighty-nine polar scientists from fifty scientific institutions supported by NASA and ESA. The Ice Sheet Mass Balance Inter-comparison Exercise, or IMBIE, used well-calibrated data from thirteen NASA and ESA satellite missions to create the most accurate measurements of ice loss to date. The team found that half of the loss is tied to surface ice melting in warmer air. The rest of the loss is the result of factors such as warmer ocean temperatures, iceberg calving and the ice sheet shedding ice into the ocean more quickly.

"There are climate projections that are based on models of varying levels of complexity and observations, but they have large uncertainties. Our study is purely an observational one that tests those uncertainties. Therefore, we have irrefutable evidence that we seem to be on track with one of the most pessimistic sea level rise scenarios," said Erik Ivins, second author and lead scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.

Greenland is home to the only permanent ice sheet outside Antarctica. The sheet covers three-fourths of Greenland's land mass. But in the last twenty-six years, Greenland's melting ice has added 0.4 inches to sea level rise. Its cumulative 3.8 trillion tons of melted ice is equivalent to adding the water from 120 million Olympic-size swimming pools to the ocean every year, for twenty-six years.

"As a rule of thumb, for every centimeter rise in global sea level, another six million people are exposed to coastal flooding around the planet," said Andrew Shepherd, lead author and scientist from the University of Leeds in the United Kingdom. "On current trends, Greenland ice melting will cause 100 million people to be flooded each year by the end of the century, so 400 million in total due to sea level rise."

In addition to storm surges and high tides that will increase flooding in many regions, sea level rise exacerbates events like hurricanes. Another important fact to consider is that Greenland's shrinking ice sheet also speeds up global warming. The vast expanse of snow and ice helps cool down Earth by reflecting the Sun's rays back into space. As the ice melts and retreats, the region absorbs more solar radiation, which warms the planet. So, the planet’s warming is reducing Greenland ice which, in turn, will accelerate the planet’s warming.

The new study will contribute to the evaluation and evolution of sea level rise models used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in evaluating risks to current and future populations. The results of the study currently appear consistent with the panel's worst-case projections for sea level rise in the next eighty years.

"The full set of consequences of future melt from the Greenland Ice Sheet remain uncertain, but even a small increase in sea level can have devastating effects on ports and coastal zones, cause destructive erosion, wetland flooding, and aquifer and agricultural soil contamination with salt," said Ivins.

This is the third IMBIE study on ice loss as a result of global warming. IMBIE’s first report in 2012 measured both Greenland and Antarctica’s shrinking ice sheets, finding that the combined ice losses from Antarctica and Greenland had increased over time and that the ice sheets were losing three times as much ice as they were in the early 1990s. Antarctica and Greenland continue to lose ice today, and that rate of loss has accelerated since the first IMBIE study.

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Title: Nexus Hot News: Tensions rise in Madrid, Australia's 🔥 burning, & more
Post by: AGelbert on December 12, 2019, 06:34:09 pm
 
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Title: "A Crisis Situation" From Mozambique to Peru to New Guinea to the Arcti
Post by: AGelbert on December 13, 2019, 04:23:03 pm
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In today's Chronicle of the Collapse, I return to Mongabay for the weekly roundup of depressing news about the "crisis situation" that the planet is in, no matter where you turn.

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Title: Dr. William Moomaw - Humanity's Mortality Moment 🚩
Post by: AGelbert on December 13, 2019, 05:25:40 pm
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Dr. William Moomaw - Humanity's Mortality Moment 🚩

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Dr. William Moomaw - Humanity's Mortality Moment
4,226 views•Dec 11, 2019

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Today Dr. William Moomaw one of the 5 co-authors of the World Scientists’ Warning of a Climate Emergency explains the nature of the emergency, what we MUST be doing about it and the encouragement for *diversified forest management* instead of mono cropping single species that we intend to burn. Burning wood for biomass has a bigger carbon footprint than burning an equivalent amount of coal for energy!

Here's a link to the original paper of which Dr. Moomaw speaks (https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/advance-article/doi/10.1093/biosci/biz088/5610806)

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The 🦕🦖 Hydrocarbon 👹 Hellspawn Fossil Fuelers DID THE Clean Energy  Inventions suppressing, Climate Trashing, human health depleting CRIME, but since they have ALWAYS BEEN liars and conscience free crooks 🦀, they are trying to AVOID   DOING THE TIME or   PAYING THE FINE! Don't let them get away with it! Pass it on!   

Title: Meanwhile, natural 🦕 gas is often 😈 likened to a “bridge 😇 fuel,” ... 🙄
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Meanwhile, natural gas is often likened to a “bridge fuel,” but it is now the main driver of higher greenhouse gas emissions globally. “Gas is a major concern,” Bill Hare, chief executive officer of Climate Analytics, told Bloomberg. “Governments are acting as if this fossil fuel is somehow clean. Yet gas was responsible for half the increase in CO2 emissions from fossil fuel consumption in 2017-18.”

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Title: BLACK BEAR NEWS: How the rich plan to rule a burning planet
Post by: AGelbert on December 16, 2019, 07:42:27 pm
BLACK BEAR NEWS: How the 👹🎩 rich plan to rule a burning planet

1,453 views•Dec 15, 2019

https://youtu.be/IRIzxQScXxs

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UN COP25 summit ends with anger with global warming's 'window of escape' getting harder
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How the rich plan to rule a burning planet
https://redflag.org.au/node/6974

House Judiciary Committee Votes To Impeach Donald Trump
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Title: Our Global Climate Emergency
Post by: AGelbert on December 16, 2019, 11:29:26 pm
Agelbert NOTE: These four experts on Climate Science stress the dire importance of properly addressing the Climate Emergency and deride Trump and Boris Johnson of the U.K. for their "idiocy".

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Category Science & Technology
Title: BLACK BEAR NEWS: Cooling ⛄ role of particulate matter on warming Earth stronger 👀 than previously th
Post by: AGelbert on December 17, 2019, 10:32:05 pm
BLACK BEAR NEWS: Cooling ⛄ role of particulate matter on warming Earth 👀 stronger than previously thought
653 views•Dec 17, 2019

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Cooling role of particulate matter on warming Earth stronger than previously thought
https://phys.org/news/2019-12-cooling...

More Than 70 Global South Countries Charge Ahead With Bold Climate Plans
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Title: Ecologist William Rees: "Human Society Has Become Parasitic on the Ecosphere'
Post by: AGelbert on December 18, 2019, 02:24:13 pm
Ecologist William Rees: "Human Society Has Become Parasitic on the Ecosphere'

Dec 18, 2019

https://youtu.be/7CVV8fSFbUg

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In today's Chronicle of the Collapse (part two of two videos), I read the closing of ecologist William Rees's essay titled "Ecological Economics For Humanity's Plague Phase," which will be published in full in Science Direct's journal Ecological Economics in March, 2020. Here is a link to Part One 👍:

William Rees: "There Are Too Many People Competing For the Same Diminishing Resources"

Dec 17, 2019

https://youtu.be/8dbrXv-hdi4

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on December 19, 2019, 06:55:25 pm
 
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Gov't found responsible for Harvey flooding, First Nations town worries about future in Australia, & more (https://mailchi.mp/4d0e656c1e43/govt-found-responsible-for-harvey-flooding-first-nations-town-worries-about-future-in-australia-more?e=0fd17c5b57)
Title: Water Thieves Steal 80,000 Gallons in Australia as Mad Max-Style Future Becomes Reality
Post by: Surly1 on December 21, 2019, 06:56:53 am

Water Thieves Steal 80,000 Gallons in Australia as Our Mad Max-Style Future Becomes Reality (https://earther.gizmodo.com/water-thieves-steal-80-000-gallons-in-australia-as-our-1840549648?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link&ICID=ref_fark)

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A farmer drives a tractor as he uses a hose to put out a fire burning in his paddock and near homes on the outskirts of the town of Bilpin on December 19, 2019 in Sydney, Australia.
A farmer drives a tractor as he uses a hose to put out a fire burning in his paddock and near homes on the outskirts of the town of Bilpin on December 19, 2019 in Sydney, Australia.
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Thieves stole roughly 80,000 gallons of water in a region of Australia that’s suffering from one of the worst droughts in the history of the country. And with record-breaking heat and bushfires getting even larger, it feels like Australia is living in the future. That future, unfortunately, looks a lot like Mad Max.

Police in New South Wales, Australia’s most populous state, report that a farmer in the small town of Evans Plain had about 80,000 gallons of water (300,000 liters) stolen from his property, according to the Australian newspaper. The farmer only noticed the theft from two enormous storage tanks on Sunday, though it could have happened at anytime between December 9 and December 15, according to authorities.

It’s becoming more and more common to see thieves targeting water storage facilities, as climate change continues to devastate Australia as it heads into summer. Just a couple of weeks ago, thieves in the small town of Murwillumbah stole about 6,600 gallons (25,000 liters) of water, enough to fill about six or seven fire trucks, according to local authorities.

And it all feels like something out of a sci-fi dystopia, where battles over water are fought to sustain a meager existence.

Australia is reeling from extreme heat this week, breaking temperature records for the past three days, and reaching an average maximum temperature of 40.9 degrees Celsius (105.6 degrees Fahrenheit) on Tuesday, 41.9 degrees Celsius (107.4 degrees Fahrenheit) on Wednesday, and 40.7 degrees Celsius (105.2 degrees Fahrenheit) on Thursday.

“We’re smashing the extremes by effectively a degree relative to the other cases because that’s by how much the Australian temperatures have warmed,” climate scientist David Karoly told the ABC on Friday. “Climate change has contributed between 1C and 1.5C on top of the natural variability.”

And it’s not just the heat. Australia is attempting to get its large bushfires under control, some of which might be the largest wildfires in modern history. The “megafire” in Gospers Mountain, just outside of Sydney, has burned roughly 7.4 million acres over the past two months and has blanketed the city in smoke.

Sadly, at least nine people have died from the Australian bushfires this season, with two volunteer firefighters in New South Wales losing their lives this week, and a citizen of South Australia dying in a vehicle crash yesterday while trying to escape a fire.

Meanwhile, the prime minister of Australia, Scott Morrison, is missing in action while the country experiences a climate crisis. Morrison’s office has denied rumors that he’s vacationing in Hawaii, but photos on social media prove otherwise. Under Australian law, another politician is appointed as acting prime minister when the real PM is out of the country, and Morrison’s stand-in isn’t doing much better to take climate change seriously.

“Yes, the smoke is a problem but smoke, as it always does, will blow away,” acting PM Michael McCormack told a local TV news station yesterday.

Morrison issued a statement yesterday apologizing if any Australians were offended by his decision to take a vacation during this time.

“I deeply regret any offense caused to any of the many Australians affected by the terrible bushfires by my taking leave with family at this time,” Morrison said.

“Our hearts go out to their families, friends and colleagues who have been working tirelessly beside them, particularly during this Christmas period. Given these most recent tragic events, I will be returning to Sydney from leave as soon as can be arranged,” he continued.

Fire and Rescue personal watch a bushfire as it burns near homes on the outskirts of the town of Bilpin on December 19, 2019 in Sydney, Australia.
Fire and Rescue personal watch a bushfire as it burns near homes on the outskirts of the town of Bilpin on December 19, 2019 in Sydney, Australia.
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But Prime Minister Morrison’s tone was defiant and almost whiney when he spoke to a local radio station via phone from Hawaii.

“I don’t hold a hose, mate, and I don’t sit in a control room,” Morrison told 2GB radio. “That’s the brave people who … are doing that job. But I know that Australians would want me back at this time […] of these fatalities. So I’ll happily come back and do that.”

How generous of you, Mr. Morrison. You’ll come back to see protesters outside your home who are getting harassed by police. But don’t stop at any McDonald’s on your way back. We don’t want another incident.

Title: Mad Max IS the Capitalist ideology always lurking beneath the fragile veneer of civilized behavior.
Post by: AGelbert on December 21, 2019, 01:21:10 pm

Water Thieves Steal 80,000 Gallons in Australia as Our Mad Max-Style Future Becomes Reality (https://earther.gizmodo.com/water-thieves-steal-80-000-gallons-in-australia-as-our-1840549648?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link&ICID=ref_fark)

 :( Yes. Water is life. Without reasonably drinkable water, humans and animals cannot survive. Australia is governed by Capitalist greedballs. Consequently, Mad Max IS the Capitalist ideology always lurking beneath the fragile veneer of civilized behavior. Capitalists will kill their neighbors for water without a second thought. Evil is as evil does. Civilization in Australia AND New Zealand will either turn to Democratic Socialism or be burnt to a cinder DESTROYED by Capitalist profit over people and planet. School is out for the greedballs (See: Texan Dentist Eddie of the Doomstead Diner, who will shortly experience, IN TEXAS, what is now happening in Australia. - You REAP what you SOW). Capitalists can no longer hide behind their BULLSHIT claims of "progress" through "enlightened self interest". It was never anything of the kind. It was always about beggar thy neighbor through duplicitous guile, or in-your-face criminal cruelty when that didn't work. Capitalism, an ideology that rejects even the most basic tenets of altruism in regard to any and all life forms in the surrounding biosphere, is, and always has been, a recipe for Homo SAP extinction

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Title: BLACK BEAR NEWS: Arctic methane levels reach new heights 🚩
Post by: AGelbert on December 23, 2019, 08:37:25 pm
BLACK BEAR NEWS: Arctic methane levels reach new heights

503 views•Dec 23, 2019

https://youtu.be/TqTVljQhA-o


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Title: Andrew Romanoff Video on Climate Change Caused Destruction of civilization:
Post by: AGelbert on December 25, 2019, 02:26:39 pm
Andrew Romanoff For Senate Campaign Ad Goes Viral :o 👍

December 24th, 2019 by Steve Hanley
 
Andrew Romanoff Video on Climate Change Caused Destruction of civilization:

https://youtu.be/4eyJevf-Blg

Associated article (don't miss the comments  ;)):

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Title: 📢 Yes, Australia has always had bushfires: but 2019 🔥 is like nothing we've seen before 👀
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Post by: AGelbert on December 26, 2019, 05:33:45 pm
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December 26, 2019

The Real News Network's Steve Horn and Dimitri Lascaris talk about the 2019's biggest climate stories.


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Lisa Snowden-McCray: Welcome to The Real News Network. I’m Lisa Snowden-McCray. The Real News is spending some time looking back over some of the most important issues we covered this year including Latin America, Israel and Palestine, US politics, the criminal justice system, and the climate crisis.
2019 was a busy and scary year for climate news. Places all over the planet reached temperatures higher than ever recorded, warnings from scientists and activists reached a fevered pitch; teen activist Greta Thunberg sounded an alarm for people gathered at the International Climate Talks held in Madrid earlier this month, saying, quote, “We no longer have time to leave out the science.”

Here at The Real News Network, we were on top of it all. We tackled the Green New Deal, environmental justice issues associated with oil drilling, and the power Big Oil maintains in Canada. Today, I’m joined by Real News climate reporter and producer, Steve Horn, who’s been at the climate beat since 2010. Also joining us is Real News contributor Dimitri Lascaris, who is also a member of our board of directors. Dimitri focuses his coverage on climate politics and foreign policy. Thank you both for joining us.

Dimitri Lascaris: Thank you, Lisa.

Steve Horn: Good to be here.

Lisa Snowden-McCray: Now, at the beginning of this year, actually at the beginning of your time here with us, Steve, we were wanting to do some reporting on the aftermath of Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico, which is definitely a climate issue. Dimitri, you were actually on the ground there in Puerto Rico. Can you talk a little bit about what you saw?

Dimitri Lascaris: Yeah. So, I was there in March of this year, so many months had gone by since Hurricane Maria had ravaged the island. And I could see signs of the devastation in quite a few places. There were a number of buildings that were destroyed, had not been demolished, or were in a state of disrepair. I drove from the north of the island to the south of the island, and as I crossed through forested areas, I saw large swaths of trees that had been stripped bare.

I visited a baseball stadium in San Juan where the municipality was giving out free supplies, in particular free fresh water because a lot of people still couldn’t access fresh water. So, the island had been recovering very slowly, and it was clear that it was nowhere near a complete recovery at that time, and it was in that context when, thanks to some excellent investigative work by Steve, we discovered that [inaudible 00:02:34], rather than moving away from a fossil fuels-dependent energy system, was actually upping the ante with liquified natural gas. And that’s something that I think Steve can talk about in some light.

Lisa Snowden-McCray: Yeah, Steve, can you talk a little bit about that?

Steve Horn: Yeah. So, what I realized is that… I was following this issue in the Southeast United States where this capital investor kind of oligarch-type figure, Wes Edens, was building out LNG-by-rail down there. And of course, Florida being the closest state to Puerto Rico, and he was gearing that up to LNG-by-rail to export, I was wondering, where is that natural gas going?

So, I started doing research, and when I found out that Dimitri was going to Puerto Rico, and I found out, “Okay, one of the places that’s targeted is Puerto Rico.” And so, basically what I did from there is examined the exacts of how much is planned to go to Puerto Rico, and the… especially looking at what was happening on the United States side, with the broader LNG-by-rail; they needed to get a permit from the Trump administration, meaning Edens’ company, and there’s been several instances this year, I think there’s been… Edens has been sort of the connective tissue in a lot of natural gas-related issues. Like I said, LNG By Rail and others happening in the eastern United States.

And then the last thing I’ll say about that is, even going into the power politics of the Democratic Party in Milwaukee, Wes Edens… There are conventions in Milwaukee this year. Eden is on a host committee of the convention, same guy who owns the natural gas that’s going to… and also opening power plants in Puerto Rico and in that area of the world. And one of the questions that was being raised is, “Why is the Democratic Party not discussing climate change at its debates?” And so, one of the answers may be, oh, well, Wes Edens is a huge player in the convention that ends all of these debates, where the Democrats will announce their final nominee. So, yeah, there’s been many instances where he has popped up this year.

Lisa Snowden-McCray: Yeah. I can see, as we move in, as the Democrats kind of narrow in on who their presidential candidate’s going to be, climate change could or possibly could not be one of the issues that we continue to discuss. Steve, I want to kind of keep going with you for a little bit. I know that you’re based out of California, which is always just a font of climate news for a variety of reasons, and you did a lot of reporting on cap and trade this year. Can you talk a little bit about that, and how that effects climate?

Steve Horn: Yeah. So, cap and trade is California’s climate policy; it’s what oversees not only everything that happens at the state level, but also at the local level when cities create climate action plans. So, it’s really important to understand the basic question: is cap and trade actually working in a way that its proponents say it’s working? It’s been the policy of the state basically this entire decade, first signed into law by Governor Jerry Brown, and now being carried out by our new governor, Gavin Newsome. And so, yeah, a lot of our coverage has been… kind of since I started right when Newsome started, it’s, what is Newsome doing in the aftermath of Brown?

Brown was seen as almost like a global figure in climate change and his leadership in the way that promoters say it. So, that’s PR on their end; what we’re trying to do is answer the question, is California actually a quote-unquote “climate leader” the way that it’s been hailed?

And basically, our reporting on the cap and trade system, and on another related issue called the tropical forest standard, has said, “Take a step back,” and actually seeing, well, not quite as much, you know? The emissions numbers aren’t as good as the proponents said they were going to be; there are serious questions on if those numbers can be met by 2030. And as that happens, oil and gas continue… sorry, oil in particular continues to be drilled in this state. There’s not a really whole lot of huge changes happening that would point to the fact that, “Oh, well, the emissions are going down.”

So, basically, it’s a question of, is cap and trade more of a scheme that’s being used to toy with the numbers? And, yeah, the emissions numbers tell a different story than what the proponents are saying that’s happening.

Lisa Snowden-McCray: I got to say, I’m not feeling too good with the things that you guys have told me so much about climate. It’s like, Puerto Rico’s still bad. This legislation’s not working.

What do you see… I guess, based on your reporting, especially like these two pieces of legislation that you just talked about, is legislation the way forward? Is that going to be the thing that saves us?

Dimitri Lascaris: I think that the threshold question is, how are going to get that legislation? Because you indicated at the outset, you said that there has been, I think, a real shift in the public’s consciousness about this crisis in the West, and this is certainly the case in Canada. And this is a very positive development. You know, we’re seeing in Canada significant resistance on the ground to the government’s complacency about the climate emergency; Extinction Rebellion, which I believe was founded in Europe, has now migrated to Canada, it’s begun to stage acts of civil disobedience on the ground. A few months ago in Montreal, an estimated 500,000 people marched for the climate and listened to a powerful speech from Greta Thunberg. I was there, and it was extraordinary to see that many Canadians in the street. It was the largest protest in the history of the province of Quebec, which has seen a lot of big protests over the years.

Public concern over the climate crisis seems to have had an impact at the ballot box, as well, in Canada. In the federal election in October, Justin Trudeau was returned to power, but with a minority of seats rather than majority. And I think it’s fair to say he paid a price for the fact that he broke his promise to end fossil fuel subsidies. He bought this Trans Mountain tar sands pipeline from US energy giant, Kinder Morgan, for 4.5 billion dollars. His promise to spend billions more to expand it…

Canada’s existing plans will leave us about 80 million tons of CO2 shy of the existing 2030 goal of 513 megatons of CO2 in equivalence, and that goal is the weak goal of the prior conservative governor, Steven Harper, which Justin Trudeau criticized when he was in opposition. And so, I think Canadian voters are grasping more than ever that when it comes to the climate emergency, there’s a huge disparity between the reality and the Trudeau government’s rhetoric. And this is happening in other countries, and the reaction has been one that gives me a great deal of hope. It’s been resistance and real demands for radical change.

Lisa Snowden-McCray: Okay. I feel a little bit better. Does Trudeau have any things kind of planned to gain back some of that ground that he lost with a lot of voters?

Dimitri Lascaris: Well, he’s certainly talking the talk, but… He just had a meeting with the Premier of Alberta, which is where the fossil fuels industry in Canada is centered, and he emerged from that meeting, he issued a communique in which he said that the government remains as determined as ever to build the Trans Mountain Pipeline.

So, you know, I think, really, what would have sent an even more powerful message is if he had been removed from office entirely. He doesn’t seem to have grasped yet that he’s going to be expected by this electorate to begin to deliver on his promise to deal with the climate crisis. And I do think that that expectation is now real, and any politician who continues to ignore that expectation is going to pay a serious price at the ballot box.

Lisa Snowden-McCray: Now, I feel like one of the things that we function to do here at Real News is to kind of be the ones helping ring the alarms, to let people know how serious things are, and one of the ways that you do that is with some of your climate science reporting. Are there any things that we really need to make sure that we have at the top of our list? What are the things that are kind of the things that are most jarring, the things that are going to be the most important, Dimitri… I guess in the past and going forward, what do you think we need to really keep it in mind?

Dimitri Lascaris: Well, I think what we’ve seen over and over again, Lisa, is that the scientific community is underestimating the severity and rapidity of climate change, and we just did a story at the Real News about a new climate model being developed by the Canadian government. This climate model showed or is predicting that if in a high-emissions scenario, the world will see between seven and eight degrees Celsius of warming by 2100. So, that’s within the lifetime of children who are being born today.

Lisa Snowden-McCray: Yeah.

Dimitri Lascaris: At that level, if we achieve that level of warming by 2100, I can’t imagine how we’re going to be able to avoid a civilizational collapse. It would be absolutely unmanageable and devastating for the human population. Even under this new model, even in a strong emissions reduction scenario, the model’s predicting 2.4 degrees Celsius of warming, and that’s significantly above the upper threshold stipulated by the Paris Climate Accord, which said, you know, we should be aiming to keep it under 1.5 and as much as possible, below two.

So, we understand, based upon our investigation into this new modeling, that this is not just confined to this model, but that other newer, more sophisticated climate models are also yielding results that are more alarming than the prior generation of models. So, this is something we have to watch very carefully, and as the science becomes more sophisticated, the results are becoming more concerning. So, the political will has to catch up to the science, and it’s not yet doing that.

Lisa Snowden-McCray: Okay. And while we’re kind of talking predictions, Steve, what do you have on your plate? What are some of the things that you think are super important as we move into 2020?

Steve Horn: Well, I think that the… I mean, since we’re talking about movements, in the United States, the movement around the Green New Deal started really at the beginning of this year as almost a new thing. And it morphed into, there is now something called the select committee on the climate crisis, which was a compromise between the Pelosi wing of the party and, we’ll just say, the AOC wing, which was calling for a select committee on the Green New Deal…

Lisa Snowden-McCray: The squad.

Steve Horn: Yeah, the squad! Exactly. So, in March, the select committee will be putting forward… by the end of March is the deadline to put forward its report on what it’s learned in the past year of hearings, and field reports, and stuff that they’ve been doing. It’ll be interesting to see what that select committee puts forward, and how that compares to the demand for the Green New Deal, which is happening now not only at the national level where it started, but has moved really to many states, to regions like in the South, which we’ve covered for The Real News.

There’s now a piece of legislation called The Green New Deal for Affordable Housing; that’s the first legislation, so it’ll be interesting to see how that’s discussed in the presidential cycle, and I will say, lastly, the Green New Deal has now gone global. The European Commission just announced its own Green New Deal, Jeremy Corbyn’s been talking about the Green New Deal. So, this concept that was once just something that Green Party candidate Jill Stein was talking about on the campaign trail when she was running in the 2012 cycle, now has become something that really has… and really, was a fringe-ish idea back then, has become a global phenomenon. And that’s really interesting to watch in the months ahead, for sure.

Lisa Snowden-McCray: All right! Well, thank you, Steve, thank you, Dimitri, for all your hard work, and thanks for coming on today.

Dimitri Lascaris: Thank you, Lisa.

Steve Horn: Thank you.

Lisa Snowden-McCray: I’m Lisa Snowden-McCray, and you’ve been watching The Real News Network.

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Title: If elected POTUS in 2020, President Sanders will establish a Climate Justice Resiliency Fund
Post by: AGelbert on December 28, 2019, 02:16:05 pm
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December 27th, 2019 by Carolyn Fortuna

In a recent CleanTechnica article, I wrote about Elizabeth Warren’s plan for defeating the climate crisis and transitioning the US economy to run on 100% clean energy. She stated explicitly that her plan to pay for a Green New Deal would require big, structural changes and would arise from $10.7 trillion in federal and non-federal funding. What are the financing tools Warren intends to tap to unlock state, local, and private investment? How would she direct it towards meaningful investments to mitigate climate change, produce jobs, and reduce inequality?

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And what about other plans out there for a national switch to clean energy? What does Bernie Sanders, for example, outline for funding ideas? Let’s survey these prominent and provocative voices today in the clean energy movement and see their fiscal visions for carbon-free power and 100% renewable energy.


How Warren Would 💵 Pay for a US Switch to Clean Energy

The transition to clean energy is “an opportunity to transform our economy, creating new industries, like in zero-emissions building construction, and greatly expanding others, like electric vehicle manufacturing,” Warren says. She argues that the transition creates “huge opportunities” for state, local and non-federal investment in the process.

A Warren administration would create new financing tools to unlock state, local, and private investment. She is firm that these investments to tackle climate change, produce jobs, and reduce inequality will flow to the “right places” — not just the wealthy and well-connected.

Okay, Senator Warren, how would you pay for it?

A Green Bank: A Green Bank, aka the National Climate Bank Act, could mobilize $1 trillion in climate and green infrastructure investments across the country over 30 years. She says it would:
open up new markets for greater investment by working alongside existing federal authorities through direct spending, grants, and loans
provide security for investors looking for climate-friendly investments in mid- to large-scale infrastructure projects
increase the overall scale of clean energy investment and the pace of substitution of clean energy technologies for fossil-fuel based technologies
protect consumers by keeping energy prices low and ensuring compliance with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s regulations
expand opportunities for communities and the private sector by directing funds toward communities on the front lines of the climate crisis that have traditionally been left out of investment opportunities

A September report from the New York-based Coalition for Green Capital (http://coalitionforgreencapital.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/1T-investment-white-paper.pdf) found that such a bank could mobilize up to $1 trillion of investment over 30 years. The bank would recycle its capital, lending the same dollars repeatedly as loans are paid back and the funds re-used.

Fourteen states, including Michigan, New York, and Hawaii already have such banks, and other cities and counties have explored their own. Washington, DC, for example, approved one in 2018 and Baltimore’s Climate Access Fund (https://meetingoftheminds.org/social-equity-through-clean-energy-30837) seeks to help low-income and minority residents access more expensive solar energy. Small focus target investment on a local basis, and the national version would help mobilize investment on a required and faster scale.

Green Victory Bonds: Much like current state programs for land use projects, river and habitat preservation, and energy and water infrastructure, green bonds have also surged in popularity worldwide, with sales growing 46% last year to a total of about $460 billion. A lot like the World War II-era “Victory Bond” program, Green Victory Bonds would be sold at levels that allow Americans across the socioeconomic spectrum the opportunity to “own a piece of the climate solution and to benefit from the new green economy that we build together.”

Sanders on How to 💵 Pay for a Green New Deal

Embedded in many of Senator Bernie Sanders’ proposals for attacking the climate crisis are financing plans. Here are some of his fiscal visions that would usher in a Green New Deal.

Green Climate Fund: Sanders’ plan to halt the climate crisis centers on US investment of $200 billion in the Green Climate Fund (GCF) for the equitable transfer of renewable technologies, climate adaptation, and assistance in adopting sustainable energies. Since approving its first project in November, 2015, the GCF has grown to become the world’s largest climate finance fund through its readiness in 129 countries, including allocation of over $5.6 billion of its funding to build a project portfolio of over $20.6 billion. It is playing a key role in supporting the implementation of intended nationally determined contributions (NDCs), driving a shift to lower greenhouse gas emissions, and supporting action to adapt to the impacts of climate change in developing countries.

Significant US Military Reductions: While Warren’s plan alludes to decreasing military funding in order to pay for a Green New Deal — “We’ll pay for this with savings from my plan to transition the 🦍 military away from its dependence on 🦕🦖 fossil fuels and other internal 🦍 Department of Defense funding shifts, she says” —  Sanders is much more explicit (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F1%2F3-120818185040-1659929.gif&hash=0a9ca0c1f083655b821cbf024422e55e009a6d8d) about redirecting military funds to mitigating the climate crisis. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-130418201112.png&hash=679f4583d6861313c256e8762c40929af1ac667e) (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/gallery/renewablerevolution/2/3-300919160022-2281531.png)

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He says that the major industrialized nations spend trillions of dollars “on misguided wars and weapons of mass destruction,” He proposes to combat the climate crisis by recognizing that the Pentagon is the largest institutional emitter of greenhouse gases in the world and that the US spends $81 billion annually to protect oil supplies and transport routes. “We are uniquely positioned,” Sanders explains, “to lead the planet in a wholesale shift away from (https://www.globalresearch.ca/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Imperialism-supporters.jpg) militarism.” (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-080515182559.png&hash=d4dfa952fa0f817bf30a8059a4c88d6fb05ee1bf)



End Overseas 🦕👹🦖 Fossil Fuel Financing: The US federal government currently supports investments in fossil fuels through the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, OPIC, the Export-Import Bank, and other multilateral institutions. These international investments are inconsistent with a goal to curb the global climate crisis, and Sanders says these “must end.” His administration would lead these international financial institutions, instead, toward advancing the equitable adoption of sustainable energy across the planet. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F1%2F3-120818185038-16442135.gif&hash=52927992b43007fa5c5eb6ffcb453ae29948c356)

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“Butterfly amidst Blooms,” by Carolyn Fortuna, CleanTechnica

By redirecting money from these and other sources like income taxes from 20 million new jobs, taxes on fossil fuels, and selling power via federal power marketing authorities, 🦅 Sanders will establish a Climate Justice Resiliency Fund. Funded at $40 billion, the EPA, together with a number of other agencies, would conduct a nationwide survey to identify areas with high climate impact vulnerabilities and other socioeconomic factors, public health challenges, and environmental hazards. Each community will then be eligible for Climate Justice Resiliency funding in order of most vulnerable to least vulnerable.

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Final Thoughts

The US is not alone in its quest to use financing to make the switch to clean energy a reality. A recent article in the Washington Post pointed out that the EU’s biggest climate weapon lies in the financial fine print. The EU is embedding environmental goals in standards for banks, money managers, and insurers, it seems, in the hope of directing trillions of euros to fund a radical revision of the region’s economy. Like most of the US Democratic field of candidates, the EU is committed to meeting the targets of the Paris Agreement. Some of the EU’s money management strategies are pointing toward:

֍ Disclosing how they incorporate sustainability factors into investment decisions
֍ Setting up low-carbon benchmarks, like indexes created to track companies with a low carbon footprint, to steer funds to environmentally friendly investments
֍ Lowering capital requirements to encourage green lending
֍ Scrutinizing the environmental risks that remain on balance sheets and possibly imposing extra capital demands to offset possible losses
֍ Assessing environmental risks facing borrowers before they lend

So there’s a lot about which to think when considering the funding necessary for climate action. In the next part of this series, we’ll look at the other Democratic presidential contenders — as well as a few insightful researchers and economists  — and review their plans to fund climate action. Stay tuned. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/gallery/renewablerevolution/2/3-300919160021-22772252.png)

https://cleantechnica.com/2019/12/27/how-would-warren-sanders-pay-for-a-green-new-deal/

(https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/gallery/renewablerevolution/2/3-241119204318.png) Agelbert NOTE: I trust Sanders, a consistent advocate of reducing military spending, eliminating fossil fuel subsides and funding Renewable Energy in the USA, to follow through on his Green New Deal promises far more than I trust Warren.
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Title: Review of 2019 : Climate In Focus
Post by: AGelbert on December 29, 2019, 09:12:15 pm
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Review of 2019 : Climate In Focus

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As yet another record breaking year of extreme weather events draws to a close, we take a look back at just a handful of examples from 2019 illustrating how our changing climate is bringing increasing levels of inconvenience to some, impacts on livelihoods for others, and loss of life to so many unfortunate souls across our planet.

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Title: Britain is set for warmest New Year's Eve in 178 YEARS 🚩
Post by: AGelbert on December 31, 2019, 07:38:33 pm
BLACK BEAR NEWS: Britain is set for warmest New Year's Eve in 178 YEARS 👀
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Britain is set for warmest New Year's Eve in 178 YEARS and will be hotter than Greece as 2020 begins with 'early spring' caused by heat bubble over Europe
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Title: Amid copious signs of crisis, the U.S. spent the last 10 years hurtling in the wrong direction.
Post by: AGelbert on January 01, 2020, 06:57:36 pm
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Like King Canute's attempt to hold back the tide, The U.S. Empire's desperate effort to preserve a hegemony built on biosphere polluting AND democracy degrading hydrocarbon fuels is doomed to fail.


A Monumentally Destructive US Decade — Symptomatic Of Imperial Decline

By Patrick Lawrence, Consortiumnews.com
December 31, 2019 | EDUCATE!

A monumentally destructive U.S. decade — symptomatic of imperial decline  — exposed a shamefully pliant press. But we have at least one reason to resist incurable pessimism.

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I sit in one of the dives

On Fifty-Second Street

Uncertain and afraid

As the clever hopes expire

Of a low dishonest decade.

These are W.H. Auden’s lines, written as the 1930s drew to a close and six years of global conflagration commenced.

Eighty years later, they are pitifully, painfully apt as the second decade of our new century gives way to the third. With 2019 staggering to its end, what do we see when we look back over the 2010s? What when we look forward to the 2020s? These are our questions, each to be answered without flinching, dissembling or deflecting.

It requires a wide-eyed Boy Scout’s optimism to consider the decade now behind us and see anything other than a steady descent into global disorder, violence and abuse of international law. If this seems unduly pessimistic, it is merely because the 2010s were also a decade of probably unprecedented mis– and disinformation, both deployed to mask responsibility for 10 years’ worth of calamities that, with no obvious exceptions, could have been averted.

In this same line, you would have to be Hillary Clinton or Mickey Rooney, fresh from a rendition of “Yankee Doodle Dandy,” to miss the rampantly pernicious character of American foreign policy this past decade. The evident trajectory resembles what we find on the climate-change question: Amid copious signs of crisis, the U.S. spent the last 10 years hurtling in the wrong direction. By any measure, it is now very arguably the primary source of global disorder in this century.

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U.S. as Major Planetary Threat

The world comes to understand this, even if many 🙈🙉🙊 Americans prefer to bury themselves in illusions and self-deceptions.

A Pew Research Center study published earlier this year indicated that nearly half the planet now considers the U.S. “a major threat” to their nations. This is almost double the rate of negative views Pew found in 2013, when it began this series of surveys.

Two years ago, the Council on Foreign Relations convened a workshop of Europeans to consider “Managing Global Disorder,” as the event was titled. “To some,” CFR reported afterward, “the principal source of instability has been the overzealous actions of the United States — particularly in the wake of 9/11 — in promoting democracy, human rights, and regime change around the world in contravention of established principles of state sovereignty.”

The good people at Pew seem intent on sanitizing the 2010s by dropping the blame for this rise in anti–American sentiment on Donald Trump’s doorstep. The president certainly bears responsibility for souring the global mood, notably in pulling out of the Paris climate pact in 2017, the Iran nuclear accord a year later, and various arms-limitations agreements with Russia. But let us disabuse ourselves on one important point. The world’s wariness and weariness of America’s conduct beyond its shores was well in train before Mr. Trump went to Washington.

🐍 Bearer of Many Clever Hopes

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The decade announced itself on Jan. 12, 2010, when a magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck just outside Port–au–Prince, killing some 250,000 Haitians, injuring 300,000 more, and leaving 5 million displaced. In less than a month, it was clear that the U.S. was using its contribution to the rescue effort to establish a formidable military presence in Haiti. This 🦍 corruption foreshadowed the many 👹 frauds to come under the Responsibility to Protect rubric.

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Houses destroyed by earthquake in Haiti, Jan. 21, 2010. (EU Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid/Flickr)

A year later and at Washington’s insistence, the U.N. Security Council cited the R2P doctrine as it authorized a disastrous military intervention in Libya. Low and dishonest hardly do justice to 👹 Hillary Clinton’s determination to destroy an entire nation. It was Clinton, as Obama’s secretary of state, who persuaded the Russians not to veto the Security Council’s resolution by promising to limit the mission to humanitarian amelioration. NATO bombing operations then led to Muammar Gaddafi’s gruesome assassination —  about which Clinton infamously cackled, “We came, we saw, he died.” >:(

One year in, the decade’s 🦍 template was already evident. Let us note its constituent parts as these recur again and again.

In 2012, the U.S. began its not-very-covert regime change operation in Syria by arming the very types of jihadist militias it claimed to be countering. Seven years later, this story continues. We now have liberals and “progressives” howling in defense of U.S. intervention when Trump proposes even a minor withdrawal from Syrian soil.

🦍Regime-Change ☠️ Ops

The coup in Egypt was the premier event in 2013. This was a classic case of wholesale deception. The director of this “regime change” op was Susan Rice, Obama’s national security adviser, who green-lighted the Egyptian military’s move against the legitimately elected Mohamed Morsi hours before it began.

The New York Times reported Rice’s role — once, on July 6, three days after the coup was complete. This was plainly judged an error, for Rice’s telephone call to Cairo was never again mentioned anywhere in the American press. A few weeks later, the Times dutifully quoted John Kerry, Obama’s secretary of state by this time, as he praised the Egyptian generals “restoring democracy.”

Neat and nice. The U.S.–cultivated coup in Ukraine, on Feb. 21, 2014, by contrast, was neither neat nor nice. There is abundant evidence of Washington’s key role in this “regime change” — not least a recording of Victoria Nuland, the State Department apparatchik, as she directed the op against the (once again) duly elected president of Ukraine, Viktor Yanukovych.

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President Barack Obama and President Petro Poroshenko of Ukraine talk after  their bilateral meeting in Warsaw, June 4, 2014. (White House/Pete Souza)

Fabrications Known as Russiagate We still live with the resulting mess, of course. But the U.S. press has not once reported accurately on the events leading to Yanukovych’s ouster, instead pretending that the Ukraine crisis began when Moscow, entirely out of the blue, annexed Crimea (after a properly conducted referendum) to protect its naval base on the Black Sea. Neither has there been any acknowledgement of Kiev’s post-coup dependence on neo–Nazi militias for its survival.

On the decade goes. In 2016 the fabrications collectively known as “Russiagate” began their long life, setting back any prospect of a constructive new détente with Moscow by at least a decade and very probably more. Two years later the Pentagon declared Russia and China America’s two most threatening global adversaries.

This brings us to the year now ending. January gave us the attempted-and-failed coup in Venezuela, starring a jumped-up flunky named Juan Guaidó, whose moment, we now read, has passed. In November we saw the coup — and to be clear, there is no other word for it — against the (again, duly elected) Evo Morales in Bolivia.

Even this pencil sketch of the 10 years gone by yields six U.S.–directed coup operations on three continents, four of them successful (Egypt, Ukraine, Honduras and Bolivia). We end the decade with two officially declared adversaries in the Cold War mold — both of which are on the record preferring a cooperative relationship with the U.S. in the interest of securing a global order we do not now enjoy.

What conclusions are to be drawn? Let us derive one from our backward glance and another from our look forward.

If the 2010s have a single lesson for us, it is that the U.S. has entered its late-imperial phase — those years when its preeminence as a global power begins to fray at its edges and its conduct abroad takes on a hue of desperation.

Look back: America has cast itself as global spoiler these past 10 years — forlornly attempting to hold back an arriving era the way Cú Chulainn, the mythical Irish warrior, wielded his sword to battle back the incoming tide. For all the damage the U.S. has done elsewhere this past decade, notably but not only in the Middle East, it has done as much or more to itself.

There may seem little of good in prospect as we peer into the 2020s, but before succumbing to incurable pessimism and yet more of the deadly ennui that saps our energies, let us consider a few more lines from Auden’s “September 1, 1939.” These appear toward the poem’s end: 

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Defenseless under the night

Our world in stupor lies;

Yet, dotted everywhere,

 Ironic points of light

 Flash out wherever the Just

 Exchange their messages…

At the end of our low, dishonest decade, we find that the ranks of those able to see this nation for what it is—so recognizing the urgent need for remedies and redirection— have swollen considerably since 2010. There are more of us, with our ironic points of light, and newcomers arrive by the day. This already matters, and it will matter ever more as the new decade proceeds.

In this connection, the collapse of corporate media’s ethics and professional standards over the past decade — and hence their credibility — is of special importance. These media bear much of the blame for the messes just outlined. This assign is an ever-greater responsibility to what is commonly called “the alternative press.” This is a phenomenon easily discerned these past 10 years. As these media grow into this responsibility, they stand to re-establish the press as an independent pole of power — a station our corporate media have (with no apparent hesitation) abdicated in favor of a craven devotion to the 👹💵🎩🦍🍌🦀🏴‍☠️ reigning orthodoxy.

In truth, there is no such thing as alternative media: There are only media, good and bad, of greater or lesser resources, of greater or lesser loyalty to principle. If the 2020s turn out at all well, this will become ever-more evident. If we are to make more sense of the decade to come than we find in the decade now ending, these media will have much to do with it.

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🤔 Agelbert NOTE: What goes unsaid in too many of these articles, like the one above, that correctly expose the FACT that virtually ALL the social and environmental problems dooming our civilization are the product of the wholesale EMBRACE by TPTB of unethical behavior, is that no amount of prinicipled behavior from the media will stop Catastrophic Climate Change. Sorry to burst all those idealistic political bubbles out there, but all that politically virtuous principled behavior championed by people of good will became moot around 1978.

You see, in 1978 is when we went into the baked in extinction phase of the Global Warming inertia. Sure, most people alive today will live out there natural lives as the biosphere becomes more and more degraded. But the fact remains that human food, shelter and health needs CANNOT be met on a planetary atmosphere averaging 2 degrees C and above.

The following article correctly points out that the U.S. went in exactly the wrong direction in the last decade. True. But, that is what the U.S. has done ever since it KNEW, back in 1976, how dire the situation was for the human species, during the Carter Adminstration. President Carter was blocked at every turn from beginning the transition to 100% Renewable Energy that he supported.

The Reagan and Bush fossil fuel lackeys rigged the election so Carter would lose and the rest, all the way up to 2020, is a clear extinction trajectory. In fact, EVERY decade after the year 1978, even higher temperatures have become baked in, even if we stopped all the GHG pollution at any given point after 1978.

Here we are in 2020 with about 4 to 6 degrees C (those are the conservative estimates - it's probably a LOT worse) baked in by 2100. Back in 1978, we weren't supposed to get past human civilization destroying 2 degrees C warming before 2100. Now it's projected for 2050. Some are already saying THAT is wrong too and we will pass 2 degrees C by the end of THIS decade, not 30 years from now.

My point is that there is no political point any longer. Do YOU think most politicians are going to grow a conscience any time soon? Do YOU think ethical behavior is anything but a joke to TPTB? We are ruled by people who WORSHIP UNETHICAL BEHAVIOR!

Let's get real here, shall we? These spiritually depraved elites are NOT going to change.

The Inertia of Catastrophic Climate Change is NOT going to be slowed. If anything, The Inertia of Catastrophic Climate Change will become more massive as the polluters continue to (as the above article stated in regard to the corporate media) abdicate from principled behavior, with no hesitation, in favor of a craven devotion to the 🐍🦀🐘🦕🦖 reigning orthodoxy.

So, what is to be done by little people like you and I who read the news with increasing dread?

Please hear me out. This is what we all should do:

In life, we must always prioritize what to do among our daily list of pending tasks. As a species, we also have priorities that, though somewhat of a general nature, apply to each and every intelligent, responsible adult person now alive.

The most important priority we all have now is to tell the truth about the unstoppable nature of Catastrophic Climate Change. The importance of our politics does not mean squat in comparison to the importance of countering all lies claiming climate change is "no big deal".

Taxes, health care, "isms" and so on are all lost causes if we do not have the ability to grow our food and preserve the biosphere we all depend on. We can argue and fight about ethics all we want, but it will do nothing to stop our extinction trajectory.

So, from this day on, if you actually don't want be condemned by future generations (I'm being optimistic here) for being willfully masochistic, stupid or hopelessly deranged, you must NOT buy from, vote for, or support in any way, shape or form, ANYONE who does not accept the truth that addressing Catastrophic Climate Change, no matter if it takes over a century, must be funded BEFORE a penny goes to any other government activity, especially wars.

Ask people where they stand. They will tell you. Then tell them that if they do not totally accept the dire, unvarnished truth that making the Government Funded Mitigation of Catastrophic Climate Change, through fostering a 100% Renewable Energy powered economy, plus the the fining and imprisonment of all polluters, is the number one priority, they are part of the problem.

Then walk away, and stay away. Americans who prefer to bury themselves in illusions and self-deceptions are a threat to human civilization. There is no longer any way for YOU to get around the fact that YOU or/and some family members or some politicians or some friends are making things worse by not facing Catastrophic Climate Change FACTS.
 
While it is true that, even if a crash prgram is started by the U.S. Government and all major polluting countries all over the world this very year (an impossibility with people like 🦀Trump,  🦖 Putin, 🦕 Bolsonaro, etc. in power), billions of people and other life forms will die until it is stopped and reversed, it is the only sane thing to do. This is no longer even about ethics, as I mentioned before; this is about SURVIVAL OF THE SPECIES.

IF we survive (a mighty big "IF"), we can be less in-your-face with modern day arrogant self-worshipping egotists who endlessly spout their spiritually bankrupt, corrupt status quo defending, doubletalking sophistry, while they hold firm to their vile belief that ethical behavior is "just for suckers and rubes".

You can call the status quo anything you want, but the truth is that preserving the status quo is a death sentence for our species. Anyone defending it is not your friend. It really is GET-IN-THEIR-FACES time.

I support Senator Sanders because he understands that addressing Catastrophic Climate Change is sine qua non for the survival of our species, not just for our country. Medicare-for-All, improved Social Security, taxing Wall Street and so on are all of LESS importance than a crash program to properly mitigate (and reverse) Catastrophic Climate Change.

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Enjoy the article but remember what is our NUMBER ONE PRIORITY.
Title: Climate crisis linked to at least 15 $1bn plus disasters in 2019
Post by: AGelbert on January 01, 2020, 07:58:50 pm
BLACK BEAR NEWS: Climate crisis linked to at least 15 $1bn plus disasters in 2019
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Title: 🐻 Bears In Ukraine Aren't Hibernating Because It's Too Warm
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BLACK BEAR NEWS: 🐻 Bears In Ukraine Aren't Hibernating Because It's Too Warm
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Title: 480 MILLION animals have persihed in Australian Bush 🔥 fires! 😱
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Title: Hat Tip to Surly for this story
Post by: AGelbert on January 04, 2020, 03:12:42 pm
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By James Cogan

4 January 2020

SNIPPET:

As with all “natural disasters” around the world, the working class and poor are paying the greatest price. Tens of thousands of workers and contractors in the agriculture and tourist industries have already been stood down or lost their jobs. The extreme temperatures and hazardous air pose the greatest threat to those with medical conditions who live in the low-income suburbs of the cities and regional towns, which are also generally the most heat-affected and have the most under-resourced and overstretched health services.

The capitalist ruling class and its political apparatus are bereft of any answers to the consequences of a climate crisis that their indifference and inaction have created.

In its latest, desperate attempt to portray itself as doing something, the Morrison government today announced a call-up of a few thousand Army reservists, who are not trained for either firefighting or emergency service provision to civilian communities.

The bankruptcy of the official establishment has also been summed up in the statements of Labor Party opposition leader Anthony Albanese over recent days. He has declared the situation a “national emergency” that requires a “national response” that is “appropriate to the scale of the emergency.” As to what that response should be, Albanese has only offered that Labor will “listen” and have policies prepared for the 2022 federal election.

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Title: Displaced by Drought, a Family in Somalia Struggles to Survive
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Title: The sad truth about 1.5C
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Title: Australia 🔥 fires - Cashless economy collapses as ATMs fail, supermarket looted 😨
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Title: “No one could have predicted this” says government warned about this
Post by: Surly1 on January 07, 2020, 06:36:43 am
“No one could have predicted this” says government warned about this in 1988, 1993, 1998, 2001, 2004, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019 (https://chaser.com.au/general-news/no-one-could-have-predicted-this-says-government-that-was-warned-about-this-in-1988-1993-1998-2001-2004-2009-2010-2011-2012-2013-2014-2015-2016-2017-2018-and-2019/)

The Australian government has today pledged $2 billion in support for fire affected communities over the next two years, taking only one month longer than the time it took for the government to announce $1.4 billion for a refresh of the Christmas Island detention facilities after the MedEvac Bill was passed.

“Unfortunately the country was completely caught off guard by these fires,” said the Prime Minister who had been sent a letter by the fire chiefs warning about this last year and failed to set up a meeting. “I don’t think anyone could have predicted how terrible or bad these fires would be.”

However, Morrison was seen moments later shredding a 1993 study by the CSIRO which accurately predicted that one degree of warming would increase the size and intensity of Australia’s bushfires, as well as causing more extreme weather in winter months. “Unfortunately this report was completely off the mark,” explained Morrison, “You see, this predicted what would happen if we hit one degree of warming by 2030, and we actually hit one degree of warming last year. What a bunch of idiots.”

Morrison was also forced to deny having seen the government-commissioned 2009 Garnaut Climate Change Review which predicted that bushfires would “start earlier, end slightly later, and generally be more intense” by 2020 if global emissions were not reduced. “The fact is that I was not in government at the time,” explained Morrison, “and as an opposition MP, it’s was my duty to vote against all the sitting government’s climate change measures without actually having reviewed the evidence myself.”

Asked what he thought about the 1988 work of the United Nations first Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Morrison explained he hadn’t yet had a chance to read the research, given he’s been very busy in the last 30 years. “Look, there were a lot of Sharkies games to attend,” explained the Prime Minister, “and besides we’ve still got plenty of days left to address the issue.”

Asked whether he’d read the leaked 1982 research by Exxon which reported that “mitigation of the greenhouse effect would require major reductions in fossil fuel combustion” to avoid substantial climactic changes such as areas of reduced rainfall, worse agricultural yields and coastal flooding, the Prime Minister said he had to go, and jumped out the closest window.

Title: What Will Another Decade of Climate Crisis Bring?
Post by: Surly1 on January 07, 2020, 06:40:01 am
What Will Another Decade of Climate Crisis Bring? (https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/01/13/what-will-another-decade-of-climate-crisis-bring)
2019 has been called the year we woke up to climate change. Australia’s wildfires are yet more evidence that it’s time we started acting like it.


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Elizabeth Kolbert January 13, 2020 Issue

Last week, thousands of people in the Australian state of Victoria were urged to evacuate their homes. “Don’t wait,” the alert warned. Bushfires were burning across the state; so large were some of the blazes that, according to Victoria’s commissioner of emergency management, they were “punching into the atmosphere” with columns of smoke nine miles high. The smoke columns were producing their own weather, generating lightning that, in turn, was setting more fires. Some time after residents received the evacuation warning, many of those in the most seriously affected region, East Gippsland, which is a popular tourist destination, received another alert. It was now too late to leave: “You are in danger and need to act immediately to survive.”

Just to the north of Victoria, in New South Wales, blazes have so far destroyed more than nine million acres. Meanwhile, in the state of South Australia, dozens of fires were burning last week, some of them uncontrollably. At least nineteen people have died in the fires, as have hundreds of millions of animals, including a significant proportion of the country’s koalas. More than two hundred and fifty thousand people signed a petition arguing that, in light of the devastation, Sydney’s famous New Year’s Eve fireworks displays should be scrapped, but the celebration proceeded anyway, in part at the insistence of the Australian Prime Minister, Scott Morrison.

“I can think of no better time to express to the world just how optimistic and positive we are as a country,” said Morrison, a Donald Trump-like figure who was on holiday with his family in Hawaii last month when, owing to all the fires, New South Wales declared a state of emergency. (It declared a second state of emergency last Thursday, ahead of what was expected to be another catastrophic weekend.)

In a Dantean sort of way, Australia’s holiday-season infernos provided a fitting close to 2019, which has been called “the year the world woke up to the climate crisis.” In India this past summer, a heat wave killed more than a hundred people in the northeastern state of Bihar, and in Japan a month later a heat wave sent an estimated eighteen thousand to the hospital. All-time temperature records were set in France, where a high of a hundred and eight degrees was reached in the town of Vérargues on June 28th, and in Germany, where the mercury in the town of Lingen hit a hundred and seven degrees on July 25th.

In Australia, records were broken only to be rebroken. On December 17th, maximum temperatures across the entire country, which is roughly the size of the continental United States, averaged 105.6 degrees. Then, on December 18th, they climbed to 107.4 degrees. The “feeling when you open the oven door” is how one Australian described the heat to the BBC. “It’s like that, but just the whole time.” Globally, it was the second- or third-warmest year since accurate measurements began. (The exact ranking is still to be calculated.) In either case, each of the past five years has been among the hottest five, and the decade counts as the warmest ten-year stretch on record. If 2019 was supposedly the year we “woke up to the climate crisis,” the twenty-tens have been called “the decade we finally woke up to climate change.”

What will the twenty-twenties bring? In geophysical terms, this question is almost too easy to answer. Temperatures will continue to rise. It’s virtually guaranteed that the coming decade will be warmer than the twenty-tens, which were warmer than the two-thousands, which were warmer than the nineteen-nineties, which—you guessed it—were warmer than the nineteen-eighties.

And with still higher temperatures will come still greater damage. Droughts will grow more punishing. (Australia’s horrific wildfires are, in large part, the result of what Australians are calling a “big dry,” which is now in its third year and has forced many towns to truck in water.) Warmer air holds more moisture, so the flip side of drought is deluge. (Last week, as Australia was roasting, flooding in Indonesia killed at least forty people.) Meanwhile, the planet’s ice sheets will continue to melt, leading to ever-higher sea levels, as will the Arctic ice cap. It’s possible that by 2030 the Arctic Ocean will be ice-free at the end of the summer.

Which brings us to the question of what it means to “wake up.” If in the past year (or the past decade) the world began to understand how dangerous climate change is, it certainly didn’t act like it. In the past ten years, more CO2 was emitted than in all of human history up to the election of J.F.K.

In 2015, in Paris, world leaders, including President Barack Obama, committed to holding the average global temperature increase to “well below 2°C.” They never committed to how they were going to do this, however, and last month, in Madrid, the creaky machinery of climate diplomacy came very close to breaking down altogether. The Trump Administration, which has filed to withdraw the United States from the Paris agreement, and the Morrison government, which wanted to use an accounting trick to fulfill its Paris commitments, were explicitly blamed for the stalemate. Many commentators noted the irony of the situation. A headline in the Guardian put it this way: “AUSTRALIA TOOK A MATCH TO UN CLIMATE TALKS WHILE BACK HOME THE COUNTRY BURNED.”

Every decade is consequential in its own way, but the twenty-twenties will be consequential in a more or less permanent way. Global CO2 emissions are now so high—in 2019, they hit a new record of forty-three billion metric tons—that ten more years of the same will be nothing short of cataclysmic. Unless emissions are reduced, and radically, a rise of two degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) will be pretty much unavoidable by 2030. This will make the demise of the world’s coral reefs, the inundation of most low-lying island nations, incessant heat waves and fires and misery for millions—perhaps billions—of people equally unavoidable.

Really waking up, and not just dreaming to ourselves that things will be O.K., has become urgent—beyond urgent, in fact. To paraphrase Victoria’s fire authority: The world is in danger, and we need to act immediately to survive. ♦
Title: Video Diary of Apocalypse 🚩: A Family Flees Australia's 🔥 Fires
Post by: AGelbert on January 07, 2020, 04:26:05 pm
Video Diary of Apocalypse 🚩: A Family Flees Australia's (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/gallery/renewablerevolution/2/3-300919160021-22781459.png) Fires
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My wife and my children (ages 4 and 2) are citizens of Australia and the United States. We moved here a year ago, and up until fire season, it’s been perfect.

But on December 30, we jumped in the family car for a road trip and a long-awaited beach vacation. The website for Bega Valley advertised that it was unaffected by the fires, but thinking of those who were. That was still true until the last hour of our drive, when we noticed an enormous column of smoke rising over the mountains to our left.

By the time, we’d built sand castles and returned to Room 9 of the Pambula Colonial Motor Inn, the highway we had traveled was closed due to the Werri Berri fire. The other westbound highway was closed due to another new fire, called the Wyndham fire, only 20 kilometers away. And the multiple fires burning to our north and to our south, which had been raging for several weeks, meant that we couldn’t leave.

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Title: 1 BILLION Animals Dead in Australia! 😱
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
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Title: Former Australian fire chiefs call for emissions reductions
Post by: AGelbert on January 10, 2020, 01:11:19 pm
Former Australian fire chiefs call for emissions reductions | 7NEWS
5,065 views•Nov 13, 2019

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Former fire chiefs from across Australia are demanding the federal government reduce emissions to stop bushfires worsening.

Statement by the Emergency Leaders For Climate Action: "The catastrophic bushfires in NSW and QLD have been worsened by climate change and the Federal Government needs to respond to this unprecedented threat. Emergency Leaders for Climate Action, a coalition of 23 fire and emergency services leaders from every state and territory has demanded more support for emergency services and firefighters, and an urgent plan to phase out fossil fuels like coal, oil, and gas, which are driving climate change."

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Title: 🦕 Trump makes life easy for 🦖 polluters, #MeToo & the CDC, & more
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Title: ... the expected loss of Arctic sea ice in the future will accelerate 😨 melting of the permafrost
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Title: Australian Wildfires Prove Denying Climate Change Won't Save You From It
Post by: AGelbert on January 11, 2020, 09:40:57 pm
Australian Wildfires Prove Denying Climate Change Won't Save You From It
9,565 views•Jan 9, 2020

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Climate scientist Michael Mann is in Australia, where the bushfire crisis is unfolding in real time. He says voters there need to look for 'climate hawks' who can counteract the climate-denying policies of politicians like current prime minister Scott Morrison.

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Title: Breaking: 11 dead in Midwest storms
Post by: AGelbert on January 13, 2020, 12:48:05 pm
Breaking: 11 dead in Midwest storms
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Title: Thousands Flee as Taal Volcano Roars to Life in the Philippines 🚩
Post by: AGelbert on January 13, 2020, 01:00:45 pm
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Title: A 🔥 "megafire" measuring 1.5 million acres forms in Australia, as bushfires merge
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Title: Americans reacted FAVORABLY, not negatively, to Carter's speech, giving him an 11% approval rating i
Post by: AGelbert on January 14, 2020, 02:01:58 pm
The “Malaise” Speech: When Jimmy Carter Humbly Told the Truth to Americans

July 16, 2018 | By The Conversation

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Employees at a gas station in Los Angeles watch President Jimmy Carter giving his energy speech over national television on July 15, 1979 (AP file photo)

Nearly 40 years ago, on July 15, 1979, President Jimmy Carter went on national television to share with millions of Americans his diagnosis of a nation in crisis. “All the legislation in the world,” he proclaimed, “can’t fix what’s wrong with America.” He went on to call upon American citizens to reflect on the meaning and purpose of their lives together.

Carter made several specific policy prescriptions. But in a presidency animated by spirituality perhaps more than any other in American history, this speech called more generally for national self-sacrifice and humility.

At a time when political strongmen, hypernationalism, and xenophobia have risen in the U.S. and the world, Carter’s speech offers a powerful counterexample to these trends.

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In 1979, Jimmy Carter was three years into his presidency. The burdens were many. Leading a divided Democratic Party, he faced a staunch and growing Republican opposition. The nation suffered from stagflation, a combination of economic stagnation and 12 percent inflation.

In 1973 the OPEC cartel, comprised mostly of Middle Eastern countries, had cut oil production and imposed an embargo against nations that supported Israel. In the late 1970s production declined again. Coupled with high global demand, this generated an energy crisis that increased gasoline prices by 55 percent in the first half of 1979.

In protest, truckers set bonfires in Pennsylvania, and Carter’s approval rating sank to 30 percent. An anxious Carter cut short his overseas trip to Vienna where he was holding nuclear-arms talks with the Soviet Union’s Leonid Brezhnev.

After a brief stop in Washington, the President retreated to Camp David for ten days. As he considered the severe and interlocking problems facing his administration, Carter read the Bible, historian Christopher Lasch’s The Culture of Narcissism, and economist E.F. Schumacher’s Small Is Beautiful, a meditation on the value of local community and the problems of excessive consumption.

He also invited representatives from many sectors of American life – business and labor leaders, teachers and preachers, and politicians and intellectuals – to consult with him. By the end of his retreat, Carter had concluded that the country faced more than a series of isolated problems. Collectively they comprised a fundamental cultural crisis.

The malaise speech

https://youtu.be/v7ysc1P1sH4

Having cloistered himself for an unprecedented length of time, the President emerged from Camp David with great drama on July 15, 1979. In a nationally televised speech that was watched by 65 million Americans, Carter intoned an evangelical-sounding lament about “a crisis of the American spirit.”

He said,

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“In a nation that was proud of hard work, strong families, close-knit communities and our faith in God, too many of us now worship self-indulgence and consumption.”

Indeed, the President’s sermon expounded at length about excess. “Human identity is no longer defined by what one does but by what one owns,” he preached. But “owning things and consuming things does not satisfy our longing for meaning.”

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It was a penetrating cultural critique that reflected Carter’s spiritual values. Like the writers of the New Testament, he called out sin. Like the prophets of the Old Testament, he confessed to personal and national pride.

In the mode of theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, he noted the limits of human power and righteousness. In this moment of national chastening, he committed himself and the nation to rebirth and renewal.

As a scholar of American religious history, this so-called “malaise speech” (though Carter never actually used the word “malaise”) was, in my opinion, the most theologically profound speech by an American president since Abraham Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address.

A squandered opportunity

This articulation of economic and political humility sounded the perfect pitch for a nation whose confidence in civil institutions had been shaken. The Watergate scandal had revealed corruption in the nation’s highest political offices. The Vietnam War had ended with a Communist victory.

The “malaise speech” was a continuation of a long-running theme for Carter. In his 1977 inaugural address, he intoned, “We have learned that ‘more’ is not necessarily ‘better,’ that even our great nation has its recognized limits, and that we can neither answer all questions nor solve all problems … we must simply do our best.”

Popular memory suggests that the nation reacted negatively to his speech. In The Age of Reagan, historian Sean Wilentz writes that Carter appeared to be blaming the American citizens for their problems. Others panned Carter’s idealistic approach to the energy crisis as naïve.

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Soon after the speech, Carter got a bump in his approval ratings. AP Photo/Harry Cabluck

But that was not how most Americans received the speech. In fact, Carter enjoyed an immediate 11 percent bump in his job approval rating in the days that followed. Clearly many agreed with Carter’s line that the nation was mired in a “moral and spiritual crisis.”

The President, however, failed to capitalize on the resonance with his meditation. Just two days after his speech, Carter fired his entire cabinet, which seemed to suggest that his government was in disarray.

The President’s poll numbers immediately melted. As Time magazine described it, “The President basked in the applause for a day and then set in motion his astounding purge, undoing much of the good he had done himself.” Ronald Reagan soon capitalized on the disillusionment. “I find no national malaise,” said Carter’s successor, who campaigned on a platform of America as “a shining city on a hill.

About to win the Cold War, America was ready for some exuberant nationalism, not a plain-style president who insisted on carrying his own garment bag aboard Air Force One.

New resonance

Forty years later, national jingoism pervades both political parties. Republicans and Democrats alike speak of the United States as a “city on a hill,” and Donald Trump’s “America first” rhetoric has lifted hubris to new heights and alienated allies around the world.

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David Swartz is Associate Professor of History, Asbury University. This article was originally published on The Conversation.

https://www.who2.com/president-carter-national-malaise-speech-sermon-1979/

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on January 14, 2020, 04:15:03 pm
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Title: The Last Decade Was The Hottest On Record Thanks To Global Warming
Post by: Surly1 on January 15, 2020, 02:17:12 pm
The Last Decade Was The Hottest On Record Thanks To Global Warming (https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/zahrahirji/hottest-decade-climate-change?ref=bfnsplash&utm_term=4ldqpho)
"We are experiencing the impacts of global warming unfolding literally in real time."


NASA / Via data.giss.nasa.gov

NASA temperature map for December 2019 compared to the 1951–1980 timeframe.

Posted on January 15, 2020, at 11:40 a.m. ET

Last year was the world's second-warmest year, capping off the hottest decade on record, according to experts at NOAA and NASA.

And here’s another record to add to the pile: The past five years were collectively the warmest since record-keeping began about 140 years ago. 2019's temperatures were second only to 2016, coming in around 1.7 degrees Fahrenheit above the 20th-century average, per NOAA.

“The decade that just ended is clearly the warmest decade on record,” NASA's Gavin Schmidt said in a statement. “Every decade since the 1960s clearly has been warmer than the one before.”

This warming trend, scientists say, is undoubtedly the result of human-made climate change.

“We are experiencing the impacts of global warming unfolding literally in real time,” said Noah Diffenbaugh, an earth science professor at Stanford University not involved in the newly released analyses. “We now have clear evidence that people and ecosystems are being impacted across the world, from the equator to the poles, from both in the ocean and on land, from the coastal areas to the high elevations.”

The twin government analyses, released Wednesday, come on the heels of a new study in the journal Advances in Atmospheric Sciences concluding that the world’s oceans in 2019 were the warmest since record-keeping began around the 1950s, capping off an exceptionally warm 10-year streak for the oceans.

Meanwhile, Australia continues to struggle with unprecedented bushfires that have destroyed thousands of homes, shrouded large swaths of the country in unhealthy smoke levels, and killed more than a dozen people and thousands and thousands of animals.

“We know that the climatic conditions that enable dangerous fires are increasing globally,” Colin Beale, a biology professor at the University of York who has studied climate and fire impacts, told BuzzFeed News in an email. “We also know that the current fire season is exceptional (a product primarily of the Indian Ocean Dipole, a weather phenomenon that has now ended, probably exacerbated by underlying climate change) and is unlikely to be repeated again very soon — but could become normal if climate change is not tackled adequately.”

Title: I'll say one thing for 🦀 Trump; he is consistent.
Post by: AGelbert on January 15, 2020, 03:11:10 pm
The Last Decade Was The Hottest On Record Thanks To Global Warming (https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/zahrahirji/hottest-decade-climate-change?ref=bfnsplash&utm_term=4ldqpho)
"We are experiencing the impacts of global warming unfolding literally in real time."

NASA / Via data.giss.nasa.gov

NASA temperature map for December 2019 compared to the 1951–1980 timeframe.

Posted on January 15, 2020, at 11:40 a.m. ET

Last year was the world's second-warmest year, capping off the hottest decade on record, according to experts at NOAA and NASA.

And here’s another record to add to the pile: The past five years were collectively the warmest since record-keeping began about 140 years ago. 2019's temperatures were second only to 2016, coming in around 1.7 degrees Fahrenheit above the 20th-century average, per NOAA.

“The decade that just ended is clearly the warmest decade on record,” NASA's Gavin Schmidt said in a statement. “Every decade since the 1960s clearly has been warmer than the one before.”

This warming trend, scientists say, is undoubtedly the result of human-made climate change.

“We are experiencing the impacts of global warming unfolding literally in real time,” said Noah Diffenbaugh, an earth science professor at Stanford University not involved in the newly released analyses. “We now have clear evidence that people and ecosystems are being impacted across the world, from the equator to the poles, from both in the ocean and on land, from the coastal areas to the high elevations.”

The twin government analyses, released Wednesday, come on the heels of a new study in the journal Advances in Atmospheric Sciences concluding that the world’s oceans in 2019 were the warmest since record-keeping began around the 1950s, capping off an exceptionally warm 10-year streak for the oceans.

Meanwhile, Australia continues to struggle with unprecedented bushfires that have destroyed thousands of homes, shrouded large swaths of the country in unhealthy smoke levels, and killed more than a dozen people and thousands and thousands of animals.

“We know that the climatic conditions that enable dangerous fires are increasing globally,” Colin Beale, a biology professor at the University of York who has studied climate and fire impacts, told BuzzFeed News in an email. “We also know that the current fire season is exceptional (a product primarily of the Indian Ocean Dipole, a weather phenomenon that has now ended, probably exacerbated by underlying climate change) and is unlikely to be repeated again very soon — but could become normal if climate change is not tackled adequately.”


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‘The Models Are Too Conservative’: Paleontologist Peter Ward on What Past Mass Extinctions Can Teach Us About Climate Change Today
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Title: 🚩 Breaking: 45 million need food aid in So Africa
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🚩 Breaking: 45 million need food aid in So Africa
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Title: The $119 Billion Sea Wall That Could Defend New York … or Not
Post by: AGelbert on January 20, 2020, 08:45:36 pm
BLACK BEAR NEWS: The $119 Billion Sea Wall That Could Defend New York … or Not
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Could Humans Go Extinct Within Years?
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Canada is losing a war against feral pigs that are infesting the Prairies

https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/canada/canada-is-losing-a-war-against-feral-pigs-that-are-infesting-the-prairies/ar-AADmaLV

US dumps huge amounts of sand on Miami Beach to tackle climate change erosion
https://news.yahoo.com/us-dumps-huge-amounts-sand-miami-beach-tackle-211421724.html

The $119 Billion Sea Wall That Could Defend New York … or Not
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"The rich executed a coup d’état that transformed the three branches of the U.S. government and nearly all institutions, including the mass media, into wholly owned subsidiaries of the corporate state." -- Chris Hedges

There are three legs to the fascism stool:
1) A melding of corporate and civil governance.
2) A foreign policy predicated on an aggressive nationalistic worldview.
3) An authoritarian government.
A political system that recognizes corporations as individual persons certainly provides one of those legs . 🦀 Trump just completed the last two legs.

🦀 Trump has put 🦕🦖 oilmen in charge of much of the government from the State Dept to the EPA. They are ruthlessly out to protect America from the threats of peace and prosperity, clean air and clean water. The oil business and the war business will thrive under Trump. America, not so much.

Declaring war on science will not end well. Declaring war on NASA’s earth sciences won’t end well. Declaring war on the earth is a war we cannot win. 🦀 Trump will do what he does and the waters will keep on rising. The coast of Florida will disappear and there’s nothing anyone can do to bring it back once its gone.

"The fossil fuel industry swallows up $5.3 trillion a year worldwide in hidden costs to keep burning fossil fuels, according to the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
 
This money, the IMF noted, is in addition to the $492 billion in direct subsidies offered by governments around the world through write-offs and write-downs and land-use loopholes.

In a sane world these subsidies would be invested to free us from the deadly effects of carbon emissions caused by fossil fuels, but we do not live in a sane world. "  -- Chris Hedges

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
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Court Throws Out Kids' Climate Suit: An appeals court Friday threw out a landmark case brought by a group of 21 young people charging the federal government with not taking sufficient action on climate change. The US Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals voted 2-1 to dismiss the Juliana vs. United States suit, which was originally brought against the Obama administration in 2015, saying that "the plaintiffs’ case must be made to the political branches or to the electorate at large" rather than decided in the courts. Our Children’s Trust, the nonprofit backing the suit, has vowed to appeal the decision, with the Trust's lead lawyer Julia Olson telling the New York Times that the case is "far from over." (New York Times $, Washington Post $, Reuters, AP, Vox (https://www.vox.com/2020/1/17/21070810/climate-change-lawsuit-juliana-vs-us-our-childrens-trust-9th-circuit), Politico Pro $)

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Fossil Fuels' Radioactive Problem: Oil and gas production releases certain radioactive waste products that have led to a slew of cancer cases in workers, according to a new investigation from Rolling Stone. The investigation lays out how runoff from oil and gas wells, known as brine, can contain high levels of radionuclide, which may be an understudied public health risk to workers and communities across the country. The industry claims that radioactivity in the waste is harmless, so workers continue to be unprotected and brine storage facilities largely unregulated. "If I had a beaker of that on my desk and accidentally dropped it on the floor, they would shut the place down," Yuri Gorby, a former radioactivity expert at the Department of Energy, told Rolling Stone about high levels of radioactivity found in brine from the Marcellus shale. "And if I dumped it down the sink, I could go to jail.” (Rolling Stone (https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/oil-gas-fracking-radioactive-investigation-937389/))
 

Bush Fires Screwing Up Coal Production ;D: Smoke from bush fires in Australia is slowing coal production at mines owned by the country's biggest coal company. Mining giant BHP said Tuesday that production in its mines was down 11 percent partially due to poor air quality in the state of New South Wales making visibility low and equipment harder to operate. The company also noted that some of its employees had taken leave to fight the fires that have pushed areas of Australia, the world's largest coal producer, into a state of crisis. "I did roll my eyes" at BHP's announcement, Bill Hare, chief executive of Climate Analytics, told the New York Times. "...You can see the mood is changing in Australia. Sooner or later, the companies are going to run out of social license." (New York Times $, Reuters (https://www.reuters.com/article/us-australia-bushfires/australian-bushfires-hit-coal-output-hazardous-conditions-to-return-idUSKBN1ZJ2CS), SBS)

Big oil is the new big tobacco. Congress must use its power to investigate (The Guardian, Naomi Oreskes and Geoffrey Supran op-ed) (https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jan/20/big-oil-congress-climate-change)

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Taking A Peek At Upcoming Fossil Fuel Propaganda and Policy on Methane, Gas Bans, Coal and Protests

We hit the ground running this year, so today we’re going to do a bit of stock-taking about what 2020 is going to bring us from the 🦕👹🦖 fossil fuel industry.


Right now, the industry is not exactly in a happy place. Public polling from Yale shows that the “alarmed” portion of Americans is now the largest of the six segments at 31% of the population (compared to just 10% who are doubtful or dismissive of climate concerns). Last week, TIME’s Justin Worland published a piece based on an interview with Shell’s CEO, who’s feeling the pressure from climate activists and the realities of climate science. (Makes sense, given that last week Extinction Rebellion blockaded Shell offices.) The industry certainly has a problem with public perception, particularly but not solely among the youth, as protests from Harvard Law and Oxford, among others, show.   

Step one, then, for the fossil fuel industry is to make it harder for those pesky protestors to shine a spotlight on companies. As the Heartland Institute gratefully reminded us with a timely post last week, back in November of 2019 Wisconsin became the 17th state to criminalize protests with new stronger penalties including a $10,000 fine and six years in jail if protests trespass on energy company property. 

Step two is to pretend like the industry is doing something about pollution, to undercut calls for regulation. That’s the approach the American Gas Association and the Edison Electric Institute are taking for their new Natural Gas Sustainability Initiative, a draft of which E&E obtained. To address the fact that methane emissions are a powerful greenhouse gas, the initiative is completely voluntary, and only working on a reporting protocol. Drillers can choose to report how much they’re polluting, but won’t actually be pressured to do anything. 

But what about policies that are already being rolled out? To see how the industry is responding to the emerging trend of local municipalities banning natural gas use all together, check out this post from the oil industry’s Energy in Depth. It lays out the four narrative responses the industry will use to these local decisions. 

The first is an implicit admission that they’re a problem, in that they allege that gas bans won’t reduce emissions as much as efficiency measures or methane capture in landfills. (But obviously banning gas hardly means cities can’t also take efficiency measures or capture methane from garbage!) After that, cry crocodile tears for low-income populations by pointing out that electric heat can be more expensive than a natural gas furnace, that consumers appear to prefer gas to electric heat, and that gas is more efficient than electric.

None of this changes the simple fact that natural gas use is incompatible with fighting climate change. 

That’s why the industry is making last-ditch efforts to use their political sway to protect their business. The latest comes from Indiana, which introduced a bill last week to make it illegal to close down a coal plant unless the federal government (but NOT the EPA) gives a direct mandate to do so. The hypocrisy the party of free market worship and “not picking winners and losers” picking the losing coal industry to win legal protection from economic competition could not be more palpable. 

Even if it is eventually signed into law, eventually those plants will close. And when they do, surely the industry will be good neighbors and clean up the mess they left behind, right? 

Obviously not. In Ohio, a new analysis shows that while drilling companies are required to set aside either $5,000 to clean up a spent well, or $15,000 for all of their wells, the average cost of plugging one well is $110,000. Even worse, once the well is plugged, the companies get that money back, leaving the public to pay the rest. That is, if they even bother to clean it themselves. Ohio alone has a confirmed 900 orphaned wells, with potentially another 18,000 hiding away in homes or school gyms or farm fields or basements or anywhere else. When one considers what the costs would be if Ohio was representative of the whole country, it’d mean a price tag of hundreds of billions of dollars.

Which of course begs a question the industry is desperate to keep the public from asking: How are we going to pay for that?
Title: The Reason Fossil Fuel Companies Are Finally Reckoning With Climate Change
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Welcome to the 2020’s, the Final Decade of the Failed Human Experiment 😱
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At last! Rain bomb to bring 80mm to drought-stricken states as the number of deadly bushfires falls - but forecasts warn of flash floods and lightning
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7891667/Rain-bomb-bring-80mm-drought-stricken-states.html

Thousands flee as volcano erupts in the Philippines, Manila airport closed
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The Arctic Is Heating Up Faster Than Anywhere Else – Could We Cool the Earth With an Ice-Free Arctic?
https://scitechdaily.com/the-arctic-is-heating-up-faster-than-anywhere-else-could-we-cool-the-earth-with-an-ice-free-arctic/

Scientists: Ocean Warming at the Rate of Five A-Bombs per Second
https://futurism.com/scientists-ocean-warming-rate-five-a-bombs-per-second

UN Biodiversity Plan Calls For Protecting 30% Of Earth By 2030
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/united-nations-draft-biodiversity-framework_n_5e1c8ecbc5b6da971d19f17d

China's new SARS-like virus has spread to Japan, but we still know very little about it
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Title: 🚩 This Is Our Last Decade to Get Climate Right - Virus Updates Event
Post by: AGelbert on January 25, 2020, 05:24:44 pm
BLACK BEAR NEWS: 🚩 This Is Our Last Decade to Get Climate Right - Virus Updates Event
49 views•Jan 25, 2020

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Wuhan, China, is scrambling to build a hospital in just 6 days to treat coronavirus patients as its health system gets overwhelmed
https://www.businessinsider.com/china-virus-wuhan-building-new-hospital-coronavirus-2020-1

Public-private cooperation for pandemic preparedness and response
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🐍 Snakes could be the original source of the new coronavirus outbreak in China
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Coronavirus in China: 23 Million QUARANTINED, 2.8 Million Infected; 112,000 DEAD ⁉️ 🤔
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This Is Our Last Decade to Get Climate Right
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Title: 🦅 Greta is NOT giving up!
Post by: AGelbert on January 25, 2020, 06:30:56 pm
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Greta Thunberg | Averting a Climate Apocalypse | Davos 2020 | Extinction Rebellion
6,468 views•Jan 21, 2020

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'I've been told telling people about the climate crisis is a very dangerous thing to do' Greta Thunberg speaks at Davos 2020.

Filmed in Davos, Switizerland - 21 January 2020.
Original here: https://tinyurl.com/u7n3lsu

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Title: 🦅 Dr. Rupert Read | World Economic Forum 2020 | Extinction Rebellion
Post by: AGelbert on January 25, 2020, 06:42:29 pm
🦅 Dr. Rupert Read | World Economic Forum 2020 | Extinction Rebellion
2,912 views•Jan 23, 2020

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23 January 2020 - via The Newsmakers (original here: https://youtu.be/-JnXVVpgXuQ)

'Billionaires, bankers and bureaucrats converged on the Swiss town of Davos to find a way to create a sustainable global economy. But is a capitalist-focused cabal the best venue for fighting the climate crisis? Plus, can Oman’s new leader Haitham bin Tariq al Said follow in the late Sultan Qaboos’ footsteps and maintain friendly relations in a turbulent region? And what legacy does Qaboos, known as the ‘father of the nation,’ leave behind?'

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Title: Red Tide In Mexico Kills Nearly 300 Endangered Green Sea Turtles
Post by: AGelbert on January 26, 2020, 09:07:56 pm
BLACK BEAR NEWS: Red Tide In Mexico Kills Nearly 300 Endangered Green Sea Turtles
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Red Tide In Mexico Kills Nearly 300 Endangered Green Sea Turtles
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Media, Money, Machine: Tales of the Anthropocene System
https://medium.com/@george.gpt/tales-of-the-anthropocene-system-e8cb882995a6

China built a lab to study SARS and Ebola in Wuhan
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-7922379/Chinas-lab-studying-SARS-Ebola-Wuhan-outbreaks-center.html

[Wuhan Coronavirus] Wuhan citizen seeking help from the world
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PODCAST: Everything We Know So Far About The Coronavirus
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Large Explosion 💥 in Wuhan, China 武汉 病毒
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Title: Climate change, extreme weather + human pressure are causing ecosystems across the tropics to collap
Post by: AGelbert on January 28, 2020, 03:32:25 pm
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Climate change, extreme weather, and human pressure are causing ecosystems across the tropics to  collapse, a new study reports.

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“We are starting to see another wave of global extinctions of tropical birds as forest fragmentation reduces populations to critical levels,” explained Dr Alexander Lees, from Manchester Metropolitan University, co-author of the paper.

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Title: 🚩 Will Climate Change Cause Coral Reefs To Go Extinct (W/ Steven Trent)
Post by: AGelbert on January 29, 2020, 08:56:52 pm
Will Climate Change Cause Coral Reefs To Go Extinct❓(W/ Steven Trent)
189 views•Jan 29, 2020

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Over a quarter of all marine species depend on Coral Reefs but as temperature rises due to global warming, Coral Reefs go extinct!

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Steven Trent of the Environmental Justice Foundation & Founder of WildAid joins Thom Hartmann for this special science revolution segment exploring the benefits of our coral reefs and the great loss to all should the coral reefs leave us.

Can we prevent climate change from bringing in a world without coral reef? :(
Title: Black Bear News Live Stream - 1.30.20
Post by: AGelbert on January 30, 2020, 02:21:18 pm
Black Bear News Live Stream - 1.30.20
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on January 31, 2020, 04:28:48 pm

New Section of  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-270117175421.png&hash=cf39e823dd9156833bfa885808a876bf518bd0d6) Trump’s ‘Virtually Impenetrable’ Wall Gets Blown Over by Wind in California (http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/01/new-panel-of-trump-border-wall-blown-over-by-california-wind.html)

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God is talking to 🦀 Mr. Trump, who will, as he has done thoughout his life, not listen.

Nope. Not a syllable. In that regard he reminds me of Stalin, who, when informed that the Pope has expressed displeasure at a military move, replied, "And how many divisions does the Pope command?"

Stalin's ideology is a nearly perfect fit with Trump's ideology, in that both of them worshipped at the altar of "might equals right". 

But then, that is the 😈 altar most people on Earth worship at, regardless of the lip service to a deity given by assorted (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-241013183046.jpeg&hash=51c9c4f17e747698c76c65c7c1814eff4f32c400) religious leaders and their, mostly pharisaic, followers.

So, Trump is certainly not an outlier in being a functional atheist. Most people in the USA believe that money isn't everything, but it is way ahead of whatever is in second place. That is the spiritually depraved norm here and that is the norm in the human species. The deliberately unethical wanton destruction caused by every successful empire with several divisions at their command throughout history evidences that.

Psychologists have determined, from repeated scientific studies, that humans are "wired" for empathy. This trait produces socially beneficial behavior such as altruism.

Empathy is the basis of ethical behavior. Ethical behavior tempers the "money is numero uno" greed reflex common to the human species. All these conclusions by social science academia deny the existence of evil as a spiritual force in human affairs. The concept of "evil" (i.e. invisible demonic spirit entities destructively influencing human behavior) is relegated to the realm of superstition, irrelevant to the "reality" of the materialist atheistic world view that "the human body is exclusively an organic machine that evolved from random BENEFICIAL mutations that gave the species enough evolutionary advantages to DOMINATE (SEE: Might equals RIGHT) all other earthly species". What's wrong with this picture? Plenty.

The very same psychologists that believe humans became "apex predators" through successful DOMINATION (i.e killing off or taming) of all competing life forms, believe the exception to the "rule" that humans are "wired" for empathy are the sociopaths and psychopaths. Cruel Predators like Stalin, Trump and Hitler are three examples of humans apparently not "wired for empathy". Yet, as the quote you gave from Stalin irrefutably evidences, Trump is a nearly perfect example of a person totally motivated by the quest for successful DOMINATION (i.e killing off or taming) of all competing life forms through FORCE. An objective evolutionary biologist would have to admit that, not only is Trump's mens rea modus operandi murderous belligerence a "successful evolutionary strategy", but the fact that fraud (SEE: trap door spiders that catch unwary insects, snakes with tails that look like a spider in order to catch eagles when they get too close, etc.) is cleverly interwoven into his force and fraud MO augments his "evolutionary advantages".

If it weren't for the "pesky" fact the "business as usual" climate trashing behavior embraced by Trump, Wall Street and nearly 100% of the profit over planet oligarchs, hell bent on doubling down on the biosphere trashing course that served their short term sociopathic greed based pecuniary interests so well, evolutionary biologists would be forced to conclude that the MO of Trump could not be viewed as anything but that of a "successful apex predator".

THAT is the conundrum that those who continue to cling to the "humans are an organic machine" world view are faced with.

These overeducated scientists, rather than admit that biochemistry is not sufficent to explain species endangering human behavior, and that something not scientifically measurable is causing apparently rational "evolutionarily successful apex predator" humans (i.e. Trump, the 1%, Wall Steet, Capitalists, etc.) to irrationally doom the human species by their thoroughly flawed "might equals right" world view, they resort to the Darwinian claim that if we shoot ouselves in the biosphere foot (and head), we don't "deserve" to exist.

IOW, these "rational" 🙈🙉🙊 scientists, in the face of all the irrationally destructive behavior by TPTB, as evidenced by Trump, flat refuse to recognize even the possibility that EVIL spirits, hell bent on destroying God's created beings in rebellion to the Creator God, are concentrating their corrupting actvities on the leaders of human society.

There is ZERO genetic evidence that there are a greater percentage of BORN sociopaths among the rich and influential humans in our doomed civilization than in the population as a whole. Yet, the "wired" for empathy tests evidence that the overwhelming majority of humans are NOT greedy to the point of enthusiastic support for climate trashing profit over planet. The only logical conclusion that a truly objective social scientist could reach from this genetic evidence is that SOMETHING or SOMEBODY targets targets anyone that makes it into TPTB far more than any other segment of the human species.

IOW, these scientists, watching the biosphere be delibrately destroyed by a tiny sliver of humanity known as TPTB, refuse to accept that evil spirits are at work corrupting TPTB because it makes a mockery of their Darwinian "Might Equals Right" flawed world view. "Nothing to see here, move along. Trump is nuts to want to destroy the biosphere for profit but it's just the way an apex predator is... Trump, like Stalin and Hitler, has all those military divisions to prove he is an evolutionary success... Might iequals right... Darwin said so, so it must be so..."     

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Title: Scientists Raise Alarm Over Warm Ocean Water Beneath 'Doomsday Glacier'
Post by: Surly1 on February 01, 2020, 07:05:25 am
'Really, Really Bad': Scientists Raise Alarm Over Warm Ocean Water Beneath 'Doomsday Glacier' in Antarctica (https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/01/31/really-really-bad-scientists-raise-alarm-over-warm-ocean-water-beneath-doomsday)
"Warm waters in this part of the world, as remote as they may seem, should serve as a warning to all of us about the potential dire changes to the planet brought about by climate change."


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The melt rate of West Antarctica's Thwaites Glacier is an important concern for climate scientists, because this glacier alone is currently responsible for about 1% of global sea level rise. (Photo: Stuart Rankin/Flickr/cc)

A study by British and American scientists revealed that a massive sheet of ice known as the "doomsday glacier" is melting faster than experts previously believed—edging the world closer to a possible sea level rise of more than 10 feet.

Researchers at New York University and the British Antarctic Survey drilled through nearly 2,000 feet of ice in the Thwaites glacier in West Antarctica, to measure temperatures at the 75-mile wide ice sheet's "grounding line," where the ice meets the ocean.

The water just beneath the ice was found to be 32º Fahrenheit—more than 2º above freezing temperature in the Antarctic region.

The findings have "huge implications for global sea level rise," NYU scientist David Holland said in a statement.

350.org co-founder and author Bill McKibben was among the climate action campaigners who expressed alarm over the new study.

"Oh, damn," McKibben wrote on social media.

Title: Climate Lab Book: 🌡️ Temperature Record of The last 2,019 Years
Post by: AGelbert on February 01, 2020, 07:33:37 pm
Climate Lab Book
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2019 YEARS

January 30, 2020 temperature, visualisation Ed Hawkins

The most common comment on the ‘Warming Stripes’ visualisations (1850-2018) (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/gallery/renewablerevolution/2/3-251218183107-21161916.png) (http://www.climate-lab-book.ac.uk/2018/2018-visualisation-update/) is: ‘what happened before 1850’?

I’m glad you asked.

We have a new reconstruction of global temperature going back to the year 1AD thanks to the work of the PAGES2k team (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-019-0400-0). This reconstruction includes data from a wide variety of proxy records such as tree rings, cave deposits, corals, etc.

The warming over the past 50 years is stark compared to the variations that have occurred naturally over the last 2000 years. It is not normal.

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The PAGES2k reconstruction also comes with uncertainty estimates, and so can be visualised in a more standard way, with key relevant global events added, such as large volcanic eruptions, the Maunder solar minimum and historical dates of scientific discoveries.

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The data show that the modern period is very different to what occurred in the past. The often quoted Medieval Warm Period and Little Ice Age are real phenomena, but small compared to the recent changes. In this example, the reference period is 1850-1900, which is often used as an approximate ‘pre-industrial’ level.

The invention of the efficient steam engine in 1790 by James Watt kick-started the industrial revolution and our reliance on burning fossil fuels for energy. This has brought many benefits to humankind, but we are now experiencing the side effects of that development.

Data: PAGES2k (https://figshare.com/articles/Reconstruction_ensemble_median_and_95_range/8143094)

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Agelbert NOTE: Climate Scientists are quite good at making understatements of the century: "side effects", indeed...

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Title: If all the ice on Antarctica Melts, Less Salty Oceans Endanger All Marine Life 😲
Post by: AGelbert on February 02, 2020, 07:22:15 pm
Agelbert NOTE: Given the devastation to human civilization resulting from (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/gallery/renewablerevolution/2/3-251218182412-2045476.jpeg) Hothouse Earth caused massively rising sea levels from Antarctic (and Greenland too!) ice melt, the ridiculous claim made in this video that hydrocarbons could then be extracted from Antarctica is worthy of disdain. By then, if there still exists some vestige of human civilization, hydrocarbons will be even more spurned by human society than hydrogen sulfide (that is the posionous gas with the rotton egg smell we have all had a wiff of at one time or another).

That said, I urge you to view this video and pass it on because, in addition to the fact that all the ice melt caused geographic changes displayed are scientifically accurate, the deleterious effect on all salt water marine species due to less salty oceans is one more valid reason for action to (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F1%2F3-120818185039-1654984.gif&hash=ab230d9ffbd9a35d8cab33b596c366a0718cb7ec) burning hydrocabons NOW, not when disease vectors in less salty oceans combine with increased acidity to wipe out most of the ocean food chain.

What if Antarctica MELTED?
1,972,823 views•Jul 14, 2018

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A remake an old video of mine, hope this answered some burning curiosities! And no, there are not aliens or Nazi bunkers under the ice... that I know of.

I forgot to mention that under the Antarctic treaty, mining is TECHNICALLY  prohibited on Antarctic, but that expires in around 30 years, and it's uncertain whether or not it will be renewed. Plus this is all theoretical anyway and would take place over many hundreds of years, if not thousands.

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An enormous waterfall gushes off the Nansen Ice Shelf. Credit: Jonathan Kingslake
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Title: Somalia Declares 🚩 Emergency Over Locust Swarms 😲
Post by: AGelbert on February 04, 2020, 03:55:46 pm
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Somalia Declares 🚩 Emergency Over Locust Swarms 😲
Source: BBC News

Somalia has declared a national emergency as large swarms of locusts spread across east Africa. The country's Ministry of Agriculture said the insects, which consume large amounts of vegetation, posed "a major threat to Somalia's fragile food security situation".

There are fears that the situation may not be brought under control before the harvest begins in April. The UN says the swarms are the largest in Somalia and Ethiopia in 25 years. Meanwhile, neighbouring Kenya has not seen a locust threat as severe in 70 years, according to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).

However, Somalia is the first country in the region to declare an emergency over the infestation. ◾Drones tested to combat desert locusts. Somalia's unstable security situation means that planes cannot be used to spray insecticide from the air.

Locusts can travel up to 150km (93 miles) in a day. Each adult insect can eat its own weight in food daily. In December, a locust swarm forced a passenger plane off course in Ethiopia. Insects smashed into the engines, windshield and nose, but the aircraft was able to land safely in the capital, Addis Ababa...SEE Video.

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- The UN says the situation in the Horn of Africa is the worst in 25 years.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142427214

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Desert locusts are eating their way across large parts of east Africa in a swarm of enormous proportions. It is the worst loscust outbreak some countries there have seen in 70 years. Researchers say they pose an unprecedented threat to food security in some of the world's most vulnerable countries. Somalia, Ethiopia and Kenya are the worst affected, and Uganda is bracing for an invasion too. Authorities have advised citizens to stock up on food as the insects approach the border with Kenya.

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Title: Return of the ☠️ Plagues - Locusts (FULL DOCUMENTARY)
Post by: AGelbert on February 04, 2020, 04:33:46 pm
Agelbert NOTE: Learn how locusts reproduce and, more importantly, WHY the eggs survive harsh climate conditions (and predators) for long periods, only to hatch after a period of prolongled rainfall creates the conditions for them to hatch in the billions and wreak havoc on plant life.

Return of the ☠️ Plagues - Locusts (FULL DOCUMENTARY)

https://youtu.be/YOU5-1CUQO8

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Return of the Plagues - Locusts

Swarms of locusts are still a very real plague today. They afflict drought areas, especially after a rare rainfall, leaving a trail of destruction behind. In Africa, this regularly leads to disastrous famines. Fighting the locusts with crop dusters is too costly for many of the poorer countries, and classic insecticides take an extremely high toll on the environment and the remaining plants.

Researchers all over the world are looking for new, more effective ways to combat the invaders. Scientists at the University of Halle in Germany are experimenting with pheromones that might upset the insects’ mating behavior.
In Australia, where swarms of locusts have recently been destroying crops in parts of the country that never had this problem before, the locusts are being attacked with crop-dusting helicopters that apply pesticides in minimum dosage. But an aerial application is extremely sensitive to the wind, and the deadly mist might easily miss its target.

“… locusts … invaded all Egypt …. They covered all the ground until it was black,” reports the Bible. “They devoured … everything growing in the fields … – nothing green remained on trees or palms in all the lands of Egypt.” (Exodus 10:14–15)

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Title: Floods wreak havoc 😟 in Nyanza counties, Kenya, driving thousands out of school
Post by: AGelbert on February 04, 2020, 05:46:35 pm
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Agelbert NOTE: Sad News 😟 from Kenya. This is DEFINITELY caused by Catastrophic Climate Change AND, this is the sort of climate event (i.e. prolonged rainful) that triggers locust swarms months later...  😨

(https://www.the-star.co.ke/)

UNMITIGATED DISASTER 😟

Floods wreak havoc in Nyanza counties, driving thousands out of school

'Learning has been suspended until further notice'

In Summary
 
• Some 2,000 families have been displaced in Kisumu, Homa Bay, Migori and Kisii counties.

• The residents want the government to come up with a permanent solution instead of appealing for help every time the region experiences heavy downpours.


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A house destroyed by floods in Nyando Ombaka area occasioned by heavy downpour. Image: FAITH MATETE


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Thousands of pupils in Nyanza have been forced out of school as floods continue wreaking havoc in the region.

Some 2,000 families have been displaced in Kisumu, Homa Bay, Migori and Kisii.

On Tuesday, the residents said they were tired of living like refugees and asked the government to provide a permanent solution instead of appealing for help every time the region experiences heavy downpours.

Ombaka Secondary School and St John Paul II Nyamasao Primary School in Kisumu have been closed indefinitely after River Nyando burst its banks three days ago.

More than 400 households in Kakola Ombaka have been forced out of their homes by the raging floods.

Other schools - Ogenya Primary, Kandaria secondary and primary schools in Kabonyo - are inaccessible after roads were cut off and compounds and classrooms became waterlogged.

At Nyamasao Primary School only class 8 pupils are in the school, according to deputy headteacher Simon Oyaro.

“Learning has been suspended until further notice,” Oyaro said.

Martha Apiyo told the Star that they have not known peace since November last year.

“In November we were displaced here in Ombaka.  Even before we had recovered,  we are now witnessing the same problem,”  Apiyo said.

 Judith Ochando said they have been forced to used boats to transport their properties to safer grounds. "Cooking has become difficult."

The displaced said the construction of dykes will provide a permanent solution to the perennial problem.

“Our children cannot go to school. The candidates will be adversely affected if the rains continue,” Ochando said.

Chief Jacob Ongudi said more than 250 houses have been submerged. The affected persons are camping at Ombaka Voice of Salvation and River of Life church.

Last December, Devolution Cabinet Secretary Eugene Wamalwa said plans were underway to construct a four-kilometre dyke along River Nyando to mitigate flooding.

The CS asked the county government to allocate more funds to disaster management programmes to assist the needy in flood-prone areas.

In Homa Bay, hundreds of learners and teachers in five Ndhiwa schools could not access the institutions last week after a connecting bridge was swept away by floods.

The bridge collapsed and was swept away after River Riana burst its banks following heavy rains on Monday night. The bridge connects several villages in Kabuoch South and Kabuoch North.

The primary schools are Okota, Luanda, Ndira and Mariri. Also affected was Luanda Mixed Secondary School.

Teachers lost two motorbikes while trying to cross the swollen river near Okota Primary School.

“It’s unfortunate that the collapse of the bridge has disrupted learning in our schools. We hope the situation will come back to normal for learning to resume,” a teacher said.

The rains have ruined Riat-Pala, Koguta-Luanda Kawuor and Luanda Kawuor-Magina roads.

“We’re counting losses. The rains have also rendered our roads impassable,” a boda boda rider identified as Owili said.

In Migori, learning has also come to a standstill with schools like Angugo, Nyora Sera and Modi primary flooded.

In Kisii, about 600 people are living in makeshift camps at Nyabworoba Primary and Secondary schools. Cracks have appeared on the foot of Manga escarpment and there is fear that homes will be affected.

The worst affected areas are Nyabworoba and Nyabotenene where more than 300 are camped on slopes.

"With the cracks opening up, more people may be ordered out," said area Ward Rep Paul Angwenyi.

Fifty-eight households have been living at Nyabworoba Primary and Secondary schools since the government told them to leave the endangered area three months ago.

https://www.the-star.co.ke/counties/nyanza/2020-02-04-floods-wreak-havoc-in-nyanza-counties-driving-thousands-out-of-school/

Title: Soaring Winter Temps
Post by: AGelbert on February 05, 2020, 01:27:22 pm
Soaring Winter Temps
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Title: apid Permafrost Collapse Is Underway, Disintegrating Landscapes And Our Predictions
Post by: Surly1 on February 06, 2020, 08:04:33 am
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Permafrost in Canada, Alaska and Siberia is abruptly crumbling in ways that could release large stores of greenhouse gases more quickly than anticipated, researchers have warned.

Scientists have long fretted that climate change - which has heated Arctic and subarctic regions at double the global rate - will release planet-warming CO2 and methane that has remained safely locked inside Earth's frozen landscapes for millennia.

It was assumed this process would be gradual, leaving humanity time to draw down carbon emissions enough to prevent permafrost thaw from tipping into a self-perpetuating vicious circle of ice melt and global warming.

But a study published on Monday in Nature Geoscience says projections of how much carbon would be released by this kind of slow-and-steady thawing overlook a less well-known process whereby certain types of icy terrain disintegrate suddenly - sometimes within days.

"Although abrupt permafrost thawing will occur in less than 20 percent of frozen land, it increases permafrost carbon release projections by about 50 percent," said lead author Merritt Turetsky, head of the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research in Boulder, Colorado.

"Under all future warming scenarios, abrupt thaw leads to net carbon losses into the atmosphere," she told AFP.

Permafrost contains rocks, soil, sand and pockets of pure ground ice. Its rich carbon content is the remains of life that once flourished in the Arctic, including plants, animals and microbes.

This matter - which never fully decomposed - has been frozen for thousands of years.

It stretches across an area nearly as big as Canada and the United States combined, and holds about 1,500 billion tonnes or carbon - twice as much as in the atmosphere and three times the amount humanity has emitted since the start of industrialisation.

Some of this once rock-solid ground has begun to soften, upending indigenous communities and threatening industrial infrastructure across the sub-Arctic region, especially in Russia.

The evidence is mixed as to whether this not-so-permanent permafrost has started to vent significant quantities of methane or CO2.

Projections are also uncertain, with some scientists saying future emissions may be at least partially offset by new vegetation, which absorbs and stores CO2.

But there is no doubt, experts say, that permafrost will continue to give way as temperatures climb.

'Fast and dramatic'

In a special report published in September, the UN's scientific advisory body for climate change, the IPCC, looked at two scenarios.

If humanity manages - against all odds - to cap global warming at under 2°C, the cornerstone goal of the 2015 Paris climate treaty, "permafrost area shows a decrease of 24 percent by 2100", it concluded.

At the other extreme, if fossil fuel emissions continue to grow over the next 50 years - arguably an equally unlikely prospect - up to 70 percent of permafrost could disappear, the IPPC said.

But both scenarios assume the loss will be gradual, and that may be a mistake, Turetsky suggested.

"We estimate that abrupt permafrost thawing - in lowland lakes and wetlands, together with that in upland hills - could release 60 to 100 billion tonnes of carbon by 2300," she and colleagues noted in a 2019 comment also published by Nature.

One tonne of carbon is equivalent to 3.67 tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2), which means this would be equivalent to about eight years of global emissions at current rates.

"This is in addition to the 200 billion tonnes of carbon expected to be released in other regions that will thaw gradually," she said.

Current climate models do not account for the possibility of rapid permafrost collapse and the amount of gases it might release, the study notes.

Abrupt thawing is "fast and dramatic", Merritt said, adding: "Forests can become lakes in the course of a month, landslides can occur with no warning, and invisible methane seep holes can swallow snowmobiles whole."

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on February 06, 2020, 03:16:49 pm
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Title: Can We Change The State Of The State?
Post by: AGelbert on February 06, 2020, 06:24:06 pm
Can We Change The State Of The State?  ???

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Title: Climate Awakening Stories a Universal Truth for Young Americans in this Age of Worsening Climate
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February 5, 2020 | RESIST!

By Lee van der Voo, News.yahoo.com.

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Organizers in the youth climate movement plan an avalanche of activities beginning next week, determined to make the future of the climate the major issue of the 2020 election. Capitalizing on turnout in the September climate strikes, when 6 million people worldwide turned out to demand urgent action to address the escalating ecological emergency... -more- (https://popularresistance.org/kids-are-taking-the-streets-climate-activists-plan-avalanche-of-events-as-2020-election-looms/)

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Title: Bumblebees apparently headed towards mass extinction 🚩
Post by: AGelbert on February 07, 2020, 07:16:22 pm
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By Mihai Andrei on Feb 07, 2020 01:14 pm

 
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Climate chaos is driving the bumblebee populations to extinction, a new study concludes.

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The study analyzed data from 66 bumblebee species across North America and Europe over a period of 115 years, testing how 🌡️ extreme heat affects bee species. The study was carefully designed to avoid the effect of changing land use.

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Title: T-shirt weather (64.94°F) in the Antarctic. 😲
Post by: AGelbert on February 07, 2020, 07:24:54 pm
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By Mihai Andrei on Feb 07, 2020 09:06 am


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Title: New Paper: Banned Halocarbons Still Responsible for HALF of Arctic Warming and Sea-Ice Loss: 1 of 2
Post by: AGelbert on February 10, 2020, 12:56:00 am
New Paper: Banned Halocarbons Still Responsible for HALF of Arctic Warming :o and Sea-Ice Loss: 1 of 2
2,464 views•Feb 8, 2020

https://youtu.be/pnNX37AMAl4

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A new paper concludes that between 1955 and 2005 about half of the surface warming in the Arctic, and about half of the Arctic sea-ice extent loss was actually due to Ozone Depleting Substances (ODS’s). ODS substances are trace gases, most notably CFC-11 and CFC-12 that were banned globally by the Montreal Protocol agreement in 1987. The ban was due to the destruction of the protective ozone layer, enacted shortly after the Antarctic ozone hole was first discovered. The paper also determined that the Arctic effects are due to the GHG properties of the ODS materials, and NOT the ozone destroying effects.

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Title: Blue Carbon. An invisible time 💣 bomb.
Post by: AGelbert on February 11, 2020, 08:12:49 pm
Blue Carbon. An invisible time 💣 bomb.
16,997 views•Feb 9, 2020

https://youtu.be/cDuzVrfBRww

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Ocean Acidification is perhaps the most well publicised consequence of increased levels of carbon dioxide being absorbed by our oceans. But as the oceans also absorb vast quantities of heat from our human activities, and sea levels rise as a result of melting ice caps and thermal expansion, another less well known but no less precious store of Carbon is being threatened, with potentially disastrous consequences.   

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Title: Trace Halocarbon GHG Threat 🚩 to Arctic Warming and Sea-Ice Loss is Ongoing: Part 2 of 2
Post by: AGelbert on February 11, 2020, 08:55:28 pm
Trace Halocarbon GHG Threat 🚩 to Arctic Warming and Sea-Ice Loss is Ongoing: Part 2 of 2
2,177 views•Feb 9, 2020

https://youtu.be/CGORMVR8-Ic

Paul Beckwith
19.5K subscribers

If this study is confirmed by many others, then between 1955 and 2005 about half of the surface warming in the Arctic, and about half of the Arctic sea-ice extent loss was actually due to the
GHG effect from Ozone Depleting Substances (ODS), and not due to ozone changes. After stabilizing for many years after the 1987 Montreal Protocol, the ODS CFC-11 has been rising since 2013 or so from illicit production in China, according a separate paper. Our societies cannot afford to let these trace, long lived, huge GWP (Global Warming Potential) gases to rise in concentration in our atmosphere.

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Category Science & Technology
Title: Multiple eco-crises could trigger 'systemic collapse' - NH Primary ✔
Post by: AGelbert on February 11, 2020, 10:07:47 pm
Multiple eco-crises could trigger 'systemic collapse' - NH Primary
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'Most devastating plague of locusts' in recent history could come within weeks, U.N. warns
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/most-devastating-plague-locusts-recent-history-could-come-within-weeks-n1133171

Coronavirus Jitters Rattle Businesses, Industries, Organizations — 2020 Olympics, Airlines Included
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Title: Parasite' Is a Class-Conscious Climate Parable
Post by: AGelbert on February 12, 2020, 07:00:13 pm
Parasite' Is a Class-Conscious Climate Parable
2,016 views•Feb 12, 2020

https://youtu.be/HbkyHi7KBCU

The Real News Network
386K subscribers

Audiences are used to thinking of apocalyptic stories as fantasy. But "Parasite" resonates because it merges themes of class warfare and climate crisis to show the dystopia we're already living in.

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Title: Grasshopper Metamorphosis from Loner to Ravenous Super-Swarm Munchers 🚩
Post by: AGelbert on February 12, 2020, 09:05:58 pm
Sex-Crazed Grasshopper (Locust) Swarms Amplified by Climate Change Caused Extreme Desert Rainfall


2,682 views•Feb 11, 2020

Paul Beckwith 👨‍🔬 ✨
19.5K subscribers

https://youtu.be/pC1pok6Y2NM

Solitary grasshoppers are passive, minding their own business. Bunch them together in close quarters and it is a different story. Close together their hind legs kick their neighbours many times per minute; then watch out!! Serotonin courses through their little grasshopper brains and they then have an “Incredible Hulk” metamorphosis. Apart from becoming super ****, they double in size, become brightly coloured, super aggressive, and fly long distances, eating their weight in a day. Eating themselves out of house and home (like teenage humans) they swarm to new areas to eat, rendering the landscape devoid of vegetation.


Climate Induced Frenzy: Grasshopper Metamorphosis from Loner to Ravenous Super-Swarm Munchers

1,999 views•Feb 11, 2020

https://youtu.be/8uH26slnNYk

Locust swarms threaten crops in Eastern Africa and Asia. Pakistan and Somalia have declared national emergencies; Pakistan losing 40% of their crops. Swarms involve billions of serotonin-crazed grasshoppers; double their normal size, bright in colour, sex-crazed with huge reproduction, able to eat their weight in plants every day, flying long distances or gliding on winds. Climate change induced extreme weather events bring torrential rains or cyclones to parched deserts in the Middle East; rapid vegetation growth then leads to ideal conditions for initiating locust swarms, which then wreak havoc far and wide.

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Title: New Antarctic High 🌡️ Temp Recorded (Again) 🚩 PLUS Iceland 💨 near-record wind gusts
Post by: AGelbert on February 14, 2020, 03:50:29 pm
🚩 New Antarctic High 🌡️ Temp Recorded (Again) 😲
521 views•Streamed live 3 hours ago

https://youtu.be/1kRDVbMcwJs

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Antarctic temperature rises above 20C for first time on record
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/feb/13/antarctic-temperature-rises-above-20c-first-time-record

Sci­ent­ists warn hu­man­ity about world­wide in­sect de­cline, and sug­gest ways to re­cog­nise and avert its con­se­quences
https://www.helsinki.fi/en/news/life-science-news/scientists-warn-humanity-about-worldwide-insect-decline-and-suggest-ways-to-recognise-and-avert-its-consequences

A remarkable 💨 near-record wind gusts reported at Hafnarfjall station, Iceland today – 255 km/h!
https://www.severe-weather.eu/recent-events/near-record-wind-gusts-255kmh-hafnarfjall-iceland-mk/

Sanders and AOC’s Fracking Ban Angers 🐍 Centrists and Their 🦕🦖 Fossil Fuel Backers
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Title: We need a Green New Deal, NOT 🦕🦖 Fossil Fuel TOADY 🦀 TRUMP, to address the climate crisis
Post by: AGelbert on February 15, 2020, 05:19:16 pm
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66,163 views•Sep 7, 2019

https://youtu.be/sYIoYgvuNe4

Bernie Sanders
319K subscribers

"Let Paradise, California, be the wakeup call for our entire nation.
We need a Green New Deal to address the climate crisis.
Category News & Politics

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Title: "CICADA" CLIMATE CHANGE RECORD:
Post by: AGelbert on February 15, 2020, 05:46:29 pm
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on February 15, 2020, 06:00:09 pm
EcoWatch

By Deutsche Welle Feb. 14, 2020 09:11AM EST  😨

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In this photo taken on Jan. 14, internally-displaced people warm up around a fire in front of their tent at a refugee camp on the outskirts of Herat. Avalanches, flooding and harsh winter weather killed more than 130 people across Pakistan and Afghanistan in mid January, leaving others stranded by heavy snowfall, officials said on Jan. 14. Photo by HOSHANG HASHIMI / AFP / Getty Images

By Ankita Mukhopadhyay

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Title: Why The End Of The World ☠️ Won't Be Breaking News
Post by: AGelbert on February 15, 2020, 07:29:34 pm
Why The End Of The World ☠️ Won't Be Breaking News

4,822 views•Feb 13, 2020

https://youtu.be/7lVh0Q7qz7w

Thom Hartmann Program
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The fossil fuel industry has literally created an atmosphere to which the human species is not adapted, and which our civilization may not survive. as teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg said, "The saddest thing is that this won't be breaking news."


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As the world burns, and more and more fossil fuels are being used every day planet-wide, atmospheric carbon dioxide levels passed 416 ppm this week at the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii. In the 300,000 years since the emergence of modern humans, carbon dioxide levels have never been this high.  Meanwhile, 🦀 Donald Trump and the entire 🐘 Republican Party continue to deny that this is even an issue, so their 🦕🦖 billionaire fossil fuel donors can continue to rake in the cash. If this doesn’t qualify as a crime against humanity, nothing does. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-250817134648.gif&hash=d24c66a26329a19150a175d576b631d10f631ee8)

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Title: Re: Parasite' Is a Class-Conscious Climate Parable
Post by: Surly1 on February 16, 2020, 08:10:14 am
Parasite' Is a Class-Conscious Climate Parable
2,016 views•Feb 12, 2020

https://youtu.be/HbkyHi7KBCU

Have you seen this film? I have. It deserves all of the plaudits it has received.
Title: Re:Have you seen this film? I have. It deserves all of the plaudits it has received.
Post by: AGelbert on February 16, 2020, 12:25:10 pm
Parasite' Is a Class-Conscious Climate Parable
2,016 views•Feb 12, 2020

https://youtu.be/HbkyHi7KBCU

Have you seen this film? I have. It deserves all of the plaudits it has received.

No. I posted about it because of good things about it I heard on the video from The Real News ✨ and also from Black Bear News (Kevin Sandblum ✨). If you have run into some type of spoiler alert summary of the film out there, I would welcome you posting it here. Many people (like me  :-[) no longer watch movies unless they can see them free on the internet.
Title: Storm Dennis strikes UK sparking flood warnings and evacuations
Post by: AGelbert on February 16, 2020, 05:32:12 pm
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LIVE 28 watching now•Started streaming 4 minutes ago

https://youtu.be/A2dUnjtgv48

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Title: 💐 Equality or ☠️ Extinction? (w/ Dr. David Korten)
Post by: AGelbert on February 18, 2020, 06:03:30 pm
💐 Equality or ☠️ Extinction? (w/ Dr. David Korten)
2,209 views•Aug 20, 2019

https://youtu.be/LRTTAmbZDVA

Thom Hartmann Program
207K subscribers

Global Climate Change could spell out extinction for the human race unless we learn to create real and lasting equality.

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Dr. David Korten joins the program today to discuss how we can build up an egalitarian society and respect nature.

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Title: We Defeated Fascism. We Can 🌞 Address the Climate Crisis. | NV Town Hall
Post by: AGelbert on February 19, 2020, 12:57:42 pm
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20,766 views•Feb 18, 2020

https://youtu.be/VLi5gmhhquA

Bernie Sanders
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In under 3 years, the United States restructured the entire economy in order to win World War II and defeat fascism. If we could do that, then we can certainly address the climate crisis. With a Green New Deal we can create 20 million good jobs and transform our energy system.

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Title: Global Warming Thaws Ancient Viruses 💣 From Permafrost
Post by: AGelbert on February 19, 2020, 07:42:23 pm
Global Warming Thaws Ancient Viruses 💣 From Permafrost
3,818 views•Feb 19, 2020

https://youtu.be/5iNbPEjnL1M

Thom Hartmann Program
207K subscribers

globally warming on it's own is frightening but wait until you find out what is thawing in ancient ice...
 
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The melting ice could unleash a serious new problem for the United States.

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Title: Moscow 🚩 meltdown: Russian capital has warmest January as experts point to global warming
Post by: AGelbert on February 21, 2020, 12:31:46 pm
Moscow meltdown: Russian capital has warmest January as experts point to global warming

Alexander Reshetnikov, Peter Scott

FEBRUARY 20, 2020 / 12:14 PM

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Inured to interminable winters, Muscovites have been stunned this year by spring-like temperatures and virtually snow-free sidewalks after the Russian capital recorded its warmest January in history.

It is the first time that Moscow’s average temperature in January has hovered around zero degrees Celsius (32 degrees Fahreinheit), say Russian meteorological experts, who say the city has broken warm weather records this month as well.

Flowers have bloomed early, zoo animals have prematurely woken from their winter slumber, winter sports enthusiasts have had to travel further to find snow, and the city’s outdoor musicians have hit the streets early.

Indeed, Muscovites might need to get used to milder winters as experts predict an uptick in abnormally warm temperatures throughout the year.

Roman Vilfand, director of the Russian Hydrometeorological Centre, said higher temperatures were being recorded year-round, causing irreparable damage to the country’s permafrost.

“The warming that is being observed not only in winter but also in summer is dangerous because it causes the permafrost to thaw,” Vilfand told a news conference on Thursday.

“The concept of ‘permanent’ disappears, and the frost turns out not to be eternal.”

Experts say that Russia, which has a large portion of territory in the Arctic, is experiencing the effects of global warming faster than some other countries.

Mikhail Lokoshenko, head of Moscow State University’s meteorology and climatology department, said that although weather anomalies were not solely the product of global warming, experts were witnessing more cases of unusually high temperatures.

“In Russia, the speed of global warming is 2.5 times higher than the global average,” he said. “At higher latitudes, it happens more quickly than the tropics.”

But 62-year-old Tatiana, strolling through the city’s botanical gardens, said she was unsure about the cause of Moscow’s winter meltdown.

“It was cool last summer, maybe that’s why this winter is warm,” she told Reuters.

“The average temperature works out how it should be. Or maybe (Swedish teenage climate activist) Greta Thunberg is right.

Reporting by Alexander Reshetnikov and Peter Scott; Writing by Gabrielle Tétrault-Farber; Editing by Bernadette Baum

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-russia-weather/moscow-meltdown-russian-capital-has-warmest-january-as-experts-point-to-global-warming-idUSKBN20E2GD
Title: Fates of humans and insects intertwined, warn scientists
Post by: AGelbert on February 21, 2020, 05:15:46 pm
Fates of humans and insects intertwined, warn scientists
182 views•Premiered 73 minutes ago

https://youtu.be/DFe38ucOhuI

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Fates of humans and insects intertwined, warn scientists
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/feb/20/fates-humans-insects-intertwined-scientists-population-collapse

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Title: JP Morgan Report 🚩
Post by: AGelbert on February 22, 2020, 03:25:21 pm
JP Morgan Report 🚩 - Nevada Caucus
399 views•Streamed live 3 hours ago

https://youtu.be/wGJCJNnJjzY

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on February 22, 2020, 07:30:00 pm
Daily CO2
Feb. 21, 2020:  414.36 ppm (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-150715183719.png&hash=7b222546f30a032efc31223d85eea0535ed42a49)
Feb. 21, 2019:  411.03 ppm

December CO2
Dec. 2019:  411.85 ppm

Dec. 2018:  409.23 ppm

January Temperature
Warmest Jan. since 1880:  2020 🥵

Coolest Jan. since 1880:  1893


https://www.co2.earth/daily-co2

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Title: ECOWATCH TOP NEWS OF THE DAY Monday, February 24, 2020
Post by: AGelbert on February 24, 2020, 01:44:12 pm
EcoWatch

TOP NEWS OF THE DAY Monday, February 24, 2020

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JP Morgan Economists Warn of 'Catastrophic Outcomes' of Human-Caused Climate Crisis (https://www.ecowatch.com/jp-morgan-economists-climate-crisis-2645218658.html?utm_source=EcoWatch+List&utm_campaign=0e3203f619-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_49c7d43dc9-0e3203f619-86021645)

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42 Nobel Laureates Urge 🦕 Trudeau to Act With 'Moral Clarity' and Stop Climate-Wrecking Teck Frontier Mine (https://www.ecowatch.com/nobel-laureates-trudeau-2645218909.html?utm_source=EcoWatch+List&utm_campaign=0e3203f619-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_49c7d43dc9-0e3203f619-86021645)
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on February 24, 2020, 03:56:11 pm
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Title: 📢 Julia Louis-Dreyfus and 👨‍🔬 Scientist George Woodwell on Climate Crisis 🚩
Post by: AGelbert on February 26, 2020, 07:08:10 pm
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📢 Julia Louis-Dreyfus and 👨‍🔬 Scientist George Woodwell on Climate Crisis 🚩 | NowThis
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Julia Louis-Dreyfus sat down with this scientist to find out how much time we have left to address the climate crisis. Spoiler: Very little.
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In US news and current events today, Julia Louis-Dreyfus (SNL, Seinfeld, Veep, Downhill) sat down with climate change expert and scientist George Woodwell to discuss global warming and the latest climate change news. When it comes to climate change, 2020 is a crucial year for action. This is not future news or something future to be concerned about, the climate crisis 2020 is now. The climate crisis is current events of national and international importance right now.

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Title: Interview: 👨‍🔬 Nick Humphrey
Post by: AGelbert on February 26, 2020, 10:48:31 pm
Interview: 👨‍🔬 Nick Humphrey
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Title: Antarctic Melt 🚩 - Coronavirus - Dow Plunge 🚩
Post by: AGelbert on February 27, 2020, 07:26:44 pm
Antarctic Melt 🚩 - Coronavirus - Dow Plunge
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Title: What Happened to Greenland’s Ice Sheet Last Summer?
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What Happened to Greenland’s Ice Sheet Last Summer?  ???

If you had been flying over Greenland on the first day of August 2019, you might have glimpsed a sight never before witnessed: the disappearance of 12.5 billion tons of ice. The sudden depletion of ice broke the record ... which had been set only a day before, when 10 billion tons of ice dropped from the land mass. To put that into perspective, the amount of water lost into the ocean over just two days could cover the entire state of Florida with five inches (12.7 cm) of water. Researchers said the high-pressure weather system that caused the enormous depletion also sparked the record heat wave that tormented much of Europe that summer. The average temperature during the July 2019 heat wave raised Greenland's average temperature by as much as 30 degrees F (16.7 °C). According to one climate researcher, the Arctic region is experiencing particularly troublesome effects from global warming, with the pace of rising temperatures double that of the rest of the world. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-300714025456.bmp&hash=f4e4a260bd60d3f34ca86fed93c47d5fb4117cfd) 


Cold, hard facts about Arctic ice:

Arctic sea ice reflects 80 percent of the sunlight that hits it, but when the ice melts, the ocean absorbs about 90 percent of the sunlight.

Scientific measurements over the past 30 years have shown a drastic decline in both the thickness and extent of summer sea ice.

Sea ice is critical to life in the Arctic; cod eat algae and other organisms in the ice; seals eat the cod, and polar bears subsist on the seals.

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Title: Coronavirus Effect on Global Warming and Global Warming Impact on Pandemic Risks
Post by: AGelbert on March 01, 2020, 06:07:26 pm
Coronavirus Effect on Global Warming and Global Warming Impact on Pandemic Risks: Part 1 of 3
2,854 views•Feb 29, 2020
https://youtu.be/-y5X182LqFU

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The Coronavirus has shuttered about 25% of Chinese industrial production for weeks on end. Since Chinese production and industrial activity accounts for about 1/4 of global production, 1/4 x 1/4 = 1/16 or about 6% of global production has been halted. Thus, my back of the envelope best guess has global CO2 emissions down about 6% 👍, and globally produced aerosols down about 6% as well. Since global dimming from aerosols is thought to be between 0.25 to 1.1 C, if we take the 1 C number as an upper limit, then the Coronavirus has resulted in global warming of about 0.06 C; with regional warming over China of about 0.25 C.

Coronavirus and Climate Change: Intimate Connections

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It is well known that as our planet rapidly warms, there are more disease vectors that affect human health. Diseases such as Zika Virus, West Nile Disease, Ebola, Malaria, etc. propagate faster and more severely in warmer regions. Looking at history, when Europeans went to warmer lands of long established civilizations (Incas, Aztecs, and Mayans) it was their diseases that wiped out these Indigenous populations. Immune systems of higher latitude nations (Europeans) were stronger than those of people in lower latitude regions, the latter had no immunity to diseases the invaders inadvertently brought in. 

Habitat Stress Forcing Poleward Animal Migration Increases Risk of New Virus Generation

https://youtu.be/1CtEbPrnVMk

It is thought that the coronavirus originated in Wuhan’s wild animal market, perhaps moving first from bats to a small mammal and then to humans. We know that as the globe rapidly warms, many animal species are forced to migrate towards the poles in search of more optimal habitats as their existing regions become too warm and dry to continue to sustain them. This migration causes these animals to interact more with other species, and become more stressed, weakening their immune systems and increasing the probability of them becoming virus carriers and propagators.

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Title: Coronavirus sinking air travel 😊 - Heathrow expansion blocked 🌞
Post by: AGelbert on March 02, 2020, 07:33:05 pm
Coronavirus sinking air travel 😊 - Heathrow expansion blocked 🌞
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Coronavirus: Nasa images show China pollution clear amid slowdown
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Coronavirus is threatening to end the world air-travel boom
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Heathrow third runway: Court of Appeal rules airport plans 'illegal'
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Title: 2°C crossed! 🚩
Post by: AGelbert on March 14, 2020, 07:10:08 pm
FRIDAY, MARCH 13, 2020

SNIPPET:
2°C crossed (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F1%2F3-120818180835-16271224.gif&hash=c2a9bfbff23e2414975829eb4b3655af12eb02cc) (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-300714025456.bmp&hash=f4e4a260bd60d3f34ca86fed93c47d5fb4117cfd) 

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It's time to stop denying how precarious the situation is.

Remember the Paris Agreement? In 2015, politicians pledged to hold the global temperature rise to well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels and pledged they would try and limit the temperature rise to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels. Well, an analysis by Sam Carana shows that it was already more than 1.5°C above pre-industrial when the Paris Agreement was reached.

In Sam Carana's analysis, the year 1750 is used as the baseline for pre-industrial. The analysis shows that we meanwhile have also crossed the 2°C threshold (in February 2020) and that the temperature rise looks set to rapidly drive humans and eventually most if not all species on Earth into extinction.

Yet, our politicians refuse to act! (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F1%2F3-120818185038-1649349.gif&hash=17e5f9a00437fbab9a49c6ce2bd7d563eb15ed9c) (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F1%2F3-120818204546.gif&hash=ffeafdfa24208fe5070639ffa682bb2ad041737c)

Accelerating temperature rise


Indeed, there are indications that the recent rise is part of a trend that points at even higher temperatures in the near future, as also discussed at this analysis page. Polynomial trends can highlight such acceleration better than linear trends. The 1970-2030 polynomial trend in the image below is calculated over the period from 1880 through to February 2020. The trend points at 3°C getting crossed in 2026. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-150715183719.png&hash=7b222546f30a032efc31223d85eea0535ed42a49)

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In above image, the January 2020 and February 2020 anomalies are above the trend. This indicates that the situation might be even worse.

Full article: (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-130418200416.png&hash=15d789b29124aa5a1f1ea397ce630913734b20a4) 😱

2°C crossed (http://arctic-news.blogspot.com/2020/03/2c-crossed.html)

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Title: Chris Hedges Best Speech In 2019
Post by: AGelbert on March 15, 2020, 10:15:56 pm
Chris Hedges Best Speech In 2019
36,876 views•Feb 24, 2020

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Chris Hedges Delivers His Best Speech In 2019. Followed by Q & A.
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Title: BBC slams "doomers" 🙄 - Cuba acts humanely 👍
Post by: AGelbert on March 16, 2020, 02:31:36 pm
BBC slams "doomers" 🙄 - Cuba acts humanely 👍
19 watching now•Streamed live 58 minutes ago

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on March 18, 2020, 11:20:04 pm
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'Tip of the iceberg': is our destruction of nature responsible for Covid-19?
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/mar/18/tip-of-the-iceberg-is-our-destruction-of-nature-responsible-for-covid-19-aoe



(https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fstyles%2Frenewablerevolution%2Ffiles%2F3398_Bottom%2520Line%2520Waking%2520the%2520climate%2520giant.png&hash=dd85cd9391ee156f7df73dfc716aa005364c4952)

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https://tsakraklides.com/2020/03/16/humanity-in-critical-condition/
Title: Air pollution and CO2 fall rapidly - California prepared to enact martial law
Post by: AGelbert on March 19, 2020, 06:05:34 pm
Air pollution and CO2 fall rapidly - California prepared to enact martial law
212 views•Streamed live 5 hours ago

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Coronavirus: Air pollution and CO2 fall rapidly as virus spreads
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Title: Climate change is already impacting food supplies as Australians hoard
Post by: AGelbert on March 21, 2020, 06:05:01 pm
Climate change is already impacting food supplies as Australians hoard
194 views•Streamed live 3 hours ago

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Pasta, rice running low as massive stockpiling drains drought decimated supply
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World's Governments Must Learn About Emissions During COVID-19 Shutdown
http://arctic-news.blogspot.com/2020/03/worlds-governments-must-learn-about-emissions-during-covid-19-shutdown.html

Fact Vs. Fear: A Look At The Numbers
https://youtu.be/6-IpYgEfUqA

UV Report for Los Angeles
https://www.theweathernetwork.com/us/forecasts/uv/california/los-angeles

Coronavirus: Government to pay up to 80% of workers' wages
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Title: Pandemic: Dr. Peter Wadhams - The Meaning of 🚀 Exponential Growth 😵
Post by: AGelbert on March 21, 2020, 09:45:28 pm
Pandemic: Dr. Peter Wadhams - The Meaning of 🚀 Exponential Growth 😵
2,370 views•Mar 20, 2020

https://youtu.be/Ncy-r66VSSo

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This second of 3 segments of my recent conversation with Dr. Peter Wadhams on the current #Coronavirus pandemic, is shared not to present the latest information on its spread, nor theory about how it got started, but rather to help people understand the nature of Exponential Growth. We are not generally trained to understand this critical concept. Anything that grows as a percentage of itself eventually overwhelms it's environment, whether it is a virus overwhelming its individual or collective human host, or our present NeoClassical 'growth' economic model overwhelming its host, the biosphere of Earth. If we don't understand the ramifications of exponential growth we are sleepwalking into a very dangerous future.

If we are to find and benefit from the 'silver lining' in this dark, dark pandemic cloud that is blowing across the landscape, we're got to understand exponential growth how we might act to undo it, to simply not buy, use, and create more of everything as individuals, communities, and nations.  I[/b]n the current 'lockdown' occurring in nations who truly want to protect their people we are finding what we can live without, and how much we gain when we #LiveSimply and say #IDontBuyThat.

The 3 parts of this conversation are as follows:

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There’s nothing good to say about the novel coronavirus pandemic hitting the globe right now. Nearly 10,000 people have died globally, and Italy has officially become the hardest-hit nation after China, with 41,000 documented cases.

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Title: ☠️ COVID-19, Ebola, And SARS Outbreaks Were All Unleashed By Humans
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March 27, 2020

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Some of the most devastating outbreaks of the modern era can be traced to rapacious development and habitat destruction that brings wild creatures into our domestic spaces.

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Marc Stiener: I’m Marc Steiner, great to have you all with us on this day. The COVID-19 pandemic has much of the world gripped in fear, entire countries are on lockdown. People are fearful, and rightfully so, of being in contact with each other. For us here, empty shelves in supermarkets, no cars on the highways, empty streets, give you that eerily post apocalyptic feel. Donald Trump labeling this as the Chinese virus and urging us to go back to normalcy, seems unattached to reality. It’s not the Chinese flu, it’s not the other, it’s us. More accurately, it’s our destruction of natural habitats and a climate crisis that is unleashing these viruses among us.

COVID-19 was being blamed on the poor, peaceful pangolin. But this poor anteater that looks like an Armadillo, may be part of the reason the virus spread in China, but it’s our industrial development that’s destroying his habitat that brought them into contact with us. And then some thought it would be a good idea to eat these things. It’s not bats or pangolins, but what our human expansion has done to unleash viruses from Ebola to COVID-19. From the destruction of wild habitats to melting off permafrost and arctic shelves, viruses we’ve never known existed may be coming our way.

And we’re joined by Dr. Sonia Shah. She wrote the book Pandemic: Tracking Contagious from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond. Her newest book is The Next Great Migration: The Beauty and Terror of Life on the Move, that comes out in June. And her latest article published in the nation is Think Exotic Animals Are to Blame for the Corona Virus? Think again. And it’s being wildly read. So welcome Sonia Shah, good to have you with us.

Sonia Shah: Nice to be here.

Marc Stiener: Help us think again, so the connection between habitat loss and climate crisis can get lost in this conversation. And when we try to figure out how to avoid these things now and in the future, talk a bit about that connection.

Sonia Shah: This latest coronavirus is just the last in a series. Well, it won’t be the last, but it’s just the latest in a series of newly emerged pathogens. So over the past like 50, 60 years or so, we’ve had over 300 of these pathogens kind of newly emerge, or re-emerge into places where they’d never been seen before. So, that includes Ebola in West Africa in 2014, it had never been seen in that part of the continent before. It includes Zika in the Americas were it had never been seen before. We have new kinds of tick borne illnesses, new kinds of mosquito borne illnesses, new kinds of antibiotic resistant bacterial pathogens. And the list goes on and on, including of course this latest coronavirus. And about 60% of these new pathogens come from the same place. And that is the bodies of animals. About 70% of them come from the bodies of wild animals.

So, what I tried to do in my work is look at how does a microbe that is generally harmless in its native habitat, in its natural habitat, turn into a pandemic causing pathogens. What are the changes that have to happen for that process to occur? And what I found is that in a lot of cases it’s because humans are invading wildlife habitat. So when we cut down the trees where bats roost… If bats are roosting in some far off jungle, we cut down those trees, well they don’t just go away. They come and fly into our gardens, and backyards, and farms instead. So in all these ways when we destroy wildlife habitat, we force wildlife to come into closer contact to where we live, into little fragments of habitat that we have left for them and that eases all kinds of new kinds of contact between animals and humans.

It increases hunting, trading, uneven casual contact. For example, if you touched a piece of fruit that had some bat saliva on it you could get Ebola virus on your hands, and you put that your hand in your mouth and that’s it. The microbe that lives in the animals bodies has come into the human body, and that’s how the Ebola outbreak of 2014 actually started. And we will probably eventually be able to trace back this current pandemic to some kind of single quote unquote spill over event like that. But the root of it is microbes in animals coming into human bodies because we’re destroying their habitat and bringing them closer into contact with ours.

Marc Stiener: A couple of things here I’ve got to explore. What you mentioned a moment ago, I mean we’re talking about viruses, everything from Ebola to HIV, to Lyme disease in this country are all kind of erupting for the similar reason. And when you look at some of the new science coming out about the potential viruses being unleashed by the melting of permafrost in the Arctic ice shelves. When you add that to the habitat issue we, unfortunately and frighteningly, could just be seeing the beginning of what could erupt over the next decades. Do think that’s alarmist? Do you think that’s real?

Sonia Shah: I don’t know that the melting permafrost is sort of the biggest driver of this, I think invading wildlife habit is a bigger driver because you also have to think about which microbes in animals bodies can easily adapt to human bodies. And so that’s usually microbes that live in other mammals, and it’s usually ones that are more similar to us. So, we get a lot of pathogens from pigs for example, we’ll get fewer from reptiles, right? So, the source matters because each microbe has to kind of adapt. So this is a long process, this doesn’t happen instantly. What happens is there’s repeated contact between humans and the animal reservoir of these microbes. And those repeated contacts allow the microbe to slowly adapt to the human body, right? Because in the beginning it’s an animal microbe, it’s not going to make you sick necessarily, or your immune system’s going to get rid of it.

The pathogen has to adapt. So there has to be repeated contact over time. So we’ve seen these wet markets have existed, for example, which is a source of the SARS pathogen that came out in 2002, 2003, and may be the origins of the current Corona virus. Those wet markets existed for many, many years, but what happened over the past 20 or 30 years is they started to get bigger and bigger because the Chinese economy expanded and people were going farther and farther into wildlife habitat to invade, in places that are farther and farther away, bring animals from lots of different places closer together. So it’s that slow process of expansion and the repeated contact between humans and wildlife that allows these microbes to adapt and become human pathogens.

Marc Stiener: And a broader question here, if human expansion and capitalist development and all kinds of industrial development and development period are part of the causes that underlies these growth of viruses, then how do we think about what to do about that? I mean it’s one thing to talk about how you fight COVID-19 at this moment, and I think that’s one issue. The other issue is how do you prevent the COVID-19s of the future from erupting given the nature of human beings to expand? I mean you wrote in your article that even when you think of the neolithic period that was unleashed there, tuberculosis and measles that are still with us. So, how do we begin to talk as a society, as human beings, as a culture, how to change what we do in order not to have these explosions or is that even possible?

Sonia Shah: It is possible. We’re always going to have infectious diseases, right? I mean we live on a microbial planet and that’s sort of part of the human condition. So we don’t want to sanitize the planet of microbes or anything like that. So the trick is, do you have to have pandemics though? And I think from my research and reporting, the answer is absolutely not. Pandemics are manufactured by human activities. We’ll have infectious disease outbreaks, but we don’t have to have these massive pandemics that travel across the globe and result in what we’re seeing today. And one step towards that is, of course, reducing our destruction of wildlife habitat so that microbes that live in animals bodies stay in their bodies. Reducing the impact of climate change will help too because, of course, we know that a lot of species are moving into new places to escape the effects of the climate crisis. And as they do that, they’re moving into new kinds of contact with human populations also. So that provides other opportunities for these spillovers to happen.

But we also can sort of actively surveil where these spillovers are happening and kind of contain them at their source. We don’t know which microbe will cause the next pandemic, but we do know what the drivers are. We know that it’s things like invasion of wildlife habitat, lots of flight connections, lots of slums, lots of factory farms. These are all drivers of pandemic causing pathogens. So since we know that we can Predict where it’s most likely to happen. So scientists have actually come up with these global hotspot maps. There are places… It’s a map and it just shows where are all the places in the world where it’s most likely that a pandemic causing pathogen could emerge. And in those places we can do active surveillance, really look at all the microbes there. Don’t wait for the outbreak to happen, don’t wait for cases to emerge so people are already getting sick and the microbe’s already spreading exponentially. But actually look for them sort of preventively, to do that kind of active surveillance. And that was actually a project that was going on for about 10 years until the Trump administration killed it last year.

Marc Stiener: You’re talking about Predict and the stuff that CDC was doing that the budget was canceled, that’s what you’re talking about.

Sonia Shah: That’s right.

Marc Stiener: Talk a bit about that.

Sonia Shah: So that was a program funded by USAID and it involved lots of different agencies and academic institutions around the world. And what they would do is they would go to these disease hotspots and try to actively surveil how microbes might be changing. So they would sample say, scat from animals or take blood from farmers or hunters. They had a variety of different ways to actually actively look for these microbes and then see how they might be changing. And they actually were able to find about 900, I think, over the course of that 10 year period. And so then you can say, “Okay, well this microbe looks like it’s evolving to adapt to the human body in a way that could make it into a dangerous pathogen. Let’s change our behaviors on this local level so that it doesn’t have those opportunities anymore.” Maybe it’s changing hunting practices, or some trading practices, or something much more localized that you could alter through a small intervention as opposed to waiting until it starts erupting in epidemics and spreads around the world. And then thinking, “Oh, okay, now let’s try to contain it.”

Marc Stiener: So without being accusatory here, just larger questions in close. If Predict had been funded fully, if we had full funding to be able to look ahead and see what potential pathogens may arise, could this have been avoided? Is that possible or is that too much conjecture?

Sonia Shah: I mean it’s possible. This is all probabilities, right? So say there’s thousands of microbes out there that could become the next pandemic causing pathogen. If we could surveil and contain 80% of those, would our risk of pandemics go down? Yes, it would. Does it mean that this particular virus would not have emerged? Well, who knows?

Marc Stiener: And as we conclude Sonia give us a little tip for the future about what we should be wrestling with as a society in terms of how to go forward.

Sonia Shah: The first thing is we got to get this thing under control and what’s happening now is commercial pressures and political pressures are altering our containment strategy, and what we’re going to see is a bloodbath in our hospitals. So all of us need to chip in. And I think one of the things that’s really striking about these outbreaks of novel kinds of diseases is that there is no drug, there is no vaccine, there is no easy biomedical product that we can all use to solve it, right? Because they come up too fast and by the time you get the vaccine or the drug you’ve already had this whole wave of epidemic. So what that means is that the only thing that really works is collective action and solidarity. And I think we’re starting to see that in different parts of the world, and people are trying, and that’s really going to be the solution out of this thing.

Marc Stiener: Well Sonia Shah thank you for the work you do and the writing you do. It’s really important and I look forward to seeing what else you produce, look forward to your book coming out in June. And I want to thank you so much for joining us here on the real news today. I appreciate you taking the time with us, I know you’re very busy at this moment, so thank you so much.

Sonia Shah: Thank you.

Marc Stiener: And I’m Mark Steiner here for the Real News Network, thank you all for joining us. Let us know what you think. We’ll be covering this pandemic intensely from all different quarters. So take care and take care of yourself.

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Global Warming is taking a rare back seat in the news right now, as we deal with the more immediate existential crisis afflicting our civilisation and way of life. But as entire countries are getting shut down around the world, with the rapid reduction of emissions that this causes, is the global dimming paradox about to be tested? Will we see an abrupt spike in temperatures that tips our earth systems into an irreversible cascade of warming feedbacks?


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Title: 🚩 4 Major Hurricanes Predicted for 2020 - 5G Misinfo
Post by: AGelbert on April 04, 2020, 09:10:33 pm
4 Major Hurricanes Predicted for 2020 - 5G Misinfo
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4 major hurricanes are predicted as part of an above-normal 2020 Atlantic hurricane season
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5G Wireless Communication and Health Effects—A Pragmatic Review Based on Available Studies Regarding 6 to 100 GHz
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Title: ... he observed bleaching in the north, center and south of the reef for the first time. 🚩
Post by: AGelbert on April 07, 2020, 01:31:37 pm
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Title: Interview With Chris Hedges: Coronavirus, Climate Change And What's Next
Post by: AGelbert on April 08, 2020, 12:20:16 am
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Title: The Animals 🐾 Come Out
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Title: 🚩 Methane Levels Dramatically Increase
Post by: AGelbert on April 09, 2020, 10:33:15 pm
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A gas flare from the Shell Chemical 🦕 LP petroleum refinery illuminates the sky on August 21, 2019 in Norco, Louisiana. Drew Angerer / Getty Images.

Methane Levels Dramatically Increase

Methane levels in the atmosphere experienced a dramatic rise in 2019, preliminary data released Sunday shows.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration found that methane levels increased by 11.54 parts per billion (ppb) in 2019 over 2018 levels, the largest increase since 2014. "Last year's jump in methane is one of the biggest we've seen over the past twenty years," Rob Jackson, professor of Earth system science at Stanford University and chair of the Global Carbon Project, told Bloomberg.

"It's too early to say why, but increases from both agriculture and natural gas use are likely. Natural gas consumption surged more than two percent last year." In the United States, the fossil fuel industry is the largest source of methane pollution, and emissions from the oil and gas sector have grown at least 40% over the last decade.

https://www.ecowatch.com/methane-levels-increase-2645657687.html
Title: ZERO support for a GREEN NEW DEAL ✔ 🥵
Post by: AGelbert on April 10, 2020, 03:14:22 pm
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I TOTALLY AGREE WITH Jamarl Thomas ✨ (http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/who-can-you-trust/2020-presidential-election/msg16270/#msg16270) that we must abandon Sanders for the simple reason that he will urge people to vote for Biden.

Readers, save this list of the craven corrupt similarities of Trump with Biden to repeat them over and over to people that do not know the score with Biden: 👀

📢 😈 Biden and 🦀 Trump are BIRDS OF THE EXACT SAME NEOLIBERAL FASCIST FEATHER:

Corporate COVID-19 welfare and PEANUTS for we-the-people
Subsidies for Fossil Fuel Industry POLLUTERS
FRACKING support
SNAP funds REDUCTION
New "chained" CPI (i.e gamed formula to UNDERCOUNT INFLATION) to ROB workers and retired on pensions through COLA reductions 🤬
PROTECTION of Credit Card Corporation USURY LEVEL HIGH INTEREST RATES
DEFUNDING SOCIAL SECURITY
People KILLING SANCTIONS on IRAN
Gigantic PENTAGON BUDGET SWAG
Endless foreign wars for MIC SWAG
PROTECTING Big Pharma Drug Price Gouging
PROTECTING PREDATORY Payday Lender usury level rates
RELAXING Government BANKSTER Controlling Regulations
DEFANGING the SEC so 😈 Wall Street can run wild with insider trading, front running, etc. with IMPUNITY 👉CHECK
NO return to 1933-2000 Glass-Steagall to stop the Bank irresponsible insovency causing derivatives speculation we-the-people had to BAILOUT in 2008 👉CHECK
NO return to 1933-1982 when Corporate Stock BUYBACKS to game the stock price up WERE ILLEGAL 👉CHECK
NO INCREASE IN MINIMUM WAGE 👉CHECK 😠
DEFENSE of Corporate Health Insurance people bankrupting premiums and ZERO support for Medicare-4-ALL 👉CHECK
ZERO support for a GREEN NEW DEAL 👉CHECK 🥵

I can go ON, and ON and ON. Biden is a 🐘 DINO, like most 🐘 "Democrats". Trump is a FAKE "populist". It's the same God Damned THING!

Please do your own research into Biden's despicable oligarchy ass kissing record in the Senate. It is ALL THERE. Trump has simply been less subtle about his in-our-faces worship of the 1% profit over people and planet parasites, that is all. In actual policies, they are nearly identical.

For the "Democrats" (i.e. DINOs) who are already busy, busy, busy demonizing truth telling former Bernie supporters (calling us "Extremists" 🙄 who want to "see the planet burn rather than voting for Saint Joe Biden" 🥱) who are moving to the GREEN PARTY in order to herd us into voting for 🏴☠️ Biden: 🔊 Go ahead and pretend the Green Party "is irrelevant". Your Fascist Republican/"Democratic" profit over people and planet Duopoly worship is killing we-the-people. Have a nice day, you Planet Killing Extremists. 😡

The DINOS are the ones who want to see the world BURN, rather than saying goodbye to Corporate profit over people and planet CROOKS and moving to the GREEN PARTY.
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on April 10, 2020, 07:05:42 pm

I TOTALLY AGREE WITH Jamarl Thomas ✨ (http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/who-can-you-trust/2020-presidential-election/msg16270/#msg16270) that we must abandon Sanders for the simple reason that he will urge people to vote for Biden.
Your choice is binary. Then we'll mark you down for Trump.
Any vote for Greens, Blues, reptilians, etc. is a vote for Trump.

See Stein, J. in 2016, and Nader, R. in 2000.

That is all
.

Sorry Bro, ethical behavior is NOT "binary". Stein, Nader, et al did the right thing. Yeah, Trump will win, probably in a landslide, but DON'T YOU DARE TELL ME that I am "supporting a Trump victory" by not voting for Biden or Trump. I didn't make this GOD DAMNED SYSTEM (and I'm NOT swearing), the "Democratic" Party FASCIST ENABLERS DID! As I said in 2016, Obama was the fascist warmup; Trump is the MAIN EVENT. You, an intelligent person, are going to sit there and tell me with a straight face that Biden isn't the FALL GUY for Trump, DELIBERATELY PUT THER BY THE DLC so Trump would win?

THAT'S WHAT HE IS, A FALL GUY! And if you want to "binary" your choice and vote for Biden, you will be very depressed this November.

Here's the deal, Bro. You are a very smart, but rather tubborn, fellow that thinks he has politics in the USA all figured out. Well, you, who normally sees things more clearly than I do in the political arena, are leaving out of your, normally rational calculus, a GIGANTIC IN-OUR-FACES CATASTROPHIC CLIMATE CHANGE PROBLEM. THAT IS NUMERO UNO, SURLY, not the fascist tyranny that we are ALREADY saddled with. You are DREAMING if you think Biden, in the highly unlikely event that he becomes POTUS, will prevent that. DON'T TELL ME YOU ARE NOT LEAVING THE CLIMATE CLUSTERFUCK OUT! YOU ARE BY TRYING TO HERD PEOPLE INTO VOTING FOR BIDEN.

Scoff all you want, Bro. Just read the following and then tell me to pound sand all you want. I've thought this through. Here's my rant on why Biden and Trump are BOTH nearly identical forms of NATIONAL SUICIDE: 

Biden's corporate friendly, people screwing track record is all there in the Senate. Trump can pretend he didn't actively help BUY politicians like Biden to do that, but it is a pretense, nothing more. However, Trump has the advantage that you cannot objectively and irrefutably "say" that Trump "specifically supported" all the SWAG GIVEAWAYS to the 1%, from legal tax loopholes to special bankruptcy favors to the money laundering fun and games the Congress aided and abetted, even though Trump was certainly part of the 1% crooks that DID "lobby" for all of that THEFT.

I'm sure Trump smiled broadly when then Senator Biden shut the door to student bankruptcy protection. Yeah, they were BOTH on EXACTLY THE SAME BANKSTER PLEASING PAGE, long before Biden became Obama's VP.

But, of course, what we have here is a contest of polished con artist liars, so both of them will claim they are "champions of the people" against the, uh, "DC swamp". They will shout until they are hoarse that they have "always defended the will of the American People"...

I was born in the dark, but it wasn't last night.

Remember that Trump gave most of his "political contributions" to the "Democratic" Party until Obama got there. The Clintons and Trumps were great pals and went to parties and weddings together. Maybe that is irrelevant to most casual observers, but Trump wasn't sending money to "Democrats" out of the goodness of his heart.

That said, the important thing for all of us who see a bit of a problem with the Fascist Tyranny in the USA goes WAY BEYOND the Dictatorship Cruelty and Despotism thing, as bad as THAT is.

It's the Catastrophic climate Change that BOTH Biden and Trump will do ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to address, except to, maybe, fund bunkers for the 1% where they can watch the rest of us go the way of all flesh (they might call it something like Save the "Job Creators" Act). That is not hyperbole. Most of the funds coming out of government now go to the 1%, so I would not put it past them to "legalize" another in-our-faces outrage.

These psychopaths really and honestly believe that they can beat this climate change thing with perception management (SEE; The Strength of the Will - a Fascist Fairy Tale those arrogant bastards believe in with all their might).

They just cannot wrap their greedy heads around the concept that humans cannot industrially defecate where they eat without eventually going extinct. We can expect no rational actions from them for the purpose of preserving the biosphere out of sine qua non human species survival necessity.
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"For most of my adult life I’ve railed against “corporate capitalism”, “consumer capitalism” and “crony capitalism”. It took me a long time to see that the problem is not the adjective but the noun." -- George Monbiot

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"... the bad freedoms to exploit those around us and extract huge profits without regard to the common good, including what is done to the ecosystem and democratic institutions. These bad freedoms see corporations monopolize technologies and scientific advances to make huge profits, even when, as with the pharmaceutical industry, a monopoly means lives of those who cannot pay exorbitant prices are put in jeopardy. The good freedoms—freedom of conscience, freedom of speech, freedom of meeting, freedom of association, freedom to choose one’s job—are eventually snuffed out by the primacy of the bad freedoms." -- Chris Hedges

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The story of fossil fuel consumption growth is a story of technologies used, misused and moulded by the corporations that control them; of capitalist expansion, particularly after the second world war; and of government complicity -- Simon Pirani

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"When we are swiftly shuttling ourselves down the path of irreversible climate cataclysm, the only unreasonable option is to double down on the status quo."

That ideological alignment between Biden and Trump is a death sentence for we-the-people in the USA, and possibly the entire human species. For that reason alone, no rational person can support either one or the Profit Over People and Planet Duopoly they serve.

I'm going to repost now some quotes I posted less than year after Trump came to power. Notice what has nauseatingly come to pass, despite scientists shouting from the rooftops that it is suicidal to continue 'business as usual' (a term near and dear to both the "Democrats" and the Republicans):

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“Subsidizing fossil fuel companies in the face of rapid climate change is like spraying jet fuel on a burning home. To put out the fire, we must first stop making the problem worse,” Doukas continued. “Ignoring the problem just because fossil fuel industry mascots like Trump demand it is like agreeing to take the warning labels off of cigarettes because they offend Joe Camel. Our leaders must act now to stop burning our tax dollars and stop trashing the climate.”

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"To say that Fossil Fuel Industry 🦕🦖 😈 disinformation isn’t the whole story is to knock down a straw man: the fact remains that it is a major--and perhaps the most important--part of the story."

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"Amid the din of grinding gears, midnight tweets, intrigue and White House infighting comes the sound of old wheels rolling backward, of laws and protections being rescinded and redacted, of a rapid retreat away from any pretense of concern for the environment, the elderly and the vulnerable, and toward even taller profits for a select few. They’re coming for our friends, family and neighbors, and they’re coming for the loot too. They want your money, and will have it if they can get it." -- Truthout, William Rivers Pitt, Columnist and Editor

The above was predicted over three years ago. Today, April 10, 2020, we know it will only get worse, no matter which of the two Oligarchic TOOLS, Biden or Trump, wins the November 2020 election.

We either get off this dead end track by silent, total 100% rejection of our Profit over People and Planet MORON FASCISTS, or we are all toast.

Sure, if we break the back of the "Democratic" Party by moving massively to the Green Party, we may all die from Trump inaction on climate anyway after he wins in November in a landslide. But, moving massively to the Green Party is the only, not simply ethical, but also rational, choice we have before us at this time.

If we swallow the Bernie pro-Biden BULLSHIT and choose to be "lesser" evil quislings for the "Democratic" Party, we are going to die just as quickly from the Catastrophic Climate Change now arriving that neither Biden nor Trump will try, beyond lip service and perception management legerdemain, to mitigate.

Human Inequity is directly proportional to the amount of human iniquity. - A. G. Gelbert
Title: 🚩 Climate-Driven Biodiversity Loss Will Be Sudden, Study Warns
Post by: AGelbert on April 11, 2020, 12:03:36 am
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April 10, 2020

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Climate-Driven Biodiversity Loss Will Be Sudden, Study Warns (https://www.ecowatch.com/biodiversity-loss-climate-crisis-2645676582.html?utm_source=EcoWatch+List&utm_campaign=abd230105e-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_49c7d43dc9-abd230105e-86021645)
Title: 🚩(No) Future Returns Of Climate Change
Post by: AGelbert on April 12, 2020, 09:52:21 pm
(No) Future Returns Of Climate Change
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https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2189-9.epdf


Future Returns: Risks to Corporate Assets from Climate Change (https://media2.giphy.com/media/3mJNS3zvt2R4k/200w.webp?cid=3640f6095c1fe1333552544259e316b1)

https://www.barrons.com/articles/future-returns-risks-to-corporate-assets-from-climate-change-01586295242

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Title: Ecowatch: Dangerous COVID-19 boosting European summer and threatened Arctic Ringed Seals
Post by: AGelbert on April 13, 2020, 06:16:35 pm
EcoWatch

Monday, April 13, 2020

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Europe's Hot Summer Weather Could Worsen the Effects of COVID-19 (https://www.ecowatch.com/europe-hot-summer-covid19-2645699288.html?utm_source=EcoWatch+List&utm_campaign=e0b8937907-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_49c7d43dc9-e0b8937907-86021645)


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Arctic Warming Endangers Ringed Seals (https://www.ecowatch.com/ringed-seal-arctic-2645678285.html?utm_source=EcoWatch+List&utm_campaign=e0b8937907-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_49c7d43dc9-e0b8937907-86021645)
Title: Global Warming Hasn't Gone Away
Post by: AGelbert on April 13, 2020, 06:43:49 pm
EcoWatch

Apr. 08, 2020

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Record Ozone Hole Forms Over Arctic (https://www.ecowatch.com/us-coronavirus-deaths-2645702852.html?rebelltitem=1#rebelltitem1)
Title: Environment-Friendly 🎋 Teespring store: 🌞👍
Post by: AGelbert on April 13, 2020, 07:31:47 pm
April 13, 2020

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Our Environment-Friendly Teespring store:

Partial Selection of Available styles (all available in multiple colors and as tee, long-sleeve, hoodie, or tote):

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All products in our Teespring store above are either made of 100% organic cotton or feature a combination of organic cotton and recycled materials. All products are made of fibres that require little or no pesticides to grow and avoid contributions to air, water and land pollution. These products are cruelty-free, made from non-animal fibres, and are harvested in animal-friendly ways (with reduced impact on their habitats). The materials used in these products also contribute to green practices that reduce the use of resources like water and energy. Our U.S. supplier for hoodies, long sleeve tees, and totes donates a portion of every product sale to an environmental non-profit organization. Products in the collection are labeled as “Organic” or “Eco” based on the percent of organic cotton they contain.

Title: NASA data shows dramatic pollution drop in the US
Post by: AGelbert on April 13, 2020, 07:43:46 pm
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NASA data shows dramatic pollution drop in the US

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The air is clearing up because we're staying home. (https://www.zmescience.com/science/news-science/nasa-pollution-no2-coronavirus-10042020/?utm_source=ZME+Science+Newsletter&utm_campaign=d44d8461c7-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_3b5aad2288-d44d8461c7-242735721&goal=0_3b5aad2288-d44d8461c7-242735721) (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-130418200416.png&hash=15d789b29124aa5a1f1ea397ce630913734b20a4)
Title: Welcome To The 🌡️ Funhouse 🚩 😓
Post by: AGelbert on April 14, 2020, 03:50:17 pm
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Welcome To The 🌡️ Funhouse 🚩 😓
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Black Bear News
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Title: 🚩 A deadly pathogen is spreading across olive trees in Europe and may cause over $20 billion in loss
Post by: AGelbert on April 15, 2020, 03:52:11 pm
EcoWatch

Wednesday, April 15, 2020

The bacteria, Xylella fastidiosa, is spread by sap-sucking insects known as spittlebugs. It is considered to be one of the most dangerous plant pathogens in the world, and it has already created huge problems in Italy and Spain where it has decimated entire groves of ancient olive trees, as The Independent reported.

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Ancient Olive Trees Across Europe Dying From Disease 😟 (https://www.ecowatch.com/olive-trees-disease-europe-2645714129.html?utm_source=EcoWatch+List&utm_campaign=ef2bea5a04-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_49c7d43dc9-ef2bea5a04-86021645)
Title: Welcome To The 🚩 Future
Post by: AGelbert on April 17, 2020, 02:28:49 pm
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Welcome To The 🚩 Future
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https://youtu.be/pGAXar401Sk

Black Bear News
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Title: Global heating is rapidly melting glaciers, revealing treasures underneath the ice from long ago
Post by: AGelbert on April 17, 2020, 05:31:35 pm
EcoWatch

April 17, 2020

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Melting Ice Reveals Viking Highway and Artifacts (https://www.ecowatch.com/melting-ice-viking-artifacts-norway-2645732898.html?utm_source=EcoWatch+List&utm_campaign=3f94a4d94b-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_49c7d43dc9-3f94a4d94b-86021645)

Title: The Latest and Not so Greatest Musings on Abrupt Climate Change and Coronavirus Happenings
Post by: AGelbert on April 18, 2020, 07:49:50 pm
The Latest and Not so Greatest Musings on Abrupt Climate Change and Coronavirus Happenings
5,616 views•Apr 16, 2020

https://youtu.be/OiAUuY7Ua3Y

Paul Beckwith
19.9K subscribers

I filmed a new series of 4 videos on my latest climate change and coronavirus musings. Topics: Arctic polar vortex collapse spilling cold dry air south into US Deep South, clashing with warm humid air moving north from crazily warm Gulf of Mexico Sea-Surface Temperature anomaly 2.25 C, creating huge storms with tornado outbreaks, including a huge pair (2 mile wide; 1 mile wide) cutting up to 80 mile devastation swath. Huge 5 C temperature anomaly this year over huge Eurasian region. Dimming? Why coronavirus spread is huge; prion-like features and “wet-noodle” stickiness. Massive China contact tracing study on how spread is indoors, NOT outdoors. And more...

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Category Science & Technology
Title: Is the Gulf Stream collapsing?
Post by: AGelbert on April 19, 2020, 12:47:14 pm
Is the Gulf Stream collapsing?
6,111 views•Apr 19, 2020

https://youtu.be/6Yz8nZbZPE8

Just Have a Think
59.6K subscribers

The Gulf Stream and the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation exert a huge influence on heat and energy distribution around our planet. Research shows that our warming atmosphere is affecting this vital system so profoundly that it's at risk of shutting down altogether with very severe consequences for our civilisation. So what's going on?

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Agelbert NOTE: For those interested in learning more about Thermohaline Circulation, here's the video he referenced above:

Climate Change and The Great Ocean Conveyor
23,034 views•Mar 31, 2019

https://youtu.be/kpvUivhCw2Y

Just Have a Think
59.6K subscribers

The Great Ocean Conveyor, The Thermohaline Circulation, The Gulf Stream, AMOC...all terms we hear quite a lot these days. And they all seem to be linked with climate change, or even abrupt climate change according to some. The circulation of currents around our globe is an extremely complex system that brings nutrients to our ocean food chain and heat energy to different parts of the planet. This week we attempt to understand the basics.



Title: Earth Day 2020 😞 technological expressions of scientists' own supercharged sense of desperation.
Post by: AGelbert on April 20, 2020, 02:44:48 pm
Earth Day 2020 😞

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What these scientists are offering us are technological expressions of their own supercharged sense of desperation.

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Agelbert NOTE: This was written before the (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/gallery/renewablerevolution/2/3-220320162217.png) COVID-19 triggered Global Neoliberal = Capitalist = Fascist caused Economic Collapse. It accurately predicted the present (and ongoing) COVID-19 response of the (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-130418203402.gif&hash=b2691028ba683a0039a5811f5775c68d7ccae01c) elite. Now inevitable, the increasingly deadly consequences of Catastrophic Climate Change will be addressed, not in rational viable biosphere, multi-species preserving and protecting cooperative stewardship by caring humans, but by, as the article warns, "... the increasing insulation of the world's wealthy minority from the rest of humanity -- buying protection for their fortressed communities from the Halliburtons, Bechtels and Blackwaters of the world while the majority of the poor are left to scramble for survival among the ruins."

The elite greedballs, after they have watched most of the biosphere (and we-the-people) perish, will also perish from the inevitably destructive consequences of making a religion out of Social Darwinism. The author of the article is probably, unlike me, an atheist. That said, I acknowledge that he is a man of Godly principles who can discern perfectly well between ethical and unethical behavior. He knows that unethical behavior is TOTALLY embraced by TPTB, and does not shy away from the facts. That is why he is so depressed. I am depressed too but I understand what all the Happy Talk "Ascent of Man" (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F1%2F3-250718202127.gif&hash=acc63221521ebaf3f238088fd92d1ae3a08b6e48) Darwinists studiously refuse to accept, despite all the biological DNA DEGRADATION EVIDENCE in their arrogant intellimoron faces. That is, that mankind has DEVOLVED, not "evolved".

It is the height of straw grasping irrelevance for the "Might equals Right" Social Darwinist true believers to arrogantly mock whatever it was that happened in the (metaphorical or real) Garden of Eden that resulted in the indisputably FALLEN NATURE of HUMANITY. Anyone with critical thinking skills cannot fail to see how self-destructive to the biosphere and ourselves our species is.

Human "civilization" is, cell phones, computers and all, indisputable evidence of how rapidly, just in the last century, we have devolved into increasingly destructive forms of EVIL behavior, never mind before that.

It is an insult to the animal kingdom to equate Profit Over People and Planet Greedballs with "animals". No animal on earth, for as long as this biosphere has been functioning since its creation, would ever cause the wanton rampage of destruction that humanity is responsible for.

Though the author of this article cannot bring himslef to do it, it is HIGH TIME that what humanity has done to God's Garden be called by its appropriate name: SIN. You can tack on several descriptive adjectives (i.e. WANTON, WILLFUL, REBELLIOUS, ARROGANT, DIABOLICAL, etc.), but the central problem of humans who refuse to respect and care for each other and live in harmony with all life around them is that they CHOOSE to SIN instead of obeying God by being good stewards of creation.

Whether you want to believe, as I do, that Jesus Christ is the Way, the Truth and the Life, or not, I sincerely hope you can agree that Proft Over People and Planet caused human misery and environmental destruction is SINFUL behavior. You know that human caused environmental destruction has already ushered in the Sixth Mass Extinction and will most likely cause the death of every single human on Earth.

Whether you want to accept any of the wisdom written about the consequences of SIN in the Bible or not, the fact that sinful behavior at the present planetary scale causes death is irrefutable.
 
The WAGES OF SIN (i.e. rejecting God's Comandment, written in every human soul, to respect and care for each other and live in harmony with all life) IS DEATH.

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For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. Romans 6:23

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And the nations were angry, and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that thou shouldest give reward unto thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear thy name, small and great; and shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth. Revelation 11:18

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As the pace of global warming kicks into overdrive, the hollow optimism of climate activists, along with the desperate responses of some of the world's most prominent climate scientists, are preventing us from focusing on the survival requirements of the human enterprise.

The environmental establishment continues to peddle the notion that we can solve the climate problem.

We can't.

We have failed to meet nature's deadline. In the next few years, this world will experience progressively more ominous and destabilizing changes.  These will happen either incrementally -- or in sudden, abrupt jumps.

Under either scenario, it seems inevitable that we will soon be confronted by water shortages, crop failures, increasing damages from extreme weather events, collapsing infrastructures, and, potentially, breakdowns in the democratic process itself. ... ...

This slow-motion collapse of the planet leaves us with the bitterest kind of awakening. For parents of young children, it provokes the most intimate kind of despair.  For people whose happiness derives from a fulfilling sense of achievement in their work, this realization feels like a sudden, violent mugging. For those who feel a debt to all those past generations who worked so hard to create this civilization we have enjoyed, it feels like the ultimate trashing of history and tradition. For anyone anywhere who truly absorbs this reality and all that it implies, this realization leads into the deepest center of grief.

Full article:

It's too late to stop climate change -- so what do we do now?(https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/304fa75d7ed32d56ae1ff3a796933cb65eac738511bb960bc4a77bb2f67c0af6.gif) (http://www.heatisonline.org/contentserver/objecthandlers/index.cfm?id=7203&method=full)

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Title: Whole Earth
Post by: AGelbert on April 20, 2020, 09:30:41 pm
Agelbert NOTE: Don't miss the angry venting of rational outrage at the 35 minute mark. It's a short video that Kevin discovered where a fellow with no political party affiliation says exactly what MOST REALITY BASED PEOPLE in the USA think about massive bailout SWAG for Wall Street and crumbs for Main Street 👉 (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F2%2F3-190119153601.gif&hash=336ba78f7f18ff5829ef3722f89b4258d2315284). It is getting very ugly out there. 💣

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Whole Earth
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https://youtu.be/SF5SDu2CO8c


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Salvation or Pipe Dream? A Movement Grows to Protect Up to Half the Planet 🤔
https://e360.yale.edu/features/salvation-or-pipe-dream-a-movement-grows-to-protect-up-to-half-the-planet

Mad As Hell 🤬 💣
https://twitter.com/ChrisFrancis54/status/1252040005163286530?s=20


Food Assistance Line 🥺
https://twitter.com/hotbrother3/status/1250219818353123331?s=20


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Title: Re: Whole Earth
Post by: Surly1 on April 21, 2020, 08:55:54 am

Mad As Hell 🤬 💣
https://twitter.com/ChrisFrancis54/status/1252040005163286530?s=20

This here is a superb rant!
Title: 🚩 Warmest Oceans on Record Adds to Hurricanes, Wildfires Risks
Post by: AGelbert on April 22, 2020, 11:08:52 pm
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Warmest Oceans on Record Adds to Hurricanes (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/gallery/renewablerevolution/2/3-300919160022-22802205.png), Wildfires (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/gallery/renewablerevolution/2/3-300919160021-22781459.png)Risks

By Bloomberg on Apr 21, 2020 11:58 am
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Harvey Peak Intensity

By Brian K. Sullivan (Bloomberg) — The world’s seas are simmering, with record high 🌡️temperatures spurring worry among forecasters that the global warming effect may generate a chaotic year of extreme weather ahead. Parts of the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans all hit the record books for warmth last month, according to the U.S. National Centers […]  Read full story... (https://gcaptain.com/warmest-oceans-on-record-adds-to-hurricanes-wildfires-risks/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Gcaptain+%28gCaptain.com%29&goal=0_f50174ef03-974560819d-169600093&mc_cid=974560819d&mc_eid=1855a0727e) (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-130418200416.png&hash=15d789b29124aa5a1f1ea397ce630913734b20a4)

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Title: Don't Worry, Be Doomy
Post by: AGelbert on April 23, 2020, 09:18:16 pm
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Don't Worry, Be Doomy
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Black Bear News
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Title: Green Energy No Moore⁉️
Post by: AGelbert on April 24, 2020, 08:29:31 pm
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Title: Food Wasted 😟
Post by: AGelbert on April 26, 2020, 02:30:32 pm
Food Wasted 😟
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Black Bear News
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Title: “It’s very worrisome, it could be that there are much more 🔥 fire events than what we saw last year,
Post by: AGelbert on April 28, 2020, 01:59:31 pm
CleanTechnica

April 28th, 2020 by Johnna Crider

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Image courtesy NASA and the United States National Drought Mitigation Center

🚩 Satellite Data Shows Amazon Rainforest Is Drier And Could Be At Risk For Fires 🔥 (https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/304fa75d7ed32d56ae1ff3a796933cb65eac738511bb960bc4a77bb2f67c0af6.gif) (https://cleantechnica.com/2020/04/28/satellite-data-shows-amazon-rainforest-is-drier-and-could-be-at-risk-for-fires/)

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Title: BBN: Eastern European 🚩 Drought & Kenya Floods 🌊
Post by: AGelbert on April 30, 2020, 05:15:44 pm
BBN: Eastern European 🚩 Drought & Kenya (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/gallery/renewablerevolution/2/3-300919160021-22772252.png) Floods
74 views•Apr 30, 2020

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Title: THE WORLD IS ON LOCKDOWN – WHERE ARE THE CARBON EMISSIONS COMING FROM?
Post by: AGelbert on April 30, 2020, 10:50:51 pm
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By Shannon Osaka, Grist.org. Pedestrians have taken over city streets, people have almost entirely stopped flying, skies are blue (even in Los Angeles!) for the first time in decades, and global CO2 emissions are on-track to drop by … about 5.5 percent. Wait, what? Even with the global economy at a near-standstill, the best analysis suggests that the world is still on track to release 95 percent of the carbon dioxide emitted in a typical year, continuing to heat up the planet and driving climate change even as we’re stuck at home. A 5.5-percent drop in carbon dioxide emissions would still be the largest yearly change on record, beating out the... -more- (https://popularresistance.org/the-world-is-on-lockdown-where-are-the-carbon-emissions-coming-from/)
Title: BBN: Degrowth In The Time Of Covid
Post by: AGelbert on May 01, 2020, 05:01:18 pm
BBN: Degrowth In The Time Of Covid
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Black Bear News
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Title: Zero Growth Capitalism
Post by: AGelbert on May 01, 2020, 06:32:59 pm
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Get your copies of Prof. Wolff's books with d@w: "Understanding Socialism" and "Understanding Marxism" https://www.democracyatwork.info/books

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Title: These ‘Are The Good Times — Compared To What’s Coming Next”
Post by: AGelbert on May 01, 2020, 07:27:51 pm
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By Chauncey DeVega, Salon. Empires fall a little bit at a time and then all at once. Over the last two decades, America has proven itself to be well along on that journey. The coronavirus pandemic has simply pushed our nation further along that downward spiral. Ultimately, the pandemic has further exposed and exacerbated — for those still somehow in denial about the decades-long reality of America as a decaying empire — deep political, social, economic, cultural and other societal problems.The country’s infrastructure is rotting. Trump presides over a plutocratic, corrupt, cruel, authoritarian, pathological kakistocracy. - more - (https://popularresistance.org/these-are-the-good-times-compared-to-whats-coming-next/) 😬

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Title: Climate crisis: North pole 'soon to be ice free in summer', scientists say
Post by: AGelbert on May 02, 2020, 09:21:47 pm
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OSCAR-WINNER EMMA THOMPSON STARS IN NEW EXTINCTION REBELLION FILM
https://www.euronews.com/living/2020/04/30/oscar-winner-emma-thompson-stars-in-new-extinction-rebellion-film

Climate crisis: North pole 'soon to be ice free in summer', scientists say
https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change-north-pole-ice-free-summer-arctic-global-warming-a9474881.html

Jesse Ventura weighing presidential run on Green Party ticket
https://nypost.com/2020/04/28/jesse-ventura-weighing-presidential-run-on-green-party-ticket/

Stop the Money Pipeline: Private banks owning oil companies is a recipe for disaster
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Title: we review the Planet of the Humans movie and consider its implications for climate activism.
Post by: AGelbert on May 05, 2020, 08:10:40 pm
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11,188 views•May 5, 2020

https://youtu.be/ZmNjLHRAP2U

Just Have a Think
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On the 50th Anniversary of the first ever Earth Day, Jeff Gibbs and Michael Moore released a documentary film free on You Tube. The film is called Planet of the Humans, and it proved quite popular. This week we review the movie and consider its implications for climate activism.

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Title: 🚩 World Faces (Nearly) Unlivable Heat 🌡️ 😓
Post by: AGelbert on May 05, 2020, 10:33:18 pm
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MAY 4, 2020

BY BOB BERWYN, INSIDECLIMATE NEWS

🚩 World Faces (Nearly) Unlivable Heat 🌡️ 😓

SNIPPET:

As much as one-third of the global population will live in areas scientists say are too hot for humans in 50 years, with an outsized portion of those affected among the world’s poorest and least able to adapt, according to a new study published in the journal PNAS. For every degree C of warming beyond current levels, the study shows, an additional 1 billion people will be forced to adapt to, or migrate from, a nearly-unlivable climate.

The scientists used research methods like those used for other wildlife to determine the ideal conditions for human societies is an annual average temperature of between 52 to 59 degrees Fahrenheit – what they call the “climate niche” in which humans and civilizations have developed over the past 6,000 years.

These projections are “unlivable for the ordinary, for poor people, for the average world citizen,” co-author Marten Scheffer told the AP.

Full article:  InsideClimate News (https://insideclimatenews.org/news/04052020/hot-climate-niches-50-years-human-population?utm_campaign=Hot%20News&utm_medium=email&_hsmi=87424542&_hsenc=p2ANqtz--OiCLAGrJXU-tk0yVsted4-kqaKUZXN7Gq_dkYEjukA3zyFfVNBesXw6y0T9bBHmkXV7Va&utm_content=87424542&utm_source=hs_email) (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F1%2F3-111018132422-1692935.gif&hash=94922268ae283c7009e29067ba89220f466726ec)
Title: 🦀 Trump, 🦕 Gas Stove Pollution, 😷 COVID-19 Causes, ✨ Climate Journalism and 🚩 Unlivable Heat coming
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NEWS OF THE DAY
Wednesday, May 6, 2020

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Gas Powered Appliances Pollute Indoor Air, Study Finds (https://www.ecowatch.com/gas-appliances-indoor-air-pollution-health-2645924303.html?utm_source=EcoWatch+List&utm_campaign=e35feed1bb-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_49c7d43dc9-e35feed1bb-86021645)



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Jane Goodall: COVID-19 Is a Product of Our Unhealthy Relationship With Animals and the Environment (https://www.ecowatch.com/jane-goodall-covid19-2645922488.html?utm_source=EcoWatch+List&utm_campaign=e35feed1bb-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_49c7d43dc9-e35feed1bb-86021645)



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Title: How Aerosol Driven Water Droplet Concentrations Control Low Level Cloud Coverage Affecting Climate
Post by: AGelbert on May 09, 2020, 12:21:58 am
How Aerosol Driven Water Droplet Concentrations Control Low Level Cloud Coverage Affecting Climate
495 views•May 8, 2020

https://youtu.be/h_Lgi71TZ8A

Paul Beckwith
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In a nutshell, with more aerosols (particles and non-water liquids) in the atmosphere, there are more cloud condensation nuclei so many more and smaller water droplets in clouds. Thus clouds are much more reflective of incoming sunlight, causing some cooling to partially offset GHG warming. Smaller water droplets in clouds means that they rain less, become thicker,  hold more water, cover a larger fraction of the sky and persist for a lot longer causing even more cooling offset. With global industrial shutdowns from our coronavirus responses, we have less aerosols in the skies, thus less of this cooling offset occurring.

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Title: BBN: Reopen For ☠️ What
Post by: AGelbert on May 09, 2020, 09:10:24 pm
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BBN: Reopen For What
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Title: Arctic Surprise
Post by: AGelbert on May 12, 2021, 01:53:26 pm
Agelbert NOTE: This wasn't a surprise to me, but it is good that the true ice decline trend is finally being officially acknowledged.

Arctic surprise

In 2007, IPCC AR4 produced this figure showing projections of changes in Arctic sea ice extent in the summer (July-September). The different colours represent a wide range of different scenarios for future emissions. Observations (1979-2020, added purple line) have decreased far more rapidly than projected in the CMIP3 models used at the time, when plotted on the same scale with the same reference period.

This demonstrates the concept of a climate-related ‘surprise’, or what might have been considered a low-likelihood ;) event at the time.

The original figure is here. Also see Stroeve et al. (2012) for a CMIP5 comparison (Fig. 2a), and Notz et al. (2020) for a CMIP6 comparison (Fig. 2f).

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About Ed Hawkins
Climate scientist in the National Centre for Atmospheric Science (NCAS) at the University of Reading. IPCC AR5 Contributing Author. Can be found on twitter too:
http://www.climate-lab-book.ac.uk/2021/arctic-surprise/
Title: Warming patterns
Post by: AGelbert on May 12, 2021, 02:01:21 pm
Warming patterns

Global warming does not mean the same amount of warming over the whole globe. There is a distinct spatial pattern to the long-term changes.

The first map below shows the total change in temperature since the early-industrial era, and the second map removes the global average warming to highlight regions of above and below average warming.

The largest warming is seen in the Arctic, and the land regions are clearly warming faster than the ocean. The striking blue area in the North Atlantic is a region of very little warming, and this is due to a decline in the strength of the Atlantic overturning circulation which brings warm water from the tropics to the northern latitudes.

All these features of the warming have been long predicted in climate model simulations, for example in IPCC AR4 and IPCC AR5.

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Technical details: spatial pattern of warming uses approach described in Hawkins et al. (2020) using Berkeley Earth dataset, and the changes are relative to 1850-1900.

About Ed Hawkins
Climate scientist in the National Centre for Atmospheric Science (NCAS) at the University of Reading. IPCC AR5 Contributing Author. Can be found on twitter too: @ed_hawkins
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Title: Huge Spike In Shipping Containers Lost At Sea
Post by: AGelbert on May 14, 2021, 02:40:02 pm
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By Ann Koh (Bloomberg) April 27, 2021

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The ONE Apus arrives in Kobe, Japan on December 8, 2020, after losing an estimated 1,816 containers overboard approximately 1,600 nautical miles northwest of Hawaii, USA. Photo courtesy W K Webster and Co.

Huge Spike In Shipping Containers Lost At Sea

SNIPPET:

There are a host of reasons for the sudden rise in accidents. Weather is getting more unpredictable, while ships are growing bigger, allowing for containers to be stacked higher than ever before. But greatly exacerbating the situation is a surge in e-commerce after consumer demand exploded during the pandemic, increasing the urgency for shipping lines to deliver products as quickly as possible.

“The increased movement of containers means that these very large containerships are much closer to full capacity than in the past,” said Clive Reed, founder of Reed Marine Maritime Casualty Management Consultancy. “There is commercial pressure on the ships to arrive on time and consequently make more voyages.”

After gale-force winds and large waves buffeted the 364-meter One Apus in November, causing the loss of more than 1,800 containers, footage showed thousands of steel boxes strewn like Lego pieces onboard, some torn to metal shreds. The incident was the worst since 2013, when the MOL Comfort broke in two and sank with its entire cargo of 4,293 containers into the Indian Ocean.

In January, the Maersk Essen lost about 750 boxes while sailing from Xiamen, China, to Los Angeles. A month later, 260 containers fell off the Maersk Eindhoven when it lost power in heavy seas.

The need for speed is creating precarious conditions that can quickly bring disaster, according to shipping experts. The dangers range from stevedores incorrectly locking boxes on top of one another to captains not deviating from a storm to save on fuel and time as they face pressure from charterers, they said. One wrong move can put cargoes and crew at risk.

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Agelbert NOTE: It will get much worse (learn why below).

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Climate Change, Blue Water Cargo Shipping and Predicted Ocean Wave Activity: PART 1 of 3 (http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/climate-change/global-warming-is-with-us/msg13556/#msg13556)
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on May 16, 2021, 03:02:54 pm
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By Marlowe HOOD
Paris (AFP) March 2, 2021

SNIPPET:

Climate action cheerleaders are past masters at stringing together whatever signs of progress are at hand to conjure a glass half full, so good news laundry lists must be viewed skeptically.

There are arguably just as many reasons for pessimism.

Last week UN chief Antonio Guterres noted that -- net-zero promises notwithstanding -- "governments are nowhere close to the level of ambition needed to limit climate change to 1.5 degrees Celsius and meet the goals of the Paris Agreement."

The 2015 treaty calls for capping global warming at "well below" 2C compared to preindustrial levels, and the world is currently on track for double that.

On Tuesday, the International Energy Agency reported that global CO2 emissions have returned to pre-pandemic levels, and then some.

But in all sectors -- energy, industry, geopolitics, finance, public opinion -- a flurry of activity has experts wondering whether the world is, at long last, turning the corner on climate.

"Is the pendulum swinging hard in the right direction? Absolutely," said Gernot Wagner, a climate economist at New York University.

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on May 18, 2021, 10:18:30 pm
EcoWatch
May. 18, 2021 11:31AM EST
By Oil Change International

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IEA's Climate Model Says No More Fossil Fuel Extraction

The IEA has released its first-ever fully-fledged energy scenario that is in line with the urgent goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius (°C). The scenario has a section titled "Summary for Policymakers" where the IEA outlines, "There is no need for investment in new fossil fuel supply in our net zero pathway."

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https://www.ecowatch.com/international-energy-agency-fossil-fuels-climate-2653023817.html
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on May 19, 2021, 01:00:26 pm
Agelbert NOTE: This selected graphic from October 14, 2020 (there's a lot more in the Gallery (http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/index.php?action=gallery;cat=22) 🧐) is posted here to remind readers of what the UN has said about OUR GLOBAL Catastrophic Climate Change trajectory. :(

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Title: 📢 For the seventh year in a row ... 👀
Post by: AGelbert on May 24, 2021, 12:28:08 pm
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May 24, 2021

Ana Is First Named Storm Of 2021 Atlantic (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/gallery/renewablerevolution/2/3-300919160022-22802205.png) Hurricane 'Season'

For the seventh year in a row, a named storm formed before the official start of the Atlantic hurricane season. Subtropical storm Ana formed on Saturday in the Atlantic Ocean northeast of Bermuda and by Sunday evening had weakened to a Tropical Depression and never threatened land. Increases in air and ocean temperatures due to climate change have wide-ranging effects on hurricane precipitation, intensity, and coastal flooding. The recent trend of earlier storms is yet another indication of the effects of climate change on tropical weather systems, scientists say, but more research is needed to definitively link the expansion of hurricane season with climate change. (Washington Post $, Earther (https://earther.gizmodo.com/hurricane-season-is-about-to-start-early-again-1846940736), Yale Climate Connections, NPR, Weather Channel, New York Times $, USA Today, CNN; Climate Signals background: Hurricanes (https://www.climatesignals.org/climate-change-hurricanes?utm_campaign=Hot%20News&utm_medium=email&_hsmi=129182045&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-9F6arZQ4jQ_pbhh58sChONUpr4JAZSPWVArDd72PmF5omMP6IXkg0Ej5iBfqC5rUGCRhkxpvg1He16winDOx-MVeh7ew&utm_content=129182045&utm_source=hs_email))

Agelbert NOTE: The (very recent) past is prologue:
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on May 27, 2021, 04:30:21 pm
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May 27, 2021

CYCLONE YAAS: Tens of thousands homeless in eastern India after cyclone batters coast (Reuters, CNN), in pictures: Cyclone Yaas leaves behind a trail of destruction; at least [ten million] people affected (Weather Channel (https://newsletter.climatenexus.org/e2t/tc/VW5rzl92v0nsW30SRQX5ZkMjJVBzM2_4s4td_N7lCd-J5nxG7V3Zsc37CgLHtW5HkWvK6ftygPW5vlCvx3QkQzQW5ksCmq1DK2MGW8bvfrJ5QPqwbW6p8P1j6BzXBMW5_T1Fl2ZBpppW3_dQ-s7dlPrlW6xjXj942SC9XW7T1rpR3PPc5KW4qFS0B42_YY3W6N_RDh5P1jZkMHg2j7QHvQ8VRcbpn2-GkGqW21rG3l3DtDSWW24Tpsl4mMjkLW622D2v8nxL9wW3NLDGg3Mpv5PW3SdZWk24wMz4W2B-fT937NX6LW4H-BFP3bk45XW5bslDP271S_nW6lz9Yv2HB55jVqZqkK3_JJDJW5drwHq24LmHnW6khr681SZDV2N7nqslV6td2kW3yGLLZ2xvtlZW6T_zLP3R-tNdW32gd-v49bwtnW6StGsK91gSVSW6m9NC672_MWpW4jlYdl1LBN1F3f-t1)), PM Modi to visit Odisha, Bengal on Friday to review impact of Cyclone Yaas (Hindustan Times), fact check: old video of waves 🌊 engulfing bridge passed off Cyclone Yaas striking Odisha (India Today), reporter asks man why he stepped out during Cyclone Yaas in Odisha. His reply is now a viral video (India Today (https://newsletter.climatenexus.org/e2t/tc/VW5rzl92v0nsW30SRQX5ZkMjJVBzM2_4s4td_N7lCd_B5nxH1V3Zsc37CgJPXW51DsKT8hhnwsW6c3_1m5Lf37FW5hGBHh6y_KlsW6J-6Sn5ZhR-WW4qXfhn33-bMDW6WHHl53ZMsy8W43JXPh2kQpyHW3_wM9r8JgjCdW6r8dpY1Gh4lfW7MzSm88PtV_cW8x35w06YsW5yW5GttbK1cb22hW1qLny06VtMNMVRmKgv1hTJ59W664Rfn1_lc4BW6jwnT16JgVJzVdtL2L3c1QcVW2TKrln51bS0_N8SDyKYrjbxdW5MhVw38tsVcwW3JjQBC89NszSW2zK-mF6ZqV3nN8bQF3HX9B-VW1MxCg53gPdY-W1psZQz6CCjnMW7m5Ft_6T6Q_bW88839P75SGxWW7XjQ6F4kBvKNVqvMRC8PRY8LW3G021K3VJhV5W6BJWnb7QkGmhW6zygvn55dZY-W71jnjM3Wbg3JVrG5Zb1B5ZB4W3qNZ5_1wM9GvW3T6S8J21DnR0W5T1PTQ4gyHFNW8c2hB05lGtBW3pHl1))

WMO REPORT: Rising global temperatures 🌡️ 'inexorably closer' to climate tipping point - U.N (Reuters (https://newsletter.climatenexus.org/e2t/tc/VW5rzl92v0nsW30SRQX5ZkMjJVBzM2_4s4td_N7lCd_V3p_97V1-WJV7CgK8GW2CFyd42m-MHFW52jqvd5rP7TSW6Hg7nN6hGdbSW5j8F0k24mxDKW4CyYPs4D5LHLVcQP212Hw6MrW3gTv9Y48dd4WN8085l1Yk_rMN7LVfGpb708CW2sXkyt4lH77CW8wbFBr66hPQnW4VpVvS1CjlbDW5pj-Yd8zjTzdW2K9kXm8ykJCQW6XJfln3yKQKqW3XXSQf1Qy7zhW3xCsMM6Ml70rN86WT4WNk3wqW8cVZ797L3lkLW7qpVT72JH-bbW2Tb0ny4FjDj9W2SpB1d4kW9F8VwTCHd56mFs5W8lt9bM3k7Jgm37Hk1), AP, FT $, BBC, NPR)

HEALTH: Climate crisis inflicting huge ‘hidden costs’ on mental health (The Guardian (https://newsletter.climatenexus.org/e2t/tc/VW5rzl92v0nsW30SRQX5ZkMjJVBzM2_4s4td_N7lCd-J5nxG7V3Zsc37CgVnMW5mjTRL2k7KVSW2qc63n9fSWxFW3_qX1Q8F4LJBW3ng1vk2yWDtdW3BlXXW8x04P8W4Fv4D72W6XN7N9f6sPp5RbQVW3KY8yG2kVdWtVbGDnQ4f-tkLW1R_Xhv8k5S67W2Qp6wz1K1qFTW966smL2F__q5W94Ybjm3Ml17sW8QWyXn3B0XnsW2nln7x8PVgXXW6m14qX3-w0BxW11bcDJ4rCC1vN5bM_TQp1d-xW3Yghf49jR1gPW6nw1Rv92Wf5lW35hCsK4GkPsmW8xMScG9bQd2LW689lvl6qk_fTW3y17mF8FQv7dN7TXF6xVSCmsW5mrsFy6kmcWRW66Zs7g6JF2FXW6GY1SF4dsSHXW2Jy1qm74x74wW32Y2bT8xF-3KW2zDkbg2SHS3DN4n2jPl612313fDV1), Thomson Reuters Foundation)
Title: Would Louisiana Voters Care If Climate Change Wiped Out South Louisiana?
Post by: AGelbert on May 30, 2021, 05:22:10 pm
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By Johnna Crider Published May 29, 2021

Would Louisiana Voters Care If Climate Change Wiped Out South Louisiana?

SNIPPET:

To paraphrase what Boesch previously said, the public feels like the issue is too big for them to do anything about it, so they don’t. It’s a helpless feeling that makes one feel as if any action they may take doesn’t matter — we’re all going to die eventually, so why bother? I’ve seen this attitude in my own community and circle of friends. Tossing a piece of plastic on the ground with an awkward laugh, “It’s just a piece of paper. No big deal.”

Growing up in a culture that mocked people for caring about the environment, I used to think it was cool to litter. The toxicity of this culture dictated that if you care, you’re dumb.

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https://cleantechnica.com/2021/05/29/would-louisiana-voters-care-if-climate-change-wiped-out-south-louisiana/

Agelbert NOTE: The comments are even better than this excellent article filled with hard truths.

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Louisiana Is Sinking A handful of cities in the Bayou State have lost significant elevation over the past three decades.
https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/articles/2019-07-18/louisiana-is-sinking-national-geodetic-survey-finds


Title: Trajectories of the Earth System in the Anthropocene 🚩
Post by: AGelbert on June 05, 2021, 07:29:56 pm
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Hot House Earth
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"Trajectories of the Earth System in the Anthropocene", a recent study co-authored by Will Steffen, noted chemist, climate systems analyst, and professor of Earth System Science at Australian National University, warns of catastrophic changes to the Earth climate if current emission trends are not immediately reversed.

The #HotHouseEarth scenario — an existential crisis in which fundamental climate systems, and the ecosystems that rely on them, are irreversibly altered — is not only possible, but likely, if current trajectories persist.  We will then enter a new geological age, perhaps we can call it the #Idiocene!

#TippingPoints lead to #TippingCascades, and the resulting failure of inter-twined systems leading to systemic collapse.  While it is already too late to fully reverse the impact of the humanity's Anthropocene foolishness and greed, the current geological age characterized by human activity,  it is still possible to 'guide' the climate trajectory toward a new stabilized Earth system.  But the window of opportunity to reach this goal is closing fast. Achieving it will require huge and pro-active changes to human economy, culture and politics.
Title: Inadequate Climate Policy ☠️ is a Human Rights Violation
Post by: AGelbert on June 19, 2021, 02:14:43 pm
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BY Andrea Germanos, Common Dreams

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According to the Guardian: “By not taking all ‘necessary measures’ to prevent the ‘detrimental’ effects of climate change, the court said, Belgian authorities had breached the right to life (article 2) and the right to respect for private and family life (article 8 )” of the European Convention on Human Rights.

The federal government and those of three regions — the Brussels-Capital, the Flemish, and the Walloon regions — had “not behaved as generally prudent and diligent authorities, which constitutes an offense,” reported Agence France-Presse.

In an explanation of the legal action on its website, Klimaatzaak references a 2019 ruling from the Supreme Court of the Netherlands:
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This lawsuit is necessary because temperature records continue to be broken, because flooding is becoming more frequent… but above all because there is no real Belgian climate policy. We’ve seen in the Netherlands that this can be enforced via legal action: the Dutch climate organization Urgenda won a similar case that has led to an ambitious climate law.

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https://truthout.org/articles/belgium-court-says-inadequate-climate-policy-constitutes-human-rights-violation/

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Title: Legal Experts Define Ecocide, Take Step Toward International Criminal Law
Post by: AGelbert on June 25, 2021, 12:20:07 pm
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Legal Experts Define Ecocide, Take Step Toward International Criminal Law

By  Kaitlin Sullivan Jun. 23, 2021

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The draft defines ecocide as, "unlawful or wanton acts committed with knowledge that there is a substantial likelihood of severe and widespread or long-term damage to the environment being caused by those acts." If adopted by the ICC, those accused of ecocide would be tried in the same court as war crimes, crimes against humanity, genocide and the crime of aggression, said The Guardian. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F1%2F3-120818185040-1659929.gif&hash=0a9ca0c1f083655b821cbf024422e55e009a6d8d)


The proposal and definition came less than a month after a groundbreaking case in which a Dutch court held Royal Dutch Shell liable for its contributions to climate change, and a growing number of world leaders have pushed for ecocide to be recognized as a crime. The Pope has even proposed making it a sin for Catholics, Inside Climate News reports.

According to CNBC, ecocide, "is an umbrella term for all forms of the mass damage of ecosystems, from industrial pollution to the release of micro plastics into the oceans," and the exact definition has been debated since the early 1970s. Now that a definition is in place, activists hope the next step is holding people, companies and governments accountable for environmental destruction that ultimately harms humans. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/gallery/renewablerevolution/2/3-081019223703.jpeg)

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Title: Melting Cables, Buckled Roads As Northwest 🌡️ 😓 Heatwave 🥵 Peaks
Post by: AGelbert on June 30, 2021, 01:47:30 pm
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Melting Cables, Buckled Roads As Northwest 🌡️ 😓 Heatwave 🥵 Peaks

Another day, another cascade of high temperature records broken across the Pacific Northwest as a heatwave unlike any in recent memory continued into a third day. In Washington, Oregon, and British Columbia, all-time records were broken in many places for the third consecutive day: In Portland, highs topped out at 116°F on Monday afternoon, obliterating Sunday’s record of 112°, which itself was a jump from the historic high of 107° set in August 1981. Temperatures at Seattle’s Sea-Tac airport were measured at 108°, topping Sunday’s 104°.

The effects of 72 hours of extraordinary heat showed themselves in dramatic ways Monday. In Portland, the light rail and streetcar systems were suspended as the grid felt the strain – in some cases, literally, as power cables melted in the sun.

Multnomah County, where Portland is located, reported a spike in heat-related emergency and urgent care visits as residents sought relief.

Roads across the region buckled as asphalt and concrete expanded and c r a c k e d due to high temperatures; the Seattle Parks Department closed one indoor public pool because air temperatures in the facility were so high as to be unsafe for visitors.

At Amazon’s largely un-air conditioned warehouse complex south of Seattle, some workers were kept on the job throughout Monday, even as others were sent home with pay following reports on Sunday that departments were running “power hours,” encouraging workers to move as quickly as possible (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/gallery/renewablerevolution/3-120716190938.png) for an hour to increase productivity. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F1%2F3-120818180835-16271224.gif&hash=c2a9bfbff23e2414975829eb4b3655af12eb02cc)

Residents experienced scattered blackouts, with around 30,000 outages reported in Washington and Oregon Monday evening.

Heat waves kill more people on average in the U.S. than any other weather-related event, and are expected to continue to become increasingly frequent and severe with the effects of climate change. “We are not meant for this,” Washington Gov. Jay Inslee told MSNBC. “This is the beginning of a permanent emergency ... we have to tackle the source of this problem, which is climate change.” (Reuters, MSNBC, AP, K5 News, Bloomberg, The Oregonian, Seattle Times, New York Times $, Washington Post $, Washington Post $, CNN, CNN, CBS, HuffPost, Gizmodo, MIT Technology Review, Scientific American (https://newsletter.climatenexus.org/e2t/tc/MX4YSjlJnfDW6MfSd-1Jrm4MW7CpFKy4tpc8wN4zFKKD5nxG7V3Zsc37CgPF8MTFfwHj70b5W43b9TS8xsbGBW7gzRSW3zyWRkW4ljGS97FrzSpW2TS-VP4K_XlcN6dxY2lxbQKkW3QzXWC6N70mbW8QY9Ng4xmHC4VkZRMY8wSPwpW6JmKyx5pwxpNVBWqwJ3gRT58W1b5YDZ4ckXpqVDhLFH8N9JShV6SBrJ9h61TxW36V3047knWvtW8v5bbJ33KfpxN4ckZptPYSwcW2dPthz5QtkJBW7rRmp61g4TLqW6yc15C4chXbvW5C96Qq5GKSggW6r9MSd3X6Rx9W922nmp3NN2xhVHNbL42SxQ3QVVdLYN8GmF8SW6ZdnMj7mKBfhW7FpbWf8_hVd1N1-WknqRtxR5W2fH7Wd7TwSmKW95W4m08k2m9rW4zGdHN2Tg5cdW525vzZ3cHqTP3gLn1), 770 KTTH, Axios (https://newsletter.climatenexus.org/e2t/tc/MX4YSjlJnfDW6MfSd-1Jrm4MW7CpFKy4tpc8wN4zFKKD5nxG7V3Zsc37CgJ8bW6J1bzR4tY6dXW6vdX4d3wNzBqW4jLssY3tC26qW5jj4Vf6NnS2pW7w9mBV2PrxnHN8sL4ddtHR8ZW2HZv3369B492W1R7y1d1JZMJ_W50YJzs49zYCRW23gh5f6Xl60dVZjtY11NXrxRW59wwG2663Y8PW4SHwxy1RFF0dW829KXk1WQKs7VVx-0l7DnstlW8yqDBK1DW916W5D3ZjZ88667WW1mtKtM2cy1RmV2Q_0D5cS4vkW5d6R5D3XYD-WW6-xwWm31Q81zW7grGyN5Q4X93W5FBQsC1_DR7CW4xJ8jr2GLwVQW4wKpD74dkkQ7W5KjR296sB0NwW4rCcS88pSDLgMPWVXGBNfzqV_TBLc55tDYJW47ZMyz75KkhzTq8YY7Z7w38W4-stFF5JQZ-Z3hBn1); Photos: Axios (https://newsletter.climatenexus.org/e2t/tc/MX4YSjlJnfDW6MfSd-1Jrm4MW7CpFKy4tpc8wN4zFKKD5nxG7V3Zsc37CgXbKW85g5347YZ9pnVB_7Nf2qc0Q9W2jlvZ15PR51pW91FNX-1J7g8xW3DRyFL7jt-v2W1B4CDt34Ly5gW8gfq_g5TvQXmV4kmT569_VGnW5Vn_zl7qcxb5W6W-lNK8X4cKjW3Dmg4S3-yKJkN1z9RQCWM2SKTTj-c1h-gBNN2Z27nrJtFR8W4J82Wz6bM8tjW121_845FBPjcW4XkDzY8XCCpMW8ymjdD6_vNbfN7BQF3yGTQL7W9953T4522jDbW6TLWHY8q8TCBW7528HP6jCxFMW5X_9FN6Cp83fW3qtDfS99mmn9W1yhtPn1CLt4kW2nbPMP7mW5s-W94SKf2572XjHW5lff_326fH_PW6DB2j48nHYDlN1yfLLlvNMCNW1mW12B53tc7LW2m5jTn57Yp8B35tr1))

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Title: 🚩 Greenland Ice MELT today
Post by: AGelbert on July 06, 2021, 12:26:06 pm
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Title: 🚩 Marine vertebrates MUST have living invertebrates to eat
Post by: AGelbert on July 10, 2021, 12:59:14 pm
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Common Dreams Jul. 07, 2021

By Andrea Germanos

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The record breaking heat waves that left regions of North America including British Columbia in Canada may have led to the deaths of more than a billion intertidal animals like mussels that inhabit the Salish Sea coastline. Researchers found that many animals essentially "cooked" in their own shells due to the heat as temperatures reached 50°C (122°F), more than the 100°F that the mussels can withstand.

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Agelbert NOTE: The marine vertebrates must have living invertebrates to eat in order to survive...

Selected screenshots from video of presentation on 2015 Study by Scientist Gerardo Ceballos: Threat of Climate Change Caused Extinction to Marine Vertebrates:
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Title: Business as usual (BAU) is a death sentence for over 75% (or more) of life on Earth.
Post by: AGelbert on July 10, 2021, 01:21:39 pm
The IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) has a scientific name for Business as Usual. They have modeled it. They have a number for it. It's called the RCP-8.5. RCP stands for Representative Concentration Pathway.
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BAU annual FF production in the worse case IPCC scenarios (including IPCC RCP-8.5) is LESS than what is NOW BEING PRODUCED annually WORLDWIDE!

If you can cite references to that, I will stop being annoying, but I don't think you can for 3 reasons: 
Because Russia doesn't give out its FF production data publicly, the EIA ESTIMATES it, based on FF industry "knowledge". Because Saudi Arabia and other ME countries outright lie about their figures.
Because IPCC models are driven off decadal estimates of FF burnt.

I'm not your employee. If you are serious about learning the truth, subscribe to GCaptain (it's free). They cheerlead all sorts of polluting energy and shipping, along with an occasional article on Renewable Energy technology. That's where I learned about the Panama Canal LNG increase in activity and all those NEW LNG ice breakers that Russia is building (for some reason that you can't seem to relate to MORE FF production).

Here's a recent article:

http://gcaptain.com/capacity-increases-could-put-transpacific-container-rates-under-more-pressure/

They have their pulse on world shipping, energy production, and cargo capacity. The only article they posted that gives some hope for reduced FF production, among a tsunami of articles over the past year of massive increases in fossil fuel production AND upstream exploitation of NEW FF finds, is the fact that the Schlumberger pigs are getting out of the seismic ocean business (used to find more oil and gas). They are the big dogs in that but there are other polluting pigs who are NOT slowing down, but speeding up, especially in the ocean deposit LNG exploitation. This month the largest sale of leases for oil and gas exploration in the HISTORY of the USA for the Gulf of Mexico will be auctioned by the Trump Tools of the Fossil Fuel Fascists. I read that in GCaptain recently. Now if you think that portends anything but a MASSIVE INCREASE in exploitation for ,and production of, fossil fuels, you need psychological counseling.

Paul Beckwith's web site is also a good place for the truth about climate change and the IPCC scenario shortcomings (otherwise know as Happy Talk). He pulls no punches and gets into the math. So, you can argue with him all you want. I guarantee you that he will carve you up like a thanksgiving turkey.
 
https://paulbeckwith.net/

I know the truth about the short AND long term effects of the ongoing massive GHG production increase, the IPCC scenario faults and how the world economy is in a boost phase, NOT a 'shrinking bordering on collapse' phase, and do not need to prove anything at all to you.

My numerous posts on this issue have been consistently questioned by you. To me, you have no credibility as an objective person or a disinterested party. Frankly, I do not care if you believe your fantasy. I once did care and tried to patiently, and with irrefutable sources, explain the existential threat we are under to you, but your irrational responses to my posts convinced me that you lack objectivity, to put it as charitably as I can.

If you want to believe a YUGE COLLAPSE is just around the corner, go for it. If you want to believe said 'collapse' is going to make all those pesky GHG atmospheric heaters 'go away' because we are all hunting bugs with spears in the jungle, go for it. Who am I to keep you from going nuts?

Have a nice day.
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Title: The deadliest weather event is often the most overlooked.
Post by: AGelbert on July 10, 2021, 03:51:20 pm
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Title: 🚩 Climate change is real and its fingerprints are all over this stuff'
Post by: AGelbert on July 13, 2021, 12:54:16 pm
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July 13, 2021

Climate-Fueled Heat, Police 🦍 Tactics Endanger Unhoused People (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-041115022304.png&hash=cd8cb8e28ab8f7fc78c1ea00d30a661bd937aed5)
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The extreme heat 🌡️ broiling the American West 😓 poses heightened dangers for unhoused people. Monsoonal humidity in California makes it harder to cool down overnight, the LA Times reports. Even though 35% humidity levels in Southern California are far lower than elsewhere in the country, it diminishes the body's ability to cool down overnight. “Nighttime is the only break we get,” Anthony Wainscott, who lives on the streets of Palmdale, with his dog Roscoe, told the LA Times. “And even then it’s way too hot.”

In Portland, Oregon, recent heatwaves made worse by climate change are exacerbating housing insecurity crises already worsened by the COVID-19 pandemic. Years of police tactics targeting unhoused populations discourage people from seeking shelter indoors out of fear that police will confiscate their possessions and clear housing encampments as they have done in the past.
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Title: America's Two Largest Water Reservoirs at Record Lows 🚩
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The U.S. federal government may soon declare a first-ever water shortage in the Colorado River basin by 2022 at the latest. Declaring a water shortage would mean having mandatory water cuts in the Lower Basin States as two reservoirs, Lake Mead and Lake Powell, have hit record lows after a 21 year decline in the water levels. The Colorado River, which flows through these states, is more than 1,400 miles long and serves about 40 million people across the West.

Farmers and Indigenous tribal nations have been hit the hardest by the lower water levels after years of struggling to secure their share of the river's water. But residents out West don't just get drinking water from the Colorado River, it also powers hydroelectric dams. That includes the Hoover Dam, which produces roughly 4 billion kilowatt-hours of hydroelectric power which is enough to serve 1.3 million people.

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Title: Salmon need river water at or below 56°F ...
Post by: AGelbert on July 16, 2021, 01:39:22 pm
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Nearly All The Chinook Salmon In The Sacramento River Will Die  :(

A drumbeat of climate-fueled heatwaves, compounded by water management practices, will likely kill nearly all juvenile chinook salmon in the Sacramento River, California wildlife officials warn. “It’s an extreme set of cascading climate events pushing us into this crisis situation,” California Dept. of Fish and Wildlife spokesperson Jordan Traverso told reporters.

Salmon need river water at or below 56°F to fully develop (which, in a human context, is so dangerously cold it can inhibit your ability to control your breathing). Low river levels caused by drought mean the water heats and evaporates faster, which lowers, and thus further warms the water in a vicious cycle.

The salmon die-offs have increased due to diversions from the Shasta Reservoir, which was formed by damming the Sacramento River in the 1940s, to the agriculture industry across the Central Valley, itself parched by the climate-fueled megadrought.

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Gizmodo: Sky-high temperatures and human reservoir mismanagement could create an ecological disaster in one of California's main waterways. (https://gizmodo.com/heat-isn-t-the-only-thing-that-could-kill-nearly-all-1847293551)  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-130418200416.png&hash=15d789b29124aa5a1f1ea397ce630913734b20a4)
 
Title: Devastating 🌊 floods in western Europe exceed even worst climate change predictions
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Devastating floods in western Europe exceed even worst climate change predictions

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Climate scientists have warned for decades that emitting copious amounts of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere would make extreme weather, such as floods and heatwaves, more common. But even they, whose predictions have often been labeled ‘alarmist’, were surprised by the extent of the destruction caused by killer floods in Germany this week or the North American deadly heatwaves, where temperatures were close to a staggering 50°C.

Western Europe is 🌊 drowning (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/gallery/renewablerevolution/2/3-300919160020-22761118.png)(https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/gallery/renewablerevolution/2/3-300919160021-22772252.png)
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Heavy rains in the Rhine basin on Wednesday smashed precipitation records, leading to devastating floods that killed at least 100 people 🤦‍♂️ and destroyed tens of thousands of homes.  Nearly 900 army personnel have joined rescue workers in Germany since about 1,300 people were still reported missing.

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Title: Flooding & heat 🚩 & fires 🔥 & 🐦😢
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July 19, 2021

🌊 Flooding & heat 🚩 & fires 🔥 & 🐦😢


80+ Fires Rage Across West, Bootleg Passes 300k Acres

The Bootleg Fire has now burned more than 300,000 acres in southern Oregon and continues to grow as more than 80 large wildfires the West forced evacuations across the region. The Bootleg Fire, currently thenation's  largest fire, is fueled by extremely dry vegetation and low humidity and grew at an average rate of about one football field every five seconds over its first 10 days. It was just 25% contained as of Sunday night PDT. Axios (https://newsletter.climatenexus.org/e2t/tc/VWWsNy33wwCKW7GnJXT3tdPFSW2NZxg54vb3YYN6WXHYt5nxG7V3Zsc37CgG8nW4HRyrw6g49npW10JGPP6HYYdMW28Tlf96XKxV4W4j7xK_63JwV6W6vhTsj6gN3VsW5D6NDq2stCCwW7DRkhf26xGMRW75RcKB495tgGW5-JMyh22nvD0W5KZVgl5TQL4rV-L1RY7435YpV_J7y73JdxPQW418Xjm8PMM3mW3nKTZF4KzSj1W2lmdgH3xjZQ7W2qcVmp5_j4vgN7N7FF7D4L9xW3P9k7C6bWLd2W2z8Ksm687TcXW4VH2x197TxrdW8jXvlw3zGzRQW24cck756zzZlN4ntdJCTLB5CVxVY8M1NXYDyW1dX13l2pRmNSW46ZntG3gkLL5W4NGvDV8xBchXW4D-k8_2td0F6W96_0Wp6mXyHQW9c916-4HdjBCW11xZ-198nzx9W1bkTYM90d4v03jn81)
 

June Heatwave Sent People To ER, Birds Fleeing Their Nests

The record-shattering Pacific Northwest Heatwave in late June caused a massive increase in emergency room visits, a new CDC report shows. Emergency departments across the region received 3,504 patients with heat-related illnesses in May and June with 79% of those occurring during the six most intense days of the heatwave. Washington and Oregon ERs saw 1,038 visits on June 28 alone, compared to just nine on June 28, 2019. The heatwave affected wildlife as well. Young birds of prey across the West jumped out of their nests to flee the extreme heat, the Washington Post reported. “I think these events really are wake-up calls,” Bob Sallinger, director of conservation at Portland Audubon, said. “That climate change is here, that the impacts are becoming more and more visible.”
Emergency Departments: Axios (https://newsletter.climatenexus.org/e2t/tc/VWWsNy33wwCKW7GnJXT3tdPFSW2NZxg54vb3YYN6WXHYt5nxG7V3Zsc37CgY8XW70hN9V6mWk-QW5q38LG72q-w_W2n_JsB4PsX9KW1kKnlR3dRvR5VhglkL1p0WSVW37Hq-k728m-LW5t2p_Y7bVql3W6qlNcs5j15CbW1q15T_2XsspLW8CjTFm5NVDxxVyLQJS4W4N19VPt-6H8wyNy4W6Nt_t555sKSqW1q3MJf9bPlXJW73T-6X2GGg80W97YhNb457HZ1W3M7_HL34lVF_W1y7CDB8dVxHjW6g-KxR7QWq-7W26QYdB422qbbW3ncf322KXpkFN5R2tB4FVSHXW7W6f9f8VlZz1W3mDysc1ZBflrW7Fv_Zm8b14YSW5GJj2c7f-mVmW4PqWSV3J-fYxW8LzNfM7-tFkdW4xb3Vz1SM1RtW3vWDky24X31MN5nJLLJy2YHcMcy35QctqT_3bVZ1)
 

Heavy Rains Trigger Deadly Landslides In Mumbai

At least 30 people are dead as heavy rain triggered landslides in and around Mumbai, India over the weekend. One weather station reported more than nine inches (23.49 cm) of rain in a 24 hour period with moderate to heavy rain expected to continue for another 48 hours. Reuters (https://newsletter.climatenexus.org/e2t/tc/VWWsNy33wwCKW7GnJXT3tdPFSW2NZxg54vb3YYN6WXH-y3p_b1V1-WJV7CgFHxVKHpHd35ZmJsN1GMxWgHLsBPN38Jndbjl4pkW3vk74537dtTvW1Qtrxw8Xzd1ZMs30mf2k6LPN1bDkkGGbbw_V_B7dX20rsCBN98H_FkQvSXlW3VBK7n91nHT6W2T5-2v6D2v-KW8ty0tP62ZS9YW3JgSXS6btzW7W67fW7r7t86zmW1jXTgd17kB_dN2-R8z2MBt7SW1R9W1520zkLJW5xfBSZ70MMP1W9f5VSx6VqJGTW4MLLhZ6ZYlhvW1sRsGn6VTwvcW8f59L-3PctRpW5L1PSb746WBBN7bsPJ1qDScZW6R9G194qbcZZW6bBYH64pZ-k_W4HDgjx6fG8D3W3WQ7dn7QLMJqW6R18FK2WTtJYN90_HLB74cGc39hd1)

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on July 20, 2021, 04:45:59 pm
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Title: 'True Cost' of Food Is 3x What Americans Pay, Report Finds
Post by: AGelbert on July 21, 2021, 01:50:32 pm
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The true cost of food in the U.S. (https://www.ecowatch.com/true-cost-of-food-us-2653842839.html)

There is a hidden cost to food in the United States, according to a new report that evaluated factors like healthcare costs, biodiversity loss, and the direct environmental impacts of farming in the country. The report was released by the Rockefeller Foundation explains in its report, True Cost of Food: Measuring What Matters to Transform the U.S. Food System, and analyzes how our current food system is really costing us in the long run.

This was evaluated through 14 metrics including air pollution, food insecurity, antimicrobial resistance driven by the widespread use of antibiotics in farming, and greenhouse gas emissions. Those "externalized costs" amount to at least $2.1 trillion annually and will be paid for by future generations.
Title: 🚩 Amazon Rainforest: no longer the 'lungs of the earth' 🥺
Post by: AGelbert on July 21, 2021, 02:50:36 pm
May 27, 2021

Amazon Rainforest: no longer the 'lungs of the earth'.

https://youtu.be/A01ddGNHLoE

Just Have a Think

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The Amazon was once called the 'lungs of the planet'. New research suggests those lungs are now so badly diseased that they may be irreparable. Human activity hasn't just lowered the amount of CO2 the region can store, it's also kicked off numerous other feedback loops that are now tipping out of control. So what are those variables, and what's the prognosis?

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Frontiers in Forests and Global Change (https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/forests-and-global-change)


Mongabay (https://news.mongabay.com/2021/01/amazon-is-on-the-brink-of-turning-into-a-carbon-source-study-warns/) 🥺🥵


Global Forest Watch (https://www.globalforestwatch.org/map/?map=eyJjZW50ZXIiOnsibGF0IjotMjEuNzg4OTMyMDI4MzQ4NDMsImxuZyI6LTY1LjM4NzI2MDgzMTI0NjY1fSwiem9vbSI6My40MTg4NDQxMjUzNzAxODUzfQ%3D%3D&mapPrompts=eyJvcGVuIjp0cnVlLCJzdGVwc0tleSI6InN1YnNjcmliZVRvQXJlYSJ9) 👀


#amazon  #climateemergency   #actnow (https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/climateemergency)
Title: Heatwave Horror Predicted by Climate Scientists Two Decades Ago, Yale Climate Connections reports.
Post by: AGelbert on July 24, 2021, 06:16:06 pm
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July 24, 2021

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Agelbert COMMENT: The Greedball 🦖 Hydrocarbon 😈 Hellspawn made sure the scientists were ignored. Stupid is as stupid does.

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on July 26, 2021, 04:00:48 pm
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July 26, 2021

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US set for punishing temperatures as huge ‘heat dome’ to settle over country
The Guardian (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jul/24/america-heatwave-climate-crisis-heat-dome?utm_campaign=Hot%20News&utm_medium=email&_hsmi=143764679&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_tlff6LFMYvCywUPDrYhrDJGX_VAwIOx-z2JXjls9sMwBcnuVZ1tZK26pwTBIGT85u-0CWe7LIB0vqADMAn05H7IFIMA&utm_content=143764679&utm_source=hs_email) (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F1%2F3-111018132422-1692935.gif&hash=94922268ae283c7009e29067ba89220f466726ec)
Title: 🚩 Greenland Suffers 18.4 billion tons of Rapid Ice Melt
Post by: AGelbert on July 30, 2021, 12:25:59 pm
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July 30, 2021

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Greenland Suffers Rapid Ice Melt

Ice sheets in Greenland are melting so rapidly due to high temperatures in the Arctic that the amount of ice melt from Tuesday was enough to cover all of Florida in two inches of water, according to the researchers at Polar Portal.

Greenland has lost 18.4 billion tons of surface mass since last Sunday. While not as bad as 2019, this is the third instance of extreme melting in the past decade and the scientists say the area of land melting is larger this time. "In the past decade, we've already seen that surface melting in Greenland has become both more severe and more erratic," Thomas Slater, a glaciologist at the University of Leeds told CNN. "As the atmosphere continues to warm over Greenland, events such as yesterday's extreme melting will become more frequent."
https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/29/us/greenland-ice-melting-climate-change/index.html
Title: 👉"It’s biblical. It just feels like the plague and everything else."
Post by: AGelbert on August 02, 2021, 02:28:41 pm
From around 1975 to well into the 21st century:
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'It's Biblical' — Climate Fueled Destruction Circles The Globe

In recent days, now-houseless survivors of Oregon's Bootleg Fire surveyed their incinerated communities, dozens huddled in a Colorado tunnel seeking shelter from a mudslide, and across the Eastern Hemisphere fires and landslides forced evacuations and took lives.

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"West of the Mississippi we have droughts, fires and smoke, and east of the Mississippi there’s flooding," Anne Golden, whose home was destroyed by the Bootleg Fire, told the New York Times. "It’s biblical. It just feels like the plague and everything else."

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In Colorado, mudslides set off by three days of heavy rainfall cascaded down a mountainside burned by the Grizzly Creek wildfire last year. The compound disaster blocked portions of I-70 with boulders and stranded motorists, including more than 100 forced to remain in their cars overnight.

Wildfires, fueled by dry heat linked to climate change, are also raging around the Mediteranian including on the Italian peninsula and in Sicily. In Turkey, "The animals are on fire :o," Kacarlar resident Muzeyyan Kacar told CNN; at least eight people have died in the more than 100 fires across the country. Wildfires and extreme heat also prompted closures and evacuations across Greece.

"Welcome to global warming!" George Papabeis, a Greek-American tourist in Athens told Reuters. Farther East, at least seven people were killed in a landslide in northern India set off by heavy monsoon rains. "I am 58-years-old and I have never seen such a severe flood in my life," Ved Prakash, a resident of Rajouri, told Reuters.

Global climate devastation: NPR; Infrastructure legislation: see coverage below; Bootleg Fire: New York Times $; Colorado: Colorado Public Radio (https://www.cpr.org/2021/07/30/interstate-70-glenwood-canyon-mudslide-highway-tunnel-motorists-trapped/), AP; Mediteranian region: New York Times $; Italy: The Guardian (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/aug/01/tourists-evacuated-from-pescara-as-italy-records-over-800-wildfires), AP; Turkey: CNN (https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/31/world/turkey-wildfires-manavgat-six-dead-intl/index.html), Axios (https://www.axios.com/tourists-forced-evacuate-turkey-wildfires-6e8137ce-6991-4115-ba39-372da5ddd0b5.html), AP, The Guardian, AP; Greece: Reuters (https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/greece-issues-wildfires-warning-over-dangerous-heatwave-2021-07-30/); India: Reuters (https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/landslide-indias-himachal-kills-seven-rains-wreak-havoc-2021-07-30/)

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Title: We ARE running out of TIME
Post by: AGelbert on August 11, 2021, 12:47:21 pm
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By John Engel - 8.9.2021

🚨 ‘Code red for humanity’: Renewable energy advocates react to U.N. climate report

The report – signed by leaders from 195 governments – is the first released by the panel since 2013, again confirming that global warming is being driven by emissions from human activities.

Read more (https://www.renewableenergyworld.com/policy-regulation/code-red-for-humanity-renewable-energy-advocates-react-to-u-n-climate-report/) (https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/304fa75d7ed32d56ae1ff3a796933cb65eac738511bb960bc4a77bb2f67c0af6.gif)

“We Don’t Have Time” written by Ingemar Beattone Aberg, CJ Palmer and Adam Baptiste, with a little Greta Thunberg in the track.
https://youtu.be/CRZy8yImNWc
Title: 😵 Burning GREATER AREA Than Rest of the World's Fires COMBINED!
Post by: AGelbert on August 12, 2021, 01:10:32 pm
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August 12, 2021

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(https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/gallery/renewablerevolution/2/3-300919160021-22781459.png) Wildfires In Algeria, Siberia Kill, Choke With Smoke

Wildfires in Algeria have killed at least 65 people and incinerated homes, olive tree orchards, and livestock and formed pyrocumulonimbus clouds visible from space in the Berber region of Kabyle, east of Algiers. Extreme heat has made containing the fires more difficult, with temperatures forecast to hit 116°F (47°C) 😓) on Thursday.

Both extreme heat, and the fires it helps fuel are signals of climate change caused by human extraction and combustion of fossil fuels.

France, which colonized and occupied Algeria until the 1960s, has pledged aid and relief. The Algerian fires are the latest in a drumbeat of fires and extreme heat in the Mediterannean region, including fires in Turkey, Greece, and Italy, as well as extreme heat in southern Europe [see coverage below —Ed.].

Warming and fires are not limited to typically warm regions either, wildfires across Siberia are burning a greater area than the rest of the world's fires combined :o, choking a thousand villages with hazardous smoke. (Algeria: AP (https://apnews.com/article/africa-fires-environment-and-nature-climate-change-wildfires-8f6af508db50528dce567e45fb283f8c?utm_campaign=Hot%20News&utm_medium=email&_hsmi=148827047&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-81FiA5c9zMnAXtewPks7CA3BXlPwfGETBnp2afAa7IepPulsD2pq2XAkuRyHAJaNixNRqj3GvpenVtrin3jKO6koF-nw&utm_content=148827047&utm_source=hs_email), Reuters (https://www.reuters.com/world/least-65-killed-algerian-wildfires-greece-italy-burn-2021-08-11/?utm_campaign=Hot%20News&utm_medium=email&_hsmi=148827047&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_snEvkyaGP2dxwHb2rL9Skt6pGBmSazJecC1jxTRV8LdTLFo6gvVhc0DqxDWb8XL6cvhC5CQOFFxJfgqf_m0wLbFZKAQ&utm_content=148827047&utm_source=hs_email), CNN, France24, The Hill; Siberia: Washington Post $, AP (https://apnews.com/article/europe-fires-wildfires-7e2c54047785d5bc5b2d7cc86ac7e1db?utm_campaign=Hot%20News&utm_medium=email&_hsmi=148827047&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-9q3StDNcV7R164reCAfVrOdcmdrcWAL_Jo5JfRdnIpJW6ZYgrdis4YXld0ecB7j5MNToHolSMTkidReqomTWNCdLv1QQ&utm_content=148827047&utm_source=hs_email); Extreme heat and heatwaves, Wildfires)
Title: "..., 🦕 Koonin 😈 cherry-picks and misrepresents outdated material to downplay the seriousness ...
Post by: AGelbert on August 14, 2021, 02:30:45 pm
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His track record on getting climate science right is extremely poor


By Naomi Oreskes, Michael E. Mann, Gernot Wagner, Don Wuebbles, Andrew Dessler, Andrea Dutton, Geoffrey Supran, Matthew Huber, Thomas Lovejoy, Ilissa Ocko, Peter C. Frumhoff, Joel Clement on June 1, 2021

SNIPPET:

How many people are suffering, and paying in health care costs because of fossil fuels isn’t the kind of thing 🦕 Steve Koonin thinks you should worry about, though. That’s because his argument in 2021 is as scientifically empty as it was in 2013, when the American Physical Society allowed him to lead a review of their climate consensus statement. He assembled a team of his own to challenge mainstream scientists, and in January of 2014 held a debate for the scientific society. You can even read the 573-page transcript of the full-day debate. (Spoiler alert: the APS was not swayed by denial (https://www.aps.org/policy/statements/15_3.cfm#:~:text=The%20APS%20reiterates%20its%202007,climate%20impact%20of%20human%20activities.).) But instead of accepting that his idiosyncratic view of climate science was considered wrong by climate scientists, Koonin resigned from the process. He evidently doesn't need to win a debate, he just needs to make it seem like there is one.

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https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/that-obama-scientist-climate-skeptic-youve-been-hearing-about/

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Title: The starkest and bluntest language so far.
Post by: AGelbert on August 15, 2021, 01:32:19 pm
August 15, 2021

IPCC Sixth Climate Assessment. Will this one make the blindest bit of difference?

https://youtu.be/2Zax9XTHUlo

Just Have a Think 303K subscribers

The IPCC has been publishing science based climate warning assessments since 1990 and in those 30 odd years human beings have released more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere than we did in the previous two centuries. That has to go down as a fail. This latest report contains the starkest and bluntest language so far.

So will this one make any difference?
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Title: 🌡️ July 🚩 Was Earth’s Hottest Month On Record
Post by: AGelbert on August 16, 2021, 12:31:43 pm
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August 16, 2021

July Was Earth’s Hottest Month On Record

July 2021 was officially Earth’s hottest month in nearly 150 years of recordkeeping, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration confirmed on Friday. Combined land and ocean average temperatures were 1.67°F above the 20th century average, beating out by 0.02°F a previous record set in July 2016 and tied in 2019 and 2020.

The past seven Julys, from 2015 to 2021, have been hotter than any previous July (often the hottest month of the year) going back through 1860. In particular, the Northern Hemisphere suffered from extreme heat, including at least five heat domes, leading to a land-surface temperature of 2.77°F (1.54°C) above the averagethe largest anomaly on record, NOAA found. “In this case, first place is the worst place to be,” NOAA Administrator Rick Spinrad said in a statement. “July 2021 outdid itself as the hottest July and month ever recorded. This new record adds to the disturbing and disruptive path that climate change has set for the globe.” (NOAA, Washington Post $, AP, NPR, Gizmodo, Axios (https://www.axios.com/july-earths-hottest-month-extreme-events-ipcc-aa4436e1-77be-42f2-b63c-452e79ac56dd.html?utm_campaign=Hot%20News&utm_medium=email&_hsmi=149926003&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8oNto3NYnulehr2FqHCAMou4sk1Ttz8ybjvdGZ_i66C51lYpSF09DiEiuMPDeEjJRhZUO2anE9Mt2sz8bw4sKK6qr5tw&utm_content=149926003&utm_source=hs_email), Yale Climate Connections)

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Title: ... we now have a completely 🚩 different river than we had in the 20th century,”
Post by: AGelbert on August 17, 2021, 04:49:16 pm
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August 17, 2021

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A "bathtub ring" is visible at sunset in July during low water levels at the Lake Mead reservoir due to the Western drought. Photo: Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty images

Feds Announce Unprecedented Colorado River Usage Cuts

Federal officials, for the first time ever, declared a water shortage from the Colorado River on Monday — yet another bleak indicator of the magnitude of the drought across the West made worse by climate change. “It’s a historic moment where drought and climate change are at our door,” Chuck Cullom of the Central Arizona Project told the AP.

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From left; Satellite images of Boulder Harbor Launch Ramp at Lake Mead in Boulder City, Nevada, on May 18, 2020, and on July 17 this year :o. Photo: Satellite image ©2021 Maxar Technologies

The "Tier 1" cuts were triggered by projections that Lake Mead — the largest reservoir on the Colorado River, created by the Hoover Dam — will be nearly 10 feet below the Tier 1 cutoff point on January 1, 2022. It was just three feet above that level, about 35% of its total capacity, on Monday.

“It’s as if a switch got flipped in 2000, and we now have a completely different river than we had in the 20th century,” Brad Udall, a senior water and research scientist at Colorado State University, told the Washington Post.

Under the complex system established 99 years ago, Tier 1 cuts, which take effect next year, will hit Arizona hardest, losing about 8% of its total water use.

Nevada and the country of Mexico will also see cuts, but California, because of its water rights seniority, will not see immediate cuts. (Washington Post $, AP, explainer, Colorado Public Radio, Salt Lake Tribune, New York Times $, Politico, Wall Street Journal $, Axios (https://www.axios.com/colorado-river-water-shortage-cuts-arizona-lake-mead-f139b4ff-43e5-493c-bea6-38b86ab801b1.html), CNN, NBC, Bloomberg $, E&E News, ABC; Climate Signals background: Drought)

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Title: 🔥 Grizzly Flats, California: 22,000 Residents Have Been Forced to Evacuate
Post by: AGelbert on August 18, 2021, 01:14:21 pm
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August 18, 2021

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GRIZZLY FLATS, CA. – Aug. 17: Pyrocumulus clouds from the Caldor Fire catch the light from the setting sun in Grizzly Flats, Calif., Tuesday, Aug. 17, 2021.. (Karl Mondon/Bay Area News Group)

Caldor Fire (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/gallery/renewablerevolution/2/3-300919160021-22781459.png) Explodes, Incinerates Most Of Grizzly Flats, California (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-300714025456.bmp&hash=f4e4a260bd60d3f34ca86fed93c47d5fb4117cfd)

The Caldor Fire, which ignited over the weekend, exploded nearly five-fold to roughly 30,000 acres Tuesday, incinerating much of the 1,200-person town of Grizzly Flats.

At least two people with serious injuries were airlifted to hospitals from the Grizzly Flats area and about 22,000 residents have been forced to evacuate. “It’s a pile of ash,” Derek Shaves, who evacuated but was able to reenter the town after the fire had passed through, told the AP. “Everybody['s house] on my block is a pile of ash and every block that I visited — but for five separate homes that were safe — was totally devastated.”

The only thing left of Walt Tyler Elementary School was a metal playground structure, save for the plastic slide melted away by the fire. Strong winds, and the underlying megadrought (https://nexusmedianews.com/top_story/drought-across-us-makes-fire-everything-worse/), fueled the conflagration and the National Weather Service has issued 🚩 red flag warnings for much of North California and Nevada citing the perilous trifecta of low humidity, extremely dry vegetation, and strong wind. The Caldor Fire was 0% contained Tuesday evening. (Sacramento Bee $, The Guardian, NBC, AP, Sacramento Bee $, Mercury News (https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/08/17/caldor-fire-triples-in-size-and-the-wind-is-getting-worse-evacuation/?utm_campaign=Hot%20News&utm_medium=email&_hsmi=150570785&_hsenc=p2ANqtz--vAyNYw0W408G0d4PJeFFUJ7U0QZQWEyMe5caJ4DEZwYaY4uHsU88h413SpTWyK3yVKPK4OiUbZCuVW2XX79iP5vlCbw&utm_content=150570785&utm_source=hs_email), CNN, Daily Beast, Fox40, ABC10, CBS, Capital Public Radio; Climate Signals background: 2021 Western Wildfire Season, Drought)

Agelbert NOTE: The trend (i.e. Catastrophic Climate Change) is defintely NOT our friend.

A YEAR AGO:
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Title: Rain at the summit of Greenland
Post by: AGelbert on August 25, 2021, 04:46:43 pm
💧 Rain at the summit of Greenland 👀

August 18, 2021

On August 14, 2021, rain was observed at the highest point on the Greenland Ice Sheet for several hours, and air temperatures remained above freezing for about nine hours.

This was the third time in less than a decade, and the latest date in the year on record, that the National Science Foundation’s Summit Station had above-freezing temperatures and wet snow. There is no previous report of rainfall at this location (72.58°N 38.46°W), which reaches 3,216 meters (10,551 feet) in elevation.

Earlier melt events in the instrumental record occurred in 1995, 2012, and 2019; prior to those events, melting is inferred from ice cores to have been absent since an event in the late 1800s.

The cause of the melting event that took place from August 14 to 16, 2021, was similar to the events that occurred this late July, where a strong low pressure center over Baffin Island and high air pressure southeast of Greenland conspired to push warm air and moisture rapidly from the south.
http://nsidc.org/greenland-today/
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on August 28, 2021, 05:24:14 pm
August 28, 2021
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Agelbert OBSERVATION: The VERY HOT sea surface temperatures in the Gulf of Mexico, DIRECTLY resulting from Catastrophic Climate Change, FUEL the increase in strength of hurricanes in general, and Hurricane Ida in particular.
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https://marine.rutgers.edu/cool/sat_data/
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And now a word from our "loyal servants" ::) in the the fossil Fuel Industry:

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Title: Hurricane Ida is now Category FOUR
Post by: AGelbert on August 29, 2021, 11:49:56 am
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August 29, 2021 10:00 A.M. CDT
Hurricane Ida has grown to Category 4 
Sustained Winds: 150mph
Moving: NW at 11mph

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Title: Climate Change “uncertainty data”: outlying data points 🦖😈 cherry-picked to raise doubts
Post by: AGelbert on August 31, 2021, 01:29:13 pm
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Generalised warming will inevitably affect some places far worse than others, causing knock-on effects like sea-level rises and storms in different areas. For proof, look to the 2021 summer heatwave experienced by many parts of Europe yet escaped by the UK, the “heat dome” that scorched British Columbia in June, or the Arctic, where temperatures are rising at twice the global rate.


By JAMES CHESHIRE Aug. 23, 2021, 9:43 a.m.

Why good graphics are essential for reporting on (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/gallery/renewablerevolution/2/3-160619140243.png) climate change

Data visualization can help people :o grasp the challenges that lie ahead.


Like many people, the first graph I ever saw explaining climate change was in a school geography textbook. It showed the “hockey stick” curve of the Earth’s surface temperature over time, which has become one of the world’s most recognizable line graphs.

Despite relatively minor fluctuations, the line on the graph depicting global surface temperature remains almost horizontal across centuries, before suddenly inclining to an almost vertical trajectory over the past 50 years. Since 1970 the rate of global temperature increase has hit an unprecedented 3.06°F (1.7°C) per century.

One challenge of understanding the information contained in this hockey stick graph — and this is a gift to climate-change deniers — is the inclusion of the grey fuzz of “uncertainty data”: outlying data points that can be cherry-picked to raise doubts about the mass of evidence supporting a general warming trend.

Uncertainty is a complex thing to communicate in a single chart. In 2018, the UK-based climate scientist Ed Hawkins chose to omit it altogether when he presented his “warming stripes” graphic to help clearly visualize key trends in climate data. Hawkins explained that the warming stripes were designed to remove all superfluous information, leaving behind only the undeniable scientific evidence of a steadily warming world.

If getting to grips with all the data and complexity in the hockey stick required a long read, Hawkins’ climate stripes give us the headline. The stripes are now a global phenomenon, having appeared on the lapels of U.S. senators, the ties of TV weather presenters, and on the front cover of The Economist.

As calls for change grow louder in light of the latest IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) report and in the run-up to the COP26 conference in Glasgow this November, it’s time to focus on how data visualization can help people grasp the challenges that lie ahead.

The power of maps

This intriguingly named “Peirce quincuncial” projection, which you can see below, is a type of 2D map that flattens the Earth into a grid of 130 mini maps called tiles. Like all projections, it’s not a perfect representation of the 3D Earth, since some areas are stretched more than others. But it lets us create a series of tiles representing the planet in each year from 1890 to 2019, colored by how and where temperatures deviated from a reliable baseline measured between 1961 and 1990. Blue areas represent temperature anomalies between -3.6°F and 0°F (-2°C and 0°C), while red areas represent anomalies between 0°F and 5.4°F (0°C and 3°C) and gray represents insufficient data.

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Reading the images from left to right reveals that while heatwaves and cold spells speckle the grid, tiles representing the current century are increasingly filled with warm tones. For example, compare the few pink splotches in 1976 when the UK experienced its famous heatwave to years later in 2006 and 2016 when ruddy hues spanned the globe. In fact, the 10 hottest years on record have occurred since 2005.

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https://www.niemanlab.org/2021/08/why-good-graphics-are-essential-for-reporting-on-climate-change/
Title: California 🔥 Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 01, 2021, 02:00:32 pm
California (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/gallery/renewablerevolution/2/3-300919160021-22781459.png) September 1, 2021

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https://ucanr.edu/sites/fire/Safety/Current/

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Title: Lengthy Power Outages 🚩 Jeopardizing People's Health in the Late-Summer Heat.
Post by: AGelbert on September 01, 2021, 03:32:00 pm
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Damage from Hurricane Ida could reach $80 billion, AccuWeather estimates (https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hurricane-ida-damage-80-billion-accuweather-estimates/?utm_campaign=Hot%20News&utm_medium=email&_hsmi=154780786&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-9LYdNeGWhTH3XaDJfan4h3cvLtA9jeTW_w9hSnKfcG9rAl8eHvbilmsQggZw2EkIxyGKhLR4A-DgzM9xBGNd3GdVee9w&utm_content=154780786&utm_source=hs_email)
Title: “These terms are no longer appropriate given the clear 🚩 trends ...
Post by: AGelbert on September 01, 2021, 03:48:03 pm
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September 1, 2021

Tahoe Hangs On As Firefighters Blame Climate Change For Caldor Fire's Overwhelming Spread

The normally bustling vacation town of South Lake Tahoe is deserted, while thousands of firefighters battle desperately to divert the raging Caldor fire away from more than 34,000 buildings around Lake Tahoe. A no-expense-spared effort to prevent the fire from entering the Lake Tahoe basin was overwhelmed by the raging inferno driven by high winds and supercharged by climate change.

"We can't control it," Cal Fire Division Chief Erich Schwab told reporters, of the fire burning as much as 200 feet per minute in some areas. "We don't have any tools out there to stop the fire so we resort to herding the fire away from structures and away from people." Firefighters remain locked in a no-holds-barred battle to divert the Caldor Fire east toward land recently burned by the Tamarack Fire.
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Snow guns from nearby ski resorts were running at full power to dowse mountainsides and prevent the spread of the flames. Embers blown by the strong winds are the main cause of the fire's growth, with vegetation so dry that 90% of those embers ignite new spot fires. Cal Fire's Chris Anthony said climate change has made the Caldor Fire difficult to control. “Historically, we’ve used terms such as ‘anomaly,’ ‘unprecedented’ or ‘extreme’ to describe the wildfires that we have seen burn throughout the state over the past 10 to 20 years,” he told reporters Monday evening. “These terms are no longer appropriate given the clear trends associated with drought, changing climate and un-resilient forest stands. Unfortunately, these factors contribute to the resistance to control that we are seeing with the Caldor fire.” For some evacuees, the fires brought on a new layer of trauma. “I figured I would be safe in this city,” said South Lake Tahoe resident Darren Cobrae, whose Southern California home was burned by a wildfire in 2007, "and now this."

(San Francisco Chronicle (https://www.sfchronicle.com/california-wildfires/article/This-map-shows-the-feared-path-of-the-Caldor-Fire-16426734.php?utm_campaign=Hot%20News&utm_medium=email&_hsmi=154780786&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8OYhUtUNI5krEEwkD82D_A1yr_l8H4yu9X6AgjSNiWmknerBRfg03dtNhW58sh8i1WaregPpvbVCwq3nBVvoEMKIr3pw&utm_content=154780786&utm_source=hs_email), Buzzfeed, New York Times $, CNN, Tahoe Daily Tribune, SFGATE, Washington Post $, AP, CBS, USA Today, BBC, NBC, Tahoe Daily Tribune, LA Times $, NPR, Capital Public Radio, CBS Sacramento, The Guardian, Wall Street Journal $, KCRA Sacramento, ABC, CBS; Snow guns: SFGATE; Firefighting tactics: Sacramento Bee $; Photos: Gizmodo, Buzzfeed, Mercury News; Climate Signals background: 2021 Western wildfire season, Drought)

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 02, 2021, 12:32:29 pm
Shocking aerial images show extent of Ida’s damage in Louisiana (https://gizmodo.com/shocking-aerial-images-show-extent-of-ida-s-damage-in-l-1847598245?utm_campaign=HOT%20NEWS%20September%202%202021&utm_medium=email&_hsmi=155162455&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_sKZ6t-ZH9Vv2P9tlX7-h29DWCuFl-ZKPOYIXcDMg9Hb19BbqB_TKlDZYZrzKhQNDGUGeNS5PapqV7mcH5Zd3EdTPHHw&utm_content=155162455&utm_source=hs_email)
Title: 🚩 All seven of the warmest years on record have been the last seven years
Post by: AGelbert on September 10, 2021, 01:54:42 pm
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September 10, 2021

The Summer Of 2021 Was The Hottest Summer On Record

NOAA found that the average temperature of meteorological summer - June, July, and August - was 2.6°F (1.45°C) above the 20th century average, a troubling sign as global temperatures continue to increase faster than previously thought.

All seven of the warmest years on record have been the last seven years, and 19 of the 20 warmest years have occurred since 2000. More than 18% of the contiguous U.S. experienced record heat this summer, and several states, including California, Nevada, Utah, and Oregon had their hottest temperatures on record.

No state reported temperatures that fell below average. The record heat coincided with extreme weather across the country, including extreme heat, wildfires, drought, and flooding. (CNN, Gizmodo (https://gizmodo.com/summer-2021-breaks-heat-record-set-during-the-1936-dust-1847644023), LA Times $, The Hill, New York Times $, Washington Post $; Climate Signals background: Extreme heat and heatwaves, 2021 Western wildfire season (https://www.climatesignals.org/events/western-wildfire-season-2021), Drought (https://www.climatesignals.org/climate-change-drought), Extreme precipitation increase (https://www.climatesignals.org/climate-signals/extreme-precipitation-increase), 2021 Atlantic hurricane season (https://www.climatesignals.org/events/atlantic-hurricane-season-2021))
Title: While Chanthu didn’t hit land, the heavy rains increase the risk of flooding and landslides in some areas
Post by: AGelbert on September 11, 2021, 04:07:56 pm
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September 10, 2021

By Ditas Lopez (Bloomberg)

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Super Typhoon Chanthu approaches toward Taiwan and Chinese coast on Sept. 10. Photo Via CIRA/RAMMB

China Ports Brace For Super Typhoon Chanthu

SNIPPETS:

Two of China’s main ports are preparing for the arrival of Super Typhoon Chanthu, which was dumping heavy rain on the north of the Philippines Friday as it headed toward Taiwan and the Chinese coast.

China’s Maritime Safety Administration has issued a warning for Fujian province, where Xiamen Port is located, asking ships to adjust navigation plans and leave typhoon-affected waters. The Ningbo Maritime Safety Administration, which covers Ningbo-Zhoushan Port, said Thursday it had started a level-four emergency response. ... ...

While it’s no longer classed as a super typhoon, Chanthu remains formidable and is the equivalent of a category 4 hurricane, Accuweather said Thursday. It was north of the main Philippine island of Luzon and moving northwestward, according to the Philippine government weather bureau, with maximum winds of 130 knots (240 kilometers per hour) and gusts up to 160 knots, the U.S. Joint Typhoon Warning Center said.

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https://gcaptain.com/china-ports-super-typhoon-chanthu/
Title: Large Wave Kills Two on 🦕 Oil Tanker
Post by: AGelbert on September 15, 2021, 02:05:32 pm
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September 14, 2021 By Mike Schuler

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Two Crew On Euronav VLCC Killed By Large Wave Rounding Cape Horn

SNIPPETS:

The ship’s managers, Northern Marine Management, confirmed the incident in an emailed statement. According to the company, the MT Arafura was 🦕 fully-laden on passage from Brazil to Long Beach, California when it encountered adverse weather with large swells and waves.

Based on preliminary information, as the vessel rounded Cape Horn, the vessel’s Chief Officer and Bosun, both Indian Nationals, were attending to an alarm in the forward part of the vessel when they were struck be a large wave, killing them both. A full investigation will be conducted into the incident.

MT Arafura has subsequently altered its course to Valparaiso, Chile with arrival is expected on September 18th. Northern marine said it was working to “best ensure” the expedited disembarkation and repatriation of the deceased and a timely a relief of the crew. ...  ...

MT Arafura is a 298,991 dwt, Belgian-flagged 🦕 crude oil tanker that is 100% owned by the Belgian tanker company Euronav (NYSE: EURN). The ship was built in 2016 and operates on the spot market.

Full article: 🌊 👀
https://gcaptain.com/two-crew-on-euronav-vlcc-killed-by-large-wave-rounding-cape-horn/

🦉 Agelbert COMMENT: Learn why this will get much worse below:
Climate Change, Blue Water Cargo Shipping and Predicted Ocean Wave Activity: PART 1 of 3 (http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/climate-change/global-warming-is-with-us/msg13556/#msg13556)
Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on September 16, 2021, 01:17:05 pm
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September 16, 2021

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Just beyond Highway 23, a mere 30 miles south of New Orleans, lies the small town of Ironton, Louisiana. After Hurricane Ida pummeled the area, the town's approximately 52 Black families are trying to rebuild their lives. Again.

The residents of Ironton have had to rebuild their lives in 2005, after Hurricane Katrina, and in 2012, after Hurricane Issac. Most of the homes are completely unlivable, with no electricity or running water. Ida's 12-foot storm surge dislodged coffins and tombs, scattering them around the town. "I was born and raised here," Wilkie Declouet, a former law enforcement officer, and lifelong resident of Ironton, who posted photos of coffins and tombs on social media, told DeSmog. "This is in my blood. So I will give it one more try."

The residents of Ironton want the federal government to prioritize a renewed levee system and assistance with rebuilding. (DeSmog (https://www.desmog.com/2021/09/14/hurricane-ida-ironton-louisiana-scattered-coffins-floodwaters-environmental-justice/?utm_campaign=Hot%20News&utm_medium=email&_hsmi=160155804&_hsenc=p2ANqtz--7urIsLyvXue6ayjsKDfSF89XDJjxgY40OOSj50dnsyK6ekejw0ug-NjqtkDjeKR14QfTkG8F28dpEKRoteq9naoGA5Q&utm_content=160155804&utm_source=hs_email); Climate Signals background: 2021 Atlantic hurricane season (https://www.climatesignals.org/events/atlantic-hurricane-season-2021?utm_campaign=Hot%20News&utm_medium=email&_hsmi=160155804&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-83ZqLwcKlxZu3svMXVkwUGRdlEf9BaH0FnR4DkdUcO-xDlzmuR6L82KR5P4VjLoGXF4EM8923VoEPyaDphsg5xRhtZUg&utm_content=160155804&utm_source=hs_email))
Title: Why had the 40-year-old vessel sailed into a storm she had no chance of weathering?
Post by: AGelbert on September 28, 2021, 12:52:29 pm
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September 27, 2021

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El Faro: 6 Years Later

This article is brought to you by Arnold & Itkin LLP.

SNIPPET:

El Faro’s sinking may have been an accident caused by the sheer power of Mother Nature, but it was preventable. Yes, El Faro’s captain sailed her into the heart of Hurricane Joaquin.

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That shouldn’t have happened in the first place, but the 40-year-old vessel stood no chance. TOTE claimed that, “The El Faro was a well-maintained vessel…” but one former crew member stated, “It was a rust bucket…that ship wasn’t supposed to be on the water.” Another former crew member said it had rust everywhere and that the cook’s room constantly leaked water.

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https://gcaptain.com/el-faro-6-years-later/

🦉 Learn more: Climate Change, Blue Water Cargo Shipping and Predicted Ocean Wave Activity: Part 3 of 3 parts (http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/climate-change/future-earth/msg7422/#msg7422)
Title: 🚩Record-breaking climate ☠️ disasters will be the name of the game this century.
Post by: AGelbert on September 30, 2021, 06:58:14 pm
CleanTechnica

September 30, 2021 By Zachary Shahan

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Insurance Companies Getting (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F2%2F3-231218145827.png&hash=8d3bbb761cf17fcddac83f24088d26e316b65e33) Very Concerned About Climate Change (Again)

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“Climate change has surpassed insurance companies’ concerns over diseases and pandemics, according to a new report released yesterday by French insurance company AXA,” Nexus Media writes. “The report, which surveyed 3,500 insurance professionals, showed that global warming ranked number one among insurers’ biggest concerns.” You don’t say?

“Climate risks have been on insurance companies’ radars for some time: climate worry also was at the top of the survey in 2018 and 2019, but the recent IPCC report illustrated how widespread and destructive climate-related disasters already are and will continue to be if the world does not rapidly reduce fossil fuel combustion while scaling up global resilience and adaptation efforts.

The survey also found that more than four-fifths of the professionals surveyed lack faith in governments to combat the crisis.” The only surprising thing for me there is that one-fifth of those professionals think governments will do what’s needed. ... ...

If 2020 and 2021 have shown us anything, they’ve shown us that humans can be especially talented at detaching themselves from reality.

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https://cleantechnica.com/2021/09/29/insurance-companies-getting-very-concerned-about-climate-change/

Title: Drone Sails Into Hurricane Sam and Lives to Tell The Tale… Here’s Video 🧐 to Prove It
Post by: AGelbert on October 01, 2021, 03:00:46 pm
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September 30, 2021 by Mike Schuler

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Drone Sails Into Hurricane Sam and Lives to Tell The Tale… Here’s Video to Prove It

Saildrone Inc. and NOAA have released what they claim is the world’s first video footage captured by an uncrewed surface vehicle (USV) from inside a major hurricane barreling across the Atlantic Ocean.

NOAA and Saildrone are working together on collecting scientific data from inside Hurricane Sam, currently located some 645 miles south-southeast of Bermuda with sustained winds of 145 mph. For the project, one of Saildrone’s drones, known as the Explorer SD 1045, was directed into the storm where it battled 50 foot waves and winds of over 120 mph to collect critical scientific data and, in the process, give us a completely new view of one of earth’s most destructive forces.

In order to operate in such extreme conditions, the SD 1045 is equipped with a specially designed “hurricane wing” enabling it to continue operating while braving the extreme weather in the open ocean in order to collect real-time observations for hurricane prediction models, helping to gain new insights into how large and destructive tropical cyclones grow and intensify.

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The drone used is actually one of a fleet of five ‘hurricane’ Saildrones that have been operating in the Atlantic Ocean during the year’s hurricane season to gather data to help understand the physical processes of hurricanes. Two were deployed from Jacksonville, Florida with the other three deploying from St. Thomas in the US Virgin Islands. This knowledge is critical to improving storm forecasting and is expected to reduce loss of human life by allowing better preparedness in coastal communities, says Saildrone and NOAA.

“Saildrone is going where no research vessel has ever ventured, sailing right into the eye of the hurricane, gathering data that will transform our understanding of these powerful storms,” said Richard Jenkins, Saildrone founder and CEO. “After conquering the Arctic and Southern Ocean, hurricanes were the last frontier for Saildrone survivability. We are proud to have engineered a vehicle capable of operating in the most extreme weather conditions on earth.”

“Using data collected by saildrones, we expect to improve forecast models that predict rapid intensification of hurricanes,” said Greg Foltz, a NOAA scientist. “Rapid intensification, when hurricane winds strengthen in a matter of hours, is a serious threat to coastal communities. New data from saildrones and other uncrewed systems that NOAA is using will help us better predict the forces that drive hurricanes and be able to warn communities earlier.”

Check out the footage below:

https://youtu.be/Iy8BzN403hU
https://gcaptain.com/drone-sails-into-hurricane-sam-and-lives-to-tell-the-tale-heres-video-to-prove-it/

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Title: Nobel Prize Awarded For Work That Laid Foundation Of Climate Modeling:
Post by: AGelbert on October 05, 2021, 06:21:04 pm
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October 5, 2021

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Three scientists won the Nobel Prize in Physics for their research on complex systems like climate change. The prize was split, with one half going to Giorgio Parisi of Italy for “the discovery of the interplay of disorder and fluctuations in physical systems from atomic to planetary scales.” The Nobel Committee awarded the other half to Syukuro Manabe, originally from Japan, and Klaus Hasselmann of Germany for their work in “the physical modeling of Earth’s climate, quantifying variability and reliably predicting global warming.” Manabe's work beginning in the 1960s laid the foundation for current climate modeling and Hasselmann helped explain why climate modeling can be reliable despite the apparent chaos of weather. “Physics-based climate models made it possible to predict the amount and pace of global warming, including some of the consequences like rising seas, increased extreme rainfall events and stronger hurricanes, decades before they could be observed," German climate scientist Stefan Rahmstorf told the AP. "We now witnessing how [Manabe and Hasselmann's] early predictions are coming true one after the other.” (AP, NPR, The Guardian (https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/oct/05/nobel-prize-physics-scientists-sykuro-manabe-klaus-hasselmann-giorgio-parisi-win-climate?utm_campaign=Hot%20News&utm_medium=email&_hsmi=167230791&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-89xJZ4V9oVBTgTdRTpnA9QwtxSOkXj71TDfdU_mjL6O2RUEx9A5KTRSLrpLLtRK4fhL3DVluQi3bL6BwwCzFpWTMtS3Q&utm_content=167230791&utm_source=hs_email), Reuters, New York Times $, Washington Post $)
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Title: Emissions from Siberia’s fires are more than Germany’s total annual greenhouse gases.
Post by: AGelbert on October 06, 2021, 01:49:22 pm
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October 6 2021

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Firefighters battle a wildfire near the village of Andreyevsky. Photo by Maxim Slutsky / TASS via Getty Images

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Rising temperatures heated by the extraction and combustion of fossil fuels like 🦖 oil and 🦕 gas are melting permafrost — land previously frozen year round — and causing problems for Russia's oil and gas industry, the Wall Street Journal reports.

Over the last 45 years, Russian temperatures have risen 2.5 faster than the global average. The melting permafrost on which two-thirds of the country sits is also physically destabilizing oil and gas infrastructure and forcing companies to spend millions to prevent disasters, like when a ruptured tank in remote Siberia hemorrhaged 20,000 tons of diesel fuel.

The hotter temperatures and melting permafrost are accelerating vicious climatic cycles by releasing heat-trapping methane previously frozen underground and fueling almost incomprehensible wildfires.

Russian wildfires have burned 65,000 square miles (41.6 million acres) :o so far this year, Grist reported last week, and in July and August alone produced more CO2 pollution than the entire country of Germany in a year. (Wall Street Journal $, Grist (https://grist.org/wildfires/you-thought-the-u-s-fire-season-was-bad-russias-is-much-worse/?utm_campaign=Hot%20News&utm_medium=email&_hsmi=167638862&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_gzY14E9_TCt_wcKjWoNev1Eg8aLjFKhRMxPxu_BcCcCrHAJDhJuNtL3k39HznGeHvLR7H19ai9B1tWsKMzSpGV9J-bg&utm_content=167638862&utm_source=hs_email); Climate Signals background: Arctic amplification, Wildfires)

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Any apocalyptic scenario possible if methane from melting permafrost is not stopped.
Title: The Blue, Green AND White portions of the Oceans are ALL in BIG TROUBLE
Post by: AGelbert on October 06, 2021, 10:25:35 pm
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Global Ocean Destruction. Can we stop ourselves destroying our own life support systems? (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F1%2F3-210818163123-16662165.gif&hash=0c278af5ea445d20e48640c4f39f951df986eed6)

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Our oceans are in big trouble. For decades they've been soaking up the worst excesses of profligate human overconsumption, everything from heat energy and carbon dioxide to chemical run off and waste plastics. We've been using the deep blue seas as a global garbage bin (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-200714183337.bmp&hash=fd5a6df63c32bd65dda7b6d93e788647ca3829df), and now they're overflowing 😱 . A new report from the Copernicus Marine Service outlines just how serious the situation has become.

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https://marine.copernicus.eu/news/ocean-state-report-5-summary-now-available#a-changing-ocean

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Title: Indigenous activists all on President Biden to STOP approving fossil fuel projects and ...
Post by: AGelbert on October 12, 2021, 04:05:59 pm
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Climate Nexus Oct. 12, 2021 02:59PM EST

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Indigenous Groups Call for Urgent Action on Climate, Infrastructure

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"People who exploit and take out resources don't live [in the Amazon] — but we do. The forest is our home," Nemonte Nenquimo, a native leader of Ecuador's Waorani people, told Thomson Reuters.

On Piscataway and Nacotchtank (Anacostan) land in what is now Washington, DC, Indigenous activists demonstrated in front of the White House to call on President Biden to stop approving fossil fuel projects and declare a national emergency over the climate crisis — the first of several days of protests organized by the (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-210614221847.gif&hash=54129e3b65760aaddc6f2d7f42b34a7d839d2f27) Build Back Fossil Free coalition. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/gallery/renewablerevolution/2/3-300919160022-2281531.png)(https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F1%2F3-120818185038-16442135.gif&hash=52927992b43007fa5c5eb6ffcb453ae29948c356)

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The 🦕🦖 Hydrocarbon 👹 Hellspawn Fossil Fuelers DID THE Clean Energy Inventions suppressing, Climate Trashing, Government corrupting, human health depleting CRIME. Since they have ALWAYS BEEN liars and conscience free crooks 🦀, they are trying to AVOID DOING THE TIME or PAYING THE FINE!  Don't let them get away with it! Pass it on!  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/gallery/renewablerevolution/2/3-300919160023-2284203.png)
Title: Big Oil 🦕🦖 CEOs are practiced 😈 liars. That is integral to their Criminal MO.
Post by: AGelbert on October 14, 2021, 02:35:58 pm
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October 13, 2021 BY Sharon Zhang

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Rep. Ro Khanna speaks at an “End Fossil Fuel” rally near the U.S. Capitol on June 29, 2021, in Washington, D.C. ANNA MONEYMAKER / GETTY IMAGE

Fossil Fuel 🦕🦖 CEOs Will Testify About 😈 Role in 🐍 Climate Denial Before Congress

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Oil and gas CEOs have previously declined invitations from progressive lawmakers to testify before Congress; it appears they are only complying now because Khanna threatened them (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F2%2F3-190419235756.png&hash=ddd7a71acf6ff0420a63e797c27fdcad27734e3e) with subpoenas. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/gallery/renewablerevolution/2/3-160921144626.png)... ...

The hearings — and the decades of 🦖 disinformation they are investigating — mirror the decades of deception by the 😈 tobacco industry over the addictiveness of nicotine and the harms of smoking. ... ...

Many fossil fuel companies have been studying climate disruption internally for decades and even had chances to pivot their products to renewable or no-carbon alternatives. Instead, they doubled down on spreading climate denial — and padding their own pockets.

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Agelbert NOTE: I am not holding my breath waiting for the hydrocarbon hellspawn to come clean on a century or so of Mens rea corruption of our government and profit by pollution.

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Title: “It won’t stop the transition to renewable energy; it will just slow it way down. ...
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October 21, 2021 by Emma Cotton

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McKibben says losing climate piece in federal budget package would be ‘devastating’

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Title: 🤦‍♂️ One Third of Americans Have 🐵 Moronavirus.
Post by: AGelbert on October 25, 2021, 01:36:54 pm
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October 20, 2021 By Marlee Kokotovic

99.9% of scientists agree on human-caused climate change

“Our study helps confirm that there is no remaining scientific uncertainty about the urgency and gravity of  this task.”


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This research updates and expands a 2013 study that showed 97% of peer-reviewed papers published between 1991 and 2012 supported the theory of anthropogenic climate change (ACC)—the notion that human activity was causing and exacerbating global heating, reports Common Dreams.

Even with this data, 🙊🙉🙈 one-third of Americans continue to deny human-caused climate change is an issue 🤦‍♂️. 📢 The 🦕🦖 fossil fuel (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-130418203402.gif&hash=b2691028ba683a0039a5811f5775c68d7ccae01c) industry has has a lot to do with the 😈 influence of climate change denial.

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Title: Weather weirding, weather wilding, and weather whiplashing living in the climate casino ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on October 26, 2021, 04:08:11 pm
Oct 20, 2021



Amplified Arctic Warming Causing Stratospheric Polar Vortex Stretching and Extreme Cold Outbreaks

https://youtu.be/0ERa7j5Pm5A

Paul Beckwith 👨‍🔬👍 23K subscribers

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Arctic warming is occurring at a rate that is between 4 and 5 times faster than global warming. Not twice as fast, as still incorrectly reported by most mainstream scientists who should know better, and parroted incorrectly by the media. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-130418201722.png&hash=5299cc10ee42beae76e4d3b7c79dbf5f4c0addac)

This warming in the North lowers the temperature gradient to the equator, causing the jet streams to slow and become wavier in the North-South direction. This in turn increases the frequency, severity, and duration of extreme weather events such as heat waves and droughts in some places, and torrential rains leading to floods in other regions. Also, weather extremes are occurring in regions where they did not before. I call this human experience of living in a world with this weather weirding, weather wilding, and weather whiplashing living in the climate casino. 😬🥺

Another effect that we are seeing is more cold weather outbreaks over North America, such as the February, 2021 cold, snowy, long duration freeze that crippled the entire Texas power grid.

Interestingly, but completely expected to me, and completely unexpectedly to most scientists and lay people and computer models, the Arctic Temperature Amplification (and thus climate system change) is the cause. Loss of Arctic Sea Ice, specifically in the Kara-Barents region of the Arctic, as well as abundant snowfall and snow cover in parts of Eurasia in the Fall season cause a stretching or elongation of the Stratospheric Polar Vortex (SPV) which opens a pathway in the atmosphere for cold air to spill out of the Arctic into places like Texas.

Most studies on troposphere-stratosphere interactions up to now have focussed solely on Sudden Stratospheric Warming (SSW) events and subsequent consequences, but it turns out that SPV stretching was the most important factor in causing the $20+ billion dollar US cold outbreak in the USA in February, 2021.

Please donate to my blog http://paulbeckwith.net to support my research and videos as I join the dots on abrupt climate system change, and prepare for my trip to COP26 in Scotland.

Take care, and thanks for watching!!

Title: Martin Sheen on the Environment and War 🚩☠️
Post by: AGelbert on October 27, 2021, 05:10:14 pm
Feb 10, 2020

Martin Sheen 👍 on the Environment and War

https://youtu.be/4CuN1fmuIo4

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Martin Sheen has recorded this for World BEYOND War on the topic of war and the environment. Learn more at https://worldbeyondwar.org/environment/
Title: Will COP26 Be 🦖😈 Cop-out 2021? 🥺💣💥😱
Post by: AGelbert on October 27, 2021, 09:23:55 pm
October 27, 2021

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https://youtu.be/TtYHYlJFpIo

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COP26 is a global climate conference that kicks off in Glasgow on Sunday 31st October 2021. It could be the most pivotal meeting of world leaders that we see in our lifetime, and it needs to deliver some pretty ambitious and robust resolutions if we're to stand any chance of keeping global temperature rise below 2 degrees Celsius. So, can our politicians filter out the cacophony of climate noise in the world right now and focus on the key priorities that will actually make a difference?  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F1%2F3-210818163123-16662165.gif&hash=0c278af5ea445d20e48640c4f39f951df986eed6)

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Title: “This is historic. I’ve never seen it so low in my lifetime,” Diaz said
Post by: AGelbert on October 28, 2021, 05:34:35 pm
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October 27, 2021 REUTERS

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Grains are loaded in a ship near at a port near the city of Rosario, Argentina September 17, 2021. Picture taken with a drone September 17, 2021. REUTERS/Miguel Lo Bianco

Once Mighty River Is Now A Trickle Of Muddy Water

By Lucila Sigal (Reuters) – Gustavo Alcides Diaz, an Argentine fisherman and hunter from a river island community, is at home on the water. The Parana River once lapped the banks near his wooden stilt home that he could reach by boat. Fish gave him food and income. He purified river water to drink.

Now the 40-year-old looks out on a trickle of muddy water.

The Parana, South America’s second-largest river behind only the Amazon, has retreated this year to its lowest level since its record low in 1944, hit by cyclical droughts and dwindling rainfall upriver in Brazil. Climate change only worsens those trends.

The decline of the waterway, which knits together a huge swathe of the continent, has hurt river communities like Diaz’s, snarled grains transport in Argentina and Paraguay and contributed to a rise in wildfires, damaging wetland ecosystems.

“This is historic. I’ve never seen it so low in my lifetime,” Diaz said at his home in Charigue, some 300 kilometers (186 miles) upriver from the Argentine capital Buenos Aires, lamenting the impact on fish stocks and fresh water. “When everything dries up, the water rots.”

The Parana’s crisis is among the multitude of woes arising worldwide associated with global climate change linked to the burning of fossil fuels and the resulting greenhouse gas emissions. World leaders are set to meet at the United Nations Climate Change Conference, or COP26, starting on Oct. 31 in Glasgow, Scotland amid warnings from a U.N. panel about climate-related disruptions for decades, if not centuries, to come.

The river, born in southern Brazil, snakes about 4,880 kilometers (3,030 miles) through Paraguay and Argentina before reaching the Atlantic Ocean. It is a vital waterway for commercial shipping and fishing, provides drinking water to millions of people, powers hydroelectric plants and supports rich biodiversity.

Billions of dollars worth of agricultural commodities such as soy, corn and wheat are transported to ports down the Parana to be shipped around the world. It carries about 80% of Argentina’s farm exports, though some shippers are now looking to move goods over land due to the reduced water levels.

The Parana’s flow at some points this year has fallen to just over half the normal amount. Satellite imagery clearly shows how much the river has receded.

The dry weather driving the Parana’s decline is due in part to a long-term natural cycle of weather patterns that is being worsened by global warming, wetlands burning and hydroelectric dam construction – all coinciding with the La Nina natural ocean-atmospheric phenomenon that lowers rainfall levels, agronomist and climate expert Eduardo Sierra said.

The broader dry cycle could last for decades, forcing a readjustment for communities, farmers and shippers, Sierra added.

“This is a twice-in-a century event,” said Sierra, an adviser to the Buenos Aires grains exchange, referring to the river’s decline.

“We also have a human cause which is global warming, which is accentuating all the variations in the climate,” Sierra added, noting that human activity including damming also “impacts the river’s ability to self-regulate.”

‘LIKE THE SEA’

The Parana – meaning “like the sea” in the Tupi-Guarani language spoken by local indigenous peoples, owing to its vastness – is formed by the convergence of two rivers in Brazil, the Rio Grande and the Paranaiba. The Parana fills with water in Brazilian states including Goias, Minas Gerais, Sao Paulo and Mato Grosso do Sul before its long journey to the River Plate estuary at Buenos Aires.

These areas upriver have experienced steady declines in rainfall levels over the past 10 years, according to a Reuters analysis of Refinitiv weather data spanning the past three decades.

The analysis showed that combined average rainfall in those four Brazilian states has plunged to the lowest level since at least the early 1990s. Precipitation levels during that time have dropped by half, with the trend accelerating in the past decade.

“This past year will stand out compared to anything else from the past any way you measure it,” said Isaac Hankes, Refinitiv senior weather research analyst.

That sustained drop in rainfall directly impacts the level of the Parana thousands of kilometers (miles) down river in Argentina and Paraguay, where huge ships and barges rely on deep river channels to ferry large agricultural cargoes.

The river’s declining levels are hindering the transport of such cargo because ships are unable to be fully loaded due to concern that a deeper draft – the distance from the waterline to the vessel’s bottom – from the extra weight might cause them to run aground.

The river’s average depth over the past two years at the Argentine inland grains port of Rosario is the second lowest on record, behind a historic drought in 1944. Measuring sticks that dot the river at key points and provide depth gauges related to a set historical “zero” level – instead of the river bed – have dropped into negative territory.

Guillermo Wade, manager of Argentina’s Chamber of Port and Maritime Activities, said the lower level means that ships are cutting grain cargoes by around 20% versus normal volumes. Ships must cut from 1,600 to 2,175 tonnes of cargo to save a foot of draft, Wade added. Vessels are leaving Rosario with an average draft of about 9.1 meters (30 feet) versus the normal 10.4 meters (34 feet), Wade said.

“In more than 40 years that I have been in this job, I have never seen it reach 33 centimeters (13 inches) below zero. I had never seen that,” Wade said.

Low river levels also have forced exporters to take smaller loads in cargo ships while upriver and then add cargo at deep water ports down the river, raising logistics costs. Argentina has lost about $620 million in soybean meal and soyoil exports alone due to transport problems caused by lower river levels, according to the Rosario grains exchange.

“Through this decline we are losing cargo loads,” Wade said. “Perhaps next time instead of coming for this little bit here, boats will go directly to Brazil and we will lose out.”

‘RAPID RECHARGE’
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In wetland areas around the river delta in Argentina, lower water levels have contributed to a spike in wildfires, with people in river island communities losing homes and livestock.

“When the river rises just 10 centimeters (4 inches) here they celebrate,” said Javier Herenu, 53, a local teacher near Charigue whose boat commute from his home to the school has been replaced by a long walk in a dry riverbed.

“The economic impact is gigantic,” Carlos Balletbo, a senior official at regional shipper Atria, said at his office near the tri-border area where Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay meet and the Iguazu River joins the Parana.

Paraguay’s rivers carry 96% of the landlocked county’s exports.

Atria has about 600 barges. Balletbo said low water levels have paralyzed Atria’s operations transporting soybean oil and meal. Instead, goods are going overland to the Brazilian port of Paranagua and to granary ports on the edge of Paraguay’s capital Asuncion.

Vessels leave Paraguay with just half their cargo capacity to reach the ports of Rosario and Rio de la Plata, tripling travel times and generating extra costs, Balletbo said.

“Navigation has been stopped. We practically had no work,” added Roque Gomez, a 42-year-old shipyard worker in nearby Mayor Otano on the Paraguayan banks of the Parana. “We try to keep staff and survive through this.”

Weather experts have said the Parana’s decline could last at least into next year. October rains have given some respite but the longer-term forecast is not encouraging, with only average or below average water levels predicted into 2022.

“We need a period of rapid recharge of the river,” said Lucas Chamorro, head of hydrology at the Yacyreta hydroelectric plant, adding that human activity such as cattle ranching, burning lands and soybean farming is impacting the wider Pantanal wetland area as well as the Amazon.

Dionicio Gaona, a fish seller in Santa Rita, a town in the Alto Parana department of Paraguay about 340 kilometers (210 miles) east of the capital Asuncion, said the river’s decline has forced him to shift trades to support his family.

“It’s been hard because there have been so few fish,” Gaona said. “I’ve had to work as a bricklayer just to make ends meet.”

(Reporting by Lucila Sigal in Charigue, Argentina, and Daniela Desantis in Ciudad del Este, Paraguay; Additional reporting by Maximilian Heath; Editing by Will Dunham and Adam Jourdan)
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Title: Climate change 2021: definition, causes & top 10 solutions
Post by: AGelbert on October 31, 2021, 03:57:54 pm
Agelbert NOTE: Though not directly mentioned in the causes listed in the video, the burning of fossil fuels is involved in 90% (AT LEAST) of all the human activities contributing to Catastrophic Climate Change. Please keep in mind that the 10 solutions outlined in the video REQUIRE that we STOP burning hydrocarbons AND stop using hydrocarbons as feed stock for making fertilzer, pharmaceuticals and plastics. We have the technoogy NOW to replace these ruinously polluting uses of hydrocarbons. We need hydrocarbons like a dog needs ticks! (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/gallery/renewablerevolution/2/3-081019223703.jpeg)


July 9, 2021

Climate change 2021: definition, causes & top 10 solutions
https://youtu.be/z5OYFCDOw7A

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In this whiteboard animation, I explain what is climate change, what causes it and I present the 10 most impactful (and perhaps unexpected) solutions suggested by Project Drawdown.

0:00 Intro
0:38 Definition of climate change
1:03 Causes
2:17 Emissions per economic sector
3:10 Inertia, feedback loops & permafrost
3:52 Implications & risks
4:47 Top 10 solutions (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/gallery/renewablerevolution/2/3-300919160019-22741031.png)(https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F1%2F3-250718210628.gif&hash=a297e44320f13fa5f3eae64809a46139f5e2395a)
7:57 Final thoughts

Climate change video on Vostok ice cores:
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Title: WRI EVENTS AT COP26: WEEK ONE
Post by: AGelbert on November 01, 2021, 02:59:07 pm
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November 1, 2021

Explore WRI’s COP26 Resource Hub, where our experts are tracking developments, sharing ideas and providing analysis to unpack what’s at stake and critical areas for progress. Explore the hub now (https://www.wri.org/un-climate-change-conference-resource-hub). (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-130418200416.png&hash=15d789b29124aa5a1f1ea397ce630913734b20a4)

WRI EVENTS AT COP26: WEEK ONE
 
WRI is at the heart of many conversations at COP26. Tune in to an upcoming event or a recorded webinar with WRI researchers and other renowned experts at this year's climate negotiations. Visit our full event list of events (https://www.wri.org/un-climate-change-conference-resource-hub/events?utm_campaign=cop26&utm_source=cop26-events&utm_medium=email-01). (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F1%2F3-120818180835-16281948.gif&hash=bde76e8c89cdf209aecaf236a316ba025ef35835) (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F1%2F3-120818184310-1635923.gif&hash=5e2530db4748ed6c7163e1d478fdfa3cd1108668)
 
Navigating the Transition to Zero Carbon Buildings
Monday, November 1
16:00 - 17:30 GMT | 12:00 - 1:30pm EDT
Buildings Pavilion | Watch Onlne
The Global Alliance for Buildings and Construction and WRI host a joint event to announce the Buildings as a Critical Climate Solution commitment and showcase countries developing roadmaps to implement these ambitious goals.
WRI Speaker: Jennifer Layke   

Land & Carbon Lab Launch
Monday, November 1
17:00-18:30 GMT
Nature Pavilion
WRI’s new Land & Carbon Lab initiative is harnessing the data revolution to monitor the pulse of the planet’s land and its nature-based carbon. Learn more.
WRI Speaker: Ani Dasgupta   

Parched Power: Assessing Physical Climate Risks for Power Generation Project Portfolios
Tuesday, November 2
10:00 - 10:25 GMT | 6:00 - 6:25am EDT
Water Pavilion | Watch the Livestream
Speakers will introduce a cost-effective yet comprehensive framework for assessing physical climate risks for power generation project portfolios, co-developed by WRI and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD).
WRI Speaker: Tianyi Luo   

How Cities are Inspiring Nations, Companies, and Financiers to Embrace Forest Action
Tuesday, November 2
11:00 - 12:30 GMT | 7:00 - 8:30am EDT
Nature Zone | Register Here and Watch Online
Mayors from around the world and global actors respond to the Cities4Forests "Call to Action on Forests and Climate" by increasing their commitments to forest action for climate mitigation and adaptation, pledging to work with cities on forest issues, and sharing the most impactful forest-related plans, policies, and investments. Learn more.
WRI Speaker: Craig Hanson   

Public Policies and Private Investment for Conservation and Landscape Restoration in Latin America
Tuesday, November 2
13:00 - 14:15 GMT | 9:00 - 10:15am EDT
European Investment Bank Pavilion, Blue Zone | Register Here and Watch Online
A free-flowing discussion between ministers and CEOs of impact investment firms on aligning public policies with private investment to promote the conservation and restoration of land in Latin American and the Caribbean. The panel will be in English with live interpretation in Spanish.
WRI Contact: Walter Vergara

A New Phase for AFR100: Accelerating Africa’s Locally Led Land Restoration Movement
Tuesday, November 2
13:00 – 14:30 GMT | 14:00-15:30 WAT | 15:00-16:30 CAT | 16:00-17:30 EAT
Nature Zone | Register Here and Watch Online
Join African heads-of-state, investors, and implementers for the launch of the second phase of AFR100 – featuring concrete investment commitments – and a look at the top locally led African tree restoration projects. Learn more.
WRI Speaker: Ani Dasgupta, Wanjira Mathai

Adaptation Action Coalition COP26 Event
Tuesday, November 2
17:30 – 18:30 GMT | 1:30-2:30pm EDT
Resilience Hub | Register Here and Watch Online
A high-level event focused on taking a whole of society approach to resilience and adaption action, as well as a Ministerial session where Ministers will announce commitments to adaptation action. Learn more.
WRI Speaker: Ani Dasgupta

COP26 Begins: What To Expect When You’re Expecting Disinformation (http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/fossil-fuel-folly/fossil-fuel-propaganda-modus-operandi/msg17054/#msg17054) (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F1%2F3-250718204530.gif&hash=2e7c5022efc700a555c2e328644b7448b6dda789)

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Title: COP26 Summit Is A Make or Break Chance To Avert Climate Disaster
Post by: AGelbert on November 01, 2021, 05:42:10 pm
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October 31, 2021

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Reuters

GLASGOW, Oct 31 (Reuters) – The United Nations COP26 summit that starts in Glasgow this week has been billed as a make-or-break chance to save the planet from the most calamitous effects of climate change😬

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“We’re already at global warming at 1.1 degrees above pre-industrial levels,” he told Sky News television. “At 1.5 there are countries in the world that will be underwater, and that’s why we need to get an agreement here on how we tackle climate change over the next decade.”

Meeting the 1.5 C goal, agreed in Paris to much fanfare in 2015, will require a surge in political momentum and diplomatic heavy-lifting to make up for the insufficient action and empty pledges that have characterized much of global climate politics.

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“Let’s be clear – there is a serious risk that Glasgow will not deliver,” U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres told leaders of the Group of 20 (G20) rich nations last week.
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Title: U.S. and the EU are due to formally unveil the Global Methane Pledge at COP26
Post by: AGelbert on November 02, 2021, 12:40:17 pm
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Movember 2, 2021

The EPA announced new rules to sharply curtail methane emissions from oil and gas wells today, as the U.S. and the EU are due to formally unveil the Global Methane Pledge at COP26.


Making methane moves: COP day 2

COP26 🐒 Disinfo Off To The Stupidest Possible Start


A full roundup of today's climate and clean energy commentary can be found here (https://newsletter.climatenexus.org/20211102-cop-day-2-methane-pledge-rules-manchin-teenage-firefighters?utm_campaign=Hot%20News&utm_medium=email&_hsmi=177967856&_hsenc=p2ANqtz--mUyc5LYyqqkbsBWZeDokz6xRXdspA3KwSJhxyJoKNQb-sfCmTvH2QxNCXvdPNySuecNmkqJJaWZSj8_Awo-8OxUqm0Q&utm_content=177967856&utm_source=hs_email).

Agelbert NOTE:,Countries had better DO (not simply, "pledge" ::) to do) a LOT more than curtailing methane leaks from oil and gas wells. Not only should those polluting wells be PLUGGED (PERIOD, FULL STOP!), but drastic action to get us back to 350 PPM of atmospheric CO2 is sine qua non to keep the permafrost methane bomb from going off. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F1%2F3-210818163124-16681686.gif&hash=c9573d4cd35d7f32975722353e8362379843aabf)

Any apocalyptic scenario possible if methane from melting permafrost is not stopped
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on November 02, 2021, 03:55:49 pm
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Title: Extinction Rebellion Activists Tell It Like It IS!
Post by: AGelbert on November 02, 2021, 05:07:52 pm
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November 2, 2021

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#ExtinctionRebellion protesters heckle world leaders in Glasgow on the way to a plush dinner at Kelvingrove museum #COP26

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https://www.ecowatch.com/climate-activists-cop26-dinner-2655476683.html

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Title: ⏰ Running Out of Time - Hourglass Collage
Post by: AGelbert on November 04, 2021, 03:06:46 pm
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Agelbert MESSAGE to all who see this: Please pass this graphic, made by me today, on with, or without, attribution. Your friends  and family will thank you. 
Title: Youth VS The 🚩 Climate ☠️ Apocalypse #UPROOTtheSYSTEM
Post by: AGelbert on November 05, 2021, 06:21:38 pm
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Title: The market isn’t shutting down the fossil fuel sector at anything like the pace required, in Kerry’s USA and elsewhere.
Post by: AGelbert on November 07, 2021, 12:24:16 am
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November 6, 2021 BY Gareth Dale, Truthout

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Technology Fetishism Reigns at COP26. It’ll Keep Us Burning Fossil Fuels. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F1%2F3-111018132421-16911675.gif&hash=b337cdc73ae0e451ca134d064ea3363d3de56665) (https://media3.giphy.com/media/kHmINzGsY6xbwgSo3J/source.gif)
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Title: Massive Street Protests Express Frustration 😡 with 🦖 Business as Usual toothless "Commitments"... 💣
Post by: AGelbert on November 07, 2021, 02:52:09 pm
by Tibi Puiu, November 7, 2021 1:13 PM
4.1-minute read

It's been a week since the COP26 summit in Glasgow kicked off. World leaders are focusing on climate change and while there's been some progress, decisive ambition to tackle the climate emergency is lacking. This disappointment has been voiced by tens of thousands of protesters (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F2%2F3-190119153601.gif&hash=336ba78f7f18ff5829ef3722f89b4258d2315284) 👍 (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/gallery/renewablerevolution/2/3-300919160022-2281531.png) who took to the streets of Glasgow and other cities in a Climate March. Here's the executive summary.

Our "last best chance" to stop catastrophic climate change

Code red,declared the UN secretary-general, António Guterres, right before this year's COP kicked off in Glasgow. With this statement, Guterres wished to sound the 🚨 alarm ahead of expected intense negotiations, hoping to galvanize policymakers for more ambitious action. This is our "last best chance" to keep global heating under 1.5 degrees Celsius, everyone seems to agree.

The UN climate conference kicked off on the first day with speeches from world leaders, who one after the other took the podium and called for action. With a few exceptions, these speeches were as bland and cliché as one might expect from a politician. Everyone's eyes were on President Joe Biden anyway, who came to build back everything that Trump had destroyed in his four years in office. After Biden took office, he immediately took steps to bring back the US into the Paris Agreement. At Glasgow, he told delegates that the US wants to become a net-zero emissions economy no later than 2050, saying the government will soon introduce a long-term decarbonization strategy. He also touted his legislative plans, still awaiting approval by his fellow Democrats in Congress, to allocate $500 billion (https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/23/climate/biden-infrastructure-stimulus-climate-change.html) to address climate change.

“I guess I shouldn’t apologize, but I do apologize  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/gallery/renewablerevolution/2/3-050921221152.jpeg) for the fact that the United States — the last administration pulled out of the Paris accord,” Biden told (https://www.zmescience.com/science/cop26-biden-climate-action-02112021/) the delegates at COP26. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F1%2F3-120818185036-1638694.gif&hash=648d3b7e5567fa4f349a5fbfbfc1df8b27355704)

The first tangible (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F1%2F3-250718211017.gif&hash=1b5b289486b9429bdbdcb938b21ef1a2b66d30fc) outcome out of COP26 was Tuesday's resolution, signed by a group of more than 100 countries representing 85% of the world’s forests, which committed to stopping all deforestation in just nine years (https://www.zmescience.com/ecology/world-leaders-vow-to-stop-deforestation-by-2030-can-it-be-done/) (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F1%2F3-250718202127.gif&hash=acc63221521ebaf3f238088fd92d1ae3a08b6e48). The declaration (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/gallery/renewablerevolution/2/3-050921221152.jpeg) comes alongside $19 billion of new funding to tackle forest loss, provided by developed countries and companies.

No more deforestation in less than a decade? That sounds fantastic. However, the declaration lacks any teeth. There are no terms on how the goal will actually be met or how progress will be monitored. Plus, the goal is not binding — so there’s good reason not to get your hopes up just yet. 

The following day, delegates turned their attention to methane, an extremely potent greenhouse gas. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F1%2F3-240718213433-14592370.png&hash=303e851c5feb196224d3a901ee609fed6437375d) Over 100 countries have signed a commitment to reduce their methane emissions (https://www.zmescience.com/science/begone-methane-pledge-03112021/) by 30% between 2020 and 2030 (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F1%2F3-250718202127.gif&hash=acc63221521ebaf3f238088fd92d1ae3a08b6e48). The initiative is spearheaded by the (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F1%2F3-020818201645-1486464.jpeg&hash=bfa44b2ee2b1d6d1ea71a024b1bd6e9cf1328326) United States and the European Union and it covers two-thirds of the global economy and half of the main 30 methane emitters countries. China, Russia and India haven’t joined it 🤦‍♂️, however.

So far, so good.(https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F1%2F3-210818163125-16722324.gif&hash=fd301340fefe90d81ed8826dfa0568be12a1c0d8) (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/gallery/renewablerevolution/2/3-070921161911.gif)  If the deforestation and methane reduction pledges are actually followed through, global warming could be kept at 2 degrees Celsius (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F1%2F3-120818180835-16271224.gif&hash=c2a9bfbff23e2414975829eb4b3655af12eb02cc) (https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/nov/03/cop26-emission-pledges-could-limit-global-heating-to-below-2c-india), by one estimate. All hopes hinge on all of these countries actually delivering on their promises though. :P

More than 40 countries also agreed to phase out coal-fired power, including Canada, South Korea, Ukraine, Indonesia and Vietnam, who vowed to stop using coal sometime between 2030 and 2040. Even Poland signed up, which was very surprising, considering the nation's residential and industrial sectors are 90% dependent on coal.

Civil society was kept up to speed with all of these developments -- but they didn't buy them. On Friday, the streets of Glasgow were flooded by thousands of protesters(https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F1%2F3-210818163124-16672489.gif&hash=c9e9fcc8de210be9006f5fd3348145e8acef7435)(https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/gallery/renewablerevolution/2/3-081019223703.jpeg) 👍, with several high-profile activists already labeling this COP as a failure.

“Many are starting to ask themselves, what will it take for the people in power to wake up?" said climate activitist Greta Thunberg ✨.

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On this note, a group of artists  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/gallery/renewablerevolution/2/3-301021140910.gif)launched the “Cartoon Gallery” at the COP, showing 60 cartoons that illustrate everyone’s frustration with the lack of climate ambition.
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The 🦕🦖 Hydrocarbon 👹 Hellspawn Fossil Fuelers DID THE Clean Energy Inventions suppressing, Climate Trashing, Government corrupting, human health depleting CRIME. Since they have ALWAYS BEEN liars and conscience free (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F2%2F3-200419205214.png&hash=4c5b9ca97c84607da003becdf6282716bcdf1800)(https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-130418193910.gif&hash=633dd399cd6006279afd7efb5ef953673b96bd78)crooks, they are trying to AVOID DOING THE TIME or PAYING THE FINE!  Don't let them get away with it! Pass it on!  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/gallery/renewablerevolution/2/3-300919160023-2284203.png)
Title: 🚩 2021 Was Terrible for North American Glaciers.
Post by: AGelbert on November 08, 2021, 01:37:27 pm
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November 7, 2021 BY Brian Menounos, The Conversation

2021 Was Terrible for North American Glaciers. COP26 May Seal Their Fate. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-311013201604.png&hash=3793102f2f335b7a8fe106d54eac4db31f2674eb)

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This year will likely be one of the worst for glaciers in southern British Columbia, Alberta, Washington and Montana. BRYTTA VIA GETTY IMAGES

SNIPPET:

A modelling study in 2011, for example, showed that Alberta glaciers would lose 31-40 per cent of their volume even if temperatures stopped increasing immediately. A more recent study reveals nearly complete deglaciation in mid- to southern areas of British Columbia and Alberta even under moderate future emission scenarios.

Neither of these earlier projection studies take into account the most recent collection of global climate model experiments from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Sixth Assessment Report. The scientific community is currently using these scenarios to update projected glacier loss for many regions, including western North America, which will help clarify the rates and pattern of glacier loss in the decades ahead. But we should anticipate continued glacier shrinkage since glaciers remain strongly out of balance with present-day climate.

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Title: Greta Thunberg ✨ Tells it like it 🦖😈🐍 IS!
Post by: AGelbert on November 08, 2021, 02:30:17 pm
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November 8, 2021 By Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!

Greta Thunberg ✨ Condemns UN Climate Summit as a “(https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/gallery/renewablerevolution/2/3-050921221152.jpeg) Greenwash 🦖😈🐍 Festival”

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It is not a secret that COP26 is a failure. It should be obvious that we cannot solve a crisis with the same methods that got us into it in the first place. And more and more people are starting to realize this. Many are starting to ask themselves, “What will it take for the people in power to wake up?”

But let’s be clear: They are already awake. They know exactly what they are doing. They know exactly what priceless values they are sacrificing to maintain business as usual. The leaders are not doing nothing; they are actively creating loopholes and shaping frameworks to benefit themselves and to continue profiting from this destructive system. This is an active choice by the leaders to continue to let the exploitation of people and nature and the destruction of present and future living conditions to take place. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-040718162656-14241872.gif&hash=6c39a3206e2b2a3d652adee626b5eee8ab5b15bf)

The COP has turned into a PR event where leaders are giving beautiful speeches (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/gallery/renewablerevolution/2/3-050921221152.jpeg) and announcing fancy commitments and targets, while behind the curtains the governments of the Global North countries are still refusing to take any drastic climate action. It seems like their main 😈 goal is to continue to fight for the status quo.

And COP26 has been named the most exclusionary COP ever. This is not a conference. This is now a GlobalNorth greenwash festival, a two-week-long celebration of 🦖😈🐍 business as usual and blah, blah, blah. The most affected people in the most affected areas still remain unheard, and the voices of future generations are drowning in their greenwash and empty words and promises. But the facts do not lie, and we know that our emperors are naked.

To stay below the targets set in the Paris Agreement, and thereby minimizing the risks of setting off irreversible chain reactions beyond human control, we need immediate, drastic, annual emission cuts unlike anything the world has ever seen. And as we don’t have the technological solutions that alone will do anything even close to that, that means we will have to fundamentally change our society. And this is the uncomfortable result of our leaders’ repeated failure to address this crisis.

At the current emissions rates, our remaining CO2 budgets to give us the best chances of staying below 1.5 degrees Celsius will be gone within the end of this decade. And the climate and ecological crisis, of course, doesn’t exist in a vacuum. It is directly tied to other crises and injustices that date back to colonialism and beyond, crises based on the idea that some people are worth more than others, and therefore had the right to steal others — to exploit others and to steal their land and resources. And 📢 it is very naive of us to think that we could solve this crisis without addressing the root (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-130418203402.gif&hash=b2691028ba683a0039a5811f5775c68d7ccae01c) cause of it.

But this is not going to be spoken about inside the COP. It’s just too uncomfortable. It’s much easier for them to simply ignore the historical debt that the countries of the Global North have towards the most affected people and areas.

And the question we must now ask ourselves is: What is it that we are fighting for? Are we fighting to save ourselves and the living planet, or are we fighting to maintain business as (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F2%2F3-200419205214.png&hash=4c5b9ca97c84607da003becdf6282716bcdf1800) (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-130418193910.gif&hash=633dd399cd6006279afd7efb5ef953673b96bd78)usual?
🕯️Don't miss the video  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F1%2F3-210818163127-1680962.png&hash=405119a0c023346043f1dae6ab993a831a8cbb5d) of Greta making the above speech: 🕊️
https://truthout.org/video/greta-thunberg-condemns-un-climate-summit-as-a-greenwash-festival/

Agelbert NOTE: Greta is not saying anything that reality based humans don't know, as the following fact filled quote from George M. Woodwell, made over six years ago, makes clear. Nevertheless, what she said needs to be shouted from the rooftops until the polluters can no longer buy politicians.

George M. Woodwell, Woods Hole Research Center founder:
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"The core responsibility assigned to governments in democracies is the PUBLIC WELFARE, protecting the HUMAN BIRTHRIGHT to BASIC NEEDS: clean air, water, land, and a place to live, under EQUITABLE RULES of access to all common property resources.

It is astonishing to discover that major political efforts in democracies can be turned to undermining the core purpose of government, destroying the factual basis for fair and effective protection of essential common property resources of all to feed the financial interests of a few.
 
These 😈🦖 efforts, limiting scientific research on environment, denying the validity of settled facts and natural laws, are a shameful dance, far below acceptable or reputable political behavior. It can be treated not as a reasoned alternative, but scorned for what it is – SIMPLE THIEVERY."


"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored." -- Aldous Huxley
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The 🦕🦖 Hydrocarbon 👹 Hellspawn Fossil Fuelers DID THE Clean Energy Inventions suppressing, Climate Trashing, Government corrupting, human health depleting CRIME. Since they have ALWAYS BEEN liars and conscience free (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F2%2F3-200419205214.png&hash=4c5b9ca97c84607da003becdf6282716bcdf1800)(https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-130418193910.gif&hash=633dd399cd6006279afd7efb5ef953673b96bd78)crooks, they are trying to AVOID DOING THE TIME or PAYING THE FINE!  Don't let them get away with it! Pass it on!  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/gallery/renewablerevolution/2/3-300919160023-2284203.png)
Title: Social Darwinist Business as Usual Biosphere Destruction
Post by: AGelbert on November 09, 2021, 01:02:26 pm
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Title: PROSECUTE them or they will continue laughing all the way to the bank with their Government Hand Out "Subsidies" while t
Post by: AGelbert on November 10, 2021, 04:23:31 pm
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November 10, 2021

Union of Concerned Scientists

Congress must hold Big Oil accountable for decades of deception

Dear Anthony,

This year’s international climate negotiations are still under way and the message from my colleagues there on the ground has been clear: current plans to cut emissions are still falling short of the kind of investment science tells us we need to limit the worst effects of climate change.

Here in the United States, Congress is still working to pass our biggest investment in climate action ever—the Build Back Better Act. Even as we continue to push hard to pass this critical investment, it’s hard not to think about the obstacles that prevented us from acting earlier, at a time when we could have prevented the devastation we’ve seen in recent years.

The fossil fuel industry has spent decades—and billions of dollars—to prevent climate action from happening. And while the industry has long been able to avoid accountability for its actions, the tide is beginning to turn. States and municipalities across the country are bringing lawsuits against fossil fuel corporations to make them pay their fair share of the costs of addressing climate change.

And just last month, top fossil fuel industry executives were called before Congress to answer for their decades of climate deception. We must continue to hold these corporations accountable and ensure they don’t continue to stand in the way of the further investments we need to close the gap between our current climate commitments  and what’s needed to prevent the worst impacts of climate change. —Katy

The more we know about Big Oil’s ongoing climate deception, the better we can hold fossil fuel companies accountable for their harms. That’s why it’s crucial that this hearing be just the first step. Congress must continue to investigate the industry’s history of climate disinformation and ongoing anti-climate campaigns. Tell your US representative to keep the heat on and investigate Big Oil’s climate disinformation..

November 10, 2021

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The House Committee on Oversight and Reform's October hearing on fossil fuel industry disinformation should be just the first step in investigating what oil and gas companies, and their trade organizations, have done to block climate progress and endanger the public. Atomic Scientist Edward Teller warned them a long time ago that they had to stop their CO2 producing business model. On its 100th birthday in 1959, Edward Teller warned the oil industry about global warming. Yet, instead of beginning the transition to clean renewable energy, they formed a Conspiracy to deliberately put in doubt the scientifically irrefutable FACT that increased CO2 would result in Catastrophic Climate Change.

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That said, the Hydrocarbon Industry's 62 year old disinformation campaign is NOT their worst crime, though it is certainly a felony. Beyond their greatest crime (i.e. wanton human health damaging biosphere pollution for short term profit), their greater crime is Corrupting State and Federal Government officials into blocking climate progress involving, but not limited to, Conspiracy to Defraud the Public of the United States through coerced "Subsidies" under the color of "National Security" (see Orwell).

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The result of this dastardly crime continues to be SECURITY for the Hydrocarbon "Industry" ("Mafia" is a more appropriate description of their buy em' or bop em' modus operandi) and INSECURITY for the United States. Oil shocks, as anyone who can add and subtract knows, increase security for Big Oil and National Insecurity for the United States.
     
These Big Oil Hydrocarbon Hellspawn Criminals, and their quislings in  government, must be prosecuted to the furthest extent of the law AND have their assets confiscated.

If you do not act to prevent Big Oil from continuing their Mens rea modus operandi CRIMES of BRIBING politicians with a portion of the money YOU CONTINUE to allow them to coerce out of we-the-people through Climate AND Democracy Destroying "Subsidies", these Social Darwinist, Profit over planet, biosphere polluters will NOT STOP their "Business model" dictated crimes! What is it going to take for you politicians to figure out that Big Oil "Business as Usual" is a death sentence for our environment AND our democracy? We need fossil fuels like a dog needs ticks!

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The Hydrocarbon Hellspawn DID THE Clean Energy Inventions suppressing, Climate Trashing, Government corrupting, human health depleting CRIME. Since they have ALWAYS BEEN liars and conscience free crooks, they are trying to AVOID DOING THE TIME or PAYING THE FINE! Don't let them get away with it! PROSECUTE them or they will continue laughing all the way to the bank with their Government Hand Out "Subsidies" while they gleefully destroy our biosphere.

They that forsake the law praise the wicked: but such as keep the law contend with them. Proverbs 28:4
Title: Tomorrow is Yesterday...
Post by: AGelbert on November 11, 2021, 01:36:29 pm
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Title: November 12 and NO SNOW YET in Vermont, thanks to Profit over Planet Polluters.
Post by: AGelbert on November 12, 2021, 04:25:49 pm
November 12 and NO SNOW YET in Vermont, thanks to 😈 Profit over Planet 🦕Polluters. 🤦‍♂️


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Agelbert NOTE: The average date for the first frost in Vermont used to be September 15. Our first frost this year came over 45 days later. As you can see, the lack of snow threatens Ski Resorts, who all wish to open for Thanksgiving, but cannot due to the high temperatures, despite being able to make some snow during the night.

The Hydrocarbon Mafia WILL NOT pony up a PENNY to make up for ski resort/tourist income LOSSES. That said, this is just one of several deleterious effects, among the somewhat milder impacts of Catastrophic Climate Change, as is being experienced in Vermont. The longer warm season has helped the insects that kill maple trees to thrive.

On top of that potential disaster for Vermont Maple Syrup production, the Spring is giving less temperature swings (above and below freezing each day) that are sine qua non to get the Maple Tree sap to run so it can be harvested. Maple Syrup producers took a major hit this spring because the number of days they could collect sap was less than HALF the normal amount. Again the Hydrocarbon Hellspawn will NOT do ZIP to stop their polllution or compensate Vermonters for the bankrupting loss of income OR the destruction of the Maple Trees in our rapidly warming forests by wood borer beetles.

The "Business as Usual", "Might equals Right", morally bankrupt, 👿 Social Darwinist ideology/RELIGION of the 🦖 Hydrocabon Worshipping Polluters will destroy human civilization, and much of the biosphere, if it is not completely rejected by people of good will all over the world.

"... It is astonishing to discover that major political efforts in democracies can be turned to undermining the core purpose of government, destroying the factual basis for fair and effective protection of essential common property resources of all to feed the financial interests of a few. These efforts, limiting scientific research on environment, denying the validity of settled facts and natural laws, are a shameful dance, far below acceptable or reputable political behavior. It can be treated not as a reasoned alternative, but scorned for what it is – simple thievery." —George M. Woodwell, Woods Hole Research Center founder

"We do not need a 'new' business model for energy because we never had one. What we need, if we wish to avoid extinction, is to plug the environmental and equity costs of energy production and use into our planning and thinking. " -- A.G. Gelbert

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"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored." -- Aldous Huxley
Title: 👉 First Snow in Vermont is only a Light Dusting 🚩 Limited to Higher Elevations
Post by: AGelbert on November 14, 2021, 02:03:37 pm
👉 First Snow in Vermont is only a Light Dusting 🚩 Limited to Higher Elevations.
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Title: COP26 COP-OUT ENDS
Post by: AGelbert on November 15, 2021, 08:31:37 pm
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November 15, 2021

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The 26th meeting of the UN climate talks was finally gavelled on Saturday evening in Glasgow, after more than two weeks of intense negotiations. The Glasgow Climate Pact secured a 2023 timeline for countries to resubmit their national emissions-reduction targets to be more aligned with 1.5°C (2.7°F) of warming (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F1%2F3-250718202127.gif&hash=acc63221521ebaf3f238088fd92d1ae3a08b6e48), and made an unprecedented mention of fossil fuels (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F1%2F3-120818185036-1638694.gif&hash=648d3b7e5567fa4f349a5fbfbfc1df8b27355704) and recognition of the need for Just Transition (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F1%2F3-250718202127.gif&hash=acc63221521ebaf3f238088fd92d1ae3a08b6e48).

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Title: This is piecemeal Legislation, the result of corruption by the forces of Predatory Delay.
Post by: AGelbert on November 16, 2021, 09:08:52 pm
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November 16, 2021

Biden Signs Trillion Dollar Bipartisan Infrastructure Package

President Joe Biden signed the roughly $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill into law on Monday, marking the biggest public infrastructure investment in over a decade.

The legislation provides

$110 billion for roads and bridges,
֍ nearly $50 billion to protect communities from the impacts of climate change,
$55 billion for water infrastructure including
$15 billion for replacing lead pipes,
$65 billion to improve the electrical grid,
$39 billion for public transit,
$25 billion for airports,
֍ $7.5 billion for EV charging stations, and
֍ $5 billion for hybrid and electric school buses. Nearly all school buses currently run on diesel, exposing children whose lungs are particularly susceptible to air pollution to exhaust fumes, likely the most polluted air they’ll breathe all day, and dumping more than 5 million tons of greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere every year.

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The law aims to end the use of infrastructure projects like highways and bridges as instruments of racism, but some worry the law gives states unconcerned with equity considerations too much control. “A fundamental part of this program has always been to have the feds raise money, hand it over to the states and cross our fingers,” Beth Osborne, who was an acting assistant secretary in the Transportation Department during the Obama administration, told the New York Times. The law contains just a small fraction of the spending to cut American climate pollution included in the Build Back Better Act, which Democrats are hoping to pass before Thanksgiving. (Infrastructure law: AP, NPR, Reuters, Thomson Reuters Foundation, New York Times $, Wall Street Journal $; School buses: TIME; Orphaned Wells: High Country News, Grist (https://grist.org/politics/infrastructure-deal-environmental-justice/?utm_campaign=Hot%20News&utm_medium=email&_hsmi=183513817&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8EWivOxC3dubIFlb3vF-pGRsZszhpgccPzpq8_vJsDwQgO4qvmECYkoVn9UCRYihK93IhFF1OM3rO-KTuHr1966MKT8Q&utm_content=183513817&utm_source=hs_email), New Mexico Political Report, Bradford Era, Centre Daily Times; Environmental justice: New York Times $; Build Back Better: E&E News (https://www.eenews.net/articles/its-time-to-vote-dems-itchy-to-finish-big-spending-bill/?utm_campaign=Hot%20News&utm_medium=email&_hsmi=183513817&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_lBu8pr6B6rOjoaRixTnnmOPtklgo9IviYAJzjwSqCNV7tTIoeqCazQYzB_QmyRWV5aul1XfoieeNa-FhxWuae0iWffw&utm_content=183513817&utm_source=hs_email), The Hill)

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As to "ending the use of infrastructure projects like highways and bridges as instruments of racism" AFTER handing Federal Highways and Bridge Money over to the states and crossing Federal fingers epecting States do their part to end worker and contract infrastructure building racism...   
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(https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-191017143841.jpeg&hash=21f142befe4ed82f10ef0bdba11c22bbd3051289) Now let us discuss the Money in the Legislation. There is a problem with trying to make sense of any of the above numbers, which to the average person seem like a lot of money. People tend to say, yeah, billions of dollars for a lot of needed projects is good, so it is all good. Not really. In order to begin to understand the numbers, you need to look at the amounts in proportion to each other. It will then be obvious what got the most "bipartisan" support AND what is mostly happy talk. But that is not the full story. When you learn the number of YEARS the given amounts are spread out over by LAW, then you realize how woefully inadequate this Legislation actually is.

This is piecemeal Legislation, the result of corruption by the forces of Predatory Delay. Incremental steps to solve our Climate Crisis, never mind the increasingly misery producing inequity AND Oligarchic destruction of democracy, will not be enough to avert Catastrophic Climate Change Disaster. May God have mercy on us all.

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Title: Permian Climate Bomb 💣
Post by: AGelbert on November 17, 2021, 07:46:24 pm
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Nov 15, 2021

⏰ Permian Climate Bomb 💣

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The ongoing oil boom in the Permian is a story of toxic infrastructure, environmental injustice and climate overshoot. Each of these issues by themselves are reason enough to stop extraction in the basin, but together, they are The Permian Basin Climate Bomb. Watch this video to get an insight into how the barely regulated oil and gas production from New Mexico to the Gulf Coast will bust the climate and intensify impacts on communities.

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Title: BLAH, BLAH, BLAH? Is that all our leaders provided at COP26?
Post by: AGelbert on November 21, 2021, 08:10:41 pm
Nov 21, 2021 22,105 views

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"It breaks my heart to say that COP26 has killed all prospect of limiting global overheat to 1.5C. I put this argument to climate-optimist Michael Mann on BBC Radio 5 Live after it had concluded. Now is the time to abandon naive optimism in favour of facing up to climate reality.

It gives me no pleasure to say these things, but the reality is that we need to be prepared for the worst, because our governments have given us no reason to expect anything else."
 
Rupert Read on 5Live: (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F1%2F3-210818163123-1664600.png&hash=d609f7e4847e25e034ca7c7b11e75234ba2a0afd) The failure of COP26 must be a 🚨⏰ wakeup call
https://youtu.be/3uynmaxEw0E
Title: Climate Crisis "Solution" Hopium is UNscientific
Post by: AGelbert on December 01, 2021, 06:17:26 pm
Agelbert RANT: Beyond the usual wishful thinking about how "solvable" the climate crisis is AND the complete lack of finger pointing at the profit over planet polluters (i.e. NO demands for prosecuting/bankrupting the polluters and NO recommended TEETH for laws and regulations to prevent continued degradation of the biosphere for short term profit) that are TOTALLY (NOT "partially") responsible for Catastrophic Climate Change, this article is based on facts. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-130418202829.png&hash=a4ec201b97ad269ff59a6a1c0f1c19a04b57803a) The problem with stating the biosphere degradation facts resulting from our climate crisis, while studiously ignoring the gigantic elephant in the room FACT that the 😈🦖🐍 humans in charge of the polluter corporations are NOT going to stop as long as they are not prosecuted for their profit over planet ecocide is that we-the-people will accomplsh NADA to stop the ‘Insect Armageddon’ discussed here or any other extinction causing result of Catastrophic Climate Change. Yeah, that is a problem, to put it mildly. What really burns me is how these scientists can harbor the incredibly naive opinion that we can fix this "together" because, uh. we are "all" in this together.

NO, we are NOT all in this together. The polluters have every reason, based on their morally bankrupt ideology, to not care a hoot what happens to most of the biosphere, including the extinction of several high order mammalian vertebrate species, as long as their profit over planet corruption of governments all over the world continues unpunished and unabated. The polluters are morally depraved Social Darwinists. They will, with a straight face, calmly tell you that species have gone extinct since life has "evolved" on this planet and apex predaters like them need not be concerned (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F1%2F3-120818185036-1638694.gif&hash=648d3b7e5567fa4f349a5fbfbfc1df8b27355704) with ANY species that goes extinct due to pollution from a 😈 profitable "business Model". These moral reprobates actually believe that any species that goes extinct, no matter how important scientists think that species is, "deserves" to go extinct if it went extinct. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F2%2F3-190419232147.png&hash=b9d818543137cfd7ac4b712c1c25fe3b94b6d174) This is circular thinking insanity in the extreme, but ALL 🦍 Social Darwinsits swear by this irrational rejection of altruistic behavior on behalf of the biosphere in general (and humans they exploit in particular) in order to "justifiy" their wanton degradation of the biosphere for short term profit. They are true believers in technofixes, even if scientists tell them there ain't no technofix for the extinction of a keystone species. The polluter greedballs are so blind to cause and effect reality that ANYTHING that questions their morally bankrupt "might equals right" ideology is rejected. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/gallery/renewablerevolution/1/3-020818201439-14611696.jpeg)
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The problem with too many scientists is that they think of the Climate Crisis as a biological math problem to be solved. rather than a DIRECT CAUSE of the moral depravity of polluters. As long as the climate Crisis is not labelled as  a MORAL CRISIS, asking we-the-people to do our part to save nature, something 90% PLUS of humanity already DOES, will not work BECAUSE LESS than 5% of humanity (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F2%2F3-291021175322.gif&hash=b75a58cc0c75ff3a7264e74c7217391d1e70d860)(https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-130418193910.gif&hash=633dd399cd6006279afd7efb5ef953673b96bd78)(https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F2%2F3-200419205214.png&hash=4c5b9ca97c84607da003becdf6282716bcdf1800) is doing over 99% of the pollution! It is like these scientists, people who are great at math from the time they were knee high to a grasshopper, deciding to forget how to add and subtract when the blame for worldwide (OVERWHELMINGLY CAUSED BY THE HYDROCARBON "Industry") biosphere degradation needs to be SPECIFICALLY tallied up. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-221215212409.png&hash=a468474328aca658690b57ec357614360c510849)(https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/gallery/renewablerevolution/2/3-300919160019-22721213.gif)



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Nature underpins every aspect of human existence—and it is in crisis


KEY TAKEAWAYS

📢 Biodiversity underpins every aspect of life on our planet—but it's currently declining at an unprecedented rate.
֍ To reverse this trend, we must find better ways to manage humanity's footprint on land and sea—and new ways to fund this work.
֍ The year ahead will be crucial, as members of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity reconvene in China in 2021 and early 2022 to agree on a new global framework for protecting nature.

Whether you live in a large coastal city or a small town in the foothills; work in agriculture, engineering or finance; live off the land or consider yourself an urban warrior; whether you consciously realize it or not, we all need nature.

https://youtu.be/KPzpdwE2ic4

BIODIVERSITY EXPLAINED (3:05) What if all the variety on the planet disappeared? It could happen. Extinctions are happening faster than ever. If we remove too many pieces the health of our environment, food supply, and economies could crumble. But if we can agree to prioritize biodiversity, we can save the planet and ourselves.

This variety of life, the communities they form, and habitats in which they live make up the fabric of life—biodiversity. It underpins planetary health and informs everything down to the taste of a grain, the strand of a cloth and a sip of water, supporting our most basic needs. Yet, nature and wildlife are declining around the world at an unprecedented rate.


THE COST OF LOSING NATURE

The United Nations’ Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) recently warned that we are exploiting nature far more rapidly than it can renew itself, driving extinctions up to 1,000 times faster than the background “natural rate.” The report also spells out that up to one million known species could disappear by 2050. Invertebrates, in particular, are disappearing so quickly that some scientists are warning of a looming ‘Insect Armageddon.’

That species loss comes at a price—both literally and figuratively. While the intrinsic value of nature is priceless, economists have estimated that nature also contributes trillions of dollars  to the global economy each year, in the form of ecosystem services – natural processes like pollination and the provision of water. We know, for instance, that 75 percent of global food crops rely on pollination; that forests filter and store 40 percent of the water for the world’s largest urban areas; and coastal habitats like coral reefs and mangroves buffer us from floods and storms while also absorbing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Beyond these essential services, other cultural and physical aspects of our relationship to nature, although less easy to quantify, are arguably just as important to our quality of life.

PROTECT THE BEST—BUT ALSO MANAGE THE REST

Climate breakdown is already making it clear that the future of human development depends on rethinking our relationship with the natural world. The biodiversity crisis further reinforces the need for urgency. The Nature Conservancy (TNC) is part of a global effort to preserve the world’s remaining wild and near-natural habitats, with the goal of protecting 30 percent of the planet by 2030. But it’s not enough to simply create more protected areas on land and at sea—we also need to address the root causes of biodiversity loss.

The biggest direct drivers causing this steep decline are massive land-use changes, climate change, pollution, resource use and exploitation, and invasive species. Agricultural expansion in the past fifty years has resulted in the degradation of intact forests, especially in the tropics, but cities and roads have also encroached upon natural landscapes. Marine ecosystems, meanwhile, are in a dire state from the cumulative impacts of overfishing, pollution, and climate-related drivers like ocean warming, acidification and deoxygenation.

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ESPIRITU SANTO ISLAND A sea lion hunts in Los Islotes in Espiritu Santo Island in La Paz Bay, Baja California Sur, Mexico © Alfredo Martinez Fernandez/TNC Photo Contest 2019

Addressing these issues means fundamentally changing the way we manage humanity’s footprint on land and sea. We can—and must—grow more food through regenerative agricultural practices that seek to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and protect soil and biodiversity. In addition to halting deforestation and other habitat conversion, we can better manage working forests in ways that preserve as many species as possible without sacrificing sustainable production. In areas that have already been degraded, we must restore and regenerate forests and other landscapes. Degraded lands also offer opportunities to site infrastructure in ways that meet human needs with minimal impact to nature.

At sea, we need to better manage fisheries, create safe havens in the ocean, and build resilience along our coasts. One bright spot: a new agreement for biodiversity beyond national jurisdiction (more than 200 nautical miles from shore) aims to protect the world’s high seas. The agreement should be completed during the fourth and final round of talks in spring 2020.


INVEST IN SUSTAINABLE PATHWAYS

Make no mistake: achieving all this within the timescales required to avert ecological catastrophe will require massive and transformative changes in our global economies and financial systems. For example, the hundreds of billions of dollars in public subsidies currently directed towards the agriculture sector, originally intended to make food cheaper and more plentiful, have hidden costs for both nature and human health by too often effectively incentivizing unsustainable farming practices and unhealthy eating. Such funds should ideally be reallocated in ways that support healthy food production while also benefiting nature.

Rethinking public spending alone isn’t enough, though—we’ll also have to unlock or redirect new sources of funding for nature, including from the private sector. Too often the economic value of the services nature provides—the way forests filter and recharge groundwater, for example—go unrecognized and unvalued. But quantifying these values opens the door to investing directly in nature in ways that can deliver both financial returns and conservation benefits. To start to manage the conservation crisis, we need to be looking for conservation finance solutions that can easily scale to deliver billions of dollars per year, every year.

The Nature Conservancy has pioneered the use of water funds—localized arrangements where urban water users pay into a fund that then invests in conservation and improved agricultural practices in the upper watershed.  Source watersheds provide water for the largest cities on the planet; they represent one third of the Earth’s surface, sustain more than 1.7 billion people and are home to more than 50 percent of the planet’s endangered terrestrial species.

In many cases, these investments in “natural infrastructure” are a more cost-effective way to secure water quality improvements compared with traditional ‘gray infrastructure’ solutions like water filtration plants.  Considering that the world spends around half a trillion dollars a year on water infrastructure, nature can improve the return on that investment by providing cleaner drinking water for hundreds of cities for less.  That’s a multi-billion dollar investment proposition with a negative financial cost.

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PORTRAIT OF SAM 'OHUKANI'ŌHI' A GON III Senior Scientist and Cultural Advisor at the Nature Conservancy, Hawai'i Program, Maunawili Falls Trail, Oíahu, Hawai'i © Ian Shive

COMMIT TO NATURE

The year ahead is crucial for tackling these major ecological and systemic threats. In early 2021, when the UN Convention on Biodiversity reconvenes in Kunming, China, 196 national governments will have the opportunity to make an ambitious commitment to biodiversity protection—one that fully recognizes the value of nature across society and government. Momentum is also building through a public voice and a movement creating a demand for nature.

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The natural world is not a faraway place: it is our world. Large-scale ecological collapse in such a short period of time has happened just five times in geological history. Historically, however, mass extinctions were caused by catastrophic events like asteroid collisions and volcanos. This time, human activities and the planet’s runaway transformation is happening on our watch.

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https://www.nature.org/en-us/what-we-do/our-insights/perspectives/biodiversity-crisis-nature-underpins-human-existence/

Agelbert NOTE: As long as the "WE" mentioned above does not include the polluters degrading the biosphere for profit 24/7 AND corrupting our governmetns 24/7 to force we-the-people to PAY THEM "subsidies" so they can make even more money while they poison us, NO credible and necessary steps to change course next year, or any other year, to mobilze for nature, will take place. This is not hard to figure out; If you don't stop a murdering crook, he will murder and steal more, PERIOD.
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The 🦕🦖 Hydrocarbon 👹 Hellspawn Fossil Fuelers DID THE Clean Energy Inventions suppressing, Climate Trashing, Government corrupting, human health depleting CRIME. Since they have ALWAYS BEEN liars and conscience free (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F2%2F3-200419205214.png&hash=4c5b9ca97c84607da003becdf6282716bcdf1800)(https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-130418193910.gif&hash=633dd399cd6006279afd7efb5ef953673b96bd78)crooks, they are trying to AVOID DOING THE TIME or PAYING THE FINE!  Don't let them get away with it! Pass it on!  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/gallery/renewablerevolution/2/3-300919160023-2284203.png)
Title: Plan that, while far from perfect, lays the foundation for Vermont to finally treat the climate crisis with the seriousn
Post by: AGelbert on December 03, 2021, 03:53:08 pm
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Dec 2, 2021

Ever since the Vermont Legislature overrode Gov. 🐘 Scott’s veto and enacted the Global Warming Solutions Act, we’ve had Dec. 1, 2021 circled on our calendars. That was the day the VT Climate Council, created by the Solutions Act, was slated to adopt Vermont’s first every legally required Climate Action Plan.

Well, I’m excited to share that yesterday the Climate Council did just that. On a 19 to 4 vote, the Council adopted a plan that, while far from perfect, lays the foundation for Vermont to finally treat the climate crisis with the seriousness it demands and get on track to meet our climate requirements.

Notably, the Climate Action Plan calls for (among many other things):

A clean heat standard, analogous to a renewable energy standard for the heating sector,
A dramatically-scaled up weatherization program that will help many more Vermonters - particularly lower income and historically marginalized Vermonters – access weatherization services,
Transportation investments to help people access clean and affordable transportation options and
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This is a big step, and a big thanks is owed to the hundreds of VPIRG members who attended Climate Council hearings and shared input with the Council. It made a big difference. And there’s no question that many, many thanks are due to the members of the Council itself and its subcommittees. Many are volunteers, and they put in hundreds of hours of hard, painstaking work to make yesterday’s action possible. Vermont owes them a debt of gratitude.

But in many ways, the hard work is just beginning. As policymakers move forward to consider these recommendations, we need to continue to make our voices heard and bring more voices into the process, particularly from historically marginalized (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-040718162656-14241872.gif&hash=6c39a3206e2b2a3d652adee626b5eee8ab5b15bf) communities.

Doing so will be necessary to make sure that our elected leaders turn these recommendations into real, tangible policies that cut carbon pollution and do so equitably. ... ...

There’s far more to share about the plan, the policies it requires the Scott Administration to take, how it will impact the upcoming legislative session, and what the ongoing work of the Council (and there’s a lot of it) will look like in the coming months. We’ll be in touch with more of those details in the coming weeks, but for now I wanted to offer a sincere thank you to all VPIRG members for the way you’ve stepped up for climate action these past few months (and years!). It is true that we have a great deal of work ahead of us. But the fact that we stand here today, with the state’s first legally adopted Climate Action Plan in our hands—a roadmap to the transformative policies we must adopt as a state—is a testament to the commitment of VPIRG members all across Vermont. So thank you.

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Climate & Energy Program Director, VPIRG


Vermont Public Interest Research Group
All rights reserved © 2021 VPIRG
VPIRG
141 Main Street
Ste. 6
Montpelier, VT 05602
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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on December 04, 2021, 08:24:57 pm
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Title: 75% - 80% of biosphere's species endangered by Catastrophic Climate Change
Post by: AGelbert on December 05, 2021, 03:12:46 pm
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Biodiversity hot spots of 75% - 80% of biosphere's species endangered by Global Warming Pollution
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Whether we humans want to admit it or not, we need the 75% of all of Earth's species in danger of extinction from climate change. I know it is really hard for the fossil fuel industry predators 'R' US crowd to wrap their greedy heads around this, but it's hard to live on a diet of hydrocarbons. And if we don't stop burning them, both our plant and animal food supply, along with thousands of other species of other earthlings that make this planet viable, will go extinct.

This is not hyperbole. Mass extinctions are part of the geological record. In all but one of those mass extinctions, the rapid rise in GHG was the cause of the extinctions. Furthermore, in all the former mass extinctions, the RATE of rise in GHG was much slower than today.

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Title: Facts
Post by: AGelbert on December 10, 2021, 01:01:17 pm
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FACT: "We can’t have a healthy business on a sick planet."-- Ashley Orgain, manager of mission advocacy and outreach for Seventh Generation, Burlington, Vermont

FACT:  "We do not need a 'new' business model for energy because we never had one. What we need, if we wish to avoid extinction, is to plug the environmental and equity costs of energy production and use into our planning and thinking. " -- A.G. Gelbert

FACT: "Technical knowledge of Carrying Capacity will not save us; only a massive increase in Caring Capacity will." -- A. G. Gelbert

"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored." - Aldous Huxley
Title: Synopsis on Abrupt Climate System Mayhem 🚩 ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on December 11, 2021, 10:28:40 pm
Dec 8, 2021

An Hour Long Synopsis on Abrupt Climate System Mayhem and My (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-221215212409.png&hash=a468474328aca658690b57ec357614360c510849) Views on COP26

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I have listed below what is presently on my mind, and what I either prepared to present at COP26 and actually presented (there wasn’t space or time at COP26 for all of them) at COP26 in Glasgow, Scotland. At the climate conference I did almost daily press conferences with CEF (Climate Emergency Forum). On some days I also participated in a second press conference with FF (Facing Future).

This hour long video is my longest yet. I wasn’t concerned with time, and left no stone unturned, as I tried to truly and honestly discuss the present dire state of our climate system. Earlier in the day, I did a similar talk about 45 minutes long with an additional 45 minute long Question and Answer (QA) session via Zoom for the Canadian Club of Rome (CACOR) which you can also watch if you like.

Carbon Dioxide Drawdown Via Ocean Pasture Restoration
🌊 Water: Crumbling Coastlines, Storm Surges and Massive Flooding
(https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/gallery/renewablerevolution/2/3-300919160021-22781459.png) Flaming Forests, Charred Cities, Smoking Permafrost, and Loss of Carbon Sinks

🔴 Cascading Abrupt Climate Change Feedbacks
Everything YOU Need to Know About Climate Changing Jet Streams
Global Climate Mayhem: Weather Wilding, Weirding and Whiplashing
How the Meme of Money Fuels Planetary Destruction
  Oceans in Peril: Heating, Stratification, Acidification, and Deoxygenation

🔴 Likelihood for Global Food Shortages and Famine Within One Decade

Climate Forced Migration of People, Animals, and Yes; Plants
Effective Climate Reality Education for the Public Masses
Understanding Both Risk and Exponential Growth are VITAL to Planetary Survival

🔴 Fossil Fuel Subsidized Destruction of Life on Earth

🔴 Heat Waves and Drought Create Uninhabitable Regions
Our Global Dimming Faustian Dilemma: What to Do? 🤷‍♂️
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Marine Cloud Brightening
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Climate Restoration Triad: Our Three-Legged Barstool Approach
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Title: Earther 📢 "The windstorm whipping the US looks 😵 terrifying." ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on December 16, 2021, 02:41:10 pm
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Historic wind storm slams central US, unleashes rare December (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/gallery/renewablerevolution/3/3-161221151010.gif) tornadoes (Washington Post $, Axios (https://www.axios.com/storm-plains-midwest-damaging-winds-tornadoes-d4d91bb9-4909-4b53-ac41-eedb6e1d9b85.html)), storm knocked out power to thousands on Navajo, Hopi land (AP (https://apnews.com/article/arizona-storms-73b896772397355cbe65782f666011df)), extreme winds hit 100 mph in Colorado Springs; 25,000-plus without power; trees, trucks toppled (The Gazette (https://gazette.com/weather/live-weather-updates-extreme-winds-hit-100-mph-in-northern-colorado-springs/article_9d4888bc-5da7-11ec-b634-4f70edb4f8f2.html?utm_campaign=Hot%20News&utm_medium=email&_hsmi=196174401&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-9ZHe9WApa4dnuq-5dClqLqmU0nOXNqbKYGUnD1FForZ4aVJ4x3xBYCjF2neJidzLoTDcBTJAEEa0HRut5oUTAd04N83w&utm_content=196174401&utm_source=hs_email)), storms, extreme winds from Colorado to Michigan leave more than 450,000 without power (Washington Post $ (https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/12/16/power-outage-midwest-storms-tornado-derecho/)), heavy rain hits drought-stricken California, triggering evacuations, rescues (The Hill (https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/585856-heavy-rain-hits-drought-stricken-california-triggering-evacuations?utm_campaign=Hot%20News&utm_medium=email&_hsmi=196174401&_hsenc=p2ANqtz--wHJpAaqWRlZukgWsQ4uRqqvNpULCkdzzWO758k1vbELsjHSwob68ULi950UDAIi0dj31yuLBSFP2Y4vpASHc7SkL8Dw&utm_content=196174401&utm_source=hs_email)), storm slams Southern California as Central US faces winds, fire threat (Axios (https://www.axios.com/storm-southern-californiacentral-us-winds-fire-threat-3c28da4e-8ae0-4663-b749-5ccfeaaecc19.html?utm_campaign=Hot%20News&utm_medium=email&_hsmi=196174401&_hsenc=p2ANqtz--m-ovt9wOFTb5OGTDs4pLL2reHFVICnM1FVvujNYGfRgRDIo5sRjA_AOcbGncWZkO2xS0jKLCv0GbHooG58uKxjK9mJw&utm_content=196174401&utm_source=hs_email)), the windstorm whipping the US looks terrifying (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F1%2F3-120818185038-1647640.gif&hash=2ef54cdc4f328b2b5315f424b6c41978252e8e49) (Earther (https://gizmodo.com/the-windstorm-whipping-the-u-s-looks-terrifying-1848223294?utm_campaign=Hot%20News&utm_medium=email&_hsmi=196174401&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-9yx2ZebBjsxeGRkRtGfA7QdGyc7ZitBe4Obe26QXlpq4d6rx1QTzPe51oT2Yp2Cy8QOw43EDUKvlrIa4H_geyD3Qeu9A&utm_content=196174401&utm_source=hs_email)), massive storm pushing across the US with rain, snow and powerful winds (NBC (https://www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news/video/massive-storm-pushing-across-the-u-s-with-rain-snow-and-powerful-winds-128830021570?utm_campaign=Hot%20News&utm_medium=email&_hsmi=196174401&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-9Kx4Pj1mc4bQLaH0DnpEXX4_Vry45ukFJE05yvZZ935lG0yOjzFQyk7lrH-TYXKOQHUlAHQJMUJ2HeEev9QovZRW7ykw&utm_content=196174401&utm_source=hs_email)), powerful storm threatens millions with high winds (CBS (https://www.cbsnews.com/video/powerful-storm-threatens-millions-with-high-winds/?utm_campaign=Hot%20News&utm_medium=email&_hsmi=196174401&_hsenc=p2ANqtz--KoGer1UMy8KMNGUel7S81OM8LhtV7Sn5Q8HLRQV0L2grbzE3vo5nOKUs9R4TT7QrWHANtF8ytd6D4nvzZtMJGDdNfUA&utm_content=196174401&utm_source=hs_email#x))

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'Obviously Extraordinary, Unprecedented' Storm Rips Across Central US: (https://newsletter.climatenexus.org/20211217-google-disinfo-about-their-disinfo-extreme-storm-typhoon-rai)


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Title: 💣 Scientists say worse 💥 lies ahead.
Post by: AGelbert on December 20, 2021, 03:03:39 pm
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YEAR IN REVIEW: 2021 brought a wave of extreme weather disasters.
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Scientists say worse lies ahead. (Washington Post $ (https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2021/12/17/climate-change-extreme-weather-future/)), code red, glacier blood, megadrought: the defining words of 2021 (Grist (https://grist.org/language/code-red-glacier-blood-megadrought-the-defining-words-of-2021/)), in 2021, governments blew hot on 1.5C goal, colder on climate action (Reuters (https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/2021-governments-blew-hot-15c-goal-colder-climate-action-2021-12-20/)), the 21 Strangest Things About 2021's Weather (Weather Channel (https://weather.com/news/news/2021-12-08-strangest-weather-2021)), Our most read climate explainers of 2021 (Economist (https://www.economist.com/the-economist-explains/2021/12/19/our-most-read-climate-explainers-of-2021)), 2021: when the link between the climate and biodiversity crises became clear (The Guardian (https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/dec/20/2021-world-finally-woke-up-to-dangers-aoe))

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Aug 11, 2021 🤦‍♂️ The Devastating Impact Climate Change Is Already Having | Climate Chaos In The South | Earth Stories

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Climate Chaos in the South is a not about the science or reasons behind climate change but about the devastating impact that it is already having on many who live in the southern hemisphere.

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Featuring interviews with the victims as well as the experts in Africa, Asia and South America, Climate Chaos in the South captures vividly the changes that climate change has wrought not just on the environment but on the lives and livelihoods of millions across three continents. Fertile land has been scorched and turned to desert while on the coasts increases in sea temperature has depleted fish stocks and a rising sea level has destroyed settlements. The huge rise in cyclones and other natural disasters continue to destroy homes on an unimaginable scale and the overall result is turning entire populations into climate refugees. While climate change once looked like a problem of the future, this film demonstrates with absolute clarity that it is a humanitarian catastrophe of the present.

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Title: Extreme winds and related wind phenomena are making wild fires bigger and more destructive every year.
Post by: AGelbert on December 22, 2021, 10:54:14 pm
Premiered Dec 1, 2021

How Has Climate Change Created Fire Tornadoes? | Mutant Weather

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As global warming rises, this documentary hears from tornado chasers who have had to run for their lives and survivors of some of the deadliest recent tornados

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Extreme winds and related wind phenomena are making wild fires bigger and more destructive every year.

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Title: TRUTH from Climate Scientist Katharine Hayhoe and LIES about EVs from WP editorial "writer" Charles Lane
Post by: AGelbert on January 06, 2022, 07:45:45 pm
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Extreme Weather Hit Home For 40% Of U.S. Population In 2021

More than 40% of people in the U.S. live in a county hit by climate-related extreme weather in 2021, a Washington Post analysis of federal disaster declarations found. Additionally, more than 80% of people living in the U.S. experienced a heatwave, which is not considered a disaster, but is the most deadly form of severe weather.

The widespread, sometimes overlapping, and increasing disasters are a testament to the way climate change “has loaded the weather dice against us,” climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe 🕊️ told the Post.

Wildfires, flooding and landslides, hurricanes, and other severe storms are all made worse or more frequent by climate change, primarily caused by the extraction and combustion of fossil fuels (https://nexusmedianews.com/top_story/unequivocal-ipcc-report-confirms-human-causation-of-climate-change/?utm_campaign=Hot%20News&utm_medium=email&_hsmi=200122227&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8Gxw_rr1ifuPPcYD8H28rgbuTXSPFjbCCqVT9y5mYWSWtMoM1UUDRNdk9OiYAFXsICdYoECqQDZQbkFsaa4avrKRAZEw&utm_content=200122227&utm_source=hs_email).

The analysis does not include the megadrought parching vast swaths of the West. In Louisville, Colorado, Mayor Ashley Stolzmann lost much of her town to the Marshall Fire last week. “When I lay awake the first night, not able to sleep from the fire, when I was evacuated from my house,” she told the Post, “the first thing I thought of is: I need everyone to reduce their carbon emissions.” (Washington Post (https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2022/01/05/climate-disasters-2021-fires/?utm_campaign=Hot%20News&utm_medium=email&_hsmi=200122227&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_H1ygqMPu6lEKkSpx79dulzv1qrAFLv_rCskPGWasyYHIPYvDpTRhY2O3Z_NxdUh2I6x-xGuZiyBXD62NlFWoZoefMkg&utm_content=200122227&utm_source=hs_email) $; Climate Signals background: 2021 Western wildfire season (https://www.climatesignals.org/events/western-wildfire-season-2021?utm_campaign=Hot%20News&utm_medium=email&_hsmi=200122227&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8qrDrvUJSaSA6FZC1WdIY4hnTGMeYFEdHd5JMJ2rpn1zkJLYEjd7lEwoTVm_DGPU5ai9hKNxrJjSOPzQwctShMzYr6ew&utm_content=200122227&utm_source=hs_email), Flooding (https://www.climatesignals.org/pillars/climate-change-floods?_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8ooSJsVp__o5dNuna55_6HjgZqTdIwm-l-Hf2ojB6-dYotfacDVFA7l04qcem8VpFT5i-M_XL1SuEzRecTKbKN7Tqvbg&_hsmi=200122227&utm_campaign=Hot%20News&utm_content=200122227&utm_medium=email&utm_source=hs_email), 2021 Atlantic Hurricane season (https://www.climatesignals.org/events/atlantic-hurricane-season-2021?utm_campaign=Hot%20News&utm_medium=email&_hsmi=200122227&_hsenc=p2ANqtz--E9jViVNPTzMVNpz9p-0EIvLZyDVu6CZCExqYkpcqNVmEGqf7kzq_3u6RLAfAy864pXgR6qu1llsWctUJ52UhrDLegTQ&utm_content=200122227&utm_source=hs_email), Western drought (https://www.climatesignals.org/events/western-drought-2020-2021?utm_campaign=Hot%20News&utm_medium=email&_hsmi=200122227&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_qkGaRCZk18gd2Vd9uhl3FAwWGsV_6z_hgDtvjSmxtiSmAYxPoB44Xlloiva7bR8eeEqcCjaLX2QBC0LKU2PmVjj1oxA&utm_content=200122227&utm_source=hs_email), Extreme heat and heatwaves (https://www.climatesignals.org/climate-signals/extreme-heat-and-heat-waves?utm_campaign=Hot%20News&utm_medium=email&_hsmi=200122227&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8zGbMJ_mST1OAZkeN1XpDBhWD4EmoBf78u9Liea_GPgtJoAeBpQ3YazYFghi9k9rPSMDXbt0r4v6v186Djl1OoSUPoMA&utm_content=200122227&utm_source=hs_email))

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No one wants to get stuck in traffic. Or in the snow. Getting stuck in an all-day traffic jam because it snowed, well, that’s pretty much the worst. And that’s exactly what happened in Virginia this week, when thousands of people spent all day stuck on the highway after a severe snowstorm turned a jackknifed semi from a relatively routine highway occurrence to a major SNAFU. 

Fortunately, everyone was okay. But imagine if they weren’t! Wouldn’t that have been terrible! Imagine if zombies had attacked while they were stranded, or if a horde of chuds emerged from the frozen sewers to convert everyone to Scientology, or, and this may be worst of all …

What if the cars stuck in the snow were all electric??? 

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The basis for his scary story? A trucker tweeted that he gave someone “driving a Tesla” some water and blankets. Apparently this anecdote “illustrates an important point: If everyone had been driving electric vehicles, this mess could well have been worse.” (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-250817122018.gif&hash=74d86c1f35e2f61ea38c9bfa392f84a92631b96e)

Except, of course, that’s not true at all. (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/12/13/2069014/-Actually-You-d-Be-Better-Off-Getting-Stranded-In-The-Snow-With-An-Electric-Car) As both Reuters and Politifact pointed out last year when rightwing shitposters pushed the same scare story, EVs are fine when stuck in traffic jams because sitting there doesn’t run down the battery. (And a reply to the trucker that 🐍 Lane must have missed linked to a video showing a fully charged EV keeping warm for 70 hours at -3C.

Idling your gas car does burn fuel though, something that even Lane acknowledged, writing that “of course, cold also affects the performance of gas-powered vehicles; many were left stranded in Virginia after they ran out of fuel or their batteries died.” 

Oh!

Nevertheless, 😈 Lane used the Tesla driver for his clever kicker complaining that EVs aren’t already cheaper, easier and better than gas cars, saying that like that driver “on I-95 in the wee hours of Tuesday morning, we’re not there yet.” 

Except the Tesla family probably drove off fine, but a bunch of people who didn’t have electric vehicles were stuck, by Lane’s own accounting!

Still though, apparently old cars have the advantage because it’s easier to deliver gas to stranded motorists than charge an EV. But that’s only because gas is currently the norm! Can you imagine if the situation were reversed, and gas cars were replacing electric cars? 

How would you possibly convince people that toting around gallons of liquid explosives is the safe and easy alternative to a battery or extension cord? 

More realistically though, why is the Washington Post publishing this kind of nonsense? Do they really think that double-fact-checked memes are the sort of content deserving of their pages? Worse, are they aware that they’re offering the exact same sort of content as climate denial blogs? 🦖 Watts Up With That ran a functionally identical post asking readers to “imagine you were stuck in an EV,” and the professional industrial disinformation peddlers at CFACT, who also are just begging people to ignore that it’s gas cars that got stuck and instead “imagine electric vehicles in bad weather.” 

And of course, for the coup de grace, you know you’ve gotten something badly wrong when it’s approvingly tweeted by 🦖 Steve Milloy from his “@Junkscience” account, a handle that originates in his work for Big Tobacco to oppose regulations on smoking in the ‘90s. 

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Title: Climate and Weather Science Behind the 🔥 Marshall Firestorm
Post by: AGelbert on January 11, 2022, 01:11:24 pm
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The Climate and Weather Science Behind the 🔥 Urban Firestorm Near Denver, Colorado

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Jan 10, 2022

Paul Beckwith 👍 23.3K subscribers

Greetings and Happy New Year to everybody.

This morning I was up just after 6 am to go live at 7 pm on Canada’s national broadcaster CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) radio’s morning show, for a decent length chat about my climate scientist thoughts 🕯️ on the recent “Don’t Look Up” movie. I first saw the satirical comedy in mid-December at a movie theatre, and then a second time on New Year’s Eve with my family. I was planning on watching a third time yesterday to prep for my interview, but 4 episodes of Outlander nixed that plan.

Here (https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-100-ottawa-morning/clip/15888082-climate-expert-reviews-dont-look-up) is my interview.

In this video I delve in detail into the urban firestorm that destroyed about 1000 homes near Denver, Colorado in the closing days of 2021.

This was no wildfire; it was an urban conflagration, more reminiscent of the firebombing of Dresden and Tokyo in bombing raids in World War II.

The Denver region was primed for fire having had preconditioning via 150 year record setting dryness, heat, and high winds. This toxic preconditioning just needed a spark to become an inferno.

Downslope winds from the Rocky Mountains reached speeds of 100 mph :o, knocking over live power lines sparking initial grass and shrub and tree fires. Large chunks of burning embers were carried by the 100 mph winds and fired like missiles against buildings, where they found their way inside homes and businesses via air vents, open windows, cracks under doors, etc. Starting fires within many structures, they quickly engulfed the entire structures, and spared almost no buildings. Bringing to mind similar fires in Paradise, California in 2018 and Lytton, British Columbia in 2021, this fire destroyed almost all structures but seemed to leave many trees unharmed. Any trees downwind and/or in close proximity to blazing structures burned down. However many trees survived, since, I speculate, the burning embers passed quickly through the tree canopies in the 100 mph winds without sufficient time to set the trees ablaze.

One house that was spared, amongst neighborhoods completely razed to the ground belongs to a fellow climate scientist that tweeted out the ordeal. Many climate scientists and wildfire experts and extreme weather meteorologists lost their homes in the Denver suburbs, not being able to afford to live in Denver proper, where they work for NOAA, University of Colorado, and weather risk companies. Huge amounts of data on the fires and smoke plumes was collected by a mobile Doppler on Wheels (DOW) truck and satellite sensors, to be analyzed by scientist including some who lost their homes and neighbourhoods.

A terrible disaster to end 2021 that really points out that almost no place is truly safe from the consequences of abrupt climate change.

Like I say often:
We are living in a climate casino and are all vulnerable to Weather Weirding, Weather Wilding, and Weather Whiplashing within our Climate Casino.

Please donate at my website http://PaulBeckwith.net or on my Paul Beckwith Patreon page to support my research, analysis, and videos as I bring the latest science on abrupt climate system change to you in a jargon free, easily understood format. Stay safe:)
Title: Oceans are Historically 🚨 HOT
Post by: AGelbert on January 13, 2022, 04:56:12 pm
January 11, 2022

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Title: 2021 6th-Hottest 🌡️ Year Since Industrial Revolution
Post by: AGelbert on January 14, 2022, 03:22:02 pm
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January 14, 2022

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Last year was the sixth-hottest on record and all of the seven hottest years have occurred in the last seven years, NOAA, NASA, and Berkeley Earth scientists announced yesterday. Different scientific entities calculate global temperature averages in slightly different ways, and recent analyses from six major scientific institutions (https://nexusmedianews.com/top_story/2021-greenhouse-pollution-rose-us-far-off-reductions-targets/?swcfpc=1&utm_campaign=Hot%20News&utm_medium=email&_hsmi=200874082&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-9iUXG0aJKPwIAWseGrE0Lt2P3fUsL_16NFGJP5MroCfDF6-a16q6ynQDCgSDOEbRAfbvIKwh2G5Cw5FAEIqnDQZZfDsQ&utm_content=200874082&utm_source=hs_email) have all put 2021 between the fifth- and seventh-hottest year since the industrial revolution.

The 2021 temperatures – while not record-breaking in and of themselves – are alarming because the expected cooling La Niña cycle last year failed to lower global temperatures any further. “It’s not quite as headline-dominating as being the warmest on record, but give it another few years and we’ll see another one of those” records, Zeke Hausfather of the Berkeley Earth monitoring group told the AP. “It’s the long-term trend, and it’s an indomitable march upward.”

That upward march is caused by the human extraction and combustion of fossil fuels. “We are reaping what we’ve 🦖 sown,” NASA climatologist Gavin Schmidt told the Washington Post.

Not to be outdone, 2022 is already adding to the record books with 123.3°F heat in Onslow, Western Australia on January 2 – a high that ties the record for the hottest temperature ever recorded in the Southern Hemisphere. (AP, Washington Post $, Gizmodo, Axios (https://www.axios.com/earth-sixth-warmest-year-extreme-climate-3abecdc0-790f-4c17-b4ee-05a65cb8e71f.html?utm_campaign=Hot%20News&utm_medium=email&_hsmi=200874082&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-9--QsqMykfvylORp3FaqRxSeNSetylGFOzGFjwC_lQf515tNl4ioOLrPkq6RrMa7qbuskYT2jUf1mz0iEaoF50HtTgUg&utm_content=200874082&utm_source=hs_email), Reuters, The Guardian, Grist, Yale Climate Connections, Wall Street Journal $, The Verge, E&E $, Bloomberg $; Australia: Washington Post $, The Guardian, Gizmodo; Climate Signals background: Extreme heat and heatwaves (https://www.climatesignals.org/climate-signals/extreme-heat-and-heat-waves))

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Title: Reality Challenged 👉 US, China, India, Japan, Russia and too many 🦖 more 🤦‍♂️
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January 18, 2022

UN declares healthy environment a human right—now what? ???

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This past fall, the United Nations Human Rights Council declared a clean, healthy, and sustainable environment to be a human right. (The US does not currently have a seat on the Council, and China, India, Japan and the Russian Federation all abstained from the vote.) Moreover, through a second Council resolution, the post of Special Rapporteur was created to promote human rights in the context of climate change. While hailed as groundbreaking by numerous environmental advocates, what concrete results can we expect from these resolutions? With the world running out of time to curb the effects of extreme climate change, can the United Nations’ assertion of humanity’s right to a healthy environment and stable climate push the world’s nations to take serious action?

In this interview, TRNN contributor David Kattenburg examines these UN resolutions and what they do and don’t mean for humanity’s fight against climate catastrophe with Todd Howland and Saher Rashid Baig. Todd Howland, who helped draft the two UN resolutions, is chief of the Development, Economic and Social Issues Branch of the United Nations’ Human Rights Office. Saher Rashid Baig is a youth, environmental, and human rights advocate based in Karachi, Pakistan, who is engaged with the Climate Change Virtual Conference of Youth and with YOUNGO, a global network of young activists seeking to empower youth voices in shaping global climate policies.

Read the transcript of this interview: https://therealnews.com/un-declares-healthy-environment-a-human-right-now-what

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Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on January 22, 2022, 03:51:15 pm
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Jan 21 2022 By Sarah Mearhoff

Facing questions about Exxon sale, Welch backs congressional stock ban

SNIPPET:

“The oil companies, when they began producing oil, discovering oil, did not know about climate change. But they were the first to learn about it, and then learning about it, concealed it and denied it,” he said at the hearing.

In a January interview with VTDigger, Welch said he did not regret his role in the hearing in spite of Cheney’s stock sale earlier that month. He said Exxon is “one of the biggest, most egregious carbon polluters in the world,” and anytime he has an “opportunity to try to hold them to account,” he takes it.

“I have a one-time, three-day technical delay for that report of the sale of the stock my wife inherited, and (critics) want to compare that to decades of misinformation and denial about the impact of the billions of tons of carbon emissions that they put in the atmosphere,” Welch said. “They don’t equate.”
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Title: Ocean’s Largest Dead Zones Mapped by MIT Scientists
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Jan 26, 2022 By Olivia Rosane

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Oxygen-deficient zones intensity across the eastern Pacific Ocean, where copper colors represent the locations of consistently lowest oxygen concentrations and deep teal indicates regions without sufficiently low dissolved oxygen. Jarek Kwiecinski and Andrew Babbin

Ocean’s Largest Dead Zones Mapped by MIT Scientists

SNIPPET:

When you think of the tropical Pacific, you might picture a rainbow of fish ribboning their way between pinnacles of coral, or large sea turtles swimming beneath diamonds of sunlight. But there are two mysterious zones in the Pacific Ocean where life like this cannot survive.

That is because they are the two largest oxygen-deficient zones (ODZ) in the world, which means they are a no-go zone for most anaerobic (oxygen-dependent) organisms. Two Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) scientists recently succeeded in making the most detailed atlas to date of these important oceanic regions, revealing crucial new facts about them in the process. The new high-resolution atlas was described last month in the journal Global Biogeochemical Cycles.

Full article: 👀
https://www.ecowatch.com/ocean-dead-zones-map.html



Title: We've got climate change under control...apparently!
Post by: AGelbert on January 26, 2022, 06:48:51 pm
Jan 9, 2022 71,726 views

We've got climate change under control...apparently! 🤦‍♂️

https://youtu.be/-vLvwbUAEQc

Just Have a Think 375K subscribers

When it comes to climate change, the majority of us think we're personally doing our bit, but that we're being let down by everyone else, including our own neighbours. That's just one of the findings of a new survey conducted across nine western nations in November. So, what else does the survey tell us, and what conclusions can we draw?

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Title: 🚩 Worst Drought in 1200 Years 🥺
Post by: AGelbert on February 15, 2022, 01:39:48 pm
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The American West is experiencing the worst drought in at least 1,200 years and climate change is responsible for 42 percent of its severity

The drought, which began in 2000 and has taken a toll on water supplies and fueled wildfires across the region, had previously been considered the worst in 500 years but a dramatic drying in 2021, when about two-thirds of the American West was in extreme drought, “really pushed it over the top,” A. Park Williams, a climate scientist and author of a new study, told the New York Times. “The drought conditions [are] substantially worse because of climate change, but there is quite a bit of room for [the drought] to get even worse” Park explained to the LA Times. Park and his colleagues examined tree rings at about 1,600 sites across the region, from Montana to California and northern Mexico.

The study, which was published in the journal Nature Climate Change, warns that we “need to be even preparing for conditions in the future that are far (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/gallery/renewablerevolution/2/3-300919160020-2275981.png)worse than this.” (AP, NPR, ABC, CNN, Axios (https://www.axios.com/southwest-megadrought-driest-1200-years-593112d3-d3d9-475a-b829-7136a3133191.html?utm_campaign=Hot%20News&utm_medium=email&_hsmi=203960105&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-86MitpWkDewbL2h88zroGLE1-2Srq3XtpQL4iVybOO3qd9kg-ahhlfYdCehRqtRoHCqFkPTDTZnW6NNMGQV3cuGbFLbg&utm_content=203960105&utm_source=hs_email), CNBC, The Hill, LA Times $, Wall Street Journal $, Bloomberg $, San Francisco Chronicle, New York Times $)
Title: "The global choices being made now determine what happens to the climate next."
Post by: AGelbert on February 16, 2022, 02:45:53 pm
Climate Lab Book

What would I say to COP26?

November 9, 2021 communication Ed Hawkins 👍

The recent 6th Assessment Report of Working Group I of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is the result of years of diligent assessment of the latest scientific evidence on climate change building on several previous similar assessments. It was written by hundreds of authors, and openly reviewed by thousands of experts. Every word of the Summary for Policymakers (https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg1/downloads/report/IPCC_AR6_WGI_SPM_final.pdf) was agreed by all 195 parties to the UNFCCC and at COP26.

The report is clear that the world has warmed by around 1.1°C since the industrial revolution, and that this is due to human activities, primarily burning fossil fuels. As a direct consequence, heatwaves and heavy rainfall events have become more frequent and more intense. As the oceans have warmed and the ice sheets have melted, sea levels have risen, increasing the risk of coastal flooding. Our past greenhouse gas emissions have caused changes of the climate which have harmed both human society and ecosystems.

We are at a crossroads.

The global choices being made now determine what happens to the climate next.

A pathway of immediate, strong, rapid, sustained and large-scale reductions in greenhouse gas emissions would hold global warming to well below 2°C. If emissions are halved by 2030 and reach net-zero by around 2050 then there is a reasonable chance of limiting warming to 1.5°C. Such reductions in greenhouse gas and particulate emissions would also bring additional benefits through slowing ocean acidification and improving air quality.

Reaching net-zero emissions will halt global warming but, for some consequences, there is no going back. For example, sea level will continue to rise for centuries but the rate of change can be slowed through emission reductions. There is a small chance that sea level rise could rapidly accelerate if the Antarctic ice sheet is less stable than anticipated and every bit of warming increases the risk of this and other unexpected events.

For over 150 years the scientific community has understood the theory of how adding additional greenhouse gases to the atmosphere would warm the planet. Global warming was first observed and linked to rising carbon dioxide levels in the 1930s, and the IPCC assessed that there was a discernible influence of human activity on the rise in temperatures in 1995.

In 2021, the scientific community has again assessed the latest evidence from theory, measurements, and state-of-the-art simulations of our planet. We are certain that human actions have changed the climate and that we are already experiencing the consequences, especially though changes to extreme weather.

Every further tonne of greenhouse gas added to the atmosphere raises the planet’s temperature and makes the climatic consequences more severe. Each country faces different risks from the changing climate and every bit of warming avoided in future will limit those risks. Improving resilience and adapting to the ongoing changes will also reduce further suffering.

The global choices being made now matter, for all of us and for many generations to come.

Or in very short form:
If we choose not to act,
Or fail to adapt,
Then suffer we will.


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Note: this is my personal summary of the science contained in IPCC AR6 WGI and the implications.


About Ed Hawkins
Climate scientist in the National Centre for Atmospheric Science (NCAS) at the University of Reading. IPCC AR5 Contributing Author. Can be found on twitter too: @ed_hawkins View all posts by Ed Hawkins → (http://www.climate-lab-book.ac.uk/author/ehawkins/)
http://www.climate-lab-book.ac.uk/2021/what-would-i-say-to-cop26/

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Title: Most Extreme "Rogue" Wave Ever Recorded at 17.6 meters (57.9 feet!)
Post by: AGelbert on February 17, 2022, 03:46:06 pm
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February 16, 2022 By Mike Schuler Total Views: 9239

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Record Rogue Wave Measured Off British Columbia

Researchers have measured what they believe to be the most extreme rogue wave ever recorded at 17.6 meters – the equivalent of a four-story building.

The wave was recorded in the Pacific Ocean west of Ucluelet, British Columbia in November 2020 by Victoria, B.C.-based MarineLabs Data Systems (MarineLabs). The wave is also the subject of a scientific report by Dr. Johannes Gemmrich and Leah Cicon, both of the University of Victoria, published last week in Scientific Reports.

Although rogue waves have been measured to be taller, the wave recorded by MarineLabs in Ucluelet was proportionally larger. That is, the 17.6-meter wave occurred during significant wave heights of only 6 meters, making it nearly three times the size of the waves around it.

Rogue waves are defined as waves with a height more than double that of other waves occurring around them. Although rogue waves have been the subject of maritime lore for centuries, the first ever measured occurred off the coast of Norway in 1995. Known as the ‘Draupner wave’, it measured 25.6 meters in a sea state with wave heights of approximately 12 meters.

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“Proportionally, the Ucluelet wave is likely the most extreme rogue wave ever recorded,” says Gemmrich, who studies large wave events along BC’s coastlines as part of his work as a research physicist at the University of Victoria. “Only a few rogue waves in high sea states have been observed directly, and nothing of this magnitude. The probability of such an event occurring is once in 1,300 years.”

The record-setting Ucluelet wave was recorded by one of MarineLabs’ sensor buoys deployed at Amphitrite Bank, approximately four miles offshore of Ucluelet. The buoy is part of a network of marine sensors that comprise MarineLabs’ CoastAware™ platform.

“The unpredictability of rogue waves, and the sheer power of these ‘walls of water’ can make them incredibly dangerous to marine operations and the public,” says MarineLabs CEO, Dr. Scott Beatty. “The potential of predicting rogue waves remains an open question, but our data is helping to better understand when, where and how rogue waves form, and the risks that they pose.”
https://gcaptain.com/record-rogue-wave-measured-off-british-columbia/

Agelbert NOTE: Because of Catastrophic Climate Change from the continued burning of hydrocarbon based fuels, the day is soon coming when these 🌊 giant waves will no longer be given the adjective, "rogue".
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February 13, 2022 Climate Change, Blue Water Cargo Shipping and Predicted Ocean Wave Activity ~~ A. G. Gelbert (https://ongoingclassstruggle.blogspot.com/2022/02/climate-change-blue-water-cargo.html#more)

Title: It Will Get Worse
Post by: AGelbert on February 19, 2022, 03:51:55 pm
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February 17, 2022 By Mike Schuler

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Car Carrier Felicity Ace Abandoned After Catching Fire in Atlantic Ocean

A car carrier is abandoned and on fire in the North Atlantic near the Azores.

All 22 crew members of the M/V Felicity Ace abandoned ship safely and were picked up by a tanker after the car carrier caught fire approximately 90 nautical miles southwest from the island of Faial in the Azores on Wednesday morning.

The Portuguese Navy has been responding with the rescue being coordinated by the Ponta Delgada Maritime Search and Rescue Coordination Center (MRCC Delgada).

The fire in the cargo hold was still active as of Thursday.

Felicity Ace’s crew members have since been transferred from the tanker Resilient Warrior to the Horta airport by a Portuguese Air Force EH-101 aircraft.

No injuries or pollution have been reported.

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The owners of the Felicity Ace have arranged for a tow of the burning the ship. The Portuguese Navy ship NRP Setúbal has remained on scene to monitor the situation.

Felicity Ace departed from Emden, Germany on February 10 and was en route to Davisville, Rhode Island when the fire occurred in the ship’s cargo hold. The ship is reportedly carrying a cargo of Porsches and Volkswagens, as reported by the website The Drive.

The Felicity Ace is registered in Panama and was built in 2005. It is operated by Japanese shipping line Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL).

The Portuguese Air Force has now released video of the rescue:

https://youtu.be/3hGCaaWtuEQ

The fire is reminiscent of the Sincerity Ace which caught fire in the Pacific Ocean approximately 1,800 nautical miles from Oahu on New Year’s Eve in 2018. Five crew members died in that accident and the ship was eventually towed back to Japan.

This latest incident appears likely to join the ever-growing list of infamous car carrier accidents which include Cougar Ace (stability), Baltic Ace (collision/sinking), Hoegh Osaka (stability), Hoegh Xiamen (fire), Golden Ray (stability), Modern Express (stability), Grande America (fire) and Sincerity Ace (fire). A recently published NTSB report on the Hoegh Xiamen fire, which took place at the United States’ Port of Jacksonville, said an improperly disconnected car battery in a used vehicle started the fire.

https://gcaptain.com/car-carrier-felicity-ace-abandoned-after-catching-fire-in-atlantic-ocean/

Agelbert COMMENT: Notice the number of stability related sinkings. 👀 The stability of a ship at sea is directly related to the sea state (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_state). While it is true that a ship that has unbalanced cargo or is too high in the water can have stability problems in a normal sea state, all ships can become unstable in a sufficiently high sea state. The predicted ocean wave activity due to Catastrophic Climate Change (http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/climate-change/future-earth/msg7390/#msg7390) portends routine 7 (20 to 30 ft) to 🌊 9 (Over 46 ft) sea states, so expect more stability caused sinkings unless these ships are redesigned to handle routine 9 plus sea states.
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Title: "Global-average surface temperature will continue to get warmer until at least the 2050s."
Post by: AGelbert on February 25, 2022, 02:19:31 pm
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Climate Lab Book

February 25, 2022 Ed Hawkins

Climate Change 2021 – the physical science basis

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This blog post is a short summary of key points that are of current relevance to society from the physical science of climate change. It is based on the headline statements of a report published in 2021 (https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg1/) by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The IPCC is a United Nations body responsible for providing impartial assessments of climate science. Its reports inform international negotiations on tackling climate change.

Written by Jonathan Gregory, Matt Palmer and Ed Hawkins

How and why has the climate changed?

Widespread and rapid changes have taken place in the atmosphere, in the ocean and on land. There is no doubt that the climate has warmed because human activities have increased the amounts of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, especially carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane (CH4).

Greenhouse gases warm the climate by making it harder for the atmosphere to radiate heat into the surrounding universe (space). They insulate the atmosphere against losing heat, rather like making it warmer inside a house by insulating the roof. The physics of this greenhouse effect has been understood for more than a century.

The largest human-caused effect on climate is due to the build-up of CO2, mostly from burning fossil fuels (coal, oil and gas). The size and speed of recent changes in many aspects of the climate system exceed any seen for hundreds or thousands of years (Figure 1).

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Figure 1: Changes since the year 1 (of the Common Era, or AD) in the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere and in the global-average surface temperature. The industrial revolution and the burning of fossil fuels to produce energy began with the invention of the steam engine.

The warming causes changes in many other aspects of climate. For example, many extreme weather and climate events in every region across the globe have already become more severe or more frequent due to human-caused climate change (Figure 2).

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Figure 2: This diagram depicts how much more often extremely high temperatures occur as the climate gets warmer. As an example, it considers the temperature which was reached only once in 50 years on average at any given place in the climate before the industrial revolution. This extreme happens more frequently in today’s climate, and will become still more common in warmer climates.

What climate change will happen in future?

Improved scientific knowledge has narrowed the range of warming expected as a result of increasing the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere.

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https://www.climate-lab-book.ac.uk/2022/climate-change-2021/

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SEE BELOW THE YEAR 2100 +4° C WORLD 😱
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Title: "I am an Environmental Geographer by training, holding degrees in biology and chemistry, so I am conversant with ..."
Post by: AGelbert on February 26, 2022, 03:30:27 pm
Sunday, February 13, 2022

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Climate Change, Blue Water Cargo Shipping and Predicted Ocean Wave Activity ~~ A. G. Gelbert (https://ongoingclassstruggle.blogspot.com/2022/02/climate-change-blue-water-cargo.html#more) (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-311017193926.png&hash=135a7bcd2093b679e425bbd2086adb8ddfd2e7b5)

dmorista Mod  > agelbert • a day ago
I wanted to thank you for posting this well written and comprehensive article; that is aimed at explaining these issues to the most important audience of all the non-specialists who need to wake up in their millions and billions and demand change and also to do what they can in their lives.

I was very busy with my personal life, and was writing a long article for The Class Struggle about China and Covid, so I am very late to the discussion here. I have not yet read your part 2 (http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/climate-change/future-earth/msg7390/#msg7390) but will do so in the next couple of days.

I am an Environmental Geographer by training and also hold undergraduate degrees in biology and chemistry, so I am conversant with these issues. But people like me are not the ones who need to be seriously informed about this ever deepening crisis, and your article seems to be right on th emoney for average reasonably well-educated people who want to grapple with these issues. There is no escape from this; and that is infinitely more true for the younger people of this planet.

agelbert > dmorista •  a day ago
Thank you, my friend. It is an honor to have your interest and approval. Please feel free to pass on any information and/or graphics in my articles and posts with or without attribution. The main thing is to get as many people as possible on board with the unvarnished reality of our climate crisis. 🚩

Related to the above, this short post from an IPCC Climate Scientist will interest you:
Climate Change 2021 – the physical science basis (http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/climate-change/global-warming-is-with-us/msg17323/#msg17323[/url)


Title: Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on February 27, 2022, 04:57:22 pm
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FEBRUARY 25, 2022 BY MANUEL GARCÍA, JR.

The 🦖 Power Pentagon

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The continuing existence of Power Pentagons as the foundation of our international relations is the reason that we are not making, nor will make, the socio-economic alterations to our civilization needed to effectively slow the advance of Global Warming Climate Change (GWCC), and to arrive at a stable balance between the workings of our industrialized civilization with the cycles of Nature. ... ...

The obvious image for this desired future state of human affairs would be World Eco-Socialism: a world socialism powered with “green” energy (infrastructure not emitting greenhouse gases, toxic wastes, and pollutants), and with both poverty and extreme wealth made history.  (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-060518153110.png&hash=39d587c31b7f7e66b30d7e59bb560e2ad0662eee)

For any such green utopian reformulation of human civilization to occur, it will be necessary for us humans to remove the limitations we place on our own species’s societal development by remaining mired in the fractious international politics of the clashes of Power Pentagons — “the Great Game” — which has been the case since long before the days of Lawrence of Arabia.

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Title: A study published Feb. 15 in the journal Fisheries detailed more than 100 salmon die-offs at freshwater sites around Ala
Post by: AGelbert on February 28, 2022, 01:42:53 pm
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February 26, 2022 By Yereth Rosen

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Alaska Worries For Its Salmon Run As Climate Change Warms Arctic

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ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Feb 25 (Reuters) – With marine heat waves helping to wipe out some of Alaska’s storied salmon runs in recent years, officials have resorted to sending emergency food shipments to affected communities while 📢 scientists warn that the industry’s days of traditional harvests may be numbered.

Salmon all but disappeared from the 2,000-mile (3,200-km) Yukon River run last year, as record-high temperatures led to the fish piling up dead in streams and rivers before they were able to spawn. A study published Feb. 15 in the journal Fisheries detailed more than 100 salmon die-offs at freshwater sites around Alaska.

Those losses meant that, even as temperatures were milder in 2021, the Yukon River salmon runs remained so anemic that both Alaska and Canada were forced to halt their salmon harvest to ensure enough fish survived to reproduce for another year.

“Alaska is known for salmon and being cold,” said Vanessa von Biela, a U.S. Geological Survey research biologist and lead author of the study on the 2019 die-offs. Now “we have basically the problems that have been known for a long time at the lower latitudes.”

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Last month, the U.S. commerce secretary declared a disaster for the Yukon River fishery for both years, making federal relief funds available.

The state sent emergency fish shipments last year from the more plentiful salmon in Bristol Bay and elsewhere.

Scientists mostly have blamed ocean warming, with a series of heat waves in the Bering Sea and North Pacific Ocean from 2014 to 2019 affecting salmon living in the sea before their return to spawning grounds.

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https://gcaptain.com/alaska-worries-salmon-run-as-climate-change-warms-arctic-waters/

Related Article: More Arctic Shipping is Leaving Trash in Its Wake, 📢 Scientists Warn (https://gcaptain.com/more-arctic-shipping-is-leaving-trash-in-its-wake-scientists-warn/)

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Title: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
Post by: AGelbert on March 04, 2022, 02:34:54 pm
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Title: Given the state of global affairs today, this is probably a question many people are asking themselves right now
Post by: AGelbert on March 06, 2022, 06:29:50 pm
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https://youtu.be/4SH9wIbjKyU

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Can we survive the coming decades? Given the state of global affairs today, that's probably a question many people are asking themselves right now. The IPCC has just published their answer, at least from a climate point of view. And they pull no punches. We're almost out of time, they say, and we need immediate global geopolitical cooperation to succeed. Oh dear!

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The trend is not our friend. 🥺
The follow article deals with material survival only. Even if that works for some materially wealthy millions, it does nothing to correct the morally bankrupt Social Darwinist ideology responsible for much of our civilization's spiritual depravity. 

How to Survive When, NOT IF, Catastrophic Climate Change Makes Earth's Climate Unsuitable For Humans by A. G. Gelbert (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/climate-change/future-earth/msg17111/#msg17111)

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Title: European birds threatened by Climate Change
Post by: AGelbert on March 11, 2022, 12:49:01 pm
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Friday, March 11, 2022

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Climate Change Is Transforming Europe’s Birds 🤦‍♂️

A new study has found that the climate crisis is causing major disruptions to European birds, from shifting their nesting dates to decreasing their chick numbers to even changing their general body sizes.

The study (https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2105416119), published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, found that rising temperatures and non-temperature effects of climate change are transforming European birds, such as garden warblers, chiffchaffs, and crested t i t.

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Title: we made the bulk of our syrup in April. That’s definitely not the case now,” Richardson said.
Post by: AGelbert on March 13, 2022, 06:33:14 pm
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Mar 11 2022 By Valley News This story by Claire Potter was originally published in the Valley News on March 6.

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Climate change is already impacting the maple sugaring industry

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“My father’s saying was that we made the bulk of our syrup in April. That’s definitely not the case now,” Richardson said. March brings the harvest now.

The wooden sugar house, first built in the 1960s, is perched at the crest of a snow-covered hill. The Richardsons harvest wood from their forest, bind it into bundles just the right size for the tractor, and pile the bundles above the sugar house.

Inside, the Richardsons mark the dates and yields each year on a sheet of freezer paper. A three-ring binder in the sugar house holds sheets that go back to 1981. Forty years is short in terms of the 115-year history of the Richardsons on the farm, and even shorter in terms of climatological history. Still, it is enough time to see a change. The first February boil was in 2012. Since then, six years — including this one — have begun with February boils. ... ...

Warm weather spells trouble. Bacteria swimming in a food source of sugar multiply when below-freezing temperatures don’t keep them down. “Ropey syrup” has a bacteria count so high that it cannot boil; it turns into a phlegmy, sticky pudding.

In 2021, warm weather cut off the season in early April. Sugarers across the Upper Valley saw yields far below their anticipated harvest, and sap production was down between 25% and 50%. In 2012, a stretch of March days when temperatures soared into the seventies scorched away the season.

“It only takes two or three days 65 to 75 degrees and sunny to basically kill the season for you,” said Richard Menge, who sugars at Maple Leaf Farm in Lyme, New Hampshire.

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Title: A close look at Roy Spencer's claims on global warming
Post by: AGelbert on March 22, 2022, 06:06:37 pm
A close look at Roy Spencer's claims on global warming

https://youtu.be/29QDGEJC1fg


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CORRECTIONS:
1:47 GRL paper is 2019, not 2020
2.52 RSS is 5 degrees short of worldwide, N & S latitiudes
10:15 date should be 85mya not 50mya


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Chii Suigintou 1 hour ago
Not that my comment matters much,
but just observing winters in Belgium over the past 20 years,
one could also work out a warming trend.
No actual calculations needed,
when it suddenly doesn't snow during winter
and people start planting tropical plants in Belgium within their gardens,
this bc the trend is going towards even warmer winters.
One might already think that the end of the Ice age will also be seen.
(and yes, anyone with at least some knowledge in the matter understands that we're currently in a interglacial period,
known as the holocene
and that the end of the Plestocene marks the end of a glacial period, not the the ice age.)
Tbh, not looking forward towards geological evidence of Europe being just a collection of shattered islands.
Even though a hotter climate may sound nice,
damage towards personal property will be catastrophic.

Luckily I myself will never see this happening within my life time,
I hope?